husband from hell

Chapter 59 Sealing Yin with Wax
"The old lady is getting old, and her mind is not clear." Suddenly a voice rang out, and I looked back, and it turned out that the owner of the noodle shop came out, carrying a bag of soda cans and mineral water bottles to deliver to the old lady. , still expressionless, said flatly: "Are you working here?"

I still remembered what happened before, and I was a little embarrassed, so I nodded and said, "New here."

"The old lady said that because this place used to be a funeral home, and the people who took out the garbage here were all remnants of remains. However, the funeral home was not well managed and closed down, and the house was sold for renovation. I don't know who bought it, and it became this beauty salon. "The boss said: "The house is dead, but the people are alive, it's no big deal."

I suddenly understood why the size had to be made to allow ghosts to pass through. Sure enough, it used to be a dead man's business.

With a sudden realization, she turned her head and looked at the big plaque: "Mingjian Beauty Salon."

Only then did I realize that this pronunciation is exactly the same as the pronunciation of "Underworld Beauty Salon".

"Several died..." The old lady said in a singing voice, "It's not bad for one or two..."

Saying that, the old lady opened her dark, toothless mouth at me, and left with bottles and cans.

That hoarse voice seemed extraordinarily eerie and eerie this night...

I swallowed a mouthful of saliva, turned around and looked at the noodle shop uncle: "Who... who died?"

The uncle shrugged and said, "Who knows, it's just that this place is changing all the time. Except for the manager Shirley, no one can stay here for more than two months."

That Lucas, hasn't been here for less than two months?He said that when he came, Shirley was the only one here...

"Come to eat when you are free." The uncle waved his hands to me and left, not forgetting to say: "The photo was taken well."

No, I have to go to the noodle shop another day - I have to tear up that photo.

As soon as I turned around, I bumped into a person. This person was so cold that I was taken aback. When I looked up, I realized that it was Cheng Ke.

Cheng Ke made a gesture to silence me, and pointed to the back door of the beauty salon behind me.

I quickly turned my head back and took a closer look. I saw a person walking out sneakily, and the figure looked familiar...ah!I remembered, it was Ah Jiu's ghost raiser, Luo Bai!
Sure enough, this beauty salon has something to do with Ah Jiu!I hurriedly pulled Cheng Ke and said: "Let's go and have a look, maybe we can follow the vine and find Ah Jiu!"

Cheng Ke grabbed my hand and said, "What's the hurry, Ah Jiu probably won't be able to wake up for the time being, she's in a state of feigning death, sealing up her yin energy, which means she's hibernating, and we won't be able to find out if the clues are broken. Moreover, The ghost raiser in this beauty salon didn’t show up, so we can only wait and see, and how can we let blood out if we startle him.”

Of course I still remember that the blood of the ghost breeder who raised the pubic lice on my body can save my life.

"But," I pursed my lips, "it's pretty conspicuous for the two of us to appear here, right?"

"Don't worry." Cheng Ke squinted his eyes: "As long as he appears nearby, I will drain his blood before he notices us."

Cheng Ke's confident appearance gave him a strange charm, which made me a little dumbfounded.

Yes, he has never broken his promise. As long as he promises me, he can always do it. He is Cheng Ke, the unique Cheng Ke.

Cheng Ke was a head taller than me, and looked down at me. Only then did I realize that I had been hit by sugar-coated shells for the first time, so I quickly turned my face away.

"Master, master!" At this moment, Lucas leaned out half of his body from the second floor and waved to me: "Come here, I have something to show you..."

I was a little embarrassed at first, so I quickly took the opportunity to go upstairs. I am a part-time job here, and Cheng Ke can be invisible when he should be invisible. It is very convenient to prevent Xueli from seeing him.

"Look!" On the second floor, Lucas anxiously pointed to a secret door and said, "Just now, there was the sound of mice chirping. I wanted to beat the mice, but I found such a place..."

I poked my head in, a little dazed.

It was an incense table, an incense table that can be seen in every temple, and on the incense table, there were also a lot of incense and offerings, but the offerings on it were not gods and Buddhas, but shoes.

Specifically, children's shoes.

Those little shoes were neatly arranged in pairs, in different colors, but they were weird—who would offer the shoes here, and they were all worn-in shoes.

Some shoes have only a little trace of wear, almost like new ones, and are still clean, while others are almost holed by the big toe, and the uppers are also worn out.

