Chapter 76 I'll help you punch him twice when I get back upstairs
Lin Zhuyue shook his head and replied:
"We're not sure what's going on yet."
What happened to the younger sister of the twins was still shrouded in a bizarre and ethereal veil in the eyes of Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can, who had just arrived in Yebei City.
Lifting off this veil is exactly what they are going to do next.
Qin Siyuan soon grew tired of playing and fell asleep on the sofa. She slept peacefully, without any of the panic that had plagued her earlier nightmares. As she slept, a smile appeared on her face, as if she had had a beautiful dream.
Sun Kunyao felt a little relieved when she saw her daughter's appearance.
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can were both in a small group of four people arguing.
Wen Miyan: [An Ning fainted, it's all Ye Yangjia's fault.]
Ye Yangjia: [Can you blame me for this? ]
Wen Miyan: [If I don’t blame you, who else should I blame?]
Shi Chan: [What's wrong?]
Lin Zhuyue also put a question mark: [? ]
Wen Miyan: [We just took An Ning to the East Coast. While walking, something got caught on her foot. She thought it was seaweed or something, but when she got ashore, it turned out to be a small snake.]
Wen Miyan: [Then Ye Yangjia told her it was a blue-gray flat-tailed sea snake, with a mixed venom. A single bite would likely kill her. An Ning collapsed instantly. I thought she'd been bitten by a snake, and I was so scared I took six quick-acting heart pills.]
Shi Can: [@Ye Yangjia, are you a pig? ]
Ye Yangjia: [I'm also scared to death, okay?!]
Ye Yangjia: [@Shican, you are the pig! ]
While the group was still arguing, Lin Zhuyue heard the doorbell ringing.
Sun Kunyao got up to check, and after discovering that the person outside the door was the owner of the private kitchen and baking shop downstairs, she opened the door.
"Sister Sun, Brother Chen ordered a cake for you and the child."
The boss handed the box to Sun Kunyao and said,
"It's made with animal cream, so it melts easily. If you can't finish it, remember to put it in the refrigerator. Please sign the bill."
Sun Kunyao took the order, took the cake, closed the door and went back into the house.
The cake wasn't big, only about six inches, but it was beautifully designed, from the Frozen series, with an Elsa doll on top. After washing the doll, I gave it to Qin Siyuan to play with, as she loved Elsa the most.
Sun Kunyao pulled out the doll, cut the cake, put it on a small plate, and handed it to Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can along with a fork.
Shi Chan took the cake and said:
"Mr. Chen seems to be a very considerate person."
Sun Kunyao turned her head and looked at the sleeping little Siyuan, and said softly:
"Yeah, I wasn't planning on finding another partner, but he's so considerate and gentle with children. He's a really, really good person. It would be a shame to miss him."
Shi Can was very curious and asked:
"How did you two meet?"
"This spring, I took my children to the hospital for vaccinations. Both of them were crying and running outside. I couldn't take care of them alone."
Sun Kunyao is not stingy in sharing her own things.
"Junhao was getting a flu shot at the time. He saw that it was really hard for me, so he helped me look after the baby for a while."
"Later, when we were playing in the park, the kids were clamoring for sugar paintings. My phone was out of battery, so I couldn't pay. He happened to be nearby and bought the sugar paintings for Sibo and Siyuan. I asked for his contact information, thinking I could return the money later. That's how we officially met."
"My kids have so much to do."
Sun Kunyao took a small piece of cake and said,
"I added Junhao as a friend to repay the money, but I didn't expect him to be bothered again and again about various issues concerning the children. He didn't get annoyed, and was very helpful. He said he loved children and that Sibo and Siyuan were adorable... Children can actually be quite annoying, and my children are no exception. He thought they were adorable, so he probably really does like children."
"Sibo likes toy trains, so Junhao bought him a bunch of them. He helps him build the tracks during the day and then puts the toys away at night. Siyuan likes cake, so Junhao always buys it for her. The kindergarten teachers all say Siyuan has gained weight."
Lin Zhuyue could understand Sun Kunyao quite well.
Lin Lang and Bao Jiayou are in a similar situation.
Although the two met through an elder's introduction, the reason Lin Lang and Bao Jiayou were able to achieve a happy ending was actually because Bao Jiayou accepted Lin Zhuyue's existence well and treated her very well, taking her to the amusement park, patiently coaxing her after she clamored to ride the Ferris wheel and got scared and cried, and accompanying her to feed the giraffes...
When Lin Zhuyue was a child, she liked the kind of balloons that could fly very much, but balloons at that time were really easy to break. The balloons in her hands would often burst suddenly. Her grandparents and mother would say that it was broken and buy another one next time. Only Bao Jiayou would go back and bring her a new balloon.
