Chapter 63: Ding Ding Dong, old fox, brothers, come and have dinner...
Four new boxes of freeze-dried food arrived at Shican’s house.
Under the pretext of getting a free meal, Lin Zhuyue took advantage of Shi Can watering the flowers in the courtyard and squatted in the warehouse to steal several bags of Xiaoyu's favorite freeze-dried rabbit meat, and also took away two cans of goat milk powder.
It seems Xiaoyu was weaned a bit too early and has a strong milk addiction. Every time Lin Zhuyue drinks milk in the dormitory, Xiaoyu tugs at Lin Zhuyue's hand and meows. If Lin Zhuyue wasn't worried about the kitten's lactose intolerance, she would definitely give it some.
When Shi Can came back from watering the flowers, he saw Lin Zhuyue's bulging backpack at a glance. He looked at it for a few more seconds and then turned his head to check whether the meal in the kitchen was ready.
Lin Zhuyue asked: "Don't you want to say anything?"
"What can I say?"
Shi Chan turned around and said,
"You can take whatever you like from the house, just remember to leave me some underwear."
"Who wants your pants?"
After dinner, Shi Can still looked through Lin Zhuyue's schoolbag. He put a few more packets of freeze-dried cod and salmon in it. Xiaoyu is a long-haired cat, and eating more freeze-dried fish will improve the quality of his fur.
After Lin Zhuyue returned to the dormitory, he found that there were not only freeze-dried foods but also a palm-sized box in his backpack.
The surface of the box is a dark red, somewhat smooth silk cloth, supplemented by a darker hollow wood carving craftsmanship, which looks very high-end.
Lin Zhuyue pulled the dark red tassel and opened the box. Inside was a bracelet studded with five oval emeralds, each weighing over two carats. The bracelet was made of 18K platinum, and the emeralds were embellished with diamonds. Although the diamonds were relatively small, such a setting would be tough on the wallet.
Lin Zhuyue knew that this was something Shican put in her bag.
She called Shi Chan.
The other party answered almost immediately.
The sound of water splashing came from the receiver, and Shican seemed to be taking a shower.
Lin Zhuyue felt a little strange:
Do you need to take your phone with you when you take a shower?
Shi Chan asked, “What’s wrong?”
Lin Zhuyue said, "The bracelet in my bag..."
"My mom gave it to you."
Shi Can turned on the hands-free mode of his cell phone and placed it on a stand out of the water. He applied shampoo to his hair and said to Lin Zhuyue,
"Take it. She had someone buy the gemstone overseas and set it there. As long as there are no flaws, the seller will definitely not accept returns or exchanges. If you insist on returning it, my mom is the only one in my family who can wear it, but she already has a similar one, so there's no need for another."
He had been waiting for Lin Zhuyue's call, and in order to answer the call as soon as possible, he even brought his cell phone into the bathroom while taking a shower.
Lin Zhuyue was speechless.
After a long while, she asked:
"Is there anything your mother likes?"
“She has almost everything she likes.”
Shi Chan's voice became slightly sticky.
"Why don't you just give it to me? I like magical instruments."
Lin Zhuyue asked: "Where can I buy the magic weapon?"
Shi Chan replied, “I’ll take you there tomorrow.”
Shi Can hung up the phone contentedly. He opened the family group, tagged Cui Yi, and sent a voice message:
"Mom, I bought a bracelet for Lin Zhuyue. I was afraid she wouldn't accept it, so I said you bought it. Don't let the cat out of the bag."
Within two minutes, there was a reply in the group.
Cui Yi: [Why are you so cowardly?]
Shi Yingshao: [He is indeed quite cowardly.]
Shi Can: "Is there a possibility that I am just like you two?"
Cui Yi: [How could that be? You found it from the trash can.]
Shi Yingshao: [Impossible, you must have caught it while fishing.]
Shi Can: "You two should first come to a consensus."
In the small family group, Cui Yi and Shi Yingshao argued all night about how Shi Chan came here. In the end, they reached a consensus - Cui Yi picked up Shi Chan and thought he was dirty, so she threw him back into the sea, and he happened to be fished out by Shi Yingshao.
