The Haunted

This butler is the butler of Xu Rui's family, and the big butler he is talking about is the big butler of the entire Xu family, who serves Mr. Xu.

After Xu Rui heard the news, he went out with the butler, leaving Chi Yan and Xu Xin in the house.

Chi Yan was a little puzzled when he heard this, and turned to ask Xu Xin, "What's the situation? Why did the housekeeper say that this person died three days ago, and you said that you saw this person the night before? Who is this?"

"Sister-in-law Lin is a distant relative of our family. Her husband left early, and she was the only one who raised her son and helped with chores in the clan. When I was young, she took me and my brother for a few days. Later, her son Lin Zhu When he grew up, he also helped the clan. These days, he has been helping the housekeeper to entertain the celestial masters who came from all over the place to participate in the sacrifice and purchase supplies. As a result, no one has seen it since this morning. Passed him. Because the second sister-in-law Lin had brought me and my brother before, and we are quite familiar with Lin Zhu, so I specially asked the housekeeper to pay attention to some news about him, and found someone to come back and tell us. I didn't expect this to be the end result."

Speaking of this, she frowned again: "But it doesn't make sense, I did see Lin Zhu the night before yesterday, and he asked me if I was doing well outside, and chatted with me for a while. We were together all day yesterday , although I didn’t see him, there was a banquet last night. Lin Zhu has been busy preparing for the banquet and arranging the seats for the guests. Many people in the Xu family have seen him. After he disappeared, many people still said with certainty that they saw him After cleaning up the mess last night, I went back to the house. There are so many celestial masters here, how could it be impossible to recognize a human from a ghost."

After more than an hour, Xu Rui came back and told them that the corpse was indeed Lin Zhu's, and judging from the corpse, he had indeed been dead for more than three days.But it is impossible for Lin Zhu to have been dead for such a long time, so it can only be explained that some factors or things in the forest in the mountains accelerated the decay of the corpse.

"Have you tried calling back the soul?" Xu Xin asked.Not long after he left, this is the place where Lin Zhu lived since he was a child. The deceased did not die a natural death. Logically, it is easy to summon the soul, and you will know what is going on when the time comes.

"Recruited." Xu Rui said, "Uncle went, at first it was recruited by someone from the other family, tried three times but failed to recruit, then uncle went to summon the soul himself, but failed to recruit, and used the spirit banner, still failed. "

"It won't work even if you use the soul-inducing banner?" Xu Xin said.

Xu Rui nodded: "Yes. But don't think about it anymore, Uncle has already asked someone to check."

The soul-inducing banner is a magic weapon handed down by Xu's family. It has miraculous effects in attracting souls. Even an ordinary person who does not know the art can use the soul-inviting banner successfully, let alone Xu Rui's uncle.But most people don't pass away so quickly. In this case, there are only two possibilities. The deceased has no concern for this world and has passed away quickly, or he was murdered and there is no soul left.In Lin Zhu's situation, the second is obviously more likely.

Because of this incident, the Xu family, including Xu Rui's brother and sister, felt a little dignified. When the Ye family's car came to pick up Chi Yan, Xu Rui only helped him get things and told him to take good care of himself, and he didn't even think about driving again. He was joking with Ye Yingzhi.

After returning to Ye's house, Ye Yingzhi had already set up a table of food waiting for him, and there was even a jug of white wine on the table.

After tidying up, Chi Yan sat down, took a bite of the dishes, and found out that Ye Yingzhi didn't cook them, so he calmed down a bit, and then saw Ye Yingzhi pouring wine for the two of them, and immediately became anxious: "Brother Yingzhi, you can still drink ?” He remembered that Ye Yingzhi used to avoid tobacco, alcohol, cold and spicy things.

"It's okay to drink a little once in a while. The doctor said it's good for your body. And you'll feel warmer after drinking it." Ye Yingzhi explained naturally.But another thought turned in his mind, Ah Yan was so timid and stupid, if he didn't push him, he would probably only dare to pretend to be innocent and lick himself, not even a proper kiss.Give him some wine to embolden him.

