hell in disguise

Tan Yangzi looked down at Yan Fei, and began to wonder if this little brat had a different vision than ordinary people.Otherwise, why did he look indifferent when he met Bai Qingqing, the peerless beauty in Bianliang performing dances in the street at the Qixi Festival, but now he shows such an idiotic expression to himself?

"In this case, I will continue." Tan Yangzi said, and came to Yan Fei's seven souls again, scattered his own seven souls, and then slowly stored Yan Fei's seven souls in it.Yan Fei just felt as if he was carefully embraced by another ancient and desolate force, which seemed to come from the endless icy polar region, cold to the bone, with an ancient loneliness.He suddenly felt sour in his heart, as if he felt a kind of impenetrable sorrow. Although he didn't understand where this sorrow came from, he could feel the suffering that had accumulated for countless years in these seven souls.

This is the soul from hell...

However, this feeling was only for a moment, and the next moment he suddenly felt like something was opened.All of a sudden, he could hear many voices that he hadn't heard before. He could feel the subtle touch of the air and clothes brushing against his skin, and he could smell the bluestone slabs, boxwood, and even the dust on the ground around him. .

Then a terrible pain came over his nerves.The pain spread from the back of the shoulder to the waist, fine and dense, as if a knife was stabbing at the flesh.Yan Fei opened his eyes suddenly, let out a cry of pain, and curled up, but there was nowhere to escape the sharp pain.

As if realizing something, Tan Yangzi hurriedly withdrew his sense of touch, and Yan Fei's pale face eased a little.Yan Fei was still in shock, the pain came like a torrent of mountains and then disappeared suddenly, making him unable to react, "What was that just now?"

At this moment, Tan Yangzi cleared his throat, seemed a little embarrassed, but still pretended to be nonchalant, "I have to change the scales every year, and I will feel these pains when changing the scales. You humans must not be used to it. It happened to catch up in a few days, but I forgot about it just now, it is the teacher's fault."

Yan Fei opened his eyes wide in disbelief, "You mean...you've been in pain these days???"

Tan Yangzi said, "It's just a trivial matter. I came from Qinglian Hell, and all the ghosts there are like this. I've already gotten used to it."

Yan Fei stared blankly at that resolute and calm face, unable to imagine how anyone could get used to that kind of pain?

If these are trivial matters, then what kind of life did Master live in hell?

The more I think about it, the more distressed I feel.It's not a day or two since Yan Fei wanted to go to hell. Now that he has experienced it himself, not only is he not frightened, but he wants to go even more.

Tan Yangzi interrupted his thoughts, "Okay, time is running out. Let's go to Shen's mansion now."

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The Shen family's house was handed down from the ancestors, and there were many servants and maids in the three courtyards.A maid boiled the medicine from the kitchen, and walked along the corridor to a remote wing.The room was locked, and there was a faint coughing sound from inside.

The maid took out a bunch of keys, found one awkwardly, opened the door and walked in.Not long after, there was a sudden exclamation and the sound of porcelain cracking in the room, and the maid ran out in a panic, locked the door and left, muttering and complaining as she walked.

At this time, Tan Yangzi and Yan Fei, who were hiding at the corner of the house, came to the door of the room. Tan Yangzi pulled out the jade hairpin on his head, took out a thin silver thread from it, and stretched it into the keyhole to fiddle with it. , and soon the lock snapped open.The two walked in, only to feel a strong smell of medicine in the room, which almost took the breath away.

Although the whole house is well-equipped, it is too shabby, not like the house of our young master.In the green gauze tent lay a human figure vaguely.

"I've told you I won't drink! Anyway, I don't care if I live or die, so why be hypocritical!" A weak voice came from the tent, full of resentment and grievance.Tan Yangzi glanced at Yan Fei, and Yan Fei took off the soul-inducing bell hanging from the handle of the Du'er umbrella, and shook it lightly.

Shen Yishu suddenly heard a faint ringtone, and his mind, which was already drowsy due to fever, became even more drowsy.He turned his head, and through the thin gauze curtain, he vaguely saw a man in a stunning red dress walking towards him slowly, with a faint charm in his ink-painted eyebrows and eyes, which made him almost bewildered.

"Are you... a goblin?" Shen Yishu murmured, his voice was as thin as a gnat.

The man in red smiled more and more charmingly, and when he walked to his bed, his voice gurgled like a spring, "I'm here to take you to a certain place."

"...where are you going?"

"Leave this room, leave the outside yard, and slowly walk through the long street outside and the long doorway on the city wall. At the end of the doorway, what do you see?"

Shen Yishu's eyes had become blurred and cloudy, obviously he had entered a dream.There was also a faint red light in Yan Fei's eyes, obviously he had already entered a dream.

