Qingguan Nightmare Shadow

Chapter 85

Seeing Yunli's hesitation, the little ghost simply walked over by herself.There was an iron hook tied around her waist, and the silver light of the iron hook was not buried by the faint light, and it appeared coldly.When she came to Mrs. An's side, the little ghost suddenly stopped, leaned over, and wiped the corner of Mrs. An's eyes with her fingertips—the usual action of a tear-picker.

The tears didn't flow down, An Cao didn't seem to realize that she was crying, and still gently stroked An Ran's head.An Ran lay on A Niang's lap, listening to Anyi's heavy breathing, wondering if her father was still angry.In the year An Tong left home, An Yi's temper became a little weird; in the first three months, he scolded his son for being unfilial, in the middle half a year he remained silent, in the last three months he pretended to smile in front of others, and in the latter three months he complained that God was blind.

Anyi's "God" includes many things, unknown things in the three worlds of humans, gods and ghosts, and even goes back to history, covering the three emperors and five emperors.However, today An Yi didn't scold anyone, just stared blankly with his sleeves in his hands, with a dejected look on his face.

The silence that followed the feast was tormenting.In the huge Anfu, there is only a family of three left.

Anyi thought, in ordinary households, people of his age should marry their sons and daughters to enjoy their family.Not to mention worry-free all day long, but not always lonely.

Pressing his forehead, Anyi looked at An Ran with his mouth curled up, and stretched out his hand to grab his son's face.He was drunk, and felt in a trance that everything was fake, even his youngest son might not be real.An Ran stared at An Yi with wide eyes, thinking wildly, inexplicably afraid that his father would get angry and punish him for copying books; She went behind.

Mrs. An Cao shook her head with a smile. After a long time, she said softly, "I'm going to Baiyin Temple to offer incense on the fifteenth day tomorrow."

An Yi: "Yes."

An Cao: "Are you with me?"

His wife hardly invited him to the temple to offer incense. Hearing this, Anyi trembled slightly as if he had been bitten by a mosquito.As if this was a metaphor of "it's a little different from before", An Yi straightened his hunched back, closed his eyes and said, "Forget it." Then he added: "Take An Ran with you. "

Mrs. An Cao replied "yes", picked up a lamp sideways, and handed the other lamp to An Yi, and at the same time called San'er, asking her to send An Ran to sleep.An Yi held up the lamp: "Aren't you going back to the house?" An Cao said: "I'll sit in the yard for a while."

As a result, Mr. An couldn't fall asleep because of his thoughts. He moved a stool by himself and sat in the yard.The two sat silently, Uncle Zhang came out and gave Mrs. An and Mrs. An a fan, saying that there are many mosquitoes in the hot weather, and there are herbs to repel mosquitoes in the house. It is better for the master and Mrs. An to go to rest earlier.

Mrs. An Cao picked up the fan to fan An Yi, and said, "You have worked hard, go back first." Uncle Zhang nodded, waved to San'er who was standing at the door of An Ran's room, and then entered the room.

Yun Li and Qin Jin followed the little ghost, and stood at the entrance of the dining room for a long time, until the moment when Master An and Mrs. An didn't say a word.The little ghost leaned against the door frame, holding a bottle, and shook it lightly; Yun Li knew that she had something to say, and guessed that she was organizing words, but after a long time, the little ghost couldn't form any complete words, so she just whispered One sentence: "Mr. Yunli, Mr. An just said that you will probably come to An Mansion."

Caught off guard, Yun Li felt like he had missed the mark.

Yunli: "He told you to wait for me here?"

The little ghost shook the bottle, put the collected tears into her bag, and said, "...I just think I need to wait for you." Yun Li lowered his head and rolled up his sleeves, expecting yet afraid to hear the other party's next words.The three of them were silent for a long time, Qin Jin said for Yunli, "I don't know what the girl wants to say?"

"I want Mr. Yunli to understand Mr. An." The little ghost said.

Yunli: "..."

Cailei Nu said that 76 years ago, when she passed the Naihe Bridge, she saw a young man fighting with Po Meng.The young man threw down a bowl of soup and insisted on walking back. At that time, Granny Meng's iron hooks were growing wildly like thorns on the bridge, and his soul was blocked by layers of obstacles, almost becoming paper burned by flames.

The tear-picking girl said very emotionally, if she could shed tears by herself, she wouldn't have to run around anymore today.

