[Tianxia 3][Ghost ink X Wumeihou] I can't see the sky

When the chief returned to his residence, the first person he met was Di Rong.

When the tall Demon General saw him, the expression on his face was very pleasantly surprised.The chief was startled, a little flattered.He and Di Rong didn't have much friendship at first, if it wasn't for this journey from Beiming via Central Plains to Jiangnan, he would not even have said a word.

Di Rong pulled Chief to a small open space behind the house, looked around cautiously, and then turned his face, looking him up and down with a strange gaze.Chief was puzzled for a while, and asked, "What are you going to do?"

Di Rong hesitated for a while, and then said slowly: "...Chief, are you interested in that kid Youhuang?"

Chief's face darkened, and he said, "Why are you asking this?"

Di Rong was afraid that he would get angry, so he immediately waved his hands and said, "Don't get me wrong, I'm not interested in inquiring about privacy. I just want to know, you won't have any other women you like for a while, right?"

Chief was startled again, looked at Di Rong's expression, and suddenly realized: "...Could it be that you have a crush on a girl?"

Hearing this, Di Rong blushed on his usually expressionless face, and said, "You've been out with Liu Xiang for a long time, I thought—"

The chief said: "Flowing fragrance?"

Di Rong nodded, and said nervously, "What do you think of Liu Xiang?"

Chief raised his brows sharply: "You have fallen in love with her, and you are You Huang's niece, how dare I say no. ——This girl is not bad."

Di Rong said: "Hey, be more serious! I seriously want to refer to your opinion. Tell me, what should I do if I want to catch her?"

Chief said: "Why do you ask me this kind of question?"

Di Rong said: "You have lived the longest among us, and you seem to be very experienced."

Chief was silent for a moment, and asked back: "... who said that if you live a long time, you will have experience in this kind of thing?"

Di Rong said with a look of surprise: "...Isn't it? Wait, don't tell me you didn't... Are you right? ——No, no, it's absolutely impossible!!"

Before he finished speaking, he saw that the chief's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot, and he gritted his teeth and said: "... want to fight?"

***

It is true that Di Rong said that he has no experience in chasing girls.Because the way he pursued Liu Xiang was to stop her in the yard directly and ask her if she wanted to marry.

This typical demon-style pursuit is obviously not very popular with humans. What's more, in order to express his sincerity, Di Rong deliberately studied the customs of human weddings and funerals, and turned around and said to Liu Xiang seriously: "Miss Liuxiang, although you must be over 40 years old, according to normal human beings, the children should be married by this time. But I don't mind you being old at all, really."

Liuxiang immediately smiled, looking ghostly, and asked with a drawn out voice, "...Really?"

Yu Xin, who was standing at the door watching the excitement, heard this, bowed her head and supported her forehead, and silently backed away—this time she didn't want to help her brother at all.

So that night, Di Rong, who offended someone inexplicably, kept repeating—was stabbed into the air by the fragrant Xiuzhu——was hit back to the ground by the poisonous wine’s demon-killing formula—such a cyclical beating process, and finally he was fine. Easy to crawl back to the house, and the chief's friendly medical service is on his way.

Until everything was over, Di Rong lay limp on the bed, still unable to figure out where he made a mistake.

Chief put a table of medicine bottles and jars into the box and sighed.There was such a big commotion in the room, but it was abnormal that You Huang, who always liked to join in the fun, was not disturbed.The silver-haired Ghost Mo has become more and more silent recently, and today he just stood at the door of his room, watching the noisy scene of the crowd, smiled slightly, and walked away.

An emotion called worry is brewing in the heart of the demon who has lived for thousands of years, but he doesn't know how to deal with it. He can only let that emotion take root like a seed, lingering and growing, making his eyes always unconsciously Going after that black figure that is becoming rarer and rarer, but if you want to speak, you can't say anything.

***

The next day is Qingming, Tongshi begins to bloom, and Liuyao Daan.It is suitable for offering sacrifices, building graves, opening markets, avoiding migration, moving into a house, and getting married.

You Huang got up very early, carried a wooden bucket, packed some sacrificial items, and went out quietly.The chief stood at the gate of the yard, watching the man's back disappear in the moist and thick morning mist, and after a while, he went back to the house to do his own business as if nothing had happened.In the past, in addition to training in the paddock and fighting in all directions, it is also true that I like to study medical skills.After hundreds of years, I came back to the mortal world again, and I saw many new medical books and prescriptions, so I just bought them one by one and studied them carefully.

