I'm going to wait until dark, not because I want to be passive and defensive, but because I can't figure out where the ghost is coming from, so I can only wait and see.
I was arranging some personnel when someone knocked on the door and said, "Miss, Mr. Jiang wants you to come over. He wants to discuss the treatment of the employees."
"Got it." Guan Qingyan responded calmly before saying, "Mr. Wu, I'll leave Xiaoyu's matter to you."
"I only do my job after being paid, and I can guarantee that the price you offer is worth it." Although I was stunned by Guan Qingyan, I didn't want to try to please her deliberately.
After Guan Qingyan left, Ye Jin said, "What the hell is this! That Jiang guy has other intentions, can't Miss Guan see that?"
"Maybe they are willing to do so!" Monk Shi's words made me frown.
Ye Jin looked at me with a bit of surprise, but Monk Shi was only busy hanging the soul-calming bell on the wall. After Monk Shi and I set up three barriers in Guan Xingyu's room, we sat down and waited quietly for the night to fall.
As the sky gradually darkened, Guan Xingyu became irritable. He paced back and forth in the room, and then talked to me in a random manner. Finally, he seemed to be unable to help himself: "Mr. Wu... Brother Wu, I want to ask you a question. If the ghost can't find me, will it really kill someone?"
I shook my head and said, "That depends on what the other party is. Now let's make a judgment..."
Before I finished speaking, I suddenly heard the phone ringing in the room. When the three of us reached out to touch the phone at the same time, Guan Xingyu pointed at the windowsill with a pale face: "Phone... Phone..."
When I looked in the direction of his finger, I saw a cell phone outside the glass window, still dripping with water. The cell phone had obviously just been fished out of the water, but how did it suddenly appear outside the window
I touched Guan Xingyu: "Go answer the phone."
"No, no..." Guan Xingyu was so scared that he almost sat on the ground, "I don't dare..."
I ignored Guan Xingyu's pleading look: "If you don't answer it, you will die. Make your own choice!"
Guan Xingyu finally got up from the ground with courage, opened the window, and picked up the phone: "Hello?"
Sure enough, a woman's voice, pretending to be sweet but lifeless, came from the phone: "Brother Yu, I came to see you, why didn't you come to pick me up?"
When Guan Xingyu looked over at me, I nodded slightly. He then said in a trembling voice, "Where are you? I'll pick you up..."
"Me? Guess where I am!" The man laughed, "I'm right where we met last time. Don't go to the wrong place, or you might get killed."
Guan Xingyu cried, "You should at least tell me where you are! I don't even know who you are, where can I find you?"
"Ten miles of flat lake, the sky is full of frost, every inch of my black hair is filled with sorrow. I am alone, only looking at each other, I only envy the mandarin ducks, not the celestial beings." The woman laughed, "Do you still remember what you did after you read this poem to me? I will never forget it for the rest of my life!"
"What are you talking about?" Guan Xingyu said anxiously, "Hey, don't hang up!"
Guan Xingyu looked pale as he held up the phone and said, "She hung up!"
When I looked at Guan Xingyu, I saw a lock of his hair suddenly fall down without any warning.
I rushed over and picked up the hair that fell on his shoulders. With my other hand, I flicked Guan Xingyu's head. The hair behind his temples looked like it had been shaved off with a knife, exposing his scalp.
I said in a deep voice: "Guan Xingyu, tell me honestly, have you ever been married before? Or have you ever been engaged, whether it is legal or private, tell the truth!"
Guan Xingyu almost cried: "I swear to God, I have never been married, not even engaged as a child! I am only twenty-one, where can I get married? If I was engaged, wouldn't my grandfather know about it?"
Monk Shi came up and asked, "Brother, what did you see?"
I said in a deep voice: "It's not the female ghost who wants to harass him for a ghost marriage, it's his original wife who came to visit."
I held up my hair and said, "In ancient times, there was a saying that couples would tie their hair together. That is to say, after the ancients got married, after the couple drank the wedding wine, they would tie their hair together to symbolize that they would never be separated."
"Once one party dies first and the other party cannot follow, they will cut off a lock of their hair and bury it with them, symbolizing the companionship between life and death. Generally speaking, when a man dies, the woman buries his hair, and only in very rare cases will the man bury his hair."
"Just now, the female ghost asked Guan Xingyu to pick her up, which means that she wanted him to take her home. But she also pulled a strand of Guan Xingyu's hair, which means that she wanted to tell Guan Xingyu that if he didn't want to pick her up, he could just tie his hair up to accompany him. If they were not husband and wife, this would definitely not happen."
I turned to look at Guan Xingyu: "Tell the truth."
Guan Xingyu almost cried: "Brother Wu, I really don't know what's going on. I have never been married before."
