Ye Hong had a little stiff with his father's side, but this obviously did not affect his father's attitude towards Qiao Wei, it seemed that the Ye family had already identified this mixed-race boy as a son-in-law.

Although I have nothing to do with the Ye family at all, I still followed Ye Hong and Qiao Wei to worship the old man of the Ye family, but I don't need to change my mourning clothes.

After walking out of the hut for less than two minutes, we arrived at the old man's mourning hall.

The mourning hall is located in a tall and wide hall at the back of the mansion, and the door beam outside the hall is hung with couplets, and the plain white wreath extends from the mourning hall to the aisle outside the house, and the flowers on it are all real, which looks particularly decent. The coffin of the old man of the Ye family is placed in the middle of the mourning hall, and there is an incense burner at the feet of the old man, and there are three ** in front of the incense burner.

We went to the old man to put on incense, kowtowed, and then came to the family of the old man on the left side of the mourning hall.

The people of the Ye family are all wearing mourning clothes, and all the younger generations are men, but Ye Hong is the only girl, and I suddenly feel that her name may be taken from the meaning of "a little red in the ten thousand leaves".

Qiao Wei greeted the Ye family's family members one by one, and Zuihou came to a middle-aged man with a square face with a mustache and bowed politely, and then said, "Old man." This square-faced man is obviously Ye Hong's father.

Ye Hong's father nodded at Qiao Wei, then patted Qiao Wei's shoulder and said, "It's the road, how are your hands?" ”

Qiao Wei smiled ashamedly, shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter, it's all a small injury." ”

"Don't be too reluctant, if you have one in my place, you can say one, it's all your own family, you don't have to care about face or anything."

"It's really nothing, it's just a little contusion, this medicine feels quite effective, and now it doesn't hurt." Qiao Wei said.

"Well, that's good." Ye Hong's father nodded, and then his expression suddenly became very serious and said, "I don't want to ask too much about the affairs between you young people, but there is one thing I have to remind you!" ”

"Yes, you say."

Ye Hong's father cleared his throat and said: "You also know that the Ye family has never given birth to a daughter since my generation, Ye Hong is also the only girl in the family, and Ye Hong's husband is also the first son-in-law of the Ye family in more than 50 years, you should know how heavy it is!" So you kid remembered it for me, if you have the opportunity to meet the young master of the Long family in the future, if you don't beat him all over the ground to find teeth, then you won't think about zaijian in the future, Ye Hong of our family, understand?! ”

Qiao Wei grinned after hearing this, "I know the old man!" Zaijian: I'm sure I'll blow his head off when that kid gets there! ”

"It's good, it's just to have this kind of momentum!" After speaking, Ye Hong's father actually showed a smile, and then patted Qiao Wei on the shoulder to show encouragement.

Before I met Ye Hong's father in person, I thought he would be a serious and even somewhat pedantic person, but the actual situation is obviously very different from what I thought! Ye Hong's father is very open-minded and very individual, and he seems to identify with Qiao Wei's son-in-law, feeling that he is a model of a good father.

After the greeting with Qiao Wei, Ye Hong's father also looked at me, and politely nodded at me and said, "Who is this?" ”

"This is my partner Thunder, a writer and detective." Qiao Wei made an introduction for me.

"Detective?" Ye Hong's father immediately put away his smile, and then looked me up and down with strange eyes.

I admit that Ye Hong's father gave me a very good first impression, but his eyes made me feel uncomfortable.

I coughed vigorously, and then said to Ye Hong's father: "Hello Uncle Ye, I am a friend of Qiao Wei and Ye Hong, and now I have partnered with Qiao Wei to open a detective agency, if you need us to help investigate some strange things, just ask, we promise to do our best!" For example, Old Man Ye ......"

"No need!!" Ye Hong's father directly interrupted my words, and then glared at Ye Hong.

"What doesn't have to be? I think it's necessary! If you don't want to tell me the truth, then I'll ask my master! Ye Hong stepped forward and stood in front of her father.

At this time, it was already dark, and the lights were lit up in the mourning hall, and the guests who came to mourn seemed to be almost gone, at least everyone else in the mourning hall except me was wearing mourning clothes, and it was estimated that they were all members of the Ye family. I guess Ye Hong has been waiting for the guests to leave before she argues with her father.

