Order of the Pleiades

Chapter 34

"child?"

In the darkness, he heard someone calling him, Lin Jian struggled to open his eyes, staring blankly at the wooden roof beams.

His body was so heavy, he turned his head with all his strength, and saw the old woman standing beside him.The old woman's eyebrows were completely white. Seeing that Lin Jian was awake, she staggered and handed him a cup of hot milk from the table.

Lin Jian barely supported himself on his elbows, took the bowl after thanking him, and drank with some difficulty.He had no strength in his hands and was shaking even holding the bowl.

The old lady took a wooden stool and sat aside quietly looking at the blue-eyed young man in front of her, rubbing the back of her wrinkled and old hand, her eyes were full of admiration.

She saw Lin Jian slowly take the bowl after drinking the hot milk, and put a cotton pillow behind him.

"Mother-in-law." Lin Jian was a little worried, afraid that his appearance would scare the other party.

Who knew that the old woman just smiled and waved at him, tucking his quilt away.

"There are gods in the world, mother-in-law knows." The mother-in-law said, her tone was gentle and vicissitudes.

Lin Jian's eyes widened in surprise, not knowing what to answer her.

"60 years ago, my mother-in-law saw a fairy for the first time."

She looked at Lin Jian's eyebrows and recalled her childhood experience.That day she was sitting on the hillside and counting the stars, suddenly the stars in the sky fell one after another, and several rays of light split the black paint.

And 60 years later, she saw it again, and the fallen stars were even worse, brighter, and more miserable than that one.

The mother-in-law opened her hand, and there was a piece of gravel inside, resting in her palm dimly.

Lin Jian froze instantly. He curled up his fingers and looked at the stone absently.After a while, his lips moved, only to realize that he could not make a sound.

He leaned forward to pick up the stone, but fell heavily to the ground because he lost his strength.After falling down, I tried to get up on the bed in embarrassment, but I couldn't get up after exerting force many times. My silver hair scattered all over the ground and blocked my eyes in disorder.

The mother-in-law rushed to help him, but Lin Jian held his arm when she reached out.

She felt the boy's palms in front of her were cold and without any strength.

"Why is there no light..."

"It shouldn't be like this..."

"Grandma... why is there no light..."

He asked her every sentence, the ending was sad, each sentence became hoarse, and finally he was sobbing, and the words fell silent.

The mother-in-law was frightened by Lin Jian and helped him up in a panic.Although she didn't understand, she let him ask.She put the gray stone in Lin Jian's palm, and patted him on the back like coaxing a child.

When she found Lin Jian in the forest, he only had this gray stone in his hand. At that time, Lin Jian was no different from a lonely soul. His body was transparent and thin, and his weight was not even as heavy as a peach fruit.

After bringing him back, the boy returned to normal little by little, and finally woke up with his eyes open.

But that soul stone didn't have a gleam of light from the beginning to the end.

The wooden door slammed softly, and the old woman let go, Lin Jian walked over to open the door in a daze, and saw a person standing in front of the door.The visitor looked past him and looked directly at the boy in the room with a complicated expression.

"Lin Jian..." Fuqi tentatively called Lin Jian, he was a little scared and didn't even dare to step over.

It took a long time for Lin Jian to react when he heard it. He stiffly raised his head to look at Fuqi, his red eyes were dark, and it took him a while to focus on Fuqi.

Fu Qi didn't dare to look at him for a moment, but walked over to his bed and squatted down with his back facing him, beckoning him to come up.

Lin Jian was also obedient, and obediently put his arms around Fuqi's neck to let him carry him on his back, still holding the gray stone tightly in his hands.When she left, she turned her head and thanked her mother-in-law with a smile, her eyes were still red.

The road ahead was long, and Lin Jian was in low spirits. He fell asleep on Fuqi's back for a while, and never let go of his hands whether he was awake or asleep.

In the end, he felt that Fuqi gently put himself down on the futon where the worshipers kneeled in the temple.

"Why am I still alive?" Lin Jian knelt on the futon, stared at the soul stone in his palm and murmured to Fu Qi.

After hearing this, Fu Qi pursed his lips tightly, not knowing how to speak for a moment.

"There is a saying... as long as the gods and Buddhas fall into the sky, as long as the mortal temples are still there, the souls will be there."

"Rebirth is only a matter of time."

Lin Jian listened carefully, and nodded after Fu Qi finished speaking: "Just like me, right?"

Fuqi hummed and fell silent.

"But why didn't he come back?" He stroked the soul stone with his fingertips, as if asking himself.

If this is the case, let alone other things, there are stone statues in the 28 constellations in Yu's shrine...

Fu Qi's Adam's apple twitched lightly, for a moment he didn't know how to answer him.The soul of the person in front of him is still incomplete, let alone worrying about others.

"Take me to see He Chenze's shrine."

Lin Jian supported Fuqi's shoulders and got up with some difficulty. Although it was not easy, he stabilized himself and stood up.He continued to take steps, each step was extremely weak, as if he was stepping on foggy water.Fu Qi couldn't bear him to leave again, so he cast a spell and took him directly outside the shrine.

What greeted my eyes was a ruins, the broken lanterns were discarded on the ground randomly, and the plaque was knocked down from the top with a bamboo pole, and it was covered with cracks in the soil.

The stone lions in front of the temple were also smashed, and a piece of the forehead stone carving was severely cut off.Even the auspicious tree, which was tied with red belts by the world, lay horizontally in it, and the crown of the tree smashed the roof tiles.

