After lighting the incense, Chang Fu brought Yingying over.
"Miss"
Yingying's voice was trembling, her head lowered, not daring to look at Chang Sheng.
"Your name is Yingying?"
"Back to... Miss, yes."
Seeing that Yingying was timid, she was called in for questioning after such a big incident happened in the house tonight. Perhaps she was extremely scared. Chang Sheng gently held Yingying's hand and comforted her.
"Don't be afraid. I'm not here for anything else. I just want to ask about chicken blood?"
"Chicken blood?"
Yingying suddenly raised her head, looked at Chang Sheng, then reacted and knelt down with a thud.
"Miss, please forgive me, I really didn't mean to lose that pot of chicken blood."
Chang Sheng helped her up
"I'm not here to accuse you, I just want to ask you how you lost the chicken blood."
Yingying was stunned for a moment, wondering why Chang Sheng wanted to inquire about this.
But since she asked, she honestly told the story.
"The old lady has been sick these days. The old doctor who saw the doctor said that she should prepare some chicken blood, which can activate blood circulation and unblock meridians. So I asked Chef Liu to prepare a pot for me and put it in the kitchen. At noon, Chef Liu sent someone to inform me , the chicken blood is ready, I thought there are many people in the kitchen and if someone bumps into it, I thought of taking the chicken blood back and keeping it myself."
"But who knew that even this kind of thing could be stolen? I put the chicken blood in the side room and left. Unexpectedly, when I came back in the evening, the chicken blood was gone. I quickly reported this matter to Sister Xiaocui. "
Hearing this, Chang Sheng looked at Chang Fu inquiringly.
Chang Fu nodded hesitantly.
"It seems that something like this happened. Xiaocui told me that he punished a servant today."
"Okay, you go down and have a good rest first."
Send Yingying away, Chang Sheng said
"It seems that the man in black has been lurking in the house for a long time. This man tried his best to steal my brother's body. What exactly does he want to do?"
"Don't worry, Shengwazi."
At this time, Yan Sihai arrived late.
"Where have you been."
Chang Sheng saw that he had just arrived and thought he had gone somewhere to steal wine.
However, behind Yan Sihai, several figures appeared. Chang Sheng looked closely and saw that they were people from the four major sects. Only then did he realize that this guy was going to save people.
"What you just said is that there is a way?"
"Don't worry, I put insect-attracting powder on Chang's body. If you follow the insects, you can find the man's hiding place."
"You actually tampered with my brother?"
Chang Sheng was about to curse, but saw Yan Sihai's face serious.
"That's true. The situation in the world has been changing recently. Many people are targeting Mr. Chang. Of course I have to keep this in mind."
At this time, she was eager to find her brother and had no intention of arguing with him. She said impatiently
"Then release the bugs quickly."
As soon as Yan Sihai released the insect, the guiding insect flew directly out of the courtyard wall.
"It seems that that person is no longer in the house."
He jumped over the courtyard wall.
Behind him, Wen Nuan also grabbed Chang Sheng, and the two of them followed.
The guide led the three people straight away from Chang Mansion and chased them from the city to the north of the city.
In a small alley in the north of the city, the guide bug stopped.
Taking back the bug, Yan Sihai looked towards the alley.
It was late at night, and the alley was extremely quiet, with a bit of a weird atmosphere.
Warmth stands at the forefront
"You two follow me."
Then, she stepped into the alley.
As soon as the three of them entered the alley, they felt a gust of cold wind coming.
"The evil spirit here is so strong, there is such a place in Qingzhou City."
Yan Sihai looked surprised.
Chang Sheng touched his shoulder and looked around.
"Be careful, there are traces of man-made arrangements here."
Nuan Nuan reminded.
After walking a dozen steps inside, I saw the side door of a house.
The three of them stopped and looked at the side door here. The door was ajar and they only pushed it gently.
The door kept creaking, which was particularly harsh in this quiet alley.
Behind the door is a small courtyard paved with stone slabs.
"hiss!"
As soon as he entered the door, Chang Sheng was startled. There was someone in the small courtyard at this time!
Several figures were sitting around in the center of the small courtyard, heads lowered, not knowing what they were doing.
Chang Sheng slowed down for a moment and wanted to step forward to say hello, but was stopped by Yan Sihai.
"We just made so much noise and these people didn't seem to hear it. It's a little unusual."
Nuanandao
"Excuse me, I accidentally broke into your house late at night. Did anyone notice that someone was passing by outside the door just now?"
Those people didn't respond.
Nuan Nuan took a few steps closer and saw the backs of those people more clearly.
There were two people with gray hair, one with a rather burly back, one dressed like a woman, and another with the back of a child. They looked like a family.
"Old man, may I ask..."
Seeing that they didn't respond, Wen Nuan walked behind the two old people and wanted to ask again, but midway through the conversation, the old woman turned her head.
It was an old face full of wrinkles. In the deep eye sockets, the dark eyes stared directly at the warmth without saying a word.
The dim light that came from nowhere illuminated the old woman's face extremely penetratingly.
What made Wen Nuan feel even more heart palpitated was that those two eyes had no emotion and were extremely indifferent.
"boom!"
Startled by the old woman's face, he subconsciously deployed his inner strength wall to protect himself within it.
