Chapter 58

The psychologist arrived today as usual, around 3 o'clock.

The process was the same as before, but this time Luo Yu suddenly asked her before she left: "Do you have the urge to scold me for being an uncooperative patient like me?"

The psychologist paused while collecting the information and looked at him.

Luo Yu continued, "You can scold me if you want. Today should be the last time we meet."

The psychiatrist said, "Do you want to go find him?"

Luo Yu smiled and shook his head, "No, I will never look for him again."

The psychiatrist frowned, "Why?"

Luo Yu looked out the window and whispered, "He doesn't exist."

The next day, Luo Yu left home early. He walked along Zhongbei Street to the subway station, walked into Sangpo Lake after getting off the subway station, and then walked along the Metasequoia forest to the wooden boardwalk. Finally, he came to a rock and sat down. He did not leave until dusk fell.

He was in a daze the whole day. He didn't know what he was thinking about the whole day. He just felt very lonely and his heart was empty, as if there was a hole in it that could never be mended.

Winter has come to Lingcheng.

At the end of the year, Luo Yu's application to teach in mountainous areas was approved, and he was finally assigned to a Class A area.

At the beginning, Luo Yu always had various problems with his body, either fever or dizziness and nausea. Having grown up in the Central Plains, it was inevitable that his body could not adapt to such a high-altitude area.

As the days passed, Luo Yu gradually adapted.

The students here all like him very much. They are simple, kind, and curious about the outside world. They always ask what the big cities outside look like after class.

Luo Yu always answered: "Study hard and you will understand once you leave here."

"Teacher, teacher, other teachers are having dinner at this time, why do you always like to sit here?" At this time, a little girl with yellow skin ran over, looked at him and asked in confusion.

Luo Yu touched her head, looked at the sunset in the sky, and said, "Because the sunset is so beautiful, I don't want to miss it."

The little girl sat down next to him and looked up at Luo Yu's profile. "The Chinese teacher said that no matter how beautiful the sunset is, it will eventually leave, but it will come back tomorrow."

"Teacher, the sunset appears every day. Why do you have to watch it every day? Won't you get tired of it?"

Luo Yu lowered her eyes and glanced at him. The little girl's face was red as an apple. He pinched it and said, "Do you get tired of attending the teacher's class every day?"

The little girl shook her head.

Luo Yu laughed, "That's right, the teacher is the same, I never get tired of it."

The little girl still had a puzzled expression on her face. Luo Yu laughed again, said nothing more, stood up, took her hand and walked towards the cafeteria.

Spring goes and autumn comes, summer solstice and winter returns.

This law operates in an eternal cycle without change.

Luo Yu stood in the corridor of the classroom and looked at the poplar trees in the back playground. Five years ago, they were still very short, but now they have grown into big trees.

Everything is changing, so has he changed too?

He couldn't find the answer to this question, or rather, he didn't want to find it at all.

At the end of December 2030, the news reported that the two homicides in 2025 and the unidentified corpse in Huangbei City were all committed by the same person. The murderer has been arrested. This was a premeditated murder.

Luo Yu saw this news after he came back. It was obviously news that was closely related to him, but he felt surprisingly calm in his heart.

Even if the world ends, he won't be panicked at all.

It snowed in Lingcheng on New Year's Day. It snowed heavily at the beginning of 2031. I don't know whether it is a good sign or a bad sign.

Luo Yu couldn't sleep at night, so he drove out at four in the morning. He drove around the city and looked at the quiet streets. Inexplicably, he felt that something should happen in such a quiet night.

But in the end, everything remains the same, nothing has changed.

Luo Yu suddenly laughed at his unrealistic idea.

The car turned into Cherry Blossom Avenue. Maybe it was because it was a holiday, there were already people walking on Cherry Blossom Avenue.

But the temple was not open yet, but Luo Yu saw a familiar face at the temple door.

It was the old monk who gave him the bracelet five years ago.

He was not wearing monk's robes, but normal clothes, and looked like he was waiting for someone.

Luo Yu suddenly remembered what he said to him five years ago: It's not easy to meet each other, so don't worry about it.

At that time, he thought that the old monk was just saying something to him because he had a good impression of him. Now thinking about it, how could that be possible?

While he was stunned, the old monk was already walking towards him.

Luo Yuxia stood by the roadside and looked at him, wondering if the old monk still remembered him.

If he remembered, Luo Yu wanted him to say one more word to her.

The old monk smiled at him and said, "It's been five years since we last met, but do you still remember me?"

Luo Yu nodded, very surprised that he would say this.

The old monk suddenly asked, "Do you like me in my monk's robes or as I am now?"

Luo Yu said, "Put on monk's clothes."

The old monk looked at him for a long time before speaking again: "Then would you like to wear it?"

Luo Yu was stunned for ten seconds, "...Put on monk's robes?"

The old monk said: "Go and practice, save all living beings, and eliminate sins."

"If you are willing, go to Yunshan Temple on Huangbei Mountain and find a master named Qingyue. He will tell you what to do."

After the Spring Festival, Luo Yu stepped into Huangbei Mountain.

This is amazing. Five years ago, he lied to Xu Xiaoxia that he wanted to go to this place to meditate. As a result, he went around in circles for five years and finally got in.

The one-year probation period for conversion has passed. After the tonsure ceremony, people who come to the temple should call Luo Yu "Master" when they see him again.

