Du Zhengyi didn't tell Luo Qi where they were now, but Luo Qi didn't need to ask him, he only needed to take out his mobile phone and look at the map, he could know that they were in a coastal city not too far from home at the moment, and he could see that Du Zhengyi was driving the car to the beach. Look, this is human magic, how convenient, and there is no burden on the brain. By the way, he can also tell Du Zhengyi to say goodbye to a big straight road and drive forward, the front is congested, and the lines on the map are red to purple, don't you see?

When they reached the beach, it was already dark, and when Luo Qi followed Du Zhengyi up the hill along the road near the sea, there was a brightly lit city on the left and an endless ink on the right. The vast ocean, deprived of sunlight, is like an abyss of nothingness. Roach couldn't say whether he liked the sea or not. If the sea is intoxicating blue only when the sun shines, is the sea a dead pervert with a huge dark side? Oh, maybe it's a bit like Du Zhengyi, a man with marine attributes.

Luo Qi followed Du Zhengyi, "Can you read minds?" ”

"In principle, it can, but it doesn't have much practical value." Du Zhengyi said, "It takes a lot of energy, and it must also be a directional surface consciousness, that is to say, I must roughly know the scope of the other party's thinking, and the other party's thinking must also be simple and specific things." ”

Luo Qi was relieved a lot, and suddenly felt that the world was wide.

He followed Du Zhengyi into a shop by the sea, and when he entered the door, he didn't pay attention to the signboard because he was thinking about these chicken thieves. Behind the door is a very retro storefront, facing a marble screen, and under the walls on either side are shallow stone canals, where a few swimming fish are raised.

Bypassing the screen, there was a welcoming lady who walked away, a fairy-like girl, thin and small, with bright eyes, and a very dexterous way of walking. She wore a modified vintage dress with a diagonal collar and buttons, her hair parted in the middle and coiled symmetrically in two balls above her ears, with a red tassel hanging from behind one ear. Luo Qi's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but recite a sentence "Mulberry outside the swing daughter, bun double crow obliquely arranging flower branches". The girl really looked at him and smiled smartly, and Luo Qi was very energetic, thinking that he was really literate.

Coldly, Du Zhengyi slapped him on the back of the head, "Fox Immortal, follow the young lady." ”

Luo Qi's face turned red, and he followed the little girl with a double bun into the hall full of ancient charm, and was led to a pedestal surrounded by winding water with Du Zhengyi, on which four tables were placed, three of which had predetermined cards on them, and they sat down at the spare table.

Who knows that the crisis always appears when he is most paralyzed and careless, as soon as Du Zheng sat down, he ordered Tieguanyin, and he felt that something was wrong, but at this time it was too late to protest, and he couldn't raise his ass in front of the beautiful girl and said that he wouldn't eat and change shops. Men always have to reach a great age, go through many years, and pay a lot of price before they can learn to reject women, this sentence Roach does not know where to read it, and now he feels that it is particularly true.

He watched Du Zhengyi order some more food, this shop was undoubtedly going to kill him a lot of money tonight, but when he asked Luo Qi if he wanted to add something, Luo Qi didn't even have the desire to kill him. He thought for a moment, and with the last glimmer of hope, asked the girl, "Are there mooncakes with meat filling?" ”

Shuangya almost laughed, "I'm sorry sir, we don't have one here." ”

"Where's the meatloaf?"

"No, sir. We're here...... It's a teahouse. ”

"Shortbread with meat can also be considered a refreshment, right?"

The girl looked at him silently.

Roach sighed and waved his hand. Plates of delicate refreshments were soon placed on their tables, and Roach stared at these undesirable things and became angry, and the hungry old men could only want to eat meat at this time. "That's how you treat your mascot? Do you want me to bless you? I wondered, the afternoon tea house, the evening is still a tea house, you have grown up here, are you a teapot spirit? ”

"Isn't it enough for you to see a pretty young lady to soothe your soul?" Du Zhengyi said unhurriedly, pondering a plate of teacups and teacups.

"Can I eat her flesh?" Luo Qi snatched the teacup held by Du Zhengyi, set it up together, scalded it with hot water, and skillfully brewed kung fu tea.

"Work first, and I'll treat you to dinner when I'm done." Du Zhengyi comforted him and reached out to take a cup of tea.

