008. Big Medicine
After nightfall, the entire Qing residence looked eerie and ghostly, and even the lights could not dispel the strange atmosphere.
Qing Ling had little money when he first arrived, and he was only served by two maids, so he was cut off from the outside world in the house. Fortunately, Chang Heng kept his word. When the setting sun was swallowed up by the night, the evil ghost in funeral clothes appeared.
Qing Ling knew that a girl who could catch demons and exorcise evil spirits had come in broad daylight, and had said on the spot that the Qing family was suffering retribution and that the mistress of the house would not survive the day. However, he could not find out the cause of Qing Yuxiu's death at all, and the servants kept silent about it. It was probably because Qing Congnan had issued a gag order.
"Are we going out now?" Qingling asked.
Apart from the first few days when the evil spirit loved to scare people and was stubborn in wanting to have sex with him, Chang Heng's attitude was not too bad. He just nodded and said, "Let's go."
Chang Heng walked through the door, but Qing Ling had to open the door properly. However, until he walked out of the courtyard, the two maids in the yard seemed not to have seen him at all and were busy with their own things.
Qingling guessed that this was a trick used by an evil ghost.
Qing Yuxiu will be hastily buried tomorrow, but today the Qing family is still preparing to go to the ancestral temple to worship their ancestors. It seems that the eldest lady's funeral is not as important as worshiping the ancestors. Even at night, there are still servants busy coming and going, and people passing by do not notice Qingling's existence.
Walking through the courtyard with Chang Heng to the main house in front, the eldest wife and her husband naturally lived together, but only Chen Qiuxin and the maidservant who came with her as a dowry were there.
Relying on the fact that no one could notice, Qingling followed Changheng into the yard openly and heard Chen Qiuxin's obviously panicked voice in the house: "Cui Jin, go, go outside and have another look, someone is watching me, someone must be watching me!"
Qingling was standing in the yard. He saw the maid he had seen during the day push the door open and look out, then sigh helplessly and go back.
"Ma'am, don't think too much. I checked and there is no one outside."
"No... no, Cui Jin, it's true. Believe me, she's back. It must be her. That bastard brought her back!"
Qingling in the yard glanced at Changheng.
The only thing he brought back was this evil spirit, but Chang Heng said that he did not kill Qing Yuxiu.
It's not that Qingling trusts Changheng, but that he is more self-aware. Firstly, Qingling is really afraid of death, so he would rather be bullied by evil spirits than not find a way to survive. Secondly, it would be easy for Changheng to crush him to death, so why would he lie to him?
So the final conclusion is that there is no need for Chang Heng to deceive Qing Ling who can be easily manipulated.
Besides, Qing Ling didn’t care much about these people from the Qing family. What did their life or death have to do with him?
Qing Ling originally wanted to check Qing Yuxiu's body, but he didn't expect Chang Heng to bring him directly to Chen Qiuxin. The meaning was self-evident. This person was the one who died tonight, and Qing Ling could watch the whole process directly.
Chang Heng walked forward again.
He opened the door.
Suddenly, Chen Qiuxin's screams and Cui Jin's panicked voice of comfort were heard in the room. Chang Heng turned back and said to Qing Ling without changing his expression, "Let's go."
Relying on the fact that no one was seeing, Qingling followed Changheng into the house, but strangely, he did not close the door, and the two people in the house did not come out. After seeing the situation in the house clearly, Qingling, who had just entered, suddenly froze and wanted to leave.
Cui Jin was seen supporting the trembling Chen Qiuxin as they walked around the square table in the room, both of them still muttering to each other.
"Don't be afraid, Madam. Let's go find the master. There are so many people in the house. Everything will be fine."
"Yes, yes... let's go, let's go."
The behavior of these two people was already very strange, but what really made Qingling sweat was a figure on the ground. It was a somewhat ethereal figure, lying naked on the ground, with exposed limbs twisted into weird and cruel shapes. More than half of the skin on the body was gone, revealing bright red flesh, and the black hair was wet and messy.
Qing Ling stood frozen at the door, as if he had noticed being watched. The thing on the ground slowly raised its head, revealing a pale, beautiful face. Its eyes were so cloudy that it looked numb and terrifying.
Qingling knew that was what a person's eyes looked like after death. He had seen it once before, when Yu Bo passed away.
She stood up in a very strange posture with her broken, twisted and bloody legs. Only then did Qing Ling realize that her bloody body had been cut open with her abdominal organs hanging in front of her. If this was how she looked before she died, then she must have died a miserable death.
Qing Ling really couldn't spare any extra compassion. He just felt scared because those lifeless eyes seemed to be looking at him.
A figure suddenly blocked Qingling's sight.
Chang Heng stood in front of Qing Ling and said coldly with a stern face: "This is not someone you should covet."
"He...he..." the ghost girl said in a dry voice unwillingly, "He is...mine..."
Chang Heng suddenly became like a wolf king that was enraged after being provoked by someone else who had invaded his territory. An ominous black smoke suddenly appeared around him. His tall figure still stood firmly in front of Qing Ling, and he sneered in a sinister manner: "You don't know how to live or die."
Chang Heng's hostility was far beyond that of the female ghost. The evil spirit condensed into a substantial black mist that spread out fiercely.
The female ghost's reaction was a little slow, but she still had the instinct to seek good fortune and avoid danger. She shrank back in fear and reluctance, and finally returned to her previous state, lying on the ground half-dead again.
Chen Qiuxin and his servant were still circling the table, occasionally exchanging a few words with each other, completely unaware of what had just happened in the room.
Qing Ling, hiding behind Chang Heng, suppressed his trembling and whispered, "Thank you."
No matter what this evil had done to him, the protection was real.
Chang Heng also paused, and the lingering black fog dissipated. He turned around and looked at Qing Ling, whose face was pale with fear.
That was his legally engaged wife, and he should kill her and take her with him. It was his instinct.
Qing Ling felt that Chang Heng's eyes were complicated for a moment, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he just lowered his eyes and said lightly: "Your cheap father didn't lie to you about one thing. Your body and soul are born to make great medicine."
Great medicine.
Qingling remained silent.
Ever since this evil spirit came after him, Qingling discovered that he seemed to be particularly favored by various evil creatures. Although he didn't know what the elixir was, he could guess that it was probably the tonic that attracted the evil spirits.
"So..." Qing Ling recalled what was written in the book of strange stories, that evil spirits would suck the essence of living people, so he looked up at Chang Heng and asked, "You insist on being with me... is it because I am a great medicine?"
Chang Heng's expression remained unchanged. He was silent for a short while, then he curled his lips with interest.
"Just take it as it is."
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