The man's face, full of vicissitudes of life and sorrow, was trembling slightly, and his lips trembled as he said, "Are you Taiping?"

I had already guessed who the man in front of me was, but I didn't know what to say for a moment. When he asked me, I nodded lightly and said yes.

The man was a little overwhelmed and pulled a chair over. He hurriedly wiped it with his sleeve and said, "Sit down."

I hesitated for a moment before sitting on it, and the man also pulled up a chair and sat down.

Two grown men were sitting facing each other like this. I really didn't know what to say. He must have been the same as me. The atmosphere suddenly felt awkward.

It took him a long time to say, "Have you eaten?"

I sighed slightly and said, "I have seen your photo on the wall at home. Grandpa and grandma have often shed tears looking at your photo for so many years."

"Why haven't you gone home after all these years to see your grandparents..." I wanted to ask him if he hated me that much. If he really hated me that much, why did he still call this shop Taiping?

Paper shop.

The man in front of me is my father who has been missing for more than 20 years. At this moment, my mood is very complicated. I can’t say I hate him or love him. He is even stranger to me than a stranger.

I can't even call him dad now, so I'll use his name Chen Shu instead for the time being.

Chen Shu's eye circles began to turn red, and he twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "When your mother died in a strange way, and you were the son of a ghost, I felt that God was so unfair to me, and I couldn't accept this reality in my heart.

He ran away from home."

"I am not convinced. Why would God do this to me? I have never done anything bad in my life, and I have never harmed anyone. Why did my wife drown in a puddle of water..."

Chen Shu paused for a moment, relieved some of his excitement, and continued, "While I was working, I went to ask the monks and the Taoists. They all told me that destiny cannot be violated, but I just didn't believe it. Later, I accidentally

I met an expert and he asked me to practice Taoism with him."

"I stayed in the mountains for more than 20 years. When I came back home from the mountains, I realized that my family had left the village. Man He's father told me everything about the family, and I knew everything that happened at home."

"Later, your master found me and said he would arrange for us to meet."

Chen Shu recounted the past, and his eyes returned to calm at this moment.

"How do you feel about what happened back then?" I asked.

Chen Shu was silent for a moment and said, "Cause and effect."

I smiled when he said the word cause and effect, and then asked, "What was the cause of what happened back then? It was my grandpa who didn't believe in evil and built the house. So why are you all fine, but it happened to me now?"

"You will know gradually." Chen Shu said quietly.

Judging from the meaning of these words, he knew what he meant, but judging from his appearance, he probably wouldn't tell me for the time being, so I stopped asking further questions.

The two of us had nothing to say for a while, so I stood up and said, "We've already met, so I'm leaving."

"Wait." Chen Shu stopped me, "I have two words to say to you."

Hearing what he said, I stopped and faced the door. Chen Shu said from behind, "I want to visit your grandparents. Can you make arrangements?"

"It's not convenient to reveal where they live now. I'll let you know when I get in touch with them." That place is not convenient for outsiders to enter. Naturally, I can't take him there casually. As long as I get the consent from there,

Only under certain circumstances can I take him there.

Chen Shu said yes, he was waiting for news from me, and he asked me to have dinner with him. I refused because I really didn’t want to see the two of them sitting together and having an awkward meal together.

After leaving the incense shop, I walked on the street in confusion. When I was a child, I saw other people's children being protected by their parents after being wronged. I longed for father's love in my heart. But now that I have grown up,

The longing in my heart is gone.

Before I knew it, it was already dark, and I left Qingshui County and arrived at a small mountain villa.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way." While I was thinking wildly, someone in front of me shouted loudly.

I looked up suddenly and saw a person running towards me like crazy. To be precise, it was not a person, because the lower part of his face had turned into a very weird cat face.

With a dark cat face, he scratched his limbs on the ground, looked at it with a very strange look, and then habitually stuck out his tongue and licked his lips.

I immediately realized that the person in front of me had faked the corpse. His appearance was caused by a cat. After a person dies, if a cat touches the human body, it will fake the corpse. This has been true since ancient times.

The cat-faced man who had turned into a corpse had already rushed towards me. There was blood flowing from his open mouth. It seemed that he had hurt someone.

