flagship summer song

After Xu Xiaoxian folded the butterfly talisman to deliver the letter, the two chatted for a while, and suddenly felt sleepy and fell asleep.

At this time, it was already daylight, and Chen Yao heard a knock on the door in his sleep, and when he woke up, he saw that the owner of Taozhuang had opened the door and walked in.

Master Taozhuang: "Why are you still sleeping, the sun is drying your ass!"

Chen Yao rubbed his eyes, touched the cool bed sheet beside him, and felt that there was one person missing. While arranging his clothes, he asked Taozhuang Master: "Has the half-immortal woke up?"

"Going to have some fun," the owner of Taozhuang laughed, and urged him to go downstairs to wash up. The fragrance of polenta wafted from the kitchen, and the owner of Taozhuang didn't know where he got it.

When Chen Yao walked to the well, the wooden boards that had been covered had been removed, and the talisman paper was gone. The well water inside was as calm as usual. He fetched a bucket of water. The water color was clear and cool, which made it hard for him to think of yesterday The water ghost who crawled out from here at night.

At this time Xu Xiaoxian was standing at the inn that Chen Yao had taken a fancy to last night, and the two gardenia lamps with big heads in front of the door were covered with rupees, like kappa crawling out of the water.

"Is anyone there?" Xu Xiaoxian knocked on the door of the inn and shouted in. He waited for a long time, but no one responded.

He looked up at the sky, the fog was a bit thick today, and the sun seemed a little dim.

"I'll count to three," Xu Xiaoxian let out a long breath, took out a piece of talisman paper from his cuff, held it between his fingers, looked at a gardenia lamp by the door, lowered his head slightly, and said, " It's rare for Miss Zhi to come up to the world, it would be bad if Xiaoxian accidentally set her boudoir on fire."

As soon as the words fell, a bit of fireworks burst out from the end of the talisman paper at the fingertips, and a mass of purple-red flames jumped up, flickering and gnawing at the talisman paper.

"Three--two--" Xu Xiaoxian counted down, and stretched the flaming talisman paper under the gardenia lamp, and saw a wisp of light yellow smoke rising from the thin orange-red veil. The smoke came out from the cracks in the top cover, and the smoke circled around Xu Xiaoxian two or three times, Xu Xiaoxian just didn't move, but the fire on the talisman paper at his fingertips had already been extinguished.

When Chen Yao arrived with the owner of Taozhuang, he saw Xu Xiaoxian surrounded by clouds and smoke, and couldn't help being stunned. The smoke dispersed from Xu Xiaoxian's surroundings when he saw someone coming, and rushed straight to Chen Yao, which shocked people.

"Mr. Chen, don't panic. That's the gardenia girl. Xiaoxian saw her hiding in the gardenia lamp last night." Xu Xiaoxian reached out and grabbed the tail of the smoke, and pulled it to the ground. The smoke left Chen Yao's body. When she landed on the ground, she transformed into a young woman, with green silk wrapped around her jade fingers, and icy muscles hidden in her sleeves, she was a beauty with every frown and smile, and the two who had just arrived were stunned.

Xu Xiaoxian coughed lightly, and Chen Yao came back to his senses, a little embarrassed, took two steps back, bowed to Zhinu, and said, "I'm Chen Yao, I'm just taking the liberty, please don't blame me, girl."

"What's presumptuous? Beautiful girls are for people to see." The owner of Taozhuang still stared straight at Zhinu and looked up and down. He took a step closer to Zhinu and asked with a smile: "Dare to ask the girl?" Can I ask someone to touch my hand?"

"Hee hee," Nu Zhi covered her lips with her sleeve, and smiled lightly, neither agreeing nor refusing, her eyebrows and eyes were curved, and her heart was full of joy.

Chen Yao opened his mouth, he couldn't see how the Taoist master "molested" Zhi Nu, just wanted to stop him, but saw Xu Xiaoxian go around behind the Taoist master, kicked the Taoist master's ass with his feet.

