Ye Yingzhi's car was still waiting beside the boulevard outside the Chi family's mansion. The ceiling light inside the car was on, emitting a warm light. When he walked in, the rear window was half-open, and a man in a long black trench coat could be seen. Sit leisurely and close your eyes.
Chi Yan opened the car door and rushed in, hugging the man's arm.
Ye Yingzhi hugged him and held his chin to let him raise his head. Seeing his red eyes, he leaned in and kissed him distressedly: "What's wrong? Who bullied you again?"
One thing Chi Rong guessed right, Ye Yingzhi really likes to bully Chi Yan, and often has to bully Chi Yan until her eyes are blurry and crying, hugging him softly and begging him for mercy before she is willing to stop and start hugging people. Into the arms slowly coax. But these little interests between the two are not enough for outsiders. Usually, if Ye Yingzhi sees Chi Yan being wronged and bullied elsewhere, it would be great. It is necessary to keep a hard account in his heart, and then carefully coax the person in person. .
Chi Yan shook his head, leaned on his chest and whispered, "My father passed away." His voice was still choked up, and when he said the word "father", he could hardly help himself. He hadn't called Chi Yuanshan that way for ten years. He didn't say anything after he cut off the relationship between his father and son at the age of sixteen and left Chi's house. When he was in the Chi's house before, because he knew that Chi Yuanshan was sorry for their mother and son, he also resisted and When he speaks, he refuses to call him "Dad" or "Dad".
Of course, Ye Yingzhi could hear the change in his title, so he just rubbed his back to help him calm down, replied softly, and didn't express his opinion.
Chi Yan intermittently told him the story he had just heard from Chi Rong, and Ye Yingzhi also listened quietly. Stop him, raise his head and kiss his eyes: "Dear, don't think about it, take a good rest, my brother will send someone to check it out."
Chi Yan lowered his head and buried it on the side of his neck, wrapped his hands around Ye Yingzhi's waist, and made a low "um", his eyes were still red.
He rested for a while, and asked in a low voice in this posture: "Brother Yingzhi, can you help my father give him a ride so that he can walk better? Chi Rong said that he was manipulated by witches and buried in his heart. When the Gu worm dies, it will die too. He's going to be uneasy, and I want him to go smoothly."
"It should be." Ye Yingzhi replied, "If you recognize him, he is also my father. Of course, if you are a child, you should give your father-in-law a ride."
He said and looked out of the car window, pointed to the grove on the left side of the road and said, "It's not appropriate for me to rush into Chi's house to save my father-in-law in my current status. Let's send my father-in-law here, okay?"
Chi Yan nodded with red eyes, not caring, or subconsciously tacitly acquiesced to the "father-in-law" in Ye Yingzhi's mouth.
The driver turned off the car, took some materials for spellcasting from the trunk, and followed the road behind Chi Yan and Ye Ying toward the forest with his mobile phone. Ye Yingzhi kept these spellcasting utensils in his car all year round, which saved a lot of trouble.
The three stopped when they found a flat and open space. Chi Yan was in charge of lighting with a mobile phone. Ye Yingzhi reached out and took the cinnabar pen handed over by the driver. The paper closed a few eyes, and then began to close the eyes and cast spells.
Chi Yan knelt down beside him with his eyes closed, and silently recited the eulogy in his heart.
The wind suddenly blew up in the woods, and it slid coldly into people's necks, with an eerie chill. Chi Yan shivered, opened his eyes, and saw a vague shadow walking in his direction. Judging by his appearance, it was Chi Yuanshan.
"He" looked at Chi Yan all the time, his mouth moved eagerly, as if he was saying something. Seeing that Chi Yan did not respond, he even more anxiously made a gesture of waving to the side. Looking at him, Chi Yan couldn't help standing up and shouting loudly, "Dad, what did you say? I can't hear you!"
Chi Yuanshan moved closer to him again, getting closer and closer to the death battle on the ground, and Chi Yan could gradually see his mouth shape - just at this moment, a strong force suddenly appeared from the magic circle, He suddenly pushed Chi Yuanshan away, gradually blurring and disappearing... Until he disappeared, he kept waving to Chi Yan's right.
