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The boy's story ended, and the gardenia girl also floated out of Chen Yao's mind. She seemed a little tired and went back into the gardenia lamp.

Chen Yao was lying on the bed, looking at the gauze above his head with his eyes open, all the memory fragments seemed to be strung together, but his mind was still a mess.

The owner of the peach farm poured water and asked him if he wanted to drink, but he didn't want to answer, turned his back to the people, pretended to be asleep, but when he closed his eyes, there were only the figures of that person, those who made snowmen, those who beat dogs, and those who ate leaves. , playing with skulls, proud, indifferent, mischievous... Every face is so clear, clearly close in front of you, yet out of reach.

"Master Taozhuang," he sat up and called softly.

The owner of Taozhuang came, but still handed him water, he took it, brought it to his mouth, felt cold, but drank it anyway, his throat was very dry, drinking some cold water would be more comfortable.

Master Taozhuang: "Don't ask me what to do. I'm just like you. I'm neither a ghost nor a fairy. If I could enter and leave the underworld casually by throwing a few talisman papers, the world would have been messed up long ago."

Chen Yao nodded. He had thought about what Master Taoist said a long time ago, and now he had a plan in his mind: "The closed door cannot be opened, so go in through the open door."

The owner of Taozhuang seemed to have guessed that he would think so, and smiled with the corner of his mouth, and said, "Do you think that the half-immortal would never expect you to break into the ghost gate?"

"He may not be able to stop it even if he thinks about it," Chen Yao picked up the oil-paper umbrella placed on the bedside, gently stroked the folded umbrella ribs, and said, "I still have something to ask him, don't think about it." Just ran away."

The owner of Taozhuang looked at him, then looked back at Ah Jing who was still sleeping, and couldn't help sighing softly: "Yes, we caught him, so don't let him run away."

"Hmm..." Chen Yao nodded, glanced at A Jing, and asked softly, "The owner knew A Jing before?"

"If you say you know it, you know it, and if you say you don't know it, you don't know it."

"What do you mean?"

"Didn't you hear what Banxian said, Ah Jing is a rabbit?" Tao Zhuang Master poured a cup of tea, sat on the side of the bed, and talked to each other: "It was a long time ago, and I was only half a child at that time." Brat, follow those adults to hunt rabbits in the forest. I shot a big gray rabbit at that time, but I ran into the forest but couldn’t find it. Seeing that it was shot, it was impossible to run away, so I followed the blood on the ground to find it, and I really found it.”

"You saved that rabbit?"

The owner of Taozhuang smiled bitterly: "How should I put it, what I found was not a rabbit, but a boy, who was younger than me at that time. I thought he was accidentally injured by someone else's arrow, and the arrow shot at him. It's on the waist."

Taozhuang Master pointed to his waist, and continued: "There was a lot of blood, I was afraid that he would die, so I pulled out the arrow for him, but he refused at first, probably because he was afraid of the pain, but at that time he was almost It was too bad, and I didn't have the strength to control me anymore, so I bandaged his wound and carried him home.

"When I got home, he had a high fever and his whole body was on fire. I couldn't wake him up, so I had to ask the doctor to show him. The doctor gave me a prescription and told me to take the medicine myself, and then boil it for him. Well, after two or three days, he really woke up, and the fever went away." Taozhuang Master scratched his head, and then said: "But when he wakes up and sees me, he hides, his arrow wound is still not healed. I told him not to move close to him, so he kept staring at me. Whenever I got close to him, he would hide. His eyes were red, like rabbits. .”

"You knew he was a rabbit back then?"

"I don't know, I didn't think about it. Later, when he saw that I didn't hurt him, his eyes turned black and he didn't hide from me anymore. It's just that he didn't speak. I thought he was dumb. When he recovered from his injuries, I taught him how to speak, and named him Ah Jing. He still seldom speaks, but only calls me son. He lived in my house for a year or two. Later, when I went home, I found that he was gone, and I searched the house. , I just didn’t find him, and my family didn’t see where he went.”

"Did he turn back into a rabbit?"

