novelraw 191. The love between man and ghost is not over yet
191. The love between man and ghost is not over yet
"Tick-tock-tick-"
The Lin family's house is very old. This shower facility has been used for I don't know how many years. It is inevitable that there will be some minor problems.
At this moment, the shower head was leaking water drop by drop. Because Yan Chu kept looking up, the small water droplets fell right on his chin, flowed along his Adam's apple to his strong chest, and disappeared into an unspeakable place covered by a towel. s position.
In fact, if you look closely, the female ghost doesn't look very scary. It's just that her red eyes look a bit like the ghosts in the movie. Apart from this, if you are used to seeing her extremely white and slightly blue-grey skin, it's nothing.
There was no rotting flesh or blood all over her body. The only scary red eyes were still blank. Just like the age she showed, she was a little ignorant of the world and not threatening at all.
This was also the reason why Yan Chu didn't take action immediately. He didn't feel much evil energy from this little female ghost.
"ah?"
The little female ghost looked straight at Yan Chu, swallowed subconsciously, and seemed to realize something. She waved her hand stupidly, and the water that had been suspended suddenly came out again.
Yan Chu didn't react. He directly faced the water column and washed his face.
"ah?"
This cry was a bit alarming, and the little female ghost waved her hand again, and the water flow suddenly stopped again.
Water had just been poured on his head and face, and the foam on his hair that had not been rinsed immediately flowed to his eyes. Yan Chu wanted to wipe it with a towel, but remembering where the towel was currently covering his face, he could only wipe his face with one hand with a wry smile.
By the time he could open his eyes, the little female ghost had already disappeared into the bathroom. Yan Chu sensed it but did not sense the presence of the female ghost nearby.
This is rather strange. According to Yan Chu's current ability, it is impossible for ordinary ghosts to approach him without being noticed, and the appearance of the female ghost does not look like that kind of powerful ghost.
After hastily taking a shower, Yan Chu put on clean clothes and went out. Lin Yuan was not asleep yet. He was watching TV at the moment. He was just an ordinary person. Even if the female ghost came out of the bathroom carelessly just now, he couldn't see it. .
"Master, what are you looking for?"
Lin Yuan watched TV and ate potato chips. After Yan Chu came out of the bathroom, he opened the doors in the room one by one, from the kitchen, bedroom balcony, to the locked second bedroom.
Lin Yuan, who had no reaction at first, saw Yan Chu standing outside the room, his eyes darkened a bit, he 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 past few days.
"Oh, my parents used to live in this room. After they passed away, I locked the room and haven't opened it for more than ten years."
Lin Yuan's expression was impeccable: "Maybe I'm afraid of seeing things and missing others. Maybe one day I can accept the fact that they are not here, and I will open the lock of this room, and then I will completely let go."
"So that's it."
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 meant that his parents had an accident before he was seven years old. What kind of family would let a child live in the master bedroom when he was not yet seven years old, and the couple But living in the second bedroom is obviously not consistent with common sense.
Just by looking at Lin Yuan's expression, Yan Chu knew that he wouldn't be able to get any reliable information from him. Despite his careless temper and the fact that he was still calling him "Master" every day these days, he was actually a very cautious man.
Also, I have been making a living in Custom Street since I was ten years old. How can it be simple?
Even though the profession of fortune tellers and swindlers is not very respectable, it may make those uncles and aunts willing to pay for it. This is the 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 for 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, lying on his single bed, getting ready to sleep.
****
"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you..."
"Xiao Chu, look at daddy, smile, one, two, three, click."
In a carefully decorated room, a family of three was celebrating the birthday of their youngest son in a lively manner. The cake placed in the middle of the living room did not look particularly good and looked like it was made by oneself.
There are eight candles on it. Today's birthday seems to be exactly eight years old.
"Ah - who are you?"
Just when the atmosphere was harmonious, a strong fishy smell spread to the entire room. The birthday boy who was about to blow out the candles could only see a burst of blood mist. Before he could react, he was held in a warm embrace and pushed to the room. Exit to the backyard.
"Xiao Chu, run quickly and find your uncle. Don't look back."
The little boy was very scared. He had never seen who the uncle was. Why did his mother and father have such frightened expressions? What happened?
"Remember, never look back."
The little boy cried, only feeling a necklace being put on his neck, and then the sound of a heavy door closing, everything was isolated behind that door.
He stumbled and ran outside. The farther away he got, the shrill screams of his parents became softer and softer.
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. As soon as 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 brighter and he felt 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 obviously 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 are still some problems somewhere.
"What's your name, and how did you get to this Jade Perry?"
The female ghost in front of me has no blood evil energy, which means that she has never killed anyone or eaten ghosts. Because of her original body, she has been hiding alone in Yuperii and dare not come out, especially looking at her appearance, when she died He is only sixteen or seventeen years old, which is quite pitiful.
Yan Chu lowered his voice and asked gently.
"I do not know?"
