When the magic flower blooms

At the age of seven, Ming Ruoxing encountered the existence of "ghosts" for the first time.

It was the summer vacation of the first grade of elementary school, and the two Ming brothers followed their parents to drive 8 hours to Yinshan.

In ordinary human society, Yin Shan seems to be unknown.But it is an out-and-out sacred mountain in Yaren's mind.The mountains stretching for hundreds of kilometers lie in the hinterland of the Central China Plain.There are springs and streams in the mountains, clouds and mists, and towering pines and cypresses.In terms of beauty and steepness, it will never lose to the famous Five Sacred Mountains.

The biggest difference between Yinshan and the Five Sacred Mountains is that it is not just a scenic spot, cultural heritage or religious holy place.For most demihumans, it is also the place of enlightenment.

Every year during the winter and summer seasons, hundreds of young demihumans would come to Yinshan from all directions to receive various education related to demihuman society.A small number of young children with excellent talents will even receive personal instruction from famous scholars in the mountains, and their life trajectories will be different from then on.

Starting from this year, Changming Ruoxing's four-year-old brother Ming Ruochen will be promoted to study in Wentian Courtyard at the highest point of Yinshan Mountain.But this time, Ming Ruoxing is about to study at Xuechiyuan, which is of a slightly lower grade.

"The new kid surnamed Ming is a cat, not a tiger. It's just that he can come to Xuechi Yard to study because of his prominent family background. I don't know if he can keep up. Gentlemen, don't deliberately slow down the progress of the group just to take care of him. ah……"

This was the discussion that Ming Ruoxing overheard in the corner after saying goodbye to his parents.The people who made the comments were the demi-human parents who sent their children to Xuechiyuan.

Although he is only seven years old, this is not the first time Ming Ruoxing has heard such remarks.

He is the only domestic cat in the new generation of the ancient Asian tiger family.Although they are loved at home, once they leave the umbrella of the family, the cat is still a cat, and sometimes the family background becomes a heavy burden.

In the past year, Ming Ruoxing has fully experienced this contradiction in school.Thinking that he would continue to face similar problems in the next month, the young Ming Ruoxing couldn't help but feel discouraged.

But my father said that the Ming family can admit defeat, but not cowardice.No matter how difficult it is, never give up without doing it...

He was cheering himself up when he heard a bell ringing in the distance.The children playing in the yard immediately started running in the same direction.

Although no one communicated with him, that should be the direction of the school.Ming Ruoxing was about to follow, when he suddenly found a young man with dark skin, sloppy clothes and wounds on his face walking slowly not far away.

Good boys have clean clothes, this guy must be a bad boy - this is Ming Ruoxing's first instinct.So he decided not to take the initiative to say hello, and walked his own way with his head down.

That boy was indeed a student of Xuechi Academy, and he walked to Ming Ruoxing's side in a blink of an eye.I don't know if he wanted to talk to Ming Ruoxing on purpose, but he deliberately slowed down and pressed in front of Ming Ruoxing.

Ming Ruoxing kept his head down, so he only saw a pair of scabbed legs dangling in front of his eyes.During this period, many children ran past him in a hurry, but the owner of these legs was unhurried, as if he was leading the way for him.

When the bell stopped, he heard the boy's voice.

"Are you new here? Sir, the class is about to start, if you don't hurry up, you will be fined!"

Ming Ruoxing raised his head in bewilderment, only him and the boy were left in the yard.The midsummer sun fell from the big locust tree, shining on the boy's back, like a pair of glowing golden wings.

A child who reminds others not to be late doesn't seem so bad.

Ming Ruoxing thought for a while, then suddenly ran a few steps to catch up, and took out the band-aid prepared by his mother from his pocket.

"……this is for you."

Ming Ruoxing soon knew that the young man was named Naga.From a certain point of view, like him, he is also a "heterogeneous" in this Xuechi courtyard.

As the third-ranked education institute in Yinshan, the Asian children who can be admitted to Xuechi Institute are basically from upper-middle-class families, and at the same time, they are of the "dominant species" or above.

