Chapter 21
Chapter 21
Under the soft fur is the coldness that a living creature should not have.
Song Qingming asked tentatively again: "Are they already dead?"
Xie Yu let out a calm 'hmm'.
Song Qingming gently put down the little gray rabbit in his hand, then turned his neck stiffly to look at Xie Yu: "What's going on?"
Xie Yu chuckled: "All things have spirits, people have souls, and these animals naturally also have souls, but they will not go to the underworld after death, but to another place."
Song Qingming: "...where are you going?"
Xie Yu shook his head: "No one has been there except them, so I don't know."
The little gray rabbit that had just been put down jumped onto Song Qingming's lap again, looking at him with big watery eyes, as if seeking to be touched.
That appearance is extremely cute, but cute is cute. After knowing that they are not living things, Song Qingming always feels a little weird.
"Touch them, they will be picked up immediately." Xie Yu said.
Song Qingming regained his energy and asked quickly, "Is it impermanence?"
Seeing his excitement, Xie Yu chuckled, then shook his head.
Song Qingming felt a little lost, and patted the rabbits in front of him listlessly with his head down.
Xie Yu glanced at him softly, and then looked at the animals: "Although there is a law of life and death for all things, and there is a law of reincarnation, one party must prey on the other in order to survive, but there are also many souls who died in vain."
Song Qingming looked at Xie Yu puzzled, not knowing what he was going to say.
Xie Yu: "Many of them were hunted and killed by humans."
Song Qingming was slightly stunned, and after a long while vaguely understood what Xie Yu meant.
Fox fur, deer gall, tiger bones, wolf teeth... People take what they need as a matter of course, but they forget that they are part of their birth and should not be taken by others at will.
Song Qingming lowered his gaze, and looked at these little guys again, and it didn't seem so strange.
"Do you think they hate those people?" Song Qingming asked softly.
Xie Yu: "Maybe I hated it, but they are not as persistent as people, and they put them all down after death. If someone reaches out, they are still willing to choose to trust."
This is probably the most tender forgiveness in the world.
Song Qingming caressed the deer's body with his palm, and a smile overflowed from the corner of his lips after a while: "It's so warm."
From the cold, he experienced a warmth different from body temperature.
There was a sound not far away, and a moment later a deer with a snow-white body appeared in front of it.
It is tall and majestic, but holy and flawless, and it attracts the attention of all spirits as soon as it appears.
Xie Yu looked over: "He only comes on this day every year to take these souls where they should go."
The animals around them ran towards the white deer one after another.
Before turning around with these souls, Bailu bowed his head respectfully in Song Qingming's direction, and then turned around and ran forward with the souls.
Song Qingming opened his mouth wide and held his chin with his hands after a while: "It was treating you just now... Xie Yu, who are you?"
Xie Yu turned around and smiled at him: "It's not about me."
Who is that for?
Song Qingming looked at him suspiciously, but Xie Yu started laughing again without saying a word.
Seeing that he was going to fool him again, Song Qingming said seriously: "Who are you? If you don't tell me the truth, we two will go our separate ways!"
These words seemed to frighten Xie Yu, frowning slightly for a moment, and then the smile on his face disappeared, replaced by a sad expression.
"I'm just an ordinary person who knows some magic..."
Song Qingming just wanted to say that he believed in a ghost, but Xie Yu's definition of ordinary people is too strange, right? !
But before he opened his mouth, Xie Yu continued: "If you don't come with me, then I will be alone again. The person I like is not here, and neither are you. I am so pitiful..."
Song Qingming: ...
This made Song Qingming feel guilty again, as if he had committed some serious crime and ruthlessly sprinkled salt on Xie Yu's wound.
Apart from other things, Xie Yu saved him and comforted him kindly, he cannot be ungrateful in life.
Song Qingming turned his face away, looked elsewhere and said, "I'm scaring you. I still need to use your skills. I can't separate them for now."
Xie Yu couldn't help laughing behind him, and hastily stopped smiling before Song Qingming turned his head.
When the two stood up and were about to leave, there was another sound of running in the direction the spirits had just left.
When they looked back, it was a yellow earth dog running back.
Song Qingming didn't remember that there was such a dog just now, but Xie Yu remembered that when the other little guys approached them, this dog was lying on its stomach in the grass in the distance, refusing to approach.
Now he refused to leave again and ran back.
The dog ran up to them, panting, with something in its mouth.
Xie Yu said, "If you don't leave, you will have to wait another year before he comes back."
The dog looked back at the direction the spirits had left, then turned back and whimpered sadly.
It drooped its tail and looked at Song Qingming with a begging gaze.
Song Qingming couldn't stand this sight, squatted down and said helplessly, "What do you want to do?"
The dog lowered its head, put the thing in its mouth on the ground, and then began to wag its tail towards Song Qingming.
Song Qingming picked it up.
It was a flawless jadeite, delicate and smooth to the touch, with the word Huai Jing engraved on the back, and a pair of mandarin ducks were engraved on the front, with a pearl in their mouths.
It looked like a high-quality jade pendant, but it was very dirty, as if something had dried up. Song Qingming took a closer look, and then sniffed it.
"It seems...it's blood." He looked up at Xie Yu.
Xie Yu also squatted down, looked at the things on the jade pendant, and nodded.
Song Qingming asked the dog: "Did you pick up this jade pendant? Is the blood yours?"
After he asked, the dog turned around in a hurry, barking twice from time to time.
Song Qingming and Xie Yu looked at each other, neither of them understood what it meant.
After a long while, Xie Yu looked up and said with some worry: "They have already left."
The dog lay down on the ground dejectedly.
