Chapter 85 Kaifeng Weird Things

Although the pearl was still a little smaller than a fingernail, it was at least not as big as a sesame seed, which greatly comforted Tarona.

She looked into the little girl's eyes and said, "Wait for me here, okay?"

The little girl nodded blankly.

Tarona stood up and disappeared on the spot.

She appeared on the top of the mountain opposite the small village, with hellfire roaring out from her fingertips, and she used a butcher knife to wrap up the sesame-sized fragments.

They are insatiable and cling to their master's fingertips miserably, hoping that their master will let them burn more sins.

How could their masters be allowed to set foot in such a turbid world?

Burn it!

All sins should be turned into ashes and laid out in the red soil of hell!

Their owners rejected them callously.

Oh! How it breaks the fire's heart, and yet how it fascinates the fire!

Tarona expressionlessly took the spirit fire back into her body. When the residual heat of the hellfire had disappeared from her body, she returned to the little girl.

The little girl waited there obediently. When Tarona asked her name, her round eyes were blank for a moment before she said, "My name is Yaya... That's what my mother called me."

The witch half-knelt down, looked at her for a long time, and held out her hand: "Can I take you home?"

Yaya immediately nodded with a smile: "Okay! Thank you, sister!"

elder sister?

The woman with sky-long hair smiled happily: "A sweet-talking human cub."

Since you are so sweet-talker, I will send you home to say goodbye to your family.

First, pick up the body.

Yaya's body was found in the lake behind the small village.

This lake may not look large, but it is actually very deep. The small village has never had a water shortage in decades, thanks to this lake with a huge water storage capacity.

Because of the lake and the sesame-sized fragment, Yaya's body did not decay. Apart from her pale skin and lack of breathing and heartbeat, she looked like she was asleep.

Ha, just kidding.

Tarona blocked Yaya's vision with one hand and held the other hand above the face of the corpse, with fragments of the past flashing past his eyes rapidly.

With a wave of his hand, the body with the water droplets evaporated was collected.

Yaya was suffocated to death. The person who killed her was a middle-aged man with a scar on his face.

He killed Yaya, took away the pearls inlaid on Yaya's clothes, the jewel necklace around her neck, and the gold bracelets on her wrists, then tied stones to the body and threw it into the lake.

Tarona felt Yaya's emotions before her death. The person who killed her was an acquaintance, the family's groom.

And the box...

Behind the bright red embroidered curtain, there is a pair of very beautiful hands, a sandalwood box with gold-woven patterns, and dark blue "pearls"...

And a vague sentence: "Inlay...on the crown..."

Tarona raised his eyebrows, his eyes playful.

From this angle, Yaya was peeking. At that time, she was only feeling curious, not admiring. The woman with those hands was most likely not her biological mother. What this meant was...she inlaid the fragments on her hair crown?

hiss.

A walking radiator?

Kind of interesting.

From what I can see now, it feels a bit like a otaku fight.

But what does it have to do with her?

The witch picked up Yaya, who closed her eyes obediently, and gently pinched her chubby face. She smiled sweetly: "Good child, tell me, where do you live?"

…

What a coincidence.

Tarona sat above the clouds holding Yaya in his arms. The city below could be covered with just one finger.

Yaya, who was sitting in her arms, clapped her hands and smiled like a lucky doll in a New Year picture: "Sister, sister! Yaya's home is downstairs!"

"Uh-huh."

The perfunctory attitude is evident in his words.

She had been here before, Nanxiang County. The people she rescued that night were sent here.

It's strange. Yaya said this is her home, which means the fragment has always been here, but why didn't she sense it when she came here that night?

[Key of the Morning Star] has no self-awareness, so the catalytic energy will continue to radiate outwards without interruption, and it is impossible for it to hide when she comes.

There could only be something blocking her perception, or something obstructing the range of the fragmented energy.

Tarona's perception ability is also based on range, otherwise she wouldn't have to run around and conduct a carpet search.

Thinking of this, she started to complain about the Cricket Technical Department again: [The technical department is not good. After so long, they still haven't invented a tool to automatically search for anomalies. We always have to rely on our own efforts to find them. When will this job, which relies on luck and endurance, end?]

Theseus: […Ms. Ta, guess why the salary of the Suppression Department is 30% higher than that of other departments?]

Because of the special nature of anomalies and mutants, it is impossible to invent targeted retrieval tools, and they can only be found and eliminated manually by staff, so the salary and benefits are higher than other departments.

Tarona: [People still need to have dreams sometimes. ]

Who doesn't want to pass the level easily?

The great witch shrugged and jumped down from the clouds holding Yaya in her arms.

The little girl didn't jump to the extreme. She hugged her neck and screamed loudly, but her almond-shaped eyes were open and sparkling, showing that she was very brave.

What a pity.

It was daytime now, and unfortunately, a sunny day.

Although Yaya absorbed some energy from the sesame-sized fragment, it was not enough for her to have the strength to fight against the sunlight. She could only cling tightly to her beautiful sister's arms to isolate herself from the sunlight, which was more powerful than fire to her.

