Chapter 35: Haunted House in the Hill (35)
Xi Shuang didn't expect Yan Shixun to evaluate her like this. She stared at the handsome young man in a daze for a moment, not knowing what to say.
One hundred years ago, when she rejected the ghost messenger and prayed for strength from the unknown gentleman, and became a fierce ghost, she had already sentenced herself to death in her heart.
She was an unfilial daughter who caused her wet nurse to die tragically when she could have enjoyed her old age. She was also a sinner who killed dozens of bandits and deserved to be punished in the eighteen levels of hell.
Not only the people in the production crew in the living room at this moment, but even the villagers and passers-by who had entered the Ghost Mountain in the past would be frightened and flee in terror when they saw her, as if she were a man-eating evil ghost, and they would be killed by her if they ran a little slower.
This is the evidence.
A fact that Xi Shuang could not deny.
However, even though she is like this, someone still tells her seriously, 'You are good, you can do it'.
Xishuang's expression was complicated, seeming happy and worried at the same time. Her red lips moved slightly but she swallowed back the words she wanted to say.
Yan Shixun saw all of Xi Shuang's reactions and knew what she was hesitating about. So he raised his hand and pointed at Bai Shuang who was hiding behind him, saying, "Do you remember her, the girl you possessed before? Look at her, she lives a bright and free life, dares to love and hate, and never loses her own judgment and opinion at any time."
Bai Shuang didn't expect Yan Shixun to praise her like this. She immediately shrank back with a blushing face, raised her hand and touched her hair in embarrassment, "No, actually I was also afraid of this sister. But she is better and prettier than me. I heard that this sister was a Cantonese opera master? Is it similar to winning a singing god award now? If you were born now, I wonder how many people would be crazy about you."
The praise and affirmation from fellow young girls brought a smile to Xishuang's beautiful eyes. Like a familiar and intellectual older sister, she looked at Baishuang and everyone in the program crew with a gentle gaze.
Seeing this, Yan Shixun smiled slightly.
Just as he expected, Bai Shuang completed a perfect assist.
Xi Shuang was resistant to strangers. Even to the person who had lived in the white room on the left, her friendly attitude was just without any attack or intimidation.
But Bai Shuang seems to be an exception to Xi Shuang.
When the production crew first arrived at Ghost Mountain, Bai Shuang ran to the white rose bushes in the garden and sang live on the split screen. This behavior was tantamount to an offense to the territory under the rules formed by the cross-confrontation of several forces in the villa.
However, because the corpse was abandoned in the garden, Xishuang, who took control of the place, did not attack Baishuang.
She just made Bai Shuang hallucinate through the dressing mirror when she wanted to leave the room again to take a selfie in the garden at night, and then possessed Bai Shuang, making Bai Shuang look no different from her in the eyes of the monsters turned from bandits in the villa.
Otherwise, if Bai Shuang went out alone at night, she would definitely encounter the monsters in the villa and end up like Liu Yiyi.
Moreover, she controlled Bai Shuang's body to bypass the human-faced rose in the garden and went directly to the woodshed that all the monsters were afraid of and dared not approach easily, thus avoiding the possibility of Bai Shuang being dragged into the soil by the human-faced rose in the garden.
This left enough time for Yan Shixun to pick up the intact Bai Shuang outside the open space of the woodshed.
It was only when Yan Shixun obtained all the information in the villa and reviewed it again that he was able to remain safe and sound due to all the coincidences on Bai Shuang's side. He accidentally discovered Xi Shuang's kindness towards Bai Shuang, a girl with the same name as her.
Perhaps it was Bai Shuang's singing in the garden that moved Xi Shuang, causing the confused Li Gui to recall his time as a Cantonese opera master.
Or maybe it was this girl with the same name as her, who had the same bright smile she had when she was young...
Xishuang has been looking at Baishuang gently, as if he was looking at another time and space, another possible self.