Chi Yan suddenly sat down on the ground, turned his head to the left and looked at Ye Yingzhi: "Brother Yingzhi, what do you think my father wants to tell me? Is he leaving?"
"He has passed away." Ye Yingzhi took him into his arms, helped him stand up, and kissed his forehead, "Don't be afraid, no matter what brother you have, you will be protected."
Chi Yan responded with a muffled sound, and was hugged by Ye Yingzhi and stuffed back into the car.
On the second day, Chi Yan and Ye Yingzhi attended Chi Yuanshan's funeral together.
Because there were many visitors during the Rewarding Festival, and the people who left were Chi Yuanshan from the Chi family, many people came to express condolences. Chi Yan has already left the Chi family, and has long since terminated the father-son relationship with Chi Yuanshan, even though many people have known about the young man next to the Ye family's head, it is said that the boyfriend of the second master Xu is the previous Chi Yuanshan. The parents and grandchildren, at this time, can only stand by and watch like other visitors, and slowly walk forward to present a bunch of flowers.
The old man Chi was still in seclusion, and he didn't even come out after the sudden death of his son. Everything at the scene was assisted by the housekeeper and several children of the Chi family, including welcoming, sending, thanking the guests, etc. Some people started whispering why they didn't see Chi Shao.
Chi Shao was naturally Chi Rong in their mouths, and the steward always explained to the guests who asked that it was Chi Rong who was too sad and sick, and was unable to see the guests while recuperating in the room, but there was a look of worry on his brows.
The sudden death of Chi Yuanshan is a bit strange in itself. Now the big corpse is not cold, the small one is seriously ill in bed, but the old one can't retreat. The entire Chi family doesn't even have a single person to make up their minds, and it all depends on a few clan elders. Everyone couldn't help but think that the Chi family had died a clan elder inexplicably a few days ago, and even used a requiem to be buried underground. They could not help but secretly discuss what the Chi family had committed.
Ye Yingzhi moved quickly, and the dispatchers quickly found some information, which was handed to Chi Yan just after returning from the funeral.
Influenced by artistic creations such as film and television dramas, novels, etc., people generally think of the Yungui area when it comes to witchcraft, because Yungui has a lot of miasma, and there are many poisonous insects in the mountains, which does have the geographical conditions for the development of this type of magic. But Chi Rong's mother inherited another line of witchcraft, which originated from Qiongzhou, which is now Hainan, and was called Qiongzhou witchcraft. The terrain of Qiongzhou is high and low, facing the sea on all sides, and the mountains are prone to fog. There are also some secret techniques spread among the mountains in the middle, but many techniques are gradually lost, but Chirong's mother is the most mysterious of them. The descendant of Qiongzhou witchcraft. From this point of view, Chi Rong's words yesterday are most likely true, but whether Chi Yuanshan is under the control of witchcraft can only be confirmed by opening the coffin and performing an autopsy.
It is not possible to open the coffin for an autopsy again. Ye Yingzhi sent someone to ask someone who knew about the Central Plains Gu technique, and described Chi Yuanshan's death. One of the characteristics of Qiongzhou witch gu is that after the death of the master, the worm will die if it can't last for too long, and like this kind of gu that can control a person for decades, the worm has already entered the heart and formed the form of the person who has been attacked. In the symbiotic system, as soon as the Gu worm dies, that person will soon collapse and die.
Chi Yan couldn't close her eyes overnight with the investigation news sent back. Even if there is no solid evidence, he has already decided in his heart that Chi Yuanshan will become like that, and their family is all because of his father being poisoned. The murderer is Chi Rong's mother, but Chi Rong's mother died five years ago, and he has nowhere to look for revenge. And according to Chi Rong's words that day, there should be people behind it who are pushing the fire and watching it happen.
