When I returned to the room, I forced Han Jiuchen to lie down on the bed. I took out a wet tissue from my bag, held his hand, and wanted to wipe it with him.
I said before him: "Don't say you are a ghost and don't need it. There is so much blood, you have to wipe it clean."
Han Jiuchen then allowed me to hold his hand and treat his wound.
The room was so eerily quiet for a moment that I could almost hear my own heartbeat.
After taking care of both hands, I hesitated to ask him what happened today.
The murderous corpse that looked exactly like him, and the strange place of the Zhong family.
Unexpectedly, he asked me first: "Why are you so good today?"
I rolled my eyes and pretended to be nice, "I know you're in a bad mood, so I don't dare to mess with you."
Han Jiuchen held my hand and said, "Who can you hide your thoughts from?"
I raised my eyes to meet his, and from the look in his eyes, I knew that I had nothing to hide.
So I simply gave up on myself, crumpled the used wet wipes into a ball and threw it on the ground, muttering: "Then you should tell me honestly..."
"The one who looks exactly like you..." I wanted to say the murderous corpse. Considering how much Han Jiuchen cared about him, I swallowed those two words. "And what is that weird place in the Zhong family?"
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Han Jiuchen was silent for a while and then said: "He is my brother, Han Mochen."
"Eh?" I didn't expect him to be so honest.
"Do you remember that I told you that my current body is regarded as a body-snatching?"
"Remember." I nodded.
Han Jiuchen told me that at that time, his soul was helpless and he wandered for too long, so he was in danger of losing his soul.
In desperation, he found a recently deceased baby to possess.
The baby was the youngest son of the head of the Han family in Xuanmen. He took this identity and lived a new life.
Han Mochen is the brother of the original owner. He has loved him since he was a child. Even if he later found out that he was not the real Han Jiuchen, he still regarded him as his biological brother.
Gradually, Han Jiuchen was moved by the Han family and forgot that he was just a lonely ghost.
At that time, Tang Xuan was also the eldest disciple of the Han family. He was supposed to be the first disciple of the famous sect, but he went astray.
Tang Xuan also surrendered and joined the ghost realm where resentful ghosts gathered. He became the ghost emperor's lackey and informed the ghost emperor of the location of the Xuanmen main altar and the method of cracking the entrance guarding array, causing the ghost emperor to lead all the ghosts.
Attack Xuanmen.
In that battle, Xuanmen was almost destroyed.
Han Jiuchen's strength was restricted by his physical body.
In order to suppress the Ghost Emperor, his soul left his body.
Just when he was having a fierce fight with the Ghost Emperor, Tang Xuan also held his body in order to threaten the Han family.
Having said this, Han Jiuchen fell silent.
In fact, if he didn't continue, how could I guess what would happen next.
It was probably Han Mochen who chose to sacrifice himself in order to save him, and was turned into a vicious corpse by Tang Xuanyi.
And I discovered that Han Mochen was dressed exactly the same as the ghost I met on the day of the interview.
Is it possible that... Han Mochen's soul was kept in that shop by Han Jiuchen, and his body was taken away by Tang Xuanyi?
Just when I was about to ask Han Jiuchen, I noticed that his hands were clenched into fists again.
I really can't ask about his current situation.
Worried that he would hurt himself again, I reached out and gently opened his fingers.
"Your brother...he loves you very much." I tried to comfort him, but as soon as I said these words, I regretted it.
I am the worst at comforting people, and Han Jiuchen must be even more sad.
I immediately raised my eyes to observe his emotions.
Sure enough, a look of pain appeared on his face.
"What kind of brother am I..." He lowered his head and covered his face with his other hand, "I'm just a lonely ghost occupying a magpie's nest..."
"But you didn't deceive him!" I immediately retorted to him, "He knows that you are not the real Han Jiuchen, but he still treats you as his younger brother. This is his attitude."
"No matter what, I am ashamed of the Han family."
I felt that I could no longer let Han Jiuchen continue to be in this mood, so I tried to divert his attention.
"Let's change the topic. What is the Zhong family's treacherous place?"
Han Jiuchen sighed and tried his best to adjust his emotions.
"The Zhong family is a rising star in Xuanmen. They are good at refining weapons, but with the pressure from the three Han, Chu and Su families, it is difficult to get ahead." Han Jiuchen may also feel that he cannot dwell too much on the past, so he followed my question to change the topic.
I recalled the dates of birth and death written on Han Jiuchen's tablet. Counting this time, he was considered to be the ancestor of Xuanmen. No wonder those in the Spiritual Supervision Bureau admired him so much.
"So Zhong Jingyuan wants to take you in while you are injured, and make a comeback in the Zhong family or even the entire Xuanmen..." I said, and suddenly an idea flashed in my mind, "That's not right -"
"How did Zhong Jingyuan know that you were injured?!"
I remembered what Tang Xuanyi said again, Han Jiuchen pretended to be injured to show weakness...
Could it be——
"Tang Xuanyi! Zhong Jingyuan and Tang Xuanyi are colluding!" I looked stunned. "Zhong Jingyuan was just his first step to test whether you were really seriously injured. Han Mochen was the escape route he left for himself.
If you fall into the trap, it will ensure that he escapes intact."
Han Jiuchen said with slight approval, "It's not too stupid."
"What kind of secret land did you ask for from the Zhong family? Does it have anything to do with the collusion between them?" I asked uncertainly, "Do you suspect that it was not Zhong Jingyuan who colluded with Tang Xuanyi, but... the entire Zhong family?"
