Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 69 Ancient Things
In the dark old woods, Ran Qing's cold words were resounding.

The middle-aged man stopped when he heard the voice and looked at his son in astonishment, who shouldn't have heard him.

He was stunned for two seconds, and finally, his eyes fixed on the Nuo opera mask hanging around the boy's neck.

The brightly painted demon mask was previously blocked by the gloomy wooden sign, so the middle-aged man did not see it.

But at this moment, he saw it clearly, saw the evil and strange mask.

The middle-aged man stared for a while, and his eyes changed slightly.

He turned his head and stared intently at Aunt Six beside him, saying, "Sixth Sister, have you already helped to exorcise his body?"

"You knew that going to the underworld was a dead end, yet you still wanted to help him raise his spirit?"

"He is the last bloodline of my Ran family! My only son!"

"Why are you helping him to raise his spirit?!"

The man's sudden anger came so unexpectedly.

At this moment, he was like a lion protecting his cubs, so angry that he wanted to eat people.

But Aunt Liu, who was being questioned angrily, just looked at him indifferently and was not frightened by his hideous face at all.

Aunt Six said coldly, "What else? At first I didn't know anything about your Ran family's affairs, and I didn't expect this kid to have such a hard life."

"He came to me for help, what could I do? Should I personally fight for a selfish guy like you?"

"Helping him to raise his spirit and teach him to save you is already a special favor because of the friendship we had back then. Otherwise, I wouldn't even bother caring about whether you live or die!"

"Later, I found out that this kid was such a good person, and you were such a beast, so I tried my best to help him."

"Anyway, the kid has grown up and understands things. He's right. He'll decide for himself whether to be a ghost walker or not."

"You didn't raise him since he was a child, so why do you take care of him now?"

"The ability of the ghost walking ghost is not a good one, but in this world, it is better to have ability than not to have any!"

"If I run into a ghost while walking at night one day, at least I can still jump around a bit!"

Aunt Liu was firm in her attitude. Now that she had spoken out, she no longer tried to hide it.

The angry middle-aged man looked at her, then at Ran Qing. At this moment, the middle-aged man no longer had the frivolous and smooth demeanor he had before, but instead was vicious and ready to devour anyone.

But Sixth Aunt just looked at him indifferently, without any fear.

Ran Qing also looked coldly at the middle-aged man.

The two-on-one confrontation of indifference and anger lasted for a long time.

Finally, the middle-aged man took a step back with an expressionless face and said, "But there's a fucking corpse on this kid."

"Axia's corpse is watching him from the shadows."

"I don't know who placed Ah Xia's body on him, but Sixth Sister, you know that if you carry a corpse to open an altar and light incense... it will definitely cause trouble!"

The middle-aged man spoke about this with an expressionless face.

Ran Qing was stunned. He didn't expect the other party to mention his mother's body at this time.

He had planned to find another opportunity to ask, but...

Aunt Six frowned, looking at the middle-aged man uncomfortably, and said, "Didn't you put Ou Caixia's body on this kid?"

On the dark mountain road, the man shook his head expressionlessly.

He looked at Ran Qing beside him with a complicated look in his eyes: "I personally presided over Axia's burial. I saw her buried in the ground with my own eyes."

"I personally surveyed that tomb. It's a perfect place, surrounded by three mountains and four rivers, where the wind and energy gather."

"Axia will be buried there. After death, she will be at peace, unmolested by evil spirits, and will peacefully pass away."

"But the night this kid called me, I learned that after Ah Xia's death, not only did she not disintegrate into nothingness, but her body became restless and transformed into something strange, even possessing this kid."

"I had planned to rush back to Yuezhao immediately and take this kid to investigate the situation and find out why Axia's body was on him..."

The middle-aged man spoke in a complicated tone, staring at Ran Qing silently.

Ran Qing and Aunt Six were both stunned.

The body of Ran Qing's mother was not taken by this man who was proficient in corpse refining and feng shui.

"...Then who else could have done it except you?" Aunt Liu stared at Ran Jianfei expressionlessly, not believing this nonsense.

Thinking he was talking nonsense, the middle-aged man looked at the woman speechlessly and said, "Sixth sister, you say that..."

The man murmured, "No matter how cruel or selfish I am, I wouldn't torture Axia's corpse, right?"

"Being transformed into a corpse, becoming ugly and hideous, miserable and even cruel and bloodthirsty..."

"I, Ran Lao San, did not treat my son well. I admit that. But Axia is different. Why would I torture Axia's corpse?"

"And put her on this kid..."

The middle-aged man turned his head and looked at his son who looked very much like him. In the dark old woods, at this moment, the father and son looked at each other, but there was no warmth in the father's eyes.

The man's eyes flickered with only a hint of disgust: "If possible, I would rather trade this child for..."

Snapped!
A loud slap sounded on the mountain path.

Ran Qing, who had no reaction to the man's words, looked at Aunt Liu in surprise - he was no longer surprised by the man's selfishness.

But Sixth Aunt stared at Ran Jianfei with a gloomy face and a ferocious expression: "Ran Lao San! How dare you say such words?"

"Did this kid kill your wife?"

"How can you say such things? Are you a fucking human?!"

The man looked at the increasingly ferocious and hideous face of the woman in front of him, silently covering his face and taking a step back.

He was not angry, but said calmly: "But Sixth Sister, I really can't leave this baby to you."

"I'm going to take him back to the village to investigate the matter of Axia's body."

"I've never even heard of a situation like his. Our Ran family has been refining corpses for generations, and I've never heard of anyone being able to carry a corpse on their body."

"That's definitely not a good thing, this kid..."

The man wants to say more.

But at this moment, a dull and huge sound of golden cymbals suddenly came from the darkness in the distance.

A chilly wind blew through the empty old woods.

Those seemingly invisible gazes in the darkness disappeared in an instant.

The three people in the forest all looked in astonishment towards the Wuzhai Pass behind them.

Ran Qing saw from afar a cloud of eerie white mist drifting over there...

The middle-aged man's expression suddenly changed.

"It's those things!"

He grabbed Ran Qing beside him and growled, "Run!"

The middle-aged man's light soul suddenly burst out with enormous power, dragging the unsuspecting Ran Qing down the mountain.

Aunt Liu, who was carrying a small wooden box, took out the kitchen knife she had bought on credit and ran wildly in the woods with a gloomy face.

The two middle-aged men were not surprised by the sound and fled almost at the same time.

“Those things have been coming out lately!”

Aunt Liu's voice was a little hoarse after she lowered it, and a strange and fierce light flashed in her dead fish eyes; "I have been found by them several times!"

"But luckily, we were all in the mortal realm, so they weren't that strong and I wasn't dragged away..."

Aunt Liu murmured about the situation.

Ran Qing, who was being dragged by the middle-aged man and running wildly, was stunned. He looked at Aunt Liu in surprise.

So, the evil spirits that often besieged Aunt Six at night... were those pale, sinister ghosts?!

Are they coming for Aunt Liu?

Ran Qing suddenly turned around and found that the white mist was indeed rushing towards them.

The shrill sound of suona, the echoing sound of reed pipe, the beating of gongs and drums...the pale and gloomy harsh notes echoed in the mountains and forests.

The speed of the white mist I saw this time was countless times faster than when I first encountered it with Li Hongye.

Almost in the blink of an eye, they caught up with Ran Qing and the others in the forest!

(End of this chapter)