Lu family.
In front of Lu Siyuan's bed.
The ghost baby held Li Daoxuan's hand, and their figures gradually faded, as if they had become phantoms and were about to disappear from this world.
The next moment, one person and one ghost seemed to become smoke, floating into Lu Siyuan's mind.
There was a hint of surprise in Li Daoxuan's eyes, what a miraculous dreaming power.
After a moment, his eyes blurred, and a pastoral scene of flowing water appeared in front of him, which had already entered Lu Siyuan's dream.
Peach blossoms were falling like rain, and two people were sitting under the tree, a man and a woman.
The man was wearing a Confucian shirt, holding a book of poetry in his hand, reading quietly.
The woman is gentle, virtuous, dignified and generous. She is sewing a tiger head hat with a smile on her lips.
It was Lu Siyuan and Li.
Li Dao boy.
The ghost baby opened his hands and ran towards his parents. An innocent smile appeared on his face. His movements were very skillful. It seemed that this was not the first time.
Lu Siyuan and Li were very happy to see him.
Mrs. Li held him in her arms and put a tiger-head hat on him.
The ghost baby acted coquettishly in her mother's arms for a moment, and then introduced Li Daoxuan to them, saying that he was his new good friend.
A child said that he had made a new Taoist friend. If this scene were to be put into reality, any parent would have to murmur a few words, but in this dream, Mrs. Li easily accepted it. She greeted Li Daoxuan warmly and offered him a warm welcome. Bring tea and pour water.
After a while, the ghost baby took his mother and ran to the distant forest to pick wild flowers.
After the two left, Li Daoxuan looked at Lu Siyuan with a happy smile on his face, and suddenly said: "Brother Lu, why bother pretending anymore? You actually know that this is just a dream."
The smile on Lu Siyuan's face slowly disappeared.
"Who are you, and what is your purpose of staying at my house?"
Lu Siyuan's eyes were full of wariness. He still remembered that Li Daoxuan was the young man in brocade who stayed at his house.
Li Daoxuan smiled slightly and said, "Brother Lu, I have been thinking about a question."
After a pause, he stared into Lu Siyuan's eyes and said word by word: "How is it so coincidental that the place where you buried your wife happens to be the place where the evil is hidden?"
Lu Siyuan's pupils condensed slightly.
"I don't know what you are talking about."
Li Dao
"A few years ago, you caused this disaster because of the evil. I guess it was not necessarily the evil, but that you wanted to practice evil. As a result, you were not strong enough, and you were attacked by ghosts."
Lu Siyuan was shocked and fell silent.
"Brother Lu, Zhang Tiande is dead."
Lu Siyuan raised his head suddenly, with a glint in his eyes.
Li Dao
Lu Siyuan's pupils were moist, showing excitement. After a long time, he finally calmed down.
"He was able to break away from the evil man's control and avenge himself. It must be thanks to your Excellency. Lu Siyuan thanks his benefactor!"
He stood up and bowed deeply to Li Daoxuan.
After that, he told the whole story.
Since the founding of the Sui Dynasty, the Lu family's poems and books have been handed down from generation to generation. Almost every generation has a candidate, and it is a well-known big family in Shanghe Village.
But in fact, the reason why the Lu family has been able to go to high school repeatedly is not based on real talent, but on a kind of magic to control the souls of the dead, which is only passed down to one head of the family in each generation.
This kind of evil magic is similar to the Five Ghost Transport Technique, which is a Taoist technique for manipulating the souls of the dead. The people of the Lu family relied on this technique to engage in favoritism and malpractice in the examination room, and they were able to achieve unfavorable results. However, during the Zhenguan period, Li Shimin got the help of Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng to establish a company. The Heavenly Supervisor and the bad guys set up a mirror formation above the examination room, causing many cheating techniques to malfunction.
In this way, the Lu family slowly declined.
In Lu Siyuan's generation, their family resources were even more depleted. In order to study, they even sold their property. The next step was to sell their ancestral home.
In order to obtain money to continue the imperial examination, Lu Siyuan had no choice but to decide to practice that evil art, not to cheat in the examination room, but to obtain money.
But who would have thought that the first time he used evil magic, he was not very skilled. Not only did he fail, but he was also haunted by evil spirits and became seriously ill. This attracted Zhang Tiande.
