Yan Shu walked quickly to the door, but saw nothing. He turned his head and looked at the calm expression, and said, "He's really a ghost, right?" ”

Tilt nodded and said, "Yes." He has no shadow. ”

Yan Shu said: "Then why didn't you let me catch him just now?" ”

Tilt shook his head: "Liu Sheng's situation is quite special. ”

Yan Shuqi said: "What can be special?" ”

He said, "Liu Shenghe...... He didn't seem to know he was dead. ”

"Huh?" Yan Shu was surprised, "Didn't he say it himself, 'people can't be resurrected after death', isn't this quite clear!" ”

"At first, I thought he was talking about himself. But then I remembered the poem he memorized, and I realized that he was not talking about himself. ”

Yan Shu heard her say this, touched his chin and recalled carefully: "Which word did he memorize before?" Ah, it's the one who woke up early and dreamed about it, right? What's wrong with that word? ”

Tilt Xu showed a sad look on his face: "That poem was written by a lyricist to his deceased wife. Therefore, Yanagi's 'people cannot be resurrected after death' does not refer to himself, but to his wife. ”

Yan Shu followed her train of thought and continued: "His wife? Could it be that his wife died with him? ”

"I don't know. But at present, it seems that Yanagi's memory is very confusing, he doesn't remember the time, and he doesn't remember that he is dead, so he will do things on instinct. ”

Yan Shu asked, "What does it mean to do things by instinct?" ”

"He comes to the school every night to read and write homework for the children, because he is a scholar, and it is his instinct to write poems and lyrics, and he will continue to do so even if his memory is confused." But no matter what words he reads or what poems he writes, they are all related to love, which proves that his wife is very important in his heart, so important that he remembers her even if he forgets everything. ”

Yan Shu was stunned when he heard this, and a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he suddenly said excitedly: "Then, that blood word!" The line of blood written on the table turned out to be ......" suddenly sighed and suddenly, "The child wrote 'subject to your destruction, and will not stop extinguishing' because she did not know the words 'love' and 'death'." Well, I should have thought about how a child can know 'love' and 'death'. You already know what it's written on, right? ”

He nodded and read word by word: "I love you to death, and death will not stop." ”

Yan Shu sighed and sighed: "I didn't expect Liu Sheng to be so infatuated." ”

"According to the haunted time, Yanagi should have been dead for about a month. His soul was damaged, and he could only appear for a moment at night, and he had no anger around him, nor did he harm anyone, so he was obviously not an evil ghost. Generally speaking, people will return to the underworld after death, and Yanagi's soul is still wandering in the world, and he must still have unfulfilled wishes before his death and refuse to leave. Tonight I wanted to ask him what he wanted, but he didn't want to tell him, and I didn't dare to tell him that he was dead, for fear of losing his remnant, so I had to let him go. ”

Yan Shu said: "Then what now? Will you come back tomorrow night? ”

He bowed his head and said, "It's certain that I'll come back tomorrow night." Tomorrow, I'll have to ask the people around again to see if anyone knows about Yanagi. ”

As soon as it was dawn the next day, Mr. Bi came to the school with his hair disheveled, his face full of anxiety and his robe was not fastened, obviously he had just gotten out of bed. When he saw Qian Xu and Yan Shu standing in the academy alive and complete, Mr. Bi breathed a sigh of relief, touched his beard and said, "Alas, I haven't slept well this night, for fear that something will happen to you two here, it's okay, it's okay." ”

Pouring out his heart, he said, "Let Mr. Bi worry." ”

Yan Shu smiled and said, "Don't worry, old man, we are amazing!" Rest assured. ”

Mr. Bi waved his hand and asked, "I wonder what the two Dao Masters gained last night?" ”

"There has been some progress, but it's not enough. Mr. Bi, can I ask you some questions? ”

Mr. Bi said, "Of course. ”

He said: "In your town, is there a scholar surnamed Liu?" ”

Mr. Bi replied quickly: "Yes, a lot." There are many scholars in our Shengru Town, and there are seven or eight scholars surnamed Liu. ”

"Then, among these seven or eight people, who has recently died or disappeared?" ”

Mr. Bi frowned and said, "I haven't heard of anyone who has had an accident, but there are a few people who have recently entered Beijing to catch the exam, and there is no news." ”

He said, "Do you know that sir, who of these people is already married?" ”

Mr. Bi was puzzled: "This ...... I don't know, I'm just a teacher, and I only pay attention to the students in the academy on weekdays. ”

Yan Shu on the side couldn't help but interject: "Why don't you know anything, you don't know if people are married or not, didn't you give that money?" ”

Mr. Bi was speechless, a little angry and a little aggrieved and glared at Yan Shu.

Knowing that he couldn't ask anything more, he changed the question and asked, "Okay." Mr. Bi, where does the old man Liu who was frightened crazy by ghosts last time live? ”

"Walk south out of the academy, and you will arrive in a few dozen steps," Mr. Bi was happy that he finally had an answer, when he suddenly reacted and said busily, "Daoist, why are you asking this?" ”

"Naturally, I'm going to take a look." ”

Mr. Bi's face was shocked, and he hesitated for a while: "Then you have to be careful, that person is crazy, scratching and biting, yelling and crying for a while, and he doesn't even recognize his own mother." ”

Yan Shu raised his eyebrows and said, "Yes, then I have to go and see it." ”

The two walked out of the academy and walked south, and there were a few stalls at the entrance of the academy to buy candy people and sugar gourds or something.

