The dilapidated old house, after years of vicissitudes, still stands there, no different from what it was more than a year ago.
Bai Xiaoxue and I stepped into the small courtyard overgrown with grass, and the heavy wooden door closed with a creak.
Is grandpa really in the old house? My heart was pounding, and the scene from more than a year ago came to mind again.
At that time, my grandfather was dying, so he called me to the old house, told me three things, and then stabbed my soul in my back.
My destiny has also changed since then.
I held Bai Xiaoxue's hand and walked through the small courtyard to the door of the main room.
Opening the door gently, a layer of dust fell down.
After crossing the threshold and walking into the house, we immediately saw a person sitting in front of an almost broken wooden table with his back to us.
I could tell at a glance that this was Grandpa.
He was still wearing gray cloth-hung black trousers and cloth shoes, exactly like the grandfather in my impression.
Only Bai Xiaoxue was surprised, because in her impression, my grandfather was Old Ghost Li and a great immortal.
Grandpa's figure is still thin.
"Grandpa..." I shouted, my voice trembling.
Grandpa slowly turned around.
At that moment I was stunned.
He has white hair, wrinkles on his face, and one eye is missing.
His dense scars could be seen on his exposed skin.
I thought that after killing the Immortal Slayer and the three spirits and settling this grudge, Grandpa would return to his immortal appearance and grace.
I didn’t expect grandpa to still look like this.
Bai Xiaoxue was also startled. She grabbed my arm and said in a trembling voice, "How could this happen? Your grandfather..."
Grandpa suddenly smiled at us.
"My dear grandson, you are here."
This smile made me a little scared, and Bai Xiaoxue even took a step back, but no matter what, this is my grandfather, no matter what he becomes.
So I took a few steps forward and grabbed his hand.
"Grandpa, you..."
The words were choked and I couldn't say a word.
After a long while, I said with tears, "Why are you still like this?"
Grandpa smiled softly.
"My child, I have made you suffer."
He looked at Bai Xiaoxue, waved to her, and said kindly: "Come, come here."
Bai Xiaoxue came over, and Grandpa stared at her.
"Are you Bai Xiaoxue? When I see you, I seem to see Qingying."
"You are exactly the same as her, but your fate is much better than hers."
He looked at me again.
"Have you two merged?"
We both nodded at the same time.
"Grandpa, we have merged, and that's why we finally destroyed the Immortal Slaughter."
"Grandpa, don't worry, we have destroyed the Immortal Slayer, and the three spirits who framed you are also dead."
Grandpa nodded first, then shook his head.
"Do you know what true fusion is?"
Bai Xiaoxue and I were stunned. What did grandpa mean by this?
Isn't the true fusion that Bai Xiaoxue and I are doing things between men and women, that our body and mind are one and that yin and yang are integrated? We've already done it.
However, Grandpa sighed.
"Oh, that's all. It's not easy for you to achieve this step. In fact, even Qingying and I can't achieve true fusion, otherwise we wouldn't be in this situation."
I said: "Grandpa, it's all over, everything is over, our life has just begun."
Grandpa's smile turned weird, and he patted my hand gently.
"Your life has just begun, and grandpa..."
He suddenly looked up and looked ahead.
"Grandpa is leaving forever."
I was shocked.
"Grandpa, what are you talking about? All grudges are over, and we, grandpa and grandson, will never be separated again."
"Son, do you know what is most important to grandpa? Apart from you, your grandma, and your parents, the most important thing to grandpa is Qingying."
I was shocked again.
Qingying?
"I feel relieved to see you all well, but Qingying and I..."
Grandpa didn't say any more.
"How can grandpa live in peace when she is gone."
"Unless she's here...but that's no longer possible."
"You are a good boy." Grandpa looked at me kindly.
"It's just that you have to endure so many things. Grandpa can't help you, let alone your father."
His voice suddenly choked up, and he burst into tears for a moment.
"At that time, Qingying came to me and wanted me to help her continue her descendants. I agreed, so I let your grandma eat her flesh. The child she gave birth to was your father, and he would be the next generation of soul assassin. Continuation of the family, but I didn’t expect that your father… is naturally kind and cowardly, so he is not the material at all.”
"To put it bluntly, he is a defective product."
"So... so we can only destroy him cruelly, and then pin the hope of continuing the soul stabbing master on you, because only when he dies can you become a real soul stabbing master."