Chi Yan sorted out his thoughts in his mind bit by bit, and found a logical problem in this series of events: Suppose his father had been controlled by the Gu technique all these years, and the fact that the Gu insect did not wake up for a moment until he died was that Really, then he finally let him "go quickly" for his own good; regardless of motives or reasons, Chi Rong, who urged him to leave the same number of times, was also for his own good; but if Chi Rong was for his own good, he would Why set up a death situation like Hejiacun to kill him
This creates a contradiction. There are two explanations. One explanation is that his original "for his own good" assumption was wrong, and Chi Rong and Chi Yuanshan still wanted to kill him; the other explanation was that someone else wanted to kill him. , he misunderstood Chi Rong's lie in the Xu family's small garden at noon. Putting aside Chi Rong for the time being, Chi Yan no longer believes or does not want to believe that Chi Yuanshan's last sentence is still malicious, and will naturally reject the first explanation subconsciously.
So he had to ask Chi Rong what else he knew, why he urged him to leave here many times, and why he didn't leave.
But thinking of Chi Rong's appearance that night, he was still a little worried. He was not afraid of Chi Rong, but the appearance of the other party was indeed somewhat abnormal. After all, Ye Yingzhi was a generation older than him, and his status was extraordinary. He couldn't do everything without Ye Yingzhi's company, and he was also worried that Ye Yingzhi's body would not be able to bear it. So just in case, Chi Yan called Xu Rui and asked him to accompany him back to Chi's house to find Chi Rong.
Chi Yan went directly to Xu's house to find Xu Rui by car. From a distance, he saw a lot of people in the main hall of Xu's house. Several of the people who spoke were very excited. Uncle Xu Rui and the big housekeeper were trying their best to appease them. .
At this time, Xu Rui had already come over, he opened the door and got into the car, sitting beside Chi Yan.
The car drove forward, and Chi Yan pointed in the direction of the main hall: "What's the situation?"
Xu Rui curled his lips: "It's the celestial master who came to participate in the sacrifice to the heavens. Their sect master's surname is Ma, and they have a son named Ma Tian who is less than 20 years old. This year, they will also bring him to participate in the sacrifice ceremony. As a result, Ma Tian suddenly disappeared in the past two days, and the owner of the Ma family urged the Xu family to accompany them to find their son every day. You said that his son is also an adult, there is nothing to do in the mountains, maybe he ran out to play Well, if I forced my uncle and the others like this, they sent people to look for it and couldn't find it. Now my father is being screwed by my grandfather every day to help, but fortunately they haven't caught me as a strong man. "
These days, they are arranging the rituals of rewarding the heavens, and Chi Yuanshan fainted at the banquet and then died suddenly. The Xu family has indeed been busy. Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, so Chi Yan patted Xu Rui on the shoulder and talked for comfort.
The atmosphere of Chi's house was a little dignified, the house exuded a rotten and cold atmosphere, and the mourning hall of Chiyuan Mountain was still standing, but there were far fewer people who came to pay their respects and condolences than yesterday. Chi Yan and Xu Rui went in to worship again, and then asked the housekeeper to see Chi Rong, chat with him, and ask about his father's life.
He is also Chi Yuanshan's biological son, and the undisputed son of Chi Yuanshan's parents. Even if he leaves, Chi Yuanshan is dead, his request is normal and reasonable.
The housekeeper was the housekeeper who brought him in the night before to see Chi Yuanshan for the last time, and then helped him deal with Chi Yuanshan's funeral. In Chi Yan's impression, he always followed Chi Yuanshan to do things, because of Chi Yuanshan's attitude. Rong Zhong was loyal, but he was cold and indifferent to himself. Therefore, Chi Yan also treated him politely and disengaged from official business, and asked him to help pass a message to Chi Rong. If Chi Rong was suddenly seriously ill and unable to move, he could go directly to Chi Rong.
Chi Yan didn't believe that Chi Rong was suddenly "overthinking" and "severely bedridden". He clearly had no reaction to Chi Yuanshan's death that night, and he was in good spirits. How could he suddenly become ill.
But the housekeeper glanced at him and Xu Rui, and respectfully led them to the side hall, and then bowed to Xu Rui: "Can you avoid Xu Rui for a while?"
Chi Yan said to him, "Xu Rui is my dead friend. You can just say it directly."
But the butler put on a troubled face.
Seeing this, Xu Rui stood up, walked out, and waved to Chi Yan: "Okay, I'll go out first, and if they dare to hurt you, I'll report it to your third brother for you."
When he went out, the housekeeper suddenly knelt on the ground and cried: "Eldest Young Master, Second Young Master, he is gone."