Chapter 46: The Ghost Ship Husband

  I never thought that Ghost Town would be in this small village.

  Or rather, the ghost market has always existed under the suppression of Long Qi. This ghost market is not that simple either.

  Ghost Market, a place where humans and ghosts trade. However, in the Ghost Market, most of the time it's the ghosts who are in charge. There is also a Ghost Market in Huai Tree Village, but they mostly do some shady dealings. It's also because of this powerful Ghost Market that Ying Zheng chose to make this place his final escape destination.

  However, at that time, Ying Zheng's failure also doomed this ghost market to be suppressed. The dragon energy was forced to stay here for two reasons: one was to suppress Ying Zheng's soul, and the other was to intimidate the ghost market.

  I didn't understand before that the Flying Dragon in Heaven formation had already taken shape, why this free dragon still wouldn't leave. Now I finally understand, there's something here that it can't leave behind.

  However, we unknowingly absorbed the dragon energy. The mess that followed was naturally for us to solve ourselves. With the disappearance of the dragon energy, the Ghost Market would slowly appear. That afternoon, Zhao Feiyu, Kong Yi, Guo Lao and I rested for an entire afternoon, all preparing to enter the Ghost Market.

  We don't know how long we slept. When I woke up, it was already evening. I looked at the watch and it was almost ten o'clock. It's time to go.

  I woke up Zhao Feiyu and Kong Yi, just as I was about to call Old Man Guo, he was already waiting for us in the courtyard.

  I saw Old Guo wearing a white Tai Chi uniform, looking very much like a master. Kong Yiyi changed into a white monk's robe, and Zhao Feiyu also wore a white Tai Chi uniform. It seems that I'm the only one wearing a black jacket, which makes me feel a bit awkward.

  Old Guo seemed to have known my habits, he pointed at the thing on the table. I walked over and opened it, it was a white hunting robe. I felt a bit helpless, why do a group of people dress so uniformly?

  "This hunting attire is for your Onmyodo, but now, there are very few Chinese Onmyodo. Most of them are Japanese Onmyodo, it's quite sad to think about it. You can just make do with this attire." Old Guo said with a sigh.

  Since the older generation was speaking, I didn't have the power to refuse them. I returned to my room and changed into a hunting attire at the fastest speed possible. The last time I dressed so formally was probably during the entrance ceremony. It wasn't until Zhao Feiyu's urging voice came from outside that I snapped back to reality and headed outwards.

  Old Guo led us to the thieves' cave under the pagoda tree with ease. Just as Old Guo was about to go down first, Zhao Feiyu grabbed him. Old Guo looked at Zhao Feiyu in confusion, not knowing what he was up to.

  "Master, are we going down? You might not be able to come up again?" Zhao Feiyu's voice was trembling, as if he was suppressing his emotions.

  Hearing this, both I and Kong chose to pretend to continue packing our things. At this time, leaving space for the two masters was probably the best choice.

  "Fate is something that I also can't be certain about. When fate arrives, it's arrived, and no matter how hard you try, you can't force it to come if it doesn't want to. Feiyu, sometimes when the time comes to let go, you have to let go." Old Guo seemed very relaxed, not showing any of the intense emotional fluctuations that Zhao Feiyu was experiencing.

  Old Guo's words made me think of the three of us in the past. When we were young, except for me, Zhao Feiyu and Kong Yi had both left their parents at a young age to follow our master and learn from him. The only person we could rely on was probably just our master. At times when we faced separation, we would just smile casually with the corners of our mouths, but the tears would choose to be swallowed back into our bellies.

  Maybe Zhao Feiyu really couldn't hold it in today.

  The so-called father-daughter, mother-son relationship only means that your fate with him is to constantly watch his back disappear into the distance in this life. You stand at one end of the small road, watching him gradually disappear around the bend, and he silently tells you with his back: don't chase after me.

  What is meant by "master and apprentice" is that when your fate with him has run out, you remember his words, watch him leave, and pass on everything he left for you.

  Zhao Feiyu was unwilling to let go, I can understand. But Guo Lao Tou had long since come to terms with it. In his words, the last time he died (when Qin Shi Huang eliminated the three nobles), he had already come to terms with all of this.

  "Let's go." Old Guo patted Zhao Feiyu's face three times with his hand, then gestured for Zhao Feiyu to let go.

  I saw Zhao Feiyu gradually letting go, his expression was reluctant, but more of it was determination.

  I saw Kong Yizi's eyes were slightly moist, presumably thinking of his master too. At this moment, Mu Rongxue's appearance also appeared in my mind, and I still seemed to remember every word and action of his.

  "You damn kid! You're wasting my time here! Get out of here quickly!" Old Guo's sudden change in expression left us somewhat unprepared. As he spoke, he kicked one foot at Zhao Feiyu and pushed him towards the entrance of the cave...

