After Meng Yunqiu moved out of the house after coming of age, she rarely heard about these mysterious things anymore. After briefly inquiring about Master Zhang, her father only said that he was a highly skilled person and that he was the one who handled the matter of the Pei family's adopted son.
“It’s better not to get involved in this matter,” Meng Yunqiu’s mother said. “Master Zhang originally wanted to find Pei Leyun’s soul, as Pei Heng had suggested, to ask what happened in that accident.”
"Didn't find it?" Meng Yunqiu asked, knowing that some highly skilled people could make the dead speak.
“Master Zhang won’t say,” his mother told him. “He only said that he couldn’t do it.”
"We can only ensure Mr. Pei's soul rests in peace." This means that Pei Heng should simply give Pei Leyun a proper burial, and it's best not to ask about anything else.
"Could there really be a problem?" Father Meng was unaware of this part. He knew about his wife's family's business, but he didn't know that Master Zhang had helped him with the funeral arrangements for the Pei family.
“Who knows?” Meng Yunqiu’s mother said. “Master Zhang refuses to say, and no one can force him to open his mouth.”
"But there was one thing that everyone found strange at the time."
"What?"
"The Pei family suddenly adopted a child back then," Meng's father said. "It was something no one could understand. Pei Heng was so young, why would he suddenly adopt a child?"
"Some people even said that this was specially made to shield the Pei family from trouble." He clicked his tongue for a moment. "So young, what a pity."
Meng Yunqiu never expected that Cen Yu's wedding would cause so many problems... He had never met Cen Yu's rumored partner. He sat in the living room and examined Pei Leyun's photo carefully for the first time.
After watching for a while, he couldn't help but feel a little...uncomfortable.
Because he always felt that no matter which direction he looked from, Pei Leyun in the photo seemed to be looking at him.
Whether in group photos or individual shots, Pei Leyun was watching them as they entered his home.
As Cen Yu watched Meng Yunqiu looking at the photos, a thought suddenly popped into his mind—
All done!
Meng Yunqiu must have realized that Pei Leyun was the person he was looking for, even though the novel never mentioned why Meng Yunqiu was looking for him.
However, in this kind of novel, it's perfectly normal for one of the cannon fodder seme to seek out the protagonist uke!
"Do you know him?" Cen Yu didn't ask, but that didn't mean Wen Jingyao wouldn't.
Seeing Meng Yunqiu staring at Pei Leyun's photo without saying a word, he spoke directly, "Isn't it inappropriate to look at someone who's already dead like this?"
Meng Yunqiu: "?"
This person is so strange!
"Could it be that you know Xiao Le?" Cen Yu simply asked, taking the opportunity to inquire about the plot.
Meng Yunqiu initially wanted to say he didn't know her, but after looking at Pei Leyun's photo carefully for a while, he vaguely felt that she looked familiar.
The boy in his memory was even more gloomy and eerie.
To be precise, he didn't remember the person's face at all... Meng Yunqiu was still very young that year, in elementary school age. During summer vacation, she wandered around in the countryside and suddenly got lost for some reason.
As night fell, the mountain suddenly became eerie and sinister.
The place was very close to his mother's family's ancestral home. Every summer, his mother would take him there, and that time it was also to resolve the issue of his ability to see ghosts.
Back then, Meng Yunqiu was at an age where she loved to play, and she quietly ran away.
When he realized something was wrong, he found himself unable to get out. The woods were rustling, and the night in the countryside shouldn't be so dark, but in Meng Yunqiu's memory, there was no light at all that night.
He crouched in the grass, afraid to speak, lest he see something he shouldn't.
But what you fear most is what happens most often... He could hear footsteps behind him, and the sound of children chatting.
"I said I don't want to play hide-and-seek," a voice said somewhat loudly.
"...So what do you want to do?" another voice asked.
“I want to make money,” the first voice said.
“…When I grow up, I will give you lots and lots of money,” the second voice said again.
"I want it now," the first voice said.
Even though Meng Yunqiu knew he should pretend to be deaf and dumb, he couldn't help but look up. He thought that maybe these were the children of the nearby villagers, and they could tell him how to leave this strange forest.
So he quietly looked up and saw two figures.
One of them was farther away from him and taller, while the other was a cloud of black mist.
To be precise, he couldn't see the person's features at all; he could only see a thick cloud of black mist, and even within that black mist, he could see a face with bared teeth and claws.
He was so frightened that he immediately lowered his head, but this still attracted the attention of the two men.
“Someone’s here,” the first voice said again.
Meng Yunqiu had already decided that the other party was just a kid playing in the woods, so naturally she didn't dare to say anything.
Until the two men walked up to him, one of them poked him hard and asked, "Are you still alive?"
“We should live.” That’s what the second child said.
Meng Yunqiu dared not look up. With his head down, he saw the black mist slowly spreading along the ground. He felt someone approaching him, and finally, his head was forcibly pulled up.
What are you looking down at?
Caught off guard, Meng Yunqiu saw the person who had snapped his head off.
He couldn't see anything clearly; the thick black fog completely obscured the man's features.
Another child walked over beside him; it was the slightly shorter boy from before—the black mist on his face faded, revealing his features, a gloomy and unfriendly face, seemingly very unhappy that Meng Yunqiu had attracted that person's attention.
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