Chapter 93

Chapter 91“It’s here.”Li Zhuiyuan points ahead.It's a building site that's fenced off and looks like work stopped a long time ago.There's a security booth at the construction gate. Outside the booth sit two elderly guards on stools, fanning themselves with palm-leaf fans to cool down.“Brother Binbin.”Tan Wenbin steps forward, hands clasped on his chest:“At your service, general!”Li Zhuiyuan points at the security booth: “Go ask.”“Understood, general!”Tan Wenbin puts down his backpack containing instruments, then adopts a heroic stance and strides over with a clang.The remaining three sit by the roadside.Yin Meng takes a bag of pumpkin cakes from her backpack and offers it to Li Zhuiyuan.Li Zhuiyuan hesitates, then asks: “You made these?”Yin Meng shakes her head: “The master chef in the cafeteria made them.”Li Zhuiyuan picks one up and takes a bite. Although the texture is not as good when cooled, it's still very delicious.Yin Meng takes two for herself, then puts the entire remaining bag in front of Runsheng.Runsheng nods, takes out his iron box, pulls out a thick stick of incense, lights it, and starts eating.He’s not actually hungry; he just had dinner before coming out, but he understands that this is preparation for the battle ahead.From the northwest corner of the site, there's a "clang clang" sound. Someone has climbed over and is throwing steel bars out. A tricycle is parked right outside.The noise isn't small; Li Zhuiyuan and the others can hear it clearly from where they're sitting. The security guards at the site must have also heard the movement.But the two guards are still smoking the cigarettes Tan Wenbin gave them and chatting, with no intention of intervening.After all, given their age and meager salaries, it's not worth risking their lives.Just then, a minibus drives over, slows down, and heads towards the gate where the security booth is located.The two guards immediately stand up, throw away their cigarettes, and after a brief conversation, the minibus drives through the gate.Tan Wenbin comes jogging back after getting some information. Runsheng shifts to make space for Tan Wenbin to sit between him and Xiaoyuan.Yin Meng takes a bottle of water from her bag and hands it over after twisting the cap.Tan Wenbin drinks some water, then casually takes a piece of pumpkin cake from the bag in front of Runsheng and takes a bite, saying:“Brother Xiaoyuan, the dead thing we're looking for should be here. This site has been shut down for several months. Strange things kept happening during the construction period, and accidents were frequent. Then one time, I don't know how, a large swarm of snakes came out and crawled into the workers'休息棚 (xiūxi péng - temporary rest shed), biting many people. Since then, work has stopped completely until now.The minibus that just went in, I saw through the car window that it was full of some Taoist priests and monks. It should be the big boss of the developer who invited them to exorcise the place.Alas, we should have contacted the big boss earlier. How much is he losing by stopping construction? As long as we can solve the problem, he’d definitely be willing to pay us a lot of money.It's a pity, we let others in the same trade get there first.”Li Zhuiyuan stands up: “Then let’s go see our colleagues perform.”The four of them pack up their things. The thieves in the northwest corner still haven't left. The front gate is too conspicuous, so the four of them go around and climb in from the south gate.Most areas inside the site are completely dark, with only a corner in the center lit up. Candle flames can be seen flickering from afar.The central foundation area is flooded, forming a pond of unknown depth.Two offering tables are placed on either side. Although the monks and Taoist priests came in a minibus, at this moment they are clearly divided: three monks and three Taoist priests, each in charge of their own table.The monks are reciting scriptures with solemn expressions; the Taoist priests are performing sword dances with an air of immortality.In the middle stands a man in a blue vest with a slicked-back hairstyle. He should be the one responsible for inviting the masters.At this moment, the man with the slicked-back hair is smoking. The frequency of his cigarette butt shaking is very high, indicating he is also forcing himself to stay.The four of them hide under the 回家网 (Huíjiā wǎng - returning home net) on the side. They listen for a while. The Taoist priests doing sword dances switch to reciting scriptures, and the monks who were reciting scriptures start circling the table and beating gongs.Tan Wenbin jokes: “These colleagues, they look like they were just hired from a funeral band.”At this point, everyone's heart is clear: this group of masters are incompetent filling in for someone else.The early stage ceremony is more complicated, with longer preparations, and is mostly for show.“Splash!”A sound suddenly comes from the pond.The masters immediately stop their performances. The cigarette in the hand of the man with the slicked-back hair drops to the ground.Tan Wenbin immediately grabs his 罗生伞 (Luóshēng sǎn - Rakshasa umbrella) stick and prepares to protect Li Zhuiyuan: “Did the dead thing come out?”Runsheng: “Why is there no smell?”Li Zhuiyuan says: “Someone on the opposite side of the pond is deliberately throwing things in. They should be the thieves who came in tonight to steal steel bars, and they're playing tricks on people.”The young man's hearing is good; he heard laughter from the opposite side of the pond, there should be three people.Stealing is one thing, but they didn't leave after finishing; they actually stayed to watch the show.If it were other places, they might get away with it, but here there's a real dead thing, and it's a corpse demon skilled at confusing minds. When that thing really comes out, they might not find the right direction to escape.The people on that side themselves didn't realize someone was causing trouble; they only realized when the "dirty things" actually reacted, which scared them into immediately taking countermeasures.The monks take out black dog blood. They have plenty of stock, splashing basin after basin into the pond.Runsheng: “Pig blood.”It's already ridiculous for the monks to splash black dog blood, but it turns out they're substituting it with pig blood.But their actions make it difficult for Li Zhuiyuan and the others to say anything more for a while.After all, in their hometown, they also have a saying: what blood is splashed during rituals depends on what meat was eaten in the previous two days.The Taoist priests then burn some unknown animal skin and throw some black, dark, long-haired things into the fire.Runsheng: “Donkey skin.”Tan Wenbin: “Those things they just threw in, are they black donkey hooves?”Subsequently, the Taoist priests and monks each start throwing the magic tools, talismans, and other items from their offering tables into the pond one by one, shouting loudly each time they throw something:“Suppress!”