Chapter 39 Sustained Release Capsules

Where are the people?

The street behind him was empty, with nothing but a few townspeople peeking around.

In addition to curiosity, there was also fear and vigilance on the faces of the townspeople.

Curiosity and vigilance towards outsiders. And the fear of the mansion behind Ning Mingmei.

Everyone in Wangyue Town knows that the Gao family mansion has been haunted for many years. This was also true even when the Gao family was still alive.

Besides this, there was another thing that frightened them in another way.

This is why the mansion is now completely vacant.

A month ago, the young master of the Gao family who lived in this mansion was killed by a female ghost. His body was cut into several pieces and deep black air was emitting from his wounds. Afterwards, the Gao family moved away in a hurry.

He even didn't want the adopted daughter that the young master of the Gao family had just adopted.

The adopted girl was adopted by the young master of the Gao family from Ciyu Village four months ago. This time she died a horrible death, and the Gao family was afraid to move away. Naturally, no one cared about her whereabouts, and there was no reason to throw her back to Ciyu Village.

Fortunately, an old woman who worked as a handicraft seller at Gao's house was kind-hearted and took her in.

"God bless us, God bless us." Ning Mingmei heard someone say.

He chuckled lightly, turned around and went back into the mansion.

"I seemed to see a child just now." Ning Mingmei said to himself.

Ning Mingmei didn't expect the system to reply. Ever since the quarrel on the fairy car, the system has been treating Ning Mingmei like a dead person these days, not even complaining about it.

But this time the system responded instantly: "I saw it too. I also know who that child is."

Ning Mingmei: ...

System: "Do you want to know who he is? Beg me and I will tell you."

"No need." Ning Mingmei said coldly, "I know who he is. Beg me and I will tell you."

system:……

How can this be regarded as the guest taking the initiative?

…

Wangyue Town is located directly south of Liuyue Lake, some distance away from Liancheng.

Although it is called a "town", it is also one of the well-known large towns near Liuyue Lake.

There is a dilapidated temple in the northern part of Wangyue Town.

The dilapidated temple has been in ruins for a long time, and no one knows which god was once enshrined in it. When the townspeople passed by here, they were too lazy to go in and take a look.

But today, a girl was carrying something and running here in a hurry.

The girl looked to be nine or ten years old, and she ran so fast that she almost stepped on the hem of her skirt. She was dressed simply and it was obvious that she did not come from a wealthy family. She was also a little too thin.

Every time the girl entered the dilapidated temple, she was a little scared. Even though the statue was broken and shapeless, she still stood up like all mortals and bowed in her heart.

"I don't know which god you are. It's a sin if I disturb you... a sin..." Like everyone else, she showed humility as a mortal in this world to the unknown power.

Even this dilapidated temple and the broken statues are probably useless.

After doing all this, she whispered behind the statue: "Ayue? Ayue?"

There was no movement behind the statue. The girl looked around.

Then I was startled.

There were no footsteps behind me. The little boy was already standing not far behind her, looking at her with his dark eyes.

The little boy was younger than the girl, about five or six years old, and was wearing a clean coarse cloth robe. In terms of facial features, he is really cute with delicate eyebrows and eyes. I believe he will be very handsome when he grows up.

But whenever those slightly raised phoenix eyes looked at people, they were like an abyss, making people feel scared.

For example, how this girl feels.

Even if they were just a pair of six-year-old eyes.

The girl and the little boy seemed like old acquaintances who were not very familiar with each other - old acquaintances, but not very familiar, and there was a little bond between them because of something. She said, "Ayue, I brought some steamed buns here, why aren't you in the temple? Where did you go?"

"Someone is coming to town. I'm going to see who it is," said the little boy.

The girl noticed the books in his hands and was very frightened: "Did you steal these books from Gao's house today? Did you know that there is a fierce ghost in Gao's house..."

Staring at her with those dark eyes, the girl didn't dare to continue speaking.

The little boy said, "Gao's evil spirit? Are you afraid?"

The girl stammered: "I..."

"Heh." The little boy chuckled softly.

When this child speaks, one always feels that he is not a five or six-year-old child.

The girl thought that this might be the reason why all the children in Salesian Village were afraid of this child.

The little boy now lives in a corner of the dilapidated temple. The girl put the steamed buns in a clean place and tidied the pile of hay for him. She said, "Ayue, there is no way to live here forever...Have you thought about where to go next?"

When she asked this question, she was unsure.

How could children like them who came from the Ciyu Village know where to go?

