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Chapter 35 How about getting a room? Part 1

Gu Ye and Zhao Pengyu were taken to the police station. The police checked their videos and saw that they didn’t do anything to the criminals. So, they only got a severe scolding, “Not sleeping at night but visited a ghost house, looking for excitement. Well, isn’t it exciting this time? If something really happened to you, wouldn’t your family be heartbroken?”

Gu Ye and Zhao Pengyu each held a cup of instant noodles, they were really hungry. So, they ate while being scolded. When they have free time to speak (between bites), they will apologize to the police uncle. Their attitude of admitting their mistakes was very pious. The policewoman next to the boys was afraid that they would not have enough to eat, so she gave them a piece of ham each.

At this moment, the policeman at the door called the captain, “One of those two high school students is the son of real estate tycoon Gu Decheng. Another is the nephew of Yu Ze, the chairman of the international electronics industry. Right now, both Gu Ye’s second brother and Yu Ze have come to pick them up in person, asking if they can be taken away?”

Looking at the two naughty kids holding the cup of instant noodles and drinking up all the soup, the captain uncle didn’t know what to say about them for a moment. To eat instant noodles so voraciously, the boys don’t look like a rich second generation no matter how he looked at them. The rich second generation of other families knew to spend money, race cars, and pick up girls but these two rich second generation went looking for ghosts in the middle of the night. The uncle felt helpless and said, “Don’t go out running around in the middle of the night from now on, do you hear me?”

Gu Ye and Zhao Pengyu put down the cup of instant noodles at the same time, nodding obediently.

So obedient! It is simply a breath of fresh air among the rich second-generation naughty kids! The captain uncle softened his expression and told the boys, “This matter must be kept secret, otherwise it will cause panic in the outside world. We can only announce it to the outside world after the case is resolved, do you understand?”

The two young men nodded obediently. No matter what the other party said, they just nodded.

“Okay, you can go after you finished eating.”

Gu Ye yawned as he walked out of the room. Seeing that Zhao Pengyu was dawdling, he asked, “What’s wrong with you? Do you want to stay?”

Zhao Pengyu said with an ugly face, “My parents are on a business trip so I have been staying at my grandpa’s house recently. That means the person who came to pick me up …is …my uncle?”

Gu Ye nodded, “Probably.”

Zhao Pengyu clutched his chest, feeling a sense of sadness that he is going to die soon.

After the boys left, someone in the police station said, “I checked the information and heard that Gu Ye is good at fortune-telling, psychic, and catching ghosts. Does it have anything to do with him that those scum are now like this?”

The young police officer who said this was immediately scolded, “Stop talking nonsense, what age is this? You are simply spreading feudal superstition! What we have to do right now is follow this line of evidence and bring all criminals to justice. Bring these scum to court and make them plead guilty and serve as a warning to others! Instead of worrying about whether the students who discovered this incident will summon spirits! If you understand, go investigate the case immediately. Even if we don’t sleep or eat, we still need to find out all these scum!”

The theory about ghosts is dismissed, and everyone devotes themselves to investigating the case. The female police officer in charge of sorting out the report pulled out a file and said, “Some of the dozen criminals woke up and shouted that there was a ghost. Moreover, they all had problems with their bodies. Some could not move their arms, and some could not move their legs and feet. However, during the examination, no problems were found. It seemed to be psychological problems.”

“From a psychological analysis, this can also be explained. After living in that house for so long, guarding a big grave mound every day, and killing so many children, they will have a hidden guilt in their hearts. It is understandable for them to imagine that these children came to seek revenge on them.”

And so, Gu Ye and Zhao Pengyu’s involvement with this case is washed cleanly.

However, people from the Xuanshu Association found out the problem. After they learned what was going on there, they quietly came to investigate (at the house). An old man said angrily, “This is a forbidden technique in the metaphysic world, the ghost summoning array. He dares to control ghosts and hurt people! If we don’t restrain this Gu Ye, he will be as lawless as his senior brother!”

Several young people didn’t speak, but some even thought that Gu Ye did a good job. They didn’t say anything, but the expression on their face was very happy.

The old man saw a young man casually sitting on the table who didn’t usually follow the rules. He tried to make an example from him and asked, “Xie Cheng, do you also think he did the right thing?”

*Xie Cheng answered with a smile, “No, I didn’t say anything. I’ll go to the scene again to check whether all those children have been reincarnated.”

Seeing that the atmosphere is not good, Xie Cheng jumped down from the table and dodged people as quickly as possible. His partner also left with him and said with a sullen face, “Right now, the upper management of the society is very resistant to Gu Ye, and the management is becoming more and more deformed. I really don’t know what will happen in the future.”

“Then, let’s disband (leave). Instant Noodle Superman* is fearless. I really want to quit and do something I want to do.”

[Banana: It wasn’t explained in the novel so far but it seems that Xie Cheng and his partner were the ones who appeared in chapter 23 where Gu Ye fought an unscrupulous master in Aunt Wang’s case]

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At the door of the police station, Gu Ye saw his second brother and Yu Ze standing on each side of the entrance. Looking at Zhao Pengyu again, he was as honest as a quail, moving slowly and with difficulty. After thinking about it, Gu Ye walked towards Yu Ze and said with a smile, “Zhao Pengyu helped me a lot. I am honored to have him as a friend.”

The implication is please let him live!

Yu Ze looked at them with a cold face and said nothing. There was no expression on his face, but it made people feel surprisingly stressed. Gu Ye smiled awkwardly and quickly apologized, “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have asked him to take risks in the middle of the night. It was my fault.”

Zhao Pengyu hurriedly said, “I took the initiative to follow him. I willingly accept the punishment and I will do 3 advanced math reviews when I get back. But I don’t think I did anything wrong. I will still follow him next time he goes out.”

Hearing that, Gu Ye is speechless. Silly boy, stop pretending to be manly at a moment like this!

Yu Ze watched Gu Ye keep making eye signals at Zhao Pengyu, and said coldly to Zhao Pengyu, “Go back and write me a report on this incident, and give it to Secretary Liu tomorrow morning.”

“Okay!” Zhao Pengyu felt relieved. Afraid that Yu Ze would change his mind, he hurriedly dodged 5 steps away.

Gu Ye secretly glanced at his second brother standing on the other side, looking at him with a smile on his face, unable to tell what he was thinking. But still, he turned to Yu Ze and asked guiltily, “Um, is Mr. Yu free these two days? I want to treat you to a big dinner.”

Yu Ze narrowed his eyes, “Do you need my help?”

The corner of Gu Ye’s mouth twitched, this person is too smart!

Yu Ze’s expression softened, “Did you get scared tonight?”

Gu Ye shook his head, “I’m fine.”

“Go back and have a good rest. I have time after 6:30 pm, and I will listen to your story then.”

Gu Ye’s eyes lit up, “Okay! Let’s keep in contact via WeChat.”

“What contact?”

Gu Ye heard the teasing words behind him and turned around with his lips pursed. Gu Lin is standing behind him. Compared with his eldest brother, Gu Ye thinks that Gu Sen is easier to deal with than Gu Lin. His eldest brother has a temperament like his father, a bit serious. On the other hand, his second brother who likes to smile like a fox is someone Gu Ye couldn’t grasp his real emotion.

“It’s just a plan to have dinner together. Second brother, why are you here?”

“If I don’t come, do you want Dad to come? Aren’t you afraid that he will be so angry that his blood pressure will rise and he will be admitted to the hospital?” Gu Lin smiled at Yu Ze, and Yu Ze nodded to him. The two don’t have any intention of communicating, each took their charge away and got into the car.

Gu Lin sat next to Gu Ye and said with a smile, “I will keep tonight’s events a secret from our family, but just this once. If you dare to take risks like this again in the future… hehe.”

Gu Ye trembled all over and looked at Gu Lin defensively, “Brother, are we really biological siblings?”

“It’s because we are biological brothers that I can’t watch you die!” Gu Lin’s lips curved up, but it was obvious that he was angry. “If something happens to you, how will my eldest brother and I explain to our deceased mother?”

Gu Ye lowered his head, feeling too guilty to continue the topic. After all, he was not the original owner of this body.

“Since I returned home last time and saw how much you have changed, I realized that I cared too little about you before. I was busy at school before and had no time to care about you. Now that I have time, do you think I don’t know what you have done recently?” Gu Lin looked at Gu Ye with a smile, “You are so naive, kiddo.”

The corner of Gu Ye’s mouth twitched. This kiddo now doesn’t want to talk to the big bad fox.

“When did your relationship with Yu Ze become so good?”

Gu Ye helplessly replied, “Brother, when you act like this, I feel like our parents caught me in an early romance. We just have common interests and gradually get to know each other.”

Gu Lin sneered, “Yu Ze having a common interest with you, a high school student? Are you out of your mind? Do you how ruthless is Yu Ze? Just ask our eldest brother who is the same generation.”

“Oh.” Gu Ye lay down on the side and said tiredly, “Brother, you can scold me again tomorrow. I’m too tired.”

Controlling the Hundred Ghosts was very mentally draining, and seeing so many children who died tragically made Gu Ye feel really tired. After seeing too many such things, he only had one thought in his mind: Everything goes by with the wind (follow the flow), the world is not worth it (to fight for improvement), live freely as he likes in the future.