"What do you do?" Luo Qi was stunned for a moment, and looked around, it was dinner time, and there were not many people in the teahouse. There are only a few scattered tables of people drinking tea and chatting, most of them are middle-aged and elderly people who have achieved some success in their careers, and most of the young people of mankind do not like this kind of place. The teahouse hired a young girl to play the guzheng in the middle of the lobby, looming behind a bogu frame. There is a corridor against the east wall, and there are some private rooms in it, so you can't see who is inside.

"Look at the one who plays the piano." Du Zhengyi whispered.

Roach moved, looking for a spot where the girl's face could be seen. The girl half-bowed her head, her eyebrows and eyes could not be seen clearly, but the light feeling still made him find a sense of familiarity in his memory. He looked at her for a while, and suddenly remembered who she was, she was one of the subjects of this investigation, and she cut off the pink hair at the ends, so that he didn't match it for a while.

"This isn't the ......" Roach thought for a moment, went to his pocket and took out his phone to flip through the information, "What's her name?" ”

"Guan Xinyue." Du Zhengyi said, "At the age of sixteen, he is a first-year high school student with a musical specialty. There is no mother in the family, and the family lives less than five kilometers from here, where they work in their spare time. ”

"Oh," Luo Qi put the phone on the table a little embarrassed, Du Zhengyi remembered it much better than he did.

"Okay," Du Zhengyi said, "eat some of this...... Yokan, and then go up bravely. ”

"Me?" Roach was surprised.

"What else am I bringing you for? You can't eat for nothing, can you? Quick, little friend, show a little bit of your value and find a way to trick her into talking. You're not teaching anthropology on your own, you're still learning experientially, and now is the time to send you out. Du Zheng coaxed him one after another, with a little bit of the pride that the eldest brother had for the younger brother, which made Luo Qi's teeth itch.

Luo Qi didn't reply, he looked back at the girl named Guan Xinyue for a while, plucked up the courage to stand up and walked to the position of Bo Gujia.

Up close, Guan Xinyue's skin was very white, for her age, the complexion was more than fair, it was a bloodless pale, her long hair was tucked behind her ears, and a pale blue vein could even be seen on the skin near her temples. It's weird, she looks very immature, and her photos are a little more mature than real people.

At the moment, her slender fingers are covered with fake nails, plucking quickly on the strings, and her skill is self-evident, but her whole person does not look like she is immersed in music. Several times she made the same micro-expression, which was slightly strange, and each time it was accompanied by a gaze on the tip of one of the fingers. Although Luo Qi is not good at music and is not familiar with the guzheng, he can still guess that she must have played it wrong, and the mistakes are quite frequent. It's just that the minor technical mistakes didn't affect the flow of the music too much, and the diners here didn't care.

At the end of the song, she breathed a sigh of relief, looked up and found a boy leaning against the bogu shelf looking at her, and couldn't help but be taken aback, and her face was a little red, which made her pale face return to a healthy blood color. "Can I order a song?" The boy asked her, with a frankness in his eyes that was rare among boys these days. She looked at him stiffly, and he seemed very kind, not like the teddy who was yelling and talking everywhere. What's more, those eyes are strangely black and pure, and girls sometimes have nothing to do with deer-eyed boys. Before she knew it, she blurted out, "Yes." ”

After saying that, she hurriedly added, "If I can play." ”

The boy nodded, "Will you be able to do "Senbon Sakura"?" ”

She burst out laughing. She has neat bangs, long and straight black hair, and habitual tilting of her head, which is strange and cute, and it is not difficult to see that she is an anime girl.

He could see that she understood what he meant, "You must have uploaded a video on Station B?" ”

"Nope." She smiled again, a little embarrassed.

"Why?" The boy looked at her in surprise, "You play so much better than them, you're too modest." ”

Du Zhengyi watched Luo Qi from a distance and quickly talked to Guan Xinyue, and made the girl keep giggling, it seems that it is not far from the real words. Du Zhengyi didn't eat, just leaned back in the chair to make himself sit more comfortably, and heard the girl play a high and weird tune for some reason, which was incompatible with here. He stripped away the loud music, as if he was sinking into water, and everything around him was silent, gradually sinking into the world of consciousness. I don't know how long it took for him to come back to his senses, Luo Qi and Guan Xinyue were standing next to him and were watching him.

