Chapter 44
Xie Que was concentrating on eating dumplings and didn't take Shi Ming's words to heart. Instead, Jing Xiebai seemed very dissatisfied with this guess.
"To drag out the debt of love from one's previous life until the next, one must be either crazy or stupid." Jing Xiebai took the jade pendant in his hand, frowned, and asked, "Who would go through so much trouble just to give a jade pendant and a wooden plaque? There must be other intentions."
The jade pendant is just an ordinary blue-white jade pendant, and the wooden plaque is just ordinary peach wood. Apart from being Xie Lingsong's relic, they are worthless. The only thing worth discussing is who owns the other half of the jade pendant.
"You really can't find out who sent it?" Jing Xiebai put down the jade pendant and asked unwillingly.
"I can't find anything." The first thing Lu Jueqiu did when he got the box was to check all the surveillance cameras near his home. No one had ever approached his house. The box seemed to have appeared out of thin air.
"Did Xie Lingsong send this thing?" Xie Lingsong held the wooden sign in his hand, unconsciously rubbing the three words "Xie Lingsong". It's no wonder he was overthinking it. Xie Lingsong was a terrifying man, a true "magician", invisibly influencing the entire situation.
"Did he send this thing here so that we can find the other half of the jade pendant? Who has the other half?"
"I don't know. I don't have a clue." Jing Xiebai wiped his mouth after finishing the last few dumplings and picked up the wooden sign, speculating, "Could it be that these things don't actually belong to Xie Lingsong? Did someone deliberately carve his name on them to confuse us?"
"It's possible, but who else knows Xie Lingsong besides us?" Even the underworld can't find any information about this person. He must have been a cautious person when he was alive. He even deliberately erased his own existence before his death. They really know nothing about him except his name.
"If it was really sent by Xie Lingsong, why would he go to such lengths?" Shi Ming suddenly spoke up. "Couldn't he just pass it on to Xie Que as a family heirloom?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the three of them looked up at Shi Ming. The living room fell silent for a moment, and sunlight streamed in through the French windows, just illuminating a small area of the floor in front of Shi Ming.
"Uh, why are you staring at me?" Shi Ming scratched his face and said with a wry smile, "I won't interrupt your thoughts again, will I?" After saying that, his face changed and he apologized fiercely: "I'm sorry, I'll go back to my room now."
"Wait." Jing Xiebai stretched out his hand and pulled back Shi Ming, who was crouching and trying to go back. "Your idea makes sense. It's indeed worth thinking about."
After receiving the affirmation, Shi Ming suddenly became lively again, with a smug look on his face: "I knew it. Why do elders make things so complicated when leaving things to the younger generation? My dad would never ask me to do math problems before giving me the family inheritance."
Lu Jueqiu, standing by, said in frustration, "Uncle is helpless. He gave birth to a child who only scored 18 on the math test, and whose shoes are not even his size."
"You!" Shi Ming glared at Lu Jueqiu and ignored him.
"Whether or not this thing was left to Xie Que by Xie Lingsong, we all have to think about one thing."
Jing Xiebai ignored the two interrupting people and looked at Xie Que and said, "I found it strange from the beginning. How could someone like Xie Lingsong not leave something behind for his reincarnation? He must have predicted that someone would refine a fierce ghost and reincarnate early. Couldn't he have also left behind a clue about Chen Shan?"
"But there are no heirlooms in my family?" In Xie Que's impression, the oldest item in the family is the house. From childhood to adulthood, he has never heard his family members say that the elders left anything behind.
Jing Xiebai reminded: "Maybe I didn't tell you?"
Shi Ming also echoed: "Yes, yes, yes, my dad will not tell me the total amount of my family's assets and his bank card password. Think about it carefully and see if there is anything wrong."
Lu Jueqiu raised his eyebrows and said, "Is it possible that I hinted to you, but you just can't remember it?"
Xie frowned, recalling the past 22 years. Only one thing stood out: "To be honest, I wore a jade pendant when I was born. It was the kind with a ring-shaped jade pendant strung on a red string. But I took it off when I was eight years old."
The reason why Xie Que still remembered this incident was that his peers all wore longevity locks, but he was the only one wearing a jade pendant.
"My family never told me who bought the jade pendant for me." Xie recalled with difficulty, "Maybe I just bought it on the street." He really couldn't remember the details, but his family didn't cherish the jade pendant either. It disappeared a few days after it was taken off, so he didn't think it was important.
"Could it be that the thing is actually a key?" Some heirlooms are not convenient for outsiders to know, so the owner will put them in a box and leave only a key for future generations.
Xie didn't answer Jing Xiebai directly, but questioned: "What if I didn't remember this jade pendant?"
"Why didn't you wear the jade pendant in the first place?" If Xie Que had worn it properly, there would be no risk of forgetting the jade pendant.
Xie paused, a little embarrassed: "I just don't want to wear it. I don't like wearing accessories." The only decoration on his body was the black earring on his ear.