The master of Taozhuang didn't stand still, and rushed forward, seeing that he was about to jump on Zhinu, Zhinu didn't dodge. Taozhuang master's body bumped into Zhinu, but he didn't feel it at all. He passed by and fell directly to the ground, with a layer of skin knocked off his chin.

Seeing that the Taoist owner fell, Zhinu flew around on him, only giggling, but didn't speak.

Xu Xiaoxian didn't care about the owner of Taozhuang, and turned around to explain to Chen Yao: "Now it seems that something happened at the ghost gate. The two water ghosts didn't appear here by accident last night."

"The ghost gate? Didn't the ghost gate close after the Ghost Festival?" Chen Yao frowned. The ghost gate only opens once a year, and only for one night at a time. The legends for thousands of years are like this. Zhi Nu, Chen Yao would never believe that these frightening legends were true.

"I don't know what this Hades old man is doing, he can't even see a door." Xu Xiaoxian glanced at the ground with some contempt, turned around and called Zhinu, and asked, "Miss Zhi, where are you from? "

Zhinu sat lightly on Master Taozhuang's left shoulder, propped her chin, blinked her eyes and thought for a while, raised her finger to the north, and gently parted her lips, saying, "Beize's ghost gate is broken."

"How did it break? What about Hades? Does he not care?"

Zhinu looked up at the sky and shook her head.

"when?"

"July sixteenth."

"Damn it," Xu Xiaoxian cursed in a low voice, and asked, "After Ghost Festival, the door of Beize was not closed?"

"perhaps."

The sun rose high, and the fog gradually dissipated. Seeing that Zhinu's figure seemed to have faded a lot, Chen Yao took off the umbrella behind him and put it on Zhinu's head. Zhinu raised her head and looked at Chen Yao, suddenly drifting away. She stood up and kissed him lightly on the cheek.

It's just that Chen Yao didn't feel anything, Zhinu couldn't touch him.

"Master Chen, you have taken away my peach blossoms," the owner of the peach farm glared at him angrily.

As if Chen Yao didn't hear, he looked at Zhi Nu, but asked, "Where are you going?"

Zhinu smiled, shook her head, and floated to Xu Xiaoxian's side.

Xu Xiaoxian: "Miss Zhi, this is not a place for you to stay, I will take you back."

Zhi Nu nodded, turned into a wisp of smoke and went back into the gardenia lamp, Xu Xiaoxian carefully took off the lamp and held it in his hand, but lifted the lid off, and said softly: "There is no place in the world." All clean."

"Mr. Chen, this journey will take a lot of hard work. You have to protect this lamp carefully. Don't disappoint Miss Zhi." Xu Xiaoxian stuffed the gardenia lamp into Chen Yao's arms, took out a piece of talisman paper from his sleeve, and folded it into a The shape of a butterfly is placed on the top of the gardenia lamp. The butterfly spreads its wings and covers the opening of the lamp to prevent sunlight from falling in.

Chen Yao was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but feel ashamed, but had no words to refute.

Chen Yao: "Banxian, why don't you let her live in the world, does she have someone she wants to see?"

"The person I want to see is in the underworld, can I stay there?" Xu Xiaoxian asked back, but walked forward without waiting for Chen Yao's reply.

Chen Yao held the lamp and wanted to catch up, but the owner of Taozhuang stopped him, saying: "Human beings and ghosts have different paths, since they can't get what they want, why wait in vain."

Chen Yao looked at Xu Xiaoxian's back, then looked down at the gardenia lamp in his arms, and bit his lips.

Xu Xiaoxian walked ahead, not in a hurry to go north, but knocked on doors from house to house in the village, the village is not big, only about twenty families, three people knocked on the way from the beginning to the end of the village No one answered the door.

The owner of Taozhuang looked back at the quiet street, and asked Xu Xiaoxian: "It's broad daylight, where are all the people? I can't even see a ghost."