Their temple is located on the top of a mountain, at a high altitude, with dry weather, which many people cannot adapt to. Therefore, not many people come, and there may only be three or four volunteers a month.

This year marks the seventh year of Luo Yu's cultivation, and also the second year since Xu Xiaoxia and Luo Zeping passed away.

If you say life is long, Luo Yu is only 34 years old; if you say life is short, in the blink of an eye, Luo Yu hasn't seen him for 12 years.

Luo Yu sat in the pavilion, looking at the lush green forest in the mountains. Today, various scenes from the past kept flashing through his mind: when he was a child, when he was in high school, and when he was in college...

It was summer at this time, but Luo Yu felt it was very cool.

Dinner was at 5:30. At this moment, the sounds of several volunteers cooking in the woodshed could be heard outside. Luo Yu put down the book in his hand, took out a handful of fish feed from a small glass jar under the table, and sprinkled it into a fish pond in front of the pavilion.

After feeding the fish, he went to the woodshed to help burn firewood.

Burning wood is quite a skill-testing process. A newly started fire can easily go up in flames due to improper operation.

The two volunteers who were burning wood today had just arrived in the past two days. As soon as Luo Yu entered, he heard the two volunteers shouting from behind the stove: "Oh, Master, the fire is going out!"

Luo Yu walked over quickly and took a look. It turned out that a wet firewood had been put in.

Luo Yu picked up the wet firewood with tongs and walked towards the door behind the stove. "Wet firewood will only smoke and it's hard to burn. Those under your feet are wet firewood. Take them outside and dry them. I'll take care of the firewood."

The two volunteers nodded and started carrying firewood out.

One of the volunteers asked as they were carrying the wood, "Master, even if there's no wet wood, we can't burn it properly. How should we burn this wood properly?"

"You must have already mastered the first step, so I won't explain it to you." Luo Yu picked up a piece of firewood as thick as his little arm and stuffed it in. He then took another piece of the same size and waved it in front of them. "After the fire starts, prepare some thin firewood like this for the second step of lighting it."

Luo Yu took another thin piece of firewood and stuffed it in. "Pay attention, don't stuff it in casually. Leave some space between each piece of firewood so that they are not too close to each other. Give them room to breathe. Then the fire will not go out too quickly." He paused for two seconds. "Unless you use wet firewood."

When these words were spoken, the two volunteers who were listening to the lecture couldn't help laughing, lowered their heads and pinched each other's waists.

Luo Yu also smiled. He sat down and continued to burn firewood.

At around 5:20, the food was basically cooked, and a volunteer took a gong, drum and gong hammer and knocked twice at the kitchen door.

When the volunteers and monks who were resting in the accommodation building heard the noise, they all went downstairs to the dining room to have their meals.

Do not talk while eating, do not talk while sleeping. Even if you are eating vegetables and soup, you must offer sacrifices and make sure everything is in order.

The offering ceremony ended and everyone started eating.

There was a recitation meeting at 7:30 in the evening. Luo Yu would go there every night, but today he didn't want to go. For some reason, he felt extremely tired and exhausted and wanted to rest.

So after eating, he took a bath and then lay down.

Sleepiness came over him slowly, and Luo Yu lay on the bed with his eyes half open. He didn't know what was wrong with him today, and he kept recalling the past.

The last remaining ray of sunset in the sky shone on a cicada that was shedding its molt by the window, as if shining on its upcoming new life.

underworld.

After Luo Yu entered, he was taken by the sheep ghost Meimei into the bath of his remains, which cleared his memories of his human life and washed away everything from his human life, turning him into a ghost completely.

After finishing, he walked out of the bathing gate and stood in the middle of the street, but he didn't know where to go, so he could only stand there in a daze.

"Come with me."

A deep and pleasant male voice suddenly sounded behind him. Luo Yu turned around and saw a male ghost wearing a dark gray windbreaker and gold-rimmed glasses walking towards him.

Luo Yu didn't know if he was talking to her, so she could only stand there and watch him getting closer and closer.

The male ghost stopped five feet away from him and spoke in a trembling voice: "Do you know where this is?"

Luo Yu said: "I don't know, who are you?"

At this time, the face of the male ghost under the glasses frame was soaked with tears. Luo Yu looked at him for a long time before saying, "Are you... okay?"

The male ghost began to approach him step by step, "This is a ghost town. You will run a shop here from now on,... okay?"

Luo Yu didn't know how to run a shop, and from what he said, he could refuse.

As the male ghost approached, Luo Yu gradually saw his face clearly. For some reason, Luo Yu inexplicably felt a sense of security around him, which made him want to get close to him.

Luo Yu said, "Okay."

The male ghost laughed, and Luo Yu also laughed, although no one knew what he was laughing at.

The male ghost took Luo Yu to the Xiangxu Street in the ghost town. When they entered the Xiangxu Street, Luo Yu saw many ghosts gathered in front of them, beating drums and gongs, making a grand scene.

At this moment, a ghost with a pig's tail growing out of its waist suddenly shouted with a loud speaker: "Everyone, get out of my way! The real boss is here! Clear the way!"

The sound was so loud that all the ghosts present covered their ears and retreated to the sides, and some brave ghosts slapped him.

Luo Yu was a little confused watching this scene. He asked the male ghost walking side by side with him: "What are they doing?"

The male ghost said, "Look at the plaque on the door of that shop."

Looking over, I saw a faded red banner hanging on the door plaque of the small shop. The content on the banner read:

'Good luck to the underworld store'

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