After Marrying the Lord of the Underworld

Lu Yingjiu and Jingxian came to Ye Feng's room.

I saw talisman papers spread all over the floor, as well as various pens and scissors. It was a mess like a robber had just come in, and there was almost no place to stay.

The half-person-high cardboard box had been opened, and Ye Feng took out the contents and placed them outside.

a note.

A bronze key.

There's also a... small green crocodile doll.

There are only three items in total, and they don't seem to weigh much.

Ye Feng first unfolded the note, and the four of them huddled together to read it.

The note was yellowed and the handwriting was old.

【103486】

Xiao Li said: "Brother Ye Feng, is this the bank card password left by your second master? You are going to get rich."

"What about making a fortune, the second master didn't leave any savings, and he donated all the money he could donate." Ye Feng said, "It's a breeze to walk away."

Ye Deyong was married, and his wife passed away early, leaving no heirs. He regarded Ye Feng as his own grandson.

When dealing with his funeral, although Ye Feng was young, the Ye family should have explained everything to him clearly, including the whereabouts of the inheritance.

Xiao Li asked: "Then what could this be?"

"I don't know." Ye Feng shook his head, "He never mentioned it to me."

"Is it possible that it is private money?"

"I really don't know." Ye Feng still shook his head.

He picked up the second object.

The bronze key was very heavy and a little longer than his palm, corresponding to a huge door.

Xiao Li: "Brother Ye Feng, what is this?"

Ye Feng studied the key for a long time and said, "I don't know."

Lu Yingjiu said: "Why don't you know anything, the second master agreed to kiss you?"

Ye Feng scratched his head vigorously: "But he has a weird temper! No one knows what he is thinking! He is extremely bad at expressing himself, and it is not easy to explain clearly to you. For example, , "Last night's meal was terrible", he can tell you eighteen rounds, from Qin Shihuang to Liu Guanzhang, and you know, last night's meal was really bad."

"In other words, he tends to digress when talking." Lu Yingjiu summed it up for him.

"That's right!" Ye Feng patted his thigh, "In short, he is very good at talking, and his brain circuit is novel."

Xiao Li also took the key, looked at it, and interjected: "I understand, this key must be used to open the safe. After opening it, enter the password on the note."

Lu Yingjiu said: "Chu Banyang hasn't paid you a salary recently? It seems that you never leave money."

"Oh," Xiao Li said with an embarrassed smile, "I haven't become a full-time employee yet, and I only get [-] a month. I'm really struggling recently."

Over there, Ye Feng gave up thinking and put the key and the note together for the time being.

He picked up the last thing again.

The crocodile doll doesn't look big, but it's very heavy. He just picked it up, and his arms were full of veins.

Most of the weight of the carton comes from it.

Lu Yingjiu said, "You know what it is, right?"

"I know this." Ye Feng put the doll in front of him and made a muffled "bang". "It was my toy when I was young. I like it the most. When I was in elementary school, I slept with it every day, and cried when it was taken away." Later, our family moved. At that time, it disappeared. I thought it was lost. I cried for a long time, but I didn’t expect it to be here with the second master.”

He touched the crocodile doll, the texture of his hands was fluffy, and it was still a familiar feeling from his childhood memory.

He said, "That's why it's so heavy... Is there something in it?"

Xiao Li's eyes lit up: "The safe is installed!"

Lu Yingjiu said: "I'll tell Chu Banyang later, let him give you a little more salary."

Ye Feng weighed the crocodile again, and after a few seconds, reluctantly said: "I'll cut it open and have a look."

When he was a child, Ye Feng would never have imagined that after many years, he would cut off his beloved little crocodile with his own hands.

Ye Feng picked up a pair of scissors, turned the crocodile over, and cut a small hole in the middle of the abdomen.

Sure enough, the crocodile had something in it.

He reached in, pinched it out—

Clouds of ash scattered in the air.

Seeing that the ashes were about to rush towards him, Lu Yingjiu felt a gust of wind blowing in front of him.

The wind swept away all the ash, and it went in the opposite direction, and it didn't fall on him at all, making Ye Feng and Xiao Li cough again and again.

Lu Yingjiu: "..."

He turned back to look at Jing Xian.

Jing Xian looked innocent, as if what happened just now had nothing to do with him.

He pretended too much, Lu Yingjiu subconsciously wanted to poke him, but stopped before he stretched out his hand.

Then he retracted his hand secretly.

Good thing it didn't poke, he thought.After knowing Jing Xian's identity, the meaning of this little gesture seems to have changed a bit, and it's hard to explain.

...He felt like he was flirting with Jingxian.

Ye Feng finished coughing: "What the hell is this!"

Xiao Li was still coughing: "Cough cough cough, didn't this belong to your second master!"

