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That night when Chen Yao and Xu Xuan returned home, Xu Xuan remembered that he had annoyed the Stove Lord. He lowered his head and thought for a while, then suddenly turned and ran out.

Chen Yao: "Where are you going?"

Xu Xuan didn't answer him, and ran away without a trace.

After about half an hour, Xu Xuan came back out of breath, holding a small paper bag in his hand, and handed it to Chen Yao. Chen Yao saw that the paper bag was covered with oily smell of roast chicken, and asked him where he got it.

"The old lady's house at the entrance of the upper village begged for it, hurry up and make an offering to the Stove Lord," Xu Xuan pushed Chen Yao to the back kitchen to make an offering to the Stove Lord's statue.

Smelling the scent, Lord Stove poked his head out of the statue, and when he saw Xu Ting, he snorted and wanted to go back into the statue again.

"Hey, hey, Lord Stove, this is Xiaoxian who went to ten villages and eight shops to find you to make an offering. Please show me some face, forgive Xiaoxian for being young and ignorant, and offending Grandpa Immortal. Is Xiaoxian going to accompany you?" "Xu Xuan hurriedly dragged the Stove Lord's smoke tail to prevent the Stove Lord from returning to the statue, and he himself bowed and apologized to the Stove Lord repeatedly. Seeing his sincerity, the Stove Lord was really tempted by the aroma of the roasted chicken legs. Greedy, cleared his throat, and said to forgive Xu Zhen.

Xu Xuan: "Then you always eat and drink well. If you have any orders in the future, Xiaoxian will never say anything."

The Stove Lord gnawed on the chicken leg, nodded, waved his oily hand, and said, "It's easy to say, we're all a family, why are you being polite, and the matter between the two of you is considered settled?"

"What is it, what are you talking about!" Xu Wei glanced at Chen Yao, feeling embarrassed, shook his hands and ran away.

Chen Yao shook his head with a smile, and heated up a pot of wine for the Stove Lord.

"Oh, young people are so kind. Let's go sing the wind and enjoy the moon. Leave me, an old man, to drink and eat meat alone."

Xu Xuan slipped in and said, "Then you also find a fairy mother-in-law."

"Go, go, it's an old bone. What kind of fairy mother-in-law, Mr. Chen, hurry up and take your little friend out to be disciplined."

Xu Xuan stuck out his tongue at him, but dragged Chen Yao away instead.

Chen Yao stretched out his finger and pointed at the tip of Xu Zhen's nose, and asked with a smile, "What's the matter? You miss me after not seeing you for a while?"

Xu Xuan opened Chen Yao's hand, gave him a blank look, and stretched out his hand to grab Chen Yao's injured arm. The pain made Chen Yao gasp, and he asked back, "Is your arm better?"

"Can't you take it easy!"

"No, I'm not a doctor." Xu Xuan pulled Chen Yao's sleeves, carefully inspected the wound, and bandaged it again, before saying, "When you recover from your injury, let's go to that bat cave again. "

"Bat cave?" Chen Yao put down his sleeves, walked to the stone bench with Xu Xuan and sat down, and asked, "Is that behind the waterfall? Why do you want to go there?"

"I don't know. The little goddess hasn't come back since my husband passed away. I'm afraid she knew that my husband was gone a long time ago and ran back to the mountains by herself."

Apart from her husband and Xu Zhen, the little goddess is probably most dependent on the bats in that mountain.

Xu Xuan was a little annoyed, he rubbed his hands frantically on his head, his fine hair was as if he could turn it into a chicken coop.

While helping him straighten his hair, Chen Yao asked, "Can't you pinch and count? If you count, you will know where the little goddess is?"

"Forget it—no——" Xu Zhen tapped his forehead on the stone table, let out a long breath, raised his head, and explained: "Mr. said that the fate of the little goddess is more special than mine. These divination and gossip can be calculated, not to mention that I don't even know the birth date of the little goddess."

"Then how did you figure out that I was going to the north of the city to find Mr. Lin?"

"Guess," Xu Xuan answered very frankly. Seeing Chen Yao frown, he explained: "The young men of the Lin family were looking for Mr. Lin everywhere in the city early in the morning, and you came here on horseback after a while. Not in the city, my stall is the closest to the west gate of the city, you must go out through this gate, as for Mr. Lin, it is natural that Mr. Lin will go to the north of the city. Although Mr. Lin is more keen on making friends than you, but you are probably the only ones who can make friends Mr. Nanyuan, since he doesn't look for you, he can only ask for help from Mr. Song who is far north of the city but often invites Mr. Lin to go hunting."

"On the night of Ghost Festival?"

"Well, every year on Ghost Festival, you and Mr. Lin will go to release river lanterns. Mr. Lin is also afraid of ghosts. If I go to tell some stories to his grocery shoppers, it will naturally reach Mr. Lin's ears. Just wait for him to pass on the story to you, I think that if you go to release the river lanterns that night, you will definitely come to me to ask for a talisman before the sun goes down."

"But you don't seem to have given me the evil spirit talisman."