So Yan Shixun pointed at Bai Shuang and said to Xi Shuang: "This is the girl who was raised a hundred years after your death. She has the power to love and wait. The freedom you didn't have, the girl a hundred years later has. They will never experience the oppression and prejudice you hate again."
"Don't you want to try it in this era?"
Xishuang was obviously persuaded.
She opened her mouth hesitantly, but did not immediately answer Yan Shixun's question.
Everyone in the program crew also understood something from their conversation and knew that Xi Shuang was not an evil ghost who would harm them. The fear they had just felt dissipated a lot and they looked at Xi Shuang with encouragement in their eyes.
Yan Shixun struck while the iron was hot and said, "Also, there is one thing I think you may have misunderstood."
In the face of Xi Shuang's doubtful gaze, Yan Shixun continued, "In fact, a hundred years ago, your lover did not abandon you."
Xishuang's phoenix eyes widened slightly.
"At the same time as you encountered the bandits, the city was also bombed by bombs. Your lover was on his way to you with joy and expectation, but he was hit by the bomb and died in the explosion."
In the letter on Xi Shuang's dressing table, her lover said that he had successfully become the president of the Chamber of Commerce, which made Yan Shixun confirm the identity of Xi Shuang's lover.
"The president of the Binhai Chamber of Commerce disappeared in the bombing and is suspected to be dead. No remains have been found."
Yan Shixun recited word for word the record in the local chronicles about the president of the Chamber of Commerce a hundred years ago.
A line of hot tears rolled down from Xishuang's phoenix eyes.
Her eyes were red and she almost choked up: "So, he didn't abandon me, did he? He still loves me and wants to marry me to be his wife. He didn't change his heart, did he?"
Under Xi Shuang's eager and expectant gaze, Yan Shixun nodded calmly and gave her a positive answer.
"yes."
The beauty cries and the roses fall in the rain.
Tears of joy yet sadness washed away all the resentment in Xi Shuang's eyes, and she became lively and full of vitality again.
"I didn't even know about it, and I resented him for a hundred years, and waited for him for a hundred years, but he had already passed away before me... A hundred years had passed, and he must have already passed through the Naihe Bridge and was reborn. I couldn't even see him for the last time."
Xi Shuang cried and laughed: "I am a fool. I missed so many things. I feel so ashamed of him and the nanny."
"No, it's not too late."
Yan Shixun said: "As long as you go there, souls will come and go, and people who are destined to meet will always meet."
"The world is cruel, but it always leaves a ray of hope for people. Xishuang, maybe when you step into another world, you will find that the person who loves you is still waiting for you."
"As long as you nod..."
Yan Shixun walked over with steady steps, stretched out his slender palm to Xi Shuang, and made an invitation gesture: "The light of the whole world will open its doors to you."
But there was something on that palm.
A beautiful lipstick was lying quietly in Yan Shixun's hand.
It was the one he saw when he encountered the hallucination in Bai Shuang's room, the one he took away from Bai Shuang's dressing table, and the one Xi Shuang stared at for a long time when he possessed Bai Shuang.
"Your lipstick box is already very old, it's time for a new one." Yan Shixun lowered his voice, low but soft: "The color of this one will suit you very well, and it will also have your name written on it. Xishuang, don't wait any longer, and don't hesitate or be timid anymore. Go and greet your new life with a smile. You will be like Baishuang, like the girls of this era, and welcome your new happiness."
Xi Shuang had tears in her eyes, but she smiled.
She stretched out her slender hand, trembling, towards Yan Shixun. Then she slowly but firmly held Yan Shixun's hand and the lipstick.
"good."
The moment Xi Shuang finished her words, a deafening loud cracking sound quickly spread from under her feet all the way to the villa and Ghost Mountain, resounding throughout the entire Ghost Mountain that had been trapped between Yin and Yang for a hundred years.
Yan Shixun's sharp eyebrows softened. He smiled and sent his blessings to Xi Shuang.
Watch her last journey.
"If the King of Hell shows some mercy, you might be reborn sooner than you thought. If you meet me in the human world, remember to tell me that you are doing well."