"Looking for death." I said coldly.

Hearing my roar, the cat-faced man must have felt fear, and he took a few steps back.

I took a step forward, and the cat-faced man took a few steps back, and his body began to tremble.

I took out a piece of talisman paper from my pocket and slapped it directly on the forehead of the cat-faced man. The cat-faced man immediately stopped motionless. Now I feel like a college student doing this kind of corpse fraud.

One plus one equals two is as simple as that.

At this time, a group of people gathered around, holding various weapons in their hands, including hatchets, sticks, and some carrying buckets. The bucket exuded an unpleasant stench, you are a piece of shit.

smell.

"Young man, are you okay?" the old man at the head looked at me and said.

"It's okay, this is from your village." I asked.

"Well, it's a fake corpse." The old man glanced at the cat-faced man lying motionless on the ground, then looked at me again, and said doubtfully, "Who are you?"

This old man has some eyesight. He must have noticed that I am not an ordinary person. I smiled and said, "Taoist."

"No wonder, no wonder he's afraid of you." The old man nodded and said.

At this time, two men in mourning clothes rushed out from the crowd. They came to me and knelt down. This scene made me a little confused.

"Hey, what are you doing?" I quickly hid aside.

"Master, please help me," one of the men cried.

"What help do you want from me?" I asked.

"Please save my dad," the man cried.

"Your father?" I glanced at the cat-faced man lying on the ground in confusion and said, "Are you referring to him?" The man nodded.

"He is already dead. He is a fake corpse now. Even the Great Luo Immortal can't save him." I frowned and said. I originally thought he saw his father could move and thought he was alive again.

Let me save people.

Another man cried and said, "Master, we didn't mean that. I just want to ask you to send my father's soul away so that he can be reincarnated. There have been several cases of corpse fraud in the village, and the soul has been

Broken up."

After hearing this and looking at the things in everyone's hands, I finally understood.

The living standards of rural people are incomparable with those in cities, but they know better than people in cities in some aspects. Just like now, if this happened in cities, most people would probably disperse.

Escaped.

When this happens to the people in the village, they will react as quickly as possible, just like the black dog blood in these people's buckets now. This is the experience accumulated by the villagers over a long period of time.

However, with their method, the person's soul will be expelled. Once the soul is dispersed, there is no way to reincarnate.

Seeing how filial they were, I nodded, "Okay, you can carry them back."

After hearing what I said, the two men lifted up their father's body, and the remaining villagers followed behind.

"Uncle, are there more such things in the village recently?" I asked.

The old man nodded, "I don't know what's going on in the village recently. Seven or eight people have died within a month, and all of these seven or eight people have turned into corpses."

Hearing what the old man said, I couldn't help but frown. It's normal for people to die in the village, but it's not normal for seven or eight people to die in a month and all turn into corpses.

"Has anything strange happened in the village recently?" I asked.

"Yes, I don't know where a lot of wild cats came from recently. These wild cats surrounded the village every night and kept barking. Later, I organized the people in the village to drive away the cats, but even if they were driven away, they would come back.

These cats don’t seem to be afraid of people at all, and they don’t run away when they see people.” The old man thought for a moment and continued, “I also found it strange, so I asked a goddess from the next village to come over and take a look. The goddess said that our village had offended the land master.

, let us make offerings to the land lord. After we made the offerings, it was of no use at all." The old man couldn't help but sigh, "We are discussing to invite people."

The old man said and glanced at me, "Sir, you are the lucky star of our village, so we will leave everything to you. As long as you can help our village pass this level, you can rest assured about the reward. As long as you don't make a big deal, we will all

Give."

The old man said it very sincerely, and I nodded. Now that I have encountered him, I can't ignore it.

"Okay." I nodded and said.

After following them into the village, two men carried the transformed old man to his home.

"Go find an old man's clothes, and then light a candle in front of the coffin." I said to the old man's two sons.

One of them went to find clothes, and the other went to light a candle.

I asked everyone to retreat outside the gate, especially the women and children, and the elderly, and asked them to go home and not stay here any longer.

After these people left, I said to the old man's son, "After a while, after I light the clothes, you read your father's name, and then say "Dad, let's go."


Chapter completed!