“Remove!”In the end, even the offering plates on the tables are thrown in all at once.Tan Wenbin: “I told you, ah, the boss is willing to pay, they'll definitely make a fortune with this job, otherwise they wouldn't even be willing to throw in the eating utensils.”Yin Meng: “When the dead thing really comes out, what's the difference between this and handing over your guns in advance?”Runsheng: “These things are useless in their hands anyway. It's better to throw them away and run faster.”Li Zhuiyuan looks up. A dark cloud has just covered the moon. In his vision, he also sees the faint gray qi that ordinary people cannot see.Runsheng also senses something. He sniffs hard, then says dissatisfied: “They burned too many杂物 (záwù - miscellaneous things), the smell is very messy.”Li Zhuiyuan: “Get ready, it’s about to come out.”The three of them immediately become vigilant.Even though they checked the bottom beforehand and know that this corpse demon's approximate strength is not too outrageous, even a lion uses its full strength to hunt a rabbit. No one dares to be careless.Li Zhuiyuan: “含丸 (Hán wán - containing pill).”Yin Meng takes three red pills from her backpack and gives them to the other two. Everyone except Li Zhuiyuan puts this red pill in their mouth.The red pill is not some spiritual pill or wonder drug; its taste is similar to a composite of bitter melon and mustard.Its purpose is that when you feel your consciousness becoming blurry, you instinctively bite it open and use the physiological reaction to forcibly awaken your consciousness.《正道伏魔录》(Zhèngdào Fúmó Lù - Record of Orthodox Demon Subjugation) recorded this thing, but only mentioned the method, without specifying the raw materials. Perhaps Wei Zhengdao also knew that people in different places have different tastes.For example, Li Zhuiyuan originally wanted to add fish mint as well, but didn't because Yin Meng eats cold mixed houttuynia as a snack.“握粉 (Wò fěn - grip powder).”Tan Wenbin takes out three powder bags from his pocket and gives them to the other two. These are to be held in hand and pinched open when needed to sprinkle the powder to break illusions. If they find a companion dazed, they can also fling it directly at their face.Previously, Li Zhuiyuan specifically had a fan with grooves for holding various powders, but now he doesn't need those things much anymore.After his internal strength increased, some auxiliary items gradually lost their role. And as long as Li Zhuiyuan is here, Runsheng and the other two can carry fewer things and just focus on dealing with the dead thing.Li Zhuiyuan's gaze falls on the three thieves who are still staying on the opposite side to watch the show, then he sweeps a glance at the six masters under the lights on this side, saying in a very calm tone:“Wait for the fish to bite the hook first.”The three of them nod in unison.They will wait for the dead thing to make a move against the others first, then take the opportunity to cast their net.Although this is a bit cruel, it is also the most stable approach.If you don't have the skills but want to do this kind of work, it's normal to capsize; if the thieves stay to watch the show after stealing, they deserve what happens.The only somewhat innocent one is the man with the slicked-back hair, but it doesn't matter... after all, they didn't take his money.Earlier, when Tan Wenbin mentioned this, Li Zhuiyuan deliberately didn't answer. If you take people's money, you have to help them ward off disaster. Taking the money would inevitably constrain them.Unlike now, except for himself, everyone else is bait for the fish.“Ah, fire, fire, fire!”One monk suddenly acts like he's gone mad, tearing off his cassock, then running straight towards the pond in front and jumping in.This scene scares the other five masters.The three Taoist priests immediately look at the remaining two monks with questioning eyes, probably wanting to confirm if this is a last-minute addition to their act to get more red envelopes.The two monks look at each other because there really was no such scene planned.“Ah, snake, snake, snake!”One Taoist priest falls to the ground clutching his throat, his legs kicking non-stop.For a while, the two monks start looking for things to pull their companion out of the pond, while the two Taoist priests try to pry open the hands of the other Taoist priest.The man with the slicked-back hair is already shaking, constantly stepping backward. He wants to escape.In fact, the monks and Taoist priests are also very panicked, but at this moment, the urgency of saving their companions temporarily suppresses the rapidly rising fear within them.Finally, the monk is pulled out by his companions before he drowns; and the Taoist priest is pried open by his two companions before he strangles himself.The six masters are all very embarrassed, and they all understand that this is not the script. But if they just slip away like this, the final payment won't be easy to settle.Just then, the man with the slicked-back hair suddenly shouts and goes crazy, picking up an iron pipe from the ground and swinging it directly at the monks and Taoist priests.The scene becomes chaotic.But these are just minor disturbances, the dead thing still hasn't come out.“Splash!”On the opposite side, someone falls into the water.The thieves are actually a bit more loyal, or perhaps they don't know the specific situation here. Seeing one companion fall down, the other two immediately jump in to pull him out.Finally, Li Zhuiyuan finds that the gray mist in front of his eyes turns black.Runsheng also smells the authentic, strong stench of a water corpse.And as one head floats out of the water, everything, just like the images in a video hall, is fast-forwarded. This pot of water finally boils.All the monks and Taoist priests on this side, like the man with the slicked-back hair, fight together. Soon, they are all bruised and bleeding. Even the monk and Taoist priest lying on the ground are still holding others' legs and biting down desperately.Li Zhuiyuan: “Hook it up!”The four of them lift their 回家网 (Huíjiā wǎng - returning home net). While Tan Wenbin collects the net, he takes out his seal mud box and presses his fingers, silently reciting an incantation while re-coating the seal.Runsheng props up his Seven Star Hook and flicks it smoothly. All seven sections open, setting it directly towards the head in the middle of the pond.After the last section is set, Runsheng turns his hands, locking the top end of the Seven Star Hook. Then, Runsheng pulls back with all his strength.The water surface immediately splashes violently, and a strong smell of fresh blood emits.This is the first thief who fell in. At this moment, he has already been disemboweled.“Ah!!!”An ear-piercing scream emanates from the dead thing, with bewitching power.Runsheng is decisive. He bites the red pill in his mouth, and his whole person is invigorated. Strong nausea stimulates his greater potential.