"Are you alright?" Roach asked him, looking strange, and seemed to be really worried about him.

The girl blushed at one glance at him, looked away hurriedly, and then glanced at him boldly.

He shook his head at Roach.

Rocky graciously pulled a chair for the girl, "Please take a seat." ”

The girl sat down stiffly, tugged at her skirt, and flattened the hem. Looking at Luo Qi like that, he couldn't wait to go over and help the girl pull her skirt, Du Zhengyi smiled at him teasingly.

Luo Qi didn't see it, he sat back in the old seat opposite, raised his head and looked at the girl with a serious expression, and said in a low voice, "This is my friend, the ghost hunter Du Zhengyi." ”

What's that?

Du Zheng was stunned for a moment, raised his head and chin at Luo Qi - he dared to say it. Roach stared at him for a second, his eyes sneaky, and a smile on his lips.

"Hello." The girl said to him politely, with a look that was hard to describe. Du Zheng saw that she might be a shy girl, but it didn't mean that she was stupid, and if she didn't expose Roach's scam, it didn't mean that she was fooled.

But Luo Qi didn't care, he poured a cup of tea for Guan Xinyue, and then began to talk. "I haven't known Du Zhengyi for a long time, but my family and I have a lot of trust in his skills. That's how I met him. I have a sister named Rodin. ”

This is a, Du Zhengyi drank tea slowly, he briefly looked at Luo Qi's resume and knew that he was an only child. But Roach just has the ability to continue to pull it off, "My sister is much younger than me, only seven years old this year. Most people have first-born babies and if they have a boy, they won't have children, but our family is different, and my parents want girls more. When I was a child, I was very annoying, three or four years old people came crazy, seven or eight years old to hate dogs, my parents especially did not like me, thinking that I would definitely be unreliable in the future, or have to give birth to a daughter. In the beginning, my father was a civil servant, and family planning was very strict for families like us, and there was no room for overbirth, so they could only think about it. Later, when I was ten years old, my father quit his job to improve his life and went to sea, and after two years of hard work, he was lucky enough to get a little success, at least he could afford to pay social support. My parents started to have a daughter again, and this time it was a dream come true, and my sister was very cute. ”

Du Zheng looked at Luo Qi's nonsense with interest, he could see that Guan Xinyue was completely attracted by his words, yes, even he, who knew that his words were all, didn't he still listen to it. When Luo Qi told the story, his eyes were very bright, and he chose a story that would make a girl feel good about it, and Guan Xinyue looked at him as if he was a peerless warm man.

"My sister is a very kind little girl. We bring her snacks to the kindergarten and she will give most of them to the children. When she was six years old, she cried profusely when she figured out what was going on with the beggars on the road, and from then on whenever she saw them, she would give them all her pocket money. When she encounters wild cats on the road, she must also feed them, and she also wants to take care of those injured little ones. Roach smiled a little, as if he had briefly fallen into some kind of warm memory, and the girl laughed as well. Du Zhengyi had a trace of doubt, and he realized that he couldn't judge that the girl Luo Qi described definitely didn't exist at all.

The smile on Roach's face somehow disappeared, his brows furrowed, and he whispered, "But I don't like my sister." ”

The warm atmosphere came to an abrupt end, Guan Xinyue was stunned for a moment, and asked puzzledly, "Why?" ”

"Because the little bastard in the kindergarten always forced her to give up more snacks, and most of the beggars on the road were fake, and she was scratched by wild cats to bleed, we had to take her to get vaccinated, and it hurt so much that she cried." Roach's gaze was soft and helpless.

Guan Xinyue's doubts were dispelled, and she sighed empathetically, as a girl, she was bullied and deceived when she was young because she was innocent and kind, this experience is always inevitable, everyone grew up like this. Du Zheng can understand after a little thought that Luo Qi himself is a master of deceiving girls.

"People who are good are always deceived by others." Guan Xinyue helped Luo Qi summarize her point with a little conceit, and her demeanor revealed the natural conceit of a fifteen or sixteen-year-old beautiful girl.

