Soul Eater

Ke Yikai was stunned for a long time.

Could it be that his being haunted by ghosts has nothing to do with 502?

He looked at Xiao Siming blankly, Xiao Siming finally stopped staring at the cat's eyes, turned his head, moved his lips, and said to him silently: "Ask him for his contact information."

So Ke Yikai squeezed the phone and said: "Whether there is someone living or not, you must give me one of your contact information, right? As a tenant, I also want to protect my rights and interests. This family often disturbs the residents in the middle of the night, do you care?"

In the end, his tone was a little angry, and the other side of the property had no choice but to say: "Okay, I will check it for you. If this phenomenon really exists, I suggest everyone sit down and discuss it calmly."

After hanging up the phone, Ke Yikai immediately lost the strength he had just now, and changed back to the appearance of a small bird clinging to Wei Xuan, looking at him pitifully.

The picture is very gay in gay air.

"..." Wei Xuan glanced at his muscular arms that were comparable to his own, as well as the stubble he couldn't take care of after being tortured by female ghosts these days, and couldn't help complaining in his heart: It would be great if this was a girl .

Or a small white and soft one like Ruan Yang will do.

Ke Yikai: "Master, Master, could it be that we made a mistake?"

Xiao Siming glanced at him, but his tone was very firm: "That's right, there is a smell behind the door."

Ke Yikai was taken aback: "Ah, ah? What's the smell?"

Master Xiao cherished his words like gold, and turned a deaf ear to his question, but fell into deep thought.

Humans and ghosts have different paths, since the thing behind the door has already entangled Ke Yikai, it is basically certain that it is aimed at his life.

Things that hurt people's lives can be eaten!

Mr. Xiao secretly rubbed his hands expectantly, but the next second he thought of Ruan Yang's pale face every time he watched him eat, and suddenly felt a little worried.

Ruan Yang is very obedient now, but he has become so timid. I don't know if he will be more courageous after the seal is released.

Thinking of this, his eyes subconsciously drifted to his little staff, and then he saw Ruan Yang standing in front of the 501 gate.

Mr. Xiao's pleasant voice came from behind: "What are you looking at?"

Ruan Yang handed him the big red "囍" character he had just picked up, and pointed to the crack in the door of 501: "It floated out of the room."

Wei Xuan let out a "huh": "Is this family married?"

He looked at Ke Yikai, but Ke Yikai said that he didn't know: "I don't go out very often, and I don't even know if anyone lives upstairs."

Wei Xuan smacked his lips, and commented: "The relationship between the neighbors is cold." They were chatting without saying a word, but suddenly a dark wind blew out from the door.

A stack of red "囍" characters flew out in the wind, covering their heads and faces like a goddess scattering flowers.

Ke Yikai said "Fuck", all the goosebumps all over his body stood up: "Why do I feel that something is wrong!"

Wei Xuan grabbed one casually and comforted him, "It's just a few pieces of paper left over from a wedding, what are you afraid of...fuck it!"

Before he finished speaking, he saw a short old lady suddenly standing behind the crack of the door. At first glance, her expression was gloomy and frightening, and she was really scary.

The old lady looked about sixty years old, she looked at the handsome young men in front of her with vigilant eyes, and her tone was not very friendly: "What are you here for?"

Wei Xuan stretched out his hand to cover Ke Yikai's screaming mouth because he was afraid, and put on his kindest smile: "Hello, Auntie, let's come to investigate something, do you know the residents of 502?"

The old lady in 501 changed her face when she heard the words, and she became even more impolite: "What are you going to investigate? No one lives on the other side!"

Wei Xuan said: "Isn't that right, auntie, the property just said that 502 has been rented out, have you never met the neighbor across the door?"

The old lady wanted to close the door without saying a word, but Xiao Siming reached out and grabbed the doorknob.

He was so strong that the old lady didn't move after tugging twice, and suddenly shouted in fear and horror: "What are you going to do! Let go! Otherwise, I'll call the police!"

