Chapter 16: Urban Supernatural Story (Red and White Comedy) 16 Good boy, I want to...
More expensive?
Song Qingqing's thoughts stopped for a moment, and her mind went blank.
Meaning... does he charge for catching ghosts?
Song Qingqing raised her eyes and looked at Lin Hanchuan in front of her.
He was wearing a clean white T-shirt, with clear eyes and eyebrows, sitting upright, and his whole demeanor was like that of a hermit who was indifferent to fame and fortune.
Lin Hanchuan rested his elbow on the table, his face supported by one hand, looking at her. He seemed to have seen what Song Qingqing was thinking, and asked her with a somewhat strange expression, "You don't really think that Taoists are detached from worldly affairs, that they are hermits who breathe the wind and drink the dew, do you?"
When he said what she was thinking, the girl's pale face turned completely red.
Song Qingqing quickly shook her head: "I'm...I'm sorry, classmate Lin."
It seems that she really thinks so.
"What do you want me to do for you?"
"I want you to help me save a water ghost."
Water ghost?
Lin Hanchuan showed a puzzled expression. The evil ghost that he saw haunting her in the cemetery that day was not drowned.
Song Qingqing glanced at the empty classroom and whispered about their experiences in Xiangyun Ancient Town, but she did not mention Wen Yuxi.
If she guessed correctly, the person who would scare Wen Yuxi to death in the plot was most likely Lin Hanchuan's master.
Lin Hanchuan held up his head and said nothing, his eyes slightly closed, and his other free hand was calculating something.
After Song Qingqing finished speaking, she saw that the other party didn't respond for a while, thinking that he had fallen asleep, and poked his arm with her finger: "Student Lin?"
"Facing north during the hour of Hai, Yin people are often perverse, and patients will encounter dark ghosts."
Lin Hanchuan spoke these words slowly, then suddenly opened his eyes: "Is there a damp area to the north of our school?"
"Damp place?" Song Qingqing repeated the word, her eyes slowly widening, and suddenly she nervously grabbed Lin Hanchuan's hand, "Danming Lake!"
In the plot, Li Wei drowned in Danming Lake!
After dinner, the two of them stayed together in a pavilion next to Danming Lake. As time passed, the campus fell into silence.
The wind blew through the leaves, making a rustling sound. Song Qingqing was a little scared and felt uneasy. Seeing Lin Hanchuan sitting there and browsing his phone, she couldn't help but move closer to him.
Lin Hanchuan noticed the girl approaching and stopped refreshing.
He lowered his eyes. Her furry head was almost in his arms, but she acted as if he didn't notice and carefully pinched the strap of his backpack.
"What are you looking at?"
The slender finger pulled down again, and a gray circle popped up on the page, refreshing.
"Check the account balance."
Song Qingqing was quiet for a moment, thinking that he couldn't see her little movements, so she quietly moved closer and then quickly glanced at him from the side.
Balance: 500.00 yuan.
Song Qingqing thought she had misread the decimal point, so she secretly checked again and found that it was exactly 500 yuan.
This is what he earned from reading that classmate's palm today...
Song Qingqing looked at some relevant metaphysical knowledge popular science that she had found on her mobile phone, but still couldn't help but ask him out of curiosity.
"What are you lacking in five disadvantages and three shortcomings?"
"Lack of money."
"What about the five disadvantages?"
"A widower's fate is to be without a wife."
He was very honest and told the curious Song Qingqing everything without hiding anything.
Song Qingqing endured it again and again, and whispered: "Why do you have no money?"
Didn't the plot say that Lin Hanchuan was a talented Taoist priest, especially popular with wealthy families? They often asked him to consult Feng Shui and other things. Those wealthy families would definitely not be stingy, and the rewards should be very generous.
Lin Hanchuan finally turned his attention from the account balance to the girl in front of him. He raised his eyelids and fixed his gaze on her face.
She asked so many questions and was so curious about him. Did she want to be his wife?
But it’s not impossible.
He thought he looked pretty good, better looking than that evil spirit, handsome and worthy of her.
The most important thing is the individual.
She is beautiful, soft, and well-behaved. I want to marry her.
If they had a child, it would probably be better if it looked more like her, as her personality would be more likable. He was cold and depressed, and there was a reason why his master often called him a widower.
Wait, what is he thinking?
Lin Hanchuan collected his thoughts and said calmly, "Black dog blood costs money, red thread costs money, copper coins also cost money, and good quality ones cost even more. Why do you say I don't have money?"
Would it be better if I gave him a higher commission this time?
Song Qingqing pinched her fingers and tentatively asked a number hesitantly: "Is five thousand enough this time?"
Lin Hanchuan: “…”
He frowned and noticed that her expression was extremely serious. It seemed that she had really given this price after careful consideration, and she looked very distressed. She might feel that it was not cost-effective, but she decided to do it anyway to save her classmates.
