Chapter 29 Chapter 29 Krathong

The grievances accumulated over the years were so fierce that Zi Mian was also shocked. Cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He watched Long Baiyue's face turn from red to green but was at a loss for a moment - there was no magic weapon on his boat, and the way to catch ghosts at this moment was Can't stand that monster. In desperation, he hugged Long Baiyue and ran to the Taoist priest who was sitting in the middle of the street behind the incense table and singing ghost songs. Humming. "Brother Taoist, help me." Zi Mian shook the Taoist priest in cold sweat. The Taoist priest half-opened one eye and saw Zi Mian in Taoist robe hugging the dying Long Baiyue, he was taken aback: "Brother Taoist, what happened to you?"

Zi Mian couldn't explain more to him, so she said in a hurry: "There are evil spirits attacking, you should do something quickly..." Before he finished speaking, the Taoist jumped up and turned pale with fright: "Ghost? Where is the ghost? No, no, I have to go. I'm here to support the scene. I rely on this to earn two personal money all year round, but I don’t want to risk my life going in.” He turned out to be an unlearned and inexperienced slob, Zi Mian saw that he was about to leave with a bundle of burdens, and she gritted her teeth angrily: "Lend me your outfit!"

The Taoist was about to hesitate to refuse, but Zi Mian snatched the things in his hand. Seeing that the situation was really serious, he shrank his neck and slipped away.Zi Mian shook off her bag, and slipped out a paper talisman, cinnabar, peach and wood sword... she had everything she needed to run around in the rivers and lakes. He moistened the cinnabar pen in his mouth, took out a piece of talisman paper and wrote down the most fierce ghost-suppressing talisman, and stuck it to Long Baiyue's neck.As soon as the choke marks loosened, Long Baiyue's face showed a trace of relief, but the ghost-suppressing talisman was quickly lifted by the dark wind again.

Damn it, why did she provoke such a vicious ghost? ... The copper basin landed at Long Baiyue's feet with a bang.After a long period of suffocation, she finally took a breath.She raised her head and looked blankly at the river. Half a moon was floating in the calm river water, and the surroundings were so quiet that not even the chirping insects called.A gust of wind blew by, the reeds swayed, and the river began to beat against the side of the ship. Trembling all over, Long Baiyue touched the oar, stood up, and slowly pushed the oar straight into the water.Her hands were trembling violently, she grasped the oar pole and searched along the side of the boat.The boat scull slowly slid in the chaotic river water, poked a lump of something abruptly, the scull stopped, and the soft touch of the head of the scull reached Long Baiyue's hand, causing her body to tremble and almost fainted.

She panted heavily to force herself to calm down, and with her sluggish hands, she picked up the paddle, and poked the object far into the heart of the river.The cloth on the object hooked the oar, but it was still obediently pushed towards the center of the river by Long Baiyue's strength. The moonlight shimmered and fluctuated on the river, and the river flowed slowly, sweeping away the floating objects without roots in the water, and taking them to an unknown place... She sat by the river for a whole day, and finally got up decisively the next morning, swung the oars and rowed the boat far to the center of the river.Cutting through the bottom of the boat, Long Baiyue stood on the bow and stood facing the wind, watching the thousands of sails passing by around her, her tears flowed down slowly.The world is vast, she should leave, whether to leave here or to leave this world, she handed herself over to God.

The cold and turbid river is knee-deep. If her life is not to die, she must live on... With Zi Mian's left hand, she protected the Dao Talisman that was lifted from Long Baiyue's neck. The wind was like a knife, cutting through the back of his hand, and blood slid down.He took a deep breath, picked up the brass bell on the ground with his right hand, and began to shake it quickly—forget Master's warning for now. ... Ding Ling Ding Ling ... The clear sound of horse bells passed through the woods, the carriage stopped suddenly on the mountain road, a bare hand lifted the curtain behind the carriage, and Long Baiyue jumped out of the carriage.

"Let's send it here, thank you little brother." She paid some money, packed her bags and left. Stopping and stopping all the way, she traveled all over the country, where did she come to now?It seems to be Qilian Mountain? The boat sank that day, and she was rescued by a merchant ship when she was about to drown.That merchant ship traded fur goods, and from the owner's mouth, Long Baiyue got to know many places that he had never heard of before.She declined the kindness of the captain to take her in, sold the jewelry left on her body when she was rescued, bought a low-quality pipa, and sang and sang with it along the way.

