191、A Ghost Story

“Tick-tick-tick-tick-”

The Lin family’s house is very old. This shower facility has been used for who knows how many years, so it is inevitable that there are some minor problems.

At this moment, the shower head is leaking water. Because Yan Chu keeps looking up, the small drops of water just drip on his chin, flowing along his Adam’s apple to his strong and sturdy chest, until they disappear in an unspeakable place covered by a towel.

In fact, if you look closely, the female ghost is not very scary, but the red eyes are a bit like the evil ghosts in the movies. Apart from this, it’s nothing to be used to seeing the extremely white and slightly gray skin.

There is no rotten flesh on her body, nor is there blood plasma all over her body. The only scary red eyes are still blank, just like her age, a little ignorant of the world, and not threatening at all.

This is also the reason why Yan Chu did not take action at the first time. He did not feel too much evil spirit from this little female ghost.

"Ah?"

The little ghost girl looked straight at Yan Chu, swallowed subconsciously, and seemed to realize something. She waved her hand foolishly, and the water flow that had been stopped suddenly came out again.

Yan Chu didn't react, and directly faced the water column and washed his face.

"Ah?"

This cry was a bit panic. The little ghost girl waved her hand again, and the water flow stopped again.

The water that had just been poured on his head, and the foam that was not washed clean on his hair immediately flowed to his eyes. Yan Chu wanted to wipe it with a towel, but remembering the position of the towel now, he could only wipe his face with one hand with a bitter smile.

When he was able to open his eyes, the little ghost girl had already disappeared in the bathroom. Yan Chu sensed it, but did not sense the breath of the ghost girl nearby.

This is quite strange. According to Yan Chu's current ability, ordinary ghosts cannot be approached by him without being discovered, and the appearance of the ghost girl does not look like a powerful ghost.

After a quick shower, Yan Chu put on clean clothes and went out. Lin Yuan was still awake and watching TV. He was just an ordinary person. Even if the female ghost just came out of the bathroom carelessly, he couldn't see it.

"Master, what are you looking for?"

Lin Yuan was watching TV and eating potato chips. After watching Yan Chu come out of the bathroom, he opened the doors of the room one by one, from the kitchen, bedroom and balcony, all the way to the locked second bedroom.

When Lin Yuan, who had no reaction at first, saw Yan Chu standing outside the room, his eyes darkened a little, put down the potato chips in his hand, and walked towards him with a smile.

"This room?"

Yan Chu pointed to the locked room. This was the first time he mentioned the locked room to Lin Yuan in the days since he moved in.

"Oh, this room used to be where my parents lived. After they passed away, I locked it and haven't opened it for more than ten years."

Lin Yuan's expression was impeccable: "I'm afraid of being reminded of them. Maybe one day when I can accept the fact that they are gone, I will open the lock of this room, and then I will completely let it go."

"So that's how it is."

Yan Chu seemed to believe it, but he had greater doubts in his heart.

Lin Yuan was only seven years old when he went to the orphanage, which means that his parents had an accident before he was seven years old. What kind of family would let the child live in the master bedroom when he was not even seven years old, while the couple lived in the second bedroom? This is obviously not in line with common sense.

Just looking at Lin Yuan's expression, Yan Chu also knew that he couldn't get any reliable information from him. Don't look at his carefree temperament. He has been calling him master every day these days. In fact, he is a very cautious man.

Yes, he has been making a living in the customs street since he was ten years old. How could it be simple?

Although fortune-telling scammers are not highly regarded, they may make those grandpas and aunties willing to pay money. This is a skill. How can such a man be as simple as he appears.

Yan Chu glanced at the iron lock that locked the door, bypassed the topic, comforted Lin Yuan a few words, and turned back to the bedroom.

With this episode, Lin Yuan returned to the living room and turned off the TV. He also followed Yan Chu back to the bedroom and lay on his single bed, ready to go to sleep.

******

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you..."

"Xiao Chu, look at daddy here, smile, one, two, three, click."

