The thin smoke film burst. Although the figure only appeared for a moment and was still very blurry, Jiang Yingyue and Shen Zihan immediately recognized the figure as Jiang Mingcheng. After all, as relatives and former lovers, they both I am so familiar with that person.
"This..." Tan Xuan bit his lip and sat on the sofa and pondered for a while.
"Tan Xuan, what does this mean? How come Mingcheng's figure appeared in reality?" Jiang Yingyue asked anxiously. Although she didn't know what Tan Xuan was up to, she was moved when she saw Jiang Mingcheng's figure. It is concluded that this must be related to Jiang Mingcheng.
Tan Xuan shook his head slightly, "This only shows that what Shen Zihan said is true. The Jiang Mingcheng she dreamed about was not because of her random thoughts, and Jiang Mingcheng asked her for help in a dream. And not only did he come to ask for a dream, he also stayed here specifically. Got the evidence.”
"Ah! Didn't you say Mingcheng didn't become a ghost and couldn't dream about it? How come you can dream about it now?"
"I didn't see his ghost at the scene of Jiang Mingcheng's accident, and I didn't find any traces of resentment on his body, so I preconceptions that he didn't become a ghost. Moreover, your old man didn't find Jiang Mingcheng at the local Chenghuang Temple. Register..."
"Then what's going on?" Jiang Yingyue continued to ask.
"Jiang Mingcheng turned into a ghost after his death, but he was taken away by someone after he turned into a ghost. There was no resentment on his body, which means that she was not murdered by a ghost, but died voluntarily. And it was not that he had no obsession before his death, it was just that he My obsession was to follow that guy, and I was so determined that I was fooled."
Tan Xuan chuckled, feeling a little embarrassed that he was ashamed of his strengths.
Tan Xuan suddenly sneered and said with a sarcastic face: "No wonder the yin and yang are not that different from him. It turns out that after his death, he flew with the female ghost and even moved his household registration."
"What!" Jiang Yingyue slipped directly from the sofa to the ground, and then knelt on the ground, "Tan Xuan, please save Mingcheng, he must have been lured away by the female ghost. "
Although she didn't understand what Tan Xuan meant, she could tell that something was wrong with Jiang Mingcheng.
"you……"
Tan Xuan immediately stood up and hid aside. He didn't expect this person to have such a way of expressing his feelings, but he couldn't accept it.
"Xiaoying, what are you doing? If you have something to say, why are you kneeling down to him?" Xiao Di quickly came over and pulled Jiang Yingyue, but Jiang Yingyue insisted on kneeling down.
"Xiao Di, please don't pull me. Tan Xuan, I beg you to help Mingcheng. He was pitiful when he was alive. Now that he has become a ghost, he is bullied. Please save him..."
Looking at Jiang Yingyue who was shedding tears, Tan Xuan's brows knitted together again, "If you have something to say, just stand up and say it, and kneel down to say it. Is it reasonable? Jiang Mingcheng is pitiful, how can he be pitiful? After sleeping with a woman, she sleeps with a woman. Ghost, most people don't have the ability like him. Why should I save him? Even if his soul was taken away by a female ghost, it was of his own volition. In his case, he eloped with the female ghost after death. No wonder he didn't see any resentment and anger. Struggle, he is not happy to be paired up with someone earlier. Now I am asking Shen Zihan to have a dream, I guess he is tired of playing, and now he regrets it. He asked me to save him, he is not a victim, how can I save him? Him. I'm not your mother. I can't do this kind of thing."
Jiang Yingyue was confused by Tan Xuan's words about holding a gun and a stick. Her eyes were confused for a while, and Xiao Di lifted her up from the ground. She didn't hit people in the face, or scolded people without exposing their shortcomings. Tan Xuan's words In other words, it's meant to hit the scar. Although it's not poisonous, it's definitely hard enough.
"Tan Xuan!"
Xiao Di gave Tan Xuan a fierce look and stopped Tan Xuan's urge to continue. She knew that if Tan Xuan's mouth was really damaged, it would not be an ordinary damage. Since some things have passed, then It was completely over, and she didn't want Tan Xuan to bring up the old things again in front of her old lover.
