"Tick-tick-"
The Lin family's house is very old. This shower facility has been used for many years, so it is inevitable that there will be some minor problems.
At this moment, the shower head was leaking water drop by drop, because Yan Chu kept looking up, those small water drops happened to be at the position of his chin, and flowed along his Adam's apple to his strong and robust chest, until they disappeared into an indescribable place covered by a towel. s position.
In fact, if you look closely, the appearance of the female ghost is not very scary, but the red eyes are a bit like a ghost in a movie. Apart from this, it's nothing to get used to the extremely white skin with a slight bluish gray.
There is no corrupt flesh on her body, nor is there blood plasma all over her body. The only scary red eyes are still dazed. She is the same age as she shows, a little ignorant of the world, and not threatening at all.
This is also the reason why Yan Chu didn't act immediately, he didn't feel too much evil spirit from this little female ghost.
"what?"
The little ghost stared straight at Yan Chu, swallowed subconsciously, seemed to realize something, waved her hand foolishly, and the water that had been suspended suddenly sprang up again.
Yan Chu didn't react, and directly faced the water column, and washed his face.
"what?"
The cry was a little panicked, the little ghost waved her hand again, and the water stopped immediately.
Just now, water was poured all over his head and face, and the foam that was not washed off his hair immediately flowed to his eyes again. Yan Chu wanted to wipe it with a towel, but remembering where the towel was now covering, he could only wipe his face with one hand with a wry smile.
By the time he was able to open his eyes, the little female ghost had already disappeared in the bathroom. Yan Chu sensed it, but he didn't sense the presence of the female ghost nearby.
This is rather strange. According to Yan Chu's current ability, it is impossible for ordinary ghosts to approach him without being noticed, and the appearance of that female ghost does not look like that kind of powerful ghost.
After taking a hasty shower, Yan Chu put on clean clothes and went out. Lin Yuan was still awake and was watching TV at the moment. He was just an ordinary person. Even if the female ghost just came out of the bathroom carelessly, he couldn't see it. .
"Master, what are you looking for?"
Lin Yuan watched TV and ate potato chips, watched Yan Chu come out of the bathroom, and opened the doors of the room one by one, from the kitchen bedroom balcony to the locked second bedroom.
Lin Yuan, who didn't react at first, saw Yan Chu standing outside that room, her eyes darkened a little, she put down the potato chips in her hand, and walked towards him with a smile.
"This room?"
Yan Chu pointed to the locked room, this was the first time he had mentioned this locked room to Lin Yuan during the days he lived in.
"Oh, my parents used to live in this room. After they passed away, I locked this room and haven't opened it for more than ten years."
Lin Yuan's expression was impeccable: "I'm also afraid of seeing things and thinking about others. Maybe one day I can accept the fact that they are not there, and I will unlock this room. At that time, I will completely let go."
"So that's how it is."
Yan Chu seemed to believe it, but he had greater doubts in his heart.
Lin Yuan was only seven years old when he went to the orphanage, that is to say, his parents had an accident before he was seven years old. What kind of family let the child live in the master bedroom before he was seven years old, and the couple But living in the second bedroom is obviously not in line with common sense.
Just looking at Lin Yuan's expression, Yan Chu also knew that he couldn't get any reliable news from him. Regardless of his carefree temper, these days he was still yelling at each other every day, but in fact he was a very cautious man.
Also, since I was ten years old, I have been making a living in the Custom Street, how could it be easy.
Don't look at the profession of fortune-telling liars, which is not very respectable. It may make those uncles and aunts willing to spend money. This is the ability. How can such a man be as simple as he shows.
Yan Chu glanced at the iron lock that locked the door, bypassed the topic, comforted Lin Yuan a few words, and turned back to the bedroom.
With this episode, Lin Yuan went back to the living room and turned off the TV, and followed Yan Chu back to the bedroom, lying on his single bed, ready to sleep.
*****
"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you..."
