so cute

Jing Jiujiu and his party arrived at Zhoushi Airport.

"Where is your home?" Jing Jiujiu asked.

Master Zhou: "Follow me."

Neither Jing Jiujiu nor Bai Yuhuai had been here before, so they followed Master Zhou after hearing the sound.

This time, I first transferred to a taxi, then transferred to the subway, and then went to a car dealership to hire a car, and drove on a muddy and bumpy road.

Bai Yuhuai raised his eyes: "Out of the third ring?"

Master Zhou: "Hey, my home must be outside the Seventh and Eighth Ring Road."

It was only when they arrived that they realized what Master Zhou was talking about outside the Seventh and Eighth Ring Road——

His home is next to a high-speed road near Zhoushi, and he has to walk on a rough road for half an hour before arriving at the entrance of the village.

With the advancement of urbanization, fewer and fewer people live in rural areas.

When they stepped into the village, it was indeed a little quiet, obviously not many people lived there.

Master Zhou led them around a few turns and stopped in front of a mahogany door.

Behind the wooden door is a small courtyard that is common in rural areas, with a wall that is not too high or too low, and an electric grid is attached to the wall... It seems to be a relatively well-to-do family.

Master Zhou raised his hand and pushed the door, and a lot of dust fell, which made him poo several times.

Jing Jiujiu handed him a handkerchief.

Master Zhou hurriedly took it and wiped his face: "...I haven't been back for a long time, haha, I'm a little embarrassed. There are dust everywhere."

At this time, an old lady was passing by with a basket on her back, and suddenly heard their movements, she couldn't help but look sideways: "...who?"

"Oh, old Zhou. Why are you back?"

"Didn't you say that you went to the construction site and wanted to make money to find your son?"

The old woman asked naggingly.

The smile on Master Zhou's face slowly subsided, and he said, "...I didn't find it."

The old woman: "What about your granddaughter and your daughter-in-law?"

Master Zhou: "No."

The old lady let out a long sigh: "Didn't they say they are going to call the police? Have you reported it?"

Master Zhou: "Reported....I can't find it." He said such a sentence, and then stepped into the door first, and then turned his head to greet Jing Jiujiu: "Young master, come in quickly..."

The old woman stood there and muttered to herself: "Oh, what kind of rich people are you bringing here? It looks very expensive. Are you going to sell this place? Rich people still buy this?"

She muttered again, and then walked away alone.

Jing Jiujiu glanced back, then obediently let Bai Yuhuai hold hands and entered the door.

He couldn't help whispering: "Why do you always hold me by the hand?"

He is in his twenties!

Although those seven years in the castle were basically wasted!

Bai Yuhuai pinched his palm: "...because we are in a relationship."

That's right, he likes Bai Yuhuai, and Bai Yuhuai likes him too.They can fall in love openly and legitimately!Is this what being in love is all about?

Jing Jiujiu suddenly realized, his heart was pounding.He unconsciously raised his hand and touched his heart, oh well, it was still deadly calm, and there was no heart pounding.

Jing Jiujiu walked in briskly, but slowly, his steps faltered...

Corn was drying in the yard, pumpkins hung on the wall, and a bunch of red peppers.

But the corn had already piled up a thick layer of ash, and the grains were shriveled and moldy.The pumpkin was also shriveled, almost empty in the middle, and still had cobwebs on it.Red peppers turned into black peppers...

A farmhouse scene that should have a strong atmosphere of life, seems to have been painted dark and dilapidated by using the wrong paint.

Master Zhou pressed the handkerchief on his face, as if to block the ashes, he laughed lowly, and said, "I was in a hurry when I left. After I left... I never came back."

Jing Jiujiu let out a low "huh" and followed into the living room.

Master Zhou held the broom in one hand and swept the floor randomly: "Let me drive away the bugs first..."

Bai Yuhuai didn't make a sound, he just stretched out his hand to wrap around Jing Jiujiu's waist, and hugged Jing Jiujiu completely.

That way, he won't be frightened by the bugs.

Jing Jiujiu was surprised for a moment at first, but soon he happily leaned against Bai Yuhuai.

It's great to be in love!

You don't even have to walk by yourself!

After dancing wildly, Master Zhou went to the kitchen to get a cup and a water bottle.

Jing Jiujiu craned his neck to look at the living room furnishings.

The living room is not small, but there is not much furniture in it, and it looks a bit empty.

Look at the old group photo posted on the wall.

In the group photo, Master Zhou bowed his back slightly, with a warm smile on his face, standing on one left and one right.The two men held rice and oil in their hands respectively.

