Strange Tale

The person standing outside the door was not Taoist Liu, but a errand.

This person is called Youqi, who died once and came back to life as a fraudulent corpse. Si Ren had dealt with him before.

"Hey, are you still an adult? Why are you here when you have time?" Si Ren quickly smiled, but he was muttering in his heart: It's not even the end of the month, so you're here to collect the regular money?

In fact, when it comes to yin and errands, they are not even half official positions, but after all, they are recruited by the underworld as errands to connect the two worlds of yin and yang, so mages like Si Ren who live by catching ghosts and subduing demons will inevitably have occasional encounters with them. Contact, and occasionally some things are not in compliance with the rules, and they have to be accommodated.After a long time, the errands in various places have demarcated their sphere of influence when they usually travel and run errands, and the general Yiguan trigram stalls will also send some regular money to the local errands on time according to their location, and it will never be easy Offend them.

This one also suffered from yelling disease before working as an overcast, usually pale and thin like a paper-stitched person, clutching a handkerchief all day, wheezing, coughing and phlegm non-stop.Later, once he passed a church and met a group of Western women, he was choked by the strong fragrance of their bodies, and died without breathing down.Then he waited until he came back to life by cheating his corpse, and his habit of shouting healed did not change.Breathless and phlegm-free, he always likes to hold a handkerchief to cough and wheeze, and he still speaks slowly and weakly.

Seeing that Si Renrang opened the door at this moment and wanted to invite him in, he took out a handkerchief and put it over his mouth and coughed twice, "Ahem──I have something to do, so I won't go in."

"Then... just wait a moment." Si Ren turned around and wanted to go into the house to get the money.

"Hey! Come back!" Youqi called him hastily, "Cough—I didn't come to take advantage of you."

"Then you are..."

"I have something to ask you."

"what?"

Another period of time stretched out his hand and pulled out a little man from behind——to be precise, a kid.

"Let her stay with you for a while."

"Huan'er?!" Si Ren exclaimed.

Huan'er broke free and threw herself on Si Ren's lap, "Big brother! I've already counted the box you gave me, where's mom?"

There is still time to look at Huan'er and Si Ren, "Do you recognize this little girl?"

"Uh... once. Why put her here?"

"Oh, don't mention it. Cough cough──" Youqi wiped his sweatless forehead with a handkerchief, "Every month in Yangjian, there are people whose lifespan expires, but because they were not brought back to the underworld in time, they became lonely souls." The soul of a wild ghost, you know this, right?"

"know."

"It's normal for a few wandering spirits of this kind to appear every month. Lord Yan won't pursue it, and the people below will report it on time. But recently...cough—something happened in Yancheng, and the situation is a little bit different. Special, no more souls can be lost. And this little girl... ahem──We checked and found that she was left behind last month. If she is sent to the judge now, Mr. Wuchang will not be able to explain it. So... Cough, cough, cough——The two adults discussed with me, and asked me to help find a Mr. Yin Yang or a mage alchemist, and take her in for a while, and I will come to take her away after the limelight. Yancheng really has You are the only one I can trust in my ability. Do you think it is convenient for you?"

There is still time to say that it is impossible for Si Ren to refuse, but what he noticed was the reason why he could not send Huan'er to the underworld, "What happened to Yancheng? Why can't there be any more lost souls? Ghosts who died unjustly are always hard to catch." , King Qin Guang is not such an unreasonable master."

"Cough, cough, cough—" Youqi coughed hard.

According to Si Ren's experience, after he recovered from his illness, he would start coughing whenever he talked about embarrassing or hard-to-explain things to others, and the more difficult things to say, the longer he coughed and the worse he coughed.

"It's alright, sir?" Si Ren pretended to reach out and pat him on the back.

He finally finished coughing, put away the handkerchief, and copied it into his sleeve with both hands, "When did Mr. Si become so troublesome?"

In fact, Si Ren asked vaguely because he felt that it might be related to Long Jiu, otherwise he would be too lazy to meddle in other people's business.

"Oh, it's nothing, just a moment of curiosity. It's fine if it's not convenient for adults to disclose it."

You Qi looked back furtively, "I won't say much else, anyway, if possible, you'd better leave Yancheng as soon as possible."

"why?"

I didn't answer for a while, so I looked down at Huan'er, "This child is very talented, it may be useful for you to stay by my side. In addition, because she is temporarily entrusted to you to take care of her, the two adults have already left a mark on her, so no matter what Day and night, you can take her to walk freely, and you will not be afraid of ghosts and gods."

