More than 11 minutes in the middle of the night, the wind and rain are like obscurity, there are few pedestrians on the road, a few street lamps along the road have been extinguished, and the sky and the earth seem to be darker and darker

There were only three passengers waiting for the last train at the station, two of whom were a young couple who had left the night shift, and not far from them stood a woman dressed in red, holding a large black umbrella very low to cover her body above her chest, making it impossible to see her face clearly

A flash of lightning flashed and disappeared silently after reflecting the white hand of the woman in red

"Look at how old-fashioned she wears," the girl in the couple whispered to her husband as she looked at the rough clothes and simple color scheme of the woman in red, which was almost monotonous

"Don't talk nonsense," the boy had already squinted at the woman in red, although he couldn't see her face, but judging from the plump face and hands like white jade, she should be a young woman with a good name, if it weren't for his wife beside him, the boy might have been looking for an opportunity to talk to her

The girl coquettishly said, "Let's take a taxi home"

"Wait, the last train is coming, and besides, it's not easy for taxis to stop in this damn weather."

In the haze, a bus came to a slow stop, and the couple was about to get on the bus, when the woman in red suddenly rushed forward to block the door, and she didn't get on or let them get on the bus

"What are you doing," the girl almost sweared

"Before you get in the car, please see who is in the car"

The couple looked up at the car, almost frightened

Because the cars were full of dead people, with incomplete limbs and blurred flesh and blood, they rolled their gloomy eyes and stared at the little couple outside the window

"Ahh

A strong wind blew between heaven and earth, blowing the umbrella in the woman's hand to the ground

"You, you" The boy who hugged his wife tightly stuttered

The wind blew even harder, and there was no head on the collar of the strange woman in red, and the arteries in her neck were constantly undulating, and blood and bones were coming out of the broken neck, and occasionally there were some blood blisters bursting open

The boy stared at the headless female ghost, and her facial muscles began to twitch violently, followed by a pig-killing howl, accompanied by a deafening thunder, and the rainy night was filled with unprecedented panic

The rain was still falling, and the bus and the woman in red were gone, leaving only the panicked couple slumped in the rain, drenched and drenched

At four o'clock in the afternoon, it was still raining outside the window

Ding Xiaolan frowned, looked at the boring English word "gaover" on the computer screen, and angrily typed the enter key and quit the game

She rubbed her red eyes and sighed softly, "It's been raining for a week, and if it continues like this, I'm afraid there will be flooding."

"Okay, when the water ghosts in the river come ashore, we will have business" Lao Wu opened his drunken and hazy eyes, looked at Ding Xiaolan, closed his eyes and continued to doze off

"Hmph, even we will be drowned when the time comes, how can we still have the life to do business"

"I see that you lost the game and have no place to vent, so find Lao Wu to vent," Qi Lu walked in from outside the door, put down the umbrella and said with a smile: "It seems that in the future, there will be a rule in the office that no games are allowed to play during working hours, so as not to make someone sick again."

"Sitting here like a fool every day, if you don't teach me spells and don't play games, wouldn't you be so bored to death" Ding Xiaolan sighed again and said: "I haven't had any business for more than a month, and I'm anxious for you."

"Hehe, you're worried that I won't be able to make money, and I won't be able to pay my salary on time."

"You report to work every day and run away, and you don't see anyone, do you think I don't have to worry about my salary?"

"What kind of employee taught the boss a lesson" Qi Lu pretended to be angry and said: "How do you know that I am idle every day, and today I am doing practical things"

"Then may I ask Boss Qi, are you so busy today, do you go to the bar to pick up girls or go to the restaurant to contact the relationship?"

"No, I went to Guanyin Temple"

Guanyin Temple is the most famous temple in the city, and the host is Wutong, deep and refined Buddhism, and is good at guiding the maze, so Guanyin Temple has always been prosperous with incense

"Don't tell me the idea of going to the temple"

"That's nothing, it's just chatting with Wutong, I could have left early, but who knew that this old monk wanted to argue with me about whether Guanyin Bodhisattva was a man or a woman, so he delayed for an afternoon," Qi Lu had a familiar bad smile on his face

"You're so bored"

"I'm on business, and I made a bet with him about it, and he lost, so he had to give me a business."

Ding Xiaolan then remembered that Master Wutong was also proficient in the art of yin and yang, and many people asked him to watch feng shui practices

"What kind of business" "Recently, there have been rumors that a female ghost in red came out at night to cause trouble, have you heard about it" Qi Lu did not directly answer Ding Xiaolan's question, but turned to ask Lao Wu, "I heard" As soon as the ghost was mentioned, Lao Wu came to the spirit, "I have collected some information"

There are many kinds of ghosts, and the female ghost in red is a more difficult one, not every woman who wears red and dies before her death can become a female ghost in red, but it is her appearance characteristics, and more importantly, the deceased either was wronged by others before her death, and could not distinguish and committed suicide, or she was an innocent person but was killed by the murderer, and the time of death happened to be a lunar year, a lunar month, a cloudy day, these conditions gathered together, the grievances of the deceased had nowhere to vent, and it was possible to turn into a female ghost in red to harm the world, "Can you be sure that the ghost is not dressed up by a person?" I can't draw conclusions about this now, because most of the people who have seen her have seen a woman in red floating on the ground with an umbrella from a distance, and when you want to get closer, she has disappeared inexplicably, so I have to investigate again."