The young Yaya didn't know that the beautiful sister she now regarded as an umbrella was much more dangerous than the sunlight. It would take some time for the sunlight to kill her, but it would only take a moment for the hellfire to kill her.

Yaya’s house is very grand. You can tell she is rich just by looking at the door. There is a sign “Home of Kindness” hanging on the door that seems to be inlaid with gold edges.

He was a businessman who donated money to the government during natural disasters and actually helped the victims. There was a faint golden light on the plaque, which was the golden light of merit.

Is it because of the inheritance?

Not necessarily. Although there were female households in the Song Dynasty, a family with such wealth and blessings from good deeds could not have only Yaya as their only child. Moreover, the little girl did not seem to have any talent for business.

As soon as I entered the door and put the little girl down, she flew up on her feet without any instruction, and flew very fast.

"Grandpa! Grandpa! Yaya is here to see you!"

Talona followed behind her, and no matter how fast the little girl flew, she always kept one step away from her.

no.

This mansion does not have any energy from the fragments. It is clean and pure, without even the breath of the dead.

Tsk, that’s not good.

The little girl's memory doesn't seem to match. The home in her memory is not in this style. It's more... simple and rough.

To put it bluntly, it has a stronger temperament of a nouveau riche, and is not at all as poetic as this mansion. One can tell at a glance that the owner of this place is very stylish and well-read.

The big witch paused and did not continue walking with Yaya. Instead, she turned in another direction and looked somewhere else.

The mansion was quite large and it took her two minutes to walk through it.

It’s not good. Very not good.

There are only two masters in this mansion. The head of the family is surnamed Yi. They are an old man and an old lady, with a son and a daughter, and they have all gone out to develop their careers.

Yaya is the granddaughter of the two elderly people. She comes back to visit every year during the holidays. The Mid-Autumn Festival is just half a month away.

Tarona walked to the back garden, but before he went in, he heard Yaya crying and calling for her grandparents.

Oh, this means you find out that your loved ones can’t see you.

It's normal. Dead people are separated by yin and yang.

"elder sister!"

When Yaya saw her, she acted as if she had seen a relative. She rushed to her in a few flashes, grabbed her thighs like a little rice cake, and looked up, as if she was about to cry.

"Sister, why can't Grandpa and Grandma see Yaya or hear her speak? Why can't Yaya hug Grandpa and Grandma?"

Yaya was only five years old and could not understand the concept of death. She had even forgotten her memory of death and had no idea that she was dead. She only knew that her grandparents who loved her could not see her or hear her speak, and she could not give her favorite grandparents a hug.

The little girl was at a loss, with nameless fear filling her heart. She cried pitifully, and her hands and feet became soft and she had no strength to move.

Being able to fly no longer made her happy.

The beautiful elder sister looked down at her for a long time, and then a smile slowly appeared on her expressionless face: "Good boy, answer a question first."

Yaya shuddered for no reason. She timidly let go of her hand, stood obediently, put her hands behind her back, and looked up at her sister who suddenly became a little scary.

"Where is your father?"

They are called grandparents, and they are the children of the two old people's sons. It was very common for men in that era to have three wives and four concubines.

Father?

Yaya bit her lower lip and thought hard, while Tarona watched quietly without urging her.

After a while, the two old people were helped back by the servants to take a nap. Yaya then exclaimed softly, "Father is on the way! We are taking a car to visit grandpa and grandma. Father said there will be a full moon!"

really.

Tarona did not ask any more questions. The smile on her face became more genuine and gentle. She reached out and touched the little girl's head, and said softly: "Good child, your grandparents will see you, but they have to wait until the evening."

Yaya was immediately happy, and dared to rush over and hug her thighs and rub them. Her baby voice seemed to be filled with ten pounds of honey: "Well! Thank you, sister! Sister is the best sister!"

Simple-minded cubs are often more sensitive than adults. At this age when she is still unable to understand death, she has already learned to play it straight.

The beautiful sister touched her head again, bent down to pick her up, turned around and disappeared in Yi Mansion.

Cubs with sweet words can get rewards.

The reward given to Yaya is not very suitable for the elderly. The poor old man and woman are both in their fifties and almost fainted tonight.

Looking at the two old people holding the confused and crying Yaya, Tarona leaned against the door with his hands folded, without feeling the slightest bit of guilt.

It was she who allowed Yaya to move around at night like she did when she was alive. What did it have to do with her that the two old men and women almost fainted? It was because they were not strong enough to endure it psychologically. She did a good thing.

The two elderly people who truly loved their granddaughter could not accept the reality that she had died. They hugged their granddaughter, who was as cold as ice, and cried for a long time. Then they looked in a trance at the woman who was leaning against the door frame, looking down at them with no emotion.

They are already over 50 years old, with one foot in the grave. Their ability to accept things is much stronger than that of young people. Moreover, the most powerful evidence is their poor granddaughter.

The two old men knelt down as they were squatting to hug Yaya, and kowtowed to the woman with long hair at the door: "I kowtow to thank the fairy for her great kindness!"

Yaya spoke in childish language, and the two people who had experienced half a lifetime quickly pieced together what had happened. If it weren't for the mercy of this fairy, their granddaughter would have been buried in the wilderness forever.