Jiang Yingyue was silent for a while and then spoke again, "Tan Xuan, I know you have complaints about my family, but I still beg you to help Mingcheng. I don't want you to agree to save him now. I beg you to let me Can you meet him first and know what happened specifically? If Mingcheng is to blame for everything, you don’t care. If he was coerced and framed by the female ghost, then you can decide whether to help or not. If you If you don’t want to not take action, we can find someone else.”
Shen Zihan also echoed from the side: "Yes, Brother Tan, please help Jiang Mingcheng, please."
Seeing Tan Xuan looking at her, Shen Zihan lowered her head with a guilty conscience, "I'm not begging for mercy for him, but I really don't want him to bother me anymore. Now that I think about having to dream about him as soon as I fall asleep, I don't even think about it." I dare to sleep now. If I can see his ghost, I hope I can tell him clearly so that he will stop pestering me in the future."
…
Tan Xuan didn't speak, just sat there silently. Jiang Yingyue and Shen Zihan looked at Tan Xuan without blinking. They didn't know whether he was thinking about how to deal with this matter, or whether he was thinking about how to refuse this matter. thing.
"Tan Xuan, why don't you help them." Xiao Di, who had been silent all this time, also spoke up, "No matter how bad Jiang Mingcheng was when he was alive, after all you have met each other, you can find him and ask him what's going on. Forget about Jiang Yingyue and Shen Zihan's worries, otherwise everyone would not be able to let go of such a confusing situation."
Tan Xuan bit his lip, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I can help, but how can I help? This is not as easy as you said. We don't even know where Jiang Mingcheng's ghost is, so how can we go find him and ask him? It's clear, just based on the few dreams he gave Shen Zihan? Isn't that nonsense? It's not like you don't know my abilities. Fighting and killing are okay, but tracking and tracing are not my strengths. This matter I want to help but I don’t know how, so I’m the wrong person to ask for.”
"this……"
Jiang Yingyue's originally full of expectant eyes dimmed again. Although she didn't know Tan Xuan as well as Xiao Di, she also knew that what Tan Xuan said was not false. Back then, she and Tan Xuan still had to fight to find the murderer. She did it by using her body as bait. If Tan Xuan knew how to track, it wouldn't be so strenuous.
Xiao Di didn't take it seriously at all, and said with a smile: "As long as you are willing to help, are there any problems that cannot be solved? You are not good at those, but there are people you know who are good at that. Have you forgotten Old Qiu Tou? ?You can ask him for help. Isn’t he the best at chasing ghosts and asking for directions?”
"Looking for him?"
Tan Xuan was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Xiao Di's playful eyes. Tan Xuan immediately laughed as if he had realized something.
"Haha, if you didn't tell me, I would have forgotten about him. Yes, this old boy should be good at this. Okay, I'll go find him tomorrow and see if he can find the ghost in Jiang Mingcheng."
"Tomorrow, why tomorrow? Can't you give him a call now?" Shen Zihan asked from the side. She already had a shadow in her heart and wished she could resolve the matter immediately.
Xiao Di smiled and shook his head, "This is really not possible. The person I just mentioned is an expert who lives in hiding in the city. He doesn't use a mobile phone. If you want to find him, you can't contact him by phone. You have to find him in person. He can do it."
"Ah!" Shen Zihan sat down on the sofa and said with a sad face: "Then I have to face Jiang Mingcheng's dream tonight?"
Tan Xuan chuckled and said, "You are overthinking it. Jiang Mingcheng will not come to give you dreams again in the near future. It would be great if he really came, and I would save myself the trouble of looking for him."
"Why?" Shen Zihan asked puzzledly.
"If I remember correctly, yesterday was the first seven days of Jiangming City. According to folklore, on the seventh day after a person's death, the ghost will go home to take a last look. In fact, there is another explanation, that is, around the seventh day after the person's death, the ghost will go home and take a last look. The last breath of the earthly world will disappear from the ghost. Before being completely cut off from the earthly world, the ghost will briefly return to the earthly world to wander and say its last farewell. To put it bluntly, the last time a living person looks at the dead is before the dead is buried, and the ghost sees The last sight of a living person is in the first seven days. I just didn't expect that Jiang Mingcheng's last sight was not to go home and have a look, but to use some connections with you to find you, so that the dream you mentioned appeared. Now The first seven days have passed, and he can no longer disturb your dreams unless he turns into an evil ghost and wanders around the world."
