To Raise a Soul

"So...we really have a previous life?"

Yu Zhen looked at Yin Yan, and his heartbeat started to speed up inexplicably, as if he was expecting something, but also seemed to be afraid of something.

However, Yin Yan suppressed his expression, looked away, turned and went upstairs and said: "Since you have already reincarnated, you should cut off the former relationship and cherish the present. Yu Zhen, it's time for you to practice."

The cool voice disappeared at the corner of the stairs. Yu Zhen looked up blankly for a while, and suddenly felt that the scene at this moment was a little familiar, as if one day in the past, he also stood far away like this, watching Yin Yan's back disappear. At the end of the line of sight, the two drifted away, the other knew everything, but he was at a loss.

"Meow~" Wuwu suddenly popped out and climbed onto him skillfully.

Yu Zhen came back to his senses, hurriedly stretched out his arms to hug it, rubbed its little head reflexively, and asked, "Xiaowu, is there really a previous life?"

Nothing rolled in his arms, looking at him stupidly.

"...Forget it." Yu Zhen scratched his belly, smiled again, and said, "Grandpa said that the luckiest thing in life is that it's rare to be confused. I don't even remember what happened before I was six years old." , why bother to think about the previous life, let's go, I will continue to teach you how to grow flowers."

He hadn't looked at the pot for three days, and the lotus inside gave him another big surprise.

The lotus that originally occupied only a small area in the middle of the pond has completely sprouted and covered the entire water surface. Large lotus flowers are in full bloom. It doesn't smoke people, but it makes people feel refreshed.

According to Yin Yan, bodhi lotus is a very willful plant. If the opportunity comes, the flowers will not fade for a hundred years.Blooming is already so difficult, but growing a lotus pod is even more difficult. If you don’t meet a predestined person, even if you pour it to death with merit, it will not grow a lotus seed for you!

In short, Yu Zhen was very lucky. Bodhi Lotus liked him very much, so much that he only collected a little merit from him, and generously grew a big lotus pod for him.

But luck is limited. When Yu Zhen tried to imbue the lotus with merit again, the lotus only swayed its branches to express joy, and there was no sign of growing a lotus pod.

"Sure enough, people can't be greedy."

Yu Zhen withdrew his merit, touched the pleasingly blooming lotus, didn't force it, and turned to the place where the orchid seeds were buried to have a look. Seeing that there was no sign of sprouting, he sighed regretfully. Come the boundless water, undiluted, drop by drop.

"You have to work hard to survive, come on."

Patting the soil again, he stood up and looked at the empty turning basin, thinking about his equally empty bank deposits, heaved a sigh of relief, walked out of the turning basin and looked upstairs, hesitated for a moment, then raised his voice and shouted: "Yin Yan , I'm going out to buy some flower seeds, and I'll be back in a while!"

After waiting for a while, there was no response from upstairs. He pursed his lips, put on his coat and scarf, and wanted to put nothing down at home, but nothingness nimbly got into his coat pocket and lingered.

He was in a better mood, rubbed Wu Wu's head, and said, "Okay, I'll take you out to play."

Wu Wu rubbed against his hand tiredly, and obediently let out a cry.

Shangdu District is located in the center of the business district, and there is a comprehensive shopping mall next to it. Yu Zhen walked there with a mobile phone navigation, found a place that sells flowers and plants, bought some rose seedlings, thought about it, and bought some fast-growing flower seeds and common flowers.

Turning pots, resting soil, and boundless water, these three things together can not only greatly shorten the growth time of flowers and plants, but also allow the flowers and plants growing in them to grow freely without being picky about the growth environment.

He can't figure out where the limit of repotting is, so he prepares to plant a little of all kinds of flowers to try.

After buying flower seeds, he walked around the surrounding flower shops, observed the types of flowers commonly used in City B, inquired about the market prices, and returned to the apartment after feeling a little bit better.