"Xiao Chu, look at Dad, smile, one, two, three, click."
In a well-decorated room, a family of three is celebrating the youngest son's birthday lively. The cake placed in the middle of the living room does not look particularly good, it looks like it was made by yourself.
There are eight candles on it, and today's birthday star seems to be eight years old.
"Ah - who are you?"
When the atmosphere was harmonious, a strong stench spread throughout the room. The birthday star who was about to blow out the candles could only see a cloud of blood. Before he could react, he was embraced by a warm embrace and pushed towards the corridor. Exit to the backyard.
"Xiao Chu, run quickly and find your uncle. Don't look back."
The little boy was very scared. He had never seen who the uncle was, and why did his mother and father show such terrified expressions? What happened
"Remember, don't look back."
The little boy was crying, only felt a necklace was put on his neck, and then there was a heavy closing sound, everything was isolated behind that door.
He stumbled and ran out, the farther away he was, the softer his parents' screams became.
He wanted to call the uncle next door, but the doors of the nearby houses were closed tightly, as if there was no living person inside.
Don't look back, don't look back, he always remembers his mother's words, grabs the jade pendant that his mother hangs around his neck with one hand, wipes his tears with the other hand, falls down and gets up and continues to run.
"Xiao Chu, Xiao Chu, mom is behind you, turn around and look at mom."
"Xiao Chu, Xiao Chu, I'm Dad, turn around and look at Dad."
The familiar call made the little boy smile, and when he was about to turn back, the jade pendant on his neck suddenly became hot. Recalling what his mother said, he ran forward even faster, almost desperately forward run.
Those weren't his parents, those were monsters.
"Disobedient bad boy."
Sisi cool air entered the gap of the collar from behind his ears, and the voice seemed to come from right beside his ears.
The little boy's teeth were chattering, and he ran forward desperately, but he was just a child, and his strength was always limited.
"Hee hee, the bad boy ran-don't-move-"
The little boy fell to the ground with his knees and palms on the ground at the same time. The burning pain made him cry immediately.
Because of his pause, the things behind finally caught up.
The little boy could only watch helplessly as a jet-black shadow grew bigger and bigger behind him, covering his shadow and engulfing him immediately.
"call-"
Yan Chu woke up from the nightmare, and when he opened his eyes, he saw a pair of red eyes appearing in front of him.
Before the fright in the dream subsided, she was taken aback again, and immediately sat up, her back pressed against the backrest of the bed, and watched vigilantly at the female ghost who suddenly appeared.
"Hoo hoo—"
Before Yan Chu could accuse the female ghost of being scary, the red-eyed female ghost patted her chest, accusingly staring at him, with an aggrieved look of being frightened by him.
Seeing the female ghost's expression like this, Yan Chu was not afraid anymore. He touched the cold sweat behind him because of the nightmare, got up and got out of bed, ignored the little female ghost, turned and went to the bathroom, intending to wipe himself off.
As far as the current situation is concerned, he can't feel the traces of the female ghost's existence, and he can't even feel the ghostly aura from her. It is an isolated living soul.
From the current point of view, the female ghost is in a daze, and she has no malicious intentions towards him, so she doesn't need to be on guard for the time being.
The little female ghost seemed to be attached to him, and he followed him wherever he went. Yan Chu took off his shirt and wiped himself. She watched with wide eyes without shy away. Yan Chu closed the door, but the pair of female ghosts were fine. Defensive, can only watch her come from the other side of the wall while scrubbing.
In the end, Yan Chu simply let it go, anyway, when he was taking a bath at night, he was seen all over.
"Different."
The little female ghost reached out to poke Yan Chu's chest. She was a ghost, so her fingers passed through Yan Chu's body, so she couldn't make direct contact.
"Don't push yourself too hard."
Just looking at it is not enough, I want to touch it, this year's female ghost is almost finished.
Yan Chu put on his clothes, went to the refrigerator in the kitchen and took a bottle of Coke and opened it. After drinking the cold drink, his mind suddenly became brighter and he became more awake.