It is difficult for ordinary children who have no money or certain social connections to appear here.

But Naga is a different kind.

He has no father and no mother, and was brought up by the Asian Orphanage since he was a child. He has no surname, and he wears other people's old clothes.But Ming Ruoxing heard that he is not only an umbrella species, but also possesses two s genes at the same time - this is simply the rarest of the rare.

However, the children's pile is like a small society. What everyone is more interested in is not the strengths of others, but the shortcomings.The children who once secretly laughed at Ming Ruoxing for "relying on his family background to come to Xuechiyuan" also laughed at Naga's background, even more unscrupulously.

Compared with Ming Ruoxing's "mature" life style of pretending to be deaf and dumb, Naga is better at solving problems simply and rudely.

He likes to fight.

The children in Xuechi Yard soon knew who was the King of the Mountain here.Children who come out of orphanages are born fighters.At the most exaggerated time, Naga was once surrounded by eight teenagers of the same age.On the remote mountain road after dusk, there were sounds of crackling fists and feet and ouches of pain one after another, sometimes mixed with someone's wailing.

Half an hour later, the gentlemen who rushed over reluctantly separated the group of bratty children to check their injuries, and found that Naga's body was no more colored than those eight children.

The power of the double s gene can be seen.

And the initial "bad relationship" between Ming Ruoxing and Naga was probably a time when Naga performed a fancy hanging and beating a small group in public. Ming Ruoxing happened to pass by with a book in his hand, and suddenly heard him shouting while beating someone: " This punch was for Xiao Ming!"

It was this sentence that later caused Ming Ruoxing to be fined to stand with him.

Of course, the life in Xuechiyuan is not only about children playing around.The gentlemen are all conscientious educators, and the knowledge they impart is also diverse, among which there is no lack of observation and selection for selection to be promoted to higher-level education institutes such as "Wentianyuan".

Among all the teachings, the most mysterious and interesting is the "meditation course".

Yinshan is a treasure land of geomantic omen, and most of the famous scholars who lived in seclusion in the mountain would choose to be buried on the spot after their death.Several of them valued education and left some special "gifts" for the children.

Different from other knowledge that can be learned by sitting obediently in the school, the location of the "meditation course" is often special-for example, the time Ming Ruoxing and Naga went together was in a palace on the back mountainside.

The youngsters entered the palace in groups of ten under the guidance of their husband.As soon as he stepped over the threshold, a gust of air-conditioning with a strong aroma of sandalwood rushed towards his face.

Ming Ruoxing couldn't help shivering as he didn't listen to his husband and put on his coat.Someone came over immediately.

"Xiao Ming, don't be afraid."

"Who is afraid!"

The two of them only had time to say a few words before they were called by the husband to signal for silence.

A whole team formed at the gate, and the ten teenagers began to follow the gentleman towards the depths of the hall.In the center of the hall, there is a tall golden statue sitting in the shrine.The team quietly walked around to the back of the shrine, and found a beautiful wooden door on the base.

Inside the wooden door is a dark, sunken passage.With a candle in his hand, Mr. led the teenagers all the way down.A brick room the size of a classroom is connected at the bottom of the passage.Although there are other corridors at the end of this brick room, Mr. only led the boys here, and stopped going any further.

"Xiao Ming."

Naga began to whisper in Ming Ruoxing's ear again, "Shall I give you the coat?"

Just as Ming Ruoxing was about to refuse and say no, the husband blew out the candle with a "huh", and the surroundings were suddenly pitch black.The unprepared teenagers panicked instantly, screaming one after another.Although Ming Ruoxing didn't panic, he grabbed the sleeve of the Naga beside him.

"It's okay." Naga was exceptionally calm, "We'll be fine."

As soon as he finished speaking, a small wind blew in front of him.Immediately afterwards, some golden glittering powder flew over with the wind.

The overwhelmed teenagers opened their eyes wide one by one, watching the golden light gathering more and more in front of them, getting bigger and bigger, and finally turned into a large group of fireflies, flying and circling in mid-air.