Looking at the lower right corner of the photo, there is a line written crookedly: "Thanks to the country..."

Because Bai Yuhuai had to understand the relationship between different characters in a play, he knew a little more than Jing Jiujiu.

Bai Yuhuai said in a low voice, "The Zhou family used to be a poor family."

Jing Jiujiu: "Ah."

The Master Zhou in the photo is hardly the same person as the current Master Zhou.

Bai Yuhuai turned his eyes and glanced at the stack of books on the table of the Eight Immortals.

The covers of those books were either yellow or red, and the covers were very scribbled, and they didn't look like they were published by any serious publishing house.

Bai Yuhuai walked over with Jing Jiujiu in his arms, reached out and briefly flipped through it.

I saw "Feng Shui: Teaching You From Getting Started to Entering the Earth", "38 Strategies of Physiognomy", "Folk Legends That Can Help You" printed on the cover... At the bottom, there is a dilapidated book that looks like it has been buried alive. Dirty dictionaries.

Jing Jiujiu clamped Bai Yuhuai's waist, bowed his head sideways, and pulled out a note from the book.

"Qi, qi, refers to utensils, utensils..."

There are many notes like this, and they are all sandwiched in the book, all of which are pinyin and paraphrase notes in partial fonts.

The above words are also changed.

At the beginning, it was crooked and written like a painting.The latter is much neater.

Jing Jiujiu was slightly surprised: "...Master Zhou is illiterate?"

At this time, Master Zhou was covering his face with one hand, and holding a tray with the other.There are jugs and glasses in the tray.

"It's cleaned up." Master Zhou said, "You have to wait for me, there is no water in the pipe. I'll go and see the well..."

Bai Yuhuai: "No need."

Master Zhou: "Oh, I still want it. If you come to my house as a guest, even though the house is quite dilapidated...but I still want a cup of tea."

After finishing speaking, Master Zhou saw the stack of books: "Young master, I laughed at you. I didn't know how to read before. I learned it later..."

After finishing speaking, Master Zhou turned around and hurried out.

Jing Jiujiu pointed to the wall beside him: "Look over there."

Bai Yuhuai walked over with him in his arms.

There was no light on that wall, and there was a big photo hanging on it. It was because of the dim light that they hadn't seen it just now.

The photo is a common enlarged photo, the pixels are not too high, and there is no frame, so it is hung with a rope and hung on a nail on the wall.

The photo is also covered with a thick layer of dust, but the content on it can be vaguely seen.

Master Zhou sat on the stool and smiled stiffly, as if taking pictures for the first time.

He looked younger at the time, wearing an army green hat and dressed in a 70s vibe.

Next to him was a little girl standing next to her knees. The girl was wearing a small red padded jacket, with one hand still in her mouth, and the other holding a pink lollipop.

Behind them, a man in his thirties wearing an ill-fitting jacket smiled brightly.Beside him is a shrunken woman, wearing a coat with no waist and ears, and a rose-red square scarf tied around her neck. The match is a bit earthy, but it is eye-catching enough. At that time, when taking pictures Such a dress should be very popular.

Bai Yuhuai said lightly: "The old lady said it was Master Zhou's daughter-in-law and granddaughter."

Jing Jiujiu nodded, and frowned suspiciously: "Are they all missing?"

Master Zhou came in from behind, holding an empty jug in his hand, and the empty jug dangled slightly, making a slight noise.

He sighed and said, "The wells are all dry."

As he spoke, he answered Jing Jiujiu's words: "Nothing. Only my son is missing..." He paused and said, "My daughter-in-law and my little granddaughter...are dead."

Jing Jiujiu turned his head in astonishment: "Dead?"

Master Zhou nodded, and put the empty pot on the table, but he didn't dislike the thick ashes on the stool, so he just sat down.

He raised his head slightly, as if he was looking at the photo or the ceiling.With one hand still on his face, he moved his lips and said, "My daughter-in-law and granddaughter live in the town. That year, when my son ran home, he always said that something was chasing him and he had to hide. What did I do?" Know what's going on? Just let him live at home.

"He was covered with a quilt every day, and he even bought cloth curtains to hang on the windows to block out the light. He was so scared to death. There was nothing I could do about it. I just cooked for him and sent them over every day... just stayed like this for a while Seven or eight days, as soon as I turned around that day, the person disappeared."

