Half Demon and Half Mountain

Huan Le was so angry that he didn't want to hear Master's name again for a moment. After being awkward for a while, he reluctantly continued to ask: "Then what happened later? Since they met by chance, why did Liu Qi think of saving Master?"

Cen Shen replied, "It's a long story."

The master got drunk again in the tavern.The last time he got drunk was at a ghost banquet, so he forgot to tell Huan Le his name, and only remembered that he was a dog friend.

After getting drunk this time, he forgot to go back before dawn, so that he missed the time to return to the tower and turned into a lonely ghost.

"What to do, what to do..." In the alley shrouded in shadows, a ghost who just woke up from a hangover squatted behind the grocery basket with his head in his arms, looking at the rising sun with despair in his eyes.

This is good, when I go back, I will definitely be thrown into the well and punished, and I will not be able to keep up with reincarnation.Thinking about it, he felt nauseous again, retching while holding the basket.

Liu Qi quickly took a few steps back, her expression didn't change, but she could see she was very disgusted.

So he turned and left.

"Brother, wait!" Master hurriedly chased after Liu Qi, regardless of Liu Qi's cold eyes that could kill someone, so he relied on him anyway, enduring his headache and chattering all the way, "Brother, saving a ghost's life is worse than building a seven-level pagoda Now that you and I have fallen into poverty at the same time, it is better to go together. I think you are also a newcomer, and you are not talented, and you still have some understanding of the situation in Chang'an..."

The Master didn't know until after his death that there were so many demons and goblins in Chang'an that even the monks in Ci'en Temple were in despair, not to mention that there were so many demon-hunting celestial masters and ghost-hunting priests.If he is such a ignorant brat, if he acts alone, he will never be able to reincarnate again.

But he couldn't die, because he was already dead, how could he die again.

The master felt that the future was bleak, so he needed to find a backer, and Liu Qi seemed very powerful.

This is the beginning of the wonderful journey of a demon and a ghost in Chang'an.

After hearing this irrelevant story, Huan Le was silent for a while, and said: "Why do I think... Master is quite happy, he is always like this, he can take a bath by the way after falling into the river, otherwise how can he eat?" Did the poisonous mushroom poison itself to death?"

Agui disagreed, "Young man, do you understand respecting teachers and teaching? How can you diss your own wife like this?"

"none of your business."

"Hey, you're actually swearing."

Huan Le ignored him, and put another word on the chessboard.

Cen Shen took a closer look and found that he had given up on the Five Sons Formation and expanded to the outside world.This is still the first game of chess, but the two of them have been playing for half an hour, and the chess pieces are almost covering the entire chessboard.

Cen Shen really wanted to end this round, but being guarded by Huan Le, he didn't have the slightest chance.

Five minutes later, when the round was over, Huan Le happily took out his phone to take a picture, and said with a smile, "It's a draw."

Cen Shen doesn't really understand his fun, but since he likes to play like this, let him go.Immediately afterwards, the two played another game. This time, Huan Le was committed to using his own black chess to create an outline of a heart without letting the game end prematurely.

He wanted to give his heart to Cen Shen.

When Cen Shen was halfway down, he noticed it, so his hands paused for a while, and he didn't place the chess piece on the path that the heart must pass.

Huan Le laughed happily, with a "click", half of his heart was done.

Agui refused to eat their golden dog food, and went to sleep in the water tank again.

While playing with Huan Le, Cen Shen sorted out the memories in his mind, and finally discovered a fact - from some angles, Huan Le and Master are really similar, for example, they both like to reason.

Lele, a famous detective in the Tang Dynasty, has a wife who is a famous detective in the ghost world. His cleverness and nosyness in the same strain once made Liu Qi very irritable.

Liu Qi, a majestic ghost craftsman, came to Datang without doing anything serious, and became a glorious aunt of the neighborhood committee.Anyway, no matter how much he doesn't want to meddle in other people's business, it will always come to him.

