ghost

Fang Xia has always been at odds with Geng Wenqiu, and doesn't have much affection for this blood-related grandmother.

In his childhood memory, Geng Wenqiu didn't have a good impression at first, but when he met again later, he was deceived by her again.Fang Xia can say with certainty that he hates Geng Wenqiu.Even so, Fang Xia never thought that Geng Wenqiu would disappear like this.

Of course, people are mortal, and when their lifespan is exhausted, they will naturally have to go.If Geng Wenqiu had passed away, Fang Xia would probably have been sad for a while, and it wouldn't be like this - I can't tell what the specific mood is, but I feel depressed and uncomfortable.

Coming out of the dormitory of the Geng family's ancestral hall, Fang Xia let out a long breath, but the feeling of panic in his heart did not subside in the slightest.

It's raining outside.

The rain started to fall on the way back after sending Geng Wenqiu's coffin up the mountain in the morning.At first it was just rain, but after Geng Wenqiu's memorial tablet was sent to the ancestral hall, it started to rain heavily.Bean-sized raindrops hit the brick-paved ground densely, making a rattling sound.

Fu Jin held an umbrella and stood under the eaves outside the dormitory.Inside the dormitory is the spiritual seat of the ancestors of the Geng family. As a ghost, it is inconvenient for him to follow in.He raised his head slightly, looking through the raindrops dripping from the edge of the eaves, not knowing where they landed.And the moment Fang Xia stepped out of the dormitory, his gaze paused for nowhere, and he turned his head to look straight at Fang Xia, taking the figure in filial piety into his eyes.

The gaze was silent, but Fang Xia was the first to notice the gaze falling on him.Tilting her head, she met Fu Jin's gaze, then shuffled, walking towards Fu Jin.

Fang Xia faced the rain curtain outside and stood shoulder to shoulder with Fu Jin.Looking at the rain outside for a while without knowing when it would stop, Fang Xia lowered his head and whispered to the people beside him: "Fu Jin, I feel bad..."

Fang Xia's mood was very low, even if he didn't say anything, Fu Jin could still feel it, but he didn't know how to comfort him.The corner of his mouth moved slightly, but in the end he didn't say anything, but raised his hand, and pressed Fang Xia's head to his shoulder lightly, letting him lean on it.

With her head resting on Fu Jin's shoulder, she could smell the faint cold fragrance from the other person's body through her nostrils. Fang Xia sniffed, and the stuffy feeling in her heart seemed to subside a little.

Fang Xia couldn't lean on Fu Jin's shoulder for too long, and the Geng family members withdrew from the dormitory one after another, preparing to go back to the old house.

Geng Zhongzhi helped his mother to hold an umbrella and walked in the front, and Geng Shuyun and the two followed the elderly Geng Rongbing.

Geng Chongmin pushed Geng Shudan's wheelchair to Fang Xia's side.

"Going back." Geng Shudan in the wheelchair greeted Fang Xia, and Geng Chongmin held an umbrella and pushed his wheelchair into the rain curtain.

Fu Jin opened the umbrella she was holding and put it between the two of them, "Let's go."

Fang Xia was next to Fu Jin, following in the footsteps of the Geng family.

The people who were invited by the old house to perform ceremonies had already left, and the Geng family members who stayed in the house were still packing up their things.Geng Zhongzhi asked the younger generation to help, then helped his mother, took the rest of the people, and entered the main room in the second courtyard.Fang Xia originally planned to go back to the room, but was stopped by Geng Zhongzhi, and they went into the main room together.

The door of the main room opened to the courtyard, and it was very spacious. Counting Shang Xia and Fu Jin, there were more than twenty people in the room, but it was still not crowded.

Geng Zhongzhi's mother, Geng Wenlan, and Geng Rongbing, the highest seniority in the family, sat at the head of the hall.

Geng Chongzhi sat under Geng Wenlan, next to Geng Chongmin and Geng Shuyun, and then several Geng family members who were of the same generation as them.Geng Rongbing followed Geng Shudan in a wheelchair, and Fang Xia was pulled to sit next to him.Fu Jin also sat next to Fang Xia.In the back are a few members of the Geng family that Fang Xia doesn't know, but the two at the end are quite familiar with Fang Xia - Geng Lijie and Geng Chaolin.

This seat seems to be arranged according to seniority, so he should actually go to Geng Lijie's side, right?Fang Xia looked away from Geng Lijie and Geng Chaolin, and looked at Geng Shudan suspiciously.But before he could ask the question, the leader Geng Rongbing spoke up.

"The matter of the inner ghost, is there any result?"

"At present, we can only rule out those three foreign guests." A middle-aged man on Fang Xia's side said, "The three foreign guests came to see Mrs. Geng, and the old lady met them in the tea room. They also went Passed the tea room that the old lady used to use, and left soon, there was no lingering in the middle, and there was no chance of the location of the sacrificial stone in the old house. The possibility of using magic spells was ruled out, and with their ability, they used spells under the eyes of the old lady , it is impossible for the old lady not to notice."

Geng Rongbing took down the pipe hanging from his waist, stuffed the old pipe with shredded tobacco, lit it and took a puff, raised his slack eyelids, and looked at the Geng family who answered, "Then what's left?" Where are the four?"

The remaining four are all working in the old house.Uncle Tong the housekeeper, Aunt Chen the cook, Cheng Dong the liaison officer, and Wang Ke who was originally assigned to Fang Xia as an assistant but was returned to the old house to continue working as a driver.

"The Wang family who attacked our Geng family not only took away the sacrificial stone, but also drove straight into the file room. These four people know the location of the file room, so we can't rule out their suspicion for the time being."