"I can't figure it out. How could people just disappear like this? I thought, did they chase after his things? I searched everywhere, but I couldn't find them. The village party secretary called the police for me, but I couldn't find anyone. ...There was a blind man in the village who asked if he was being watched by some kind of ghost. I bought a few books from the blind man...just these few books. I just wanted to know what kind of ghost it must be. But I can’t read when I bought it. We had a fart of money at that time? How can we afford school? My son’s school is paid for by farming...

"The village party secretary persuaded me that it wasn't a ghost. Where there is a ghost now, it might have gone back to the city. I didn't listen. I thought it was a ghost. Otherwise, why would my son be so afraid? The village party secretary couldn't persuade me, so he just He gave me a dictionary, saying that I can learn a few words, and I can buy a ticket to go to the town to see my daughter-in-law, and maybe I can find my son..."

Master Zhou took the book and flipped it through roughly, causing a lot of dust to fly up.

He narrowed his eyes and pressed the handkerchief on his face even tighter.

"I followed the word recognition every day. If I couldn't recognize it, I ran to ask the village party secretary. He is a college student...he can read. I haven't finished the next two books. I have read them for a month. The police in the town came to tell me, but still no one was found, and my daughter-in-law disappeared.

"I hurriedly asked the village party secretary to help me buy a bus ticket, and followed me to the town. My son bought a house in the town, which cost more than 30 square meters. As soon as I passed, I saw someone knocking on the door..."

Speaking of this, Master Zhou's voice suppressed a little anger.

Master Zhou gritted his teeth and said, "After seeing this, I realized what the hell he was hiding from? He was hiding from creditors! All of them came to ask for debts! All of them were very fierce, splashing paint and writing big characters... ...I told them, then I will pay, and I will pay whatever I owe, my son is gone, I have to go to see my daughter-in-law and granddaughter..."

"Good guy, I owe [-] yuan when I ask. I can't get it out even if I kill me..."

Jing Jiujiu tilted his head in doubt.

Then... why did Master Zhou later feel that his son was missing like those people?

Isn't it debt avoidance?

Master Zhou murmured: "These debt collectors scolded a few words, saying that old things can't be messed with....Hey, you said it was quite moral, didn't you? They didn't catch me and beat me up."

"After they left, I took out the key and went in. Just as they said, there was no one inside. Not to mention my daughter-in-law, my granddaughter didn't even see her. I was thinking at the time, could it be that these people couldn't catch her My son tied them up? I was in a hurry, so I went to the canteen downstairs, took fifty cents, and asked the boss to call the police for me."

Master Zhou raised his head even higher: "When I went back to wait for the police, I always felt that it smelled bad. I am too familiar with that smell. When I was young, in order to earn that money, I often gave people in the countryside. Carrying the dead body. If others are unwilling to carry it, I will carry it. I can earn 18 yuan more... I was in a hurry and looked everywhere. There was nothing under the bed or in the cabinet. I saw such a big cardboard box in the living room. There is an electric fan pressed on it. I walked over and took the electric fan. Inside the cardboard box, my little granddaughter and her mother were together. The tape was wrapped tightly and curled up on her head. She was already hard. Touching it, it was cold .But looking at it, it still seems to be asleep..."

He murmured, the veil finally couldn't cover it anymore, two muddy tears mixed with dust flowed down his face.

"How strange is this death? No fingerprints, no other traces. It's not a homicide. But you say it's suicide, you can wrap tape around yourself, and suffocate yourself in the box. Did you put the fan on it when you died? I think this is a hell, a hell!" The veins on Master Zhou's body stood out.

Holding those dusty books firmly, he asked Bai Yuhuai, "Mr. Bai, do you think so?"

Bai Yuhuai: "If I can see the photos of the scene, maybe I will know what's going on."

Master Zhou nodded: "Oh, let's talk about the later. I stayed in the town for three months. I didn't expect it at the time. After that, I never went home again.... But not It's important. Anyway, everyone in this family is dead, how can there be a home?

"I still want to look through some books to find out what the hell it is. But I don't have enough money in my pocket. Books are expensive in the city, a dozen or twenty dollars a book. Where can I buy them? They call I went to a larger provincial capital with money, and said there was a library there where you could find all kinds of books, and you could borrow them for free without paying any money. Then I took the train into the provincial capital..."

"I didn't find anything..." Master Zhou pressed the veil hard, "There is nothing... My son has completely disappeared since then. Nothing... I also heard that there is a half-immortal in the south of the city." , can tell fortunes. Let me ask, good guy, one hexagram costs 300 yuan! Why doesn’t he go grab it? I listened to it by the side, damn it, it’s not as much as I can read books!”

