Chapter 57 Coconut Cake He is probably a Yin Master
Dou's father and mother returned home quickly. After greeting the spiritual masters, they looked at their daughter with great concern and asked:
"Didn't we tell you? If Lu Haoguang comes, don't open the door for him. How can you..."
Dou Anran lowered his head and said dejectedly:
"Dad, Mom, I can't control it."
Hearing the words "can't control it," Dou's mother's nose felt sore and tears streamed down her face. She stopped blaming Dou Anran and sat down beside her, putting her arm around her daughter's shoulders and patting them gently.
Three-year-old Weiwei held her grandmother's and mother's hands for a while, then took out some candy from her pocket and placed it in their palms:
"Grandma doesn't cry, and Mommy doesn't cry either."
"Okay, don't cry, don't cry."
Dou's mother wiped the tears from her face.
Dou's father was busy pouring tea. The tea was newly picked and brewed this year, and the taste was very fresh. It was most suitable to entertain young guests who did not like strong tea.
"Would it be convenient for me to ask some more questions?"
Shi Can took out a pen and notebook from Lin Zhuyue's basic configuration tool kit and explained to the victim's family before asking,
"Ms. Dou Anran's mind is often confused, so I hope more of you can be present to verify the authenticity of her answers."
Dou's mother picked up Weiwei and went back to the room.
Lin Zhuyue and his group were spiritual masters, so they were sure to discuss the supernatural. Even though she knew it was likely true, Dou's mother didn't want Weiwei to be exposed to the other side of the world.
Dou Anran said to Shi Can, "Ask."
Shi Can asked: "How did you and Lu Haoguang know each other?"
"When I was studying, our university was in the same district. My best friend and I went to eat barbecue and were in trouble with a drunk. Lu Haoguang and his roommates helped us."
Dou Anran recalled the past and said,
"His looks aren't my cup of tea, but I think he's a nice guy, so when he wanted to exchange phone numbers with me, I didn't refuse. We can be friends if things don't work out."
"Then he started pursuing me relentlessly. I couldn't handle it anymore, so I agreed to his confession. I planned to date him for a few days and try it out. If it didn't work out, we'd break up."
Lin Zhuyue asked: "Did you feel dizzy at that time?"
Dou Anran shook his head and asked:
"No, I was still relatively sober at that time."
Shi Chan asked a more personal question:
"Would you do this while you're in a relationship? Sorry, this question might be offensive, but there are people who really use this method to cast a spell."
"It took three months of dating to get to that point."
Dou Anran understood what Shi Can wanted to ask and explained,
"It probably has nothing to do with this. I was still considering whether to break up until I was studying for my master's degree."
Lin Zhuyue took the teacup handed to him by Dou's father, thanked him, and asked directly:
"So when did you start to become abnormal?"
"It should start with meeting the parents..."
Dou Anran tried hard to recall the incident, but she still felt that her memory was covered by a veil, blurry and unclear. She said,
"I don't remember the details, but his parents weren't very nice to me. They even made me help with cooking and washing dishes. I should have just left, but for some reason I didn't. I obediently helped them with the chores. And from that moment on, I had this idea in my mind - I had to marry him, and no one else could do it."
Father Dou put down the teacup in his hand.
"Speaking of which, this matter is a bit strange."
Dou's father also recalled those vague and anomalous things that happened back then and said,
"I asked An Ran to bring Lu Haoguang home to meet me. I meant that the boy would come to my house with An Ran first, and then An Ran would go to his parents' house with him. Who knew that the boy would rush to meet An Ran to meet his parents first, as if he was rushing to make an announcement?"
Shi Chan asked, "Will you agree to their marriage?"
Father Dou shook his head and said:
"I won't agree to anything. If An Ran hadn't stolen the household registration book, this marriage wouldn't have happened."
"Judging from the timeline, the problem should have occurred when Ms. Dou went to meet the man's parents."
