After returning home with the spices and seeds, Lu Qingjiu casually told Yin Xun about this matter as a topic of conversation. Yin Xun felt a little uncomfortable after hearing it, and said that your description is too scary. It has only been a few days, and the woman has put her chin on Pang Ziqi's shoulder. If a few more days pass... won't she become one with Pang Ziqi?
Lu Qingjiu said, "How would I know?" He added the beef and other ingredients to the marinade, then slowly simmered them. Chicken and duck offal are very suitable for marinating, especially the gizzards, which are crispy and go well with alcohol. Lu Qingjiu continued, "But that thing looks quite unpleasant."
Yin Xun was not very interested in Pang Ziqi's affairs, but was more interested in the beef in the pot. The two chatted for a while, but soon stopped talking about this topic and turned the focus to tonight's dinner.
Lu Qingjiu asked Yin Xun to pick some fresh onions from the field. When the braised beef was ready, cut it into slices and sprinkle it with Lu Qingjiu's special chili dipping sauce. It would taste better.
After dinner, Lu Qingjiu brought the braised beef to the courtyard and poured a few glasses of wine he had made earlier. This homemade wine was not strong in alcohol, but tasted quite good, making it the perfect drink for leisure.
The braised beef is also very tasty, with firm and chewy texture. The more you chew it, the more fragrant it becomes. After dipping it in the special chili powder, the beef becomes spicy. However, this chili powder is not only spicy, but also contains roasted peanuts and sesame seeds. After dipping it in a little, the spicy taste is mixed with fragrance, which makes people unable to stop.
The three of them drank and ate to their heart's content. After Bai Yuehu finished the last piece of beef, it was almost eleven o'clock in the evening. Yin Xun yawned and said he wanted to go home and sleep. Lu Qingjiu told him to be careful on his way home. After watching him disappear on the path in the village, he turned back to the house, washed himself, turned on the air conditioner, and lay down on the bed to sleep.
The next morning, Lu Qingjiu woke up refreshed and turned on the TV for Xiaohua, Xiaohei, and Xiaohuli to watch before cooking. Ever since the accident, Lu Qingjiu had developed a habit of watching local news, especially the local morning news around 7 o'clock every morning, which was the most interesting.
The channels in these small places are different from those in the big stations. Most of them talk about trivial matters in the family, such as how Aunt Li secretly stole eggs from Aunt Cheng's house, how the residents living on the upper floors like to throw garbage downstairs and have a conflict with the residents downstairs, and how Ms. Liu spent a lot of money on plastic surgery but it was ruined and she must go to the beauty salon to seek an explanation... Lu Qingjiu turned up the volume and listened while making breakfast.
Today I had homemade rice noodles. I bought fresh rice from my neighbor next door. After frying it until fragrant, I took it to town and ground it into a powder. Then I added potato starch and kneaded it into a ball. After kneading it into a ball, I flattened it and cut it into strips. Now the rice noodles are ready. Homemade rice noodles are much better than those bought outside. There is no edible glue, and you won't bite them apart. The only drawback is that the thickness may not be as uniform, but as long as it tastes good, it doesn't matter.
After cooking several large bowls of rice noodles, Lu Qingjiu scooped a spoonful of the stewed beef that he had specially reserved into each bowl, and sprinkled it with green chopped green onions. Then, a bowl of delicious beef rice noodles was ready.
When he brought the bowl out of the kitchen, he happened to see a local news broadcast on TV, saying that a serious car accident occurred on the city bridge early this morning. Although no passers-by were affected, the driver was seriously injured and had been sent to the hospital for emergency treatment.
Yin Xun came over to help Lu Qingjiu catch the bowl in his hand. Seeing the news, he said, "Hey, the accident happened to a police car."
"Police car?" Lu Qingjiu was stunned, and immediately remembered something, "Could it be..."
He and Yin Xun looked at each other and saw the same guess in each other's eyes.
"I'll make a phone call and ask." Lu Qingjiu immediately took out his cell phone and dialed Hu Shu's number.
After the call was connected, Hu Shu said, "Qingjiu, what's the matter?"