“Splash splash splash…”The dead thing is constantly being pulled towards this side.Yin Meng's face shows pain, but she persists.Liu Yumei said she is a stupid girl, born dull, which is a disadvantage, but sometimes, it is also an advantage.While Runsheng is pulling the dead thing, Yin Meng draws her demon whip and whips it fiercely.Every time the leather whip falls, the dead thing's scream becomes sharper, and everyone's pain intensifies further. But this is like taming an eagle; whoever endures wins.When the scream goes up, Tan Wenbin first stands up on tiptoe, the corners of his mouth turn up, showing a strange smile;He crushes the powder bag towards his face without hesitation, and at the same time bites the red pill in his mouth, then:“Vomit!”After spitting out a large mouthful, the corners of his mouth turn up again, showing a strange smile again. When the nausea in his mouth continues down to his stomach, he starts vomiting again.In a dynamic stage of being influenced, breaking influence, being influenced again, breaking influence.But even so, the actions in his hand do not stop. His mouth is not free now and has to be used for laughing and vomiting, so he cannot recite incantations.But he relies on muscle memory to recoat the 回家网 (Huíjiā wǎng - returning home net) with new red mud.Then, while vomiting and laughing, he comes to the edge of the pond in a cramp-like manner, using his last strength and clear mind to throw out the net in his hand.After the 回家网 (Huíjiā wǎng - returning home net) is set on the dead thing, Tan Wenbin finally cannot hold on. The only thing he can do in the end is to fall backward when he falls to the ground, using his own weight to anchor the other end of the net.Li Zhuiyuan glances at Tan Wenbin, who is lying on the ground spitting white foam and still covered in crystalline powder, and does nothing.He can make a move to relieve Tan Wenbin's pain, but he can sense that the corpse demon is still putting up a last struggle. He has to wait until that moment to make a move so that he can complete this "fishing" neatly.The corpse demon is already at the shore.Li Zhuiyuan: “Rise corpse!”“Heave ho!”Runsheng squats in a horse stance, turns his body backward, rests the pole of the Seven Star Hook on his shoulder, and then flings it forward forcefully.The corpse demon is pulled out of the water like a big fish, coming to mid-air above the shore.But just at this moment, the corpse demon's pupils turn green, and it opens its mouth. A black snake emerges from its mouth.A piece of the black snake's forehead is missing, with fresh blood dripping, but at this moment, it still emits a dangerous aura.Subsequently, the snake's head suddenly swells up, as if accumulating power. But before it is about to open its mouth, Li Zhuiyuan walks in front of Runsheng.Fear flows out of the black snake's snake pupils. It does not have spiritual thought memory, yet it can share in perception.The teenager in front of its eyes is very scary.Along with this, the corpse demon's eyes, which had just turned green, also appear to flicker.Li Zhuiyuan presses a seal with his left hand, draws a spell on his right arm, then smoothly slides it down to the back of his right hand, and points his right thumb directly at the swollen snake's head.“Suppress!”The snake's head opens its mouth, but the green mist inside cannot overflow. Instead, it retreats back, and the black snake itself is also forcibly retracted into the corpse demon's mouth.The green mist explodes inside the corpse demon's body. Wisps overflow from its eyes, ears, mouth, and nose. At the same time, green ghost fire rises up, illuminating its body and making it transparent.Like a shadow play effect, countless small snakes can be seen struggling madly inside the corpse demon's body.“Heave ho!”Runsheng exerts force again.“Bang!”The corpse demon is smashed heavily onto the shore.Yin Meng flips over, her demon whip extends out again, entangling the corpse demon's neck.The corpse demon roars, wanting to stand up. Just as it gets up, it is pulled down again.Runsheng throws down the Seven Star Hook, picks up the Yellow River Shovel, and at the same time as the corpse demon falls to the ground, he brutally chops towards its neck!“Puff!”The sharp Yellow River Shovel only stabs into its neck and is unable to chop off its head.The corpse demon struggles again, wanting to get up. Yin Meng continues to tighten the demon whip while sliding over on the ground. With one foot above and one below, she clamps the corpse demon's abdomen, forcing the dead thing's half-raised body to fall again.This is a very dangerous move, mainly to cooperate with Runsheng's next shovel. If Runsheng cannot resolve it, Yin Meng, who is close to the dead thing's body, will be very dangerous.Runsheng gritts his teeth, and the Yellow River Shovel falls again.“Puff!”The corpse demon's head is finally chopped off, the body and head separated.But the fallen head rolls towards Yin Meng.Yin Meng, lying on the ground, can even clearly see the constantly moving snake bodies inside the eye sockets and mouth of the head.Just at this critical moment, a fair and tender hand reaches out, grabs the head, and lifts it up.Yin Meng raises her eyelids and looks towards the teenager standing in front of her.Li Zhuiyuan looks down at her: “Next time, unless absolutely necessary, don't use life-risking moves.”“Hiss hiss!”From the head held in the teenager's hand, a black snake, with its skin torn open, flesh exposed, and emitting a burnt smell, swiftly drills out, directly pouncing towards the teenager's face.Li Zhuiyuan doesn't even look at it. He just snaps his left fingers.“Snap!”The black snake's body immediately stiffens.Li Zhuiyuan continues to look at Yin Meng and says: “If I hadn't suppressed the things it spit out back in beforehand and burned most of the small snakes inside its body, you would have been bitten by any snake that came out when you were close to its body just now, and been poisoned.”While speaking, the teenager reaches out and grabs the stiff snake's body. Vaguely, his line of sight appears twisted and folded, as if invisible flames are burning in the teenager's palm.The black snake's body, which was originally burned black, starts to crack at this moment, the snake flesh separates, and finally turns to ashes and falls down.Li Zhuiyuan pats the ashes from his hand, but still feels the greasiness of snake oil on his hand.He just turns around, finds a pile of sand, and rubs a handful of sand in his hand.On the other side, the headless corpse demon has already started to turn into pus water step by step.Li Zhuiyuan walks to the edge and asks Runsheng: “Is it male or female?”Its face is too white, its build is swollen, and it's wearing a discolored long gown. For a while, it's really impossible to tell the gender before death.“I don’t know, I’ll take a look.”Runsheng says this and just picks up the Yellow River Shovel, about to pick at it.“Forget it, no need.”“Oh, okay.”Li Zhuiyuan walks to Tan Wenbin's side, lightly taps Tan Wenbin's forehead three times with his knuckles, then closes his eyes and covers Tan Wenbin's face with his hand.After several breaths, Li Zhuiyuan suddenly lifts his hand upward. Tan Wenbin opens his eyes and raises his neck upward at the same time.“Crack!”“Ah…… oh……”Tan Wenbin wakes up, but he's clutching his own neck.Li Zhuiyuan: “What happened?”“Brother Xiaoyuan, my neck is twisted, it hurts a lot.”Tan Wenbin sits up, but his head is still tilted, like he slept wrong.Runsheng looks at him: “Just a work injury.”Tan Wenbin: “Can any of you set bones?”Runsheng: “I can do it.”“Get lost. Mengmeng, can you?”“I can only break my own neck, I don't dare to break others’.”Tan Wenbin only looks at Li Zhuiyuan with pleading eyes.“Brother Binbin, go to the medical room to find a doctor after returning to school.”“Ai, okay.”Li Zhuiyuan stands at the edge of the pond and looks down.Runsheng says: “Xiaoyuan, I’ll go down and see if there’s anything.”“Brother Runsheng, the water is dirty.”Not only is there still a corpse floating on the surface, but it is also the corpse demon's original hiding place inside.