"Tell me, where are you from?"
This female ghost seemed quite talkative, Yan Chu sat on the sofa, looked at the female ghost who floated over with him and asked.
"Here."
The little ghost pointed at Yan Chu, tilted her head and smiled sweetly: "Ah Chu, with Ah Chu."
She said that she wanted to get closer to Yan Chu, but she didn't know what to think of, so she took a few steps back, imitating Yan Chu's appearance, and sat on the other corner of the sofa.
If you look closely, you can see that her buttocks are still some distance away from the sofa, and they are actually floating.
"Don't hate me, be good."
She shook her head, with a timid look, just like the wronged little daughter-in-law, who had nothing to do with ghosts.
"From me?"
Yan Chu frowned and pointed to himself.
"here."
The female ghost shook her head, indicating that he was pointing at the wrong place, but she couldn't touch Yan Chu's hand, so she could only get closer and pointed to the jade pendant on Yan Chu's body.
"Ah Chu's, I'm with Ah Chu."
If she was a human being, she should look shy at this moment, with a blush on her cheeks, which makes people feel pitiful and loving.
But she is just a female ghost, her bluish-white skin is full of lifelessness, and her red eyes seem to bleed at any time. She obviously wants to show shyness, but she looks a little more weird. Three points of cold air.
"You mean you live in Yupei here?"
Yan Chu picked up the jade pendant that he always wore next to his body. It was worn by his original parents before the accident. When the original body was found by the old Taoist, the old Taoist also inspected the jade pendant. At that time, he only thought it was more The exquisite protective jade pendant, unexpectedly there is a female ghost hidden in this jade pendant.
"Why haven't I seen you come out before?"
Yan Chu paused after asking, he forgot that before he came, the original body's sky eyes were closed again, that is to say, even if the little female ghost came out, he couldn't see it.
"A Chu is afraid, I won't see you, I'll be good."
The little ghost raised her head and looked at Yan Chu timidly. Her words were a little confused. Yan Chu guessed that it might be because the original body hated all ghosts, so the little ghost didn't dare to come out, because now he eased his attitude towards ghosts, so she came out.
It just seems that there are still some problems.
"What's your name, how did you get to this Yu Peili?"
The female ghost in front of me has no evil blood on her body, that is to say, she has never killed anyone or eaten ghosts. Because of her original body, she has been hiding alone in the jade pendant and dare not come out, especially judging by her appearance, when she died She was only sixteen or seventeen years old, quite pitiful.
Yan Chu slowed down his voice and asked gently.
"I do not know?"
The little ghost tilted her head and pointed to herself: "Ah Chu's, I'm with Ah Chu."
Probably because of the fear of being abandoned, or maybe because of the one-sided relationship over the past ten years, the little ghost has long been used to Yan Chu's existence.
She didn't dare to talk to the original body, but actually watched the other party grow up. Such feelings were enough for this innocent little girl to define the relationship between the two as a whole.
"I don't hate it, I'm obedient."
The little female ghost seemed to remember her original body's attitude towards ghosts, she seemed to be afraid that Yan Chu would not want her, and wanted to come up and tug on Yan Chu's sleeves. She remembered that it was always played like this on TV. The main character will be very happy.
It's just that she forgot again that she was just a female ghost and could never touch Yan Chu.
The originally bright red eyes seemed a little dim. The little ghost looked at her hands, and the whole ghost looked a little dejected.
"I don't hate you."
Yan Chu's heart softened a little, he was never hard-hearted when dealing with good children.
The female ghost's eyes lit up, and she dodged directly in front of Yan Chu.
Red eyes, white pupils in the center, and clearly visible bruise blood vessels on the face, such a face is suddenly face to face with your nose tip to nose tip, it is still a test of endurance.
Fortunately, Yan Chu had seen strong winds and waves, if it was someone else, he would have been scared to death by now.
