Chapter 174: Hidden Witness
"The Ghost Domain didn't exist before." Henggu paced through the inn in wonder, "And how do they exorcise ghosts every time?"
"What do you care? This time it's up to them, this time there is a ghost domain, then we have to help them." Ning Suhe squinted his eyes and looked at Heng Gu, "Maybe it was you who meddled in your business to help Cheng Hengchuan chase the thief, which changed everything."
"Me?" Henggu pointed to the tip of his nose, "How can I change this kind of big event when I meet him."
Ninshin Nahan said, "What did that change? Is it because of me?"
Linghua was replying to the transmission note from Cheng Hengchuan, and after thinking about the wording, he still chose a moderate tone: Girl, have you encountered any difficulties? I'm just a girl, I don't know how I can help you.
The transmission note sounded, and she thought about the words of Henggu and Ning Suhe.
In Yang Xichi's letter, it was stated that there had never been a situation where Bihu and Cheng Hengchuan were trapped in the ghost domain before, and the entire process could not be written down in the transmission note, and the specific matters could only be discussed with Yang Xichi.
And what is the reason for this change? Is there any difference between this time and the last time?
The first is that Linghua, Heng Gu and Ning Suhe have the memory of time back, and the second is that they have recovered the two broken mirrors in advance......
Yes, their cause and effect have changed dramatically. Although the remnant mirror has been collecting, the timing is not right, some things have been done, some things have not been done, and even some have been done more.
It seems that because of their changes, everything is changing, and the initiator of everything is themselves.
In this way, it is not to look for changes from last time, but that things are completely different from last time!
From the moment they knew that time had been reversed, maybe everything would be different this time than every previous one.
If you don't want to repeat the mistakes of the past, you have to change everything.
"This time the cause and effect have changed, so everything will start all over again." Linghua grasped the transmission note, "Then whether we can save them is the first key."
Cheng Hengchuan's message came again, and it politely wrote that she was invited to investigate the butcher shop Boss Xing and Zheng Leshi, and told them to believe in themselves.
"It's a good thing they ran into us, otherwise who would have believed such a mysterious thing." Ning Suhe shook the notes, and the words on it were gone.
Linghua took the rune paper, picked up the pen and wrote down the reply with spiritual power, and then analyzed: "Now that the situation is imminent, who is more suspicious among the people that Cheng Hengchuan suspects?"
"I think it's Master Zheng. When he mentioned the cause of Liuqin's death, he had an indescribable strangeness, and he didn't know whether he was telling the truth or not." Ning Suhe sat down on the table, bowed his head and said to Linghua, "Also, I think he's pretending to be sick."
"It's also possible that he is indeed sick at this juncture, and I think he is coughing and choking, and he must have a throat problem. Besides, he is so old, he shouldn't deceive people about his body." Heng Gu looked at Linghua, "On the contrary, Boss Xing's eyes dodged, obviously there was a ghost in his heart."
"Just see who it is." Linghua said and put together the heart mirror.
Heng Gu came over and pressed her hand: "Don't look at it, I've been watching it for several days, and if you look at the things of nearly a hundred years ago, you will be spiritually deficient!"
He opened the broken mirror and put it back into the box: "If you want to know what they are hiding, I will know it when I try it, and you don't have to waste your spiritual power."
"It's fine." She replied lightly, "We'll explore after dawn."
The first morning light of Peach Blossom Village fell on them, and the three of them left the inn.
At this time, there were already street vendors on the street who were setting up stalls one after another to buy breakfast, which was mixed with an unfit meat stall, and a young man in ragged clothes about one or twenty years old squatted in front of the stall, bowing his head and eyes as if he had not woken up.
Linghua remembered that Boss Xing's family was the only one in the raw meat business in Peach Blossom Village, so he went up and said, "Little brother came out of the stall so early?"
The young man half-opened one eye, and when he saw clearly that the person in front of him was graceful and graceful, and the clothes and materials were not comparable to ordinary people, he stood up suddenly: "What kind of meat did Miss buy? There are pork ribs, pork heads, and pig's feet."
Linghua Yanran laughed, "Are you a buddy of the Xing family?"
The young man crouched down again, avoiding her eyes: "No, no, no!"
"I'm a foreigner, and I'm here to enjoy the cherry blossoms, so it's best to ask some strange things in my life." She also crouched down and pulled out a small piece of silver and stuffed it into his hand, "Just tell me about it."
The young man looked at the money in his hand in a daze, slapped his thigh and stuffed the silver into the waistband of his trousers: "Don't say what I said."
Linghua immediately asked, "Does Boss Xing know some secrets about Liuqin Master?"
"Lythier?" The young man thought about it for a long time, "The boss knows some secrets, but I don't know if it's the liuqin master that the young lady said.
That day, I wanted to go to the boss's house to steal some pieces of meat and cook it at home, but I accidentally heard the boss lady and Boss Xing arguing. The proprietress said, "If you don't see this thing, you will hold it for the rest of your life," and the boss replied, "I can't let anyone know about it."
When Henggu heard this, he also squatted down beside the young man and asked, "Do you know what they saw?"
"Don't say what I said, or I'll be done with my life." After the three people before he met made assurances, he said in a voice like a mosquito, "Boss Xing, his grandfather, saw someone come to his yard one night to do something, and then the next day it was haunted."
Linghua gasped without a trace, and asked with a slight glare in his eyes, "Who did they say?"
The young man hurriedly waved his hand, "I don't know about this, and after they finished speaking, they began to talk about something else."