Luo Qi immediately agreed, and then said, "But that's not all, and then Du Zhengyi told me that I realized that my sister's sympathetic physique is too easy to attract things." ”

Guan Xinyue didn't say anything about this sentence, her face seemed to be covered with a mask, she instinctively entered a defensive state, and subconsciously resisted what Luo Qi was about to say. When she heard Du Zhengyi's name being mentioned, she hurriedly looked up at Du Zhengyi, who was sitting alone across the table, and quickly turned away as soon as her eyes made contact. She was very curious about Du Zhengyi, but Luo Qi, who was easy to get along with, made her more relaxed, Du Zhengyi was too unpredictable, and she didn't dare to contact him directly.

Luo Qi didn't seem to notice Guan Xinyue's reaction, but then he didn't say anything absurd and terrible, and he began to talk nonsense again. "Last summer, when I was on summer vacation, my parents were too busy with work, so they gave my sister to me and asked me to take her to my grandfather's house in the country. My grandfather's house is in the mountains, I don't know if you have been to the countryside, the mountains are not bad in the summer, the wind blowing out of the valley is particularly cool, there are only 100 or so households in a small mountain col village, my sister and I are the guests of the whole village, who makes something delicious at noon, can think of sending us a little. ”

Guan Xinyue nodded very lightly, "My hometown is also in the countryside, and when I was a child, I often spent winter and summer vacations at my grandparents' house. ”

Roach smiled more kindly, as if this could be regarded as a foreign acquaintance. But his happy expression quickly put away, frowned again, and continued, "Everything was fine at first, my grandparents were very indulgent to me and my sister, not as strict as my parents, I could sleep lazy, my sister didn't have to go to cram school, and from time to time I could ride my second uncle's broken motorcycle at home and take my sister to play games and buy snacks in the bigger villages and towns." The laid-back and casual life in the countryside may be a little boring for me, but it suits well for a child my sister's size. ”

Roach paused to drain his cup of tea and continued, "The only downside is that there are no children of my sister's age in the village, and she has never been able to find a suitable playmate, so she can only pester me to play. So one afternoon I woke up from a nap and was very happy to hear my sister tell me that she had made friends with a little girl. At that time, I didn't think much about it, thinking that someone else's family also had grandchildren returning to their hometown for the summer vacation. My sister said that the child was so poor that she couldn't speak, and she wanted to be best friends with the poor child. I also said one more thing, asking my sister why she didn't bring her friends home as guests. In this way, my sister went out to play with her new friends every day during my nap for three days, and it was safe and sound. Until noon on the fourth day, my sister went out with a lot of snacks, because it was the day before we were going to leave the country and go home, so I think she probably wanted to say goodbye. I didn't take a nap that day and kept helping my grandma pack my and my sister's luggage. About twenty minutes later, I was talking to my grandmother, and my sister suddenly came back crying, I was taken aback and quickly asked her what was wrong. She told me that she invited a child to her house to play, but she didn't expect the child to suddenly lose his temper and push her to the ground. I was really angry when I heard about it, if it was my parents, they might think that it didn't matter to the children, but I didn't have that good cultivation. I took my sister's hand and asked her to take me to the child, I just thought I should get justice for my sister. ”

When Luo Qi said this, he suddenly looked at Guan Xinyue and stopped, making Guan Xinyue's hair stand on end, and he couldn't help but look back, wanting to see if Luo Qi saw something behind her.

Roach laughed, "I thought, I've said this, you must think it's a vulgar ghost story, my sister must have taken me to the graveyard outside the village." ”

Guan Xinyue didn't answer him, her face was very bad.

Roach smiled self-deprecatingly, and continued, "I was really surprised, but it was because my sister actually took me to the crossroads at the entrance of the village, and told me that the little friend was waiting for her at this place every time. But I know the two families who live at that intersection, one is an old and desperate family in the village, with a strange personality, and he has never been willing to associate with everyone, and his relatives have long since cut off relations with him, so there will be no children in his family. The grandmother of another family has a good relationship with my grandmother, and she will come to my house every day to gossip with my grandmother. So I don't think I can understand the world of the children, and I don't understand why the two of them have to meet and play in this place every day. I mean, it's a crossroads, it's bare, there's nothing, and the village is so closed that by noon there's not even a figure at the entrance to the village, and there's no bustle to see. If the two children go to find a place with small flowers, grass, chickens and ducks to play, I can understand better. But the world of children is always difficult to explain, and since I didn't find the grumpy child, I had to take my sister home. My sister started to have a fever that night, and we thought that my sister was just suffering from heat stroke, and the countryside has its own set of local methods for treating children's diseases, so my grandmother decided to give my sister a gua sha. Just as the grandmother was taking off the little vest that the child was wearing, I suddenly saw a small black handprint on her back. ”

