[Town Soul] Zhao Yunlan Small Theater

The new address of the Special Investigation Office was blocked.

Zhao Yunlan almost scolded when he got the news.

Who would veto the decision to relocate to a new location on the first day of the new year on the grounds that "the Special Investigation Office lost the Changsheng sundial last year, which caused a major mistake"?I can't wait so much, I can't even wait until the seventh day of the seventh day to go to work!You must know that the decision to move to a new location has passed the General Administration's office meeting before the holiday, and it stands to reason that there is only one document missing.This move was obviously aimed at the Special Investigation Department, or in other words, directly at Zhao Yunlan himself!

According to Zhao Yunlan's violent temper, which guy dares to play tricks behind his back like this, he has already slapped the table and scolded his ancestors for eighteen generations, but now he can't scold him, because Ka Xinzhi is his own father, yes, It is Zhao Xinci, Director of Star Supervision.

In recent years, Zhao Yunlan has been feuding with Zhao Xinci, and the father and son have deep conflicts. During the holidays, Zhao Yunlan never goes back.However, Zhao Xinci is that kind...According to Zhao Yunlan's words, a patriarch who is suitable for living in the feudal era where the father is the leader of the son, the usual festivals are ignored, and for the Chinese New Year, leave Zhao Xinci alone in the deserted villa Watching the year, the old man's heart was on fire.Although he will not take the initiative to contact Zhao Yunlan to go home, he will always find something to beat and beat afterward. Zhao Yunlan has known this for a long time. He has been in the Special Investigation Office for the past few years. Either to ask him to write a statement on the situation because of trivial matters last year, or to check the records of his late arrival and early leave and absence from General Administration meetings for him to do a face-to-face review.It can be said that Zhao Yunlan is used to Zhao Xinci's routines, but today's matter is different. What he got stuck was Zhao Yunlan's busy running around for a whole year!Still promised Shen Wei!

Zhao Yunlan glanced at Shen Wei who was still lying on the sofa with his dead body, sighed, and said to Lin Jing: "Help me take care of Professor Shen, I will negotiate with Director Zhao. I will be back in a while."

"Are you... are you sure it's a while?" Lin Jing knocked on the door early in the morning after answering the call from the Star Supervision Bureau and reported to Zhao Chu. Looking at his bloodshot eyes because he hadn't slept all night, she felt sorry for him from the bottom of her heart. Unable to withstand Director Zhao's Chun Chun's teachings, strong suspicion arose.

"A long time at most!" Zhao Yunlan frowned: "Zhao Xinci is because I didn't accompany him for the New Year, and he wanted to rectify me by finding fault. Isn't that how I have lived all these years? If I don't go here, what will happen to our new address? Do you still want to go?" That spacious and bright laboratory? Do you want the sound-proof director's room? At least no one will hear you howling there when you are beaten!"

Lin Jing knew that their director was unhappy from the bottom of his heart, and Zhao Yunlan wanted to beat someone when he was unhappy. For his own safety, he stepped to the side of the sofa and stood upright: "Zhao Chu, I will definitely Take good care of Professor Shen, so you can go with ease!"

Zhao Yunlan glanced at him, opened the door and walked out.

It was too cold outside, Zhao Yunlan couldn't help but sneezed twice when he walked in the door.

Without thinking about it, he knew that Zhao Xinci was still waiting for him in the study, and he knew better than anyone else what would happen there.

"Happy New Year, Bureau Zhao." Zhao Yunlan greeted lazily.

Zhao Xinci glanced at him, but said nothing.

"Why, are you watching the surveillance again? Research whether there are fugitives coming to the house again? I said that you pretended to be too late in the surveillance. If it had been ten years earlier, maybe that bastard would not have kidnapped you while you were away. My mother, I'll give you a chance to give up my little family to protect everyone..." Anyway, sooner or later, there will be a beating, Zhao Yunlan is thinking about how soon he will come, and Shen Wei is still lying there.

"Sit down." Zhao Xinci said.

Zhao Yunlan was stunned for a moment, and then realized that a chair had already been set up in front of the desk: "No, no. This treatment, I, the director of special investigation who made a mistake, can't bear it."

Zhao Xinci got up and poured him a cup of hot tea: "Sit down. Let's have a good talk today, don't get angry."

