Chapter Fourteen: Summoning Ghosts!

  Gently pull out the cat's eye, just in case he really hands over the spirit money, should it be burned or what?

  I was lost in thought when suddenly there was a clattering sound behind me. I turned my head to look and on the ground, a copper coin had fallen, it was that kind of ancient steel ring, but I don't know which dynasty it's from. I was taken aback, thinking no wonder others are ghosts and I'm human, I thought it would be inserted through the cat's eye, didn't expect it to fall directly from the air.

  After being given the money, I should have knelt down and kowtowed, but before my legs could bend, there was a "psst" sound from outside the door. A sticky substance stuck to my face, accompanied by a strong smell of smoke. At that moment, I got furious. This was saliva spat out from a ghost's mouth, who knows what consequences it would bring? Maybe I wouldn't even see tomorrow's sun.

  Isn't it just spitting saliva? Who can't do that?!

  Making a face at the cat, I pucker up my mouth and spit out a mouthful. Outside the door, You Wu is furious, scolding me as an ungrateful and treacherous person, saying that the biggest mistake of his life was to have recognized me as a friend, and if he had known it would be like this, he would have gone home in the afternoon and not cared about my life or death.

  From what he said, it seems that after quarreling with me, he went drinking alone and when it was almost midnight, he got worried and came to find me.

  Doubts crept in, and I hesitated again, peering through the cat's eye to see Yu Wu's expression outside the door. But this one glance almost scared me away.

  Yu Wu's back had another Yu Wu, and the Yu Wu who was scolding didn't know at all. What made me feel startled was that the second Yu Wu held a woman in his hand, with a phoenix coronet and a red wedding dress. When I saw her, she lifted up her red veil, and on her pale face, two lines of clear tears flowed down slowly. She had a gentle appearance, with a face exactly like Wen Jing's. The affection in her eyes, which was reluctant to part, was similar to the expression in Wen Jing's eyes when I left for college.

  I couldn't recall that gaze, but the pain in my heart was unmistakable, it gave me a feeling that she was indeed gentle.

  She gave me a distant bow, and a hint of despair flashed in her eyes. With determination, she covered her head and just then the elevator opened. Holding onto Wen Jing's arm, You Wu turned his face away, tilted his head, and smiled at me with a gloomy and mocking expression, full of triumph and ridicule, before walking into the elevator.

  I shouted "Wen Jing", the elevator closed, just about to rush out of the door but suddenly stopped for a moment, turned around and ran into the bedroom.

  The bedroom was empty, with two fewer people, but had an additional paper-made carrying pole and two bamboo baskets. A white cloth lay across the middle of the baskets, on which a silk flower was pinned.

  This is the betrothal gift given at the time of engagement. I saw it when I was a child, only the red color has turned white, looking very strange.

  "You Mou" snatched away my peacefulness, I didn't have time to care about anything else, and rushed out the door. The elevator was already almost at the first floor, and You Mou, who was still yelling, looked stunned, and hastily followed me into the safety passage, asking where I was going.

  I was running and explaining that after you left in the afternoon, a ghost disguised as you deceived me. Just now he took Wenjing away, I guess to marry her.

  You didn't even breathe heavily and ask me if I had done what the middle-aged man told me to do.

  I said I did it, but I don't know why it turned out like this, probably because he deceived me.

  But what I also didn't know was why he wanted to deceive me. Even if the construction team didn't want to join forces with me against Shifu, there's no reason for them to help the ghost bully Wenjing.

  When I rushed to the first floor, the elevator had already stopped. I hurriedly asked the security guard at the entrance, and they said they hadn't seen any suspicious person.

  My heart was racing, I rushed onto the street and shouted Jing's name loudly. Except for passersby giving me sideways glances, there was no response at all. Suddenly, someone hastily said behind me: "Wang Zhen, calm down, something is wrong with this matter. You didn't even open the door, how could that ghost take Jing away?"

  "What the hell is that ghost, you ask me?"

  "Yeah, ghosts are so powerful, why wait until I knock on the door to take Wenjing away? Can't you just knock me out directly? Don't worry, let's go ask someone from the construction team."

  You didn't want me to drive, but I suddenly thought of something and grabbed his sleeve, saying: "You go, I'll go alone."

  You're still not getting along with me at this time? Was I wrong? Shouldn't I be angry with you, Wang? Let's find Wenjing first, and then I'll apologize to you, okay?

  I shook my head indifferently and told him, "I trust Yu Wu, but I don't trust you. How do I know you're not a ghost in disguise? You can't enter my home, but you can pretend to be a god in the corridor." I picked up a brick and said, "He told me not to open the door no matter what, but I did. I don't know if I fell into your trap or not. Anyway, I don't trust anyone now. If you're really Yu Wu, then treat me like a brother and stop following me!"

  He just remained silent for a second, then turned around and left, leaving behind a sentence: "I'll be waiting for you downstairs!"

