A lonely soul

  The werewolf turned back and said, "She doesn't want to say, if fate permits it, you will know."

  I pouted at the wolf man's answer.

  "Why did you end up like this?"

  "At that time, this place was just a deep mountain, uninhabited, with ferocious wolves. To survive, I had to kill the beasts and live under the wolves' mouths. I didn't curry favor with them either, but was bitten by one of the beasts. Afterwards, I became like this."

  The life of a werewolf guard can last for two thousand years, and there are two ways to do so. The first is to take the wolf poison and become an outcast, and the second is his conviction, he will not betray Zhao Ji's trust, no matter what happens.

  I was moved by the love of the werewolf for Zhao Ji, and when I looked up at Uncle Ah, his eyes seemed to be those of the werewolf from back then...

  That night, I tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep, lying on the stone bed staring at Xiao Bai who was already bandaged up, filled with doubts.

  "You are a hundred-year-old spirit, Qin Yuanyang is your master, can you tell me who he really is?" Reaching out to stroke the soft fur of Xiao Bai, smooth and silky, Xiao Bai's body moved slightly, eyes tightly closed, so peaceful, having a beautiful dream.

  Dazed and confused, lying on a stone bed staring blankly at the small bridge flowing water.

  The fog on the bridge grew thicker, I narrowed my eyes to look over, and when the fog dispersed, that woman was standing on the bridge wearing a sapphire blue palace dress, with a hint of a smile at the corner of her mouth.

  She slightly tilted her head, and I got up and walked towards her.

  In the bright light, this woman is beautiful. She turns her head and gazes at the flowing water, stretching out her hand to lightly scatter fish food, even though there are no fish inside.

  She stepped onto the wooden bridge, her body surrounded by a halo of light, beautiful and magnificent.

  "Are you Zhao Ji?"

  I finally spoke up with some doubts.

  Her profile is so beautiful, were ancient women all this lovely?

  Liu Xi Jun, Zhao Ji...

  She curled up a smile at the corner of her mouth, "The descendants of the Qin family met you, it's also a kind of fate." She didn't directly answer my words, but said the descendants of the Qin family, is Uncle? Or Qinvillage?

  She turned her head and looked at me, with eyes as beautiful as the stars. I would never have thought that this beautiful woman was the mother of Qin Shi Huang, the First Emperor of China.

  I met Zhao Ji just like this!

  "A person's fate is in their own hands, but you're different, cherish it well." Zhao Ji's words left me somewhat perplexed, why am I different from others.

  This is neither a dream nor reality...

  In the absence of any answers and Zhao Ji's disappearance, the only explanation is that I must have had an out-of-body experience, seeing the last wisp of Zhao Ji's soul remaining. Perhaps she has already entered her next life, or tenth life, twentieth life...

  After all, what I saw tonight was just her obsession!

  The werewolf has no name, or rather, he is unwilling to tell us his name.

  "It's just a code name." He said to me and Ah Shu the next morning as he sent us out of the cave, hiding in the darkness.

  "Are you really unwilling to leave with us?" I was still hesitant, even though he looked a bit strange, but I trusted Uncle, as long as the werewolf agreed to leave with us, Uncle would definitely have a way to turn him back into a normal human.

  Uncle has never done such a thing, maybe he did, but I just don't know, because I can see Xiaobai fearless of day and night under the sunlight.

  "Having survived here for over two thousand years, I have no idea what the outside world is like, let alone that I still need to guard this place..." The werewolf said, glancing into the cave with a somewhat bitter smile.

  "Do you still believe that her soul will meet with yours again?" I slightly furrowed my brow, such a devoted man, how many more are there in this world?

  I am happy for Zhao Ji, although she ultimately did not end up with Lü Buwei, but by her side, there was someone who loved and protected her, that's enough for this life!

  The werewolf nodded at me.

  "On your way, be extra careful." The werewolf said, turning his gaze to Uncle Ah. "If you can still come back, I'll wait for you here."

  The uncle's cheek moved slightly, wanting to speak but stopping himself.

  "Let's go." When I looked at Uncle, he only told me these two words. I followed Uncle's footsteps down the mountain.

  But I can see that the werewolf is still standing at the entrance of the cave, waving goodbye to us. He has grown accustomed to loneliness and solitude, but when we appeared in his life for a day, he will face separation, and he begins to be unaccustomed to his former loneliness and solitude.

  It's hard to part with something you love, and it's always like this.

  I turned around and waved at him until he was out of sight, I thought, only then did he turn back into the cave, accompanied by the ancient stone bed, thousand-year-old utensils alone.

  But his words, I never understood.

  He said: If you can come back, I'll wait for you here.

  If I could turn back time...

  The meaning of this sentence is that I couldn't figure it out no matter how hard I thought, so I asked Uncle Ah, but Uncle Ah just told me to go down the mountain and said he would tell me about other things later.

  The secrets on Uncle's body increased even more.

  The werewolf said that Xiaobai was a spiritual being, and the wounds on its body healed quickly. Indeed, at this time, holding Xiaobai, it was just a bit lazy, and the wounds on its body had already healed. Perhaps, when the werewolf didn't understand our intentions at first, it had used too much force on Xiaobai.

