The office on the second floor, according to my request, was restored as much as possible, but there was still a smell of paint that had not yet dissipated, and although I had kept the windows open for ventilation, it was not very effective.

The old knife took a few minutes to explain the situation to me, and I listened patiently, my brow already furrowed.

After the old knife finished speaking, I looked at Yu Wei and asked, "You said you have seen my blood jade?" ”

Yu Wei had calmed down at this time, and she replied in a very affirmative tone: "Yes." ”

"What does it look like?"

The old knife interjected: "Didn't I already-" just now—"

"I want to hear Miss Yu say it herself." I interrupted the old knife.

The old knife opened his mouth and took a deep breath: "Do you think I was carried away by love and lost my basic judgment?" Okay, I totally understand your reaction – I was too surprised at first – but in the end, you'll believe it's true, because there's no doubt about it. He shrugged his shoulders and said let me ask whatever questions I wanted.

"Thank you." I understand what Lao Dao meant, he thinks I don't trust him, but I have to maintain my principles, and I can't give up the basic principles and methods of doing things just because he is someone close to me, which is disrespectful to the truth, and can also lead to serious consequences that are completely unexpected.

Under the gaze of me and Lao Dao, Yu Wei spoke: "That's right, when I saw 'that thing'—you call it 'Blood Jade'—I was still young, probably only seven or eight years old, but my memory is very clear, because that thing is really too strange......

Yu Wei said that it was the first time for her. The only time she saw "Blood Jade" was on her grandmother's wake.

Because the funeral is after the vigil, the adults send the children to bed early, but Yu Wei and her grandmother have a good relationship, although she didn't quite understand what "death" was at the time, but she roughly guessed that she would never see her grandmother again.

Therefore, Yu Wei wanted to be with her grandmother more, she thought - grandmother likes herself the most, if she can't see herself again in the future, grandmother will be sad, right?

At the Chinese New Year's Eve same time last year, my grandmother was not seriously ill, so she often held herself on the old rattan chair, basking in the warm golden sun of the winter afternoon, and told her old stories while drowsy, and when Yu Wei slept until three or four o'clock in the afternoon and woke up, her grandmother had prepared refreshments and hot towels...... What a warm memory it was.

The coffin was placed in the ancestral house in the village, but unexpectedly, when Yu Wei quietly came to the ancestral house, the adults who were supposed to be guarding the spirit here, including the mages who were doing the work, were all gone, and all the electric lights were turned off, only the hall where the coffin was placed, faintly revealing the flickering candlelight.

Yu Wei didn't dare to enter the house, only lay on the ground, sticking out half of her head from the corner of the door.

Then she saw "the thing."

A translucent square stone-like object with a red glow like a mist was held in the palm of the hand by a mother dressed in sackcloth, and the red light diffused in the air, faintly forming the appearance of four characters.

Mother whispered, "Mom, once you are registered, you can go to where my father is." ”

After saying this, a miserable white hand suddenly poked out of the coffin and pressed on the "thing" in the palm of the mother's hand!

That's grandmother's hand!

The hands of the grandmother who has died.

Yu Wei, who was only seven or eight years old at the time, inexplicably felt an indescribable fear, she covered her mouth tightly and held down the screams.

Immediately afterward, an even more terrifying scene happened-

From the grandmother's body, like an afterimage in a photograph, another silhouette of a human figure was detached—it is difficult to describe the exact shape or appearance—it resembled a colorless cloud of smoke, or a ray of light refracted through polyhedral glass......

The silhouette of that humanoid figure was exactly the same as Yu Wei's grandmother.

After many years, Yu Wei realized that what she saw back then might be the so-called "soul"?

Grandmother's soul floated into the air, and Yu Wei even saw that her grandmother seemed to have discovered herself and showed a smile to herself—as if she was basking in the warm winter sun after taking a lunch break, and opened her eyes to see her smiling grandmother, as before.

But in the next moment, Grandmother's soul twisted into a terrifying pattern, and then formed a whirlpool, which was sucked into "that thing".

This scene reminded Yu Wei of a horror illustration book called "Junji Ito's Monster World" that she secretly flipped through from her study, and the illustrations on it were Yu Wei's eternal childhood shadows.

The soul was soon absorbed into "that thing", and the white hand that grandmother had poked out of the coffin fell abruptly and slammed on the coffin board with a heart-palpitating sound.

Yu Wei stiffened all over, cold sweat broke out, but she still held on, quietly slipped out of the ancestral house, and then fled all the way into her room, covered her head and got into the quilt, feeling the whole world trembling.