“It's not dirty, it doesn't matter.”Runsheng takes off his upper clothes and pants, then takes a short run-up and jumps in.This short action makes Li Zhuiyuan vaguely see the shadow of Uncle Qin jumping into the river at the beginning.“Yin Meng, you pack up the instruments; Brother Binbin, you go see the situation of those people.”Li Zhuiyuan walks to the side of the "dead thing," which is already gone, only a pool of pus water and a piece of clothing remaining.He finds an iron bar and pokes it. There are many fine, long, black crisps inside the clothing. When touched by the iron bar, they just scatter open. They should be the small snakes that were originally inside the dead thing's body.If that green mist and these poisonous snakes inside the body had truly sprayed out before, it would have been very difficult to deal with.Other than that, he just sees a black stone. It looks like it was originally a jade pendant, but it has been soaked in corpse qi and become completely worthless.Li Zhuiyuan uses some force to knock on it. The jade breaks, and the inside is also black, in powder form.Fortunately, Li Zhuiyuan didn't have much expectation for this in the first place. Sometimes touching a corpse is just a habit, like fishing for a dead thing, enjoying the process.Tan Wenbin walks back after going around: “Brother Xiaoyuan, those monks and Taoist priests are all fainted now, injured very seriously, but it’s just broken arms and legs, no life danger. On the other side, I just saw one. It should be that one thief was anxious when escaping and fell onto steel bars. Those thick steel bars directly pierced his chest, he should be about to die.”“Did he see your appearance?”“No, no, his face wasn't facing me.”Movement comes from under the water. Runsheng floats to the surface and comes ashore, holding an incense burner in his hand.“Xiaoyuan, it’s a mess down there. It should have been a water burial originally, which was dug open. I just saw this thing might have some value, take a look.”Li Zhuiyuan takes the incense burner. It is very small and exquisite, just the size of his palm, but very heavy.The base is a black turtle, and there is also a stele in the middle of the incense burner.Li Zhuiyuan: “This is for divination and fortune-telling. Light an incense and ask for good or bad luck.”Runsheng scratches his head: “Then it’s useless to you, Xiaoyuan.”“It’s useful. Later, when we encounter a fork in the road and don’t know which way to go, we can light an incense and ask it. If we go to a place like a water burial tomb again, we can also rely on it to point the way.”Tan Wenbin asks: “What's the difference between that and flipping a coin?”“It needs to be used in conjunction with a compass, the method of seeking yin and asking the way, and the method of fate calculation.”Tan Wenbin blinks: “It would be great if high school math taught this.”“Brother Runsheng, put it away. Next time we act as a team, bring it with you.”“Okay.”Runsheng puts on his clothes and reaches out to take the incense burner.“Wait a moment, there are words below.” Li Zhuiyuan lifts the incense burner again. Previously, it was soaked in water, completely dark, and could not be seen. Now that it is a bit dry, white marks of knife-engraved patterns appear.Tan Wenbin turns on his flashlight and helps shine it over.Li Zhuiyuan carefully observes and discovers that a very simple ghost face is drawn above first. After seeing the line of words below, Li Zhuiyuan determines that this ghost face should be a human face, with a nose and eyes.The sentence below is: “This is 叶对 (Yè Duì)'s true appearance.”Tan Wenbin reads out the words, then says puzzled: “Why is this tone so childish?”These words are engraved on the base, on the belly of the black turtle, just like primary school students write the names of their desk mates or friends on some illustrations.Li Zhuiyuan: “Possibly just child's play.”“Then who is 叶对 (Yè Duì)?”“Do you know 刘伯温 (Liú Bówēn)?”“Yes, Old Zhu's strategist.”“Almost that kind of figure, but he returned to the wilderness before Old Zhu proclaimed himself emperor.”Tan Wenbin points to the stirred pus water on the ground, saying in disbelief: “Just him?”“Definitely not. That kind of figure, even if he turned into a dead thing, would not be so easily resolved. Although the gender of this corpse was unclear before, it should have been a middle-aged person when it died, which doesn't match 叶对 (Yè Duì).Moreover, this furnace was originally a treasure. It is no exception no matter who it ended up with.”Li Zhuiyuan hands the incense burner to Runsheng, and Runsheng puts it into his backpack.Tan Wenbin asks Runsheng curiously: “There were no other things below?”“No.” Runsheng points to the pond, “You can go down and see again.”“I’m not going down.” Tan Wenbin shakes his head, then, “Hiss…… painful.”Li Zhuiyuan explains: “It is said that the things were taken away by the workers the first time it was dug open. Okay, let’s go back.”The four of them leave the site along the original path. When they walk back to the site gate, they find that the two guards are waiting in the security booth.And the tricycle originally parked on the roadside in the northwest corner is also gone. Steel bars are scattered on the ground. The last thief should have ridden away in a hurry after climbing out.“Brother Binbin.”“Understood.”Tan Wenbin picks up a brick. He originally wanted to throw it over to remind them to go out and save people, but who knew that as soon as the brick smashed on the security booth, the two guards pushed open the door and ran towards the outside of the site, shouting loudly.They should have heard the movements transmitted from inside the site before, but they were in a state of mental tension. This time, they didn't even want the gate.“Brother Xiaoyuan, should I go find a public phone to report to the police now?”“Um, go over there, find a phone booth, and call your dad.”“My dad doesn’t manage this area……”“Your dad is really responsible for this now.”After finding a phone booth and making the call, the four of them walk a short distance further. They finally manage to catch a taxi. Because there are many things that can't be put down, Li Zhuiyuan and Tan Wenbin get into the first one, and Yin Meng and Runsheng take the next one.Looking at the first taxi leaving, Yin Meng says: “We should buy a pickup truck.”Runsheng nods: “Next time I’ll ride the tricycle from the cafeteria to buy vegetables.”“This is Jinling, a big city. A tricycle might be too slow.”“Further places, pedal for a while longer and you'll also arrive.”Yin Meng takes several deep breaths. A smile appears on her face. She lifts her neck and loosens her shoulders, feeling this kind of physical and mental comfort.“It feels so refreshing, Runsheng, do you feel it?”Runsheng: “It’s like the extreme sports played by foreigners on TV. It’s addictive, and so is fishing for dead things.”“Xiaoyuan just lectured me.”“Um, you indeed shouldn’t have gotten that close to the dead thing so early.”“Brain was hot, moves just came out instinctively.”“Just pay attention next time, this doesn't count as a mistake.”“You say I'm cheap, I still prefer Xiaoyuan's previous cold and aloof look. He speaks much more gently now, which makes me feel uncomfortable instead.”“But, Xiaoyuan doesn’t like his own cold and aloof look.”“Runsheng, I have a feeling, Xiaoyuan is like he’s deliberately waiting for us to grow up.”“Actually, no, Xiaoyuan is waiting for himself to grow up.”