ghost play

?Chapter 24: The past of retribution (twelve)

Liuxue felt a little dizzy, and fell asleep on the bed in a daze, smelling the faint fragrance of lilies at the tip of her nose, but vaguely felt that there was a person sitting beside the bed.Without thinking too much, he turned over and continued to sleep.

After waking up again, Liuxue looked at the shiny bald head sitting beside her bed in surprise.

"That..." Liu Xue asked. "Why are you here?"

Shi Hua flicked the sandalwood on the bedside table, and said with a smile, "Protect you."

"Oh." Liuxue responded, but felt that something was wrong, and asked again. "Protect me? Why? No, these are not the point, what about my sister?"

"Here." A seductive and lazy voice came in from the door.

Because Shi Hua's bald head steals the spotlight too much, Liu Xue was attracted by that bald head the first time she opened her eyes, and didn't notice Xia Li standing at the door.

Xia Li was leaning against the door frame, still wearing the banana-like SpongeBob nightdress, holding a cigarette stick in her hand, her bangs were tied up with a hair rope, revealing her entire beautiful and peerless face.It's just that the complexion on that pretty face is not good, not because of physical discomfort, but - angry.

Because the monk actually set up an enchantment in the house!

When Xia Li was about to break in, Shi Hua said casually: "What if I wake up the master to rest?"

Xia Li: "..."

Standing at the door, Xia Li couldn't help exhaling and inhaling, implying that she should not be angry.

Seeing this, Tianyi glared at Shi Hua, said nothing, and went downstairs to read the newspaper with his black tea.

He knew that Tianyi could see that Shihua was already a Liuxue shikigami, so he didn't want to say anything more, but... that monk was too embarrassing.

"Sister, why are you standing outside the door?" Liuxue sat up, seeing Xia Li's displeased face, wondering if she had offended him.

It seems... I offended my sister.

So, Liu Xue smiled like a peony flower with a sad face.

Xia Li raised her phoenix eyes, picked up the cigarette stick in her hand and waved it towards the door.Although there was nothing there, Liuxue could see from his movements that there seemed to be an invisible wall on the door, and the cigarette rod in Xia Li's hand seemed to be tapping lightly on the wall.

"This?" Liu Xue subconsciously looked at the bald monk sitting beside her bed.

Shi Hua smiled slightly and said: "In order to protect the master, the enchantment laid by the poor monk."

"Boundary?" Liu Xue blinked and was speechless.

Xia Li put away the cigarette rod in her hand, smiled lightly, looked at Liu Xue who had woken up thoughtfully, and said leisurely: "Since you are already awake, I don't worry about waking you up. gone."

As soon as the words fell, the fox fire in Xia Li's hand struck towards the barrier.Before Liu Xue and Shi Hua could react, they heard a "boom", and then—the wall collapsed.

Tianyi sat downstairs drinking black tea, turning a deaf ear to the sound of the wall collapsing, watching the sun outside, and drinking afternoon tea leisurely.The rabbit stayed by Tianyi's side, and also looked at the sun and sighed, "It's so quiet."

The corner of Liuxue's mouth twitched as she looked at the wall that had already collapsed. Fortunately, the wall collapsed relatively evenly. Except for some dust, bricks and the like did not fall from the balcony. It's just... Liuxue looked at the crumbling wall helplessly. Rooftop, said: "I have a way to watch the moon while sleeping at night..."

"Boom!" The roof collapsed.

"I have a hunch..." Before Liuxue finished speaking, the roof had already hit the street. If Shi Hua hadn't propped up the barrier in time, she might have fallen to the street too. "Sister, what's wrong with you?"

Shi Hua helped Liuxue up, closed the barrier, and said, "It's probably her menstrual period."

Liu Xue understood: "So that's the case."

Xia Li gritted her teeth and said, "Yeah, I'm on my menstrual period. By the way, I especially like to take apart things during my menstrual period, and the thing I like to take apart most is—human beings."

Liu Xue: "..."

Shi Hua quickly said: "Don't worry, master, the poor monk will protect you."

"Wait first..." Liuxue asked. "What did you call me just now?" Amid Shi Hua's persistent addressing, Liu Xue finally found out that he kept calling her master.

Shi Hua said: "Master..."

