To Raise a Soul

During the busiest time of Chinese New Year's Eve, Yin Le was thinking about running away from home.

Dad doesn't care about things, mother watches the fun, elder brother is not a human being, sister-in-law, elder sister-in-law is spoiled by elder brother, life is so hard, I can't go on.

He dared not speak out, sitting in the corner of the sofa, holding his New Year's gift, with his head drooping.

"Xiao Le, come and help make dumplings!" Qiu Feiqian called out loudly in the restaurant.

"Oh..." Yin Le replied listlessly, and glanced at the door.

Sure enough, it is better to run away from home, no one in this family cares about him anymore, he is the little cabbage in the field, and he is tortured by his elder brother every day.

"Xiao Le."

Yu Zhen suddenly came over like a thief, took out a small key from the pocket of his home clothes, quickly stuffed it into his hand, and said in a low voice: "Don't be unhappy, here you are, don't tell your brother."

Yin Le was taken aback, picked up the key and saw that it was the key to the parcel storage box in the community, a small flame ignited in his ashen heart, and turned to look at Yu Zhen: "Brother Yu, this is..."

"The latest model you want, I asked someone, uh, I managed to buy it." Yu Zhen explained vaguely, and when he heard footsteps approaching, he straightened up and pretended to be nonchalant, and raised his voice: "Let's go, help mom make dumplings, with your favorite shrimp filling."

Yin Le was not the type to act, and his heart was filled with overwhelming joy. He threw away the test paper in his arms, turned around and gave Yu Zhen a bear hug, and said cheerfully, "Brother Yu! You are my real brother." ! I love you! I—"

"Yin Le."

Yin Yan stood at the junction of the dining room and the living room, with fruit in one hand and a fruit knife in the other. The tip of the fruit knife was facing this side, shining coldly under the light.

"...Brother Yu, I will repay you."

Yin Le withdrew his hand resolutely, then turned around and ran towards the gate with big strides. He didn't wear his coat, only wearing home clothes, and rushed out of the house, braving the cold wind and running towards the parcel storage box in the community.

Yu Zhen: "..." Teammate Pig.

"Yu Zhen." Yin Yan called out seemingly calmly.

Yu Zhen turned her head stiffly, and smiled flatteringly, "Well, why did you come out...Actually, I can explain..."

The fruit knife in Yin Yan's right hand landed on the fruit in his left hand, he looked at him quietly, turned and left.

"..." It was over, and I was angry again.

Ten minutes later, Yin Le rushed back with a face flushed from cold, holding a hand-made box in his arms, happy to see his teeth but not his eyes.

"Brother Yu, Brother Yu, how did you buy this, it's so hard to buy, it's a limited edition, I didn't even get it when I queued up!"

Yu Zhen wanted to kill him now, sincerely.

"Xiao Zhen, you actually bought this for him, look how happy he is." Qiu Feiqian walked out with a smile on his face, stretched out his hands and rubbed Yin Le's cold face, rolled his eyes angrily, and pushed He went upstairs: "Go, wash your face with hot water, and drink a cup of hot water, don't catch a cold."

Satisfied with the gift she wanted, Yin Le immediately turned into a good baby, and happily went upstairs with the gift in her arms.

Two minutes later, Yin Le's surprise scream sounded again: "Ah! There is another one! Ahhh, I must be dreaming!"

Upon hearing this, Qiu Feiqian turned her head to look at Yin Yan, who had been silent all this time, glared at him with a smile, and asked, "You bought it for him too?"

"Only once a year." Yin Yan replied, turned and entered the restaurant.

Yu Zhen looked at his back, listened to Yin Le's yelling upstairs, and wrote four big words in his mind - it's really over.

When Yin Yan said that he wanted to give away test papers, he thought about whether it was inappropriate, so he thought about preparing this figure. Seeing that Yin Yan didn't seem to like Yin Le wasting money on these things, he planned to give it away secretly. Let Yin Yan know.

Unexpectedly, Yin Yan also bought it.

This is the first time that the two have no tacit understanding, and it is also the first time that the two have such a tacit understanding.

