Please bring your best friends to practice immortality

Chapter 5 Yan'er's Story ([-])

It's not that long, but after she took the Tongxuan Mirror into her body 25 years ago for nourishment, the old Taoist priest told her to spit out the mirror every night when the moon was full to absorb the power of the lunar yin. The Taoist priest also had to look after his apprentice, fearing that she would get the wrong method. Later, when she became familiar with it, the old Taoist priest would leave her alone. Often at night, he would be snoring thunderously on the other side, while Gu Shiyi himself would sit cross-legged in front of the window and breathe into the moon. .

So one day, it was also the full moon on August 36th, when the power of the lunar yin was at its most perfect in the year. After Gu Shi spit out the precious mirror, he didn't know if it was the same night he spit it out. Something went wrong, and after [-] weeks of lunar power operating in the body, Gu Shiyi opened his eyes and saw a little girl in her mid-fifties in the mirror.

This girl had an ordinary appearance, with a dirty little face and messy hair. When Gu Shiyi first thought that he was attracting the power of the lunar calendar, he attracted the lonely ghosts nearby, and he was thinking about whether to give it to her. He recited a scripture and sent her to reincarnation, but if she looked closely, the clothes on her body did not look like those from this world. Moreover, there was no yin energy around the girl. She was a living person, not a dead ghost. Also, he saw something appearing behind her. The various furnishings in the room were different from those here, so he looked at her more and more curiously.

Logically speaking, she was peering through the precious mirror, and a child shouldn't notice it. But for some reason, the little girl's eyes wandered, and she suddenly met Gu Shi's eyes. The two looked at each other, their eyes facing each other. Suddenly, the little girl screamed,
"Ghost!"

Then Gu Shiyi saw her excitedly calling a middle-aged woman with a slightly protruding belly. The middle-aged woman looked at her with a puzzled look on her face, then turned around and called a burly middle-aged man in. , the two people's clothing is very weird, and their hair styles are actually the same short hair.

Gu Shiyi looked at them curiously. The two people came in and glanced at Gu Shiyi blankly, with puzzled expressions on their faces. Only the little girl pointed at Gu Shiyi and shouted,

"There's a ghost! There's a ghost! There's a ghost!"

The little girl's voice was high-pitched and thin, perhaps because she was too noisy. An impatient expression finally appeared on the middle-aged man's face, and he raised his hand and slapped her across the face.

"Snapped……"

The girl covered her face, and the room became quiet. The middle-aged man looked very ferocious, and his face was full of flesh. The girl was slapped, and her face was red and swollen. She didn't dare to cry. , tears welling up in his eyes. Gu Shiyi was only six or seven years old at the time. He only found it funny when he saw this. He even made faces at the little girl in the mirror. The girl gasped in fright, worrying about what she saw. Looking at the back of his parents turning away, even though his whole body was shaking with fear, he never called anyone again.

In the days that followed, whenever she breathed out the power of the lunar calendar for 36 days after dark, she could see the girl's face in the mirror. At first, the girl told people about it and asked people to look at it, but No one could see what she was talking about. Gu Shiyi watched her gesticulating and gesticulating at people, and then everyone had a blank look on their faces. He found it very interesting and often laughed out loud. , but it added a bit of fun to her boring wandering life.

Later, the two of them saw each other more often, and the little girl's courage was developed. She was no longer dissatisfied with the village's yelling. After the two got acquainted, they actually talked through the mirror. Only then did Gu Shiyi know that the person opposite The girl's name is Li Yan'er. She lives in a small mountain village with her parents and grandparents. Li Yan'er is the eldest daughter at home. Her parents have been trying to have a son. They gave birth to a son first, but he died before he was one year old.

"My father and mother are now working in the town and saving money to have a baby brother. My mother has a baby brother in her belly for six months!"

Li Yaner told Gu Shiyi this, and Gu Shiyi curled his lips,

"If your family is so poor, how can you give birth to a son? Can you support him?"

Gu Shiyi saw that the Li family was really poor. The house made of mud was dark and small, and the furniture was tattered. The clothes on the Li family were also old and torn. They were worse than wandering around with the old Taoist priests. Although she and the old Taoist priest sometimes lived in places like ruined temples and ghost houses, the old Taoist priest knew how to catch ghosts. Whenever he went to a town, he would ask around to see if there were any ghosts. They were separated from the world of Hongmeng in ancient times. , inherited a lot of spiritual energy, countless human races or other races are easy to become spirits and monsters, so there are many incidents of mountain spirits and ghosts haunting the world. After some of them have advanced in their ways, they transform into humans and blend into the world, interacting with mortals. In intermarriage, there are also those who are shallow in their spiritual conduct and have gone astray. Seeing that mortal flesh and blood can improve their spiritual conduct, they come out to harm and eat people, causing harm to the world.

