There was a strong smell of gasoline in the air, and when we ran over, the whole open space behind the factory was surrounded by flames, and the half-human-high weeds were burning, and no one could be seen, only the people inside could be heard shouting for help.

The fire was strangely fierce, and a gust of evil wind blew up, dragging the flames to sway, like a huge fiery serpent, spitting letters at us. Jiang Xun was afraid of fire, he had just experienced a fire during the day, and at this moment he stopped when he was just getting close to this scorching heat, and was illuminated by the fire, the heat wave was steaming, and he raised his hand to cover his face with his forearm.

"Ziwei!"

I took off the tart whip and stood in front of Jiang Xun, Zi Wei did not declare my meaning, pasted the prepared yellow talismans on both sides of the factory, and then went around into the factory, and turned out of the window on the other side, ready to answer.

"The green dragon and white tiger are divided into two ends, the punishment of crime drives the body to protect the Dan Yuan, the evil ghosts are filthy and the ghosts are scattered, and the divine power and the spirit are safe and sound."

I drew a long spell in front of the fire with the tart whip, and the last stroke fell, and I asked for a piece of talisman paper, and while throwing it into the fire, I raised my hand and raised the tart whip to pierce it straight down.

"Broken!"

There was a piercing cry from the tongue of fire around me, and it took me a lot of strength to barely suppress the opposing force, and when all the flames gathered together, when they exploded in front of me, it was too late to retract and dodge, and I was about to block it, but there was an extra ice-blue shield outside my body, blocking the invasion of the flames, and at the moment of collision, there was a crisp cracking sound, which quickly dissipated. In the grass beneath his feet, a layer of hoarfrost floated on the dry leaves.

I glanced back at Jiang Xun, paused, and said thank you to him with my mouth.

The power of the flame was not as great as I had imagined, it was more of a bluff, and after the burst, it scattered in all directions, breaking into small groups and jumping in different places.

I took off my coat to extinguish the rest of the fire, and I had not yet checked on the three children.

The flames only burned the withered grass around them, and the three of them huddled on the ground in a ball, as if they had been frightened, surrounded by scattered glutinous rice and gasoline bottles. Fortunately, the person was not injured, but he was so smoked that he couldn't open his eyes, and he kept covering his mouth and coughing.

"Ziwei, did you see anything just now?" I asked, walking to the other side where there was no obstruction.

Zi Wei shook his head, "The fire was too big at that time, and when I approached, I only felt a cold air passing by, but when I turned around, I didn't see anything." ”

Is it cold?

I thought in my heart, most ghosts are afraid of fire, if they come into contact with the upper body, they will only be scattered, but just now, it seems that this should not be a soul body, it can't be said to be completely harmless, but at least the glutinous rice and flames will not kill it, so I dare to fight with it.

So what is it exactly?

I looked along the grass behind me and found a pool of blood under the wall.

I followed out some distance and came to a tree, the blood was gone, I went around and saw a small hole in the tree where the trunk was buried by weeds.

The three children were completely speechless at this time, Ziwei and I helped people up, reluctantly asked their addresses, sent them home one by one, left the number of Ziwei's mobile phone, and told their parents to wait for someone to slow down and contact us again, seeing their suspicious looks, and did not explain too much.

We had little to gain from this trip, we had a night's rest, and the next morning I went to the hospital to see Qi Xiaowan, she still hadn't woken up, and through the window of the ward, I finally saw her mother, a very thin woman with a gray face.

She stayed by Qi Xiaowan's bedside, watching her wrist crying, rubbing the back of her hand from time to time, the person looked very unenergetic, Yin Tang was gray, her nerves were tense, and her expression was always panicked. Compared with Qi Xiaowan, her mother is more like a ghost.

I stood outside the door for a long time, until someone patted me from behind, turned around, and saw a middle-aged woman with a thermos bucket in her hand, and asked me, "Are you here to see Xiaowan?" Why don't you go in? ”

"I ...... Her mom was here, and I was afraid to disturb them. I pretended to be calm and said.

"Yuying has been keeping watch here all night, alas, why can't Xiaowan think about it like this, how big a matter can't be solved properly, so he has to do such an extreme thing." After the woman finished her mourning, she asked me, "Are you Xiaowan's teacher?" ”

"It's not." I was silent and lied: "I'm the sister of Xiaowan's good friend, and I came to see my sister when I heard that she was hospitalized." ”

She sighed, and the two of us sat down in the seats in the hallway outside the door, and I asked her, "Are you familiar with Xiaowan's family?" ”

"We've lived door-to-door for decades, and I've watched Xiaowan grow up since I was born, isn't it familiar."

"Then Xiaowan has nothing abnormal when she goes home these days, why did she suddenly ......?"

I didn't finish speaking, the other party sighed again, and said: "Their family situation is more special, Xiaowan and his father had an affair a few years ago, and owed a fart debt outside, at that time, people came to the door every day to make trouble, and their husband and wife quarreled every day, and then the man jumped from the upstairs to commit suicide, leaving this hard-working mother." Xiaowan, this child has been sensible since she was a child, Yuying wants to make money, she is not at home day and night, Xiaowan lives in school most of the time, and I don't pay attention to anything wrong with her. It seems that there was a time, about two months ago, when I went out to meet her, she was very scared, her body was injured, half of her face was swollen, and the corners of her mouth were cracked. I also want to talk to Yuying, let her accompany Xiaowan more, this has been busy and has not had a chance, who knew that Xiaowan would do such a stupid thing now. I think she must have been bullied by someone outside, Xiaowan, this child has a hard life, and in school, I also trouble you can let your sister play with her more, you can help her, I have never heard her talk about her friends. ”

I nodded, and when she went in to deliver food, we went to the ward to look at Qi Xiaowan, and her mother looked at me with vigilance, as if she had exposed my lies, making me feel like pins and needles under that gaze, and I felt hairy all over, so I made an excuse and left in a hurry.