Geng Rongbing didn't continue to ask, and Geng Wenlan, who was sitting at the top, frowned, "I remember those four people, except Cheng Dong, who was transferred to the old house from foreign affairs ten years ago, and everyone else has been there for at least 20 years. Uncle Tong When we were young, he was our father's assistant and watched us grow up. Wang Ke was sent by his parents when he was eight years old, and asked our Geng family to take care of him. Chen Meizi came after Wang Ke, and was from the second uncle's side before. Cook, you only moved to the old house after your second uncle passed away."

"Since we can't be sure for a while, let's let people watch them first. Ghosts can't become people, and they will always show their feet." Geng Zhongzhi opened his mouth, decided on the temporary arrangement, and then asked, "What about the Wang family?" , do you know their identities on the surface?"

A middle-aged woman sitting beside Geng Zhongzhi replied, "The Wang family didn't show up. They hid in the dark and ordered the puppets to attack us."

After the woman finished speaking, she greeted outside the main room.Afterwards, the two youths each carried an object of equal height, and walked into the main room one after the other.The object they were holding was wrapped in a white cloth full of runes, like some dangerous goods.

Fang Xia leaned over to look at the two people, and saw that they put the two things lightly in the center of the hall, and then carefully opened the white cloth covered with runes, and the things inside were displayed in front of everyone .

Those were two life-sized paper-stitched figures, just like the ones Fang Xia had seen in the village at the foot of Mount Taihe, the true faces revealed after the puppet technique was lifted.

"The two paper figurines are relatively intact among the ones we shot down. Because we are not sure that there are still spells left on the paper figurines, they are wrapped in a banning talisman. I just don't know if we can find any clues from them..." The middle-aged man The woman got up and walked to the side of the two paper figurines, and said to Geng Zhongzhi.

Geng Zhongzhi stood up on the chair, walked to the side of the paper pricking figure and looked at it for a while, then shook his head, "I also encountered this kind of puppetry with Fang Xia in Mount Taihe before. There was no spell on it, but the puppetry After disarming, there will be no clues to be found on the paper piercing man."

The middle-aged woman sighed. Although she had expected that if there were clues on the paper piercer, the other party would not be able to let the paper piercer fall into their hands so easily, but she couldn't help but hold a glimmer of hope. But I didn't want to end up in vain.

"Take it out and dispose of it." The middle-aged woman waved her hand and said to the two young men who had entered with the paper piercing.

The paper piercer was taken out, Geng Zhongzhi and the woman sat down again, Fang Xia glanced at the entrance of the lobby, and asked aloud: "By the way, is the Wang family of Curse and the Wang family of Xushui Town really unrelated?"

Fang Xia visited Wang Shengquan, the head of the Wang family in Xushui Town, and he was an uncle who used puppetry very badly.It's just that Fang Xia couldn't help but think about it, after all, they are all Wang's family, and there are puppet arts in their inheritance.Although the head of the Wang family in Xushui Town stumbled and stumbled with the puppet technique, and attacked the Wang family of the Geng family, the actual family knowledge was magic.

"We have also paid attention to the movements of the Wang family in Xushui Town. You are not the only one with thoughtful thinking." The young man sitting on Geng Lijie's side looked at Fang Xia with a hint of pickiness in his eyes, "During the period before and after the attack on the old house, Xu There is no movement at all in the Wang family in Shuizhen, and Wang Shengquan, the patriarch of the Wang family, has never left Xushui Town at all, while he is preparing for the start of school.

Is he thinking too much?Fang Xia didn't care about the dissatisfaction in the man's eyes, and lowered his head to think.He didn't even notice that Fu Jin's cold eyes fell on the other party beside him.The young man was taken aback, and quickly turned his gaze away, without making a sound.

Everyone talked about the recent trend of the sect, and after about half an hour, the internal meeting of the Geng family was considered to be over, and everyone in the main room dispersed.

The young man who was sitting next to Geng Lijie walked to the door, and couldn't help but turn his head and stare at Fang Xia, who was sitting with his legs crossed and his chin propped up.Geng Lijie stopped, followed him, followed his line of sight, then frowned, and tugged his arm impatiently.

"Don't provoke him!" Geng Lijie lowered his voice and warned.

"Lijie, look at the position he is sitting in! He really thinks he is the heir of the Geng family! Isn't he just able to guard Mr. Fu Jin?" The young man said angrily, "Are you willing? You had hoped to become the heir... ..."

"Shut up!" Geng Lijie glared at the young man, then at Fang Xia, and said slowly: "Being able to guard Mr. Fu Jin means that he has a very high talent, and his ability is beyond your perception. It would be a good thing for us if we could inherit the Geng family. I used to be unwilling, but now I know that his ability is far superior to mine, and I actually don’t even have the qualifications to be unwilling. Lastly, don’t Go and provoke him."

After Geng Lijie finished speaking, he turned and left.

Geng Chaolin who was waiting for him outside the door followed his footsteps.

"It's rare to see you so completely convinced." Geng Chaolin said with a smile.

"You're not convinced?" Geng Lijie snorted softly.

"How is it possible?" Having seen the scene of Fang Xia dominating all ghosts, why is he not convinced?

When the people were almost gone, Fang Xia stretched his waist, stood up from the chair, and looked at Geng Shudan who was sitting in the wheelchair beside him, "Shall I push you out?"

"Fang Xia, wait a minute, I have something for you." Geng Zhongzhi called Fang Xia to stop.

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Fang Xia: Geng Lijie, I heard that you admire the five bodies I admire?

Geng Lijie: No!roll!