Yu Shu recalled Kong Wenqian's action of stroking the mark on her face, and felt that it made sense. She just didn't know what the boss said that made Kong Wenqian's heart move.
Yu Shu wrote this down and returned to the hotel with Lu Chen. Shi Ji was waiting at the door of the hotel, standing there with a bloodless face. In addition, his face was pale, and he looked even more handsome than Yu Shu. More like a ghost.
Seeing his half-dead look, Lu Chen frowned.
"Remember that memory?"
Apart from this, Lu Chen couldn't think of anything else that would make Shi Ji behave like this.
Shi Ji nodded, raised his eyes and said, "I know why brother Lu Yan came to this town."
His words made Lu Chen's expression condense. Just as he was about to speak, he caught a glimpse of Ye Guilan's figure in the kitchen, hiding at the junction of light and dark. He looked at this side with a sinister look in his eyes. He changed the subject.
"Go upstairs."
Arriving at Lu Chen's room and watching Shi Ji reveal the cause of Lu Yan's death, Yu Shu floated onto the bed and sat there peacefully, obediently waiting to hear the story.
Shi Ji Xu had been waiting for Lu Chen to say these words. As soon as he came to the room, he started to recall without saying any unnecessary nonsense.
"Three years ago, Brother Lu Yan received news that there was an eminent monk in this small town. He had a string of Buddhist beads in his hand that could ward off evil spirits and bless you. It would be of great benefit to you. Brother Lu Yan wanted to find it for you, but he didn't want you to get too excited. I was so worried that I didn’t tell my family about it.”
"Later, Zhou Xiangchen waited until Brother Lu Yan was going out to the hotel, and persuaded Yang Kang'an and I to join in. We all followed the information found by Brother Lu Yan and came to this small town."
At this point, Lu Chen noticed that Shi Ji's lips were dry, frowned and poured him a glass of water. Shi Ji moistened his throat and continued.
"The town is the same as it is now. There are guests in the hotel who are ghosts. The villagers in the town are also very strange. They can see these ghosts, but they are more in awe than fear of these ghosts. They will also actively offer incense and food to support them. It’s not like a simple human-ghost relationship, but rather like they’re specifically raising them.”
"Later, Brother Lu Yan found out some information. The villagers in the town were indeed making offerings to the ghosts. The villagers and the ghosts were mutually beneficial and reached a consensus. They offered incense and food to them in exchange for what they wanted. It seemed like this. Let’s live a peaceful life.”
Yu Shu hugged the soft quilt and wondered if the canteen owner told Kong Wenqian about this and tricked her into supporting these ghosts.
But how can these ghosts be so easy to raise? If their wishes were so easy to come true, they would not be evil ghosts.
"The canteen owner's eyes were replaced by those ghosts who supported him?" Lu Chen said.
Even though the boss's eyes look like the original ones, you can still see that they are a little stiff when moving, as if the boss is trying his best to adapt to these eyes.
Shi Ji nodded, "When we came here three years ago, the owner of the canteen was still blind. The little female ghost who was alive at that time told us that the owner's eyes were born blind, but now he can see. Most likely because of the so-called disease." A blessing from the gods.”
Now, looking back on Lu Chen's abnormal behavior at the dinner table in the past few days, Shi Ji couldn't have guessed that Lu Chen could see Yu Shu.
Lu Chen heard these words in his ears, raised his eyes to look at Shi Ji, and then moved his eyes to the little female ghost who was hugging the quilt and listening to the story with an extremely well-behaved look.
This time, Lu Chen didn't hide his gaze. Shi Ji thought that the little female ghost liked to float next to him, and bitterness flashed in his eyes.
"Miss Yu told us a lot of information about the town back then. Her death may also be related to the ghosts raised by the villagers."
After all, among a group of villagers who were willing to unite with ghosts for their own benefit, it was too obvious that Yu Shu was on the side of outsiders like them.
"Tell me what you know about that so-called god." Lu Chen stood up and gave Yu Shu a bag of snacks, rubbed her soft hair with his warm and dry palms, and said coldly when he came back. (End of chapter)
