Thanks to the tracking talisman she implanted into the student's ghost last night, his ghostly aura would remain wherever he went, allowing Nan Yuanman to easily find his lair.
The little girl was small, holding a soy milk cup twice the size of her hands in her chubby little hands. Her cheeks puffed out as she spoke, and her serious little face added a touch of cuteness to her contrast. Meng Qinian couldn't resist reaching out and gently patting her slightly messy tuft of hair.
Nan Yuanman, intently sipping her soy milk: "?"
Meng Qinian casually withdrew his hand and coughed lightly: "Are we just going with the two of us? Shouldn't we find some outside help or something?"
That student ghost seemed quite cunning, and he was a little afraid that Yuanman wouldn't be able to handle it.
“No need. It’s daytime now, his ghostly power isn’t as strong as it is at night. I can handle it,” Nan Yuanman said, shaking his head.
If she can't handle it, then let Grandpa out!
It just so happens that Grandpa had some indigestion after swallowing a vengeful ghost that day, so letting him out to help him digest his food is a good idea.
"Then let's go." Meng Qinian picked up the car keys on the table, took Nan Yuanman's hand, and strode away.
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Under Nan Yuanman's command, Meng Qinian drove the car to the old town area in the west of S City.
The alleys in the old town are narrow and cars can't drive in, so Meng Qinian could only find a place to park the car and carry Nan Yuanman through the maze of alleys.
People living in this old town area who were taking a walk and enjoying the cool air were quickly drawn to the strikingly good-looking couple, one big and one small. An elderly woman walking her dog asked curiously, "Who are you looking for?"
With a sweet smile on her soft, fair face, Nan Yuanman said in a gentle voice, "Good morning, Grandma. I've come to see Brother Lu Ye. Do you know where he lives?"
"Looking for the Lu family? You're relatives of the Lu family." Grandma suddenly realized and pointed to an old building not far away: "Look, the Lu family lives there, Unit 3, Room 506."
Meng Qinian politely said, "Thank you."
He carried Nan Yuanman toward the old building the old woman pointed to, and people around them curiously gathered around and asked, "Who are they looking for?"
The old lady sighed and said, "They came looking for Lu Ye from the Lu family. I didn't expect the Lu family to have such respectable relatives. Look at the watch that boy is wearing, it must be worth more than five digits!"
Someone paused for a moment, then exclaimed, "Looking for Lu Ye of the Lu family? Wait, wasn't that the kid who hanged himself at home before, Lu Ye?"
At that time, the Lu family.
A middle-aged couple of average appearance and weary expressions sat at the dining table, eating numbly and mechanically. Not far from them, on an altar, lay a black and white portrait of a deceased person.
The boy in the portrait has a similar face to the student ghost, but without the student ghost's gloom, and smiles brightly at the camera.
After a silent meal, Lu Ye's father, Lu Zhicheng, spoke in a hoarse voice: "Xiao Juan, Mom asked me when we're going to have another child..."
Upon hearing his words, Li Juan, who had been numb, instantly flew into a rage. She swept all the bowls and chopsticks off the table, and with the crisp sound of the bowls shattering on the floor, she shouted excitedly, "Child! Child! Child! Lu Zhicheng! Xiao Ye has only been dead for less than a year! How can you, as his father, be so impatient to have a child? Do you even care about him?"
"You know Xiao Ye has been dead for a year! You and I are getting old, almost forty! If we don't have children soon, who will take care of us in our old age!" Lu Zhicheng got angry and slammed his chopsticks on the table.
He couldn't help but bring up old grievances, complaining, "I told you back then that he was under a lot of pressure at school! I told you not to push him too hard, but you did the opposite, saying something like 'the early bird catches the worm,' and filled his holidays with tutoring classes, leaving him no room to breathe!"
"Xiao Ye committed suicide because of you! It's all your fault!"
Li Juan screamed hysterically, "Now you're saying it's my fault? You never cared about Xiao Ye even when he was still alive! Where were you when he was daydreaming in class and skipping school? Where were you when he was being bullied by other kids?"
"Have you, as his father, ever attended even one of his parent-teacher conferences? You're always saying you're busy, but in your free time you just want to fish for your dead fish! You can't even raise one child properly, do you think you can raise a second one well?"
"Let me tell you, Lu Zhicheng, I will only have one child, Xiaoye, in my life! You want me to have another one for you? No way!"
"If your mother wants it, let her give birth to it herself!"
Lu Ye condensed a thin thread of Yin energy, hung it on the doorknob, and suspended himself around the neck, listening expressionlessly to the arguing coming from outside.
The resentment emanating from outside was continuously entering his body, slowly repairing his damaged soul.
His room was his old lair.
Nothing is more nourishing than the resentment emanating from one's own parents.
He deliberately ignored the noise of the argument outside, recalling the abundant merit he had glimpsed on Meng Qinian when he went to see him last night, and a hint of covetousness appeared in his blood-red ghost eyes.
He had a premonition that as long as he could lure and kill Meng Qinian and devour his soul, he could advance to the Ghost King level.
That brat is just too much of a nuisance.
He needs to figure out a way to deal with that brat first...
While Lu Ye was racking his brains trying to figure out how to get rid of Nan Yuanman, the argument in the living room had already reached a fever pitch.
Everything in the living room was smashed to the ground. Lu Zhicheng's forehead was red from being hit. He covered his forehead and angrily shouted, "You are really unreasonable!"
After saying that, he turned around aggressively, opened the door, and was about to leave.
As soon as the door opened, he met the gazes of Meng Qinian and Nan Yuanman, who were standing at the door with their hands raised to ring the doorbell.
Lu Zhicheng's face stiffened, his expression a mixture of embarrassment and anger at being caught having his family discord exposed. He asked in an unusually unpleasant tone, "Who are you looking for?"
Before Meng Qinian could speak, Nan Yuanman, who was standing beside him, rushed in like a little bull, quickly forming hand seals and pulling out several talismans, which he then flung at the tightly closed door: "Where do you think you're going!"
Meng Qinian: "!"
"Perfect!"
Li Juan, who was standing in the living room with a tired face and silently shedding tears, was stunned for a moment when she saw the child suddenly run in. Before she could say anything, she saw the child scatter a stack of talismans.
Li Juan: "!!"
She exclaimed, "What are you doing?!"
As soon as she finished speaking, the talismans she had scattered transformed into a large golden net in front of her, trapping a black figure that rushed out of the room.
Immediately afterwards, she heard a scream: "Ah!! It hurts so much! Mom! It hurts so much! Help me—!"
Li Juan's pupils constricted sharply, and she exclaimed, "Xiao Ye?!"
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