The owner of Taozhuang squinted his eyes and smiled, and said: "Mr. Chen is very smart. After he left, I felt quite bored. I felt that there was something missing in the room. I was always used to him calling me son, son, you Born in the Chen Mansion, I can probably feel the feeling of emptiness with few adults in the house."

Chen Yao nodded slightly. After his mother passed away, that feeling became more real.

The owner of Taozhuang: "A month later, I rescued a gray rabbit in the yard. It was being hunted down by my chef at that time. When I saw the rabbit, I thought it was me. The one shot in the forest, I took it back to the room and hid it... That rabbit seems to have a spirituality, it follows me wherever I go, and it jumps on the desk and stamps its footprints when I write, like wild cats Like."

Chen Yao thought of the little bird in his yard, and he asked, "What happened next?"

After drinking the last sip of tea, Taozhuang Master sighed long, stared out of the window, and said softly: "I have lived with rabbits for several years, and I have grown to fifteen or sixteen years old, and I have begun to like those who love men and women. I often go to those romantic places to write lyrics and compose music for them. That rabbit doesn’t like to go to those places, so I don’t take it with me. I shut it in the room. It might be bored that day. My room was a mess, and I bitten the words I wrote."

"You're angry?"

Master Taozhuang shook his head slightly: "I didn't have time, my father went to my room for some reason that day, and saw the obscene words I wrote, you know the old man can't accept these, after I got home, I was beaten and locked up. I got out of confinement, the rabbit must have been terrified when I saw me being beaten. I was shaking when I hugged it that night, but in the end I came to coax it not to be afraid... Now that I think about it, it must have felt that I was seriously injured, because After that, I basically couldn't get out of bed, didn't eat anything, and just lay in bed drowsy every day.

"The rabbit was anxious, afraid that I wouldn't wake up after I fell asleep, and it would always try to wake me up at dawn... There were several nights when I felt in a daze that someone was feeding me medicine, calling me son, my son. I thought Ah Jing was back, and I was afraid that he would leave again, so I grabbed his hand and refused to let him go... He still disappeared the next day... Then one night, I saw my rabbit grow bigger He turned into a human being, walked to my bed and called me son, and only then did I know that he was that rabbit..."

He remembered the night he had kissed the rabbit.

When he woke up, the people around him turned into rabbits, clinging to his neck, squinting their eyes and sleeping soundly.

He felt that he had a high fever and was confused. He had such a nonsensical dream, but he was still looking forward to the reappearance of the dream. He suddenly felt panic. He was afraid of the rabbit, but he couldn't help but want to get closer.

He felt then that he was going to be driven mad by such dreamy and shameful thoughts.

"So you're leaving?"

"Well, I feel upset, and my father wants to arrange a marriage for me, so I want to escape... I put Ah Jing back in the woods, and it refused to leave, looking at me with those red eyes, I couldn't bear it at the time, but I thought that I would never be able to be with a rabbit, so I beat it with a whip and drove it back to the woods... Now that I think about it, I'm such a bastard," Master Tao got up and walked to A Beside Jing, her fingertips gently touched the warm cheek, Ah Jing frowned, shrank her body, and did not wake up.

Chen Yao looked down at his hand and shook it vigorously.

In the early morning of the next day, Chen Yao took the oil-paper umbrella, led the way by Zhi Nu, and went up the mountain with the owner of Taozhuang and A Jing. There was a lake in the middle of the valley. It used to be as bright as a mirror, but now it has become a storm. In the center, the blue-black lake smelled of rotten fish, and all three of them covered their noses.

Zhinu pointed to a broken bridge on the lake. Under the broken bridge was a black whirlpool, and water ghosts kept coming out of it.

"Below is the gate of ghosts, and you can reach the underworld by jumping down." Zhinu turned her head and stood in front of Chen Yao, saying, "You can't go down with the body of a mortal. If the body dies, even saving the half-immortal will not save you, you have to let the soul out of your body."

"How to do?"

"A Jing," Zhi Nu floated to A Jing, and asked, "You can talk to Yuanhun, can't you? Otherwise, all the animals in this city would have run away."

Ah Jing turned to look at Master Peach, who didn't speak, but just held his hand tightly.

