Chapter Fifteen: Mistaking a Calamity Star for a Savior Star

  Ansu cried to me: "Even if there's a ghost that wants to take her away, it's impossible for a living person to walk through walls and appear in the corridor, do you understand? She's already dead, she jumped into the river last night and drowned. Even if you find the person who took her away, it's impossible to bring her back."

  "Nonsense, you crazy woman, you damn well deceived me."

  Her delicate body seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, no matter how hard I struggled, I couldn't get up. Finally, I was furious and reached out to strangle her neck, but unfortunately, I wasn't a long-armed ape, she leaned back slightly and I couldn't reach it. With a surge of sadness and despair in my heart, I could do nothing about it. This anger and sorrow could only be vented on myself. I slammed the back of my head against the asphalt road, after two slams, I felt a warm current flowing into my neck. Ansu let out a sharp cry, mixed with sobs, losing her usual elegance and cunningness.

  She bent down and hugged my head tightly, and after being close at hand, I grasped her neck tightly, thinking that the only thing to do was to get rid of this bad woman who only knew how to mourn, as long as she was killed, my little Wenjing would be safe.

  Ansu's face turned painful, with a hint of sadness in her eyes that quickly disappeared. I don't know how long it took, but the strength in my hands was exhausted and I couldn't strangle her to death. Suddenly, I calmed down, or perhaps I just gave up on everything.

  He lightly said a word of apology, and then lay down like a dead fish, powerless. The old man who was walking his bird said, "There were three people who died on the bridge. The first two were bridge repair workers. Was the third one Jingqian?"

  I don't know how she died, nor do I know who harmed her. I just can't figure out why my innocent and somewhat timid cousin would provoke someone to this extent. She came to visit me with a happy heart, only to encounter terror time and again, and now she's even lost her life. It's all because I didn't protect her well enough, just like You Wu said - if I had taken leave to travel with her, maybe none of this would have happened.

  There's a flame burning in my stomach, burning to the point where my liver and intestines are torn apart. A pungent heat is surging up into my throat, surging for a long time but unable to emerge. Finally, I hear a faint sigh, feel a sharp pain on my face, and sink heavily into darkness.

  I have lived for 24 years, always strong and healthy, but within a week I fainted twice, once from poisoning and once from the remaining poison, being knocked out by anesthetics.

  When I opened my eyes, the sunlight passing through the curtains was still dazzling. I was lying at home, and Ansu had disappeared. My whole body felt sore and weak. When I got out of bed, I knocked over a teacup. A strange creature rushed in, speaking with a hissing sound, but very excitedly, saying: "You're finally awake!"

  I asked who you are.

  He patted my forehead, nervously saying: "Damn it, amnesia? You're Yu Kui's husband, and I'm your big brother-in-law Yu Wu. You never call me 'brother', but always 'dad'. Have you forgotten everything?"

  I stared at the person in front of me, and the hairs on the back of his neck stood up. I was shocked and exclaimed: "Youmo? Who beat you up like this?"

  He was not stout, despite being full of muscle, and his face was quite delicate. However, at this moment, it had swollen into a big pig's head, with two eyes narrowed to slits, a missing tooth, and a crooked mouth. It didn't look like he had been beaten up; in my opinion, he must have been trampled by a herd of wild African buffalo while they were running wildly.

  Don't even mention touching his face, it hurts so much that he's trembling all over, hanging his head in despair and saying: "Never mind, not being beaten to death is already a big luck."

  As consciousness gradually cleared up, I remembered a girl who had been following me since childhood, grasping Yu Wu's arm and asking anxiously: "Has Wenjing returned?"

  "You're back."

  I let out a deep breath and told him to call Jing quietly, but You Mou's face showed difficulty, so I went to see for myself. Jing was in another bedroom.

  Struggling to get up, I saw a burly old man outside the door, with kind eyebrows and eyes, and a gentle face, saying to me: "Hello little friend, my name is Liu Weimin, you need to be mentally prepared, your sister's soul has been taken away by someone, I only managed to retrieve her body."

  "What?"

