The door was silently pushed in, as far as the eye could see, it was dim, as if suddenly from day to night, when I tried to walk in, I also smelled a stuffy smell, that is, the smell of the room closed all year round without ventilation, when I saw the tightened curtains, the weather was still quite hot near October, the room was not ventilated, the fan air conditioner or anything was not turned on, people have been holding in it will be suffocated.

The room is not large, and it is easy to see that on a plastic chair next to the bed, there is a haggard and withered middle-aged woman, holding a picture frame in her arms, like holding a baby, one hand is still gently patting the back of the photo frame, humming softly in her mouth, and her whole face is in the shadows, looking vaguely and uncertainly, like a neurotic patient.

"Auntie." When Pei Xin saw this scene, he seemed to be sad, took a few steps, squatted next to the middle-aged woman who should be Leqin, put one hand on her lap, and cried, "Auntie, I've come to see you." ”

Leqin didn't react, immersed in her own world, and couldn't feel the presence of others.

"Auntie? Aunt? Pei Xin gently shook Leqin's legs, "I'm Pei Xin, I'm here to see you." ”

Le Qin's humming song was interrupted, she paused, and slowly turned her head sideways for a while, because of excessive sadness, her temples were white, adding a little old, and she looked at Pei Xin steadily, her eyes were heavy as if she wanted to eat people.

Pei Xin hung his head reproachfully and explained, "I'm sorry Auntie, I was too scared to come to see you before." ”

Leqin was still looking at her steadily, and when I thought she might explode, she suddenly looked away, looked ahead, and smiled at the empty air, smiling kindly, "Yan Yan is back?" ”

Pei Xin was stunned: "Ah, Auntie? ”

I'm also stunned, Le Yan's ghost is back?

It's impossible, if there is a situation, my yin and yang eyes will not be able to see?

"Hungry, huh?" Aunt Leqin stood up as she spoke, "Okay, Mom will go and make something to eat for you." ”

She crossed Pei Xin who was squatting on the ground, walked past me and Qiu Shishi, opened the door and walked out, leaving the three of us, Pei Xin and I looked at each other, Pei Xin asked loudly: "Auntie, what's wrong with her?" ”

Judging from this performance, it is likely that she is delirious, but in the news two days ago, she was still running around for her daughter, although she was sad and angry, she still spoke very methodically, why was it suddenly like this?

"It's all my fault, if it weren't for me, my aunt wouldn't be like this."

Seeing that Pei Xin was about to cry again, I couldn't stand it and said, "Let's go see her, don't have anything wrong." ”

Hearing this, Pei Xin hurriedly followed out of the room, and Qiu Shishi and I walked behind, and I asked him quietly: "What's the situation?" ”

He tilted his head towards me: "She has black gas on her." ”

"What's that?"

"It's an invasion of evil energy, either she's getting something dirty, or someone has done something to her, and we'll have to see again."

I was slightly shocked, if it was a ghost of Le Yan, she didn't have a reason to hurt her mother, right? Why do I find things getting more and more incomprehensible?

"To enter the yin and yang industry, it is not only necessary to know how to catch ghosts, but also to know how to distinguish ghosts, which requires strong observation, and now is your opportunity to learn."

I didn't understand what he meant, until I remembered what he said last night, and suddenly I was confused: "I haven't agreed yet." ”

"Sooner or later."

"Hey ......"

As we spoke, we also came to the kitchen door.

The kitchen, which should have been full of homely atmosphere, is now a mess, pots and pans, greasy and dirty pushed aside, flies and mosquitoes fly everywhere, and a foul smell comes out from afar.

Where is this kitchen, it is simply a garbage dump.

Leqin didn't know where to take out a bag of half-rotten vegetables, and began to cut them without washing them, cutting them with one hand, and still holding the photo frame with one hand, Pei Xin was trying to explain something to Aunt Leqin, so that she didn't have to cook, Aunt Leqin didn't seem to see her, and kept cutting and cutting on the cutting board, cutting everywhere, all out of order, as if playing with young children.