……After getting in the car, Li Zhuiyuan closes his eyes and sleeps for a while. When he wakes up, they are already at the school gate.They walk into the campus and return to the dormitory. The washbasin was empty for the latter half of the night, and the two of them take a shower.While flushing his body with basin after basin of cool water, Li Zhuiyuan not only feels the pain quickly disappear, but also senses a lightness and happiness from within.Although very weak, although it will disappear after a while, it indeed exists. After finishing his shower and returning to his dormitory bed, Tan Wenbin tosses and turns, waving an arm from time to time, and then laughing hee hee from time to time.“Brother Binbin, you’re not going to sleep until dawn again.”“Brother Xiaoyuan, I’m excited. The scenes from the site are all in my head, I can’t sleep.”“You still have military training tomorrow.”“It doesn’t matter, Lin Shuyou won’t be able to leave the hospital tomorrow, I can still continue to ask for leave to accompany him. Right, Brother Xiaoyuan, I saw you when I was in a coma.”“Um?”“I saw you use your thumb to press down on a big snake, and then you grabbed that snake and burned it to ashes.”Saying this, Tan Wenbin claps his hands: “Really, after this, a hand-clapping motion, awesome!”“You saw fire?”“Saw, black fire.”“Then you walked yin.”“I walked yin? I still thought I was half in a coma at that time, my body couldn’t move. If I had known, I would have just gotten up to help you grab the snake.”“If you had come over, you might have been burned off along with it.”“Ah…… then fortunately.”Li Zhuiyuan doesn't continue chatting, closes his eyes and squints for a while.Just as the sky is bright, he gets up early. Even counting the time in the car, he hasn't actually rested much. After packing his things into his backpack, he leaves the dormitory.Aunt Liu just gets up and opens the door, and sees the teenager push open the courtyard door and walk in.“Xiaoyuan, you’re coming earlier and earlier.”“Good morning, Aunt Liu.”“I haven't started making breakfast yet, what do you want to eat?”“Anything is fine.”“Then wait, I’ll comb Grandma Liu’s hair first and then make you rice.”“Okay, no rush, I’m not very hungry.”Li Zhuiyuan walks into the living room and sits down on a chair.Liu Yumei is sitting with her back to him. Aunt Liu walks behind her and picks up a comb.Just as she starts combing, A Li, wearing white silk pajamas, walks down from upstairs.Liu Yumei just says: “Just comb it casually a few times.”“Ai, understood.” Aunt Liu speeds up her movements.“Okay, just like this.” Liu Yumei turns her body and waves to A Li, “A Li, come, to Grandma here.”A Li looks towards Li Zhuiyuan. Li Zhuiyuan smiles at her.The girl walks to her grandmother's side and sits down. Liu Yumei personally combs and puts makeup on her.Li Zhuiyuan continues to sit there quietly watching. A Li raises her hand, wanting to play chess. Li Zhuiyuan takes it.But when the teenager habitually wants to open the second and third games at the same time, the girl does not make a move.Liu Yumei glances at the teenager and says puzzled: “What’s wrong, you went to set fires again last night?”Li Zhuiyuan shakes his head: “No, went to the site.”“Your great-grandfather didn't send you living expenses, you need to go work on the site to earn money?”“Sent them.”After combing and putting makeup on A Li, a satisfied expression appears on Liu Yumei's face.These years, her greatest happiness every day is to comb and put makeup on her granddaughter, and her second greatest happiness is to design new clothes for her granddaughter.“Let’s eat breakfast.”The three of them come to the dining table and sit down.Aunt Liu serves breakfast, with a smile on her face.In the past, if A Li came out without makeup to see the teenager, the old lady would not be happy and would have to nag a lot about "face." Now, the old lady seems used to it.Li Zhuiyuan's appetite is not very good. When Liu Yumei puts down her chopsticks, before she can say "finish eating and speak in the study," Li Zhuiyuan also puts down his chopsticks.The old and the young walk into the study like this.Li Zhuiyuan opens his backpack and takes out the complete version of 《刘氏望气诀》(Liúshì Wàngqì Jué - Liu Family Qi Observing Secret) that he copied.Liu Yumei glances at the thickness and silently sighs in her heart.To be honest, she is already a bit tired after translating two volumes in the past two days. On the one hand, her age is here, so it's inevitable that her energy is not enough. On the other hand, the original intention of doing this work was to provide a better learning path for future generations.As a result, the entry-level successor she is currently translating for is still so young, and is still being provided for. This also means that the things she is doing now, in her lifetime, will very likely not be used by anyone she sees.People are always prone to losing patience for the invisible future.Li Zhuiyuan takes out the advanced version of 《秦氏棺轿法》(Qínshì Guānjiào Fǎ - Qin Family Coffin Sedan Chair Method) and hands it over.Liu Yumei's expression is slightly startled. Although she has been shocked before, when she encounters a similar situation again, she will still be surprised.She flips it again, confirms that it is the complete book, and then looks at the fatigue between the teenager's eyebrows. She can't help but feel comforted and at the same time heartbroken:“It’s hard for you, child.”“Grandma, this is what I should do.”“Staying up late originally hurts the body. Staying up late to do things that hurt the body is easy to lose the body.”“Not hard.”Li Zhuiyuan knows that Liu Yumei mistakenly thinks he stayed up late writing these things last night.“Not hard? What, 《秦氏棺轿法》(Qínshì Guānjiào Fǎ - Qin Family Coffin Sedan Chair Method) is easier?”“Um, after reading 《刘氏望气诀》(Liúshì Wàngqì Jué - Liu Family Qi Observing Secret), 《秦氏棺轿法》(Qínshì Guānjiào Fǎ - Qin Family Coffin Sedan Chair Method) is also simple.”“Hehehehe……”Liu Yumei covers her mouth and laughs.After a long time, she calms down again and says: “I told that old thing from the beginning, saying that the things of his old Qin family are very crude and simple. Look, it is indeed.”Li Zhuiyuan smiles but doesn't answer.“Okay, you go up and find A Li.”“Okay, Grandma.”Li Zhuiyuan walks out of the study and goes upstairs.Aunt Liu comes in with a fruit plate in her hand, sees only the old lady alone, and can't help but smile: “I say, why is the progress of this class getting faster and faster?”“I’m in a good mood today, so I won’t scold you, you cheap skin.”“What? Tell me so I can be happy too.”Liu Yumei hands 《秦氏棺轿法》(Qínshì Guānjiào Fǎ - Qin Family Coffin Sedan Chair Method) to Aunt Liu. Aunt Liu flips through it and glances at it, saying surprised: “Xiaoyuan finished writing it directly?”Subsequently, Aunt Liu adds another sentence: “This is much faster than our 《刘氏望气诀》(Liúshì Wàngqì Jué - Liu Family Qi Observing Secret).”“Okay, stop talking nonsense to make me happy. These two books of the Qin and Liu families are originally from the same source. When you read one family's book and then go to see the second family's, you will definitely achieve twice the result with half the effort.If he had looked at the Qin family first and then the Liu family, it would have been the same.That boy isn't lying, but he deliberately arranged his true words a bit to make me happy.”