The corner of Tarona's eye twitched, but he did not dodge and accepted their kneeling and bowing.

When the two old people supported each other to stand up, their eyes were full of sadness, but they could not show it in front of their granddaughter. They could only tell Yaya that grandparents cried because they missed Yaya so much.

The child was ignorant, so she believed what the adults said.

Mr. Yi and Mrs. Yi wiped their tears, apologized for their lack of hospitality, and wanted to invite the fairy to take the seat.

The fairy asked, "Does your son have a concubine?"

Mr. Yi was stunned by the question, but Mrs. Yi suddenly realized something and a fierce look flashed in her eyes.

She said: "Yes!"

The fairy nodded and asked, "When will he arrive?"

Mr. Yi replied, "Ke'er wrote to me a month ago. If we calculate the time, it should be the day after tomorrow."

The day after tomorrow, then there is still one day.

Tarona thought about it, looked at his little girl eagerly and waved his hands, then sent a message to the two old people alone, telling them that Yaya's body had been placed in the back hall to make a memorial tablet, and that Yaya would sleep in it during the day, so they just had to keep the little girl from seeing either.

Having said that, she disappeared in front of the two people and the ghost in such a leisurely and leaning posture.

Don't leave it empty for another day. She will go somewhere else to look for other fragments and come back to collect that piece the day after tomorrow.

I hope there won't be any other variables.

…

The case in Jingzhou Prefecture was closed. Prefect Han wrote a reply to Bao Zheng in a daze and didn't even know how he sent Zhan Zhao and the others away.

His mind was filled with only one thought: a miracle had occurred from the sky, and the Song Dynasty might be facing a disaster!

With the reply letter, Zhan Zhao did not rush back to Kaifeng immediately, but followed Bai Yuting to the place where he saw the ghost.

They rode for two days and one night. The leader, Bai Yutang, stopped his horse and pointed to a cave not far away whose entrance was mostly hidden by tree roots and vines. He said, "It's right there."

He was tired from running that day, and it was raining, so he went there to take shelter. In the middle of the night, when he was half asleep, he suddenly heard the sound of a woman crying behind him. When he turned around, he saw a woman in green with disheveled hair curled up in a corner, staring at him with a pair of weeping eyes.

At that moment, Bai Yuting's mind went blank. He instinctively drew his knife behind his back and chopped down the woman fiercely.

The knife hit the mountain wall and the woman disappeared.

Master Bai Wu's heartbeat had never been so fast before. He was afraid that his heart would jump out of his throat if he opened his mouth.

"I swear, I'm not making fun of you."

If what he saw in the village was not true, he might not tell Zhan Zhao about it.

Zhan Zhao naturally believed it.

The two of them were full of courage. They took advantage of the darkness, pushed aside the tree roots and vines, and walked into the cave.

Bai Yutang said that this cave was a dead end, not deep, only about ten steps deep. But when the two men walked in with torches, a gust of cold wind blew in their faces, and the torches with pine oil were almost blown out.

The fire flickered for a long time, and the scene in the cave was clearly extinguished and could not be seen clearly.

Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand to shield the torch from the wind, but Bai Yutang had a sullen look on his face, and the sword in his hand had already been pushed away by him.

The cold wind blew for a while and finally stopped. The fire became stable again. There was nothing in the cave except a circle of burnt firewood quietly placed on the ground.

There was no crying, and no female ghost.

Bai Yutang asked suspiciously, "Could it be that he ran away?"

Zhan Zhao thought for a moment, gave Bai Yutang a look, and said loudly: "Miss, I am Zhan Zhao from Kaifeng Prefecture. Have you ever heard of the name of Justice Bao?"

Whoosh.

The flames flickered twice.

Bai Yuting exclaimed in his heart, it actually worked, Lord Bao's ability to interrogate Yin at night was real!

To see if it works, Zhan Zhao continued: "Miss, since you are willing to show up, you must have been wronged. If you have been wronged, why don't you tell me? Lord Bao will never allow the culprit to go unpunished, and will definitely redress your grievances!"

The flames flickered more fiercely.

The two waited patiently, and finally, in the darkness where the firelight could not find anything, they heard a crawling sound.

…on top.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked up at the same time——

I saw a woman with disheveled hair, with her back pressed tightly against the ceiling of the cave, and then slowly sliding down from the ceiling as if she had no bones.

She stood straight in front of the two men, her tearful eyes looking out through the slits of her hair that were scattered on her face. Her green silk skirt was so long that it dragged on the ground, almost reaching the same height as the ground.

Just like that night, she stared at the two living people in front of her. The greed for devouring flesh and blood forced her to twitch slightly, but the rich luck and dazzling merits of the two people made her dare not act rashly.

She wanted to eat people, but there was another voice in her heart shouting.

Finally, she stretched out a bloody hand with turned-out nails from her sleeves soaked by mud, pointed outside the cave, and uttered in a broken and hoarse voice: "Child...my, child...save, save her..."

Bai Yutang asked, "Is it a boy or a girl? What's their name?"

"Daughter, my...daughter..."

The female ghost scratched her neck and groaned in pain, "Yi Zhen... Yaya, ah!"