It was light when the cock crowed. Less than half an hour after getting up, the whole sky was bright, as if the big black curtain covering the sky was suddenly lifted, and all the light shone in. From the entrance of the alley came the sound of wheels rolling over the uneven stone road, and shouting came from the distance. Both sides of the bridge were full of people selling vegetables early in the morning. Chen Yang finished the porridge in his bowl, quickly threw down the bowl, stood up and shouted: "I'm full."
After saying that, he grabbed his schoolbag and tried to run. "Stop." Du Shuo called him and pointed at the remaining eggs on the table: "Take it with you."
"Oh." Chen Yang held the still warm egg in his palm and moved towards the door: "Then I'm going to school."
Du Shuo lowered his eyes: "Yes. Let's talk about it when we come back in the evening."
Chen Yang almost tripped over the threshold, but he didn't refuse. He just said "got it" and ran to the door. He pulled out his bicycle and rode it very fast. When he reached the door, Du Shuo, who was originally concentrating on drinking porridge, suddenly raised his eyes and stared at Chen Yang with a smile in his eyes.
Chen Yang arrived at school very quickly. The school was as lively as ever. When he walked to the door of the classroom, he heard a lively discussion inside. He first looked at the iron sheet on the door frame. It was indeed his class. This was strange. His class was the key class for the third year of high school in the whole school. Every morning when he came, he could hear them reciting the text, or they were concentrating on doing exercises.
As soon as he walked in, his deskmate pulled him aside and asked mysteriously, "Do you know that someone in our class died?"
"Who?" Chen Yang looked around. Students in the key classes all came to school early for class. It was only 7:30 and almost everyone in the class was already there.
My deskmate said, "Who else? Isn't it the guy who's always second to you and always competes with you for first place but always ends up second? He's always late like you and always comes to school on time." His tone was nonchalant and somewhat sarcastic. You can't blame him for not having friendship with classmates or disrespecting dead people. It's just that he can't respect that guy with glasses.
Chen Yang put his schoolbag into his desk and asked uncertainly, "Don't tell me it's just a rumor. I saw him yesterday and he looked fine and he wasn't seriously ill."
My desk mate said, "Really. His parents came to school this morning to make a scene, saying that the academic pressure at school forced their son to death." He lowered his voice and said, "I heard that he sneaked to the back hill of that haunted middle school in the middle of the night and hanged himself. When his mother called him to get up in the morning, she didn't see him and thought he had gone to school. But this morning at around six o'clock, the elderly in his family had a nightmare. He said that he dreamed that his grandson was hanged on that grave hill and looked very miserable. He asked the family to collect the body quickly. Unable to bear the nagging of the elderly at home, he really went to check, and he really saw his son's body. At almost seven o'clock, he carried his son's body to school to make a scene. All the students who arrived early knew about it."
Chen Yang took out the book, flipped it open, held down the page, and said, "It doesn't look like he would hang himself."
"That's right. That's why everyone said that he was bewitched by a ghost in the middle of the night and tricked into hanging himself. That middle school and the mountain behind it are weird." My desk mate also took out a book, and his face was full of fear and curiosity when he mentioned the haunted middle school and the evil mountain behind it.
The haunted middle school he mentioned was the one where Anmi and others went to explore a few months ago, and Chen Yang saved them and killed the ghosts that were harming people in the middle school. Although there were no evil ghosts harming people in that middle school, there were still many wandering ghosts, so it was quite deserted.
The mountain behind the middle school is a well-known Fentou Mountain in the nearby towns. From a distance, it looks green and full of life. If you get closer, you will find that it is still chilly even under the scorching sun. If you walk inside, you will suddenly feel creepy and inexplicably panicked. Fentou Mountain was originally called Huangtu Mountain. It is called Fentou Mountain because there is a small grave every three steps and a large grave every five steps.