Lu Qingjiu asked, "Hu Shu, is there an accident with your police car?"
Hu Shu said, "Yeah..." He seemed to remember something, "Qingjiu, do you know something?" He remembered that when Lu Qingjiu was talking to him before, she mentioned that something strange was following Pang Ziqi. He didn't take it seriously at the time, and after he told Pang Ziqi about it, Pang Ziqi didn't care either. Now he thinks Lu Qingjiu may have really seen something.
Lu Qingjiu hesitated for a moment, but still explained the matter in detail to Hu Shu. Although Pang Ziqi had a bad personality, he was a police officer after all, and he probably hadn't done anything bad. "Yes, that day I saw a woman in green clothes following him."
Hu Shu said dully, "Woman?"
"Yeah, a woman holding an umbrella." Lu Qingjiu said, "I asked my friend, and he said that woman was something very bad, but I don't know what it was exactly."
Hu Shu fell silent, seemingly thinking about something.
Lu Qingjiu said: "How about it, do you remember anything?"
Hu Shu said, "Well... actually, I can't really say. His job is special, so I don't know how he got into trouble. But I heard that he seemed to have visited an ancient tomb before coming here. I just heard it casually, so I don't know if it's true or not."
Lu Qingjiu just listened. He didn't really understand these things, and he told Hu Shu these things just to give him a friendly reminder.
After hanging up the phone, Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun continued to slurp noodles.
"Will Pang Ziqi die?" Yin Xun asked after drinking the last mouthful of soup.
"How would I know?" Lu Qingjiu said helplessly, "You are the mountain god. Logically, I should be the one asking you this question, right?"
Yin Xun shook his head: "I don't know, I don't know. That thing is very fierce, and I don't want to get involved with it. After all, I am made of water."
Lu Qingjiu: "..." He remembered Yin Xun's palm that had been bitten off before and had now recovered as before, and found that Yin Xun was really made of water...
After dinner, Bai Yuehu went back to the fields, while Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun wanted to clean up the yard.
The chicks have grown up and the entire yard is their territory. They are friendly to people they know, but are hostile to other intruders. They almost beat up the neighbor's dog. Fortunately, Lu Qingjiu intervened in time, otherwise the dog might have been beaten to death by his fighting chickens.
After Lu Qingjiu finished cleaning, he was about to go to the kitchen to cook, but Yin Xun grabbed his arm with a look of fear in his eyes. He shouted, "Wine...wine."
Lu Qingjiu turned around blankly: "Huh?"
Yin Xun said: "What is that on your back..."
Lu Qingjiu was puzzled: "Back?" He reached out and touched his back, but felt nothing. "What do you mean?"
Yin Xun quickly pulled Lu Qingjiu to the bathroom where there was a mirror and let him look at his back.
Lu Qingjiu was shocked the moment she saw it. She saw a black shadow appear on his back. The shadow looked like a woman holding an umbrella. Although it was blurry, when she saw it, she immediately remembered the thing that had its chin on Pang Ziqi's shoulder and the resentful look it gave her...
"Fuck." Lu Qingjiu couldn't help but curse.
"Why is this thing on your back?" Yin Xun was also stunned. He reached out tentatively to touch the black shadow, but passed right through it. "Jiu'er, what did you do?"
Lu Qingjiu: "...I just took one more look at her in the crowd."
Yin Xun sang out: "She never forgot your face again?"
Lu Qingjiu: “…”
Lu Qingjiu and Pang Ziqi had only met twice, and he didn't know why he became the target of that thing. Could it be that the thing discovered that he was the pillar of the family... Without him, the two children in the family would have to live a poor life again where they couldn't even afford steamed dumplings?
No, as a father, Lu Qingjiu would never allow such a thing to happen!
"Jiu'er, what are you thinking about?" Yin Xun asked puzzledly when he saw Lu Qingjiu's expression changing unpredictably.
“I think…” Lu Qingjiu came back to his senses, “Let’s go to the hospital to see Pang Ziqi.”
Yin Xun: “…Why?”
Lu Qingjiu touched his back and said, "I have a feeling that if he dies, I will probably be the next one..." He didn't expect that this thing could be contagious.