Although the little ghost is innocent and cute, such a startled temperament is really embarrassing, especially because the other party is actually a ghost parasitic on his jade pendant, which makes Yan Chu a little worried about how to deal with the little ghost properly.
The best way is definitely to send her to salvation.
Many ghosts stay in the human world forcibly because of their obsession. In fact, this is not good for them, especially the ghosts who have killed people and eaten ghosts after becoming ghosts. Once they are discovered by ghosts, it is the best ending After many ghosts were arrested and returned to the underworld, they would have to endure the torment of the knives and oil pots for life after life, and they would never be able to rebirth until they redeemed their sins.
Ordinary ghosts stay in the human world and miss the chance to be reincarnated, so they can only turn to the animal world, or become a member of the Wangchuan River, their consciousness gradually fades, and they are confused, accompanied by the icy cold water.
In contrast, the latter has an extra chance. If you can have an eminent monk to save you, you may be able to purify your soul and body and regain the chance of reincarnation.
Nowadays, it is very difficult to find a master who has the ability to save the undead. In this line of work, Buddhism is more powerful than Taoism, but Yan Chu has a cheat, and he still has three chances to use the saving spell.
Looking at the ignorant little ghost in front of him, Yan Chu sighed, sending the ghost to the west, he couldn't keep her in the jade pendant forever, every time he took a bath or slept in the future, he felt stared at by red eyes again and again. Be afraid.
Yan Chu lit up the saving spell, and then placed the light ball on the little female ghost.
"Hahaha."
Except for Yan Chu, no one else could see the existence of that ball of light, including the little female ghost. She just felt itchy in her soul and body. Before she knew it, the mixed body seemed to be condensed a lot, her skin was not so pale, and even a little more shiny. Run.
"what?"
The introduction of the supernatural mantra has a certain chance of supernatural ghosts. The little female ghost in front of me has nothing to do with the supernatural ghosts. Logically, it should be very simple to supersede.
Yan Chu didn't think that the things produced by the system would be so useless. He didn't have time to feel sorry for the wasted supernatural curse this time, but observed the female ghost in front of him by himself.
He took out a compass, which was a semi-finished magic weapon made by a veteran.
"It turned out to be like this."
Yan Chu sighed, he was reckless, in fact, he should have noticed it before.
This little female ghost is clearly about sixteen or seventeen years old, but she looks a little naive, which is not in line with common sense.
People have three souls and seven souls, the three souls refer to the soul of heaven, the soul of earth, and the soul of fate, and the seven souls refer to joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, evil, and desire.
The soul is yang and the soul is yin. After death, the soul of heaven returns to heaven, the soul of earth wanders among the cemeteries, and the soul of life returns to the underworld. The three souls will not reunite until after reincarnation. The soul is unique to the human body. When the soul of life dissipates, it goes with it.
As for ghosts, after death, the souls still gather together, hovering between the two worlds of yin and yang.
Yan Chu didn't examine carefully before, so he didn't realize that the little ghost girl who appeared in front of him at this time was an incomplete soul. Three souls were missing two souls, only life soul was left, seven souls were missing five souls, only joy and love remained. soul.
It's no wonder that she is insane and behaves like a child.
This jade pendant has always been carried by Yan Chu, and the little female ghost hidden in the jade pendant inevitably has a lot of his aura. In addition, ghosts with incomplete souls are not easy to be detected. No wonder not only him, but even the old man did not notice it. The existence of the little female ghost.
only
Yan Chu frowned, the solidity of the little ghost's ghost body may be partly due to the jade pendant's nurturing, but on the other hand, it also shows that her other two souls are still in good condition.
Anger, sorrow, fear, evil, and desire are all the dark sides of human nature. Only the joy and love for goodness are removed. Yan Chu can't imagine what kind of things such a crippled soul will stay in the world. .
The little female ghost in front of her is innocent, but she is all three souls and seven souls. If her other half does something irreparable, karma will also appear on her body.