These shoes also have one thing in common, that is, the soles of those shoes are covered with a little dust, as if they have just been taken off, and they are placed here.

"Oh, evil door!" Lucas hugged his arms and said tremblingly, "What does this mean?"

I looked at Cheng Ke, and Cheng Ke said leisurely, "This is for keeping the dwarf figurines of the first generation."

Isn't it the child-like thing who followed me and Li Minglang in the hospital, and even planted pubic lice on me!

I remember what Cheng Ke said, that kind of thing is made of clay, and I have seen it... No, I remember clearly, when I looked over from the toilet cubicle, the child who attacked me Obviously playing barefoot!
Cheng Ke seemed to have guessed what I was thinking, and said: "The mission of the first dwarf figurines is to explore the road and report messages. Of course, they need to run, and they need shoes. These shoes are enshrined here for Let them ride the incense of the shoes and run faster."

It seems that there is no mistake. The ghost raiser who used the first dwarf figurine is related to this beauty salon.

The monk can’t run away from the temple. Since the incense is still here, people will definitely not leave. I remember Cheng Ke told me that if the incense is cut off, the little ghost will eat back. There is no ghost breeder, dare to give up raising yourself the imp.

Moreover, looking at the incense table, the incense and offerings are still very fresh, which means that not long ago, someone came here to add incense.

I asked casually: "Lucas, besides you, is there anyone else who often goes in and out of this place?"

"No..." Lucas said nervously, "It's because the second floor is where I'm in charge, that's why I'm suspicious! Shirley has at most passed through here to the third floor, and the rooms inside, but she's never been there. "

"It's very simple." Cheng Ke squinted his eyes, looked at the moon outside, and said, "Today is the fifteenth day, and the gate of hell is open. There should be some incense for little ghosts. Let's just watch over here."

Lucas looked at me and said tremblingly, "Master, I..."

"It's nothing to do with you." I said, "Let's watch here after a while."

"That's great!" Lucas looked as if he had been scared out of courage, and hurried out: "Then, it's thanks to the two masters."

"Wait a minute," I suddenly remembered the man who died in the hospital, so I asked, "Is there a middle-aged male regular who suddenly stopped coming?"

Lucas blinked and said, "Men... no! Here, female customers are the mainstream, and men are hardly seen."

"Eh?" I frowned, that man is...

"Apart from me and Xiaodong, there are no other men here." Lucas wrung his fingers and said, "Except for the security guard in front of Xiaodong."

"Security?" I immediately asked, "He's tall and has a daughter at home?"

"That's right," Lucas said with a look of admiration, "Master, you are really powerful. You can figure it out by pinching your fingers. We all call him Uncle Ma, but he was sick a while ago and resigned, so Xiaodong came here to work part-time." .”

Only then did I understand that the reason why this beauty salon pays the staff such a high salary is not to cheat the customers, but...to cheat the staff?
Cheng Ke is smarter than me, so of course he figured it out earlier: "Take off your shoes."

Lucas didn't know why, but out of superstition for me and Cheng Ke, he immediately took off his shoes. I looked down and saw that he had painted a layer of blue nail polish!
I was stunned for a moment: "This is..."

"I'm not afraid of the master's jokes." Lucas said a little embarrassedly: "I may have contracted onychomycosis a while ago. You know, how can people in the service industry get infectious diseases? Once someone finds out, my career will be ruined." It's over! Isn't it, just cover it for a while..."

I took off my shoes and said, "Aren't they the same as mine?"

Lucas looked at my pitch-black toenails, as if he had met a bosom friend, and hurriedly said, "Oh, what a coincidence, Master also got onychomycosis? This is really fate..."

"Although the wages here are high, don't you have few customers?" Cheng Ke looked at Lucas: "There are almost no people, right?"

"Oh, yes," Lucas said quickly, "I don't know what the boss thinks. It's quite strange to do such a loss-making business. I always think that if this continues, I will only go out but not in, and I will go bankrupt sooner or later." Yes, but before closing down, I will stay for a while, after all, the salary is attractive, to tell you the truth, we male beauticians..."

"Your boss, have you met?" Cheng Ke ignored Lucas' nagging and interrupted directly.

Lucas hurriedly said: "The boss has never shown up. Shirley is in charge of all kinds of things alone. It can be seen that Shirley has been entrusted by the boss..."

