"By the way, didn't you say you were the expert he invited? Now that you've said so much, do you have any way to stop her from bothering Xiaoming?"
My third maternal uncle suddenly looked at me with a somewhat eager expression.
I was silent for a moment before slowly saying:
"Either find his remains, give him a proper burial, and perform a ritual to help him pass on. Or find Liu Guohua and make him go to the place where he died to kowtow and confess his sins; perhaps that can resolve some of the resentment."
"Otherwise, we could find a truly skilled master to forcibly send it away or seal it off, but that could easily create serious karma and cause more trouble in the future."
The remains are hard to find, and Liu Guohua is nowhere to be found. As for a master, my master is one, but I don't know if he'll be able to spare the time.
When I last looked for him, he seemed very busy and had a lot of things to deal with, after all, the ghost Taoist priest had not been completely dealt with yet.
Moreover, the reason why the master came here was because of the matter of possession and resurrection.
Now that the matter of the person who possessed the body and returned to life has been resolved, he needs to go back. He still has many things to do there, and things are not very peaceful.
"By the way," the uncle hesitated for a moment, looking at the black cloth bundle with a complicated expression, "This thing, is it Xiaofang's?"
I nodded.
"Xiaofang has two other things: a pair of silver bracelets that Liu Guohua gave her, and a locked diary. She wears the bracelets often, and I heard that the diary is hidden very well, and no one has ever seen it. If we can find these two things, maybe we can talk to her and ask her what she wants to do."
Hearing him say that, I couldn't help but give a wry smile.
So many years have passed, who knows where that thing is now?
We can't even find a living person, let alone these two inanimate objects.
"Thank you so much, sir!" I said earnestly. "Then let's get right to it..."
Before I could finish speaking, the wooden box I had placed in the corner of the living room, wrapped in a black cloth, suddenly made a dull thud!
It felt like something had slammed into the box from the inside.
Immediately afterwards, an extremely cold and yin energy permeated through layers of talisman paper and black cloth.
The three incense sticks that had been burning quietly in front of the Guanyin statue on the offering table suddenly started burning faster.
In an instant, the three incense sticks burned out completely.
This thing even dares to eat Guanyin's incense?
I was shocked, but quickly recovered and said, "Grandpa, we can't stay any longer. Staying here might just cause you trouble!"
We're a bunch of grown men, it doesn't matter if we get a little bit of yin energy, since we have plenty of yang energy in our bodies anyway.
Even if one's body is invaded by yin energy, one can recover quickly.
But my third maternal uncle is a different story; he could pass away at any moment if he's not careful.
Third maternal uncle also knew the gravity of the situation and waved his hands repeatedly, saying, "Yes, yes, you should hurry up and head east, the sun rises from the east!"
I grabbed the black box, while Luo Tianhe and Li Huai held Zhou Ming up.
This kid is such a coward, he was so scared that he fainted.
I ran out of the old man's house and got into the car. For some reason, the black box suddenly became quiet.
"Where to?" Luo Tianhe asked.
My mind was a complete mess, like mush, and I blurted out, "Willow Lane," without thinking.
Then I put my hands on my temples, trying hard to calm myself down.
My third maternal uncle mentioned two important things about Xiaofang: a silver bracelet and a diary. I had a feeling that these two things were definitely very useful!
She often wore the silver bracelet; it may have disappeared with her.
But where could that diary be hidden?
Her old house was demolished, and the places she frequented, the elderly woman didn't tell us.
I have absolutely no clue!
"Chen Yan, it's just ahead in Willow Lane, but it's pitch black, how are we going to find it?" Luo Tianhe slowed down the car and looked out at the vast ruins.
I glanced over there, and it was indeed being demolished.
But why hasn't the road been repaired or anything? It's just been left there, like an unfinished building.
"Stop for a bit," I said. Driving aimlessly like this wasn't going to work. Luo Tianhe parked the car on a dirt road and turned off the engine. The surroundings fell into a deathly silence, with only the howling of the cold wind.
I took out my small compass, hoping to sense something. The needle wobbled slightly, but it wasn't clear.
Just when I was at my wit's end, Zhou Ming, who had been unconscious, suddenly started convulsing violently again.
He made a strange "hoarse" sound in his throat, and we immediately looked at him. This scene looked familiar.
Zhou Ming suddenly opened his eyes, his pupils dilated, staring straight at the roof of the car.
His facial muscles contorted, and his lips moved stiffly.
"It's pressed down at the bottom of the water tank, in the old house, against the east wall, on the third brick, it's loose..."
His words abruptly stopped, Zhou Ming's head lolled to the side, and he fainted again.
We stood there stunned for a long time, looking at each other in bewilderment as Zhou Ming stopped talking. Then, Li Huai leaned over and patted Zhou Ming on the head.
"Please explain clearly, we don't know where you live!"
But no matter what Li Huai did, Zhou Ming didn't react at all.
"Oh right, didn't my third great-uncle say that his house is at the east end of Willow Lane?"
Luo Tianhe suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
"But the area at the east end is quite large, and most of the houses have been demolished and are now rubble, so it's not easy to find one." I said with a worried look, feeling that it sounded a bit far-fetched.
"We're out of options, let's just use the brute force method to search." Luo Tianhe shrugged and got out of the car first.
Li Huai was also somewhat helpless; before leaving, he glanced at Zhou Ming.
"Damn it, it's clearly his problem, but he's sleeping like a log!"
I couldn't help but grin as I looked at Zhou Ming's ashen face, which was now almost unrecognizable.
You call this sleeping soundly? If you were in that situation, you wouldn't be happy about it!
"Li Huai, you stay in the car and watch over the black box and Zhou Ming. Also, don't turn off the car. If anything happens, you can run away at any time."
Hearing me say that, Li Huai nodded with a wry smile.
There's Zhou Ming here, who could be possessed by a ghost at any moment, and that black box containing the red cloth shoes. To be honest, it's probably much more dangerous inside the car than outside.
However, it is indeed necessary to leave one person behind. After all, Zhou Ming is like a dead man now, and if a weasel or wild dog comes along, it could just eat him up.
And most importantly, we only have two flashlights.
Stepping into the ruins, a smell mixed with dust and mold hits you.
The ground was covered with broken bricks and tiles, and overgrown weeds, making it difficult to walk steadily.
If you're not careful, you might fall, and if you fall here, it will probably hurt quite a bit.
Most importantly, we don't know where there might be rusty nails or something, and what if we get tetanus later...?
After searching for twenty minutes, we found nothing.
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