The whole mountain is full of graves, which is creepy just to think about. No wonder the man with glasses hanged himself there and was suspected of being possessed by a ghost. After all, normal people would never hang themselves on a mountain of graves. Why scare yourself when you are going to die
The man at the front table heard their discussion, turned around and said, "Maybe. The man with glasses is weird to begin with, who knows what he's thinking."
Chen Yang: "When a person dies, it's like a light goes out. We should show some respect for them."
Hearing this, the deskmate and the one in front of him shrugged and went back to study. The school leaders quickly came out to control the situation, and the teachers also came out to comfort the students, advising them to talk to them or their parents if they were under a lot of pressure, and not to keep it in their hearts. The senior high school students were already busy with their schoolwork, and no one discussed the student's suicide in less than a day.
Chen Yang planned to go to the grave mountain after school to check if it was haunted by ghosts. If not, that would be great, but he was pestered by An Mi on his way home from school. Chen Yang sighed, "An Mi, I really can't teach you."
Anmi's face was pale, and there were dark circles under her eyes. She looked extremely haggard. She said, "I can see ghosts."
"Can you see ghosts?" Chen Yang frowned: "What did you do?"
"If you swallow a crow's eye, you will see ghosts. If you grind it into juice and look into your eyes, you will see ghosts at night." Anmi said with trembling lips: "I grind the crow's eye into juice and drip it into my eyes, so now I can see ghosts at night." She didn't dare to swallow the crow's eye raw, so she grinded it into juice. "If you are not satisfied, I can try to swallow the crow's eye raw." Anyway, she still has a crow's eye.
Chen Yang realized the seriousness of the situation: "Where did you catch the crow?" Southerners do not welcome crows at all, and regard them as birds that bring disaster. Therefore, this kind of bird rarely appears. If it does appear, it will only appear in deep mountains and old forests or places with many graves, because crows eat carrion. "Have you been to the Grave Hill? Last night?"
Anmi nodded and smiled palely. "Will you accept me as your apprentice?"
Chen Yang shook his head and refused: "Not to mention that I have no way to teach you, just considering your behavior is excessive, stubborn, and evil, even if you can learn Taoism, I will never teach you."
"Why?!" Anmi's face suddenly turned ferocious: "You said I can't see ghosts, and now I can see ghosts but you won't teach me! You did it on purpose, right?"
Chen Yang had a calm and indifferent expression: "You can think that I did it on purpose, but you have to know that crows are psychics and hold grudges. You caught it without permission and dug out its eyes and ate it, so be careful of being entangled by it." He walked forward a few steps, turned around and stared at An Mi, asking her if she had anything to do with the death of the man with glasses.
Anmi looked confused: "Who died?"
"You don't know?" Chen Yang frowned. The death of the man with glasses had nothing to do with Anmi? He remembered that the man with glasses had a good relationship with Anmi. He had seen the man with glasses in the haunted middle school. "Forget it, you can do whatever you want."
An Mi stared at Chen Yang's back with a gloomy face. His expression gradually became quite anxious. He murmured, "Dead? How could he be dead? Isn't he a ghost? How could he be dead? You must be kidding."
Chen Yang walked around the graves and saw the family of the man with glasses and the witch. It was customary for people who committed suicide to ask the witch to go to the place where they committed suicide to call back their souls so that they could be brought back home and sent to reincarnation. Otherwise, the souls of the newly dead were confused and unconscious and could easily get lost. As the witch chanted to call back the souls, the sad cries of the man with glasses' family added to the sad atmosphere.
The place where the man with glasses hanged himself was a crooked tree with a thumb-thick noose on the branch. The noose was not high from the ground. Judging from the height of the man with glasses, even if his neck was hung up, his feet would not leave the ground. Generally, people cannot be hanged to death in this situation, unless they are possessed by evil spirits or have a strong will to die. But if the will to die is very strong, there is no need to put the noose so close to the ground, which will only add to their pain and reduce the chance of death.