Gu Lin couldn’t bear to scold Gu Ye anymore, so he covered him with a blanket and took him directly back to his own residence.

Sleeping in a comfortable guest room, Gu Ye still had trouble sleeping. When he closed his eyes, all he could see were those mutilated children. There were too many negative emotions, which made him feel uncomfortable. He keeps thinking that those scumbags have gotten off easy, and he still wants to do something to them. He couldn’t let out this stuffy feeling, which made him uncomfortable. This caused Gu Ye to get up early in the morning and sit on the sofa in the hall with a tired look, in a daze.

After Gu Lin got up, he frowned and asked Gu Ye, “What are you thinking about?”

Gu Ye said deeply, “I’m thinking about how to make a doll with a soul.”

“You think you can do anything, wanting to be a tailor now?” Gu Lin smiled and said, “You should see how many points you got in the college entrance examination.”

“Ah! It seems that the results were released early this morning! I forgot to check!” Gu Ye suddenly sobered up and hurriedly logged on to the Internet to check the results.

Gu Lin also came over to take a look with concern. When he saw Gu Ye’s results, Gu Lin was shocked, “That’s amazing, my little one!”

Gu Ye’s comprehensive score in science was 300 points, and he only lost 1 point in mathematics, with a score of 149 points, 135 points in Chinese, and 145 points in English. In the second half of the year, he also won the first prize in the National Olympiad. According to the regulations, 20 points were added to his total score, and his score actually reached 749 points! It is only one point away from the perfect score of 750. This result is unprecedented!

Gu Ye was also happy, he scored 40 points more than in his previous life! Reviewing back lessons is still useful!

“You will definitely be the top scorer in the science stream this year,” Gu Lin happily rubbed his brother’s head. “Take this report card and go home. You will definitely not get scolded.”

Gu Ye was moved, “Second brother, you are so smart!”

“Of course, it’s experience.”

Gu Ye clenched his fists with a serious face and asked in an extremely solemn tone, “Brother, if I do something that makes Dad unhappy in the future, and if he wants to beat me, can I come to you? Do you think you have more experience than our eldest brother?”

The smile on Gu Lin’s face stilled, “Don’t even think about it!”

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Chapter 34 A horrific tragedy Part 2

Gu Ye hugged the little girl and returned to the house with the graveyard, “Are all your bones buried here?”

“Yes.” The little girl is still in defensive mode. She didn’t do anything to Gu Ye because she felt that Gu Ye is too powerful and she couldn’t beat him.

Gu Ye lifted the tombstones at the corner of the wall and saw a coffin that was not tightly covered. Using the flashlight to shine into the gap, Gu Ye pursed his lips and couldn’t bear to look at it anymore.

Zhao Pengyu followed behind and said, “Gu Ye, let’s call the police. We can’t dig up all of their bodies. Not to mention, there are too many.” When he said the last part of the sentence, Zhao Pengyu’s voice was trembling.

Gu Ye said with a sullen face, “Find Xia Xiang and the other living souls first. Little girl, let’s exchange conditions.” Without an exchange of conditions, the little girl would not let down her guard and keep thinking that he had evil intentions, so Gu Ye simply said, “Release those people you captured a few days ago, and I will help you go home. There is my friend among them, and his parents are waiting for him to come home.”

The little girl said defensively, “Two of them have already run away. I couldn’t return them to you.”

“Run away?” Gu Ye had a bad feeling that it was the Xia brothers who ran away.

Hearing that, Zhao Pengyu also felt a headache, “Isn’t this just giving us trouble?”

“Hong Dou, go look for them. They can’t escape from this yard.”

As soon as Gu Ye finished speaking, a big grizzly bear rag doll appeared with a small green dinosaur in its arms. It struggled to get out from under the wood fixtures at the corner of the wall and ran over quickly. However, the moment they came out of their hiding place, all the little ghosts in the yard looked over and saw the little dinosaur in the bear’s arms. All the little ghosts rushed over excitedly as if they had been injected with chicken blood. When the bear saw this, it got so frightened that it hugged the little dinosaur tightly and ran away as fast as it could.

Gu Ye’s eyes lit up and he pointed at the running cloth bear, “Xia An!”

Hearing that, the bear doll looked back. But at this pause, the little ghosts caught up with it and rushed up to snatch the little dinosaur in its arms. This little dinosaur is like addictive candy to them, everyone wants it.

Zhao Pengyu ran over with the wooden sword and said fiercely, “Get out of my way! Whoever wants to snatch with me will not be sent home!”

The little ghosts are so frightened that they quickly dispersed and formed a circle around the doll, looking at the bear lying on the ground like a piece of delicious cake.

“Are you Xia An? We are here to rescue you. Where is your younger brother?” Zhao Pengyu twitched the corner of his mouth, can’t bear to look directly at the battered bear with its cotton exposed.

The little bear looked down at the doll held in his arms. The little green dinosaur is also ripped out of its cotton.

Zhao Pengyu twitched the corner of his mouth and stretched out his hand, wanting to touch Xia Xiang in such a condition, As a result, Xia An kicked him on the back of his hand. He seems to have quite a temper.

Zhao Pengyu raised his hand helplessly, “I’m sorry, I won’t touch it. You two brothers’ tempers are very different.”

At this moment, Xia An anxiously pointed to the next door and then to the door, flailing around. Zhao Pengyu puzzledly asked, “What do you want to say? Just say it!”

Gu Ye ran over, grabbed the little bear’s head with one hand, and pulled out Xia An’s soul. Xia An’s first words were, “I’m telling you guys to run away! Someone is coming! They have guns!”

As soon as Xia An said these words, a dozen people wearing masks rushed in at the yard and locked the main gate behind their backs.

When the little ghosts saw them, they quickly ran away in fear. Gu Ye swiftly picked up the little dinosaur that fell on the ground and pulled out Xia Xiang’s soul without pausing for a second. Next, he grabbed the two brothers and roughly stuffed them into the small porcelain bottle, then pulled Zhao Pengyu to run into the house.

At moments like this, we can see the psychological quality of a rich young master. Zhao Pengyu calmly took out his mobile phone and called the police. He simply and clearly explained his location, who is outside the house, what weapons they had in their hand, and reminded the other party, “There are bodies of young children here and we found human bones.”

As soon as the little girl heard that Zhao Pengyu called the police and the police would arrive immediately, her precautions are no longer obvious. Crouching between Gu Ye and Zhao Pengyu, she looked back at Hong Dou who is standing behind Gu Ye, and thought for a while. Then she grabbed the corner of Gu Ye’s clothes.

“Are you afraid of them?” Gu Ye felt the little girl trembling and said softly, “Don’t be afraid. Do you want to make them pay the price? Do you want to let off some steam?”

The little girl’s eyes lit up, “Yes, I do.”

“Very good,” Gu Ye smiled. Sitting cross-legged on the tomb mound, he picked up the cinnabar pen and drew a spell between the little girl’s eyebrows. “Go and put your little friends into this bottle, and then all of you can watch a big show together.”

“Gu Ye,” Zhao Pengyu frowned at Gu Ye’s action, “the police will be here soon. If these people die, it will be easy to suspect that you used mystical skills to harm people.”

“They won’t die, I will only disable their souls. They will also be disabled as animals in their next life. I’m just letting them feel what it is like to go to hell.” Having said this, Gu Ye smiled with his eyes curved, comforting, “Don’t worry, I have experience.”

Gu Ye picked up the cinnabar pen and began to write and draw in the air, “I can’t make it easy for them. Even the death penalty can’t atone for their sin of harming so many children.” Gu Ye frowned, made a small cut on his finger, and squeezed out two drops of blood. “Ghost summoning formation, summoning hundreds of ghosts, hungry spirits gather, Formation Activate!”

As soon as the word ‘Activate’ is chanted, a gust of eerie wind rises in the room. Zhao Pengyu saw a group of green-faced fanged evil spirits suddenly appear in this gloomy small house. The evil spirits looked extremely ferocious, causing him to feel something buzzing sound in his mind. He got scared until his mind blanked out.

Gu Ye tapped his finger between Zhao Pengyu’s eyebrows and closed his spiritual eyes.

Zhao Pengyu took a deep breath, but before he could recover, rapid footsteps were already at the door. Zhao Pengyu threw away the wooden sword, picked up a small tombstone without looking at what was written on it, and waited by the door. The moment anyone comes in, he will fling it at their head and smash their brain out.

Gu Ye curled his lips and smiled, “No need for you to take action,” he waved to the ghosts, “As long as you keep them alive, you can do whatever you want.”

Several criminals who had already come to the door outside were frightened when they saw this room. “This house can’t really be haunted, right? The ghost-suppressing thing seems to be broken and it doesn’t glow anymore.”

Another said fiercely, “What are you afraid of? How can there be ghosts? Even if there is, you are not afraid of them when they are still living. So why should you be afraid of them dead?”

