Chapter 82
"Mom~" Yun Mian pushed away the ghosts, ran over, held her mother's hand, and looked at the dormitory building filled with ghosts with her.
Behind him, Bingshen, Yu Anan and the dean also followed with talismans attached to their heads.
"The source should be here." Bingshen took out his compass, and the needle pointed straight forward.
The dean could not see Yun Jinli's existence, nor could he see the many ghosts around. He just looked at the dormitory building with a mysterious expression and asked Bingshen if he could solve the problem here.
"When did those children start to get sick and see ghosts?" Bingshen asked the dean for more information.
Yunmian held Yu Anan and the little ghost doll and walked forward in small steps behind her mother.
It was that dimly lit corridor again. This time there was no light in the corridor. Only the flashlight in the dean's hand was gently shaking and projecting light on a certain place in the corridor.
Yunmian struggled to make her way through the thick ghost aura, her breathing becoming a little quickened due to the oppression, but she still followed her mother firmly. When her mother floated into a room, she reached out and pushed her away.
It was easily pushed open, and the thin door lightly hit the iron bed in the dormitory, then slowly bounced back with a creaking sound.
The room was empty, no one was there.
The room was crowded with ghosts who turned their heads at the sound and looked over with deep and strange eyes.
Coincidentally, this room was the dormitory where she and Yu Anan lived at the beginning.
Yun Mian and Yu Anan looked at each other in confusion, and both saw a bit of bewilderment in each other's eyes.
Why is it here?
While he was wondering, Yun Jinli in front of him had already started fighting with a ghost.
Yun Mian's eyes flashed and she was about to rush over to help her mother, but was quickly grabbed by Yu Anan.
“Mianmian!” Yu Anan said anxiously, “It’s that old woman! She’s very fierce, don’t go over there, you’ll get hurt!”
Yun Mian looked over in panic and indeed found a familiar ghost among the crowded ghost shadows.
Gray hair, hunched body, and a cane in his hand...
It’s the old woman who appeared on July 15th!
Yun Mian suddenly remembered that after she was brought into the ghost world a few days ago, it was the Ghost King who knocked down this old woman. She looked particularly miserable.
Yun Mian pursed her lips and thought for a while, then chose to listen to Yu Anan and calm down temporarily, instead of interfering in the fight between the two ghost generals.
The main thing is... she felt that the old woman looked shaky, as if she couldn't beat her mother.
Yun Mian managed to calm down, then shifted her attention away from the fight and began to observe the house where she had lived for several days.
There doesn't seem to be anything special...
"Once Aunt Yun catches the old woman, we'll find out by asking her." Yu Anan held Yun Mian's hand and spoke calmly. However, she was actually still a little panicked and uneasy as she was surrounded by ghosts.
The fights between the ghost generals would also affect innocent people. At least the old ghost would always grab other low-level ghosts to resist Yun Jinli's attacks. No matter how dumb the ghosts were, they could still think a little. So after a few times, the ghosts that had originally gathered together would scatter, leaving the entire dormitory space for the two big guys to duel among themselves.
This also indirectly made things convenient for Bingshen and the dean outside, as well as the nurses and children who heard the noise and bravely ran out to watch the excitement.
Yun Mian was originally waiting peacefully for her mother to finish the battle, but the ghost doll in her arms suddenly became agitated after seeing something, and struggled out of her arms when she was not paying attention, then rushed towards the nurse Li Shuang in the crowd, whimpering and screaming.
The ghost doll that had stayed with Yun Mian for a month and a half was no longer the little ghost that had been lying on Li Shuang's shoulder and biting her madly but unable to cause any real harm to her.
It became an evil ghost on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, and then Yunmian fed it countless wandering souls as snacks. Now there are still a lot of ghost snacks waiting for it in its little schoolbag...
Driven by anger and resentment, the boiling ghost energy on the ghost doll rose all the way, and then it actually broke through the level barrier. After climbing onto Li Shuang's shoulder, it materialized one of its small hands and suddenly reached towards Li Shuang's neck with countless Yin energy.
