Chapter 1 (Catching Bugs)
Chapter 1 (Catching Bugs)
If it wasn't for Mr. An Guogong this morning, Gu Fang's father, Gu Yan, sent a servant to tell him, he would have almost forgotten that today is his birthday.
When Gu Fang thought about it, he felt that all this was a bit ridiculous.His father hadn't cared about him since his mother passed away 12 years ago, but now he remembered his birthday and sent someone to remind him.This is to celebrate that his son who doesn't like him has finally grown up, he can leave the Duke's mansion, and won't block the eyes of everyone in the mansion anymore?
Gu Fang listened to the young man relay the words of Mr. An Guogong, while preparing the water to be used in the kitchen today.When he finished drawing the water, the boy hadn't finished speaking. Gu Fang couldn't bear to listen any longer, so he said casually, "I see." and sent the boy away.As for what the boy said, he didn't fully remember it, but he vaguely remembered that the boy said that An Guogong had prepared a birthday party for him, and asked him to prepare and go there at night.
Birthday party?
Gu Fang sneered and put down the water ladle, thinking that this was probably another "good idea" thought up by his half-brothers, and wanted to take the opportunity to make fun of him, and watch him laugh.
"I went to the front to have a look just now, and there are quite a lot of people here." A translucent figure suddenly appeared beside Gu Fang out of thin air, and whispered in his ear furtively.
"You are already a ghost. No one can see you except me. What are you afraid of?" Gu Fang turned his head, almost sticking to Cuihua's bloody face even if he was a ghost.
Cuihua entered An Guogong's mansion five years ago. She was originally Gu Fang's father's lover outside.Later, Gu Fang's aunt found out, and Gu Yan had no choice but to bring Cuihua back.But it didn't take long for Cuihua to be found dead in the woodshed.
The reason why I met Cuihua was because Gu Fang went to chop firewood in the woodshed one day a few years ago, and after seeing her bloody face a few more times, he was entangled by her.
Over the past few years, Gu Fang and Cuihua have become friends, and he relied on Cuihua's tip-off several times to avoid falling into the trap of his half-brothers.
When Cuihua was a human being, she was timid and fearful, but after becoming a ghost, she became much more courageous.Gu Fang is not used to her cautious appearance now.
"What do you know?" Cuihua glared at Gu Fang, "I passed by a courtyard in the back of the mountain a few days ago and found someone talking inside, so I went in and took a look. Guess what I saw?"
"Someone is stealing love." Gu Fang tidied up the tools in the water room, and then walked slowly to his room.I didn't feel that there was anything wrong with what I said.Isn't this the state government?It looked glamorous on the outside, but it was filthy on the inside.
"No way!" Cuihua floated in front of him, puffing her cheeks and said, "I saw a ghost!"
"You can become a ghost, why can't others?" Gu Fang disagreed.
"What do you know? Those ghosts are not ordinary ghosts! It's..." Before Cuihua finished speaking, Gu Fang suddenly waved her hand to silence her.It's not that Gu Fang disliked her for being noisy, but because he saw his younger sister, Gu Xue, coming around from behind the rockery.
"Gu Fang." As soon as Gu Xue saw Gu Fang, her face changed as if she saw something bad, and she called him by his name very bluntly, without feeling that it was disrespect to her brother at all. respect.And the maid who followed her also looked down on Gu Fang.
"Second miss." Gu Fang took a step back, and didn't call Gu Xue "sister" on purpose.
"Even if father prepares a birthday party for you, don't be complacent! Besides, father only let the men in the family go, without mother's approval, you are still the child of a lowly servant!" Gu Xue snorted coldly, and brought Followed by a large group of maidservants, they swayed away.
The status of women in the Dayao Dynasty is very high, and it is very serious for the concubines not to be recognized by the aunt.That's why Gu Xue said that to mock Gu Fang.
It's a pity that Gu Fang didn't take her cynicism to heart at all, but just watched her leaving back, and he couldn't help muttering in his heart.
This is strange, is his father really so kind?
He didn't believe it.
"Tell me about what you saw ahead." When he returned to the room, Gu Fang asked Cuihua to tell him what he saw in detail. He always felt that there was something wrong with it.
"But I want to continue talking about those ghosts." Cuihua looked very conflicted.
"I don't want to hear it." But this didn't affect Gu Fang at all, he looked at Cuihua indifferently.
"Hmph!" Cuihua whimpered unhappily for a long time before finally saying under Gu Fang's stare, "I saw that they set up many banquets in front, invited many guests, and decorated the front hall. Yes. But I can't see the color of the decoration when I turned into a ghost. Your father also looks very happy."