The man felt that it sounded right when he thought about it so he boldly kicked the door open. Standing outside the room, they saw a very handsome young man sitting on the grave mound, and sitting next to him is a little girl in a red dress, looking at them with a smile. Seeing the little girl’s face clearly, the man immediately got frightened and took two steps back. His voice changed, “There is a ghost, there really is a ghost!”

Gu Ye raised his phone and pressed the camera function. The next moment, he started talking and trembling as if he is frightened, “Ghost? It must be you have done too many bad things and your conscience is feeling guilty. If you don’t do something bad, how can ghosts come knocking at your door?”

Zhao Pengyu couldn’t react in time to what Gu Ye is trying to do. This brother, you change your face too quickly!

Those starving ghosts found that their sacrifices just delivered themselves to their doorsteps. They rushed forward with a burst of eerie wind, grabbed the souls of these people, and dragged them out. The pain of having their soul (3 ‘hun’ and 7 ‘po’) stripped out of the body is no different than getting skinned alive. Since the criminals couldn’t see anything, when such a situation suddenly happened, they could only hug their heads and scream in panic.

Zhao Pengyu mustered up the courage and pointed to his eyebrows to indicate: Please open my spiritual eyes again.

“Ghost! Ghost!” Screams keep going in the house. When Zhao Pengyu opened his eyes again, he saw a ghost twisting off the arm of a living soul and eating it. He regretted his decision on the spot. The scene that happened next immediately made his face turn green. The evil ghost stretched out its long nails, pulled out the intestines of the living soul, and swallowed it whole. Zhao Pengyu felt so sick that he wanted to vomit, so he covered his eyes and didn’t want to look anymore.

In Gu Ye’s footage, it can only be seen these people going crazy, screaming, and writhing in pain on the ground. It wasn’t until one person lay on the ground motionless and the others started to struggle less that Zhao Pengyu asked nervously, “Did anyone die?”

Gu Ye shook his head and said fearfully, “I don’t know, who knows why they went crazy? They said they saw ghosts,” When Gu Ye said this, his voice trembled and he asked, “Did you see it? There aren’t really ghosts here, are there?”

Zhao Pengyu opened his mouth in shock. Man, your acting talent is so terrifying!

But this time, Zhao Pengyu understood what Gu Ye meant when he said he had experience, so he could only cooperate with him in acting, “What do we say when the police come?”

Gu Ye is trembling with fear. The are hints of cries when he spoke. “We’re just here for adventure. When we found bodies under these stones, bad people came to hunt us down. We are just victims, so let’s be honest.”

Zhao Pengyu swallowed and quietly gave Gu Ye his thumb. Buddy, you sure are acing it. You can act in a movie called “Self-cultivation of an Actor” and it will definitely become a huge hit. But he also understood that Gu Ye making the video is to leave evidence for himself. How could he turn a blind eye to a performance that should be coordinated together? So Zhao Pengyu slapped his thigh excitedly, “Fortunately, you recorded this video, which can prove that we really didn’t touch them! Damn it! Look, that man is still holding a gun, it’s contraband ah!”

Gu Ye asked tremblingly, “We won’t die, right?”

Zhao Pengyu comforted his friend thoughtfully, “No, the police will be here soon. Listen! Police sirens!”

Gu Ye is so moved that he cried, “I will never play this kind of game with you again. If you play again, I will end our friendship! Police uncle, come and save me!”

Zhao Pengyu gritted his teeth and squeezed out the words from his throat, “…I’m sorry!”

Another soul dragged out by evil spirits, this one is even worse. 5 ghosts pulled a limb each, and the soul got torn apart, just like the capital punishment of dismemberment by 5 horses. Each ghost held a part and started to chew on it. For a hungry ghost, this is a filling delicacy.

Seeing that this man’s soul is about to disperse, Gu Ye turned off the video and threw a talisman over to protect the soul. The fear from before was no longer on his face, and he smiled lightly, “Friends, you can eat their bodies and leave them limbless, but please don’t eat their spiritual consciousness. They still have to go to court sober and face trial.”

These hungry ghosts looked at the talisman in Gu Ye’s hand with fear, and obediently let go of the food in their hands. Seeing that Gu Ye had a bad look on his face, they all invariably stuffed the chewed soul into the man’s body, signaling that they really didn’t want to eat anymore.

Zhao Pengyu no longer dared to look at it. Gu Ye smiled at the starving ghosts and drew the spirit-dispersing talisman. Watching the hungry ghosts disappear, a bit of fatigue appeared from his brows.

“Giggle…hahaha…” When the little girl saw this scene, she clapped her little hands happily and started singing the nursery rhyme again.

Gu Ye looked at the little girl and rubbed her head distressedly.

The police finally arrived, prepared for the worst. The two young men who reported the incident may have been caught by criminals or have been killed. However, after rushing in, they saw a dozen people lying on the ground, and two high school students sitting on the ground, huddled in fear.

“Police uncles! Help!” Gu Ye ran over and grabbed a young female cop in plain clothes, “They all said there was a ghost, they were all crazy!”

When the police saw that the young men could still move and scream, they felt relieved. They quickly called a doctor to check their bodies and then arrested these people lying on the ground. The young lady comforted Gu Ye gently, “It’s okay, we are here now, don’t be afraid.”

“The safety on this gun is turned on. It’s too dangerous.” The policeman in charge of the scene investigation looked frightened. “You two are really lucky!”

Gu Ye pointed to the room and said nervously, “Big sister, there is a child’s body inside, a body!”

People from the police team and forensic doctors rushed to investigate. Unexpectedly, the digging lasted all night.

For such a tragic case, the entire police department was mobilized. When digging up these children, they all did so with tears. There weren’t enough tools, so some used their bare hands causing their fingers to be bruised up. A policewoman with a child even broke down and cried on the spot. When the bodies were finally counted, everyone’s eyes were red.

38 corpses, all children under the age of 8!

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The author has something to say:
When I was writing this chapter, I felt very uncomfortable. It’s the kind of discomfort that couldn’t be vented out no matter how much revenge, how much legal judgment, or how much worse life than death for these beasts. Because no matter what I did, these children still died. Trafficking in women and children, child abuse, and child molestation have often been reported in the news in recent years.

Such crimes hidden in the sun are often heinous. What to do if you can’t recognize these beasts in human skin at first glance? You can only learn to protect yourself first. Girls should go out less alone in the middle of the night. Those with children must teach their children to be defensive.

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[Banana: Even though I have read this chapter a few times already (first read and a few times during translation), it still makes me sad TwT]

[Warning: Mention of child abuse, mutilation, molestation, and death in this chapter.]

Chapter 34 A horrific tragedy Part 1

That puppet probably didn’t expect that someone not only wasn’t afraid of it but could come up and beat it brutally. It lay on the ground and stared at Zhao Pengyu for 5 seconds. Then, under Zhao Pengyu’s fierce gaze, it turned over and crawled away on his hands and feet, crawling very quickly.

Zhao Pengyu chased after it angrily and pinned it on the ground with his foot. “You scared Laozhi and you still want to leave. I still want my face, alright?!”

Gu Ye quickly pulled Zhao Pengyu away. He lifted the puppet from the ground by its arm, patted the dirt on its body, and said, “Be gentle to him, he is still a child.”

Zhao Pengyu sneered, “I’m still a baby too!”

Gu Ye is speechless and affirms, “I know, you are a giant baby. But he is really a child.”

Zhao Pengyu snorted and expressed his deep disdain for this kid. After discovering that ghosts can also be beaten, classmate Zhao Pengyu’s aura instantly rose 18 meters high. Right now, he is like the God of War and just wants to fight with ghosts.

The puppet got frightened by Zhao Pengyu and cried out with a WAAAAAH. The cry sounded as if it was squeezed out of the throat. It is heavy and muffled, but strangely harsh and made people’s heads buzz. But it sounds like he really is a child.

Zhao Pengyu got dumbfounded and said, “Frck! Toddler’s voice!”

Gu Ye rolled his eyes, “I told you it was a child, but you don’t believe it!”

At this time, I heard the voice of a little girl singing:
“Ten little people ate together, one choked to death and nine were left. Nine little people stayed up late, one overslept and there were eight left. Eight little people went out to play, one was left there, and there were seven left. Seven little people were chopping wood, and one cut himself in half and there were six left…”

In this strange environment, in such a quiet courtyard, a little girl with a tender voice actually sang such a clear song. Anyone also knew that no little girl would be here in the middle of the night.

Zhao Pengyu became nervous, “What the hell? A singing ghost?”

Gu Ye frowned, “It sounds like a scary nursery rhyme.”

The nursery rhyme was still singing, getting closer and closer to them, and it became clearer and clearer:
“Six little people played with honeycombs, one was stung to death by a wasp, and there were five left. Five little people entered the hospital, one was left behind and four were left. Four little people went to the beach, one was eaten by a shark, and three were left. “

Zhao Pengyu got frightened by this weird nursery rhyme and had goosebumps all over his body. “Is this song implying something? Why do none of them die in peace?” He looked around and said warily, “Why do I feel that this place, this place is a bit like… a place where children are being raised illegally?”