In an instant, Yunli was brought back to the open space in Yuchi Mansion in Chongzhou by the word "76 years". Emperor Jiahui Zhao Qibin was looking down at him while he sneered while supporting a broken body.

The little ghost girl said: "Later Po Meng thought she had won."

It's not that she won, Granny Meng just didn't believe that anyone could escape the bowl of soup she handed over.There are countless dead souls who don't want to drink soup. She has cut off the legs of the dead souls, broken the collarbone of the dead souls with an iron hook, and then poured them a bowl of soup.Since ancient times, no one has been reincarnated with memories. Po Meng is confident that her business is excellent, so this is something that makes her proud.

Yunli recalled...so, the coldness he touched at that time was really the coldness of a corpse.

Su Tong didn't hold his breath to survive, but held his breath... "I'm back".

The little ghost said that the iron hook tore a blood hole on Su Tong's jaw, and Po Meng's soup mixed with blood dripped down his neck.Po Meng thought she had poured the soup into Su Tong's stomach, but in fact the soup was stained with blood, covering her eyes and "escaping".The little female ghost was surprised by Su Tong's obsession, and when Su Tong crossed the bridge, she followed him to see where he was going.

"Then I saw Mr. Su going to the direction of Chongzhou," said the little ghost girl, "Mr. Yunli... Afterwards, I knew who Mr. Su was for."

Also know what he is for.

In order to block a piece of the emperor's token for others.

Yunli suddenly realized: This is the reason why Su Tong was unable to form alchemy back then.At that time, he was simply a ghost, temporarily living in the flesh, without the breath of a person belonging to the world.The broken soul accompanied the aging body to the end of life, and finally created a chain of seals to lock up many helplessness.

300 years is the length of time that Su Tong thought could smooth out his emotions.

After a long time, Yun Li said, "Yes."

The little ghost thought about it, and it seemed necessary to strengthen the feasibility of her words, and said: "Mr. Yunli, what I said is true..." Then she realized that she hadn't told the other party who she was: "At first I was bullied in hell, Madam Su has been protecting me, so I have been following her. Mr. Su and I have known each other a long time ago, and now we are here to remind Mr. Su that someone has sued him We've arrived at the King of Hell's mansion."

Cai Lei Nu talked about her relationship with Su Tong, but Yun Li and Qin Jin felt a little confused when they heard it.

Qin Jin: "Well, who is Mrs. Su? Where has Mr. Su gone?"

The little ghost said: "Master Su's mother... 25 years ago, Mrs. Su, who was reincarnated in Anfu, had a difficult childbirth. Mr. Su went to Xiuzhu to save people, and became Mrs. Su's son again as Mr. An." She lowered her head. : "As for Mr. Su, he is now... last year I left an iron hook to appease him, and asked him to pay attention at night. As a result, he waited for me and told me that he is now 'relaxed' and can go back to Yin according to the rules The government is guilty."

Yunli: "He...goes back to the underworld?"

"Well," the little female ghost avoided Yunli's gaze, "he said he saw you, seeing that you are calm, he felt relieved."

Yun Li suddenly turned around and left, Qin Jin and the little ghost asked him where he was going from behind his back, but he couldn't answer, he just said that he would not go to the underworld to find the King of Hades anyway.Cailei Nuu chased after her, and walked side by side with Yunli for a while, then took a step down and said, "Mr. Yunli, Su...Mr. An, he will definitely come back!"

Yun Li didn't even realize that he paused for a moment, and heard the little ghost speed up her speech: "I think he will come back one day." She also wanted to say that An Tong would definitely bring his memory with him, and use his identity in accordance with the rules of the Three Realms When she came back, she realized that what she wanted to say was the most ideal expectation. The fact is that she really couldn't believe that An Tong could avoid Po Meng's soup again.

So she could only say very palely: "Mr. Yunli, Yuchi Mingshuang also sued you to Po Meng and the King of Hell, Mr. Su is afraid that you will be implicated, so he has to go back and accept the crime."

The little ghost seemed to think that Yunli was angry and wanted to say something more, but Yunli accelerated and walked towards the gate of Anfu.

Yun Li looked back at the little ghost: "Has Yuchi Mingshuang really become a wandering spirit?" After choking for a moment, the little ghost lowered her eyes and nodded, saying "Yes", when she regained her senses and looked up again, Qin Jin had already Yun Li disappeared.