Huan'er was still holding Si Yan's thigh tightly, and Si Yan stretched out his hand to touch her head, "Okay, I understand. Please rest assured, my lord, I will take good care of Huan'er until you come to pick her up."

There is still time to go.

Si Ren carried Huan'er into the room and put it on the table, pulled off her collar and pressed it hard with his thumb on the back of her neck.Immediately, a black and white imprint appeared faintly, which was the words "no salvation, no danger".That was the name of Black and White Impermanence in the Yang Dynasty.

Just have this.Si Ren relaxed and straightened Huan'er's collar, "Huan'er, my brother asked you..."

"Where's mother?" Huan'er looked at Si Ren tearfully.

"Well...be obedient first." Si Ren picked up the Jiugong grid that he put aside just now, "Did you spell this all yourself?"

Huan'er nodded.

"Have you ever played before?"

Huan'er shook her head.

"You never went to school, did you?"

"No."

"Then how do you do the math?"

"Sometimes I will help my parents settle accounts at the stall."

Si Ren was even more surprised: two adults asked a six or seven-year-old child to help settle accounts?

"Didn't my brother promise that I would take me to find my mother when I figured it out?" Huan'er held onto Si Ren's arm relentlessly.

Si Ren didn't want to keep telling her what was going on, so he just gritted his teeth and told the truth, "Huan'er, actually...you are already dead. Do you understand? 'Death', do you understand what it means?"

"I understand. But I'm not dead."

"what?"

"Isn't it just lying there motionless and unable to speak after death? But Huan'er can still speak."

"This one……"

"Did Huan'er do something wrong? Mom doesn't want me anymore?" Huan'er was about to cry again.

Si Ren was at a loss, "Well... okay. It's like this, your mother is sick, your father took her to see a doctor, and now they are not in the city. So, you stay here obediently and wait for them Come back and I'll take you home, okay?"

"Really?"

"real."

"Then I will definitely listen to my brother..." Huan'er rubbed her eyes and yawned as she spoke.

Do ghosts get sleepy too?Probably because of the seal of impermanence, it will gradually look like a normal child.Si Ren picked up Huan'er again, "Are you tired?"

"Yeah." Huan'er wrapped her arms around Si Ren's neck...

"Then I'll take you inside to sleep. But there is a little brother on the bed, can Huan'er sleep with him?"

"it is good."

Si Ren carried Huan'er into the back room, Qilin was still asleep.

Huan'er suddenly raised her hand and pointed, "Is little brother a cat?"

It was then that Si Ren remembered that all ghosts have heavenly eyes and can see things that he couldn't see before he was alive.

"It's not a cat, it's a weasel."

"Oh." Huan'er agreed, but there was no other response.

Si Ren was a little strange, "Aren't you afraid?"

Huan'er shook her head, "I've always seen a lot of brothers, sisters, uncles and aunts looking strange."

"Always?" Si Ren was frightened by Huan'er again.

"Well, that's why my parents won't let me go to school."

It turns out... what I'm talking about is this. Could it be that this child has always had his eyes open?

Si Ren wanted to ask more questions, but seeing that Huan'er was about to fall asleep in his arms, he decided to wait until tomorrow, so he put Huan'er next to the unicorn and covered him with a quilt.

"Go to sleep." Si Ren patted Huan'er twice.

Huan'er's eyes closed slowly, and she muttered softly, "Brother, don't go to Xiaobao's house tomorrow."

"Ah? What did you say?"

"do not go……"

Huaner fell asleep.

Si Ren smiled: A child is a child, and he can't forget to play with anything, and he still misses Hao Xiaobao...

The author has something to say: errands, in fact, black and white impermanence, bull's head and horse face are all errands.But there is another kind of errand who is a living person who works for the underworld.This chapter also (huan) has a period of time that is the case.

Roar disease, a common name for asthma.

King Qin Guang, Yan Luo, who is in charge of life and death in the ten halls of Yama.He is usually referred to as Lord Yama.

If there is no salvation, there will be peace, black impermanence is called Fan Wujiu, and white impermanence is called Xie Bi'an.

Eyes of Heaven, this is generally known.To learn more, search for "open sky eye".

So I said in the ghost talk that when I was young, I saw things that adults couldn't see because I was too young and my eyes didn't close?hey-hey.