But... nothing unusual was found.
Chen Yang stood not far away and watched the witch calling the souls, intending to wait until they were gone before going closer to watch. But after calling the souls for a while, the witch suddenly stopped and said to the family of the man with glasses with a serious look: "I can't do your business, and I will return all the deposits I paid."
The family of the man with glasses tried to persuade the witch to stay: "How can you not do it? What will happen to my son's soul if you don't summon him? Wouldn't he become a poor wandering ghost in the mountains? Please be kind, money is not a problem."
The witch hurriedly said, "Money is not the problem. It is indeed not the problem of money. It is your son who has the problem."
The family of the man with glasses: "What's wrong with my son? If you have something to say, just say it directly. Don't hide it. Nothing can compare to my son right now."
The witch looked extremely embarrassed. Finally, under the big red envelope stuffed by the bespectacled man's family, she said: "If the birth date and horoscope you gave me are correct, it means your son died two years ago. Alas, the secret cannot be revealed. I really dare not offend those things." She waved her hands repeatedly and asked her apprentice to pack up and leave very quickly, as if there was something scary chasing after them.
The family of the man with glasses looked at each other in bewilderment. They didn't understand what was going on. If their son had died two years ago, who was he in the past two years? Just thinking about it made their hair stand on end. They didn't want to believe the witch's words, but their son's personality had indeed changed a lot in the past two years. They looked at the noose in front of them again, as if they saw the noose pounce on them like an evil ghost, and they were so scared that they ran away.
Two years ago? Chen Yang walked to the crooked tree and raised his hand to take down the noose. As soon as he took it down, the sky darkened immediately. A group of black-feathered crows hiding in the woods fluttered out of the branches, making ominous and rough cries. Chen Yang retracted his gaze, stared at the noose in his hand, and turned back home.
After returning home, he handed the noose to Du Shuo: "Brother Du, take a look at this noose, is there anything wrong with it?"
Du Shuo took the noose, and it suddenly became damaged and leaked. The water dripped onto the table and quickly gathered into a small puddle, emitting a fishy smell. Chen Yang found a piece of cloth, then took the noose back and put it on the cloth. He went to the bathroom to get a hand towel, wet it, and came back to wipe Du Shuo's hands: "What's going on? I didn't find any water when I brought it back."
Du Shuo took the warm towel from Chen Yang's hand, grabbed Chen Yang's hand and wiped his hand. "That noose is used to tie up the hands and feet of water ghosts. In the past, when they drowned people, they would tie up their hands and feet with ropes. Look at the knots, they are all dead knots."
"There was a boy in our class who hanged himself on a grave hill, and he used this rope. His family asked a witch to summon his soul, and the witch said halfway through that the boy had died two years ago. At the time, I suspected that he might have something to do with the water ghost you mentioned last night. Now that you say this, I am more certain that he is indeed related to the water ghost." Chen Yang fiddled with the noose and said, "I guess he was possessed by a water ghost two years ago."
Du Shuo: "Well, it's very likely."
Chen Yang frowned and told Du Shuo about what happened to An Mi during the day. "Do you think she has anything to do with the boy's death?"
Du Shuo asked back: "Did she eat the crow's eye?"
"No." Chen Yang shook his head: "She grinds crow's eyes into juice and applies it in her eyes."
"Not alive."
"What's going on?"
"Crows hold grudges and are psychic. If you dig out the crow's eyes, you will definitely be retaliated. Even if the crow doesn't retaliate, she won't survive. Not everyone is born with ghost eyes. She can see ghosts, and ghosts can see her, and they also know that she can see them. Think about how you got through the past ten years. She is not cut out to learn Taoism. Without Taoism skills and no one to save her, she is courting death."
Chen Yang felt soft-hearted and thought that An Mi might not be guilty of a crime worthy of death: "Is there no other way?"
Du Shuo said calmly, "She deserves it."