Wen Miyan analyzed,
"If the man meets the woman's parents first, they might be separated. Bring the woman home to meet his own parents and cast a spell on her to make her obey everything. Then, with her persistence and hard work, the future of marriage will be achieved."
Ye Yangjia pulled the corner of his mouth and said:
"What a scheming person! This family has worked so hard just to get them married."
Dou's father was very angry and wanted to smash the cup.
But what happened that year has already happened. Smashing the cup won’t solve any problems. We still have to look forward.
Father Dou looked at Lin Zhuyue and his group almost pleadingly and asked:
"Young masters, do you have any way to save An Ran?"
Shi Can did not promise and said:
"It's hard to say. We only know the details now. We need to understand the whole picture before we can make a judgment. Miss Dou, we would like to go to the house where you have lived since your marriage. It would be best if we could also see the residence of your father-in-law, Mr. Lu."
Dou Anran did not agree directly, she said anxiously:
"I don't want to go back. Lu Haoguang might be at home."
Just as she had been obedient to Lu Haoguang in the past, she was now as afraid of him as ever. She was afraid that she would be controlled by the evil spell again, and her life would be ruined beyond repair.
Lin Zhuyue called the Spiritual Master's Mansion and said:
"I'm Lin Zhuyue from Class 1, Grade 3, Advanced Department. I'm currently carrying out Mission A1-C07, and I need some help from the Spiritual Master's House. The victim's husband, Lü Haoguang, is hindering our investigation. Please find a way to contact his workplace and have him sent on a business trip. I can advance his overtime pay."
After completing many tasks, Lin Zhuyue has become able to handle many things flexibly.
At seven o'clock in the evening, the Spiritual Master's Mansion replied to Lin Zhuyue, saying that Lu Haoguang had already boarded the train to the Northeast.
After the trainee spiritual masters and the client's family had dinner at the restaurant, they first sent Dou's mother and Lu Weiwei home, and then drove two cars, one in front and one behind, to the house jointly owned by Dou Anran and Lu Haoguang.
The location of this house is quite good, with a shopping mall and elementary school across the street, and a junior high school not far away. When they bought the house, Lu Haoguang and his parents didn't have much money, so they had to buy a house in a worse location. It was only with Dou's parents' additional subsidies that they were able to buy this school district house.
Dou's father and mother loved their daughter very much, so they not only subsidized the money for buying a house, but also subsidized the decoration and home appliances.
This house is decorated in a minimalist style, with white as the main color and light beige as the secondary color. The living room looks spacious and bright, high-end and classy.
The only downside was the pile of clothes on the sofa, and several scattered socks that looked worn and had holes in them. The socks were either black or dark blue, and looked very fat and large, making it easy to tell whose they belonged to.
"What kind of idiot is this Lu Haoguang?"
Shi Can couldn't help but curse,
"I really want to stuff my socks in his mouth. I should either wash the socks or eat them. Who am I disgusted by leaving them here?"
"His socks were all washed by Anran in our family."
Dou's father felt even more distressed for his daughter. He sighed and said,
"He never asked Anran to wash them, but he just kept piling them up. When they got too big, he just stuffed them into the washing machine. Anran couldn't stand it anymore, so she had to wash them for him."
The bed sheets in the room had not been changed and had become a little yellow from sleeping.
Dou Anran frowned as she watched, and had the urge to clean up quickly, but she held back. She would not pay for any of Lu Haoguang's bad habits again.
The trainee psychics took out their compasses and moved around the house. The compass needles moved very quickly, and every corner of the house had obvious supernatural reactions.
The most obvious supernatural reaction was in the master bedroom.
Soon after Dou Anran gave birth to the child, she slept in a separate bed from Lu Haoguang. Dou Anran and Lu Weiwei have always slept in the master bedroom.
Lin Zhuyue took the compass and moved it closer to the big bed in the room. The compass needle rotated faster and faster. When the compass approached the pillow, the needle jumped directly off the dial.
Lin Zhuyue uncovered the pillow, then the layers of bedding beneath it, but still couldn't find anything. She reached out and lifted the heavy mattress, then looked down and saw a small brocade bag made of red cloth.