On the third day after receiving a call from the parents of the other three people, we made an appointment to meet at the house of a boy named Li Kang.

"Excuse me, what shall we call you?" After taking our seats, someone looked at us and asked.

"My name is Shen Qing." I looked at Ziwei and said, "This is my brother, Shen Ziwei." ”

In the panic of the three children, the mother of the girl named Feng Yue said to me: "I don't hide it from you, my child has often encountered some strange things since more than a month ago, at the beginning he often lost some stationery and books, we didn't take it seriously, thinking that this child was too careless, and later found out that the new clothes I bought for her would have some more traces of moths and knives the next day, and there were always dead animal carcasses in drawers and wardrobes, frogs, birds, loaches and fish, Several times I also caught live earthworms under the pillow. ”

"Yes, so are my children." Another said, "I thought it was a prank, but lately, it's been getting more and more frequent." ”

"I was lucky to have met you yesterday, otherwise we wouldn't have imagined what would have happened."

"I heard that two of Yueyue's classmates, now a girl just cut her wrist in the toilet, and the other boy rolled down the stairs the next day and broke his leg, I plan to transfer Yueyue to another school, is there a problem with the school's feng shui?"

Feng Yue's mother took out an envelope from her bag, put it on the table in front of me, and said, "Two masters, how do you think we are going to solve this matter?" As long as the child is safe, we can spend as much as we want. ”

"We have to talk about remuneration, and we will wait until the matter is resolved." I looked at the three children and asked the parents, "Can I talk to them individually?" ”

Ziwei stayed to listen to the parents, and I went with them to Li Kang's bedroom to check on some of his damaged clothes, and threw them in a paper bag, which was still damp when I took it out.

"Why did you go to that factory that night?" I asked them.

Feng Yue and another boy named Gao Yang both looked at Li Kang and muttered twice, and finally Li Kang opened his mouth and said to me, "We received a note that asked us to go." ”

He opened the drawer, pulled out a crumpled page of paper and handed it to me, "This is it." ”

Above it is two lines of fine letters, which read: "Tomorrow is waiting for the old place, there is a wrong, there is a debtor, I am willing to come here to settle the settlement, and the grievances will be repaid." If you don't see anyone, you will be found, and your life will not be long. ”

"There is a wrong, and there is a debtor?" I looked at them with a single eye, "What did you do?" ”

Li Kang swallowed his saliva and said: "Actually, no matter what happened to the three of us, it was Zhou Fang and Qi Xiaowan, it was the two of them who knocked over other people's sacrifices, and we had already advised them not to do that, but the two of them didn't believe that there were ghosts in this world, and they offended the owners of those sacrifices despite our obstruction." ”

"Sacrifices?"

"There was a lot of paper money there, and there was a bowl of rice and some fruit, and it looked like someone was there to pay tribute to the dead." Li Kang said: "Now that Qi Xiaowan has committed suicide and Li Kang has also broken a leg, it should have ended a long time ago, and we obviously didn't do anything." ”

"Do you five have a good relationship?" I asked.

Feng Yue nodded, glanced at me, and said softly, "Xiaowan and I are best friends, and we often play together." ”

I nodded, gave each of the three of them an amulet, to carry it with them, to take it out if they were in danger, and told them not to be alone, especially at night, not to go out as much as possible, not to provoke anything, and not to do anything like what happened in the factory that day.

Back at the residence, Tang Jiao ordered takeout and was holding a boxed lunch for lunch, Jiang Xun looked bad, sat on the sofa with his eyes closed, and fell asleep.

"Hey, you're back." Tang Kari swallowed a mouthful of rice and beckoned us, "Come and try it, this Beijing-sauce shredded pork is amazing, it's so delicious!" ”

He pushed the burrito over, I washed my hands, sat down to look at Jiang Xun, and asked Tang Jiao in a low voice, "Is he asleep?" ”

"Nope." Jiang Xun suddenly spoke, leaned over and took a sip of water from the water cup in front of me.

“…… Do you eat together? ”

"Leave him alone, he grew up drinking dew, and his mouth is very tricky." Tang Jiao finished chewing the rice in his mouth and asked me and Ziwei: "How are you doing today?" ”

I shook my head and asked Ziwei to tell them what had happened, Tang Jiao shuddered after hearing this, and asked, "What are these children doing in that kind of place?" ”

I was helpless, "I heard that it was haunted, and I said I wanted to find excitement." ”

Jiang Xun laughed beside him, "Now like this, is it exciting?" ”

"Anyway, let's find a way to solve the problem first."

"Shen Qing." Jiang Xun leaned on the back of the sofa and said with a cool smile: "If I were you, I wouldn't care about this matter anymore." ”

"Why?"

"The premise for you to help someone is that person trusts you and can be honest with you." He put the glass down and said, "And they're still lying to all of you." ”