I noticed that on the wrist of the hand where she held the knife, she wore a little girl bracelet that did not match her age, which was probably worn by Le Yan before her death.

As long as I think of how sad my mother should be if I die tragically one day, I can feel how tormented Leqin is, who only has a daughter and is gone, the more I feel that Pei Xin should not have done what he did.

Sighing, I walked in, cleaned up the mess with Pei Xin, and asked Pei Xin to take care of her not to cut her hand, while trying to find a good dish, I wanted to cook another meal for my aunt, seeing her like this, I guess I didn't eat it.

However, when I found a few potatoes and wanted to wash them, I found that the faucet actually didn't come out, was it broken or something?

I looked around the messy kitchen and found a water tank covered with an iron plate, presumably to prevent the ash from falling.

Move the iron plate a little bit to reveal the size of a scoop that can fit in.

From my point of view, the water below is dark, but since the woman in the neighborhood often comes over to take care of Aunt Leqin, this water must have been changed, right?

I picked up the scoop and wanted to scoop it up to see, but when I scooped it down, I felt something wrong, a little hard and a little soft, but it was definitely not liquid!

I pulled the iron plate wider and peeked in—oh my god, it was full of hair!

The powerful nausea hit my stomach, and after two seconds of stupid staring, I decisively threw down the scoop and ran.

But as soon as I moved, a large tuft of hair came out of the tank, wrapped around my neck, and dragged me into the tank.

I put my hand against the mouth of the water tank to prevent myself from being dragged down, and at the same time I had to free my hand to pull the hair from my neck, but the more I pulled it, the tighter the hair became—I was about to be strangled!

At this time, a kitchen knife cut the hair on my neck, and the hair was frightened and retracted into the water tank.

Pei Xin held the kitchen knife in both hands, as if the action just now had taken all her courage, and she no longer dared to chase the kitchen knife into the water tank.

She trembled for a while and thought of me, and hurriedly threw a kitchen knife to support me: "Cousin, are you okay?" ”

I shook my head, relieved myself, and was about to say something when it suddenly occurred to me, something happened to me here, why didn't the hateful person react?

Quickly turned around and looked at the kitchen door, I still remember that he was standing there when I entered the kitchen, and the kitchen door was empty, not to mention him, and Aunt Leqin was gone.

"What about people? What about the aunts? I grabbed Pei Xin's arm and asked anxiously.

Pei Xin panicked: "I don't know, I was still there just now." ”

She pointed to the board, Aunt Leqin was just standing there chopping vegetables indiscriminately, and the radish and cabbage that had been cut into pieces and broken pieces were there, and the kitchen knives were also thrown aside, that is, the aunt was gone.

"Dead people? Dead man, are you there? "I shouted in a panic that the poet Qiu, in my subconscious, as long as the poet is here, anything can be resolved, if he can appear in front of me, no matter how big the matter is, I can feel a little at ease.

However, I shouted a few times, and he should have heard him even if he went to the living room to rest, but no one answered me.

"Brother-in-law, why is my brother-in-law gone?" Pei Xin was also strange.

I didn't care about her title at this time, I wanted to leave the kitchen with her, and as soon as I walked to the door, Aunt Leqin suddenly appeared again, standing at the door, holding a porcelain basin in both hands, covered with a porcelain lid, and looked at us kindly: "I made a tonic soup for you, drink it while it's hot, right?" ”

For some reason, I thought the smile was very mad, and I guess Pei Xin had the same idea as me, so he waved his hand and declined: "No, no need Auntie, we, we're not hungry!" ”

With just such a sentence, Aunt Leqin's face changed, and she stared at us fiercely: "I worked so hard to come out, don't you drink it?" ”

Me: "......"