Cheng Ke didn't listen, just looked at me and said, "It seems that the ghost breeder not only raises ghosts, but also raises people by the way."

I guessed it a long time ago: "The employees are hired with high salaries. Is it... for the purpose of growing pubic lice, using pubic lice to suck human blood, and raising something?"

Cheng Ke nodded and frowned handsomely. When Lucas left, Cheng Ke picked up the white wax in the room, lit it, and filled the gap in the door with wax oil.

I asked curiously, "What are you doing?"

"The ghost raiser will definitely come back here to add incense," Cheng Ke said: "The white wax seals the door, mainly because it can block the yin energy of you and me, so that the ghost raiser won't notice that there is something different here."

Buildings seldom have thresholds made, and the crack in the door can be considered tight. It didn’t take long for the wax to seal the gap tightly. Cheng Ke placed the remaining candle stubs on the doorway, and the candle tears slowed down. It slowly flowed down and piled up all over the floor.

I looked at the watch on my wrist, and the pointer had already pointed to nearly twelve o'clock. Since Cheng Ke said it was midnight, it should be here soon.I turned around and looked at the darkness, the colorful night outside the glass window where the shadow was being reflected, and I didn't know why, so I sighed.

Cheng Ke was standing on my left, but only myself was reflected on the glass window, which is true. After all, he and I are not people in the same world. He is also separated from yin and yang.

But... I suddenly remembered, I saw that suspected calamus figure twice, once in the wooden barrel, and once on the glass of the cabinet, both were reflections!

Why, only I can see the shadow of calamus?
I frowned a little suspiciously, but suddenly realized that whatever I was thinking, the shadow of the woman in the gorgeous dress appeared behind my shadow again!

Still the same, a face hidden in a mass of darkness, but I just know, she is her!
And Cheng Ke didn't notice his existence at all, just like me, looking at the glass that only reflected my reflection.

That woman was neither far nor close to Cheng Ke, but it was the first time I saw them standing together—except for that photo.

She just stands there quietly, appears, she just exists, she does nothing.

But my heart suddenly became awkward.

Just because of her existence?
It's no longer fear...but, heartache.

I really want to know about the past between her and Cheng Ke, but I don't dare to know.

"What are you thinking?" Cheng Ke patted my head: "Don't be afraid, I'm here."

I twitched the corners of my mouth: "I'm not afraid...it's just..." I looked up at Cheng Ke: "If Calamus appears again, will you follow her?"

Cheng Ke's big peach-blossom eyes froze for a moment, then said, "I don't like to make assumptions."

What if... that's not an assumption at all?

Unfortunately, I dare not ask this question.

"Click, click..." At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps at the door.

The footsteps stopped at the door.

Cheng Ke covered my eyes with both hands, wiped my eyelids again, and then let go. A cold feeling disappeared in an instant.

Opening his eyes, the calamus had disappeared, and the person who made the footsteps obviously wanted to come in through the door, "Pattapa..." The door was still closed, but the footsteps obviously had already entered.Because I saw a series of small footprints left on the wax that hadn't had time to solidify.

Take a closer look, those footprints are exactly the same shape as the shoes on the incense table!

"Chichijike..." The sound of children laughing and playing came from the room, as if this place was crowded with invisible children...

It seems that just now, Cheng Ke didn't want me to see those things, so he closed my eyes that connected with him.

Why don't you let me see it?
Cheng Ke tilted his head, as if he was observing something with great interest, and a unemotional smile appeared on his thin lips.

That smile doesn't appear too many times, but every time it appears, it doesn't seem to be a good sign.

I'm a little apprehensive.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and it was getting closer and closer to midnight. At the same time, those voices of playing and playing turned into impatient voices, you urging me, I urging you, as if they were all chattering complaining about something.

Then, those little complaints turned into screams, which were deafening.

Behold, the hour of midnight has come.

Pat, clack, patter... a very steady footstep sounded.

The footsteps were obvious, there was only one person, and as soon as the footsteps sounded, all the noise suddenly disappeared, as if the head teacher came to the back door of a class.

I knew that the Lord was coming, so I stared at the door with bated breath.

"Click..." was the sound of the key turning the doorknob, and then, a figure swayed at the door. The figure stepped on the candle and stopped suddenly.

My heart was pounding, this... is that ghost raiser?