"That's weird." Although everything Cuihua said was so normal, Gu Xin still had a strange feeling in his heart, as if something that would change his life was about to happen.
At night, he dug out the only piece of clothing without holes from under the bed and put it on, then stood at the door and looked back at the dilapidated little house where he had lived for more than ten years.
"Your house is not as good as the one I lived outside." Cuihua is not used to Gu Fang's sad appearance now.
"Shut up." Gu Fang didn't want to say a word to her now.His own thoughts were still in confusion, and he really didn't have the energy to distract himself.
When he arrived at the front hall, Gu Fang understood what Cuihua meant when he said that the front hall was decorated.There are white silks and satins hanging on every rail, white lanterns in every corner, and even the tablecloths of the banquet are white.
Are they celebrating his birthday or his funeral?
Gu Fang only felt that there was a raging fire burning in his heart now, burning away all the hidden expectations for this "home" in his heart.
"Gu Fang, is this festive attire?" Cuihua, who could only see black and white, was still standing next to him, smiling completely without knowing why.
"It's pretty." Gu Fang answered Cuihua coldly, "It's prettier than any other color." Then he stood at the entrance of the front hall and stopped moving forward.
"Gu Fang." An Guogong Gu Yan finally lowered his upturned head and noticed this son who had been neglected by him.He didn't blame Gu Fang for his indifference, instead he personally brought the Gu family men who were dressed in white like him to the front of Gu Fang.
Compared with Gu Fang, a child who couldn't eat enough, An Guogong was very tall. He stood in front of Gu Fang like a mountain, and then said the "sentence" to his son coldly.
"From today onwards, you are the guardian of the Gu family's generation."
Gu Fang couldn't hear what Gu Yan and the others said next, only the three words "spirit guard" kept spinning in his mind.
He turned out to be a guardian?Ha, it's ridiculous, aren't they afraid that he would set fire to the ancestral hall and the ancestral tablets when he was guarding the ancestral hall?
Gu Fang also finally understood why Gu Yan and others wanted to hold a funeral for him.Because the guardian must be a "dead person", so that he can do a good job of guarding the ancestral hall and ancestral tablets without any worries.
He just stood there indifferently waiting for his funeral to end.Even if several of his half-brothers came over to "congratulate" him during the period, Gu Fang's expression did not change a little bit.
Everything about the Gu family is no longer worth his trouble.
The funeral ceremony ended at about Zi shi, and Gu Fang was brought to the ancestral hall of the Gu family by An Guogong and other clan elders, a courtyard hidden deep in the back mountain of An Guogong's mansion.After Gu Yan gave him a few stern words, he led the people away.
My name is Gu Fang, the third son of An Guogong Gu Yanshu, and also the guardian of the Gu family's generation.Today is my birthday and my death day.
"Isn't this story wonderful?" Gu Fang looked up at this ancient building full of age, and suddenly said jokingly to Cuihua with great interest.
But after waiting for a long time, he did not hear Cuihua's response. When he looked back, she had already retreated to the bottom of the wall, half of her body was no longer in the yard.
"What's wrong with you?" Gu Fang frowned.
"This, this is the yard I told you about before!"
Seeing Cuihua panicked, Gu Fang finally remembered what Cuihua was interrupted by Gu Xue during the day.
"Is this the haunted house?" He turned his head to look at the ancestral hall, and he really felt that it was a little creepy.The ancestral hall is like a black hole that wants to swallow the world, and the bright moonlight is also extremely dim here.
"Hey, here is a kid with yin and yang eyes." Suddenly, he heard a somewhat hoarse voice coming from the ancestral hall.
Before Gu Fang felt anything, Cuihua screamed and passed out.
"Am I that scary?" The voice sounded a little wronged.
"That's because father, you have too much evil spirit, even if you become a ghost, you won't be able to dissipate." He heard a more gentle voice.
"Who are you?" Gu Fang slowly retreated to Cuihua's side, then looked warily at the two ghosts who suddenly appeared.
They both looked like old people, one with a deep scar on his face, and the other who looked much kinder.
"Don't be afraid." The kind one said, "We are all the ancestors of the Gu family."
"It's the ancestor and his son who fought with the emperor!" The guard with the scar on his face was still alert, and he shouted at him displeased.
When Gu Fang heard this, he couldn't turn the corner. It took him a while to worry about the meaning of the two people's words.The Gu family of An Guogong has been passed down for several generations, and among them, the only one who fought with the emperor was the founding father who was canonized as An Guogong.