Chi Yan was skeptical, but his grandfather also liked to have a drink with dinner, and he also said that wine is made of grain, drinking less is harmless, so he reluctantly accepted: "Then you don't drink too much. "

Ye Yingzhi seemed to like Chi Yan controlling him like this, and he was not annoyed when he heard the words, and said with a smile: "Okay, brother, just drink a little. Ah Yan, can you drink a little more?"

Chi Yan kept staring at Ye Yingzhi to drink less, and unknowingly drank two or three cups.He usually drinks less with his grandfather at most. How could he have such a good capacity for alcohol? By the time he had the third drink, he was already drunk.

He managed to raise his head and saw the man sitting right across from him. For a moment he couldn't tell whether it was real or not. He stood up while leaning on the edge of the table, stumbled and ran over, and sat on Ye Yingzhi's lap. hugging each other's neck.

Ye Yingzhi was overjoyed: "Why is Ah Yan so nice to me today?" He knew that he had induced Chi Yan to drink too much, but he still put on a dignified appearance, deliberately pretending that he didn't know anything look.

Chi Yan leaned over and rubbed his face against Ye Yingzhi's cold neck, his face was flushed red with the smell of alcohol, full of intoxicating heat and anger: "Ah Yan misses my brother." He closed his eyes, Whispering softly.

"You said this yesterday." Ye Yingzhi gently touched the soft flesh on the back of his neck, his face was calm, as if he was not moved at all.

"...I like brother Yingzhi."

"You said that too yesterday."

Chi Yan opened his eyes and looked at the man in a daze, as if he didn't know what else to say.

"Is there anything else Ah Yan wants to say to brother? More than liking?" Ye Yingzhi tempted little by little, with warm and soft eyes.

"...Yes." Chi Yan turned his face and pressed a soft and moist kiss on his cheek, "That's right, I really like to greet him..."

Before he finished speaking, Ye Yingzhi felt the warm and sweet touch on his side cheeks disappear, and at the same time, his shoulders were heavy. Chi Yan was already drunk and fell asleep lying on his shoulders, humming and snoring. With a small snore.

The little rascal.Ye Yingzhi closed his eyes, looked at Chi Yan asleep, stood up helplessly, picked him up, carried him back to the bedroom and put him on the bed, wiped his sweat with a hot towel, changed his clothes, and then Tuck people in well.

It was the first time he experienced the feeling of stealing chickens without losing money.Who would have thought that Ah Yan from his family would be so useless, yet he could get drunk like this with just three small glasses of wine.

Ye Yingzhi didn't think about what's wrong with his way of intentionally getting people drunk. He just learned from experience and thought that next time he would drink alcohol with a lower alcohol content. He couldn't let Ah Yan get so drunk again. Leave him alone, neither up nor down.

Because he went to bed early the day before, Chi Yan woke up early the next day. When he woke up, Ye Yingzhi was still sleeping beside him, hugging him.

The two were covered with the same quilt, so Chi Yan could clearly feel the chill on Ye Yingzhi's body. He moved close to him and tried to warm Ye Yingzhi's body, but Ye Yingzhi woke up because of his movements, so he opened his eyes. He opened his eyes and looked at him: "A Yan woke up? Be good, don't move, sleep with brother for a while." As he said that, he reached out to hug him.

Chi Yan remembered that Ye Yingzhi had always been a light sleeper, and he was reluctant to disturb his sleep, so he responded lightly without moving, and continued to curl up beside him as before, being embraced by Ye Yingzhi, and then unconsciously Also fell asleep again.How could he have thought that Ye Yingzhi wasn't sleepy at all, but just pretended not to be awake, so that he could hold him and lie down for a while longer.

