Chapter 17
The children were all very surprised to find a new classmate, Gua, when they returned to kindergarten during the short holiday.
For a time, Li Dongqiang became the most popular student.
It was taking Tai Chi classes, and during after-school hours, other children would surround it and watch it, even students from the Lotus class would come over.
Li Dongqiang couldn’t remember how many times he had to explain why he had to wear his bellyband outside, nor did he remember how many times he had changed back to his original form and been slapped.
But what the children were most curious about was that in the afternoon, the driver would bring a chair and sit in the back row to listen to the class together.
Teachers such as Liang Tang admired Principal Zhou, and he successfully attracted Li Yang with just one sentence: "100 yuan for a class."
Although Li Yang always sleeps on the desk.
Time flies and it’s National Day, and it’s time for another holiday.
This holiday is quite long and the teachers are preparing to go home.
In previous years, during long holidays, one of the teachers would stay behind to look after the kindergarten, but this year, since Li Yang was not going back, Li Yang was left to look after the kindergarten.
"Master Xiao Li, thank you for your hard work. Call me if you have any questions."
Li Yang nodded, sent the teachers away, and locked the kindergarten door.
When I returned to the room, I saw a hole next to his bed, which was full of dirt. This was Li Dongqiang's bed, but he hardly slept there. In the middle of the night, he would secretly roll onto the bed and stick close to Li Yang.
It is almost the end of autumn and the last wave of heat has reached its peak. Winter melon is cool and it would also be cool for Li Yang to sleep hugging a melon, so he just let it be.
At seven o'clock in the evening, Li Yang had just slept for two hours when he was awakened by a knock on the door.
"Go open the door." He patted Li Dongqiang sleepily.
Li Dongqiang transformed into a human form, but was too lazy to move. He made a gesture with his fat hands and used the magic he had just learned to open the door.
If the Tai Chi teacher saw this, he would be furious: I didn’t teach you this to make you lazy!!
"..." Zhou Du looked at the two people, one big and one small, lying on the bed.
Li Yang finally remembered that something was wrong. There was no one in the kindergarten.
He propped himself up on the bed and sat up, his eyes meeting Zhou Du's.
...Oh, I forgot the boss is still here.
This is not Li Yang’s fault, Zhou Du has not come out of the room today.
"It's time to eat." Zhou Du leaned against the door frame and knocked on the door.
Li Yang lay back down again, raised his hands to cover his eyes, "You eat first, I'll be down in a minute."
Zhou Du walked in, picked up Li Dongqiang from the bed and threw him to the ground, then stood at the end of the bed and looked at him.
"You're left alone and you don't eat on time?"
"..." How could you, a person whose daily routine is even more abnormal, ask such a question?
Li Yang had no choice but to get up and put on slippers.
"Let's go." His voice was hoarse from just waking up.
On the first floor, Li Dongqiang was slurping lotus root and pork ribs soup.
Li Yang didn't expect Zhou Du to prepare three dishes and a soup, both meat and vegetarian home-cooked dishes. When he sat down, he said, "Thank you."
While eating, Li Yang asked him, "When are you going back?"
"Eat, your friend from the vegetable garden." Zhou Du put a piece of green vegetable into Li Dongqiang's bowl, then said to Li Yang: "I'll stay in the garden."
Li Dongqiang ate with his mouth flat and eyes watery.
Li Yang paused with his chopsticks. Does that mean I have to live with him for the next seven days?
"Then let's take turns cooking, one day each." This was all Li Yang said.
After dinner, the two adults thought about it and decided to let Li Dongqiang, a kid who was not even a month old, wash the dishes.
Li Dongqiang: “…”
He thrust his finger out angrily.
Zhou Du knocked on its head and said, "No magic is allowed."
"I'm still a child laborer!" Li Dongqiang took classes for a few days and learned a lot.
"You don't have to wash, but you have to sleep alone tonight and don't even think about getting on the bed," said Li Yang.
Li Dongqiang quickly picked up the small stool, put it away, stood on it and started washing the dishes.
Zhou Du seemed to be pondering something.