"Who in Nanyuan City doesn't know that your Chen family doesn't believe in ghosts and evil the most. You, a son of the Chen family, still insist on releasing river lanterns every ghost festival. I don't want to see that you want to use the river lanterns to summon the soul. , I, this half-immortal, can be considered to be in vain, and when you came to ask for amulets that night, I saw your little guy hiding at the corner of the street and peeping. I thought this guy would sue you when he went back, so I kindly reminded you You pay attention, it's just that you didn't understand."

"Who can understand!" Chen Yao recalled what Xu Zhen told him about the darkening of the Yintang, fearing that there might be evil spirits haunting him. What kind of imagination did he have to think that the evil spirits were those servants who didn't like him?

Xu Xuan: "But you did have a bloodbath that day, I figured it out, I thought that your temper would provoke the housekeeper to kill you, so I let the little goddess sneak into the Chen mansion to haunt the haunted house, given the level of guards in your Chen family There is no way to catch the little goddess."

"You were there that night?"

"Yes, otherwise, do you think that the butler of your family would faint from the shock of the little goddess?" Xu Wei bent down and picked up a stone, and lightly hit it on the courtyard wall. Hit a stone.

"The little goddess has always thought that you don't know kung fu?"

"Ah."

Chen Yao lightly touched Xu Zhen's head which was resting on the stone table, the hair he had just straightened out was messed up again by the unlucky boy himself.

Chen Yao: "You know that I summon the soul of my mother, and you still do business with me?"

"Why don't you earn money if you have money? Besides, how do I know that your mother will become like that? Besides, I have no enmity with you. My husband treats me like my own son. You are my brother. Even if you don't do business with me, you I will help you if you are in trouble... I just didn't expect it to turn out like this, alas, I will be beaten again next time I see you..."

"I'll stand with you."

"Sir, I can't bear to hit you." Xu Zhen gently opened Chen Yao's hand on his hair, grabbed it casually, sighed, and said, "Mr. refused your mother back then, and refused to save you no matter what. The matter has become his knot, and he has always refused to recognize you, thinking that he is not worthy to be your father. In fact, you are at the end of your life, and no one can save you except to change the book of life and death. Your mother wants to change her life. , how can there be such a good deal."

"...I just hope they can reconcile in the end, I hate retribution."

Xu Xuan bit his lip, he didn't tell Mr. Chen Yao about the fatal wound on his body.

"Chen Yao, if I tell you that your mother is still alive..."

Chen Yao was stunned for a moment, but did not speak. In fact, he had this feeling faintly. He could guess what Xu Zhen was going to do, but he didn't know how to choose. In his memory, his mother was so respectable and amiable. Alone, he couldn't bear to send her back to that hell, he didn't want to see his mother become such a ghost.

Xu Xuan held Chen Yao's trembling fists, and said: "Chen Yao, your mother has lost consciousness, she has been manipulated, even if she doesn't kill me, she will become a ghost if she wants to survive in this world. Human ghosts, all ghosts and ghosts in the past are like this, and your mother is no exception."

"Does she have to die?"

"She is already dead... and she can no longer be reincarnated. This time, if she is brought back to the lower realm, her soul will be destroyed. The Palace of Hades has notified the gods on the ground, and she cannot escape."

"In this case, why did you tell me? Now that I know this, what else can I do except add trouble?"

"Find out the truth."

"What's the truth?" Chen Yao frowned and thought about it for a while, and suddenly a figure flashed in his mind, it was the man in black who followed his mother in the Palace of Hades that day, he seemed to have seen that man somewhere , but I can't remember it.

Chen Yao hurriedly asked: "That man has burn marks on his face, is it the one who stabbed you in the bamboo forest? If you find him, you will know why my mother became like that, right?"

Xu Xuan nodded slightly, but there seemed to be too few clues about that person, as long as that person didn't show up, they would have no way to start.

"Ahhh—"

As the night deepened, Xu Xuan felt a little cold and rubbed his nose. Chen Yao thought that they couldn't think of any ideas sitting here, so he got up and told him to go back to the room to sleep.

Xu Xuan nodded, but his mind was still thinking about something, and he walked to his room while thinking.

Chen Yao stretched out his hand to grab his sleeve, and when he turned his head, he saw Chen Yao pointing his chin at the door next door. He shook his head habitually, shook off Chen Yao's hand, and hurried back to his room to close the door.

Chen Yao sighed, and went back to the room. Just as he undressed and lay down, he saw Xu Xuan slipping in like a wild ghost, crawled into the bed, and lay down next to him.

"You bastard, why are you walking so silently?" Chen Yao leaned his injured arm inward, and Xu Wei fell asleep by the bed for fear of hurting him. Chen Yao was worried that he would fall, so he stretched out his hand to scoop him in a little bit, and fell down on him. It's embarrassing.

"I said to wait for three years and it will be three years. Don't worry, I won't touch you randomly." Chen Yao stretched out his hand to tuck him in the quilt before lying down with peace of mind.

Xu Xuan opened his eyes and looked at the top of the gauze tent, and said softly, "Good night."