"Of course what I said is true, I never lie!" Ji proudly assured with an eyebrow.

"Since you said that you are from the underworld, and you are a ghost hunter, and there are so many evil ghosts running out of the underworld, are you sure that my father did bad things because he was possessed by demons?" Zhang Liying couldn't wait to finish in one breath.

"Of course, it can't be true!" Ji Ao winked at her.

"How is it possible, you haven't seen my father, how do you know that he is possessed by evil spirits?"

"Because you have the smell of ghosts, since you are not possessed by ghosts, of course something happened to the people around you," Ji Ao sniffed at Zhang Liying, "Although the smell is very light now, I can still tell that it is a very greedy ghost ......"

Zhang Liying screamed and slapped him in the face: "You pervert!"

"Where am I like a pervert?you—Why are you beating me?" Ji Ao was beaten inexplicably.

Zhang Liying took a few steps back with a flushed face, stood in the distance and asked him, "Do you have a way to catch that evil ghost?"

"Then I don't need to ask, I originally came to the mortal world to hunt ghosts, how can one or two little evil ghosts be difficult to defeat me?" Ji Ao looked at her proudly.

"That's what you said, if you catch that evil ghost and let me deal with it, then you go and catch it immediately, I will ......cut it with a thousand knives" Zhang Liying clenched her fists with both hands, and a weird smile appeared on her crying face, which made Ji Ao have the urge to turn around and run away.

"But I can't help you right now...... Am I not unable to move?" Ji Ao looked at her face cautiously, and under the forced gaze of Zhang Liying, his voice became smaller and smaller, "Don't think that your father will be fine if you catch that evil ghost, he will still be sentenced in the yang world, so ......"

"What? You mean that you can't catch that evil ghost in the underworld?"

"Who said that, if I had freedom of movement, a demon would be fine, but I can't get out now......"

"Hmph, what about my father? Didn't you say that you want to eliminate harm for the people? You just watched my father being framed by evil ghosts and let it go? You dare to say that you are doing the right thing for heaven, and you are embarrassed to say that you are a ghost who serves justice!"

This sentence deeply stimulated Ji Ao, and he shouted: "Okay, then I'll prove it to you, I'm Ji Ao worthy of the name of the ghost! But you have to do me a favor." ”

"Well, you say, as long as I can save my father, I will do anything. ”

"You help me find the whereabouts of that evil ghost, and I will naturally have a way to help you clean it up!"

"Isn't it attached to my dad?"

"Girl, please use your brain, how can it still be attached to your father and accompany him to prison, it has long since slipped away. If your dad had been possessed by it for so long, he would have been assimilated by it and would have gone berserk...... As long as you find it, I can find a way to clean it up, and you should know where I am now. ”

Zhang Liying stopped talking and began to think quietly, Ji Ao didn't bother her, and waited quietly in the painting.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Zhang Liying to shake her head firmly: "Say, what do you want me to do?"

"You go wash your face first. ”

"What? It's useful to wash your face?"

"You look like a big cat, look in the mirror yourself. ”

"Why didn't you say it earlier!"

Ji Ao couldn't guess who the evil ghost would continue to attach to after leaving Zhang Liying's father, so it was suggested that Zhang Liying should start with someone who her father had close contact with before he was imprisoned and had problems with his character, preferably her father's co-defendant, so that the chance of finding it was greater.

But the key is that Zhang Liying has never been clear about the reason for her father's arrest, of course she can't say why, even she herself is confused about this matter, and she doesn't know who her father usually has more contact with, she thought about it for a long time and decided to ask the adults first.

Since his father's accident, his father's siblings who had run to the house twice in three days have not come to the door, and his biological mother has never asked about his father since the divorce. Zhang Liying planned for a long time, and only to find that the only person she could ask was her stepmother, who she didn't want to see.

Zhang Liying's stepmother is more than ten years younger than her father, she is a fashionable and beautiful woman, and her relationship with Zhang Liying has been dull in the past few years after marrying Zhang Liying's father. Now Zhang Liying has a vague feeling when she thinks of her, less than a month after her father's accident, she can't remember what her stepmother looks like.

"Well, for my father's sake, let's go and ask her. Zhang Liying sighed and muttered to herself. Although she didn't want to see her, the reason for her father's arrest, the stepmother should always know better than herself.

Zhang Liying took out her mobile phone and dialed a familiar number, and after a beautiful ringtone, a man's voice came: "Xiaoying, are you okay? Why don't you answer my phone these days? Where do you live now? Are you with my cousin, or have you moved to your biological mother? Do you need me to go over and see you?"