A balloon was not much money to Lin Lang and Bao Jiayou, but it was this balloon that made Lin Lang agree to date Bao Jiayou.
Whether male or female, being friendly to small animals and children will become an outstanding advantage in itself.
Qin Siyuan woke up quickly.
She looked at the cake and the Elsa doll with a surprised expression, ran to the bathroom, stepped on a stool to wash her hands, came back and sat down in front of the coffee table to eat the cake that Sun Kunyao had cut for her.
That night, Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can stayed overnight at Sun Kunyao's house.
There are three rooms in the house: Sun Kunyao's room, Qin Sibo and Qin Siyuan's children's room, and the guest room. However, the guest room is no longer a guest room, but Chen Junhao's room.
Shi Can took the initiative to request to live in Chen Junhao's room.
Based on the principle that it is best not to disperse when performing a mission, Lin Zhuyue had no choice but to move in as well, and he and Shican each shared half of the bed in the guest room.
They even shared the same air-conditioned quilt.
Fortunately, the air-conditioned quilt is very large and is more than enough for two people.
Lin Zhuyue looked at her phone for a while, then threw it away. She turned over, facing away from Shi Can, closed her eyes, and tried to sleep, but then she felt annoyed and lay face down.
"You rolled up the quilt."
Shi Can pulled the quilt and asked,
"What's wrong? What happened?"
"My grandparents thought I had taken the college entrance exam, and they've been asking my mom about my scores. My mom could only tell them that I was going to Yuancheng University."
Lin Zhuyue sighed and said,
"My grandparents insisted on throwing me a graduation party and even invited this so-called 'friend' who we were close to as children... But what a joke. When I was in kindergarten, he told everyone that my dad was dead."
"I wanted to hit him when I saw him."
Shi Can turned sideways and said softly:
"So that's too much? You must introduce him to me, and I'll help you punch him a couple of times later."
After a while, Shi Can said again:
"You have to be careful. When you reach a certain age, every single person of the opposite sex of your age who shows up at a family party has an ulterior motive."
"Yes..."
Lin Zhuyue sighed again and said,
"It seems his company is having cash flow problems and needs help from my grandparents. He and his parents must be very interested in my family's money."
“Cash flow is a problem that many people have to face.”
Shi Can sat up, and he reached out to lift Lin Zhuyue up, so that she could face him instead of lying face down.
"My dad said that many companies owe banks a lot of money. The legal person in charge works hard for decades, but in the end, they either have to pay off the debt or go to jail. Book assets and cash holdings are two completely different things. So some people may look respectable, but they are destined to go to jail. My family doesn't have that problem. We won't go to jail, and we won't be after a girl's family's money."
"What do you think?"
Lin Zhuyue was somewhat puzzled by the question:
"What's going on?"
“I won’t be nice to someone just because I need money, nor will I be rude to them just because they don’t have money.”
Shi Can lowered his head, looked at Lin Zhuyue seriously, and said,
"But I'm not sure. If my partner manages the money in my family in the future, and she gives me a little pocket money, I'd probably be very happy."
Lin Zhuyue didn't quite believe it and asked:
"Are you the type of person who lets your partner manage your money?"
Shi Chan asked, “What else?”
Lin Zhuyue speculated in a very serious tone:
"I feel like if the balance on your card is less than one million, it'll drive you crazy."
Shi Can is a man built up with real money. He has been good at spending money since he was a child. When he was a child, he liked to buy cups and ceramic nesting dolls. When he grew up, he loved buying cars and had expensive hobbies such as sailing.
Lin Zhuyue had looked at his bills and found that sometimes he spent more than two million a month.
Shi Chan lay down, holding back his laughter and said:
"It's okay. I'll coax her more and give her gifts every month to make her smile. Her pocket money won't be less."
The two chatted back and forth until the time gradually approached 11:00 PM, and then they both fell silent. They lay on the bed with their eyes closed, but neither of them fell asleep. Instead, they were quietly waiting for something.
A small, transparent, grayish-white hand grasped the windowsill, and he slowly climbed up. A talisman drawn with rootless water on the windowsill gradually lit up, emitting a golden glow that burned the transparent boy, causing him to scream silently. But even though burned, he didn't retreat. Instead, he resisted the talisman with all his might, passing through the glass window and into the room.
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can were lying on either side.
The boy climbed up from the middle of the bed, approached Lin Zhuyue, stretched out his hand, and was about to strangle Lin Zhuyue's neck. On his horribly burned cheek, his mouth kept opening and closing, muttering three words -
sorry.
The moment the little hand landed on Lin Zhuyue's neck, Lin Zhuyue opened her eyes. She and Shi Can sat up at the same time, lifted the quilt covering them, and covered the boy completely with the air-conditioning quilt.