Song Qingming felt sorry for it, but felt that there was nothing he could do to help him: "Give it back to you."
Just as he was about to return the jade pendant to it, the dog jumped up excitedly and barked at Song Qingming.
Because he was bitten by a dog when he was a child, Song Qingming subconsciously dodged and fell backwards.
Seeing Xie Yu, she hurriedly blocked him, Song Qingming sat firmly on Xie Yu's lap, and fell into his arms.
Song Qingming's heart beat involuntarily faster against the hard chest that was pressed against his chest, as if reminding him of something.
After a while he came back to his senses, and hurriedly got up from Xie Yu's lap, but just as his body separated from Xie Yu, the hand on his waist suddenly pulled him back to his original position, even a little tighter than before. .
"What are you doing?!" Song Qingming asked in panic.
Xie Yu was behind him, and his voice was close to his ear, low and deep, falling lightly into his ears.
"I'm afraid you'll fall."
That voice scratched an itchy nerve, making Song Qingming's back tense even more.
Song Qingming didn't know that the roots of her ears had turned pink, but Xie Yu could see it clearly, and the corners of her lips curled into a satisfied arc.
"I won't fall anymore, let me go." Song Qingming said, clutching the hem of his clothes tightly.
Xie Yu felt a lot of reluctance, but he still let go.
Without restraint, Song Qingming separated from Xie Yu in a panic, then took the nervousness as annoyance, pointed at the dog's nose and said, "I wanted to help you just now, but you bit me?"
The dog put on a pitiful look and whimpered again.
Xie Yu tidied up the folds on the clothes: "I think it should want to give you this jade pendant."
"give me?"
Song Qingming was still puzzled, but seeing the pitiful look of the dog, he still stuffed the jade pendant into his bosom.
Afterwards, the two walked out of the dense forest, and the dog followed them all the way until it stopped suddenly at the exit of the dense forest.
Song Qingming glanced back: "Why doesn't it follow?"
Xie Yu: "It seems to be trapped here, and there is no way to leave this dense forest."
Song Qingming nodded thoughtfully.
Seeing what he seemed to be thinking, Xie Yu asked, "What's wrong?"
Song Qingming stroked his chin: "The pattern on the jade pendant seems familiar to me."
Xie Yu: "Where did you meet?"
Song Qingming shook his head, he couldn't think of it anymore, and decided not to think about it after a while.
When going back, he didn't let Xie Yu jump around again, but fortunately, it was not far to go back, so the two decided to walk.
When approaching the city gate, a man with the appearance of a servant hurried out of the city gate and headed towards the Yinluo Temple.
Yinluo King Temple...
A light flashed in Song Qingming's mind: "I remembered, I saw the pattern on the jade pendant in Yinluowang Temple!"
Xie Yu looked at him: "Yin Luo Wang Temple?"
Song Qingming: "There was a tryst between a man and a woman there. The woman accidentally dropped her purse, and the pattern on the purse was exactly the same as this jade pendant. Maybe the dog was the woman's pet. She missed her owner very much, so I asked us to find it and return the jade pendant. To the master!"
Things went smoothly, Song Qingming felt like he had solved a big case, and couldn't keep his mouth shut from laughing.
Seeing his contented and happier appearance, Xie Yu's eyes filled with tenderness.
After entering the city gate, Song Qingming shivered immediately.
It was a hot day in July, but it was cold and windy in Siliang City.
With some ghost experience, Song Qingming knew that this must be abnormal, and subconsciously leaned against Xie Yu.
Walking in front of the Acacia Bridge, the two stopped at the same time.
In the middle of the bridge lay a dirty and worn sack.
Looking at the sack, Song Qingming felt uncomfortable all over, and he also knew that the thing blocking the bridge in the middle of the night must not be a good thing.
And what Xie Yu saw was a sack wrapped in soaring resentment.
"Should we cross this bridge or not?" Song Qingming asked.
Xie Yu smiled and said, "Yes."
After finishing speaking, the two lifted their feet and walked over.
After walking three or four steps, the sack moved forward abruptly.
Song Qingming subconsciously shuddered.
But Xie Yu was holding a formula in his hand, and a cold light struck fiercely on the sack.
The sack turned into a puff of black smoke with a bang and disappeared.
Song Qingming looked around: "It's gone?"
Xie Yu's eyes darkened slightly: "It's just an illusion of resentment, that thing is still there."
As soon as he finished speaking, the Yu River under the Xiangsi Bridge began to bubble up, and then one after another, long-haired women floated to the surface.
The wet long hair stuck to the face, and the eyes without black pupils stared at the two of them. After a while, 'they' climbed ashore one after another.
The bones of these female ghosts seemed to have been smashed by someone. Rather than crawling, it was better to say they were moving forward with their bruised and purple bodies that had been swollen from soaking.
Xie Yu's brows were tightly furrowed, he had a headache from the resentment.
He held the chain tightly in his hand and swept across, immediately scattered more than a dozen female ghosts, but there were still more female ghosts crawling to the shore.
All of them are the embodiment of resentment, which is the most annoying. If the real ghost is not found, these resentments will be endless.
Song Qingming hid behind him, the female ghost over there was scary, but he knew that Xie Yu was reliable, so he was not afraid.
Just as he was thinking, someone patted him on the shoulder lightly.
He subconsciously turned around, and there was no one behind him.
When he turned his head again, Xie Yu in front of him had disappeared.
Only the gloomy Acacia Bridge is quietly waiting for someone to step on it in the mist.
Standing by the side of the bridge was a woman in white, with her head bowed, her long ink-like hair covering her face, she slowly waved a pale hand towards Song Qingming...
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