It wanted to kill Li Shuang with one blow!
Screams rang out one after another. The sudden accident made everyone flee in panic, but they could not escape from the orphanage no matter what because of the obstruction of the ghost realm. They could only run around like headless flies, or squat in a corner, holding their heads and sobbing, closing their eyes and crying, begging those terrible ghosts not to notice them.
Yun Mian and Yu Anan did not stop the ghost doll's actions. The two little girls stood hand in hand at the dormitory door and looked out.
Everyone thought Li Shuang would die on the spot, but instead the ghost doll fell to the ground in pain, with its hand as if it was burned by something.
"...It's the talisman that my master gave me." Yun Mian recognized the thing on Li Shuang's neck. When Li Shuang was feeling relieved and scared, she walked towards her.
"Bad! Mianmian...she is bad!" Tears of blood flowed from the ghost doll's eyes, and it looked at Li Shuang as if it wanted to eat her alive.
Yun Mian bent down and picked it up, then blew gently on it with her dimmed little hands. Then she lowered her head and looked at Li Shuang, who was squatting on the ground, holding the talisman tightly to save her life.
"Auntie~" she asked politely, "Did you kill the doll?"
Hit the nail on the head.
Li Shuang, who had been shaking all the time, suddenly collapsed upon hearing this. She raised her head abruptly and glared at Yun Mian fiercely, retorting in a sharp voice: "Nonsense! I don't even know it! I don't know this little bastard!"
She called the ghost doll a little bastard.
Yun Mian frowned, patted the ghost doll that was struggling to continue rushing over and even wanted to die with Li Shuang, and then seriously retorted: "The doll is not a little bastard!"
She frowned and looked at Li Shuang, whose face was ferocious, and said firmly: "Auntie, you lied, you were deceiving me."
Li Shuang's body was shaking. Even though she looked extremely fierce, the breath of life in her body was very weak. Although her eyes were wide open, all the emotions she wanted to hide were exposed in her eyes. She was completely forcing herself to be angry, trying to cover up her panic with sharp emotions. Anyone could easily tell that she was just a coward at this moment.
Yun Mian grabbed a ghost that was trying to pounce on her, and then, in front of Li Shuang's horrified eyes, she stretched out the ghost's hand and moved it closer to her, while still politely asking: "Auntie, did you kill the ghost doll? Don't lie, or I will stuff this ghost into your body."
After she finished speaking, she took two steps closer to Li Shuang while holding the ghost. The cold aura coming from the ghost frightened Li Shuang so much that she screamed and backed away desperately, using her hands to support herself.
In Li Shuang's eyes, Yun Mian at this moment might be more terrifying than a ghost.
But Yun Mian didn't care. She asked the same question again. This time Li Shuang still refuted and was unwilling to admit it.
When the ghost doll angrily wanted to rush over and tear Li Shuang into pieces, Yun Mian pursed her lips and stuffed the ghost into Li Shuang's body without saying a word.
The ghost and Li Shuang felt different pains at the same time, and both screamed and struggled to escape, but Yu Anan cooperated tacitly and pasted several immobilization talismans on Li Shuang.
Li Shuang and the ghost could only stand where they were, squeezed in the same body, enduring the torture of their souls being squeezed and crushed, and fighting for the use of their bodies.
Yun Mian was holding the ghost doll, with Yu Anan and the dean standing beside her. Together with a few people who had been hiding in the dark, they looked at Li Shuang, whose expression kept changing but who was enduring similar pain, with their eyes full of scrutiny and inquiry.
No one knew when the fight in the dormitory stopped. Yun Jinli walked out holding a dim soul, and then saw Li Shuang's current situation at a glance. After throwing the old ghost's soul to Bingshen for handling and questioning, he walked over and raised his hand to rub his daughter's hair.