Lin Hanchuan was silent.
He really wanted to tell her that he had performed a ritual for the old man Deng Qian's grave yesterday and the other party offered him two million.
Although he donated it to the Children's Fund as usual.
Seeing that Lin Hanchuan didn't say anything, Song Qingqing pursed her lips, gently pinched the hem of his clothes, and asked in a low voice: "Isn't it enough? Then add to..."
Lin Hanchuan's voice was clear and indifferent: "Deal, I'll give you a 20% discount as a family discount, 4,800."
Song Qingqing was so surprised that she didn't even notice the family discount that Lin Hanchuan mentioned. She only heard the key word "price reduction".
Suddenly, the cell phone in her hand vibrated continuously, and the name of the caller was displayed on the lit screen - Li Wei.
Song Qingqing swiped the screen and answered Li Wei's call.
A girl's frightened voice came from the other end of the microphone, mixed with the sound of clothes rubbing against tree branches.
“Qingqing, Qingqing, save me!”
"Help! There's...a ghost chasing me!"
"ah--"
Following a scream, there was a splash and the sound of someone falling into the water, as well as the electric sound of the phone being soaked in water, making a crackling sound.
Li Wei fell into the water!
Song Qingqing stood up, but didn't see anyone near Danming Lake. It was pitch black all around and she couldn't see anything clearly.
"Student Lin, Li Wei seems to have fallen into the water, but I can't see her."
Lin Hanchuan still had a cold expression: "She has been haunted by the water ghost for so long that she has already stepped half a foot into the underworld. She is neither human nor ghost. Naturally, living people cannot see her."
"And it won't be that fast. Don't worry. The person who just called you must be her soul who has left her body and is asking for help."
Lin Hanchuan stood up, walked behind Song Qingqing, bent down, and with his slender and slightly cool fingers, he opened the camera app on her phone and turned on the flashlight.
Because they were close, when he spoke, his warm breath poured into Song Qingqing's ears. She could clearly smell the refreshing fragrance on his body, which was very soothing.
Song Qingqing didn't notice that Lin Hanchuan's lips seemed to accidentally brush against the tip and lobe of her ear, which was as white as lychee.
The light from the phone was not strong, it only illuminated a small area not far away.
There was no one on the camera screen, but after a while, distorted colored vertical stripes began to appear on the screen. The blurred colors slowly condensed into a human figure, which was Li Wei. She had been running towards Danming Lake, looking back from time to time, as if someone was chasing her.
Song Qingqing slowly moved the camera behind Li Wei, but there was nothing behind her. There was no water ghost that she saw last time in Xiangyun Ancient Town.
Over there, Li Wei stumbled and fell, her face pale as she kept clapping her hands, as if trying to push away something that was approaching.
She retreated step by step, crying, and finally knelt by the lake, sobbing and kowtowing, mumbling something about knowing she owed him.
"I really didn't mean to do that. I wasn't... just standing by and watching someone die."
"I'm sorry... I'm sorry, I know it was you who saved me... I'll always remember it."
"I'm just scared."
As she spoke more truths, the vague gray-black outline gradually became clearer. It was a half-grown boy with pale skin that exuded the coldness of death. He stared down at Li Wei, his wet hair dripping with water.
It didn't say anything and approached Li Wei step by step.
Lin Hanchuan kept looking at him expressionlessly, his hair covering his cold eyes and brows, making it impossible to tell what he was thinking.
Song Qingqing could almost smell the damp and earthy odor from the water ghost, mixed with the fishy smell of fresh water from the stream, which was a bit unpleasant and nauseating.
Although she is particularly slow in some aspects, she is always unusually obedient in certain situations.
Just like now, Lin Hanchuan showed no signs of saving people. It was obvious that something was wrong. Song Qingqing did not urge him to save people blindly, but waited obediently by the side.
Noticing the girl's pale and uncomfortable face, Lin Hanchuan finally took action.
"Just stay here and don't go near it."
Lin Hanchuan bit his middle finger swiftly and put the blood on Song Qingqing's brow, and then on his own brow. The bright red bloodstain was like a red mole on his forehead, making him look like a little god in an ancient painting.
The fingertips are often where the body's yang energy gathers, so the blood here is the most effective.
Song Qingqing's complexion improved at a speed visible to the naked eye. It was not because of the bad smell just now, but because the water ghost's yin energy entered her body and made her uncomfortable.
She was already weak, and now she was haunted by that extremely ferocious ghost. She was simply a walking ghost food.
"If you harm a stranger, I will take you away."
Lin Hanchuan held a string of copper coins in his hand and frowned as he looked at the young man in front of him whose body was constantly oozing water.