A carefully decorated room, a family of three is celebrating the birthday of their youngest son. The cake placed in the middle of the living room does not look particularly good. It looks like it was made by themselves.

There are eight candles on it. Today's birthday boy looks exactly eight years old.

"Ah - who are you?"

When the atmosphere was harmonious, a strong stench spread throughout the room. The birthday boy who was about to blow out the candles could only see a blood mist. Before he could react, he was hugged by a warm embrace and pushed to the exit leading to the backyard.

"Xiao Chu, run quickly and find your uncle. Don't look back."

The little boy was very scared. Who was his uncle? He had never seen him before. Why did his mother and father look so terrified? What happened?

"Remember, don't look back."

The little boy cried and only felt a necklace on his neck, and then there was a heavy door slamming. Everything was isolated behind that door.

He stumbled out, and the farther he ran, the lighter his parents' screams became.

He wanted to call the uncle next door, but the doors of the nearby houses were closed, as if no one was alive inside.

Don't look back, don't look back, he always remembers his mother's words, holding on to the jade pendant her mother hung around his neck with one hand, wiping tears with the other, he fell, got up and ran again.

"Xiao Chu, Xiao Chu, mom is behind you. Look back at mom."

"Xiao Chu, Xiao Chu, I am daddy. Look back at daddy."

At the familiar call, a smile appeared on the little boy's face. Just as he was about to turn around, the jade pendant around his neck suddenly became hot. Recalling his mother's words, he ran forward even faster, almost desperately. run.

Those weren't his parents, those were monsters.

"Disobedient bad boy."

A hint of cool air penetrated from behind his ears into the gap in his collar, and that voice seemed to come from his ears.

The little boy's teeth chattered. He ran forward as hard as he could, but he was just a child and his strength was always limited.

"Hee hee, the bad boy ran away——stopped——moving——"

The little boy fell to the ground, his knees and palms touching the ground at the same time. The burning pain made him cry immediately.

Because of his pause, the things behind finally caught up.

The little boy could only watch as the dark shadow grew larger and larger behind him, covering his shadow and immediately engulfing him.

"call--"

Yan Chu woke up from his nightmare. When he opened his eyes, he saw a pair of red eyes appearing in front of him.

Before he could calm down from the fright in his dream, he was startled again. He immediately sat up and pressed his back against the backrest of the bed, watching the female ghost who suddenly appeared warily.

"Huhu——"

Before Yan Chu accused the female ghost of being scary, the red-eyed female ghost patted his chest and stared at him accusingly, looking aggrieved that he was scared.

Seeing the female ghost showing such an expression, Yan Chu was no longer afraid. He touched the cold sweat behind him due to the nightmare, got up and got out of bed, ignored the little female ghost, turned around and went to the bathroom, intending to wipe himself off.

From the current point of view, he can't sense any trace of the female ghost's existence, and he can't even feel the ghost energy from her body. This is a situation that his uncle has never talked about, and looking at the appearance of this female ghost, it doesn't look like It is a living soul separated from the body.

From the current point of view, the female ghost was dumbfounded and had no ill intentions towards him, so there was no need to be on guard for the time being.

The little female ghost seemed to be attached to him, following him wherever he went. Yan Chu took off his shirt and wiped himself, and she watched with wide eyes without hesitation. Yan Chu closed the door, but there was nothing wrong with this pair of female ghosts. Defensive, he could only watch her come over from the other side of the wall while scrubbing.

In the end, Yan Chu simply let it go. Anyway, he had already seen everything while taking a bath at night.

"Different."

The little female ghost stretched out her hand to poke Yan Chu's chest. She was a ghost. Of course, her fingers passed through Yan Chu's body and there was no direct contact.

"Don't push yourself too far."

It's not enough to just look at it, you also want to touch it. The female ghosts of this year are simply going to die.

Yan Chu put on his clothes, went to the refrigerator in the kitchen, took out a bottle of Coke and opened it. After drinking the cold drink, his mind suddenly became refreshed and he became more awake.