What surprised Cen Shen was that when Liu Qi proposed to change his life for his master, the master refused.

Liu Qi should be surprised, although Cen Shen was watching from his perspective, so he couldn't see his face, but the surprise in his words didn't hide it.

"Why?" Liu Qi asked.

"Why?" asked the Master.

The master smiled and spread his hands, "Why do you want to change your life? Why do you want to go back to the past?"

Liu Qidao: "You will complain, you are nostalgic for the past."

"I died so badly, why can't I complain?" The master raised his eyebrows.

"..." Liu Qi had nothing to say.

The master started walking in the room with his hands behind his back, saying: "If you live, you should live well, if you die, you should die peacefully, let nature take its course, why force it?"

Liu Qi frowned, he probably couldn't figure out why the Master would refuse a great opportunity in front of him.This is downright stupid.

"It's only after I die that I realize how wonderful the world is."

Before his death, Master was just a poor scholar in a mountain village.After his death, he discovered that there really are demons and ghosts in this world.

"I have seen the Pagoda of Rebirth, and I have also seen Chang'an at night, the feast of a hundred ghosts, the dance of demons, how gorgeous it is." The master said, his eyes could not help but reveal a trace of admiration and yearning.

Liu Qi was even more confused, "If that's the case, why don't you take this opportunity?"

"It's all right now, why look back?"

"Even if you are captured by ghost messengers tomorrow?"

The master paused, picked up the wine glass on the table and drank it all, and then said: "I haven't been to that well yet, it's not bad to go for a while. When I am reincarnated in the future, maybe I will open my eyes , and a new era.”

Hearing this, Huan Le couldn't help clenching his fists quietly—this is his wife, this is his wife, whether he has been changed or not, whether he still remembers his name or not, he is the familiar memory Master in the middle.

He never pursued any illusory luck, nor did he talk about unfathomable Taoism. He only loved drinking and composing poems. Yunjuanyunshu.

Master, he is a mortal, he is much more chic than anyone else.

Master refused to change his fate, so Liu Qi didn't mention it again.But this made Cen Shen and Huan Le puzzled. Since the master rejected Liu Qi's proposal, it seems that Liu Qi is not such a warm-hearted person, how did he change his mind later?

But there were too many memories in Cen Shen's mind, and for a while, he still couldn't figure out the reason.Huan Le didn't let him think too much, so there was no progress for a long time.

After a while, Huan Le urged Cen Shen to go to bed to rest. Cen Shen agreed, but closed his eyes, and various images still flashed in his mind for a moment.

Memory is surging like a black sea, it is no longer a question of whether he wants to stop or not.Liu Qi's mental power is too strong, if he doesn't sort out these things in time, it may affect his memory.

But he didn't want to worry Huan Le, so he just pursed his lips and said nothing, pretending that he was asleep.

In the middle of the night, there was some fine sweat on Cen Shen's forehead, and he seemed to be still awake from a dream, constantly shuttling back and forth between ancient Chang'an and the small courtyard deep in the alley, without stopping.

He held Huan Le's hand subconsciously, and the moment his cold fingertips touched his warm palm, it was like a thirsty traveler who finally found a source of water and refused to let go.

"Ah Cen?" Huan Le didn't sleep deeply recently, and woke up at the slightest disturbance.Upon waking up, he noticed something strange about Cen Shen. Just as he was about to turn on the light, he saw Cen Shen suddenly opened his eyes.

The moonlight broke in through the gap in the curtains, only so shallow, like the gaze of a voyeur.

Cen Shen seemed to be frightened, he gasped for breath, his eyes wandered around without focus, and when he saw Huan Le's face, he suddenly stopped, and then returned to tranquility.

"It's you." He murmured.

"Yes, it's me, I'm here." Huan Le didn't know what happened, and hugged him distressedly.The other hand went around him to turn on the small wall lamp by the bed, and brought water for him to moisten his throat.

After Cen Shen's breathing became stable, he asked softly, "What's the matter, what did you see?"