"I told you he has a weird temper!" Ye Feng shouted, "Do normal people put ashes in toys! This is still my favorite toy!"

Lu Yingjiu took a closer look at the dust that fell on the ground, and felt that it didn't look like ordinary ash.But he obviously has no way to identify what these are with the naked eye.

He casually asked Jing Xian: "Do you know what this is?"

Jing Xian didn't even bat an eye, and answered fluently: "Ashes."

He has seen this thing a lot in the ghost world.

Lu Yingjiu: "..."

Xiao Li and Ye Feng: "..."

When the two of them thought of being choked, they probably ate a lot of ashes, and they both looked like they were about to vomit.

Xiao Li's face was contorted, he retched a few times, supported Ye Feng and said, "I believe that you kissed the second master now, even if the second master dies, he will bury himself in your favorite toy."

"Fart!" Ye Feng also had a distorted face, "This is definitely not my second grandfather. I shoveled his ashes with my own hands, buried some of them, and spilled the rest into the sea! Sprinkled cleanly!"

"Then whose ashes are these! Can you find out!" Xiao Li was about to collapse.

"The ashes cannot be identified, and they are not bones." Lu Yingjiu sat down in front of the crocodile doll, without hesitation, picked up some ashes and rubbed them.

Nothing unusual.

It's just ordinary ashes, without Yin Qi or resentment.

Lu Yingjiu said again: "Ye Feng, do you not understand these three things at all?"

Ye Feng said: "I really don't know anything. I can ask my family, but I don't think so."

Ye Feng went to ask his family members, and the elders expressed that they had no idea.

They all said: "Since it belongs to your second master, just bring it back, don't study so much."

Everyone knows that Ye Deyong has a weird temper and has messed with everything.Stuffing ashes into toys also sounds like something he can do.

It seems that such research will not bear fruit.

Ye Feng breathed out, "If possible, I would like to visit the nursing home again. The second master worked there for decades before his death. If there is any clue, it is probably there."

"It's still early." Lu Yingjiu looked out the window, the afternoon sun was still bright, "If you want to go, you can go today."

"Okay." Ye Feng stood up.

As soon as he got up, he heard the sound of "dong dong dong!"

There was a heavy knock on the door.

Everyone looked at each other, Xiao Li got up and knocked on the door.

There was a young man outside, wearing a peaked cap and jeans, with a disturbed look on his face: "Hello, I want to ask, are you exorcists..."

Xiao Li didn't answer directly, but asked, "Do you need any help?"

He hadn't done many commissions himself, but Ye Feng and Lu Yingjiu, especially Lu Yingjiu, if they were recognized, it would be normal.

"Oh, that's right," the young man pressed his hat to relieve his uneasiness, "I just saw you in the restaurant. I didn't want to disturb you, but after thinking about it, I still think I should come over."

He continued: "I came here with my friend. His name is Zhou Liang, and he is an anchor of Tanling. You can find his live broadcast room on 'Two-faced Buddha'. It was probably yesterday afternoon. He and other A few assistants went up the mountain and went to a nursing home. Then, then I couldn't reach them, no one answered the phone, and no text messages."

Lu Yingjiu got up and came to the door: "Is the signal not good on the mountain?"

"No." The young man shook his head again and again, "Look here."

He turned on the phone, and there were other anchors on the screen, two or three of which were broadcast live in the nursing home.

The young man said: "The other live broadcast rooms are all good, and the signal on the mountain should be fine. Zhou Liang went up to live broadcast, and his live broadcast was also cut off yesterday."

It does sound like something went wrong.

Lu Yingjiu said: "We are just about to go up the mountain, you give us your friend's contact information, and it is best to bring a photo."

"Okay, okay." The young man hastily agreed, "I'll post it right away. Is there anything else I need to do?"

"No need." Lu Yingjiu thought for a while, and then added, "Try your best to persuade people to go up the mountain less."

The young man's face was somewhat troubled: "This is difficult, how can they listen to me? I don't have any evidence to prove that the mountain is dangerous." His voice became smaller and smaller.

"It's okay, just try your best." Lu Yingjiu said.

He didn't have any hope at all, and he could stop one.

Inside the house, Ye Feng has already picked up the hiking bag and is ready to go.

……

20 minute later.

The path up the mountain is not easy to walk, full of potholes, and there are many footprints left by the anchors these days.The soil is soft, the leaves rustle overhead, the birds are alive and kicking, and the wind smells of wood and grass.

The environment of this mountain is very good, it has not been developed, and even the roads are so primitive.

There used to be a driveway to the nursing home, but it has been in disrepair for a long time, and now it is completely impossible to walk.

Snapped!

Xiao Li slapped his calf fiercely, and when he opened his palm again, it was bright red.