"I can sleep with you just for washing dishes?"
Li Yang was drinking water and almost choked.
If Lu Xiaoguo was present, he would definitely point at Zhou Du and yell: You are sexually harassing me in the workplace!
I don't understand why this man keeps talking nonsense when he meets him. He is not good at talking and often doesn't know how to respond, which makes him feel awkward.
So in order to avoid embarrassment, can't you just control your mouth?
Li Yang took a deep breath, glanced at the man, and said nothing.
Zhou Du slowly rolled up his sleeves, revealing his toned upper arms, then stood up and walked to the sink and began to supervise.
"There are bubbles, flush again,"
"There's still oil on it. It's not cleaned well. Wash it again."
Li Dongqiang was mumbling something, and if you listened carefully you could tell that it was Lu Xiaoguo who taught him:
"It smells so daddy."
"No matter how oily you are, you are not as oily as me."
Zhou Du tapped its head and said, "I can hear you."
Maybe he sensed Li Yang's dissatisfaction, but Li Dongqiang dared to speak in a clear and childish voice: "Hello, daddy!"
"Then you call me daddy?"
Li Dongqiang whispered: "Bah, you deserve it." In return he got a slap on the face and turned back into a melon, sitting on the stool, unable to move.
"You! You said that I can't use magic casually, what is this?! Quickly untie it for me!" Donggua, who was cast under the immobilization spell, whimpered.
"This is called, the officials are allowed to set fires, but the common people are not allowed to light lamps." Zhou Du picked up the almost washed dishes and rinsed them.
Li Dongqiang screamed and then his voice was muted.
The villa suddenly became quiet.
The next morning, Li Yang got up to make breakfast. When he saw the winter melon in the kitchen, he realized that Zhou Du had not lifted the forbidden technique.
No wonder he slept so well that night. He thought that this shorty had gone off somewhere.
However, he didn't know how to solve this problem, so he had to take out the Tai Chi class textbook and look through the table of contents.
When Zhou Du got up and went downstairs to the kitchen, he saw the young man squatting beside a small stool, trying to cast a spell to rescue the big winter melon.
Then what kind of method is used? It is similar to...
Open the book: Avada eats big melon.
Close the book: Avada chews sweet potatoes.
During the exam: Avada saves Winter Melon.
Zhou Du: “…”
After the two bans were lifted, Li Dongqiang turned back into human form and kept saying bad things about Zhou Du.
"Sorry, I forgot." Zhou Du pressed his brows, but there was no regret on his face.
Li Dongqiang snorted loudly in anger.
Li Yang made three breakfasts at random, black pepper pasta with fried eggs. The fried eggs were so fragrant that Li Dongqiang instantly forgot to curse. He drooled at the fried eggs and kept mumbling like a mantra: "Fry another one! I want to eat two!"
Zhou Du also came over and stood next to him, "I want two too."
Surrounded by a big and a small child, Li Yang had no choice but to lay two more eggs.
Li Dongqiang held the fork and rolled the noodles attentively. He seemed to have a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder and would not put the noodles into his mouth until he rolled them into the shape he liked.
Zhou Du then asked him: "There is a soul that is hundreds of years old, do you want to take it?"
Li Yang was eating pasta when he heard the noodles being bitten off. "Where?" He paused. "How do you know it's been hundreds of years?"
Zhou Du tapped his fingers lightly on the table twice. "It's about the Lu family in Nanjiang City."
"Lu family?"
"The Lu family, who owns a century-old enterprise, say that their home is haunted frequently. Someone even ran into one yesterday and saw that the ghost was wearing clothes from the Republic of China period."
Li Yang was now interested, "Continue."
"The Lu family found several masters but they didn't help much, so they asked someone to find me. If you are interested, would you like to go together in the evening?" Zhou Du casually rolled the pasta with a fork while speaking.
Li Yang had never caught a hundred-year-old ghost, and didn't know how many points he had, so he immediately agreed with him: "I'll go."
"Okay, let's go tonight."
*
In the old house of the Lu family, bright lights filled the room to resist the deepening darkness.