Zhao Yunlan subconsciously took the teacup, his hands trembling slightly.

Zhao Xinci sat back at the desk and looked at Zhao Yunlan gently.

After a while, Zhao Yunlan put down the teacup, opened the chair and sat down carelessly: "Who the hell are you?"

Zhao Xinci smiled.

"Don't fucking laugh at me!" Zhao Yunlan looked at him sharply: "You are still far from pretending to be my father. Let me tell you this, if Zhao Xinci sees me wearing a sweater this winter, I will face the wind When I saw him, I didn’t need to say anything, I just slapped him so I couldn’t find Bei! As for what I just said, can he still let me sit after hearing what I just said? It’s because of his mercy that I can stand! Yo Heh, make tea for me, play with the kindness of the father and the filial piety of the son, Zhao Xinci has lost his mind to serve his own son like this. Who the hell are you?"

"Zhao Xinci" didn't speak, and continued to look at him across the table.

"Talk to me!" Zhao Yunlan went crazy, got up and slapped the other party's collar: "Let me tell you, something is coming to me, my dad is just a Star Superintendent, he doesn't understand the land boundary at all! Possession, right, talk about conditions, okay, okay, come and talk to me! Oh, don’t play this trick on me, if you dare to move his finger, I’ll beat you to death!”

"I'm not from the boundary." The other party said.

Zhao Yunlan gritted his teeth: "Monster clan? Ghost clan? Or some ghost with no eyes? What's your plan, what do you want to do, huh?!"

"Zhao Xinci" sighed: "Stones that are not old and decayed, water that is not cold and frozen, bodies that are not born but dead, souls that are not burnt and melted..."

Zhao Yunlan was startled, and slowly let go of his hands.

The other party straightened his collar and looked at him peacefully: "Yunlan——I can call you that, don't worry, I'm not some kind of evil spirit. I'm a medicine bowl from Shennong back then. If you were lucky enough to become a fairy, it was attached to your father about ten years ago. Yes, after your mother passed away."

Zhao Yunlan frowned: "Why are you possessed?"

"You don't have to worry, you also know that the possession of gods will not hurt the spirit of mortals. I just need to borrow your father's body to do some things. In the past ten years, I will show up when necessary and complete things Then I will delete the part of your father's brain that belongs to me according to the situation. That is to say, during the years when you and your father were angry, I watched you grow up year by year."

Zhao Yunlan snorted coldly: "Don't talk about these useless things. What do you want to do? Also, what do you mean by those four sentences? Let me tell you, I'm not that easy to fool. If you piss me off, It doesn't matter what kind of god you are, I will fight and smoke."

"Zhao Xinci" smiled tolerantly: "Actually, I didn't want to keep hiding from you. I know you have been to disrespectful places, and you heard the words I just said before the Sansheng Stone, didn't you? "

"Without further ado!"

"These words were left by Nuwa to Kunlun back then, that is, to you ten thousand years later. Do you know what these four sentences refer to?"

"Where the hell are you going to class?"

"Lingzhu is very clever, and he must have guessed some. The Sansheng Stone fell at the entrance of Dafeng, and it will guard this life and guard the next life. It will reincarnate from generation to generation, and it will decline before it gets old. The Longevity Sundial comes from the Sansheng Stone. As for the uncooled and frozen water ..."

"I already know this." Zhao Yunlan said bluntly.

The other party nodded: "Okay, my lord has been to a place of great disrespect, so I naturally know that there is an ancient tree of merit and virtue next to the Sansheng Stone, which grows with the Sansheng Stone and is in the same line."

"Ye Zun told me."

"Zhao Xinci" brows twitched: "The ancient tree of merit is actually a branch of the great sacred tree. Back then, Nuwa broke it to shake the earth to make people, and later set it up in the most filthy place in the Three Realms, and denounced this place as 'A place of great disrespect'. Nuwa has killing intent, so the ancient tree of merit first withers, and then takes root, it is a body that is not born but already dead..."

"The virtuous pen." Zhao Yunlan said.

"Yes. This is the third sacred artifact. As for the last one, the soul-suppressing lamp, the word "soul-suppressing..."

