“What are you talking about! Are you crazy?”
Bai Yumu braced himself, his voice trembling, trying to explain all this, “That person just now, it was your accomplice wasn’t it!”
“This dog!!! Where did you find it!? Zhao Xi sent you here, didn’t she!!”
His voice was almost broken, but Wei Mingyan didn’t seem to hear it. He dug around on his body and found something as an afterthought.
“Tortoise shell… it’s on the robe ah… “
The handsome Daoist priest who had dropped his Daoist robe and was wearing only his tunic thought for two seconds, “It’s okay, I can calculate empty-handed. “
“You don’t have to pay if I can’t calculate. “
“Crazy, you are a crazy person!!!”
Bai Yumu’s eyes were red and his feet were frantic as he ran in a random direction.
He now has only one thought, that is, to avoid this madman. He must be avoided!!
As for why he wanted to hide, Bai Yumu won’t admit that he felt guilty and afraid. He just ran forward, and kept running …
“Woof woof woof woof!!!”
The yellow dog shook his tail uneasily, looking at the rapidly disappearing figure ahead. His feet moved, as if he wanted to catch up.
“Don’t worry. “
The Daoist elder’s slender hand fell on his head, “Come, I’ll show you something funny. “
The crutch drew a circle on the ground, leaving no trace, but the yellow dog barked at the circle twice excitedly, and then squatted beside Wei Mingyan.
“He’s trapped in, isn’t it amazing?”
Wei Mingyan got up with a smile and walked along with the yellow dog.
Bai Yumu’s brain was blank, only knowing that he wanted to run away quickly. As for where to run and how to get there, there was no time to think.
He didn’t know how long he had been running. His tired legs trembled, so he had to stop and rest.
After taking a few breaths, Bai Yumu looked back with a pale face. there was no one on the long stretch of road.
He breathed in sharply, and showed a mocking and disdainful smile on his face.
Sure enough, it was just a guy playing tricks.
He didn’t believe that there were ghosts in this world, there simply can’t be.
Seeing that got rid of the man of unknown origin, Bai Yumu rested for a while, breathing evenly. Then, he straightened up slowly.
It’s not suitable to go out tonight, he’d better hurry back to school.
As soon as I stepped out of his foot, the surrounding roads seemed to suddenly pull away. The earthquake-like picture made Bai Yumu retreat in fear. But no matter how he retreated, the roads quickly disappeared.
–Pa!!
The sound of a broken bowl sounded like muffled thunder and slammed into Bai Yumu’s mind.
“Xiao Mu, Xiao Mu …”
Someone was calling his name. This voice is weak, feeble and carried a sense of illness.
“No, it’s impossible …”
Bai Yumu opened his eyes wide, his face was full of disbelief, “impossible, impossible …”
In front of him, the empty road was no longer. It was a narrow and dilapidated environment, and even just standing there gave him a suffocating feeling.
A woman walked out with difficulty while holding the wall. She shouted her son’s name. Not even seeing her son’s shadow, she had to sit down alone. Trembling, she poured some water and took a sip.
Her dry lips were moisturized by the water, but they were still very dry. The woman carefully picked up the wool on the table, moving slowly, but carefully knitting a sweater.
Bai Yumu recognized it. It was what he had worn. He disliked it, because it was too corny. On the day the woman was buried, he left it in front of the grave.
He wanted to get out of here, out of this hellhole. Bai Yumu even suspected that he was dreaming. Otherwise, why couldn’t he get out of this room at all?
While Bai Yumu became irritable little by little, the woman remained calm and sat in place.
The woman had been knitting a sweater. She is too weak, and such simple movements were still very difficult, so had to move more slowly. Even sitting there all afternoon, only a small part of the work was done.
She braced herself to stand up, placed her sweater carefully on the table, and stood up again, holding the table.
After a while, she came back with a cold steamed bun in her hand, eating one mouthful after another.
After eating a steamed bun, which was considered a meal, she picked up the sweater again and knitted slowly but carefully.
“What are you doing? Huh!? Why am I looking at this? What’s there to see?”
“Do you think I would feel guilty?! No, I’ll tell you! There are no ghosts in the world, there are no ghosts at all!”
Wei Mingyan stood behind the woman with his cane, looking calmly at Bai Yumu, as if he were looking at an object, not a living person.
“People are born and grew up into young children, they will form a conscience.”
He spoke faintly under Bai Yumu’s bloodshot gaze, “No one is an exception. “
“So? What are you trying to say?”
“I just wanted to say that only you can lose your conscience. “
The handsome Daoist priest smiled lightly, “And only you can get it back. “
“Here, isn’t this the place where you discarded your conscience? For the first time. “
“This isn’t the right time? I’m sorry, it’s my first time doing this kind of thing. I’m not that skilled yet. “
The cane heavily fell and Bai Yumu heard a cough in his ear.