Lin Zhuyue took out the brocade bag.
"Oh shit! My compass!"
Ye Yangjia's compass also died heroically. He came over, looked at the red brocade bag in Lin Zhuyue's hand, and asked,
"What is this? Why is there such a strong psychic reaction?"
Dou Anran recognized the brocade bag and said:
"My father-in-law gave me this. He said it was a talisman, and wearing it would keep me safe. Then it disappeared, and I thought I'd lost it. So, it was under the mattress?"
"amulet?"
Wen Miyan shook her head and said,
“I don’t feel good about it.”
The trainee spiritualists did not dare to open it rashly.
They took out red ropes and talisman paper, and asked Dou Anran to find a cup and fill it with water.
Shi Can lit the talisman paper, letting the ashes fall into the cup of water. He stirred it with chopsticks and then dipped the red string into the water. After about five minutes, Shi Can fished out the red string and used it to form an irregular circle on the ground.
Shi Can stepped in with the red sachet in his hand and opened it carefully.
Inside the brocade bag lay a strand of hair tied up with a small black rubber band. The hair was thin and soft.
Shi Chan took the hair in his hand and looked at it, but after a few glances, he immediately stuffed it back.
"The yin energy is too strong."
Shi Can tied up the brocade bag and said,
"When I held it in my hand, I felt the yin energy flowing through my hand and into my body. One thing is basically certain - this is not the hair of a living person, but comes from a sinister evil spirit."
Shi Can stuffed the brocade bag into the Bagua bag and used the Bagua bag to suppress it.
Then, he and Wen Miyan took the only two remaining compasses and searched Dou Anran's house again to make sure that there was no such treasure bag anywhere else.
The search for Dou Anran's home was over. They closed the door and took the elevator downstairs. After getting in the car, they located the location of Dou Anran's parents-in-law's home.
Dou Anran's mother-in-law passed away three years ago, and her father-in-law passed away at the beginning of last month. The old house left by the couple is uninhabited. Dou Anran also has the key, which provides convenient conditions for trainee spiritualists to enter and check.
The address of my parents-in-law is a bit remote, with a mountain nearby. It is said that the temple donated by Dou Anran's father-in-law Lu Xian is in this mountain.
It took them more than an hour to drive to their destination.
The house where Dou Anran's parents-in-law lived before they passed away was a two-story self-built building. It was not very big, with the two floors together accounting for no more than 120 square meters. However, it had a yard and a flat roof, where you could grow some flowers and plants. It was the dream house of many people.
Dou Anran used the key to open the door of the self-built building and let the trainee spiritualists in.
This house also gives people a very bad feeling. You can feel the heavy yin energy without a compass.
Shi Can arranged for Dou Anran and Dou's father to go out first and get in his car. His car had been treated and there were many things on it that could protect the safety of the people sitting in the car. If Dou Anran and Dou's father sat in it, they would be in a safer situation.
The trainee spiritualists continued to go deeper into the house to investigate.
Since there were only two compasses left, the four split into two teams. Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can investigated the second floor, while Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia were in charge of the first floor. They brought walkie-talkies, but the signal here was good, so they should be able to communicate using their cell phones.
Shi Can walked in front and warned:
"Be careful, the stairs are a bit steep."
It's not just a bit steep, the stairs even have a slope.
The house has been uninhabited for a while, so it's a bit dusty.
Lin Zhuyue took out a UV lamp from the basic configuration tool kit and lowered it, almost touching the floor. The dust on the floor might be hard to detect with the naked eye, but with the UV lamp, it would produce a fluorescent reaction, making it easy to see.
Lin Zhuyue looked at the ground and pulled Shi Can.
There are many footprints on the ground. Judging from their size and shape, all the footprints come from the same owner, who may be a child, because the footprints are only as long as the palm of a hand.
Shi Chan said, “I saw it.”
Shi Can squatted down with the compass in hand and approached the footprints on the ground.