“Look, when others say it, you're happy and laughing ‘hehehe’. I heard it when I was cutting fruit outside the house. But when the same words come from my mouth, you want to lecture me.Okay, I understand. A child born in this family is ultimately a child born in this family. No matter how close, they can't be closer than a direct successor.”“If you have the ability, why don’t you spend a few days and raise the insights of these two books another layer?”“Humph, I don't have this ability, nor do I have this free time. What am I comparing with others? Besides, it's direct. Maybe later it will still be the direct line.In the past, when the family rules were strict, with his identity, A Li and I might have to kowtow and call him Young Master when we saw him.”“What direct line or not direct line, isn’t it still early? If you want to mention it, you'll have to wait a few more years.”Aunt Liu deliberately leans towards Liu Yumei, lightly rubs her, and strokes the old lady's arm while smiling:“Listen, listen, these words are indeed much softer now.At first, you looked down on people, saying that recruiting an over-the-river dragon as a live-in son-in-law would worry that the foundation of the Qin and Liu families would change surname.Now, even if he is not this son-in-law, isn't the family property of the Qin and Liu families still his?”“Okay, stop being naughty. Wait until A Li comes back tomorrow and give this book to him. Although he has already learned it, a deeper layer of insights and improvements in all aspects will also be achieved.”“It’s still our A Li who sees clearly. A year ago, when he was at Uncle Li’s house, he just probed Xiaoyuan's mouth and asked if he minded the child having the surname.”Liu Yumei is listening with pricked ears.Aunt Liu deliberately stops speaking, tidies up the tea table, and says to herself:“Okay, I don't dare to be naughty anymore. I'm really afraid of provoking you, Old Lady, and making you angry enough to teach me a lesson with family law.”“You deserve a beating!”Li Zhuiyuan and A Li come to the rooftop terrace and each sit down in a wicker chair.The teenager is still narrating what happened last night at first. As he talks, with the morning sunlight covering his body and the special peace of mind he experiences every time he is with the girl, he falls asleep.Mainly, things have happened for several nights in a row, lack of sleep plus energy consumption, his body is originally tired.A Li just lies beside him, supporting her chin with her hand, seriously gazing at the sleeping teenager.The girl knows that the teenager has no emotions in his heart, yet he always performs very richly in front of her.Because she is timid and doesn't dare to go out, he just moves the world to her house.Midway, Aunt Liu comes up to the terrace with a plate of ice drinks.Seemingly detecting that the teenager is asleep, her footsteps become almost inaudible, and she seems to float to the edge of the wicker chair.Aunt Liu points at the teenager, then points below.A Li nods.Aunt Liu bends down and reaches out, embracing the teenager.Li Zhuiyuan senses it, opens his eyes, and after seeing that it is Aunt Liu, he closes his eyes again. He is too tired and the sleep is too sweet, he doesn't want to be disturbed.Aunt Liu carries the teenager to the second floor, originally wanting to settle him in the guest room to continue sleeping.A Li opens her own room door and looks at her.Aunt Liu hesitates for a moment, but ultimately can't help but put the teenager on A Li's bed.Before leaving, she also conveniently lights a sleep-inducing incense.A Li picks up her own thin quilt and, according to the teenager's habits in their hometown, folds it neatly, then covers it on the teenager's belly.Subsequently, the girl sits down at the edge of the desk, places a stack of yellow talisman paper in front of her, picks up a brush, and dips it in vermilion gold.The tip of the brush falls, completing the stroke in one go.Every time a talisman is finished, the girl just waves her hand casually, and the finished talisman paper flies by itself and sticks to the wall.The girl draws a wall full of talisman papers in one breath.She puts down the brush and rests it against the edge of the inkstone. The brush, which has lost its restraint and can no longer bear the heavy load, directly cracks and scatters.The girl doesn't mind, she raises her head and looks at the three kinds of talisman papers on the wall.She beckons the first row, and a row of talisman papers falls, stacking up on the girl's palm.She beckons again, and the second row falls, followed by the third row.She ties each stack with a rope, then puts the three stacks of talisman papers into the teenager's backpack.After drawing so many talismans at once, the girl also feels tired.She turns the chair at the edge of the desk towards the bed, sits on it, rests her feet on the edge of the bed, and her hands on her knees.Everything seems to return to the past.Just like in the east room of Li Sanjiang's house, she sits in the house, sits on a small stool, with her feet on the threshold. Now, on the threshold, there is a teenager accompanying her to bask in the sun and sleep.In the past, the thing she hated most was sleeping, because every time she closed her eyes, those things would immediately swarm in front of her, mocking, intimidating, and cursing her.Every one of them was telling her that a certain ancestor had suppressed a grievance that year and swore to let its descendants repay.But behind her, the ancestral tablets of those who suppressed these dead and evil spirits in the past cracked one by one, without movement, just abandoning her alone, facing group after group outside.In her childhood, she saw her grandma liked to talk to the ancestral tablets.She also learned once, in her dream, to beg those ancestral tablets, but only loneliness and silence responded to her.Later, she knew that Grandma also knew that the ancestral tablets could not hear the words she said at all.She likes to collect things boys have used, because they leave the taste and traces of boys. That collection box filled with items is her confidence, the straw she clings to in her dreams.Now, she is tired, she is exhausted, she wants to sleep, and then, she just naturally sleeps.She returns to that ancient and simple house. It is raining outside, and in the rain curtain, terrifying shadows are floating one after another.She has come, and they also know she has come.The girl stands up. This time, she is not sitting on the stool in the house, but on the threshold, half of her body exposed outside the house. She leans her back against the door frame and looks towards the other end of the threshold.In her heart, she imagines his appearance just relying on the other end.Liu Yumei reminded Li Zhuiyuan more than once that walking yin too frequently can easily lead to loss of control and problems, blurring the line between dream and reality.Everyone has their own characteristics, but the experience of elders is not without reason.Li Zhuiyuan, sleeping on the bed, seems to sense something, his eyelids tremble.Then, in A Li's dream vision, the boy actually appears, leaning on the threshold, continuing to sleep.Outside, ghosts howl and wolves cry.The girl also closes her eyes.For the first time, the girl sitting on the chair has two dimples at the corners of her mouth while sleeping.