The door was suddenly kicked open with a slam, Zhao Yunlan turned his head and saw Shen Wei standing at the door.

His face was stern, and the cold light shot out from his eyes, as if he wanted to penetrate the person opposite Zhao Yunlan.Zhao Yunlan had never seen him in such a panic, and in an instant he seemed to feel the murderous aura coming from Shen Wei.

Zhao Yunlan subconsciously glanced at the person opposite, his eyes were full of avoidance and fear, just like the Zhao Xinci he saw in the teahouse that day.

After a while, Shen Wei strode over and grabbed his right hand: "Why are you here? Follow me!"

"Shen Wei, what's wrong with you?"

"go!"

"..."

Zhao Yunlan was caught off guard and pulled away from the table, inadvertently swept over the tea cup on the table with his arm, and the tea flowed all over the table in a mess.Just when he was staggered to the door of the study in such an unmanned manner, the table behind him slammed.

"Zhao Yunlan!" Zhao Xinci, who was splashed all over by hot tea, slapped the table and yelled angrily: "When I first started, you put on a pretty face and flirted with me. Look at you, look at yourself! Director of the mediation department, you are a dandy! Trash! In this way, oh, in this way, I don’t think you can control the special mediation department, hand in your resignation report to me after work, and go to the suburban police station to become a policeman!”

Zhao Yunlan stopped in his tracks, looked back at the man's expression, and shouted, "Dad—"

Probably because Zhao Yunlan called Zhao Xinci for the first time, the old man didn't make things difficult for him, but just scolded him in front of Shen Wei, and told him to "get out of my eyes with your pretty face" .

Zhao Yunlan was a little embarrassed.He knew that Zhao Xinci was the same as him, and he would not be so filial and a good son to listen to the training.But this time Shen Wei was standing by the side, and he thought that Zhao Xinci was possessed by a ghost, so he really panicked.Sitting in the co-pilot, he sighed. His father is really old, and he is not as angry as he used to be when cursing others. I don't know how he felt last night guarding the house where his mother used to live.

In any case, every time after seeing his father, Zhao Yunlan always felt a little sour in his heart.

Shen Wei took the coat from the back seat and handed it to him: "Remember to wear a coat when you go out from now on."

Zhao Yunlan nodded, looking a little dazed.

Shen Wei didn't speak, started the car and drove towards the special dispatch office.

"Shen Wei," after a while, Zhao Yunlan broke the silence: "The matter of the new location of the special mediation office, the old man is just making use of the topic, and I will come back two times when I am free in the future, and he will naturally not get stuck when he calms down. Don't worry, we The school district room will not be ruined."

Shen Wei didn't expect Zhao Yunlan to talk about the house, so he turned his head and glanced at him.

"Actually, you don't have to worry, he won't hit me today." Zhao Yunlan also looked at him, covering his hand holding the steering wheel: "After all, you are still waiting for me, right, I won't fight with him Yes. Tsk, you see your hands are quite cold, it's all my fault, I made you drink too much last night. "

Shen Wei's eyelashes trembled twice. His gaffe at Zhao's house just now naturally aroused Zhao Yunlan's doubts, but Yunlan didn't ask anything. With a simple sentence, he decided that he was afraid of seeing him being beaten, so he decided to Eagerly wanting to take him back - he knew that Zhao Yunlan wanted to make him feel at ease.

He glanced at the road: "Daqing and Lao Li had a quarrel, and no one could persuade them, so I was in a hurry to find you back."

Zhao Yunlan: "What?!"

When Zhao Yunlan opened the director's room, he saw Daqing hugging his knees on the sofa in a daze, and didn't even move when he saw him walk in.

Zhao Yunlan bent down and picked up a box of dried fried fish left at the door, and walked in: "Lao Li is gone."

Daqing glanced at him.

Zhao Yunlan put the dried fish on the desk: "As soon as I came back, I saw him tidying up his things in the guard room wiping his tears. He insisted on resigning, but I couldn't persuade him. Shen Wei drove him home."

Daqing: "What did he say?"

"He didn't say anything. By the way, he just told me not to hit you, saying that he was to blame. Before he left, he left a bone carving for you. I put it on the window sill of the guard room. If you want it, you can get it yourself. Yes, these few days I have arranged for Lin Jing and Lao Chu to be on duty in the guard room in turn, they will not leave their relatives during the Chinese New Year, so let’s bear it first.”

