To Raise a Soul

Grandpa Yu is a very interesting old man, he likes to tell stories, he likes to tell the fortunes of all creatures he sees with copper coins, and he likes to tease Yu Zhen.

He said a lot of funny things, some of which were forgotten, some were contradictory, and some were made up to tease people when they heard it, but only the story of "The Almighty Remnant Soul" was repeated a lot. Years, the details inside have never been missed.

Yu Zhen has a late memory, and the earliest memories of her childhood that can be recalled in her mind can only be traced back to before elementary school, and she can't remember at all after that.

But even so, he can still clearly remember that on a bad afternoon, his grandfather hugged him who was only a few years old and knelt in front of the statue of the patriarch, telling his fortune with a serious face.

That was the first time he saw such a dignified expression on his grandpa's face, and it was also the first time he saw his grandpa couldn't believe the result of his calculations, throwing copper coins over and over again.

That day, Grandpa Yu's face was very pale, and Yu Zhen couldn't eat the egg pancake he wanted.

It was also from that day that Grandpa Yu told the story of "The Remnant Soul of the Almighty". He did not know where to find a tattered book with strange patterns on it, and told him to practice hard.

But Yu Zhen, who couldn't even read such a book that he couldn't read at the time, how could he practice it.

Perhaps Grandpa Yu also saw the impossibility of this matter. Although he still liked to say the words "powerful" and "cultivation", he never forced Yu Zhen in action, and only loved to tease him more and more.

Later, Yu Zhen grew up slowly, learned knowledge and principles, and the stories she heard when she was a child became real stories, and she never took them seriously again.

Grandpa Yu probably also noticed his idea, and the stories of all kinds of gods and gods gradually became less and less. Although he would occasionally talk about the old meme of "the remnant soul of the great power", but because the two of them rarely got together and separated Too many, this stalk has not been mentioned for a long time.

When the old wooden box was opened, there was a cloud of dust. Inside the box were Yu Zhen's childhood treasures, a wooden pony, a storybook he had read, and a pile of copper coins of unknown age from Grandpa Yu.

Yu Zhen found a yellowed and torn book from the bottom of the box, opened it eagerly, but only saw a piece of mildew.

Books are fragile things. After so many years of neglect, the books that were already very torn at the time, after being rotted by time for more than ten years, are so torn that they will almost shatter when touched.

The fast-beating heart slowed down. Yu Zhen smelled the stale smell from the books, and remembered the pale and tired appearance of Grandpa Yu that night when he was telling the fortune. Tears suddenly burst out without warning, dripping on the books, and fainted two times. Wet polka dots.

It's true, what Grandpa said is true.

There is actually a remnant soul in his body, and now that remnant soul has found the door.

But why didn't Grandpa tell him that his soul is actually incomplete.

"Born against the sky, kinship is cut off..."

The kinship is cut off, and it really is the kinship that is cut off.

He raised his hand to wipe away his tears, but found that the more he wiped away, the sad and painful emotions rose up belatedly, making him almost out of breath.

On the night of the funeral, he could still cry, but driven by cruel fate, he finally realized that his only relative had completely left him, and the rest of his life might be doomed to be lonely and hopeless. Today, he could only squat in embarrassment. On the ground, sobbing silently over a box of old things.

"Some stupid people are much slower to respond to pain than ordinary people."

In the front room, Yin Yan turned the old porcelain teacup in his hand, and suddenly said: "He thought he had gotten through it, but in fact he hasn't. Any small thing related to the past may make him..."

"elder brother?"

Yin Le looked at him worriedly and suspiciously, not understanding why he suddenly said something strange, and worried about Yu Zhen who ran to the backyard alone.

despair.

Yin Yan stopped the sudden sigh, put the old porcelain teacup on the table, glanced at Yin Le and Weng Xiping, stood up suddenly and said, "Let's go to the back mountain of the Taoist temple."

Yin Le couldn't keep up with his train of thought at all, and asked in a daze, "What are you doing in the back mountain?" Didn't they come to thank and chase after him?

Yin Yan unbuttoned his clothes again, and replied calmly, "Catch pheasants."

"……what?"

He didn't know how long he cried, but just when Yu Zhen felt that his eyes were about to be blinded by tears, a tempting smell of meat suddenly came from the direction of the kitchen.

He froze for a moment, his thoughts finally pulled away from his sadness, he remembered the troubles and guests sitting in the front room, wiped his eyes and face, put the old book back into the box, turned around Follow the smell and run towards the kitchen.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

In the kitchen, Yin Le was sitting behind the stove with chicken feathers on his head, holding a piece of dry wood in his hand, and while clumsily stuffing firewood into the stove, he was holding his nose and coughing embarrassingly, his face was still stained with black ash.

In front of the table next to the stove, Weng Xiping was cutting ginger slices with a serious face, and there was a dish of washed vegetables in his hand.

