Fairy Tea Temple Notes

On the second day after the end of the ghost month, Ke Shicheng was walking in the old streets of Yongping Town. As soon as he stepped into Yongping Town, he found something strange. The whole town was empty.At the end of the ghost month, most of the ghosts will return to the underworld, but there are also many lonely and wild ghosts. For various reasons, they have no ghost status in the underworld and have been stranded in the human world.

There are many ghosts like this in Yongping Town, so it is impossible not to see any of them.

Ke Shicheng walked along the old street and came to Lao Cai's meat dumpling shop. The door of the meat dumpling shop was closed.Losing their grandson, Lao Cai and his wife were in no mood to manage, and Lao Cai's family went out to look for it.

Standing outside the meat dumpling shop, Ke Shicheng called his client - Cai Bingzhong.Before coming to Yongping Town, Ke Shicheng had contacted him and made an appointment for the two to meet here.

Not long after, a capable man came over. The man looked tired and his eyes were bloodshot.

Cai Bingzhong contacted Ke Shicheng because he had a friend named Liu Chengyun, and Ke Shicheng once helped his friend find the lost jade bracelet.

"Mr. Ke, please come to the town, this way, I will tell you about the situation when my child was lost."

Cai Bingzhong wanted to invite Ke Shicheng to sit at home so that he could talk about the situation in detail.

"You're welcome."

Ke Shicheng followed behind Cai Bingzhong. The old street in the afternoon was sparsely populated and looked particularly lonely.

The two passed the alley behind the meat dumpling shop, Ke Shicheng suddenly stopped and looked towards the alley.

"Where does this alley lead to?"

The alley was narrow and dark, but in the darkness, there were some shining things floating in the air, they were small and inconspicuous.

"It's Wangjialou."

Cai Bingzhong had previously told Ke Shicheng on WeChat that Cai Tou's disappearance might have something to do with Wangjialou.

Speaking of Wangjialou, Cai Bingzhong, a man with tears in his eyes, regretted it.His wife was going to the hospital to take care of his sick father-in-law, but he did not assume the responsibility of taking care of his son for entertainment, so he sent his son back to Yongping Town, and his son encountered something unclean.

Cai Bingzhong believed that there was a ghost, and he had seen it when he was a child.

According to Cai Po, Cai Bingzhong also had an invisible partner when he was young.But Cai Bingzhong didn't remember such a thing, he was probably very young at that time.

Ke Shicheng walked towards the alley, and he stopped in the middle of the alley, right where those light spots gathered.He squatted down, turned on his mobile phone and looked at the ground, and found that the soil on the ground showed signs of burning.

The scorched soil and the remaining spots of light all point to the same thing—this is the trace left after the magic circle was activated.

There are very few people with spiritual power in the human world, and even rarer are those who can be similar to magic circles.

"Is there anything on the ground?"

Cai Bingzhong asked in amazement. He saw Ke Shicheng squatting on the ground suddenly, picking up the soil, as if to check something.

"There's something weird..."

Ke Shicheng stood up, patted the dirt off his hands, and continued to walk forward. At the end of the alley, facing the right wall of Wangjialou, inside the wall was a dilapidated Fanzilou.From the perspective of style, it should be built in the period of the Republic of China, less than a hundred years old.

"Mr. Ke, we went into Wang's House to look for it yesterday, but we didn't find my child."

"Has there been a murder in this building?"

Ke Shicheng stroked a bullet hole on the wall, thinking about it.

From the outside, there is no evil spirit in Wangjialou, and there are no ghosts, but this old house has a smell of blood, which comes from the flowers and plants in the courtyard, and Ke Shicheng can smell it.

"Mr. Ke is a local. Have you ever heard of the bloodbath of Yongping by the Japanese army?"

"know."

"The Wang family also suffered disaster at that time. I also heard from the old man that their whole family died, a husband and wife, and a very young boy."

Cai Bingzhong lowered his voice when he mentioned this matter, fearing that someone would hear him.

"My mum said she saw a little boy, talking to my son, in front of my shop, a few days before my son disappeared."

"Do you suspect it's the kid from Wang's House?"

"Mr. Ke, to tell you the truth, I also grew up in the old street, and I seemed to see a boy's soul when I was young."

Cai Bingzhong has some vague memories of his childhood. As an adult, he is not sure what he saw when he was young.

"How do you get in?"

Adult Ke Shi had already walked to the iron gate, which was locked from the inside, and the lock was already rusted.The walls of Wangjialou are so high that it is not realistic for adults to climb over the walls, let alone children.

"I moved the stairs yesterday and climbed the fence to get in."

"Where's your son, how did he get in?"

"There is a hole behind the house, and I don't know when it was dug."

Cai Bingzhong led the way and brought Ke Shicheng to the back of the house. There was a soil hole at the bottom of the wall behind the house that could accommodate one person.

"It looks like it's collapsed."

Ke Shicheng jumped down from the hole and checked his surroundings.

However, his purpose was not to get to the bottom of how the hole was formed, he didn't bother much about it, and quickly got into the Wang's building.

The house was enveloped in a bloody smell, just as it was felt outside.Ke Shicheng saw a bloodstain in the main hall at a glance, and there were several footprints beside the bloodstain, which was really bright red.

Ke Shicheng soon realized that this was an afterimage, and that the family of three might have been killed here.

"Did Mr. Ke find anything?"

Cai Bingzhong saw Ke Shicheng staring at a place in the main hall with a solemn expression.

"Go upstairs and have a look."

