When the magic stick summons cute pets

Ji Xiao hasn't been able to get a solid sleep for a long time.

Ever since Li Lan came back from the dead, what she was most afraid of was the sound of Li Lan slapping on her door every day when she stopped in front of her door.

Dazedly waking up from a half-dream and half-awake state, Ji Xiao suddenly heard an unusual noise coming from outside through the door. She seemed to have a premonition, and her heart beat suddenly faster.Looking around, I carefully got out of bed like a thief, and then I stepped on my slippers and went to the window to look out.

But it was a pity that there happened to be a big tree in front of the window, and the branches of the tree slanted across, which happened to completely block her sight.

He frowned and took a few more glances, seeing that he really couldn't see anything, so he could only go back to the bed and sit down resentfully.The voice of Li Lan talking to a strange man was vaguely heard in the room. After a while, the voice stopped, and then the footsteps of people gradually approached from far away, and then suddenly stopped in front of his door. .

"dong dong dong"

There was a regular knock on the door, and when Ji Xiao heard the movement, she held her breath reflexively almost instantly, and her whole body trembled uncontrollably.

"……Who?"

She stretched out her hand to wrap herself in the quilt, looked towards the door vigilantly and in panic, and asked tremblingly for a long time.

Her voice was so soft that she couldn't even hear it clearly, but the people outside stopped knocking on the door after her words fell to the ground. Then, a young man's voice sounded, With a relaxed smile: "Xiaoxiao, it's me."

Ji Xiao was slightly taken aback.

No matter how she recalled it, that voice was unfamiliar to her.But to be able to call her Xiaoxiao so intimately, does it mean that he didn't recognize the wrong person?

——Furthermore, to be able to find such a remote place as Jijia Village, no matter how you think about it, it is impossible to find the wrong person, right?

who is it?

Ji Xiao felt a little nervous in her heart. It was a very cold day, but her palms were covered with a fine layer of wet sweat.She put the quilt on one side, walked to the door cautiously and with some hesitation, and tried to look out through the crack of the door: "Who are you?"

The voice outside suddenly laughed: "Xiaoxiao, you are too heartless. A few months ago, you played so happily with Miao Miao at Miao Miao's place, why, you turned your face and refused to recognize anyone after only a few days at home. Is it? Hey, my pure boyish heart is going to be broken into pieces."

Ji Xiao suddenly widened his eyes.

Miao Miao?Cheng Shimiao?

——Miao Miao called someone to look for her? !

Great joy was mixed with an indescribable grievance and fear. She pulled the latch and opened the door, and looked outside with red eyes: they were two young men, the shorter one was only about as tall as her. He is ten centimeters tall, wearing a thick light blue cotton padded jacket, and has a pair of crooked smiling eyes on his delicate face. When he looks at people, he has a magical power that makes people feel extra heartwarming.

As for the other taller-

Ji Xiao only glanced at it, then quickly looked away, not daring to look any further.

She couldn't get a good look at the appearance, but it seemed to be extremely good-looking.Different from the comforting delicacy of the young man next to him, his good looks were extremely domineering, as if all the favors from the heavens had been concentrated on him alone.But under such a peerless appearance, what is even more shocking is his bloody aura.

With just one glance, she is enough to understand that the danger of this man is not something she can easily approach.For a moment, she almost couldn't restrain the trembling in her bones, she almost made herself kneel down and prostrate herself in front of him.

Although the feeling is different, but vaguely, Ji Xiao feels that this man wearing an inappropriate black robe seems to scare her more than Li Lan.

"Why, we traveled from City X for several days just to see you, why don't you invite the two of us in for a sit-down?"

The brisk voice with a little smile pulled Ji Xiao back from her thoughts. She looked at the smiling face of the handsome young man in front of her, and her previously tense heart couldn't help but relax a little.He pursed his lips and nodded, gave way to the two of them to enter the house, and then hurriedly inserted the latch of the door back as if guarding against something.

"You..." Ji Xiao opened her mouth, her dry voice made her voice sound tense, "Did Miao Miao ask you to come here? Did she ask you to come to me?"

Ye Changsheng glanced at He Jiuzhong, and his two fingers formed a line, swipe across from top to bottom, and saw a lavender translucent film sticking to the walls around the room for a flash, and then disappeared.

"Ye Changsheng." Ye Changsheng smiled and took out a business card from his pocket and handed it to Ji Xiao who was stunned, "Professional fortune teller, divination and ghost catcher—oh, if you would rather call me a god than a celestial master Sticks and the like, then I have no objection."

Ji Xiao looked at the business card in his hand, then at Ye Changsheng who was smiling harmlessly, then at the layer of lavender film that had been integrated into the wall, and after a while he spoke with difficulty: "What was that...just now?"

Ye Changsheng walked to the side of the bed and sat down, looked up at her and said with a smile: "Aren't you worried that the partition wall has ears? Wouldn't it be much easier to talk if you made a barrier to block it? It's been so long, and you probably have a lot to tell us Bar?"

Ji Xiao looked at Ye Changsheng and He Jiuzhong from a distance, and became vigilant again: "Who are you?"

