Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 19 Need Help?
Ran Qing's heart almost stopped beating at this moment.

An indescribable chill of fear spread throughout the body in an instant.

Li Hongye!
Show up during the day!
Ran Qing stared stiffly at the ghost in the mirror. The ghost in the white mist was so creepy, even more creepy and terrifying than what he saw last night.

But didn’t Aunt Six say that as long as he wasn’t alone and had people around him, he wouldn’t be in danger?
Ran Qing stared at Li Hongye in the mirror, the cold terror of death spreading throughout his body. At this moment, he didn't even dare to move a finger.

He knew clearly the gap between himself and the evil spirits.

Even someone as mysterious as Aunt Liu is afraid of Li Hongye.

If he meets Li Hongye alone, he will die!

Ran Qing was almost ready to accept death.

But after standing stiffly at the door of the dance studio for a long time, Ran Qing found that the ghost in the mirror did not move at all.

She just stood coldly in the vast white fog. As the fog drifted, her ferocious ghost figure appeared and disappeared, but she had no intention of attacking Ran Qing.

This strange situation made Ran Qing stunned for a moment.

——Does Li Hongye not intend to kill him?
Or is it that Li Hongye can't kill him during the day?
Ran Qing turned his head stiffly and finally mustered up the courage to look back.

But the moment he turned around, he was stunned.

The playground behind him was empty in the white fog. There were no students, nor was there the terrifying ghost of Li Hongye.

His eyes, which could see the dead, could not see Li Hongye at this moment.

Ran Qing immediately turned around and looked at the mirror in the dance studio again.

But he found that Li Hongye in the mirror was still standing there, and the ghost figure did not move at all.

Ran Qing suddenly understood something.

Aunt Liu said that Ran Qing's father had protected Ran Qing from disaster, and as long as Ran Qing did not take the initiative to provoke the evil spirit, the evil spirit could not harm Ran Qing.

Therefore, as long as Ran Qing does not go to the Wujiang ghost world, Li Hongye can only appear in the mirror and cannot really kill Ran Qing.

"...He did die to protect me from disaster," Ran Qing muttered to himself, his expression extremely complicated.

At this moment, his head was dizzy and he seemed to be thinking of a lot of things. His chaotic thoughts were like leeches wriggling in a pond, drilling around and giving him a splitting headache.

After an unknown amount of time of confused thinking, Ran Qing suddenly felt someone patting his shoulder from behind.

Ran Qing raised his head and found that it was Long Zongshu, the most withdrawn boy in the class.

His tall, thin body, like a bamboo pole, looked as if it would be blown away by the wind, making people wonder how much flesh he actually had. He rarely spoke to others, always with his head down, doing homework or hiding in a corner reading a novel. He was a complete loner.

Now seeing this lonely and thin classmate, Ran Qing was stunned for a moment.

"Is...is something wrong?"

Long Zongshu, who has always been aloof and weird, actually took the initiative to greet people. Today is really the sun rising from the west.

Ran Qing was surprised.

But in the vast white fog, Long Zongshu, who was not short but as thin as a bamboo pole, looked at Ran Qing hesitantly and asked.

"Ran Qing, you look so ugly. Did something happen to you?" The thin Long Zongshu asked Ran Qing sincerely, "Do you need help?"

Obviously, Ran Qing's extremely pale and ugly face frightened the lonely Long Zongshu, and he actually took the initiative to talk to him for the first time.

Ran Qing turned around and looked at the big mirror in the dance studio again.

The man in the mirror was no longer pale.

Ran Qing in the mirror had a face that was as pale as a dead person, several times uglier than before.

The sudden sight of Li Hongye's ghost had clearly caused Ran Qing immense mental trauma. He stared at himself in the mirror, and at the ghost not far behind him...

Ran Qing forced and stiffly pulled the corners of his mouth and said, "It's okay, I didn't have breakfast this morning, I'm hungry."

Ran Qing raised the half-eaten red bean paste bread in his hand and chewed it in big mouthfuls: "It will be fine if you eat something."

At this time, Liu Lei and others who were queuing for physical examinations in the auditorium also finished their examinations.

They came out laughing, and the cheerful and relaxed atmosphere instantly diluted the gloom on Ran Qing's face.

"Ran Qing is gone."

"It's time to go back to the classroom."

"It's so foggy today, it feels chilly."

The friends gathered around Ran Qing with smiles on their faces, and invited him to go back to the classroom together.

Ran Qing looked up and found that the thin Long Zongshu had walked away alone.

He took a look and felt that there was something strange about this Dragon Sect Tree.

First it was Ouyang Xue, and now it’s Long Zongshu… He might really be a frightened bird, and even his classmates began to doubt him.

After the physical examination, the second class started as usual. When the students from the next class went downstairs to gather in the playground, Ran Qing and the others were already sitting in the classroom.

Soon the bell rang, and the lazy physics teacher who had stolen a class walked into the classroom and started knocking on the blackboard.

"Attend class."

The bad-tempered physics teacher stood on the podium, habitually tapping the blackboard while giving a lecture.

Ran Qing usually listened attentively in class, but today he was in a daze, his head aching and confused.

This was the first time in all the years of studying that Ran Qing was distracted in class.

It was not until the bell rang that he came to his senses and found that he had no memory of what the teacher had said in class.

After realizing this, Ran Qing felt a strong sense of unease.

He was never a gifted and smart person, and could not compare to the freak who was number one in the grade.

Not even Li Hongye can compare to her.

Li Hongye likes listening to music and watching TV dramas. She makes plans to hang out with friends during holidays and can easily rank among the top three in her grade.

Ran Qing always managed to rank among the top five in the exams by staying up late into the night to study hard and working twice as hard as the average person, and he never dared to slack off.

Even during holidays and weekends, he forced himself to do exercises and memorize lessons, leaving no time for entertainment.

When his peers were playing, Ran Qing was writing unit tests. Thanks to his hard work and the help of his grandmother, Ran Qing was able to go to the city and attend a good middle school.

But after moving to the city, Ran Qing found that his classmates in middle school were all excellent students. He, who had top grades in the township, was only considered above average in the city. So Ran Qing had to work harder and be more serious than his classmates.

After so many years of studying hard late into the night, he barely managed to rank among the top students in the key high school No. 3 in the city. He dared not let up.

Despite his hard work, he could only barely rank alongside top students like Li Hongye.

If I had been lazy and slack, my ranking would have dropped out of the top 20.

If he loses his scholarship and even fails to get into a good university, Ran Qing’s life will be over.

By the late 1990s, a high school diploma was no longer popular, and even a technical secondary school degree, which was popular a few years ago, is now difficult to find a good job.

If Ran Qing doesn't get into a good university and doesn't receive the city's financial support, he won't even be able to pay for his university tuition. He'll have no choice but to return to the village to farm, spending his life facing the earth and working hard...

(End of this chapter)