Chapter 56: The Unfortunate Fate
Gradually, more and more people came into the training hall, including seniors, juniors, and students of the same grade, all of whom came to watch the exciting showdown between the school bully and his classmates.
Shi Can, facing seven opponents alone, was so exhausted he collapsed onto the wooden floor of the training hall before Lin Zhuyue even took the court. He ignored his obsessive-compulsive disorder and stared at the ceiling light, gasping for air. His throat felt dry and hoarse from the intense sweating from the intense exercise.
However, the students watching didn't think he lost at all.
"As strong as a monster."
Bai Feng, a sophomore in the senior department, commented,
"Has anyone ever defeated him?"
"He was unable to defeat his swordsmanship teacher before, but now his physical condition has reached its peak. If we fight again, the outcome is hard to predict."
Bai Feng's partner Lu Feichen put his hands in his pockets and said,
"Another point. He's only holding a bamboo sword right now. If he were holding the Spiritual Martial Blade, even Director Fu would have a hard time defeating him."
"However, I think she is actually the strongest person in the training hall right now."
Luffy Chen looked at Lin Zhuyue who walked into the venue and reached out to pull Shican. Although Lin Zhuyue suppressed his spiritual power, Luffy Chen's eyes were very useful. Just by looking at him a few more times, he could feel the storm under the calm appearance.
Shi Can took Lin Zhuyue's hand and stood up.
He and Lin Zhuyue practiced some basic moves together. After the training, Shi Can took a shower, accompanied Lin Zhuyue back to the dormitory, and went into the kitchen to cook as if he was familiar with the place.
Lin Zhuyue's cat is also a clingy person. It pushed the glass door open a crack, slipped into the kitchen, rubbed around Shican's ankles, and even lay directly on the back of Shican's feet, turning its belly towards Shican.
"Don't rub it, I'm going to get beaten by a baguette when I get home."
Shi Can picked up the small fish, put it outside the glass door, and drove it out of the kitchen.
He rinsed his hands with the water hose, peeled off the ring of the can, and poured the beer into the pot. After closing the lid, his feet felt itchy and he found the short-legged kitten coming over again. Shi Can sighed, picked up the cat in his arms, petted it a few times, and then went to find Lin Zhuyue with the cat in his arms.
Lin Zhuyue was flipping through the spell booklet compiled by Shi Can.
Shi Can liked to flip through all sorts of books and learned a lot of useful and useless spells, almost all of which were written down in this booklet, and he also made a lot of notes.
——A wish-granting spell (not very useful).
—A spell that infects the target with athlete's foot (with a 50% chance of infecting the victim's hands).
——A spell to find water source (why two bottles of mineral water need to be sacrificed when using it, why look for water source when drinking water is available).
——……
Shi Chan hugged the cat and asked, "Will it be boring?"
"No."
Lin Zhuyue shook his head and said,
“I think it’s quite interesting.”
Shi Can stuffed the small fish into Lin Zhuyue's arms and went back to the kitchen to check on the crayfish in the pot. After the juice had dried to a certain extent, he poured the remaining half of the garlic paste into the pot, stirred it a few times with a spatula, and the garlic crayfish were ready.
Shican doesn't like this kind of food that will have a strong smell on his body.
But after he heard Lin Zhuyue tell Wen Miyan during the break that she could eat two kilograms of crayfish in one meal, he thought about it and decided to ask the housekeeper to go to the fresh water market in Linhai City to buy several kilograms of crayfish, bring them back, process them, and then send them to Lin Zhuyue's dormitory.
Shi Can sat very close to Lin Zhuyue. Wearing disposable gloves, he peeled the shell of the crayfish with clumsy movements and handed the lobster meat to Lin Zhuyue's bowl.
Lin Zhuyue is an expert at eating crayfish. She twisted off the shrimp head, peeled off two sections of the shrimp shell, and with a slight suck, the lobster meat peeled off from the shrimp shell and into Lin Zhuyue's mouth.
After dinner, Shi Can cleaned up the pots and pans in Lin Zhuyue's dormitory. He rolled up his sleeves, revealing his muscular arms, and stood in front of the sink to wash the kitchen utensils and tableware one by one.