Yun Mian held the ghost doll and rubbed it against her mother's cold palm. Then she tilted her head to look at Li Shuang who was screaming silently, and asked her softly, "Auntie, if you don't lie, I will take the ghost out of your body, how about that?"
She took two steps closer, and Li Shuang's own soul and the ghost in her body were surprisingly united. They retreated desperately in unison, fearing that they would be touched by her even a little bit.
Yunmian: “…”
She hugged the ghost doll in distress, thinking seriously why adults always like to lie?
It was the kind of lie that children could see through at a glance.
But since she lied, that means the answer to my question should be another one, right?
Yun Mian was a little dizzy with her own thoughts. She rubbed her brows and was not very reasonable. She unilaterally determined a certain answer.
So, as her senior brother hesitated for several times, she reached out to take back the triangular yellow talisman that her master had given her, and then let go, no longer restricting the ghost doll's freedom of movement.
In the eerie ghostland filled with ghost cries, a group of people and countless ghosts witnessed a one-sided revenge.
When Li Shuang was scratched by the ghost doll until her body was covered with blood and finger marks, and she fainted due to fear and pain in her soul, and twitched silently on the ground, the old dean looked at her, slowly shook his head and sighed.
"Two years ago, she came to apply for a caregiver position. She was previously a nanny but was later fired. I thought she had experience in taking care of children, so I hired her to take care of these children..."
However, in July, the words of Yunmian and Yu Anan as well as Li Shuang's own reaction made the dean suspicious of Li Shuang.
She began to doubt whether what Li Shuang said during the interview was true.
So the director began to ask people to help with background checks on the employees, and he also began to observe how Li Shuang cared for the children in the welfare home.
When the background check had not yet produced any results, she discovered from her observations, intentionally or unintentionally, that Li Shuang was often irresponsible, and even mocked and attacked some problematic children...
The director had originally planned to fire her, but it was already the second half of the year and there were very few people willing to come for an interview. In addition, there were sudden changes in the welfare home and the children were all sick, so the matter has been delayed until now.
During the day today, she happened to receive a background check message about Li Shuang from a friend.
Li Shuang's last job was indeed as a nanny, a high-paid one helping to take care of children. However, because she accidentally heard the employer discussing that she did not take good care of the children and wanted to replace her, she held a grudge and wanted to take revenge on the employer.
She didn't read much and didn't have a very meticulous mind, but she was really lucky.
She stole the child and deliberately deceived the owner of the house by saying that she was taking the child to the playground. In fact, she wanted to abandon the child as an orphan. She originally planned to drop the child off at the gate of the orphanage to scare the young couple. However, the owner's couple found out something was wrong. While they were chasing each other, the couple had a car accident on the way. Li Shuang was so scared, and the child kept crying, so she decided to go all out and suffocated the child to death.
The dean looked at Li Shuang, who was lying on the ground in pain, and sighed, "My friend also realized that the death of her last employer was too sudden and something was wrong, so she spent so much time checking the surveillance and doing background checks. Two years have passed, and many things can no longer be found. But my old friend and I have sorted out the information and decided to send her to the police station to report the case tomorrow morning."
I just didn't expect the accident to happen so quickly and suddenly.
If Bingshen had not accepted the task and brought Yunmian's two children here tonight, perhaps she and the children in the welfare home would have died.
Yunmian was stunned for a long time after hearing this. When she came to her senses, she walked towards the dean with the ghost doll in her arms, raised her head and asked her softly, "Dean, do you know who the doll's parents are?"
It turns out that the doll was really murdered, or was stolen and suffocated to death by a bad guy...
The dean rubbed the top of the little girl's head warmly and said slowly, "Child, the doll you're talking about is the one that was stolen, right? His parents had a car accident on the way to rescue him, and they're dead. He should be buried on the hill in the cemetery."
"The child's name is Chen Huaxing, his mother's name is Xie Yunyun, and his father's name is Chen Tianhang."
Yun Mian carefully wrote down the three names, thanked the director's mother, and then stood quietly aside holding the ghost doll, watching her mother and senior brother work together to deal with the remaining ghosts and ghost aura in the welfare home.
