Because Wu Lao's sentence requires magical instruments, Master Mao and Minister Lou have used almost all of their relationships to find all the magical instruments they can find.
But no matter how great their relationship is, it is still extremely difficult to find a good magic weapon in this age of the end of the Dharma.
Although the artifact would not be found for a while, Chen Yu's first New Year in the imperial capital came first.
Wearing a red sweater, Chen Yu helped Mayor Chen post the couplet together, and then went to the kitchen to beat Mother Chen. As the mayor's wife, Chen's mother doesn't cook much, and she doesn't really like cooking herself. But every Chinese New Year, Mother Chen always cooks the New Year's Eve dinner herself.
One is because the nanny and aunt came home during the holiday, and the other is that during the New Year, Mother Chen hopes that all the things in the house will be made by her own family.
"Mom, will the dumplings fall off like this?" Chen Yu asked while packing up the delicious dumplings.
"It will be a little bit, but it won't be serious." Mother Chen reminded her after she said, "Remember to bring some vinegar. If you eat dumplings without vinegar, the taste will be worse."
"Oh..." Chen Yu replied, thinking for a while and then asking, "Mom, can my brother eat these things now?"
Chen Yang finally woke up two days before the new year, and after another 24 hours of observation in the intensive care observation room, he was finally transferred to the general ward. Although her condition has improved a lot, she still cannot be discharged in a short period of time. Mother Chen is afraid that her son will be alone in the hospital during the New Year’s Day. The hospital accompanies Chen Yang to celebrate the New Year.
"Can't eat it." Mother Chen said and packed up the braised pork that had just been made.
"Then why are we planning so much?" Chen Yu asked puzzled.
"Let's eat, your brother just looks at it." Mother Chen said with a smile.
"Mom, are you caring about my brother, or are you trying to irritate my brother?" Chen Yu couldn't help being speechless.
"It's just a formality. The point is that our family will have a New Year's Eve dinner together." Mother Chen looked at the second floor and said, "Or you should stay at home and accompany Elder Wu."
Chen's mother and Mayor Chen were going to the hospital to accompany Chen Yang to celebrate the New Year, but it was difficult for Mr. Wu to accompany them, so the time for the New Year's Eve dinner was set at noon. At dinner, I have to come home to accompany Mr. Wu to have another New Year's Eve dinner. It's just that there are still guests in the house, but the host and the family have left. Mother Chen always feels a bit rude.
"It's okay, I told the old man... Grandpa." Chen Yu changed her mouth under the disapproving gaze of her mother. "Moreover... Grandpa has never been a new year. When I was in Da Kimura before, Grandpa would take me with me every New Year. go out."
"Why are you out?" Mother Chen asked curiously.
"Go out to drive out ghosts... Uh... That's it." Chen Yu quickly stopped talking about Chen's mother's stiff figure.
After Chen Yang was rescued in the hospital that day, Chen's father and Chen's mother only asked why Chen Yu used these spells, and after he was sure that the spells that rescued Chen Yang would not cause any harm to Chen Yu, she didn't ask any more. They didn't ask, and Chen Yu didn't say much, just occasionally when he spoke, he would not deliberately avoid it as before.
Especially after Mr. Wu came, he occasionally talked about the exorcism in the past. At this time, Father Chen could still remain calm, but Mother Chen was a little scared. After one or two times, Chen Yu slowly found out, and later she stopped mentioning it in front of Chen's mother.
Mother Chen packed up the last dish and closed the lid of the heat preservation box.
"Mom, give it to me, I'll take it to the car." Chen Yu said as he took the box in Mother Chen's hand, turned and ran out.
Mother Chen looked at the back of her daughter running away happily, her eyes flashed with annoyance, she was upset about her timidity. It's rare for Shi Shi to take the initiative to talk to her about her previous life, but she was so useless, and she couldn't control it with fear.
After everything was ready, Mayor Chen drove the three to the hospital. In Chen Yang’s single ward, a family of four had a simple and delicious New Year’s Eve dinner. Of course, Chen Yang, who had just woken up, could only drink chicken soup.
After dinner, Chen Yu helped Chen's mother clean up the lunch boxes on the table, and the family sat chatting together. Mother Chen is holding a fruit knife and cutting apples for a few people.
Chen Yu found it troublesome, so he picked up an apple and ate it directly.
"I'll cut it right away." Mother Chen couldn't help saying.
"It's okay." Chen Yu smiled and continued to chew the apple in his hand.
