"Ah Si, is this how you talk to your grandfather?" Mr. Kou said with a gloomy face and a bit of teasing.
grandfather?
This really mercilessly hit the guess I couldn’t believe the most.
It made me shocked and angry.
I raised the knife and shouted angrily: "What did you say?"
"My grandfather died long ago!".
Mr. Kou sneered: "You do know whether I am dead or not. To be precise, I am dead, but now I am alive again."
Seeing that I was frowning, he smiled and said, "You should know very well whether I am your grandfather or not."
"You can't help but feel the feeling between us."
"There is no need for you to be so nervous when you see me. After all, I called you here. Shouldn't it be normal to see me?".
"I said, here is the truth about everything. Finding Kou Zhenghai means finding me."
At this moment I am hesitant, because this conjecture is really possible, that is, the old man in front of me is my grandfather.
The evil spirit that has taken over Mr. Kou’s body is Grandpa!
Only grandpa and I know that grandpa asked me to come to see Mr. Kou, and no one else will know.
But the man in front of him knew this.
His tone was also very strange, completely the tone of an older person lecturing a younger person.
Even the Three Flowers Heavenly Master is just a Three Flowers girl in his mouth.
Mr. Kou narrowed his eyes and continued: "I'm very pleased that you followed my instructions and came here to find Kou Zhenghai."
"But you pointed the knife at me, which is very unfilial."
When I'm distracted and confused
Suddenly, the bronze sword shook violently and broke away from my hand. It left several afterimages in my mouth and then fell to the ground.
Mr. Kou stepped forward and patted my shoulder: "You are still too young."
"You must know that ginger is always spicy. You can't catch up with the salt I have eaten."
"But Ah Si, you are already very good. You are better than your two brothers. They were unable to escape the Zhang family's bad luck, but you are different. You survived."
"You have carried the Yin marriage contract. If you want to show your dignity, you must bear its weight."
"You are the Zhang family's last hope."
I pushed the depressed air out of my lungs and took a long breath.
Even if I don’t want to believe it, the fact is here, even if I don’t want to admit that the person inside Mr. Kou’s body is my grandfather,
But everything he said was unknown to outsiders,
People in Niuma Village of my two brothers may know about it, but only my family members know about the shady marriage contract.
In fact, when I met Mr. Kou for the first time, I had that feeling in my heart. Every time I saw my grandfather, I felt that kind of intimacy and the sense of unity between blood relatives.
There is no unfamiliarity, just like a relative who has never met before. It is easy to develop a good impression when you meet for the first time.
I know, I've guessed it since we met, but I just can't believe it.
Is the evil spirit competing with Mr. Kou for his body my grandfather?
I murmured softly: "What on earth is going on?".
Grandpa sighed and patted my shoulder comfortingly: "I will tell you everything."
"First of all, it is my matter, and it is also the cause of Kou Zhenghai's death."
"Maybe you think it was me who harmed Kou Zhenghai and took over Kou Zhenghai's body."
"Actually, Kou Zhenghai died more than 20 years ago without me. Naturally, I have a purpose in helping him to live longer, which is now borrowing my body."
Grandpa glanced at the blood stains on my body: "Have you seen that statue?"
I nodded.
Grandpa: "That statue was given to Kou Zhenghai after I rescued him more than 20 years ago. I also asked him to burn three sticks of incense every day and worship it devoutly every day."
'Ah Si, you must first understand one thing. The soul and the body are consistent and connected. The soul cannot enter randomly, and evil ghosts cannot find a corpse and get in. Otherwise, the world will be in chaos.' .
"When a person dies, his body dies, and the soul cannot enter the dead body. Just like I saved Kou Zhenghai more than 20 years ago. At that time, Kou Zhenghai's body was not completely dead. I injected his free soul into his body to lock it. Stay alive".
"There is my blood in the statue, and one of my bones is fused into the material of the statue. Kou Zhenghai uses the statue to stabilize the soul that is forcibly restrained in his body by offering incense and worshiping every day."
"Kneeling down and worshiping the statue is actually for the good of Kou Zhenghai, otherwise he would have died long ago. However, as he kneels down and worships the statue over time, and uses the statue to stabilize his soul, his body will slowly be affected by the statue, and he will gradually become more comfortable with the statue, and his rejection will gradually reduce".
