"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you..."
"Xiao Chu, make a wish, after today, you will be eight years old."
"Who?"
"Boom—"
"Xiao Chu, run and find your uncle, don't look back." "Ah—"
Heavy black shadows, screams, the sound of flesh and blood being cut, the sound of porcelain ornaments being smashed to the ground and walls, a little boy was holding the jade pendant hanging on his chest tightly, and ran forward with tears in his eyes .
The long street was bustling at this point in the past, but on this day, every house was closed, and he could only hear his own panting, and the black abyss beyond the street.
The little boy remembered his mother's warning, don't look back.
*****
"Ah Chu, I have taught you everything I can teach you. From today onwards, you can go down the mountain."
In a slightly dilapidated Taoist temple, an old man with white hair and childlike face sat on the futon, closed his eyes and meditated. Although he was talking, he didn't pay any attention to the young man not far away.
"Uncle."
The young man was thin and tall, wearing a slightly ill-fitting Taoist robe, with handsome eyes and divine light, and long hair like a waterfall that hadn't been trimmed for a long time, and was just fixed with a wooden hairpin into a bun on the top of his head. .
Born with a sharp beauty, this face has a bit of coquettishness for no reason.
Yan Chu half knelt on the ground, his deep eyes were a little more inexplicably tangled.
"Ah Chu, you have to remember that people are good and bad, and ghosts are also good and evil. It is preordained to peck and drink in the world."
The old Taoist priest who was called uncle by him opened his eyes, looked at his expression at this time, and sighed slightly: "That's all, you go down the mountain."
At the beginning, his senior brothers and sisters sent him a warning that the sect should not be passed on in a critical situation, but it was a pity that when he arrived, the senior brother's house was already full of dead bodies, and he could only rely on the remaining traces to judge that it was a ghost.
He arrived too late, and there was no trace of the ghost.
Their lineage can be traced back to the sect of Li Chunfeng, the great master of Taoism. It is a pity that the Taoism declined. When it was passed down to his generation, including his senior brothers and sisters, there were only three descendants in total.
The three brothers and sisters are all orphans. They have been very affectionate since they were young, but they are old-fashioned and obsessed with metaphysics. However, his brothers and sisters fell in love with each other during the growth process, and gradually developed the idea of wanting to live an ordinary life.
Taoism connects yin and yang, understands gossip, because of spying on the secrets of heaven, people in Taoism usually have five disadvantages and three shortcomings, which always account for one of them.
In order to get rid of the sanction of heaven, the experienced brothers and sisters voluntarily gave up the skills they had learned over the past twenty years, willingly entered the world, married and had children.
The old man couldn't understand the thoughts of the senior brother and the junior sister, but he would not stop them from doing so. His senior brother and the junior sister were talented above him.
It's just that even though the brothers and sisters have not been in touch for many years, the old Taoist will not feel that the brothers and sisters have forgotten all their abilities after entering the secular world. Time, don't use all those skills.
Especially before the master died, he gave the three brothers and sisters some life-saving treasures. For no reason, no one escaped except the young Yan Chu, and the death was so miserable.
When the old Taoist found Yan Chu, his nephew, he had been homeless for dozens of days, making a living by picking up leftovers in trash cans, his body was covered with scars, and he didn't know what had happened to him during these ten days. what happened.
The old Taoist only knew that this nephew seemed to grow up overnight, but his temperament became paranoid and cold, and he hated all ghosts.
Although he hid it well at that time, he was only an eight-year-old child after all, and the old man saw it in his eyes and worried in his heart.
Originally from his heart, he was not willing to teach this child to learn their sect's Taoism, but this child is so talented that he has never heard of it.
Their lineage has long been lonely. From him, the old Taoist has seen the legacy of Master Chunfeng. Maybe their lineage will recast its glory in this child.
It's just that everything has pros and cons, and it's also possible that this child will get lost in hatred and become an enemy of Taoism.
After all, it was selfishness and love for this nephew that prevailed. The old Taoist brought him back to the Taoist temple, and did not ask him to pay homage to the teacher. He treated it as an apprentice on behalf of his senior brother who was killed by a ghost, and taught him Taoism .
In the blink of an eye, fourteen years have passed.
During these years, Lao Dao always went down the mountain every year to look for traces of that ghost, but unfortunately he never found anything, and he also met the enemy he made when he was young and was seriously injured.
When Lao Dao was young, his master once said that he would have two catastrophes of life and death in his life. If he could not survive, he would be one less person in this world. The old Tao guessed that one of the catastrophes should be here It's up.
In the days to come, he will face the barrier of life and death, and Yan Chu has already learned something, and it's time to go down the mountain.
"This magic whip is your mother's relic, and it is also an important inheritance treasure of our sect. From now on, it will be yours."
The old Taoist took out a rope from behind, which was the whip in his mouth.
The handle of the magic whip is made of wood, with snake-head patterns carved on it, and the whip is made of Abutilon hemp, which looks like a real snake in shape.
The snake's head is painted with red lacquer and engraved with five elements and eight trigrams. Looking inside from the mouth of the snake, one can faintly see a human head caught by the mouth of the snake, which is quite terrifying.