  I didn't look back and ran towards the new bridge, passing through the alley and crossing the street to get there. It was late at night, and there were few people on the road. I cried out loud all the way, but no one stopped me from sending myself to the police station. When I saw the dark bridge in the distance, I shouted Wenjing's name. Under the empty night sky, not only was there no response, but also no echo.

  I ran desperately to the bridgehead, and just as I was about to get on the bridge, a clear and crisp voice with a hint of delight came from the roadside: "Hey, are you looking for me?"

  Under the moonlight, a slender figure stood alone, wearing a black long dress and high heels, with smooth white skin exposed outside, she smiled brightly at me, with two shallow dimples on her face.

  Is it Ansu?

  The first time I saw her was at the company entrance, where the moonlight that night was not bright. The second time was in a hospital room, which was even darker. Tonight's moon is very bright and casts a layer of milky white light on her body, like an immortal descending from the moon. It makes me a little dizzy and I dare not recognize her.

  She said despondently: "Ah, you really don't remember me!"

  I asked in a low voice: "An Su?"

  She smiled wryly, with a hint of sadness, but didn't deny the name. I was overjoyed and rushed over to grab her hand, heading towards the bridge: "Quick, help me save my cousin, she's been caught by ghosts!"

  "Why should I help you?"

  I stood there, my neck stiffened, mechanically turning my head, disbelievingly staring at the woman in front of me who remained calm. The words she just said made me want to slap her, but thinking about it, she seemed to have no reason to help me.

  But I think this is a bare-faced betrayal and abandonment!

  When we first met, she couldn't help but undress me with her eyes, and then she fed me an apple with her own mouth, as if she thought she was my girlfriend. Now that I asked for her help to save my cousin, she suddenly turned her back on me and didn't recognize me!

  All these feelings are my one-sided wish, to give a rough but apt example, a man teases a woman every day, one day the woman asks him, do you like me? The man replies astonishingly, no, I just want to fuck you, not marry you.

  That woman must have wanted to slap her, but I couldn't do that. Instead, I had to swallow my anger and say, "I only have this one sister, as long as you help me save Wenjing, I'll do whatever it takes."

  With a wave of his hand, he actually whistled and said with a pleased expression: "No rescue."

  "Then tell me where she is, I'll rescue her myself!"

  "Goodbye!"

  Looking at her provocative appearance, I was anxious and furious in my heart. Seeing that there was no one around, I wanted to drag her to the riverbank and interrogate her severely. However, I wasn't sure if I could beat her, getting a good thrashing would be a minor issue, but delaying the rescue of Wenjing would be disastrous.

  Gritting my teeth, I glared at her and was about to head onto the bridge, going to the plank house on the other side of the river to look for that middle-aged man. Ansu pulled me back, her tone carrying a hint of resentment as she said: "Where are you going? Didn't I tell you not to go onto the bridge?"

  "It's daytime already, hurry up and let go."

  "Day is day, now is now, once you go up on the bridge tonight, you will definitely die."

  Ansu said it very seriously, but I didn't take it seriously: "If I die, I'll just die. If something happens to Wenjing, I won't live either!"

  I wanted to shake her off, but Ansu's hand was as hard as a iron claw, not only couldn't I break free, but even couldn't move her arm. Looking at the situation, even if I really fought back, I wouldn't be able to beat him. Thinking about how that old man feared her that night, this Ansu must be some kind of Taoist nun or something.

  If the hard way doesn't work, then try the soft way. It's applicable everywhere in the world. I spoke kindly to her and told her that Wen Jing was a very pitiful girl, and I had to save her. But An Su had made up her mind and wouldn't let me cross the bridge. In the end, I asked her, "What does my life or death have to do with you?"

  Her pale face suddenly turned crimson as she whispered: "I like you!"

  "Then why don't you help me save Wenjing? Can't I marry you and make you my ancestor? Can't I worship you as a god?" She still shook her head, so I had to threaten to die. Ansu said she didn't care if I lived or died, but the only thing was that I couldn't die on the bridge.

  As I watched her being unmoved, every second of delay made Wenjing more and more in danger. My heart was tortured to the extreme, and with a thud, I knelt down in front of her, knocking my head on the ground like a stone, crying and begging her to help me, even if she couldn't help, at least don't stop me.

  But what I didn't expect was that as soon as I knelt down, Ansu also knelt down, her eyes were wet and she told me not to do this. Looking at her expression, she should be heartbroken for me. So I took the opportunity to scold myself, Ansu held my head and wouldn't let me kowtow to her. Taking advantage of this, I rolled over on my side, got up and ran away.

  A high-heeled shoe hit my ankle, and I stumbled two steps before falling to the ground. Before I could even see how An Su had gotten there, she was suddenly sitting on my stomach, crying and wailing: "Stop messing around! If I had a way, I wouldn't have just stood by and watched her die, don't you understand? Your sister has been dead since last night."

  The earth-shattering news exploded in my ears, and my mind went blank, I just stared at her in a daze, asking what she was saying.