The next day, Yu Wei had a high fever and fell into a coma several times.

By the time she recovered, her grandmother's funeral had long since ended, and she was later taken to her aunt's home for adoption.

Because...... After Yu Wei's grandmother died, she was left with no one to take care of her.

Yu Wei's biological parents, two years ago, died in a serious car accident - there were four people in the car at the time, Yu Wei's parents, Yu Wei, and Yu Wei's twin sister, Yu Qiang.

In that car accident, only one person survived, and that was Yu Wei.

"Rose?"

"Yes. My grandmother said that my mother was very fond of roses, and in the Book of Songs, Zhou Nan, there was a "What is the difference?" Tang Di Zhihua's poem, the poem compares the married princess to Tang Di flower, that is, the rose flower, so my mother named our sisters as roses, which is to regard our sisters as their cherished princess...... It's a pity ......"

"You are still a princess in my eyes now." The old knife interjected again.

Yu Wei's face was slightly red, and she was even more delicate, while I was fed a mouthful of dog food.

I could only pretend not to hear the old knife's meaty words, and continued to ask: "Since your parents have ...... because of that car accident, How can you still see your mother on Grandmother's vigil? ”

Yu Wei sighed lightly: "Since I was a child, no one believed in my story, even I almost thought that this experience when I was a child was actually just a nightmare. Until I met the old knife ......"

I understand.

From Lao Dao, Yu Wei learned the key evidence that confirmed her experience—the piece of blood jade hanging on my chest.

But why such a coincidence?

I don't believe in coincidences, all accidents are predestined inevitability, but they have been disguised in some way to make it look like an accident.

I looked at Yu Wei and made no secret of the doubt in my eyes.

Facing my questioning gaze, Yu Wei's eyes did not have the meaning of dodging: "I know you must be puzzled, in order to prove that I am not deliberately making up a lie for other reasons, I haven't told Lao Dao at that time, when I saw 'that thing' in my mother's hand, the red smoke that filled it, and formed four words in the air." ”

The old knife said: "Wei Wei really didn't tell me, and I never told her the details about your piece of blood jade. ”

I directly filtered the "Weiwei" in the old knife's mouth, and I felt that I was about to be emptied by his affection.

"So, what exactly are those four words?"

Yu Wei said word by word: "Yin, underworld, blood, nationality." ”

These four words, the weight of the words are more than a thousand pounds, as if they directly penetrated the air and knocked into my heart!

Although I was mentally prepared, I looked at Lao Dao and saw shock in each other's eyes.

The old knife exhaled: "Aji, there is no problem, right?" Take it out. ”

I believe that Lao Dao will never deceive me, and Yu Wei has indeed proved herself, so I have no reason to shirk.

I nodded, took the blood jade directly off my neck, and handed it to Yu Wei.

As soon as the blood jade saw the light, it faintly revealed a trace of blood-colored light, as if a thick layer of red mist was covered on the surface.

Yu Wei took the blood jade with trembling hands almost tremblingly, and there was an indescribably complex expression on her face—I had never found such a strange expression on other people's faces—surprise and fear, superimposed on each other, forming a synthesis.

The muscles of Yu Wei's face twitched, and the corners of her mouth curled, as if she was smiling, but tears flowed from her eyes.

At this moment, Yu Wei's beauty seemed to be erased by some kind of signal blocking device, and I looked at her face, and suddenly felt a trace of horror creeping up my back.

"That's what it was...... The words on it are indeed 'Yin Blood'......" Yu Wei's voice trembled, almost incoherent, and finally she asked me, "My grandmother, and maybe my mother, are their souls really here?" ”

I was silent for a moment, but I still told the truth: "There are still many unsolved mysteries about this piece of blood jade. So, I don't know the answer to this question either. ”

Yu Wei looked at the blood jade in her hand for a while, and then as if she had made up her mind, she resolutely handed it back to me.

Then, she turned her head and threw herself into the arms of the old knife, her shoulders swaying, and let out a suppressed cry.

I put the blood jade back on, then silently turned and walked out of the room, making room for them.

About five minutes later, Yu Wei and Lao Dao also walked out of my office.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Ji - I mean, it's so much trouble for you to make such an excessive request when we first met. It's just that when I knew from the old knife's mouth that the blood jade engraved with the words 'Yin and Soul Blood' really existed in the world, my excitement and curiosity really couldn't be controlled......" Yu Wei's eyes were still red, and her face was simply touched up, and there were no tears to be seen.