"Tell me, where are you from?"

This female ghost seemed quite easy to talk to. Yan Chu sat on the sofa and asked as he looked at the female ghost floating over with him.

"Come here."

The little female ghost pointed at Yan Chu, tilted her head and smiled sweetly: "Ah Chu, and Ah Chu are together."

She said and wanted to get closer to Yan Chu, but she didn't know what she thought of, so she took a few steps back, followed Yan Chu's example, and sat on the other corner of the sofa.

If you look closely, you can see that her butt is still some distance away from the sofa and is actually floating.

"Don't be annoying, be good."

She shook her head, looking timid, just like the wronged little daughter-in-law, who had nothing to do with ghosts.

"From me?"

Yan Chu frowned and pointed at himself.

"here."

The female ghost shook her head, indicating that he was pointing at the wrong place, but she couldn't touch Yan Chu's hand, so she could only move closer and pointed at the jade pendant Yan Chu was wearing.

"A Chu's, A Chu and I are together."

If she were a human being, she would look shy at this moment, with a blush on her cheeks, making people feel pity and love.

But she was just a female ghost. Her blue-white skin was glowing with death, and her red eyes seemed ready to bleed at any time. She clearly wanted to show off her shyness, but she looked a little more weird. Three points of cold air.

"You mean you live here in Jade Perry?"

Yan Chu picked up the jade pendant that he always wore close to his body. It was worn by his parents before the accident. When the original body was found by Lao Dao, Lao Dao also inspected the jade pendant. At that time, he only thought it was a new jade pendant. A highly protective jade pendant. Unexpectedly, this jade pendant actually hides a female ghost.

"Why haven't I seen you out before?"

Yan Chu paused after asking. He forgot that before he came, the original body's heavenly eye was closed again, which meant that even if the little female ghost came out, he couldn't see it.

"A Chu is afraid. If you don't see me, I'll be good."

The little female ghost raised her head and glanced at Yan Chu timidly. Her words were a bit confusing. Yan Chu guessed that it might be because the original person hated all ghosts, so the little female ghost did not dare to come out. Because now he has softened his attitude towards ghosts, so She came out.

It just seems that there is still something wrong.

"What's your name, how did you get into this jade pendant?"

The female ghost in front of her had no bloody aura, which means that she had never killed anyone or eaten ghosts. Because of her original body, she had been hiding alone in the jade pendant and dared not come out. Especially looking at her appearance, she was only about 16 or 17 years old when she died, which was quite pitiful.

Yan Chu slowed down his voice and asked gently.

"Don't know?"

The little female ghost tilted her head and pointed at herself: "Ah Chu's, Ah Chu and I are together."

Probably because she was afraid of being abandoned, or perhaps because of the one-sided relationship for more than ten years, the little female ghost had long been accustomed to Yan Chu's existence.

She didn't dare to talk to her original body, but she did watch the other person grow up. Such feelings were enough for this slightly naive little girl to define the relationship between the two as a whole.

"No hate, I'm obedient."

The little female ghost seemed to remember the attitude of her previous original body towards ghosts and monsters. She seemed to be afraid that Yan Chu would not want her, and wanted to come up and pull Yan Chu's sleeve. She remembered that this was how it was played on TV. As long as the heroine did that, the hero would be very happy.

But she forgot that she was just a female ghost and couldn't touch Yan Chu at all.

The originally bright red eyes seemed a little dim. The little ghost looked at her hands and looked a little depressed.

"I don't hate you."

Yan Chu was a little soft-hearted. He never hardened his heart to treat good children.

The female ghost's eyes lit up and she flashed in front of Yan Chu.

Red eyes, white pupils in the middle, and clear purple blood vessels on the face. Such a face suddenly came face to face with you, nose to nose, which was still a test of your tolerance.

Fortunately, Yan Chu had seen big storms. If it were someone else, he would probably be scared to death now.