"Here, isn't there one here?" Xu Xiaoxian pointed to the gardenia lantern in Chen Yao's arms, and looked up at the sky. It was already noon, and the sun was in the sky, bright and dazzling.

"Things in the underworld can't be exposed to the sun, let's go inside and have a look," Xu Xiaoxian said while pushing the door, but it was locked inside and couldn't be pushed. He took a step back, stood outside the courtyard wall, and looked back at Chen Yao. , took out the sword in the umbrella and held it in his hand, jumped over the courtyard wall as high as a person with a light leap, walked to the door, swung the sword and chopped off the lock.

Master Taozhuang opened the door and walked in, frowning involuntarily.

The yard is messy, a locust tree is lying across the ground, half of the thatched tiles on the house have collapsed, there is a crack in the middle of the door, only half of it is still connected to the wooden shaft, the upper half has been detached, and the house is in a mess. Pots and pans fell all over the floor, and none of the tables, chairs and benches were intact.

"Here," Chen Yao moved his throat, remembering the water ghost they met last night, "could it be that the villagers here were all..."

"Not necessarily," the owner of Taozhuang shook his head, helped up a grand teacher's chair that had fallen on the ground, patted the dirt and sat on it, crossed his knees, and said, "You see, although it is a mess here, there is no blood anywhere. If you say There were people in the room at the time of the incident, so how could there be no blood in this posture?"

Chen Yao took a closer look at the room, and it was true that there was no blood anywhere, as the owner of Taozhuang Villa said.

Xu Xiaoxian didn't look at anything after entering the house, went out after a quick turn around, stood in front of a well and looked down at something.

"What's the matter? Do you suspect that those water ghosts did it?" The owner of Taozhuang also went to the well and looked in. The well in the village is not too deep. It was at noon, and the sun was shining, and the well water was crystal clear.

"Well," Xu Xiaoxian turned to look for Chen Yao. Chen Yao was afraid that Zhi Nu would be sunburned, so he hid in the shadow of the corner of the eaves, with the "life-saving" oil-paper umbrella on his shoulder. Xu Xiaoxian walked over and carefully lifted the butterfly charm From the corner of the wing, a wisp of light smoke floated up and climbed up the handle of the umbrella around Chen Yao's fingertips.

Xu Xiaoxian: "Miss Zhi, besides you, how many others are there?"

Light smoke fluttered around, condensing into the shape of a hand with two fingers raised upright.

Chen Yao: "The two water ghosts we met last night?"

The wisp of smoke turned into a serpentine shape again, and he nodded.

Xu Xiaoxian: "Did the people in the village not be there at the beginning?"

The smoke snake shook its head from side to side, and two words were condensed in the air: No one.

The three of them breathed a sigh of relief, but they were all puzzled: How could there be no one in such a village? Where did all these people go?

Zhi Nu couldn't explain clearly, Xu Xiaoxian didn't ask any questions for a while, so she asked her to go back to rest in the lamp, but Zhi Nu seemed to like Chen Yao very much, leaving a small string of light smoke around Chen Yao's fingertips holding the umbrella, Xu Xiaoxian wrinkled frown.

Chen Yao: "It's okay, I won't let her be exposed to the sun."

Xu Xiaoxian: "I hope your kindness will not be taken advantage of."

After Xu Xiaoxian finished speaking, he ignored them, left the yard, and went to check other houses. The owner of Taozhuang was not interested in these things. Seeing a pot of begonias fell to the ground in the yard, he squatted down to pick up the flowers with roots and soil , I carried it in my clothes, took it to the open soil, dug a hole, buried it again, and watered it carefully with water from the well.

Chen Yao sat on the porch, put the gardenia lamp on his lap and looked at it carefully, the wisp of light smoke condensed into a small figure, sitting on his shoulder, and asked lightly: "Mr. Chen, is there something on your mind?"

