Chapter 86: Raising the price from the ground up
Chapter 86: Raising the price from the ground up
On the morning of June 06, Shi Yurou got up early, washed up, took off her pajamas, and changed into a plain long dress. Her whole temperament became a little more pure, like a red plum blossom in the falling snow.
As the saying goes: If you want to be pretty, you have to be in filial piety.
Although we can't hold a grand funeral for my father because of the will, the basic mourning clothes are still required.
After changing her clothes, Shi Yurou came to the dressing table, combed her long black hair in front of the mirror, pinned it up with a silver pear blossom hairpin, and put a little powder on her pretty face, applying a light makeup.
After tidying herself up, Shi Yurou tidied up the dressing table, opened the door of her room and went to wake up her brother.
While Ji Yunying was washing up in the bathroom, Shi Yurou leaned against the window and looked at the lush green forest downstairs.
She and her brother didn't live here usually, but studied in Yundu City, so they didn't know much about this manor. It was only after Lan Shiwen reminded her yesterday that Shi Yurou discovered that the ornamental forests around Chuyun Villa only had one tree species, the mulberry tree. In addition, the rattan chairs and mulberry paper in the study were gradually replaced...
The series of related events made her heart restless for a long time.
Suddenly, a flash of light streaked across the sky, like a stone falling into the water, disturbing the girl's already complicated heartstrings. A swift shadow, so fast that it could not be captured by the naked eye, rushed out from the deep forest, pounced on Shi Yurou's shoulder from the side, and knocked her to the ground with a bang.
"what!"
Shi Yurou, who fell on the floor, screamed instinctively, but saw the shadow that fell on her emit a wisp of misty smoke, and the gray wings all faded away, turning into a man with a face like a devil.
"...Mr. Yeyao?" Shi Yurou was stunned, doubt and fear emerged from the bottom of her heart at the same time: "How did you get here...Why?"
"I'm not the only one here," Ning Zhe said, grabbing Shi Yurou's left hand: "Your father is here too."
Ning Zhe took out a folding knife from his bosom and used the sharp blade to cut the red rope tied around her wrist. The bracelet with four copper coins immediately fell into his hand.
Ning Zhe cut the red rope again and stuffed the two coins back into Shi Yurou's hands. He took the other two copper coins and transformed again. The man who pounced on Shi Yurou turned into a peregrine falcon with gray-white wings. Its sharp claws tightly grasped the red rope with two coins on it, and it flapped its wings and flew away from the small building.
From the time he appeared to the time he left, Shi Yurou was confused the whole time. What happened just now was too much for an ordinary female college student who had never encountered any strange events. It was beyond her understanding.
However, just as natural disasters such as typhoons and earthquakes will not wait until you have taken all safety measures before erupting, the occurrence of strange events will not change because of whether people understand it or not.
Whether you understand it or not, the ghost is there, and the rules are there. Survive or die, it's that simple.
In the short time after Ning Zhe hurriedly left, an indescribable sense of "strangeness" began to spread in this villa.
It was a very incongruous feeling, just like seeing a piece of white paper hanging on the wall in an art exhibition, or an empty classroom with no students, or the water in the swimming pool becoming as deep as a trench... It seemed as if nothing had changed, and as if something irreversible had happened.
"Sister! Did you unplug the router? Why is there no internet suddenly..."
Shi Yurou turned around and saw Ji Yunying walking out of the corridor with an electric toothbrush in one hand and a mobile phone in the other. He was used to watching short videos on his mobile phone while brushing his teeth and going to the toilet, but he didn't know what happened just now. After refreshing several times, it showed that the network was disconnected.
"Strange, why can't I use data..." Ji Yunying walked to Shi Yurou who had fallen to the ground and hadn't gotten up yet, with a puzzled look on her face, and asked in confusion: "Uh... why are you sitting on the ground?"
However, Shi Yurou seemed to have no problem with him at all. Ji Yunying saw that her sister's body became stiff due to extreme shock, her shoulders and ankles trembled uncontrollably, and an emotion called "fear" appeared on her usually charming face. "Yunying, run, run..." Shi Yurou bit her lips tightly, raised her hands tremblingly, and pointed behind him: "Behind, behind..."
Ji Yunying turned her head and her curious eyes met a pair of empty eye sockets without eyeballs.
It was a face that both the brother and sister were very familiar with, the face of their father, with dry and dehydrated skin clinging to the surface of the bones, pale lips with a cracked gap perhaps gnawed by insects or something else, revealing the bright red gums, and there were actually eyes in the empty eye sockets, but the two eyeballs had shriveled and fallen off, with two wrinkled optic nerves hanging on both sides of the cheekbones like tree roots.
"how come……"
The electric toothbrush in Ji Yunying's hand was still buzzing, and a short video of a girl from the dance department dancing in a short skirt was playing on the screen of her mobile phone. The cheerful waist drum accompaniment was playing from the speakers, but the noisy music made the small building submerged in the forest even more silent.
Shi Yurou's lips opened and closed slightly, but she couldn't utter a word. Extreme fear made her body limp. She didn't dare to look directly at her father's horrible face. Shi Yurou's stiff gaze slowly moved down, from the neck covered with age spots to the strangely bulging belly, and the dry and bony hands like eagle claws.
In the old man's left hand, he held a small cloth bag tied with a thin rope.
Shi Yurou was stunned, and suddenly she thought of the statue of the boy in the study for no reason. The boy seemed to be dragging a small cloth bag in his hand.
"...God of Wealth?" This word popped up in Shi Yurou's mind.
But the God of Wealth didn't seem to notice them. His two empty eyes only looked into the distance, in the direction of Yunmengze.
It is also the direction that the peregrine falcon left.
The God of Wealth remained silent for a long time facing the direction where Ning Zhe left. Finally, he lowered his head, and looked at Ji Yunying who was closest to him with his empty eyes. He silently raised a hand and stretched it out to him.
Suddenly, a chill ran from Ji Yunying's tailbone all the way up to his forehead.
The God of Wealth turned around and looked at Shi Yurou who was collapsed on the ground. His empty gaze seemed to be able to penetrate her chest and directly examine the beating heart inside.
Both of them stood there motionless, not daring to move. Then, the God of Wealth nodded, clenched his outstretched hand into a fist, turned around and went downstairs.
He made no sound as he went down the stairs, as if he was floating down instead of walking. Not until the extremely incongruous feeling finally faded away did the brother and sister come to their senses and walk to the balcony railing on the second floor to look down.
The God of Wealth was still dragging the small cloth bag tied with a thin rope with one hand, floating towards the main gate of Izumo Villa in a strange and almost horizontal manner.
"He's gone..." Ji Yunying breathed a sigh of relief, and sat down on the balcony as if her soul had been drained out.
Shi Yurou's tense nerves also relaxed a little. She turned her head to look at Ji Yunying beside her and suddenly asked in confusion: "Yunying, your bracelet..."
Upon hearing this, Ji Yunying lowered her head and saw that his left hand was still tied with the red string that he had worn since childhood, but two of the four copper coins that were originally on the red string were missing at some point.
Shi Yurou opened her hand, and a cut red rope was tightly held in her palm, and the two copper coins on it were gone.
(End of this chapter)