Yin Xun: “…”
It’s not impossible to go to the hospital to see Pang Ziqi, but before going, Lu Qingjiu still consulted his vixen for advice.
After all, compared to this unreliable friend, the Mountain God, Bai Yuehu obviously knows more.
When Bai Yuehu came back wearing boots and a hat, carrying a bucket, he saw the two people in the family sitting in the yard looking at him eagerly. He paused and asked, "What's wrong?"
Lu Qingjiu stood up and turned around to show his back: "Yuehu, there seems to be something extra on my back..."
Bai Yuehu glanced at Lu Qingjiu's back and also saw the black shadow.
"What on earth is this thing?" Lu Qingjiu also told Pang Ziqi about the car accident. "Is it contagious?"
Bai Yuehu walked to Lu Qingjiu's side, lowered his head slightly and sniffed with his nose: "It's a bit troublesome."
Trouble? Lu Qingjiu became nervous when he heard this. He had seen Bai Yuehu's strength before. If even Bai Yuehu said it was troublesome, then this matter must be extraordinary. He asked, "Is there any way to get rid of it?"
Bai Yuehu said, "Yes, there is."
Lu Qingjiu said: "How do we do it?"
Bai Yuehu said, "The last person who was possessed must have touched something he shouldn't have. Let him deal with it and everything should be fine."
Speaking of things that shouldn't be touched, Lu Qingjiu immediately remembered what Hu Shu told him about Pang Ziqi going down to the tomb, and he didn't know if it had anything to do with the appearance of this woman.
"What if I can't find that thing?" Lu Qingjiu still didn't forget to find a way out for himself.
"Can't find it?" Bai Yuehu said, "Forget it if you really can't find it. I'll handle it. I won't let you die." When he said this, he sighed softly. Lu Qingjiu's heart tightened when he saw this, knowing that this matter might be really troublesome.
But he encountered this incident unexpectedly. He just looked at that thing for a second longer and was entangled by it.
"Then I'll go to the hospital to see him tomorrow." Lu Qingjiu made a decision, "to see if he knows what that thing is."
Yin Xun said, "I'll go with you."
Lu Qingjiu said: "Forget it, don't come with us. If you get infected too, it will be even more troublesome."
Bai Yuehu sat next to them, his face not showing any nervousness. He said, "Go ahead. If you can't handle it, come back and I'll help you solve it."
Lu Qingjiu nodded, feeling a deep gratitude towards his own vixen. Although Bai Yue Fox said it was troublesome, she did not back down. She was truly a good fox with a beautiful personality and a kind heart.
Because the matter was urgent, Lu Qingjiu didn't know when Pang Ziqi would get into trouble, so he rushed to the city hospital the next day.
Yin Xun insisted on coming with Lu Qingjiu. Lu Qingjiu wanted to refuse him, but he said that he was a mountain god after all, and if something really happened...
Lu Qingjiu asked: "What if something really happened?"
Yin Xun said: "I can at least help you call Bai Yuehu."
Lu Qingjiu: “…” Thank you so much, my good-for-nothing friend.
He talked about making a phone call, but in reality, Bai Yuehu, who had lived at home for so long, never used a cell phone. Lu Qingjiu thought that after this matter was over, he should buy Bai Yuehu a cell phone, so that if something really happened, he wouldn't be able to contact others. After all, he couldn't transmit his voice over a long distance. He used to think that Bai Yuehu didn't use a cell phone because he looked down on such mundane things, but now that he thought about it, he might simply not use a cell phone because he couldn't afford it...
With a target in mind, the two men took a truck to the city hospital. After contacting Hu Shu who was guarding the hospital, they met Pang Ziqi who had just woken up from a coma in the ward.
To be honest, Lu Qingjiu had prepared himself mentally before coming, but when he saw Pang Ziqi, his heart still trembled. Pang Ziqi was lying on the bed, and the woman was lying on top of him, with an umbrella covering their heads. That terrifying face turned around, staring gloomily at Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun who came to visit.
Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun could only pretend not to see it. Pang Ziqi had woken up and regained consciousness. Although he was lying in bed unable to move, he could still speak.
"What did you see?" Pang Ziqi said with difficulty, "You...you told Hu Shu what you saw?"
Lu Qingjiu said: "I saw a woman following you."
"What kind of woman?" Pang Ziqi continued to ask.
"She was wearing a green dress, holding an umbrella, and had red and green snakes hanging from her ears." Lu Qingjiu was too embarrassed to say anything too much in front of others. "She had no pupils in her eyes, but apart from that, she was still quite beautiful."
Everyone: "..." Lu Qingjiu, you have a strong desire to survive.
Lu Qingjiu glanced at the woman and added, “I didn’t mean to say anything bad about you.”
woman:"……"
After listening to Lu Qingjiu's description, Pang Ziqi's face turned very ugly. He said, "I understand. Thank you."
Lu Qingjiu said: "Well, I heard from my friend that if you don't get rid of this thing, you will be killed by her soon. If you don't hurry up, you will really die."
Pang Ziqi said hoarsely, "I'm afraid I can't do this quickly."
Lu Qingjiu was shocked: "What do you mean?"
Pang Ziqi asked, "Do you know Yu Shiqi?"
"Rain Master Concubine?" Lu Qingjiu said, "Isn't that a monster in the Classic of Mountains and Seas?" He suddenly remembered the description of Rain Master Concubine in the Classic of Mountains and Seas: she was black, holding a snake in each hand, a green snake in her left ear, and a red snake in her right ear. She did have similarities with the woman lying on Pang Ziqi in front of him.
It is said that the reason why the Rain Master Concubine is called this name is because she is the concubine of the Rain Master Pingyi. The only difference between her and the Rain Master is that she is in charge of the power of the sun.
"Yes," Pang Ziqi said, "Three months ago, a cemetery was discovered in Shandong."
Lu Qingjiu asked, "Shandong? Did you find Tanggu?"
Pang Ziqi smiled bitterly: "Maybe."
Tanggu is the place where the sun rises in legend. It is also said to be the place where the ancient Xihe people worshipped the sun god. Xihe is the sun god. According to mythology, she gave birth to ten suns.
The story became more and more involved, so Lu Qingjiu simply found a stool and sat next to Pang Ziqi: "Tell me what's going on."
"Something happened right after the cemetery opened," Pang Ziqi said. "Three or four people died, and then it started raining heavily for a week straight. The higher-ups realized something was wrong, so they sent us there."
Lu Qingjiu didn't answer, but listened carefully.
"At first, they thought it was just an ancient tomb with a long history, but after investigation, they found that the age of the tomb didn't match, and strange things were happening frequently," Pang Ziqi said. "After our investigation, we found some murals, some burial objects, and a huge coffin in the tomb."
Lu Qingjiu said, "You won't open the coffin, will you?" He had a bad feeling.
Pang Ziqi said: "I didn't want to open it at the time, but my boss said, since I'm already here..."
Lu Qingjiu: “…” Brother, do you think you are going on a trip? Even the fucking gods are here.
Even without Pang Ziqi's explanation, Lu Qingjiu could have guessed what happened next. Pang Ziqi and his companions opened the coffin and saw the well-preserved body within. However, once the coffin was opened, a mechanism activated, flooding the body and causing a drastic change in the entire tomb. Fortunately, they escaped in time. After leaving the cemetery, Pang Ziqi thought the incident was over, but he had no idea it was only the beginning.
Pang Ziqi's face was gloomy when he spoke, while Yin Xun and Lu Qingjiu listened with great interest.
"Wow, do you guys go to tombs often?" Yin Xun said, "It's really exciting."
Pang Ziqi: "..."
Lu Qingjiu asked, "Is your injury due to the curse considered a work-related injury? How much medical expenses can be reimbursed?"
Pang Ziqi: "..."
Hu Shu said helplessly: "Are you guys off topic?"
Lu Qingjiu coughed dryly, realizing that he seemed to have strayed from the topic, and brought the subject back: "Did you touch anything strange? If you want to survive, you have to find that thing first."