Yan Chu was a little puzzled, why Yuanchen's mother left him such a jade pendant, and whether there was something in it that he didn't notice.
"A Chu, A Chu."
The little ghost saw that he was frowning, and wanted to help him smooth the wrinkles on his brows. This time she was smarter, knowing that even if she wanted to touch him, she would not be able to touch him, so she retracted her hand halfway out, and then Whispered his name.
"I'll call you Xiaoyu from now on."
At present, it seems that the little ghost can only be by his side, but she can't keep screaming, she has to be given a name, since she lives in Yupeili, the name Xiaoyu is just right, simple and nice.
"Xiaoyu, hehe, Ah Chu."
Knowing that she had a name, the little female ghost walked around the room happily, her original scary appearance was no longer so scary.
"But there are three chapters of agreement. From now on, you can't come out when I'm taking a shower, you can't keep looking at me while I'm sleeping, and you can't suddenly appear in front of me to scare me."
Yan Chu felt that he still had to be given a certain amount of time in transitioning from homely ethics films to thrillers.
"A Chu."
Xiaoyu didn't know why Yan Chu didn't let her stay by his side all the time, she would be so lonely, but looking at Yan Chu's serious expression, it seemed that acting like the heroine on TV would not work, she could only He lowered his head in frustration, acquiescing to the rule.
"Xiaoyu, Ah Chu, hee hee."
She didn't feel sad for long, and soon became happy again, chanting her own name, chanting Yan Chu's name, without any trouble at all.
Yan Chu asked Xiaoyu to go back to Yupeili, then drank the last sip of Coke, threw the bottle into the trash can, went back to the room and went to sleep.
Now his dreams are getting longer and longer, and some scenes are not even in the memory of the original body. Yan Chu doesn't know if the truth of the ten days of disappearance will appear in his dreams one day.
*****
"Young man, what's the relationship between you and Ah Yuan?"
The Lin family is an old house, so naturally there are many old neighbors.
When the Lin family's parents had an accident, these old neighbors sympathized with the child Lin Yuan, but sympathy could not be eaten. At that time, the conditions of every household were not good, and no one could afford to support a half-old child.
Later, when Lin Yuan was sent to the orphanage, the neighbors also breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the orphanage would never be short of his food, so these neighbors helped him take care of the house and prevent it from being occupied. Participation.
But who knew that Lin Yuan had been away for a few years and then sneaked back by himself, and never said anything about going back, and the people from the orphanage didn't come to him. From then on, the ten-year-old boy started to pick up scraps for a living. .
These neighbors can't help much, so they send over the waste products they want to sell. Occasionally, they cook an extra meal at home, but they can't help much. They just want to be ashamed of their hearts.
More than ten years have passed, many of the old neighbors have moved, and only a few old people who are still living here are left.
At noon, a few elderly people were carrying deck chairs outside the residential building to enjoy the shade. When they saw Yan Chu coming out, they couldn't help asking.
They are quite concerned about Lin Yuan, who is twenty-eight years old and has not yet married a wife, so that has always been their concern. Over the years, they have also introduced many jobs to Lin Yuan. People's fortune-telling on Customs Street is strong, unlike now, they just want to introduce someone to him, and when people hear about his business, they are immediately scared away.
Yan Chu moved here to live with Lin Yuan without making a sound, which made the old people murmur for a while.
The Internet is so developed now. Although they are all in their seventies and eighties, they also know that some people have different sexual orientations from ordinary people. Men like men, and women like women.
The older generation's acceptance of this kind of thing is relatively low, but it also depends on the situation.
Lin Yuan's conditions are here, and there are no parents who are eager to hug their grandchildren. As outsiders, they are even less talkative, and that child's life is rough enough, and what he does is not only happy.
Gender doesn't matter, as long as the person he's looking for is genuinely good to him.
Therefore, when Yan Chu went downstairs today, he was stopped by those old people, who wanted to ask him something.