"That's right." Han Jiuchen admitted, "In Xuanmen, the Han family is good at controlling ghosts, the Chu family is good at formations, and the Su family is good at talismans. In order to replace the Chu family, the Zhong family has been studying the method of transforming formations with weapons for many years.
The treacherous place at home is the formation that traps the resentful ghosts."
"Tang Xuan also became a resentful ghost and needed a lot of resentment to maintain his strength," Han Jiuchen said. "In the early years, a barrier had been set up between the human world and the ghost realm, making it difficult to communicate with each other. If Tang Xuan also wanted to absorb the resentment, the Zhong family's treacherous land would be very difficult.
Good choice."
I thought thoughtfully, "So, Zhong Hengyuan came here today to test me. His most important task is probably to find out if you have any clues, right?"
Han Jiuchen acknowledged it with a hum.
"Then if you want to find Zhong Hengyuan in a cunning way, don't you just tell the Zhong family openly that they have been exposed?" I suddenly became nervous, "What if they become evil and do something bad to you?"
"Then it'll be ready in one pot." Han Jiuchen said.
"..."
You have strength and you are awesome.
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Before Chu Xuan found out the results of his investigation, Han Jiuchen actually had nothing to do.
I don't have classes in school, and I don't want to live alone in a house in the city, so I naturally stayed here.
Han Jiuchen's soul left his body and was eating incense in the incense box on the altar table. Before entering, I told the ghosts in the courtyard to take good care of me.
If this were the case before, I would never believe that my daily life was managed by a few ghosts.
Probably because they knew I was scared, none of them came to provoke me. They only came to call me at meal time.
I just squatted in the house and let the ghosts take care of me, living a life of opening my mouth and stretching out my hands for food.
Every day I either ate or slept, read books, and played games. When I got really bored, I went out to watch the ghosts playing mahjong in the yard.
If we ignore the fact that they are ghosts, I think we still get along relatively happily.
Within a week, I gained weight.
I looked at the scale with sadness and anger, and decided that I could no longer continue to degenerate.
It happened that my former high school classmate got married, so I finally used this reputation to clean myself up and go out to attend the wedding.
I arrived at the hotel, exchanged greetings with the newlyweds, gave them red envelopes, and was taken to the teahouse on the second floor.
At a glance, I saw classmates with whom I had a close relationship sitting together and chatting. One of them was named Zhao Yujie.
In my memory, Zhao Yujie was a girl with a flamboyant personality. Her facial features were pretty and her eyes were particularly shiny and watery. However, her skin was a bit bad and her face was covered with acne.
Zhao Yujie's skin is now much better than before, and it's not an exaggeration to say that she can't even break it. However, her skin is too white and tender, which makes me feel a little scared when I look at it.
But I didn’t dare to say it in front of others, maybe they were spreading the powder on purpose!
I shook my head and plunged into the group of them. I found several girls chattering around a man who was about twenty-four or five years old. The hand of one of them was being held and touched by the man.
"What are you doing?" I asked, pushing my former deskmate Feng Min.
Feng Min said: "This handsome guy is reading our palms for free!"
I twitched the corner of my mouth, "Should he read his palm for free, or should you give him a free palm reading?"
I thought I spoke very quietly, but unexpectedly the man turned his head and looked in my direction.
The corners of his mouth curved up, as if he were smiling, but the smile was not conveyed to his eyes, and he looked at me with a bit of arrogance.
Logically speaking, the environment was so noisy and there were two or three people between us, so he shouldn't be able to hear what I said.
But judging from the expression on his face, I felt like he heard it.
Feng Min bumped my waist with her elbow and told me to stop talking nonsense.
She pulled me to the sofa on the other side and sat down. While eating melon seeds, she asked me if I wanted to spend her birthday with her after the banquet.
Then I remembered that today is her birthday.
Today is her birthday, and I haven't been out for a long time, so I agreed immediately.
After we agreed, she told me some gossip she had just heard: for example, the former class beauty married an uncle who could be her father, the class monitor had an annual salary of tens of thousands, and so-and-so reunited with her first high school love.
Well, so and so cheated on her after the class reunion...
After chatting for a while, someone came to remind us to go downstairs to the restaurant as the wedding was about to start.
During the dinner, I saw the man who read fortune telling again.
He was sitting at the next table, and when our eyes met, he raised his glass to me.
I didn’t know him, and I thought he was quite evil, so I pretended not to see him and quickly turned my head away.
After the wedding, the banquet begins.
A few of us agreed to celebrate Feng Min's birthday, and we decided on our afternoon itinerary during the meal - we would first go to the newly opened escape room experience center nearby, then pick up the cake after we came out, and finally go straight to the KTV.
It is said that the experience center is doing very well. If we go late, we may not be able to get in line, so we eat quickly.
After the meal, after greeting the newcomers and chatting for a while, the group of six people quickly rushed to their destination.
We were lucky, the number we got was relatively early, and we didn't have to wait long before being led in by the staff.
Feng Min chose the theme of the movie, which is an adventure movie with the theme of Greek mythology.
We were taken into a room with warm yellow tones, and a host dressed as an ancient Greek priest told us the background of the story.
The story we chose requires you to reach Pandora's Temple through the maze, and then open Pandora's Box based on the clues collected along the way.
After confirming that we all understood, the host gestured to the camera a few times, and the whole room suddenly changed.