Jing Jiujiu said in a low voice: "...Then, you will also become a half-immortal?"

Master Zhou nodded: "I started mixing cement on the construction site. There are young people on the construction site. They say that if you can't find it in the book, you can look for it online. I heard that I took the money and went to the Internet cafe. There is a metaphysics Exchange forum... ouch, what kind of disc fairy... everything... It's all about teaching people how to play these things, so it's not serious. Looking at it again, the speakers are all young people in their teens and twenties... …These people don’t know how to be in awe. They have never seen someone die silently and tragically. What does it look like? It’s not scary, it’s painful. My granddaughter-in-law died, and I felt as if my intestines were pierced. ...I advise them not to mess around."

Master Zhou let out a muffled laugh: "Ha! As it turned out, these brats didn't persuade me. Someone came to me, called me Master over and over again, and gave me 1 yuan, saying that I must be knowledgeable. He asked me to do the math for him... Where did I see 1 yuan at that time? I gave it to the creditor. So, my son is so incompetent, maybe he learned from Lao Tzu. He couldn’t leave even if he saw the money Moving the road... 8 yuan, I only spent three years, and I paid it off. More and more people came to me for fortune-telling... I thought, all I have come into contact with are half-immortals and other half-immortals... ...Will I meet another real fairy one day? He can answer my doubts, let me know how my granddaughter-in-law died, and let me know where my son went... If I can find it again, I can kick his brain into a watermelon."

"Hey, is Mr. Bai tired of holding the young master? I'll wipe the bench for you and sit down." Master Zhou said, first wiped the dust on the bench with his sleeve, and then continued: "Then It's about time, my granddaughter-in-law was sent to be cremated, so I put them together in a small jar. There is no place to bury them. Why, the cemetery is too expensive. At that time, I put it in my backpack, and I carried it for four or five years. I really made some money by bluffing and cheating. What a novelty, after death, I let my granddaughter-in-law live in the most expensive cemetery in the provincial capital..."

Master Zhou finally took off the handkerchief on his face, revealing his wrinkled eyes swollen like walnuts.

"However, I still haven't found my son. I don't know why he hid from debts, how he disappeared, and why my granddaughter and daughter-in-law died so tragically after he left... They died wrongly, and my son also died. Disappearing doesn't feel right. It doesn't look like a debt dodge."

Jing Jiujiu's face wrinkled into a ball, and he stopped talking.

He unconsciously grabbed Bai Yuhuai's sleeve.

Bai Yuhuai held his slightly cold fingers with his backhand.

"Later, I went to the detention center to squat a few times, but the best luck in my life seemed to be spent at this time. It's like, my daughter-in-law and the others are all dead, hey, I'm like an old goblin, Sucked away all their luck. Someone introduced me to the little stars, and went to give them some credit. After that, didn’t they go all the way? I also met the young master and Mr. Bai.” Master Zhou got up and bowed. , "I would also like to thank Mr. Bai for being so noble at the time, allowing me to be such a guy, and still get the Jing family's money..."

Master Zhou's face tensed, and the corners of his mouth pulled back: "Who knows, I can only recognize a few words, 'money', 'yuan' and 'mao'... I can recognize these words."

No one knows how he went from a bowed-down farmer struggling to flip through a dictionary to the most prosperous city in the village, and became Master Zhou, who could talk to everyone and understand people's feelings .

Master Zhou gave a "tsk" sound: "This matter...it's not easy anyway. I know that Mr. Bai is not short of money, and the young master is not short of money either. But, I really have not fulfilled this wish."

Bai Yuhuai was silent for a moment, but couldn't help reminding him: "Even if it's a ghost, after all these years, there might not be any yin energy left in the house..."

Jing Jiujiu: "This matter is simple."

Bai Yuhuai: "Huh?"

Master Zhou: "Huh?"

Jing Jiujiu: "Are there any dead people in your village?"

"Someone must die."

Jing Jiujiu: "I'll ask some ghosts who died in your village to come out, and you'll know if you ask them?"

Master Zhou: "Oh shit! Young master, you are really a living Bodhisattva..."

Bai Yuhuai paused, watching a golden light flash across Jing Jiujiu's body.

This golden light is extremely solid and deep in color.

Jing Jiujiu didn't realize it, he jumped off Bai Yuhuai and walked out swaggeringly.

He glanced around and wondered if he wanted to be like Monkey King, stomping his feet and shouting "land land!"No, he called it a kid, a kid!Then it came out?

Jing Jiujiu stomped her feet.

