How Immortals and Demons Fall in Love Through Different Paths

"Brother, do you like my family heirloom too?" Seeing Tong Shu staring at his pendant in a daze, the child called out.

"Heirloom?" Tong Shu wondered.

"It was passed down from my great-grandfather! It's amazing." The child gestured to throw something out, "It can hit people far away."

The shopkeeper didn't know spiritual skills, and he only thought of Tong Shu's nonsense, but it sounded like a thunderbolt to Tong Shu's ears. His face darkened, and he said, "How did you play it?"

The child gestured for a slingshot and dubbed "Chirp".

When Tong Shu Meifeng got together, he was in a bad mood, and hurriedly asked, "Who is playing?"

The child tilted his head and thought for a while, and only said "adult", and shook his head if there were more.

Tong Shu asked again, "When did you meet?"

"night."

Tong Shu said, "Did anyone else see it?"

"Both parents are asleep."

Hearing this, the shopkeeper said badly. He was afraid that the child had encountered something dirty, so he hurried over to hug the child, and gave a serious lesson: "Don't keep running to places where no one is around, and don't go out at night! The child is weak. It is easy to see unclean things, have you not eaten properly recently?"

The child listened to his father's admonition with tears streaming down his face, and burst into tears.The mother of the child inside also ran out when she heard the crying, and the parents hugged the child and asked questions, coaxing for a while.

Tong Shu stepped aside, his brows gathered together.

It’s not like that, it’s not that children are weak and see unclean things, but—adults were under surgery at the time and couldn’t wake up, but this child was able to see and was unharmed, probably because of the child’s body. animal teeth.

When it comes to this animal tooth, it's a long story.

Fifty years ago, Tong Shu accepted a little kindness from the family, and wanted to give something in return before leaving. However, he had nothing left, so he pulled out a tooth from the new hunting beast and injected a ray of evil spirit power into it. The original intention was to send children to keep them safe, and it could also be used as a town house. Unexpectedly, it was passed down from generation to generation and became a family heirloom.

Fortunately, they passed on this animal tooth, otherwise the family would have been in trouble this time.

Thinking of this, he turned around and glanced - if this family encountered something unclean, what about the surrounding people?

The small shop is at the end of the town, and there is no one in the south. There is a tofu shop adjacent to the north. There is a small row of leftover tofu at the door of the shop, and the shop is not in front of it.

Tong Shu walked over, lifted the white water gauze, dipped his finger in the bean juice on the wooden board, put it in his mouth and sucked it, his eyes turned cold for a moment.

"Hey, who's young master, stealing other people's tofu?" A soft voice came out from the room, and a woman wearing a jacquard blouse with a red background came out. Sometimes squinting and smiling, there is a very deliberate style.

Tong Shu raised his face and said with a smile: "Big sister was wrong, I didn't steal it."

The woman was about 30 years old, and Tong Shu, a young boy of seventeen or eighteen, called her sister, which was quite useful. She raised the corners of her eyes and smiled, "I have seen you dip my tofu juice and then put it in your mouth. Isn't it called stealing?"

Tong Shu said: "Firstly, I acted aboveboard. Secondly, I didn't touch your tofu but only touched the bean juice. Thirdly, it's common sense to buy something to taste. I don't know if the principles I said can work here?"

The woman was stunned for a moment, then pursed her lips and smiled, "Young master is eloquent, my sister can't say no to you, but it's getting late, and the remaining pieces of tofu don't matter. It's short of that."

This kind of half-aged lady has a lot of experience and knows how to handle a man's feelings best. Her laughter and voice are so crisp that it makes people numb, and ordinary men can't bear it.Tong Shu took a deep look at the woman, sneered in his heart, and was about to smile back.

But he heard a sound of "Pi La" next to him, several copper plates hit the shop, and Xin Wu's voice sounded faintly: "I bought it." He said without waiting for the woman to come to entertain him, took the oil paper on the shop and wrapped it, and left.

Tong Shu had no choice but to follow him, watching his actions amusedly, then thought of something, turned back and picked up an extra copper coin from the shop.

The woman had already collected the money gracefully, but when Tong Shu took it back, she didn't look very good.Glancing sideways, she saw Xin Wu's face, the woman was startled, then smiled and said, "This young man is so handsome!" As she said that, she took two steps and stretched out her hand to attract Xin Wu.

Xin Wu took a step back coldly, and said to Tong Shu, "Will you go?"

"Go, why don't you go." Tong Shu responded, and took a step back. He had been with Xin Wu for a while, and he could understand Xin Wu's temper, and felt that Xin Wu was unhappy. He approached and asked, "What's the matter?" ?”