Although the little ghost girl was innocent and cute, it was really embarrassing to be so startled, especially since the other party was actually a ghost parasitic on his jade pendant, which made Yan Chu a little worried about how to properly deal with the little ghost girl.

The best way was definitely to send her to salvation.

Many ghosts are forced to stay in the human world because of their obsession. In fact, this is not good for them. Especially for the fierce ghosts who have killed people and eaten ghosts after becoming ghosts, once they are discovered by the ghost, the best ending is to be scattered. Many fierce ghosts have to suffer the torture of knife mountains and oil pots for generations after being detained in the underworld, and they will never be reborn until they redeem their sins.

Ordinary ghosts stay in the human world and miss the opportunity to reincarnate. They can only turn to the animal path or become a member of the Wangchuan River, with their consciousness gradually disappearing, confused, and accompanied by the cold river water.

In contrast, the latter has one more chance. If there is a monk to help you transcend, you may be able to purify your soul and get a chance to reincarnate again.

Nowadays, it is difficult to find a master who is capable of transcending the dead. In this line, Buddhists are more powerful than Taoists, but Yan Chu has a cheater, and he still has three opportunities to use the transcendence spell.

Looking at the confused little ghost girl in front of him, Yan Chu sighed. He could not let her stay in the jade pendant forever. She would feel the fear of being stared at by red eyes every time she took a bath or went to sleep.

Yan Chu lit up the mantra for salvation, and then placed the ball of light on the little ghost girl.

"Hahaha."

Except for Yan Chu, no one else could see the existence of the ball of light, including the little ghost girl. She just felt that her soul was itchy. Unconsciously, her mixed body seemed to be more condensed, her skin was not so pale, and even had a little more luster.

"Huh?"

The introduction of the mantra for salvation said that there was a certain chance of saving evil spirits. The little ghost girl in front of him had nothing to do with evil spirits. It should be very simple to save her.

Yan Chu did not think that the things produced by the system would be useless to this extent. He did not have time to feel sorry for the wasted mantra for salvation this time, but observed the ghost girl in front of him.

He took out a compass, which was a semi-finished magic tool refined by an old Taoist.

"It's actually like this."

Yan Chu sighed. He was reckless. In fact, he should have noticed it before.

This little ghost girl is obviously sixteen or seventeen years old, but she seems a little naive, which is not in line with common sense.

People have three souls and seven spirits. The three souls refer to the heavenly soul, the earthly soul, and the life soul. The seven spirits refer to joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hate, and desire.

The soul is yang and the spirit is yin. After a person dies, the heavenly soul returns to the heavenly road, the earthly soul wanders between the cemeteries, and the life soul returns to the underworld. The three souls will not be reunited until reincarnation. The spirit is unique to the human body and will go with it when the life soul dissipates.

And ghosts are things that have souls and spirits that still gather after death and wander between the yin and yang worlds.

Yan Chu didn't check it carefully before, so he didn't realize that the little ghost girl who appeared in front of him at this time was an incomplete soul. Two of the three souls were missing, leaving only the life soul, and five of the seven spirits were missing, leaving only the joy spirit and the love spirit.

No wonder she was mentally incomplete and behaved like a child.

Yan Chu always carried this jade pendant with him. The little ghost girl hidden in the jade pendant was inevitably contaminated with a lot of his aura. In addition, ghosts with incomplete souls are not easy to detect. No wonder not only he, but even the old Taoist priest did not notice the existence of the little ghost girl.

But?

Yan Chu frowned. The little ghost girl's ghost body might be solidified partly because of the warming of the jade pendant, but on the other hand, it also showed that her other two souls and five spirits were still fine.

Anger, sorrow, fear, evil, and desire are all the dark sides of human nature. Only the joy and love for good are removed. What kind of things such a incomplete soul will do if it stays in the world, Yan Chu cannot imagine. .

The little female ghost in front of her is innocent, but the three souls and seven souls are all hers. If her other half does something irreparable, karma will also appear on her body.