Shi Can ignored the couple who were acting in unison as usual. He quickly took a shower, dried his hair and went to bed.
The next day is a rest day.
Shi Can brought breakfast to find Lin Zhuyue.
Lin Zhuyue originally wanted to sleep in, but before seven o'clock, Xiaoyu was meowing beside her, nudging her face with his head, and calling her to get up and have more food.
Lin Zhuyue dozed off while making a cup of oatmeal latte and eating the egg sandwich that Shican brought over.
“This is delicious.”
Lin Zhuyue marveled at the chef's skill in turning ordinary things into miracles.
"I'm not really a big fan of boiled eggs. Sometimes I choke on the tasteless yolk, but this is really delicious."
Shi Can silently noted that Lin Zhuyue did not like boiled eggs, but was quite receptive to sandwiches made with boiled eggs.
He sat nearby and played with the cat.
Xiaoyu lay on his back on his legs, enjoying Shican's massage, squinting his eyes in satisfaction and raising his front paws, looking like "I surrender".
Shi Can shook his legs and said:
"The little fish seems to be asleep."
Lin Zhuyue sighed and complained:
"It does parkour at night and sleeps during the day."
Shi Can pinched Xiaoyu's cat paw and said:
"Many cats are like this. Baguette used to be like this too. I couldn't stand it anymore and kept harassing it during the day, not letting it sleep. If the cat doesn't stay up during the day, the cat will keep you up at night. I kept it up for nearly a week, and it finally learned to sleep at night."
However, when I sleep with a baguette, I will still be woken up in the morning by the baguette on my face, and sometimes I will be startled awake by the baguette suddenly jumping on me.
Raising a cat requires a lot of patience.
After Lin Zhuyue finished breakfast, Shi Can carefully placed the sleeping Xiaoyu on the sofa.
The child has good sleep quality and does not wake up even when moved.
Shi Can pulled Lin Zhuyue out of the door.
The place they were going to was called "Yunlin Guest House".
Guesthouses often refer to hotels and inns, but Yunlin Guesthouse does not have such a function.
Yunlin Guesthouse is located in the southeast of Tiancheng, some distance away from the residential area, and not many people visit it normally.
After Lin Zhuyue got off the bus, he saw a detached house. The red door of the house was wide open, and above the door hung a plaque that read "Yunlin Guest House."
Lin Zhuyue followed Shi Can over the threshold, through the yard, and into the house.
The house is a bit old, and all kinds of things are displayed on the walls and cabinets inside, including umbrellas, masks, stones, bronze wine glasses... It is very messy, like an antique shop, but more like a grocery store.
At the counter at the back of the room, an old man with dark circles under his eyes was twisting his bracelets while smoking a pipe. He took out his pipe and blew out two beautiful smoke rings.
"Oh, the boy from the Shi family."
The uncle narrowed his eyes and said cunningly,
"What a rare guest! It's been a while since you've been here. I thought you'd become more open-minded and looked down on my shabby little shop. This girl... well, she looks a bit like someone I once knew. Is she a descendant of the Ling family?"
Lin Zhuyue didn't know whether to admit it or not.
Shi Can nodded and said, "She is Ling Yan's daughter."
Lin Zhuyue's face is too similar to Ling Yan. If she just walks around Tiancheng, everyone who has seen Ling Yan or Ling Yan's photo will understand that she and Ling Yan are related by blood.
The uncle asked, "Does Ling Yan have a daughter?"
Lin Zhuyue was a little confused:
"Kid? If my father were still alive, he would be about your age."
Shi Can explained to Lin Zhuyue:
"He's not a human, but an old fox in human skin. He must have lived for over a thousand years."
"More than twenty years ago, when my father and your father were on a mission together, they discovered a fox possessing a body, so they captured him and brought him back to Tiancheng. But after a careful investigation, they discovered that he wasn't possessing a body, but had been sacrificed. The Spiritual Master's Mansion wanted him to return to where he came from, but he refused to leave and insisted on staying in Tiancheng."