On the soft couch in the side hall, there lay a middle-aged man who was still mumbling in a coma.
The rest of the people either stood in silence or paced back and forth.
A servant was carrying a basin of water and walking between the halls. The middle-aged man's wife wrung out a wet towel and wiped the sweat off her husband's forehead. When her impatience reached its peak, she threw the towel into the basin, walked to the main hall in her high heels, and said to the old man sitting in the main seat, "Dad, I want to take Shuhong to the hospital."
After getting married, Lu Yihuan went to Shenzhen with her husband Zheng Shuhong to work hard for her career. She just returned to Nanjiang City today and encountered this kind of thing after dinner. But her whole family didn't let her send Zheng Shuhong to the hospital, saying that it would be useless. The servants also said: "We have encountered another evil spirit again. I don't know which master to ask this time."
Lu Yihuan just thought it was outrageous. What era is it in now? People still believe in these things!
As a result, her father Lu Ye also asked her to wait a little longer and someone would come.
Lu Yihuan endured the pain and waited, with a half-believing and half-doubting attitude, but her patience had run out.
Lu Ye, the head of the Lu family, paused with his cane on the floor tiles. Just as he was about to speak, a child's voice came from outside: "Grandpa! Brother Zhou Du is here!"
Zhou Du drove the car and navigated directly to the Lu family's house.
After getting off the car, Li Yang followed Zhou Du into the main door and walked through many turns to the front hall.
The little boy sitting on the stairs playing games seemed to know Zhou Du. He took one look at him and turned to shout into the inner room. After shouting, he threw down his phone and hugged Zhou Du's thighs, "Brother Zhou Du!"
Zhou Du ruffled the boy's hair in response.
The boy noticed Li Yang and stared at him without any shyness.
Zhou Du introduced him: "You can call him Brother Yangyang."
"Hello, brother Yangyang."
Li Yang nodded slightly, "Hello."
Lu Ye came out with a cane.
The Zhou and Lu families knew each other, and Lu Ye invited Zhou and Lu in while talking. He first showed concern for the younger generation, and then explained the urgency of the situation, "I don't want to bother you with your father, but this matter is too difficult, and it was useless to ask someone to take a look before..."
Zhou Du spoke steadily and forcefully: "I know, Grandpa Lu, don't worry, there will be a way."
"Okay, okay," Lu Ye calmed down, then his eyes fell on the left behind Zhou Du: "Who is this..."
"My kindergarten employee, Li Yang." Zhou Du.
"Hello." Li Yang nodded proactively.
"Hello, hello." Lu Ye didn't understand what the kindergarten opened by the son of this old friend was doing, but he didn't care who he brought, as long as they could solve the Lu family's problems.
Entering the main hall, Lu Yi folded his arms and looked at Zhou Du and Li Yang.
Zhou Du spoke first: "Aunt Huan."
Lu Yihuan was a little surprised: "Xiao Du? Do you still remember me?"
When Zhou Du was seven years old, Lu Yihuan left Nanjiang City. Although she would come back several times every year, they had never met, so they had not seen each other for at least twenty years.
Zhou Du nodded.
Although Lu Yihuan wondered why Zhou Du would choose this path, the most important thing at the moment was her husband.
"Did someone bump into us again tonight?" Zhou Du asked.
Lu Ye nodded: "He's your Aunt Huan's husband."
Zhou Du and Li Yang came to the side hall. The Lu family was large and powerful, so naturally there were many younger generations, and more than a dozen pairs of eyes looked over at them.
Zhou Du went forward to check on Zheng Shuhong, and saw that his face and neck were red and hot, and his forehead was covered with cold sweat.
He called out to Li Yang who was beside him, but got no response.
Zhou Du looked sideways and found Li Yang staring blankly in one direction. Zhou Du followed his gaze and saw a young man who looked as handsome as a movie actor.
Reaching out and touching the fair wrist with the thin red string, Li Yang came back to his senses and looked at him.
Zhou Du: "Judge this man's current situation."
Li Yang glanced at Zheng Shuhong and said, "You're scared."