Like the little boy, the girl is an orphan from the Cichlid Village at Liuyue Lake. The girl was adopted by the Gao family in this town four months ago. The little boy was adopted by the Lian family in Liancheng three months ago.

For the orphans in the Salesian Village, this is a first-class place. You never expected pie to fall from the sky.

When she was in the Salesian Village, the girl was introverted and had almost no interaction with the little boy due to the huge age gap between them - she only vaguely heard that it was best to stay away from the child named "Ayue".

What's so scary about a five or six-year-old child?

Until a month ago.

A month ago, the little boy unexpectedly appeared in Wangyue Town - he ran away from the Lian family without telling them. At this time, the girl was falling into the most terrible nightmare of her life.

Her dream of being adopted and finally having a home turned into a complete nightmare.

——Just a little bit.

If the little boy hadn't happened to pass by.

Later, she was lucky enough to be adopted by her mother-in-law - even though she was harsh and mean. The little boy was unknown and had nowhere to go. But he seemed unhurried and stayed in this dilapidated temple for the time being.

In order to repay the boy, she secretly saved some of her own food every day and gave it to the little boy.

Thinking of this, the overwhelming fear and bitterness surged up again. The girl wiped her tears and naturally did not ask the little boy what happened to him in the Lian family.

Since she almost encountered such a thing in the Gao family...the little boy was fine, why did he leave the Lian family?

The life of an orphan is cheaper than grass.

And what happened a month ago...still scares her.

Looking up and seeing the dilapidated statue, the girl clenched her hands again.

"God, God, we didn't mean to disturb you. We just have no other way to go. Please take us in. And what happened a month ago was really... God, please see clearly and don't count it as our fault." The girl stammered, "If possible, please also ask God to show us a way out..."

The little boy stared at her movements again, as if he found such piety ridiculous.

In this world, there are demons, gods, fairies, monsters, and ghosts. Ordinary mortals like them dare not worship ghosts and gods.

But this little boy lived in the dilapidated temple without any reverence, as if he had entered a godless world. Now the girl was kneeling and he was standing.

"The people who came to the town are a group of monks. They look like immortals from a large sect." The little boy said, "They must be here to exorcise ghosts in Gao's mansion."

The girl was startled and began to tremble all over.

But she was not just afraid of the past, but she was afraid of being discovered... She said hesitantly: "Monk...if they kill the evil spirits, will they leave?"

Little boy: "We have to investigate something."

The girl shuddered again.

"What are you afraid of?" The little boy suddenly smiled, with malicious light in his big eyes, "Are you afraid that they will disturb your wonderful life now? Don't worry..."

"They won't find out that Master Gao was killed by you and me."

The little boy lowered his voice.

The girl was horrified. She kept saying to the statue: "Don't blame me, don't blame me, it's nonsense, nonsense!"

The little boy laughed at the prayer. Soon, he showed a cold and bored look: "Boring."

He sat back on the mat. There were many books piled there, all of which he had brought from Gao's study. Among them are "The Art of War", the Four Books and the Five Classics, etc. He sat there, turning the pages of the book, just as he did every day.

He loves reading so much, he doesn’t seem like a five or six-year-old child.

After the girl finished praying, she turned to the little boy and said with a pale face: "Ayue! Don't say that again!"

Little boy: "I killed him with one blow, and you stabbed him again out of anger after he died. What's wrong with that?"

The girl was silent, with tears in her eyes, she said: "...I am very grateful to you in my heart. Ah Yue, please don't misunderstand me."

The little boy didn't respond. The girl continued, "I was so scared that day. I wanted to run away, but you told me to go back to my room and sleep. Fortunately, the next morning, the body was turned into... that by the evil spirit. Fortunately, the Gao family thought it was the evil spirit that did it. Otherwise, they would have killed me!"

How could that evil spirit happen to come and leave the corpse like that?

Was it the smell of blood that attracted the evil spirit to torture the corpse?

But the worst is over. The girl just felt lucky.

But she was also worried that the immortals would find out.

"Maybe." The little boy said, "The Gao family is also guilty. They didn't even dare to bury the body properly and ran away immediately."

Girl: "But that tragic scene was originally caused by a ghost!"

How come we can’t find those two knives of theirs…right?

My heart then calmed down a little.

The little boy continued, "Of course, it's hard to say whether they will find out why Young Master Gao 'adopted you'..."

He seemed to have a bad temper. He had to say something just when people had just calmed down a little, so that people would live in fear and panic.

The girl panicked again and murmured to the statue for protection. She was afraid of the monks, the Gao family, and the evil spirit.