The courtyard of An's mansion was still in the breeze, and the bamboo grove behind the mansion was rustling softly, playing the exact same tune as last year.

An Yi lay on his back and fell asleep, An Cao went back to the house and brought out a blanket, and put it on for her husband, while she was still not tired at all, waving her fan, her sleeves like water wrapped around the arm of the chair, sweeping her in her arms On the cold moonlit ground.

The sound of cicadas makes the night quieter.

Qin Jin mobilized his celestial power and led Yunli along at a fast pace, and suddenly stopped at a corner.There was a group of people standing there, and Qin Jin keenly smelled the breath from "hometown", so he turned his head and smiled at Yun Li, "He came from the underworld."

If it was just a group of nocturnal ghosts appearing ahead, the two of them didn't need to stop to say hello to them.But the group of ghosts lined up, clearly coming to block the way.In addition, among this group of female ghosts of different ages, Yun Li recognized a familiar face.

The woman who committed suicide in Qixianglou in the past.

The woman is now considered the youngest member of this "organization", and the clothes on her body are still as gorgeous as they were when she was alive.Because he saw someone he knew, Yun Li subconsciously looked at other people carefully to see if there were any acquaintances.

Yunli can only say that he found familiar eyes.

Just like An Tong felt very familiar when he saw Yuan Min's eyes, when Yun Li looked at the old woman in the middle, he also felt that her eyes were very familiar.This feeling of deja vu does not come from the skin, but it seems that it cannot be described as purely as "from the soul"; then Yunli feels that this feeling comes from the silent words in the old woman's eyes: "Don't you remember me?"

Because of that look in his eyes, Yun Li tried his best to find the old woman's face in his memory.

"Miss Mingshuang?"

The female ghost next to the old woman called her in a low voice, as if asking her, now that the two heavens are blocked, what should I do next.

Call an old man who looks decades older than himself a "girl".

Yun Li finally realized that no matter how much he recalled this face, it was futile, because this face did not exist in his memory at all.

But "Yuchi Mingshuang" does exist in his memory.

Seeing that Yunli couldn't hide his expression of "so it is", Qin Jin folded his arms, squinted his eyes and squeezed his chin, staring straight at this old man named "Yuchi Mingshuang".

A man who spent the rest of his life in hell.

There was no news of Yuchi Mingshuang in Chongzhou, the capital... or even in the five states of Xia, but she actually went directly to the underworld.She had long dreamed of going to the underworld to be a wandering soul, and at this moment Yun Li read her expression carefully, feeling that half of her dream had come true but also half disappeared.The half that is realized is reflected in her actions, and the half that is eliminated is in her heart.

She stubbornly left home, went to the underworld through some channel, lived to an age that can be described as "old", and then died in the underworld, refusing to step on the bridge of the Wangchuan River, becoming a woman as she wished. Only wandering souls.

Of course Yunli didn't know what Yuchi Mingshuang had experienced, the only thing she could be sure of was that her illusion of wandering souls was shattered.Disillusioned not because she didn't do it, but because she didn't perceive what she wanted to perceive.Yuchi Mingshuang's face was numb, it was the numbness after getting used to an environment that was safe for her but would never be filled with passion again.

Thinking of this, Yunli suddenly understood the second meaning of the gathering of these female ghosts.

In the night of Qixianglou, the cold voice of the young Yuchi Mingshuang rang in his mind; Qixianglou's mother was frightened and limp in that voice.Yuchi Mingshuang said, I am going to the underworld to be a wandering soul, and I will take you with me in the future.

Yunli scanned the "ghost wall" in front of him again, and realized that Yuchi Mingshuang had really fulfilled his promise.

The young girls in Qixianglou grew old and died in the upheaval of the yang world, and after going through the underworld several times, they came under Yuchi Mingshuang's command.

Thoughts drifted away, Yunli seemed to think more about what Yuchi Mingshuang was going to do.

Qin Jin smiled gently and said: "Miss Yuchi... Even if you bring Jun Yunli to the King of Yama and file a complaint again, Xiao Xian weighs it, Lord Yan Wang will not be able to tell where our Lord Yunli's crime is."

Yuchi Mingshuang remained silent.

After a long time, Yun Li realized that she just wanted to take a look at herself.

Want to show off to him: Because of me, your well-behaved Su Tong will never come back again.

This is a kind of venting, and Xu Zhen pulled Yuchi's mansion into the water in despair, which is a kind of venting.