"She owed me this. I saved her more than ten years ago, but she didn't find anyone to rescue me. Her whole family moved out of Lizhuang and she never even saw my mother. My mother was so angry that she fell ill and died."
Even though it knew that Lin Hanchuan's skills and the thing in his hand could scare it to death, it still did not retreat and spoke in a lifeless voice.
Song Qingqing, who was squatting in the corner and listening secretly, widened her eyes slightly.
She had never thought that Li Wei and this water ghost had such a causal connection, and it was not mentioned at all in the plot.
Lin Hanchuan frowned even tighter: "Are you determined to harm someone?"
It shook its head slowly: "I won't harm anyone. I want her to be my wife."
"I like her, but she always runs away."
Song Qingqing, who was secretly listening to the story, said: "......"
Lin Hanchuan, who was ready to capture the ghost directly: "......"
Lin Hanchuan returned to his usual cold and silent self. He didn't want to talk anymore. He was tired.
Are all the ghosts coming out of Xiangyun Ancient Town sick? Are they all thinking about getting married?
These ghosts are sick.
Lin Hanchuan sighed, put away the copper coins, and shook his head: "Humans and ghosts are on different paths, forcing them is futile."
The water ghost said, "I know, but I want to see her more before I reincarnate."
Lin Hanchuan counted with his fingers using Xiao Liu Ren and figured out that in just a few days, this water ghost would be reincarnated after his life span in the underworld, so he didn't want to care about it anymore.
"You already have a lot of ghost energy, and you died in the land of three declines and seven defeats. Take it easy."
As she spoke, Song Qingqing saw Lin Hanchuan squat down, pulled out a piece of yellow talisman paper from his pocket, dissolved the talisman paper ash in water, and poured it into Li Wei, who had already fainted and lost consciousness.
Li Wei, lying on the shore of Danming Lake, twitched her limbs a few times before regaining her composure.
It seems that Li Wei's ending should have changed.
Song Qingqing finally breathed a sigh of relief and called Li Wei's parents to come and pick her up.
On the way back, Lin Hanchuan glanced at the message on his mobile phone, and there was a bit more coldness and... impatience in his eyes.
Song Qingqing was a little confused as to why he suddenly stopped.
Lin Hanchuan smoothly pulled out a talisman from his backpack and handed it to her: "By the way, if you're afraid of that thing in your house, just throw this at it."
Song Qingqing took it and stood there, probably not realizing what he meant.
Lin Hanchuan, who was about to leave, stopped and asked: "What's wrong?"
Song Qingqing recalled what he said when they met in the cemetery. He knew about Wen Yuxi's existence, but she thought he didn't know and concealed the matter of Xiangyun Ancient Town...
He really doesn't like to meddle in other people's affairs, but in fact he remembers many things clearly.
Cold and aloof, gentle and polite.
Song Qingqing pursed her lips and smiled slightly, looking very well behaved.
"Nothing, thank you, Lin."
It was already one o'clock in the morning when Lin Hanchuan slowly walked to the Supernatural Management Bureau after answering the phone. He also stopped by to eat something on the way.
After speaking to the staff in the hall, Lin Hanchuan was respectfully guided into a reception room.
The staff responsible for receiving guests was very considerate and poured him a cup of tea. They asked him to sit here for a while and their captain would come over as soon as he finished his mission and rested.
When Shen Zhe took off his uniform jacket and hurried to the reception room, Lin Hanchuan was sitting on a chair reading the text message sent to him by the Taoist temple.
It was said that the management bureau had a falling case at the Normal University Affiliated High School and hoped to cooperate with him in the investigation. After the investigation, the government would fund the repair and maintenance of the Taoist temple's infrastructure.
Otherwise Lin Hanchuan wouldn't have come. He had planned to have a good sleep and rest tonight.
As soon as Shen Zhe entered the door, he saw Lin Hanchuan's thin back sitting on a chair. He was boredly flipping through the background information of the administration given to him by the staff.
Because he was standing, the high vantage point allowed Shen Zhe to immediately notice the aqua blue hair tie on Lin Hanchuan's tied hair, as well as the very conspicuous little butterfly ornament.
Almost instantly, Shen Zhe remembered the night when he held the girl in his arms, holding her slender white wrist, and the feeling of his fingertips stroking the butterfly ornament on the hair tie.
He happened to take a closer look.
It is exactly the same as the hair tie on Lin Hanchuan's head now.
Shen Zhe's face darkened instantly.
Hearing the sound of the door opening behind him, Lin Hanchuan turned his chair around and met Shen Zhe's unfriendly gaze. After seeing who it was, a cold smile slowly appeared on his face, which looked as indifferent as water.
Oh, what a coincidence, enemies meet on a narrow road.
Isn't this the man who stayed by her side that day? And she called him a liar?
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