Chapter 29 Chapter Twenty Nine

That night, everyone was asleep, only the moon was still awake—— Ah Ling felt movement beside the pillow, and sat up in secret surprise. "Yo, good night." A strange grandfather was sitting upright with his knees folded, his body was translucent.It turned out that there was a new ghost. But—A Ling always felt as if she had seen the pair of character eyebrows on his smiling face somewhere. "grandfather." "Do you still remember me? Have you forgotten?" Grandpa pointed to the tip of his nose and smiled, his eyebrows drooping more like a horoscope. "You almost died in spring. When you lost your way on the Styx River, didn't you meet an old grandpa?" ?”

Ah, yes!Ah Ling clapped her hands, couldn't help pointing at Grandpa's face and said, "Yes, Grandpa! But I..." It seems that she didn't only see her grandfather's splayed eyebrows at that time, A Ling always felt that she had also seen the shape of those eyebrows recently. Grandpa seemed to see through Ah Ling's heart, nodded and said, "My name is Sun Bingwei, and I am the landlord of the courtyard." He put his hand under A-Ling's face jokingly, and said, "Your name is A-Ling, right? Open your eyes so wide, be careful that the eyeballs fall out."

When I met Grandpa on the beach of the Styx River, he seemed to have said the same thing? correct.This is the real appearance of the landlord Sun Bingwei.After his death, the soul of the abbot of Xingyuan Temple who had been imprisoned in his body for a long time occupied his body. At that time, his facial features and jaw line were completely different from the landlord Sun Bingwei in front of him. The only remaining facial features were Probably only this pair of amiable eight-character eyebrows are left. "Thank you." Sun Bingwei saluted, "Thanks to you, grandpa can finally cross the river."

"Landlord Sun Bingwei..." This person has sealed the soul of the abbot of Xingyuan Temple in his body for a long time.By the way, when we met for the first time, he warmed himself by the fire on the beach of the River Styx, didn't I say that?Grandpa caught a bad guy, but sometimes he is too tired to come here to rest. I don't know whether to say thank you to him or say that I have worked hard. "Because of that Xingyuan Temple and that abbot, Mr. Landlord must have suffered a lot." "You can say that. This is also a kind of fate." "If it weren't for Mr. Landlord, I don't know what terrible things would have happened."

Master Gennosuke said: Thirty years ago on the night of the fire, Landlord Sun Bingwei was locked up in the monastery room. "You were almost killed then, weren't you?" "At that time, I planned to repel the abbot, but I had no way of learning swordsmanship. Fortunately, Master Nagasaka arrived, and I managed to save my life and escaped from the fire." At that time, the abbot's spirit attacked the landlord Sun Bingwei and attached himself to him—— "I think Katsujiro also knows," Sun Bingwei said with lowered eyelids slightly, "my grandfather was not always a good landlord, and he did a lot of bad things when he was young. In order to atone for his sins, I just want to do something for the residents of Dazayuan .”

"bad thing?" "Well, I've done a lot." After Sun Bingwei finished speaking, he rolled up his sleeves lightly, and Ah Ling saw a circle of shallow tattoos on his wrist. That is the mark of a sinner who was once exiled to an isolated island.Ah, so it is. "Probably the bad things I did when I was young became my grandfather's inner weakness, which allowed the spirit of the abbot of Xingyuan Temple to take advantage of the opportunity. Once people do bad things, they will definitely repay themselves. You have to tell me what I said. Katsujiro." Ah Ling nodded with a "hmm".

"A-Ling, you can see ghosts that have nothing to do with you because you have been to the Styx River Beach and met me. Because of this, you can see ghosts related to Xingyuan Temple." Hearing what Sun Bingwei said, Ah Ling was dumbfounded and could not make a sound.This is the answer?Is that so? "And you licked the river water at that time, right? You really shouldn't." Sun Bingwei said kindly: "But that's over, it's all over." The last mystery finally disappeared like light snow in spring. "Although Katsujiro has a weird personality, he is very kind. You should get along well with him."

As Sun Bingwei spoke, his body became thinner. "Are you leaving?" "I've been around long enough." That's right, that's right—Sun Bingwei reached out and pulled out the pipe stuck in his waist, with a dragon engraved on the handle.Ah, I also saw this pipe at the river beach that time. "I didn't leave anything to Katsujiro. This is my relic. It is something that grandpa has used for a long time. Can you give it to him for me?" Ah Ling took the pipe, only to feel it was cold and heavy. The next second, Sun Bingwei suddenly disappeared without a trace.Ah Ling blinked and looked around the room.

Goodbye—she thought she heard the words faintly.Only the pale moonlight was left in the room. "Goodbye." Ah Ling said softly.She just sat like that for a while in the moonlight.When handing over the pipe to Geweisheng, how should I explain it to him?If I asked him, what kind of person Sun Bingwei was the landlord, and what kind of life did the two of them live, would he tell me?When the eccentric Katsuki got the relic, would he want to cry?How can I comfort him then? After thinking wildly for a while, Ah Ling fell asleep again.She will no longer dream, nor will she see ghosts, nor will she go to the Styx river beach, she will just fall into a natural sleep.She snores lightly until she wakes up in the morning and a new day begins at the houseboat.

sleep well.