The little fish was lying at his feet, with its legs spread out, revealing its hairy belly.
Lin Zhuyue came over and asked, "Do you want some mouth-clearing candy?"
Shi Can said, “I can’t free my hands.”
Lin Zhuyue planned to feed Shican a candy, but the candy box of the mouth-clearing candy in her hand was designed to be very flat, and the candy pieces often got stuck in it. Lin Zhuyue tried to pour the candy out for a long time but failed. She repeatedly knocked the box in her hand, and finally threw the box of mouth-clearing candy aside angrily.
Shi Chan put the rinsed dishes on the dish rack and asked:
"Where did you buy that junk?"
"You bought it at the highway service area."
Lin Zhuyue corrected,
"This candy is very long-lasting. I haven't eaten many pieces since I bought them because whether I can pour them out depends entirely on luck."
Lin Zhuyue's beautiful, watery eyes contained resentment and dissatisfaction. It can be seen that she has been really troubled by this box of candy recently.
After Shi Can finished washing the dishes, he took some effort to open Lin Zhuyue's candy box and poured the mouth-clearing candy inside into the empty box of multivitamin tablets that Lin Zhuyue had left over.
Lin Zhuyue ate the candy contentedly.
Shi Chan sat on the sofa, holding Xiaoyu in his arms, and brushed her teeth with a toothbrush. After brushing, he didn't forget to reward her with snacks, and put some freeze-dried chicken pieces into her mouth one by one.
Lin Zhuyue saw Shi Can holding Xiaoyu and was reluctant to let go, so she asked:
"Aren't you afraid of being hit by the baguette?"
"I smell like garlic crayfish now. I need to go back and shower and change clothes."
Shi Can raised his hand, sniffed his sleeve, and said,
"How can you still smell like fish after taking a shower?"
Speaking of taking a bath, Lin Zhuyue couldn't help but complain:
"Every time I take a bath, the little fish don't recognize me anymore."
“Some cats are like that.”
Shi Can scratched Xiaoyu's chin and said,
"If I wear too many clothes at home, Baguette won't recognize me. When I first changed to Cinnamon's dog slippers, every time I went to the cat room to look for him, he would hit my slippers."
Shi Can played with the little fish for a while before saying goodbye to Lin Zhuyue and going home with his backpack.
The next morning, when Lin Zhuyue arrived at the classroom, he saw Ye Yangjia lying on the table, looking listless.
Lin Zhuyue stuffed her schoolbag into the hole in the table and asked:
"What happened to him?"
Wen Miyan opened the box of butter cookies with strawberry butter filling, pushed it in front of Lin Zhuyue, and said:
"It seems like I sparred too hard with Shi Chan yesterday. My whole body aches. It's useless. I sparred with Shi Chan for longer periods of time and didn't feel anything."
"Sister, you are a melee fighter, and I am a ranged fighter."
Ye Yangjia straightened his back and cried out for justice, saying,
"Are you kidding me, trying to compare my physical fitness? And that bastard Shican hit me really hard, as if he had a grudge against me."
Shi Chan entered the classroom quickly.
He sat down to the right of Lin Zhuyue and managed to get a cookie that Wen Miyan had brought back. This was a popular cookie, with the filling made of Ash butter, which Shican liked. Shican ate one and couldn't resist eating a second one.
Lin Zhuyue asked Shi Can: "Why did you arrive so late?"
As long as Shi Can wasn't secretly playing games at night or drinking strong tea or coffee, he would get up very early. He usually came to the classroom very early, and rarely entered the classroom with only a few minutes left before the morning class like this.
Ye Yangjia turned around and asked:
"Are you feeling unwell too?"
This is what happened after he and Shican competed. Shican fought seven people alone and was treated like a boss. He must have sore shoulders and back, right?
"Nothing uncomfortable."
Shi Chan took out a file bag from his shoulder bag.
"I went to the office to get the commission. I've looked at it, and I feel the victim's situation is a bit complicated. You can also take a look. If you think it's difficult, I will return the commission and let the Spiritual Master's Mansion find someone else to handle it."