  After screaming, I stumbled and ran to him. The old man who claimed to be Liu Weimin hurriedly supported me. Guessing my anxiety, he said before I could open my mouth: "Don't worry, there's still hope. Within a month, we can retrieve her soul. I'll send someone to escort her back."

  Is this a gold bar from the bank? If we get it back, will we be safe? But that's a living person!

  I want to go see Wen Jing, Yu Wu Fu Zhe I passed by, before pushing the door, gave myself a boost of courage, but when I really saw her, she still scared me.

  She was a quiet and petite girl, only about 1.6 meters tall, originally slender and small, now looking like a frail and sickly girl who had been bedridden for years, or like a little cat that had been abandoned by its owner and got rained on, hugging her legs, curled up in the corner of the bed, with a fearful face, stealing glances at me with the corner of her eye. When I pushed open the door, she let out a faint cry of terror.

  I shouted in surprise: "Wen Jing, you scared the hell out of me!" Then I turned my head and said to You Wu and Liu Wei Min with a showy tone: "Didn't you guys say she was dead? Is this what it looks like when someone has no soul?"

  You'd better not speak, Liu Wei said with some embarrassment, slowly saying: "Little friend, listen to my explanation. A body without a soul is a corpse and will rot. Don't mention a month, in just three to five days it can't be used. In order to preserve your sister's body, I invited other souls to enter, but you should know that the soul and body are unique and inseparable. Even if a ghost possesses a body, it can't drive out the original living soul. Borrowing a corpse to revive a soul is only for survival, not to occupy a living person's body. Do you understand my meaning? Actually, what I want to say is that the soul in your sister's body right now are actually several cats."

  In response to Liu's words, the quiet and reserved Wen let out a meow from the corner, which made my heart skip a beat and tears flow.

  Don't tell me that the three cats in Wenjing's body are actually the three from Shifu's house, and Liu Weimin brought them in. The details can be told later, but for now, the most important thing is to get some food into Wenjing, who hasn't eaten or drunk anything for two days and two nights. According to Liu Weimin, during the first three days after being possessed by the cat spirit, Wenjing can only eat things made by my own hands.

  The cat definitely doesn't eat rice, and giving her cat food isn't suitable either. So I went with You Wu to the market and bought two fish. While stewing the fish, Wen Jing, who was possessed by the cat, squatted beside my feet, occasionally meowing a few times, licking my calf from time to time, looking like a starving cat, which made people feel pity for her.

  Liu Weimin was the old man we met at the entrance of the paper mache shop that day, who told us that the two pairs of cloth shoes were worn by the dead. He looked like a superior person. After settling Wenjing down, I begged him with tears to lend a hand and think of a way to save Wenjing. He nodded solemnly and said that since we had met, he would not ignore it, and this matter was related to him anyway.

  Liu Weimin said that the quiet person's name was Huang Jinbai, who was the high-ranking official of our construction team we had been looking for.

  The middle-aged man I met on the bridge was from the construction team. I saw him running back and forth in the construction team's shed with my own eyes. So, on the night when Wenjing was taken away, I felt that the middle-aged man had deceived me. But I had no grudges against them, and I really couldn't understand why they did this. However, Liu Weimin also said so, it seems there won't be any fake, I got a bit excited, wanting to go find them to settle the score.

  Liu Weimin told me to calm down, saying that going to find the construction team would be useless. Huang Jinbai just collects money from the construction team's boss to look at the feng shui, and his actions have nothing to do with the construction team. Even if he used the old lady to stir up trouble, it was the construction team's boss who told him to do it. Firstly, we don't have any evidence, and secondly, it has nothing to do with Wenjing's situation. Now, if we want to save Wenjing, we can only find Huang Jinbai, but he has already escaped.

  The reason for escaping was that when Liu Weimin went down to the river to salvage Wenjing's body, he was discovered by Huang Jinbai.

  Liu Weimin himself said that he had some old grievances with Huang Jinbai, and over the years he had been looking for him. He happened to know about Huang Jinbai's relationship with the bridge construction team, so he calculated the day of the bridge's completion and came to squat down, because Huang Jinbai had looked at the feng shui of the bridge, on the day of its completion, he would definitely appear again.