Chen Yang smiled when he saw it, and couldn't help but ask aloud: "I heard that Wu Lao has come to the Emperor?" Chen Yang only woke up the day before. He has been in a bad state of mind for the past two days, and it has barely improved until today.
"Yeah." Chen Yu nodded.
"Then Shi Shi you... are you okay?" Chen Yang asked.
"Me?" Chen Yu blinked in confusion, "What can I do?"
"If you are okay, Mr. Wu will not come to the imperial capital." Chen Yang said firmly.
Although Chen Yang had no memory of his soul leaving the body, he knew best about his own injuries at the time, and Chen's father and Chen's mother had also mentioned to him about Chen Yu's rescue. As someone who has witnessed Chen Yu fight the Ghost King with his own eyes, Chen Yang feels that his conjecture is completely reasonable.
"No... Grandpa came to the Imperial Capital just to come to celebrate the New Year. Didn't you always tell me to ask him to come to the Imperial Capital for the New Year?" Chen Yu laughed and wanted to go over it.
"Shi Shi... Although I have been rescued by you, and now it will not help me to say anything, but at least you have to let us know what happened to you to save me." Chen Yang said solemnly, " Otherwise, neither my parents nor I will be at ease."
Chen Yu was taken aback, turned his head and looked around, only to find that Chen's father and Chen's mother were also looking at him with worry when he didn't know.
"Although... you keep saying that you saved Yangyang, it has no effect on you, but... even if we don't understand metaphysics at all, we know that this is an extremely difficult thing." Mayor Chen said .
No matter how they talked to Chen Yu about taking Mr. Wu to the Imperial Capital before, Chen Yu always said that she could not contact Mr. Wu. But when Chen Yu fainted, Mr. Wu rushed to the imperial capital the next day without any notice.
Such a coincidence, if they said that the actions that day had no effect on Chen Yu, they couldn't believe it. They don't ask too much. First, they don't think they understand things in the metaphysical world, and they are afraid that there are some taboos in it, and they can't talk to the outside world. Second, Chen Yu obviously intentionally concealed it, and they didn't ask too much.
But if they don't ask clearly, they are really worried. Fortunately, Mr. Wu's timely arrival has made them feel more at ease.
"You told me about Zhang Ziyang before. The cost of changing your fate against the sky is very high. Then you save me..."
"It's not the same, it's not the same, your situation is different from Zhang Ziyang's." Chen Yu interrupted without waiting for Chen Yang to finish.
"Where is it different?" Chen Yang asked.
"It's..." Chen Yu didn't know how to explain metaphysical matters to three ordinary people, so he tried to get confused again, "Oh... you don't understand it after you said it, anyway... I'm fine."
The three of the Chen family looked at each other, and finally Father Chen said, "If you really don't want to say it, we don't have to know, but... if something bad really happened to you, we have to tell us. ."
"Shi Shi, Mom and Dad are ordinary people and don’t understand your metaphysical world. You don’t know how worried we were after you passed out that day. If it wasn’t for Mr. Wu to come over the next day, we..." Mother Chen said The voice here couldn't help but choked up, "Mom just hopes you are well, you and Yangyang are both my children, and neither of you can have an accident."
Father Chen cried again when he saw his wife talking. He sighed and softly comforted his wife while wiping her tears.
"I... I..." Chen Yu saw her mother crying and was sad, and suddenly panicked, "I'm really fine, Mom, don't cry."
Chen Yu deliberately concealed it because she was afraid that Chen's mother would be like this. He didn't expect that the one who should have come would not be able to avoid it.
The more Chen Yu said so, the more mentally replenishing Chen's mother, and the more sad she cried suddenly.
"Oh... I'm really okay." Chen Yu tangled for a long time and said, admitting his fate, "Well, I admit that Grandpa came to the Imperial City because of me."
Mother Chen stopped crying immediately, and the three of them looked at Chen Yu and listened to her seriously.
"I used a forbidden technique when I was saving my eldest brother. This forbidden technique would have a certain backlash on me, so I suddenly fainted that day. Grandpa sensed that I had used a forbidden technique that day, and was afraid that I would be backlashed. Lai Didu found me, and then healed me." Chen Yu briefly explained the cause and effect.
"Healed?" Mother Chen was still a little skeptical.
"Really, if it is not cured, do you think the old man will be in the mood to spend the whole day playing games in his room?" Chen Yu couldn't help but want to complain about the internet addiction when he was old, even grandpa. I forgot to shout.