Gu Ye looked at the crying kid in his arms and said solemnly, “Yes, the ghosts here are all children and have missing limbs. I asked those little ghosts from before and they were all abducted children. Some had their organs removed and died on the spot. Some had their bones broken multiple times, causing them to grow into deformities and were sent to different places to beg. Those who cannot hold on will die here. Rather than saying that this haunted house is scary, it is better to say that it is the human heart, using this somewhat terrifying house to do inhuman and unscrupulous things.”

Hearing that, Zhao Pengyu’s expression turned cold and he cursed angrily, “These beasts!” Looking at the puppet in Gu Ye’s hand, Zhao Pengyu couldn’t help but pat the dust on the little figure, “I’m sorry, does it hurt from the kick just now?”

The little puppet didn’t expect that Zhao Pengyu would apologize to it. The crying finally stopped, and it twisted its body uneasily, still trying to escape.

Gu Ye took out the small porcelain bottle from his pocket and pulled the ghost’s soul out of the doll. “When things here are resolved, I will send you to reincarnation. Can you tell me where are the people you guys captured a few days ago?”

The little soul struggled in fear and did not cooperate at all. Gu Ye had no choice but to stuff him into the bottle.

At this time, a red shadow flashed in front of Gu Ye. Hong Dou came back with a kid in her arms, “Young master, I caught him.”

This child is holding a small bunny doll in his arms. Gu Ye clearly felt the breath of a living soul in the rabbit so he grabbed the rabbit and took out the soul; the soul is a stranger. This person is not very old and should be a similar age to Xia An.

As soon as the soul came out, he collapsed and cried, “Oh my god, I actually dreamed that I turned into a stuffed toy!”

Gu Ye kicked the soul with a cold face and said disgustedly, “You are not dreaming, you are seeking death! What frcking haunted house exploration! Where are your classmates?”

“I, I don’t know!” The soul looked around in horror, “Why am I here? Didn’t I go home already?”

Gu Ye pressed on the soul’s head in frustration and chanted, “Seven spirits of life protection, go to the Three Pure Ones, Return!”

The soul disappeared in the blink of an eye. When the ghost child saw that his toy was gone, he cried loudly. Gu Ye picked him up, glared at him, and threatened, “Where are those people you captured? If you don’t tell me, I will…”

The child’s eyes are empty sockets. Even if you can’t see his eyes, you can still feel his fear. Gu Ye frightened the child but couldn’t continue to speak anymore. He held the child in his arms, patted him gently, and coaxed, “Okay, okay, don’t cry anymore. Don’t you just want toys? I’ll buy them for you. I’ll buy a cartful of them.”

Zhao Pengyu couldn’t see anything and worried asked, “Why can’t I see it? Please let me see!”

Gu Ye tapped on the area between Zhao Pengyu’s eyebrows and opened his spiritual eyes. Seeing the miserable state of the child in front of him, Zhao Pengyu no longer cared about being afraid. He just felt a flaming fire in his heart, rushing straight to the top of his head. “These beasts, even if they are caught and sentenced to 800 times shot to death, it wouldn’t be too many!”

At this moment, a little girl in a red dress came to the window quietly. Staring at them with blood-red eyes, her red mouth moved, and the weird nursery rhyme started again:
“Three little people walked into the zoo, one was snatched away by a big bear, and two were left. Two little people were basking in the sun, one was heated to death and only one was left. The little person felt so lonely. After he hanged himself, no one was left. Hehe, hehehehe… hahahaha… not a single one is left, they are all dead.”

Gu Ye looked towards the window. The little girl just looked at him with a smile, a pair of shallow dimples on her face. She obviously looks very cute, but now she looks extremely eerie. At this moment, the window slammed shut, and the only light source in the room is from the flashlight in Gu Ye’s hand.

“Giggle…” Clear laughter kept coming from outside the window. It sounded innocent, but if you listened carefully, it was full of resentment.

Zhao Pengyu pushed the window nervously and found tightly shut as if it was welded to the frame.

Gu Ye sighed, “Kid, you are the most powerful here, right? Did you stuff the souls of the people who entered this yard into the rag doll?”

“Giggle, giggle…” A string of sweet laughter came from the window again, “They are all dead, they are all dead, there is no one left, they are all dead!”

Gu Ye crossed the grave mound and walked to the locked door. “Little girl, do you think you can trap me like this?” Gu Ye raised his foot and kicked on the door panel. With a BANG, the entire wooden door flew out.

The little girl got so frightened that she exclaimed in surprise and flew backward far away. Gu Ye rushed out to chase her. Unexpectedly, Gu Ye froze when he saw the scene in the yard.

In the yard, he doesn’t know when many more children appeared. He counted more than 30 children. Judging by their height, they ranged from 3 or 4 to 7 or 8 years old. Every one of them has missing limbs.

Having seen too many human tragedies, partings between life and death, too much moral decay, and the loss of humanity, Gu Ye thought that he had developed a heart of stone and had become a perfect bystander; able to face all kinds of things rationally. But now, he suddenly couldn’t suppress his heartache, nor could he suppress his impulse to kill those scum.

“Gu Ye, these children…” Zhao Pengyu couldn’t continue his words. If he said that those criminals are animals, he basically insulted animals by comparing these low lives with them.

Several of the children are holding shabby rag dolls in their arms. Gu Ye had already sensed that there are living souls hidden inside. But now, he is reluctant to snatch them from the hands of these miserable children. Gu Ye knelt down under the hostile gazes of the children and released the few child ghosts he had captured. Seeing that the other children are safe and sound, all the children are eager to surround the strangers but they are afraid of Gu Ye; not daring to approach nearer.

“Don’t be afraid, I won’t hurt you. The police will take you home, back to your parents. There will never be any bad people to hurt you again.” Gu Ye spread his hands and said with a smile, “Look, big brother has nothing in his hands. I won’t hurt you.”

The little girl in a red dress stood quietly in front of Gu Ye, watching him smile at them, but did not step forward or do anything. It is obvious that she did not believe Gu Ye very much.

Gu Ye stretched out his hand to the little girl and asked with a smile, “Do you want to go home? I will help you.”

The little girl looked into Gu Ye’s eyes and took a tentative step forward. Finding that Gu Ye hadn’t moved, she took another small step forward, little by little. Soon, she reached in front of Gu Ye. She stretched out her little hand and gradually moved closer to Gu Ye’s palm. Just when she is about to touch Gu Ye, a sinister sneer appears on the corner of the little girl’s mouth, and a cold ghostly aura swiftly claws at Gu Ye’s eyes!

This brat is so fast, no one expected that she would suddenly turn against Gu Ye and use such a cruel move. Gu Ye instinctively raised his hand to block the attack, but it was too late, and his eyes could already feel the cold ghostly aura. At this moment, the Buddhist beads on his wrist emitted a dazzling golden light, and the little girl was instantly thrown away by the golden light.

Gu Ye looked at the beads in shock, and when he looked up again, he saw the little girl’s resentful face, “Liar! You are all liars! You are all liars!”

“Just because I don’t want to fight you doesn’t mean I won’t hit the naughty kid!”

Gu Ye stood up, feeling a little angry. But he is more angry at those who lied to this child. How many nightmares did such a young child go through before she no longer believed anyone?

Gu Ye walked over, and under the little girl’s resentful eyes, he reached out and picked her up, “Be honest with me, and I will take you home.”

The little girl’s eyes widened. Feeling the warmth in Gu Ye’s arms, she tilted her head back in disbelief and looked into Gu Ye’s bright black eyes. Being so close, she could clearly feel the tenderness hidden in these eyes. It seems that he is really different from the people who used to lie to her with a gentle mask.

The little girl asked defensively, “Why are you helping me? Do you also want to take off my clothes like those uncles?”

Just with this sentence, Gu Ye’s breath hitched and he felt like something is clutching his heart. “No,” Gu Ye hugged the child tightly with a cold face. His fingers are trembling as he says, “I just want to let those scumbags die.”

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At this moment, in the yard next door, someone is speaking on the phone quietly, “Brother Long, two people came in next door and they tore down the door. They must have found something. What to do?”

“What to do?! What else can you do?!” The person on the other end of the phone said angrily, “Stone them to death, hit them with a car, strangle them to death with a rope. I don’t care what method you use, they must be silenced forever. Otherwise, we will be the ones who die! How the hell did you guard the yard for so many people to get in? It was the same with those people two days ago, how did they get in?!”

The young man broke into a cold sweat and said nervously, “I clearly remembered to lock the door and it was locked from the inside. I don’t know how they opened it!”

“You can explain to me later. Go and stop them. I will be there with my men right away.”

“Okay Brother Long, I’ll go right away.”

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Chapter 33 Night visit to the haunted house

Gu Ye came to the gate of the hospital and happened to see 2 young men coming out with ugly expressions. Xia Xiang’s mother hurriedly stopped the car after seeing them, ran down, and asked, “Masters, how is my son?”

The older one said desperately, “I’m sorry, this big sister. Please ask someone else!” After saying that, he walked away as if running away from something.

Hearing that, Mother Xia’s body shook by the shock. Then she looked at Gu Ye more cautiously, as if looking at the last straw that could save her two children.

Gu Ye sighed. He really pitied all the parents in the world, he couldn’t bear this kind of look at him.