Ye Hong's father's face suddenly became super ugly, and he didn't care whether it was an outsider or not, he directly grabbed Ye Hong's arm, and then dragged her to the back of the hall. Ye Hong struggled back while yelling at her father, but her strength was obviously not as strong as her father, and Zuihou was dragged away by her father.

Ye Hong's mother may also be afraid that the father and daughter will quarrel again, so she quickly followed into the house and completely cooled Qiao Wei and me in the mourning hall.

Fortunately, the other relatives of the Ye family are also quite familiar with Qiao Wei and have something to say. We chatted casually with the others in the mourning hall, and then Ye Hong's uncle asked someone to arrange a guest room for me and Qiao Wei to rest temporarily.

The winter in the south made me very uncomfortable, especially the cold and cold in the house, and I felt that the cool breeze blew through the clothes, as if it was colder than the northeast. Qiao Wei is also a northerner, and he is not used to the weather in Ye Hong's hometown, so the two of us have been staying by the small fire when we arrived in the guest room.

Ye Hong finally came back at about seven o'clock in the evening, and looking at her puffed up, he knew that the negotiation must have failed.

After dinner, Qiao Wei and I went back to our respective rooms, and I got into the bed early—it was the warmest part of the room.

I had been lying down for less than five minutes when the door to my room suddenly opened and a figure flashed in.

I sat up vigilantly and shouted, "Who?!" ”

"Me!"

It was Qiao Wei who responded to me, and I always felt as if it had happened before.

"Why don't you roll the sheets with Ye Hong and run here?" I stinked on him.

"Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and get dressed and go to the mourning hall, Ye Hong wants to give her grandfather a soul."

"You're going to stop her?" I just felt a little warmer, and I really didn't want to get out because of Qiao Wei's words.

"It's not to stop, it's to help, someone is keeping a watch in the mourning hall, we have to go and lure people away."

"Are you sure?"

"Sure, hurry up!" Qiao Wei urged.

I reluctantly got out of the bed and quickly got dressed, and then followed Qiao Wei out of the room.

Ye Hong was not outside, Qiao Wei said that Ye Hong sent him a text message and made an appointment to act on time at half past nine in the evening. I looked at my watch, it was 9:15, and Qiao Wei and I still had fifteen minutes to prepare.

Qiao Wei and I sneaked out of the mourning hall. Guarding the mourning hall was a young man, probably Ye Hong's cousin.

I lowered my voice and asked Qiao Wei what he was going to do to lure the kid away.

Qiao Wei handed me the glass hourglass with his fire dog and said, "Later, I will use the blood doll to guide him to my side, and when he comes back, you will use the fire dog, you should remember the usage, right?" ”

"That's what you did? What if I don't remember? ”

"You must have remembered, you tried it once two days ago!"

Qiao Wei was right, I did remember how to summon the fire dog - all I needed to do was light a piece of talisman with a drawn soul summoning charm and recite a series of spells in my mind, but the spell was a little longer - I always wanted to find something to do on days when there was no business, and memorizing those lengthy spells was obviously a good way to kill time.

I took the hourglass and ran to the other side of the mourning hall, and then hid behind a gardening rockery in the courtyard, while Qiao Wei hid opposite me.

At half past nine, Qiao Wei summoned his blood doll out on time. The big-headed corpse jumping around in the courtyard quickly attracted the attention of the young man in the mourning hall, and he really ran out of the mourning hall to chase the blood doll.

At the same time that he had just walked out of the mourning hall, I also saw Ye Hong tiptoe into the mourning hall, and then began to stand in front of the coffin and pinch the mantra.

The watchdog ran out for about a minute and then came back, and I quickly summoned the fire dog out and asked the fire dog to run towards the fork in the road where I was, and led the fire guard boy to that side. When the guy was led out of the courtyard, I quickly put away the hourglass and quickly evacuated from the courtyard of the mourning hall.

When Qiao Wei and I returned to his room, Ye Hong was already in the house.

As soon as she saw the two of us coming in, she immediately frowned and said, "It's so strange, my grandfather's soul is gone!" ”