As soon as Qi Lu wanted to continue asking, he heard Lao Wu say again: "But there is a couple who have been in close contact with her at close range, and in the early hours of last night, the female ghost actually prevented the couple from getting into a ghost car by mistake."

Qi Lu exclaimed: "You mean that the female ghost saved their lives" "Almost" Lao Wu Zhengse replied, "And they are the only ones who have seen the true face of the female ghost in red under the umbrella"

Ding Xiaolan interjected and asked, "She's very beautiful, isn't she?"

"I don't know if it's beautiful or not, because witnesses say she doesn't have a head at all."

"Headless female ghost" Ding Xiaolan imagined the situation of seeing ghosts at that time, and couldn't help but be silent, scared into a cold sweat

Qi Lu asked: "Are the two witnesses okay?"

"I had a high fever for a few days, and now they are still taking leave to rest and not going to work", "It seems that they are in the middle of evil, maybe because the ghost yin qi is too heavy"

Lao Wu said: "This is a bit strange because she hasn't hurt anyone so far"

Lao Wu is right, this kind of unjust ghost's mental power and resentment are many times stronger than ordinary ghosts, if ordinary people are accidentally entangled by her, it is basically a dead end, but this kind ghost not only did not harm people, but also saved the lives of a couple, which is really a rare thing

Ding Xiaolan asked Qi Lu: "I know, it must be Master Wutong's compassion to see the ghost so fierce, so please accept her."

"He's not a nosy person" Qi Lu smiled: "Mainly because the female ghost in red also visited his brother's house recently"

Ding Xiaolan asked puzzledly: "It shouldn't be difficult to clean up a female ghost with his Taoism, but why did he let you go, not to mention that there was an accident at his brother's house."

"This old monk has always been very timid, very afraid of messing things up and ruining his reputation, I think he deliberately made a bet with me and then lost to me so that I could take over this mess"

Qi Lu suddenly laughed, and after he drank the tea in the cup, he continued: "In order to let me go out, the old monk actually said to me, God and Buddha have always believed in it, and if you don't believe in it, if you firmly believe in the magic power of the scriptures, it will have the ability to drive away evil spirits, suppress demons, save suffering, and eliminate difficulties."

"The truth seems a bit far-fetched," "That's not the point, the key is what he said later," Qi Lu's face returned to a bad smile, "What he meant in the second half of his sentence was that if the demon side didn't believe in Buddhism and didn't know the righteousness in the scriptures, wouldn't it be a ghost hunt and be harmed by him?"

"That's why I always feel that this old bald donkey is not well-intentioned."

"So what are you going to do?"

"What else can I do, I agreed to him, so I had to bite the bullet"

At this time, there was a sound of heavy footsteps outside the door, Qi Lu heard the sound, and found that the person who came was Liu Chenfei, followed by a middle-aged man with a tough body and glasses, who looked like a scholar from his demeanor and temperament

Seeing Liu Chenfei's figure, Qi Lu's eyebrows subconsciously wrinkled slightly, because he knew that Liu Chenfei had always been on the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, and what he often brought was some trouble

But Liu Chenfei was not in a hurry at all, and it was not until he finished smoking the cigarette handed over by Qi Lu that he said slowly: "I came today because I wanted to trouble you."

Qi Lu smiled bitterly and said, "I know that there will be no good things if you come."

Liu Chenfei pointed to the old man beside him and said, "This is Professor Jiang Wenhao, he has something I want to ask you for."

Qi Lu had long heard of Professor Jiang's name, knew that he was a well-known expert in the field of archaeology in China, and devoted his life to the historical research of the pre-Qin period, and what is even more rare is that he is simple and sincere, and has a good reputation among his peers, which is particularly valuable in today's pompous academic circles

"May I ask Professor Jiang what he wants me to help with," Qi Lu personally poured the tips of the hair on the two of them before politely asking

Jiang Wenhao opened his mobile phone and showed Qi Lu a few pictures stored inside

Qi Lu saw that these pictures were taken from different angles of a dagger, but because the mobile phone screen was too small to distinguish the details, he sent the picture to his office computer, and then enlarged it and carefully appreciated it, so that he could tell that it was an ancient copper short sword shaped like a dagger, and the sword body was decorated with black patterns, and a beautiful turquoise was inlaid on the handle

"Do you know the origin of this dagger?"

"I don't know," Qi Lu replied honestly, although he knew something about ancient history, he didn't dare to show off his meager knowledge in front of Professor Jiang

"This is the sword forged by Ou Yezi, a native of Yue during the Spring and Autumn Period"