Cen Shen was silent for a few seconds, but he was sorting out what he had just seen.He still couldn't believe it, he confirmed it three times in a row, and then said: "I saw Wu Chong'an."

"Wu Chong'an?" Huan Le was slightly startled.

Immediately, he understood the strangeness - the memories Cen Shen received here were all about the Master, but why was Wu Chong'an mixed in?

Even if Liu Qi knew Wu Chongan and was a good friend with him, how could he confuse the two?

"Mr. Wu... what are you doing?" he asked.

"He's not doing anything." Cen Shen's expression was a little strange, he looked at Huan Le fixedly, and said, "He's still naked."

"Bare butt???"

"Well, just born."

It was in a small bungalow in Shanghai. The young couple played with their children with a rattle, and their words were full of joy and longing for future life.As they talked, they chatted about the child's name.

"What should I take?" The beautiful wife looked at her husband with dependence in her eyes.

"Call him Chong'an." The husband smiled and put a kiss on his wife's face, "Chong's generation, the nickname is An'an, I hope his life will be smooth, free from illness and disaster."

"Okay." The wife turned her head to look at her sleeping son, raised her hand to caress his rosy little face, full of love.

The husband gently embraces their mother and child, but his eyes can't help but look out of the window. There is a trace of sadness hidden in the joy-outside the window is Shanghai in 1910.

I don't know what kind of world this child will see in the future.

In 2025, in a small courtyard deep in Xizi Hutong, Cen Shen and Huan Le looked at each other silently.

After a while, Huan Le collected himself and said, "Are you thinking the same as me?"

Cen Shen: "Tell me."

"I think Wu Chong'an is the master."

"same here."

Unless Wu Chong'an was the reincarnation of Master, how could Liu Qi make a special trip to see a newborn baby?Why did this memory appear in the memories about the Master.

"That is to say, Liu Qi's friend was only Master from the beginning to the end." Huan Le rearranged his thoughts, "After he met Master in the Tang Dynasty, he returned to modern times and found his reincarnation. It is Wu Chongan."

Cen Shen followed his words and said: "Liu Qi's time travel may be more than the few times we thought of."

What is known so far is that Liu Qi went to Buzhou Mountain after the Nanjing bombing, in order to find the legendary extraterrestrial meteorite as a nucleus, and created the artifact, the little hydrangea.

Then he traveled through time and space with a small hydrangea, returned to Datang, and established the Datang Craftsman Association.

Later, a series of events such as ghost banquets occurred, and the Craftsman Association was closed. He returned to the modern age with a small hydrangea, met Agui in the mountains in the northwest, and died.

But during this process, he may have traveled back and forth between Tang Dynasty and modern times several times, at least he has gone back to look for the reincarnation of his master.

"Wait, let me think about it." Huan Le simply sat cross-legged on the bed, rubbing his chin and thinking carefully.Time is an elusive thing, once a certain node is wrong, the whole timeline will be wrong, and Liu Qi undoubtedly exacerbated the difficulty.

Cen Shen didn't bother him, his head was still aching, so he rested for a while.

"It's impossible for us to exist on two timelines at the same time." Huan Le raised his head again, his eyes clear, "So I completely forgot that Master met him in the Tower of Rebirth before he changed his life. For me, my On the timeline, there is only the master who accepted me as an apprentice and died to save me in the end."

He paused, and continued: "Now that Liu Qi is dead, assuming that our current timeline is the final result of Liu Qi after traveling through time and space several times, then we can deduce a fact——Liu Qi is in Nanjing. When the bombing happened, it was already after he came back from Datang. Because at this time he and Wu Chongan were already friends, and there was a train ticket to Shanghai in the suitcase he left behind.”

"Not necessarily." Cen Shen raised an objection, "What if he was friends with Wu Chongan before he made the little hydrangea, but later he accidentally discovered that this friend is the reincarnation of Master?"

"Hmm..." Huan Le rubbed his nose, "It's also possible, but I'm more inclined to guess. My intuition has always been accurate."

