Chapter 18 Stepping



All the tomatoes at home were sold out, even those that were not ripe in the field. Lu Qingjiu originally wanted to keep Chao Qianyu at home for lunch, but Chao Qianyu made an excuse that he had something to do at home and left in a hurry. Lu Qingjiu couldn't stop him.

After Chao Qianyu left, Lu Qingjiu finally understood that Chao Qianyu came here probably for the tomatoes grown by Bai Yuehu, but he didn't know what benefits these tomatoes had compared to ordinary tomatoes.

But seeing that Bai Yuehu had no intention of explaining, he sat back in his chair and dozed off.

Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun headed towards the vegetable patch, intending to pick some vegetables to make lunch. As they were walking, Lu Qingjiu received a call from Zhu Miaomiao, who said, "Qingjiu! You've made money!"

Lu Qingjiu said: "Hmm?"

Zhu Miaomiao said: "Do you still remember Zhang Chuyang, the boss of our cooperative company?"

"I remember, what's wrong?" Lu Qingjiu asked.

Zhu Miaomiao said: "He asked me where I got my hair done! I said I went to a friend's house and rested for a few days and it healed!"

Her hair used to be so sparse that you could almost see her scalp, but this time her hair was black and thick, even more beautiful than the models in shampoo commercials.

As soon as she said this, Lu Qingjiu immediately understood: “Did you tell him?”

Zhu Miaomiao said: "How can that be? This is too mysterious. I just said that your family has a secret recipe for hair growth..."

Lu Qingjiu said, “Ah, but I can’t ask him to come and worship the well, right?”

Zhu Miaomiao said: "Why not? Let me tell you, if you do it this way..."

According to Zhu Miaomiao, the solution is to use other things to cover up the well water. For example, let Mr. Zhang eat something, and then let him worship, and tell him that food is the key to growth.

Lu Qingjiu said, "That's fine, but why doesn't he get a hair transplant?"

"He had it transplanted," Zhu Miaomiao said, "but the problem is... it all fell out again. He's only 30 years old and looks quite handsome, but no matter how handsome a guy is, he's doomed if he's bald." No matter how handsome a guy is, he's doomed if he has a Mediterranean hairstyle.

Lu Qingjiu had seen Zhang Chuyang before. He was a handsome and capable man, but like Zhu Miaomiao, he habitually wore a hat. This was fine on ordinary days, but it was always inappropriate in formal occasions.

"I'll go ask first." Lu Qingjiu said, "Don't rush to reply to him."

Zhu Miaomiao agreed.

Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun picked some fresh vegetables in the field before starting to walk home. After arriving home, Lu Qingjiu told Bai Yuehu about this.

"Sure." Although Bai Yuehu looked quite ethereal, he actually had no aversion to worldly things. After all, he knew very well that without money, there would be no meat to eat. "The well didn't have any side effects, but aren't you humans afraid of the dead?"

"It's okay." Lu Qingjiu said, "He doesn't know."

Bai Yuehu nodded.

After hearing the news about Bai Yuehu, Lu Qingjiu replied to Zhu Miaomiao, agreeing to her bringing the person over and asking her not to tell anyone else about it. Zhu Miaomiao agreed immediately. In fact, she was worried that Lu Qingjiu would have no source of income after resigning from his job, so she wanted to find him an income. After all, he had never done farm work since he was a child, and who knew if he would get a good harvest if he went to grow vegetables.

"Then I'll find time to bring him over." Zhu Miaomiao finished talking on the phone, paused, and said, "Is the White Moon Fox living in your house very powerful?"

"What do you mean?" Lu Qingjiu asked.

"Something happened to my neighbor's child," Zhu Miaomiao said. "He couldn't be cured even after being sent to the hospital. His mother suspects he's been possessed by an evil spirit. Does Bai Yuehu understand this? Can you help me ask him?"

Lu Qingjiu said: "Something happened? What happened?"

"You know the school next to our company?" Zhu Miaomiao said, "He went to school there."

Of course Lu Qingjiu knew about that school. In fact, that school was very famous there. There were two reasons for its fame: one was the excellent teaching quality, and the other was the school was famous for being haunted.

That's right, it's haunted.

Because schools cover a large area, the addresses they usually choose are relatively cheap places. In the city center, there is naturally only one cheap place, and that is... the cemetery.

Therefore, most schools are built on cemeteries. Apart from superstition, the main reason is economic. Of course, if that were the only reason, it would be fine, but the problem is that after the schools were built, many strange phenomena occurred, such as hearing girls crying in the toilets at night, and security guards discovering loud noises coming from dormitories that should not be occupied. There are countless such incidents, and after verifying them one by one, no scientific explanation can be found.

