Floating to your side (9)

Shen Tang turned around in surprise and looked towards the source of the horn sound. Who else would come to this place at this time?

She turned around and looked, her dark eyes clearly saw that the car that had brought her to this place had returned to its original place. However, through the transparent window with water droplets slowly rolling down, Shen Tang only saw the figure of the person in charge, and did not see the figures of others, including Liu Ling.

As if to attract Shen Tang's attention, the horn sounded several times, until the car slowly approached the girl, the horn sound gradually stopped. The car window was quickly lowered, revealing the appearance of the driver.

The person in charge was surprised and happy to see Shen Tang's expression. As soon as he parked the car on the side of the road, he got out of the car and trotted to Shen Tang's side. He held the girl's arm with both hands and looked her up and down several times. After confirming that she didn't have many injuries on her body, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Oh my god, luckily you are fine. You don't even know that I was so scared when I took the others back just now. If something happened to you, I really can't take the responsibility."

Shen Tang naturally understood what the person in charge meant. After all, she was the person in charge of this event. If he really didn't come back, she would be the first person to be asked about responsibility. Shen Tang also slightly lowered his eyes and did not expose his emotions in front of the person in charge.

She grabbed her painting supplies and walked to the car, putting those things that were not wet into the car before moving back to the tent, intending to pick up the things inside that were wet but still usable.

The person in charge kindly followed her to the edge of the tent, and kept asking questions, "Why don't you stay with Xiaoling? It rained so hard just now, where did you hide from the rain? Fortunately, you are fine now, otherwise I would be in trouble. But this Liu Ling is really something. Before the rain, she asked her to ask you to pack up together, but why did you take her own things and leave your things here..."

The person in charge obviously didn't understand the relationship between Shen Tang and Liu Ling. In her opinion, how could such good friends not pack their things together? Although she was puzzled, the person in charge didn't ask. She just quickly accompanied Shen Tang to put the remaining things in the tent into the trunk of the car, fearing that the changeable weather would rain again in a while, which would be much more troublesome.

Shen Tang picked up the last thing she wanted to take away and put it back in the car. The person in charge then took her back to the car. However, since it had just rained when they were outside the car, the person in charge only thought that the air conditioning around them was just the chill after the rain. Who would have thought that once she got into the car, she still felt chilly on her back, as if there was an open refrigerator.

The person in charge slammed the car door shut, blew some hot air on his hands and rubbed them before starting the car and reversing. "Have you packed everything? I'll take you home now."

After saying this, the person in charge stepped on the accelerator and quickly drove the car back. Shen Tang sat in the back seat, with the little kid still clinging to her back, while Wen Ting looked around the car with curiosity.

Wen Ting's possessed body had been buried beside a dry well in the backyard of the ancient temple. Although his soul could wander around, it had never left the temple. This was a rare opportunity for him to leave the temple and enter the car that he had only seen from afar but had never been inside. Naturally, Ah Piao was excited.

The boy touched left and right inside the car, and even poked the Ping An Fu sign hanging in front of the car, making it shake, which scared the driver and made him nervous.

"Why is it so cold in this car?" The person in charge had goose bumps on his arms and looked through the rearview mirror at Shen Tang who was sitting in the back seat of the car. "Xiao Tang, I saw that you didn't wear many clothes when you went to hide from the rain. I guess you got a cold. I'll turn on the heat. Otherwise, this car is too cold."

The person in charge muttered to herself and reached out to quickly raise the temperature in the car by a few degrees, but even so, she still felt cold around her.

I guess he's been outside for too long and the psychological effects have taken effect.

The person in charge tried to calm down the complicated emotions in his heart and forced a smile, "Xiaotang, why don't you say anything after you come back? It makes me worried. I remember there shouldn't be any place to hide from the rain in this mountain. Did you go to that ancient temple to take shelter from the rain?"

In the rearview mirror, the girl who had been staring at the car window finally turned her gaze back to the back of the person in charge. The moment their eyes met in the mirror, the person in charge's back felt even colder.

"That's true. If I hadn't gone to that ancient temple, I would have been drenched by the heavy rain by now, right?" Shen Tang looked at the person driving in front with her dark eyes, her tone slightly cold, but after a moment, she smiled again, her red lips curved on her delicate white face, like a weird porcelain doll.

"I'm wondering, why originally there was a car full of people coming, but now only you, the person in charge, are here?" Shen Tang's tone was obviously tinged with sarcasm. Even if she was introverted and lonely, she shouldn't be treated like this, right?