"Okay, you go back first. Come here early tomorrow morning. I will take you to meet Old Qiu Tou and see if he can find the location of Jiang Ming City."
"Uh..." Tan Xuan's sudden farewell caught several others off guard, especially Shen Zihan. Others were shocked at best, but a mournful expression instantly appeared on her face.
"If you don't feel at ease, you can stay here at night. Tan Xuan is at home, and no ghost dares to enter this house. If Jiang Mingcheng dares to come, he has thrown himself into a trap, and it will save us all trouble."
"Yeah."
Shen Zihan agreed without hesitation. Tan Xuan's explanation did not dispel Shen Zihan's concerns. On the contrary, Xiao Di's arrangement made her smile immediately.
"Jiang Yingyue should also stay here. You and Shen Zihan should squeeze in and deal with each other. We will go find Lao Qiutou early tomorrow morning." Xiao Di continued to talk to Jiang Yingyue.
"I...I'd better go live outside. There is a hotel opposite the community, not far away. You can just call me tomorrow morning."
Jiang Yingyue didn't stay at Tan Xuan's house. No matter how enthusiastic Xiao Di was, she didn't agree. How could someone who had moved away come back, not to mention that the rent had already been paid.
As soon as it dawned, Tan Xuan drove everyone to the market where Xiao Di and he had been last time. There were still so many people, still so crowded, the same shabby stall at the bridge, and the same shabby old man wearing a worn-out Taoist robe. He was sitting there wearing a pair of big sunglasses. But there were no customers in front of the stall. Only the old man with disheveled hair sat there with his feet propped up on another small stool and looked back and forth at the people passing by.
Tan Xuan stepped forward and kicked the small stool under Old Qiu Tou's buttocks, "Look at what you're seeing. We're all wearing cotton-padded clothes and trousers this season. We can't see any long, white and beautiful legs."
"Who dares to sneak attack the Taoist master? Me and you...Mr. Tan! Hey, what kind of wind brought you here? Where can I see those rouge and vulgar fans? My soul is wandering in the sky, and I end up being like this by you.
I was called back by one kick. Hahaha..."
Old Qiu Tou got up and was about to get angry, but when he saw Tan Xuan standing in front of him, he immediately burst into laughter. His expression changed so fast that even some actors could not catch up.
Tan Xuan glanced at Old Qiu Tou, not bothering to talk to him, "Stop talking nonsense, pack up your mess, and come with me."
"No, Mr. Tan, my stall has just been set up and hasn't opened yet."
"Stop dealing with those useless things. I'm going to bring you a big client today, so you don't have to deal with the rest."
"Who is the big client?" Old Qiu Tou glanced at the three women not far behind Tan Xuan. Through his sunglasses, you could see his eyes lit up, and he secretly raised his thumb towards Tan Xuan, "
Hoho! Mr. Tan is indeed Mr. Tan, and there are two more beauties around here. Wow, brought together, so harmonious..."
Seeing that Tan Xuan's eyes were a little unkind, Old Qiu Tou immediately looked away and said, "Mr. Tan, please wait a moment while I clean up."
With that said, without any urging from Tan Xuan, Lao Qiutou quickly folded the four corners of the yellow cloth on the ground, lifted it up, and completed the packing. He folded the two small stools on the ground and stuffed them into the gap at the head of the bridge.
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"Mr. Tan, this place is too chaotic and not suitable for talking about things. Why don't we find a quieter place to talk in detail? It's best to chat while eating. Don't worry, I'll pay for this meal and I won't let you."
Spend money."
"Okay, let's go." Tan Xuan didn't bother to be polite to Old Qiu Tou, so he asked Old Qiu Tou to bring him in front. He led the three women to follow leisurely behind. Jiang Yingyue and Shen Zihan were better than Xiao Di.
Much stronger, although they saw that the person Tan Xuan was looking for was unreliable, they did not express their doubts at all.
The cleaner place that Lao Qiutou said is the street outside the market. It is indeed cleaner. The bustling and bustling place with people coming and going is just a bit cleaner than the inside of the market. There is no more. If it were changed to another place, it would be cleaner.