A few minutes later, Gu Ye saw Xia Xiang and Xia An in the same ward. Xia An is 2 years older than Xia Xiang and looks physically fitter than Xia Xiang. Lying on the hospital bed, his body is 2 sizes larger than Xia Xiang. Gu Ye couldn’t help but squint his eyes when he saw the grandparents sitting next to Xia Xiang, and then the father sitting alone between the brothers.

Seeing Gu Ye, Xia Xiang’s family members all stood up and asked nervously, “Is it little master Mr. Gu?”

Gu Ye nodded and stretched out a finger, “I only have one request. No matter what I do later, you guys don’t talk or disturb me.”

Grandma Xia asked nervously, “Little master, can my grandson still be saved?”

The corners of Gu Ye’s lips curved up, “Which one are you talking about?”

The old lady said nervously, “Both grandsons also must be saved.”

Gu Ye smiled and said, “Your eldest grandson will be very happy if he hears this.”

The Xia family got taken aback by the remark. There seems to be an underlying meaning in what Gu Ye said. Before they could think more about it, Gu Ye had already gone to see the boys. He looked at Xia Xiang first, and pointed his finger between Xia Xiang’s eyebrows, “One ‘hun’ and one ‘po’[1] were dragged away. Even soul summoning cannot call him back. How did this unlucky kid manage to stay alive until this age?”

Mother Xia’s face turned pale with nervousness. Just as she is about to speak, she got reminded of what Gu Ye said earlier so she held back her tears and tightly closed her mouth.

Gu Ye turned to look at Xia An, and his expression softened slightly, “The brother is fine, he only lost one fragment (po). I will wake him up in a while. Auntie, you can talk now.”

Mother Xia came up and asked, “What about Xia Xiang?”

Gu Ye smiled, “Auntie, you really don’t care for your eldest son?”

Mother Xia worriedly answered, “No, how could I not care?”

“The feeling I got from your family is that the eldest son is not important, while the second son is the treasure. If you guys have been acting like this, have you ever thought about how the eldest son feels?”

Gu Ye looked at the eldest son’s face, “Xia An has not studied well since he was a child, and he is not as good as his younger brother in everything. He is rebellious and disobedient, and he doesn’t like Xia Xiang even more, is that right?”

The Xia family members all changed their expressions, Gu Ye is right.

Mother Xia wiped her tears and said with red eyes, “The palms and backs of my hands are all flesh, how can it not hurt? (meaning, both sides are also important, sacrificing either side hurts the same). It’s just that Xia Xiang has been in poor health since he was a child, plus his eyes are like ‘that’. Our whole family is afraid that one day he will be killed by something, so we care more about him. It may be because of this that my eldest son has resentment. So he became more and more disobedient, and unwilling to communicate with us. Towards the accident this time, we are also at fault.”

Xia Xiang’s father also voiced his regret, “If we had cared more about him, we wouldn’t have made him like this. If he hadn’t gone out with his friends, then he wouldn’t be here in hospital today.”

“When Xia An wakes up, you can try to communicate with him. I think he is a responsible person, but he just lacks love.” Gu Ye held a piece of talisman paper between his hands and asked for Xia An’s birth date characters. After that, he folded the talisman paper into a square and pressed it on the back of Xia An’s head, “Xia An? Xia An?”

After calling twice, Xia An didn’t respond, and Gu Ye frowned, “It stands to reason that it shouldn’t be like this, unless, he doesn’t want to come back.”

“Don’t want to come back?” The Xia’s family members came over nervously when they heard this, and Mother Xia cried, “Is he angry with us and doesn’t want to live anymore?”

As soon as Gu Ye heard the mother crying, he felt a headache, “Calm down first! I think there is another possibility.” Gu Ye looked at Xia Xiang, who had lost fragments of his soul. It has been two days but this piece of sweet pastry (XX’s soul) is still stable and has not been eaten up. There must be a reason.

“He should be with Xia Xiang, otherwise Xia Xiang will not simply lose just 1 ‘hun’ and 1 ‘po’.”

“He’s protecting his younger brother?” At this point, Mother Xia started crying again, and Gu Ye palmed his forehead. He likes the rational type like Mother Zhao and the kind like his little mother who makes other people cry instead when she is wronged. It’s not that women like Mother Xia, who seems to be made of water bad, it’s just that he can’t handle it.

Gu Ye pinched his forehead, “Don’t cry, Auntie, it’s easy to find them. Do you know which haunted house Xia An went to explore?”

Xia’s father comforted his wife and told her to go aside to calm down. He shook his head and said, “We don’t know much about it. I’ll ask his classmates.”

As Father Xia is on the phone, Gu Ye tilted his head and looked around the ward. From the moment he entered the door, he felt something peeping at him. Just now, he felt more obvious that there is not just one ghost here, but several!

Gu Ye clicked his tongue, and said flatly, “Places like a hospital where yin and yang intersect. No wonder you guys dare to come out to prowl during the day. Please draw the curtains and close the door[2].”

The Xia family obediently followed suit. This ward is a special ward, and the curtains are for shading and sun protection. After the curtains are drawn, the whole room becomes dark, almost like it is night.

Gu Ye walked to the shelf at the corner. There is a small vase with several pink artificial flowers in it. Gu Ye sneered with the corner of his mouth and picked up the cinnabar pen. Drawing in the air, a red line appeared and slipped into the vase. The next second, the red line pulled something dark out. Gu Ye threw it on the ground with a swing of his hand, and the black thing turned into a small human figure in the blink of an eye. Just when the little thing is about to struggle, a cinnabar pen is already poking its head.

Gu Ye said with a cold face, “Don’t move!”

Sensing Gu Ye’s killing intent, the black shadow is so frightened that it trembles all over and doesn’t dare to move.

After seeing clearly what this black shadow is, Gu Ye widened his eyes in surprise, “A child?”

The ghost child shrinks into a ball in fright, frightened by Gu Ye’s ferocity just now.

Gu Ye frowned and looked under the bed. He squatted down, reached out, and grabbed another little black figure from under the bed. In order to prevent the ghosts from escaping, Gu Ye drew twice in the air with the cinnabar pen and tied them up, placing them at the corner of a wall.

Gu Ye pointed at them and threatened, “Squat down and don’t move! Whoever moves will be spanked!”

The two little ghosts trembled with fear from Gu Ye’s words, as if the person in front of them is not a human being, but a big devil who could eat people.

Looking at the ghosts, Gu Ye’s expression gradually became serious. He thought that the ghosts who could play the masters around like that are very strong and evil. He was ready for a big battle, but he didn’t expect to pull out 2 young ghosts instead. What surprised him the most is that the limbs of these two children are incomplete which means they already lost their limbs when they were alive. He can still think it’s a coincidence if one of the ghosts is like this. But why are both of them the same?

At this moment, Gu Ye suddenly felt a chill on the back of his head, and a biting cold air suddenly hit him. He swiftly turned around and saw a strange red light flashing through the air outlet of the air conditioner. Raising the cinnabar pen, Gu Ye drew a red line, tied up the kid inside, and dragged it out directly. This kid is obviously bigger than those two and its left arm is deformed. It bared its teeth fiercely, wanting to pounce and bite Gu Ye. Gu Ye grabbed the back of its neck with one hand and drew another red line. He tied it up twice more and pressed it against the wall.

Seeing this ghost child, Gu Ye suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart. This one is also missing limbs.

“Hong Dou, catch those two who ran away.” As soon as Gu Ye finished speaking, the Buddhist beads on his wrist emitted a red light and disappeared in the blink of an eye. After a few breaths, the two little black figures are also brought back by Hong Dou. Gu Ye tied them up with a red line and pinned them to the corner of the wall.

5 little ghosts are squatting at the wall like carrots. Gu Ye looked at these souls with an ugly expression. They were all missing limbs!

At this moment, Xia Xiang’s father finished his phone call, and said in a trembling voice, “Little master, I just asked the family members of Xia An’s 2 classmates. They all said that after their child came back, they fell unconscious like Xia An.”

Gu Ye said solemnly, “No need to ask the classmates’ family anymore. It’s more appropriate to ask them instead.”

But none of Xia Xiang’s family could see these little ghosts. The more they couldn’t see the things, the weirded out they felt. They all stood in the corner by the window with pale faces, not daring to speak. Gu Ye looked at them and pulled out a porcelain bottle helplessly. He collected these little ghosts, stood up, and said, “I will go to that haunted house to find the brothers tonight. Right now, I have sealed their souls so their condition won’t get worse. Just wait for my news.”

The Xia family gratefully sent Gu Ye out, and Gu Ye asked for Xia Xiang’s father’s mobile phone number to keep as a backup.

Just after leaving the hospital, Gu Ye received a message from Zhao Pengyu: [I heard that something happened to Xia Xiang. Did you go to the hospital?]

Gu Ye: [At the First People’s Hospital right now.]

Zhao Pengyu replied instantly: [Don’t move where you are, wait for Zhen* to find you!]

*Zhao Pengyu referred to himself as the Emperor

Half an hour later, Zhao Pengyu rushed to the entrance of the hospital, drenched in sweat. He found Gu Ye eating popsicles at the side, and asked anxiously, “What’s going on? Is Xia Xiang rescued yet?”