"Who would have no worries," Chen Yao sighed, Xu Xiaoxian guessed his thoughts at a glance, but he still felt unwilling, he asked: "Why did the girl come back to the world? Listen to Banxian, this sun seems to hurt you .”

"It doesn't matter, I am a dead soul, and I am a dead person in the world... Do you think this gardenia lamp is beautiful?"

"Ah."

"But it's not as good-looking as the one he gave me... He is a bamboo craftsman, and he is best at making lanterns. In the past, many people in the village came to him to make lanterns during Chinese New Year...Gardenia lamps were the only ones he made for me. I have never made a lantern like this for anyone...Actually we were about to get married at that time, but I was sick, very sick, and two men in black and white came to chop off my head with a sickle and dragged me away , I refused to leave, but when I turned around, I saw him kneeling beside my bed crying, I wanted to go back to my body, but I couldn’t.”

"You want to see him?"

"Well... I want to know if he is doing well now."

Chen Yao glanced at Taozhuang Master, and asked softly, "Do you know where he is?"

"Well, his house is at the foot of the mountain, and there is a bamboo forest over there."

"I'll take you there quietly later, but you can only watch, and you can't let him see you," Chen Yao was afraid that Zhi Nu's appearance would scare people, "Is that okay?"

The smoky figure nodded and thanked him.

"It's okay... I also have someone I want to see. If there is a chance, I also want to know how she is doing there."

"Half Immortal wouldn't want you to have such an opportunity."

"I think so too."

Trespassing on the gate of ghosts, no matter whether it is a human or a ghost, will not end well.

Thinking of the wound on Xu Xiaoxian's back, Chen Yao couldn't help but frowned. He asked Zhinu, "Do you know how you got the wound on Banxian's back?"

"That was all ten years ago, but I was not dead at that time. I don't know the specific situation. I only heard that the child made the palace of Hades into a mess. Lord Hades was angry, so he took a judge's pen and painted his back. Made a..."

"I just drew with a brush, how could it hurt like that?"

"It's the pen of the underworld, and one stroke is enough for him. What's more, Banxian was only a half-old child at that time."

"Why did he go to the Palace of the King of Hell?" Chen Yao thought to himself, that was not a place where he could come and go whenever he wanted.

"I don't know. I heard from those old ghosts that this half-immortal's book of life and death is a bit strange. It has been changed several times. They all say that the half-immortal is protected by the gods in the sky, and the King of Hades will give him some points."

Chen Yao frowned, thinking, didn't Xu Xiaoxian lie to him?Is there really a fairy grandpa?

The sun was a bit westward, Xu Xiaoxian didn't come back, Taozhuang Master didn't know where to go, a cicada lay on the branch and cried weakly.

The ghost month is over and it will be autumn.

Chen Yao held up the umbrella, hugged the gardenia lamp, and carefully left the yard, went out through the small door at the back, and walked into the mountain.

Zhi Nu: "Young Master Chen, aren't you afraid that the Banxian will be angry?"

"He doesn't have time to talk to us now, let's go back quickly, just don't let him notice."

While speaking, he had come to the bamboo forest that Zhinu mentioned. There was a thatched cottage in the bamboo forest, which was quiet and elegant. The bamboo forest grew tall and dense, blocking most of the sunlight.

Zhi Nu: "Young Master Chen, tear off the talisman paper on the lamp, I want to come out and take a look."

Chen Yao nodded, seeing that the sun was not shining, he put the umbrella on the ground, uncovered a corner of the butterfly talisman paper, a puff of smoke gushed out of the small opening, and rushed straight into the bamboo forest hut.

"Garden girl!" Chen Yao stretched out his hand to catch the puff of smoke, but he couldn't catch it. He watched the goose-yellow smoke enter the room, and then heard a man screaming in fright.

He wanted to go in and help explain, but his eyes suddenly went blank, and a figure fell in front of him, blocking his way.

"Half Immortal..."