Chapter 52: The Strange Story of Zhongyuan
The third day of Guo Jia's hospitalization happened to be the Midyear Festival, just after noon, Qingyang Taoist was busy going back to the Heavenly Master's Mansion to do the dojo, and after explaining some things to Zhou Kui and Zheng Zilong, he hurriedly left the hospital and rushed back to the Heavenly Master's Mansion by online car-hailing.
After eating lunch and returning to the ward, Shen Ruolan said to Guo Jia with some apologies: "Brother Jia, I made an appointment with my roommate to eat tonight, and I can't stay here to accompany you." ”
Guo Jia was lying on the hospital bed, looking at Shen Ruolan with gentle eyes: "There are two junior brothers with me, you can rest assured!" ”
"Brother Jia, I'll come to see you tomorrow!"
Seeing the back of Shen Ruolan leaving, Guo Jia sighed softly and said to Zhou Kui and Zheng Zilong: "Today's holiday, you go to the restaurant in the evening, remember to pack it for me." ”
Zhou Kui rubbed his hands excitedly, nodded approvingly: "I've been eating boxed lunches from fast food restaurants near the hospital for the past few days, and I'm tired of eating them for a long time, so I'm just taking advantage of today's holiday to improve my food." ”
Zheng Zilong looked at Zhou Kui and said with a wicked smile: "Senior Brother Zhou, since you are so active, then you will treat you tonight!" ”
"No problem!" Zhou Kui patted his chest and replied confidently.
During the time when the two were talking, Qinglan sat on the bench and fell asleep, the high-intensity battle a few days ago greatly consumed her spiritual power, and Zhou Kui also noticed that Qinglan had always seemed to be in low spirits recently, looking like she hadn't slept enough.
In order not to disturb her rest, Zhou Kui and Zheng Zilong left the ward together and came to the aisle to continue chatting.
The afternoon time was fleeting, and when it was almost evening, Zhou Kui led Qinglan out of the hospital and went to the nearby food street for dinner.
Zheng Zilong originally wanted to go to dinner with Zhou Kui, but then thought about it: Zhou Kui, this kid, obviously wants to live a two-person world with Qinglan, and the two of them are eating, what is the excitement for him? Do you want to make a light bulb?
So he made an excuse to stay in the ward to take care of Guo Jia, but only told Zhou Kui to remember to bring some leftovers back.
Because today is the traditional festival of Zhongyuan, most people go home early for dinner. The once bustling food street has now become deserted, and there are hardly any pedestrians on the way.
"Speaking of which, I should have burned something for my parents today, and I don't know how the two elders are doing in the underworld?" Zhou Kui whispered to himself.
When Qinglan heard this, she knew that Zhou Kui's parents had been dead for many years.
"For so many years, you have survived by yourself...... Qinglan said in a heavy tone.
Zhou Kui glanced at Qinglan and was about to say something to ease the atmosphere, but Qinglan interjected: "Husband, there should be a store selling funeral supplies nearby, let's go buy some paper money to burn to our parents, so that they can have a good holiday." ”
"Okay, I'll look on my phone navigation!"
Zhou Kui didn't expect Qinglan to be so understanding, he turned his back and couldn't help wiping his tears with his hands while opening the map on his phone.
"To meet such a good girl, I am fortunate to have three lives! Mom and Dad, I don't know if you saw it? ”
Under the guidance of the mobile phone navigation, Zhou Kui and Qinglan quickly found the nearest white shop, and while the store was not closed, Zhou Kui seized the time to buy a few piles of paper money.
"Husband, let's go burn paper money on the bridge we just passed."
Zhou Kui nodded, and he put the phone back in his jacket pocket.
As night fell, people who had had dinner came out of their homes with large bags of "bags" in their hands, and they came to the side of the road, laid down the paper bags on the territory that they had already seized, and then circled the paper bags and inserted lit incense sticks. After doing this, the man in charge lit a few pieces of paper money with a lighter and threw them into piles of paper bags, and in an instant, a pillar of fire soared straight into the night sky, and the raging fire tore through the dark night.