"Dumping," Yan Shu said vaguely as he ate sugar, "Are you going to cure that crazy old man?" ”

Seeing that he was eating well, he also took a piece from his hand greedily, and ate as he walked: "Madness can only be cured well by Langzhong, how can I cure it." I just think he might have something to do with Yanagi. ”

"That's right." Yan Shu agreed, "Looking at Liu Sheng's weak appearance, it is indeed too difficult for him to scare an adult man crazy." Maybe it was Liu Laohan who did something bad for himself, so he would be a thief and scare himself crazy. ”

He let out a "hmm" and ate candy wholeheartedly.

Yan Shu saw that she was eating happily, and her eyes couldn't help but feel a little warmer, and said with a smile: "It's delicious, right?" This is pine nut candy, a squirrel sister used to eat it for me, I thought it was delicious, so I just bought some. ”

He let out a heavy "um" again.

Yan Shu hooked his lips and laughed, smiled and suddenly remembered something, smiled, pondered for a moment, and decided to say this: "Tilt life, there is one thing, I don't know if I think too much." ”

Qian Xu was eating candy happily, and when he heard this, he raised his eyes to look at him: "What?" ”

Yan Shu said: "When I was buying sugar, I heard people say that it seems that there were two Taoist priests here last month. This haunted thing also started last month, you say, could it be anything to do with it? ”

I was stunned. She had never thought of this layer. Suddenly, a thought flashed in her heart, and she stopped, and her hand holding the pine nut candy trembled slightly.

Seeing her like this, Yan Shu hurriedly said, "What's wrong?" ”

"Yan Shu ......" Tilt Xu looked at him a little flusteredly, his star-like eyes filled with small suspicions. She whispered, "A month ago, I was being burned at the stake in Qianyunguan. And then...... My senior brother and master are just not in the view. ”

Yan Shu's expression gradually condensed, and he confessed: "Last night, I saw the wound on the mouth of Liu Sheng's vest, it should be a sword killing, and the sword wielder's martial arts must be quite deep." ”

Qian Xu's face turned white again: "My master and brother are the best at using swords." ”

Yan Shu couldn't bear to see her like this, although he knew that this matter might be related, he was still relieved: "It's just a coincidence, even if it was your master and brother who came last month, then Liu Sheng didn't have to be killed by them." Liu Shengjie is a weak scholar, why did your master and brother kill him if he had nothing to do, right? ”

He took a deep breath, calmed down, lowered his eyes and said, "I hope so." ”

Compared with the refreshing and elegant academy, this Liu Laohan's home can be called "dilapidated".

The low mud house, the bricks and tiles have fallen off a lot, and the dust in front of the door must have not been swept for a long time, and the piles are tangled and dirty. Two unpainted wooden doors, one high and one low, were slightly hidden, revealing the gloomy scene inside.

Tilt Xu walked to the two wooden doors, raised his hand and knocked, and said tentatively, "Is anyone there?" ”

No one answered.

I tried again, but there was still no response.

Yan Shu proposed behind her, "Why don't we go in and have a look first?" ”

Qian Xu hesitated: "Wouldn't it be rude?" ”

Yan Shu was about to reply to her, when suddenly a sharp scream pierced the sky, and he was startled, pushed open the two doors and ran in, and the force was too great to make the door fall to the ground, startling countless dust.

The outside of the house looked dilapidated, but the inside of the house was still relatively spacious, but it was very gray, perhaps because the windows were closed.

A faint cry came from the depths of the house, and he followed it to a dimly lit room. Yan Shu has been following closely behind Tilt Xu, and when he walked to this room, he saw the scene in front of him and almost instinctively protected Tilt Xu behind him.

The room was the darkest and most littered floor, with countless pieces of broken porcelain, rotten leaves, torn strips of cloth, and things so rotten that they couldn't be seen in their original shapes. The air was filled with an unknown stench, like a meal that had not been poured, and like a stinky ditch that had not been cleaned for a long time, mixed together extremely strangely.

But the weirdest thing is that there are still two people in this terrible house.

An old woman in her fifties huddled in a corner, shivering, with a look of horror and despair on her face, and blood on her hands and face. Hearing them come in, the old woman raised her head and looked at them with a tired, empty gaze.

In the other corner, an unkempt man with a ragged face was hidden in the darkness on all fours, and he should be a man by his size. His face was unclear with his dirty hair, revealing only a bloodshot eye, glaring viciously at the door.

Yan Shu stood in front of him, his face was the same, but his eyes looked at the vicious man vigilantly. Yan Shu was slender, and he couldn't see the situation in front of him behind him, so he had to look up at the back of his head and say, "Yan Shu, I can't see it." ”

Yan Shu moved to the side, revealing a small half of her vision. Qian Xu was amused in his heart, and said in a low voice: "Are you still afraid that he will bite me?" ”

Yan Shu said admittedly: "It's not impossible." ”

He smiled wordlessly, passed by Yan Shu, walked straight to the old woman who looked like she was about to collapse, squatted down next to her, softened her tone as much as possible, and said softly: "Are you okay?" ”

The old woman was silent, as if she was stunned.

Yan Shu stood still and didn't follow, quietly watching Tilt Xu, not realizing how soft his gaze was.

The old woman's cloudy eyes turned numbly, and finally saw the snow-white robe on Qian Xu's body, and then looked at Qian Xu's beautiful appearance, grabbed Qian Xu's hand, and said in disbelief: "You, you are a fairy girl?" ”

Her hand was grasped tightly by her, and it hurt a little bit. Still smiling kindly, he said, "I'm a Taoist priest. ”

The old woman's tears fell suddenly, and she knelt on the ground with a "poof", and cried bitterly: "Fairy aunt, please save my son!" He's demon-possessed, and he's so mad that I can't help it! ”

Unexpectedly, when the man with unkempt faces in the corner heard the word "ghost", he suddenly jumped up and screamed and pounced on the old woman!