Lin Jian saw Yunuo standing in the ancestral hall, she stared at it for a while, then turned and left, holding the little girl with a ponytail in her hand.

After Yun Nuo walked far away, he dared to follow Fu Qi over there, bypassing the mess all over the ground and entering the interior of the ancestral hall.

He saw the stone neck of He Chenze's stone statue being cut off and fell in front of the futon, breaking the bridge of the nose and eyebrows, and the powder was scattered at Lin Jian's feet.

Lin Jian let go of the support without showing any signs of expression, walked towards the statue step by step, and finally knelt down heavily on the futon with his knees softened.After straightening the head of the stone statue, he held it carefully in his arms, and put the soul stone remaining on his side into the eyes of the stone statue, which made it look less sad.

There was another loud bang not far away, and the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground shook the ground, and tremors could be felt here.

The soul stone was shaken out of the stone statue's eye sockets, Lin Jian went to catch it quickly, just in time to put it in the palm of his hand.

Immediately after a soft sound, Huishi fell through his palm and fell to the ground, rolled around a few times and stopped in front of Fuqi.Lin Jian smiled bitterly as he looked at his hands that were so blurred that only outlines remained.

"She's always like this. She loves and loves her only younger brother very much." Lin Jian shook his head helplessly, there was no reprimand in his words, just a bit of a smile and a bit of a sigh.

"No matter who bullied me since childhood, she promised to be the first to rush forward to stand up for me."

Fu Qi's heart ached when he heard this, and he frowned tightly. He said next to him: "The Yu family respects Feng Chang for generations..."

Lin Jian nodded, and bent down to reach the stone again.

"I understand, it was He Chenze before, but now it's me."

"She wanted to do it for me. I can't blame her."

He tried it several times without touching it, Fu Qi couldn't bear it anymore, walked over and bent down to help him pick up the soul stone, and when he wanted to return it to him, he didn't know how to give it to him.

In the end, the gray stone was placed on the edge of the futon in the forest, and it was left alone there pitifully.

Fuji closed his eyes, not wanting to look any more.

After a while, there was another small soul stone on the futon, and the two were close together, like two gray birds keeping each other warm in winter.

The candle in the underworld flickered for a moment, Liang Wuqian paused his pen, frowning as he looked at the two names gradually emerging from the book of life and death.

He dipped the pen in ink and hung it in the air for a while.The nib of the pen was full of ink, and a drop of ink condensed on the tip of the wolf hair, which was about to fall, and finally broke away from the entanglement, and fell heavily on the paper.

Who would have thought that the drop of ink would not smudge when it met the paper, and the bright little drop was glowing with the light of a white candle.

"Meng Po." Liang Wuqian said, somewhat perplexedly calling the woman who was tidying up the shelves not far away.

Granny Meng looked back at Liang Wuqian with a stack of old books in her arms, and was surprised by his rare dignified expression.

"Why are these two people recorded in the book but not returned to Jiuquan?"

"I don't know, they didn't cross the bridge..."

"Haven't crossed the bridge?" Liang Wugan asked incredulously, and the pen was held so hard that it made a soft sound.

Granny Meng nodded heavily, and put back the old books one by one by category, wringing her hands together uneasily.

"They fell off the bridge when they came...and fell into the river."

"I once heard the little ghost say that they are gods, and they are not under our control...so I didn't worry about it..."

Po Meng looked up at Liang Wugan tentatively, and saw that man was biting his lower lip anxiously, staring at the two names on the life and death book without speaking.

"My lord, didn't you say that gods, immortals, and ghosts are not under our control?"

The long pen couldn't bear it any longer, and broke with a crisp sound, which made Po Meng tremble in fright, and her voice became even softer.

"It's different this time." Liang Wugan's hand was stabbed with a broken pen, bleeding slightly.

"Someone came here to make a record before, and asked me to restrain their souls and put them into reincarnation."

Suddenly footsteps came from outside the hall, and a ghost official knocked on the door and came in to report that there was a Xingjun who was guarding the door and insisted on looking for Lord Hades.

Liang Wuqian opened his mouth empty, put down the broken pen, rested his elbow on the table and rested his forehead with one hand, his eyes full of annoyance.

Finally, he slowly put his hand down, looked at the ghost officer with dark red eyes and said, "When did the King of the Underworld see a visitor?"

The judge was also frightened by his overly stern expression, apologized repeatedly and then withdrew.

"what?!!"

Shi Yuanxing waved away the judge's hand that was stretched out to grab him with his eyes wide open, so angry that even his voice trembled.

"You tell him to get out! You ask him what he promised me?!"

The judge beckoned from the shadows for everyone to come and help, who knew that just as the crowd surrounded him, Shi Yuanxing called out a giant knife and pointed in the direction of the gate of Liang Wugan's palace.

"presumptuous!"

The judge finally couldn't bear it anymore and yelled out angrily.

"I'm presumptuous?!"

"Okay! I'm going to be presumptuous!"

Shi Yuanxing held the knife in one hand, directly ignoring the people who wanted to stop him, and wanted to rush straight into the hall.Inadvertently feeling the finger wrench that had been on his finger for a long time, he took it off and threw it in front of everyone.

"Put me in!"

Liang Wugan in the hall listened to the commotion outside, finally gritted his teeth with determination, and waved to Po Meng reluctantly.

"Let him in."

Po Meng next to her really didn't expect that Liang Wuqian would really let this person in, she froze for a long time before moving her footsteps.

As soon as the door was opened, a ray of red light rushed in.