The moment the door opened, Cheng Ke's peach eyes had already flashed a cruel look, and suddenly a bright light shone outside, and a nice and familiar voice said, "You can't run away!"

"Let's outflank him at both ends, just make sure he can't escape!"

The person who was about to enter the door was frightened, only shook at the door, and then disappeared.

"Pa..." With the sound of hurried footsteps, someone opened the door. Sure enough, it was Li Minglang and Daoist Chu Yang who entered the door!
Cheng Ke revealed a very terrifying expression.

Li Minglang and Daoist Chuyang were also stunned: "Are you here too?"

The idiot could also see that the ghost breeder who was about to come over to feed the group of dwarf figurines earlier was frightened away by these two people!

I couldn't help but gritted my teeth, like an ice cream that was knocked over before it reached my mouth, and fell to the ground completely!
Cheng Ke opened the window without saying a word, looked outside, and said in a deep voice, "I can't catch up."

"Lu Qiao, are you also here to chase after that ghost raiser?" Li Minglang looked at me, a little embarrassed: "It's a coincidence that we met."

I smiled wryly and told the story again. After hearing this, Daoist Chuyang said with great admiration: "Your fortune has gone low, and it hasn't passed yet? It's really powerful to be so unlucky."

"This is really..." I sighed, and said, "This time, I'm going to scare the snake, and I don't know when I will meet again. If I don't, I will give up my life."

Li Minglang's handsome face was very embarrassed: "I'm really sorry, I really don't know..."

"What do you know?" Cheng Ke frowned Yingting: "You probably don't know anything except to make trouble."

Li Minglang's haughty and arrogant temper was just when he was angry with himself when he did something wrong. Cheng Ke said this, and he was even more unwilling: "It's just a ghost raiser. I will help Lu Qiao catch it."

"If you catch it, you have to see when you can catch it." Cheng Ke took my hand and put it in front of Li Minglang, with anger in his eyes: "Did you see it? I don't know, will you pay it or not?" worthy."

I lowered my head, only to realize to my horror that my ten fingernails had also turned completely black!Cheng Ke said last time that this kind of pubic lice spreads from bottom to top until it fills the whites of a person's eyes with blackness, and the person will be done playing—just like the corpse he saw in the hospital.

Li Minglang also knew how powerful the pubic lice were, so he frowned delicately, gritted his teeth, and said, "Before the pubic lice eat her brain, I will definitely get the blood to break the spell for her."

"Who doesn't know what to say." Cheng Ke said coldly: "But things may not be done."

"You..." Li Minglang was obviously also a little angry, but he probably also thought that today's incident was indeed his fault, so he had to swallow it, and turned his head and said to me: "You Wait for me, I..."

"Still waiting for you?" Cheng Ke's voice was a little sarcasm: "Sorry, we can't afford to wait."

"Okay, okay." Although I was also a little disappointed, if the two of them fought again, it would not do me any good, so I had to stand in front of Cheng Ke, turned to talk to Li Minglang, and changed the subject: "How can you both?" Come here?"

"Since we returned to the Taiqing Palace, we have been investigating the news of the ghost raiser," Li Minglang said, "My cousin told me that the person who borrowed the body of the ancestor of the Yang family wantonly slaughtered the ghost raiser, so we will also investigate. I came here, looking for clues, and I found the Yin Qi of the ghost raiser near here, and followed the Yin Qi to chase me. Seeing a suspicious figure enter here, I hurried to catch up, who You know, when he saw us, he ran away."

"It's a coincidence that you came here." Cheng Ke narrowed his eyes, with a bit of disdain: "I don't think so, this time, I was used as a gun again."

Li Minglang gritted his teeth, deliberately ignored Cheng Ke, and turned to me and said, "You got pubic lice, why haven't I heard you mention it?"

I sighed: "It's not a good thing. Besides, Cheng Ke said that he will help me find the blood of the ghost raiser..."

"If only you had told me earlier." Li Minglang said with some regret: "I will definitely find a way to help you."

"thanks……"

"It's not about helping." Cheng Ke said coldly: "It would be a waste of time to help a few times, and we are already grateful."

"Okay, okay." I had no choice but to continue to smooth things over: "Let's also ask Shirley, isn't she the supervisor here? Besides, she is not a ghost keeper, maybe she was just used by others." That's all."

"Ah..." At this moment, I could only hear a shrill scream from nowhere!

(End of this chapter)