Chen Yang hooked Du Shuo's middle finger: "Is there really no other way?"
Du Shuo was helpless: "It's not that there is no way. Fortunately, she didn't eat the crow's eye raw, otherwise no one could save her. Just apply the juice of the crow's eye to her eyes and wash them off. Use water boiled with grapefruit leaves and peach branches to wash them, both of which can ward off evil spirits."
Chen Yang nodded: "Thank you, Brother Du. But I will only help Anmi this time, I hope she can grow."
Du Shuo sat up straight, pinched the back of Chen Yang's neck and asked him to sit next to him: "Come here, let's talk." As soon as Chen Yang's butt touched the sofa, he jumped up immediately: "I'm going to take a shower."
"Sit down." Du Shuo pressed Chen Yang onto the sofa forcefully and said, "Let's talk about this openly so you can think things through better."
"So... what are you going to say?"
Du Shuo took out a two-centimeter-thick booklet with a normal expression and handed it to him: "You can read it while listening to me. I told you before. If our marriage is dissolved after you turn eighteen, I will leave and never show up again. If the marriage is not dissolved, this is the obligation that husband and wife need to fulfill."
"Duties of husband and wife?" Chen Yang suddenly felt that the book in his hand was as heavy as a thousand pounds. He opened the first page and saw two big words: Bridal Chamber.
Du Shuo glanced at it and picked up a cup of tea to drink. He said, "This is a basic obligation." After thinking for a while, he added, "Except for extra time, not limited to kissing and hugging in the bedroom, these are other obligations."
Chen Yang's eyes were full of suspicion: "I'm young, don't lie to me."
"Have I lied to you?" Du Shuo's eyes turned cold.
Chen Yang hesitated and shook his head: "No." Du Shuo did not lie to him, at least so far he has not discovered that Du Shuo lied to him. As for what has not been discovered, if it has not been discovered, how can there be deception
Du Shuo's expression lightened up a bit: "It looks great. I'll prepare dinner."
Chen Yang was surprised: "Can you cook?"
Du Shuo: "Try it."
The result of the trial was that the kitchen kept making ping-pong noises, and a hole was pierced in the bottom of the pot. Du Shuo's face was darker than the bottom of the pot. He put his hands behind his back, wore an apron, and said to Chen Yang with a serious expression: "Brewing wine is as difficult as cooking. It requires patience and secret recipes. I should find the secret recipe first before I start."
Chen Yang: No, cooking only requires skills.
"Let's go eat outside."
At this time, Du Shuo couldn't say that the food outside was not clean, so he just responded and changed into clean clothes. The two went out to eat together, and when they came back, they found that the rope on the table was missing, and there was a puddle of wet water on the ground, which was a bit sticky. The water stain spread from the door to the house. Chen Yang followed the water stain to the alley entrance and stopped at the bridge head.
Du Shuo came up from behind him and said, "The water ghost escaped from here, so it must have possessed someone else. Let's go to the house of the girl you mentioned. If she has any relationship with the deceased, it is very likely that the water ghost possessed someone to lead her to catch Crow Eye."
Chen Yang: "Is the next target of the water ghost Anmi?"
"Yes." So the two of them walked to Anmi's house, taking their time along the way, and Du Shuo even refused to take the bus. He said, "Wait until it's completely dark before going there..."
Chen Yang: "I hope you won't be scared silly." It's dark and hundreds of ghosts are roaming around at night. An Mi might be scared.
When the two of them walked to the vicinity of Anmi's house, it was completely dark. There were screams coming from Anmi's house, and soon Anmi was seen running away in panic. Chen Yang saw a group of black fog following Anmi, and ghost faces kept appearing in the fog, following Anmi closely. Chen Yang sped up to catch Anmi, and drove away the black fog condensed by ghost energy behind her: "Heaven and Earth Mysterious Sect, the root of all qi. Command!"