"..." Chen's father and Chen's mother glanced at each other, and both saw the incredible in each other's eyes. It turns out that Mr. Wu was hiding in the room all day, not painting amulet, but playing games
"So don't worry, I'm really fine." Chen Yu repeated again.
"Then you can't mess around in the future." Mother Chen asked worriedly.
"Mom, why do you always talk about me, why don't you talk about my brother, if it weren't for him to wear the amulet, how could so many things?" Chen Yu directly shook the pot.
To be right, Chen's father and Chen's mother immediately turned around and looked at some "culprit."
"Oh... Why do I feel a little pain in my chest? I may need to rest for a while." Chen Yang said, lying down spontaneously, and covered it with a quilt.
"..."
When eating New Year's Eve dinner in the evening, in order to alleviate her fear of ghosts, Mother Chen took the initiative to stir up the topic.
"Elder Wu, I heard Shi Shi said that you had to go out to exorcise ghosts during Chinese New Year? Is there any special reason? Why do you go out to exorcise ghosts on New Year's Day?" Mother Chen asked.
"Because there are more ghosts on New Year's Eve than usual." Old Wu replied.
"Today there are more ghosts... than usual?" Mother Chen leaned against her husband without a trace.
"That's right, the ghosts wandering outside tonight are about two or three times as many as usual, and most of them are ghosts." Old Wu said as he put himself a little fried pork with chopsticks.
Mother Chen shuddered and almost didn't scare the chopsticks in her hand. Mayor Chen couldn't bear it. Just when he was about to change the subject, Mother Chen asked again.
"Why?" Mother Chen was both scared and curious.
"Because..." When Lao Wu was thinking about how to explain to show his unpredictable image, a sharp pain suddenly came from his feet.
Old Wu gritted his teeth in pain, turned his head and glared at his granddaughter, and asked silently: Why step on me
Chen Yu ignored him and turned to calm Mother Chen: "Mom, don't listen to grandpa's nonsense, he deliberately scared you. New Year's Eve is actually a very good day, because New Year's Eve will appear at midnight."
"Is there really a Nian Beast?" Mother Chen said in shock.
"Yes." Chen Yu explained, "The legend says that the Nian beast is a fierce beast, but it is not. At this time of the year, the Nian beast will come to the world and consume all the bad things in the world. For example, hostility. , Evil spirits, murderous spirits... and so on all bad things. It’s just that the things he swallows are bad things, so the aura around him is scary and looks fierce, easy to be misunderstood, but in fact he is Purifying the world."
"In that case, he is not only not a fierce beast, but a beast." Mother Chen heard this explanation for the first time.
"Yes." Chen Yu nodded, "Nian Beast is actually very great."
"I know so clearly, don't hurry up to eat, and then go out quickly." Old Wu "remembers" Chen Yu stepped on his foot, and took the opportunity to knock Chen Yu's head fiercely.
Chen Yu grinned in pain, and glared back fiercely, covering his head with his hand.
But Elder Wu had already turned his head, and he was amiably answering Mother Chen's question.
"Go out? Where are you going?" Mother Chen asked.
"Go and drive away ghosts." Old Wu said.
Father Chen listened for a long time, and vaguely figured out the logical relationship inside: "Are these bad things that Nian Beast wants to swallow, but they are useful things for Li ghosts, so this day there will be more Li ghosts than usual? . And Shi Shi is actually helping Nian Beast when he goes out to exorcise ghosts?"
"Finally I know where this girl's IQ was inherited. Mayor Chen is not a member of metaphysics. I guessed the relationship in just a few words. It's amazing." Old Wu couldn't help but manually nod.
"Old Wu praised." Mayor Chen said modestly.
"Will it be dangerous?" Mother Chen couldn't help but worry when she heard her daughter was going out to drive ghosts out.
"Don't worry, when she was eight years old, I let her go to exorcise ghosts on New Year's Eve alone, nothing will happen."
Only when Mr. Wu's words fell, Chen's father and Chen Mugu looked at him with entangled faces.
"Don't just watch me eat, you eat too, this glutinous rice ribs is really good." Wu Lao said and went to pick up chopsticks.
Although reason tells them to respect the elderly, what should they do if they really want to hit someone.
Because of the New Year's Eve dinner talk about Nian Beast, Chen Yuda went out to catch ghosts at night and finally walked back to the front door openly. But she didn't rush to the location where the beast might appear last year in a hurry, but went to the small courtyard of the house first.
"Three brothers." Chen Yu ran all the way to the study on the second floor.
Lou Ming heard Chen Yu's footsteps and put down the book in his hand in advance. After the door was slammed open, he smiled and asked, "Why are you not at home today on New Year's Eve?"