However, such a seemingly evil whip is indeed a treasure of Taoism, capable of whipping demons and exorcising evil spirits.
In the domestic catastrophe a few decades ago, countless people were killed and injured in Taoism and Buddhism. Taoism also began to decline since then. There are very few magic weapons left in the hands of each faction.
The old Taoist sighed, the three magic tools that their school kept, one is his Gangtian Ruler, the other is the gossip Luoyi in the hands of his senior brother, and the other is the exorcism that he is holding in his hand now. magic whip.
At the scene where the brothers and sisters had an accident, the gossip Luo Yi had already been broken into pieces, and the demon-killing whip was also broken into several pieces.
Many of the five elements and eight trigrams on the clothes have been lost, and the old Taoist cannot repair them. The damage to this magic whip is relatively light, and there is still a possibility of repairing it. However, in the past ten years, he has found many treasures from heaven and earth, and only It has been repaired by 50%.
But even so, ordinary evil spirits would not dare to approach him as a nephew.
He has taught what should be taught, and he has persuaded what should be persuaded. What to do after that depends entirely on his own good luck.
After all, the old Taoist closed his eyes, this apprentice was handed over by him, the karma has already been established, if something happened that he didn't want to see, I am afraid that the only one who understands the karma is him.
Yan Chu took the demon whip, knocked his head three times, then picked up the luggage that had been prepared earlier, turned around and walked out of the Taoist temple.
"Hey-"
The old Taoist sighed for a long time. He didn't know whether it was right or wrong to teach this child the Taoism because of his selfishness.
I really hope that day doesn't happen.
*****
"Look, that man is so handsome, but what kind of clothes is he wearing, is it a costume?"
"I don't know. We don't have any crews filming here. Could it be cosplay? Why don't we ask his Weibo account? With his appearance, he will debut and become a big star sooner or later."
Wearing that Taoist robe, Yan Chu went down the mountain, got on the long-distance bus all the way under the strange eyes of others, and came to Nanshi, the place where the original body was born.
He knew that his current attire was a little out of date, but for the time being, he didn't have any spare money for him to change it.
For those little girls who watched him whispering, he could only pretend that he didn't hear what they were saying.
The original body's parents died at the hands of the ghosts, and the death was horrific. Even if some capable people from the National Security Bureau saw this and suppressed the news about it, the nearby neighbors would not be surprised to see that scene. At least, the Yan family's old house, No. 47 Huaifang Road, has become a haunted house in the eyes of others.
Many people think that the young couple in this family died so miserably that they will definitely turn into ghosts and stay in the house. There are even rumors that the couple are looking for a scapegoat, and whoever dares to live in will be entangled by the ghosts of the couple. .
Only those who really understand this way know that this house is cleaner than any other place, because ordinary ghosts dare not approach because of the remnant breath of evil spirits.
As for the souls of Yan Chu's parents, Lao Dao had tried to invite them, but there was no trace of their husband and wife in the underworld. It is more likely that they were swallowed by ghosts and disappeared between heaven and earth.
Ghosts eat ghosts, especially the souls of two Taoist priests who are a bit cultivated. The ability of that ghost can get a qualitative leap.
But as the soul that was eaten, Yan's father and Yan's mother were truly out of reincarnation and completely annihilated.
Yan Chu looked at the dilapidated house. Due to years of disrepair, vines had already crawled all over the walls, and the gaps between the eaves and stone steps were covered with moss.
For more than ten years, high-rise buildings nearby have been built one after another. This street, because of the existence of this ghost house, has not been able to wait for the demolition.
Most of the people who live on this street now are elderly people. When they saw Yan Chu, a strange young man, stopping in front of the ghost house, they kindly persuaded Yan Chu.
"Xiangsheng, go back, many masters have been here, but they failed to subdue the two ghosts inside."
Yan Chu was wearing Taoist robes, and those superstitious old men and old ladies thought he had heard about the reputation of the ghost house and wanted to come to exorcise ghosts. Over the years, there have been many such masters, but they all came out in disgrace, and then never came back Pass.
It is precisely because of this that the reputation of the ghost house is so rampant.
Yan Chu knew in his heart that this was a formation set up by his uncle to protect the family he grew up in before he grew up.
"Those masters don't know, the child of this family is gone, and the couple are still waiting for their son, how could they be willing to leave."
An old man sighed. The couple died so miserable back then, but they didn't know where the eight-year-old child went and whether it was safe.
They are both parents, so they can naturally understand the thoughts of the two ghosts in this haunted house. Although they can't tear down this part of the haunted house because of the existence of the haunted house, they have nothing to complain about.
Especially after getting older, many old neighbors are looking forward to the day when the child comes back, maybe they will see the child, and the resentment of the two ghosts will dissipate, and their area will return to the bustle of the past up.
Yan Chu nodded at the old people, and then left with his package.
"Do you think that child looks familiar?"
After Yan Chu left, the old man who had been persuading him just now, who were enjoying the shade outside the courtyard, suddenly spoke.
"It's a little familiar, but I don't know where I've seen it before."
This sentence drifted with the wind, it was just an episode, and was quickly forgotten by the old people.