Jing Xiebai was stunned, obviously not expecting this to be the reason. After realizing it, he smiled helplessly. After thinking for a while, he made a decision: "Since that's the case, why not go to your house and see if Xie Lingsong has left anything for you."
The other half of the jade pendant and the jade that Xie Que wore before are the only two clues they can grasp at the moment. They have to go and take a look even if it means their trip is in vain.
Jing Xiebai was an impatient man, so he immediately pulled Xie Que out of the door.
Just a few hours after returning, Xie Que and Jing Xiebai left Xicheng again. However, considering that Jing Xiebai was injured, the two did not choose to drive to their destination, but took the high-speed rail.
Xie Que's home was in a small town. After they left the station, they took a taxi to get to his home.
After not coming home for several months, the house was already covered in dust. However, Xie opened the doors and windows to ventilate the house, signaling Jing Xiebai to finish the job quickly.
"Let's stay in a hotel tonight. Our house is too dirty to be inhabited."
"Okay." Jing Xiebai nodded, pushed open the door of a room on the right and walked in.
It was Xie Que's room. It was filled with books, and the walls were covered with awards. Jing Xiebai took a quick look, then ran his hand over the awards, confirming there was nothing hidden inside, and then began to search the cabinets again.
The two searched for two hours without finding the jade pendant. Finally, Jing Xiebai found it in the crack between the wooden boards under the bed.
"Hidden so deep?" Jing Xiebai dusted himself off and handed the jade pendant to Xie Que. "See if there's a secret compartment. If not, we'll have to go to your hometown and look for it."
Xie hummed, then began to search again. Before long, he found a mahogany box in the secret compartment of the bedside table.
There was no lock on the box, only a groove. Xie put the jade pendant down and heard a slight sound, and a crack appeared in the box.
"See what's inside."
Xie nodded and opened the box. There were only two pieces of white cloth embroidered with words inside.
He and Jing Xiebai examined it together. Xie Que held a sworn brotherhood, which stated that Xie Lingsong had sworn brotherhood with a man named "Li Mohan".
Xie frowned as he read the entire orchid leaflet, his expression somewhat subtle: "Why did he leave this for me? Asking me to ask his brother for help?"
"Never mind that for now. Look at this one in my hand."
Jing Xiebai's face looked very ugly. He asked Xie Que to quickly glance at the white cloth in his hand and then put it away immediately.
"This is evil magic. Don't look at it for too long, or you will easily go astray." Xie Que's cultivation was not high enough, and he couldn't be exposed to these things too much.
"Evil magic? How did Xie Lingsong know about it? Could it be that he was the one who spread it back then?"
"It's unlikely. Think about it, if it was really him, how did Chen Shan know so many evil spells?" Jing Xiebai took the Jinlan Book from Xie Que and guessed, "Maybe he got this evil spell from that person and kept it to help us find him."
"As for this orchid book..." Jing Xiebai couldn't explain it clearly. "Who is Li Mohan? I'll ask Lu Jueqiu to check."
The two of them didn't stay any longer and stayed in a hotel near the high-speed rail station waiting to take the high-speed rail back tomorrow.
Lu Jueqiu was very efficient. He sent Li Mohan's information over shortly after they returned to the hotel.
"Li Mohan, his date of birth and death are unknown. He used to be a well-known Taoist exorcist. When the evil magic was rampant, he was caring for his seriously ill master and did not participate in the exorcism. He disappeared after this incident." Xie Que looked up at Jing Xiebai, his eyes full of disbelief. "What a coincidence?"
The time is too long ago, and most of the things about Li Mohan are passed down orally, with a mixture of truth and falsehood, but it is indeed worth pondering.
"Why didn't Xie Lingsong pass down any news? Did Li Mohan pass down any news?"
Jing Xiebai raised his eyebrows and said, "Do you think someone doesn't want us to know about Xie Lingsong, or is it that Xie Lingsong is not comfortable letting his news pass on?"
Xie remained silent. He opened his mouth several times but didn't know what to say.
When he wanted to speak again, he was interrupted by the sudden ringing of the phone.
Jing Xiebai glanced at him and picked up the phone.
"Hello."
"There's a fierce ghost on the outskirts of the city that we can't deal with, so we might need your help." It was Lu Jueqiu calling.
Jing Xiebai raised his eyebrows and said frankly, "You wouldn't call me just to ask me to exorcise a ghost."
"You fought with Chen Shan last time when you were exorcising ghosts. He is now looking for ghosts everywhere. Why not design a plan to lure him out?" Lu Jueqiu took a look at the evil ghost commissions he had on hand. The suburbs were the most suitable place for the layout, so he made this call.
"Okay." Jing Xiebai didn't refuse. "Let's wait a few days and I'll think about how to lure him out." After that, he hung up the phone.
"Your injury hasn't healed yet. Can't you wait until you recover before going?"
"It's okay. I'm used to working with injuries."
Xie pursed his lips and whispered comfortingly: "I will try harder this time. If you have anything to do, let me go first."
Jing Xiebai was amused by him and reached out to rub his head: "Thank you in advance for saving my life, sir. I followed you and picked up the missing items."
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