In the dim and dilapidated temple, the little boy just sat on the straw mat, reading a book with his eyes lowered.

It is hard to imagine how an orphan with an unknown background, who had been to several Salesian villages, could recognize many words at the age of five, and kept reading all the books he could get his hands on and constantly imitating the behavior of adults.

Like a greedy jackal.

Contradictory and terrifying.

Whether in the Salesian Village or here.

As the sun was setting, the girl packed her things and said, "I should go home now, Ayue. If I don't go back soon, my mother-in-law will find out. You better be careful."

The more she thought about it, the more scared she became: "You said, since there is a female ghost in the Gao Mansion, will the young master of the Gao family also become a ghost and take revenge on the two of us?"

Naturally there was no response. The little boy was just reading.

The girl ran away in a hurry, carrying the basket. She ran in a panic, like a fledgling bird away from the flock, afraid of being caught up by the dark shadow behind her.

Her figure disappeared.

When the sun was about to set, the characters on the scroll could no longer be seen clearly.

The little boy's fingers moved.

“Pah.”

A few remaining candles that were used to offer to the statue of the god began to burn, the faint flames shone blue and faintly black.

They were ignited out of thin air.

"Evil ghost?" the little boy muttered to himself.

He glanced again at the dilapidated statue.

"Foolish mortals." This was his second sentence.

There was sarcasm in his tone.

He suddenly stretched out his palm, and the black flames gathered into a sharp blade.

The blade flies out!

Just like he cut Master Gao's body that day, he cut a deep scar on the statue!

The already dilapidated statue made a creaking sound. Dying, without any retribution.

The little boy suddenly burst into laughter.

At this moment, a proud sneer finally appeared on his face. This little smile made him look like a child for the first time.

A child who is proud because of his own strength.

That day, after the girl left in panic, he went back again.

He also used Master Gao's corpse to test his own strength.

This was the first time he had the opportunity to perform so recklessly. In the past, he was in the Salesian Home, having just discovered his powers. There are too many eyes there.

——This is something that the girl and almost everyone else don’t know.

…

Gao Mansion has two main courtyards. One for Mr. Gao and the other for Young Master Gao.

"Young Master Gao is the only son of Old Master Gao. After his first wife died, Young Master Gao was deeply in love and did not remarry." Eleven read the materials, "But according to the investigation, in fact."

He took several concubines, and all of them died violent deaths.

"After that, rumors of haunting the Gao family began to circulate. And Young Master Gao never took another concubine." Eleven said, "But Young Master Gao was worried about not having a child. So Young Master Gao went to Ciyu Village and adopted a ten-year-old girl..."

Adopt a girl? And he is ten years old?

Although in the world of immortal cultivation, the ability gap between female cultivators and male cultivators is determined only by talent and has nothing to do with gender, so both men and women can be the head of a family. It makes sense to adopt a girl as a descendant.

But adopting a ten-year-old girl is intriguing.

Ten years old is already the age to remember things. Moreover, doesn’t the head of the family train people since childhood?

Ning Mingmei: "This statement is untenable."

Eleven said, "Only three months later, Master Gao died unexpectedly. He was killed by a fierce ghost and his entire body was chopped into a paste. The information on Master Gao said that the fierce ghost was deliberately trying to make them childless."

Ning Mingmei: "Interesting. Do you have any information about those concubines? Where are they from? What families are they from?"

Eleven sweated: "This, there is no information..."

Ning Mingmei glanced at the Gao family's buildings and said, "Look for it. It should be in the study."

And the Gao family is not big.

Eleven: "Yes."

But he wondered, what does this have to do with exorcising ghosts?

Ning Mingmei said: "For a case worth over 100,000 yuan, we still have to be careful."

Mr. Gao is now bankrupt and wants to avenge his only son.

Eleven told all the disciples to set off. The disciples searched everywhere very quickly.

Ning Mingmei walked around the yard alone and ignored the system's shouting.

All the disciples are here, let’s finish today’s project first.

Master Gao’s yard. His room was where he died.

His side yard was where his adopted daughter lived. There is clearly an empty yard on the other side.

In front of Young Master Gao’s yard is the yard where Old Master Gao lives. There is a study room inside.

Now they are in the courtyard where Mr. Gao lives.

Ning Mingmei squatted down in a place, squinted his eyes and looked at the ground.

Soon, Ning Mingmei heard a voice from his disciple.

"Master, there is something strange in the study. Come and see."

The author has something to say:

Lian Chengyue, you look great and you will start working soon.