She has been traveling around for half a year, all the way west and north, away from the shadow of her past life.Following the post station, following the route that the fur dealer told her, she actually came to Qilian Mountain. Long Baiyue took a deep breath of the cool air, and couldn't help coughing lightly.After half a year of being ignorant, I only knew to keep walking, but I didn't expect to strengthen my body.All the way to the north, except for a cold, she didn't get sick. However, the wind and cold was really severe and severe. Her high fever subsided, and her mood was still as low as the day she was rescued, but one part of her head became blank——I still remembered all the past, but I forgot why my boat was so depressed. Sink, and be alone ever since.

After her fifteenth birthday, she became more and more beautiful, but her eyes were always empty.It's not that she never met someone who was willing to take pity on her during the trip, but Long Baiyue just gave them a pipa, and then quietly left with the money.Intuition convinced her that what she needed more was freedom. The Northland is open and rough, and many places are desolate and uninhabited, but Long Baiyue likes it very much.The vast expanse of land as far as the eye can see, the long river and the setting sun, opened up her sluggish chest little by little. At this very moment, she stood in the Qilian Mountains and looked around at the vast mountains. The snow-capped peaks on high above were shining silver under the sunlight, and the forests on the mountainside were colorful, fiery red, light yellow, autumn fragrance, dark emerald, and light green. , The thick ink and heavy colors are like a celestial palace dance carpet.The open space made the surrounding air spotless, and was sucked into Long Baiyue's lungs coldly, blowing out the depression in her internal organs.

Long Baiyue threw away the pipa and the bag, opened her hands, turned her face up and circled on the spot, and the dazzling blue sky and white clouds above her head were also spinning, dazzled her eyes. "Hahahaha..." She finally laughed. After being depressed for half a year, she felt that the sky was bright and sunny for the first time. The sky is high and the clouds are light, how can she not miss such a beautiful world of mortals?She must live on and start a new and wonderful life... Through her dark eyes, Zi Mian finally saw an old woman in blue, with her body hunched over, and her ten fingers forming a circle, ruthlessly tightening her grip.For some unknown reason, the constriction did not work, and her face was distorted with anger.