The compass needle moves very quickly, but some footprints move faster, while others move slower. And just looking at the ground, you can tell there's more than one set of footprints, some deeper and some shallower.
"This thing has been to this house more than once."
Shi Can stood up, took the ultraviolet lamp from Lin Zhuyue's hand, and followed the small footprints.
The footprints were distributed in every room on the second floor, but the most densely populated areas were in the corridor and a south-facing room.
This room seemed to be used as a study. There was no bed in it, but there was a large table with rice paper, paperweight, brushes, inkstones and other things on it. There were also two old bookshelves next to it.
The supernatural reaction in the house was particularly strong, but neither Lin Zhuyue nor Shi Can saw the presence of ghosts.
Shi Chan rummaged through the drawers under the desk.
Lin Zhuyue was studying the books on the shelf. They were all very old, and most of them were classics. It was easy to tell that Old Man Lu had probably loved reading and writing.
Shi Can didn't find anything useful in the drawer. He stood up and walked towards Lin Zhuyue, intending to help Lin Zhuyue check the bookshelf.
“Wait, Shichan.”
Lin Zhuyue turned around and said,
"Take a few steps back, then come back."
Shi Can followed his instructions and returned to his desk, then started walking towards Lin Zhuyue. As he walked, he stopped and looked down at the floor.
When he walked here, he could hear the sound of "dong dong", which proved that there was nothing under his feet.
Shi Can squatted down and knocked on this floor tile, then knocked on other tiles. The sound here was very clear, while the other tiles made almost no sound.
There is indeed something wrong with this floor tile.
Shi Chan researched how to open it, but he couldn't find any button, and when he pressed the floor tile down, it didn't respond.
Shi Can simply stopped insisting and summoned the Lingwu Jueren. He inserted the thin blade into the gap between the tiles and pried the tiles up with force.
Shi Can used his hands to grab the edge of the floor tile that was pried up by Jue Ren and lifted the entire tile up.
Beneath the floor tiles lay a pit, its bottom, walls, and even the top where it met the tiles, all covered with damp-proof and moth-proof camphorwood planks. In a large box enclosed by the planks were piled many old books, notebooks, and black talisman paper.
Shi Can began to frown when he saw the black talisman paper.
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can picked up old books and notes and looked through them. The contents were varied, mostly related to metaphysics, and among them, there was a lot of content about "nurturing the soul".
Shi Chan turned another page and had already made a judgment in his mind:
"If this is Old Man Lu's thing, then this old man is probably a Yin Master."
Yinshi are considered a type of spiritual master, but they've taken an unorthodox approach. While ordinary spiritual masters spend their lives battling ghosts and mediating between yin and yang, Yinshi are masters of using metaphysical methods to harm others for profit.
Lin Zhuyue's phone rang and she answered it:
"Hello, Miyan?"
"We discovered something."
Wen Miyan's voice came from the microphone.
"The room Ye Yangjia and I were in was probably Lu Xian's room. We dug out a box from under the bed. Inside was a compass, a soul nail, and a little scarecrow..."
"This Mr. Lu should be knowledgeable."
Shi Can stood very close to Lin Zhuyue and said:
"We've made some discoveries here too, but we haven't finished investigating the second floor yet. If you've finished investigating, come upstairs and join us. If you haven't, continue investigating. We'll meet downstairs later."
Wen Miyan said okay and hung up the phone.
Shi Can took out an Oxford cloth bag from the basic configuration tool kit. He shook the bag open, put all the books and notes into it, and placed it outside the study door.
He and Lin Zhuyue searched the second floor but found nothing new. Shi Can picked up the Oxford cloth bag that was left outside the study door and went downstairs with Lin Zhuyue to meet up with Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia.
Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia found a lot of yellow paper, incense sticks and candles in the utility room, as well as a lot of clothes made of colored paper. They were colorful and small in size, and looked like they were made for children.
Shi Can called Dou Anran and Dou's father out of the car and showed them what he found.