Yan Chu was a little confused as to why his original mother would leave such a jade pendant to him, and whether there was something in it that he was not aware of.

"A Chu, A Chu."

The little female ghost saw him frowning and wanted to help him smooth out the wrinkles on his brow. This time she became smarter and knew that even if she wanted to touch him, she couldn't touch him. She retracted her hand when it was halfway extended, and then Whispering his name.

"Let me call you Xiaoyu from now on."

At present, it seems that the little female ghost can only follow him, but she can't keep calling her a little female ghost. She has to give her a name. Since she lives in Yuperi, it is just right to call her Xiaoyu, simple and nice.

"Xiaoyu, hee hee, Ah Chu."

The little female ghost knew that she had a name, and happily walked around the room. Her originally scary appearance was no longer so scary.

"But there are three terms of agreement. From now on, you can't come out when I'm taking a shower, you can't keep looking at me when I'm sleeping, and you can't suddenly appear in front of me to scare me."

Yan Chu felt that he still had to give him a certain amount of time when his life transitioned from a homely ethics movie to a thriller.

"Achu."

Xiaoyu didn't know why Yan Chu didn't let her stay with him all the time. She would be so lonely, but looking at Yan Chu's serious expression, it seemed that imitating the heroines on TV to act coquettishly didn't work anymore. She could only He lowered his head in frustration, acquiescing to this rule.

"Xiaoyu, Ah Chu, hee hee."

She didn't feel sad for long, and soon became happy again. She was chanting her own name and Yan Chu's name without any worries.

Yan Chu asked Xiaoyu to return to Yuperi, then drank the last sip of Coke, threw the bottle into the trash can, returned to the room and went to sleep.

Now his dreams are getting longer and longer, and some scenes are not even in the original memory. Yan Chu doesn't know if one day the truth about the ten days of missing will appear in his dreams.

******

"Young man, what is your relationship with A Yuan?"

The Lin family is an old house, so naturally there are many old neighbors.

When the Lin family's parents were in trouble, these old neighbors sympathized with Lin Yuan, but sympathy could not be used as food. At that time, the conditions of every household were not good, and no one could afford to raise a half-year-old child.

Later, Lin Yuan was sent to the orphanage. These neighbors also breathed a sigh of relief. They thought that the orphanage would never lack his food, so they helped him look after the house to prevent others from occupying it. Be distracted.

But who would have known that Lin Yuan secretly escaped back after a few years, and never said anything about going back, and no one from the welfare home came to see him. From then on, the ten-year-old boy began to make a living by picking up scraps. .

Neighbors like them couldn't help much, so they just sent over the scraps they wanted to sell. Occasionally, they cooked an extra meal at home, but they couldn't help much. They just wanted to feel clear about their conscience.

More than ten years have passed, and many of the old neighbors have moved away. Only a few elderly people who are still living here remain.

At noon, a few old people moved deck chairs outside a residential building to enjoy the cool air. When they saw Yan Chu coming out, they couldn't help but ask.

They are quite concerned about Lin Yuan's child. He has not yet married a wife at the age of twenty-eight, which has always been something they care about. Over the years, they have introduced many jobs to Lin Yuan. No matter how much money he earns, it is definitely better than before. He was very good at telling people's fortunes on the custom street. Unlike now, he just wanted to introduce someone to him. Once people heard about his business, they were immediately scared away.

Yan Chu quietly moved in with Lin Yuan, which made the old people murmur in their hearts for a while.

The Internet is so developed now. Although they are all in their seventies or eighties, they also know that some people have different sexual orientations from ordinary people. Men like men and women like women.

The older generation is less accepting of this kind of thing, but this also depends on the situation.

Lin Yuan's conditions are here. There are no parents who are eager to have grandchildren. As outsiders, they are even less talkative. Moreover, the child's life has been rough enough, and he can't be happy no matter what he does.

Gender doesn't matter, as long as the person he's looking for is really good to him.

Therefore, when Yan Chu went downstairs today, he was stopped by those old people who wanted to ask him something.