"Bold evildoer, how dare you take advantage of today's amnesty of the ghost mansion to do anything wrong, and retreat quickly, or you will be killed in this way." Zi Mian sternly urged the old woman to move the copper bell, and pinched out the fingers of her left hand. "The Great Immortal shouldn't stop me. Today, the Ghost Mansion gave me an amnesty and allowed me to take revenge." The blue-clothed old woman retorted, "The Great Immortal only said that I did evil. Isn't that just protecting the sinners in the world and ignoring karma?" "You turned into a fierce ghost with vicious means, and you are not a good person. You are in the yang world, so you naturally protect the people in the yang world." Zi Mianju pinched the evil finger to restrain the ghost, "obediently accept the salvation of this way, otherwise the soul will be scattered forever and you will not be reborn forever, I hope You're smarter." "Hey, I don't know that you men protect that little whore one by one, just for the sake of beauty," the old woman scolded, "I also came here like this, so I don't want to be controlled by you..." Zi Mian began to recite the formula silently, grabbed the ghost with her left hand and led it to her.The old woman was unwilling to let go of Long Baiyue, screamed ferociously, and pointed ten fingers at Zi Mian to grab her.Zi Mian put down the copper bell and used the mahogany sword in her hand, and slashed down at lightning speed. His eyes suddenly opened, and the stack of yellow talisman papers in front of him was slashed by the mahogany sword, and black blood was oozing out. Long Baiyue's face finally calmed down, Zi Mian glanced at her, her face was as white as paper, and she leaned against the street corner... ... "Hahahaha..." Long Baiyue smiled more relaxedly than ever before, snowflakes fell on her eyebrows and condensed into water droplets, moistening her eyebrows and eyes clearly, making her breathtakingly beautiful in the vast mountain forest. Suddenly a red fox sprang out from the snow, rubbing against the corner of her skirt to beg for mercy. Long Baiyue was startled, fearing that it would bite her, she hurriedly backed away.Unexpectedly, the fox followed a few steps, rubbed its head against her skirt, whined and stared at her with watery eyes. There was a dog barking in the distance. Long Baiyue was enlightened after hearing the story of Mr. Dong Guo. She lowered her head and said to the red fox, "You want me to save you?" The fox nodded unexpectedly, and the sly look flashed away in the big watery eyes. "Okay." Long Baiyue picked up her skirt, and the fox cleverly got in immediately. She put down her skirt, and the loose cotton skirt immediately hid the fox.Long Baiyue bent down to pick up the bag and picked up the pipa, thinking about how to deal with the hunter later. There were steady footsteps running towards her from behind, no doubt it was a hunter.A thought flashed in Long Baiyue's mind, she hugged her pipa and turned her head with a charming smile: "Brother..." She is best at, of course, seduction! "Wow—" A gust of bloody wind poured on his face, stunned Long Baiyue.She smelled a stench of blood, her internal organs twitched, and she bent over and vomited with a wow. The hunter innocently carried an empty skin bag, and stammered apologetically: "You...you are human? I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" "Of course I'm human!" Long Baiyue touched the sticky blood on her hair, her face paled with fright, "What is this?!" "Dog...dog blood..." "vomit--" It was night, the hunter built a fire to roast the deer, and carefully waited on Long Baiyue who had finished grooming: "There are many foxes on Qilian Mountain, and they often turn into beauties to confuse hunters, so when we go hunting, we always have dog blood on our bodies. If the demon is thrown on it, then the evildoer will not be able to act as a blame.” "Hmph, do you think I'm a vixen?" Long Baiyue wiped her hair and leaned closer to the fire to warm herself.The red fox was still captured. It was tied up with ropes, but it was leaning comfortably against her legs, squinting its eyes and dozing off. Seeing this, Long Baiyue couldn't help scratching the fur on its head. "Well, for a beauty like you to suddenly appear in this remote village, everyone would doubt it." Knowing that Long Baiyue was human, the hunter peeked at her. Under the firelight, she was so beautiful, he couldn't help it. Swallow your saliva. "This fox has been stealing chickens in our village all day long. He is very cunning. I have been catching him for a long time." The hunter handed Long Baiyue a piece of roasted roe deer meat. It has become fine." Long Baiyue took the barbecue, tore a little and put it in her mouth.At this moment, the fox beside her legs raised her head with squinted eyes and sniffed her nose. Long Baiyue smiled and tore some meat to feed it: "Give it to me, it is destined for me." The hunter was taken aback, and shook his head hurriedly: "You think it's something that kittens and dogs can keep and play with? Although this thing looks beautiful, it's wild and untamed..." "I don't care, you poured blood on my body, it's an apology." Long Baiyuehu raised his face and announced, then smiled, and began to seduce, "Brother, don't be so stingy..." The hunter looked at her with winking eyes and blushed—is this woman really a vixen? Strange, Long Baiyue also wondered in her heart, ever since she was splashed with dog blood, her body has been warm and her temperament seems to have changed a little... After bidding farewell to the hunter the next day, Long Baiyue untied the rope for the red fox.That fox has been very honest since yesterday, obediently sticking to Long Baiyue's side and refusing to leave.Long Baiyue thought that it was psychic and willing to follow her, but who knew