Xin Wu opened his palm, and a thin cicada wing lay on it.

Tong Shu's eyes froze and he said, "You found it in a tofu shop?"

Xin Wu nodded.

Sure enough, as he expected, there was something wrong with the proprietress of this tofu shop, and she was probably bewitched.

After thinking about it, Tong Shu asked again, "How do you know I'm looking for this thing?"

Xin Wudao: "You have been looking for this thing all the way."

Tong Shu was taken aback, he didn't expect Xin Wu to know all along that he was groping for the trail of the six-winged soul worm.How did Xin Wu know?

Tong Shu looked at Xin Wu, and the proprietress of the chestnut shop next to her suddenly greeted her loudly: "Thank you, young master, for helping my child. Come in and drink tea."

Entering the room, the proprietress lowered her face and said in a low voice: "I think the two young masters are still young and haven't married yet, right?"

Tong Shu smiled and said, "No."

Xin Wu shook his head.

The proprietress said: "Let me remind you a little too much, you better not get close to that tofu lady."

Tong Shu said, "What?"

The proprietress said, "He lost a man in the early years, so it's not easy to be alone. There's a lot of gossip in front of the widow, so it's nothing. It's just..." The proprietress is plainly dressed and speaks frankly. I don't know what difficult words to say, so tell her to say Not exported.

"Just what?" Tong Shu asked.

The proprietress saw that Tong Shu's eyebrows were clear, and that Xin Wu's bundles were straight, and they were only eighteen or nineteen years old, so she took a moment and said, "It's just that something is wrong recently. You are young, so don't get involved before you get married." Unclean disease."

Illness can be divided into clean and unclean, Tong Shu understood immediately, smiled and said: "Thank you, big sister, for reminding me."

The proprietress said again: "I think you still buy tofu, it's best not to touch his tofu."

Tong Shu was surprised, he didn't expect this village woman to see something wrong with the tofu, and asked, "What's wrong with the tofu?"

"My little baby drank her tofu nao a while ago, and she had diarrhea for a while. I didn't expect it to be a problem with tofu. Later, we also bought tofu from his family. It was strange. My family had diarrhea when I ate it, but others did not. Yes. It’s hard to say, anyway, if you are on your way, if you feel uncomfortable somewhere, it may delay things, so it’s better not to eat.”

Tong Shu understood in his heart that fortunately, this man had beast teeth to suppress evil spirits in his home, and eating the tofu casted by the magic spell would only cause diarrhea, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.Tong Shu accepted the kindness of the proprietress and thanked her very much.

Seeing that they understood, the proprietress felt relieved and went to the back of the house.

Tong Shu looked at the house, which had been renovated, and the facade was also bigger.

The house is new, and the people are new. The boss and the child are not the generation he has seen before. He couldn't help but feel a little sad, and asked, "Boss, where is your Gaotang?"

After closing the store, the boss came forward with a smile and said, "My old father is in good health. He goes to the mountain to look at chestnuts every day, and he will rest in the backyard."

Tong Shu smiled and said, "Didn't you keep asking me if I've been here before? It's like this. In the past, the elders of my family passed by here and took a bag of chestnuts on credit. If we see your chestnuts in Linyu Town shop, pay back the money and buy a few more catties to bring back, the shopkeeper at that time had a scar on his face, I don’t know if it’s still there?”

"That's my grandfather, he went there a few years ago. How many years ago did your parents say?"

"Eight years ago."

"But did you talk about others?"

"It is said that there is a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy who can peel chestnuts for his father."

The boss slapped his thigh and said, "That's my father, do you want to see him?"

Tong Shu said, "Can I see you?"

"Yes, yes! Young master, wait a moment, I will ask father to come out." Then he wiped his hands and went to the back of the house to call for someone.

After a while, an old man came out.

The old man's hair was mostly gray, but his legs and feet were very good, and he walked faster than the boss. When he heard that someone wanted to see him, he laughed heartily. Tong Shu raised his eyes to look at him. Coming over, he was stunned suddenly, as if he was confirming something, then walked over quickly, stretched out his hand, and said hesitantly, "Big brother?"

Seeing this, the boss hurried over to hold the father, and apologized to Tong Shu: "The old father has poor eyesight, and often misidentifies people, I'm sorry."

Tong Shu smiled and said, "It's okay, it's okay." But there was a bitterness in his heart.

The old man stared at Tong Shu closely, and said, "Are you the big brother?"