"No," she gritted her teeth, "you have to drink too!" ”

She pushed the porcelain basin towards us, about to pour it into our mouths, I took a step back, and Pei Xin pushed and shoved, causing the porcelain basin to fall to the ground, and the porcelain basin was fragile to split in half, exposing the contents inside.

Sure enough, it is a big tonic soup, with poisonous insects, poisonous scorpions, poisonous snakes, and poisonous rats...... Even lumps of poisonous ants, after being released from the porcelain basin, they came out one after another, making people's scalps numb.

What's even more terrifying is that they all target us and crawl towards us.

Pei Xin screamed loudly, and I screamed uncontrollably when two black rats that looked like they were running out of the sewer were about to climb on my feet.

There is a kind of fear, when you know that it is so weak that it may be trampled to death, and you can't control the fear in your bones, trembling all over, the pores of your body are erect, and you want to flee to the edge of the sky, and those who are not afraid of rats may never be able to understand that feeling.

While dodging the rats, something crawled on my back, and I turned my head sideways to the head of a snake the size of a little finger!

I screamed to shake the snake off, and I endured the disgusting touch to pull the snake tail and tried to pull it off, but when I got up, there was a second, and the rats and scorpions scrambled to come first, and in the middle of the struggle, I returned to the water tank, and accidentally fell to the side.

Several tufts of hair came out of the tank and wrapped around my neck again, this time so menacing that I didn't even have the ability to fight back, and my head was dragged into the tank and pressed into a dense pile of hair.

Nausea or not nausea is already secondary, my eyes, ears, mouth and nose are clogged with hair, I can only close my mouth to prevent hair from getting into my stomach, but I can't control my nose and ears.

I feel...... I can't......

I wanted to struggle, I wanted to retreat, but my hands were entangled in something, and my whole body was fixed, and no matter how much effort I tried, it was in vain.

Slowly, little by little, I softened......

The feeling of suffocation, when my consciousness was about to disappear, I opened my eyes slightly, and saw that I was actually immersed in the water, floating like seaweed, the slightly swaying water flowing down my cheeks, my hair scattered and suspended behind me, and a beautiful crystal clear fish, wagging its tail and swimming towards me.

Beautiful things are always loved, and I subconsciously reached out to them.

However, as it approached me, it suddenly opened its mouth, revealing its sharp, demonic teeth, and bit down at me—

One hand grabbed me by the back of the collar and pulled me out of the hair mire with just one force!

The sound of "bang" breaking water!

I coughed vigorously and wiped my face, and found that my face was covered with water, and even the clothes on my chest were soaked.

Am I lying on my stomach on the tank and pressing my head in the water?

Wheezing and looking blankly at the Qiu poet beside me, he had just pulled my head out of the water tank, but I didn't understand what was going on?

On the side, Pei Xin sat on the ground, hugging his knees and trembling, as if he had experienced something terrible.

"There's something wrong with the smell in this kitchen, it can hallucinate," he added, after a pause, "and ghosts aren't immune either." ”

So all those just now, are they all hallucinations?

Qiu Shiren burned a talisman, and the smoke that came out of it circled around Pei Xin and then dissipated, Pei Xin regained consciousness, looked left and right and got up and hid behind me: "Cousin, cousin, I saw ...... just now"

"Hallucinations, they're all hallucinations." I comforted and explained, thinking of something, and looked at the kitchen, "Where's Aunt Leqin?" ”

Why is she missing again?

Will you really have a bowl of tonic soup later?

The thought of what was in it made my hair stand on end.

Pei Xin shook his head and said that she didn't know, Qiu Shiren ignored me, he was looking at the kitchen with a calm face, and at the end, he walked towards the sink.

There are two small doors under the sink that are the same as the cabinet next to them, and inside are the pipes that connect the sink, which are dark and cold, and the small cabinet doors are generally not opened unless the pipes are repaired.