The little female ghost tilted her head and pointed at herself: "Ah Chu's, Ah Chu and I are the same."
Probably out of fear of being abandoned, or perhaps because of the one-sided relationship for more than ten years, the little female ghost has long been accustomed to Yan Chu's existence.
She didn't dare to talk to the original person, but she actually watched 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.
"I'm not annoying, I'm a good boy."
The little female ghost seemed to remember her previous attitude towards ghosts. She seemed to be afraid that Yan Chu would not let her go, so she wanted to come up and pull Yan Chu's sleeves. She remembered that this was how it was played on TV. As long as the heroine did that, the male ghost would The protagonist will 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 female ghost looked at her hands. The whole ghost looked a little depressed.
"I don't hate you."
Yan Chu has become a little soft-hearted. He has never been hard-hearted towards good children.
The female ghost's eyes suddenly lit up, and she ducked directly in front of Yan Chu.
Red eyes, with a white center pupil, and clearly visible purple blood vessels on the face. Such a face suddenly comes face to face with you, nose to nose, which is quite a test of endurance.
Fortunately, Yan Chu had seen strong winds and waves. If it had been anyone else, he would have been frightened to death by now.
Although the little female ghost is innocent and cute, such a startled temper is really embarrassing, especially when the other party is actually a ghost parasitic on his jade pendant, which makes Yan Chu a little worried about how to properly deal with the little female ghost.
The best way is 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 those who have killed people and eaten ghosts after becoming ghosts, once they are discovered by ghosts, their souls will be scattered, which is the best ending. , many evil ghosts were imprisoned and returned to the underworld, where they had to suffer the torment of swords and oil pans for the rest of their lives, and would never be reincarnated until they atone for their sins.
Ordinary ghosts stay in the human world and miss the opportunity to be reincarnated. They can only turn to the animal realm, or become a member of the Forgotten River. Their consciousness gradually disappears, and they are confused and confused, and they are accompanied by the bone-cold river water.
In contrast, the latter has one more opportunity. If you can have a high-ranking monk save you, you may be able to purify your soul and regain the chance of reincarnation.
Nowadays, it is difficult to find a master who has the ability to save the dead. In this field, Buddhism is more powerful than Taoism, but Yan Chu has a cheating device, and he still has three opportunities to use the salvation spell.
Looking at the confused little female ghost in front of him, Yan Chu sighed and sent the ghost to the west. He couldn't keep her in Yuperii forever. Every time he took a bath or slept in the future, he would feel stared at by red eyes again and again. Be afraid.
Yan Chu lit up the salvation spell, and then placed the light ball on the little female ghost.
"Hahaha."
Except for Yan Chu, no one else could see the existence of that light group, including the little female ghost. She just felt that her soul body was itching. Unknowingly, the mixed body seemed to be condensed a lot, and the skin was not so green and white, and even had a little more jade. Run.
"Huh?"
Introduction to the salvation spell, there is a certain chance to save the evil ghost. The little female ghost in front of me has nothing to do with the evil ghost. It should be very simple to save her.
Yan Chu didn't think that the things produced by the system would be so useless. He didn't have time to feel sorry for the wasted salvation spell this time, but he observed the female ghost in front of him.
He took out a compass, which was a semi-finished magical weapon made by an experienced practitioner.
"That's actually the case."
Yan Chu sighed. He was being reckless. In fact, he should have noticed it before.
This little ghost girl obviously looks sixteen or seventeen years old, but she looks a little naive and immature, which is not in line with common sense.
Humans have three souls and seven souls. The three souls refer to the soul of heaven, the soul of earth, and the soul of life. The seven souls refer to joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, evil, and desire.
The soul is yang and the soul is yin. After a person dies, the heavenly soul returns to heaven, the earth soul wanders among the graveyards, and the life soul returns to the underworld. It will not be until reincarnation that the three souls reunite. The soul is unique to the human body. When the soul of life dissipates, it goes with it.
And ghosts are those whose souls still gather together after death, wandering between the yin and yang realms.
Yan Chu didn't check carefully before, so he didn't realize that the little female ghost who appeared in front of him at this time had an incomplete soul. Two of the three souls were missing, leaving only the life soul. The seven souls were missing five souls, leaving only the joy soul and the love soul. soul.
No wonder she is delirious and behaves like a child.
This jade pendant has always been carried by Yan Chu. The little female ghost hidden in the jade pendant is 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 also the old Taoist did not notice it. The existence of a little female ghost.
only?
Yan Chu frowned. Part of the solidification of the little female ghost's ghost body may be due to the warmth and nourishment of the jade pendant, but on the other hand, it also shows that her other two souls and five souls are 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 circled 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 that way, but looking at Yan Chu's serious expression, it seemed that imitating the heroines on TV and acting 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 had an accident, 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, thinking that the orphanage would never lack his food. They, the neighbors, 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 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 set out 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.
Electronic technology was not developed enough more than 20 years ago, 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.