What is it like to be teased by a ghost?

All things originate from causes, and all retributions originate from karma.

—— "Avatamsaka Sutra"

After returning from Xiangyun City, Inuze has been kept by Luo Fu. Luo Jiang also neglected Inuze because of too many things, but unexpectedly, Su Hanqi actually brought it here. And Quan Ze became Luo Yunsang's last reminder.

Luo Jiang forgot how she got back to Luo's house in the end. She only remembered that when she returned with the corpse in her arms, Mrs. Luo cried earth-shatteringly on top of her. She didn't go to Luo Yunsang's funeral, and Luo Xin came to invite her several times. She was also deaf.

Luo Jiang stubbornly believed that Luo Yunsang would not really leave her unless she didn’t go. According to Wei Linqiang, the day Luo Yunsang was buried, the weather was very bad, and Phoenix City ushered in the first winter snow of the year. The snow was not heavy, and it hit the face densely in pieces, and it melted in a while, and it couldn't even accumulate. The gloomy sky was the same as everyone's mood, thick and lingering for a long time, although Luo Yunsang made a mistake However, it is a young life after all, even Luo Xin was sad for a long time, and the members of the Murong family also went to mourn the funeral. Although they tried their best to comfort the Luo family, everyone knew in their hearts that the Luo family The haze is never going to dissipate.

Regarding all of this, Luo Jiang acted as if she hadn't heard it, she didn't say a word, and she didn't go out, as if she was deprived of all senses, living like a walking corpse, Wei Linqiang teased her many times, and she also Never spoke, time is like a picture frame, Luo Jiang before was framed in the picture, dried and faded with time, her soul also began to wither, no more vivid colors.

The Luo family collapsed, and Su Hanqi also changed back into a fox shape. She killed Luo Yunsang at the price of the blood of the heavenly beast.The karma in this world is so wonderful. At the beginning, Luo Yunsang passed the Loulan script to the gray fox, which caused Luo Jiang and the others to have an intersection with Su Hanqi. No one thought that in the end it would be Su Hanqi, who is usually cute and cute. Han Qi ended Luo Yunsang's life. Sure enough, all dharmas are empty, and cause and effect are not empty. Luo Jiang wanted to hate, wanted to resent, but didn't know where to start hating, and didn't know where to start complaining. It was precisely this sense of powerlessness. , making her frustrated and helpless.She just wanted to escape, huddled in her own shell, paralyzed herself every day, comforted herself that nothing had happened yet, and death was not the end. If Xue Yi hadn't heard the news and force-fed Luo Jiang, I'm afraid Luo Jiang would have died first. Starve yourself to death.

About a month later, Luo Fu came back.

The Luo family finally had a tinge of joy. Luo Fu lost a lot of weight, and her clothes hung loosely on her shoulders, like a puppet. The first thing she did when she came home was not to have a romantic relationship with her family, nor to talk to her. Painful, but found Luo Jiang.

Seeing Luo Fu, Luo Jiang finally had a gleam in her eyes. In the past, her eyes were full of ice, a little bit of depression, a little bit of sadness, deprived of all parts of her that could be called alive, and what remained was only The dead air that blows to the face.

"It's good that you're still alive."

This is the first sentence that Luo Jiang has spoken this month.

Luo Fu looked at Luo Jiang distressedly, then politely invited Wei Linqiang out of the door with her eyes, and said, "She didn't intend to kill me in the first place."

Luo Jiang suddenly smiled, but the smile was extremely awkward, like old bark that had been forcibly ironed, and the smile didn't reach her eyes, "I knew she wasn't that kind of person."

But just for a moment, the smile faded away, so what, Luo Yunsang was no longer there.

Luo Fu didn't know how to comfort Luo Jiang, and just said, "Although I was locked up, I knew about the whole thing. The last time she saw me, she told me that everyone has a mission for everyone. She just went to Don't be too sad to finish this matter."