"I've only talked to the primordial souls of animals. I don't know the primordial souls of ordinary people. Let me try." Ah Jing said, her eyes gradually turned red, and she looked at Chen Yao. Unable to see himself, he thought Ah Jing must be talking to his original soul at this time.

Chen Yao suddenly felt his body became lighter, but when he lowered his head, he found that he had turned into a mist like Zhinu. When he turned his head, he saw Master Tao sitting on the broken bridge with his body in his arms, looking up at them.

"You guard Chen Yao's body here, don't let him get hurt," Zhi Nu floated down to look at Tao Zhuang Zhu, then at A Jing, nodded to express her gratitude, and said, "With A Jing here, ordinary ghosts dare not approach you."

Ah Jing looked up at Chen Yao, his red eyes had turned back to black, and he said, "Young Master Chen, follow the blue will-o'-the-wisp, you can't go wrong."

"Thank you."

Chen Yao turned around and jumped off the gate of hell with Zhi Nu.

The owner of Taozhuang put Chen Yao's body on his back in a pavilion behind the broken bridge, and Ah Jing sat down beside him, staring intently at the broken bridge, frowning uneasily.

Master Taozhuang held his hand and asked softly, "How do you know to follow the blue will-o'-the-wisp?"

"The half-immortal said it."

"Have you seen a half-immortal before?"

"Well, when I was caught by the Shangxian and was about to send Wangchuan off, it was the half-immortal who saved me. He taught me to follow the blue will-o'-the-wisp."

"Punishment? Who punished you? What punished you?"

Ah Jing suddenly blushed, bowed her head and said nothing.

The owner of Taozhuang was stunned for a moment, he remembered that Xu Xiaoxian said that Ah Jing had already been listed as a fairy, that the fairy is the highest, and he must not have anything to do with the mortal world.

The owner of the peach farm brushed away the broken hair in front of Ah Jing's forehead, and kissed him lightly on the brow bone. Suddenly, he felt that fate was really interesting. Back then, he picked up a wounded child by the river, and this child later saved him. Ah Jing, now Ah Jing is here to help Chen Yao save that child again.

"But your face has indeed changed a lot. No wonder I couldn't recognize you at first, and the half-immortal didn't recognize you either." Master Tao touched Ah Jing's red cheeks, and a few faint freckles became more conspicuous.

"It's becoming ugly, isn't it?" Ah Jing lowered her head and touched her face.

"Well, it's really not as good-looking as before," Tao Zhuang said honestly. Seeing Ah Jing's disappointment, he squeezed his face and smiled and said, "I will become an old man in a few years. If you look so good-looking, I will Don't worry about it."

Ah Jing was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing, Tao Zhuang Master touched his bosom, took out the two safety charms that Xu Xiaoxian gave him, put one of them in Ah Jing's hand, and told him to carry it close to his body.

The master of Taozhuang held up his safety talisman, looked at it, and said: "I hope that half-immortal can see his marriage clearly, he has delayed himself by caring about others all day long."

But Ah Jing shook her head and said: "What he can't see, no one can see his own marriage."

The owner of Taozhuang laughed, patted Ah Jing on the head lightly, and said: "Fool, who said that you can see clearly."

"what is that?"

The master of Taozhuang sighed softly, stretched out his hand to wrap around Ah Jing's waist, moved into his arms, and gently kissed Ah Jing's lips.

"If you still can't see clearly, that half-immortal should not come back. On behalf of the world, I will firmly reject the existence of an idiot like him."

Ah Jing was stunned for a moment, lowered her head and touched her lips, and murmured: "Will the half-immortal let Mr. Chen kiss him..."

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"Ah, ah, ah..." Xu Xiaoxian sneezed several times in a row, thinking that some bastard was scolding him again. After he left Chen Yao and broke into the ghost gate alone, he realized that he had made a mistake. one thing.

He always thought that Hades' random arrests were to make up for the ghosts who had escaped from the gate of hell.

It was only after returning to the Hall of Kings of Hell that it was even more chaotic than the ground. The Hall of Kings of Hell was in a mess as if swept by a storm. Even the plaques on the hall were broken and fell to the ground.