He followed Yin Yan with a guilty conscience, walked to Yin Yan's side, stared at his hands making dumplings, and said honestly, "I'm sorry, I didn't know you bought it too, and I shouldn't have secretly bought gifts for Xiao Le behind your back."

"Buying gifts is based on your heart, you are not wrong." Yin Yan replied calmly, the hands that made the dumplings were steady, and every movement was standard, elegant and beautiful.

Yu Zhen was a little lost in thought... It's so beautiful, Yin Yan's hands seem to be getting more and more beautiful.

It seems that Yin Yan has also become better in some aspects after he entered the Tao and advanced his cultivation base. It is not clear inside. From the outside, he is still the same person, but every detail has become more attractive.

That's right, the fate of the two is connected, and half of the merits I have gained will be shared with Yin Yan. As I grow taller and stronger, Yin Yan should be the same.

"Looking at what?" Yin Yan asked suddenly.

"You look good."

Yu Zhen replied intuitively, and then with a poof, the dumpling in Yin Yan's hand was crushed and burst.

"Pfft." After stepping in, Qiu Feiqian, who was silently eavesdropping on the conversation between the two, couldn't help laughing, her eyes were full of teasing and joking, "Oh, our Xiaoyan is shy."

shy?Yin Yan will be shy?

Yu Zhen's heart moved, and he looked up at Yin Yan.

Yin Yan put down the dumplings, picked up a plate of dumplings wrapped on the table sideways, turned around and went to the kitchen, leaving only Yu Zhen's back.

Are you really shy to run so fast?

Yu Zhen suddenly felt a little itchy in his heart, and just as he was about to follow, Yin Le rushed in quickly holding a note, and said with a thief smile: "Brother Yu, Brother Yu, I also have a figure in my room, the gift giver It's signed by your name hehehe, someone gave me a gift in your name, look!"

A note stretched out in front of him, saying it was a note, but it was actually a New Year's card. The words on the card were machine-printed, not handwritten. There was a sentence of blessing on it, and the signature on the back was indeed his name.

Yu Zhen reached out to take the card, and his superior five senses made him immediately smell the cool breath of Yin Yan on the greeting card, and he couldn't control his mind to make up Yin Yan's face seriously preparing gifts and greeting cards , the heart beat fast, and the corners of the mouth couldn't help but curl up.

"Oh, Brother Yu, you are smiling so... Mmmmm."

Yin Le was about to smile badly when he opened his mouth, but Qiu Feiqian quickly covered her and dragged her away forcefully.

Touching the greeting card in her hand, Yu Zhen felt moved and warm in her heart, paused, and walked towards the kitchen.

Giving Yin Le a gift in his name, and deliberately using this surprise method, is to make the Yin family like him more.Although in fact, the Yin family has already shown that they like him very much.

He stepped into the kitchen, walked behind Yin Yan, stretched out the card, and said, "Thank you."

Yin Yan put the dumplings in the refrigerator, closed the refrigerator door, turned around, stuffed a wooden box into his arms, and said, "New Year's gift, I am one year older, and I will work harder next year." After finishing speaking, he patted his head, turned around and left.

"..." Why doesn't it look shy, but still angry.

The smile on Yu Zhen's face disappeared. He looked at the carved wooden box in his hand, stroked it twice, and suddenly Fuzhi understood his anger.

...Is it because I have prepared gifts for the rest of the Yin family, but not for him?

After guessing, he began to observe Yin Yan secretly, and deliberately waited for everyone to observe the New Year's Eve. After the two returned to the room, he gave Wu Wu a small gift in front of him.

"I don't know if you like cat toys or not. This is a ball of wool wrapped with wool I bought myself. The thread has been soaked in the lotus pond. It smells very fragrant and pleasant. You can smell it."

The yarn ball is very beautiful, it is wrapped with colored thread, and the surface is also patterned, and it smells really fragrant.

Wu Wu liked it very much, and couldn't help stretching out his claws to pull it. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw his master's seemingly calm but murderous face. He trembled, meowed as a response, and went back to the space with the ball in his arms.

