To Raise a Soul

Yu Zhen is a complete novice driver. He has only obtained his driver's license for a year. He has only driven a flower delivery truck before, and there is always an old flower farmer driver beside him to guide him. He has very little driving experience.

Now it is the first time to drive independently, he is very panicked.

"Don't be nervous, I'll watch over you."

Yu Zhen gripped the steering wheel tightly, not daring to take his eyes off the road, and asked, "Can you drive?"

He thought that Yin Yan threw him the car keys because he didn't—

"No." Yin Yan replied, his tone so calm that he deserved a beating.

Yu Zhen took a deep breath and decided not to talk to him anymore.Driving requires concentration, and he doesn't want to be distracted.

"But I will learn."

Seeing that he didn't speak, Yin Yan continued to speak, then closed his eyes and leaned on the back of the chair, and began to close his eyes to rest his mind, what he said and what he did were completely different things.

"???"

Didn't you say "look at you" and then "I will learn"?

Yu Zhen couldn't help taking the time to cast a quick sideways glance at him, seeing that he actually leaned back on the chair with his eyes closed, staring speechlessly, then quickly regained his senses, turning on the turn signal frantically while swiping the ellipsis in his mind.

I drove out of the urban area cautiously, steadily and steadily all the way. After arriving in the town, there were fewer cars and people along the road. Suddenly there was an electric tricycle at the corner that was empty before, and an old man was sitting on the tricycle.

He was shocked, and instinctively wanted to turn the steering wheel and step on the brakes, but a hand suddenly reached out and held his hand firmly, preventing him from turning the steering wheel, and reminded: "Turn normally."

"But up front—"

"Turn around, it's not a person, it's just a ghost."

Yu Zhen was stunned, the steering wheel didn't move, the brakes were still stepped on, and then the body of the tricycle directly passed the tricycle at the intersection under his nose, and stopped at the side of the road, turning off the engine.

Yin Yan let go, unbuckled the seat belt, opened the door and got out of the car.

Yu Zhen played the scene of the tricycle leading him directly through the tricycle repeatedly in Yu Zhen's mind. He still couldn't get back to his senses. It wasn't until Yin Yan opened the door beside him and the cold wind blew in that his thoughts gradually returned.

"just……"

Yin Yan pressed his head to stop him from speaking, bent down to help him unbuckle his seat belt, and took his hand to guide him out of the car.

It was completely dark, and the crossing into the village was empty, and the light of the street lamps flickered unsteadily, like candles being stirred by the wind.

"There is resentment."

Yin Yan let go of Yu Zhen's hand, stepped forward, and waved lightly.

The street lights flickered suddenly, and the cold wind blew through, causing Yu Zhen to squint his eyes. When he opened his eyes again, the tricycle figure reappeared at the intersection, and it was strangely translucent.

Yu Zhen gasped, and couldn't help leaning closer to Yin Yan.

"The wish is not fulfilled, it is the lowest level of earth-bound spirits." Yin Yan put his hands in his pockets, turned sideways, and signaled Yu Zhen to step forward: "Go, this spirit body has not harmed anyone, and it is about to dissipate. Please rescue him and help him." Into reincarnation, otherwise he will fly away."

Earthbound?

After encountering a ghost once, Yu Zhen became a little more courageous. Hearing this, he mustered up the courage to take a step forward and look carefully at the translucent tricycle. Then he was stunned after seeing the driver on the car, and blurted out: "Second Master Li?"

The originally translucent spirit body suddenly became solid after hearing his call, and the driver, whose face gradually became clear, looked sideways, skipping Yin Yan as if he couldn't see him, and fixed his gaze on Yin Yan. A smile appeared on Yu Zhen's face.

"It turned out to be Yu boy from the Taoist temple. Why haven't you come home? There is no car to enter the village so late. Come on, get in the car, and the second master will give you a ride soon."

Yu Zhen didn't know many people in Lianhuagou Village, but Li Erye happened to be one of them.

Li Erye is hardworking and enthusiastic. He usually grows a la carte and sells it in the town. Occasionally, he meets a village child who is studying outside and returning from vacation, and he will send him home by the way.

The Taoist temple where Yu Zhen lives is relatively remote, and the way home is different from the way other villagers enter the village. When I met villagers when I went home from vacation, others were not willing to take him for a ride, or they didn’t know him at all. Only Second Master Li, every time he met him, would enthusiastically pull him into the car, and take a detour to send him back. He is very kind.

But Li Erye had passed away in a traffic accident three years ago. When Yu Zhen heard the news, he went to the village cemetery to visit Li Erye's grave.

Because he was an acquaintance, the fear in Yu Zhen's heart completely dissipated, replaced by shallow sadness.

It had been three years, but he did not expect that the soul of Second Master Li was still trapped at the intersection where the accident happened, and he did not go to reincarnation.

"No need, Er Ye, I drove today."

Yu Zhen took the initiative to go forward, seeing the pale face of the old man who was different from his life, he tried his best to show a normal smile, and asked with concern: "Second Master, why are you still stopping at the intersection so late? It's cold, why don't you go home again?" The family should be worried."

"It's neither cold nor cold. Today my granddaughter comes home from vacation, and I have to wait for her. She usually saves money, so she definitely won't spend money in the town to stop the car back, but how tiring it is to walk back. She is a girl, and she is alone at night. It's not safe, I don't feel relieved until it waits for her."

Yu Zhen felt sore when he heard that, he clenched his fingers, stretched out to shake the old man's hand on the armrest of the tricycle, and said, "Then you don't have to wait, I heard that Uncle Wang, the head of the village, was passing by the town just now. I just went to the town to buy vegetable seeds today, and when I returned to the village, I ran into your granddaughter and brought her home safely."