Xiao Siming squinted his eyes, brought Ke Yikai, who was trembling with fear, to the old lady with one hand, and said, "He is from 402 downstairs, and I have been hearing people arguing in 502 upstairs these days. As a resident of 501, you , have you heard any noise from the next door at night?"

The old lady froze when she heard the words, and looked at Ke Yikai suspiciously: "Did you really hear the voice from 502?"

Her tone was a bit weird, but Ke Yikai was so afraid that he didn't notice it, so he opened his mouth and said, "Really! Can't you hear it? There are people quarreling around midnight!"

The old lady showed some hesitation, and said to herself: "Could it be that a thief has entered, I have to go and see..."

While they were talking, Ruan Yang had silently picked up the happy characters that had fallen all over the floor, tidied them up and handed them to the old lady, saying, "This came from your home."

The old lady's originally unfriendly expression was also blocked by Ruan Yang's obedient and lovable appearance, her throat choked, and she took the wad of happy words: "Thank you."

"You're welcome," Ruan Yang sipped out two small dimples, and said with a sweet smile, "Is there a happy event in your family recently? Have you ever paid attention to the opposite side? Why are you so sure that a thief has entered?"

The old lady really couldn't show a tough attitude towards him, so she hesitated for a moment and replied: "I rented the opposite side, of course I know if there is anyone in it."

Wei Xuan was very surprised when he heard this: "Auntie, you live in 501 and rent it across the street. Is it convenient for you to go for a stroll after dinner or for arguing and separation?"

The old lady was not so polite to him, she snorted coldly, and her tone was completely different from when she was facing Ruan Yang just now: "What do you care about me! I rented it as a wedding room for my daughter."

Wei Xuan: "..." Forget about the boss, why do strangers treat them differently? ?

He looked at Ruan Yang and Xiao Siming with grievance and resentment.

Xiao Siming is not the kind of boss who would appease employees' petty emotions. He took this opportunity and said to the old lady: "You said you would go to the next door to see? If you don't mind, we can go with you. If there is a thief , so that I can help you catch him."

The old lady looked him up and down, and seemed to think that what Xiao Siming said made sense, she nodded after a while and said, "Okay, thank you all. Come in, I'll get the key."

Several people followed the old lady into 501, and Ruan Yang noticed that the old lady's house seemed a little deserted.

Although the decoration style has been based on warm colors, and there are several red happy characters pasted on the light yellow walls, the desertedness is not very popular.

Just as he was thinking about it, he heard the old lady say: "My wife passed away last year, and now I live alone at home."

Wei Xuan asked, "Where's your daughter? She won't come back to see you?"

The old lady's eyes turned red when she heard the words, she pressed the corners of her eyes and said, "She's not here."

Ruan Yang couldn't bear to think just now, the aunt is so pitiful, the daughter doesn't come back to visit her, the empty-nest old man is really too lonely... Then the old lady continued: "She died in a car accident 20 years ago."

Ruan Yang: "..."

He looked at the red happy letter in his hand, and suddenly felt his scalp go numb.

Ke Yikai looked at the word "囍" on the wall and was almost scared to pee by the old lady's words.

He made a few "ho ho"s in his throat before he could barely utter a few words: "Let's go...then you...wedding room..."

The old lady was quite dissatisfied, and squinted at him: "It's impolite! Don't you know what a shady marriage is?"

Ke Yikai: "..." He really doesn't know about yin marriages.

Nima!Does it mean marrying the dead?

Xiao Siming had already explained the meaning of yin marriage to the bewildered Ruan Yang.

"Yin marriage is usually the elders of the family to find a spouse for the deceased child. The two parties in the yin marriage can be the living and the dead, or the dead and the dead. After death, the yin marriage for them in the yang world is also valid in the underworld. Powerful, a man and a woman who have passed away are legal couples in the underworld after a yin marriage."

Ruan Yang was a little puzzled, and asked in a low voice: "Isn't a person a ghost after death? Why do ghosts still get married?"

