Chapter 266: The Haunted House 53
Su Qingyun was not on guard at all, so she subconsciously closed her eyes when Ye Jian applied the potion to her. When she opened her eyes again, she saw a woman in gorgeous clothes and a pair of red high heels standing in front of her.
The moonlight outside was like a piece of crumpled silver yarn, flowing over the carved railings and casting a touch of clear light on her body.
She was wearing a red cheongsam, and the gold-foil flowers on her temples shone with tiny glints in the moonlight, making her fair wrists exposed outside her wide sleeves look even whiter, as if they were made of the finest mutton-fat jade soaked in water.
The moonlight filtered out some of the brightness of the peony embroidered on the hem of the cheongsam, making the crimson appear even more profound, like a fire quietly blooming in the dark night.
Her fingertips twisted a half-fading red peony. The edges of the petals had faded, but the touch of her fingertips seemed to bring them back to life. As her eyes flickered, a vibrant color spread from the corners of her eyes and eyebrows, mixing with the cool moonlight, creating a sense of allure and captivation.
Su Qingyun had never seen such a beautiful woman and was stunned for a moment. However, Ye Jian, who was wearing cow's tears, exclaimed in surprise.
"Too good to find such a stunning beauty in Qingshui Hutong."
Xu Xinghe did not wipe away his tears. He could not see anything. He could not help but frown when he saw Ye Jian exclaiming in surprise. He called Su Qingyun's name softly, trying to pull her back.
"Su Qingyun, Su Qingyun."
Su Qingyun finally blinked. She took two steps back and asked the woman, "Who are you?"
The woman picked up the handkerchief and pursed her red lips. She looked at Su Qingyun with a smile and said, "Don't you know my name?"
Know?
Where did her name appear when I entered this house just now?
Su Qingyun tried hard to recall but couldn't remember anything.
She cast a puzzled look at Ye Jian.
Ye Jian remained unhurried. He threw the small medicine bottle toward Xu Xinghe and asked the beautiful woman, "You mean your name is Su Qingyun?"
"Yes, my name is Su Qingyun."
Ye Jian nodded in agreement, "Your beauty is worthy of this name."
At this time, the evening breeze outside the window blew up the copper bells in the corridor, making a soft "ding ding ding" sound. The beautiful woman suddenly raised her eyes to look at the moonlight, a smile appeared at the corners of her lips, and the pearl earrings on her temples swayed with tiny arcs of light, intertwined with the moonlight. It was hard to tell whether it was the moon that made her more beautiful, or she who made the moon more beautiful.
Su Qingyun was shocked by the scene again and couldn't help but say, "How beautiful!"
Ye Jian reminded her quietly, "No matter how beautiful she is, she is still a female ghost. After you admire her, get back to work."
As he spoke, he pulled out a red garbage bag from behind his back and said to the beautiful woman in a gentle tone, "Miss Su, now that you've finished admiring the moonlight, isn't it time to leave?"
He also made a gesture of invitation.
"Leave?" The woman waved her hand, and the bright moon outside the window disappeared in an instant. She asked in confusion, "You came here uninvited, so shouldn't you be the ones to leave?"
"How could we come here uninvited?" Ye Jian showed his work ID. "We are employees of the Haunted House Cleaning Company. Your house burned down three years ago and is now a haunted house. We are here to ask for your help."
"Burned? How is that possible?" The woman waved her hand again, and the interior furnishings changed again.
The vases in the room that were left with only dry stems were instantly filled with fresh flowers, including roses, peonies, wild chrysanthemums and lilacs.
Various aromas filled the air, and Su Qingyun could even hear music coming from downstairs.
The beautiful woman raised her hand and made a gesture of invitation. She said, "You can go now."
"I'm afraid not." Su Qingyun raised her hand and touched the flowers in the vase again, and in an instant the surroundings returned to normal.
A house wrapped in thick smoke, the room was filled with the smell of burning after a fire, and the table and the floor were covered with black ash.
Su Qingyun also made a gesture of invitation and said to the beautiful woman, "While we are still being polite, I hope you can get into the garbage bag by yourself, otherwise we will have to resort to violence."
She didn't want to use violence against the woman in front of her.
The woman smiled slightly, and as soon as the corners of her mouth rose, her whole body fell to the ground like a broken porcelain doll.
Xu Xinghe had just applied cow tears to his eyes and was very surprised to see this scene. "How could this happen?"
He looked at the white fragments on the ground, and finally squatted down to pick up a piece, twisted it on his head, and then put it to his nose and sniffed it. Suddenly, his pupils contracted, "This is ashes."
Before he finished speaking, Su Qingyun had already taken out three talismans and pasted them on the pile of things. A pale golden flame immediately appeared on the edge of the talisman paper, burning the white things with a sizzling sound.
After the flames burned out, Su Qingyun put the remaining white ash into a red garbage bag.
She clapped her hands and said to Ye Jian, "I didn't expect it to be a close call."
It's a pity that such a beautiful woman was burned to death in the fire.
Su Qingyun suggested going to another room. When she was about to leave, the light from the photo on her shoulder strap swept across the wall, and then she saw a portrait of a woman.
This portrait was of the beautiful woman just now. She should have been delicate and graceful, but in the painting, the corners of her eyes were drawn with cinnabar to create long arcs, the corners of her mouth were strangely upturned, and the dark red stains on the hem of her skirt were winding like blood.
"This painting..." Su Qingyun wanted to say that the woman in this painting seemed like a darker version of the woman just now.
She was inexplicably nervous, her voice trembling, and the flashlight beam unconsciously deviated, just shining on the tassels of the bed curtains.
Su Qingyun picked up the peach wood sword without thinking and slashed at Liu Su.
The sharp sword energy cut through the hanging bed curtains, and the pearls on the tassels also broke and rolled to the ground with a crackling sound. Some of them even rolled to Su Qingyun's feet.
At this moment, there was a rustling sound suddenly from under the bed, and dozens of pairs of dim green lights flickered like ghost fires.
Xu Xinghe, who had been standing by and watching all this silently, suddenly saw such a thing popping out from under the bed, and his heart became even more suspicious.
When he cleaned under the bed just now, there was nothing.
Ye Jian looked at his watch and gently spit out a time.
"Ten o'clock, weird time has arrived."
As soon as the words fell, those things like will-o'-the-wisp rushed out from under the bed, dragging a long tail behind them. Finally, the tail pulled out something - a dried-up child's corpse. Its nails were as black as iron, and there was a gilded collar around its neck. The collar was densely engraved with Sanskrit, and it glowed with an eerie green light in the moonlight.
Su Qingyun and the other two quickly retreated, and at this time several hunched figures crawled out from under the bed.
These "things" were covered in tattered silk, their skin was bluish-gray, and two luminous pearls were embedded in their rotten eye sockets, emitting a faint cold light in the darkness.
Su Qingyun didn't know whether it was out of fear or subconscious action, she raised the peach wood sword and chopped at these things. The sword raised and fell with a blood-red arc of light. The arm of one of the vengeful spirits was broken, but it turned into black mist the moment it hit the ground, and then gathered into a more hideous appearance.
"You can't chop anymore." Ye Jian stopped Su Qingyun and raised his slingshot.
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