However, despite these incidents, no one was killed, so everyone turned a blind eye and pretended nothing happened. However, the news of what happened in the school spread more and more widely. Anyway, now that the students have finished their self-study classes, no one is allowed to enter the school.

The reason why Lu Qingjiu used this school to scare Zhu Miaomiao before was because the supernatural events in the school were too famous.

"What happened?" Lu Qingjiu casually picked up a plum that Yin Xun brought and started to eat it. The plum had just been chilled and was sweet and crisp, very delicious.

"The child can't walk anymore." Zhu Miaomiao said.

"Can't walk?" Lu Qingjiu asked curiously, "Did you hurt your leg?"

Zhu Miaomiao said: "No, it's like this. One day when he came home from school, his mother noticed that something was wrong with him. He always tiptoed when he walked..."

Lu Qingjiu: "On tiptoe?"

"Yes." Zhu Miaomiao said, "It seemed like he couldn't put his heel down. At first, his mother thought he was playing a prank and scolded him. Later, she realized something was wrong with the child and sent him straight to the hospital."

"Did you find anything?" Lu Qingjiu asked.

"The doctor did a detailed full-body examination and said there might be a problem with the brain, but they couldn't find the problem," said Zhu Miaomiao.

"Then he should be transferred to another hospital for treatment, right?" Lu Qingjiu said.

"His mother thought so too, and then something happened that night," Zhu Miaomiao said. "The nurse kept hearing a woman crying in the ward during her rounds, and when she went over, she saw it was actually the child crying. The child said she didn't want to die and had to find a scapegoat."

If Lu Qingjiu had heard this before, he would have been surprised. But after what he had experienced with the White Moon Fox and the female ghost in the backyard, he was not particularly surprised to hear Zhu Miaomiao's words. He asked, "What happens next?"

"After that, other patients said the child was possessed by an evil spirit," Zhu Miaomiao said. "His mother kept him in the hospital for observation for a while, but couldn't find anything wrong. The child's condition became increasingly worse... He even tried to jump out the window in the middle of the night."

Lu Qingjiu felt that this matter was a bit mysterious. He asked, "Is the child okay?"

"He's fine, but the situation is getting worse," Zhu Miaomiao said. "Actually, I didn't know either. It wasn't until I went out to take out the trash yesterday that I saw his mother standing in the hallway crying. I asked her what happened, and then I immediately thought of you..."

Lu Qingjiu pondered for a moment: "I'll go and ask for you."

"Okay." Zhu Miaomiao said, "That child is quite pitiful. His academic performance is also very good. If he were to die like this, his mother would be heartbroken."

Lu Qingjiu said okay and then hung up the phone.

After he hung up the phone, he went to find Yin Xun first and told him about this. During the time they spent together, he felt that Yin Xun seemed to know something about this aspect. It seemed that this was a common trait among the villagers.

Yin Xun had been sitting in the room watching a movie and eating plums on Lu Qingjiu's computer. When he heard Lu Qingjiu's words, he sat up straight and said, "You said he walked on tiptoe?"

Lu Qingjiu asked, "What's wrong?" He saw that Yin Xun's face was not right, so he quickly asked, "Is it serious?"

Yin Xun asked, "How long has it been like this?"

Lu Qingjiu calculated the time Zhu Miaomiao mentioned: "It should be almost half a month, right?"

Yin Xun said, "That child is in danger."

Lu Qingjiu was shocked when he heard this: "What do you mean?"

Yin Xun said: "In our rural area, there is a saying called 'ghost tiptoeing', which means that a person's body has been invaded by a ghost, and the ghost is pulling the person's soul from behind, forcing the person to walk on tiptoe."

Lu Qingjiu: "Really? What should I do then?!"

Yin Xun: "Find a fortune teller..." He paused at the word fortune teller and muttered, "Oh, sorry, I forgot, the fortune teller in our village resigned and got married."

Lu Qingjiu: “…”

Yin Xun: "But they should have other witches there, right? Just find a reliable one to calm Hun'er down."

Lu Qingjiu asked, "Then what kind of witch is reliable?"

Yin Xun said: "The first condition is that there can't be too much hair."

Lu Qingjiu glared: “…Are you serious?”

Yin Xun spread his hands: "Haha, I was just kidding."

Lu Qingjiu suddenly felt his hands itchy and wanted to hit Yin Xun on the head a few times.

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