Liu Qi met Master in Datang, and then found Master's reincarnation Wu Chong'an.

Whether Liu Qi became friends with Wu Chongan in modern times, and then met Wu Chongan's past life wife when traveling through time and space, this is a question.

Although Huan Le believed in his intuition, he would not make a decision based on intuition alone. After thinking hard for a long time, he suddenly thought of a key point.

"I have one more rule to confirm." He held up a finger, pointing upwards.

"rule?"

"That is whether two identical individuals can exist in the same time and space." During this modern period, Huan Le also read a lot of books on time and space. some content.

His eyes lighted slightly, "No matter what the situation is, there is a special point in time, that is, Wu Chongan was born in 1910. No matter who Liu Qi meets first, he will return to this point in time and do it. Confirm. In Liu Qi's memory you saw, he was seen as a bystander, and the Wu family couple didn't realize his existence, right?"

Cen Shen nodded, indeed, Liu Qi was just hiding in the dark and watching this scene.Just like when he observed Song Li.

Huan Le continued: "But in 1910, there were still more than [-] years before the Nanjing bombing, and Liu Qi should not have gone to Datang, so - there were two Liu Qis in that time and space."

Cen Shen understood what he meant, but a little monster like him couldn't pry into things that involved the rules of heaven.So Huan Le immediately sent a message to Qiao Fengmian, waking him up abruptly from the bed.

Your father will always be your father: Do you owe a beating, nephew?

The Boy Who Sells Words: Is Uncle Chongming not at home?Little aunt, did you go to bed so early?

Your dad will always be your dad: shut up.

Qiao Fengmian was not forgiving, but he was very interested in Huan Le's question, so he agreed to help him find out.

Half an hour later, Shang Si was woken up again.

"Fuck you, uncle." Shang Si's temper became even worse, and he stared at Qiao Fengmian with a dark face, as if an evil spirit had been born.

"Isn't it you, sir?" Qiao Fengmian calmly said.

"Rolling, rolling, I'm so tired that I'm about to burp. Who is it for? You bastards are looking for trouble for me all day long, and you don't know how to respect the old and love the young at all." Shang Si fell headlong on the soft bed again, Rubbing his swollen forehead, "Young master, you better have business, otherwise I'll chop up Chongming and make soup tomorrow."

Qiao Fengmian was completely unafraid of his threats, but he quickly said Huan Le's question to prevent Shang Si from falling asleep again.At this moment, they are on the ninth floor of the Rebirth Tower, Xingjun's territory.

Because modern technology cannot be used in the Pagoda of Rebirth, Qiao Fengmian had nothing to do, so he just ran for it by himself.

Shang Si felt that he was just idle, empty and lonely, and deliberately made it difficult for others.

"No." Shang Si gave the answer directly, "I have checked carefully about Liu Qi, and his little hydrangea is not enough to check and balance the way of heaven. So, of course, there cannot be two identical people in the same time and space. It is a taboo of heaven."

"Oh." Qiao Fengmian suddenly showed a playful smile, which is interesting.

He told Huan Le the answer, Huan Le pondered for a moment, and finally caught the flash of inspiration.

"If it is an unbreakable rule that two identical people cannot exist in a time and space, Liu Qi went back to 1910 to confirm that Wu Chongan's birth was also an established fact that cannot be changed-then when Wu Chongan was born, Liu Qi had already created a small hydrangea. Going to the Tang Dynasty, that's why Liu Qi who came back through time and space can appear at this point in time in 1910."

As time passed, Wu Chongan grew up gradually, and he and Liu Qi became friends again.

Then came the Nanjing bombing.The "jury" composed of twelve master craftsmen carried out the so-called purge of Liu Qi on trumped-up charges, but was ruthlessly killed.

Liu Qi lost everything, gave up the contract with Wu Chongan in Shanghai, and disappeared from everyone's sight again.

"I suddenly felt that maybe this is the beginning of everything." Huan Le murmured.