Chapter 166 The Ghost Reporting a Crime
When it came to business, Xie Shouzheng began to become serious. "Okay, I'll leave my door ajar. Your Highness and Deputy Envoy Lin will have to guard it outside. I'm sleeping soundly in the room, and it's really embarrassing to ask you two to guard it."
Xie Shouzheng went into his room and went to sleep, while Dongfang Qi and Lin Qingyue sat in the corridor outside his door.
The moonlight was just right, and the whole garden was filled with light like frost and snow, quiet and beautiful.
Dongfang Qi asked Lin Qingyue, "Are you sleepy? If you are, just lean back and rest for a while. I'll keep watch."
Lin Qingyue shook her head: "No need, business is more important."
According to Xie Shouzheng's description, the thing appeared shortly after he fell asleep.
Tonight, Xie Shouzheng has been asleep for more than half an hour, and there has been no movement.
Listening to the snoring coming from the room, Lin Qingyue was a little confused: "Is he not coming tonight?"
Dongfang Qi was quite patient: "No hurry, wait a little longer."
After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, they both noticed something strange and looked into the room at the same time.
There was no light in the room, but the moonlight outside shone through the half-open door, creating a clear and bright scene. The outline of the person on the bed could be vaguely seen.
“Huff…”
Amidst the snoring, a pitch-black hand suddenly emerged from under the bed, followed by a head...
The door had opened up at some point, and a large amount of moonlight poured in, illuminating the shadow that crawled out from under the bed - a very light gray shadow, so light that even Lin Qingyue had to look carefully to see the outline of a person.
Gray Wu crawled out from under the bed, but did not dare to get on the bed. He just squatted on the ground and cried "sobbingly".
Xie Shouzheng was disturbed by the crying in his sleep. He suddenly turned over and yelled, "Who are you, you monster? How dare you!"
As he gradually became clearer, his aura became very strong.
The gray fog was frightened, and its edges seemed to dissolve and began to slowly dissolve.
Suddenly, a red oil-paper fan broke through the window and spun open with a "swish". The umbrella surface was dyed red like blood, and the soul-calling bells on the tips of the umbrella ribs rang jinglingly.
With an irresistible and powerful aura, the Netherworld Umbrella firmly grasped the soul that was about to disintegrate.
The gray fog settled in the red umbrella and gradually condensed into a clear figure. It turned out to be a man in his early thirties, wearing a gray gown, with a layer of white frost on his face and a thin layer of ice on his hair.
Xie Shouzheng regained consciousness and leaped off the bed, gazing at the little ghost beneath the umbrella. "So it was you, crying beside my bed in the middle of the night? What's the matter?"
Lin Qingyue raised her hand and snapped her fingers, and the candlelight in the room lit up.
The ghost under the umbrella thought he was going to be killed when the light came on, and subconsciously raised his hands to cover his body.
Lin Qingyue said, "Don't worry, the Netherworld Umbrella can help you gather your soul. Even the sunlight during the day can't hurt you at all. Let alone the light."
The ghost was surprised to hear this: "So my soul won't be scattered anymore?"
Then she couldn't help sobbing and crying: "Finally I found the right place, and I was finally saved."
Xie Shouzheng yawned and urged, "Cry later, tell me what's going on with you first."
The ghost reacted and quickly knelt down to plead his grievances: "You are Lord Xie of the Xuanjing Division, right? I had the honor of meeting you in my lifetime, and I know that you are upright and a good official who will stand up for the people. Therefore, I have come here with great difficulty, begging you to save my body!"
The ghost's name in his lifetime was Wang Cai, also known as Wang Shusheng.
Wang Shusheng, a native of Beijing, studied diligently since childhood, dreaming of passing the imperial examination and entering a career in government that would bring honor to his family.
Because of studying, he overdrew his family's wealth and neglected his livelihood. He was over 30 years old and still couldn't get married.
He thought that as long as he got into high school, everything would be fine.
Unfortunately, after taking exams for many years, from a teenager to an adult at the age of thirty, he still achieved nothing.
He wanted to give it one last try this year, but before he could even enter the examination room, he accidentally fell into the water and died.
After his death, his family collected his body and buried him in Changqing Mountain outside the capital.
After Wang Shusheng's death, his soul lingered around because he was obsessed with not passing the imperial examination.
"I came back on the seventh day..." Under the influence of the Netherworld Umbrella, his soul became more and more stable, his memories of his previous life were not lost, and his speech was logical and coherent.
"The imperial examination will begin next month. I want to see what the exam questions are and whether I have the ability to pass, so I have been reluctant to leave."
"But what I didn't expect was that I discovered someone was stealing my body!"
"That group of people was obviously organized. They sneaked up to the graveyard after dark and before midnight. Then they expertly dug up my grave and stole my body right under my nose..."
Even though he was dead, he couldn't accept that his body was stolen, so Wang Shusheng chased after him to get his body back.
But he was just a newly deceased ghost, weak and powerless, unable to even reveal himself to others. After being chased down the mountain, he was almost driven to pieces by the yang energy of the crowd.
The next night, when he reappeared, he found that his soul was weaker than before, and he didn't know whether it was related to the disappearance of his body.
Wang Shusheng had heard of the great name of Xuanjingsi during his lifetime.
Once he saw Xie Shouzheng in the crowd.
Knowing that Xie Shouzheng was a specialist in strange cases, after discovering that the body had been stolen, Wang Shusheng went through many twists and turns and finally found Xie Shouzheng and followed him home.
However, his soul was growing weaker day by day.
Xie Shouzheng was filled with murderous aura, and when he was awake, Wang Shu's soul had no way of getting close to him.
Only when he fell asleep at night could she show up a little and let out a few sad cries beside him.
Before Xie Shouzheng discovered it, Wang Shusheng had actually been crying beside him for three days.
Tonight, if Lin Qingyue had not used the Netherworld Umbrella to save his soul in time, I am afraid that he would have disappeared completely before Xie Shouzheng woke up.
After hearing the whole story, Xie Shouzheng's face darkened. "Here under the Emperor's feet, in a clear and bright place, how dare you steal human remains? How audacious! Mr. Wang, since you've come to us for help, regardless of whether you're a human or a ghost, we at the Xuanjing Division will not ignore you!"
"Did you see the appearance of the man who stole your body?"
Wang Shu tried hard to recall, then shook his head: "I only saw them wearing black clothes. When I looked at their faces, I couldn't make out their appearance at all."
"I remember now, they all seemed to have yellow talismans stuck on their bodies. I felt very uncomfortable when I got close to them."
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