He frowned: "There are so many mosquitoes here!"

Ye Feng also said: "My legs are covered with bags."

Lu Yingjiu looked at Ye Feng's legs, and sure enough there were several bulges, even his hands were spared, the battle was extremely tragic.

In just a few seconds of speaking, two more mosquitoes stopped behind his legs.

Lu Yingjiu said, "Jing Xian, take out the mosquito repellent water."

Jing Xian said: "I didn't bring it." He lowered his voice, "I don't attract bugs, you come closer."

Lu Yingjiu walked with him all the way, and it was true that he was not bitten.

only……

Lu Yingjiu couldn't bear it any longer, and lowered her voice, "I've seen that you have mosquito repellent in your bag, and you're still pretending, take it out."

Jing Xian was exposed, so he took out the mosquito repellent water with regret and handed it to him.

Lu Yingjiu sprayed on her body, then handed the bottle to Ye Feng and Xiao Li.

The two of them sprayed indiscriminately, and when they sprayed on the scratched places, they all grinned in pain.

Although there are many and poisonous mosquitoes on this mountain, and some are not afraid of mosquito repellent water at all, the situation has improved anyway.

After walking like this for 10 minutes, Ye Feng said, "Why did it start to fog?"

The mist poured down from the hills like milk, and surrounded them in the blink of an eye.

It came abruptly and quickly.

Lu Yingjiu looked around, her vision was very blurred, only the blurred outlines of trees could be seen.He took a deep breath, feeling as if he had sucked in a mouthful of water, and the moisture filled his lungs.

Xiao Li scratched his head: "It's strange that there is fog in the afternoon. Could there be ghosts... But the range in the mountains is too large, and the yin energy is scattered, so we don't have any easy way to verify it."

"There is a simple solution." Ye Feng turned his head, "Lu Yingjiu, is there a ghost?"

Lu Yingjiu: "Yes."

Ye Feng turned around: "Look, don't you know that?"

Xiao Li: "..."

Visibility drops rapidly.

Ten meters, five meters, three meters, one meter...

Xiao Li whispered, "I almost can't see your faces clearly."

"Anyway, we're almost there." Ye Feng said, "Let's get closer." After speaking, he leaned closer to Xiao Li.

The road ahead gets steeper.

Originally, the soil here was very soft, and it was not easy to exert force when stepping on it. They continued to move forward with one deep foot and one shallow foot.

When I reached a short slope, I had to grab the roots of the trees next to me to climb up.Jing Xian went up after a few steps, turned around with ease, and handed Lu Yingjiu his hand.

Visibility has reached the lowest level, looking from Lu Yingjiu, Jing Xian's face is blurred, immersed in the white mist.

He took Jing Xian's hand.

Jing Xian easily pulled him up.

Xiao Li shouted from behind: "Help me too!"

As soon as Lu Yingjiu turned her head and wanted to pull people away, she saw that there was no one at the bottom of the slope.

Both Ye Feng and Xiao Li disappeared.

The fog got thicker and thicker, and Lu Yingjiu couldn't see anything.

In the mist, Jing Xian still held his hand tightly, as if he was afraid that he would get lost.

Being held by him like this, Lu Yingjiu felt a little...a little uncomfortable.

He pretended to break away from Jingxian's hand unintentionally, and lit a piece of talisman paper.

The paper talisman ignited and floated beside him.

The heat drove back the thick white mist, as if the fire melted the ice and snow, and the visibility improved all of a sudden.

Lu Yingjiu walked forward and said, "The center of the mist is just ahead. After solving the ghosts there, the mist will dissipate."

Jing Xian nodded and said, "Yes."

They walked in the fog one after the other.

There is another small soil slope ahead. This time, we are stepping on the soft soil to welcome the wine. Take a quick half-step and go up first.

After going up, he turned his head to look at Jing Xian, but before he could see clearly, he was completely hugged.

Lu Yingjiu suddenly froze——

The man's chest has a warm temperature, no matter how repressed Jing Xian is, no matter in terms of body shape or the aggressiveness of his breath, he can clearly recognize that the other party is taller than himself.

He obviously wasn't close to the left chest, but he seemed to be able to hear the beating of his heart.

It was the first time Lu Yingjiu knew that ghosts would have such a heartbeat.

He felt himself stiff from neck to back, and struggled slightly, trying to resist.

Until Jing Xian buried his head in his neck and said in a muffled voice, "Don't avoid me on purpose."

"..." Lu Yingjiu stopped and took a deep breath, "I didn't."

"You have been all this way. Just now, you deliberately walked a few steps faster to avoid me, right?"

This sentence is not an interrogative sentence.

Lu Yingjiu stopped talking.

