Should the soul

Under Kong Jie's quiet gaze, Wang Pu's face gradually turned red, as if he didn't know how to continue, he could only say awkwardly: "It's rare to see you come out for dinner, do you want to have a kiss together?"

Kong Jie went straight to him and looked at him quietly for a while.

Kong Jie's eyes are beautiful, with long and thick eyelashes, and when the tails of his eyes droop slightly, he looks innocent and naive, but at this moment, he looks at Wang Pu with a half-smile, his black pupils curled up in a wordless mockery.

Wang Pu's face suddenly turned from red to blue, and his scalp became tense: "Kong, Kong Jie..."

Kong Jie didn't speak, seemed to want to punch him, but finally gave up, smiled, wiped his cheekbones with his index finger, took a step back, and politely said to the people in front of him: "I won't eat, You are at your own convenience."

Kong Jie felt very uncomfortable.

There are a few key pieces of information that the child didn't explain when he pressed the child just now.

So in Wang Pu's eyes, he saw the other half of the story, and the combination of the two stories sorted out the real ins and outs of Kong Jie's suicide:

The Duke's family has a great business, but there are only twenty places to keep customers.

Every three months, those who are capable can stay and find opportunities to make a fortune, while those who are not capable get out, and newcomers come in.

This is a well-known brutal competition, but Kong Jie is very special. He occupies a quota, but he does not have to accept the review. He knows this very well, so he has always kept his own place in the Duke's Mansion and kept quiet.

Wang Pu came to the Duke's mansion three months ago. He has a good mind and quickly found his own way: to help Cheng Guogong tame horses.

Cheng Guogong's mansion has many famous horses. Since they are famous horses, the horses are naturally very personal. Wang Pu's skills quickly caught the attention of Cheng Guogong, and he also gained a firm foothold in the Guogong's mansion because of his father-in-law's praise.

Wang Pu is a very active person, and he has a good relationship with everyone in the mansion. Apart from taming horses on weekdays, he also keeps in touch with other mansions to expand his sources of wealth and people. For three years, he was a rare person who took the initiative to make friends with Kong Jie and cared for him. From time to time, he would take Kong Jie to the barn in the south courtyard to help, especially when the father-in-law was there, he repeatedly urged him to go over to serve the father-in-law. Hold the reins.

But Kong Jie is really timid. He is very afraid of horses. The horses in the south courtyard are all tall and healthy, and their chests alone are enough to hold him in. What's the future if I don't see my father-in-law? Is it possible that I plan to eat and drink for nothing for a lifetime?"

Wang Pu persevered and kept looking for opportunities for him to show his face in front of Cheng Guogong, but Kong Jie's performance was really mediocre. At first, Guo Gonggong would look at him a few times, and then he would not look at him again.

The saddle delivery scene this morning was also the first time Wang Pu discovered that there was a scratch on the grandfather’s saddle—hunting is an annual event, and the emperor and all the envoys are there, so how can the saddle be flawed?

That's why Kong Jie was ordered to bring a new pair of saddles, but Kong Jie's legs and feet were slow, and he was stopped by people making fun of him. When he ran back to the south courtyard from the backyard, Cheng Guogong and his followers had already left, Wang Pu felt depressed and couldn't tell. He vented his anger at Kong Jie indiscriminately.

And this "letting out", when the new ghost was on the body, Kong Jie cleverly hid the first half of the sentence, what Wang Pu said in full at the time was:

"Didn't you say that you admire Grandpa He?

"...No? Without it, why did you stay here all this time?

"I can't even deliver a pair of saddles. It's a fancy but useless thing."

The child is weak, isolated and helpless, and the embarrassment of being punctured by others, coupled with the cold words of "friends", makes him narrow-minded and short-sighted for a while.

Kong Jie frowned slightly, feeling a little suffocated for a moment: he didn't know how to vent his anger on him.

Cheng Guogong... This is not a good man.