Liuxue was at a loss, and asked, "Why do you call me Master?"

Shi Hua smiled slightly, half-knelt in front of Liu Xue, took his hand lightly, and said softly, "Because the poor monk is your envoy."

Liu Xue knew that the envoy he was talking about meant the Japanese Onmyoji Shikigami.It's just that such a posture, such an expression just shows whether loyalty is too wasteful, it is obviously a classic action for a marriage proposal.

Not to mention, take a closer look at this bald head, which sounds good-looking. It must be more beautiful with hair.

"Ahem..." Xia Li suddenly coughed twice.

Only then did Liuxue suddenly realize that she already had an older sister, so she couldn't have sex with her!Although he still doesn't quite understand what it means for Hongxing to go out of the wall.

Liuxue pulled away the held hand, laughed dryly, looked at Xia Li and asked, "Sister, what happened during the few hours I was sleeping?"

Doesn't that guy want his own body?Isn't that guy acting very cold?What kind of trouble is that guy looking at him with a loyal face now?

Shi Hua briefly explained the reason, but when he said that he heard Liu Xue calling his name for the first time, what he said was full of emotion, as if Liu Xue didn't call his name, but saved him. The whole family does.

Liuxue tried hard to recall what kind of scene it was when she called out his name, it seemed that there were some discrepancies with what he said, but forget it, these are not the point.

Xia Li looked at those two like idiots.

Finally, Shi Hua concluded: "You are the master of the poor monk now, and the poor monk vows to protect the safety of the master to the death."

"Uh..." Liu Xue said, "Is this the truth or a big risk?"

Shi Hua smiled and said: "It's a big adventure with the truth. Swearing to protect you to the death is the truth of the poor monk, and stopping that fox is a big adventure."

The fox is "smiling".

"By the way..." Liu Xue asked as if she had thought of something. "Miss Caiwei?" He remembered that the person who told him his name was the girl who seemed to be called Caiwei.He couldn't feel her soul, but he could feel her memory.

He didn't know where the girl named Caiwei was now, he knew that her memory was full of remorse and helplessness.He can also see that Shi Hua seems to have a wonderful feeling for Cai Wei, and he doesn't want the two of them to be unable to make peace now.

Hearing Caiwei's name, the smile on Shi Hua's face froze, and at that moment, his face slowly sank, his indifferent eyes reminded Liu Xue of the time when he first met him.

I seem to have mentioned his sadness...

The surroundings became quiet, Xia Li half sat on the balcony railing and looked at the collapsed and messy house.After a while, Liuxue said, "I'm sorry."

Shi Hua raised his eyes slightly, and looked at Liu Xue quietly.

There is no color in his eyes, only tranquility.If it is said that except for his cassock and iconic bald head on weekdays, Shi Hua does not behave like a monk.But now, he looked at him quietly without any emotion, which made Liuxue feel an inexplicable guilt, just like a child who did something wrong standing in front of his parents, obviously didn't say anything, but the look in his eyes Keep yourself from panicking.

Maybe it's not just him, maybe everyone is just a speck of dust in the world under his eyes.

But he, the peaceful gaze carried redemption, he saved the world, but he couldn't save himself.

Liu Xue was uncomfortable being looked at by that gaze, he looked at Xia Li for help.

Seeing that puppy-like pitiful gaze, Xia Li wanted to turn a blind eye, but found that it was impossible.He straightened his bangs, held his nightgown again, coughed lightly and said, "I also know about Caiwei, let me tell you."

Hearing the word "Caiwei" again, Shi Hua's eyes flickered, and finally he sighed and said, "Let me say it myself."

Xia Li nodded. Ever since that incident happened, Shi Hua has been choosing to escape. He tried to forget, but in the end he didn't know whether he forgot, or the memory was too deep, and he buried it deep in his heart. Into the prehistoric.

Shi Hua slowly opened his mouth and said: "It was during the Zhenguan period. I was born in Saibei. When I was five years old, I was abducted by human traffickers to a wealthy businessman named Zhang in the Central Plains. But not long after I went there, the third aunt of that family passed away. A few days later, the rich businessman surnamed Zhang also passed away. The eldest grandma of the Zhang family thought that I killed her husband and kicked me out of the Zhang residence." He did not use the title of "poor monk" again. , because he knows that he is no longer the monk who hid in the peach blossom forest and read a book that day.

