"... They, they are all talking nonsense. My sister has nothing to do with Liu Quan! He is the one who spread rumors everywhere, saying that my sister and him... and that Feng Ailing, a gossip woman, who spread rumors behind her back all day long..."
"My sister will not become a ghost, nor will she kill people..." Big tears fell from his eyes, "She won't... won't..."
Ren Qiuhong's eyes were red, and even his shoulders were trembling evenly. If other people saw such a scene, they might feel soft-hearted, but Lin Huai clapped his hands happily: "You look much better when you are angry than when you are bullied."
As he said that, he put his arm on the other person's shoulder and said in a coaxing tone: "Come on, relax, as a family member of the ghost, it is normal for you to be isolated."
Ren Qiu pursed his lips. Lin Huai laughed again and said: "...Since everyone will be isolated, let them fear you, isn't it better than letting them laugh at you? It's not a shame to be a family member of a ghost. The shame is... some people live Uglier than a ghost, but ugly without knowing it. Look—”
Villagers from several households were still peeking at their every move through the cracks in the door. Lin Huai turned to them, and those people immediately retreated into the door in horror. Lin Huai then laughed: "Look at how scared they are, how fun it is."
He patted Ren Qiu on the shoulder and said, "Let's go to your house. The sun is almost setting, and it's not safe for you to walk outside alone."
Ren Qiu: "..."
Lin Huai continued: "...and if you don't go back, the fish won't taste good if it dies."
As he spoke, he shook the fish in his hand.
"Hey, you guys!" Liao Guan, who came out to change shifts, stared dumbfounded at their full appearance, "I asked you to stand guard outside! Why did you run to rob!"
Lin Huai raised his head from the food in his hand to look at him: "We didn't rob. These were given to us by the villagers voluntarily. If you don't believe me, ask them if we robbed people."
As he spoke, he looked at the few villagers who were still peeping on the other side.
The villagers dared not speak out and shook their heads.
"you… "
"We are going to eat." Lin Huai shook the fish and rabbit in his hand, "Do you want to go with us?"
"Hey, isn't the task now to protect Feng Ailing?! At such a critical time, you guys ran to eat?!"
"Protecting Feng Ailing is the task given to us by the system, but I never said that I will do this task." Lin Huai rolled his eyes and smiled, "The system gave us nine people to protect, but in the end only four survived , that is to say..."
He draws out his tone.
"I have the right to choose which five people are killed by the ghost, don't I?"
Under the street lamp, the young man's dark pupils shone like blades of light. Liao Guan choked for a while, and finally choked out a sentence: "...you seem like a villain..."
"No, don't call us villains." Chu Tianshu stood beside Lin Huai holding the hen, "Call us Huanong Brothers."
Lin Huai: "You have lowered our compulsion."
The two happily took the food and followed Ren Qiu back to Ren's house.
Ren Qiu's house is in the south of the village, next door to Mrs. Sun. Walking on the small road in the country, Lin Huai turned to Chu Tianshu, wondering, "Don't you think I'm so ruthless just now?"
Chu Tianshu was busy fighting with the chicken and rabbit in his hand, and it took him a long time to realize what he said. He was a little puzzled and said, "Is there?"
"Really." Lin Huai said, "I'm so disappointed, I thought you would be afraid."
He originally thought that Chu Tianshu would stay in Feng Ailing's yard, waiting for the ghost to attack and observe, but unexpectedly, the other party followed him to Ren Qiu's house, as if he had no interest in the ghost at all. After thinking about it, Lin Huai interpreted this incident as Chu Tianshu was also a glutton.
Although the courtyard of Ren Qiu's house is desolate, traces of past prosperity can still be seen. It's just that the house is still covered with red paint and swear words such as "debt repayment". Chu Tianshu stared at the wall for a while, and then heard Lin Huai's happy voice: "...the family really has a gas stove and seasonings, and good people are rewarded with rewards. As expected of me, I chose you..."
With that said, he turned to Ren Qiu: "Can you cook?"
Ren Qiu was a little ashamed: "I... just eat it."
"... I don't know how to do it either." Lin Huai was in trouble, he rolled his eyes, and saw Aunt Sun in the courtyard next door through the hole in the courtyard wall, "So, let's kidnap another cook to cook..."
"Forget it, you." Chu Tianshu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He came over and pushed the two of them out of the kitchen, and started preparing dinner by himself. Lin Huai squatted beside her knees and looked at it for a while, and soon became bored.
The chicken soup was simmered, and the fish was put into the pot, frying with green onion and sauce. Lin Huai walked towards the house stepping on the fallen leaves all over the floor, but the inspiration in the back of her head moved slightly.
There seemed to be rustling sounds in the backyard of the Ren family.
The wind swept the yellow sand all over the sky and the fallen leaves rustled, and they rushed straight to people's faces. Lin Huai's eyes were hit by a piece of paper, and he took off the paper ball and unfolded it.
It turned out to be a paper man.