"What should I do if I get scared?"
Li Yang glared at him. He just came here to catch ghosts, why did he start an in-class test?
Li Yang: "Burn some talisman paper for him to drink?"
"Okay, after drinking it, go straight to the hospital and induce vomiting. You pay for it."
“…”
"We just learned the Talisman for Relieving Shock in Tai Chi class last week." The examiner gave a key word prompt, "Draw it."
Li Yang then realized why Zhou Du packed a bunch of tools into his backpack and asked him to carry it before departure. He thought they were just ghost-catching tools.
He took off his backpack, took out paper, pen and cinnabar, then squatted beside the couch and started to prepare.
But when he picked up the brush, Li Yang was stunned for a while, then looked up at Zhou Du, "How do you draw?"
Zhou Du smiled slightly, "Search on your phone yourself."
Li Yang was not sure whether the talisman on the Internet was correct, so he looked through Fatty Liang’s circle of friends and found the talismans drawn by children that he posted last week, and began to copy them stroke by stroke.
Everyone present thought this was outrageous, and Lu Yihuan couldn't sit still. She believed Zhou Du, but she didn't trust a stranger who she had never met twice and whose professional level seemed very low.
"Xiaodu..."
"alright."
Li Yang finished the painting and pasted it on Zheng Shuhong’s forehead.
The middle-aged man suddenly stopped mumbling to himself, and his previously disordered and heavy breathing slowed down. He looked less uncomfortable.
Lu Yihuan stopped talking.
"Have you watched too many zombie movies?" Zhou Du took the talisman paper on the man's forehead, folded it into a triangle, and stuffed it into the man's coat pocket. Then he stood up and said to Lu Yihuan, "The weak illness caused by the fright has healed. The symptoms will gradually subside, but the fever may not go away. When he wakes up, send him to the hospital for a fever-reducing injection. If you are still worried, you can do a check-up."
Lu Yihuan nodded blankly.
The Lu family was very surprised, "How do we solve the problem of the female ghost?"
Zhou Du looked at Li Yang and said, "Find out the source of the Yin energy."
It really is a pop test.
As soon as Li Yang got out of the car, he smelled the evil energy hovering over the house, but it was vague and like a knotted hemp rope, difficult to capture.
He closed his eyes, concentrated his mind, and grabbed one of the evil spirits' tails.
The evil spirit suddenly let out a small scream and dissipated in his hands.
Li Yang's eardrum was pierced by the sound, and he loosened his hand and stopped touching it. He followed the Yin Qi and began to move around the mansion. Everyone didn't understand why, but seeing Zhou Du following Li Yang, they followed him, almost walking around the mansion, and finally stopped in the yard of a side room.
The yard was overgrown with weeds and it was obvious that no one had ever lived there.
Li Yang pointed at a well and looked at Zhou Du next to it: "It's there."
Zhou Du nodded slightly.
The well was sealed with a stone that had been polished into a Bagua instrument, on which were engraved the Tai Chi Yin and Yang, and painted with red paint. However, due to its age, the paint had almost fallen off.
It's a soul-calming well.
Li Yang took a look and asked the people behind him, "What is suppressed inside? Don't you know?"
The younger generation looked at each other in bewilderment, and only Lu Ye's face changed, "Impossible!"
“It can’t be Aunt Yun!”
"You know who it is." Li Yang looked at the old man with his dark eyes, "Why can't it be her?"
Mr. Lu opened his mouth and concentrated for two seconds, then lowered his head and shook it gently, "Because more than 30 years ago, I found someone to break the formation, released Aunt Yun, and saved her soul."
Without Zhou Du's words, Li Yang spoke first: "The salvation was not successful, and the Yin Qi was diffuse and even a little weak. It is estimated that it has only been concentrated during this period, so your family ran into her more than 30 years later."
"Tell me, why did your Lu family suppress the soul of the person in the well?"
Mr. Lu dug his walking stick into the wet soil, sighed and said, "It is my Lu family that has let Aunt Yun down..."
