I'm taking the imperial examinations in Liaozhai

"Maybe the servant made his own decision, wait for the servant girl to go down to find out, and then report to Madam to deal with it." Ruyu said respectfully.

Chen didn't answer, standing in front of the low table, his fingers skimmed over the strings, stirring up a single note.

As Chen's personal maid, Ruyu naturally knows how to read words and expressions, "Madam, do you want to play the piano?"

Mrs. Chen sat down, smiled and said to Ruyu, "burn incense for me."

"Yes." Ruyu replied, and went to prepare an incense burner for Mrs. Chen.

When Chen plays the piano, he likes to burn incense. Ruyu ignites the agarwood, and the smoke rises from the exquisite incense burner. The fingers of a beauty like light white segments pluck the strings, just like a beautiful picture scroll.

There is a little thunder outside the window, the rainy day, the Buddhist temple, the sound of Guqin, these blend together, it seems more and more quiet.

No one knew that, directly opposite Chen Shi, an invisible female ghost was sitting behind a low table with her hands resting on her chin, listening to the sound of the piano, fascinated.

Due to the heavy rain, the sound of the piano in Chen's room did not reach Ji Zihe's ears at all.His head was sweating, his eyes were fixed on the chessboard on the table, his hand was holding on to the chess piece, and he was gesturing on the chessboard, but when he wanted to drop the piece, he quickly retracted his hand in the next second, hesitating.

The old bone god sat at the table calmly, and poured himself a cup of tea slowly without urging him.The water in the teapot was already cold, and he held the teacup in his hand, and the water in the cup became boiling after a while.The hot air is blown away, and the bones send the water into the mouth.

Ji Zihe thought about it again and again, and finally let go of his hands, drooped his shoulders, and said dejectedly, "I lost."

"Then let's start over."

"No, Zihe bows down." Ji Zihe cupped his hands.

"Give up so soon?"

"I haven't won any of the three chess games. You still let me play three chess games in this game. It's because I'm not as skilled as others. The gap between you and me is too big. It's boring to play again."

"I think it's quite interesting." Bone smiled from the corner of his eyes.

Ji Zihe rolled his eyes in his heart. Of course it's interesting that you keep winning. I also like to abuse vegetables, but the premise is that I am not that rookie.

"I can't compare to you now, but don't worry, I will come to you for advice after I have practiced chess." Ji Zihe held his breath in his heart.

"Stay with you at any time, and wait for the good news." Bones challenged without fear.

I stopped playing chess and had no other entertainment, so naturally I could only sleep.Don't you see, there are not many rooms in the temple that are still lit.

The lights in the room were turned off, Ji Zihe thought he couldn't fall asleep, but he didn't know how long he was sleepy after lying down, he said hello to Bones, and fell asleep with his eyes closed.

A flash of lightning flashed outside the window, illuminating half of the sky, followed by rumbling thunder.The sound didn't wake Ji Zihe up, he just frowned and shrank back under the quilt.

Seeing this, Bones raised his hand to temporarily block his five senses, no matter how bright the outside was, no matter how loud the sound was, it would not affect him.He bent down and pulled the quilt down, exposing Ji Zihe's face.

"Don't touch him."

Another voice suddenly came from his body, and Meng Zhang slowed down, "Quiet."

"You ate me into your stomach and made me quiet, you are still not human."

"I'm not a human being." Meng Zhang said lightly.

Bones was at a loss for words for a moment, why does this person like to hold on to loopholes, there must be something wrong.God knows, today he was happily walking around the Taoist temple with Xiaohezi, but this guy who looked exactly like him suddenly ran over and ate him without a word, with not even the slightest trace of resistance in his bones. No power.

Although the bone was eaten by him, it didn't seem to have entered this guy's stomach. I don't know where he is now. The surroundings are dark, and there seems to be a force in the void that is pulling his body. I had no choice but to use spells to build a barrier for myself to resist.After the danger was temporarily lifted, Gu Gu let go of his spiritual sense. Fortunately, his spiritual sense was not blocked, allowing him to see the situation outside.In the end, I saw this shameless guy pretending to be himself and approaching Xiao Hezi, but the idiot Xiao Hezi didn't recognize him, and he was really angry.

"I don't care if you are human or not. What is your purpose? Let me out!"

"I am you, you are me, we are one, why are you so resistant to merging with me?" Meng Zhang asked.

"What nonsense are you talking about, I don't know you at all."

"I am the body, you are the soul, without you, I am incomplete, without me, you are just a soul."

bone:"???"

No matter how much Gu Gu thought about it, he never expected this situation. It was like a child who had no parents and thought he was an orphan. One day, he was kidnapped by a strong man, and the strong man told him that he was his father and came to visit him. Are you sure you didn't come to kidnap someone who came to find relatives?

"You are my soul, and I am the God Lord Meng Zhang." Meng Zhang said patiently.

"Meng Zhang, you are Qinglong Meng Zhang, one of the four gods?" Bone felt a little dizzy, he must be dreaming, otherwise how could he have changed from a lonely ghost to the soul of a big boss?Although he always said that he was a big shot, he didn't really believe it. He just wanted to find a psychological comfort for himself, but who knew it would actually come true now.

