Chapter 126 Sweet Water Shop
The teacher finally realized that something was wrong, but she didn't dare to reveal the slightest bit that she had discovered it. She could only act as if she had more faith in her "husband" and accepted its existence.
She also thought of the amulets given by Qi Gu that inexplicably burned on the night her husband returned, and the look in her grandson's eyes that said his grandfather wanted to eat him.
The combination of many things made the teacher, who was an atheist, start to believe in these events that could not be explained by science, and thus found Qi Gu.
While going out to buy groceries, she contacted Qi Gu and told him about what was happening here.
Qi Gu immediately agreed to come over in the evening to see the specific situation.
The teacher, that is, Niu An, after making an appointment with Qi Gu for a suitable meeting time, has been sitting on the sofa at home holding her grandson anxiously, and sitting next to her is her returned ghost husband.
Because of its existence, the curtains in Niu An's house are closed even during the day, and no natural light can be seen.
Niu An actually didn't want to come back after calling Qi Gu, but her evil husband never let her take her grandson out with her, as if he had noticed her thoughts and was afraid that they would never come back.
"Grandma, I haven't played with Xiaopang for a long time. Can I go out to find Xiaopang today?" The grandson said in a clear voice, hugging Niu An's waist and acting coquettishly.
Niu An was about to speak when her ghost husband spoke first: "Little Bao, you are not well yet, you can't go out, or you will infect Little Fatty."
It was in its forties when it died, with a pale face, dark eyes, very little white in its eyes, and no fluctuation in its tone when it spoke. Niu An initially thought that all ghosts were like this, but as she realized that the other party wanted to eat her, these discordant things lingered in her mind, becoming more and more terrifying, making her dare not think about it too much.
Niu An naturally wanted to take her grandson out, but she didn't dare to anger her evil husband, for fear of tearing apart this false peace.
The hairs on her skin stood up, but she still maintained a smile and said, "Little darling, listen to your grandfather about this matter. He is right."
The grandson was refuted, but he was not too angry. He just said: "Well, being sick is very uncomfortable, and I don't want to infect Xiao Pang. I'd better wait until I get better before going out."
He has always been a sensible child.
Niu An touched his head and looked up at the clock hanging above the Eight Immortals Table again.
It was almost time. Just when Niu An was about to say that she was going out to buy food and cook dinner, her ghost husband suddenly stared at her with a cold tone, as if he was looking at a piece of lifeless meat. He slowly said, "You looked at the watch many times today. Is there something wrong?"
Niu An was sweating profusely and said, "I'm not afraid of missing the cooking time and starving you. I see that you have a big appetite recently, so I want to make more good food for you... We used to live a hard life and you didn't have anything good to eat. This time when I come back, I want to make you a little bit of everything."
After hearing this, the ghost husband retracted his gaze and looked at his grandson who was playing with a toy: "You go ahead, Xiaobao, I'll watch over you here."
Niu An felt as if he had been pardoned. He quickly took the shopping basket and wallet, changed his shoes and went out. Then he went straight to a sweet water shop at the entrance of the community and waited for Qi Gu to arrive.
She had brought Qi Gu to this restaurant several times before, and Qi Gu still remembered the location, so they made an appointment here.
Not long after, a luxury car whose make Niu An couldn't recognize but looked luxurious stopped in front of the small sweet water shop under the camphor tree on the street. The grown-up, cold and handsome Qi Gu stepped out of the car first, followed closely by another handsome but pale man who was dressed very warmly even in the summer.
"Teacher Niu, long time no see." Qi Gu greeted Niu An with a smile. The coldness on his face was diluted by the joy of seeing his teacher again.
"Xiao Gu, long time no see." Niu An hurriedly asked them to sit down together and ordered a bowl of Qi Gu's favorite sweet water. "Who is this?"
Qi Gu said: "My friend, I was playing at his house when you called, so I followed him here."
Niu An looked at the strange and beautiful Lin Hanzhi for a few more times. Lin Hanzhi nodded slightly to Niu An and politely followed Qi Gu to call people: "Hello, Teacher Niu. He told me that you helped him a lot."
Niu An was a little surprised, and felt that the young man didn't talk like Qi Gu's friend, but rather like a boyfriend.
But she was only surprised for a moment. After all, she had something more important in mind than being curious about the relationship between the two. She pushed the sweet water in front of the two people and said, "You eat. Let me tell you about what happened before it appeared. It should be related to the reason for its appearance."
"It is our family's custom to hold sacrifices a few days in advance on the Ghost Festival. After all, it is too busy to hold sacrifices on the day of the Ghost Festival, and we are also afraid of bringing something unclean back home." Niu An explained, "My old man's grave is in the city cemetery. The environment there is good. It should not be a Feng Shui problem of the grave, otherwise this problem would not have happened only to me."
"Nothing strange happened on the day of the sacrifice. If I must say, our family of four all went. A piece of yellow paper was blown away during the burning, so my daughter-in-law caught it and burned it again. After that, Xiaobao at home started to have a high fever... You all know what happened after that."
Qi Gu drank the sugar water and looked up: "It's best not to pick up the paper money and gold ingots that were blown away. After all, it's close to the Ghost Festival, and the gates of hell are wide open. There are too many messy things. The offerings that were blown away will be assumed to be ownerless and anyone can take them. If someone takes them, and you try to take them back, you'll be competing with the ghosts for food and will be prone to revenge."
Niu An's face turned pale when he heard this, "This..."
"But the situation in your home should not be just a simple revenge. Logically speaking, humans and ghosts cannot speak the same language, so you should not understand what it says. But there are some exceptions. Let's go to your home first." Qi Gu said, "Let's not alert the enemy first. Let's pretend to be your daughter-in-law and son."
Qi Gu had some guesses about this matter, but if it was as he thought, then the matter was really serious. It meant that there was a huge problem in the underworld that was responsible for maintaining the operation of the laws of life and death.
Niu An was stunned, and subconsciously looked at the two people: "My son and daughter-in-law are relatively small, so they are easy to be seen through, right?"
Qi Gu said: "It's not that kind of disguise, it relies on the eight characters to change its own aura. If you do this, that kind of thing can't be recognized."
He had done something similar to a doll in Huang Hongyuan's house before, making the ghost mistake the doll for Huang Hongyuan's daughter.
Niu An has lived in the community for decades and is familiar with the surrounding environment. It didn't take long for him to buy fresh chicken blood and yellow paper.
Then he asked Qi Gu worriedly, "I heard that you guys need a quiet place to do all this. Shall we get a room in the hotel?"
Qi Gu said, “No need.”
Later, he went to a corner on the roadside, asked Niu An's daughter-in-law about her horoscope, lifted up Lin Hanzhi's sleeves, and started drawing with a brush dipped in chicken blood.
Soon, a red eight-character pattern appeared on Lin Hanzhi's fair and muscular forearm, making him look particularly mysterious and beautiful.
Qi Gu couldn't help but take one more look at it before he put down his hand and did the same on his own arm. It was obvious that the handwriting was not as serious as when he wrote on Lin Hanzhi's hand. It was a lot more sloppy and perfunctory.
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