Pang Ziqi said, "I've come across quite a few strange things, but if I had to say the strangest one..." He sighed, "it would have to be the corpse of Master Yu's concubine."
Lu Qingjiu asked, “Did you touch it?”
Pang Ziqi nodded and said, "After the coffin was flooded, we wanted to fish the body out, but it was so heavy that we couldn't lift it out at all."
Lu Qingjiu asked: "So now the body is gone too?"
Pang Ziqi said helplessly, "Even if it's still there, there's no way I'd destroy it. Such precious research material, if I destroy the body, I'm afraid those researchers would tear me apart alive."
Lu Qingjiu felt that this was correct.
"Then we can only wait for death?" Yin Xun interrupted and asked.
"Huh, it shouldn't end in death." Pang Ziqi said, "I have already sent a message to my department, they will send someone over soon, I just need to hold on for a few more days..." As soon as he finished speaking, the window that was originally in good condition made a crisp sound, and the glass actually fell to the ground with a crackling sound as if it was smashed by something.
Seeing this, Hu Shu hurried to the window to look, but found nothing. Only Lu Qingjiu noticed that when the window broke, the woman lying on Pang Ziqi reached out and hugged Pang Ziqi's neck - as if she wanted to merge with his body.
"It's raining." Hu Shu shivered as the wind came in from the window.
The temperature was originally around 36 or 37 degrees Celsius, but the atmosphere in the ward was frighteningly cold. The rain outside the window had started falling at some point, and it poured into the room along with the wind.
The nurse who heard the noise came in to check the situation. After finding that the glass was broken, she frowned and asked them what had happened. Hu Shu could only say that the wind had blown the window apart.
Although the nurse didn't quite believe it, she didn't investigate further because Hu Shu was a policeman, and turned around to arrange another room for Pang Ziqi.
Pang Ziqi smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know if I can hold on until someone comes from above."
Lu Qingjiu said: "Your case is very serious. You are not the only one who touched the corpse, right?"
Pang Ziqi nodded: "But they are all better than me, so I was the first one to have problems."
Lu Qingjiu said: "Then... do you know that this thing of yours is contagious?"
Pang Ziqi: "Infectious?"
Lu Qingjiu turned around and asked Pang Ziqi to look behind him: “Can you see it?”
Pang Ziqi frowned and stared for a while, then shook his head: "I can't see it, what are you talking about?"
Lu Qingjiu sighed helplessly and told Pang Ziqi about the shadow behind him after he and the woman looked at each other. Yes, if Pang Ziqi could see the shadow, then he must be able to see the woman as well, so he wouldn't realize something was wrong only after something happened.
"Is it contagious?" Pang Ziqi became nervous. "Does that mean it will be your turn after I die?"
"That's probably what you mean." Lu Qingjiu said, "And it's possible that after I die, it will be replaced by someone else, so if this matter is not resolved, it will not end, do you understand?"
Pang Ziqi's expression instantly became solemn. If he was the only one who died, then he deserved it. After all, he touched something he shouldn't have touched. But if his death was not the end but just the beginning, then this matter would not be so simple.
Lu Qingjiu and the others were completely innocent. If anything happened to him, Pang Ziqi would be completely unacceptable. He took a deep breath, as if he had made a decision. There was something more in his eyes as he looked at Lu Qingjiu. He said, "I understand. I will deal with this matter as soon as possible."
Lu Qingjiu said: "I hope so. By the way..." He hesitated for a moment and whispered, "Do you want to know where that woman is now?"
Pang Ziqi: "...She is still with me?"
Lu Qingjiu nodded sympathetically: "She is lying on you, you can kiss her with the side of your face, do you want to say hello to her?"
Pang Ziqi's expression instantly twisted when he heard this. He held it in for a long time before forcing out a single word from between his teeth, "Fuck."
The author has something to say: Bai Yuehu: This thing must be dealt with.
Lu Qingjiu: My vixen is so nice woooooo
Bai Yuehu: Otherwise, if she follows Lu Qingjiu in the bath, she will be seen naked by her.
Lu Qingjiu: ………………
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