Tong Shu smiled, if he wasn't afraid of scaring the family, he would have admitted it.This old man has poor eyesight, but he can see better than anyone else.Tong Shu recalled how the old man followed him to fight monsters when he was a child, and his eyes softened and he said, "Grandpa, who are you talking about big brother?"

Hearing what he said, the old man took a close look at him for a while before saying: "Offended, the old man has admitted the wrong person. I'm talking about a young hero, he is my benefactor, he came to this town and killed a dog for us. The evil monster exorcised evil spirits from our family, and later my family was blessed by him, and the wind and water have been smooth, and I have been in danger several times in the mountains, and all of them were saved, all because of his blessing."

Tong Shu smiled: "That's a little strange, it's not like meeting a fairy, right?"

"The gods can't compare to him. He really helps us get rid of evil. The animal teeth left behind can also ward off evil spirits. They are more powerful than gods. It's a pity that I don't know his name. I want to erect a monument for him. I don’t know where the temple was built, so I had to offer the animal tooth on the first and fifteenth day of every month.”

It was the first time Tong Shu heard someone say that he was a "good man" or a "fairy". He couldn't help but deepened his smile and said, "I guess it's not necessarily the merit of that person, but your family's kindness.

"The gods are nine days away, so how can they have time to care about the fortunes of ordinary people like me. In my life, I don't believe in gods and Buddhas, but only believe in that young hero. It's a pity..." The old man paused and stopped talking.

"What's the pity?" Xin Wu, who had been silent all this time, asked suddenly.

"It's a pity that I never saw him again, and I don't know what happened to him... I have always regretted that I didn't follow him back then."

"Could it be that you want to practice with him?" Tong Shu said.

"Our ancestors have grown chestnuts and fried chestnuts for generations. They didn't think about those irrelevant things, and they didn't wait for the opportunity. I regret that I didn't accompany the young man for a while... At that time, my father asked him to eat chestnuts when he came back. He smiled and said yes. He responded and left, without even bringing the dry food prepared for him. Logically, he passed by here when he left, and he would pass by here again when he returned, but for some reason, he never came back." He said, looking at the distance extending He pointed to the road, "That's where he was going at that time. It was still early in the day, and the people rushing into the city were all going forward, so he walked back alone. If I can accompany him for a while, He may still stop for a while, but he won't go so fast."

Tong Shu is not a person who stands still. Since his rebirth, he seldom thinks about the people and things in the past. The words of the old man reminded him of the last period of freedom in his previous life. After leaving this town, he didn't stay any longer. He saw the people's livelihood along the way, until he reached the foot of Jiewang Mountain. Then he stretched out his hand, was put on heavy shackles, and was taken to a heavy prison, where he never saw the light of day again.

People in the world only know that Jing Xingzong is a net of heaven and earth, but Lu Shu was caught when he had nowhere to go. No one knew that he had thrown himself into the net.

Tong Shu smiled softly, dismissed those distant memories, and said, "Grandpa, everyone has their own way of life, so you don't have to worry about it too much. In my opinion, your shop takes care of him. Yes, he should thank you."

That family hit it off with Tong Shu, and after that, they kept home and stayed for dinner.

Tong Shu declined one by one, and tacitly entered into the only hotel in the town with Xin Wu.

The shopkeeper is a shrewd middle-aged man, who probably works night shift all the year round, with a gray line under his eyelids, darker than those farmers he met at dusk.Seeing the visitor, he greeted the visitor very warmly: "Is the guest staying at the hotel or eating?"

Tong Shu said, "Stay in a hotel and eat."

"How many rooms do you want?"

Before Tong Shu could speak, Xin Wu had already put half a penny on the shopkeeper's table.

After the shopkeeper counted the money, he said with a smile: "This money is just enough to live in one upper room, but it is not enough for two ordinary rooms. The two guest officers want to add more money and ask for two rooms, or just use it. one?"

Tong Shu has no control over this matter, he can only listen to Xin Wu if he has no money.

Hearing that Xin Wu only wanted a room, he looked around in boredom, his eyes fell on the shopkeeper's fingers counting money, and saw that the fingernails were a little black.

When going upstairs, Xiao Er led the way with a lamp. Tong Shu saw that there were visitors hanging in front of every room door, and he said, "Unexpectedly, there are quite a lot of guests in such a remote town."

Xiao Erhu looked back and answered him, "Yes, the mountain road to the north of the town is the shortest way out of the mountain. Guests will stay here for a rest."

Tong Shu asked again: "The guest rooms here are pretty pretty, how many rooms are there left today?"