Qiu Shishi used to open the door of the small cabinet, and I leaned behind him, and was surprised to see that the pipes inside were broken and deformed, and squeezed into the corners, no wonder the water in the sink could not be used.

In the vacant place, there were several black jars, and inside the jars, there was a dead man's tablet, which was too dark to see whose name was written on the tablet.

"What is this?"

In a normal person's home, who would put the tablet in such a shady place next to the pipe leading to the bottom?

Moreover, as the door of this cabinet opened, a thick stench came out, not the salty and wet smell of the aqueduct, but the real carrion piled up together.

Qiu Shishi squatted down and lifted the lid of the jar, and when I saw it, I reflexively covered my mouth.

It was full of hair, a whole hair stripped off.

In the second jar, there is a pile of offal.

In the third jar, are the limbs.

I looked away, not daring to look any more.

After reading the jar, Qiu Shiren reached out and took out the tablet inside, I was curious, I couldn't help but look at it again, and found that the name was not engraved on the tablet, but judging from the color of the tablet, it was not new.

In front of all the jars, there is also a bowl of pointed rice, and the rice is sprinkled with a little fragrant ash.

"W-This can't be a ghost, is it?"

Pei Xin's surprised voice came from my ears, and I looked at her in surprise and suspicion: "Raising ghosts? ”

"I've heard them talk about in the supernatural community in the past, there are several inhumane ways to raise ghosts, and one of them seems to be a bit similar to this."

"No, what are you doing raising ghosts?"

"That's a lot, raising ghosts can strengthen your fortune and make you famous, and it can also drive ghosts to help you do things, but," she said sadly, "raising ghosts is very detrimental to yin morality, and if you are not careful, you will be counterattacked." ”

I hehe, pointing to the jars in disbelief: "Don't tell me, Aunt Leqin raises ghosts?" ”

"It's not that you can successfully raise ghosts by knowing the way," Qiu Shiren knelt on one knee, resting one hand on his knee, and his breath was calm, "It depends on whether that person has the qualifications to cultivate, don't rush to conclusions." ”

He stood up, sanitized his hands slowly, and then picked up a bowl that was set aside without hurry, when suddenly a thunderous force threw it above his head, and with a scream, a figure fell from the ceiling.

It was Aunt Leqin, but at this time, her half-white hair combed behind her head was scattered, covering most of her face, kneeling on the ground, her blackened nails picking at the floor, she slowly raised her head, and her two eyes shone through the gaps in her hair.

If it weren't for the clothes she had just seen, and the photo frame still held in her arms with one hand, she would almost have been recognizable as Aunt Leqin.

She made a strange sound from her mouth, and jumped up and pounced on us, Qiu Shiren took the lead to meet her, slapped away the hand that grabbed her, and quickly pressed both sides of Leqin's forehead, his arm strength was very strong, and he lifted Leqin's whole person, pressed it to the wall, and out of nowhere took out a piece of wood with a strange fragrance, stuffed it horizontally into Leqin's mouth, let her teeth bite, and then poured her with the blood of an unknown animal, and then let her go.

But Leqin didn't continue to attack because of this, she clutched her stomach, still biting the piece of wood in her mouth, and fell to the ground and rolled over.

She tossed and turned in pain for a while, and the corners of her mouth began to flow a black, foul-smelling liquid, and I was able to hold my nose at first, but after a while, worms began to crawl out of her mouth that was propped open by wood, and my scalp went numb again, and I took two steps back.

Qiu Shiren drew a circle with white powder on the ground, and the insects that crawled out were inseparable from the circle, and when Aunt Leqin had nothing in her mouth, he took Aunt Leqin and put it aside, at that time, Aunt Leqin was already unconscious, and Qiu Shiren lit a rune paper and threw it into the white circle, burning the insects to the ground, and even the black foul-smelling liquid evaporated.

Then, the whole kitchen fell silent.

Things happened suddenly, and it seemed to be over suddenly?