He turned his thoughts for a while, a bad guess flashed in his mind, and he spread his five fingers to touch the red brick wall on the sidewalk.

The ghost's senses stretched out like a silk thread for a while, passing the sound of Wang Pu talking to seven or eight people at this time, the sound of the kitchen stir frying, the neighing of horses, the sound of flowers blooming and leaves falling, trying to absorb The information Kong Jie wants:

There is no hostess in the backyard of Duke Cheng's mansion, and there is not even a woman with status in the huge place. The master Cheng Guogong doesn't care about the trivial matters in the backyard. He used to discuss and live in the south courtyard, and rarely even came to the backyard. The red walls line the roads, and the pavilions and pavilions leave little breath. The most visible image is an old man with a white mustache. He is respected as Zhou Weng by the people in the mansion. He should be the housekeeper. At this time, the old man is hiding in the south courtyard. Eat cakes and drink tea...

What the dead thing could convey was very limited, but at least it cleared his doubts: Fortunately, Duke Cheng did not force the child to do anything.

Kong Jie went back to the house, intending to take a rest and sleep.

It's rare that he and Kong Jie's bodies fit together very well, and he didn't have the facial features flying around, limb incoherence, epilepsy, dementia, etc. that he had heard about before after being possessed by ghosts, but he got used to it and walked suddenly. , some bulky, some tired.

And now his ability as a ghost has also weakened.

The physical body is a barrier. He is trapped in Kong Jie's body. Now, apart from being able to grasp the objects attached to it and the images that flashed in his eyes, it seems that he can no longer directly enter the dreams of ordinary people like before, and he can no longer manipulate through the air. Items, at best, can see through what a person is thinking and what he wants to do.

But in this colorful Chengguo Mansion, everyone is not as innocent as the villagers of Taniguchi Village. Everyone wears at least one layer of masks, and there is no fuel-efficient lamp.

He should look for his soul and not get entangled with these mortals, but he really doesn't know where to look, he can only blindly believe that what is happening now is what should happen, God is guiding him, and he is approaching him The soul is gone, and the rest will be blocked by soldiers and covered by water and earth.

Kong Jie hugged the quilt and rolled left and right on the couch for a while, obviously wanted to sleep, but couldn't, when he looked up, he heard a rustling sound.

He was puzzled, opened the window and found that it was raining at night outside.

Rain without thunder is good rain. The night lights of Duke Cheng’s mansion are indistinct, dotted in the drizzle, looking deep and refreshing. Kong Jie climbed up the window sill and stretched out his hand, and the cool rainwater fell drop by drop. On the skin, tick-tick, rustling, so real, cool, light, it will bounce into the palm of your hand...

Just when Kong Jie was feeling "ah, it's good to be alive" again, there was a knock on the door outside the house.

It's Wang Pu.

Kong Jie was wearing pajamas, looking at the people outside the door puzzledly: "What's the matter?"

Wang Pu smiled, and handed over the paper bag like a treasure: "See, you haven't eaten dinner, are you hungry? The sauced beef from Fuchunlou I just brought you."

Kong Jie looked down at the beef, thinking that he would like it better if it was beef buns.

Wang Pu: "Don't forget about what happened at noon. I've also been in a bad mood for the past two days, so I'm saying too much."

Kong Jie nodded, knowing that this child was withdrawn and had his own problems, so he answered with the corner of his mouth, "It's okay, I don't worry about it."

Wang Pu's Adam's apple rolled with difficulty, probably because he saw Kong Jie's expression was always calm, which was completely different from the past, so he couldn't help holding his arm and forced a smile: "Ajie, are you still angry? Is it? I'm so mad, I shouldn't say that about you..."

"Wang Pu."

Kong Jie interrupted him with his mouth open, and jumped out of the others, "I want to go out, do you have any ways to work for me?"

Wang Pu was stunned for a moment.

After this, he immediately smiled sincerely, and nodded vigorously: "Yes, yes... Ah Jie, you finally think about it!"