"It's time to wash up and go to sleep." Yin Yan got up, and went into the bathroom with a calm face.

Yu Zhen looked sideways at his back, observed his walking speed, and finally couldn't help laughing.

He was really angry because of the lack of presents.

In his eyes, Yin Yan is powerful, omnipotent, reliable, and able to keep his face in front of the collapse of Mount Tai, but now this person is silently sulking because he didn't receive the gift, and behaves so awkwardly .

like a child.

I always felt that the awe of the elders in my heart when I faced Yin Yan was shattered in a snap.

He summoned nothingness, and asked for the small handmade sachet that he kept secretly from it, pinched it shyly, hesitated for a moment, and put the sachet under the pillow for the time being.

After the two of them washed up, Yu Zhen pretended to lie on the bed as if nothing had happened. After turning off the lights, she lay down silently for a while. After guessing that Yin Yan should have fallen asleep, she reached under the pillow and took out the small sachet, stretched out her arms and quietly moved towards Yin Yan Tuck it under the pillow.

Snapped.

The back of his hand suddenly felt warm, and he was grabbed.

Yu Zhen's eyes widened in fright, and his hands retracted reflexively.

"Don't move." Yin Yan's voice sounded in the darkness, and then there was another snap, and the bedside lamp was turned on.

Yin Yan sat up, lifted his stiff hand, gently opened the fingers he was holding tightly, and took out the small pouch made of dark blue fabric with the word "Yan" embroidered with white silk thread on the inside. out.

"For me?" Yin Yan asked while playing with the plain and simple sachet.

Maybe it was because of the lighting, Yu Zhen could see a smile and a shyness in Yin Yan's eyes in a daze.

shy?No no no, this must be an illusion.

His face was a little red, he retracted his hands and hid himself under the quilt, and replied vaguely.

In fact, he didn't plan to give a sachet at first, but, but most of the things in his hand were given by Yin Yan, the only thing that was more valuable was the bodhi lotus seeds and lotus petals.

After thinking about it, he still felt that these two things were suitable for making sachets. He thought that Yin Yan, as an "antique", should have worn sachets and the like in the past. Bite the bullet and make one.

"The inside is ground into powder after drying lotus petals. I also picked a few lotus seeds and ground them in. The taste is very light, with a bit of astringent bitterness, not too feminine. I used the lotus seeds to make lotus cake. , in nothingness, you, you can take it and eat it."

Seeing that Yin Yan had been silent, he couldn't help explaining, then turned over and rolled up the quilt as if evading, and said, "It's late, it's time to sleep, good night."

Having said that, his eyes were still open and his ears were pricked up, listening carefully to Yin Yan's movements.

It was quiet for a long time, and then a deep chuckle came: "Is this what you do in the turning basin every day?"

This was the first time Yu Zhen heard Yin Yan's laughter. It was low-pitched, with a hint of ease and joy, and it slid across the eardrums like silk. It was very pleasant to hear.

He buried his head in the quilt, felt his ears itchy, and even the area from his ears to his neck felt a little hot, and replied, "I haven't been doing it for long... My handwork is relatively rough, so don't dislike it."

Another short silence.

"Thank you, I like it very much."

Yin Yan's voice returned to calm, and then his head felt warm, and he put a hand on it and rubbed it gently.

"good night."

Snapped.

The lights went out, the mattress moved, and the person next to him should have fallen asleep.

Yu Zhen's tense body slowly relaxed, and wanted to look at Yin Yan's expression now, but he didn't dare, and there was no light in the room, so he couldn't see it.It was as if grass had grown in my heart, and I couldn't calm down for some reason.

that's all?He was suddenly depressed again.

He also embroidered words on the sachet. Although it was a bit ugly, it was embroidered by himself after all.

Could it be that the light was too dim, and Yin Yan didn't see it?

Just thinking wildly like this, his body slowly relaxed and his eyes closed bit by bit.