"Go home already?"

"Yes, already home."

Second Master Li's expression was blank for a moment, and then he showed a reassuring smile. His pale complexion slowly returned to his former appearance, but his figure became fainter and his voice became ethereal.

"It's good to go home, it's good to go home, old man, I'm relieved now... Boy Yu, go back quickly, it's cold, don't worry your grandpa."

The cold feeling of palming his heart and body slowly disappeared, the shadow of the tricycle completely faded away, and a few golden lights floated and spun into the center of his eyebrows, causing his forehead hair to automatically move without wind.

"Let's go, the shackles are gone, and the errand is coming soon."

Yin Yan walked behind him at some point, grabbed his shoulders and led him to the side of the car, stuffed him into the back seat of the car, then opened the driver's door, got in the car, lit the ignition skillfully, and started on the road.

The ethereal ringtone was overwhelmed by the sound of the car starting. Yu Zhen regained consciousness from her petty emotions, touched the forehead that was still slightly hot, and glanced at the receding scenery outside the car window, then sat up in shock Grabbing the back of the driver's seat, he stuttered and asked, "You, didn't you say you can't drive?"

"Ah."

Yin Yan nodded, continued to accelerate, and miraculously drove on the uneven dirt road with a sense of stability as if he was driving on a highway, and replied: "I didn't do it before, I just learned it, and I will."

just?

"Where did you go to study just now?"

"Go to memory."

"???"

All the way back to the Taoist temple at lightning speed, Yu Zhen grabbed the handrail on the top of the vehicle, completely messed up in the wind.

So good, so fast, and so stable, it directly compares his driving skills to scum.

"arrive."

Yin Yan parked the car firmly at the entrance of the Taoist temple, looked back at him holding on to the handrail, calmly pushed the door and got out of the car, and then went straight into the Taoist temple that lacked a piece of the gate.

"..."

Yu Zhen glanced at her hand holding the handrail, then at Yin Yan's back gradually covered by the door, and took her hand back with a little embarrassment and guilt.

With Yin Yan's smooth driving skills, his behavior of grabbing the handrail is really superfluous, and it is full of distrust of the driver.

Although Yin Yan still looked calm just now, judging from his behavior of getting out of the car on his own and entering the Taoist temple without saying hello, he should be angry.

The person who had always been tolerant and gentle suddenly sent a signal of anger, and Yu Zhen was a little at a loss and a little panicked.

Now the two are grasshoppers on the same rope. Subconsciously, Yu Zhen, who just lost her last relative in the world, has already invisibly bet on Yin Yan with a feeling of being dependent on each other as a family.

And Yu Zhen has always been nervous and accommodating towards her family.

Yin Yan, who entered the Taoist temple first, had already turned on the lights in the Taoist temple in advance, so as to avoid the possibility of Yu Zhen's smearing and falling.

However, Yu Zhen didn't realize this, and turned into the kitchen in a hurry, explaining clumsily: "Yin Yan, I didn't doubt your driving skills, grabbing the handrail is just, just a subconscious reflexive behavior, I..."

Yin Yan turned around and stuffed the water bottle into his hand, and said, "I know, go wash up, and then go to bed, the energy you absorb needs to be digested."

Yu Zhen caught the water bottle, but couldn't tell his emotion from his expression, so he asked cautiously, "Then, are you still angry?"

"Like a puppy."

"what?"

"The way you were just now."

……

…………

Yu Zhen frowned, and walked out of the kitchen with the water bottle in hand without looking back.

By the time Yin Yan packed up and entered the room, Yu Zhen was already lying on the bed facing the wall.

The old bed was not big, only 1.5 meters wide. Now there are two pillows and two quilts on the two ends, and a thick blanket is placed on the quilt.

Yin Yan remembered that during the day, the pillows on this bed were lined up side by side. Obviously, the person who made the bed didn't want to have too much communication with the other person who slept with him, so he made the bed like this on purpose.

He didn't say anything, turned off the light, lay down in the empty quilt very wisely, and closed his eyes.

In the quiet rural night, there is only the sound of tree branches being shaken by the wind. Yu Zhen suddenly opened his eyes and found that the sun was shining outside, and he was sitting on the threshold of the front room of the Taoist temple. figure.

"grandfather?"

He was puzzled and wanted to get up, but found that he couldn't move.

"Xiaozhen, you're fine, grandpa should go too."

The old man didn't look back, but the action of throwing copper coins in his hand stopped.

"grandfather?"

Yu Zhen's heart tightened, she faintly realized something, and struggled to get up to touch the old man.

"This Taoist temple has been forced by me for so long, so it should be liberated." The old man sighed, and suddenly kowtowed to the statue of the patriarch, and murmured incomprehensible scriptures, and then his voice gradually faded away. Low, the golden light rises, and everything around it begins to fade.

"grandfather!"

"Xiaozhen, go and enjoy the blessings. In the next life, grandpa will continue to tell you stories."

Yu Zhen had a terrible dream. In the dream, the statue of the patriarch enshrined in the Taoist temple suddenly turned into a golden light and flew into the sky, and then everything in the Taoist temple began to decay and age.

The walls peeled off, the bricks and tiles broke, and the building turned into ruins in an instant, and Grandpa Yu was in this ruins, following the golden light that turned into a god and disappeared.

When the dream was over, he held back his tears and opened his eyes, only to find that he was lying on the back seat of the car wrapped in a blanket, and the place in front of the car that should have been a Taoist temple was already in ruins.

When the first ray of sunlight fell in the morning, Yin Yan turned around in front of the ruins, looked at him through the car window, and said calmly, "Yu Zhen, you have broken your relationship with this world, and it's time to leave."