"I never thought that I would experience such a thing. I was angry at first, but then I thought about it. Isn't this just the two sisters who were at odds? Xue Yi, you know, she also had trouble with her cousin, but Her cousin bought her a gift for her birthday, and they made up. I thought she had some unavoidable reason, or I did something wrong, so... as long as we talk about it, let me tell you I'm sorry, we won't get into this kind of trouble, but... why did she do this, why is she so selfish, and let me bear the pain of losing a loved one. I have witnessed so many deaths, even if I was sad before, it would be very fast Convince myself, but this time I can't convince myself, you say...do people really have a soul? Then why doesn't she come to see me, or even come to my dream, even if it's just a word, even if she calls Let me say, I just watched like that, dying slowly in my arms."

The moment Luo Yunsang died was like a curse, nailing Luo Jiang to the edge of the pond forever. How many times she recalled that scene, always trembling with pain, even though she took Luo Yunsang to She went back to Luo's house, but she left herself there forever.

Luo Jiang was crying as she spoke, the grief that had been suppressed for so long finally flowed out slowly, but she was still restraining, she was afraid that the emotions she had supported for so long would crush herself at this moment.

Looking at Luo Jiang's sunken cheeks, Luo Fu finally couldn't help taking out the Chen Yuan Mirror from her bag.

"It contains everything you want to know. When Sister Yunsang gave it to me, she didn't make it very clear. She just asked me to give it to you, saying that it was for you to make your own decision."

The Chenyuan Mirror has been repaired, and the surface of the mirror is clean, just showing Luo Jiang's haggard face. What kind of face is that, thin, sallow, looking terrible and sad.

Luo Jiang didn't answer.

Rove put the mirror on the table beside the bed, "I hope you cheer up quickly, it's already changed outside."

Although the Wan Gui Banner was broken by Quan Ze, many evil spirits began to roam the world because of the scattered grievances. Large and small supernatural events happened all over the country. I don't have time to see Luo Jiang.

After Luo Fu left, Luo Jiang returned to her usual state, and Wei Linqiang also became silent.

After Luo Yunsang's death, the two no longer communicated. Wei Linqiang still wanted to enlighten Luo Jiang at first, but then Wei Linqiang seemed to be busy, and even didn't go home once a few days. , the two of them seemed to be in two separated spaces, and neither of them took the initiative to talk to each other.

Another three days passed, and Luo Jiang accidentally knocked down the Chenyuan Mirror due to lack of strength. For some reason, Luo Yuanji's face suddenly popped up in her mind. Luo Yuanji and Luo Yunsang looked so similar, so Isn't meeting Luo Yuanji the same as meeting Luo Yunsang?

With such a mood, Luo Jiang accidentally picked up the Chenyuan Mirror.

Luo Yunsang said that the Chenyuan Mirror is called the Chenyuan Mirror because there are other people's past in it. When Luo Jiang touched the Chenyuan Mirror with her finger, a layer of water waved on the mirror surface. After a burst of light and shadow, Luo Jiang opened it again. When you open your eyes, you are already in the world in the mirror.

The scene in front of me is still the ancestral house of the Luo family, but it is brighter and more smokey than the one in memory, with clear blue sky, fragrant flowers in the courtyard, and people chatting together in the corridors and pavilions. People, vivid smiles, and whispers in their ears almost gave Luo Jiang the illusion that she had traveled to ancient times.Luo Jiang found that people coming and going around her couldn't see her. If she was a participant last time, she was more like a bystander this time.

Almost out of habit, Luo Jiang walked to Zangshu Pavilion unconsciously. The last time she was in a hurry to leave, Luo Jiang did not take a good look at this place. Now it seems that the Zangshu Pavilion built in the world Luo Jiang lives in is not as good as this one. There are also some differences, because to match the formation of Shiyuxuan, the library of the Luo family is backlit, and the front yard is a pavilion where Luo Yunsang rests for a long time. The eaves of Shiyuxuan make Shiyuxuan more quiet and tranquil, while the Zangshu Pavilion in the old house of the ancestors is more magnificent. Although it is in a secluded place, the view is much wider. The late cherry blossoms and shrubs are also replaced by a few magnolias, scattered The scattered sunlight shines on the steps through the patio, which has an indescribable human touch.