Lin Zhuyue, Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia stood up, took the file bags, and went to the temporary meeting room at the end of the floor with Shi Can. They opened the file bags and took out the papers inside.
The clients are a couple in their sixties. Their family is not particularly wealthy, but they are well-off. They have only one daughter.
Their daughter was very talented and beautiful, so she had many good-looking suitors. However, the daughter was not interested in these suitors and fell in love with a poor boy. Despite her parents' repeated objections, she stole the household registration book at home and obtained a marriage certificate with the poor boy.
This poor boy is not a good man.
He was gentle and considerate to the woman before marriage, but a few months after marriage, when the woman became pregnant, he began to ignore her.
After the child was born, he didn't want to take care of the child, so he used the excuse of working overtime all day and didn't come home until very late. When he got home, he would sleep on his side. When he woke up, he would go out to have breakfast, and then go to work. He didn't even remember to buy breakfast for the woman.
The client couple was so angry that their hands were shaking.
They both wanted their daughter to divorce, because even if she remarried with the child, it would be hard for her to find someone worse. But their daughter was like a demon, obeying the poor boy's every word and accepting everything he said, as if she didn't know how to write the word "resistance".
However, things took a turn for the better at the beginning of last month.
The poor boy's father died of a sudden heart attack. His daughter, who had never said a word against the poor boy, suddenly began to express dissatisfaction with many of his behaviors, and they quarreled and even fought at home.
While taking his daughter and granddaughter home, the client encountered a practicing monk on the road. The monk kowtowed every three steps, and every nine steps, a laborious process. Although the client didn't believe in gods or Buddhas, he still bought water and food for the devout monk.
The monk took the food, chanted "Amitabha", and gave the client a reminder:
"There has been an evil spirit haunting your home."
The client wanted to understand what was going on, but the monk refused to say more and only gave a hint:
"Good and evil are all caused by fate, and I am not the one who can resolve fate."
After seeing the monk off, the client began to think about the matter in detail.
They usually don't believe in such things and spend a long time thinking about the suspicious points.
They thought about it for several days before they remembered that their daughter's father-in-law had donated all his savings to a temple many years ago, and until his death, he often brought incense and offerings there to worship.
This old man is incredibly stingy, and even when he occasionally travels, he never visits a temple. He doesn't seem like someone who believes in gods and Buddhas. Therefore, whether he donates money to a temple or frequently offers incense and offerings, it seems contradictory and unreasonable for him.
The client couple didn't understand much about these things, but in order to help their daughter escape from suffering, they were willing to believe and try. They found a master near their home. Fortunately, the master was not a scammer. He told the client couple very honestly that he could not handle the matter and helped them contact the spiritual master's house.
Shi Chan asked, “What do you think?”
"There are indeed many suspicious things."
Wen Miyan put down the documents in her hand and said,
"It might be a bit difficult, but I think our group can handle it."
Shi Can looked at Lin Zhuyue and Ye Yangjia again.
Lin Zhuyue replied:
"As long as you all think you can handle it."
"I have no objection."
Ye Yangjia pinched his sore shoulders and said,
"But if a fight breaks out, you go first."
The four people reached an agreement, signed the task execution application, sent the application to the office, and began to pack their luggage.
Shi Can first went to Lin Zhuyue's dormitory, put Xiaoyu in a cat bag and carried it back home. Considering that Xiaoyu and Fabao had not yet gotten along, Shi Can locked Xiaoyu in the guest room where Lin Zhuyue had stayed, and reminded the housekeeper to remember to feed the cat, clean up the cat's poop, and play with Xiaoyu more.
Shi Can stuffed the suitcase and basic configuration tool kit into the trunk, drove out of home, and went to the gate of the spiritual master's mansion to pick up his team members.
Gaojun City, where the victim lived, was far north, and driving there was a daunting task. Ye Yangjia suffered from shoulder and back pain from overexertion, and Lin Zhuyue didn't have a driver's license. If Shi Can didn't want to be dangled by Wen Miyan, he had no choice but to drive the entire way.