A similar red flashed in Tan Yangzi's eyes.He turned around and closed the door tightly, bolted it, and then pasted a blindfold spell on the door, in case anyone wanted to come in, the spell could block them for a while.

The scene in front of Tan Yangzi's eyes was gradually covered with a phantom, which was what Yan Fei saw in his dream.In the shallowest dream, Shen Yishu looked about a teenager, teasing a kitten with orange spots with a piece of foxtail.The kitten rolled on the ground, trying to grab the foxtail with its soft paws, while Shen Yishu smiled happily.I don't know why the cat teaser turned into an older middle-aged man with a beard and serious appearance, while Shen Yishu turned into a bystander. He watched the kitten jump up, He accidentally grabbed the middle-aged man's hand.The middle-aged man roared angrily, and kicked the kitten in the stomach.The little snow ball flew out like this, hit the wall, and fell to a bloody mess like a squashed mosquito.Shen Yishu burst into tears and kept wiping away his tears with his sleeve, while the middle-aged man looked aside coldly and beat him up nonchalantly.

Tan Yangzi knew that the middle-aged man was probably Shen Yishu's father, Mr. Shen Qun, and this dream should also be based on his real experience when he was young.He said to Yan Fei, "Dig further down."

Yan Fei then rang the bell again, and the dream changed.This time, Shen Yishu was dressed in a bright red brocade suit, riding on a white horse, surrounded by firecrackers and applause, as if he had won the first prize and returned home.At this time, the middle-aged man and the other two middle-aged women came up to him with obsequious faces and knelt beside his horse.Master Shen humbly called him "son", but Shen Yishu just sneered and said, "I don't dare to be your son, don't you wish that I, a worthless and unfilial son, don't exist?"

Tan Yangzi said, "This is his wish dream. Things that cannot be achieved in reality can be realized in dreams. It seems that he is usually not valued by his relatives. He expects to be recognized in his heart, and he is very resentful and wants revenge. But From this point of view, he is not going to kill his parents."

Yan Fei asked, "Look further down?"

"Ah."

In the third dream, a woman who looked like a nanny brought Shen Yishu noodles for a night, and said to him, "Today is your birthday, I made longevity noodles for you." Although Shen Yishu in the dream was still in his 20s, But for some reason, she was crying like a child, hugging the woman and not letting go, "Mother, I miss you! Don't go!"

The nanny patted the back of his head, as if she was very sorry, "Good boy, Mrs. and Mrs. are busy buying full moon wine for your eldest brother and sister-in-law's son, and will come to celebrate your birthday with you after a while."

But Shen Yishu said, "They don't even remember that today is my birthday. They never celebrated my birthday. Mother, why doesn't my father like me?"

"Silly boy, how can there be parents who don't love their children? Your father is just angry at you sometimes for being disobedient."

"But he won't let me paint, and I won't paint; if he won't let me learn the piano, I won't learn; I can read whatever books he asks me to read; and if they don't let me be with Dieyue, I won't Alright, how can I be obedient?"

"As long as one day you can pass the exam like your elder brother, your parents will love you even more."

At this time, Yan Fei suddenly said, "I'm wrong, who said that all parents in the world love their children?"

Tan Yangzi frowned, and said in a low voice, "Yan Fei... don't disturb the dream, observation is the best!"

However, Shen Yishu's dream has been disrupted.His nanny is gone.He turned around and saw the man in red standing in front of him in a vast expanse, holding a gorgeous oil-paper umbrella with a pair of bells tied to the handle.

"No... my father and mother love me. They said they only care about me for my own good. Throwing away Xiaoju is because I am afraid that I will be playful and distracted. Burning my painting utensils and my piano is also because I am afraid that I will not study hard. I can’t get a job. They say I’m smart, and they’re worthless in this life, so they point at me to shine in the family.”

But the man in red laughed, with a sarcastic smile, "If they love you, why do they lock you up alone when you are sick because they are worried that you will go crazy? Why don't they remember your birthday? Why Don’t ask what you want to do at all? They didn’t give birth to you because they love you, but to raise a son to support their old age, so that you can become a high-ranking official in the future to repay them. Simply put, it’s a deal, giving birth to you Food and clothing, and you are responsible for fulfilling their expectations. If you can’t do it, you can’t become a high-ranking official, just be thrown aside by them and ignore it like this. If you are lucky enough not to die of illness, you will be your own family in the future , and continue to be filial and support them. You have to marry whomever they let you marry, and you have to have as many children as they let you have. Your life is not your own. As long as there is a little resistance, it is unfilial. Sometimes not only they will scold you, but everyone around you will gossip and point fingers. This is the shackles that all children have to bear from birth."