Ke Shicheng didn't answer Cai Bingzhong's words, his discovery was a bit intrusive.Ke Shicheng walked towards the wooden stairs leading to the second floor, and he noticed a child's handprint on the dusty stair railing.

"I found some snacks upstairs, and a spinning top for my son. He played on the second floor and came here."

Cai Bingzhong said sadly that yesterday he and his neighbors broke into Wang's house and searched all the rooms, even under the bed and wardrobe, but they only saw things but no one.

These are the discoveries of the client. He had already told Ke Shicheng when he commissioned it, but Ke Shicheng needs to see it for himself. This is his usual way of doing things.

Go up to the second floor and enter the room where Cai Bingzhong said he found the spinning top. Judging from the yellowed textbooks on the desk in the room, this is a child's room.

Entering this room, Ke Shicheng sensed an aura, where people live, there will be human aura, and where ghosts live, there will be ghosts.

It seems that Cai Bingzhong's statement that his son's disappearance was related to the children of the Wang family was not based on speculation.

Leaving the children's room, Ke Shicheng stood on the balcony, looking down at the flowers and plants in the courtyard. The flowers and plants grew wildly, adding to the ghostly atmosphere of this old house.

Ke Shicheng did not forget to look at the alley he came to before. Standing on the balcony on the second floor, looking at the alley leading to the main road of the old street, Ke Shicheng suddenly found a figure in the alley also looking at Wangjialou.Ke Shicheng wanted to look at that person's appearance, but the figure shrank back immediately.

Want to escape?

Ke Shicheng leaped over the balcony, terrified Cai Bingzhong, and then saw Ke Shicheng land safely, climb over the wall at high speed, and rush towards the alley like an arrow.

"Mr. Ke!"

Cai Bingzhong yelled anxiously on the balcony. Looking at the difference between the balcony and the ground, he gave up learning Ke Tianshi's falling exercises, and he chose the stairs to go downstairs.

When Cai Bingzhong chased him to the alley, there was no shadow of Ke Shicheng.

Master Ke seemed to be chasing someone, Cai Bingzhong was very anxious, he called Ke Shicheng's mobile phone, but no one answered.Just as anxious as a headless chicken, Ke Shicheng's returning figure suddenly appeared outside the alley again, with a calm expression on his face.Cai Bingzhong couldn't keep calm this time, he yelled: "What happened just now, did you see my son!?"

Although he sent a photo of his son to Master Ke, he was not sure whether Master Ke could recognize people in the dark alley from such a long distance on the balcony.

"It's not your son, it's an adult."

Ke Shicheng can't tell Cai Bingzhong much, because he just chased a ghost messenger.

"I need one of your son's personal items."

"Okay, Mr. Ke, follow me to the house, and I'll bring it to you."

Cai Bingzhong seemed a little dissatisfied when he heard that it was not his son who was chasing him.He felt that this master had few words and was a little weird. If Liu Chengyun hadn't tried his best to recommend him, Cai Bingzhong would have doubted Ke Shicheng's ability at this time.

Back at Cai's house on the old street, the house was empty, and the family went out to find their children.I couldn't find Caitou yesterday, so I called the police immediately, but there was no new progress from the police. Cai's family mobilized relatives and friends to go out to find him.Cai Bingzhong stayed at home temporarily because he had an appointment with Ke Shicheng.

Cai Bingzhong took out a green short-sleeved T-shirt for Ke Shicheng, which was worn by Cai Tou. On the back of the short-sleeved T-shirt, there was a red amulet pinned to it.

Rubbing the missing person's clothing, Ke Shicheng could sense the person wearing it.Ke Shicheng was sure that this was not a relic, the child was still alive.

"He's still alive."

Ke Shicheng said softly.As soon as his words were spoken, Cai Bingzhong's tears rolled down.Cai Bingzhong turned his face away, sobbing.After a good meeting, after calming down, Cai Bingzhong asked Ke Shicheng: "Master, where is he then?"

"The disappearance of your son was not caused by ghosts, but by people."

Ke Shicheng was very frank.

"Mr. Cai, there is not much I can do to help you. You should ask the police for help."

Ke Shicheng can catch ghosts and demons, but he does not participate in catching criminals. This commission is beyond his scope of work.

"Does it have nothing to do with the child of the Wang family?"

"When I went to the town, I found one thing. All the lonely ghosts in the town disappeared without a trace."

"It's hard to say that your son's disappearance has anything to do with it, it's not something a ghost can do."

What happened to these ghosts?No matter what they encounter, they cannot protect themselves, let alone kidnap a child from the human world.

"Lonely ghost?"

Cai Bingzhong couldn't keep up with Ke Shicheng's thinking.

"Yes, it is abnormal."

Ke Shicheng got up, he didn't want to waste the time of a worried father, besides, he also had another matter to investigate now.

"Master Ke, even though you said you couldn't help, I still want to thank you."

Cai Bingzhong sent Ke Shicheng downstairs, and Ke Shicheng's words that the child was still alive made him feel much more relieved.

"No need."

Ke Shicheng stood on the street and bid farewell to Cai Bingzhong. Before leaving, he asked Cai Bingzhong: "How do I get to the Town God's Temple here?" Cai Bingzhong didn't know what he was going to do, but he pointed the way.

Naturally, Cai Bingzhong didn't know that Ke Shicheng was chasing him in the alley, and what he caught was an old acquaintance—a Qin official under King Qing.The officials of Qin asked Ke Shicheng to meet him at the Town God's Temple, and talked to Ke Shicheng about something important.