"I'm going out today to exorcise ghosts." Chen Yu replied.
"Exorcising ghosts?" Lou Ming also learned some common sense in the metaphysical world when he was a child by Master Mao. After only two seconds, he reacted, "The New Year beast will appear tonight, so there will be more ghosts outside. On New Year's Eve. Helping the Nian Beast to dispel the ghosts and letting the Nian Beast consume more hostility is said to accumulate merit points for the celestial master."
"That's right, so I'm going out soon to exorcise ghosts." Chen Yu nodded.
"Then are you here to get the Xuansha Talisman?" Lou Ming said, turning around to get the box containing the Xuansha Talisman on the bookshelf.
"No, I'm here..." Chen Yu spoke, and suddenly walked around the desk and stood in front of Lou Ming, looking at Lou Ming hesitantly.
"What are you here for?" Lou Ming asked in confusion.
"Third Brother... You are so tall." Because she stood too close, Chen Yu had to lift her head hard to see Lou Ming's appearance.
Lou Ming chuckled, "You only found out that I am taller."
"Brother, sit down." Chen Yu pulled Lou Ming's sleeve.
"Ok?"
"Brother, sit down first." Chen Yu pulled Lou Ming again.
Lou Ming helplessly smiled and sat back on the chair behind him and continued to ask, "Don't want the Xuansha Talisman, what are you doing here?"
"I..." Chen Yu rolled his eyes, and then kissed Lou Ming's lips with lightning speed.
Lou Ming almost jumped up from the chair in shock. He pushed people away and said in horror: "Shi Shi, what are you doing?"
"Absorb the evil spirit overflowing from your body." Chen Yu's face was full of innocence.
"No, the evil spirit in my body is quite stable right now, and I don't need to be sealed." Lou Ming resisted, holding his pounding heart.
"It's not a seal, I want to absorb a part of the evil spirit from you, and then I will find Nian Beast." Chen Yu said.
"Are you going to take the evil spirit from me, and then let the Nian Beast consume it?" Lou Ming asked.
"Yeah." Chen Yu nodded.
"It's useless." Lou Ming said, shaking his head, "Nian Beast only swallows the masterless evil spirit floating in the air, and the evil spirit on my body will not be swallowed."
This method was used by Master Mao a few years ago, but it's a pity that Nian Beast couldn't swallow the hostility of the lonely spirit Li Gui, so how could it devour the hostility of his body.
"I absorbed it, and the suffocating energy entered my body. The suffocating energy in my body is superfluous to me, and it is equivalent to no master. In this way, the Nian Beast may be swallowed." Chen Yu said, "and... The evil spirit on your body is already showing signs of instability. I guess I will need to seal it in two days. Why not take this opportunity and I will help you relieve it first."
"Is there?" Lou Ming looked at himself uncertainly, his evil spirit was really unstable
"Yeah." Chen Yu nodded particularly sincerely.
Lou Ming twisted his brows tangledly, his lips pressed tightly, and he couldn't make up his mind for a while.
"Ah, the Nian Beast will come out in a while, I'm in a hurry." Chen Yu didn't give Lou Ming a chance to react, so he jumped on again.
Lou Ming firmly grasped the armrest of the chair, the back of his hand violently violently, expressing his inner struggle and struggle.
After kissing for a long time, Chen Yu slowly raised his head, opened his eyes and met Lou Ming with complicated expression.
Lou Ming opened his eyes with a guilty conscience.
"What's the matter?" Lou Ming asked in surprise.
"Absorb a little more." Chen Yu immediately lowered his head and kissed him again.
Lou Ming's heart was entangled, guilty, moved, and hesitated. He had mixed feelings and didn't know what to do.
Chen Yu sacrificed so much to save you. How can you give her back
Chen Yu had absorbed enough evil spirits as early as the first kiss, but when she was just separated, when she was facing Lou Ming, she suddenly remembered that morning in the suburbs, that... Lou Ming took the initiative to take advantage of it. Kiss.
Chen Yu recalled his actions that day, and quietly stuck out his tongue.
Ok? ? Lou Ming's pupils suddenly widened, and his horror seemed to be dispelled.
The author has something to say: Father Chen and Mother Chen: Mr. Wu, Shi Shi is very well taught by you.
Old Wu proud face: Of course, she can catch ghosts at the age of eight, zombies at the age of ten, and go out alone to catch ghosts and buy me cigarettes at the age of fifteen.
Chen's father and Chen's mother:... (I really want to call the police)