Lin Zhuyue sat in the passenger seat and fed Shican a lot of snacks along the way.
Shi Can once "accidentally" bit Lin Zhuyue's finger. He bit lightly, without applying force, and it didn't leave any marks.
Ye Yangjia sat in the back row and couldn't see any specific movements. He could only see Lin Zhuyue repeatedly reaching out to feed Shi Can snacks. However, even with this, Ye Yangjia, a single dog, felt like he was being fed dog food.
Ye Yangjia sent a message to Wen Miyan:
[I can't stand it anymore, let's go down and rent a car? ]
Wen Miyan peeled a candy, put it to Ye Yangjia's mouth, and mouthed:
"Don't be too envious, you can have it too."
Ye Yangjia took the candy with his hands, put it in his mouth, and his expression changed the next second——
Sour! Really sour!
Ye Yangjia asked with a painful expression:
"What the hell is this?"
Wen Miyan took out her lipstick and small mirror from her bag and replied calmly:
"Stupid."
They arrived in Ping'an County, Gaojun City at 4 p.m., and half an hour after getting off the highway, they entered the residential complex where the client lived. The complex was a high-rise building, but the property management was obviously not very responsible, and the cars in the complex were parked in a mess.
A child in the community was learning to ride a two-wheeled vehicle. While riding, the front of the vehicle suddenly turned and hit a BMW parked on the side of the road.
Shi Can: “…”
Ye Yangjia asked, "How about we park the car outside?"
Shi Can asked Lin Zhuyue and the others to get out of the car first, and took out two basic configuration tool kits from the trunk. He then drove to the shopping mall outside the community to find a parking space.
In the nearest corridor, there were sounds of a man and a woman arguing, as well as the crying of a child.
The sound gradually grew louder, and the owner of the voice appeared in Lin Zhuyue's sight. A man with a crew cut was roughly pulling the beautiful woman's arm and dragging her out of the corridor. A little girl, about three or four years old, followed behind, crying for her mother.
The woman tried to break free from the man's hand and asked:
"What are you doing? My parents will be back soon!"
"You are my wife, you have to come home with me whether your parents come back or not!"
The man lowered his head again and said to the child fiercely,
"Mom, mom, mom, you only know how to call your mom. You can't even call dad at this age!"
"Why are you so fierce?"
The woman slapped the man with the hand that was not caught and cursed,
"Have you ever taken care of the child for a single day now that she's this old? So you still know you're her father?"
The man was slapped in the face, his face was angry and his eyes were fierce.
Ye Yangjia sensed danger and immediately rushed forward, separating the arguing man and woman, and advised:
"Brother, sister, calm down, both of you. No matter how big the conflict between you two is, don't make it in front of the child. It will scare the little girl."
The man was quite unhappy with Ye Yangjia's appearance:
"What's it to you if I have a quarrel with my wife?"
The woman's anger did not subside, and she shouted:
"I'm not your wife, I want to divorce you!"
But soon after she shouted this, the woman felt severe pain. She raised her hand to support her forehead. She felt dizzy from the pain and even wanted to vomit.
Wen Miyan opened her eyes wide in surprise: "Zhu Yue..."
Lin Zhuyue nodded: "Yes, I saw it."
Thick black fog emanated from the woman's head, baring its fangs and claws, active and ferocious, as if it wanted to tear the woman's skull apart.
Lin Zhuyue heard a faint song:
"Love begins, love begins, it's soft and tender, I'll marry a wife and bring her home. Love begins, love begins, it's entwined in my heart, we'll never be apart."
The voice reciting the ballad was extremely childish, as if it came from a child. However, Lin Zhuyue did not find the ballad interesting at all; she only felt her hair stand on end.
Lin Zhuyue recited the Heart Purification Mantra:
"A clear mind is like water; clear water is the mind. Even the slightest breeze stirs, and the waves remain calm... A mind free from attachments, free from the past and present."
The black fog around the woman's head gradually calmed down.
The man stopped paying attention to the woman and shifted his gaze to Lin Zhuyue, the greed in his eyes growing stronger. Without waiting for Lin Zhuyue and the others to react, he took off running very quickly. After running away, he would occasionally turn around to look at Lin Zhuyue.
