Chapter 6: The Human Heart That Cannot Be Faced Directly
"Brother is fine, isn't he fine?"
Ning Jinghuai had never seen him like this before. He struggled to get up and raised his light hand to pat him comfortingly.
"Who did it?" Chu Tingbai carefully supported the light paper figure, and his voice was hoarse when he spoke.
Ning Jinghuai heard the murderous tone in his words, but felt helpless because he didn't even know how he died.
"Tingbai, I don't know how I died, let alone how my body was dumped in a small mountain village thousands of kilometers away from Beijing. I don't know..."
Ning Jinghuai was also a son of a wealthy family. He received elite education since childhood and was thrown into the army by his grandfather for training. He had never been as embarrassed as he is now.
He didn't even know how he died. No one knew how depressed he had been these days and how unwilling he was to face reality.
Now that he has seen Chu Tingbai, he has to face reality, and the resentment in his heart makes his negative energy show.
Black mist emerged from the paper man and entered Chu Tingbai's body through his palm.
Chu Tingbai felt a chill running down his spine, and his mind froze for a moment. When he came back to his senses, Qing Yanrou grabbed his wrist.
Seeing him return to the divine palace, Yanrou released his wrist, pinched her fingers together, and chanted a calming mantra. Ning Jinghuai, whose Yin Qi had overflowed, also regained consciousness.
"Tingbai, I'm sorry, are you okay?"
Ning Jinghuai panicked when he saw Chu Tingbai being invaded by Yin Qi. At this moment, he deeply understood what Qing Yanrou had said before about the difference between Yin and Yang.
"I'm fine."
The cold feeling on his arm has been covered by Qing Yanrou's warm breath. As his hand rubbed the place where the cold and hot had just alternated, Chu Tingbai's worldview of the past nineteen years was completely shattered.
"Don't worry, he'll be fine. I'll rebuild your body. You two can go to the room and talk slowly. Control your emotions."
This time, Qing Yanrou did not deliberately cut his body randomly, but replicated it 1:1 according to his body shape. After letting the two enter the room, she gave Chu Tingbai a piece of talisman paper and left the room, leaving the space to them.
When Qing Yanrou finished preparing lunch, the door of the side room opened.
Chu Tingbai regained his previous rationality at this time. After saying goodbye to Qing Yanrou, he went down the mountain to meet his uncle, Ning Jinghuai's father.
Qing Yanrou didn't ask them and took out the usual incense and candles and lit them.
Ning Jinghuai smelled an alluring fragrance, and his originally depressed and heavy mood began to brighten up. He looked at Qing Yanrou with shining eyes.
"It's lunch time, you can enjoy these incense and candles." After saying that, he returned to the dining table and started eating with Jianyi Taoist priest.
Not long after, hurried footsteps were heard outside the mountain gate. A tall, middle-aged man in a suit and tie entered the Taoist temple in a hurry, followed by Chu Tingbai.
The person who came was Ning Jinghuai's father, Ning Zhengyuan. The blow brought to him by his son's bizarre death was devastating.
But he couldn't fall! His wife needed comfort, and his son's murderer had to be brought to justice!
So he forced himself to come to Province G. Chu Tingbai has always been steady. After listening to the fantastic and bizarre things he said, Ning Zhengyuan did not doubt it, but followed him to Yantai Temple impatiently.
Ning Zhengyuan saw Qing Yanrou sitting there drinking tea, and quickly approached, bewildered, and asked anxiously: "Hello, Taoist Qing, Ting Bai just told me that I can see Jing Huai's soul?"
When talking about the word soul, Ning Zhengyuan, who has always been decisive in the business world, also choked up.
"He's in that room, go ahead."
Qing Yanrou took out a talisman and gave it to Ning Zhengyuan. Ning Zhengyuan took the talisman, bowed to her gratefully and walked into the side room.
Chu Tingbai sat opposite Qing Yanrou. The series of events made him exhausted.
