Who would have known that just when we returned to Lao Yu's house, my cell phone ringtone was still ringing strongly. With the light on the cell phone screen, I could see that there was only a long dog chain at the door, and the wolf dog was gone.
Already.
Seeing this, I quickly stepped forward to pick up my phone, turned around and pulled my sister-in-law towards the health center. My sister-in-law followed me: "Qiaoqiao, since you said this dog is afraid of Tianci, then we will go in directly with Tianci.
Take Zong Bao’s soul back.”
I shook my head: "I can't take it back now, sister-in-law. I don't have a soul lantern. I just need to make a lantern, something that the soul can attach to. Don't worry, I will definitely get Zong Bao's soul back tomorrow night."
My sister-in-law said, "Then I will come with you tomorrow night holding Tianci in my arms. Don't let the dog bite you again."
"It's okay, sister-in-law, you don't need to follow me with Tianci. Now I know what they are afraid of, so there is no need to worry about Tianci coming out at night. It's getting cold, so don't worry about the child catching a cold."
"Is that okay? Don't let anything happen." My sister-in-law still looked at me worriedly.
I smiled reassuringly and said, "It's okay. My lucky person has his own destiny. Look at all the dogs surrounding me just now. It's okay. I'm so cheap that even the King of Hell is too lazy to accept them."
My sister-in-law was a little unhappy: "Qiaoqiao, you are talking nonsense. My sister-in-law is angry."
I laughed twice: "Are you kidding?"
While I was talking, the phone in my hand rang again. I raised it and looked at it. The battery had alarmed. This shows how many calls Cheng Baize had made to me in this hour. Fortunately, there were few people here.
It was still night, otherwise this phone would have been picked up long ago.
"Hello."
"...Ma Jiaolong?"
The person on the other end probably didn't expect me to answer the phone, so he opened his mouth to ask with some uncertainty.
I hummed: "It's me, I..."
"Ma Jiaolong! If you don't answer the phone, I will drive over there. Do you know that? I thought you had already gone to the West Meridian! How many times have I told you, don't show off when things happen to you when you are not capable enough?
You think you are great if you have some talent! You only have one life! Do you know how many Onmyoji have died in the hands of overconfidence in their own abilities?! You are just a little house bird and still doing this
I am an eagle’s dream!!”
"..."
Cheng Baize's scolding made me stunned.
"Hey, why don't you speak? Are you not happy? Are you not happy anymore?! Hey!"
"What did you ask my little house bird to say..."
I looked at the frowning sister-in-law aside and continued to respond with my cell phone: "It's not that I'm careless or serious, and I'm not a ghost. It's just that the soul of a friend ran away and he was calling me just now."
I knew Cheng Baize was worried about me, so I accepted his harsh words. I had been chased by the dog for more than an hour. He might have thought of where he was. It was normal to be worried and angry.
"Your friend's soul?" Cheng Baize's tone softened: "Are you okay? Why didn't you answer the phone if you were okay?"
"Oh, I'll explain it to you later, I'll hang up here first."
"Are you sure you're okay?"
"I am sure."
"Okay, tell me in detail tomorrow. Go to bed early. You need to know your own weight. If you encounter any difficult problems, come to me. Do you hear me?"
"Um."
"Because you have a good attitude, I'm less angry now. I'll hang up and go to bed early."
After hanging up the phone, the sister-in-law beside me glanced at me: "Qiaoqiao, your friend?"
I nodded: "Well, a friend who helps me a lot."
"male?"
"Um."
"Then Xiaojing knows..." After saying that, my sister-in-law swallowed the next words, looked at me and sighed softly: "That's good, I know there are other boys who will take care of you, and I feel relieved a lot."
I looked at her: "Sister-in-law, don't get me wrong, Cheng Baize is like a brother to me, not who you think."
My sister-in-law smiled: "I know, but...hey, forget it, who knows about fate."
I don’t know what my sister-in-law is struggling with. Maybe deep down in her heart, she just wants her and my uncle to get along well. She also wants Zhuo Jing and me to get along well, but I can’t tell my sister-in-law about my rejection of the marriage because of those ruined things.
I really can't explain the method of evil, so I'll just leave it like this. It's useless to say too much.
But having said that, I have never received unrecognizable calls since I changed my mobile phone number. Zhuo Jing is just as I expected. As long as I change my number, he will know my state of mind, so he also
It was his style to disdain entanglement, so I followed my own wishes and my life completely stopped.
After I returned to the health center, I did not rest. Instead, I tinkered with the lantern for soul-catching by myself. My sister-in-law coaxed Tianci to sleep. When she came out of the back room, she saw me squatting on the ground with a candle burning and dripping into an empty can.
With wax oil, it will take a while for the candle to sit in.
"Qiaoqiao, you are making a lantern."
"Yes." I responded without raising my head, "Sister-in-law, you don't have to worry about me, just go to bed early."
My sister-in-law squatted next to me and looked at me with a helpless smile: "Isn't this a simple lantern that we made when we were young because of difficult conditions? Why are you working so hard? Tomorrow, my sister-in-law can go directly to Sister Yulan and buy one for you.
Come on, go to bed early."
I shook my head: "No, sister-in-law, the soul-drawing lamp must be a candle or an oil lamp. In this way, it can illuminate the way forward when the soul is brought back. It can also be judged based on the size of the candle.
Is the soul always following me? Otherwise, I am afraid that I will run away again halfway."
As I said that, I glanced at my sister-in-law and said, "These are the rules of the old days. Nowadays, everything is of new style, and the lights given out on the 15th are also electric, but I think it is better to follow the old rules."
My sister-in-law looked at me for a long time before she said, "Qiaoqiao, do you understand that your grandma taught you these?"
I sat the candle, then wrapped the thick mouth of the can with a long and thin wire, inserted the folded tree stick into the wire, and fixed the tree stick with some wire, and it was ready.
He looked at my sister-in-law and smiled: "Grandma didn't teach me anything specifically, but I grew up beside her and learned a lot subconsciously. But in fact, these things were taught to me by someone in my dream. I can understand it when I think about it.
, I don’t know who he is either.”
"It's so magical." My sister-in-law muttered and looked at me: "It's like you saved Tianci, right? You can't explain things very clearly, but you just know that when I look at you now, I can think of your grandma.
, Hey, she obviously reminded me, but why didn’t I lose my mind at the time? If I hadn’t walked out of the house, maybe I wouldn’t have fallen.”
I looked at my sister-in-law, and I was really helpless about this, but my grandma must have known that my sister-in-law couldn't escape that time, because she should have seen her after she said that my sister-in-law was not going to die on the train, but
She still reminded her sister-in-law that this was probably also the helplessness of the Onmyoji when facing her relatives. She knew she couldn't do anything but did it, but in the end it still couldn't change the fate.
That's why grandma said that she had committed too many taboos in Onmyoji. Before leaving, she told me to take a warning and say less or even nothing. But I don't know if I will encounter this kind of thing in the future.
Hold back, or become what grandma calls a detached and indifferent onmyoji, not burdened by emotions, and look down on all joys and sorrows with a state of neither sadness nor joy. Only in this way can we be considered the true height. (To be continued)