What you hold on to

The Taoist of the Taiping Dao sat down in a daze, and then remembered to salute, but was pressed down by Wei Yuan.

"Sit down first, there is no need to do this."

Wei Yuan just smiled and said sit down, and the soul really sat down.

His face was dazed.

Wei Yuan sighed secretly.

After a person dies, the true spirit wears out.

When it comes to the first seven days, there is actually only the last bit of obsession left, and this obsession will drive the soul to the place where he is most obsessed before it finally dissipates.

Generally, it will return to the body, or find itself.

The soul looks at the body, looks at itself, and realizes that it is dead, so it may laugh suddenly, or cry bitterly, and return to heaven and earth.

Or it may return to the side of its parents and relatives, watching them crying for itself, watching all night, and finally let go of a little obsession, sigh, turn around, walk out of the house without looking back, and slowly dissipate.

But for someone like the Taoist Taiping, who did not look for his body or relatives after death, but found Wei Yuan instead, he did not quite understand. He could only attribute it to a special situation. Wei Yuan had a vague feeling that something was staring at him during the day, so he did not go to bed after midnight.

Moved the soul-nourishing tree to the middle of the museum, waiting for guests to come.

Unexpectedly, it was the lonely soul of the Taoist Taiping.

......…

Wei Yuan did not ask, but just sat quietly.

Perhaps because the night was getting darker and the yin energy was rising, or perhaps because of the effect of the soul-nourishing tree, the look on the Taoist Taiping's face gradually became sober, no longer confused, and finally at three o'clock in the morning, when the yin energy was at its peak, his eyes finally regained a trace of intelligence.

He looked around blankly, then looked at Wei Yuan, with a trace of hope and joy in his eyes, and stood up and saluted:

"Second Heavenly Master..."

Wei Yuan stopped his salute, asked the water ghost to bring the bowl of rice, put it on the table, and said:

"Today is your seventh day."

"No need to be so formal."

He paused, and suddenly felt that this statement was a bit strange.

His tone did not change, and he asked: "You came to me, do you have something to say?"

Just don't say it, I think I can still save it.

Wei Yuan said to himself as a joke in his heart, but he still felt quite heavy. The Taoist of Taiping held the bowl, but did not move his chopsticks to eat, and said: "I just want to tell the second Heavenly Master about the methods and skills of the traitor, and let the Heavenly Master execute him to correct the style of the Taiping Department."

He was just a soul at the moment.

Ordinary people lie without changing their expressions and can pretend.

If the true spirit is vague, there will be external manifestations.

This is not the purpose of his coming.

I think he has other plans.

Wei Yuan looked at the Taoist of Taiping, retracted his gaze, did not point it out, just smiled and nodded:

"Very good."

......

The water ghost went to get a stack of paper.

Record what the Taoist said.

"No one knows the name of that man, but he inherited the Taiping tribe, so he called himself Taiping Tiangong, and sometimes he said that he was the Tiangong General of this era. After he became famous, it was spread that he was the contemporary Taiping Dao master."

"He is extremely cunning, good at the Yellow Turban Warrior Curse, the Taoist Golden Light Curse, and the escape technique, which is the style of the Miaojiang area. He designed the two types of military solution and Gu Chong escape. His magic is best at driving souls and souls, and he has mastered thunder, wind, and fire, but I'm afraid he is not very proficient, just enough to use."

"But if you can hold the Taiping Essential Technique, even if you are not good at it, it can be improved to a very powerful level."

"The magic weapon he used, a soul-calling bell, was used when he killed a person in Xiangxi that year. After he passed away, he got a treasure from a sect and a magic sword... Later, he made a name for himself in Shenzhou. He once angered the Heavenly Master. At that time, the old Heavenly Master seemed to have not yet succeeded the Heavenly Master and seemed to be planning to go down the mountain. The traitor was scared when he heard the news and fled Shenzhou to Sakurajima at night. "

"It was not until the old Heavenly Master succeeded the Heavenly Master and could not easily go down the mountain that he dared to come back again after several years."

"During that time, we also followed him to Sakurajima."

The soul of the Taiping Taoist, while his true spirit was still clear, told everything he knew, including the general experience of the Taiping Taoist master, and what he knew about the magic that the latter was good at. The water ghost wrote quickly, and finally controlled the water flow to turn it into words on the paper.

It took more than an hour to finish.

Wei Yuan looked at the Taiping Dao monk with a hideous look of death calmly, and said calmly: "Anything else you want to say?"

"Then, then..."

