Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 196: Yuzhang Strange Things
This boss—is not alive!
A feeling of horror and fear rose in Ran Qing's heart.

As a ghost walker, he sat in this stall and ate two bowls of mutton noodles, and talked to the boss at close range for several words.

But until his fingers touched the other person, he didn't notice anything unusual...

His perception ability failed?
Ran Qing frowned.

A cold and eerie wind slowly drifted through the air.

A light mist had enveloped the entire Longchang Street without anyone noticing.

The fog was not thick, and objects nearby were almost unobstructed. Only by looking into the distance could one notice the presence of the fog.

In the distant sky, the sunset is obscured by fog and the sunlight cannot be seen.

But Ran Qing could clearly confirm that it was not dark yet.

But before it got dark, something fishy and unusual was happening on Longchang Street.

And this young couple who set up a stall on the roadside to sell mutton noodles for a whole day turned out to be ghosts?
They can also come out to set up stalls during the day and look exactly like living people...

Ran Qing took a half step back expressionlessly and stuffed his left hand into the canvas bag.

But when Ran Qing made such a move, he found that the boss in front of him was still looking at him with a smile, friendly and shy, without any hostility.

He seemed unaware that Ran Qing had discovered that he was a ghost.

Behind him, his daughter-in-law was still carrying her child in a sling, sitting beside a large iron basin with her head down, washing dishes.

But the child tied in the sling made no sound. Ran Qing looked carefully and his pupils shrank slightly.

——The child carried in the sling was actually a shriveled corpse of a child.

The child's body had lost all its moisture, its shrunken skin piled in wrinkles on a slightly larger skull. The eyeballs had long since vanished from the darkened eye sockets.

Although it was far away, Ran Qing could vaguely smell a faint stench of decay.

But he had not noticed this smell before, but now it was extremely obvious.

--has a problem!

There's a big problem!

Ran Qing took another step back with a stiff expression, secretly glancing at the steaming pot on the stove.

White steam rose from the big iron pot of boiling mutton soup.

But the sheep bones and sheep heads cooked in the pot did not change much.

It didn't turn into anything scary like a human head...

Ran Qing breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this scene.

But after bringing the hot mutton soup back to the table, Ran Qing looked at the mutton soup in the bowl that was emitting an enticing aroma and could no longer drink it.

He looked at his companions beside him. Mo Li and Long Zongshu were unaware of the changes around them.

The two of them were still talking about movies, and even talked about things like Nightmare on Elm Street and Freddy.

Little Mianhua was lying under the table. The dog bowl that Ran Qing brought for her was filled with hot mutton noodles, which was also her dinner tonight.

Little Cotton, who was eating mutton noodles with big mouthfuls, also didn't notice anything unusual around him.

But in the fog, the streets in Ran Qing's vision were much quieter.

In the mist not far away, some shaky figures floated by. One figure even had a blank space above its shoulders, no head...

The Longchang Street Market, which had just been bustling, dirty, messy and noisy, had suddenly turned into a spooky and evil place in the blink of an eye.

At this time, Ran Qing, Mo Li and the other two were sitting at the stall of a ghost couple, eating mutton noodles cooked by the ghost couple.

On the road not far away, ghosts and evil spirits were wandering around.

But they had no reaction to Ran Qing and the other two living people.

Apart from Ran Qing, Mo Li, Xiaomianhua, Long Zongshu and the other two also had no reaction to the abnormalities around them.

The strange and evil spirits around them had no reaction to these three living people.

This strange situation cast a shadow over Ran Qing's heart.

He looked around calmly, without making any unnecessary moves, and without even notifying his companions.

Continue to pretend to be unaware of the situation around you.

But Ran Qing had a vague guess in his mind.

In "The Story of the Second Sister and the Demon Slayer", Second Sister Shen once encountered a strange incident outside Yuzhang City.

At that time, Miss Shen Er was on the road, taking Aunt Liu, who had just come of age, to Pengze Lake. When the master and apprentice passed by Yuzhang City, it was already late and they were very hungry, so they ate clay pot soup and Yuzhang mixed noodles at a rice noodle stall outside the city.

The owner of the mixed noodle stall is a woman with a bright smile. She has been selling mixed noodles at the intersection for several years, waiting here for her husband who has been away from home for many years to come back.

At the beginning of the interrogation, Second Aunt and Sixth Aunt did not notice anything unusual. The friendly and enthusiastic stall owner saw that both the master and the apprentice were women, and kindly warned them about some unusual incidents that had occurred near Yuzhang City recently.

Miss Shen Er sat and chatted with the female stall owner for a long time. Finally, she felt sorry for the female stall owner and her husband who were separated, so she decided to use the method of ghost walking to help her.

The ghost walkers are not good at divination, but they have many methods such as using the clothes of living people to cast spells and track people.

Miss Shen Er planned to use the underwear left by the female stall owner's husband to cast a nightmare spell on her husband, threatening him to return home quickly.

However, after the Yin altar was opened and the black magic spell was cast, it turned out to be in the pit behind the rice noodle stall. Shen Er was surprised and brought her apprentice and the female stall owner to the pit, where they dug out a male skeleton.

When the female stall owner saw her husband's bones, she suddenly lost control of her emotions, went crazy, and turned into a vicious and resentful evil ghost.

It turned out that her husband had cheated on her a few years ago and was poisoned to death at home by her. She was also beaten to death by her husband's brothers. After her death, she became a ghost with resentment, but because of her deep obsession, she forgot that she had poisoned her husband.

She came to the intersection alone and opened a noodle stall. She would appear after dusk and often serve some passing customers.

If the guests do not see through her and fail to recognize her true form as an evil ghost, they can leave safely.

But once the guests reveal her true identity as an evil ghost or bring back her memories, she will immediately go crazy and kill the guests.

Twenty-three bodies of unlucky passers-by were buried under the rice noodle stall.

This strange incident in "The Trial of the Second Sister and the Killing of the Demon" was bizarre and mysterious, and left a deep impression on Ran Qing at the time.

The strange situation on Longchang Street now seems very similar to the situation of the female ghost outside Yuzhang City...

Although the couple who own the mutton noodle stall did not appear at dusk, they were already on the street at noon and entertained many customers.

Yet, they are clearly evil spirits, yet they do not harm humans and are completely unaware of their evil nature...

Ran Qing sat on the stall without saying a word, looking around.

At this moment, a bloody figure suddenly walked out of the fog, sat down next to Ran Qing in a hideous manner, and let out a low, hoarse howl at the stall: "Boss! A bowl of mutton noodles!"

(End of this chapter)