"Exactly."

"how to prove?"

"You are the fish, I am the knife, why should I prove it?"

bone:……

It made sense, but he couldn't find anything to refute.Now that I am the meat on someone else's chopping board, why should I prove it to myself?

"Then since you are my body, why did you come looking for me today?" Bone asked again.He has stayed in that small dilapidated temple of Lanruo Temple for hundreds of years, and he thought he was a lonely ghost, why did this body go away long ago.

Meng Zhang was silent for a moment, then slowly told the story of the year (see Chapter 50 for details), and then said, "I didn't expect that after we were split by the thunder, you didn't go to reincarnation, but fell into the I am hiding in the relics of Jinyun Buddha. Without you, I would be a beast, without wit, and just rely on instinct to find my soul. During this period, many people tried to think of me, the body of the ancient god without a soul , to anyone, it is a piece of fat. However, beasts also have the instinct to kill, so these years I have not had a good reputation in the heavens, and I have been nicknamed a "butcher". No one dares to approach me, and no one dares to tell me about you, even though I have searched for hundreds of years, I have never found where you are."

"Then why did you find me today?"

"Although Jinyun Buddha's relics can cover up the secrets of heaven, so that I can't find your breath, but today when you entered the Taoist temple on the mountain, I saw you and looked for you."

Bones thought about it, and suddenly realized.In front of the mountain gate of the Taoist temple, there are two temples, the statue of the green dragon on the left and the statue of the white tiger on the right. It was probably at that time that Meng Zhang found himself through the statues.

"Then why did you lie to Xiaohezi? Didn't you say that without me, you are no different from a wild beast? Then why are you thinking so clearly now?"

"Meng Zhang is the bone, and the bone is Meng Zhang. I didn't lie to him. We are one person. I know everything that happened to you."

"What do you mean?"

"Since you have returned to me, even if you haven't fully integrated, I have recovered a little sanity and received your memory. I can empathize with everything you have experienced."

"Why only you can see my memory, but I can't see yours?"

"Of course you can. As long as you open your heart, give up resistance, and concentrate on merging with me, you will naturally receive my memory. When the time comes, when your soul returns to your place, we will integrate into one."

"No, I don't agree, I don't want to merge."

"Why?" Meng Zhang said displeased, he explained it so clearly, why he still objected.

"After merging with you, am I still myself? I refuse!" He would rather be a lonely ghost than take the risk of disappearing. Who knows what he will become after merging with his body.

"Don't mess around, of course you are still yourself, we are one." Meng Zhang felt a little headache, for some reason, he had the feeling of becoming an old father in advance.

Was he such a naive and unreasonable person before? No, it must be because his soul was incomplete due to being struck by lightning. I don't know if he would become so stupid after merging such a soul.

Bones, who had no idea that he was being rejected, strongly protested, "I refuse, if I keep not cooperating, you won't be able to integrate with me, why don't you just let me out."

Meng Zhang shook his head slightly, "No problem, it just needs some time."

Hearing the words, Gu Gu seemed to suddenly understand what Meng Zhang was thinking, and hurriedly looked inside himself, feeling terrified.Before he knew it, his body seemed to be more transparent than before, the difference was so small that the small bones hadn't noticed it all the time.

No wonder Meng Zhang regained some sanity, no wonder he got his own memory.The body and the soul are attracted to each other, even though the bones want to resist, but his spells are still of the same origin as the body, how can it stop their fusion, at most it will slow down.

Bones is a little at a loss, he seems to be played and applauded by someone now, and there is no way to escape at all, this feeling is really terrible.What to do, he doesn't want to disappear.

Just as the bones were battered, another flash of lightning flashed outside the window, and a huge black shadow was reflected on the window, ferocious and terrifying.

Meng Zhang didn't react too much, he just raised his hand lightly and set up a defensive formation in the room.

On the porch outside the window, a huge monster is walking here, the rain drips down its hair on the ground, its face is like an old melon skin, its eyes are shining in the dark, and its mouth is breathing hot air, looking around , looking for prey.

The monster didn't stay outside Ji Zihe's room for long, and then left.

"It's a mandrill, don't you care? If someone gets hurt, Xiao Hezi will be sad." Bones said intentionally.

Meng Zhang didn't change his attitude because of his words, he only said, "Everything has its own destiny, don't be contaminated with cause and effect at will."

The heaven and the earth are not benevolent, and after suffering such a catastrophe, Qinglong Shenjun finally understood one thing, the era that belonged to these ancient gods has passed, the bones do not want to disappear, and he does not want to disappear either.Those who follow the sky will prosper, those who go against the sky will perish, and only by being less involved in cause and effect can we protect ourselves.

In the darkness, only the light is the most conspicuous. The mandrill strayed into the Liugou Temple because it was hiding from the rain. Most of the rooms in the temple had already turned off the lights. Suddenly, a room was still lit, and the mandrill was naturally attracted to it.The fragile wooden door couldn't stop the mandrill's bulk, and the mandrill smashed through the door with brute force.

The sound of the piano, the sound of breaking the door, and the screams were finally covered by the sound of thunder and rain.