Guan Xinyue moved back and leaned back in the chair, trying to stay away from Luo Qi, "What are you looking at me doing again, keep talking!" ”

Luo Qi smiled lightly, "In the world, sometimes there is no basis for words, and no one will believe it like this." But sometimes things in the world are so bizarre, even if society is constantly developing, there are always things that cannot be explained. So in order not to give you the impression that I'm a train-talker, I'd better prove the existence of the Netherworld with a little bit of fact. ”

Luo Qi picked up a napkin from the table, spread it on the table in front of Guan Xinyue, and took out a pen from his schoolbag and put it on the napkin.

He raised his head and looked at Du Zhengyi and Guan Xinyue, both of whom were staring at him. He smiled, "I want to ask you to write a word on the paper." ”

Guan Xinyue looked at Luo Qi vigilantly, then looked at Du Zhengyi, showed a sarcastic smile, and said bluntly, "Then the master wants to test my words?" This is a trick of fortune-telling at the entrance of the temple? Do you have any new ideas? Otherwise, I'll write a word and ask someone to guess what the word is. ”

Luo Qi didn't get angry when he heard this, "If you want to say that, you really don't know Brother Du." When I first met him, I really wanted to ask him to tell a fortune, but you are not interested in the future, but I want to know. Brother Du told me that ghosts are real, so they can be caught and broken, but the past is vast and the future is slim, and it is really unpredictable. Isn't it, brother? ”

In the end, he turned to Du Zhengyi, with a smile between his eyebrows. Du Zhengyi suddenly understood what Luo Qi meant, and he nodded.

Luo Qi turned to Guan Xinyue, "Let's just follow what you say, you write a word, and ask Brother Du to tell me what you wrote." ”

Guan Xinyue was taken aback, she didn't expect them to dare to come like this. She had a slight suspicion that they were charlatans with some tricks, and if they pulled out the cards now and asked her to draw cards and guess the suit, she would have raised her feet and walked away. But writing on paper is different, there are always 3,000 commonly used Chinese characters, is there any way to guess 1 in 3,000 at once?

She thought for a moment, then finally said, "I'm going to write on a different table." ”

Luo Qi looked up at Du Zhengyi, and when he saw Du Zheng nodding, he laughed, "Girl, you are really treacherous, then you can change the table and write." ”

Guan Xinyue walked to the table diagonally behind Luo Qi, turned her back to Du Zhengyi and Luo Qi, and blocked her hand with her body.

She wrote on the napkin, folded it, and sat down in the chair next to Roach, "I've already written." ”

Du Zhengyi looked at her with a little confusion, "What?"

Luo Qi was stunned for a moment, "What do you say in English, you still have a sudden tide." ”

Guan Xinyue's face instantly turned pale and put down the napkin.

Rocky immediately took it and looked, "What! He glared at Guan Xinyue, "What? English? Sister, you're too treacherous, aren't you? ”

Guan Xinyue's two hands were twisted together, and she couldn't stop trembling slightly. She raised her head and looked at Du Zhengyi with a pair of eyes that could no longer hide her horror, those eyes were filled with fear and hope at the same time, and they seemed even bigger than before. "Why Can You ......"

Du Zhengyi didn't speak, and he seemed more and more unfathomable. He just waited for Roach to answer, and the copyright of this lie was Roach's.

Luo Qi was very satisfied with this situation, and first stared at Du Zheng, who really lived up to his expectations, thinking that this person really didn't speak blindly, and said quite modestly that this bit of mental ability is not practical, doesn't it depend on how to use it. Du Zhengyi really can't detect the other party's complex thinking panorama, but coaxes the other party to concentrate on thinking of a concrete image, such as a word, which is a corner of Du Zhengyi's mind that can just be glimpsed. He was complacent about his genius, turned to Guan Xinyue half-heartedly, and said without thinking about it, "Because the master also raises a little ghost, it was the little ghost who watched next to you and told the master just now." ”

The girl took a sharp breath in fright, her back straightened against the back of the chair, and one hand clutched her skirt tightly, as if she couldn't even breathe.