  Before waiting for Huang Jinbai, I saw the bridge repair workers flirting with an old lady who bought vegetables and crossed the bridge back home, which is the one upstairs in my house.

  After the old lady crossed the bridge, Liu Weimin warned her, but his words were harsh and he told the old lady to prepare for the worst. The old lady then quarreled with him, and that's how the rumor about the construction team harming the old lady started.

  Liu Weimin explained that he didn't speak nonsense, because the people who were pulled to the bridge couldn't be saved anyway. He was worried about the old lady traveling alone and asked her to prepare in advance.

  Liu Weimin didn't get angry after being dismissed, instead he was even more certain that Huang Jinbai would definitely appear soon.

  Generally, a living pile is driven into the foundation before construction begins, with a live person serving as the pile to stabilize the feng shui and appease the vengeful spirits in the river. The ghost of this person is then suppressed by the bridge itself, unable to stir up trouble, and as it watches the bridge being built bit by bit, it comes to regard the bridge as its own home. Ordinary workers can do this kind of living pile driving as long as they are not afraid of breaking the law.

  But the old lady was like the last pile of a completed construction, being dragged to the top of the bridge. Whoever it was wouldn't be happy about it. She didn't have a sense of home on the big bridge and if she wasn't comforted properly, something would go wrong. This method didn't need to worry about the law but could easily cause trouble with evil spirits. What Liu Weimin was waiting for was Huang Jinbai to come and comfort the old lady on the bridge.

  Liu Weimin had been waiting for several days, but to no avail. Just as he was getting anxious, he ran into You Wu on the bridge, who seemed to be gathering information. Others might not have noticed anything unusual about You Wu's behavior, but Liu Weimin sensed that something was amiss. At the time, he thought You Wu was a relative of the old lady and considered giving him some subtle hints, but unexpectedly, You Wu deliberately avoided him and sped away in his car after crossing the bridge. However, Liu Weimin had overheard You Wu's conversation with the old man, so he arrived at Wenmiao Street one step behind them.

  We inquired about the teacher's wife's address, and he was doing the same thing. The difference is that we sneaked into the teacher's house to make trouble, while he made an appointment with the teacher's wife to meet on the same night. In fact, during those few days when he was squatting at the big bridge, he also knew about the teacher's wife going out to scatter things, but he looked down on the teacher's wife in his heart and didn't contact her.

  Liu Weimin's words were simple, among the three aunts and six grannies, even if it was just Dao Gu, but Shi Po was only at the level of a small village god stick in a remote rural area, and she was not an opponent for Huang Jinbai at all. There was no need to join forces with her, it's just that he couldn't find Huang Jinbai, so he asked her a few questions.

  After the two met, Liu Weimin asked about Huang Jinbai's whereabouts. However, Shifu said that she had been protecting a girl named Wenjing recently and hadn't looked for the construction team's troublemaker yet. But she went to make some noise and someone has come looking for her already.

  At this point, Shifu thought that something had changed at home and suspected that Liu Weimin's plan to lure the tiger away from its mountain had succeeded, so they dispersed unhappily.

  When I heard this, I asked Liu Weimin: "These words were all said by the master's wife, who knows whether they are true or false? What if she is the one who harmed Wenjing?"

  Liu Weimin explained: "At that time, I didn't know the truth either. However, during your coma, I went to find her again, and combined with the results of your exorcism, things became very clear. You had been targeting the wrong enemy from the start. Wenjing met Xiaobai on the upper floor, and Xiaobai discovered that she was being haunted by a ghost, so he gave her a golden ornament to protect herself, which was an amulet worn by his grandmother. The ancestral tablet in their home was also protected by the Nine Lives Cat Spirit, but you destroyed it, and the ghost that had been unable to harm anyone finally possessed Wenjing's body on that night and jumped into the river."

  Similarly, An Su had already said that, but Liu Wei Min said Wen Jing still has a chance. At this time, I didn't feel overly sad and glared at You Wu with a fierce gaze, asking Liu Wei Min who was the one who took care of me all night and the Wen Jing I saw the next day?