"I rented the Lin family's house."

Yan Chu replied to the old man.

"Huh? He actually figured out how to rent out the second bedroom?"

When they heard that it was not what they thought, these old people couldn't tell whether they were lucky or disappointed, but they were still surprised when they heard that Yan Chu actually rented the Lin family's house.

"Actually, this house should have been rented a long time ago. He can't live in two rooms by himself, which means he can't get over the hurdle in his heart. He always feels that he lost the little duck and trapped himself, but he doesn't want to think about it. , He was so old at that time, and he was already very good at taking care of himself. He couldn't be blamed for Xiaoyang's disappearance. "

When you get older, it's easy to immerse yourself in your own world and talk to yourself. These old people seem to have forgotten the existence of Yan Chu and began to lament the past events of the Lin family.

Yan Chu raised his eyebrows, Xiaoyang, Linyang? Who is this person?

"Who says it's not? I think he has been hanging out in Customs Street these years just to get acquainted with people from all walks of life. Those people are well-informed and may be able to find out about Xiaoyang, but he doesn't want to think about it. It’s been eighteen years, and it’s not certain whether Xiaoyang is here or not.”

"Those unscrupulous human traffickers, a good family was destroyed like this. If Xiaoyang was still here, my sister A Yuan wouldn't be like this for her sake. He was so smart when he was a child. I curse those damn human traffickers to go out. He was hit by a car and choked to death. After his death, he went to the eighteenth level of hell. He abducted other people's children, and his children and grandchildren were used as slaves and prostitutes. They will be punished for generations to come. "

The voices of the several old people became softer and softer, and they seemed to be falling asleep as they cursed.

Yan Chu wrote down the name Lin Yang and planned to check it out when the time came.

"Ayuan, by the way, I remember Ayuan is the elder brother and Ayuan is the younger sister."

After Yan Chu left, suddenly an old lady opened her eyes and said.

"You are so confused, mandarin duck, mandarin duck, of course the big one is in the front and the little one is in the back. We have been calling this name A Yuan for so many years, how can you still remember it wrong?"

Another old lady contradicted her statement.

"Did I really remember it wrong?"

The old lady shook her head. She just suddenly remembered that when the twins were very young, sister was the first character and brother was the last character.

But this is obviously not consistent with common sense, and in the intervening years, the twins lived in the orphanage. It was Lin Yuan who came back from the orphanage later, and everyone became familiar with each other again. They have been called A Yuan A Yuan for eighteen years. That child You can't remember your own name incorrectly.

The old lady shook her head and stopped thinking about it. She rocked the rocking chair and gradually fell asleep in the sun.

******

On August 4, 1997, Yan Chu looked at the information obtained from the investigation and fell into deep thought.

Today he did something illegal. He secretly sneaked into the national information database and looked up news about Lin Yuan.

Sure enough, Lin Yuan and Lin Yuan were a pair of twins.

More than 20 years ago, electronic technology was not developed enough, and there was a fire in the local information database. A batch of paper materials at that time were burned by the fire. Later, a population registration was conducted. The information Yan Chu saw On the column, Lin Yuan is the elder brother and Lin Yuan is the younger sister. The information displayed is missing, and the progress has not been updated since then.

Of course, twins born on the same day are born on the same day, but if they are born on the same day but at different times, their horoscopes are completely opposite.

It's a pity that the personal information only contains the date of birth, not the exact time.

According to the horoscope that Lin Yuan reported to him that time, it seemed more like it was confirmed by Lin Yuan.

"This sister looks so much like me."

Xiaoyu's face came close to Yan Chu, blocking the blurry black and white photo. A childish face and a girl's face actually overlapped strangely.

The eyes were so red that they seemed to be able to bleed blood, and the face in the dark environment became even paler. Before getting close, you could feel a biting cold air.

Yan Chu looked calm and took a deep breath without leaving any trace. Fortunately, he could hold it and was almost frightened by this unlucky child again.