Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 71 The wings are hardened
The paper raft floats slowly in the fog.

In the dark river, the frightened little cotton ball kept swimming, afraid of being caught by something on the shore.

The moment the raft touched the other side, the middle-aged man dragged Ran Qing directly onto the shore.

White mist surged behind them.

On the other side of the foggy river, harsh musical notes echoed.

Suona, golden cymbals, gongs, war drums, reed pipes...the chaotic music produced an extremely harsh sound.

It was like a group of crazy dead people dancing wildly on the other side of the river.

The cold and ominous evil spirit actually crossed the river and spread all the way here.

Ran Qing, who was standing on the shore, could clearly feel the eerie evil aura that made him shudder and he dared not get close to it.

But he did not continue to retreat. Instead, he stood quietly on the shore, his pale fingers tightly grasping the Nuo opera mask in his hand.

The middle-aged man, emitting a foul smell, frowned at him and tried to pull him away.

"What are you looking at? Are you really going to wait for her to come over?"

The middle-aged man said expressionlessly, "She's in such a state that her life span has long been over. What you saw wasn't Mo Baifeng at all, but her corpse! And the ghost that possessed her body!"

"That ghost is fulfilling her last wish! Once her last wish is fulfilled, she will be completely dead and truly become a ghost."

"If you stay and fulfill her last wish, she will really be dead!"

"But if you come with me and don't become some ghost walker, she might be able to hold on for a while longer! Come with me now!"

The middle-aged man spoke in a stern tone, but the young man on the shore turned a deaf ear to him.

Seeing this, the middle-aged man became a little impatient.

"Every generation of ghost walkers almost always becomes like this. Neither human nor ghost, they eventually disappear into the depths of the Wujiang ghost world."

"Are you planning to follow her and embark on this path of no return?"

The middle-aged man tried to drag Ran Qing away.

But this time, he couldn't pull it anymore.

Because Sixth Aunt only asked Ran Qing to go to the other side, but didn't tell Ran Qing to leave.

The young man stood quietly by the river, his feet rooted to the ground, not even turning back to look at the middle-aged man.

He said indifferently: "I said, what I do in the future has nothing to do with you."

"You saved me once, and I saved you once, so we owe each other nothing."

"You go back to your world. I'm going to stay here and wait for Aunt Six."

Ran Qing's tone was calm, yet extremely firm.

The middle-aged man frowned at him and was silent for a few seconds before saying, "Do you really want to be that woman's apprentice? That kind of weird and strange witchcraft is only useful in a remote place like Zangke."

"Once you leave Zangke, how useful will your evil masters be?"

"Yes! Those evil lords in Zangke are indeed very powerful, but can you stay in such a poor place for the rest of your life?"

"You're going to college in the future, going to a big city. You might even settle down there and never come back. Outside, our Ran family's Feng Shui techniques are much more useful than those weird witchcraft and ghost tricks!"

"Come with me, I will pass on the Feng Shui skills passed down from my ancestors to you!"

"Your future life will be even brighter!"

The man kept persuading her and promising her benefits.

However, the young man on the shore had a cold expression and remained unmoved.

Suddenly, in the fog on the other side of the river, the sound of cold chains was heard.

It was like a huge chain shaking in the fog.

The middle-aged man was silent for a moment, then continued, "I know you hate me and look down on me, but so what?"

"If you don't take care of yourself, you will be punished by heaven and earth!"

"I don't expect you to understand me, nor do I expect you to be filial to me, nor do I expect you to accept my kindness. I just want to pass on the things of our ancestors and let the Ran family's heirloom skills continue in my hands."

"Come with me and learn the feng shui and corpse refining secrets passed down from my ancestors. Once you've mastered them, I will completely disappear from your sight. Even after I die, I won't bother you again!"

"But if you don't come with me and don't let me feel comfortable, I will go to your school and make trouble every day! I will make sure you never have peace!" The middle-aged man begged, even in a humble tone, and even his threats seemed so powerless.

Hearing his timid threat, Ran Qing smiled.

He turned his head and looked at the middle-aged man in front of him, the man who was nominally his father.

So selfish, so snobbish, so ridiculous...

It was this person who had abandoned him all those years ago. It was also this person who was now groveling and begging him to learn the ancestral secret technique.

Ran Qing smiled, but felt extremely sad in his heart.

"You look so disgusting," Ran Qing murmured, "My mother must have been blind back then to have fallen for someone like you..."

Since I was a child, my grandmother always sighed and said, your father has his own difficulties, your father is not a bad person, you should not hate your father.

When he was young, Ran Qing believed his grandmother's words without a doubt. He truly believed that the man who stayed in the city would come back to pick him up and that he loved him. As a child, he ran to the village entrance every day in anticipation, waiting for the man to appear.

But gradually, as time passed, Ran Qing vaguely understood something.

He began to doubt what his grandmother said.

But he still tried to persuade himself and comfort himself, thinking that perhaps the man really had his own difficulties, although he couldn't think of what they could be.

Until Li Hongye appeared, until his mother's body appeared, until this man seriously told him how to save himself on the phone.

That night, Ran Qing was frightened, but a glimmer of hope finally arose in his heart.

Maybe that man really has his reasons...

But tonight, I truly rescued this man, truly saw his true face, and truly knew what he had done.

Ran Qing understood.

There's no hardship at all. The elderly grandmother was just deceiving herself and her children...

He smiled and said to the middle-aged man beside him: "Get lost! Don't show up in front of me again."

"If you dare to cause trouble at my school, you will never close your eyes when you sleep again."

"I have nothing left and I don't mind losing it all."

There was no hatred or disgust in Ran Qing's eyes at this moment.

He stared at the man in front of him indifferently, extremely calmly, as if he was looking at an unrelated stranger, and just issued an ultimatum indifferently.

At this moment, the boy shed many of the soft things in his body and became cold, hard and rough.

The middle-aged man looked at his son like this, and after a long silence, he took a deep breath: "Really... he doesn't look like me at all..."

A foul smell suddenly rose from the shore.

The originally calm middle-aged man suddenly attacked and rushed towards the young man who was nearby.

His fingers cruelly grabbed the boy's shoulders, trying to drag him away.

But the next second, Ran Qing's palm grabbed his neck.

A cold and brutal aura rolled in the boy's blood-red eyes.

He had put on a brightly colored devil mask at some point, and sneered and shouted at the middle-aged man in front of him.

"Do you really think I'll be fooled by you twice?"

"Ran Jianfei!"

The furious young man, feeling the intense hunger and violence surging in his body, frantically grabbed the middle-aged man's neck and slammed him to the ground viciously.

There was a series of loud bangs, and the ground was shaking.

The middle-aged man's eyes were dazed and the foul smell on his body was completely dispelled.

Finally, the masked boy kicked the middle-aged man, who looked like a sack, away with a sudden kick.

"roll!"

Ran Qing roared, ripping off the mask on his face and roaring angrily at the mist: "Come any closer, and I'll eat you!"

(End of this chapter)