Time passes quickly, and summer vacation is coming to an end. I am about to return to school soon. Since the couple Hu Jun were arrested, there has been no news, and I don't know what happened to the little confused thing. During this time, the old blind man has been living with me, and I have been learning and practicing the Ling Tai Secret Art under his guidance. With the old blind man's guidance, I have made good progress. Although I haven't been able to completely gather the two strands of Yin Qi in my body into the Purple Palace, I can suppress them now, which makes me feel much better. At least I no longer have high fever or nightmares. As for my ability to see unclean things, I have also learned to control it under the guidance of the old blind man. According to him, my Tianmen is open, so external Qi easily enters my body, and my Qi also easily leaks out to the outside world. The reason why I can see those unclean things is because my Yuan Qi has leaked out and sensed the existence of those Yin dirty Qi. Therefore, if I want to not see those things, I just need to control my Yuan Qi as much as possible and not let it leak out. After a period of practice, I have been able to control my breath and not let Yuan Qi leak out, so I no longer see unclean things frequently. As for those unclean things that might come to me, the old blind man's solution is to practice more and fill myself with Jing Yang Qi. The dirty Qi will naturally not dare to approach me.
In addition to that, the old blind man also taught me some exorcism spells, saying that whenever I encounter something unusual, as long as I recite these spells, I can drive away evil spirits.
As time passed, the summer vacation was coming to an end and I was about to start school. Since Hu Jun and his wife were arrested, there had been no news, and I had no idea what had happened to the little confusing matter.
During this period, the old blind man stayed at my house, and I had been learning from him the secret techniques of cultivating the spirit fetus. With his guidance, my progress was quite good. Although I had not yet completely gathered the two yin energies in my body into the Purple Palace, I could at least suppress them, which made me feel much better. I no longer had high fever or nightmares.
As for my ability to see unclean things, I learned to control it under the guidance of the old blind man. According to him, my Tianmen was open, making it easy for foreign air to enter my body, and my qi was also easy to leak out to the outside world. The reason why I could see those unclean things was that my original qi leaked out and sensed the existence of those dirty yin energies, so I saw them. Therefore, if I did not want to see those things, as long as I controlled my original qi and did not let it leak out, it would be fine.
After a period of practice, I could control my breath and prevent my original qi from leaking out, so I no longer frequently saw unclean things. As for those unclean things that would approach me, the method the old blind man gave me was to practice more and fill myself with pure yang energy. The dirty energy would naturally not dare to approach me.
That being said, the days passed by one by one, and I was about to start middle school. The old blind man was also preparing to temporarily leave me and go around the streets and alleys to do fortune-telling, so it was time for us to part ways.
To be honest, I was a little reluctant because the old blind man was indeed very powerful, and I knew he had many skills. I wanted to learn more from him, but he seemed to want me to progress step by step and did not want to teach me too much at once.
"Stay at home for these two days, and I believe there will be information coming back soon," the old blind man instructed me before leaving. At the same time, he took out a piece of cloth with the Eight Trigrams pattern from his bag and handed it to me, saying, "This is a headband, which can seal Tianmen. If you encounter yin energy that you can't resist in the future, just wrap your forehead with this, and the dirty yin energy will not be able to enter your body anymore."
"Thank you, Master," I took the headband and looked at it. I found that the workmanship was very delicate, with many strange patterns embroidered on it, but I did not know exactly what it was.
After the old blind man finished speaking, he left, and my parents came back after sending him away. Their expressions became somewhat strange, and they kept discussing something in secret. I was curious and asked what was going on before finally understanding what was happening.
It turned out that when my parents went out just now, they happened to run into Cai Hong, also known as Little Confused's mother, who had just been released from the police station. It was said that there were also two young police officers with her at the time.
As one can imagine, the people in the village were very curious about Cai Hong's situation, so they surrounded the two young police officers and asked about the situation. After their introduction, everyone finally understood what was going on.
It turned out that Little Confused was really drowned alive by Hu Jun, and Hu Jun had been sentenced to death for intentional homicide. Cai Hong was also sentenced to three years in prison for not reporting the crime in time, but the execution was suspended for half a month. They brought her back this time to arrange things at home and then send her to jail.
However, according to the two young police officers, Hu Jun didn't kill Little Confused for no reason. It turned out that Little Confused had been ill recently and was diagnosed with leukemia after being hospitalized. To cure the disease, Hu Jun had to spend all his money. So at that time, Hu Jun came up with a vicious idea to get rid of Little Confused. Therefore, he pressed her into a smelly ditch and drowned her alive.
After learning the truth, I sat at the door for a long time, feeling that life is always tragic, especially for someone like Xiaohutu, which is simply heartbreaking. To be honest, while Hu Jun's actions may be understandable, his treatment of Xiaohutu in general is unforgivable. He never loved her. If nothing else, on the day he killed her, he should have bought her a new outfit, let her eat some good food, at least let her feel a little warmth and happiness, and then let her die, right? Don't even murderers about to be executed have the right to a last drink? I believe that if he had treated Xiaohutu that way, she might have willingly accepted her fate because it would have been a selfless act of kindness towards her. Time always passes, and everything will fade away. I don't know how many children in this world are as pitiful as Xiaohutu, but I know that such children will always exist, no matter how much time passes. "Yihen, it's getting cold. Don't sit outside anymore. Come inside." I don't know when my mom stood behind me.
I stood up and looked at her and my father standing next to her. Suddenly, I felt a surge of emotion. They were ordinary farmers, rough and straightforward in their ways, not very sensitive emotionally. They had not hugged me or said anything warm and comforting since I grew up. But they loved me and cared for me with all their hearts, and that was enough. That was what a real father and mother were like.
Maybe one day I would leave this poor and backward little village, but it would always be my roots.
That night, I dreamed again of Xiao Hutu and Yun Qingyue. They each held one of my hands and stood on the grass, looking at the moon. I felt like they had never really died, and they would always live on in my heart.
But what surprised me was that just when I thought it was just a simple dream, the two little girls turned their heads to look at me and Xiao Hutu said, "Big Brother Yihen, from now on, we'll live here. When you're free, you must come and see us often. You don't hate us and want to drive us away, do you?"
"Live here? What do you mean? Where is this place?" I looked around in shock but didn't recognize the place.
"Hehe, you silly goose. You don't even recognize your own Purple Palace. This is inside your own body. Haven't you noticed? From now on, we'll make our home here. Hehehe..." Xiao Hutu said with a mischievous grin.
At that moment, Yun Qingyue looked at me with a smug smile, and her eyes glowed with a purple-red light. Then she opened her mouth and stuck out a one-foot-long blood-red tongue, looking just like a snake spirit!