When he came back, Yin Yan was still upstairs and didn't know what he was doing. Yu Zhen hesitated for a while, but still didn't go up to disturb him. He only raised his voice to report his return, and then went to the pot to start breeding.

He forgot everything when he got busy, bought a lot of seeds, and the boundless water was too powerful. When he planted the seeds and planted the flower seedlings one by one, it was already dark outside, and the living room and kitchen were bright. Lights, the aroma of food filled the hall.

"Wash your hands and eat."

Yin Yan came out with the dishes, still with a calm expression, as if the two of them had never experienced that conversation about the previous life.

Yu Zhen looked at his gentle face under the warm light, froze for a moment, then came back to his senses, and walked towards the bathroom while answering. When washing his hands, he saw himself in the mirror with mud on his face again, and smiled inexplicably. stand up.

It's fine like this, don't ask, don't think, it's not easy to be alive, and it's very lucky to have someone to accompany you.

The dinner was delicious, and Yu Zhen ate very happily. While eating, he praised Yin Yan's craftsmanship without hesitation.

"If you like it, I'll make it for you tomorrow. We can live here for the next two days. I've already told my mother." Yin Yan accepted the compliment frankly, and stretched out his arms to pick up a chopstick for him very naturally.

Rabbit meat, his favorite is rabbit meat, it is best to be slightly spicy, and it goes well with rice.

There was obviously no rabbit meat in the refrigerator before, so Yin Yan also went out in the afternoon to buy these ingredients.

Yu Zhen took a look at Yin Yan's still expressionless face, and picked up the spicy rabbit in the bowl. He felt inexplicably better, and became more courageous, and said, "You must be much older than me. It doesn't seem right for me to call you by your name." , should I change my name?"

Yin Yan paused with his chopsticks and looked up at him.

"You take care of me like a father, or I—"

Yin Yan got up and left, walked upstairs quickly, not even eating.

"Eh???"

Yu Zhen was dumbfounded, her smile froze.

Is this so unreasonable?Actually ran away?

knock knock.

Yu Zhen knocked on the closed door, put on a gesture of admitting his mistake obediently, and coaxed: "I'm sorry, I said something wrong, you come out and eat your meal, it should be cold in a while."

Click, the door opened immediately.

I thought that with Yin Yan's temperament, it would take a long time to be coaxed to get better. Yu Zhen was stunned for a moment. Coming in front of him, interrupted his unspoken words.

"Lotus pod."

"what?"

Yin Yan didn't speak, just looked at him.

Yu Zhen compromised, summoned Wu Wu, asked him to take out the lotus pod, and said while passing it to his hand: "If you want to eat, just ask Xiao Wu to get it, don't ask me specifically..."

Yin Yan took the lotus pod, peeled it off in front of him, took out all the lotus seeds and put them into a kit bag, then stretched out his hand to him: "Void said that you also collected lotus petals."

"..."

Nothingness, a little traitor!

Yu Zhen continued to take things out, explaining: "Mom said she liked the smell, so I wondered if I could use these petals to make a bottle of perfume for her."

"You know how to make perfume?" Yin Yan asked while picking up the petals.

"I only know how to make the simplest plant perfume. I learned it in college. It's actually not difficult." Yu Zhen explained, handing the petals halfway and retracting them, carefully asking: "Can you leave half for me? Just half , it’s really not good, one-third is fine..."

This tone and expression can be said to be very condescending.

Yin Yan snatched them all over and asked, "Are you afraid of me?"

Yu Zhen stared at his hand with wide eyes, "Zhou Bapi" came to his lips and was swallowed by him again, shaking his head against his will.

It's not fear, it's, it's a kind of respect and restraint when facing elders, yes, it's respect, not fear.

"I don't believe it." Yin Yan put away all the petals and lotus seeds, stuffed a wooden box into his hand, and closed the doorknob with his hand, saying, "Using the Bodhi lotus will bring temporary success and good luck to ordinary people. , but it will shorten your lifespan. I will save these for you first, and return them to you when you formally enter the Tao.”