I don't know how many hours later, the sky outside the window gradually darkened, but thick clouds gathered, covering the sun, and soon it started to rain.I thought that the spring rain would be mild and would stop soon, but unexpectedly there were a few muffled thunders from the sky, but the rain gradually intensified, and finally hit the ground crackling and endlessly.

Chief knew that Youhuang didn't bring an umbrella when he left, so he stared at the door for a while, and finally stood up, held up an umbrella himself, took another one, and went out to look for it.

The soil in the peach blossom forest was soaked in rain and became extremely muddy. As he walked, until the corners of his snow-white robe were covered with a lot of mud and water all stuck to his feet, he suddenly realized that he had forgotten to use the magic spell to avoid water.But since it was already like this, I simply ignored it and continued walking until the peach trees gradually thinned out, leaving only weeds and rocks on the ground.Before he reached the mass grave, he saw a half-collapsed thatched pavilion on the side of the road in the distance, and there was a person sitting in the pavilion, with silver hair and black robe, it was Youhuang.

You Huang also saw Chief at the same time, his face was surprised at first, then turned into joy, and waved to him: "It's raining so hard! Come in!!"

Chief nodded, did not quicken his pace, but still held an umbrella, walked leisurely into the thatched pavilion, shaking the water stains on the corner of his robe.You Huang looked him up and down, fixed his eyes on the other umbrella that Chief was holding in his hand, and said in disbelief, "Why...you came to find me?"

Chief said: "Yes."

You Huang continued to ask as if confirming: "...Come, come and give me an umbrella?"

Chief suddenly felt a fever on his face, but he tried to maintain his usual indifferent tone and said: "...otherwise?"

You Huang's eyes widened, as if feeling something, but he didn't answer for a long time.Only then did the chief notice that he seemed to have been drenched in the rain for a long time, his black robe was completely soaked, and his silver hair was also soaked in strands by the rain, sticking tightly to his cheeks, and his description was rather embarrassing.The wooden barrel was placed on one side of the collapsed pavilion, and the paper money offerings and other things that were stuffed in it had disappeared.

The chief said: "You have been away for a long time. If you are doing ordinary sacrifices to your ancestors, you should have come back long ago."

You Huang smiled faintly: "Sorry, I've been in a daze for too long and made you worry." Then he noticed the mud stains on the corner of the chief's clothes and shoes, and stood up suddenly, as if he wanted to go to help him clean it, but was stopped by the chief down.

You Huang said: "Your clothes are so precious, what if they get dirty and can't be cleaned?"

The chief said: "It's just a trivial matter, why should a dignified man care about this." He touched Youhuang's sleeve again, only to feel a cold and wet touch, and said, "You ghosts... don't you know the wind and cold?"

You Huang shook his head, the smile on his face became more real: "... After all, there are benefits to being a dead person, and this is one of them." Turning his head and glanced at the heavy rain curtain outside the pavilion, he said: "Thank you Come on. It’s just that I want to sit for a while, and when the rain is lighter, let’s go back together?”

Chief nodded, feeling that he had something to say, so he sat down beside You Huang, and together they looked at the peach and plum blossom forest hidden behind the curtain of water in the distance. As far as they could see, there were only large expanses of blurred and gray pink.

You Huang suddenly said: "You...have visited this cemetery before, haven't you?"

Chief was startled, and said, "You really can feel it?"

The smile on the corner of You Huang's mouth suddenly widened, and he said, "Guess."

The chief was told the truth, so he couldn't help but immediately silenced, and felt more and more guilty when facing the person involved.Youhuang didn't seem to mind, his thoughts turned back to the past, his expression was far away, and he said softly: "The tomb of my first brother Ding Jun Qianzhu... Ding Qianzhu... Huaxia Dingjia... Hehe, what a Huaxia Dingjia! Alive At that time, even in my dreams, I wanted to get that surname, but I still couldn’t get it. When I died, this word was engraved on the tombstone.——It’s ironic, isn’t it? So, I don’t want that surname, that piece of soil The one below is not my tomb either. My first name is Youhuang, I have no surname, that's all."

The chief could hear the extreme sadness hidden in You Huang's tone, and he was afraid that he would be disturbed by this, and the evil spirit would be infected again out of control, so he wanted to speak out to stop it.However, Youhuang seemed to have a great desire to talk, and turned to him with blood-red eyes, still smiling and said: "It's boring to sit here all the time, do you want to listen to me tell a story?"

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