Liu Xue blinked her eyes, she had an unfortunate childhood.But what year was the Zhenguan Year?Liuxue wanted to ask, but he knew it would be too unpleasant to ask now—too unpleasant to listen to stories.

If only I could have a bag of potato chips now, this kind of story is the best meal.

"I want to eat potato chips and go buy them myself." A cold voice suddenly sounded, Xia Li crossed her arms and looked at herself with a smile that was not a smile.

Liuxue's eyes widened—why did my sister know what she was thinking?Does the fox fairy have the ability to read minds?Does that sister know that she wants to have sex with him?

In order to verify, Liuxue stared at Xia Li with wide eyes, thinking in her mind - papapa, papapa...

Xia Li looked at him with a speechless face—whether to look at herself with a lewd/slutty face, although Laozi is indeed as beautiful as a flower and as beautiful as a flower.

"Master..." The neglected Shi Hua called softly.

After regaining her composure, Liu Xue said to Shi Hua: "Wait a minute, I'll get something, and I'll continue talking when I come back." After speaking, Liu Xue ran down, shouting while running. "Sister Tianyi, do you still have refreshments? I still want to eat chicken feet."

In the end, Liu Xue gnawed on the chicken feet and went upstairs with black tea.

Xia Li: "..."

Shi Hua: "..."

Liuxue gnawed her paw and urged, "Go on."

The corner of Shi Hua's mouth twitched, and for the first time he had the thought of killing him, but seeing the child smiling innocently, he muttered to himself, hold back!

Shi Hua, who finally resisted beating Liuxue to death, continued: "After I was kicked out of Zhang's mansion, I could only wander the streets alone. When I was hungry, I would grab food from wild dogs or steal steamed buns. half dead, and then went on to steal."

Liu Xue suddenly felt that the chicken feet in her mouth became tasteless.

"Once I went to Ciyun Temple to steal incense money, and when I was about to leave, I saw Abbot Ende standing under the Bodhi tree not far away and looking at me with a smile. I thought he would say something, but he just I left a cloth wrapped under the linden tree. I went up and opened it, and inside was a newly sewn garment and four steamed buns."

Liuxue put down the chicken paw in her hand and asked, "So you became a monk?"

Shi Hua said: "Because if you become a monk, you can have enough food."

Liuxue lives a wealthy life, although she was in danger of starvation a few days ago when she came to China, but that is totally different from Shi Hua's lack of food when she was a child.

He didn't know what kind of psychology and feeling it was, but he knew that feeling must be uncomfortable.

"Abbot Ende is my mentor, and he is also like a father. He taught me how to read, taught me to read, and gave me the name of 'Shihua'. At that time, when I was bored, I liked to go to the Buddhist scripture pavilion in the monastery. Reading books, I slowly read more books, and my views on people and things have also sublimated." Shi Hua said. "I stayed in the monastery for more than ten years, and the only ones who accompanied me were the Abbot Ende, who was also a teacher and friend, and the books in the Sutra Pavilion. As the saying goes, Bodhi has no tree, and the mirror is not a stand. There is no one in itself. Where does the dust come from? It’s just that I thought I had become pure and had broken the ties of the world, but only then did I realize that the ties of the world have not yet arrived.”

Liuxue thought silently in her heart——I have nothing, so where can I get the dust.

Shi Hua paused, as if he was recalling something, and slowly opened his mouth again: "That day, Ciyun Temple held a Buddhist scripture meeting, and I didn't want to have much contact with the world, so I hid in the peach blossom forest in the back mountain and read a book alone. I read it halfway. Then I smelled an elegant fragrance of lilies, and when I looked up, I saw a woman in a lotus-colored skirt sitting beside me, and she also took out a book and read it quietly."

"Is she Caiwei?" Liuxue didn't want to ask at first, but she stopped talking when Shi Hua said that.

After a long silence, Shi Hua nodded and said: "It turns out that she and her parents came to Ciyun Temple to participate in the Buddhist scripture meeting, but she didn't like the excitement, so she hid here for a while. She told me that my parents didn't believe in Buddhism, they were just doing business. If you are afraid of losing money, you will pay homage to any Buddhist or Taoist.”