After Yu Zhen fell asleep, Yin Yan opened his eyes, took out the sachet under the pillow and squeezed it, the corners of his mouth slightly curled up, stretched out his arms to hug the person whose back was facing him, propped up his body gently, bowed his head, and kissed printed on his forehead.

"Outlaws."

Even in the cultivation world where there are not so many rules, things like sachets are only given to each other when lovers express their hearts.

The next day, the two woke up with their limbs entangled. Yin Yan was still calm, but Yu Zhen somehow felt that he was very happy, very happy.

Because of the sachet?

He guessed narcissistically, his eyes turned around Yin Yan, but he didn't find the sachet, and he felt a little regretful and depressed.

Sure enough, things like sachets are still not suitable for wearing.

"Why are you in a daze." Yin Yan turned back from the closet, holding two scarves in his hand, handed him one, and said, "It's windy today, it's a bit cold, remember to wear the scarf when you go out."

Yu Zhen regained consciousness, looked at the two scarves of the same style and different colors in his hand, didn't feel anything wrong, nodded obediently, and stretched out his arms to take the scarves.

The rules of the Yin family are that they must go to worship their ancestors and visit their tombs on the first day of the new year. After the ancestor worship, they can't eat meat on this day, only vegetarian, which is slightly different from the rules of other families.

The family went out early, Yin Hexiang drove the car himself, Qiu Feiqian sat in the co-pilot, waited for the car to turn out of the villa, turned around and talked to Yu Zhen who was sitting in the back row.

"Today we are going to pay homage not only to our ancestors, but also to those comrades-in-arms of Grandpa Yin Yan. We have to go to two cemeteries and a trip to the martyrs' cemetery. Xiaozhen, I don't think you have much breakfast. If you get hungry later, you Said, I asked Hu's mother to prepare some snacks, put them in the trunk, and I can fill them up when I'm hungry."

Yu Zhen nodded to express his understanding, and he was a little more curious about Yin Yan's grandfather who had passed away for many years.

The Yin family was originally sparsely populated, and grandpa Yin Yan's generation happened to be at war, which caused Grandpa Yin to get married very late.Yin Hexiang is the old son of Grandpa Yin, and when Yin Hexiang grows up, Grandpa Yin is already very old.

Later, the old man insisted on living until Yin Yan was born, named Yin Yan, and left contentedly.

"As for Dad, he is a bit superstitious. When Xiaoyan was born, he heard a command from a Taoist priest somewhere, insisting that Xiaoyan lacked fire in the five elements, so he had to be named with the word "fire", otherwise he would not be able to grow up safely. "

Qiu Feiqian talked about the past, and couldn't help sighing: "It would be great if Dad was still here, he will definitely like you very much when he sees you."

"You can see this today." Yin Hexiang said, his expression and tone were rarely relaxed and gentle, and he reached out to pat Qiu Feiqian's leg to comfort him.

Qiu Feiqian came back to her senses, turned around with a smile, and replied, "That's right, I can see it today."

The cemetery arrived soon, and Yin Hexiang and Qiu Feiqian bought flowers at the gate of the cemetery. They didn't buy anything like incense sticks, paper money, etc., and only brought flowers into the cemetery.

"Grandpa Yin Yan said that burning paper pollutes the environment, so he won't let us burn those. He said flowers are beautiful, so just send some flowers." Qiu Feiqian walked one step behind Yu Zhen, explaining to him as he walked.

Yu Zhen nodded, thinking that Grandpa Yin should be a very interesting old man just like his grandfather.

Grandpa Yin's tomb is a joint burial, buried with Grandma Yin, surrounded by the tombs of other Yin family ancestors, all gathered together, there is a sense of reunion.

Because there is no need to burn paper money, the procedure of sweeping the tomb has become much simpler. Sending flowers, wiping the tombstone, talking to the tombstone, and worshiping one by one, the tomb is considered to have been swept.

During the worship, Yu Zhen and Yin Yan were very solemn. They are not the real Yin family, but they have received the favor of the Yin family. They should thank the ancestors of the Yin family.

Because there were many places to go, everyone didn't delay too much, and left immediately after worshiping, heading for the next cemetery.