Xiao Siming looked at him with complicated eyes for a moment, but quickly regained his composure, and said in a low voice: "When a person dies and goes to the underworld, he is not reincarnated immediately. First, he has to wash away his sins, and then go to the Naihe Bridge to line up and wait for his turn. Only when you are alone can you go to the next life, this process will be very lonely without anyone to accompany you."

There are so many ghosts lined up beside the Naihe Bridge, and some of them have not fulfilled their long-cherished wishes in life, and they are unwilling to be reincarnated after death. They would rather stay in a fixed place and wait until a familiar soul appears.

The underworld is not like the world of the sun, where there is no sunrise and sunset, and no concept of time, but only the endless loneliness tasted during the long wait.

Ruan Yang nodded with a small "oh", and at the same time, there was a trace of doubt in his heart.

How does Mr. Xiao know so much about the underworld?

But he changed his mind, Mr. Xiao and Mr. Hei Wuchang are still friends, and their identities are probably very unusual.

Wei Xuan knew about yin marriages, but he was still a little puzzled: "Your daughter has been dead for 20 years, why marry her now?"

The old lady stroked the red paper in her hand, and her face, which had been tense until now, finally showed a bit of kindness: "I was worried that she would be too lonely down there, and you wouldn't believe me if I told you. A few days ago, my old man entrusted me with a dream , said that she saw her daughter, but many people below are in pairs, and our daughter is still alone."

The old lady's name is Jiang Sulan. Her daughter Zhao Jin was only 20 years old when she died in a car accident. She was just as old as a flower.

After her husband passed away last year, Jiang Sulan often dreamed that the old man came to talk to her, just like when she was alive, chatting about family matters and telling her to remember to add clothes when it was cold.

Last month, the old man said in a dream that his daughter hadn't found a partner until now, which made people feel worried. After Jiang Sulan woke up, she thought for a long time and decided to marry her daughter in a yin marriage.

Jiang Sulan has a little sister who also lost her son at an early age. She was only 22 years old when her son died. She had a very good relationship with that little sister. The next day, under the introduction of others, they took the child's birth date to find a master who can preside over the yin marriage for the two children.

Several people came to the 502 door.

Ke Yikai was terrified of this, and wanted to put his arms around Wei Xuan, but Wei Xuan avoided him calmly.

"This is the wedding room I prepared for them." Jiang Sulan put the key into the keyhole of 502. As soon as the door was opened, the people at the door felt a very unnatural coolness. People shivered.

Ke Yikai: "Mom!"

Xiao Siming frowned, the temperature was so low, obviously there was a ghost, and there was more than one!

So Xiao Siming opened his lips and said, "This—"

Jiang Sulan spoke ferociously from the side: "This thief actually turned on the air conditioner secretly!"

Xiao Siming: "..."

Ke Yikai: "..."

As soon as the light was turned on, the short Jiang Sulan was the first to rush in and turn off the air conditioner. While looking for the remote control, she muttered: "It's winter, what a waste of electricity to turn on the air conditioner..."

The other four people noticed a photo on the table at the same time.

It was a group photo of a man and a woman. Although the two were close together, there was a sense of disharmony.

It's like... It's like using PS software to stitch two photos together.

Next to the photo is a plate of red dates. In traditional customs, red dates symbolize wishing the new couple an early birth.

Ruan Yang's heart was trembling, when he saw Wei Xuan's body suddenly vibrated, he rushed to the table quickly, and lifted the photo frame on the table.

Ruan Yang: "? Brother Wei, what's the matter with you?" Brother Wei is bewitched?

As soon as Jiang Sulan turned off the air conditioner, she saw the tallest-looking one among those young people, holding a photo of her daughter with a smile on her face, like a shy peony waiting to be released.

Mrs. Jiang: "?"

Wei Xuan, who has been a bachelor for more than 1000 years, said: "Auntie, I seem to have fallen in love with my sister at first sight."

Everyone: "..."