Gu Ye shook his head and ate another mouthful of ice to calm down.

The answer caused Zhao Pengyu to be frightened, “What’s going on? Even you can’t do it?”

Gu Ye said calmly, “Xia Xiang and his brother can still be saved. I will go to the haunted house tonight to resolve the matter. They should wake up tomorrow morning.”

“You are going by yourself?”

Gu Ye nodded, “It’s okay, I’m used to acting alone.”

Zhao Pengyu worriedly said, “I’ll go with you. If there’s a ghost, you deal with it. If any human comes, I’ll stop them.”

Gu Ye felt warm in his heart and patted Zhao Pengyu on the shoulder, “I can go by myself. You are not in this profession. There will be things that will terrify you.”

“Then, get a friend in your profession to go with you!”

Gu Ye smiled awkwardly, “Okay, I’ll look for one in a while.”

Zhao Pengyu: “Bah, what gibberish. At first glance, I know that ‘this friend’ doesn’t exist.”

Zhao Pengyu knows Gu Ye’s temperament. From the outside, he seems to be smiling with everyone and doesn’t distance himself, but in fact, it is difficult for others to enter his heart, and he keeps a arm’s-length from everyone. Zhap Pengyu thinks that he and Xia Xiang should be Gu Ye’s only friends. Even so, they are not even friends who Gu Ye can talk about everything to them.

Zhao Pengyu also bought a popsicle at the entrance of the hospital and said while eating it, “I’ll go with you and I’ll bring the equipment with me. Didn’t you say that I have a strong yang energy? When something happens, I will stand forward. ‘One man can hold out against ten thousand’!”

Gu Ye raised the corner of his mouth and said, “If you are willing to follow, just follow then. Thank you.”

Zhao Pengyu smiled and punched Gu Ye on the shoulder, “What thank you? We are buddies.”

Gu Ye went and informed his family. At around 10.00 pm, he took a taxi to the address he asked from the ghost kids. This is a very ordinary alley, and the people living in it are also very ordinary. Walking from the entrance of the alley to the deepest part, there is a semi-old courtyard house. The two got out of the taxi and Gu Ye looked up at the sky above the courtyard. The bad premonition became stronger.

Gu Ye reminded Zhao Pengyu, “Let’s be careful.”

“I’ll go first.” Zhao Pengyu is tall and thinks he is much more powerful than Gu Ye, whose figure is smaller. He walked over without fear and pushed the door open, “Eh? This door is actually ajar!”

Zhao Pengyu took out the flashlight he had prepared in advance from his backpack and shined it straight ahead. When he saw what was pasted on the door, he got frightened to the point of numbness, “Gu Ye, look. What is that?”

There is a Bagua diagram hanging directly above the door, which is drawn on a yellow base and blood-red cinnabar. From a distance, the cinnabar looks like solidified blood. It makes people feel horrified even in the daytime, let alone in the middle of the night.

“It’s to suppress ghosts. It’s not that no human lives here, but inhuman things have lived here!” Gu Ye’s eyes turned cold, starting to feel murderous.

Zhao Pengyu looked at the records on his phone and said, “I checked the information from the gossip forum this afternoon. This haunted house was built in the early days of the founding of the People’s Republic of China and actually has been taken care of. It only got abandoned in recent years, and rumors of it being haunted have never ceased since then. Look at this house number. Starting from the first unit in the alley, the number counted from 001 to 022, 023. But for this haunted house, its number is 24, missing a zero.”

Gu Ye puzzledly asked, “Why?”

Zhao Pengyu doesn’t know if he should laugh or cry at this, “That’s why I say it’s weird! It is said that children’s cries often come from inside in the middle of the night.”

“Children?” Gu Ye pursed his lips and his gaze became cold again.

The whole courtyard is quiet. Under the moonlight, the Bagua diagram emitted a lingering red light, as if it is trying hard to restrain something. Gu Ye took out a piece of written talisman paper from his pocket and said to Zhao Pengyu, “I’m going to destroy the thing that is shielding this house. This will make it easier to find Xia Xiang’s soul. Something unnatural may happen in a while so please stay close to me.”

“Don’t worry, I’ve been mentally prepared for a long time.” Zhao Pengyu sneered and took out 2 sections of wooden swords from his bulging backpack. There is actually a hole in the middle, and the 2 sections can be inserted together to form a complete sword. “With my big precious sword, I’ll finish anyone who messes with me!”

Gu Ye looked at the sword. The 3 words ‘Peach Wood Sword/桃木剑’ are clearly written on it, and he immediately gave Zhao Pengyu a thumbs up in admiration. Zhao Pengyu has an upright aura around him that even ghosts avoid him. Although he got deceived and the wooden sword is actually from an ordinary poplar tree, as long as he has enough dominance, the sword can still fight ghosts.

After Zhao Pengyu braced himself, the talisman paper in Gu Ye’s hand flew up by itself and floated towards the Bagua diagram. It seemed to be lightly floating over, but when it came into contact, there is a BANG and a purple light flashed. Then, the blood-red color on the bagua darkened.

Zhao Pengyu cursed excitedly, “Frck! It’s so awesome! It’s like making a movie!”

Hearing that, Gu Ye is speechless. Is it okay to swear when it gets exciting?

Gu Ye closed his eyes and felt the mixed ghost energy coming from all directions. He raised his hand and pointed at the room next to them, “There! The aura of live soul!”

As soon as Gu Ye started running, Zhao Pengyu quickly followed, carrying his bulging bag and peach wood sword. He ran into the room immediately and almost bumped into Gu Ye’s back. The room is empty, like a warehouse. There are some white things on the floor in front, which seem to be pieces of something but they can’t see clearly what it is. Zhao Pengyu shined the flashlight at it and instantly turned pale with fright.

“Don’t be afraid, it’s fake,” Gu Ye walked over, picked up a human-looking arm, and shook it at Zhao Pengyu, “The plastic arm should have been removed from a mannequin.”

Zhao Pengyu finally let go of the breath stuck in his throat, and cursed fiercely, “Crazy! Putting these broken limbs here to scare people huh!”

Gu Ye brought the arm over and said, “Shine the light at the edge of the opening.”

Seeing that, Zhao Pengyu wanted to curse even more, “It’s purposely destroyed, not wear and tear. Why would anyone destroy so many mannequins? Got nothing to do after eating (too much free time in hand)? And they even did it so realistically?”

Eh? Look, are they mostly children mannequins?” Zhao Pengyu discovered the problem and asked, “Why destroy children’s mannequins?”

Gu Ye’s expression darkened, “To scare the children. This is the consequence for disobedience.” After Gu Ye finished speaking, he suddenly sensed a live soul running past from outside. He stood up and gave chase.

Zhao Pengyu caught up from behind, “Is it Xia Xiang?”

“Not sure.” Gu Ye ran a few steps and saw a dark shadow entering a room in the blink of an eye, seems to be holding something in its arms. He ran after the figure to enter the room. As soon as he opens the door, he is greeted by a bloody face. Gu Ye got startled and subconsciously took a step back. Looking at it again, he saw a mirror smeared with blood, and the face he saw just now was his own.

Gu Ye angrily pulled the mirror down and smashed it to the ground. Then he went forward to stomp on it and said, “Hong Dou, smash all these creepy things here!”

Hong Dou floats out. She looked at Gu Ye’s angry look with a smile and replied gently, “Okay.”

Gu Ye suddenly felt that his violent temper was suppressed, Sister Hong Dou sure has an inexplicable power to soothe people’s hearts. Watching Hong Dou search out a lot of these things from the house, Gu Ye laughed angrily, “How many bad things have these bastards done to be so afraid of ghosts knocking on the door at night?”

“Gu Ye! Come!” Zhao Pengyu shouted softly outside the door.

Gu Ye went out to take a look and saw that Zhao Pengyu had pried open the window next door. Inside is a bedroom with many small beds, all bunk beds.

“There are signs that children have lived here.”

Gu Ye climbed inside first, “Go in and take a look.”

The two of them jumped in from the window and walked around the small beds. There is a small door at the end. When they opened the door and saw what was in the next room, they both got shocked. Zhao Pengyu was so frightened that he jumped on the spot, “Frck Frck Frck!! AHH AHH AHH AHH!!”

“Shh!” Gu Ye held him down, “Keep your voice down, we are breaking into a private house here. There are people living next door, so be careful of them calling the police!”

Zhao Pengyu pointed at the scene in front of him with a pale face, “Why not call the police?! Or you want to save it for the New Year*?!”

*common sarcasm, in case y’all don’t get it.

What is in front of them is not a living room at all, but a large graveyard. Who would build a graveyard in the living room?! Looking at the edge of the graveyard, there are more than a dozen tombstones of various sizes piled up together. Zhao Pengyu didn’t dare to look at the view anymore. He gave the flashlight to Gu Ye and held up his wooden sword with both hands, ready to fight anyone who came.

Gu Ye squatted down with a flashlight to look. “This tomb belongs to a large family in the Qing Dynasty, a clan. This tomb was built by a descendant of this family. Later, the area got converted into a residential area so the later generations bought it and built houses on it.”

Zhao Pengyu’s hands were trembling as he asked, “Who told you?”