The inside of the air-conditioned quilt is covered with yellow talisman paper that has a suppressive effect. Being covered by this quilt is equivalent to being trapped by a suppression formation. If the covered ghost does not have sufficient strength, it will not be able to break free.
"See, I told you he'd come tonight."
Shi Chan rolled up the quilt and carefully opened it from one side.
The child under the blanket was only four years old, still very young. His eyes were lifeless, dull, yet tears were streaming. His mouth could not utter a single sound; only the air in his mouth conveyed the words he most desired to say.
"sorry……"
“…Save me…”
Shi Can observed carefully for a moment, gathered spiritual light with his right index finger, and pointed it at the child's forehead.
Just as his hand was about to touch the forehead, a scarlet rune appeared on the child's forehead. The rune looked like a climbing plant, with slender and complex tentacles. There were many tentacles, extending to every part of the boy's body.
Lin Zhuyue stood by, shook his head and said:
“I’ve never seen anything like it.”
"Probably from some ethnic minority, or some sect."
Shi Can put down his hand and said,
"Now we can confirm that someone is refining a fierce ghost. The target should be Qin Siyuan, because the sister and brother have the same horoscope. If the brother can be refined into a fierce ghost, the sister can probably also."
Qin Siyuan used to often have nightmares in which her brother dragged her feet and said sorry to her.
Now it seems that it was not a dream.
But someone is manipulating my brother to do something bad.
"And that person knows of our existence."
Lin Zhuyue folded his arms and said,
"Because Qin Sibo's target tonight is not his sister, but us who have come to this house. Hey, the quilt..."
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can rolled Qin Sibo's quilt into a very solid roll, but now, the air-conditioning quilt is gradually collapsing.
Qin Sibo's figure under the quilt was gradually disappearing.
Qin Sibo whispered something: "..."
Lin Zhuyue moved closer.
"...Go find me."
"I'm in the bathroom..."
After saying this, Qin Sibo's figure disappeared completely.
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can went to the bathroom immediately. They even checked the bathroom in the master bedroom where Sun Kunyao was, but they didn't find any problems at all.
But Qin Sibo shouldn't talk nonsense.
Shi Chan took out the compass and rechecked the secondary and primary bathrooms.
There are still no signs of supernatural phenomena in the master bedroom bathroom, but there are very obvious signs of supernatural phenomena in the secondary bathroom connected to the living room.
But Lin Zhuyue discovered a problem.
Both she and Shi Chan were holding compasses, but the compass needle in her hand seemed to be moving slower than Shi Chan's.
Is there any difference with a compass?
Or... is there a difference between the people holding the compass?
“Shichan, let’s change the compass.”
Lin Zhuyue put his compass into Shican's hand, and then took Shican's compass.
"...Yeah, just like before, mine is slower."
Lin Zhuyue raised the compass a little higher, to the same height as the compass in Shi Can's hand. This time, the pointers of the two compasses finally rotated at the same speed.
The difference between Shi Chan and her is that Shi Chan is taller.
The closer the compass is to the source of the supernatural reaction, the faster it will spin.
Lin Zhuyue looked up at the ceiling.
A small hand stretched down from the ceiling. Under the gaze of Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can, it shook weakly a few times and then retracted.
Lin Zhuyue blinked and said:
“…I think I know where he is.”
"I know that too."
Shi Can turned to look at Sun Kunyao, who was standing outside the toilet door worriedly after the quarrel between him and Lin Zhuyue, and asked,
"Upstairs, the house Mr. Chen bought, do you have the key?"
"No."
Sun Kunyao seemed to have noticed something strange. She paused and added information about the "key".
"He was often away on business, and sometimes the renovation workers would come but couldn't get in. I wanted to avoid that, so I asked him for the key, but he never gave it to me. He said he wanted to give me a surprise after the renovation was finished."
Shi Chan said, “Now maybe all that’s left is shock.”
Shican exited the bathroom, unzipped the basic configuration tool kit, and took out the lock-picking tools from it.
He opened the door, entered the corridor, and went upstairs via the fire escape.
Lin Zhuyue was concerned about the safety of Sun Kunyao and Qin Siyuan, so she did not go up with Shi Can.
But just a moment later, Shican came downstairs and said:
"Let's go upstairs. Sister Sun, go up and take a closer look at the true face of the so-called 'gentle gentleman'."
Sun Kunyao hesitated for a moment, then carried the still sleeping Qin Siyuan and went upstairs with Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can.
Around the door frame of the upstairs house, a large piece of yellow and black tape was taped, with the words "Under Renovation" written in large letters. Shi Chan had pried open the door lock, and the door was already open, revealing the half-finished house inside.
Shi Chan walked in and went straight to the bathroom.
In this type of building, the layout of the downstairs and upstairs is the same. The secondary bathroom of this house is just above the secondary bathroom of Sun Kunyao's house.