Lying obediently in his palm were two little people holding hands. One of the villains grinned unwillingly, as if laughing, while the one on the other side was crying. He followed the source of the sound and walked to the backyard, where he saw an old woman with gray hair sitting in the yard, holding a pair of red scissors and muttering while cutting paper.
Beside her, there are stacks of yellow paper money. She seems to be very proficient. She doesn't need to draw the outline on the paper. She only uses scissors to easily cut out the two small people holding hands. The little people's papers were floating all over the courtyard, swirling in the wind and being blown aside.
She looks so old.
"This is my mother." Standing behind him, Ren Qiu said softly, "After my sister died... she went crazy."
"Actually, she was not in good spirits in the early days." Ren Qiu thought for a while, "When the flour factory exploded five years ago, she was not in good spirits. At that time, she often said that she should not have bought that Zhang Lottery... Mom and Dad are good people, and they set up the factory to help everyone, but they didn't get good rewards... Later, when her sister died, she became more and more... "
"...Although people in the village say that my sister has become a ghost, but I... I still don't want to believe it." Ren Qiu said in a low voice, "She was such a good person when she was alive, how could she kill so many people Woolen cloth… "
A hand was placed on his shoulder.
Lin Huai turned her head and saw that Chu Tianshu had already arrived behind the two of them. Wearing a hello kitty floral apron, he looked very funny, but his eyes were firm: "Since you say that, we will find a way."
Lin Huaixu rolled his eyes: "You..."
"We will find a way to prove your sister's innocence." Chu Tianshu said seriously. The previous cynicism was gone from his face, making Lin Huai speechless for a while. "She can have a brother who believes in her like you, which shows that she was a very good girl when she was alive."
"You..." Ren Qiu panicked for a moment. He covered his neck for a long time, and said, "I, I'm going to ask my mother to eat."
He seemed to be extremely happy, but also seemed to be running away in despair.
"Hey, are you going to play the infinite stream game Famous Detective Ke ○..." Lin Huai whispered next to Chu Tianshu's ear, "What if, I mean what if, Li Gui is really just Ren Chun manage?"
"There is always another way." Chu Tianshu said.
"Hey... don't you want to forge evidence and make a pure lie?" Lin Huaixu raised his eyes, "Even if this kind of deceiving npc is out of good intentions, I will..."
"No, I mean, there will always be other ways to prove that Ren Chun is not a ghost." Chu Tianshu scratched his head, "Since I promised him, I will definitely do it... Besides, I really feel that Ren Chun is not a ghost." Pure, not that ghost."
A faint unhappiness crawled into Lin Huai's heart. He said, "Why do you think so?"
"Maybe it's a kind of intuition. I always feel that it's too pitiful for a girl who will wear a white dress when she dies to be scolded by so many people as an executioner after death." Chu Tianshu said softly.
Lin Huai sneered uncontrollably: "So you think—being a ghost is a shameful thing? Revenge for one's own hatred is something worthy of condemnation?"
"Why do you think so?" Chu Tianshu looked at him inexplicably, "I think it's really pitiful that I can't avenge my own revenge, but still be scolded by others."
Lin Huai: ...
They were talking, but Ren Qiu had already walked up to the nagging old woman, and whispered, "Mom, it's time to eat."
The old woman's cloudy eyes looked up to Ren Qiu, tears flickering slightly. She seemed to have regained her senses, and said "hmm".
However, when Ren Qiu turned around to leave, the old woman suddenly yelled. She seemed to have been greatly stimulated, and her hand holding the scissors shook wildly, almost poking herself.
She was talking nonsense and no one could understand what she was saying. Ren Qiu was taken aback. Just as he was about to turn around to take care of his mother, he heard another cool voice: "Ren Qiu."
Lin Huai turned her head and saw Ying Xia who was living in a relative's house was standing there.
He seemed to walk over skillfully and patted the old woman on the back. Under his comfort, the old woman quickly regained her composure. Ren Qiu heaved a sigh of relief, he turned to look at Ying Xia: "Xiao Xia, why are you here?"
"Give something to Aunt Sun, come and have a look." Ying Xia patted him on the shoulder. After seeing Lin Huai, he opened his eyes slightly, as if he was a little surprised.
Soon, this look disappeared, so fast that Lin Huai almost thought it was just his illusion. When Ren Qiu saw his friend arrived, he was very happy: "Have you eaten yet? Let's stay and eat together."
"By the way, let me introduce you." He pulled Lin Huai over, "This is my good friend Ying Xia, this is Lin Huai, an inspector from the village, and the other is..."
"No need to introduce, we met yesterday." Lin Huai smiled at Ying Xia.
The latter glanced at Ren's mother who was still cutting paper in the backyard from the corner of his eye, and grabbed his wrist without any trace.
The four of them had a lively meal. Due to mental problems, Ren's mother ate alone in the room. Ying Xia looked at the rich dishes on the table and was very surprised: "These are..."