The soul whose true spirit was worn out and only obsession remained hesitated for a moment, and suddenly prostrated himself on the ground, kowtowed for a long time, and choked up:

"Disciple begs the Heavenly Master to have mercy."

"For the sake of my atonement, please let someone... let someone take care of my mother."

"After I left, she was left alone, I was worried, worried..."

The Taoist couldn't speak a complete sentence, kowtowed heavily, and his eyes were already red.

Wei Yuan was silent.

The Taoist wandered in the human world for seven days, and finally his obsession drove him here, not to see his mother, but to find a support for his lonely old mother in her later years.

He raised his hand to support the Taoist soul and said, "Stand up and talk."

......

"Don't you have a wife?"

When the Taoist barely stabilized his emotions, Wei Yuan suggested that he write a few letters.

When the Taoist was holding the pen, he suddenly remembered that when he wanted to save the Taoist before, the latter had a wife and children in the illusion. The Taoist paused and said:

"That was just an illusion. Disciple, I left home for thirty years and didn't dare to go home. I was afraid that the traitor would be cruel and secretly attack my family. As a result, in the illusion, I ran back home regardless of everything. At that time, I didn't care about anything and just wanted to go home to see my mother."

"Leaving home for thirty years?"

"Yes."

"I was taken away when I was a child, At that time, my mother said there was no oil at home and asked me to make a pot of oil. I still remember that the pear trees at home had just been planted. My mother said that in another year, she would see pear blossoms and a few small pears would be born in autumn, so she would not have to go out to buy them. "

"When I went out to get oil, I saw a pear blossom blooming on the pear tree. It was very small, but it really bloomed." The Taoist emphasized: "I thought, after getting oil, I would tell my mother that it would bloom this year. Will there be pears to eat this year?"

"I can still remember it very clearly now."

His voice paused for a long time and said, "Then I met that person."

"Follow him in a daze."

"I haven't remembered my mother for several years. But I often see the pear blossom in my dreams. Sometimes when I wake up, my pillow is wet. Later, I can't even make this dream. I remembered it again until I was thirty years old. But I was afraid. When I only dared to pass by, I looked at my house from a distance and didn't even dare to change my expression."

"I I have seen many pear blossoms and eaten many pears, but no flower can compare to that one. "

"Master, if you have a chance, you can go and see it. The pear blossom must be very beautiful."

Wei Yuan was silent for a while, and said: "Then, your wife."

The Taoist was stunned, smiled, and just said:

"It's the girl I liked when I was a child, the daughter of the neighbor."

"She moved out a long time ago, and she is probably married now. The child is going to high school."

The tone seemed to be understated, but his eyes were slightly red.

Finally, he wrote one letter after another until the morning light was dim and the yin energy was about to dissipate. Generally speaking, the soul of a person will dissipate seven days after death. If the obsession does not dissipate and survives the catastrophe of heaven and earth, it will turn into a fierce ghost. However, it is too rare to have three ghosts like the three in Wei Yuan Museum, which are neither fierce ghosts nor can they live forever.

Wei Yuan put away the letter and said, "Go see your mother again."

The Taoist was stunned.

Wei Yuan casually took out the black umbrella that had been sealed for a long time. This was the thing he had used when he first met Crouching Tiger. He opened the umbrella and shook it, taking the Taoist's soul into it. At this moment, the Yin Qi had not completely dissipated, and the Yang Qi had not yet really illuminated the earth. It was the time when Yin and Yang were about to separate the dusk and dawn.

Wei Yuan pushed open the door of the museum and walked out.

Following the guidance of the soul in the umbrella, Wei Yuan controlled the flowing wind. There were not many people on the road at this time, so he didn't need to hide. Soon, when the sky was slightly bright, Wei Yuan arrived at a small town.

Urban construction is changing with each passing day.

But the Taoist's mother has not moved away for thirty years.

There are only some old streets and old people here, lifeless. The pear tree in the yard is still there, and it has grown tall and thick, but now it is autumn, the pear blossoms are gone, and the pears have fallen. The soul of the Taoist stood in front of the window and saw his mother through the curtains.

His eyes were already red.

But the soul had no tears, and he couldn't cry.

After a long time, he looked at his mother deeply and stepped back step by step.

Wei Yuan said: "Won't you look at it again?"

The Taoist grinned and said: "No, if you look at it again, I'm afraid you won't be able to leave."

"Then it becomes an obsession. If the obsession doesn't die, it will become a fierce ghost."