I shook my hand and said, "Please don't say that." I understand your feelings, after all, this is related to an important suspenseful event that happened in your childhood, and if it were me, I am afraid it would be difficult to control myself. ”

"Thanks, I don't know how to say thank you...... I'm sorry, I'm still a little flustered right now, anyway...... Thank you so much! ”

Yu Wei even bowed to me slightly, and I hurriedly stopped her: "I can't help it, it's not so serious." ”

"It's really a very important thing for me. You've helped me identify my memories, almost as much as I was able to get back to that time of my childhood. Before that, I almost thought of it as a bizarre nightmare, like a story recorded in a picture book, and I had a sense of distance. I'm not even sure if what my aunts told me about my grandmother, my parents, my sister was true. ”

I nodded: "Helping people solve some puzzles that are difficult to answer in the pure field of science is the reason for the existence of my profession - with the friendship of the old knife, I can think of it as solving a commission, so Miss Yu, don't worry too much." Instead of saying thank you all the time, it is better to help me tell Lao Dao more, so that he can take care of my business more in the future, and help me bring some entrustment that can make money safely and steadily. ”

The old knife snorted: "Hey, Aji, what you mean is wrong...... When did I stop taking care of you, and every time I handed over the most expensive commission to you, okay? ”

"Well, it's the most troublesome at the same time."

"Why don't you bother me to do it for you?"

"Alright, old knife." Yu Wei lightly slapped the upper arm of the old knife and handed a coquettish look.

Lao Dao immediately softened by three points, and said to me: "Well, okay, Lao Tzu promises to give you more work to make money and not get tired in the future." ”

I snorted twice and accepted the promise of the old knife without any sincerity.

Through this incident, Yu Wei and I are a little familiar with each other, so there is no need for me to shirk her birthday dinner.

I only changed my clothes, and set off with Lao Dao and Yu Wei.

The address of the dinner was in one of Yu Wei's villas.

Yu Wei's husband's family is a business family, although it is not a family of giants, but since his great-grandfather, he has made a name for himself in Jinguan City, and it has been passed on to this generation, which can be regarded as a blue, and he founded the Supal Group, which is very influential in the entire Jinguan City.

When Yu Wei got married, she had just turned twenty-two years old, and her husband was twenty-four years older than her.

Three years ago, Yu Wei's husband died of a sudden illness, because the couple had no children, she not only inherited all the family property, but also inherited the position of chairman of the board of directors of Supal Group, which has a total asset of 1.7 billion.

Xu Wei's villa is located in the southern suburbs of Jinguan City, named "Nanming Jinyuan", located on the edge of Qingxi, where it is the gathering place of the villa area of Jinguan City, with pleasant scenery and elegant environment, and it is a quiet resort in the middle of noisy.

The villa is very large, Yu Wei introduced that there are more than 600 square meters, and the decoration is not surprisingly magnificent, Yu Wei joked that this is her ex-husband's aesthetics, in fact, they have a deep estrangement in many places, or a generation gap, after all, their age is very different.

I don't know about Yu Wei, but Lao Dao is the kind of person who is very free and easy, he heard Yu Wei mention his ex-husband, and there was no uncomfortable expression on his face at all, in this villa that actually belonged to his girlfriend's ex-husband, he was not at all uncomfortable.

However, there is a strange thing - the people who attended Yu Wei's birthday dinner, in addition to the servants in the villa, were only me, Xu Wei and Lao Dao.

Yu Wei explained that a few years ago, her aunt also passed away, and her immediate relatives only left some descendants, none of whom lived in Jinguan City, so they did not come to participate;

As for the ex-husband's side...... Now their family sees themselves as enemies, saying that she killed her husband, but in fact, she is not coveting and jealous that she inherited her husband's inheritance, so under this relationship, even if Yu Wei sends an invitation, in the eyes of others, it is tantamount to a provocation, why bother yourself?

In addition, Yu Wei said that she didn't have any friends, so she simply invited me and Lao Dao.

This reason, although somewhat bizarre, is also said in the past.

The banquet was not deserted because there were only three participants, there were no less than ten servants in the villa, and they were all young women, butterflies dressed like flowers, and all kinds of delicacies were served like flowing water, and in order to take care of our stomachs, each portion was very small, but the color and fragrance were excellent.

Yu Wei also seemed extremely happy, and frequently persuaded me and Lao Dao to drink, but I felt that there seemed to be a very special meaning in Yu Wei's smile.

Maybe it's because of today's experience?

I thought so and gave myself an explanation.