The Taste of Ghosts in the World

"Okay! I finally got this guy!" Assistant Xiao Feng jumped up excitedly, unable to hide the joy on his face.

In order to photograph rare species, they have been guarding this area for three days, and finally waited for the harvest today.

"Brother Qi, we will definitely win the first prize this time!" Xiao Feng looked at the photo in the camera and said confidently.

"Of course it's the best if you can get it." Qi Zong didn't even look at the works he had worked so hard to take, and just buried his head in stuffing his belongings into his backpack. "Xiao Feng, please take the equipment back to the studio. I have something to do, so I'm leaving first."

Without waiting for the other party to agree, he hurriedly jumped into the car and drove down the mountain. Xiao Feng, who was holding a big camera, was still standing there without reacting.

It took him a long time to realize that Qi Zong had really left him and drove away alone, and immediately jumped in anxiety, they only had one car!And this pile of equipment, how will he transport it down the mountain!

Qi Zong, who was rushing home, didn't care about these things. He was only busy making sure of one thing - even though it had been a year since the demon fairy left, he always felt that the other party would remember their agreement, even if it was just wine. The last casual sentence was even just his own unilateral decision, but he was very serious when he said it, and the other party should also feel it.

Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and they made an appointment to spend it together.

"Little crow!" Qi Zong opened the door suddenly, and shouted impatiently before he had time to look, but the house was empty and quiet, no one answered at all.

His heart fell to the bottom in an instant, he closed the door in frustration, threw his backpack on the sofa, hesitated for a while, and still couldn't help but went around in each room, and he really didn't see the crow.

and many more……

Suddenly remembered something, Qi Zong just came out of the storage room and went back. There was nothing else in the room except large and small wine jars, but Qi Zong, who knew this place well, still found a detail—he specially prepared it for the Mid-Autumn Festival. The altar of sweet-scented osmanthus wine is gone.It was there when I left the house this morning, but now it's empty.

Qi Zong couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth...he has been here!

After standing in place for a while, Qi Zong couldn't help laughing out loud, and the anxiety that had been suppressed in his heart all day suddenly disappeared.

He shrugged, took out another jug ​​of wine, looked at the round moon on the balcony to drink for himself, and looked around him, without the figure of another person, he felt a little lonely.

But he believed that that person must also be drinking the wine he treasured under the same moonlight.

Thinking about it this way, I felt a little satisfied.

Unexpectedly, during the Mid-Autumn Festival in the second year, the crow did not show up, nor did he come to get the wine, and in the third and fourth years after that... the crow never appeared again.Every year when Qi Zong rushes home excitedly, he always faces the result that disappoints him.

Maybe he forgot, after all, it has been so long.Qi Zong thought this way, maybe that noble demon fairy has gone back to his demon world.

Qi Zong quit his job as a photojournalist and devoted himself to being a freelance photographer. He spent almost 360 days a year shooting all over the world. Only on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, he would rush back to open a jar of good wine to commemorate the day. an old friend.

After a while, Mu Yunshu came to him suddenly, and the first thing he said was——

"Qi Zong, let's get married."

She opened her mouth lightly, but her eyes looked into the distance.

Qi Zong was surprised, "What's wrong?"

"Didn't you say before that if we can't find a lover in the future, just make do with each other?"

"You know it's just enough." Qi Zong said with a smile: "You have such good conditions, why don't you worry about not being able to find a partner?"

Mu Yunshu lowered his eyes and shook his head gently, "He's gone, I don't want to fall in love with anyone else." There was not much grief in his tone, but full of nostalgia and determination.

"Yun Shu, what's the matter? Didn't you decide not to get married before?"

After being silent for a while, Mu Yunshu said softly: "...my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer, and her last wish is to see me get married." She looked at Qi Zong, "The only thing I can think of is you , For so many years, you have no companion, since we are all alone, why not form a family to guard against old age."

Qi Zong did not speak for a long time.

"dislike me?"

"of course not."

"Qi Zong," Mu Yunshu turned to stare at him with serious eyes, "You have someone in your heart."

