I should have gone back, I really don't seem to remember that there are still people in this east room. "
Xue Xian waved his hand: "I won't remember..."
Earthbound spirits are not living people after all, they are only impressed by those faces and things that keep repeating, but they are quite slow to the outsiders who suddenly intrude. Just like Xu Dashan and the others, when they saw Xue Xian and his party, they would chat normally, even making people feel that it was difficult to show their kindness. But if they didn't see Xue Xian and his party, they wouldn't remember it for a while, and they would unknowingly forget the existence of outsiders.
Therefore, they stayed in the east room for so long before, and no one came to greet the people in the room, but as soon as they left the room, Xu Dashan's enthusiasm came up.
"So it is." The scar-faced man and the others also looked like they were suddenly enlightened.
He was about to say something, but Xue Xian pointed at him: "Don't worry, it's none of your business. The outsiders here only refer to us, you come every year, from the time when Xu Dashan was alive until he was dead, right? For those people in the back hall, you are in the middle, not outsiders. They just forgot about you for a while, and they should come to find you soon."
As these words were being said, there was a faint voice coming from the back hall, getting closer and closer to the East House...
"What about Deliang and the others? Look at me, I forgot to say hello to my old friend. It's a sin..." Xu Dashan didn't know who he was talking to. After two sentences, the voice had already reached the door.
tuk tuk —
The people in the room were startled.
"Deliang, are you in there?" Xu Dashan's voice was across the door, "The banquet is already set, there are vacant seats for you—"
squeak-
The old door made a sour noise even with the slightest movement.
"I'm here!" The scar-faced man and the others turned around before the door was pushed open. The young and old gathered in a pile, just blocking the sight of Xu Dashan who was outside the door. "Have a rest here, it's over."
From the crowd's point of view, only their backs can be seen. Xu Dashan's cheerful voice came over, "Walking, walking for so long, are you hungry? Come on—"
The scar-faced man gave a deep laugh and responded. Then, everyone in the troupe went out one by one, and went to the back hall under the greeting of Xu Dashan.
The scar-faced man kept holding the door and was the last one. Before he left the east room, he slightly tilted his head and rushed into the room: "You guys should leave quickly at this time. We can't help you if you start singing late, it will be difficult to leave."
Xue Xian had such a plan, and now that the scar-faced man and the others took the initiative to lure Xu Dashan away, it was naturally the best.
Everyone in the room got up one after another, only the beggar who broke his hand hesitated.
"Didn't you let us save people?" Jiang Shijing pointed to the first child, who had passed out on the bed, "Take me back to the yào hall with us, be careful, use your clothes to cover the wounds."
The beggars glanced at each other, and they responded without hesitation. They hurriedly wrapped the three people who had the rash, and followed them behind their backs.
Xuan Min pushed Xue Xian's two-wheeler and strode out, the scarred-faced man who had already left the door remembered something and turned back and asked, "I can see that the two of you are people who have something to do. I can also feel some movement and changes in the village…”
He glanced at the door leading to the back hall, and it seemed that several years had passed, listening to those long deceased people chatting and laughing. After a moment of silence, he turned to look at Xuan Min, "Excuse me to ask, are they about to dissipate?"
Xuan Min gave a "hmm" and said lightly: "The formation that disturbed the atmosphere has been broken, and the Earthbound Spirit will naturally not be trapped here anymore."
"It can last for half a day at most, and it will be almost at night." Xue Xian glanced at the sky outside the hall and added.
Those earthbound spirits are a hidden danger to Jiang Shining and other foreigners. How far away they can be, no matter how warm and harmless they are, they can't get close, and can only be exchanged for a sentence of emotion or regret. But it is different for the scar-faced men and the others. They are all relatives and neighbors they have known each other since childhood. Every face, walking appearance, chatting and laughing gesture can evoke a string of past memories...
The scarred-faced man nodded complicatedly. After a while, he nodded again and said in a low voice, "Alright."
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On the way back, Xue Xian was unusually honest, he didn't attract thunder, cloud and rain, he didn't change into a real dragon, and he didn't even send the carriage to the sky. The only thing that moved was to expand the inside of the carriage, which attracted the wind, and stuck to the horse's butt all the way, which accelerated the speed of the carriage a lot.
Jiang Shining was very uncomfortable with Xue Xian, who was not a demon. He kept looking at him along the way, and finally couldn't help asking