piecing together the soul

Chapter 17

It may be that the young couples are making out here, there must be no one here, and the staff who cleared the hall did not look inside and left.I stood at the corner until I could no longer see their shadows, and then I said, "Xiao Han, they are gone. Come out?"

There was no answer, so I called out again: "Xiaohan?"

"Ah," he finally agreed, "really gone?"

"Let's go." I said as I walked in, seeing Xiao Han huddled in the corner, I suddenly felt like laughing.

Xiao Han was still squatting against the corner of the wall at this time, looked up at me and smiled, and asked, "What are you laughing at?"

I shook my head and didn't say a word. Then he got up, went to the locked door lock, and pulled out the thing inserted in the lock: "I didn't expect it to be so easy to get away with it. There is no need to open the lock."

"Are you still picking locks?" I asked.

He smiled and shook the thing in his hand in front of my eyes, quickly put it back into his pocket before I saw it clearly, and said, "That's right, this is the master key. I learned it from others two years ago, and Yiduo doesn't overwhelm me." .”

"You still worship thieves as your teacher?"

"It's not a thief." He said, "My master is from a lock-picking company."

"What is a lockpicking company?"

"You don't know?" Xiao Han said slightly differently, "Well, maybe there wasn't one in the past, and you haven't heard anyone mention it, right? That is, the doors and locks are not as simple as they used to be. Breaking it open doesn't work now, so sometimes the key is lost or forgotten. In short, when the door cannot be opened, you need to find a professional to unlock it. Although the Public Security Bureau also provides this service, the method of the Public Security Bureau is too It’s bad, it’s better to find a lockpicking company.”

As soon as I was about to open my mouth, Xiao Han continued: "However, I have seen Master pick locks for others, and it is different from teaching me how to pick locks. When opening locks for others, Master's techniques are very clumsy, and the lock will still be broken in the end. As for teaching me, the technique is completely different, let’s put it this way, we can leave the lock intact without any trace of being opened.”

He is really a chatterbox, Qingluan is right, I was about to speak when he interrupted: "Do you want to ask if we will steal things after unlocking?"

I nodded, and he said: "What I hate the most is stealing. Although it can't be regarded as getting something for nothing, it is true that the salary and labor are completely unequal. Moreover, what he took away was other people's things. It was stealing. It's too shameful." .”

The two of us chatted for a while, and almost forgot what we were here for.I looked up, and there was only the setting sun in the sky, which was blocked by the tall palace walls, and the Forbidden City was filled with a gloomy and cold atmosphere.Seeing me looking up at the sky, Xiaohan also looked at the time and said, "It's six o'clock, there should be no one else, you can go and find me, I'll wait for you here."

"You are so cloudy, are you okay?" I asked.

He smiled and didn't answer, motioning for me to go quickly.

"Okay, it shouldn't be far from here, I've been feeling it." I said and went out, then subconsciously looked back at Xiao Han, and suddenly found that there seemed to be a figure appearing on the door he pried just now, The one with long hair should be a woman, dressed in blue, with no face visible.

"Xiaohan, next to you." I couldn't help reminding.

But Xiao Han said: "It's okay, you see she doesn't care about me at all."

Sure enough, according to Xiaohan's words, the blue-clothed female ghost continued to float forward, and didn't notice that there was a living person next to her. This made me startled, and I couldn't help guessing: Is this Xu Xiaohan a living person?
"Go quickly," he said, "find a good place quickly, and I will start digging when night falls."

I just came back to my senses and went out.

It was getting dark at this time, and sure enough, I saw all kinds of ghosts floating in the palace.But I did not see a single ghost, they were all dressed in colorful clothes, and almost all of them were older than me.After so many years of obsession, there is only obsession left in their souls, right?Why is this...

Thinking of this, I couldn't help thinking of my unmarried wife. If she hadn't come to persuade me at that time, maybe I would have become such a ghost, right?I really don't know how to thank her, and I don't know how she is. Where is she in this life?Could it be that Qingluan really failed?
I couldn't help laughing at myself, Qingluan, how could it be the same soul as her?Except for the phrase "Brother Xiu", the two of them really have no intersection.If she had the temperament of Qingluan, would the two of us really be able to wander around the world, and would she not go home?Heh, if she was really like Qingluan, I wouldn't have fallen in love with her then, would I?
When I arrived at a garden-like place, I suddenly felt that the corpse was very close, but the sensing place was not the upper body, but the left arm.Isn't it upper body?

The reason why I say there are my bones here is that it was many years ago.At that time, I was also injured because someone was injured next to me, so I attached a ray of soul to his blood-stained cuff.It may be that the blood stains are not big, or it may be because the man doesn't like to be clean, so he didn't change his clothes.He came here the next day, and my soul also felt that my bones were here.Maybe it's because it's just a ray of soul, I can't clearly feel which part it is.

At that time, it was the left shoulder that was beating, so I thought it was the upper body. As for now, I am getting closer to that place, and I can clearly feel it is the left arm, because this time I feel the hand is here.

"Hello." There was a voice suddenly, which really startled me.Here are ghosts who can't speak, where's the sound?Is there a ghost like me who is still awake?Or, is it human?

"Hey, I'm here." There was another low voice, not far behind me.

The voices of ghosts are always heard in the ears. This voice has a sense of distance and direction, and it seems to be human.

"Boss, you are cheating me!" He said another sentence.I turned around to look, maybe it was too dark, I really couldn't see where he was, but I could see a ghost in red clothes behind him...

(End of this chapter)