“Cough… Xiao Mu, Xiao Mu… Pour a glass of water for my Mom. Mom is thirsty…”
“Cough cough, Xiao Mu …”
The door was violently pushed open and the young man, who was still between a teenager and a young man, rushed in angrily.
“Will you leave me alone?! I’m busy!”
The woman in bed couldn’t even move. She looked at her child with sadness in her eyes. “I’m a little thirsty…”
“If you want to drink water, you can’t pour it yourself! So noisy!”
The young version of Bai Yumu slammed the door and continued to play games outside. It was raining loudly and crackling outside. The narrow house floor was puddled and the roof was also leaking. He crossed his legs in annoyance and concentrated on the game.
Bai Yumu stood rigidly in the room, watching the pale woman brace herself and struggle to sit up as she got out of bed, little by little, very slowly.
She didn’t want to bother her child, even though she took care of him when he was young. She would nurse him in the middle of the night, and she took good care of him when he was growing up.
The woman had been ill for too long. She hardened herself to do manual work to support Bai Yumu. She was already very ill, and now, she couldn’t even get out of bed.
Her weak foot hit the ground. As she took a step, she fell face first to the ground.
“Wu… wu…”
There was a big divot in the ground, above it happened to be leaking, and water was pooling there. The woman fell right on it, face down. She was struggling, trying to get up, but her hands had no strength.
She struggled desperately, desperately trying to get up and her feet hit the ground one by one.
“Noisy!!!”
The door was pushed open and her son stood outside.
The clean face, after a moment of shock, turned gloomy.
His hand clenched the wooden door, no one could see what he was thinking. He just watched as his biological mother was struggling, her face buried in the dirty water.
Bai Yumu knew what he was thinking.
This woman was useless. She could no longer support him, give him money and cook for him as she used to.
She laid in bed, unable to earn a penny, and had to be waited on by him.
If she died, he would get a grant, become an orphan, and rightly receive that money.
So, he slowly closed the door.
The young Bai Yumu was gone, but the current Bai Yumu was forced to stay.
He watched the woman on the ground stop struggling, she could no longer move her legs.
“Your conscience. “
“You threw it away yourself. “
“You keep saying there are no ghosts in the world, but in fact, you’re just afraid they’ll come for you. “
Wei Mingyan leaned on his cane, his eyes were cold, but his face was still smiling. “but the creditor has been waiting for you. “
“What are you talking about! Are you crazy?”
Bai Yumu braced himself, his voice trembling, trying to explain all this, “That person just now, it was your accomplice wasn’t it!”
“This dog!!! Where did you find it!? Zhao Xi sent you here, didn’t she!!”
His voice was almost broken, but Wei Mingyan didn’t seem to hear it. He dug around on his body and found something as an afterthought.
“Tortoise shell… it’s on the robe ah… “
The handsome Daoist priest who had dropped his Daoist robe and was wearing only his tunic thought for two seconds, “It’s okay, I can calculate empty-handed. “
“You don’t have to pay if I can’t calculate. “
“Crazy, you are a crazy person!!!”
Bai Yumu’s eyes were red and his feet were frantic as he ran in a random direction.
He now has only one thought, that is, to avoid this madman. He must be avoided!!
As for why he wanted to hide, Bai Yumu won’t admit that he felt guilty and afraid. He just ran forward, and kept running …
“Woof woof woof woof!!!”
The yellow dog shook his tail uneasily, looking at the rapidly disappearing figure ahead. His feet moved, as if he wanted to catch up.
“Don’t worry. “
The Daoist elder’s slender hand fell on his head, “Come, I’ll show you something funny. “
The crutch drew a circle on the ground, leaving no trace, but the yellow dog barked at the circle twice excitedly, and then squatted beside Wei Mingyan.
“He’s trapped in, isn’t it amazing?”
Wei Mingyan got up with a smile and walked along with the yellow dog.
Bai Yumu’s brain was blank, only knowing that he wanted to run away quickly. As for where to run and how to get there, there was no time to think.
He didn’t know how long he had been running. His tired legs trembled, so he had to stop and rest.
After taking a few breaths, Bai Yumu looked back with a pale face. there was no one on the long stretch of road.
He breathed in sharply, and showed a mocking and disdainful smile on his face.
Sure enough, it was just a guy playing tricks.
He didn’t believe that there were ghosts in this world, there simply can’t be.
Seeing that got rid of the man of unknown origin, Bai Yumu rested for a while, breathing evenly. Then, he straightened up slowly.
It’s not suitable to go out tonight, he’d better hurry back to school.
As soon as I stepped out of his foot, the surrounding roads seemed to suddenly pull away. The earthquake-like picture made Bai Yumu retreat in fear. But no matter how he retreated, the roads quickly disappeared.
–Pa!!