When Chi Yan woke up again, it was already high in the sun.The first thing he did after waking up was to ask Ye Yingzhi: "Brother Yingzhi, where is your hand warmer? Are you cold wearing this at home?"

He remembered that in the past, because Ye Yingzhi was cold and afraid of the cold, there was only one heating system in Bieyuan, which was in operation all year round.In addition, Ye Yingzhi also has two fox fur blankets and a hand warmer, which are always within reach.

Now that Ye Yingzhi lives in the main house of the Ye family, this two-story small building does not have the complete heating facilities like Bieyuan, and there are not so many warming objects that can be seen everywhere. The clothes he wears are similar to those of others. Just wear a shirt.He didn't notice it when he first came the night before, but now that he thinks about it, he feels puzzled. It makes no sense that Yingzhi's elder brother became the head of the Ye family, and the treatment is not as good as when he was recuperating in the other garden.Surely no one can hold him back. The only explanation is that he doesn't cherish himself, and there is no one around him who takes good care of him.

"It's okay, it's not cold." Ye Yingzhi smiled lightly, "The doctor said that my health is much better. You touched me to be cold. In fact, I don't feel that cold inside, so I don't need those things."

"How can this be done? This building itself is overcast, there is no sunlight, and it is not as warm as the open air outside." Chi Yan muttered, and then remembered something, "Brother Yingzhi, where is your medicine? I haven't seen you in the past few days. The doctor came to see you?"

In the past, Ye Yingzhi had to take more than a dozen medicines a day, both Chinese and Western medicines, and the doctor came to see him once every three days.At that time, he also heard the servant who came to clean the courtyard say that the third son's body would have disappeared two years earlier if he had not been born in Ye's family and could be maintained so meticulously.When he was young at that time, he couldn't hold back his tears when he heard it. When Ye Yingzhi found out, he was very angry and asked Fu Bo to send those servants away.No matter what brother Yingzhi said, his health is much better now, and it is impossible for him to be completely healthy now without seeing a doctor or taking medicine. His hands are obviously still so cold.

"The doctor will come tomorrow." Ye Yingzhi said, then paused, "You just need to take a few medicines. I took it before you woke up yesterday and when I went to Xu's house."

"What about today's medicine?" The man is still wearing black silk pajamas and leaning lazily on the left side of her. Obviously, like himself, he hasn't moved since waking up. Naturally, it is impossible to take medicine.

"I'll eat in a while."

When Chi Yan was having breakfast, he saw a bowl of decoction placed in front of Ye Yingzhi. Just by smelling the smell, he could imagine how bitter it would be.

Chi Yan took two mouthfuls of breakfast, and saw that the bowl of medicine was still untouched: "Why doesn't brother Yingzhi drink it?"

Ye Yingzhi looked at it with lowered eyes, expressionless: "It's too bitter."

Chi Yan seemed to have seen how grandpa behaved when he was cheating at home.It is said that it is an old child, an old child, and the older a person is, the more he will shrink back, like a child, but he did not expect that Yingzhi's brother is less than 30 years old this year, and he already has this sign.He remembered that Ye Yingzhi used to drink medicine without fear of suffering, no matter what medicine Uncle Fu brought, he could drink it happily.

At that time, he asked the other party in amazement and admiration, "Brother Yingzhi, are you not afraid of hardship?"How did Ye Yingzhi reply to him?

In my memory, Ye Yingzhi was sitting on the sofa in the living room of the Bieyuan at that time, looking at him with a smile, and said calmly, "If I can live to spend one more day with Ah Yan, I won't be afraid no matter how hard it is."

Looking back, there was a hint of sadness in those quiet black eyes.

He is also afraid.Afraid of leaving, afraid of not taking care of.

Chi Yan raised his head and looked at the man in front of him, a little helpless: "Do you have preserved fruit, candy, etc. at home? I'll get them."

Ye Yingzhi looked at him with a light smile: "No sugar, it's not sweet enough, I want something else."