Lin Zhuyue looked at the man who was running away.
The disgusting and sticky look did not come from the man himself. It was as if something was looking at her through the man's eyes.
It took the woman a long time to recover.
Wen Miyan took out a doll from her bag, stuffed it into the hands of the little girl who was wiping her tears, and asked the woman:
"Are you Ms. Dou Anran?"
The daughter who was giving the client this mission a headache was named Dou Anran. The woman who emerged from the hallway indicated in the file had a three-year-old daughter, was experiencing relationship problems with her husband, and was plagued by demonic influences, completely matching the description of Dou Anran in the file.
Dou Anran asked: "Who are you?"
"We are affiliated with the Lingshi Mansion, a special branch of the National Security Bureau."
Lin Zhuyue took out his ID and said to Dou Anran,
"In order to relieve your predicament, your father and mother commissioned the Spiritual Master's House. The Spiritual Master's House accepted the commission and sent us to Gaojun City to complete it."
Dou Anran had no idea her parents were searching for their master and had contacted the Spiritual Master's Mansion through him. She was a little wary, but because the three men didn't look like bad people, and because Lin Zhuyue had just relieved her headache, she called her parents, picked up her daughter, and invited the three men home.
Lin Zhuyue sent a message to Shi Can who was looking for a place to park. A while later, there was a knock on the door of his house.
Dou Anran went to open the door.
Lin Zhuyue felt something was wrong and stood up to grab Dou Anran. Dou Anran turned around and looked at her, and Lin Zhuyue found that his eyes were a little dull.
Wen Miyan looked at the video doorbell device at the door and asked:
"Is your doorbell okay?"
Dou Anran suddenly woke up and said in horror:
"It's not broken. Just now, when Lu Haoguang came, he didn't ring the doorbell. I don't know what happened, so I opened the door."
Ye Yangjia operated the video doorbell panel, turned on the camera function, and checked the situation in the corridor. He shook his head and said:
"There's no one outside."
But someone arrived soon. Shican turned out from the elevator, appeared at the door, and reached out to press the doorbell.
Ye Yangjia opened the door and let Shican in.
"Such a strong yin energy...Did something just come over here?"
Shi Can did not enter the house, but stretched out his hand towards Ye Yangjia and said,
"Give me a compass so I can see what's going on."
Ye Yangjia took out a compass from the basic configuration tool kit on the cabinet at the door and handed it to Shi Can.
Shi Chan took the compass and checked the surrounding situation.
There was a clear supernatural reaction outside the door, and also inside. Shi Can entered the room with the compass, and the closer he got to Dou Anran, the stronger the compass's reaction became.
This is not good, it means Dou Anran is likely haunted by a ghost.
Dou Anran often became unconscious, and although she did not have a mental illness, it was difficult for the trainee spiritualists to regard her as a person with full civil capacity. They decided to wait at home until Dou Anran's parents returned and then discuss how to resolve the matter.
However, Wen Miyan still chatted with Dou Anran.
Wen Miyan asked: "You didn't go to work, right?"
Dou Anran lowered his head and replied, "Yeah."
Wen Miyan asked, "Is it because of pregnancy?"
"no."
Dou Anran shook his head and said,
"In the second month of my marriage to Lu Haoguang, he said that I made more money than him and that he would be embarrassed. He promised to make money to support me and asked me to quit my job and become a housewife, living a happy and leisurely life. I don't know what happened, but I agreed."
She held her forehead in some pain and said:
"Although I couldn't be called smart before, I still knew what I should and shouldn't do. But ever since I met him, my behavior has been completely out of my control. I didn't think there was anything wrong, and I was willing to endure the suffering. It wasn't until the beginning of last month that I suddenly realized why my life had become like this in the past few years..."
"I've lost my mind..."
Lin Zhuyue couldn't understand people like Lu Haoguang.
Dou Anran must be very outstanding, and Lu Haoguang probably pursued her for this reason. But after he got her, he asked her to stop shining for the sake of so-called face.
What exactly is this doing?
Is this love or domestication?
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