Gu Ye chuckled, “It’s written on the tombstone.”

Zhao Pengyu still feels weirded out and scolded, “Are they sick, building a tomb in the house! There are also traces of people living around this tomb. Crazy ah, sleeping here?!”

At this time, a black shadow flashed past. Gu Ye pointed at the black figure, “Hong Dou, catch him quickly!”

Zhao Pengyu turned pale, “Who is Hong Dou?”

Gu Ye patted Zhao Pengyu and comforted him, “Don’t be afraid, no one can hurt you here. You have lived with your uncle for so many days (in the main residence) so you are shrouded in purple qi. What are you afraid of?”

Zhao Pengyu looked at himself, “What purple qi?”

“It’s a kind of treasure that you don’t know how to use on your body. You just need to know that ghosts don’t dare to approach you.”

When Zhao Pengyu heard this, he immediately puffed up his chest. Just when he was about to brag, he heard a “da-da-da” sound coming from above his head. When he looked up, he saw a little man hanging on the beam, swinging back and forth.

Zhao Pengyu gasped, almost pulling back all the courage he had just mustered up. At the same time, he pulled out his phone to call the police.

Gu Ye took a photo with a flashlight and said calmly, “There’s no ghost aura on it, it’s a puppet.”

Zhao Pengyu got really annoyed by now, “Are they sick?! Why did they hang a puppet up there?!”

Gu Ye looked at Zhao Pengyu’s face and felt a little regretful. He shouldn’t have brought Zhao Pengyu with him. Things that are common to him are frightening to ordinary people.

Zhao Pengyu looked at Gu Ye with admiration, and felt a little distressed, “Dude, what kind of training have you received since childhood? Why are you not afraid at all?”

Gu Ye smiled, “I’m used to it, it’s fine.”

Hearing that, Zhao Pengyu sympathized with Gu Ye even more. How could anyone get used to this kind of thing? He would believe it more if Gu Ye said he got used to them from being tortured.

At this time, the puppet on the beam of the house suddenly fell down by itself and fell to the ground with a slap. A pair of dead fish eyes stared straight at them, then blinked.

Zhao Pengyu really couldn’t believe that it was just a puppet this time, “This doll is quite realistic and can even blink.”

“Emmmm…” Gu Ye’s expression is complicated. He felt a bit embarrassed to say that there was a wisp of ghostly aura on the puppet the moment it fell down.

Zhao Pengyu stabbed the puppet with his wooden sword. Just when he is about to say a few words about this puppet has all its limbs, the unexpected horror arrives. The doll stood up straight, turned 360 degrees in a circle, and then ran away.

Zhao Pengyu’s mind is full of thoughts: It ran away… ran away… ran…

In his 19 years of living, Zhao Pengyu has never been frightened like this before. Even when the ghost bride came knocking on his door, he had never been so scared. Classmate Zhao Pengyu became furious from the shame and anger. He caught up with the puppet with the speed he used to chase basketball, jumped up, and kicked the puppet.

“Everyone dares to scare Laozhi huh?! You guys just won’t stop?!”

Gu Ye palmed his forehead. He actually made such a violent friend, how terrible!

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Zhao Pengyu: You actually think I’m violent, have you not look at yourself?!

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[Banana: Took me quite some time to translate this chapter lol. I must admit, even though it’s not that scary, it still makes me jump when my phone suddenly make noises when I’m translating. It’s the month of Hungry Ghost Festival after all, and I’m doing this at night T^T]

[1] For more information about ‘hun’ and ‘po’, click on the wiki link I attached. If you are lazy to learn the concept, then you just need to know that Chinese believe a person’s soul is made out of 10 fragments – 3 hun and 7 po. You can’t be lacking either one of the fragments or your soul will be incomplete.

[2] There’s actually another way to interpret the sentence but Banana dunno which one is correct unless we can hear it verbally. The word ‘troublesome’ and ‘please’ is the same chinese character, the meaning differs depending on how it is placed in a sentence.
The second interpretation is “Such trouble. Draw the curtain and close the door.” Banana didn’t pick this because it sounds rude and I don’t think Gu Ye will be rude at this moment.

Chapter 32 Running nekid for thousands of years

Gu Ye is speechless. What’s wrong with this big brother? He came all the way here so why is he acting taciturn?

The Ghost General brother hesitated for a moment and handed Gu Ye a bell, “When you need help, call me.”

Gu Ye looked at the bell. It is filled with soul power which means no matter where it rang, the Ghost General could hear it. This can be considered as giving him a protective amulet. Not bad, giving a gift in advance before asking someone for a favor. Gu Ye accepted it with a smile, “What’s next?”

Ghost General said solemnly, “2 things. One, you cannot tell my Lord of my existence.”

The corner of Gu Ye’s mouth twitched, “Lord? This title… how many years have you been dead?”

“It’s been too long, I forgot.”

Gu Ye is speechless. Alright, this reason is acceptable, “So why can’t I tell him?”

“He won’t allow anything he can’t see or control to stay around him.”

Hearing that, Gu Ye frowned. Does Yu Ze have this kind of personality? He looked quite gentle to him. Then Gu Ye wondered, “Then why did you follow him?”

“My Lord has saved me 3 times, so I will protect him for 3 lifetimes.”

Gu Ye paused and said with emotion, “Okay, I understand. I will keep your secret. What about the second thing?”

Ghost General paused and asked hesitantly, “Can you lend me… some money?”

Gu Ye: “Pfft!”

When Ghost General saw Gu Ye laugh, he gave him a palm-hold salute. Next, he swiftly turned around and wanted to fly away. Gu Ye quickly stopped him, “Brother Ghost! Wait a moment!”

The Ghost General had his back turned to Gu Ye, but he stopped obediently.

Gu Ye took out a cinnabar pen and talisman paper from the drawer. He drew a spell that can help ghosts to hide their ghostly aura and handed it to brother ghost outside the window. For real, he doesn’t know how brother ghost managed to be hanging around so flamboyantly without being caught by those people from the Xuanshu Association.

“I will burn the money for you tomorrow. Don’t worry, I will do what I promised you.”

The Ghost General gave Gu Ye another palm-hold salute before flying away quickly with his big knife, not even wanting to stay longer even for a second.

Gu Ye thought for a while. It seemed that the few times he saw brother ghost, apart from the mask, he has always been wrapped in a mass of black ghostly aura. This brother has been dead for thousands of years. In other words, this brother has never been worshiped and is so poor that he doesn’t even have clothes?

My god! Running nekid* for thousands of years!

*When the slang is created, it does mean running around nekid, but eventually, it’s just used to describe someone out in the open without clothing, not necessarily running

Even if brother ghost has to stay nekid, he still wants to repay the favor to Yu Ze. Thinking of this, Gu Ye is immediately filled with admiration for Brother Ghost.

After closing the window, Gu Ye inserted a piece of paper into the bell to stop it from making a sound. Then he took off a string of beads on his wrist, tied the bell and beads together, and put it back on his wrist. Looking at the matching, it is quite harmonious, and the corners of his mouth are raised in satisfaction. After that, Gu Ye released the young lady from the porcelain vase, intending to have a chat.

“I don’t know your name yet.”

“I don’t have a name.” The beauty in red stood at the side with a soft expression. Her voice is gentle and sweet, quite like the gentleness of a Jiangnan woman*.

*Jiangnan is rumored to be famous for beautiful ladies

Gu Ye thought for a while, “How about calling it Hong Dou? When I saw you, I thought of the word ‘Lovesick Red Bean’[1], which is very beautiful.”

The beauty in red performs a deep bow, “Hong Dou thanks Master for giving me a name.”

Gu Ye sighed. That one just now calls people Lord, while this one calls people Master. Hearing that made Gu Ye feel like his tooth hurt.

“If you want to follow me, just call me Young Master. If you have somewhere you want to go, I can also help you.”

Hong Dou shook her head, insisting on the original intention, “No, I have nowhere to go in this world. I will just follow Young Master.”

“Okay.” Gu Ye didn’t dissuade Hong Dou. In his eyes, he saw this beautiful beauty, so well-behaved and obedient, with clean and transparent eyes that are not tainted by the world, and only felt grateful to him. Thinking again about the ghost brother who ran nekid for thousands of years just to repay Yu Ze’s kindness, Gu Ye felt a little uncomfortable.

“Even ghosts know how to repay kindness and keep the words ‘benevolence’ and ‘righteousness’ in their hearts. Even if they are reincarnated, they dare not forget it. Yet, why do I see so many ungrateful people? The more I see it, the more I doubt life.”

Gu Ye originally said those words due to his current feelings, so he didn’t expect Hong Dou to say anything. Unexpectedly, Hong Dou gave him a piece of thoughtful advice, “Everything in the world has yin and yang, good and bad. Maybe the reason why Young Master can get a glimpse of Heaven’s secret is to find bad people and punish them on behalf of God? There are many beautiful sides of good things, it’s just that you don’t often come into contact with them.”

Gu Ye blinked in surprise, “Hong Dou, what you said makes sense. It’s rare for you to have such understanding.” Gu Ye took off the string of beads on his wrist again and said, “It is said that this is my mother’s relic. It was given to her by an eminent monk. Hong Dou, try to see if you can attach yourself to this prayer bead.”