Compared with the place, this place is a nuisance to the people. As for the place where Lao Qiutou treats guests, it is a stall selling breakfast next to the morning market. After a meal, just the few of them can't spend a hundred yuan even if they eat until they vomit, let alone with him
Only Tan Xuan and Xiao Di were eating, and the remaining Shen Zihan and Jiang Yingyue seemed to be unwilling to eat the fireworks of the world. It was already difficult to sit down at the table, and asking them to eat something else would be sheer force.
Already.
"Mr. Tan, I wonder what kind of big deal you have with me this time?" As soon as breakfast was served, Lao Qiu Tou took a sip of wonton soup and asked Tan Xuan with a smile. Anyway, he was already polite as he should be.
, he didn’t care whether the two of them ate or not, it was enough for Tan Xuan and Tan Xuan to be arm-in-arm with each other.
"I want you to help me find a ghost." Tan Xuan replied casually, without any hesitation. The surroundings were in a mess. Unless someone deliberately came over to listen, no one could hear what they were saying. This was also pure trouble.
Take some quiet time.
"What kind of evil did this guy do again? He actually asked you to take action personally?" The soup was too hot and the heat was too strong. It caused a layer of fog on Old Qiu Tou's sunglasses. Old Qiu Tou took off his eyes and put them aside.
"ah!"
Jiang Yingyue and Shen Zihan were both shocked when they saw Old Qiu Tou's eyes. Strange people must have strange visions. They didn't know whether the sloppy old man in front of them was powerful or not, but his appearance was indeed quite strange.
After Tan Xuan glared at Jiang Yingyue and Shen Zihan, he said with a smile: "I'm not afraid of your jokes. What I'm looking for this time is not an evil ghost, but a pervert who was seduced by a female ghost. I'm not here to get rid of him this time." Evil, just to clear up their doubts."
Old Qiu Tou glanced at Shen Zihan who was directly opposite him through the mist on the bowl, and nodded, "She has high cheekbones and convex teeth. I think the one who died must be her husband."
Shen Zihan was startled and shook her head in panic, "No, no, I just had a boyfriend and girlfriend relationship with Jiang Mingcheng, and I'm not married yet."
Old Qiu Tou snorted, picked up a bun and bit off most of it in one bite, "There is no name of husband and wife but the reality of husband and wife. The world is going downhill."
"Uh..." Shen Zihan was choked by Old Qiu and was speechless. In the past, she only knew that Tan Xuan's words were unpleasant, but now she saw that their words were not very popular in this industry, but now they are asking for help. Man, she didn't even dare to show her unhappy expression.
Old Qiu Tou glanced at Jiang Yingyue again and muttered: "Ji Duwen is broken, it should be your brother who died, right?"
Jiang Yingyue was stunned and stared at Old Qiu Tou for a long time before speaking, "That's right, Master, how did you see it?"
Old Qiu Tou snorted disdainfully again, "If you can't see this, why should I set up a stall? It's not embarrassing enough."
After saying that, Lao Qiutou lowered his head and started eating and drinking without looking at the remaining Xiao Di. As a result, Xiao Di was made unhappy.
"Hey, Master Qiu, you've seen both of them, why don't you even take a look at me?" Xiao Di pouted and said with some dissatisfaction.
Old Qiu Tou smiled and shook his head, "You are different from them, so I won't talk too much."
"Why?"
Xiao Di kept asking questions, but Old Qiu Tou didn't answer the question at all.
"Hurry up and eat your wontons. This restaurant's wontons are very famous. They lose their taste when they get cold."
"Mr. Tan, can you tell me the specific situation?" After finishing a bowl of wontons, Lao Qiutou asked for another bowl, and then asked about the whole story.
After listening to Tan Xuan tell what happened, Old Qiu Tou even made a burst of cynicism without concealing it, "Haha, I didn't expect that there is such a bastard in the world. It's been a long time since I've seen him. No, I haven't seen it yet. I must meet this man and worship him. He is so addicted to playing ghosts that he doesn’t even want his wife anymore, and he even plays to death with himself.”
After finishing the joke, Lao Qiu Tou patted his chest towards Tan Xuan and said, "Mr. Tan, don't worry, although that little guy died unjustly, since you introduced him, I will do my best."
"Cough, cough..."