When these words came out, Shen Yi's book was poured from head to toe like a basin of ice water.He has been studying since he was a child, and all the sage books in the world tell him that his parents love him, so he also loves his parents and fulfills all their wishes.

Every child is told this from birth by everyone, so they wait, waiting for the unconditional love that their parents promised them.

But how many parents in this world really have children because of love?

Shen Yishu's dream suddenly began to distort, as if caught in a turbulent turbulent current.Countless memories collided and rotated in the turbulent flow, and distorted characters flashed by one by one.

Tan Yangzi cursed with a headache, "Yan Fei! We came to suppress the resentment in his heart, why did you make it worse?!"

"Master, don't you think that blindly repressing will explode sooner or later? It's better to break it first and then straighten out the contradictions for him, so that he can figure it out by himself, and there will be no resentment." Yan Fei's voice was full of emotion. He looked a little confident, not as if he was in a panic, "Perhaps by flipping through the memory like this, the woman in red that you mentioned, Master, might be revealed."

Although Tan Yangzi knew that he was not as talented as Yan Fei in this respect, but he always felt that it was so completely broken, how could it be possible to stand up?He then warned, "I'll give you another joss stick, if you still can't stabilize him, I'll wake him up." The date of the day may also stabilize him for the time being.Just like that Chen Xujiang.Although this kind of stability is only temporary, if I see my parents again, I don't know if it will continue to attack.

Yan Fei's eyes were fixed on the chaotic and distorted figures around him, but Shen Yishu had already curled up in pain, covering his ears with his hands as if he didn't want to hear any more.Yan Fei walked slowly to his side, gently raised Shen Yishu's tear-stained face with both hands, and stared at him quietly with deep black eyes, like a bottomless abyss.

"Even if your parents don't love you, it's nothing. They have fulfilled their obligations by raising you. Originally, love can't be forced, and it doesn't mean that you will be rewarded if you pay, so you can't blame them. They If you don’t love you, you also learn not to love them, it’s fine if you don’t.”

Shen Yishu's eyes widened slightly, "But being unfilial is the biggest crime in the world, isn't it?"

"Who told you to be unfilial? They have fulfilled their obligation to support you, and you should also fulfill their obligation to support them. When everyone talks about money, talk about money, talk about profit, and don't talk about feelings. The distinction is clear. Yes, you won't feel pain, and you won't be disappointed." Yan Fei's tone was slow, like a spell.

Shen Yishu had never heard such deviant remarks, and he looked at Yan Fei bewilderedly.

Yan Fei caressed his cheek gently, as if to a lover, "From now on, you will be free, and you will no longer have to live for anyone. You can paint when you want to paint, play the piano if you want to play the piano, and be with whomever you want Just be with whoever you want. Isn’t that bad? Why bother ruining your life for two people who don’t love you at all?” After speaking, Yan Fei rang the soul-inducing bell and created various dreams in front of him.In the dream, he and his favorite childhood sweetheart called Die Yue rode horses between mountains and rivers, writing poems and painting, one played the piano and the other danced.Tired of playing, they went back to the small thatched hut that the two of them built in front of the green water under the green hills. There was a vegetable garden in front of the door, and smoke rising from cooking in the distance.Die Yue hugged their two daughters and hummed a lullaby softly, while he stood by the door, looking at the beautiful pair of mother and child.

Yan Fei illusioned his whole life for him. He and Die Yue raised their daughter together, taught her piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and took her on tours.Later, when she grew up, she met the Jianghu teenagers she liked and left them.He and the gray-haired Die Yue stood in front of the shabby hut where he had lived all his life, looking at the distant starry sky, and recalling the past when he first saw it when he was a child.

Tan Yangzi looked at the corners of Shen Yishu's tightly closed eyes streaming out strands of tears, but the resentment in him actually dissipated quite a bit.

But at this time, Yan Fei heard Shen Yishu say to 'Dieyue', "You know, I am very lucky. I met two men in red clothes before, a man and a woman. Fortunately, I listened to the man's words, Instead of that woman's..."

Both Tan Yangzi and Yan Fei were terrified.Yan Fei immediately rang the soul-inducing bell in his hand again, and followed this thread of thought to find it.

Sure enough, the scene twisted and changed, and another red figure could be vaguely seen appearing in the dream.

Yan Fei chased after him desperately, pushing through the thick fog.But just when he was about to catch up, Tan Yangzi suddenly felt a strong sense of oppression sweeping the entire room, and suddenly two figures, one black and one white, appeared in the room.

Tan Yangzi frowned suddenly.

The person in white is obviously Bai Wuchang Xie Yucheng.