It was not the bedroom door that was knocked, but the entrance door. The knocking was getting louder and louder and more urgent.
"Who is it?" Tan asked loudly, but instead of opening the door, he turned around and went back to the bedroom. There was no other way, a guest was coming, and it was too inappropriate to be naked. He had to put on his clothes first.
"Tanzi, it's me, open the door quickly." Qian Bo's anxious voice came from outside the door.
"Come on, come on. Why are you so scared if you don't sleep at night?" Tan Xuan muttered after putting on his pajamas and slowly opened the door. After opening the door, Tan Xuan was startled because there was more than just Qian Bo outside the door.
, behind Qian Bo were Su Ying and two elderly people, each of them looked more anxious than the other, with tears still hanging on the faces of Su Ying and the old lady.
"What is going on?" Tan Xuan asked in surprise.
"You have opened the door. I was afraid you were not at home. Let's go in and talk. Dad, Mom, let's go in. Tanzi is my brother, he will definitely be able to help us."
Qian Bo didn't show any signs of strangers, and he was not as reserved as before when he came to the door. He and Su Ying supported each other, walked in the door and went straight to the sofa.
"What's going on?" Tan Xuan scratched his head, closed the door behind him, and walked over.
"These two uncles and aunts are..." Although he had already guessed their identities, Tan Xuan still pretended to be stupid and asked.
"These are your sister-in-law's parents and my father-in-law and mother-in-law." Qian Bo answered while pulling Tan Xuan to sit on the sofa next to him.
"Hello, I am Su Yuncheng, Qian Bo's father-in-law." The old man took the initiative to reach out and shook Tan Xuan's hand. He was a man after all. Although he had a sad look on his face, he still had to speak when he should.
"Hello, Uncle Su, please sit down." Although Tan Xuan was at his own home, facing Qian Bo's father-in-law, he could only address him by his seniority, while Qian Bo's mother-in-law was wiping his eyes.
Tears, he didn’t say hello.
"You guys come here, what's the matter?"
Su Yuncheng sighed and said, "I'm really sorry to disturb you so late, but we do have something to ask you, and I hope you can bear with me."
Tan Xuan waved his hand quickly, "Uncle Su, don't be so polite. With the relationship between me and Brother Qian, you can just say whatever you want."
"I...sigh!" Su Yunchang sighed, swallowing the words as he spoke, tears suddenly filling his eyes.
Tan Xuan was confused for a while. Seeing that Su Yuncheng was not in a good mood, he turned to Qian Bo and asked, "What is going on? What's going on?"
Qian Bo patted Tan Xuan's thigh, bit his lip and said, "Tanzi, something happened to Su Cheng."
"Something happened to Su Cheng, what happened to her?" Tan Xuan was even more confused. What does Su Cheng's accident have to do with him? He didn't know what it meant that his family came to visit him.
"What's wrong with Su Cheng?" Xiao Di also came out of the bedroom at this time. She could hear clearly what was said in the living room and in the bedroom, so she walked out and stood beside Tan Xuan.
"Su Cheng, she, she...she is missing." Qian Bo faltered again and again, and finally spoke out.
"What!" Tan Xuan and Xiao Di were both shocked by the news. It was too sudden. They just looked at each other, and then they didn't know what to say.
"Ah... Xiaocheng, my Xiaocheng..." Tan Xuan here and Qian Bo's mother-in-law suddenly burst into tears.
"Mom, what are you doing? Don't cry..." Although Su Ying tried to stop her, it was to no avail, and she also shed tears.
Su Yuncheng on the side was annoyed and said angrily to his wife: "Cry, cry, you know how to cry in one day. If you want to cry, go home and cry. Don't embarrass yourself in other people's homes."
"What's going on? Why are you still arguing?" Tang Miao also came out to join in the fun at this time. Looking at the crying guests in the living room, she was completely at a loss what to do.
"Stop talking." Tan Xuan glared at Tang Miao, and then asked Qian Bo, "What's going on? What do you want me to do for you? Do you need a car?"
Qian Bo waved his hand quickly: "It's not a car."
Tan Xuan was a little confused and asked: "Then you ask me for help.
What's the deal? If you want Xiao Di to help inquire about the progress, that's fine, you don't need to mobilize so much troops, right?"
"No." Qian Bo waved his hand, glanced at the three crying and cursing people over there, sighed again, and said, "We want you to help see if Su Cheng is still alive."
"What?" Tan Xuan looked at Qian Bo in surprise. It was not that this request was too much, but that instead of looking for someone at this time, he asked about life and death first, which puzzled him.
"Listen to me, the specific situation is like this." Qian Bo waved his hand towards Su Ying, telling her to take care of her parents, and then said to Tan Xuan: "Just after the Spring Festival, Su Cheng and several young people
I went out to play with my friends. My family was afraid that something might happen to her and that she would be annoyed, so we decided to call her every other day to make sure she was safe. However, no one answered the call the day before yesterday, and later the call could not be reached at all.
I've been trying to contact her for the past two days but I can't get in touch with her."
Tan Xuan was speechless for a while. He wanted to laugh but was embarrassed, "Maybe the phone is broken or for other reasons, so you can't contact her. You can contact the friends who went out with her. Why did you think something happened to her?
Woolen cloth?"
"No." Qian Bo shook his head vigorously, "She just told her family when she went out this time. We don't know who she went out with. Only when Su Ying logged into Weibo today did we see where Su Cheng had been in the past few days.
, I found a friend of Su Cheng from the comments, and after a lot of searching, I contacted someone who was playing with her. I heard that person said that Su Cheng and the others planned to climb the Wild Great Wall in the next two days. It might be that they couldn't get in touch with her in the past two days.
They are trapped in the mountains."
"Then how did you get in touch with this person? Didn't he go with you?" Xiao Di interjected and asked.
