Chapter 21: The Ghost Without a Suit [New book, please collect it! ]
From a distance, the Liu Family Haunted House doesn't seem very big, but when you get closer you'll find that this four-story attic occupies a very large area, but its design is exquisite and its appearance is not conspicuous.
There are more than ten rooms arranged in a circle on each floor. There is a complete awning and net bag in the center of the patio to collect rainwater from above and prevent children from falling from the upper floors.
Completely different from the dilapidated Liu Family Archway outside, this building looked quite well preserved. After decades of wind and rain, not a single door or window was damaged, and not a single spot was left.
This in itself is a strange thing.
The girl who came with Gongsun Rou was named Zhao Xiaomiao, the half sister of Zhao Liangcai. She tugged at Gongsun Rou's clothes and kept begging, "Sister Gongsun, please, let me go with you."
Gongsun Rou was unmoved and just shook her head calmly: "If you come out with me, then I have to be responsible for you. The situation inside is unclear, what if there is danger?"
Zhao Liangcai also wanted to let Zhao Xiaomiao go home, but Zhao Xiaomiao never paid attention to him. When he was about to open his mouth, he glared at him, and Zhao Liangcai immediately shut his mouth.
Zhao Xiaomiao was not afraid of him, but he was afraid of Zhao Xiaomiao. He was fooling around outside, and his sister had no idea how many things were in his hands. The elders at home also doted on her, so if she went to complain, she would be in big trouble.
Zhao Xiaomiao continued to act coquettishly: "If there is any danger, then you will be the same, right?"
"That's right." Wang Longqi interrupted and advised: "Miss Gongsun, why don't you two just not come here? This is really not a good place."
Gongsun Rou looked at him, but actually her eyes passed him and looked at Li Chu beside her. She smiled faintly: "I'm not afraid."
Zhao Xiaomiao rolled her eyes and said, "Sister Gongsun, think about it. After you go in, they can all live in a room with two people, but you can only sleep in a room by yourself. How terrible it is. There is not even anyone to take care of you. What if those ghosts specifically bully people who are alone? What will you do?"
Gongsun Rou hesitated for a moment, and seemed unwilling to agree, but she didn't say anything else.
Zhao Xiaomiao giggled and hugged her arm directly: "You can't leave me."
Zhao Liangcai was thinking silently in his heart, it seems that Miss Gongsun is still afraid. Hehe, it's easy to deal with if she knows she's afraid. In such an environment, if I use a little trick to scare her, won't she take the initiative to throw herself into my arms?
Gongsun Rou glanced at Li Chu's profile again, and her heart skipped a beat. She wondered, in this situation, if I was scared, could I just throw myself into Taoist Xiao Li's arms?
Wang Longqi was a little closer to Gongsun Rou, and could smell a faint fragrance, which made him feel very excited. He also began to think, in such an environment...how can I make Miss Gongsun fall into my arms instead of someone else's?
Each of these people had their own thoughts, only Zhao Liangchen and Li Chu remained calm and composed. One was ugly and cold, the other was handsome and cold, and they maintained their own styles.
The group first walked around the open space on the first floor and found that there were not only no snakes, insects, rats or ants in the building, there was not even a single plant.
The blue bricks on the open space have been eroded by rain for so many years and are slippery without a trace of moss.
Zhao Liangchen spoke at this time: "Nothing can grow without yin. The yin energy in this building is too heavy, and there is no yang energy. It seems that the ghost story is not false."
After saying that, he looked at Li Chu coldly.
An average charlatan would have been looking for an excuse to run away by now, right?
Li Chu didn't even look at him, but just nodded in agreement. In fact, before he came in, he felt that the yin energy in this small building was even stronger than the mass grave in Shilipo.
It would be strange if there weren't some ghosts living in this place.
However, since the ghosts here have never left, they should not be powerful creatures.
His judgment had some basis, because the earthbound ghosts he encountered were indeed mostly low-end ghosts, such as lantern monsters and vengeful spirits.
But it doesn't make sense, because for many cultivators, vengeful spirits are already considered powerful...