Ye Jin said, "Xiao Yu probably didn't lie. The legal age for marriage is 22 for men, and he is under the age limit, so he can't register. If they were engaged privately, that would be even more impossible. The Guan family is a well-known family, and it's impossible that there would be no news about the engagement."
In the eyes of sorcerers, there are only two ways to establish a marriage: one is official recognition, and the other is clan recognition.
Official recognition is easy to explain, it means registering the marriage with the government; clan recognition, to put it bluntly, means that both parties have not registered, but the clans have gathered together to hold a wedding, and everyone has witnessed it. Apart from this, there is no other way to be called husband and wife. The kind of private marriage will not be recognized by the government or the people, so ghosts will not come to you in the way of husband and wife.
After listening to Ye Jin's explanation, I couldn't help but be slightly stunned: "That's troublesome! Ye Jin, is there a lake nearby?"
Ye Jin said: "Only Nanhu Park has a lake..."
"Let's go to Nanhu Park, right now!" I dragged Guan Xingyu to Ye Jin's car without saying anything. Ye Jin drove the car all the way to Nanhu Park and pointed to the lake in the distance and said, "This is the only lake nearby. What should we do next?"
"See if there are any boats nearby..." As I was speaking, I suddenly saw a snow-white figure appear under a street lamp in the distance. She was wearing a white dress and holding a white umbrella. She stood silently under the dim street lamp and waved in our direction, meaning for us to come over.
Just as I was about to move forward, Guan Xingyu shouted, "Don't... don't go over there... that's a dead person. I heard that there's a female ghost in Nanhu Lake who specifically asks people to row a boat with her at night. Whoever rows the boat will die!"
"Go!" I grabbed Guan Xingyu without saying anything. When I walked up to the person, the first thing I saw was the water dripping down the hem of her skirt. Although the woman was holding an umbrella, her whole body was soaked in water. The white gauze skirt stuck to her body, making her legs look even whiter.
The woman gently asked, "Is there anyone willing to go boating with me?"
I said calmly, "There are four of us. Who do you want to row with you?"
The woman kept her face hidden with an umbrella: "I choose you."
"Okay!" I agreed immediately. "Monk, you get on a boat by yourself. Ye Jin, Xiao Yu, you two wait on the shore."
Guan Xingyu was startled: "Brother Wu, are you crazy?"
"I know what I'm doing!" I jumped into a boat and sat down. When I positioned the oars and looked up, the woman was already sitting sideways on the bow.
I didn't touch the oars, and the boat started moving on its own, paddling quickly to the center of the lake. At first I could still see Monk Shi rowing behind us, but after a while, a white mist rolled up around the boat, blocking my view.
After a while, the boat was surrounded by white fog. Except for the hollow space in the middle, I couldn't even see anything two meters away.
The woman sitting at the bow laughed and said, "You knew I was a ghost, but you still dared to get on the boat with me. Aren't you afraid of death?"
"It's still uncertain who will live and who will die!" I said calmly, "I came up with you because I want to ask you something. In this lake, besides you, are there any other ghosts?"
The female ghost was slightly stunned: "I am the only one in this lake, so I want someone to come and accompany me."
I stared at him and asked, "Are you sure?"
"What's wrong with that..." The female ghost didn't finish her words and suddenly screamed, "Who is that? Who is that behind you?"
I calmly held down the dagger on my leg: "Don't try to play tricks on me. I am the gentleman. I know very well whether there is a ghost behind me."
"No, I'm not talking about behind you..." the ghost girl screamed, "I'm talking about the shore..."
"Ghost eyes, open..." I looked at the female ghost in front of me with bloodshot eyes. She was so scared that she screamed: "I didn't lie to you, look behind you!"
I quickly rowed the oars a few times, and the boat immediately turned in the water. When I looked over the ghost girl's shoulder to the shore, I saw a ghost behind Guan Xingyu.
The other person was wearing a blood-red dress. She raised her hands and slowly reached towards Guan Xingyu from behind.
"Oops!" I said in a deep voice, "Let the boat go back!"
"The boat can't go back!" The ghost girl's voice suddenly sank, "This boat can only go out, but can't go back."
I shouted, "Ye Jin, be careful behind you! Monk Shi, where are you?"
Ye Jin seemed to have not heard what I was shouting, and he was still staring at the lake without moving. The female ghost behind Guan Xingyu crossed her arms around his neck and gently leaned her face against Guan Xingyu's body.
Guan Xingyu walked forward a few steps woodenly, and I followed him and rowed the boat. The boat seemed to be tied up and stuck in the middle of the lake. The red-clothed female ghost raised her head from Guan Xingyu and looked at me with a sneer.
When I suddenly stood up from the boat, I heard a "splash" sound of someone diving in the distance.
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