"Hey, don't, don't be afraid." Roach reacted and hurriedly reassured her, he didn't want to frighten the girl. "It's okay, it's not a bad thing, you see I don't even care."

Guan Xinyue was still frightened. He awkwardly reached out and patted her on the shoulder, looking at Du Zhengyi awkwardly. Du Zhengyi inhumanely refused to help, hiding in the safe area across the table to watch the fire. Luo Qi had to stammering to persuade the girl, but fortunately, Guan Xinyue finally calmed down after a while, Luo Qi quickly poured water for her, the girl drank the water, and refused the walnut cake handed by Luo Qi.

After a pause, she asked, "Or what happened to your sister?" Is she back to health? ”

"You...... Do you really want to hear it? Roach looked at her cautiously, "Won't you be more scared if you keep listening?" ”

"If you don't say what happened, I'm even more scared." Guan Xinyue said.

"Okay, I'll cut it short then." Luo Qi had no choice but to say, "It is also my sister who is lucky, I met this Mr. Du on the train when I returned to the city with my sister who had a high fever, and he saw that my sister had a problem and persuaded me, and we went back to our hometown village." As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the village and looked at the intersection of the loess road, he understood the problem. That's right, it's the intersection where my sister plays with that so-called child. We poured water at the intersection first, then took a shovel to dig a hole, and after a few shovels, we saw a small shoe worn by a child, and after digging for a while, we found a woven bag commonly used in the countryside buried underneath. We dug out the bag, pulled it up and opened it, and there was still rags wrapped in it, and there was a foul smell. When the stench cleared, he took a shovel and pickaxe to take a look, and it turned out to be the bones of a three- or four-year-old child, with the bones of his limbs broken and two steel nails stuck in his eye sockets. ”

Guan Xinyue shuddered for a moment, "Who would torture and kill a child, and bury it at the entrance of the village where people come and go?" Aren't you afraid of being discovered? ”

"Alas, it was a small village in the mountains, and it was very quiet on weekdays, and it was even more secluded with few people living at the entrance of the village. If it were to dig a pit in the dead of night and bury such a small corpse, it would not take much effort from an adult. So the key point of this matter is why it must be buried under the intersection at the entrance of the village. My first instinct was to call the police, but my grandfather and grandmother tried their best to stop me when they found out. I realized that there are only about 100 families in this village, whose family the child may be, why he died, and why he was secretly buried at the entrance of the village, in fact, everyone in the village knows in their hearts. ”

"Then why?" Guan Xinyue asked him in a low voice, as if if if he spoke a little louder, he would provoke the child's soul.

Roach looked at her and said, "Because it's a little girl who died." ”

Guan Xinyue didn't react, and Luo Qi understood that she didn't understand. He leaned forward a little, his elbows pressed against the table, as if it were a little difficult to speak, but he finally spoke. "People in some places feel that they can't give birth to a son because the female ghost is rushing to come to reincarnation, and if they can be scared to come into this family, their family will be able to give birth to a son. So the situation at that time could not be clearer, someone did according to this custom, not only broke her daughter's limbs, but also pierced her eyes with steel nails and killed her all the way in the head, which was really tragic. But death is not counted, her family also buried her under the intersection at the entrance of the village for 10,000 people to step on. ”

Guan Xinyue took a breath and couldn't say anything.

Luo Qi shook his head, "I don't know what to do right, so I just have to stand and watch the undead of Brother Du's supernatural child." After that, my sister's fever subsided, and the child's handprint on her back was gone. I was very frightened and quickly left with my sister. It's our hometown, but I don't think I'll ever take my sister back there. ”

He finished the story, and for a moment no one spoke. Such a tragic story, even Du Zheng felt uncomfortable when he heard it. He was silent for a moment and looked at Roach, and to his surprise he saw a real grief on Roach's face, and he suddenly realized that the part of the story about him and the gods and ghosts was not true, but the rest of the story was not necessarily false.

He was a little overwhelmed for a while, but Luo Qi suddenly regained his blood, tilted his head and looked at Guan Xinyue, with a lively expression, "My business is over, now it's up to you." ”

Guan Xinyue wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and nodded.