Therefore, the secular government will invite some cultivators with profound magic skills to set up Qingling Guards to guard various towns and cities, specializing in slaying demons and eliminating demons. In addition to these cultivators supported by the government, there are also some Taoist cultivators. The disciples of the Taoist priests come out to practice, and they have to slay demons and protect the Taoism while walking in the world. Of course, there are also old Taoist priests who specialize in slaying ghosts and catching monsters for people, so as to amass money and support their families.

The old Taoist priest's magic skills are only considered third-rate outside, but catching some little ghosts and demons is not a problem. When he meets the wealthy gentry who are generous, he will get a piece of gold as soon as he sells them, and the silver reward he gets is enough for his master and his disciples to live happily. It was spicy for a while, but the old Taoist priest did not dare to stay in one place for a long time because of the precious mirror, so he led his disciples to wander around, hiding in various places. But if you have to say that you have seen them before, Li Yaner can't even compare to Li Yaner. Gu Shiyi’s.

Therefore, in Gu Shiyi's view, it is unreasonable for Li Yaner's family to have a son even though his family is so poor.

"My father said that with a son, our Li family can pass on the incense, otherwise our Li family will be cut off!"

Gu Shiyi was very puzzled.

"Here, our daughters can also pass on the family business..."

Like her, according to her status, she is the eldest daughter of the eldest family member. If she does not marry, she can recruit a son-in-law into the family. The children she gives birth to will also be the direct descendants of the eldest family member. If she is capable enough, she can take charge of the entire family. Like her, there is a son-in-law before her. This grandma is the female head of the business, and the Gu family has been very prosperous for a while in her hands!
Not to mention Gu Shishi's confusion about the Li family's insistence on having a son, the Li family's parents really changed their luck after working in the town. Although the Li family was born vicious, they had a lot of brute force and were willing to work hard with their own lives. After doing it, they actually made a lot of money. After Li's mother gave birth to her son, they bought a yard in the town, brought their parents and Li Yan'er to the town, and let Li Yan'er go to school.

When Li Yaner arrived in town, she always carried a small mirror with her. It was a broken mirror she picked up on the side of the road when she was in her hometown. Her family was really poor at that time, and she was a girl, so she was not favored by her elders. , there was not even a mirror for combing her hair, so she picked one up on the roadside and took it back. Unexpectedly, it was this mirror that gave her a best friend who she had grown up with since childhood. Although this best friend could not skip rope or do tricks with her, , kicking shuttlecock, but this best friend can hide in bed with her and whisper, telling her the novelties of another world.

The two of them grew up together with just two mirrors. Gu Shiyi let Li Yaner know that the other world was like a fairy tale. There really were foxes for thousands of years, turtles for thousands of years, and some people knew how to teach. He can control the wind and fire, and fly swords to take people's lives. Gu Shiyi followed Li Yan'er to school, followed Li Yan'er to read, and learned that people in this world can't cultivate but can build various machines. They can also move mountains and seas, and change things. world.

Afterwards, Li Yaner's family gradually became wealthy. Gu Shiyi saw that their home had added TVs, refrigerators, washing machines, etc., all things that were not available in her world. Through the small square box, she learned about the bigger things outside this small town. world.Gu Shiyi likes the conveniences of Li Yan’s place.
"You are ordinary people and can travel thousands of miles in one day without flying in the wind. That's great!"

Although the spiritual energy there is exhausted and the inheritance of cultivation has long been extinguished, there is another kind of civilization and technological development, which has taken two different paths from our own world.

But Li Yaner envied the green mountains and green waters of Gu Shiyi.

"Your place is great. It's full of spiritual energy. Even the plants and trees can become spirits. Unlike here... now you can't even see the blue sky and clear water..."

This is true!
The two have a common dislike, and the pollution in Li Yaner's world is indeed serious...

The life in Li Yan'er's world is much more exciting than that in Gu Shiyi's. The two best friends from different worlds read books and watch TV shows together, scolded the scumbag tea girl together, and despised the special effects for five cents. They are quite similar, but they have different opinions on men. People's tastes are very different. Li Yan'er likes fair-faced and handsome gentlemen, such as the untanned Mogu type, but Gu Shiyi prefers mature and handsome men. She doesn't care about faces, she only wants six-pack abs and waistcoat lines. She loves them all, especially those with strong tastes, and European and American sportsmen like them even more, such as the giant stone.