Ning Jinghuai's case was both unfortunate and fortunate. It was unfortunate that he died in unclear circumstances, but fortunately he met Qing Yanrou, which gave the family members of the deceased some time to accept the situation.
After sorting out his thoughts, Chu Tingbai looked up at the girl sitting opposite him and said earnestly, "Thank you, Miss Qing. I am Chu Tingbai, Ning Jinghuai's cousin."
Upon hearing this, Qing Yanrou also looked towards him and asked in a deep voice, "Do you know if Ning Jinghuai has offended anyone from the Xuanmen?"
"Miss Qing, why do you say that? As far as I know, he didn't. To be honest, if we hadn't seen it with our own eyes, we are all unwavering materialists and have never met anyone from the Xuanmen sect, so how could we talk about offending him?"
Chu Tingbai was puzzled. Although the older generation of uncles and aunts who were engaged in business had the habit of looking at Feng Shui, they had never heard of such a fantastic scene.
"Did you know there were talismans at the burial site?"
Chu Tingbai frowned when he heard this, as he had not yet seen the scene.
"Please, Miss Qing, help me find the real culprit. I will be very grateful!"
Ning Zhengyuan pushed open the door of the wing room, his face heavy. When talking about the real murderer, he, who had always been calm and composed in the business world, spoke in a rare harsh tone and looked at Qing Yanrou sincerely.
Facing Ning Zhengyuan's request, Qing Yanrou pondered for a long time and slowly said, "Mr. Ning, I have never left Province G. My Taoist skills are only taught by my grandfather. Although I am not proficient in Taoism, I have seen the talisman paper at the scene. It is only of a relatively low-level type. So I will find the murderer as soon as possible, but please be prepared."
When Qing Yanrou said that the Taoism was just the instruction from a Taoist priest, a dissatisfied hum came from the main room where the ancestor's spirit tablet was enshrined. Only Qing Yanrou heard it.
Qing Yanrou secretly reached her hand behind her back and waved it soothingly towards the main house.
Ning Zhengyuan was puzzled and asked, "Could it be that Miss Qing saw something?"
"When I met Ning Jinghuai, I didn't realize that someone with a mystical background had a hand in his death. I only realized it when I saw the talisman paper at the scene. But that was evidence I couldn't get, so I couldn't identify the murderer. But when I saw you, I had a rough idea."
"Master Qing, are you saying that I was killed by someone I knew?" Ning Jinghuai, who was following Ning Zhengyuan, quickly floated to Qing Yanrou and said excitedly.
"We'll know everything once we get to Beijing." Qing Yanrou didn't say much until the matter came to a conclusion.
Everyone present was not a fool and could hear the hidden meaning in her words. After seeing Ning Jinghuai's soul, they would not think that Qing Yanrou would act without purpose.
Ning Zhengyuan was dazed for a moment but quickly came back to his senses. He looked at Qing Yanrou with a firm gaze and said, "Please, no matter who it is, you can't do this!"
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At Ning Zhengyuan's request, Qing Yanrou went to Jing City with them in the evening. After giving instructions to Xiaoyan, she set off for Jing City with Ning Zhengyuan and his group.
In recent years, the economy of G Province has also been developing rapidly. It takes more than two hours to drive from Yantai Town to Yunyan City, and Yunyan City is a tourist city with direct flights to Beijing.
In the evening, the sun was setting in the west, and the golden sunset shone in from the car window and hit Qing Yanrou's face. Chu Tingbai glanced at her. The sunlight hit her face, and she was relaxing with her eyes closed.
Suddenly, a warm breath with a refreshing and cool scent of soap approached. Qing Yanrou opened her eyes and saw a white but powerful arm coming across to roll up the car window.
"It's too dazzling."
Seeing Qing Yanrou open her eyes, Chu Tingbai retracted his arm and felt inexplicably nervous, and gave a dry explanation.
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