At the door, Yan Sihai and Chang Sheng saw Nuan Nuan unfolding her inner strength wall. They thought something had happened and ran to her side to take a look. They also saw the old woman.
"ah!"
Chang Sheng couldn't help but scream.
But she only screamed half a sound, a hand stretched out and covered her mouth!
It's Yan Sihai!
"Don't make a sound, something is wrong here."
Yan Sihai stared behind the old woman, and a faint light passed through the gap between the old woman and the old man.
Chang Sheng followed Yan Sihai's gaze and looked over.
"What it is?"
She was shocked. From the gap where the old woman was exposed, she could see candlelight flickering and an oil lamp falling among the family.
The old woman quickly turned her head and continued to stare at the oil lamp.
"What are they looking at?"
Chang Sheng asked in a lowered voice.
Yan Sihai shook his head
"I don't know, but this family doesn't look normal."
Then he looked around and saw that the small courtyard was empty. Not to mention the common clutter in ordinary people's homes, there were not even flowers and plants to be seen. The walls were bare.
"This place is too strange, let's get out first."
he suggested.
Chang Sheng nodded.
"That's fine, it's important to find your brother."
The three of them looked at the family warily and slowly withdrew.
Pulling the door back gently, Chang Sheng and Wen Nuan took a deep breath and patted their chests.
"It's too scary here."
Nuan said.
"It's scary that you still run to the front."
Chang Sheng covered his mouth and chuckled.
"Isn't that my best martial arts skill? Of course I have to protect you."
Nuan Nuan was emboldened and said proudly.
"Do not talk!"
Yan Sihai lowered his voice and stopped them.
The two of them stopped talking and looked at Yan Sihai in confusion.
Seeing Yan Sihai straighten his neck and prick up his ears.
"Listen, there seems to be a sound."
When the two heard this, they also pricked up their ears.
Sure enough, intermittent, vague sounds came from further inside the alley.
"Soul~~xi...south...stop..."
The voice was ghostly and ethereal, unable to be heard clearly. Only sporadic words could be heard. It seemed to be a woman's voice. It was very sharp, like a call from the underworld.
Chang Sheng and Wen Nuan couldn't help but shudder.
"The sound is not far from us."
Yan Sihai said in a deep voice, and then continued to move forward cautiously.
The three of them walked a few more steps, and the sound became clearer and clearer, as if they were not far away.
"It's strange. Just now I felt that the voice seemed to be a life-or-death distance away from us. Why did it happen that after taking a few steps, the voice seemed to have come to the human world and became more and more real?"
Nuan Nuan looked around and said suspiciously.
"The soul is back! You will never leave this secluded capital."
They finally heard clearly what the man was singing.
"Calling spirits! Someone is summoning spirits."
Yan Sihai looked to his left. At this time, they came to a side door. This was the side door of a courtyard, and the soul-calling voice came from the courtyard.
"here it is?"
Chang Sheng looked at the three or four-story buildings behind the courtyard wall.
Suddenly my eyes opened wide
"This is Deming Theater Troupe!"
The ghostly voice was indeed somewhat similar to the opera singer, but not exactly the same. Therefore, the three of them had never contacted the opera troupe.
"It's strange, it's midnight, why are the side doors of every house ajar?",
Yan Sihai muttered, but did not open the door directly.
In the courtyard, the singing became more and more sad.
"What's wrong?"
Seeing Yan Sihai's hand stopped, Chang Sheng asked.
"See first, then make plans."
He carefully pushed the door open a little, and looked inside through the light through the crack of the door.
The courtyard of this house is much more spacious than the previous one, and even at night, lanterns are lit.
A choking smell of smoke drifted out from the crack in the door, and Yan Sihai almost couldn't hold it back.
"What is the taste?"
"Snapped!"
His eyes were all gray, and a piece of white paper came to his face.
Yan Sihai took his head back, shook it hard, and grabbed the white paper off his face.
"Money for the afterlife?"
"Did someone die in the theater troupe?"
Chang Sheng asked, seeing the white paper in Yan Sihai's hand.
"No wonder it's so irritating. It seems like you're paying homage to someone."
Yan Sihai then looked into the crack in the door.
A graceful woman dressed in white danced in the courtyard.
Not far away, there was a charcoal brazier.
The woman danced to the edge of the basin, threw a handful of money into the brazier, and the fire in the brazier became even more intense.
"It's really interesting to sing spiritual songs and pay homage to the souls of the dead at the same time. What on earth does she want to do?"
Suddenly, the woman turned around.
Yan Sihai's eyes widened, but when he saw the woman's face, he was shocked to the core.
That's a ghost mask with a green face and fangs!
"This is a mask!"
he said in surprise.
"What mask?"
Chang Sheng poked his head and looked inside.
"I have seen this kind of mask. The high priests of many tribes in the Hundred Thousand Mountains in the south wear this kind of mask to summon the souls of the dead. Is it possible that this woman is actually a member of a certain tribe in the Hundred Thousand Mountains? "
Yan Sihai said.
"what is that?"
Chang Sheng suddenly pointed to the corner of the yard.
Yan Sihai's face changed drastically as he looked around. The courtyard was so bright that he didn't even notice that there was an oil lamp placed in the corner of the courtyard just like the one just now!