Ren Qiu glanced at Lin Huai, who bit his chopsticks without guilt: "It was all given to us by the villagers, they are very enthusiastic."
After eating and drinking, Ren Qiu took the initiative to ask Ying to clean up the dishes. Lin and Chu were wandering around in the yard. It was very rare for them to be able to reach Li Gui's family, so they were very excited.
"This wall is full of curse words." Lin Huai knocked on the wall, "It's really an eyesore, please clean it up."
Ying Xia watched him observe the wall, and pursed her lips tightly.
He looked in the direction of the kitchen without any trace, and in the kitchen was Ren Qiu's busy back.
He looks happy.
... It's been a long time, I'm happy.
"...I'm going to eat here for a few days, it's an eyesore." Then, he heard Lin Huai's voice, "With the name of being a chivalrous man, it's much more reasonable to rob houses."
Ying Xia: ...
On the other side, Chu Tianshu was also beating wood in the yard. After a while, he called Lin Huai over to see the strangely shaped mechanism under his hands: "Use this tomorrow to fix the pig, and it will be much easier to drive it back." gone."
Ying Xia looked at the two of them from a distance. His hands loosened first, then clenched again, and finally...
Still loose.
After Lin and Chu had dinner at Ren's house, they did not show any intention of leaving, but seemed to regard Ren's house as their second base. After Ren Qiu washed the dishes and mopped the floor, he sat quietly at the desk and read a book.
At nine o'clock, Ren Qiu seemed to have started to feel sleepy. He was clearly reading a book, but his eyes could hardly be opened. He just shook his head from time to time to keep awake. After seeing Chu Tianshu looking up and down in front of the bookshelf, he raised his head and smiled: "Well...Brother Chu, just take whatever you want to read."
"Oh, then I won't be polite." Chu Tianshu said, pulling out an exercise book from the bookshelf. The word Ren Chun is written on the exercise book, in beautiful handwriting.
He turned the exercise book from beginning to end, and looked around the bookshelf again, but he didn't see the second book belonging to Ren Chun. He was about to raise his head to ask, but the exercise book in his hand was grabbed by the other hand.
"... After Ren Chun's death, Mother Ren cleaned up all her things, so as not to cause any emotion." The young man with red and phoenix eyes lowered his voice, and said, turning his peripheral vision to Ren Xia who was dozing off on the other side, "Don't let the situation become a thing of the past." He will be sad when he sees..."
After Chu Tianshu nodded, he let go of his hand. Ren Qiu's voice came from the other side: "Uh... sorry, I'm a little sleepy... I..."
As he spoke, he yawned as if his eyelids were about to get glued. Seeing that the master was about to go to bed, Lin Chu and the two felt embarrassed to stay any longer, and after a hasty farewell, they followed Ying Xia back.
Tick, tick, tick...
Time passed by every minute and every second, but everyone in Feng Ailing's family did not dare to feel sleepy at all. The sober man stared fixedly at the top of Feng Ailing's head.
In order to ensure that at 12 o'clock, everyone can wake up after the number is cleared, and before 12 o'clock, everyone is arranged to sleep in turn, and each time two sober people watch Feng Ailing's every move. The ones who are awake now are Liao Guan, who is bored playing with his mobile phone, and Ruan Tian, who is in a daze.
With the passage of time, the blood-red "01" gradually faded, and Feng Ailing also went from panic at the beginning to almost crazy.
However, at 10 o'clock, perhaps knowing that she was about to die, Feng Ailing finally calmed down. In the ten o'clock shift, it was Liao Guan and Ruan Tian's turn. Liao Guan and the girl he liked were assigned to the same class, very excited.
He tried his best to strike up a conversation with Ruan Tian, but when the words came out of his mouth, it turned into an awkward conversation that made him even embarrassed. Fortunately, Ruan Tian's temper is not bad, just laughing, which made Liao Guan feel a little relieved.
'It would be nice if I met her in reality. Liao Guan thought, "It's a pity that we are in the game, and we don't know if we can all survive..."
Feng Ailing looked at the two people in the room, and it took her a long time to stammer out a sentence: "I... I want to go to the toilet. The toilet... is in the backyard, and I dare not go alone."
The two looked at each other, Ruan Tian looked at the "01" on top of her head, estimated that it would take more than an hour to clear, so he said to Liao Guan: "I will accompany her to the bathroom, you wait here."
Liao Guan quickly stood up: "I'll go with you."
Ruan Tian waved his hand: "Just wait here, it's only a few steps to the toilet, and it's not convenient for you to go with us as a boy."
She refused resolutely, so Liao Guan had no choice but to say: "Then... you guys go, remember to come back early."
A small shed was built in the backyard of Feng Ailing's house, and inside was the simplest toilet. Ruan Tian saw her go in, and stood outside waiting, looking around boredly.
"Huh? There's even a well here?"
She glanced at it from afar, but didn't take it seriously. Feng Ailing just came out and saw her staring at the well, so she walked over and said, "This well was built by my grandfather at that time, and it's so deep..."