The uncle sighed sadly and said:
"The sacrifice spell is quite vicious. I can't return to my own body before this one dies. Human bodies need food and water. If I don't stay in Tiancheng and eat the public food, do I have to go back to the mountains to hunt?"
"But the human body ages so easily."
He put down his pipe, picked up a polished bronze mirror, looked at his face, and said with emotion,
"When I first came to Tiancheng, I was still a young and handsome boy. I didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, I would become like this. I really want to return to my body. My original face was very beautiful. I could go to the island country to be a gigolo."
Lin Zhuyue: "..."
It sounds strange that a Chinese vixen, older than an antique, wants to go to an island country to be a gigolo. It seems that during his years in Tiancheng, he has been influenced by various online cultures.
"My last name is Tushan, and my name is Tushan Yunlin."
The old fox looked at Lin Zhuyue with interest and asked,
"What's your name, little girl?"
Lin Zhuyue replied, "Lin Zhuyue, just like your Lin, both are twin-tree forests."
"That's fate."
Tushan Yunlin smiled and pointed at the wall covered with things.
"Look and see if there's anything you like. I'll break your bones."
Shi Can took the mirror from Tu Shan Yun Lin and asked:
"I want this, how much is it?"
Tushan Yunlin refused:
"No, I haven't had enough fun yet."
After saying that, he raised his hand, and the mirror in Shi Can's hand turned into a piece of talisman paper, and the mirror returned to his hand.
Shi Can said calmly, "I learned it."
Shi Can snapped his fingers, and the mirror reappeared in his hand, and what Tu Shan Yunlin was holding in his hand was the talisman paper that Shi Can had just held.
"Your ability to comprehend spells is still so strong."
Tushan Yunlin didn't take the mirror back. He was going to sell it anyway, but he wanted to buy more of it before selling it. Now that Shican, a wealthy man, had come, he might as well just sell the mirror and get a higher price.
Tushan Yunlin said, "Two hundred and fifty thousand."
Shi Can chopped without mercy: "Eighty thousand."
Tushan Yunlin shook his head and said:
"It's too low, two hundred and thirty thousand."
Shi Chan raised the price very conservatively: "Eighty-two thousand."
Tushan Yunlin asked: "Do you want to buy it?"
"Who's here to negotiate a price with you if they don't want to buy it? One hundred thousand, that's all, not a cent more. It's up to you whether you want to sell it or not. If not, I don't want this mirror anymore."
Tushan Yunlin felt a little heartbroken and waved his hand:
"Okay, I'll give it to you."
Lin Zhuyue paid the money for Shican.
Tushan Yunlin's eyes changed when he looked at Shi Can. When Lin Zhuyue turned around to look at the magic weapon on the wall, he asked in a low voice:
"Why are you still eating gigolos?"
Shi Chan held the mirror with satisfaction and replied:
"I broke a tooth last month. If I have bad teeth, does that mean I have to live off the fat of the land?"
Lin Zhuyue didn't quite understand the functions of the various magical instruments. After searching the walls and cabinets for a long time, she couldn't make any sense. Finally, she chose an ugly mask. It was said that wearing a mask could conceal all the yang energy in the body and blend in with the ranks of ghosts.
The asking price for the masks is much cheaper.
Tushan Yunlin really gave her a discount.
When leaving, Lin Zhuyue said to Shi Can:
“It seems like no one comes here.”
"Because he's a fox spirit with a thousand years of experience, most of the spiritual masters in Tiancheng don't like to interact with ghosts, spirits, and the like, even if Tushan Yunlin is a legitimate nine-tailed fox fairy."
Shi Can started the car and said,
"When we were little, Wen Miyan, Ye Yangjia, and I didn't know fear. We often came here to play and got along pretty well with this old fox. He had no intention of harming anyone. He only cared about our money."
After noon, Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can went to Fu Xingwei's office.
Wen Miyan arrived earlier and was drinking coffee with Fu Xingwei.