"Haven't you all been dead for more than 100 years?" Gu Fang asked in disbelief. .
"It's not you juniors, what wish did you make blindly? I can't reincarnate the old man!" The scar-faced ancestor was even more unhappy.But while he was talking, Gu Fang actually heard a hint of grievance.
"Okay, let's go in and talk about it." His son, the second-generation Duke An Guo smiled and said to Gu Fang, and then he pointed to Cuihua, "This is your friend."
"Yeah." Gu Fang nodded, "Let her be here, and I'll wake up after a while."
After the second generation An Guogong explained, Gu Fang realized that the reason why people become ghosts after death is not only because of resentment or unwillingness to reincarnate.He and the first An Guogong were unable to reincarnate because the descendants who held the funeral for them at that time wanted them to stay too strongly.
"After becoming a ghost, I found out that my father hadn't even been reincarnated." The second generation said with a smile, "The previous guardians of the Gu family couldn't see us, and you are the first one."
"What exactly do the guardians do?" Gu Fang asked suddenly.
Both the first and second generations were silent.After a long time, the first generation replied softly: "I don't know about other people's family, just chat with us when you are free."
"That's right." The second generation smiled brightly.
At dawn the next day, Cuihua finally woke up.When she knew that Gu Fang was going to stay with these two ghosts that frightened her for a long time, she began to consider whether to break up with him.
But probably because she was afraid of being alone, Cuihua still hesitated, and reluctantly lived in a small room behind the ancestral hall, although Gu Fang never allocated her any room.
To be honest, although Gu Fang was a little angry and resentful at the moment he was announced as a guardian, but after he really became a guardian, he put this resentment in his heart.
"You were bought by these few meals?" Cuihua looked at Gu Fang with disdain.
"Isn't it okay to have food without working?" Gu Fang asked back.
"Did you forget that they partnered to bully you on your birthday?" Cuihua still looked very angry.
"I haven't forgotten." Gu Fang slowly put down the bowl and chopsticks, "So I decided to watch them get their retribution here one by one."
The two ancestors were there when he said this, and they just looked at each other after hearing this, and they didn't mean to blame him at all.
"An Guogong's mansion is really..." The first ancestor didn't say everything, but Gu Fang could still hear the disappointment in his tone.
But how could everything in the world be predictable by Gu Fang.On the morning of the third day when he became a spirit guard, he was called out in a hurry by Cuihua and the two ancestors.
As soon as he opened his eyes, his eyes were filled with raging flames.
Gu Fang asked in confusion, "Did I accidentally burn the ancestral hall?"
"No!" Cuihua's voice sounded very anxious, "It's the whole An Guogong's mansion that is on fire!"
Gu Fang finally woke up now.He didn't have time to put on his shoes, so he put on a coat and rushed out of the ancestral hall.
As soon as he opened the gate of the ancestral hall, he took advantage of the higher terrain of the ancestral hall to see clearly the situation of the entire An Guogong Mansion, which looked like a scene of hell on earth.
The entire An Guogong Mansion was on fire, black smoke was everywhere, adults and children shouting for help, as well as the sharp footsteps of iron cavalry could be vaguely heard - that was the voice of the army.
In the distance, Gu Fang saw a man in black armor sitting on a horse, looking down at the miserable state of Duke Anguo's mansion.
When he looked towards the ancestral hall, Gu Fang even felt that he found himself!
"What's going on?" Gu Fang withdrew his eyes in a panic. Although the fire made the surrounding temperature rise very high, he still felt a chill rising from under his feet.
"It's too late to explain." The ancestors took Gu Fang to a dark room in the ancestral hall. "You hide here. If there is food in it, come out in a few days."
"What about you?" Gu Fang keenly noticed that the ancestors and Cuihua looked at him a little differently, so he couldn't help asking.
The ancestors of the first generation couldn't hide it from him, so they said: "This time the Gu family is doomed, and the power of our vows will naturally disappear."
"We are going to be reincarnated." The second generation smiled with a little relief.
Gu Fang looked at Cuihua again: "What about you?"
"I didn't go to reincarnation because I wanted to see that heartbroken Gu Yan not end well." Cuihua burst into tears, the tears mixed with the blood on her face, which looked quite frightening.
"You're going to disappear too." He understood.
Cuihua didn't say anything more.
Gu Fang quietly watched them disappear at the entrance of the secret room, then took out the food prepared in the secret room and stuffed it down his throat bit by bit.
He can't die.If he died, who would remember Cuihua and the old ancestor?
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No.1 is called the third person, I hope everyone will continue to support~
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