that as soon as the rope was let go, the fox immediately twisted its body and turned around to run away. "Stop!" Long Baiyue became anxious, and slammed on the fox's tail. "It hurts!" the fox yelled, almost scaring Long Baiyue's soul away. Fortunately, Long Baiyue didn't let go of his feet, the fox couldn't escape, so he had to look at Long Baiyue and beg for mercy: "Let me go." "You, have you become a spirit?" Long Baiyue collected himself and guessed. "Yeah, otherwise how can I talk?" But her knowledge is still in its infancy. "You, let me see if you become a human being?" Long Baiyue was no longer afraid, and became excited, pointing her finger at the fox. This woman... isn't she a little abnormal?When is she watching Juggling?Lian Shanyue had no choice but to roll her eyes and scratch her ears, and turned into her own human body with a bang. "Tsk tsk tsk..." Long Baiyue looked contemptuous, "You are also called a vixen? You are not as good as me." Lian Shanyue became furious, and bared her two small fox teeth: "Tell you, after I practice for a few more years, I will become a Taoist and a fairy, and I will definitely be charming! I think of my aunt who left Qilian Mountain after becoming a fairy." , but more beautiful than a fairy..." "Do you have a name?" Long Baiyue asked her, already thinking of a name for her. "Yes, my name is Lian Shanyue." Lian Shanyue replied. "No, it's not a good name. You will be my maid with me in the future, so just call me Bao'er." "Go to hell!" Really save her life and become the master?go away. "You won't do it?" Long Baiyue snorted, and the hardwood-soled satin shoes that stepped on her tail began to exert pressure, and the soles of the shoes were still rolling back and forth. "Wow, no, no, I did it..." Lian Shanyue nodded hurriedly, and became Bao'er from then on. The fox demon promises a lot, and must do what he promises, otherwise it will damage his morality.Bao'er stood up, took off her tail, patted her buttocks and shouted: "Let's go..." ... Long Baiyue slowly opened her eyes, and saw Zi Mian leaning against the wall with her eyes closed in the night, holding a mahogany sword in her hand, with a very bad expression on her face.Her heart ached immediately, and tears welled up in her eyes: "Zi Mian, have you done something wrong..." For her?For a man who has killed people and cheated money, is he not afraid even if his body is damaged?Long Baiyue stretched out her hand to cover her eyes, tears gurgling down the back of her hand. "Don't worry, my body has recovered." Zi Mian opened her eyes at this moment, and comforted her softly, "Why are you crying?" "you're lying." Zi Mian sneered unhappily when she heard the words: "Master only said that I can't do the magic trick on the way back to Beijing. If I hadn't been kidnapped, I would have been in the capital by now." Thinking about it, Long Baiyue saw that although Zi Mian's complexion was pale, she spoke in a steady voice, and felt at ease. "Go back." Zi Mian struggled to get up and helped Long Baiyue up. Long Baiyue rubbed her neck and coughed, and helped each other back to the boat with Zi Mian.On the way, she looked at the traces of burnt money all over the place, and murmured in dismay: "When I was five years old, there was a famine in the world, and my father sold me to a boat... I don't remember my original surname anymore..." Whether her blood relatives are alive or not, she doesn't know. He did know his surname, but he could only bury it in his heart. "It was my madam who came to seek revenge on me today. I killed her..." Long Baiyue wiped her tears, her voice trembling, "She..." "I know..." Zi Mian interrupted her unspeakable words, "I understand." He believed her, and that was enough.There is no need to listen to many unbearable twists and turns, and ask her to figure out a reason to resist. "Hey, I'm afraid that when you do the trick, Mother Long will tell you one sided things..." "I believe what you say." Is that good? "Ahem..." Long Baiyue's heart beat violently, she couldn't help coughing a few times, and said shyly, "You won't let me say..." A lot of people were lying on the river port next to the boat, putting lotus water lanterns into the waterway.Zi Mian and Long Baiyue walked beside them, seeing the candlelight filled the river, their hearts moved. "Put one for your mother Long too." Zi Mian bought a water lamp from a water lamp vendor with some money, and handed it to Long Baiyue. Long Baiyue was taken aback for a moment, then nodded: "Okay." The white candle in the lotus water lamp was lit, and Long Baiyue put the lamp into the river with trembling hands, dipped the water a few times with both hands, and the gentle waves slowly pushed the water lamp into the center of the river. The water lanterns are specially ordered on the Ghost Festival to guide those lonely and confused souls. The water lanterns will lead them all the way across the Naihe Bridge before the candles in the lanterns are extinguished. Long Baiyue stared at the water lamp that she released. The water lamp floated into the middle of the river. The candle in the lamp flickered slightly before disappearing silently in the night.Long Baiyue trembled, and hurriedly asked Zi Mian who was standing quietly at the side: "This means that Mom has already crossed the Naihe Bridge, right?" "En." Zi Mian replied, her face in the dark night was slightly hot from lying. Cross the Naihe Bridge?How is it possible.That stubborn soul has been scattered by him a long time ago... It's just that once the water lamp is extinguished, for her, she can forget that part of the past with peace of mind... Little candlelight danced on the water, and slowly went out one after another. The night swallowed up the weak candlelight, and also disappeared the figures of Long Baiyue and Zi Mian by the river...