The coffee was given to Fu Xingwei by a colleague from the Spiritual Master's Mansion. It was white coffee produced in Malaysia. It was not roasted as deeply as black coffee, so the taste was not as bitter as black coffee, but rather smooth and velvety.
Shi Can sat down without any hesitation, picked up the coffee pot and poured two cups of coffee for himself and Lin Zhuyue, and asked:
"What happened again?"
Fu Xingwei asked, "Have you watched any ghost-hunting live broadcasts recently?"
Many students in the Spiritual Master Academy like to watch live ghost hunting broadcasts. They are not looking for horror or excitement, but just find it fun and novel.
Growing up in Tiancheng, most students have a different understanding of the world than the outside world. They choose to watch live broadcasts to understand the outside world's views on ghosts. If they find any misunderstandings about the dead among ordinary people, they will enthusiastically discuss them with their friends.
They can also tell whether ghost hunting is real or staged. Through their professional identification, they find that many ghost hunting hosts are deliberately creating show effects.
Wen Miyan would occasionally check the live broadcast recording.
Shi Chan wasn't interested at all, he hated watching stupid people do stupid things.
Lin Zhuyue watches whatever the platform pushes. Tanling Live is rarely pushed because of the subject matter, so Lin Zhuyue has not watched these things much.
"There was a streamer called Magic Deer who fainted during a live broadcast, causing quite a stir."
Fu Xingwei brought the notebook over, opened the folder containing the event records, clicked on the live broadcast screen recording, and said,
"The screen recordings and clips on the Internet have been deleted, but the discussion is still very high."
The video starts playing.
There are two people in the live broadcast team, one is the anchor and the other is the companion responsible for filming.
The video is set late at night. The host pulls out his phone, opens the world clock, and holds the screen up to the camera. It's exactly 11 p.m., the ancient time of midnight.
The anchor put away his phone, squatted on the ground, and with a pair of chopsticks, he put the rice in the plastic takeaway box into a very old rice bowl, flattened the rice, took out three incense sticks, lit them and inserted them into the rice bowl.
He picked up his bowl and walked towards the intersection ahead.
As he walked, he knocked on the bowl with his chopsticks and said:
"Ding ding dong, ding ding dong, brothers, come and have dinner."
Shi Chan, who was watching the video, cursed:
"What kind of idiotic thing is this?"
The magical deer kept repeating these words and wandered at the intersection for a long time until the incense in the bowl burned out.
He sat on the street, picked up his chopsticks, and shoveled rice into his mouth. As a ghost hunting anchor, he was extremely dedicated. Even though the rice was mixed with incense ash and was difficult to swallow, he still finished the bowl of rice.
"I know this urban legend."
Lin Zhuyue searched on his phone and said,
"Put a bowl of rice on it, insert three incense sticks, and knock on the bowl at an empty intersection. Ghosts will come to eat. When the incense burns out, the bowl will be filled with yin energy. At this time, the person who knocked on the bowl eats the rice and will see ghosts."
After finishing his meal, the magical deer in the video stood up and, without a word, began to wander around the intersection. As he wandered, he suddenly collapsed to the ground. The photographer, caught off guard by this outcome, panicked and went over to shake the magical deer. After shaking it for a while, he cut off the live stream.
Fu Xingwei turned off the video and said:
"Many netizens said they were deliberately creating topics to attract traffic. But many people also believed it was true because Magic Deer used to live stream almost every day, but after this incident, Magic Deer didn't appear for half a month."
"According to the information sent back by the police, the Spiritual Master's Mansion believes that this incident is true. Therefore, the Spiritual Master's Mansion has issued a task, asking the Higher Education Department to select apprentice spiritual masters to solve it."
"Ye Yangjia can't go on missions for the time being."
Fu Xingwei said to Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can,
"Wen Miyan has carried out many missions with you, and you should cooperate very well, so I hope that the three of you can complete this mission together."
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can had no objection.
The three people signed the mission execution application, made their own preparations, and set off from Tiancheng.
Because the mission location was in Linhai City, across from Tiancheng, the three of them drove away.
"It would be a complete waste of my life to carry out such a mission."