Later, his wife fell into a well and died. Lu Siyuan was distraught. The government dared not catch the murderer. In desperation, he followed the records in the witchcraft and made thousands of choices. Finally, he found a place where the evil spirits were hiding. He hoped that the stillborn fetus in his wife's belly could turn into a ghost and help him take revenge.
The plan went smoothly, but what he didn't expect was that Zhang Jiuxiao from Longhu Mountain subdued the ghost baby with one move. From then on, not only was he unable to take revenge, but he also had to watch his son being driven, humiliated, and tortured.
He was just an unknown person who knew a little bit of magic. Although he was heartbroken, he had nothing to do, so he could only live in a state of confusion and depression every day, like a living dead.
Only in this dream can you get peace of mind.
After listening to his story, Li Daoxuan sighed softly and said: "Your Lu family has manipulated the souls of the dead and practiced favoritism for generations. Now your family is ruined and your son is enslaved. The cause and effect in the world is really unpredictable."
After a pause, he continued: "Brother Lu, the heads of your Lu family for generations all died young because of their bad morals. In your generation, they no longer practice evil arts. They could have lived a hundred years, but your son has failed many times." Entering your dream has damaged your yang energy, and if it is not stopped, you may not survive long."
Lu Siyuan was powerless, and even because of the evil encounter, his yang energy was as weak as that of ordinary people. In addition, he was accompanied by the ghost baby all year round. Even if the ghost baby accidentally hurt him, his yang energy was slowly depleted.
"Brother Lu, my son turned into a ghost because of you. Although he was manipulated by others, he caused many lives. He has failed in his moral character. I'm afraid he will not be stable whether in practice or reincarnation in the future."
Lu Siyuan closed his eyes and said: "Chief Immortal, you are right, all of this has something to do with me. Just kill me. I am willing to atone for his sins."
At this moment, he was extremely calm, as if he had been waiting for it for many years.
However, Li Daoxuan did not kill him, but patted him on the shoulder and said with a casual smile: "If you really want to atone for his sins, study hard, take the imperial examination and become an official, and do more good deeds for the country and the people in the future. Naturally, Better than dying in vain.”
Lu Siyuan opened his eyes, only to find that Li Daoxuan had disappeared.
"After tonight, your son will leave with me. Go say goodbye to them."
Li Daoxuan's voice floated in his ears.
This seemed cruel to Lu Siyuan, because he was able to have such a realistic dream only because of the magical power of the ghost baby. Once the ghost baby left, even if he dreamed in the future, it would only be in a hazy state and he could not control it.
But Li Daoxuan knew that if things continued like this, Lu Siyuan might not be able to survive this year. This was also the reason why Lu Siyuan was so listless and emaciated when they first met.
Lu Siyuan put down the book in his hand and walked towards his wife.
Mrs. Li hugged her son, looked at him with a smile, and said, "What's wrong? Are we bothering you to study?"
Lu Siyuan looked at his wife's face, his eyes slightly moist.
He shook his head and said: "How can studying with you be more important?"
Li was happy in her heart and pretended to be joking: "That won't work. You promised me when I was a child that you would let me be the wife of the number one scholar in the future, a manly man. How can you keep your word?"
Lu Siyuan stared at her blankly. After a while, he broke off a peach blossom and inserted it into her temple.
"The lesson Madam teaches is that you know your husband is wrong."
His voice was extremely soft, as if he was afraid of waking up this last sweet dream.
Ghost Baby blinked, suddenly feeling a little redundant.
After a while.
A family of three sat under the peach tree, watching the setting sun enter the sea and fill the sky with morning glow.
"Husband, something is a little different about you today."
"What's the difference?"
"You are so nice to me all of a sudden, maybe you have fallen in love with some girl and want to take a house as a concubine?"
"..."
"Okay, husband, you are silent!"
"You have wronged me."
Lu Siyuan smiled bitterly.
"Husband, if you win the first prize, will you fall in love with everyone's ladies like what is said in the play, and think that I am old and young and not worthy of you?"
"I swear to God, I will never marry Li Yun. I will never leave her forever!"
"Humph, I'm sorry you don't dare!"
After a while.
"Husband..."
"Um?"
"Nothing, I just called you."
The ghost baby made an angry sound, like a jealous little tiger.
Mrs. Li smiled and hugged him and said, "Okay, okay, of course my mother will not forget you."
Lu Siyuan watched this scene quietly, with a smile on his lips. The setting sun shone on the three of them, making them as beautiful as a painting.
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