After closing the door, he was obviously angry again.

Yu Zhen: "..."

The wooden box Yin Yan gave contained seeds, five in total, and each one was different. After observing for a long time, Yu Zhen did not recognize what kind of plant these seeds were.

"It can't be a treasure in the cultivation world."

He rolled the largest seed among them, together with his curiosity, he gave some merit to it.

Snapped.

Immediately the seed split open and a small bud grew.

"..." What a random seed.

Yu Zhen didn't dare to play around anymore, so she hurriedly collected the other four seeds, planted this small sprouted seed in a pottery pot, poured some boundless water, and then moved it to the side of the small pond and placed it next to the lotus. .

"Grow up healthy."

Yu Zhen touched the small buds exposed outside the soil, got up and glanced at the tender green in the pot, suddenly a father-like pride surged up in his heart, and he raised his voice and said, "You also want to grow up healthily."

In the bedroom on the second floor, Yin Yan looked at the scene in the turning basin through nothingness, the corners of his mouth curled up, thinking of Yu Zhen's words "Dad", the corners of his mouth flattened, and he couldn't help but yelled out: "The villain."

That night, the two slept in two separate rooms, and Yu Zhen was a little unaccustomed to it, tossing and turning for a while before falling asleep.

The next morning, after waking up, he rushed to turn the basin for the first time, and was so shocked by the colorful colors inside that he was speechless.

As far as the eye can see, there are all just-blooming flowers, especially the roses near the pond, which are delicate and beautiful, and the color is so full that it seems that red juice will flow out when pinched.

With a face full of joy, he ran in to look at this and that, lingering around, eagerly took out his mobile phone and wanted to contact the flower shop owner who had cooperated with him before, and wanted to ask if he was in city B. Shop, do you want to accept flowers, but just as your finger landed on the other party's number, you suddenly thought of something, and took your hand back.

No, no.

Looking at these perfectly blooming flowers, he realized a crushing fact.

These flowers bloom very well, and you can definitely make a lot of money by selling them. However, the flowers received by flower shops are generally half-bloomed, that is, most of them are flower buds. This kind of fully bloomed flowers can't wait to be sold before sending them over. It will be a little wilted, and it won't last long at all.

Although the flowers are good, they are not in line with the market.

What should I do now... He was a little confused, the flowers bloomed too fast, and he really couldn't find a place to sell them in a while.

"There is a star-rated hotel under Bu Chen's name. As the New Year's Eve approaches, the hotel hosts more annual banquets. A lot of flowers are needed to decorate the venue. These flowers can be sold to him and can be used on the same day."

Yin Yan did not know when he appeared beside Zhuanpen, still holding a newly purchased mobile phone in his hand, and asked, "Do you need me to contact you?"

Yu Zhen tilted his head, looked at him foolishly, rushed towards him happily but embarrassedly, and replied: "If it is possible... Thank you! I will trouble you!"

"I want to eat your cooking." Yin Yan asked.

"I do what I do. I'll take care of today's meal." Yu Zhen nodded vigorously, little stars lit up in his eyes, like a puppy who only sees fleshy bones.

Yin Yan suddenly looked away, stretched out his hand to press his forehead and pushed him into the rotating basin, and went to the quiet balcony with his mobile phone.

Hearing that his friend had a batch of flowers to deliver, Bu Chen agreed without saying a word, and asked him considerately if he needed to send someone to pick up the goods.

Yin Yan declined, and finalized the delivery time and contact person, then turned around and called a well-known car rental company in the city, and rented a medium-sized truck specially for delivering flowers.

"I still need to buy packaging, and carefully cut out the flowers. These are more expensive tools, we have to catch—"

"You go and cook." Yin Yan put down his phone to interrupt Yu Zhen, called out nothingness, and said, "Leave the other things to nothingness."

To nothingness?

