The last Onmyoji

Chapter 71
In fact, when my mother turned into a paper figurine and my father was not surprised when he woke up, I doubted my father and even fancied him. This man named Lin Yutang is definitely a master who has never been born.But so far, what my father said, the biggest subversion for me should be my grandfather. The father I suspected before played only a dispensable role in this.

Let father tie a paper doll, and then turn a soul sealed in a glazed ball into a living person, how mysterious is this ability?But thinking of the grandfather in my impression, everything seems to have become so chaotic again, what is going on with all this.Why did a person who seemed to be insignificant suddenly become the focus.

When I said this, my father and I didn't talk anymore. He was thinking, and I was thinking too.Grandpa is not an ordinary person. Father also mentioned in the words just now that grandpa had an adventure in the years when he was in the army. This adventure allowed him to master the ability to turn a paper doll into a human being with blood.

But when it comes to the years when my grandfather was in the army, I have to mention one person, that is my second uncle. The origin of all the stories in Linjiazhuang has become complicated and confusing because of the arrival of this person who looks exactly like my father. ——It’s true that he is my second uncle, but he should be the child of my grandfather when he was in the army. This question my father once said, if my second uncle is really the child of my grandfather when he was in the army, he is my uncle , not the second uncle.

This is something that is inherently contradictory at a point in time.

Our Lin family owes a "debt." There is no doubt, because all signs indicate that this red coffin is aimed at my Lin family.It's not Lin from Lin Family Village, but just me, Lin Xiaofan, grandparent and grandson.Grandpa is a very powerful and capable person.

He must be very afraid of people who come to collect debts. There are two points to prove this.One is the evasive character he made gestures to me when he tricked the corpse back after his death.

Second, his anonymity in Linjiazhuang may be all to avoid the debt collection of this creditor.

But who is the creditor? ——Looking at the many problems now, there is no doubt that they will all be red coffins.But I doubt one person even more, and that is my second uncle.

I closed my eyes tightly, thinking about the expression on the face of my grandfather when he met my second uncle. My grandfather didn't know the existence of my second uncle, but when my second uncle mentioned a place name, Liaocheng, Shandong, and mentioned that my grandfather left the gun to When my second uncle was my wife.

The grandfather at that time said in shock: "It's you!!!"

Then grandpa died, and at that time we attributed the cause of grandpa's death to grandma's shoehorn, but thinking about it now, no, it was just grandma's shoehorn that diverted our attention, that's all.

The real cause of grandpa's death was the arrival of his second uncle, who was the debt collector he feared most!
If this assumption is established, everything seems logical. Grandpa died of fright when he saw the second uncle coming to collect the debt. After he died, he knew that the debt was coming soon, so he repeatedly scammed the corpse to remind me. run away quickly.But we were not willing to leave home, or the warning to grandpa didn't work.

So there is something after that. ——So, Second Uncle is the chief culprit for all kinds of situations in my family.

I lit a cigarette, and a third face appeared in my mind, my second uncle's face as calm as stagnant water. I couldn't see through him, a man who seemed to hide many secrets in his heart, but I couldn't believe that he was a bad guy.

I can't even believe that he is the culprit for this situation in my family.

Everything is so confusing and chaotic.

I just can't figure out what's going on right now.

"Xiaofan, things will always pass. The only thing to be thankful for is that you are fine. Since the matter has passed, then it is past. If you want to understand it or not, then don't think about it anymore." Father touched my head said.

After finishing speaking, he handed me something, which was a glass ball with a red figure inside, like a miniature person.

"Your mother has already gone back, it's getting late, let's go back too." He greeted me.

I held the glazed ball and looked at the figure inside, feeling a little dazed. It was hard to imagine that this was the old lady who was still in front of my eyes last night.

"Dad, can my mother still become a human?" I asked suddenly.

The father was stunned for a moment, then cried and laughed: "If your grandfather is alive, he is probably okay, but he is already dead."

I didn't speak, but carefully put this glass ball in my close pocket. Before I told my father, my second uncle had already said that he wanted to train me to become an onmyoji.

When we got home, Second Uncle was leaning against the wall. When I opened the door, he was still looking at me with his eyes open. I said to him, "Haven't slept yet?"

He patted the side of the bed, nodded to me and said, "Xiaofan, come here, Second Uncle has a few words with you."

I was overjoyed, I was at a loss, after my father decrypted me, I was even more confused, what do I need most now?It's the second uncle's confession!
I took off my shoes and got on the bed, lying beside my second uncle, he suddenly asked me, "Did your father tell you anything?"

I nodded and said: "I told you, my mother's background, and everything about them. Of course, he also mentioned my grandfather in the end. It turns out that he is the one who hides the most."

I glanced at Second Uncle out of the corner of my eye, because I was sure that when I mentioned Grandpa, he would definitely react, and sure enough, his eyebrows twitched for a moment, and said: "Yes, he is A mysterious person."

"Xiaofan, I'm not the one who came to collect the debt, and your grandfather's death has nothing to do with me. No matter when it comes, please believe me." The second uncle said.

"How can it be? You are my second uncle. I suspect that no one will doubt you." I hurriedly said, it's one thing to think in my heart, but another thing to say it. I still know this.

"You are doubting me, I know. Other things, I can't tell you yet, today you call me second uncle, I will tell you a word, your grandfather is because he is too smart, too conceited, too self-righteous He will be where he is today, and no matter what happens in the future, it will be his own fault!" said the second uncle, and when he said this, his tone was very calm.Although he was condemning Grandpa, there was no hatred for Grandpa between the lines.

"No matter what, he is already dead. I know he is not an ordinary person, but for so many years in Linjiazhuang, he has lived in obscurity, and he will not be peaceful after death. Second uncle, it is impossible for me to say that I do not doubt you. Yes, if I misunderstood you, I apologize. If you really have something to do with the so-called creditor of the Lin family, please tell him that death is like a lamp, and my mother has become like that. If he still If you are angry, come to me, don't say it to my dad." I said to my second uncle.

He just looked at me with a helpless expression in his eyes.

Finally, he said something softly to me, something I couldn't quite understand:
There are bones buried in the land, and ambitions are also buried.

I didn't understand this sentence, but it made me feel cold all over my body in the sultry night.

I took out the crystal ball and said to the second uncle: "Second uncle, when will you teach me to be an onmyoji?" I urgently need strength now.

When I asked such a sentence, I suddenly thought of something.This changed the way I looked at my second uncle.The second uncle said before that not everyone can become an onmyoji, but now he suddenly wants to teach me to be an onmyoji. I didn't get enlightened by eating the elixir and vermilion fruit, but I was unlucky in the village for a few days.

Onmyoji, through Yin and Yang.

Live as Yang and die as Yin.

The second uncle taught me suddenly because my mother is a paper doll.I am a living father to a "dead old lady".

This is the condition for me to become an Onmyoji.

What about the second uncle? ——He is also an Onmyoji.

My second grandmother, whom I have never met, is she a dead person or a paper figure?I couldn't help but mischievously thought, I heard people say that after serving as a sow for three years in the army, she felt like she had double eyelids when she saw a female mosquito. Could it be that grandpa pierced one by himself because he was lonely when he was in the army? Paper doll, let her become a living person like my mother, and then abandon others all the time, and finally have my second uncle?
There was a bang in my head.

Could the one in the red coffin be my second grandmother, my second uncle's wife?My second grandmother is the creditor, come to recover the love debt my grandfather owed him?
Everything, if you think about it this way, seems to be strung together, which makes sense.

(End of this chapter)