"He was injured a few days ago and didn't go with us."
"It's normal if you're stuck in the mountains and have no phone calls. It's just been a few days..."
"Hey, my little Chengcheng, how can I live if you are gone..."
Before Xiao Di finished speaking, Qian Bo's mother-in-law started crying again, which made Xiao Di stick out his tongue and hurriedly hid behind Tan Xuan.
Su Yuncheng slowed down and yelled angrily: "Stop crying, Su Ying, take your mother to your house. We haven't asked anything yet. She is here to die or live. Do you still ask?"
"Uncle Su, don't be angry. Auntie is also worried about your daughter, so she is a bit rude, which is completely understandable. It's just that you asked me for help. Are you too anxious, a little sick, and rushed to seek medical treatment? I think you should ask Su Cheng and the others where they are.
Where is the wild Great Wall? Just call the police or find a rescue team."
"Tanzi, there's nothing we can do about it. The people we contacted only knew that Su Cheng and the others were in North China, but their location wasn't confirmed when she left. How can we find rescue or call the police without an exact location?
"
Tan Xuan looked troubled and said, "Brother Qian, you know what I'm capable of. I'm pretty good at fighting and killing. Ask Ji Buji where I can go back."
"Tan Xuan, please help us." Su Ying said, wiping tears from the side, "Last time, you were able to help find and restore Lao Qian's soul when it was scattered. Chengcheng, you have nothing to do with this matter."
There must be a way, right?"
Seeing Su Ying looking at him with hope, Tan Xuan explained with a bitter face: "Sister-in-law, the last time I looked for Brother Qian's soul, I found it with him. It's different from this one. Now I have no way to start.
"
"Yes, let's start from here." Qian Bo immediately took off the small bag Su Ying was carrying from Su Ying's body and held it in front of Tan Xuan like a tribute.
"I know you need your own things when doing this. We have brought them. Do you think these are okay?"
"You guys... let me give it a try." Tan Xuan shook his head helplessly. Unexpectedly, he was pushed to the shelf again, but when he opened the bag, he threw the bag into Qian Bo's arms.
"What are you taking? Take it away quickly!"
"What happened to the things you took?" Qian Bo opened the bag in confusion and took out Su Cheng's clothes. When he saw it clearly, his face turned dark, and he quickly stuffed it back into the bag and threw it to Su Ying...
"What kind of mess are you holding?"
Su Ying looked aggrieved
He said: "You said you should use Chengcheng's underwear. The closer the clothes are, the better. So I took these. This is what Chengcheng wears. What, did I get it wrong?"
Qian Bo was almost speechless. He couldn't say anything in front of his father-in-law, mother-in-law and two beauties. He turned around and asked Tan Xuan, "Tanzi, can this be used?"
Tan Xuan snorted and said, "You can use it yourself, I will think of other ways."
"Do you have any other ideas?" Everyone's eyes lit up.
Tan Xuan went to the study and walked around. When he came out, he had a piece of paper in his hand. As he walked, he tore the paper into a human shape, and then went to the kitchen to get a knife and a plate.
"Come on!" Tan Xuan put the knife on the coffee table.
"Tanzi, what are you doing with the knife?" Qian Bo asked nervously.
"Children are the heart and soul of their parents. If you want to find them, you need to use the heart and soul of your uncle and aunt."
"Ah!" Qian Bo was excited when he heard this. He looked at Tan Xuan and asked, "Tanzi, are you kidding me? How do you take the blood from your heart and disembowel it?"
Tan Xuan glared at Qian Bo, "Don't talk nonsense if you don't know. Connect your fingers to your heart. My uncle and aunt each cut their fingers and dripped five drops of blood into the plate."
"good."
The two old men loved their daughter so much that they cut their fingers with a knife and dripped blood into the plate. Let alone five drops, looking at this posture, they would not even blink an eye even if they were asked to drain the blood.
The blood drops pooled together on the bottom of the plate. Tan Xuan took out another brush, dipped it in the blood and wrote the word "Su Cheng" on the torn paper figure.
"Tell me her birthday and horoscope."
"She is from the year 2000..."
Qian Bo's mother-in-law announced a date in the Gregorian calendar, and Tan Xuan converted it to the lunar calendar and wrote it down on the paper one by one. After writing, Tan Xuan threw the paper figure into the plate, pressed it down with a brush, and the white paper was immediately covered with paper.
The blood was stained red.
Tan Xuan tapped the edge of the plate with a brush, and used the remaining blood to draw a square on the bottom of the plate. Then he lit a cigarette, exhaled towards the paper figure on the plate, and then tapped the coffee table while silently chanting:
: "Su Cheng, Su Cheng, blood and water are spirits... Listen to my command, get up!"
Tan Xuan suddenly slapped the coffee table, causing everything on the table to shake. Only the plate remained motionless.
"rise!"
Tan Xuan patted the coffee table again, but the plate remained untouched. Tan Xuan frowned. After staring at the plate and the paper figure for a moment, Tan Xuan returned to the kitchen and took out a bottle of white wine and poured out some mixture.
In the blood and water, he lit another cigarette, took a small puff and then spit the smoke into the plate.
"Bang..."
The plate burned fiercely, but the burning continued, and the paper figure remained motionless, but its color became darker and darker.
Tan Xuan reached out and grabbed a handful in the flames, caught the flame core in his hand, and then hit the flame core onto the paper figure on the plate.
"Life and death matter, let me move!"
The paper figure on the plate moved, stood up in an instant, turned around in the plate and then lay down again. To be precise, it should be lying down, because the writing side was pressed to the ground.
"this……"
Su Ying's parents were stunned when they saw this for the first time. Others didn't even dare to breathe, but a trace of doubt flashed across Tan Xuan's face.