The ghosts in the thick fog immediately scattered like birds and beasts, and An Mi grabbed Chen Yang's arm and cried for mercy: "I know I was wrong, I don't want to see ghosts, I don't want to see ghosts again. Please save me, Chen Yang."
Du Shuo pulled Chen Yang behind him and looked down at An Mi: "There are more ghosts outside, go back to the house." Then he lowered his head to check Chen Yang's red arm, frowning.
Anmi didn't know why she felt that Dushuo was scarier than ghosts. She was uneasy but couldn't move her feet: "There are so many ghosts in the house."
Hearing this, Chen Yang said, "There are door gods protecting the house outside, and there are kitchen gods, land gods and other household gods protecting the house. How can ghosts get in? What else did you do?"
Anmi shook her head vigorously: "No, really not."
"Although the crow ghosts will block you and prevent you from receiving the blessing of the house god, as long as the house is there, the house god must be there, and there is no reason for ghosts to break in." Chen Yang walked into Anmi's house and saw a trace of black blood seeping out of the crack of the door. He opened the door and found that the top of the door was splashed with blood. "Black dog blood? No wonder the door god didn't bless the house."
Anmi's parents were not at home, they were still working in the factory, so Anmi was the only one at home tonight. Chen Yang walked around her house and found that the place where the family gods were enshrined was all stained, even the stove was splashed with black dog blood. "The family gods were stained and angered, no wonder they didn't protect you. Who came to your house today?"
An Mi stammered, "… Chen, Chen Tai."
Chen Tai, the man with glasses who hanged himself. Chen Yang's eyes were sharp, and he shouted: "What else did you do? If you don't tell me, no one can save you!" An Mi knew that the man with glasses had committed suicide, but when she saw him, she still let him into the house, which was obviously strange.
Anmi said in panic, "I just found out last night, really. He told me that crow's eyes can see ghosts, and he wanted me to swallow crow's eyes, but I was afraid, so I secretly ground crow's eyes into juice and smeared them on my eyes, and then lied to him that I had eaten them. But when we separated, I saw a swollen and white corpse standing behind Chen Tai, controlling Chen Tai's body, and staring at me with greedy eyes. I was scared, so I ran away."
"He came to see you today, and you dared to let him in?"
"He said the Crow's Eye would have terrible consequences, so I let him in when I was scared. As soon as he came in, he stared at me without saying a word. I was scared, so I made an excuse to call a friend to accompany me. When I came out, I didn't see him. After looking around, he suddenly jumped out from behind the door and grabbed my neck. While stuffing the Crow's Eye into my mouth, he frantically asked me, 'You lied to me! You lied to me!'" Anmi hugged her shoulders and huddled up in fear: "I was really scared. I was taking a shower just now, and these ghosts came out from the bathroom drain and vents halfway through."
Chen Yang looked at Du Shuo: "What's going on?"
Du Shuo didn't want to care about An Mi's affairs, but when Chen Yang asked, he answered: "The water ghost possessed a human for two years, observing a suitable body. He thought she was good, so he tricked her into eating a crow's eye so that she could see ghosts. The water ghost is a ghost itself, so even if it possesses a human body, it can still practice the ghost way. The only problem is that once it possesses a human body, it can't see ghosts, and the human body after possession can't be transformed. So after tricking her into eating a crow's eye, he committed suicide, and after the soul came out, he wanted to take over her body."
"But Anmi deceived the water ghost, causing the water ghost's plan to fail. But even so, the water ghost would not give up Anmi's body. He borrowed the dead Chen Tai's body to come back to see Anmi, blasphemed the family god, and forced Anmi to eat the crow's eye." Chen Yang's eyes fell on Anmi: "The water ghost will not let Anmi go, right?"
An Mi was slightly surprised: "Yes."
Chen Yang stood up: "So how long are you going to pretend?"
Anmi was stunned: "What did you say?"