  This time when I entered the cave again, I found that the previous steps were gone. Instead, there was a big hole! Old Guo looked at the hole and frowned. He turned around and asked me: Little Lin, can you still read the ghost script?

  I nodded, this thing I can say is basically not dare to forget. People speak human language, ghosts speak ghost language. Those who do our line of work, if you can't understand what the ghosts are saying, then what's the point...

  Guo Lao Tou didn't say a word and suddenly jumped into the hole!

  At that time, I only had one reaction: "Damn it!" How could he jump so decisively? Zhao Feiyu saw Old Man Guo jumping down and almost without thinking also jumped down with him!

  Then, Kong Yat also jumped down!

  I let out a sigh and followed Kong Yiyi into the jump as well.

  The last time we came here, there was only a coffin down there. But this time going down, the content is quite different. It's like entering another world.

  I fell into the water with a "splash", and instinctively closed my eyes, trying to float towards the surface. My limbs flailed about helplessly, and I swallowed a few mouthfuls of water. In a daze, I didn't know who pulled me up.

  When I came to, I found that Old Guo was dragging me towards the shore. At that time, my mood was explosive! I clearly knew I couldn't swim, why didn't he mention it beforehand?!

  Old Guo dragged me to the shore and gave me a few slaps. After I coughed up some water, I pushed Old Guo away with disgust.

  Old Guo chuckled and said: "Young man, you still can't swim? Well, if I hadn't had the foresight to wait for you in the water, you'd have drowned without even knowing why!"

  I was about to retort to Old Guo, but a mouthful of water spurted out from my mouth. After I rested for a while, I almost used up all my strength and said: You know I'm a duck in the desert, why didn't you tell me earlier!

  Old Guo said with a sly smile: I'm exercising you, aren't I? Who knew you still can't swim.

  At that time I just wanted to have a one-on-one with Old Man Guo.

  My eyes could see things when I didn't know who lit the torch. I took a closer look, and this fire seemed to have been lit before. We just came to warm up by the fire.

  "It seems they've arrived." Old Guo said this with a somewhat relaxed tone, then he walked over to the fire pit and started drying his clothes.

  Zhao Feiyu and Kong Yiyi had been holding back their smiles, it wasn't the first time they'd heard that I was a "dry duck", what's there to laugh about?! I gave them a white eye, and started drying my clothes.

  I don't know why Old Guo wants all of us to dress so formally, it looks like we're going to pay our respects to someone.

  Just as we were drying our clothes, I clearly saw a small boat slowly approaching the place where we were. Subconsciously, I reached for my meteorite iron, but Old Guo grabbed me and shook his head, saying: They're here to pick us up.

  The ship was moving very fast and soon appeared before us. A boatman standing at the bow looked at us and asked if we wanted to go to the other side of the river?

  When he asked this question, the other three people were looking at me with an expression of "hurry up old man and translate". The boatman was speaking in a ghostly language, now it seems that among this group of people, only I understand the ghostly language.

  I translated what the boatman said to them, and Old Guo slapped his thigh and said: Let's go, of course we have to go. Let him wait for a while, we'll dry our clothes and then leave.

  I told the boatman exactly what I had said, and he nodded, but instead waited for us to dry our clothes at the bow of the boat. He took a look at our attire and naturally understood our identities.

  A monk, a geomancer and two Taoist priests.

  When we had dried our clothes, Old Guo shouldered his pack and boarded the boat. As he passed by the boatman, the latter said in a low voice, "A man whose life has been cut off?"

  Although the voice was small, Zhao Feiyu and Kong Yī still heard it. They were still waiting for me to translate, but I looked at Old Man Guo and said: The boatman said welcome aboard.

  Zhao Feiyu heard this and clapped his hands in admiration, saying: The quality of this boat family is really high. They even say welcome, not bad, not bad. Later, I will definitely give the boat family some more paper money.

  Kong Yī just smiled and didn't say much. Kong Yī understood my personality, and he probably also noticed that I translated it differently.

  Guo Lao said impatiently on the boat after waiting for a while: Hurry up!

  "Coming! Coming!" The three of us couldn't help but be urged on by Old Guo, and we set off towards the boat with our things on our backs.

  When I passed by the boatman's side, the boatman was surprised again and said in a ghostly tone: "Unintentional person? Husband and child?"

  I couldn't help but stop in my tracks and use a dialect to communicate with the boatman: "Have you met many strange people today?"

  The boatman raised his head, looked at me with his empty eyes and nodded, adding: Yes. Seeing the emperor of a thousand ages is enough, and also seeing the phoenix awl that has been lost for many years. That person is someone whose life span has expired, and you are an unintentional person. You both shouldn't have appeared in the sun.