The secondary bathroom hadn't been renovated yet, and even the toilet was a makeshift one for the workers. But next to the toilet, there was a large, exquisite box that didn't fit in with the surroundings. It had a lock on it, and Shi Chan had also pried it open.
Shi Chan opens the box.
The box contained incense burners, candles, tablets, and some small items.
Lin Zhuyue saw Qin Sibo huddled in the box. Although the box was large, the child still looked pitiful huddled inside. He raised his head slightly and looked at Sun Kunyao and Qin Siyuan. The scars on his face from the talisman burns were gradually healing and were no longer as terrifying as before.
Qin Siyuan was still asleep.
Sun Kunyao couldn't see him either.
Lin Zhuyue felt regretful, but also thought this might be a good thing.
How distressed would Sun Kunyao be to see Qin Sibo like this?
Sun Kunyao held Qin Siyuan in her arms and squatted beside the box. She took out a silver lock from inside and said:
"This was his longevity locket, which he had worn since he was 100 days old. When he died, the lock disappeared. I thought it must have been lost when he fell from a building. I posted a paid lost and found notice and asked the neighbors to help find it, but it was never found."
"Now this lock is not a long-life lock."
Shi Can said to Sun Kunyao in a steady tone,
"Someone has modified it. It is now a soul lock, tightly locking Qin Sibo's soul here."
Shi Can picked up a small white porcelain bottle and handed it to Sun Kunyao, saying:
"This is your son's body part. I opened it and it smelled terrible. When I shone a light inside, I could see hair. It must be a piece of scalp."
"The owner of this box transformed your child into a demon and is controlling him. Moreover, he is not satisfied with the status quo."
Shi Can picked up a small scarecrow with needles stuck in it and said,
"Written on the back is Qin Siyuan's name and her birth date. There should be a nail or hair inside the straw mannequin. Qin Sibo would target the person whose name, birth date, and body part corresponded to him, and harm them until they died."
"The souls of the dead will not be free. They will be trapped in this scarecrow so that the Yin Master can control and refine them."
Sun Kunyao's whole body was trembling.
She was both angry and sad. She didn't want to wake up Qin Siyuan who was sleeping in her arms, but she couldn't help sobbing.
Who is harming her child?
Who else could it be?
Who can get Sibo's longevity lock? Who can hide these things in the upstairs toilet?
Sun Kunyao asked: "Then, my son's death..."
"The possibility that it was an accident is very small."
Shi Chan tore off the paper behind the scarecrow and said,
"You might be thinking that Chen Junhao wasn't home when Qin Sibo got into trouble. But a Yin master specializing in evil methods would have a thousand ways to make a child jump from a building."
Sun Kunyao could no longer hold back her tears.
She thought she had met a wonderful man who was kind to her and her children, but he was actually a demon in human form, hiding a poison that cut her throat beneath the candy coat.
"It's all my fault, it's all my fault..."
Sun Kunyao burst into tears and said,
"I felt it would be very difficult to raise a child alone. I didn't want to maintain the emotional state of being alone after being widowed. This is all my fault. I gave him the opportunity to kill Sibo."
Lin Zhuyue occasionally encounters extremely stupid people.
But she didn't think Sun Kunyao was stupid, she just felt that he was very, very pitiful.
When an ordinary person is approached, how could they possibly imagine that the person approaching them is a Yin Shi? At most, they would only suspect that the other party has bad intentions, is a fraudster, or is involved in a pyramid scheme.
Sun Kunyao at least made sure that Chen Junhao had a stable job and income, was in good health, was single, had no bad habits, and had a good reputation before she started dating him. She had done better than many people.
Sun Kunyao suddenly felt a small hand touching her cheek, wiping her tears. Although she couldn't see, she knew whose hand it was.
"Sibo? Sibo..."
The little soul in the box is trying hard to reach out and comfort its crying mother.
Qin Siyuan gradually woke up, and she said confusedly:
"Mom, why are you crying?"
She stretched out her small hand, overlapped it with Qin Sibo's hand, and wiped away Sun Kunyao's tears.
"He, he's on a business trip."
Sun Kunyao put Qin Siyuan down, stuffed the things back into the box, and said,
"Let's pretend we know nothing and wait for him to come back. Then, then we'll catch him. Can he... be convicted?"
"He's not on a business trip, he's busy running."
Shi Can took out his phone, clicked on the message interface, and said,
"His Japanese visa was still valid, and while he was still having dinner at the restaurant that morning, he booked a flight to Tokyo. The departure point was at the international airport in the next city."
"The altar he set up in the toilet is quite evil. It will take at least seven days to remove it safely. Otherwise, he would definitely not leave the altar behind. He must take the evil spirit he has worked so hard to cultivate with him when he escapes."
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