Qi Zong was startled, avoiding her gaze.

"……nonsense."

"You were very obvious in the past few years. Where did that person go? If it's not like me, why don't you cherish it?"

Qi Zong smiled wryly.

The distance between them may be farther than Yin and Yang.Occasionally thinking of the little thrush that disappeared for a long time, I can't help but wonder if the time spent together was my dream, but the feather he gave before parting was so real that I could see and feel it .

"It's just fate but nothing..." Qi Zong said lightly.

Later, the two of them got married. About the person in Qi Zong's heart, Mu Yunshu didn't ask again, and Qi Zong didn't mention it again.

Years passed peacefully like this, until Mu Yunshu sacrificed his life to save his son, Qi Zong suddenly thought of the feather, and didn't know if it was still useful, so he gritted his teeth and lit the fire without thinking about it.

The crow actually appeared, and after listening to Qi Zong's request, he frowned.

Unless it is a special case, the soul of the deceased cannot be kept anyway, and it is very risky to bring a living person into the underworld.But this is Qi Zong's request, and it is his only request since we met...

"Is it too difficult?" Seeing his perplexed expression, Qi Zong asked.

Crow gritted his teeth, "Qi Zong, do you have any money?"

"what?"

Under Crow's order, Qi Zong bought a lot of Ming coins and asked him to carry them with him after burning them. Before leaving, Little Thrush suddenly pulled him over, and his lips touched his lips. Qi Zong was stunned. The heart that had been calm for a long time suddenly beat a little faster.

"A mortal body can't enter the underworld. I will give you a mouthful of demon energy that has been refined for thousands of years, which can help you resist the erosion of the dead energy below and not be discovered by people in the underworld. But it can only last for two hours at most. Our actions must quick."

Qi Zong nodded.

Xiao Huamei led him through the gate of hell and walked up Huangquan Road. Along the way, their hands were tightly held together, Crow wrapped Qi Zong's stranger's aura with his powerful demonic aura, and he was not noticed.

Passing by a little ghost on the road, he obviously knew Crow, he leaned forward enthusiastically and said, "You haven't been here for a long time, how could you think of coming to us today?"

Crow gave him a cold sideways look, "What? You're not welcome?"

"Oh! How dare you! We will be delighted when you come."

"You are already dead."

"..."

"How much will you charge this time?"

"For your sake, I'll give you a [-]% discount." The little ghost stretched out his fingers and compared, "This amount."

Crow raised his eyebrows, "Why is it rising again?"

The little ghost shook his head with a bitter face, "It's hard to do business now, and there are more and more dead people. If you walk this Huangquan Road every day, you must charge some road maintenance fees!"

"Forget it." Crow threw all the ghost coins on his body to him, "Did any new dead souls go in just now?"

"Yes, there are many more! This road has never stopped."

Seeing that nothing came out of the question, Ya waved his hand and pulled Qi Zong forward, and soon saw the archway in the underworld.

Crow took Qi Zong to the side of Naihe, pointed to the long line of dead souls waiting to be reincarnated and the stone bridge crossed on the bridge, "This is the Naihe bridge, look for her inside, I'll find a way to see it." Book of life and death. Remember, don't talk to anyone except the person you're looking for, don't touch them, let alone touch the water in this river."

After he finished speaking, he left in a hurry. Qi Zong looked at the long group of dead souls—their translucent bodies were crowded together, and their faces looked a little blurry.He didn't know where to start, so he had to look at them one by one.

Suddenly, he spotted Mu Yunshu's back. She was walking on the stone bridge. She stopped to drink something on the way, and then continued to walk to the other side of the bridge.

"Yunshu! Yunshu!" Qi Zong shouted and chased after him, but Mu Yunshu walked forward as if he didn't hear him.

Seeing her walking farther and farther, Qi Zong was anxious, ran to the bridge, raised his legs and was about to go up, but his arm was pulled suddenly, and a coolness penetrated from the skin of his hand to his heart.