Yu Zhen was puzzled, turned his head to look, and saw nothingness opened his mouth, and exhaled forward, several wooden figures in ancient costumes appeared out of thin air, and after landing, they each conjured up a flower-cutting tool and lined up to enter the circle. pot.

"My God..." Yu Zhen was dumbfounded.

Yin Yan stretched out his hand to support his chin, closed it upwards, and tapped his forehead lightly.

He didn't need to worry about it. A few hours later, when the flowers were sold, there was a sum of money in his card, which was almost a free money.

The cost is negligible, there is basically no labor, and there is no need to run the market by himself. What he pays is just a meal, and Yin Yan buys the ingredients.

The pots were clean, all the flowers sold in the pots were taken away, and the roses sold with cut branches were clean, except for the flowers, not even the leaves were damaged.

For the first time, he felt that making money was so easy.

"There is one thing and not two. Ordinary people should follow the basic rules in life. It is easy for monks to use magic weapons to make money, but it should not be too much. Yu Zhen, your main task now is to practice."

Yin Yan forcefully poured cold water on Yu Zhen, who was about to punch his head, and immediately sobered up.

Right.

Yu Zhen calmed down.

This batch of flowers comes from self-transfer pots. If the person who buys the flowers asks the source of the flowers, he has no nursery and no reasonable channels for collecting flowers. It is easy to be seen as wrong.

In the long run, it may destroy the market and crowd out the living space of other flower farmers in City B.

He fumbled through the money transfer information on his phone, and withered.

Then is he going to be raised by Yin Yan all the time?He will definitely work hard in cultivation, but outside of cultivation, he still wants to be like an ordinary person and have his own job and career, even if the career is not too big.

"Then I'll go to the suburbs and rent a nursery. The repotting is too powerful. I don't use it. I still grow flowers like before."

Yin Yan still shook his head: "It takes a lot of energy to manage the nursery. You have to check the situation every day, hire people, go through various procedures, and go through the sales channels yourself. Yu Zhen, you don't have that much time."

Of course Yu Zhen knew these things. He fell silent, thinking about the "Nongjing" that he hadn't figured out how to practice so far, he just felt like he couldn't do anything, and he was completely out of energy.

It won’t work with potting, or renting a nursery, so what should I do?

"In fact, you can continue to use the repot, and you can continue to grow flowers and continue to sell them."

Yin Yan poured a glass of juice and put it in his hand, seeing him immediately looked up expectantly, paused, then sat back on the single sofa farthest from him, and said: "Low-end flowers need to spend a lot of money if they want to make a profit. The energy, material and manpower of a plant are huge, but high-end flowers, especially the most precious ones, can be cultivated alone. If the cultivation is successful, the profit of any one plant can be equal to the profit you made in the past busy year."

Yu Zhen was stunned.

"The environment in the pot is unique. The cultivation of high-end flowers is the secret of every big flower farmer, and no one will inquire about it without knowing it. Yu Zhen, the flower is the way, the most important thing is the essence."

Daigo empowerment.

Although Yu Zhen is just a newcomer to planting flowers, he has also heard about some expensive flowers.

Most high-end flowers are rare treasures that are difficult to cultivate. It may take several years, ten years, or even decades to grow a plant.The money and energy to be paid during this period is by no means comparable to ordinary commonly used flowers.

Most of the big flower farmers who play high-end flowers have base nurseries as support, and some even set up laboratories and companies to research new varieties.

In addition, precious flowers are not something that you will be able to cultivate if you spend time cultivating them. There are also many cases where the bamboo baskets are empty.

In short, the cultivation of high-end flowers is like a gamble. If you make a lot of money, you may lose your money. For Yu Zhen, who is conservative and cautious, this is a field he never thought of setting foot in.

But now, with the turning basin, the breath soil and the boundless water, this field that is gambling for others is probably the easiest place to make money for him.

Suddenly, there was a feeling of cheating in life, crazy cheating, and also a sense of unreliability that I was still relying on Yin Yan to get something for nothing.

