Chapter 158: Astringent Fruit
After getting Murong Cao's permission, Yang Muqing took out the drawing board from his backpack and turned out the portraits he had already drawn several times.
From a dark shadow in the first one, to a clear and recognizable one in the most recent one.
The woman in the portrait is very young, even a little too young, she looks definitely no more than twenty years old, with apricot eyes and a small mouth, peach cheeks and pink face, and black hair to her waist, she is a beauty with a bit of classical temperament, but it is a pity that the whole person looks ghostly and terrifying.
"Do you know who this woman is?"
Yang Muqing depicts the female ghost who exists behind Xu Qiyao like a shadow, and over the past few months, its face has become clearer and clearer, and the evil qi has become stronger, others can't see the abnormality, but Yang Muqing can see that Li Hang and Xu Qiyao have been affected a lot, and they must have been insomnia and dreams recently, and their bodies are weak and tired.
Murong Cao didn't rush to answer, but drank the coffee in the cup one by one, and finally licked his lips unsatisfied.
"I know her, but how do you know her?"
According to the time Yang Muqing has known Li Hang, it is impossible for him to see her, and it is impossible for Li Hang to talk about her to others.
"She's dead, isn't she?"
Yang Muqing added a few strokes to the portrait, and the woman's head in the painting suddenly had a big blood hole.
"Oh yes, when did you meet her all those years ago?"
So that's the case, she actually forgot the fact that Yang Muqing can see ghosts just now, people die as ghosts, he may indeed have seen them.
"Do you remember when I told you that Xu Qiyao had a symbiotic being? It's this woman. ”
Murong Cao recalled carefully for a long time, and finally regained some memory of this topic.
"Like...... I remember, but you seemed to say that the symbiote wasn't harmful, so I didn't pay much attention to it. ”
"Now that things have deteriorated, I feel like the symbiote has a strong sense of self and even wants to take its place."
Yang Muqing paused, leaning forward slightly, allowing Murong Cao to see the portrait more clearly.
"I need to know everything about this female ghost so I can know what to do with it."
"Her name is Xu Xiaoru, and she is a senior in high school who worked as a tutor during her senior brother's college years, and later committed suicide."
Murong Cao first concisely and concisely clarified the relationship between the two, and then told the past, although this matter has been a long time, but Li Hang has been low for a long time, and he has drunk countless times for her, she can't remember it or not.
Li Hang's family background is not good, and during college, he used his spare time to work several jobs at the same time, working as a waiter in a restaurant, working as an assistant in the school's psychological counseling room, and working as a tutor...... As long as it does not affect the work of normal studies, he will not refuse to come. Later, due to introduction, he became Xu Xiaoru's tutor, tutoring her in geography and mathematics.
Xu Xiaoru is an artistic student, learning dance, looking very beautiful, growing up in a single-parent family, with a more introverted personality, although his academic performance is not good, and he is not fast to learn things, but the advantage is that he has a good learning attitude, and he is more willing to work hard, plus Xu Xiaoru's father gives a good salary, Li Hang teaches more attentively, and the two have become more and more familiar, and Xu Xiaoru's grades have also improved.
It was supposed to be a happy ending, but an accidental fall made Li Hang find that Xu Xiaoru's legs had traces of self-harm, and then happened to see her with a strange expression to cut live insects with a knife, out of the instinct of a psychology student, he guessed that Xu Xiaoru had some kind of psychological disorder, and mustered up the courage to mention it to her father once, but it was not taken seriously, Xu Xiaoru's father couldn't believe that his innocent and kind daughter had a dark side of psychology anyway.
Li Hang sympathized with Xu Xiaoru very much and wanted to do something for her, so he used the convenience of tutoring to give her some superficial psychological counseling by the way, but Li Hang did not have much experience in psychological counseling after all, and the efforts he made did not achieve the expected results, but Xu Xiaoru realized that Li Hang was kind to her and had a strong dependence on him beyond the teacher-student relationship.
Later, tragedy quietly happened, on the hottest day of the summer vacation after the end of tutoring, Li Xuanzheng was walking with his new girlfriend on campus, and was almost hit by an object that fell from a height - this object was Xu Xiaoru, who committed suicide and jumped off the building.
Xu Xiaoru held a blood-soaked love letter to Li Hang in her hand, her broken face was facing Li Hang, her eyes were wide open, and she didn't blink to death.
Xu Xiaoru left this world like this, leaving behind her almost crazy father and Li Hang, who fell into infinite self-blame.
Sadly and lamentablely, Xu Xiaoru did exceptionally well in the college entrance examination that year, especially in geography and mathematics.
In this incident, Li Hang was pushed to the forefront, and accusations from many parties poured in, especially some vicious rumors that did not know the truth, saying that he split his legs and caused his ex-girlfriend to commit suicide, and that he made students pregnant when he was a tutor......
If it weren't for Murong Cao and Yan Xiuxiu staying by Li Hang's side at that time, he wouldn't have chosen to suspend his studies, and even fainted to pay for his life.
However, time is a great author, ten years have passed, no matter how painful it was at the time, now looking back, Xu Xiaoru's three words, and even this person, have become pale images in memory, if you don't deliberately recall, you won't even remember it again.
"You say, did Li Hang like Xu Xiaoru?"
After listening to this heavy story, Yang Muqing suddenly came up with such a question, perhaps because he also sympathized with Xu Xiaoru's experience from the bottom of his heart, Li Hang is a good person and a capable person, but he may not be a good man, he knows that he has had a lot of girlfriends, and he has had more ambiguous experiences.
"Xu Xiaoru is indeed a special existence for Li Hang, except: liking."
Murong Cao suddenly wanted to smoke a cigarette, but remembered that the Soul Institute didn't have these things for a long time, so he had to throw a piece of candy and chew it in his mouth, diluting a trace of bitterness in his heart: "I know that Senior Brother, although others are a little scumbag, there are two basic principles in the matter of having a girlfriend: don't start with students, don't do with psychological counseling clients." Xu Xiaoru just fits both of these identities. ”
"I see."
Yang Muqing no longer had any doubts about this question, and began to think about the next question in front of him.
"Xu Xiaoru and Xu Qiyao, what is the relationship between them?"
"I really don't know about this, except for the surname Xu, it shouldn't have anything to do with it, right, it is estimated that Li Hang is not clear, unless it is an immediate family, otherwise he will not get to the bottom of it when he joins the company, ten years ago, Xu Qiyao was only twelve or thirteen years old, and he had nothing to do with Li Hang."
"They have a certain blood connection, otherwise they can't coexist, just check it out."
Yang Muqing was not surprised by Murong Cao's answer, he originally tried to ask.
"Symbiosis? Can you explain to me what 'symbiote' means? ”
For the sake of Li Hang's hospitality just now, Murong Cao decided to put his own affairs aside first and solve his problems first.
"The caster extracts the soul of the cultivation product and injects the remnant soul of the deceased, from then on, this remnant soul will coexist with the cultivation product to achieve the purpose of nourishing the soul, and will not enter reincarnation, if the cultivation is good, the remnant soul will even devour the consciousness of the cultivator, occupy her body and mind, and be reborn."