Chen Yang lifted her sleeves, and the red marks on her arms had turned dark blue: "Anmi is not that strong. The most important thing is that you still smell very bad." Even though she forced Anmi to eat the crow's eye and her soul, and used Anmi's body to steal the noose and swim back home from under the bridge and take a quick shower, she could not stop the strong smell.
An Mi stared at Chen Yang, her eyeballs quickly became the size of beans, and the rest of her eyes were all weird white. Her already wet hair was now even more soaked, and her nightgown was also soaked, with heavy transparent dirty water dripping down. The foul smell continued to pour out of her body, her mouth curved to the corners, and the voice coming out of her throat had turned into a rough male voice: "I'm sorry that you found out, I can only ask you to give me your soul to eat."
After saying that, she floated into the air, her whole body swollen and pale, like a pale person who has lost his blood color after being soaked in water for a long time. She rushed towards Chen Yang, but before Chen Yang could do anything, she was kicked away by Du Shuo, and her entire ghost was kicked out of An Mi's body. Chen Yang suddenly realized that he had Fengdu Yincha by his side, so he didn't need to go.
So Chen Yang retreated behind Du Shuo, and Du Shuo locked the water ghost with the soul-catching rope that he had just "borrowed" from Fengdu two days ago: "You killed nine people, you deserve the death penalty." Then he beat the water ghost so hard that his soul flew away.
Chen Yang remembered that Du Shuo had said before that the water ghost had killed five people in two years and ate their souls. Now, with Chen Tai and An Mi, who were the other two
Du Shuo: "Her parents."
Anmi's parents were not working in the factory at all. They were killed by ghosts last night. Anmi killed a crow and dug out its eyes, which caused the crow to retaliate. The crow attracted the dead to eat the souls of Anmi's parents, so Anmi's parents were killed by Anmi, and Anmi killed herself.
Chen Yang didn't know how to evaluate Anmi, nor did he understand why she was so interested in ghosts and gods. For him, if he could avoid it, he would try his best to avoid ghosts and gods, so he couldn't understand Anmi's paranoia at all.
Finally, the two called the police. After checking, they found that the death of the three members of the An family was indeed unrelated to the two of them. However, during the investigation, they found that An Mi's body was covered with slippery mucus. The mucus contained water grass and moss from the bottom of the river under the bridge. But An Mi died at around 4 pm. After identification, it was found that these substances were contaminated between 5 and 7 pm. There were many doubts and the death was strange. It was finally listed as a secret file and remained unsolved for many years.
The author has something to say: I will update twice today, and finish the extra chapter about Yin Qin. The extra chapter about Che is being prepared, but not so fast.
Explain a few small questions:
1. The extra chapter is actually slowly answering some small questions left by the previous chapter, including how to meet the emperor and how to get married to the underworld (the story of Crow Eyes is a bit redundant.). There is no detailed description of the emotional development, which would take too long to describe, so some transitions will happen quickly.
2. I saw many people asking about the ending of Wu Lingjiu. He ran back to his old nest, but the Central Ghost Emperor Zhou Qi was sent by the Great Emperor to capture Wu Lingjiu. There were many monks waiting for Wu Lingjiu there, so he couldn't escape. Zhou Qi would take him back to hell and imprison him again. This time he would be sent down to the hell of endless suffering, and he couldn't escape.
The reason why his ending is not written directly is because given the Emperor's character, he will not let Yang Yang deal with Wu Lingjiu. He will either do it himself, or the Emperor's action will be unimpressive as he can kill Wu Lingjiu in one move.
ps: I had a very silly dream last night. I don't know if it was because I read too many comments saying "really good", but the dream was about a stud male upgrade story on Qidian. The stud male formed a ghost hunting team with a few pretty girls. The story was originally very serious, but suddenly the stud male called out the name of his team "Really Good Ghost Hunting Team".
I was awakened by this stupid operation, staring at the ceiling and cursing in my heart. What did I do wrong to have such a stupid dream