The sound of a broken bowl sounded like muffled thunder and slammed into Bai Yumu’s mind.
“Xiao Mu, Xiao Mu …”
Someone was calling his name. This voice is weak, feeble and carried a sense of illness.
“No, it’s impossible …”
Bai Yumu opened his eyes wide, his face was full of disbelief, “impossible, impossible …”
In front of him, the empty road was no longer. It was a narrow and dilapidated environment, and even just standing there gave him a suffocating feeling.
A woman walked out with difficulty while holding the wall. She shouted her son’s name. Not even seeing her son’s shadow, she had to sit down alone. Trembling, she poured some water and took a sip.
Her dry lips were moisturized by the water, but they were still very dry. The woman carefully picked up the wool on the table, moving slowly, but carefully knitting a sweater.
Bai Yumu recognized it. It was what he had worn. He disliked it, because it was too corny. On the day the woman was buried, he left it in front of the grave.
He wanted to get out of here, out of this hellhole. Bai Yumu even suspected that he was dreaming. Otherwise, why couldn’t he get out of this room at all?
While Bai Yumu became irritable little by little, the woman remained calm and sat in place.
The woman had been knitting a sweater. She is too weak, and such simple movements were still very difficult, so had to move more slowly. Even sitting there all afternoon, only a small part of the work was done.
She braced herself to stand up, placed her sweater carefully on the table, and stood up again, holding the table.
After a while, she came back with a cold steamed bun in her hand, eating one mouthful after another.
After eating a steamed bun, which was considered a meal, she picked up the sweater again and knitted slowly but carefully.
“What are you doing? Huh!? Why am I looking at this? What’s there to see?”
“Do you think I would feel guilty?! No, I’ll tell you! There are no ghosts in the world, there are no ghosts at all!”
Wei Mingyan stood behind the woman with his cane, looking calmly at Bai Yumu, as if he were looking at an object, not a living person.
“People are born and grew up into young children, they will form a conscience.”
He spoke faintly under Bai Yumu’s bloodshot gaze, “No one is an exception. “
“So? What are you trying to say?”
“I just wanted to say that only you can lose your conscience. “
The handsome Daoist priest smiled lightly, “And only you can get it back. “
“Here, isn’t this the place where you discarded your conscience? For the first time. “
“This isn’t the right time? I’m sorry, it’s my first time doing this kind of thing. I’m not that skilled yet. “
The cane heavily fell and Bai Yumu heard a cough in his ear.
“Cough… Xiao Mu, Xiao Mu… Pour a glass of water for my Mom. Mom is thirsty…”
“Cough cough, Xiao Mu …”
The door was violently pushed open and the young man, who was still between a teenager and a young man, rushed in angrily.
“Will you leave me alone?! I’m busy!”
The woman in bed couldn’t even move. She looked at her child with sadness in her eyes. “I’m a little thirsty…”
“If you want to drink water, you can’t pour it yourself! So noisy!”
The young version of Bai Yumu slammed the door and continued to play games outside. It was raining loudly and crackling outside. The narrow house floor was puddled and the roof was also leaking. He crossed his legs in annoyance and concentrated on the game.
Bai Yumu stood rigidly in the room, watching the pale woman brace herself and struggle to sit up as she got out of bed, little by little, very slowly.
She didn’t want to bother her child, even though she took care of him when he was young. She would nurse him in the middle of the night, and she took good care of him when he was growing up.
The woman had been ill for too long. She hardened herself to do manual work to support Bai Yumu. She was already very ill, and now, she couldn’t even get out of bed.
Her weak foot hit the ground. As she took a step, she fell face first to the ground.
“Wu… wu…”
There was a big divot in the ground, above it happened to be leaking, and water was pooling there. The woman fell right on it, face down. She was struggling, trying to get up, but her hands had no strength.
She struggled desperately, desperately trying to get up and her feet hit the ground one by one.
“Noisy!!!”
The door was pushed open and her son stood outside.
The clean face, after a moment of shock, turned gloomy.
His hand clenched the wooden door, no one could see what he was thinking. He just watched as his biological mother was struggling, her face buried in the dirty water.
Bai Yumu knew what he was thinking.
This woman was useless. She could no longer support him, give him money and cook for him as she used to.
She laid in bed, unable to earn a penny, and had to be waited on by him.
If she died, he would get a grant, become an orphan, and rightly receive that money.
So, he slowly closed the door.
The young Bai Yumu was gone, but the current Bai Yumu was forced to stay.
He watched the woman on the ground stop struggling, she could no longer move her legs.
“Your conscience. “
“You threw it away yourself. “
“You keep saying there are no ghosts in the world, but in fact, you’re just afraid they’ll come for you. “
Wei Mingyan leaned on his cane, his eyes were cold, but his face was still smiling. “but the creditor has been waiting for you. “