There was a maid sweeping in the yard, with blue hair and clouded temples, and picturesque eyebrows. In such a peaceful environment, Luo Jiang's footsteps unconsciously became lighter.

"The Dao can be the Dao, the very Tao; the name can be the name, the very name. The nameless is the beginning of all things, and the name is the mother of all things. Therefore, there is always no desire to see its beauty, and there is always desire to see its beauty. The two are the same. It comes out with different names, but the same name is Xuan, and Xuan is Xuan again, the door of all mysteries.”

The voice was clear and clean, and it sounded like a young man reading a book. Luo Jiang now understood why the cleaning maid had to be so careful. When she came closer to listen, the young man read again: "Being virtuous is not virtuous, so there is virtuousness; Virtue does not lose virtue, so there is no virtue. The highest virtue does nothing but does nothing, the lower virtue does it and thinks it; Then throw them away. Therefore, if you lose the way, you will lose virtue, if you lose virtue, you will lose benevolence, if you lose benevolence, you will lose righteousness, if you lose righteousness, you will lose morality."

These two passages are respectively in the "Tao Te Ching".

Walking to the Library Pavilion, a child with a bun is reading a book, and beside him is a white-bearded old man holding a ruler.

The child read a few more sentences, and suddenly the old man's ruler fell heavily on his back.

"Ning, you read it wrong. The sentence just now should be, people follow the earth, the earth follows the sky, the sky follows the way, the way follows nature, the king follows the earth, the law follows the sky, the way follows the way, and the law follows nature."

Luo Ning who was beaten was not wronged, but asked, "Elder Elder, the law of the land is the law of the king, and the law of the king is determined by the monarch. Since the law is natural, how can the law of the king agreed by people be natural?"

The great elder stroked his beard and said: "The reason why the earth is the earth is the law, and the reason why the earth is the earth is that the earth is selfless; Therefore, it is heaven, that is, heaven is selfless; "Fa Dao Dao", the earth is the mother, and the sky is the father. discarded."

Luo Ning nodded thoughtfully, "However, Taoism was first formed to serve the monarch. Lao Tzu advocates inaction and governance, but it also values ​​life, despise fame and wealth, maintains tranquility, abstains from greed, and calms down. , enlightened to the four directions, naturally doing nothing, and at the same time taking the hearts of the people as the heart, helping the monarch to manage the world?"

The Great Elder didn't know how to answer Luo Ning. Adults are probably like this. They always like to use some empty talk that they don't believe to force children to believe.

"Tao is a law and a rule, but who knows whether this law and rules are really correct. In the Qingjing Sutra, it is said that the Dao has no name, it grows all things, the Dao is ruthless, and runs the sun and the moon. But since the Dao is great love, why do all living beings still All suffering, why are there still so many wars in our era?"

"Enough." The Great Elder interrupted Luo Ning, "Regardless of whether the idea of ​​Taoism is to please the ruler at the beginning, it is for the common people in the world, and there must be a reason for the existence of the Dao of Heaven."

Luo Ning pouted dissatisfied, "It's hard to say whether there is a way of heaven in this world."

Luo Jiang was speechless. As expected of Sheng Zining, he looked to be about ten years old. He was very thoughtful and insightful at such a young age, but his words seemed to have thoroughly annoyed the elder.

"This time is to punish your arrogance and self-restraint, this time is to punish you for arguing about the holy way, this time is to punish you for being disrespectful to the ancestor. Tomorrow we will go out, and before dawn, we will kneel in the ancestral temple and reflect on it."

The Great Elder brushed off his clothes with a headache, and Luo Ning climbed up the wooden ladder in pain and pulled out a book with a black cover from the bookshelf, and walked to the ancestral hall with a limp.

"What patriarch, isn't our Luo family ancestor Loulan? Since we want to respect and love our ancestors, we should read our Loulan ancient books."