Zhou Kui took Qinglan's hand and carefully bypassed the burning paper bag on the side of the road, the air was filled with a strong foul smell, and the pungent smoke made Zhou Kui unable to open his eyes, so that tears flowed non-stop.
Finally walked to the small bridge, Zhou Kui found that there were many people burning buns on the bridge, and after walking around, he couldn't find a place to burn paper money, which made Zhou Kui feel a little disappointed.
"Why don't we go to the bank of the river and burn it." Qinglan proposed.
So, the two of them walked down the bridge and followed the stone steps to the edge of the moat.
Zhou Kui took out a lighter and lit the paper money and put it on the ground, and at this moment, a biting wind blew on the river surface, rolling the burning paper money into the river.
Qinglan squatted beside Zhou Kui and comforted softly: "Mom and Dad will be very happy to receive this money." ”
Zhou Kui held Qinglan's hand tightly, so moved that he couldn't speak, the two looked at each other speechlessly, just silently stared at the calm flowing river.
After squatting on the bank of the river for a while, Zhou Kui felt unbearable hunger in his stomach, and was about to take Qinglan to dinner, when the mobile phone in his jacket pocket rang a rapid caller ringtone.
"Hey, Second Senior Brother, what's the matter?"
"Senior Brother Zhou, where are you and Qinglan now?"
"We're in Changhongqiao."
"Changhongqiao, it's very close to the Normal University, you two hurry up and go to the Normal University!"
Zhou Kui asked with some confusion: "It's so late, what are you doing at the Normal University?" ”
On the other end of the phone, Zheng Zilong urged in a very anxious tone: "Ruolan seems to have an accident, you go and see the situation, I'll go over immediately!" ”
Hearing that Ruolan had an accident, Zhou Kui couldn't help but shudder, he hung up the phone, took Qinglan's hand and walked quickly onto the bridge.
"It's too late to take a taxi, Qinglan, let's run forward!"
Zhou Kui briefly explained the news of Shen Ruolan's accident, Qinglan listened to it, nodded with a solemn face, and followed Zhou Kui without saying a word to go to Qingchen Normal University.
After crossing a road and walking onto a pedestrian bridge, the two continued to walk straight to the right for more than 500 meters, then crossed an intersection, walked forward for about 300 meters, and finally came to the north gate of the Normal University in the early morning.
Taking advantage of the fact that the security guards were not paying attention, Zhou Kui and Qinglan secretly bypassed the door curfew and slipped into the campus.
"Where is the girls' dormitory?" Zhou Kui turned on his mobile phone and asked Zheng Zilong on WeChat.
A few seconds later, Zheng Zilong quickly replied: "After you enter through the north gate, you will first pass through the administrative building, followed by the Zhixing Building, the girls' dormitory is in the northeast of the Zhixing Building, and Ruolan's dormitory is located in Building 1, 505, the girls' dormitory, you pay attention to the number posted on the dormitory building." ”
It took about ten minutes, the two finally found a dormitory, maybe it was not yet a holiday, the dormitory manager aunt also went home for the holiday, tonight's girls' dormitory was unattended, Zhou Kui and Qinglan simply broke into the hall on the first floor and pressed the elevator to the fifth floor.
"505, 505, there!" Qinglan pointed to the bedroom door diagonally facing the elevator entrance, and said in an excited tone.
Zhou Kui rushed forward with an arrow step, raised his hand and knocked lightly on the bedroom door, and after a while, there was no response.
Qinglan stood outside the door and opened her psychic eye to investigate the situation inside.
"There is a thick yin aura in the dormitory, and it seems that there is a very powerful evil at work."
Zhou Kui swallowed his saliva, he reached out and tried to twist the doorknob, but found that the door did not move.
"That evil has set up an extremely vicious formation, the slightest mistake, I'm afraid it will endanger Ruolan's life, let me come!"
"Okay, then please!" Zhou Kui retreated to the side and looked at Qinglan with great trust.
I saw her stretch out her hand and quickly draw a spell on the door, and there were words in her mouth, and the charm bloomed with dazzling golden light.
A short time later, there was a sudden clicking sound from the bedroom door, and the door opened automatically from the inside.