……“My, my, my eyebrows, my eyelashes?”Lin Shuyou looks at his bald and hairless face in the mirror and feels extremely surprised.Eyebrows and eyelashes seem unimportant, but when you really lose them, your whole face will look very strange.Beside him, Tan Wenbin, who has just caught up on sleep, yawns and stretches.“A You, are you awake?”“What's wrong with my face? It still hurts a little.” Lin Shuyou touches the back of his head and the flattened area above his eyes, where a patch of hair is still missing.“Side effects of 请乩 (qǐng jī - invoking a spirit).”“As a 乩童 (jī tóng - spirit medium), how do I not know that 请乩 (qǐng jī - invoking a spirit) has these side effects?”“You don't know many things, so you need to read more books and learn.”“Really?”“Nonsense.” Tan Wenbin looks at the clock on the hospital room wall, “Are you hungry?”“I ate, I saw you were sleeping soundly so I didn’t call you.”“It's not for accompanying you and taking care of you. You know how hard you are to serve. When you were in a coma, you kept kicking off the quilt and talking in your sleep. Your sleeping posture is too bad. You'll have to sleep in a separate room from your wife later.”“Sorry…… Thank you.”“What thank you? Do you need to say these two words between you and me?” Tan Wenbin pats Lin Shuyou's shoulder, “Come, change the words.”“Big brother.”“Hahahaha!”When Xiaoyuan calls himself "brother," Tan Wenbin feels nothing, it's just like his own dad giving him another name called "Brother Tan Wenbin."But when this guy calls him brother, he can truly feel happy.Lin Shuyou didn't deliberately approach Tan Wenbin for Li Zhuiyuan in the first place. The two of them met during military training. Tan Wenbin's lively and cheerful personality made it very easy for him to blend in with the class.And Lin Shuyou only shows another side after painting his face and opening his eyes, arrogant and confident.Normally, his personality is very introverted and timid.Tan Wenbin just saw this point in him, was afraid he would be bullied, so he took the initiative to cover him, and conveniently wanted to develop another errand boy for his Brother Yuanzi.Who knew he unexpectedly stirred up a big thunder, almost sending the entire team to the sky.“Big brother, aren’t you doing military training?”“Isn’t it for accompanying you? The instructor gave me leave.”“Alas, then you probably can’t be the class monitor.”Generally speaking, those who are relatively active and have a relatively high presence during military training are highly likely to be selected as class monitor after the military training ends.Tan Wenbin wants to laugh a little. Sometimes, he really doesn't understand what this guy is thinking in his head.He clearly has such good skills, yet he is actually willing to call him brother, just so that he can train with him and fight for the washbasin faucet together.Moreover, he is unexpectedly very persistent about the position of "class monitor"!This feeling is like an adult who is obsessed with playing "pretend family."Anyway, it's really difficult to connect the guy in front of him now with the White Crane Child who lifted Runsheng in the playground that night.“A You, I want to ask you something.”“Big brother, what thing?”Tan Wenbin reaches out and touches Lin Shuyou's head, confirms he has no fever, and asks: “When you were in your hometown, did anyone tell you that you might have some problems with your spirit?”“Spirit problems?”“For example, a word that is very popular in newspapers now: multiple personality disorder?”“I have it?”“Seems like it.”“I don’t feel it, ah, my family and I are the same.”Tan Wenbin frowns, is this a family inheritance?No, it's more like an occupational disease.请乩 (qǐng jī - invoking a spirit), divine descent, as the name suggests, maybe it's not just easy to split personality?“Big brother, do you feel I have a disease?”“No, it doesn't matter, you're much cuter like this than after painting your face. In the future, paint less when you have nothing to do.”His sixth sense tells him that his Brother Yuanzi seems very good at curing this disease, at least he is very experienced with this disease.But Brother Yuanzi doesn't want to get too close to Lin Shuyou, so Tan Wenbin also doesn't recommend a doctor.The most important thing is, what's the point of curing him? So that he's the same even without painting his face as he is when he has painted his face?Look at that night, even though he was injured so badly, he was still arguing with Brother Yuanzi on the bed. Now his face is clean and hairless, and his whole person is much more pleasing to the eye.At this time, two girls appear outside the hospital room, Wu Xue and Xu Bailu.“Hello, senior sisters.”Tan Wenbin raises his hand to greet them, then walks out.Lin Shuyou looks at the corridor outside the window and Tan Wenbin who is chatting and laughing with the two senior sisters, a pure envious smile appearing on his face.Before painting his face, he didn't dare to talk to girls much, but after painting his face, he has no interest in girls.After refusing the invitations to eat and go to the amusement park from the two senior sisters at the same time, Tan Wenbin walks back.“Big brother, do you want to date?”Tan Wenbin gives him a sideways glance: “Bullshit.”Just yesterday afternoon, he followed Brother Yuanzi's instructions and went to find the awakened senior sisters to gather some information.And from the perspective of the two senior sisters, they had just experienced a supernatural event, and were in a state of panic and unease. Suddenly, a sunny junior appeared, giving them guidance and comfort, and even revealing that he was professional in this area. This kind of good impression was very easy to arise.After all, encountering ghosts can be a much bigger blow to ordinary people than a broken heart.Moreover, there is no rule that says a white horse prince in a fairy tale can't catch ghosts.However, Tan Wenbin is not interested in dating.The excitement of catching a dead thing last night continues until now. Later, when he goes to find Runsheng and the others to eat, he can review it again.“Then, big brother, are you not planning to find a partner in college?”“No such plan.”He doesn't know why, but high school monitor Zhou Yunyun comes to Tan Wenbin's mind.He thinks of the girl shouting that she likes him in the noisy classroom before the college entrance examination.As soon as he thinks of this, the corners of his mouth can't help but curl up.He never regrets his initial refusal, moreover, this does not affect the beauty of that moment now when he reviews it.However, after the college entrance examination, he and Zhou Yunyun had no direct contact. Only when he talked to his mom on the phone, his mom told him that Zhou Yunyun also got into Jinling University, it seems to be Jinling Audit.His dear mom even encouraged him to find a way to contact her again. Anyway, they are in the same city, it's convenient to contact each other, and they can also go home together during winter and summer vacations.