Occultist

This morning, they met Xu Yang who was quarantined in the west room.

It was an old, normal-looking bedroom, except that the doors and windows were closed.Xu Xun led them to open a small wooden window, and they could barely see a person lying on the couch inside.

"Xu Yang, your friend is here to see you." Xu Xun shouted inside.

Xu Yang was indeed seriously ill. In June, he was not only wearing long-sleeved trousers, but also a mask covering his entire face.The mask appears to be homemade, with strange symbols drawn on it.

Yiying asked, and Xu Xun said: "It's an old custom. Our Fengshui is not good here, and people often get sick. The elders think that they have offended ghosts and gods, so they take us to draw talismans. Like this talisman, it means pleading. There are old ones and young ones. There are still things pressed on the beams of the house, which means filial piety, let the old people take things, don’t take the little one away.”

Yiying raised his eyebrows: "It's quite particular."

"It's a boy..." Xu Xun said, as if he suddenly realized that the exclamation was wrong, and added, "Girls are also very important, we also draw symbols."

After talking for a while, Xu Yang still didn't get up, and seemed to be groaning on the bed in pain, his whole body only accompanied by the ups and downs of breathing.

The bed was covered with a lot of cloth, and a washbasin was placed on the edge of the bed.After a while, Xu Yang suddenly got up and spit out a large mouthful of red and yellow liquid into the basin with a "wow".

A stench came over his face, and Xu Xun immediately closed the small window.

He wiped his sweat and explained: "Look, he is really sick and delirious, there is really nothing he can do..."

Fei Lian couldn't help asking: "Did you go to the hospital? What is the disease?"

"Hospitals are useless..." Xu Xun mumbled, "This is a genetic disease in our family. Everyone has it at about the same time. It will be cured after a while."

Fei Lian looked at the closed window, and asked again: "He looks like this, how does he eat? Also, how does he take medicine?"

"No need to eat. Just drink some sugar and salt water." Xu Xun said again and again, "In a few days, he will get up and eat by himself."

Fei Lian said: "You guys..." This is a disregard for human life!

But Yi Ying interrupted their conversation and said, "Since you said it's a genetic disease, can other people get it too?"

Xu Xun said: "That's right, people get sick every few months. The Westinghouse is a place for sick people to live in. There are three or four people living there now, and they will almost recover within the next week."

Yiying smiled and said to Fei Lian: "It's really a strange disease. Others know the housework of other people's house best. Let's go and don't disturb their rest."

After that, Xu Xun took the two of them to dinner - to a small restaurant opened by the Xu family.He wanted to take the coal boss to try the farmhouse and have a good talk about doing business.

They entered a private room, and Yi Yingrang closed the curtains, so the three of them were able to eat a large feast in peace.

To be honest, Fei Lian felt that their food was average and very salty, so he had to drink two large jugs of water for a meal.

But Yiying was full of praise, saying: "I have eaten so many Michelin stars, and the recipes that have been improved for more than a hundred years are not as good as a meal here. What a master of folks!"

Fei Lian was shocked, and took another sip of the dish suspiciously, before he was convinced: Yiying's acting skills are the real folk masters, reaching the pinnacle and proficient in proficiency!

Yiying ate while praising, picked his teeth after finishing, and said to the smiling Xu Xun: "No, I must reward. I haven't eaten such a good thing for a long time."

Just as Fei Lian was ready to take out the red envelopes with ease, Yi Ying suddenly said: "Go to the kitchen to reward the chef, I don't need you here for the time being."

He made a gesture, and Fei Lian immediately understood, went out without saying a word, and stood guard at the door.

At this time, in the private room, Yiying took out his mobile phone and a bank transfer came.

After a while, Xu Xun stared at the incoming text message sent from his mobile phone, and asked incredulously, "Is... really delicious?"

Yi Ying said: "What kind of tongue do I have, you still don't believe me?!"

Xu Xun quickly said: "Yes, of course!"

Yiying said again: "When I was eating at the only six-star restaurant in the world, I felt that the truffles made by them were quite authentic, so I called the chef out to reward them one by one. Good guy, how many people did you guess?"

Xu Xun said: "How many?"

Yiying said: "The ones in charge of picking, those in charge of picking, and those in charge of arranging the dishes... There are ten people standing in front of me, count them."

Two seconds later, Xu Xun's eyes were empty: "One, two, three..."

When Fei Lian walked in again, Xu Xun had been successfully hypnotized.

In front of Xu Xun's eyes, he saw Yiying wearing a sacrificial robe, a crown on his head, long hair like a waterfall, and a little Nanming Lihuo Dao seal between his brows. The most authoritative image in Xun's mind.

However, in Fei Lian's eyes, Yi Ying is a man pouring water into his mouth crazily.