Gu Shiyi often sighed,

"Your place is great. When summer comes, the streets are full of shirtless people with their thighs and breasts exposed. It's like here...everyone is covered up tightly..."

It was so inconvenient that if she wanted to see her muscles, she had to sneak up the wall to see the nursing staff take off their clothes and practice boxing!
Li Yaner disagreed.
"I think it's better that everyone in your place observes etiquette and respects the rules, than in our place where etiquette is broken and music is ruined!"

Speaking of this, the two of them suddenly felt that they were born in the wrong person. It would be great if they could change each other!

Li Yaner's family always favored boys over girls. After having a younger brother, her grandparents were old and her parents were busy making money, so all the housework fell on her shoulders. At such a young age, she had to serve the elders and the younger ones. That's it. She was often beaten and scolded by her father.

Father Li is an extremely bad-tempered person. Especially after he earns money in town, he likes to drink. After drinking, his wife and daughter at home will be beaten and scolded by him. However, Father Li loves his son very much and always talks about it. He is the root of the old Li family. He dotes on his younger son so much that he has gone to the house to uncover tiles since he was a child, attracting cats and dogs, and making the neighbors hate him.

When Li Yan'er was 12 years old, her grandparents passed away one after another. Without the old man, Li's father became more and more unrestrained. As the town became more and more open, a small hair salon and massage shop opened in the town. Li's father often visited there. , he just hooked up with another woman outside. In a small place like this, this kind of thing is always spread the most. Soon Mother Li knew about it, but Mother Li was cowardly and dared not speak out when she was angry. She swallowed her anger. He comforted himself and said,

"I have my son to defend himself. No matter how he plays outside, he will eventually come back for his son's sake!"

Mother Li was not wrong. No matter how much Father Li spent playing outside, his son still had to be raised. He used the excuse that he was busy with business and came back to stay for two days every week, and then brought some money back to support the three members of the family.

Li's mother is an ordinary rural woman who has given birth to three children. Her appearance and figure are definitely not as good as those of the girl from the hair salon. Li's father doesn't want to sleep with her when he comes back. He just drinks when he comes back and falls asleep after drinking.

It would be fine if he just drank, but after drinking he would start beating people. Seeing that the situation was not going well, Li's mother led her son to hide out. Li Yan'er couldn't hide even if she wanted to. She also had to serve Li's father at home, so she got beaten a lot. Fighting, Gu Shiyi saw it, anxious and distressed. She also taught Li Yaner some self-defense techniques, but she could only rely on her mouth through the mirror, and there was a limit to what she could teach Li Yaner.

She also wanted to teach Li Yan'er some spells. She had long since exhausted her spiritual power in that world, and even if she learned it, she couldn't use it. Li Yan'er learned a few tricks and embroidered legs, but they were of no use against Li's father, who was 1.8 meters tall and strong. , and the beatings that followed the slightest resistance became more and more violent. When Li's father woke up the next day, he started yelling and scolding Li Yan'er, and even Li's mother wanted to scold Li Yan'er.
"Why did you let your father beat you a few times? After giving birth to you and raising you, you still can't beat him?"

"It's all your fault. Your dad worked hard to earn money outside. He got angry outside and came back to curse and hit him a few times. What's wrong? You let him vent his anger and he stopped running outside. Now he's running away again. That woman is over there. If your father doesn’t care about our mother and son anymore, your brother and I will drink from the northwest!"

Li Yan'er was young and alone, so she had no choice but to endure it. She only hoped to grow up quickly, take her own little mirror, leave home far away, leave this town, and never come back!
With this idea, Li Yaner worked very hard in her studies, so her grades were always among the best, and her college entrance examination scores were also very good. She was admitted to a prestigious university. Li's father originally did not want to support his daughter in studying.

"What do women do when they read so many books? They are already eighteen years old. Marry me as soon as possible so that you don't have to eat my free rice at home!"

A friend who was doing business with him advised him,
"Nowadays, if the child of any family does not study, if your eldest daughter has good grades, let her study. If she becomes a college student, she will be able to marry into a good family. You will have a good son-in-law, you will have good reputation when going out, and you will be able to do well in business. Lots of help!”

Father Li was right. Marrying into a good family would help his brothers in the future, right?

So he scolded her to go to college. Naturally, Li's father didn't know that his daughter had long been disgusted with this family and made up his mind to find a job outside the university after graduation and never come back.

(End of this chapter)