The Taoist temple is closer to the welfare home, so I will stay at the Taoist temple tonight and then drive to the school to report the next day.
After dawn, Yun Mian carried the ghost doll and ran to the wild cemetery where the fishing enforcement was carried out.
"Baby~" Yun Mian stood on tiptoe and placed the baby on its own grave, then took the incense, candles and paper money from the Taoist temple and lit them one by one in front of the small mound.
The smoke from the incense and candles curled up, the yellow paper was burning, and large black pieces of ash were lifted up by the wind and fire, swirling up in the air and then slowly falling down.
Yunmian stood in front of the doll and the small mound of earth, holding a lit incense stick in her hand. She bowed three times to the ghost doll, and then carefully inserted the incense stick, which burned extremely quickly, into the soil in front of the low grave.
The little girl stood up, closed her eyes, clasped her hands together, and then, under the gaze of the ghost doll's clean and clear eyes, she whispered: "I hope Chen Huaxing can be happy and healthy in the next life, never meet bad guys again, don't become a ghost doll, be loved by many people, be happy, and have endless candies and toys..."
Light golden merits slowly fell onto the ghost doll's soul along with her sincere and soft prayers, illuminating its soul with a warm and dim light.
The ghost doll stared blankly at Yunmian who was standing in front of it. Suddenly, a crystal tear slipped from its dark pupils, fell on its own grave with a plop, and quickly merged into the soil and disappeared.
Yunmian reached out and took little Chen Huaxing down from the grave.
Then he took out a bag that he had prepared at some point, scooped up the rough mud from the low grave with both hands, and put it into the bag one handful at a time. After the bag was full, he left with the ghost doll.
Forty minutes later, she appeared at the foot of the cemetery hill.
After asking the old man who guards the cemetery, Yun Mian carried the bag of soil up the mountain with great effort.
Her mother, senior brother, and An An were waiting for her outside the cemetery.
Yunmian went up all the way and looked around with the ghost doll. Finally, after more than ten minutes, they found the two tombstones next to each other.
Two empty tombstones.
There are no ghosts.
Yun Mian touched the depressed ghost doll and comforted it softly: "It's okay, Senior Brother said that it is difficult for people who died accidentally or naturally in a short period of time to remain in the world as souls, but they must love you very, very much."
Just like mother and many other parents, they will always love their children even if they become ghosts.
Yunmian taught the ghost doll to kowtow and burn incense in front of its parents’ graves, just as the policewoman had taught her.
While the ghost doll was kowtowing upright, Yun Mian put the bag full of grave soil aside, scooped out the soil from it, and piled it on the two tombstones, one handful at a time.
"Uncle and aunt..." Yun Mian pinched her dirty little hands, squatted beside the tombstone and whispered: "Don't be sad, my senior brother said that many people will reincarnate again and again, and maybe the baby will meet you next time, just like me and my mother, we can be together forever."
After wiping her dirty hands clean, she hurried to the middle of the mountain.
Yunmian ran all the way to her mother's tombstone, then sat down and began to pant.
She tilted her head to look at the black and white portrait of her mother on the tombstone, which showed her smiling gently. Thinking of her mother who had regained consciousness and become so beautiful and powerful at the foot of the mountain, she couldn't help but smile as well.
Yunmian stretched out her little hand and carefully touched her mother's curved eyes on the portrait. The flowers she sent last time had withered and were taken away. Yunmian reached out and hugged the cold tombstone, whispering, "Mom, I'll bring you more beautiful flowers next time~"
Mother's soul stays with Mianmian, while her body turns into ashes and is buried in the soil.
No matter what her mother looks like, Yunmian loves her seriously and gives her beautiful flowers again and again.
Yun Jinli's soul restrained all its breath and floated quietly behind her daughter. Seeing the little girl's innocent and silly appearance, a smile flashed in her eyes, but quickly disappeared before being discovered by her daughter.