After Yiying had a drink, he stuck out his tongue: "This poor farm food is too salty! You can still hear the noise when you throw money in the water, but if you really invest in this farmhouse, there will be no sound at all!"

"You still eat salty." Fei Lian said jokingly, "I also worked hard for acting." After speaking, he automatically found a water bottle and refilled Yi Ying's water glass.

Yiying drank two large glasses of water in one breath before regaining his strength, and said to Xu Xun, "Tell me about your family's genetic diseases."

Xu Xun was still in a daze, and said: "Master Dao, we don't have any genetic diseases, the Xu family...is cursed by ghosts."

"Pfft!" Yiying almost sprayed water, turned to Fei Lian and said, "Look, here is another person who doesn't believe in materialism."

Fei Lian said: "Just listen to him first!"

Xu Xun, who was under hypnosis, didn't respond to Fei Lian, and continued on his own: "Master Dao, it's strange to say that, since a few years ago, people here have started to get sick one after another. This kind of disease started That is to say, I have a fever, but people will vomit blood later, and then I can’t get up. When I send it to the hospital, the doctor will say something about failure first, and then I will be treated in the hospital. It will take a few days, but the disease is not good. The doctor couldn't tell why, and people would still die if the money was spent. Later, we simply didn't send it to the hospital to waste money."

Yi Ying said: "So you went to find the 'Taoist'?"

"We looked for a few old Chinese doctors, but we couldn't see why. We could only hang our lives with medicine. But we couldn't hang our lives for a few days. The old man at home said that this was caused by evil spirits." Xu Xun said, "We looked for it again and again. Two priests and one monk finished reading the scriptures, and one of them asked us to clean the inside and outside of the house with salt water, but the sick people still couldn't be saved. And...they also angered the ghosts, The ghost decided to punish us by making the family give birth to this sick and dead person every once in a while, and it even picked boys!"

Yiying and Feilian looked at each other, feeling that the second half of the story finally reached the point.

Yiying asked with great interest: "What does this ghost look like? How do you know he was angered?"

"I know, it must be that liar surnamed Gu." Xu Xun said, "He himself died of illness, and he blamed us and cursed us for that disease. I've seen him! We've all seen it! When someone got sick at first , the family took turns to keep watch at night, and I have seen Gu, who has turned into a strange thing that is neither human nor ghost, crawling on the ground."

Yi Ying asked, "Do you have any photos?"

Xu Xun said: "We dare not take pictures, for fear of being caught by ghosts when we look at the pictures."

Yiying then said: "Your sickness may not be related to this ghost surnamed Gu, why is it that he must be responsible for this?"

"Because he was a liar before his death." Xu Xun said, "He lied to us that he had a strange disease, and then asked us to move out of the ancestral house——I have passed down the ancestral house for so many years, and the ancestor's incense is so strong, how could it be possible to get sick? What about the children and grandchildren! We drove him away, but he didn't leave, and stayed here; a few juniors were younger, so they beat him up... Later, he died of illness for some reason, blaming us for everything It came from the head. After he became that strange thing, when the cloudy energy was at its heaviest in the middle of the night, he often crawled in to inhale the energy of people. Everyone he saw fell ill later, and within a few days, he would also be sick. died."

Xu Xun's statement is almost the same, and some details are added later.

After he finished speaking, Yiying snapped his fingers, making him fall into a drowsy sleep.When he wakes up, he will forget this memory.

Fei Lian tried to analyze: "It seems that the person surnamed Gu had a friction with the Xu family and even made a move. He may have died of illness after that... Well, no, it may be that he discovered a secret , and then his own form changed, so he came to the Xu family to take revenge? Maybe the illness of Xu Yang and others was caused by his secret technique?"

After hearing this, Yiying clapped blankly.

Fei Lian was delighted: "You think so too?"

"No, I'm congratulating you on your progress: at least this time you have adhered to the materialist worldview." Yi Ying said.

"..." Fei Lian said, "Then what did you see?"

Yi Ying said: "I see that this person is ignorant and stubborn, backward and arrogant. You have to discount what he said, let's put it this way: someone in their family is sick, and they don't want to spend money on the hospital, so they find their own local prescriptions." Zhi. There was a man surnamed Gu who had conflicts with them. They deliberately beat people, and most of them died because of the severe injuries. So they were always worried that the man surnamed Gu would come back to seek revenge after his death, so they found him again. A bunch of Taoist priests drew a lot of talismans."

Fei Lian asked: "However, the person surnamed Gu came back from the dead, and the Xu family got sick one by one, how can we explain it?"

Yiying took a sip of water and said concisely: "It's probably poisoning."

Hearing this, Fei Lian changed from a curious baby with wide-eyed eyes to an unselfish and cold bodyguard in an instant: "No dinner today! Go get a blood test!"

Yiying: "..."