My Zombie Husband

16. Chapter 16: Going Down the Mountain to Catch the Ghost

Translator: mellet

Every day asked by Mu Feng  to catch snakes in the bamboo forest, to exercise under the waterfall, Xia Mingyu had become accustomed to Mu Feng brain problems, but never expected that today, the task to him was to catch ghosts in the village on the hillside. He had only learned for a month, okay? The skill of Glyph (drawing some glyphs in a piece of paper and sticking this piece of paper in something or someone evil) can only be said to be barely qualified. What skill could be used to fight with the ghost?

Looking at Mu Feng sitting there and talking seriously about letting him exercise, Xia Mingyu really had the urge to kill him. Fortunately, he was sensible enough to suppress his anger, only to stare at Mu Feng angrily.

He Nai swallowed and pointed to Xia Mingyu and Mu Feng and said, “Master, are you alright? Mingyu has only been in learning for a month, how can he meet the ghost alone? Even a newborn ghost can kill him. It’s too dangerous for him to take this mission! I disagree!”

Wangchuan saw Xia Mingyu with his head lowered and slightly trembling (actually in anger), thought that Xia Mingyu was afraid, and patted him on the shoulder consolingly, and said to Mu Feng, “Master, if you want to be lazy, just say so and I’ll go, but Mingyu … He has neither the constitution nor the ability. Something will happen to him.”

What constitution did Xia Mingyu have? Mu Feng had tested him, his was the unluckiest constitution that was rare for a hundred years-to attract ghosts … Because he was born on Ghost Day, was abandoned in ice land at birth, and his body was not very good, so he naturally recruited ghosts. If it were not for Kylin jade pendant and he had been much stronger after joining the Zhao family, he would either have been dead in wilderness or have suffered the Possession of the ghost.

His constitution was not only attractive for ghost, but also easy to cause the corpses to wake up as ghosts, even more to provoke demons. It can be said that anything unlucky would happen to him without his Kylin jade pendant. In this month, many ghosts and demons often surrounded the courtyard. Fortunately, there was Eight Tails, and there was no more powerful demons than Eight Tails, therefore no demons dare to attack Xia Mingyu.

Only once, when Xia Mingyu went outside to catch the snake, he met the snake demon. When Zhao Yun rushed over, he only saw Xia Mingyu falling into a group of snakes, his whole body was entangled by snakes, and he had already passed out, almost eaten up by the snake demon.

The snake had left a shadow in Xia Mingyu’s life. Because when he entered the Zhao family’s tomb, a group of zombies didn’t scare him to death, but he was bitten and almost killed by the blue snake, and then he was bitten by the snake demon. Now, he was far away from the snake, but Mu Feng still insisted on him to catch the snake, saying that it was to overcome his fear, he had to hypnotize himself every time to catch the snake. The bastard just wanted to see him make a fool of himself

“Oh, don’t worry. There is just a little ghost in the village. It’s not long after he died. Even himself doesn’t know he is dead and scared a few playmates after he went out from tomb. Mingyu, you just have to let him understand that he’s dead. It’s time to examine the results of a month’s study.”

Mu Feng said and raised his eyebrows at Xia Mingyu, who looked away. Zhao Yun reached out and touched the boy’s head, boy’s soft hair interspersed at his fingertips, which was very comfortable. “Don’t be afraid, you can do it.” Anyway, Eight Tails’ demonic power can sense what happens to XIa Mingyu, and he could arrive in time if Xia Mingyu was in danger.

Xia Mingyu nodded obediently, sighing in his mind, praying that he would not meet anything evil.

When he left, Wangchuan stuffed two pieces of Glyph in Xia Mingyu’s hand. However, because Mu Feng said it was a test of his own, Wangchuan did not give the very powerful Glyph to him, but enough to protect him. The boy smiled sweetly to show thanks, the raised lips let Wangchuan suddenly think of the fingers that were licked by the boy in the tomb, and was stunned for a long time.

He went out of the yard and flipped through his bag, there were peach wood sword, Glyph, Luo Geng, eight hexagram mirror, seven-star rope, five element flag, cow tears, copper money sword, chicken blood… Pretty much everything. Although Mu Feng said that the little ghost had no harm, and Xia Mingyu just needed to let the ghost know he was no longer a human being, Xia Mingyu wasn’t so optimistic. Anything would happen, so he had to bring everything.

In the village on the hillside, The villagers gave Xia Mingyu a warm welcome, especially the families where the children were scared by ghost. Originally, they didn’t believe in Xia Mingyu, but after calling Mu Feng to confirm, they immediately changed their attitude, and they took him to the place where the accident happened. It was daylight and the little ghost didn’t show up. He asked the children to learn about the situation.

The children were only two or three years younger than Xia Mingyu, so they immediately took him as a new playmate and said those things enthusiastically, “Nuonuo is the oldest of us. He is fourteen years old this year. He is very nice and often takes us everywhere to play. If the children from the neighboring village bully us, he will help us out.”

“However, Nuonuo is very miserable. When he was seven, his father was bitten by a venomous snake when working in the field. And his mother run away with someone else! It seemed that Nuonuo was simple-minded and didn’t care about it. In fact, I’ve seen him cry several times.”

So, that’s a pretty pathetic one… Xia Mingyu thought to himself and asked, “Then why did he die?”

Several children looked at each other and hesitated for a long time, and one of them said, “Actually, Nuonuo was killed by someone, really! You have to believe us! The adults said that we thought too much about it and Nuonuo killed himself. But after all these years of playing together, can we not know what kind of person he is? He wouldn’t kill himself! He’s so strong!”

Not suicide? That would be murder, but what is Nuonuo worth murdering for? Father died, Mother ran away, and he was alone. Why would he be killed? Xia Mingyu lowered his head and thought, and asked, “Since You are sure that Nuonuo was killed, did Nuonuo have something valuable?” It was unlikely, after all, if there were, their family would not had ended up in this situation.

“No.” After hearing the answers from several people, Xia Mingyu could only show a “sure enough” expression, then saw the adults go to work and said, “I need you to take me to three places. The first is Nuonuo’s home, the second is where you saw him, the third is where his body was placed.”

Xia Mingyu felt that this matter would never be that simple. He knew that Mu Feng was not reliable. He said this mission was easy because he definitely didn’t ask clearly.

After a few children came to Nuonuo’s home, Duoduo, the oldest of these children,

pointed to the ramshackle house and said, “This is Nuonuo’s house.”

Xia Mingyu nodded and walked in, inside everything was really broken, including pots, pans, doors and windows. There was a ball of cotton wool in the corner of the wall, which could be seen that it was where Nuonuo slept, because there was no bed, he could only sleep on the ground wrapped in cotton wool.

“Is that…how he usually lived?” Xia Mingyu frowned slightly. When he was in the orphanage, although he was bullied every day, at least there was a normal house to live in. Later in the Zhao family, at least there was a guarantee of food and clothing, but this child…

Doudou nodded, “Yes, he didn’t have money. Usually, the food he ate was the wild vegetables that he went to the mountain to pick. We also sent him food, but we could only do it secretly. The parents don’t want us to treat him too well. They said that he would kill us because he could bring bad luck and danger of death to the one .”