"Let's just say it first, this is not for fun." I warned, "This is an exorcism, so get your spirits up!"
Bai squinted at me, "Since when did you become the boss?"
"Wen Jiubai is not here, of course I am the boss."
"Who made the rules?"
"Then do you know how to exorcise ghosts?"
"Uh, this..."
The three of us went back to the old house first. According to what Wen Jiubai said, I found a few pieces of talisman papers to ward off evil spirits from the desk in his room, and I also found a yellowed dog tooth in the drawer. Taking these few things with us, we headed towards the weird box-shaped building again.
We set off in the afternoon, and the scorching sun at noon has not completely receded, so the surrounding area should be very bright. But for some reason, when we got off the bus and approached the box-shaped building, the surrounding area became dark.
"Is it covered by the clouds..." I muttered in a low voice, but I knew in my heart that this was nothing more than comfort.
"Is this what you call a house?" Shi Yitong, who saw this building for the first time, stammered and pointed at it, unable to speak, "It's too... really someone wants to live in this kind of place ?"
The box was wrapped in low darkness, like an unsmiling old man, and the black walls seemed to swallow people in at any time.
"Let's go." I whispered. We walked to the entrance and knocked on the door, and it didn't take long this time before someone opened the door.
It was the woman who was cooking in the kitchen last time. She looked to be in her late forties, with an unhealthy sallow complexion and a dirty apron around her waist. When she saw us, she didn't say anything, just rubbed her hand on the apron twice, and opened the door.
"Excuse me..." I whispered, but the woman ignored me and walked straight back into the house. After a while, a sentence floated out from inside.
"Xiaoying is in her room."
I breathed a sigh of relief and quickly said thank you. Then he pulled Shi Yitong up and ran into the corridor in a hurry.
"That woman just now was too scary." Shi Yitong said with lingering fear, "If I didn't know, I would have thought I had broken into the underworld."
"Don't talk about her like that." I couldn't help but say, "You haven't seen her husband, that man surnamed Wang is ten times scarier than her."
"I feel very uncomfortable here." Shi Yitong muttered.
As I said that, I knocked on the door at the end of the corridor, trying to keep my voice as soft as possible, "Xiaoying? Are you in there?"
After a while, the door was opened, and Xiaoying stood timidly behind the door, her eyes were red and swollen, as if she had just cried. After seeing us, a glint of expectation flashed in his eyes.
"It's the big brothers." I squatted down in front of Xiaoying and smiled, "Can you let us in?"
Xiaoying nodded vigorously and opened the door.
Just like what I saw that day, Xiaoying's room is painted with pink walls, a small study table, a small wooden bed, and a mirror at the head of the wooden bed. The decoration of the room seems to be better than other rooms in the house, and it doesn't look like it will be haunted.
I looked at Xiaoying's red and swollen eye sockets, and felt a throbbing pain in my heart. I have never seen a child cry, and I secretly decided in my heart that no matter which ghost it is this time, it must be eliminated. It's hard to forgive such a cute little girl, Pear Blossom.
Bai jumped off me and licked the back of Xiaoying's hand.
"Did you see a ghost again last night?" I asked.
Xiaoying nodded sadly, "Someone came to my room, there was such a big black shadow. It was too dark to see clearly, but it was scary!"
"What kind of shadow is it?"
"Hmm... I can't see clearly, tall and thin. I remember last night, when I fell asleep, I was suddenly woken up by a gust of wind. After I opened my eyes, a black shadow appeared very close to me. I At first I was terrified and didn't dare to make a sound, and then the shadow... leaned over."
"Come here?" I couldn't help swallowing.
"Closed very close, and then touched my face." Xiaoying's tone also brought a cry, "I was so scared that I couldn't stand it, so I screamed. escaped through the door."
"Is that so." I couldn't help asking again, "What happened next?"
"I was so scared that I didn't dare to chase it out." Xiaoying shook her head and bit her lower lip, "Then... fell asleep."
"I see." I subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that this ghost is not a big deal, the most it can do is to harass the children.
"Okay, let's start then." I stood up, clapped my hands, and took out the things I had prepared before from the bag. Shi Yitong and I pasted the runes drawn by Wen Jiubai on the four walls of the room. The mirror at the head of the bed might also be the source of ghosts. I went up and put the mirror upside down on the table, and put the canine tooth on the mirror.
"That's all right." I said with satisfaction.
"Is that all right?" Xiaoying looked at us curiously, probably not knowing what we were doing.
"If there is no accident, you can sleep well tonight." I bent down and rubbed her head, thought for a while and said, "If you see a black shadow again tonight, just spit on it." Spit should do the trick."
"That's it, good! Xiaoying knows!" Xiaoying clenched her fists confidently.
"You pretend to know everything." Shi Yitong teased.
"Obviously I learned from Mr. Wen and sold it now." Bai followed suit.
"... Will the two of you die if you shut your mouth?"
After finishing all this, I went to the window and opened the curtains. Although it was not very bright outside, it still brought a little life into the room.
"But speaking of it, why does your family live in this kind of house? There are few people around, and the transportation is not very convenient."
Although I knew that Xiaoying probably wouldn't know, I still couldn't help asking.
Xiaoying tilted her head, "I don't know... But Uncle Wang said that this house belonged to someone else, and we lived here on loan."
Is it a rented house? But renting this kind of house is really too strange. Rather than being strange, it is better to say that this building is definitely not a residential house. It must have been modified for rent, so it must have been modified like this.
Thinking about it this way, I originally thought that this family was rich, but now that I think about it, it should not be the case. On the contrary, it is very likely that the rent here is cheap.
"Is that Uncle Wang your stepfather?" I continued to ask.
Xiaoying nodded.
"What about your biological father?"