"God stick." Ye Changsheng was happy, squinted his eyes slightly and smiled, stretched out his hand and gestured, "It's the kind on TV, the kind that specializes in tricking and abducting and dancing to become a master."

Ji Xiao saw that Ye Changsheng was teasing her, gritted her teeth secretly, but still walked over hesitantly and said in a low voice, "Miao Miao... how did she know you?"

Ji Xiao knew what kind of person Cheng Shimiao was. If it wasn't someone she really trusted, she wouldn't have let these two people come to her.

But... hunting ghosts?Celestial Master?

Ji Xiao's eyes paused suspiciously on the young man sitting on her bed, and a trace of distrust was unconsciously revealed in his eyes: he looks so weak, I'm afraid he is not as strong as her, this ghost What the hell... Don't really just come to her to pretend to be a trickster, right?

Ye Changsheng didn't mind Ji Xiao's obvious suspicion, he bent his lips and said, "I have the right to keep the privacy of the transaction between the client and me confidential, so if you really want to know the specifics, just wait until you get the details." Go out here and meet Miss Cheng and ask her in person."

She raised her eyes and looked straight at her: "No matter what, the two of us are now the last straw for you to escape from Jijia Village, are you sure you still want to hesitate to waste time with us here now? Miss Ji?"

Ji Xiao's heart twitched suddenly, and her brows frowned slightly: He was right, although she didn't trust them, but in this situation, does she have any other choice?

She clasped her hands by her sides, walked slowly to Ye Changsheng and sat down, after a moment of silence, she said, "Have you seen her?"

Ye Changsheng nodded: "Your sister-in-law is a very gentle woman."

"Gentle?" Ji Xiao murmured, with a smile on her face, "Yes...gentle."

She bent slightly, put her elbows on her legs, covered her face with her hands, and said with a trembling voice: "My sister-in-law was sold to our village 12 years ago when she was stunned by human traffickers on the way to visit relatives in other places." , She was only 17 years old that year, and she had just finished the college entrance examination. According to my sister-in-law, she got more than 630 points in the exam, and the family was very happy, and they have been discussing which one of several prestigious schools she should fill in. "

"That human trafficker and my brother ruined her life completely. The whole Jijia Village...including me, we are all accomplices." Ji Xiao's voice was choked with faint sobs, she was silent for a while, then slowly Said, "She is very kind to me, helping me with my homework, teaching the children in the village, and making me new clothes. But I am sorry for her..."

"She wants to run away, I'm scared...Jijia Village is too poor, my brother spent all the savings in the family to barely marry a wife, if she runs away, my brother will be finished, he will be poked by the whole village Backbone. My parents didn't have time, my aunt's family adopted me, and I can't just watch my brother end up like this."

"When I was visiting my grandfather's grave, my aunt heard about it...she called all the people in the village and took my sister-in-law back. They were very vicious. They almost broke her leg that day. !" Ji Xiao's tears dripped from between her fingers, and the teardrops dripped on her cotton-padded clothes, forming a small dark color, "I was very scared, I was afraid that she would hate me, and then I passed the college entrance examination. I never went back to this village. I have no face to see her."

Ye Changsheng tilted his head to look at her, and said in a casual but sharp voice, "Did you really mean to say those things that led to your sister-in-law's arrest?"

Ji Xiao froze slightly, she slowly lifted her face from her hands, her eyes were red, she seemed to be stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly: "Yeah, was it unintentional? Thinking about it now, I'm not sure myself. I should know that my aunt should be at home at that time. "

"Although I sympathize with my cousin, from the moment she chose to trust me and told me her plan to escape, I never thought of being happy for her relief. I worried day and night : If she runs away, what will we do if all the daughters-in-law bought in the village run away in the future? Will the police come to arrest my brother? Will the people in the village crowd out our family? How will your brother live?"

She closed her eyes, with a mocking smile on her lips: "After all, I still have the blood of Ji's village. I thought I could read and write, and I was different from those people. But in the end it was still the same, selfish and shameless. I Brother has already ruined my sister-in-law's first half of her life, but I directly ruined her life."

Ye Changsheng supported his chin with one hand, and asked, "How long has it been since your sister-in-law came back from the dead?"

Ji Xiao's body trembled slightly, and she frowned, as if remembering something: "I received a call from home at the end of September, saying that my cousin passed away and wanted me to go back to attend the funeral."

She thought for a while, and then said, "My sister-in-law got a strange disease at the beginning of the month. She had a continuous high fever and headache. After the fever subsided, she continued to vomit. She said she couldn't breathe. There is only one barefoot doctor in the village, and it can't be cured at all. My representative My brother wanted to take her to the county seat, but he had no money, his legs were bad, and the family didn't want to spend money on his sister-in-law, so it didn't work out in the end."

"The disease deteriorated very quickly, but after ten days or so, when I woke up one day, my brother found that my sister-in-law was stiff, and after checking her breath, I realized that she was gone. I rushed back by plane the same day I received the news. That day was the third day of her death, and my brother and I kept her spirit for the next few days. After the first seven days, we buried the coffin in the back mountain, who knows—”

When Ji Xiao said this, his voice paused, and a trace of fear appeared on his face, "Early the next morning, the buried coffin was placed in the living room again."