"I rented the Lin family's house."
Yan Chu replied to the old man.
"Huh? He actually figured out how to rent out that second bedroom?"
When they heard that it was not what they thought, these old people couldn't tell whether they were lucky or disappointed, but they were still surprised when they heard that Yan Chu actually rented the Lin's house.
"Actually, this house should have been rented a long time ago. He can't live in two rooms alone, that is, he can't get over the hurdle in his heart. He always feels that Xiaoyang is lost by him, and he trapped himself, but he doesn't think about it. , He was only so old at that time, and he was already very good at taking care of himself, and the incident of Xiaoyang's disappearance cannot be blamed on him at all."
It is easy to immerse yourself in your own world when you get old, talking to yourself, these old people seem to have forgotten the existence of Yan Chu, and began to sigh about the past of the Lin family.
Yan Chu frowned, Xiaoyang, Linyang? Who is this person
"Who says no? I think he's been hanging out in Fengsu Street all these years. He just wants to get acquainted with those people who are well-informed. They may be able to find out about Xiaoyang, but he doesn't even think about it. It's been eighteen years, and it's not certain whether Xiaoyang is here or not."
"Those unscrupulous human traffickers, a good family is destroyed like this. If Xiaoyang is still there, it will not be like this because of her sister, A Yuan. How smart he was when he was a child. I curse those damn human traffickers to go out He was hit to death by a car, choked to death while eating, and went to hell on the 18th floor after death. He abducted other people's children, and his grandchildren and grandchildren became slaves and prostitutes. Generations will be punished."
The voices of the few old people became softer and softer, cursing and cursing, as if they were about to fall asleep.
Yan Chu memorized the name Lin Yang, and planned to look it up when the time came.
"Ayang, by the way, I remember that Ayang is an older brother, and Ayuan is a younger sister."
After Yan Chu left, an old lady suddenly opened her eyes and said.
"You're confused, mandarin duck, mandarin duck, of course the big one is in the front, and the small one is in the back. We've been calling the name Ah Yuan for so many years, how can you still remember it wrong?"
Another old lady contradicted her words.
"Is it true that I misremembered?"
The old lady shook her head. She just remembered it suddenly. It seems that when the twins were very young, sister was the first word, and brother was the last word.
But this is obviously not in line with common sense, and the twins lived in the orphanage for a few years. It was Lin Yuan who came back from the orphanage later, and everyone became acquainted again. You can't remember your own name wrong.
The old lady shook her head and stopped thinking about it. She was rocking the rocking chair, basking in the sun and gradually falling asleep.
*****
On August 4th, 1997, Yan Chu fell into deep thought as he looked at the investigation materials.
Today he did something illegal. He sneaked into the national information database and searched for news about Lin Yuan.
Sure enough, Lin Yuan and Lin Yang are twins.
More than 20 years ago, electronic technology was not developed enough, and there was a fire in the local information database. A batch of paper materials at that time were burned by the fire. Later, a population registration was carried out. The information Yan Chu saw On the bar, Lin Yuan is the elder brother and Lin Yuan is the younger sister. The information displayed is missing, and the progress has not been updated since then.
Of course, the birth dates of dragon and phoenix twins are on the same day, but if they are born on the same day and at different times, the horoscopes are completely opposite.
It's a pity that on the personal information, there is only the date of birth, which is not accurate to the time.
According to the horoscope that Lin Yuan reported to him that time, it seemed to be confirmed by Lin Yuan.
"This younger sister really looks like me."
Xiaoyu's face moved closer to Yan Chu, blocking the black and white somewhat blurred photo, a childish face and a girl's face, unexpectedly overlapped strangely.
Those eyes were red as if they could bleed fresh blood, and the face against the gloomy environment turned paler, and before they got close, they could feel a biting chill.
Yan Chu's expression was calm, and he took a deep breath without showing any signs. Fortunately, he could hold it, and was almost frightened by this unlucky child again.