"Jiang Chang," as soon as she heard the other party's kind voice, Zhang Liying's nose was sour, and she said in a hoarse voice, "Changchang, I'm fine, I live in my grandmother's old house now." I'm busy moving these days, so I haven't turned on my phone. ”

Jiang Chang on the other side of the phone was silent for a while, and then asked in a slightly annoyed voice: "Is it because my cousin won't let you live with her?" I'll go to her and tell her, when has this happened!

"No, Changchang, it's that I don't want to live with her. I'm doing well now, living alone in a quiet place. ”

Jiang Chang sighed: "You are still old-tempered, do you have anything to do with living alone? Do you need me to help you do anything? If you need to, just ask, I know that whether it is your biological mother or my cousin, it refers to people who cannot be trusted." ”

Zhang Liying sobbed so much that she couldn't speak, this was originally what her relatives should have said to her, but she heard it from Jiang Chang, a cousin who was only a few years older than him, she couldn't tell what she felt in her heart, she covered her mouth and choked, tears flowing down her face.

Jiang Chang on the other side of the phone was also silent, and it wasn't until Zhang Liying calmed down that he continued to ask: "Xiaoying, do you have something to do with me?" ”

"Changchang, do you know where your cousin lives now? ”

There was silence on the other end of the phone......

"Do you know where she lives?" she would use "she" instead of her aunt when referring to her stepmother, Zhang Wenli.

Jiang Chang on the other side of the phone was obviously very surprised that she would take the initiative to contact her cousin: "I know, but that place is not easy to find, it is full of old houses, and the building number is very messy, you said the address where you live now, I will go to your house to drive you over later." ”

Zhang Liying hesitated for a moment and said her address. But as soon as she put down the phone, she immediately regretted it, not to mention that she couldn't see people with her unkempt appearance, the house was messy, just the grimace on the old painting in the living room, and it was not suitable for receiving guests.

Now is not the time to grieve, she wiped the tears from her face, in order not to scare Jiang Chang, she must not let her see that grimace. She quickly stuffed all the miscellaneous items piled up here and there into a large cardboard box, pushed it into the corner of the bedroom, closed the door, and rolled up the old picture.

"Hey, what are you going to do, what are you going to do?" Ji Ao exclaimed in the painting.

Zhang Liying slapped the old painting and warned viciously: "You listen to me, wait a minute, I have a friend coming, if you dare to make a sound or let him see you, I will put this painting in a wooden box!"

"Why, why?" Ji Ao continued to protest.

"Do you still need to ask? Do you think everyone is as bold as me, I don't want Jiang Chang to be scared to death by you! Besides, even if he is not afraid, how do you want me to explain to him that there is a strange beast in this painting? If you tell him that you are a ghost who runs from the underworld to the yang world to catch ghosts, do you think he will believe it? Maybe he thinks I am crazy. ”

"I'll make him not see me, please don't roll that picture up!" begged Ji Ao pitifully.

"What? you can make others not see you?" Zhang Liying squinted her eyes and looked at him suspiciously.

"yes, that's our youkai...... The most basic spell of the ghost. Do you see black and white impermanence walking all over the streets? We can ......."

"You can be invisible, then why did you deliberately scare me yesterday!" Zhang Liying shouted angrily at the thought of being deceived by him.

Ji Ao's sudden appearance, the impact on her was not made clear in just a few words, that "accident" could have been avoided, could she not be angry?

"I really can't help it, I can't stay in the painting all the time, right? I finally heard someone coming in, of course I had to call for help......" Ji Ao hurriedly explained.

Zhang Liying didn't want to listen to his quibbles, she rolled up half of the old painting to ensure that the face was not exposed, and then threw down a threat again: "Listen, if you dare to move, I will immediately put this painting away and press the bottom of the box!"

Ji Ao wisely chose to be silent. So Jiang Chang didn't notice anything wrong when he entered the house. But when he looked at the messy old furniture in this old house, and looked at Zhang Liying's haggard face, he felt an indescribable sourness in his heart.

He knew Zhang Liying's stubborn and proud character very well, so he tried not to show pity, he pretended to be casual and asked: "Xiaoying, are you used to living alone? If you need my help, just say it, don't be polite to me." ”

"It's okay, I've long been used to living alone. Zhang Liying also looked indifferent.

When she was in junior high school, her father remarried, and since then she has lived on campus, only coming home once on weekends. Jiang Chang knew the situation at home very well, so he didn't mention the topic again: "Do you want to go now?"

Zhang Liying just likes Jiang Chang's crisp and hearty personality, she smiled faintly: "Let's go, the sooner the better." ”

"Alright then, my car is parked outside. ”

Zhang Liying got off Jiang Chang's motorcycle, looked at the community in front of her, and asked in surprise, "She lives here?"

Jiang Chang parked the motorcycle aside: "Yes, it's strange, isn't it? ”