Daqing turned his head and didn't speak.

Zhao Yunlan opened a lollipop and put it in his mouth, and sat down on the sofa: "What's going on?"

Daqing frowned impatiently, what's going on?He also didn't understand why when he woke up, Uncle Li, who had always cared for him, became... that villain who worked so hard to gain his trust.

He had a premonition, since he drank those cups of Baihua Yulu wine last night, the faint bitterness and alcohol smell rushed to his mind, leading him to keep recalling some things.He instinctively resisted this uncomfortable feeling, and he began to find that he, like a human being, always refused to recall the unfortunate experience.

It should have started when he came out of the antique shop, no, or since he felt the inexplicable danger in the hospital that day, Daqing found that something seemed to be gushing out of his mind, but he couldn't think of it anyway. What, this feeling of racking my brains is like a drop of water hanging on the faucet, and I let myself get to the bottom of it from time to time.

He was also drunk last night.

Then he had a dream all night, and countless familiar scenes passed by before his eyes.He saw that he had become a black cat wandering around the world, searching for the Lord of Souls over and over again. He wanted to find that face in the crowd that would not change for thousands of years, and pretended to be the same face countless times. I ran into that person by accident, and took the soul-suppressing token carved from the big god wood next to him into his hands. After a bit of flickering, I could happily transform into a soul-suppressing token that could eat, drink, and even transform into a human form. Assistant, this kind of carefree life can continue until the death of the Soul Requiem Lord.

Then wait for him to reincarnate again.Find yourself again.

This job is not too hard, but he has to rely on himself to support himself until he finds this commander in each life.Of course, Daqing would not let himself work hard to find rations. He would disguise himself as a lovely stray cat, and hook up with a random owner to provide him with dried fish.

That's how the master Juren with the kidnapper came into his sight.

Even in his dream, Daqing felt that this was a very comfortable time. The terminally ill Master Juren regarded his black cat as his only sustenance. He bought a small mahogany bed, invited the embroiderer to sew a beautiful quilt embroidered with silk, and patted him to sleep every night.

Daqing remembered that it was a sunny winter day, and that morning, Master Juren was lying in the Taishi chair in the yard, putting him on his lap and rubbing his little head.Coughing violently, he sighed that he was too short to take care of the poor black cat.

Daqing still remembered that he finally couldn't help but speak at that time. He revealed his identity, and said that it would only take two or three years. When the new soul-suppressing master turned eighteen, he would be able to find him. You can change into a human form to accompany Master Juren, and you can also use the Soul Rescue Commander to beg the land to arrange a good reincarnation for Master Juren.

While chatting endlessly, Daqing didn't see Master Juren's cloudy old eyes shining with a strange light.He knew he couldn't wait for that day.His bone consumptive disease was terminally ill, and as death approached step by step, he desperately grasped the last straw.

Daqing didn't know how he found out that there was the soul of the Great Shenmu in his bell.Anyway, one night, Master Juren was in much better spirits than before. He fried delicious dried fish for Daqing, and brought a jar of wine, saying that it was the Baihua Yulu wine that he bought with great painstaking efforts.Daqing passed out after a blissful binge eating and drinking.

When he woke up, he found that he was thrown alone under the bridge hole, and the bell around his neck was gone.

……

And this morning, after Daqing woke up from a dream with a splitting headache, he found himself lying on the mahogany sofa in the office, with a familiar smell of fried fish coming from his side.

He turned his head and saw Lao Li graciously putting a box of dry fried small yellow croakers on the table.

Looking at his hunched back, Daqing suddenly had a strange feeling.This kind of vague fear made him tentatively ask: "Uncle Li, do you know Ershili Pavilion outside Shanhaiguan?"

Then he saw the shocked face on Lao Li's turned body.

Daqing couldn't believe that he dreamed of his real experience, until Lao Li knelt in front of him, and confessed everything tearfully.

It turned out that the master Juren back then, under the extreme fear of death, tried his best to inquire about the antique shop next to the big pagoda tree. He revealed the identity of Daqing, and exchanged all the gold and silver for the owner to continue his life. , and exchanged his house for a jar of Baihua Yulu wine.