I couldn't help but wonder, is this another illusion?

"Wow," Pei Xin let out a dreamy exclamation, "Brother-in-law, it's amazing!" ”

I thought that the arrogance of the poet would not be disdainful of answering, but he said lightly: "I just know a little principle, and everything is my friend gave me self-defense." ”

Look, he can be very arrogant if he is very humble.

Wrong...... I gave him a strange look, not understanding why he was lying.

"Bang."

The slight sound was particularly noticeable in the quiet kitchen, and at first glance, it was the photo frame that Aunt Leqin had been holding in her hand and fell to the ground.

I went to pick it up, and as I thought, it was a photo of Le Yan in the frame, but in the photo, there were many stitches!

If you don't know this, you still think that the person in the photo has a grudge against Aunt Leqin, Aunt Leqin loves her daughter so much, how could she do such a thing?

I thought so much that I subconsciously wanted to pull out the needle, but I was held down by the poet.

"Don't move these needles, there are soul fragments imprisoned in the frame, you have to just use the needles, it will destroy the soul fragments.

Soul fragments are related to the integrity of a soul, and the absence of soul fragments may make the original soul lose its memory, lose its emotions, and may even be muted because of this, and in the most serious case, it will be wiped out.

I quickly put my hand back.

"It can't be Xiao Yan's soul, right?" Pei Xin exclaimed and interjected.

But what she said is indeed very likely, this is a photo of Le Yan, and she was held in her arms by Aunt Le Qin, who could it be if it was not Le Yan's soul fragment.

"I heard that many people who raise ghosts will imprison the soul fragments of that ghost and then drive that ghost." After Pei Xin finished speaking, he covered his mouth in shock, "Isn't it, Auntie really knows evil magic and raises ghosts?" Or is it your own daughter? No wonder, no wonder after she warned me when I refused to show up, I was blocked in the dormitory by Xiao Yan! Otherwise, it's been a year, why did Xiao Yan come to me now? ”

Like, that's all that can be explained?

But I looked at Aunt Leqin, who was faint on the ground, very thin, and her hair was half white, and I didn't want to accept such a statement.

I always felt like I was missing something.

However, Qiu Shiren did not have any refutation of what Pei Xin said, he only carried Aunt Leqin back to the room, put her on the bed and lay down, and then asked us to open the window, and he walked around the room by himself, finding a few "out of place" things and destroying them.

It's really not an illusion, when these are dealt with, the air in the room becomes much better, and it is no longer so shady and cool, and the afternoon sun shines in from outside, bringing long-lost warmth to this long-closed room.

As for the photo frame, he put it next to Aunt Leqin's pillow, saying that he had a friend named Xia Zuo, who was a person from a special department under the Yin-Yang Management Bureau, and the things he used to deal with Leqin before were given by this friend, and Leqin had to accept the investigation of the Yin-Yang Administration, and the photo frame, as well as the original soul of Le Yan hidden somewhere, were all evidence, and could not be easily destroyed or dealt with privately.

What's more, he had only practiced for a short period of time, and he knew a little bit about charms and home remedies, so he didn't know how to deal with the soul, and he didn't dare to rashly touch the imprisoned soul fragments, so he had to leave it to a professional to deal with.

I saw him talking seriously and panicked, dumbfounded.

Whoever marries him in the future will definitely be stunned by him and give him the money to sell his body.

However, although I don't know why he lied like this, after he gave me a warning look, I obediently closed my mouth, glad that when I introduced him to Pei Xin last night, I only said that he knew a little bit about this business, and didn't say anything that shouldn't be said.

Aunt Leqin was still sleeping, and I was a little worried: "She's okay, right?" ”

Qiu Shiren gave her pulse, doing their business, it seems that he knows how to order Chinese medicine, his fingers brushed the bracelet of the young woman, put it on the pulse, and shook his head slightly: "Not optimistic, the filth is too damaging to the body." ”