Yu Zhen felt some hesitation again.

How much you pay is how much you can reap. People have to rely on their own hands to support themselves. From childhood to adulthood, he has received this kind of education.Grandpa always said that there are no shortcuts in life, every step must be taken steadily, don't jump around, be careful that falling will hurt more.

But now, Yin Yan gave him a lot of convenience, pointing out a shortcut among shortcuts.

"Don't forget your original intention." As if seeing his thoughts, Yin Yan suddenly stood up and walked in front of him, raised his hand to touch his hair, and gently rubbed it, "Yu Zhen, you are far more mature than you thought. Excellent, just go forward, I will watch you from behind."

[Xiaozhen, grandpa is old, what should you do when grandpa is gone, life is still long. 】

Suddenly flashed in his mind the exclamation that his grandfather made after dinner one day. He was only in junior high school at the time, but he didn't understand how much worry and concern his grandfather contained in this exclamation. Now, listening to Yin Yan's words, he suddenly had a sore nose and couldn't bear it. He stretched out his arms and hugged the man in front of him who he had only known for less than a month.

When his grandfather forced him to go to a boarding school, he was wronged. For this reason, he even thought about not going to school at all, and stayed with his grandfather in the Taoist temple.

But grandpa refused, and drove him to school with a stick. He still remembers the old man's distressed and helpless eyes when he hated iron but not steel.

Grandpa was very kind to him, and never wronged him in terms of food, clothing and living expenses, but only in the matter of accommodation, the old man was never willing to compromise.

He never understood why grandpa was so persistent, to the point of being cruel. It was only when he heard Yin Yan's words and remembered his grandpa's exclamation that he finally understood his grandpa's painstaking efforts.

Because he didn't dare to spoil him, he didn't dare to let him get used to being accompanied by others, his life was so long, grandpa was afraid that he would not be strong enough, and he was afraid that when his only relative left, he would be weak, collapse, and make a mess of his life.

The old man told him ten thousand times that he wanted him to live a more steadfast and stable life, because he knew that after he left, there would be no one behind him to rely on.

Now that Yin Yan told him to go ahead, does it mean that this person will always be by his side, and will not leave without warning like grandpa?

In the past, he always envied that other children had the unconditional support and love of their parents and elders. When they encountered setbacks outside, there was a safe haven for them to rely on forever.

Now that Yin Yan is standing here, does it mean that even though he is already an adult, he can also rely on someone like a child?

The person in his arms was trembling slightly, Yin Yan sighed silently, bent over and hugged him, patted his back, and said in a low voice: "Yu Zhen, I told you that our destiny is connected."

It is not a short-term cooperation to save lives, but a real fate destined to be entangled for a lifetime.

Yu Zhen nodded vigorously in his arms, and her fluttering heart finally fell to the ground and turned into a seed, which took root and sprouted on a piece of soil called Yin Yan, and had a place to grow with confidence.

"thanks……"

He tightened his arms and closed his eyes.

Grandpa, look, I have someone I can rely on now, you can rest assured that I will finish this life well.

The golden light suddenly appeared, and all the furniture in the room began to vibrate slightly. Yin Yan frowned, and glanced at Yu Zhen, who had suddenly stopped moving in his arms. Realizing something, he quickly let go of him. Sure enough, he had closed his eyes and entered a state of meditation, and hurriedly bent over Picking him up, he called out, "Nothingness."

"Meow."

Nothingness jumped out, rushed upstairs first and entered the emptiest room. In a flash, it turned into a tall tower covered in jet black and covered with golden runes. .

Yin Yan immediately went in with Yu Zhen in his arms, and closed the tower door with his hand.

Over City B, a dark cloud suddenly appeared, tumbling for a few seconds, then disappeared strangely, and then it rained heavily.

In every corner of country H, different people looked up at the sky together in different places, their expressions all sinking.

With such a strong evil spirit, is there an evil spirit in this world?