"Knowing that the statue is me means that Kou Zhenghai's body has less resistance to my soul, so that I can enter it today."
I asked again: "Does Grandpa have something to do with Mr. Kou's sudden change in temperament? Or maybe it's Grandpa who is robbing Mr. Kou's body."
Grandpa said unabashedly: "It's related, that's just me testing the compatibility between that body and my soul. After all, I have to do it step by step and give the body time to adapt."
With these words, many things suddenly connected, and many doubts burst like bubbles, leaving only stars and splashes.
I felt ridiculous and said: "I understand."
"A few days ago, the half-immortal Taoist priest found Mr. Kou and came to Kou's house to exorcise evil spirits. He actually took away grandpa's soul. Otherwise, I would not have been able to see the existence of the soul from Mr. Kou's body in the morgue."
"And when he was buried, the half-immortal Taoist priest returned his soul and made grandpa successfully resurrected."
"The real purpose of that half-immortal Taoist priest is not to bury Mr. Kou, but to let you, grandpa, use Mr. Kou's body to restore Yang."
Talking about the semi-immortal Taoist priest, my grandpa said meaningfully: "That Taoist priest had a certain talent but was too arrogant. He wanted to go to the Zhang family's ancestral tomb to show off, but he didn't even know when he died."
"It's ridiculous... it's ridiculous...".
"I saved him, and he owes me a favor. I told him in a dream a few days ago that he is here to help me."
"He left the evil spirit in the Kou family so that my contact with the body would not be disturbed."
"Yellow chicken, black dog, green snake, burying the corpse for seven days are all processes to ensure that the body can return to the Yang state."
I suddenly interrupted and said: "That half-immortal Taoist priest is dead."
Grandpa was not surprised and said calmly: "Well, he deserves to die."
"He died twenty years ago. I changed his life. Now he has returned to his own life."
"Everything has its own destiny and cause and effect. I saved him, and he wanted to repay my kindness. I extended Kou Zhenghai's life for more than 20 years, which is the cause, and his body belongs to me after his death, which is the effect."
"It is taboo to use a corpse to revive a soul, so a Taoist priest who performs this technique will naturally not survive."
Cause and effect? I thought about this sentence in my heart. Grandpa is resurrected and returned to the sun.
This should be a joyful thing, but I don't know why I can't be happy.
Maybe it's because he's not used to the grandpa who stands in the face of Kou, or maybe he still doesn't dare to accept it.
Grandpa looked at the entire Kou family villa with his hands behind his back: "It is difficult to enter someone else's soul, and it is even more difficult for my soul to enter someone else's body."
"If I want to return to the sun, I have to do this. It requires many years of preparation and someone needs to sacrifice."
"But it can only remain for one night."
I raised my head suddenly and looked at Grandpa in shock: "One night?"
"Grandpa, what do you mean by what you just said?".
Grandpa's eyes were not lonely, but gentle: "I am a remnant soul, and my soul is in another place."
"Otherwise, if it were my intact soul, the art of resurrecting the soul through corpse would not be successful at all. Except for my own body, there is no body in the world that can accommodate my soul. This is a taboo, and this is also a rule."
"The remnant soul can only survive one night through the corpse. After one night, the remnant soul will fly away and the body will be buried again."
It's unexpected, it's reasonable, I can understand it,
It would be wrong if grandpa borrowed Kou Lao's body to survive like this.
"Actually, the half-immortal Taoist priest told me the truth because he wanted to revive you, grandpa..." .
Grandpa joked: "If he told you, would you believe it? It seems like you are still doubting my authenticity."
"There is no need to say anything before things are done."
"Ah Si, you are too suspicious."
Grandpa said with sadness in his eyes: "Of course it's Grandpa's fault, it's just like I made you bear the burden when you were young."
"You shouldn't have to go through this at this age. You go through life time and time again without encountering dangers once in a normal life. You have done well to survive time and time again."
"You shouldn't be responsible for all that. Grandpa knows all the suffering you have gone through."
"This time I will tell you everything I know and everything you want to know to make up for the teachings I have given you in the past eighteen years."
I nodded. Grandpa only has one night. I also have many things I want to ask clearly.
The Yin Marriage Contract, the Red Evil Box...the ancestral tombs of the Zhang family, etc.