"It's time to go, Xishuang."
"goodbye."
Xi Shuang smiled and bowed slightly to express her gratitude: "I will remember it. Goodbye, Mr. Yan."
From the distant void, a cold and vague voice that did not sound like a human voice came.
The underworld came to do the work, and locked up the evil ghost Xishuang and brought him to the front of the palace to interrogate him.
Strangers, disperse—
Xi Shuang took one last look at Yan Shixun and the program crew, then turned around with a smile, holding the gifts given to her by Yan Shixun and Bai Shuang, and finally she was no longer timid and mustered up the courage to take a step forward.
Her figure gradually moved away from Yan Shixun's sight until she could no longer be seen...
Obsessions dissipate, illusions collapse, and the resentment of being confined to a small circle turns into anticipation for new freedom.
Along with the cage, the villa and the entire ghost mountain collapsed.
Huge roars, one after another, rang in everyone's ears.
Stones fell, walls collapsed, and houses collapsed. A horrific scene of destruction as if the sky was falling and the earth was splitting apart played out before everyone’s eyes.
However, amid the exclamations of the crowd, Yan Shixun's slender body stood in place, like a green pine tree on the top of a mountain standing unbending.
The strong wind and flying sand blew up Yan Shixun's hair and clothes. He slightly turned his eyes and looked at the people behind him.
"Let's go, the Guishan Mountain you were supposed to go to is right in front of us."
As Yan Shixun spoke, the sky and the earth collapsed with a loud "boom".
Before everyone could react, they felt a sudden blackness in front of their eyes. They were so scared that they closed their eyes tightly.
Before they opened their eyes, they smelled the fragrance of the grass in the woods, and heard the chirping of birds and the sound of insects. It seemed like there was a breeze on their faces and the weather was pleasant.
It's full of vitality.
Everyone in the program crew opened their eyes carefully and saw that they were no longer in the villa.
Instead, it stands among the beautiful mountains and forests.
The sky is high and clear.
There is no haze under the sun.
Everyone in the program crew stood there in a daze for a long time before they realized belatedly that Yan Shixun must have done something that allowed the female ghost Xishuang to reincarnate. This allowed them to escape from the strange villa and appear in a safe place.
Zhang Wubing, who was experienced in escaping death, was the first to realize what was happening.
He looked around and choked like a poor dog: “Guishan, Guishan, one word difference… My travel variety show ah ah ah woo!”
Yan Shixun glanced at Zhang Wubing with pity, raised his hand and rubbed Zhang Wubing's dog head: "Xiaobing, I think with your physique, you may not be suitable to be a director, especially a variety show director. Your show is like this, I guess if the reputation spreads, no fearless guests will dare to come to your show. Are you still going to do this show?"
Zhang Wubing cried even louder.
Just as everyone on the production team was looking around in disbelief to confirm, there was a sound of leaves rustling and scratching suddenly coming from the woods.
The people who had just escaped danger a few seconds ago were still in a tense state. They immediately picked up the dead branches on the ground and pointed them towards the source of the sound, in case those blood-red monsters appeared in front of them again and stopped them from going down the mountain like they did to the unlucky actor before.
Only Yan Shixun was calm and composed, as if he had already known who the visitor was.
However, after the noise, an old Taoist priest rushed out of the woods like a gust of wind.
His hair and beard were all white, and his Taoist robe exuded a dignified and upright air. Ghosts and monsters dared not approach him when seeing him.
When the old Taoist saw the crowd, he was even more surprised than they were.
"It's you! I thought it was..."
"Wait." The old Taoist priest was surprised: "How did you get out of Ghost Mountain?"
Everyone in the program crew looked at each other, not knowing what to say, so they habitually looked for the backbone.
They all turned their eyes to Yan Shixun.
The old Taoist priest looked over subconsciously, and after seeing Yan Shixun's bone structure clearly, he was shocked: "Goudan's disciple!"
Yan Shixun: “…”
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