In front of the stove, Yin Yan, who took off his coat again, turned his back to the kitchen door, with his sweater and shirt sleeves rolled up, standing in front of the pot with a plate in one hand and a spatula in the other, serving vegetables outside.

Yu Zhen felt that the scene in front of him was very funny and unreal, and asked in a daze, "What are you doing?"

"Big... Uh, Brother Yu, you're here, is the hypoglycemia better?"

After hearing the sound, Yin Le turned his head to look over, first greeted happily, and then explained happily: "Brother Yu, we are cooking! Just now, my eldest brother took me and Uncle Weng to catch pheasants in the mountains! It's true here. Interesting, the pheasants are so stupid, they jumped at our feet and rushed to add food to us hahaha!"

"..."

Yu Zhen suddenly didn't know how to answer.

Yin Yan put the last spoonful of chicken on the plate, put down the spatula, turned around and walked up to Yu Zhen, bent down and grabbed his hand, put the plate on top, and said, "Take it to the front room, put the dishes and chopsticks on the table." superior."

The plate is very large, and the potatoes and chicken inside are piled up, which is quite heavy.

When Yin Yan let go, Yu Zhen reflexively stretched out the other hand to hold the plate, smelling the smell of the chicken, looking at Yin Yan through the heat from the chicken, as if ten thousand pheasants were screaming in his head Flying over, he asked in a daze: "You... know how to cook?" Can you use a rural earthen stove?

Yin Yan didn't answer, but the corners of his mouth slightly turned up.

"Of course my brother can cook. He lived outside for several years when he was studying abroad, and he has practiced a superb cooking skill!" Yin Le saw the needles, exaggeratedly said good things to his elder brother, and witty hid his elder brother. Back then, it was to please Han Ya to learn cooking skills.

But thinking of this, he was a little puzzled. Han Ya is a woman who pursues "style" and loves Western food, so the eldest brother mainly learns Western food. He basically never encounters Chinese food. He didn't expect that when he made a move today, the Chinese food he cooked was better than Western food. Not bad!

Yu Zhen felt that the younger brother of the "dead man" seemed to be a little too enthusiastic towards him, and felt a little guilty about replacing "Yin Yan" on his own initiative again. house went.

There are no usable vegetables in the kitchen. Fortunately, there is a small vegetable garden outside the backyard, which grows some winter vegetables. With the pheasant delivered to the door, a simple lunch with meat and vegetables is ready.

Fragrant roasted chicken with potatoes, refreshing and gratifying stir-fried cabbage, appetizing hot and sour cabbage, nice-colored tomato and egg soup, and a plate of homemade pickles.

Yin Le's mouth was full of greasy food, and he completely lost the image of a young master. After eating, he still didn't forget to praise his big brother who worked so hard, and said, "Brother, your cooking skills are really getting better and better. I still want to eat rabbit meat. Let's go to the mountain to catch a hare in the afternoon."

"Go and wipe your face."

Yin Yan did not respond to his request, but looked sideways at Yu Zhen, who was always silent beside him, and asked, "Are you full?"

Yu Zhen, who hadn't had such a lively meal for a long time, was taken aback by the question, nodded, shook his head again, suddenly reached out and grabbed his arm, and pulled him quickly towards the backyard.

"Um???"

Yin Le's eyes flashed with gossip.

Weng Xiping got up consciously and began to clean up the dishes.

After closing the door and locking it, Yu Zhen turned around to face Yin Yan, tightened his fingers hanging by his side, took a deep breath and asked unwillingly: "You said you are the remnant soul in my body, what evidence do you have to prove it? ?”

Yin Yan moved the arm that he just pulled, and replied: "My consciousness was not clear when I was in your body, and it sometimes disappears, so I can't remember many things."

"You fell out of bed when you were three years old, got lost in the back mountain when you were six years old, wet the bed for the last time when you were eight years old, and dreamed for the first time when you were 16 years old—"

"Stop stop! I believe you, don't say it, don't say that word!"

Yu Zhen pretended to be serious and calm, his ears were slightly red because of embarrassment, and the last trace of unyielding luck in his heart completely dissipated, and he continued to ask: "Then why are you in my body? Why is my soul incomplete? ?”

Yin Yan looked at him quietly without answering.

After a few seconds of silence, Yu Zhen suddenly understood what he meant, and asked, "Can't you answer this question?"

Yin Yan responded this time and nodded slightly.

"……"All right.

Yu Zhen slumped her shoulders in frustration, and asked another question: "Then what do you want to do when you come to me like this now?"

"save you."

Yin Yan replied, took out a household registration book from his coat pocket, and added: "It's also self-help. You and I are connected in fate. We live and die together. Yu Zhen, live on and don't give up on yourself."

[Live, live well. 】

Suddenly, what Grandpa had said flashed through his mind, and Yu Zhen was stunned, a little puzzled.

Strange, why both grandpa and this Yin Yan would ask him to live so seriously, as if he didn't want to live anymore, and...

"What are you doing with your account book?"