Chapter 459 Catching Ghosts


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It was Thursday night, and Jiang Yue washed Ningning early and sent her to Mrs. Zhao's house.

When Mrs. Zhao heard Jiang Yue talk about the ridiculously high losses at the garment factory, she also knew that Jiang Yue and Gu Ye were going to catch ghosts tonight.

"Go quickly! Ningning will sleep here tonight. Jiang Yue, wear more clothes to avoid catching a cold!" Mrs. Zhao instructed.

Wuligang is a place name. As the name suggests, it is five miles away from the county seat. There is a Qingshan Commune nearby.

However, Jiang Yue and Gu Ye believed that if it was really Director Zhou and Manager Zhang who stole the factory's property and sold it to others, they would definitely not choose to do so near the commune.

After all, if you want to do something like this, you have to avoid places where people are around.

Gu Ye came here last night and walked around Wuligang. Tonight he brought Jiang Yue and Lian Rongrong and Wang Weixu to the reed marsh.

"This is the most secluded place nearby, perfect for doing shameful things!"

Jiang Yue was here for the first time, and she agreed with Gu Ye's opinion. If it were her, she would also choose to trade with others here. Reeds can conceal the body, and if discovered, it is also convenient to escape.

It was still more than an hour before nine o'clock. It was the middle of winter and the weather was cold. In the past few nights, water had frozen into ice.

Gu Ye specially found a small military coat and wrapped it around Jiang Yue before going out. Although the military coat was thick, it was very good at keeping warm and resisting wind. Gu Ye found a small hillside sheltered from the wind, sat down, and let Jiang Yue sit in his arms.

Jiang Yue put her head into her collar, and with Gu Ye blocking the wind for her, she really didn't feel cold anymore.

Lian Rongrong and Wang Weixu were also wrapped in military coats and wore Lei Feng hats on their heads. It wasn't cold, but the time was a bit unbearable.

Especially since this is in the wilderness, you can hear the calls of wild birds from time to time, especially the calls of jackdaws, which sound like crying and are particularly creepy.

When she thought that they would have to stay here for more than an hour, Lian Rongrong felt a little regretful. Oh, how comfortable it would be to lie in the warm bed in the middle of the night. Why did they run to the reed marsh to blow the cold wind?

But Lian Rongrong just thought about it. If she were to choose again, she would still choose to come with Jiang Yue to catch ghosts without hesitation!

There was a cemetery not far away. When Jiang Yue looked up, she saw green ghost lights floating in the woods. Her scalp went numb and a chill ran down her back. She quickly buried her head in Gu Ye's arms, not daring to look any further.

Although Jiang Yue understood that it was not a real ghost fire, but just a chemical reaction that occurred when a person's body was buried underground and rotted after death, there was no conflict between understanding the scientific principles and being afraid when seeing it with one's own eyes.

"Gu Ye, am I a little too impulsive? What if the news on the cloth strip is false? Wouldn't we have been freezing in vain!" Jiang Yue felt a little regretful at this time, mainly because she was not sure whether the news revealed on the cloth strip was true or false.

In such a cold weather, Jiang Yue felt a little guilty that Gu Ye, Lian Rongrong and Wang Weixu had to suffer the cold with her just because of a piece of news whose truthfulness she could not confirm.

"What if it's true?" Gu Ye hugged Jiang Yue and whispered to comfort her: "It's just like solving a case. Even if there is only a one percent chance, we have to follow the clues and investigate! They are just freezing. Compared with our marching and fighting, this is really nothing!"

Jiang Yue raised her head, revealing her little face from her heavy military coat. In the night, her eyes were dark and bright. "Gu Ye, can you tell me about your past wars?"

Gu Ye's eyes trembled when he heard that. At this moment, Jiang Yue was very close to him, and when he breathed, his hot air hit her face.

As soon as she asked this question, Jiang Yue regretted it. She hurriedly said, "Look at me, asking nonsense questions!"

Jiang Yue really asked Gu Ye on impulse just now, but she forgot that people who have experienced war normally don't want to mention those cruel memories again.

Previously, in the Shanghai Martyrs Cemetery, Gu Ye cried when he mentioned the sacrifice of Squad Leader Shi. That was the first time Jiang Yue saw Gu Ye cry.

"You don't have to say it if you don't want to!"

Jiang Yue thought Gu Ye would not say anything, and was racking her brains to find a topic to change the subject, but at this moment she heard Gu Ye's calm and magnetic voice ringing above her head, "It doesn't matter, there's nothing you can't say!"

Gu Ye lifted the collar of Jiang Yue's military coat. Just now, when Jiang Yue was talking, he felt that the collar was blocking his mouth, so he pulled it down.

"When we were fighting, the temperature was over 40 degrees Celsius. We had to lie in the jungle all day, even with ants crawling all over our skin. We had to endure it."

When Jiang Yue heard Gu Ye mention the dense forest, he immediately thought of the mission he had been on half a year ago. Although he did not say where he was on the mission, Gu Ye was sent to the General Hospital of the Southern Province Military Region after he was injured. Considering that he was injured by a landmine, Jiang Yue naturally thought of that border area.

"What if we encounter a snake?" Jiang Yue couldn't think about ants crawling all over her body. As soon as she thought about it, she felt that there were ants on her body too and she began to feel itchy.

"If you encounter a snake in the wild, you must remain motionless. Snakes generally will not attack you actively. As long as you do not let the snake feel threatened, staying still can reduce the risk of being attacked by the snake." Gu Ye explained.

"So when you encounter a snake, you just lie there motionless? You can't move even if the snake crawls over your body?" Jiang Yue shuddered violently at the thought of that cold-blooded animal crawling over his body.

"Oh, that's disgusting! I feel numb!"

"Yes!" Gu Ye looked at Jiang Yue with amusement. She was the one who asked the question, but she was disgusted by her own question.

"Luckily it's winter now and the snakes are hibernating!" Jiang Yue was thankful. "I'm most afraid of rats and snakes. Oh, yes, and cockroaches!"

"Gu Ye, tell me about your childhood!" Jiang Yue didn't want Gu Ye to recall the war, so she abruptly changed the subject.

She noticed that Lian Rongrong and Wang Weixu were also chatting. It was so cold in the middle of the night. If they didn't find something to talk about, the time would be too unbearable.

"When I was a child?" Gu Ye was a little confused when he saw Jiang Yue was interested in his childhood.

"What's wrong? Can't you tell me?" Jiang Yue looked up.

"Ha, I just don't know where to start!" Gu Ye laughed, his handsome face looking a little stiff.

Jiang Yue became even more curious, "Gu Ye, were you super naughty when you were a kid?"

She remembered Gu Ye mentioned once that he was thrown into the army by his grandfather because he was disobedient.

"Hush, someone's coming!"

Gu Ye was about to speak when his ears suddenly moved. He immediately signaled Jiang Yue to be quiet.

Lian Rongrong and Wang Weixu were hiding not far from each other. Wang Weixu was also from a field regiment and he obviously noticed the voices at this time.

Jiang Yue saw Gu Ye gesture to Wang Weixu. At this time, they all became quiet and indeed heard the sound of someone talking.

"Brother-in-law, I seemed to hear someone talking just now, didn't you hear it?"

When Jiang Yue heard the voice, she immediately raised her eyebrows and an excited expression appeared on her little face. Here it comes, she recognized it. This was the voice of Manager Zhang from the garment factory.

She had already inquired about it and found out that Manager Zhang's brother-in-law was Director Zhou.

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