Folk custom: At the beginning of the wedding, the bride takes off her painted skin

Chapter 79 Raising ghosts in the house
"Ok?"

Li Daoxuan's sudden voice immediately cheered up Zhou Xu and Fang Jie.

"what happened?"

Zhou Xu looked at the villa in the col and asked with a frown.

In her opinion, it was probably just a ghost house. Otherwise, who would place their home in this deep mountain and old forest?

And it’s a villa that looks so luxurious.

Li Dao

"This is a real estate."

Li Daoxuan told the answer. Under his qi-gazing technique, the courtyard did not change at all.

"what?"

"But there is indeed a ghost inside..."

Li Daoxuan also saw blood energy in the sky above Bieye, indicating that there was evil inside.

As soon as he said these words, Fang Jie breathed a sigh of relief, "That's normal. It's a normal thing. Let's go for a walk and stay overnight."

As a senior grain eater, the thing I fear the most is ghosts, but similarly, the thing I fear the least is ghosts.

After sleeping in the open air for a long time, Li Daoxuan also wanted to have a hot meal, so he naturally didn't refuse.

Besides, ghosts are just door-to-door delivery materials.

The three of them were not in a hurry. They passed by the ridges of paddy fields and saw countless loaches, and finally arrived at the gate of the villa.

Fang Jie sighed:
"This family is definitely a wealthy family. If nothing else, they will be killed tonight no matter what!"

The three eighth-rate grain eaters were guests wherever they went.

The red door was covered with copper nails, and even the door knocker had two huge copper rings. Fang Jie walked up to it and knocked on the door knocker.

"Dangdangdang-"

After knocking twice in succession, messy footsteps sounded from behind the door.

"crunch-"

The door opened a crack, and an old woman opened the door with difficulty, but when she smelled the smell of death emanating from the door, she immediately froze on the spot.

"S... Grain Eater, there are no ghosts in our family." The old woman stammered.

Fang Jie glanced at Li Daoxuan helplessly.

Then he turned around and said, "Don't worry, we are here to stay overnight."

When the old woman heard this, she became even more frightened and said quickly: "Can you wait a moment? I, I will go and tell the owner."

After saying that, she didn't care whether Li Daoxuan and the three of them answered or not, she turned around and left, leaning on her crutches as if they were almost smoking.

"This yard is really weird."

After Fang Jie finished speaking, he didn't rush in. He folded his arms and waited at the door.

Li Daoxuan came to the edge of the paddy field at the door and lightly stamped his foot, causing the loaches in the field to run away like crazy.

Looking at this scene, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

There was a rare smile.

In his previous life, when he was a child and lived in the village, no one cared about him. Li Daoxuan also went to the field ridges in the village to do this kind of thing.

He wanted to catch it, but there was water in the field and he didn't dare to go down.

Zhou Xu saw this scene and quickly turned away.

'This man actually has a sense of being human. '

After a while, footsteps were heard again from behind the door. This time, a middle-aged man with gray hair and a splendid robe came out.

He opened the door and bowed deeply to the three of them with a sad look on his face.

"My old servant is ignorant and has neglected three distinguished guests. Please forgive me."

After saying that, he stood up and said: "If the three of you are staying overnight, you will be very welcome, but... there is just a ghost in the house, but I don't want to trouble the three grain eaters to take action."

After hearing this, Li Daoxuan turned around and asked, "You mean, you know there is a ghost in your home, but you don't want us to get rid of it?"

"Yes, exactly."

"That's strange. When other people have ghosts in their homes, they want us Grain Eaters to help solve them. It's good for you, but they don't want us to solve them when we come."

Fang Jie smiled, then suddenly changed the topic and stared at the person in front of him.

"Could it be that that ghost is your relative?!"

When the man in fine clothes heard this, his eyes panicked and he subconsciously took a step back, "This... this..."

He was too timid to speak.

"Okay, we don't need to interfere. We're too lazy to take care of it. Just stay here for one night." Fang Jie waved his hand casually.

Only then did the man in rich attire react, and he quickly bent down and bowed, "Please come in, please come in."

The three of them entered this mountain villa one after another.

The talkative Fang Jie was always talking to this person.

After a while, Li Daoxuan found out about the man in fine clothes. His surname was Song and his name was Huaiyuan. He had built this villa with his own money.

The main reason why he chose to build a villa in this mountain was that he was tired of the complexity and business intrigues in the city.

Seeing that he had almost earned enough money, he stopped and built this villa in the mountains.

Eighty or nine years ago, I came here to live with my wife and children.

"The three adults will just live in this courtyard. The servants will bring you food and anything else later."

Song Huaiyuan led the three of them to a vacant gallery in a side courtyard. It was said to be a side courtyard, but everything was available and the courtyard was clean and tidy.

"Brother Song must have a great family and a great business."

Fang Jie sighed.

"No, no, I just can't survive. Now that evil spirits are everywhere, I'm afraid I have to move back to the city." Song Huaiyuan said with a wry smile and left.

Li Daoxuan stayed at the door, watching his back disappear around the corner. "Why, is he weird?"