“Big brother, do you have someone you like?”Tan Wenbin pretends to be profound and says: “Past events can only become memories.”Lin Shuyou nods: “So, the person Big Brother likes is already dead.”Tan Wenbin: “……”The doctor came in the afternoon for an examination and praised Lin Shuyou's recovery speed endlessly.When Tan Wenbin sent him over, the doctor suggested transferring him to another hospital. After all, with such a serious injury, the school medical room and community hospital might not be able to control the injury situation.But Tan Wenbin shook his head firmly and said it didn't matter, he was just a calf.Sure enough, Lin Shuyou did not disappoint Tan Wenbin. Although his recovery speed is not as exaggerated as Runsheng's, it is essentially not that of an ordinary person.With the same injury, Tan Wenbin feels that he would have to lie in bed for at least ten days to half a month to get out of bed. This person can recover the ability to move in two days, and is even still thinking of pulling Tan Wenbin to continue participating in military training to compete for class monitor.Tan Wenbin is also too lazy to argue with him anymore, helps him handle the discharge procedures, and supports him back to the dormitory.In the afternoon, everyone in the dormitory goes to class.Tan Wenbin sees the red sausage on the small offering table, picks it up familiar and takes a bite.Lin Shuyou advises: “Big brother, this is Senior Lu Yi who took it to offer to the ancestors.”“It doesn't matter, I eat it too.”Lu Yi doesn't want to tell his roommates about the ghost incidents in the dormitory, so he just makes up this reason.“Right, where are your tools for opening eyes, I’ll take a look.”“In my cabinet, the upper left cabinet.”Tan Wenbin opens the cabinet. There is a set of brushes and paints inside. He takes them out and asks: “Are there any rules?”“The object of Please God is different, and the face paint is also different.”“So many things, is it that particular?”“You need to pay attention to the details.”“But I remember Brother Xiaoyuan did it like this that night.” Tan Wenbin stretches out his five fingers and circles his face, “He just dipped his five fingers in the red seal and painted it casually.”Lin Shuyou is speechless for a moment.“So, like this is actually okay, right?”“A powerful Please God child can Please God even without opening their eyes.” Lin Shuyou pauses, then says, “But he told me that night that he was tricking me, he wasn’t Please God.”“He tricked you?”“He tricked…… White Crane Child.”Lin Shuyou's voice gets smaller and smaller. White Crane Child: Vertical pupils open, evil spirits appear.What kind of disguise can trick the vertical pupils of White Crane Child?If it wasn't a trick, then the divine descent he called down that night might really be a Crippling General.That is an existence that even Lin Shuyou himself cannot please down now.“But Big Brother, why would he trick me not to please……”“Sigh, my Brother Xiaoyuan, he likes to be low-key the most.”Lin Shuyou nods: “My grandpa also said that in recent decades, the Dragon King of the Liu family has indeed been very low-key, but he is so young, will he go on the river later?”“Ah, that's for sure.”Tan Wenbin nods seriously, although he still doesn't specifically understand what "walking the river" means.Could it be, carrying a knife, chopping all the way from the head of the Yangtze River to the tail of the Yangtze River?“Then if he goes on the river later, just ask him to grant a name and title first. I will definitely advise my grandpa to lower his head.”“Huh?” Tan Wenbin is somewhat confused. He's from water conservancy, he says confusedly, “Does the Yangtze River pass through your hometown?”“Ah, I don't understand the specifics too well. My grandpa said that when people who walk the river suppress evil spirits and build their own merits, they will also involve many causes and effects, and sometimes they will involve other sects and families.According to the Dragon King family's temper, whoever is involved, if that family doesn't dare to cooperate and lower their heads, then they will have to be beaten until they lower their heads. Otherwise, how can they be called Dragon King?”“Holy shit, I'm getting excited listening to this.”Tan Wenbin fans his collar: “Then next time you go home, you might have to show some face.”“I can only advise, I have my master above me, and my grandpa above my master.”“Then you have to play your subjective initiative, ah, just start usurping the throne when you go back during winter and summer vacations.”“I……”“Just kidding, just kidding.”“I will advise, because he is not the same as you, Big Brother……”“Why is it always he, he, his? Forget what I taught you, use honorifics.”“Big Brother, he is not the same as you, Brother Bin. Big Brother is too ruthless. When he walks the river later, I’m afraid if the family doesn’t lower their heads, they will be……”Tan Wenbin doesn't know how to answer this. Because he is clear, this is still his Brother Yuanzi's style.Not to mention the past, they actually did things last night that cut the grass by the roots.However, outside he still has to cover for his big brother:“Hey, at least my Brother Yuanzi left you alive, and you still say he is ruthless?”“It wasn’t me who saw it.”It was White Crane Child.After a brief silence, Tan Wenbin stands up: “Okay, you rest well. Military training is not urgent, at least not tomorrow. I have things to do.”“What is more important than competing for class monitor?”“Boy, you mention class monitor in front of me again, and I’ll take your paints and brushes and paint a clean altar messenger on your face!”After walking out of Lu Yi's dormitory and returning to his own dormitory, Brother Yuanzi is still not back.Tan Wenbin just sits down at his desk and looks up a professional book.When the sky is almost dark, the dormitory door is pushed open, and Li Zhuiyuan comes back with his backpack.“Brother Xiaoyuan, what have you been busy with?”“Went to catch up on some sleep.” Li Zhuiyuan opens his backpack, takes out three bundles of talisman papers, and hands them to Tan Wenbin, “They are respectively break evil talismans, seal ban talismans, and clear heart talismans. You divide them into four equal shares. After keeping one share for yourself, send them to Runsheng and Yin Meng as well.”Tan Wenbin bends down and finds several copies of 《正道伏魔录》(Zhèngdào Fúmó Lù - Record of Orthodox Demon Subjugation) from his book bag under his feet. After quickly flipping through the pages, he finds the place where the talismans are recorded.Then, he carefully compares the illustrations in the book, matches the names and the patterns of the talisman papers, then takes out double-sided tape, writes the names on it, divides them into four equal shares, ties them up with wide paper strips, and sticks the double-sided tape with the corresponding names on them.“Hoo……”After finishing these, he stands up and leaves his desk: “Brother Xiaoyuan, I'm going to send the talismans. Do you want me to bring you dinner?”“No need, I ate before coming back.”After Tan Wenbin leaves, Li Zhuiyuan doesn't go to read books, but lies on the bed, hands pillow behind his head, looking at the ceiling.Tomorrow is Liu Yumei's official moving day, and at the same time, it is his entry day.He feels a sense of finally being able to formally enter the school hall after a year of self-study.He is really looking forward to it a bit.——————ps: After writing this chapter, I found that the word count exceeded 20,000 words. Qidian rules say that a chapter cannot exceed 20,000 words, otherwise it cannot be sent out. So I can only divide it into two chapters and send it out. This chapter ends and the next chapter continues.Don’t panic, hug everyone tightly!()