She was very glad that she could still "live" again, even as a ghost.
I can see my daughter's innocent and warm smile again, accompany her as she grows up, and send her to school in person...
I didn’t let my daughter become an orphan, and I didn’t let Mianmian never be able to hug her and act like a spoiled brat and call her mom again…
Yun Jinli was extremely grateful.
Fate was indeed overly cruel to her, but it also seemed to have given her a lot of room for maneuver and hope, so that she would not be too desperate, and no longer hate the world and those who lived happily.
"Bad Mian..." The ghost doll hugged Yun Mian's legs and abdomen, and when she lowered her head, it came over and gently kissed her soft and warm cheek.
They stuck together and then separated. The ghost doll looked up at Yunmian, and each pair of dark eyes reflected the other's appearance.
Looking at the cute and warm bad boy Mianmian, it seemed like it wanted to cry again.
This time no tears flowed. The ghost doll's figure gradually became transparent and dim under the mottled shadows of the trees. Its little hands were always tugging at Yun Mian's sleeves, as if it had a lot to say, but it couldn't say anything.
Yun Mian knew that the ghost doll was going to reincarnate. She reached out and hugged the little doll again. She pulled the pigtails behind its head like she did before, gently curved her eyes, patted its back, and said softly, "Doll, be happy."
Even if you become another child, you must always be happy, don't be bullied, fight back if you are scolded by a bad guy, go to school, make many friends, wear new clothes, eat many things you like...
The ghost doll's silhouette became more and more transparent, and the ghost aura on its body quickly dissipated. It looked at Yunmian, and clumsily tried to bend its eyes to imitate her smile, and then completely disappeared on the spot.
Yunmian sat in front of her mother's tombstone in a daze for a long time.
Until another little figure walked up step by step from the foot of the mountain with difficulty, sat down beside her with weak legs, imitated her movements, supported her fair face with the palms of her hands, and took a long breath.
Yunmian tilted her head to look at her.
Yu Anan also tilted her head to look at Yunmian.
There was a quiet smile in two pairs of bright and clear eyes.
Yun Mian puffed up her cheeks and hugged Yu An'an, saying in a muffled voice: "An'an... I don't have a doll to hug anymore."
When I feel sad and unhappy, I need to be comforted by little An An to feel a little better.
Yu Anan blinked, patted Yunmian's back, then took out the candy that she had kept in her pocket for a long time, tore it open with great effort, and stuffed it into Yunmian's mouth.
"It's okay, Mianmian." She promised earnestly, "I will study hard and grow up hard. When I grow up, I will work hard to make a lot of money, and then buy you a room full of dolls!"
One piece of candy filled the child's cheeks so much that he puffed up like a little squirrel and asked her vaguely, "Really? Can we have two rooms? We can each have a room with dolls~"
Yu Anan nodded seriously and firmly: "Yes! Of course! We all have to have dolls~ If you lie to others, you are a puppy, and you are not allowed to change for a hundred years!"
After receiving such a sincere promise, Yun Mian smiled happily again, and took out some candy from her pocket, tore it open and gave it to Yu Anan.
Good friends are meant to be together forever.
Good friends will protect each other forever.
The good friends are Yun Mianmian and Yu Anan. They will hold hands and work hard to grow up and become rich together!
"Let's go, we're going down the mountain to school." Yu Anan took Yunmian's hand and walked down the mountain.
Yun Mian looked back at her mother's tombstone and made a note to buy her mother some pretty flowers next time. Then she turned around and followed every step Yu Anan had taken, and the two children skipped down the mountain.
The mountain is full of tombstones, representing the bleak death.
Below the mountain is the bustling world and their new life that has just begun.
At the school gate, Yunmian was carrying the small schoolbag her mother bought for her, and Yu Anan was carrying the same small schoolbag as Yunmian. The two children followed behind their senior, standing on tiptoe and looking curiously at the campus they were about to attend.
From now on, they are the official and glorious first-grade students in this school!
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