Zhou Xu didn't seem to know how to read Qi, so he had to ask Li Daoxuan.

Fang Jie replied: "Brother Li thinks that this person is guarding the ghosts in his own home, and he doesn't want others to get rid of him."

"No."

Li Dao

"But if the evil spirit hadn't completely broken out, it would have been reasonable for him to stay in the mountains. But now that the situation is like this in our Divine Witch City, he still stays here and refuses to leave. Isn't this a proper death? "

"Of course, unless the ghost in this other industry is strong enough to protect everyone here, and the prerequisite is that the ghost is willing to protect them."

After chatting, the three of them came to the main hall and sat there for a while before the maid brought tea and cakes.

Li Daoxuan and Zhou Xu sat motionless, while Fang Jie followed the maid out.

It didn't take a while.

He frowned and came back, "Let's find out."

Li Daoxuan, who was eating the water chestnut cake, also swallowed it in a few mouthfuls. It was not that he was talking about anything else, but that he had nothing to do and it was good to listen to it as a story to relieve his boredom.

"That ghost is Song Huaiyuan's daughter, named Song Yao."

"About May or June last year, Song Yao, who was fine at first, went crazy overnight. She wouldn't say anything and would bite everyone she saw. At first, Song Huaiyuan thought she just had some strange disease."

"A bunch of famous doctors were invited from Tumura City, but the treatment didn't work for a long time. It wasn't until a ninth-rate grain eater happened to pass by that he told the truth, saying that his daughter had died a long time ago and that she was alive now. This one is already a ghost."

"I don't know what Song Huaiyuan said to the grain eater later. After the grain eater left, Song Huaiyuan locked Song Yao, his daughter, in the attic in her yard and personally delivered meals every day."

"It's just that every night, you can hear the roar coming from the attic. At first, these maids were a little scared, but over time, that's all."

Fang Jie finished speaking in one breath, his mouth went dry, and then he picked up the tea and drank it all.

After hearing this, Li Daoxuan continued to eat the pastries, "It's interesting."

"I'm afraid this family is a little strange."

"Whatever, just don't mess with us."

Li Daoxuan stood up and stretched. It was getting late, and the servant came to remind him that dinner was ready.

……

"Dad, are those three grain eaters really okay? What if they discover something is wrong with my sister... What about this?"

Song Huaiyuan looked calm and shook his head slowly: "Don't worry, we have been prepared. Even if they go to see Yao'er, they won't find the problem."

"How's your brother doing over there?"

"Don't worry, everything is ready!"

The young man said with a flash of excitement in his eyes, "Dad, when can we also become...head shavers?"

Song Huaiyuan stroked his beard and smiled: "Don't worry."

After saying that, he looked to the south, his eyes seemed to penetrate the mountains, and he saw the huge city standing beside the Yaoying River.

"I heard that the head of the Gu family is gone, and the time for us to return to Hand Witch City is coming soon."

After saying that, Song Huaiyuan stood up and shook his sleeves.

"Okay, you send someone to keep an eye on the three grain eaters from a distance. I'm going to deliver food to Yao'er now. She can't die yet."

"Ah."

Song Huaiyuan came to the next door, picked up the covered tray, smelled the familiar smell of blood emanating from it, and slowly went to Song Yao's courtyard.

When he came to the door and saw the red lantern burning in front of the attic, he felt relieved.

This is a vulgar lantern that he obtained through various connections back then, and it has the function of suppressing evil.

As long as you bring it close to an evil spirit, if the light in the lantern does not go out, it means that the evil spirit has been suppressed by it.

But if the candlelight inside goes out... it means that the evil spirits are too strong and the lantern has lost its effect.

So every time before he came to deliver food, Song Huaiyuan would check to see if the lanterns were extinguished.

But fortunately, it has been more than a year since this happened, and the lantern has not been extinguished once.

"Den-"

"Dengdeng--"

Song Huaiyuan's footsteps landed on the stairs, making a dull sound. As he walked upstairs, he shouted softly:
"Yao'er, it's time to eat."

"It's time to eat, Yao'er."

There was a familiar sound in the attic, like the sound of a person crawling on the ground.

Soon, when Song Huaiyuan stopped at the black wooden door covered with talismans, the sounds in the house also stopped behind the door.

As usual, Song Huaiyuan placed the tray on the ground, then pressed the mechanism message next to it, and the tray was automatically sent into the room.

But this time, there was no familiar sound like drinking water.

There was dead silence in the house.

"Yao'er?"

Song Huaiyuan asked with a frown.

"You... do you know why the lantern at the door is always on?"

A hoarse voice sounded in the room. It was very strange, like a person struggling to suppress his... excitement?
"why?"

Song Huaiyuan was already running downstairs on his feet.

But that voice always surrounded his ears, like whispering, "That's because I want it to stay on."

When Song Huaiyuan came to the door, he turned around suddenly and happened to face a woman's face that was pale but bleeding from all the orifices.

The ghost, I don’t know when, was lying on top of him.

The lantern that had been floating in the night wind for a whole year was extinguished.

It fell to the ground, blood pouring out from it.

(End of this chapter)