I looked at Grandpa in disbelief.
Could it be that my father was killed by my grandfather?
When I was six years old, a strange human face appeared on my father's heart. Not long after that face opened its eyes, my father locked himself in the room, screamed and waited to be kicked. When he opened the door, he found that he had turned into a pile of bones.
The last words he said before dying were: "I hurt, it hurts, something is going to eat me up."
My father died tragically.
But I never imagined that all of this was Grandpa's masterpiece.
Bai Xiaoxue also suddenly understood something.
"My fate was the same as Li Yang's. After my father was born, there was also a human face on his heart. When the human face opened its eyes, my father died tragically and turned into a skeleton."
"So, the one who really killed my father was..."
Bai Xiaoxue couldn't talk any more.
Grandpa sighed.
"It's all fate. I'm sorry for you. I took the initiative to ask the Immortal Slaughter to imprison me in the Blood Pool Hell, in this way to atone for the sins of the dead."
"But after so many years, my sins are still heavy, so I can't live a happy life with you with peace of mind."
Grandpa finally patted my shoulder and stood up.
I discovered that one of his legs was lame.
He put my hand and Bai Xiaoxue's hand together, and finally said: "Your life has returned to normal, live well."
After speaking, grandpa staggered towards the door.
"Grandpa, where are you going?" I shouted.
Grandpa did not look back and walked out of our sight step by step.
My whole body collapsed on the ground, and Bai Xiaoxue was also stunned, unable to recover for a long time.
I don't know how long it took, but Bai Xiaoxue said: "Li Yang, do you hate your grandfather?"
I shook my head.
"I don't hate him. No matter what he did, I don't hate him."
"Then do you want to save your grandpa? Do you want him to stay with you?"
I looked at her in surprise.
"What do you want to say?"
Bai Xiaoxue suddenly smiled, and the smile was a little weird, and I stood up suddenly.
"Bai Xiaoxue, what do you want to say?"
"Don't you think there is an important part of this that has not been solved?"
"W-what do you mean?"
Bai Xiaoxue didn't answer me, but took a few steps forward, turned around suddenly, and a golden light flashed. Looking again, her clothes had turned into a light blue suit, with long water sleeves and embroidered cuffs. A peony flower.
She became a magician.
"What do you do?" I asked.
But she didn't answer me. Instead, she shook her long sleeves and sang at the top of her voice: "Mr. Sir, you have made me suffer so much."
I was shocked, why is this lyrics so familiar?
The actor I saw in the ghost building at school and in Shangyuan Village suddenly flashed into my mind. She was swinging her long sleeves and singing such a line.
"Bai Xiaoxue, you..."
"Now I am not Bai Xiaoxue, I am Qingying."
After saying that, she started singing again, with all the lyrics of "The Peony Pavilion" that I was familiar with.
My whole body suddenly felt numb, and I was completely confused by the sound of the drama.
I shook my head vigorously, what's going on? How could I be deceived?
I looked at Bai Xiaoxue, no, she had turned into Qingying in my eyes.
I looked into her eyes and couldn't help feeling love in my heart.
Then I walked towards her step by step and slowly knelt down in front of her.
"Qingying..."
The play suddenly stopped, Qingying turned back to Bai Xiaoxue, and the costume on her body was gone.
I shivered violently, and when I came back to my senses, I found myself kneeling there in a daze.
I was startled and stood up quickly.
"Fuck, what's going on? Why am I still kneeling down?"
I looked at Bai Xiaoxue, and she was looking at me.
"Bai Xiaoxue, what on earth are you doing?"
"Don't you understand yet?" She said: "Why can Qingying bewitch so many men? Your grandfather, Lao Hu, Zhang Sangui, Fan Wujiu, and the Immortal Slaughterer."
My heart skipped a beat, as if I had suddenly touched the most important thing.
"Li Yang, your grandfather has fallen in love with Qingying a long time ago. She was still an actress at that time. Your grandfather took her away and said he wanted to convert her. Do you think he really wanted to convert her?"
"That's because he loves him, or he has been confused by Bai Xiaoxue."
I said, "No, Bai Xiaoxue fell in love with my grandpa first. She even confessed her love to him, but was rejected. Because of this, she held a grudge and teamed up with three spirits to attack grandpa."
Bai Xiaoxue smiled bitterly and shook his head.