A gust of wind blew over, making those black rotten peppers rattle.

Jing Jiujiu shrank his shoulders suddenly.

It's too much like a horror movie scene.

The long-abandoned farmyard, outside the yard is a sparsely populated old village, and there is a dry well not far from the yard... What if a Sadako crawls out of it in a while?

Jing Jiujiu thought over and over again, then turned back to the living room.

Bai Yuhuai and Master Zhou looked at him together for a moment.

Jing Jiujiu looked at Bai Yuhuai, and said dryly, "It's...it's still a little difficult."

Seeing his appearance, Bai Yuhuai felt amused: "Huh?"

Jing Jiujiu blinked, her long eyelashes trembling slightly: "You said... is there a ghost in the well?"

Bai Yuhuai understood what he meant.

Bai Yuhuai: "I'll accompany..."

You haven't spoken yet.

Jing Jiujiu was suddenly happy: "Oh, I have a solution. It doesn't matter if there are ghosts in the well, and you are not afraid of ghosts in the bed!"

He ran to open the backpack he brought with him, took out the Yan Golem from inside, hugged it out quickly, put it on the ground, and poked Yan Mo's head: "...you can call all the ghosts here! come out?"

Bai Yuhuai: "..."

With a puff from the bottom of his heart, he knocked over at least eight vinegar jars.

Is there no use for him?Um?

Master Zhou followed. Last time, he knew from the reactions of those bigwigs in the metaphysics circle that this statue is one of the ten temples of Yama!Where is His Majesty King Yama!

Master Zhou worried: "This... Your Majesty, can you make a move?"

Jing Jiujiu raised his slender finger and poked the statue again.

Suddenly, a tall and slender figure emerged from the statue, and that figure's head was higher than the eaves of the roof.

Master Zhou was so shocked that he sat down on the ground.

Yan Mo lowered his eyes and murmured a few words, speaking like ancient Chinese, then he took out a pen from his palm and stroked it in the air...

There was a strong wind blowing around, and there seemed to be a screaming sound in my ears.

Countless figures were attracted by that pen.

The invisible rope tied them together, and with a bang, they all fell in front of Jing Jiujiu.

Master Zhou's face turned blue, he was frightened and sour.

I underestimated you, young master!

So... my luck in this life seems to be used when I get old...

Jing Jiujiu squatted down and chatted with those ghosts: "Are you from here?"

The ghosts went "ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh when they're so stupid."

Jingjiu:?

Bai Yuhuai said in his heart that he could finally use me.

He took a step forward and said calmly, "These are all lonely ghosts with incomplete souls. They don't even have basic consciousness."

Jing Jiujiu sighed lightly, and patted Yan Mo on the shoulder: "That's hard work for you, find a smarter ghost."

Yan Mo really worked hard, and silently waved the pen in his hand again.

Jing Jiujiu turned his head and saw Master Zhou sitting on the ground. He thought for a while, took out a handkerchief from his pocket, and handed it to Master Zhou: "The one just now was dirty."

The handkerchief on the paper figurine version of Jing Jiujiu is real, and Master Zhou took it as soon as he stretched out his hand... He smiled softly: "Okay, thank you, young master."

Jing Jiujiu turned to look at Bai Yuhuai again, and saw that his expression was indifferent, and he stood there silently.

Oh... He must be thinking, am I not as important as a ghost?Why doesn't Jing Jiujiu look at me more?

Jing Jiujiu remembered that many girls on the Internet felt insecure after falling in love.

It's not easy to fall in love with a ghost, but I want to be a good boyfriend who is considerate and considerate!

Someone fell in love with me, and after talking about it once, I want to talk about it for the second time!

So Jing Jiujiu stepped forward, leaned into Bai Yuhuai's ear, and asked in a low voice, "Are you a little unhappy?"

Bai Yuhuai's heart softened: "No."

Jing Jiujiu would take the initiative to ask him, and he had already been consumed without any temper.

Jing Jiujiu tickled his palm quietly, and said in a low voice, "Boyfriend, don't be unhappy. I let you bite me today. You can still boo like this..."

He stuck out his tongue.

"In this way, it gets wet inside, and no one can see it outside."

Bai Yuhuai's throat tightened, and he clenched his fingers tightly. Then, uncontrollably, slowly, and slightly erotic, he raised his hand to caress the young man's chin, neck, and Adam's apple.

He would hand handkerchief to Master Zhou, and turn his head to appease him.He seems to have a natural ability to appease others.

The comfort made his heart soften into water, and his blood boiled hot.