When Fang Wanyun married into the Lu family, Lu Ye was only five years old. He didn't remember clearly what happened, but he only remembered that Fang Wanyun always held him and fed him sweets and cakes. She was very kind to him, and he also became close to this young aunt.
Unfortunately, my uncle did an extremely despicable thing. One year after Fang Wanyun married into the Lu family, she set a fire like a madman in the middle of the night and then fell into a deep well. It was just the beginning of winter and it snowed at some point. Fang Wanyun was not found in the well until the next day. When she was dragged out, she was covered in ice chips.
Later, the then head of the Lu family asked someone to help Fang Wanyun to transcend, but the master said that the resentment was too deep and it might be useless to help her transcend, so he asked someone to build a Bagua stone plate to suppress it in the well. Lu Ye felt that this was not right since he was a child. When he was nearly 40 years old and had a lot of say, the first thing he did was to break the formation that suppressed Fang Wanyun. He asked someone to help her transcend for 49 days before completing it.
But now he said that the salvation was not successful. Lu Ye wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, looked up and asked Li Yang: "Little Master, if you need me to do anything, just let me know."
Li Yang did not comment on the story, but just patted the stone and said, "Move it away."
It took six adult men to lift the stone slightly and move it away from the wellhead.
During the process, Li Yang thought of something and asked Lu Ye, "Since it has been saved before, why not destroy this Bagua Stone?"
Lu Ye replied: "That master said that the well is of yin nature, so it is better to suppress the well mouth, so after breaking the formation, it did not move."
Li Yang was a little speechless. He was not afraid of a master who knew nothing, but he was afraid of a master who knew a little and yet didn't know anything and gave random instructions to others.
The well that had been sealed for many years was exposed to the sun again. Li Yang looked into the bottom of the well and shone a flashlight. It was more than ten meters deep and there was no water in it. There was only moss clinging to the stone wall. However, the damp and foul smell was so strong that several people pinched their noses and took a step back.
What should we do now? Li Yang looked at Zhou Du.
Zhou Du received the gaze, "What do you think we should do?"
Li Yang whispered: "I think we should go down and open the entrance to the underworld to let Fang Wanyun in."
"Then do as you say."
When Lu Ye heard that the two were going to go down, he was shocked and asked, "Are you really going down? Will something happen..."
"Nothing will happen." Li Yang asked, "Are there any safety ropes or something like that?"
Lu Ye nodded and asked the servant to bring it over.
When putting on the tools, Zhou Du put them on first. Li Yang said he was professional, but it was actually his first time and his hands and feet were a little clumsy, so Zhou Du helped him.
Li Yang was reluctant at first and put on his clothes in a hurry, but the two hands fought several times and touched his fingertips and knuckles each time. Li Yang simply stopped making trouble and let Zhou Du put on his clothes however he wanted.
Zhou Du was just one safety lock away from finishing. He raised his eyes slightly to glance at the young man and found that he was staring at the man from the Lu family who looked like a movie star in a daze again.
Veins popped out on his arms, and he lifted his hands slightly, and the safety tools around his hips suddenly tightened!
Li Yang groaned, came back to his senses and glared at Zhou Du fiercely.
"If it's tight, adjust it yourself." The buckle clicked lightly and Zhou Du stood up.
Li Yang adjusted himself and the two began to go down the well.
I stood at the edge of the dry well and looked at the bottom. It was pitch black.
The Lu family members spoke nervously: "Please be careful..."
Zhou Du slid down the rope nimbly, turned on the flashlight to illuminate the wet and muddy surroundings, and then shone a beam of light upwards.
After receiving the signal, Li Yang climbed down the well wall.
There was nothing. Li Yang followed a trace of Yin energy and found that it was emanating from the soil.
He picked up a branch nearby and dug into the mud. After digging a few times, he actually dug out something.
It is a emerald green jade bracelet, which still has a lustrous luster despite its age.
Fang Wanyun's soul should be housed in the bracelet.
Li Yang stretched out his hand.
The moment I touched the jade bracelet, I felt a dazzling light, my consciousness was in a trance for a while, and then I was twisted and sucked into the white light.
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