If you look at it from the side, you will find that his expression, which has always been extremely well controlled, is slightly tense.

Almost tense.

Jing Xian spoke next to his ear, and the heat made the auricles hot: "I won't do anything to you."

Lu Yingjiu took a deep breath and wanted to support his forehead: "This is in broad daylight..."

"That's right." Jing Xian said, "It's like pressing against the wall, kissing on the kang, sleeping with your arms around, forcibly plundering and imprisoning, I never thought about it."

Lu Yingjiu: "..."

Lu Yingjiu: "It sounds like you've thought about it all over!"

He struggled again.

Jing Xian has great strength, he just didn't struggle to move.

A few seconds later, Lu Yingjiu tactfully gave up and stopped: "Let go of me first. This ghost hasn't been resolved yet."

"No hurry, it doesn't dare to do anything, I'm here." Jing Xian said casually.

The surrounding milky white mist is rolling, like some kind of weird wave, thick with humidity.

They just stood in the mist, not speaking to each other, each with their own thoughts.

Jing Xian hesitated for a few seconds before speaking again, "I know, I may be very different from what you expected..."

Lu Ying Jiuxin said, this is simply too different.

The glamorous female ghost turned into a glamorous ghost overnight, although according to the trend and the difference in physique between the two, he felt that he would be the one who was glamorous in the end.

Jing Xian backed away a little, looked at him and asked seriously: "So I want to know, do you hate me?"

"..." Lu Yingjiu pursed her lips slightly.

The light in Jing Xian's eyes dimmed a little visibly with the naked eye.

It seems pointless to ask any further.

This reunion after 13 years was indeed quite embarrassing, perhaps even unsatisfactory - it was inevitable, everything came too abruptly for Lu Yingjiu.Not everyone can accept such an existence around them.

Jing Xian just wanted to let go, but his arm was held down.

Lu Yingjiu didn't use much strength, it was just to stop Jingxian's movements.

He looked up at Jingxian: "Jingxian, I will never hate you."

Jing Xian's expression changed.

Lu Yingjiu took a deep breath and continued: "You're right, I have a problem and I'm avoiding you on purpose. But I didn't do it because I hate you, I just, I just need a little time to go Think clearly."

"For the past 13 years, I have been imagining whether the ghost I will marry exists - what kind of ghost would he be, what would his name be, what kind of personality would he have, what would he like? Would he have the same hobbies as me? "

"Sometimes I also think, if it weren't for this ghost marriage, where would I be today. Or maybe I wouldn't be able to live today at all, and I would have died at the hands of some ghost long ago."

"Although reason tells me that you may never show up in this life, I still subconsciously wait for Halloween every year."

"Anyone who knows me knows that I'm not a particularly emotional person, but this matter will always be my exception."

Lu Yingjiu paused for a few seconds, and the slender fingers that landed on Jing Xian's arm exerted a little force.

He said: "Everyone, including the master who advocated ghost marriage for me, told me that the one who married me was a female ghost, and I naturally felt the same way. So in my imagination, you all appear as women , which caused me to be stunned and at a loss now."

"But that doesn't mean that I 'expect' you to be a woman. It's my wishful thinking, so why would I ask you to satisfy me?"

"No matter what image you appear in, I will accept it."

"Because I have been, looking forward to meeting you."

Lu Yingjiu looked at Jingxian with a soft light in his brown eyes.

"After so many years, I finally saw you."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

When he said this, Jing Xian kept looking at him intently.

After a long time, Jing Xian said: "...I don't need any thanks. It's enough that you don't hate me." He hooked the corner of his mouth, "But ghosts are always greedy, and they will push their feet. Now you don't like me, right?"

When he said this, there was undisguised desire and longing in his eyes.

This kind of strong and fiery obsession is the true face of ghosts - both of them know what kind of liking the "like" he refers to.

Lu Yingjiu took a long breath and replied: "Yes. I really can't fall in love with someone who has been around for dozens of days. I didn't think about it before, and," he hesitated for a moment, "Jingxian, I don't want to I'm lying to you, and I don't want to give you illusory promises, I'm really not sure if I'll fall in love with the same sex, to be honest, I've never thought about this kind of problem..."

"En." Jing Xian said, "I understand."

Lu Yingjiu said: "I'm sorry. I know what you want most from me, but I can't guarantee it. I always thought I was a fair person, but every time I met you, I seemed to be quite selfish."

"You don't have to apologize," Jing Xian still smiled, "You're not the only one who is wishful thinking—you never asked me for anything, didn't you, everything was voluntary. Our fate began more than you can imagine much earlier."

He lowered his head slightly, and put the wine on his forehead with Lu Ying, his eyes were bright.

He said: "You don't expect this kind of me, but what I like is always this kind of you."