The person in charge smiled awkwardly and shifted his gaze from the rearview mirror back to the road in front of him. "Well, your friend Xiaoling caught a cold after being caught in the rain, so I sent her home first. The other kids couldn't stay and took taxis back. Didn't I expect it to rain so hard there? Blame me, I should have prepared these in advance."

"Tsk, hypocrite," Wen Ting leaned on the empty seat next to Shen Tang and spat with contempt. If he were not alive now, he really wanted to beat up all these people!

"You said it as if it was for your own good, but when something happened, they just abandoned you because you were easy to bully, and only took you back because they remembered you," Wen Ting snorted coldly and kicked the person in charge hard on the back of his chair.

"who?!"

The person in charge felt the whole seat shake violently, his eyes widened and he braked to look back, but Shen Tang was sitting in the other corner with his legs placed neatly, and he didn't stay in the seat and didn't move. Could it be her hallucination?

Shen Tang blinked with amusement, "What's wrong? Why did you stop the car suddenly?"

"Haha, nothing, nothing."

The person in charge, who felt that she was hallucinating because of her own fright, restarted the vehicle and rubbed her chest with her hand. She should not have chosen that place for the camping. It turned out that being close to the ancient temple was not a good thing. It made her suspicious.

Shen Tang could naturally see what the person in charge was thinking, but she said nothing. She watched Wen Ting deliberately tease the man several times in the car, and only after scaring the man so much that he developed a reverence for the ancient temple did she ask Wen Ting to stop.

"You said earlier that Xiaoling had a cold. How about you take me to her house directly? I want to visit her."

The dark bangs hanging in front of the girl's eyes swayed as the vehicle moved rapidly, revealing a pair of obsidian-black eyes. When the person in charge's eyes fell on those eyes, he was unconsciously attracted to them.

"Okay, then I'll take you to her place." As she said that, when the car reached an intersection, the woman turned the steering wheel in her hand and headed towards Liu Ling's home.

The reason why Shen Tang asked the person in charge to send her to Liu Ling's house was not just to return the jade stone where the hero was, but more importantly, the short distance from this camping site to Liu Ling's house would pass through Gushi Village. She wanted to see what Gushi Village was like.

"Why did you let this guy go to that Liu Ling? I said I don't want to follow that person..." Wen Ting immediately felt something was wrong when he heard Shen Tang's words. However, before he could start to talk nonsense, Shen Tang signaled him to shut up.

Through the car window, Shen Tang clearly saw that the vehicle had arrived in front of Gushi Village. When the person in charge drove past the entrance of Gushi Village, a group of old women in flowery clothes were staring at their car. The plaque with the three characters "Gushi Village" engraved on the top of the village had long faded, and people could only barely recognize the words.

The person in charge took a look and stepped on the accelerator, eager to drive away from this strange village as soon as possible.

Although Shen Tang only took a glance, she noticed something strange about the ghost baby behind her. When the car passed the village entrance, the ghost baby left her back and quickly crawled towards the car window near the village entrance, with its head pressed against the window, and its dark pupils stared at the direction of Gushi Village.

Seeing this, Shen Tang lowered her eyes and tapped the sofa thoughtfully. It seemed that this Gushi Village was indeed closely related to the cause of death of the ghost baby. If she wanted to send the ghost baby to reincarnate, she would have to come to this place.

Not until the vehicle drove away from the village did the ghost baby slowly climb back onto Shen Tang's back. However, this time, as soon as it returned to Shen Tang's back, it closed its eyes, as if it had fallen asleep, which made Shen Tang feel a little surprised.

"What kind of place is this Gushi Village? Why do I feel like you have a bad attitude towards this place?" Shen Tang glanced at the person in charge who had relaxed, and asked slowly.

This time, the other party answered her quickly: "Well, some strange things have happened in this village, and we outsiders will naturally not rush to touch the mold."

"What's strange?" Shen Tang was a little curious. Wen Ting, who was beside her, also looked eager to know the answer, as if he had forgotten about Shen Tang's plan to send him back to Liu Ling.

"Decades ago, a daughter-in-law in a family in that village finally got pregnant after several years, but for some unknown reason, the baby died. Except for the mother, the family was not sad at all, and they even set off firecrackers as if it was a happy event. It's strange to say, on the day the baby died, wolves came to this village that hadn't seen wild animals for a long time, and except for the daughter-in-law who was taken away by her family to recuperate, the whole family was bitten to death by the wolves!"