Xiao Er smiled unnaturally and said: "Just in time for a group of guest officials to leave their rooms and go on their way. If you come half an hour earlier, there will be no room."

A gust of wind rushed in at the corner, blowing up the candlelight, Xiao Er hurriedly clasped his hands together to cover it, Tong Shu reached out to help, touched Xiao Er's fingers, Xiao Er suddenly shook away in a big reaction.

Fortunately, Tong Shu caught the fire.

Xiao Er apologized repeatedly, Tong Shu asked people to retreat, and entered the room by himself with a candle.

The so-called upper room is just a simple formation, only a big bed is very conspicuous.

Tong Shu walked for a day, but his limbs had already started to throb, and his soul could no longer bear the burden. At this time, his soul was in great pain, his limbs were in excruciating pain, and his patience was at the end of his strength. No matter how hard he tried to smile, he didn't care about Xin Wu. Curl up on the bed.

As soon as the person relaxes, the pain will be rampant, and the world will spin for a while. It seems that someone is talking to him in his ear. He can't really hear what the other person is saying, and he just wants to fall asleep quickly.He subconsciously told himself—he must recharge his energy quickly, there are still things to do at night.After a while, the ear was quiet, but the pain was so painful that it was difficult to fall asleep, and when the pain was so painful that the sky was dark, I was woken up again.

Someone helped him up, fed him porridge, and opened his mouth in a daze. The taste was very familiar, and it was miraculously effective in relieving the pain.Tong Shu didn't know how much he ate and how he fell asleep. It seemed that he was still biting the spoon one moment and fell asleep the next moment. Before going to bed, he murmured, "I have to get up in the middle of the night."

The man said softly, "I'll call you when the time comes, go to bed."

So the heartstrings were relaxed, and the personnel and affairs were unknown.

In the middle of the night, the rooster crows and the zither sounds in the deep alley. Other than that, it is eerily quiet. There is not even a wind. The inn is the place where people are most concentrated, but there is no sound of people when it is full. Tong Shu woke up in a creepy silence of.

He opened his eyes suddenly, and saw a soft light. There was a man in plain clothes in the halo of light. The man looked back at the sound. He opened his mouth and found that he had no sound. The straw seemed to hold a stretched wrist.

Both of them were stunned.

Tong Shu was completely awakened by the cold temperature of that wrist, his five sense organs regained consciousness, he lowered his head to look at that wrist, it was as clear and flawless as white jade, how could human skin be so white and cool?Before he could take a second look, the wrist in his hand was suddenly withdrawn, and Xin Wu took a step back covering his wrist as if he had been stung by a poisonous bee.

This is not the first time, the last time it was like this in the Valley of Rebirth, with a light touch, Xin Wu looked as if he was avoiding snakes and scorpions.Before, it could be understood that he was too dirty. Could it be that he didn't take a bath this time?Kexin Wu was still wearing the gray shirt he wore during the day, didn't he wash it?Still hate him...

"Deng...deng...deng..." In the middle of the night, there was a very slow knocking sound outside the window, breaking the silence between the two of them. Tong Shu's eyes sank and he said, "Fifth brother, do you think this is a bit louder?" Strange?"

Xin Wu went to the window and slightly lifted a crack to look: "Speak more slowly."

Tong Shu got up, and said while dressing: "The interval between shifts is a convention, so slow is against the rules, and it doesn't make sense."

Seeing that he was dressed, Xin Wu extinguished the candle with a wave of his hand.

Tong Shu understood, and said in a low voice, "Is someone here?"

Xin Wu nodded.

After a while, footsteps sounded in the corridor.This building is old, and there is a slight creaking sound when stepped on the wooden floor. The sound is amplified countless times in the silent night, and it sounds like walking on the eardrums of people. The walking steps are very slow, heavy, and very regular. Walk from the other end of the corridor to this end, and stop in front of their room.

Then, "Boom—boom—boom—" there were three very slow, dull sounds.

Tong Shu went to look for Xin Wu. The lights in the room had just been turned off, and he hadn't adapted to the darkness yet. He knew that Xin Wu would be able to see it if he had a cultivation level, so he waved his hand to signal the other party not to respond.

There was a very soft "hmm" in my ear.

Tong Shu shivered. Although he knew Xin Wu's sound transmission technique, the sound just now was like the other party blowing into his ear, which was a little itchy.

On the other side, there was constant knocking on the door.People who came could not open the door, and they didn't stop. They knocked slowly and heavily, with a fixed rhythm. It didn't look like a human being, but it seemed like some mechanical thing was knocking. It was very uncomfortable to listen to.