After a circle of comrades worshiped, the time had turned to the afternoon, and the family had no time to eat at all, so they only used the snacks prepared in advance and the simple meals bought on the roadside to make up for it.

The martyrs cemetery was put at the last stop. Many people came to visit the graves on the first day of the new year. They were all family members of the martyrs, and there were people of all ages.

Yu Zhen watched with emotion, feeling a little heavy in his heart.

Everyone was silent when they left the Martyrs Cemetery. Yu Zhen was a little distracted and almost bumped into an old man. Yin Yan quickly pulled him away, nodded apologetically to the old man, took his hand, and led him to move forward go.

Yu Zhen came back to his senses, wondering why he had lost his mind all of a sudden. Annoyed, he hurriedly turned his head and nodded apologetically to the old man who was almost hit by him just now. Then he didn't dare to be distracted, and followed closely behind Yin Yan.

"Grandpa, why did you bump into that young man on purpose just now? We eat Taoist food and do such bad things as Pengci. Grandpa Patriarch will entrust his dream to strike you with lightning at night."

The handsome young man supported the old man, frowning on purpose and muttering.

"That's how you look at your grandfather and me? Be careful, I'll drive you back when it's New Year's Eve!" The gray-haired old man turned his head and gave him a look, then looked at Yu Zhen and Yin Yan who were walking away together, squinting his eyes for a moment, Said: "But I really want to touch porcelain. I don't know what that child has done. The golden light on his body is as thick as a golden doll, but I always feel a little strange..."

"Golden light of merit?" The young man's eyes lit up in a flash, and he looked up at Yu Zhen with his neck up, his eyes staring and staring, "Where is it? Where is the golden light, why didn't I see anything?"

The old man pulled him back angrily, and said: "Your eyes can see something! They are all about the same age, what's the situation with them, what's the situation with you. Okay, don't look at it, you can't even look at it." to you!"

As he spoke, he couldn't help but looked over again, his eyes swept over Yu Zhen, and moved to Yin Yan who was next to him.

Not only the golden doll, but also the aura of this young man is a bit strange. He looks like an ordinary person, but he feels like the statue of the patriarch in the temple, surrounded by clouds and fog.

After a busy day, everyone had a good rest after returning home. After that, Qiu Feiqian began to prepare gifts for going back to her mother's house tomorrow, while Yu Zhen took Yin Yan to the corner and asked, "You said that the old man I almost bumped into today was a little bit wrong. What's wrong? He has evil spirits on him?"

Yin Yan shook his head: "No, that old man is also a Taoist, just like your grandfather, and has meritorious deeds."

"Is he a Taoist priest?" Yu Zhen was surprised.

"It's not an official Taoist priest, but it can be regarded as a monk. You don't need to pay too much attention, they can't do anything to you." Yin Yan comforted, and suddenly a red thread appeared out of thin air in his hand, and it wrapped around his wrist.

"What is this?" Yu Zhen was puzzled.

Yin Yan replied with a calm face: "Dog leash."

"???"

Yu Zhen was silent, staring straight at him, silently condemning

"This is a magic weapon for tracking. The person who made it named it a dog leash." Yin Yan explained, then took out another red rope, wrapped it around his wrist, and showed it to him.

Well, now everyone is a dog.

Yu Zhen withdrew his gaze, stared at the red rope in his hand, persuaded himself to accept the name, and asked, "Who forged this magic weapon, and why did it get such a name? Could it be you..."

"No." Yin Yan replied, suddenly raised his hand to touch his forehead, poked it lightly, and replied: "Yes...my apprentice practiced it, he said he likes this name very much."

Yu Zhen was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly felt sore, and asked, "Apprentice? Do you still have apprentices?"

Yin Yan didn't answer, but withdrew his hand, patted his head lightly, turned and left.

Yu Zhen watched him leave with a frown, glanced at the red string on his wrist, pulled his sleeves hard to cover it, and said angrily, "What kind of idiot apprentice, sending this kind of thing to Master, implying that Master is a dog, unfilial!"