He wiped his eyes and said:

"I am led by the Taiping Department. No matter what, I don't want to become a fierce ghost that harms people."

"Is that so..."

Finally, the Taoist knelt down, kowtowed three times towards the old house, and turned to leave.

A hand was on his shoulder. The Taoist turned his head in surprise and said, "Second Heavenly Master..."

Wei Yuan said, "What did you call me?"

The Taoist was stunned and said, "Second Heavenly Master?"

Wei Yuan looked into the distance and said seriously:

"Since you call me the Second Heavenly Master, I can't just sit there and watch..."

The voice paused, and he shook his head self-deprecatingly and said, "Forget it, this is just an excuse."

"I always have to help when I meet someone."

He patted the Taoist's shoulder, causing him to stagger and stumble forward. Wei Yuan turned the black umbrella in his hand and said, "Go ahead."

He injected a divine power, but did not cast a spell. He just followed the trend and the law came from his heart. He watched the Taoist stumble forward and stand at the door. In a trance, he saw the Taoist disintegrate into light dust, which flew up and poured into the pear tree.

"Does the true spirit live in a tree and avoid the rules of heaven and earth?"

"It can be considered a way."

Wei Yuan shook his head, put away the umbrella, and turned to leave.

The water ghost and the military soul of the Qi family army were on the left and right.

The water ghost smacked his tongue and said, "What a pity, I thought he could see his mother."

"In the end, he turned into a tree, which is no different from being scattered in the world."

The military soul retorted, "How can this be as you said?"

The water ghost clicked his tongue, spread his hands, and said:

"He is taking advantage of the loophole now and avoiding the end of dissipation, but when his spirit comes out, it will be 100% dispersed, so he can only be a tree, unable to speak, and can't What's the difference between being able to take care of his mother and disappearing? "

The soul of the Qi family army shook his head and said, "There is a big difference."

He said seriously, "In spring, there are pear blossoms all over the tree, and the fragrance is sent in dreams. Isn't this also considered to be accompanying parents? In the hot summer, it is also considered to be filial piety to provide shade for mother. In autumn, when there is leisure time, the fallen leaves are all over the ground, and the sound of stepping on them is soft and crisp. In winter, it is cold, and it is used as a decoration, and it is also good to be covered in silver. "

"He can spend the next years with Being with your mother, even if you are speechless, isn't this more filial than most people in the world? "

The water ghost was silent for a while and said, "That's too."

"But, they can't meet again after all, right?"

Wei Yuan said, "I can see you again."

The ghosts were stunned. Wei Yuan gently tapped the ground with the black umbrella in his hand, and did not turn his head, and said softly: "In recent years, we have letters written by him, which will be delivered for several months, or flowers bloom in spring or snow fall in winter. When his mother's birthday is approaching, he should come out of the tree..."

"See your mother for the last time."

"Let my mother see him again."

"Even if the next one is the scattered."

The two ghosts were stunned. The water ghost suddenly became stunned. He sniffed his nose and said strangely, "Where did the fragrance come from?"

The soldiers of the Qi family army said, "What are you talking about? It's all late autumn."

"Huh? No, it really smells."

Wei Yuan stopped, and he was surprised and turned his head away.

Seeing the pear tree in the old courtyard with its branches and leaves waving, in this late autumn season, white buds bloomed one by one, and then just a slight breeze blew, and the whole tree was as white as snow, and the fragrance was faint and long, just escaping and sticking to Wei Yuan's cuffs.

The pear blossoms on the tree swayed slightly on the creaking, like a Taoist priest bowing.

Wei Yuan took a deep look, took out the first letter written by the Taoist priest before, flicked his fingers, and the breeze blew, brushing the letter over the top of the pear tree, bringing a wisp of wind, and a white flower gently fell in front of the window.

The heat in late autumn makes people angry.

But when the pear blossoms bloomed, their pure white appearance made people feel like they were back in spring or winter, with a touch of coolness. Someone who got up early opened the window and saw the white first, then was filled with the fragrance of the flowers, and asked in surprise: "Why are they blooming?"

"Or is it snowing?"

The whole quaint, not so advanced and prosperous town was awakened by this old pear tree, and was pulled back to spring. People opened their doors one by one, surprised by this unbelievable scene, and the previous coldness suddenly became lively.

The water ghost and the soldier soul looked at it in a daze.

De de de, de de de.

The black umbrella tapped the ground lightly, and the two ghosts turned their heads and saw the crowd rushing towards the pear tree.

The young owner of the museum went against the flow of people, holding an umbrella behind his back, and had already gone far away.