  Maybe again

  Reborn as a boss

  In a few days, Xiao Bai's fur on his back will be as good as new.

  Avoiding Qin Village, I walked with Uncle on the small road for about 20 minutes before arriving at the highway outside Qin Village, where it's more convenient to hail a taxi.

  The tricycle took us to Caotang Town, just a few days after the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the streets had already resumed the cries of vendors, with various clothing stores and shoe shops opening their doors, returning to normal life.

  Followed Uncle all the way to the station, took a bus to Wengan, Caotang is a small town, there are no buses to other places, can only go back to Wengan County and take a big bus to other places.

  But outside the car window, I saw that 180-year-old old woman, she was hunched over, standing under the dark eaves, revealing a ferocious face, glaring at me.

  I let out a loud cry of fright and buried my head in Uncle's chest.

  "What's wrong?" The voice came from Uncle's chest, I buried my head and didn't dare to lift it up, Xiao Bai's foot stepped on my leg again.

  The bus started moving and I slowly lifted my head. Outside the window, the old lady's figure was gone. Everything seemed like an illusion!

  As soon as they arrived in Yuan'an County, Uncle's phone rang. Since arriving in Guizhou, Uncle had stopped using his Shanghai SIM card for a few days to avoid invitations to those events and refused all work-related matters.

  Uncle has a lot of money, more than he can spend. From young to old, Uncle's only job is to go on TV shows. Perhaps when Uncle was exorcising ghosts and demons, I was still in Qin Village, or perhaps it was before I turned six years old.

  Those were things I didn't know about. Ever since I can remember, Uncle was a low-key rich man, dressed in suits and leather shoes, mature and steady.

  "Uh, there are still two more months left, can't delay any further. If successful, we'll be back. Uh, okay, call me if anything comes up."

  Uncle hung up the phone, his face somewhat solemn.

  "Who is it?"

  Sitting in the breakfast shop, I took a sip of porridge and asked, I didn't think it was An Linglong, nor did I think it was anyone else. It's precisely because I hadn't thought of anyone that I'm asking Uncle now.

  It's Treasure Brother.

  The uncle didn't even lift his head and finished the porridge in two or three mouthfuls.

  "To be honest, I don't want to leave Qin Village either." I muttered while drinking.

  The little white fox lay on the table, and Uncle threw a bun over. It ate the bun with its fox mouth, but this was not a cunning fox, it was just a small animal that could eat five grains of rice.

  "Uncle was somewhat indifferent, 'We're just going out, we'll be back after we've finished our business.'"

  I nodded.

  "If in the next life I still remember you, we will die together..."

  Following the humming of the song, I shook my head and drank porridge. Anyway, in this small shop, except for Uncle and me, there were no other customers, so I didn't care about anything else.

  "Phone." Uncle's voice rang out.

  "We'll die together..." I sang in a low voice, if in the next life I still remember you, we'll die together, isn't this my feelings for Uncle Ah?

  In the next life, if there really is a past and present life, I hope to be with Uncle forever, even in death!

  "Your phone."

  The uncle's voice was somewhat helpless, with the corners of his mouth raised.

  I stopped humming the little tune and felt a slight vibration in my pocket, took out my phone to see the incoming call display, these two words made me raise the corners of my mouth.

  He waved his phone in front of Uncle Ah, the ringing sound continuing non-stop, with no intention of hanging up.

  "I said, 'It was Young Master Lin who came.'"

  The voice of a young man surnamed Lin came on over the phone after picking up.

  "A Li."

  "It's Jun Li." I was obviously a bit impatient, having told Young Master Lin a thousand times over that my surname is Jun and my given name is just the single character "Li".

  "Sorry, you have to leave." His voice was somewhat urgent.

  Lin's family young master is good-looking, and his family condition is not bad either. He is still single until now, except for being afraid of ghosts, he has no other shortcomings. His home is in a villa district. Once when he was delivering gifts to me at the downstairs of my building, the old ladies who were out for their morning exercise would tease us, saying that these two children are like "green plums and bamboo horses", "two young and innocent", "golden boy and jade girl", "talented man and beautiful woman" and so on. Whatever phrase is not nice, they wouldn't say it.

  They blindly put these beautiful words on me and Lin's young master, at that time I hadn't discovered my love for Uncle Ah yet, but felt that this man's way of pursuing a girl was not clever at all, perhaps it was just to save face for himself, going to find a group of old ladies to cheer him on.

  "He said, 'Where have you been? I haven't seen you for half a month, and you don't even answer the phone. When I went to your house, the security guard at your entrance also said that he hadn't seen you guys in a long time. Where did you go?'"

  "What's wrong with you? Are you investigating our household registration or what? We're not at home, what business do you have here that you even asked the security guard? I'm telling you, what's wrong with you?! I can feel that Young Master Lin is concerned about me, but on the surface, I completely don't want to lose to him. Just like people say: a dead duck still has a hard beak."

  I don't have feelings for Lin Jia Gongzi, but I can appreciate his concern. Lin Xiao Yi is actually a pretty good person, it's just that I don't have feelings for him.