"She has already drank Mengpo soup, and she is about to reincarnate. Now she has no memory, so it's useless to shout." Someone said to him.

Qi Zong turned his head and found that two men appeared behind him at some point, one in white and one in black.

There was a smile on Bai's face, and he asked him gently: "Why haven't I seen you? Are you a new ghost?"

Qi Zong didn't know how to answer.

At this moment, the man in black next to him said, "He has a demonic aura about him."

"Oh?" The man in white sniffed, "There is a familiar feeling, is it the smell of the thrush?"

Qi Zong was startled, he was afraid that he would hurt the little thrush if he was recognized, and then remembered the warning that the crow had given before he left, he hesitated for a while and still didn't speak.

"Could it be that Huamei is here too? Ever since Lu Pan's accident, he has never been here again." The man in white said thoughtfully.

"Qi Zong!" With an urgent call, Ya returned to Qi Zong's side.

The man in white saw him and said with a smile, "Long time no see."

The crow nodded slightly at him.

"Is this your partner?" The man in white pointed at Qi Zong, "He smells like you."

Little Thrush blushed, a little angry, "Don't talk nonsense, this is my friend."

The other party didn't say anything, just smiled meaningfully.

"Little Ya, I saw Yun Shu just now, but they said that she had already drank Meng Po soup and could not turn back." Qi Zong told Ya with a sigh.

"So you can talk!" Finally, when he heard him speak, the man in white looked at Qi Zong a little teasingly, but made the crow even more angry, and said seriously: "Qi Zong is not dumb!"

Qi Zong tugged at his hand, "Little Crow, let's go."

Ya turned to look at him, thought for a while, pulled Qi Zong and left without saying goodbye to the two old acquaintances.

Bai Wuchang watched them leave with a smile, and suddenly asked the people around him, "Xiao Hei, that one just now was human, right?"

Heiwuchang nodded, "Humans, living people."

"Interesting, really interesting." Bai Wuchang rubbed his chin and smiled a little strangely.

Ya sent Qi Zong back to the underworld, his expression was very annoyed, Qi Zong saved his life, but now he just begged him for such a thing, but he failed to do it well.

"Drinking Mengpo soup, the soul of the dead who walked across the Naihe bridge can only be reincarnated. It is impossible to return to the world. But I read the book of life and death. She will have a good life in the next life and be with the person she loves for the rest of her life... ..." Crow's tone was very urgent, as if to show that his matter was not too bad, but the more he said, the more guilty he became, and finally he lost his voice completely.

But Qi Zong laughed, this demon fairy who has always been arrogant and show off others is now standing in front of him in embarrassment, he didn't say a word about the difficulty of trespassing in the underworld, he just didn't know how to explain to himself clumsily.

Knowing that Mu Yunshu will live a good life in his next life, Qi Zong nodded with satisfaction, "That's good."

"I didn't handle this matter well, it's just a little short, I owe you one..." Master Yaoxian would not say sorry, this sentence is already the highest apology he can express.

"Tired?" Qi Zong interrupted him, he must have consumed a lot of demon power, otherwise his breath wouldn't be so short.Stretching out his hand to brush aside the strands of hair that fell to his forehead, Qi Zong said sincerely: "Little crow, thank you."

The crow was stunned, and it took a long time to react, his face turned a little red, and he turned his head awkwardly, "It's... a small matter."

Originally seeing little thrush again, Qi Zong had a lot to say to him, but after this side, the crow still disappeared.

Maybe he doesn't want to see himself, Qi Zong thought.

In fact, the Yaoxian who deeply felt that he was unable to help was just unable to save face and felt ashamed to face Qi Zong, so he deliberately avoided it.

So many years later, when the two met again, Crow never expected it.

Facing Qi Zong's familiar smiling face, he would just stand there stupidly, not knowing how to react for a long time, when he came back to his senses, he wanted to transform into an escape, but was held back by Qi Zong hand.

"Where do you want to go?" Qi Zong looked at him with a cunning smile.

"Take me with you."

Episode 1 - Picked up a bird (End)