Speaking of this, Shi Hua wanted to laugh a little.Caiwei is like a child who is not familiar with the world. That day in the peach blossom forest, she read a few pages of the book and shouted that the sun was too big to read. Seeing that she was still reading, she babbled on by herself. homely.

Seeing the faint pampering on Shi Hua's face, Liu Xue knew that he thought of something happy.

Xia Li listened quietly.

Shi Hua said: "Afterwards I became acquainted with her, and then I found out that she is the daughter of the second master who was kicked out of Zhang's family, and she already knew that I was the kid who was kicked out that day." Shi Hua I remember asking Caiwei why she recognized him, Caiwei smiled, pointed to her eyes and said, because your eyes are very clear. "Later she often came to Ciyun Temple, and we gradually fell in love with each other. It's just that the father who won Caiwei for life before privately decided to make her and the Minister of the Ministry of War to fill the house."

Liuxue bowed her head halfway, and apologized again: "I'm sorry." He had already vaguely guessed that it was a tragedy, and Liuxue knew that she reminded him of something unhappy again.

Shi Hua smiled lightly and continued: "Caiwei doesn't want to eat or drink. Her parents found out about me and her from her personal servant girl. In order to make Caiwei give up her mind to marry the Minister of the Ministry of War, they set fire to Ciwei. Yunsi, colluded with the local magistrate and set the fire wrongly. Caiwei believed it was true and mistakenly thought that I was a wicked person. On the day I was beheaded, I married the Minister of the Ministry of War. Before noon, I was bound to the execution ground, far away You can hear Suona joy from a distance, but you feel resentment and resentment in your heart, even after death, this resentment has been lingering around the execution ground."

Xia Li asked, "This is the reason why you became a demon." The Ciyun Temple was burned, and Shi Hua was sentenced to death... These are all I learned later, specifically why the Ciyun Temple was burned, why Shi Hua became a demon, He didn't know why.I just heard from the little demon nearby that the monk was possessed by a demon, and now I know it is this unbreakable love.

Shi Hua nodded, and continued: "Some of the people who were beheaded were indeed vicious, and some were also wronged. I absorbed his resentment, gradually forgot about myself, and turned into an evil spirit, wandering around the execution ground until One day..." Shi Hua felt a little sad. "Caiwei suddenly appeared, she knelt on the outside of the execution ground and cried, 'I was wrong... Shihua, I blamed you...' At that time, I couldn't remember myself or her, I only felt the guilt in her heart Sadness and sadness are so attractive to me, so I possessed her body. Until one day I suddenly remembered who she was, but found that she was already emaciated like a bone. She smiled, and the corners of her mouth opened like a smile At that time, she had been divorced by the Minister of the Ministry of War, and her parents also thought that her daughter was possessed by a ghost and drove her out. I don't know where she is going. She was walking in the mountains alone, aimlessly. Suddenly one day, she knelt down in front of a peach tree and begged, "Shi Hua, are you still refusing to forgive me?" cold."

Liuxue's heart trembled, and what lingered in her ears was the mournful cry——Shi Hua, are you still unwilling to forgive me?

"Then use my Soul Flying Soul Scatter for your Demon Cultivator to cross the tribulation safely." Caiwei's wailing that day still lingers in her mind. She thought she had forgotten it, but found that she couldn't forget it at all.

Xia Li knew that demon cultivators and monster cultivators would encounter thunder calamities, and he had already survived thunder calamities four times.Shi Hua was originally a Buddhist cultivator, but later entered the way of magic. His power when encountering thunder calamity is naturally different from that encountered by ordinary cultivators.

Since ancient times, many demon cultivators have lost their lives in this thunder calamity.Unexpectedly, Caiwei would use herself as a sacrifice in exchange for Shi Hua to survive the tribulation safely.

I don't know Caiwei well, and I only met a few times, and it was because I went to Ciyun Temple to pick peach blossoms and met two people who had a good talk in the peach blossom forest.In his impression, Caiwei was just an ordinary-looking woman with the fragrance of lilies on her body.

For this reason, Shi Hua made his own smell like lilies all day long, and carried a lily sachet with him.

Thinking of this, Xia Li couldn't help but vomit - Nima, wearing a sachet, is that what a monk should do? !