As expected, the black cat was knocked unconscious by the jar of wine. He got the bell easily, and threw Daqing, who had lost his memory ever since, under the overpass.

He wasn't worried that Daqing would come back to find him, because he already had nothing, but isn't a healthy life the best property?

So... would he really not feel guilty?

A life that lasted for 100 years allowed him to see the vicissitudes of the world, let him experience the parting of life and death, let him be displaced in the chaos of war, and reminded him countless times of the purest trust he once had.

After experiencing life and death, I am no longer afraid of life and death. At the twenty-mile pavilion outside Shanhaiguan, the master Juren fell to the ground and died. At the same time, I suddenly thought of those cat eyes full of joy and satisfaction. The most sincere eyes that can be exchanged.

It's a pity that he can no longer ask the black cat for forgiveness.

Fortunately, there is reincarnation in the world.Day and night at the special mediation office, Lao Li watched the black cat that had become a human from a distance, and fried him a box of small dried fish from time to time. Looking at those satisfied cat eyes, he felt that he had nothing left to ask for.

He is willing to keep guarding like this forever, but the truth will always be revealed one day.

He really couldn't ask for forgiveness.

Only one person left silently with unredeemed sins.

Daqing bit his lips tightly, the sunlight outside the window cast a melancholy yellow halo on his face.

Zhao Yunlan reached out and scratched the back of his neck.

He moved his ears involuntarily.

Zhao Yunlan smiled: "Dead cat, why are you crying? It's New Year's Eve, don't give me bad luck. I said, you can go back with us later, it's not a problem to stay in the house all the time. I discussed it with Shen Wei, and I will let you live in his house."

Daqing subconsciously wiped his face with the back of his hand: "Old Zhao, will you humans always make up for the mistakes you made in your previous life?"

Zhao Yunlan: "There is indeed such a saying. Isn't there a sentence behind my Soul Suppressing Order, 'Atonement for undead sins, unfinished rounds'."

Daqing: "Then why do you do this? Isn't the past just past? Why do you have to uncover it?"

Zhao Yunlan thought for a while: "Everyone has a heart of repentance, probably to reassure themselves."

Daqing sighed: "Then what should I do if I don't want to forgive?"

Zhao Yunlan patted him on the head: "Silly cat, if you don't want to forgive, don't forgive. What can happen? As long as you make yourself feel better, you can do whatever you want."

Daqing sniffled, feeling uncomfortable.

Zhao Yunlan seemed to see that his mood was not so clear, so he followed his back: "Daqing, Zhao Xinci said to me before, 'There are four things in a person's life that should not be too persistent. One is long-term, two Right and wrong, the third is good and evil, and the fourth is life and death.' Let's put it this way, in fact, we should not desire that all emotions will remain unchanged, and we should not divide everything into right and wrong. People have good and evil, and there is no absolute good person , and there is no absolute bad person. If you get too entangled, you will get into the horns, and you will have no room for sand in your eyes. The same is true for life and death. If you are too entangled, you will not be able to transcend yourself..."

Daqing nodded and listened quietly.

But Zhao Yunlan suddenly thought of something: "No, that bad-tempered old man can say such Buddha-natured words? Fuck, it's probably said by that broken bowl. Don't say it, it really makes sense."

Daqing: "...what spirit?"

Zhao Yunlan waved his hand: "An old man who is possessed by my dad! I said that the old man has a bad character. Others possessed by a beautiful fox fairy. He just brought a broken bowl, and said that Shennong used it. By the way, I said Daqing, the soul-suppressing order you gave me back then was not a parallel import, otherwise, how come I haven’t noticed that my father is possessed for so long?”

Daqing: "The soul-suppression order has always been that one. Meow, yes, Lao Zhao, I remembered something last night. In the past ten thousand years, you have been the master of every soul-suppression order."

Zhao Yunlan: "...Didn't you say that because I was so handsome and intelligent, I was able to stand out from this group of stupid humans and be honorably selected as the current soul-suppressing commander?! Fuck, you half-headed headhunter is like that You fooling around? No, I have to settle this matter with Shen Wei, the land boundary has treated me as a free labor force for so long, and it still makes me crazy?!"