"It'll be fun if you touch them with your hand."

Unable to bear Naga's instigation, Ming Ruoxing tried to touch the light spots around him.And the moment his fingertips came into contact with the light, a silent "explosion" occurred in all the flying light spots at the same time, turning into tens of thousands of snow-white petals and falling from the sky.

In the exclamation of the teenagers, the surroundings became bright again.They were shocked to find that they had left the dark and cold underground brick room and were standing on an open hillside.There are thousands of big trees full of snow-white flowers standing here, which look like a snowfield from a distance.

"What is this place?"

Ming Ruoxing holds the petals under the tree in his hands, no matter the weight, texture or aroma, they are all extremely real.But he couldn't believe that everything in front of him was real.

"This is the Snow Pool Yard."

Naga simply lay down under the tree, "Those who have never been here will never understand the word "real snow pond."

Facts have proved that Ming Ruoxing's suspicion is completely correct.Half an hour later, the gentle slopes and flower trees began to become unreal.The light dimmed again, and the air became damp and cold.The teenagers soon found themselves back in the mysterious underground brick room.

Mr. Li lit the candles again, brought the teenagers back to the sunny courtyard, let everyone move their legs and feet first, and then sat down on the ground to start giving lectures.

"It turned out that the hall we went to was the memorial hall of a certain great master. The remains of the great master were buried deep in the basement under the shrine. Before he died, the great master passed away part of his memory, consciousness and emotion It was preserved and made into a 'ghost'. It's just that this ghost will not harm anyone, but will lead the demihumans who visit here to a wonderful illusory world. Therefore, many people have been to the snow pond The demi-human teenagers in the academy later became very interested in the existence of 'ghosts'."

Of course, the version of the story that Ming Ruoxing told He Tiansi completely removed everything related to "Naga".Right now, He Tiansi can't hear it at all. This is the starting point of his 20-year relationship with Ming Ruoxing.

Not only that, but this guy who has always had a strange brain circuit seems to have made a new "discovery".

"Oh..." He asked Ming Ruoxing with a bit of complacency: "So your work is also related to these 'ghosts'? You are mysterious and earn a lot!"

"Where did you go?"

Ming Ruoxing ruthlessly shattered his conjecture, "I left Xuechiyuan within a few days after that. Although I went to Yinshan several times later, I never had any in-depth contact with such things as 'ghosts'."

"Huh? Why?"

"Because of an accident. Another boy and I were called to fight in the wild woods in the middle of the night. The ground suddenly collapsed. It turned out that there was a wild grave hidden under the ground."

"Wild graves? Is there a difference between domestic and wild things?"

"...Yin Mountain has good geomantic omen, but not just anyone is qualified to be buried here. In ancient times, some heretics knew that they were about to die, so they secretly died in hidden caves on the mountain, or asked someone to pack their bodies after death. Send them to the mountains in an urn and bury them. It is said that there are many wild graves like this, and they are very dangerous.”

"Dangerous? Could it be that there are still big rice dumplings in the grave?"

"If you encounter powerful heretics, there may also be ghosts. Such evil ghosts are really dangerous."

"...Then did you meet at that time?"

"Just barely."

Thinking back to what happened 20 years ago, the fear has faded, but the memory is still vivid.

"Anyway, the wild grave collapsed later, and my husband dug us out of the mud one by one like digging potatoes. Fortunately, we didn't suffer any serious injuries. But my father was furious when he informed the parents. They sent someone to take me home the next day."

And after that, he also lost contact with Naga, until he reunited at the Yaren Police Academy ten years later, the former fighting king finally found the most suitable position for him.

The past came to an abrupt end, and the two returned to the creaking canopy bed in reality.He Tiansi wanted to ask more questions, but at this moment, a few steps away from the canopy bed, there was a strange "click" sound from the old wooden square table.

The two of them were startled at the same time, and when they turned their heads to look, they found that Ming Ruoxing's cell phone on the table vibrated.

Someone is calling.