Shi Can was holding a piece of pear candy in his mouth, and his voice was also vague.
"I often feel that a psychic's biggest enemy isn't the dead, but the ghost hunters."
Wen Miyan handed the cheese stick to Lin Zhuyue's mouth and said:
"Some people are like this. If they don't learn a lesson, they won't understand the meaning of the word 'respect'."
Lin Zhuyue browsed his phone for a while and said:
"Ye Yangjia posted on WeChat Moments, saying, 'All my friends are out on missions, and I'm the only one left at home. I'm so lonely. I can only drink Bulgari red wine and read Edogawa Ranpo's book to spend this lonely weekend.'"
Wen Miyan: “…”
Shi Chan started scolding: "Let him crawl!"
If he had known that he had rescued such a nasty thing, he might as well have smashed the life-saving lamp at home.
Although they were both in Linhai City, the hospital where Magical Deer was currently staying was on the other side of the city. It took about two hours to get to the hospital from the Linhai City Pier.
Lin Zhuyue tilted her head and leaned on Wen Miyan's shoulder. She closed her eyes and said:
“It smells so good.”
"New scented shampoo."
Wen Miyan let Lin Zhuyue rest her head on his head and said,
"But the experience of washing your hair isn't very good. If you really like the smell, come to my house and get a bottle when you get home."
Shi Chan was driving in front, feeling a little jealous.
Why are girls so clingy to each other?
Lin Zhuyue fell asleep not long after.
She stayed up late last night and was woken up early by Xiaoyu in the morning. Even after drinking white coffee, she couldn't resist the sleepiness.
"Are you jealous?"
Wen Miyan asked Shi Can,
"Let me make a deal. You get in the back seat and I'll drive."
"Forget it."
Shi Can said expressionlessly,
"I can't possibly go to my death together with you just because I'm jealous, right?"
Wen Miyan: “…”
Two hours later, Shi Can and Wen Miyan woke Lin Zhuyue up.
The car has stopped downstairs of Linhai Second People's Hospital. The magical deer and his family are in the inpatient building at this time.
Lin Zhuyue had just been woken up and was a little dazed.
Shi Can sighed, holding the basic configuration tool kit in his left hand, gently holding Lin Zhuyue's wrist with his right hand, and led her into the inpatient building.
They took the elevator to the fifth floor.
The magical deer's vital signs were stable, he was just in a coma. The hospital kept him in the ICU for observation for a day and then sent him to the general ward in the inpatient building.
Lin Zhuyue and his group pushed open the door of the ward and saw a young man wearing a hospital gown sitting on the bed.
Several medical staff surrounded him, and a doctor used a stethoscope to listen to his heart to confirm whether his physical condition was normal.
A little further away, a woman without a white coat, whose facial features bore a striking resemblance to the young man, stood nearby, nervous and worried. This woman was probably not a doctor, but a family member of the young man.
Lin Zhuyue stepped back half a step and confirmed that this was the magical deer's ward.
Shi Chan walked into the room, showed his ID, and said:
"I'm an apprentice spiritualist from the National Security Branch's Spiritualist House. I'm here to solve Mr. Magical Deer's problem."
"Sorry, the person is already awake."
Auntie came forward quickly and said,
"I just woke up and didn't notify you in time. I'm really sorry for making you come here for nothing. If you don't mind, can we have dinner later?"
Lin Zhuyue shook his head and said:
"No, I think our trip wasn't in vain."
Shi Can took out a compass from the basic configuration tool kit and approached the young man sitting on the hospital bed.
The young man turned around and looked at him, a faint but gentle smile appearing on his pale face.
The compass needle was spinning wildly.
"Who are you?"
Shi Chan looked down at the young man and asked,
"Where is the owner of this body?"
When these words were spoken, the doctor and the young man's family were terrified.
The young man was very calm and asked:
"What are you talking about? Am I not right here?"
Shi Can held the compass, his tone calm and cruel:
"If you keep pretending to be stupid, I'll take you out of this body and bury you in my garlic jar. I'll pickle you for thirty years and pass you down to my descendants or my apprentices."
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