Lord Yan was injured and was recuperating in the back hall. Seeing him coming back, he knew that he had something to ask, so he reluctantly got up, and then said that all the captured people were properly placed in the side hall, and he could go and see in person if he was worried.

Lord Yan: "If you say you, you never miss me when good things happen. If there are any rumors on the ground, it will be my fault."

"Who told you to be the king of Hades, if you don't look for you, who will you look for?" Xu Xiaoxian held the vigorous hand of Lord Hades, and there was a deep scratch on the back of his hand. He frowned and asked, "What can hurt the king of Hades like this? "

King Yan refused to say anything, but Wuchang, who was waiting next to him, couldn't help it, and said angrily: "It's just that damned bald bird, every time it comes, nothing good happens, this time it brought a crazy woman, it went crazy He wants to kill Lord Hades."

Lord Yan frowned, and shouted: "Shut up, don't talk nonsense."

"What crazy woman? Tell me clearly." Xu Xiaoxian stopped Lord Yan and told Wuchang to continue.

"It's the woman whose life and death book was changed by you. She refused to leave when she asked for her life, but after she came, she wandered around like other ghosts who refused to reincarnate. We didn't care about it. Later, she didn't know How did she find her way to hell and hurt many jailers? This woman is very strange. She doesn't go out every year when the gate of hell is open. Instead, everyone goes to the ground during the ghost festival and continues to go deeper into hell. , This year, the ghost gate suddenly couldn't be closed, and she ran out of hell instead, bringing a large group of ghosts and ghosts out of the ghost gate. Our Lord Hades was worried that she would hurt innocent people, so we transferred the people on the ground to The ground is down, she may have found out, she came to the palace to make a fuss, injured Lord Yan, and took away the book of life and death."

"The Book of Life and Death was taken away?" Xu Xiaoxian opened her mouth. Was that woman trying to change someone's life by taking the Book of Life and Death?

"No, I have already hidden the book of life and death after you made such a fuss back then, and what she took away was just an ordinary roster," Lord Yan patted Xu Xiaoxian on the head, looked at his back, and saw the roster on the clothes. When there was blood, he asked, "Was the wound ruptured by the ghost gate?"

"Well, I almost died of pain again. If Lord Yan loves me, try to find a way to close this ghost door."

"I'm thinking right now. It's just that there are people on your ground helping that female ghost, and the Beidou formation. If it weren't for the two lamps being misplaced, the Hades Palace might not be enough to save people."

"Yan Wangye, why are the lights in the formation misplaced?"

"In general, the prayer objects of the seven lamps of the formation must be the same to be effective. If some lamps are infused with different thoughts, the formation will naturally be misplaced."

"Those two lamps belong to me, but..." Why is the little goddess's lamp not misplaced?It is impossible for the little goddess to give both lamps to her mother.

Who is the other person?

The impermanence just now interjected again: "I saw that woman was accompanied by a particularly ugly man. That man's face was burned by a will-o'-the-wisp, but I'm sure it's definitely someone from the ground."

"Burned by a will-o'-the-wisp...is it possible..." A figure popped up in Xu Xiaoxian's mind, but he couldn't figure out why this person appeared here, and what did it have to do with Chen Yao's mother?

Since ancient times, all methods of summoning spirits have required sacrifices, and the formation of Chengxi River must have sacrifices. It is impossible to summon the ghosts of hell with only seven river lanterns. Which link is missing? Xu Xiaoxian rubbed his temples, he I've always felt uneasy lately.

King Yan waved his hand to ask Wuchang to go down, patted Xu Xiaoxian on the shoulder, and said, "Okay, you don't have to worry about the things on the ground, I have already notified the gods on the ground to help intercept those ghosts, try to control them in the Beize area, you come back It's not easy, you are familiar with me, find a place to rest yourself, the female ghost has just finished making trouble, and she probably won't come again for a while, if the wound on the back hurts, I will ask Granny Meng to show you."

Xu Xiaoxian nodded, helped Lord Yan to lie down, walked out of the room, he let out a long breath.