Tan Xuan put down the wonton bowl in his hand and glared at Old Qiu Tou angrily, "You just keep talking, what are you talking about? How can you let others eat it like a coward like you? Hurry up and find a place for you. Let me find out where Jiang Mingcheng is."
"What, check now?" Old Qiu Tou stared at Tan Xuan blankly with his eyes of different colors, "Mr. Tan, it's broad daylight, the yang energy is too strong, how do you want me to check?
You have to wait until dark after all. And have you brought the things that the little guy had before his death? You ask the master to prepare it, and I will go back and prepare it too. Do you think this is okay?"
"You have a lot to do, and everything is ready. I'll wait for you by the river in the evening. That kid jumped into the river and died. Let's start investigating directly from the place where he died. He should not be here now, so we don't have to go directly.
Just follow the search and determine where he went. Then we'll find his specific hiding place later."
Old Qiu Tou laughed and said confidently: "Okay, it's just a kid. As long as he wanders around in this world, he can't hide from me."
Tan Xuan and others left. When they got back to the car, they asked Jiang Yingyue to contact his family quickly to bring one or two things that Jiang Mingcheng had when he was alive. It would be better if they were still with him when he died. Originally, this person who helped was not special.
Sincerely, Tan Xuan almost forgot this little thing to prepare.
The Jiang family was quite reliable this time. At noon, Jiang Yong drove over and delivered two pieces of Jiang Mingcheng's clothes. Jiang Mingcheng's clothes when he died had been burned. His family didn't keep them at all. I still want to burn these two pieces.
There is still time to burn it, and as for the most effective hair on the temples, there is no need to think about it. Fortunately, Jiang Mingcheng is not out of his wits, otherwise he probably wouldn't be able to find anything with this little thing.
In the evening, Tan Xuan and others arrived at the riverside. Old Qiu Tou was still on time, and it was almost eleven o'clock before he wandered along the sidewalk along the riverside.
After meeting, Lao Qiu Tou took off his yellow bag and said, "Mr. Tan, are you here? My things are ready, how are your preparations over there?"
"It's ready, here you go."
Without further ado, Tan Xuan directly threw Jiang Mingcheng's two old clothes to Old Qiu Tou.
"That's it?" Old Qiu Tou smiled bitterly and shook his head. It was obvious that what Tan Xuan and the others had prepared was very different from what he expected.
"Why, doesn't this work?" Jiang Yingyue asked eagerly.
Lao Qiu shook his head, "It's okay, it's okay."
Old Qiu Tou took out a writing brush from his yellow bag, moistened it with saliva, and said to Jiang Yingyue: "Tell me the birth date of the deceased."
"Mingcheng, he is..."
Jiang Yingyue reported Jiang Mingcheng's birthday and birth time. After doing some calculations, Old Qiutou made a simple conversion between the Gregorian calendar and the lunar calendar, and wrote them all on the yellow talisman. Then he took it over and prepared it.
clothes, tore off a strip from the collar and wrapped it in a yellow talisman. Finally, he took out a map spread on the ground that was at least one meter square. This map was different from the regular map. The city was marked.
There are not many, but there are a lot of notes on mountains, rivers and rivers.
"Then shall I start?" Old Qiu Tou looked at Tan Xuan and said.
Tan Xuan nodded, "Let's get started."
"OK."
Old Qiu Tou took out three incense sticks from his bag, lit them and inserted them in the north direction of the map. He clasped his hands together and recited a few incantations before producing four yellow talismans. The four yellow talismans landed on the map without any bias.
The four corners were like being held down by someone. The wind on the riverside blew from time to time, but the talisman paper did not move. Finally, Old Qiu Tou took the yellow talisman wrapped in a cloth strip and presented it to him.
He stood on top of the incense, chanted a few times, and shook the yellow talisman toward the sky. The talisman suddenly began to burn violently.
Old Qiu shook the talisman in his hand, pointed at the three incense sticks on the ground, and shouted: "Get up!"
Following Old Qiu Tou's order, the three sticks of incense stuck on the ground suddenly floated up, as high as a person, and floated vertically above the map, as if they had been lifted up.
Lao Qiu Tou turned his wrist, threw the burning talisman into the air, and shouted "Ding" again.
The three incense sticks rotated in the air, and then exploded with a "pop" sound.