“These things…”
Dou Anran recognized the yellow paper, incense, candles and paper clothes, and said,
"My father-in-law donated to a temple, and he often took these things to the temple for offerings, so there were always a lot of them in the utility room at home."
"Is there something wrong with this?"
Lin Zhuyue tried to explain to Dou Anran:
"In some places, paper clothes are prepared for worship, but paper clothes offered to gods and Buddhas are usually very complicated. These paper clothes are simple in design and are usually offered to the Yin spirits."
"A Yin spirit is a spirit with a strong Yin energy, and the dead soul is the most typical Yin spirit."
Wen Miyan asked, "Miss Dou, have you ever been to the temple your father-in-law donated?"
Dou Anran nodded and said:
"It was a very small temple, with only a courtyard and a small main hall. Inside, there was only a statue of Sakyamuni Buddha. Speaking of which, my father-in-law did seem to have burned some paper clothes like this when he was worshipping Buddha... Sorry, I can't remember the details."
Shi Chan asked, "How many years has that temple been built?"
Dou Anran replied:
"About thirty years old, a little older than my husband."
It was too late, and the trainee spiritual masters all felt that it would be better to check out the temple after daybreak. Now they should find a hotel to stay in for the night and have a good rest.
When driving away, in order to ensure the safety of the victim, the victim was arranged to get on the car that Shi Can drove from Tiancheng. Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia were also in this car, and Ye Yangjia was responsible for driving.
Shi Can was driving the victim's car, carrying Lin Zhuyue, and following the car in front from behind.
Shi Chan was driving when he made a "tsk" sound.
Lin Zhuyue asked: "What's wrong with you?"
Shican has made this kind of noise several times.
"I'm very worried."
Shi Chan turned the steering wheel and followed the car in front to turn right.
"The temple donated by Old Man Lu is 800% a Yin temple."
Temples are also categorized as yin and yang. Yang temples generally enshrine righteous deities, while yin temples originally meant temples dedicated to deceased ancestors or wandering spirits. However, over time, the meaning of the term has shifted slightly. Spiritualists now refer to yin temples as temples dedicated to evil spirits that are not righteous deities but act in their guise.
It is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish between yang temples and yin temples.
However, a unique characteristic of Yin Temples is that wishes are particularly effective. Of course, there's no such thing as a free lunch; the fulfillment of a wish comes at a price. Furthermore, forgetting to fulfill a wish after making one in a Yin Temple can lead to significant repercussions.
"Incense, vows, and faith all become power. So, no matter what it is, once it's been worshipped as a deity for a long time, it becomes very difficult to deal with."
Shi Can sighed and said,
"This old man Lu has really piled up all the buffs. He's a ghost master himself, has raised ghosts, and even donated to a ghost temple. Just hearing that makes me feel overwhelmed."
They soon arrived at a three-star chain hotel.
They booked two family suites, Lin Zhuyue, Wen Miyan and Dou Anran lived in one, and Shi Can, Ye Yangjia and Dou's father lived together.
The beds in the family suite are one large and one small. Shi Can didn't want to sleep in the same bed with Ye Yangjia, but in order to stay in the room to protect the victim, he couldn't open a new room, so he just slept on the sofa.
He opened his phone and went to the shopping page, wanting to research external dishwashers and install one in Lin Zhuyue's dormitory.
But I don’t know what Taobao was thinking, they pushed a bunch of small umbrella advertisements to him, some of which looked like they couldn’t be used on humans, and Shican’s face turned pale.
Shi Can accidentally clicked on the "Recommend to a friend" button and sent it to Lin Zhuyue. With the fastest speed in his life, he opened the interactive interface and quickly recalled the message.
Lin Zhuyue was still awake and replied quickly:
What did you withdraw?
Shi Can sent her a Lao Yuancheng coconut cake and asked:
[Yuancheng people, is this delicious? ]
Lin Zhuyue replied with a cute cat licking its mouth emoji:
[It's delicious. I asked my sister to send some over.]
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