After looking up and down, Zhao Liang pointed to a room and said to Gongsun Rou, "Miss Gongsun, from what I've seen, this is the best room in this building. It's spacious and clean, and close to the door. It's on the second floor, and there's a flying eaves outside. If there's any emergency, you can just jump out and you won't get hurt."
Gongsun Rou nodded without commenting.
Wang Longqi said, "So you were always paying attention to the door. It seems you were thinking about escaping."
"Humph, I'm thinking about Miss Gongsun."
"Then you can find an excuse and say that you want to live next door to Miss Gongsun, so that it will be convenient for you to escape, right?" Wang Longqi sneered.
"You! You are talking nonsense!" Zhao Liangcai's face turned red immediately after his little thoughts were exposed.
"Okay, then do you dare to live on the highest fourth floor, the place farthest from the stairs?" Wang Longqi pointed to a high place.
"Why not!" Zhao Liangcai said loudly.
"Okay! Then we'll live next door to Miss Gongsun." Wang Longqi turned around and rushed in.
Gongsun Rou originally did not agree to live in the room he chose, but when she saw that Li Chu and Wang Longqi had already entered the next room, she smiled, nodded to Zhao Liangcai, and walked in quietly.
"..." Zhao Liangcai stood there in a daze for a few seconds before he realized that he seemed to have been tricked?
He looked at Zhao Liangchen aggrievedly: "Cousin, you have to make the decision for me."
"Haha." Zhao Liangchen looked at the sky gradually getting darker and sneered twice: "Let them go."
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The moon is full tonight, but for some reason, when looking at the moon from the Liu family's haunted building, it always seems to be shrouded in a layer of gray fog, and no matter how big the moon is, it has no brilliance.
The room was spotless; the bed, screen, and desk were all clean and tidy, as if someone cleaned them every day.
No matter where I touched my hands, they were cold and had a eerie smell. If I smelled it too much, it would make me feel a little sick.
Zhao Liangcai sat on the chair and couldn't help feeling a chill down his spine. As night fell, the uneasiness in his heart grew stronger.
He couldn't help but ask, "Cousin, do you think this place is cleaned by ghosts every day?"
Zhao Liangchen was meditating on the bed. Cherishing every moment of practice was a habit he had developed over the years.
After completing a large cycle, he opened his eyes unhappily and looked at Zhao Liangcai as if he was a fool: "What else? Could it be a human?"
"Ah?" Zhao Liangcai stood up in shock, a little panicked: "Talk is talk, fuss is fuss, don't joke about this. Although I wanted to scare them, I didn't expect to see a ghost."
"With me here, what are you afraid of?" Zhao Liangchen looked at me with disdain. "I think it's just that some people in the Liu family were unwilling to leave, and their souls stayed here and refused to leave. Oh, if they dare to show up, it won't be difficult for me to clear this haunted house."
After hearing what he said, Zhao Liangcai felt a little relieved. After all, he had always known that his cousin was very capable.
After having a clear idea, he started to have other thoughts.
"Cousin." He came closer and said, "You mentioned earlier that we could scare them with some tricks. What did you mean? It's getting dark now. Can we take action now?"
Zhao Liangchen heard this and took out a small black bottle from his sleeve: "To deal with them, just use these little ghosts."
He pulled out the small stopper that sealed the talisman and poured it downwards. Then a thick white mist like mutton fat flowed out and covered half of the room in an instant.
In the white fog, several small figures gradually emerged, seemingly unreal, all huddled together with their knees hugged, with their heads buried in their knees.
Zhao Liangcai was terrified: "What...what is this?"
"The Wufu ghost, also called the boy ghost, was caught by me by accident some time ago." Zhao Liangchen said.
Zhao Liangcai had vaguely heard some rumors about Wufu ghosts. Death before the age of eight was called Wufu's death. Children of this age were prone to becoming ghosts because they died before they had enjoyed much of the pleasures of the human world, and they would feel unwilling to accept it.
However, children are simple-minded and do not hold much resentment, so they often do not cause much harm.
As the white mist slowly dissipated, the figures became clearer. They were four boys and one girl, all wearing thick clothes that looked like they were made of paper.
When the white mist dissipated, the ghost children raised their heads...
Then, Zhao Liang heard a loud, crisp, excited and uniform question.
"Have you eaten yet?!"
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