I don't have a good time in the underworld, but I don't want to go back to the underworld to be a human again.Tracing back to the source, if you hadn't intervened in the matter between me and Yuchiling, I would not have been harmed, and Yuchi's mansion would not have been harmed. I would not place my thoughts behind my death, nor would I feel in the end that there is no one inch between Yin and Yang Peaceful pure land.

The Pure Land may be in the sky, but how can I go to the sky with a ghost like this?

I can't ask for it, I just want to make a hole in your heart and create even a little pleasure in your pain.

These things gurgled out of Yuchi Mingshuang's eyes, and after the water flowed out of the eye sockets, it turned into an invisible fire.The fire continued to burn, making her shrunken face even more ugly.

Yuchi Mingshuang wanted to put away the sporadic anger on Yunli's face, but in the end, what she got was a sneer and an abrupt sentence: "Yuchiling probably went to hell too."

The ghosts were puzzled, so Qin Jin clasped his palms together and made a "excuse me" gesture, and then helped Yun Li open the wall of people.

Yuchi Mingshuang turned around suddenly, stared at Yunli's back, and then let out a low cry like a beast.She knew that her showing off was fruitless, but Yun Li stabbed her in turn.

What Yunli wants to say is that Yuchi Ling has also gone down, you may meet each other, but do you dare to see him?With today's appearance?

After walking a few steps forward, Yun Li suddenly laughed.He also wanted to add in front of Yuchi Mingshuang that Su Tong, who was 80 years old at that time, still had a sense of immortality, but you at 80 years old have become the appearance that you can never get along with Yuchi Ling.

Inadvertently, Qin Jin turned his head to look at Yunli, and saw that there was a suppressed ferocity in Si Mingjun's eyes.So he realized that Yu Chi Mingshuang hadn't achieved her goal, otherwise Yun Li wouldn't bother to say anything to her, let alone pull out the dagger stuck in his heart, and throw it at her with great effort.

The fake calm is terrifying, and Qin Jin can't help worrying that Mr. Yunli is going to eat people.

It's best to get away from the group of ghosts early on. Qin Jin spent [-]% of her immortal power to sacrifice a talisman, and carrying Yun Li, she turned to the hundred-level stone steps in front of Baiyin Temple in an instant.

It was clear and palpable that when the two of them climbed up the stairs and got closer and closer to the gate of Baiyin Temple, the hostility around Yun Li's body diminished.

At night, at the gate of the dark red Baiyin Temple, there was a person standing.

Abbot Zhuyuan.

Yun Li said he wasn't surprised at all, he just bowed and saluted Zhu Yuan.

Zhu Yuan heshi returned the salute and said, "Young Master Yun."

Yunli and Zhuyuan staggered, walked a few more steps, and wanted to go to the temple; unexpectedly, two young monks suddenly appeared from the door, and together they pushed the gate of Baiyin Temple to cover it.Yun Li paused for a moment, then turned back expressionlessly, only to see some silent words on Zhu Yuan's face that "the man has gone, and there is no fruit to worry about".

Yun Li said: "No matter where you are, there is always a reason to allow 'old friends to look back', right?"

Zhu Yuandao said that stopping Young Master Yun was one of the things that Young Master Su asked him to do, so he took something out of his sleeve and handed it to Yunli.It was a book, titled "Golden Layman".Zhu Yuan signaled Yunli to turn it over and read it. Yunli only saw that the first few pages were some fragmentary understanding of the mental method, and thought that this step was the first draft of the mental method written by Su Tong after he became an official.

Turning over a few more pages, the profound style of the book changed suddenly, and weird stick figures unexpectedly appeared.The lines of the painting lead the time back to the first year of Jiahui. At that time, in the study of the old couple Yunlicheng, they found the "painting" of 16-year-old Su Tong who was ashamed to see others.Now, the picture in front of me is the same as the stick figure at that time, but the content recorded is Yunli's various sleeping positions in Baiyin Temple.

Qin Jin saw a slight change in Yunli's eyebrows, so out of curiosity, she leaned over to see what was in the book.However, Yun Li turned another page at this time: the white paper set off Su Tong's last few strokes, which were not paintings, but several words spliced ​​out of intermittent ink marks.

"Don't think about it, forget about yourself."

……

The 300-year seal and this book, combined, are nothing more than the three words "It's better not".