Linghua thanked him and hurriedly walked towards Boss Xing's residence with the two of them.
It was still Boss Xing's wife who opened the door, and she glanced Linghua up and down: "What's the matter with the few?"
Heng Gu learned to become Heng Chuan's appearance and made a restrained gesture: "We are disciples from Qingyou Sect who came to help, and we still have some questions I want to ask Boss Xing."
Mrs. Xing nodded and invited the three of them in.
After stiffly saluting, Boss Xing sat upright, picked up the teacup with trembling hands and took a sip: "I don't know if there is anything else you want to ask?"
"It's just that there are still some details I want to confirm with Boss Xing." Linghua looked at him with a smile, "Do you know Master Liuqin?"
"I really don't know!" Boss Xing spread his hands, and then rubbed his thighs, "I don't know why you all ask me Liuqin Master, I really don't know this person!" It's been seventy or eighty years, but it's just ......."
As if he had lost his words, he quickly covered his mouth and smiled awkwardly, "It's just that I was too impatient to speak just now."
Linghua's gaze was fixed on him, "I just heard your grandfather say that he saw something in the night, right?"
Boss Xing was shocked when he heard this, he half-stood up, pointed at Linghua and shouted, "What did you say!"
"Did your grandfather see anything on the night he was killed?" Linghua stood up calmly and approached Boss Xing step by step, "Who is the person who broke into your yard?"
"I, I don't know......" Boss Xing turned his head unnaturally under Linghua's gaze, he turned to look sideways at his wife, but Mrs. Xing flicked her handkerchief impatiently.
Heng Gu also got up and walked to his side and patted Boss Xing on the shoulder, "Didn't you always want to get rid of him forever? Only by telling the truth can we know what the crux of the problem is, otherwise how can we exorcise demons?"
Ning Suhe also chimed in: "Yes, the failure of the exorcism will be counterattacked, and maybe it will provoke his malice and come out at night to kill you all."
Boss Xing was frightened: "I said, I said it's not okay?"
He sat down and took another sip of tea: "Our Xing family has been honest for generations, but people are good at being bullied, horses are good at being ridden, and my grandfather sees it and treats it as if he doesn't see it, so he is afraid that it will be difficult to do business if he gets angry.
didn't expect that this time it would be on himself. Grandpa said that he drank too much wine that night, and he always wanted to go out at night, but it was cold, and he was too lazy to go out, so he hesitated to see a man sneaking into the pigsty.
At that time, the pigsty has now become a broken grass, and after the haunting, my grandfather moved away and never dared to go back to see it......
Mrs. Xing smacked her lips impatiently: "Let you talk about that night, you are talking about it again."
"Oh, yes, yes." Boss Xing Nuo Nuo said yes, and then said, "Listen to grandpa's tone, the man is sneaky, at first grandpa thought he was here to steal pigs, and he was about to go out to theorize, but by moonlight, grandpa saw that the man had an axe in his hand.
Naturally, he was very afraid, for fear that this man had come to kill him. But the man was wearing a big black dress and his back was bent, and it was so late that he couldn't see his figure and appearance at all.
Then the man crouched down, not knowing what to do, and left after a long time. It was too dark, and the pigsty wasn't too close, and Grandpa couldn't see what the man had done.
Early the next morning, Grandpa went out and went around the pigsty, and there was not a single pig, not even injured. I checked the belongings at home again, and there was not a penny less.
I don't know what the man in black came to do, and the pigsty is the same as usual, and there is nothing special. Grandpa was afraid that he would see something unclean, and he didn't dare to make a noise about it, for fear of attracting something unclean.
The next night it was haunted, and suddenly there was a sound of playing the piano in the middle of the night, and my grandfather looked around and didn't see who it was, and then the sound got louder and louder, and the neighbors all knew about it, and my Xing family was also getting more and more excluded in Taohua Village."
Mrs. Xing was also very excited when she heard this, she was extremely aggrieved with tears in her eyes, and fell to her knees with a thud: "Our Xing family doesn't owe anyone in Peach Blossom Village, it's only that ghost who has to come to my house, what can we do." Living such a cautious life every day and night, he didn't dare to step out of the door, for fear of offending anyone. Ladies and gentlemen, you are doing well, hurry up and drive this demon away and correct our name!"
Linghua was startled when she said that she knocked her head on the ground, and hurriedly stepped forward to help her up, and said in a soft tone, "Madam Xing, after this conversation, we already know that you are not guilty, please rest assured."
Mrs. Xing nodded and smiled in relief, and held Linghua's hand tightly as if she was grasping a life-saving straw: "Thank you, thank you, whether the old Xing family can see the light of day again in the future depends on you."
She wiped the tears on her face and smiled: "I really want to suffocate to death, just such a thing, grandpa passed on Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu passed on grandson, if you don't come, he still wants to pass on to our children, it's too honest and too good."
Boss Xing was quite faceless, and secretly pushed her with his elbow: "Don't say it."
"Boss Xing, although the words have been spoken, I still have some uncertainty." Heng Gu was still polite, "Since you don't know Master Liuqin, why do you want to dodge with words, I almost misunderstood you."
"This ......," Boss Xing scratched his cheeks, "At the beginning, when the immortal who brought a girl came to mention Qin Sheng and Liuqin, I thought that he might be the haunter, but I was scared, and I didn't dare to say that grandpa saw this, so it was a little strange."
Heng Gu accepted this statement: "I understand, thank you Boss Xing for your cooperation."