Ye Changsheng raised his eyebrows: "You just buried the coffin back?"

Ji Xiao shook hands vigorously, pursed her lips and nodded: "Because the matter was too strange, we didn't even dare to tell the villagers, so the family secretly found a place to bury the coffin at night.

This night, in order to prevent such weird things from happening again, our family took turns guarding the lobby. It was a tossing all night, but nothing strange happened again. After a few days, I just took it easy When he came down and planned to pack his things and go back to City X—the coffin appeared again! "

He Jiuzhong walked up to Ye Changsheng and sat down. He tilted his head slightly, and his scarlet eyes were indifferent: "Since you are ashamed of her and are afraid that she will turn into a ghost, why don't you leave here sooner?"

Ji Xiao took a deep breath and wiped her face with the palm of her hand: "Because I can't leave."

Ye Changsheng asked: "—Your sister-in-law?"

"Sometimes, people are much scarier than ghosts." Ji Xiao shook his head and said with a wry smile, "Jijia Village is only this big, and if anyone's house is a little disturbed, the whole village will know it immediately, let alone the resurrection of the dead? They We all know that we have done something wrong, and we are afraid that my sister-in-law will retaliate against them, so I want our family to be tributes, no one is allowed to leave, no one is allowed to leave the house, and my sister-in-law's resentment must be suppressed in the house."

He Jiuzhong curled his lips when he heard the words: "You didn't let Li Lan go back then, but now the people of Jijia Village have tied you up again. It's a reincarnation."

Ye Changsheng turned his head and glared at him, implying that he should not gloat so openly, but he raised his eyebrows, but his expression was arrogant.

But Ji Xiao didn't have much reaction to such irony. She even nodded and agreed: "Heavenly reincarnation, yes, who said it wasn't."

"But you've been here for so long, and I haven't seen your sister-in-law harming you." Ye Changsheng tilted his head and looked Ji Xiao from top to bottom, "You see, you've been alive for two months, aren't you? ?"

An indescribable wry smile appeared on Ji Xiao's face: "If you stay today, you will understand tonight."

Ye Changsheng touched his chin, thoughtful.

Looking at Ye Changsheng's appearance, He Jiuzhong knew that Ye Changsheng had probably thought of something. With his eyelids pressed, he opened his mouth and said, "If you think of something, don't keep it secret, just tell me."

"It's not a complicated thing." Ye Changsheng glanced back at He Jiuzhong, and then said to Ji Xiao, "Your cousin is not a ghost...not so much a ghost, but a monster called 'Nightmare'. "

Ji Xiao was a little confused, she said: "Is there any difference?"

Ye Changsheng smiled: "The difference is huge! Let me give you the simplest example." He said, "Ghosts have no substance, even innocent children or people with yin and yang eyes can occasionally see them. But you can't really touch the ghost itself, but the Nightmare is different, look, can't your cousin live a normal life with you?"

Ji Xiao still can't seem to understand: "What exactly is Nightmare?"

Ye Changsheng thought for a while, and said, "Let me tell you a story. The veracity of the story is beyond test, so just listen to it as a random talk."

He sat upright, and said slowly: "It is said that this happened in the early Qing Dynasty. It is said that literary inquisition was popular at that time, and passers-by in the streets and alleys would sometimes be guilty of losing their heads if they said a wrong sentence. It is said that there was a scholar with a literary talent. That's right, it's just that when I was writing poems and painting on weekdays, I accidentally violated some taboos and was reported by someone who offended me in the past. Later, the higher-ups convicted me and decided that the scholar had ulterior motives and intended to restore the former dynasty. Go and ask about chopping."

Tapped a few times with his fingertips on the edge of the bed: "It's just that the scholar's family bought off the executioner at that time, and only said that he would pat him at the end of the execution as a signal, and then he would run as hard as he could. Later, the executioner At that time, the scholar really waited for the cue from behind him, and as soon as he clapped his hands over there, he ran forward like crazy, all the way out of the city, and escaped a catastrophe."

"Later, the scholar married a wife and had children in another city. After living happily for many years, because he missed his parents and his first wife, he secretly returned to his original residence, but her wife didn't like him. Surprised, he said he was dead—"

Ji Xiao was fascinated and asked, "What happened next?"

"What happened later?" Ye Changsheng found a comfortable sitting position and moved a bit, and continued, "The wife told him that when the executioner failed to escape, the executioner slapped him, and he subconsciously stretched his neck and was directly chopped off." In the end, she personally collected the corpse for him back then, and even the bloody clothes were left. When the scholar saw the bloody clothes, he suddenly remembered the fact that he was really dead back then. The blood is gone."

Ji Xiao reacted: "You mean, my sister-in-law didn't know she was dead, so she turned into a 'nightmare'?"

Ye Changsheng nodded: "Maybe that's the case. If you want to get rid of the 'Nightmare', you just need to find evidence that she is dead." He stood up on the bed, curled his lips, "Then the problem is, Do you really want your sister-in-law to disappear now, and kill her again with your own hands?"