Hong Dou obediently turned herself into a wisp of light smoke, and really able to attach herself to it.

Gu Ye smiled in surprise until his eyes are curved happily. It was a random incident that he brought back a lonely spirit in the painting. He didn’t expect the spirit to have such a high understanding and a fateful relationship with Buddhism.

“Hong Dou, I will buy you some Buddhist scriptures tomorrow. You can read it when you are free. Then you can chant scriptures and cultivate.”

The beads gave off a red light, and then returned the same appearance as usual. Gu Ye smiled. Lying on the bed looking at the beads and bells, he fell asleep contentedly.

At just 6:00 a.m., Zhao Pengyu called to wake up Gu Ye, summoning him to gather quickly and go fishing! Gu Ye got up in a sleepy state, thinking that if he couldn’t catch any fish today, he would kick Zhao Pengyu into the water.

When Gu Ye arrived at the reservoir, he rented a fishing rod and a deck chair and fell asleep directly by the side.

Zhao Pengyu gave a disdainful look at Gu Ye, “You came here to fish, not to sleep. What will you eat for lunch if you can’t catch anything?”

“Who said I’m not fishing?” Gu Ye lazily looked at the beautiful sister sitting on the small folding stool, holding his fishing rod with a focused expression. Gu Ye yawned and said confidently, “My fish will climb up along the fishing rod and jump into the bucket by itself.”

Zhao Pengyu rolled his eyes, yeah sure!

Not long after, the fishing rod beside Gu Ye lifted up by itself. Then, a big fish is pulled out of the water and it jumps into the bucket.

Zhao Pengyu on the side jumped up in shock, “Frck! Gu Ye! What kind of magic did you use?!”

Gu Ye lazily held his chin. A bottle of juice unscrewed itself and hovered to his mouth. Gu Ye took a sip and said emotionally, “It’s probably because I’m good-looking. All fish love me.”

“Bah!” After Zhao Pengyu said that, he suddenly thought of the spirit that Gu Ye took away. It is a spirit, not a ghost so it could come out during the day. Could it be…

Zhao Pengyu couldn’t help but tremble when he thought of this possibility, “If we are going to the same university, I refuse to share a dormitory with you.”

Gu Ye smiled and said, “I want to apply for off-campus accommodation because I want to take my treasures with me. Do you want to share the rent with me?”

“I reject!”

“Come on, hero~”

“Father, please let me go!” Zhao Pengyu felt chilled all over when he thought of the mental image where Gu Ye brings along a group of things he couldn’t see.

Gu Ye sighed regretfully, “Must I live alone? Alas! The rent near Capital University is very expensive.”

Hearing that, Zhao Pengyu turned speechless, “You help people to see their feng shui and make a lot of money in one go, but you can’t afford the rent? You should think about which major you want to study instead.”

“My dad fulfilled my wish to apply to Capital University so I’m planning to follow his wish on my major and study business management with you.”

Zhao Pengyu became serious and said, “That’s right, your father can’t let you keep telling people’s fortunes all the time.”

Gu Ye shook his finger, “No, no, no, I’m just comforting him with my major. Whatever I learn is the same because I will still set up a stall under the overpass.”

Zhao Pengyu: “…Please forget what I said just now.”

Classmate Zhao Pengyu is the kind of person who can do well as long as he wants to do it. He read the fishing manual in advance before coming to the reservoir. He just installed whichever hook for the fish he wanted, and he really caught a lot of fish. The two of them ate 2 fish at noon and brought back more than 20. They divided their loot into bags and each carried a large bag back to their mother. The smell was so strong that the taxi driver almost wanted to refuse them a ride.

When Gu Ye got home, Gu Yang had already gone to school, and the house is extremely quiet. Mrs. Gu is walking in the back garden alone with scissors. When she saw flowers that she didn’t like, she would snip them with the scissors and stuff them into the vase.

Gu Ye handed the fishes to the nanny and asked doubtfully, “Mom, who made you angry?”

Mrs. Gu is so angry that she cut the rose bushes bald. She gritted her teeth and said, “I want to get a dog!”

“Do it.”

“I want to raise the most beautiful and expensive one!”

Gu Ye couldn’t laugh or cry, “What stimulated you?”

Mrs. Gu gets angry when she thinks about it, “That old woman Duan Ying has a little dog that barks at me!”

Gu Ye understood as soon as he heard it. Must be some noble lady’s dog frightened his little mother. She probably got embarrassed so right now, little mother is holding a grudge. Gu Ye suggested, “Then, don’t raise the most expensive one, you should raise the most lethal one. Raise a big wolfdog, and let it bark at other people[2].”

“Good idea!” Mrs. Gu’s gaze turned cold, “I want to raise a huge dog!”

During dinner that night, braised fish, squirrel fish, fish stew, fried fish, and steamed fish; a table of fish with rows of dead fish eyes. Gu Ye looked numb and regretted his decision. Why did he bring the loot back?

After a few bites, Gu Ye sneaked off while everyone in the family is eating. He took out the bag of hell money he bought during the day, and stole an iron basin from the kitchen. Next, he went to hide behind the rockery and pulled out the paper from the bell. Ringing the bell, he said. “Brother Ghost, come to collect the money.”

Not long after the basin of hell money is lit, a ghostly figure comes to Gu Ye’s side. The excessive ghostly spirit is suppressed by Gu Ye’s spell so this ghost brother is no longer exuding his aura flamboyantly. However, from a visual point of view, he still gives people a great impact. With long black hair, a big knife more than 2 meters long, and a mask with a ghostly face, he looks like an emotionless killing god.

“I’ll send you a few sets of clothes, some ancient and some modern. You can choose them yourself.” Gu Ye also threw a few sets of clothes into the brazier and looked up at Brother Ghost with a smile, his eyes full of admiration. He likes brother ghost’s temperament of emphasizing righteousness, “If you need anything in the future, you can come to me for it.”

Ghost General said in a low voice, “Thank you!”

The 2 short words seem to weigh thousands of pounds.

Gu Ye finally threw the entire bag into the brazier as well. At this moment, the security guard at home noticed the fire light and ran over to take a look nervously. He found that Gu Ye squatting here burning paper.

The security guard asked in a complicated mood, “Third Young Master, what are you doing?”

Gu Ye said seriously, “Shhh! I’m delivering a courier to a friend.”

The security guard paused, then ran away.

Gu Ye felt wronged, what did he say? What are you running for?

…

Early the next morning, someone pulled over a cage in a car and delivered the puppy Mrs. Gu wanted. The servants of the family are busy building the kennel, and welcome the little black dog out of the cage like a little prince.

Gu Ye went over to take a look with interest, and the corner of his mouth twitched. His little mother bought a Great Dane. Judging by its appearance, it is very handsome. Gu Ye looked at his little mother’s proud pose with hands on her waist. She had the look of superiority that she had already won, and asked curiously, “Mom, what kind of dog that barked at you last time?”

Mrs. Gu looked disdainful as she replied, “Hehe, it’s just a toy poodle.”

Gu Ye looked at the Great Dane puppy, which is already as big as a toy poodle, and gave his mother a thumbs up in admiration, “Ruthless!”

After wandering around on the lawn, the puppy started to run around mischievously. With a pair of big blinking black eyes, one can see that it is quite clever at a glance. Mrs. Gu named it ‘Gou Wang/Dog King’. It can be seen that she has high hopes for its future combat effectiveness.

Gu Ye teased the puppy with the ball for a while and Gou Wang is already familiar with Gu Ye, following Gu Ye wherever he goes. Just as Gu Ye is having fun with the dog, the security guard called him, “Third Young Master, a woman is at the gate, saying that she is the mother of your classmate Xia Xiang, and she is looking for you urgently.”

“Xia Xiang?” Gu Ye frowned. From Xia Xiang’s usual reaction, it could be seen that Xia Xiang’s family didn’t like him, or should be said acting repulsive toward him. But his mother came to find him in person. Did something happen?

As soon as Gu Ye arrived at the door, a well-dressed woman hurried over and asked with red eyes, “You are Xia Xiang’s classmate, Gu Ye, right?”

Gu Ye nodded, “It’s me.”

In the next second, Xia Xiang’s mother knelt down to Gu Ye, “Little master, please go and save my son! My son… is dying!”

Gu Ye got frightened by the woman and jumped to the side more than one meter away, avoiding the kneel[3]. Together with the security guard, he helped Mother Xia up and said, “Auntie, don’t worry, speak slowly. What’s wrong with Xia Xiang?”

Xia Xiang’s mother cried, “Xia Xiang’s brother went on an adventure to a haunted house with his classmates and fainted from fear in the haunted house. He was unconscious when he got sent back, and then Xia Xiang fell unconscious as well. Both brothers are lying in the hospital now. Xia Xiang’s eyes have been able to see ‘dirty things’ since he was a child. He must have seen something to become like this. I heard that Zhao Pengyu was rescued by you, please go and save my two sons!”

A mother who is about to lose her two sons, her emotions are nearing breakdown. Gu Ye comforted her, “Calm down first. Xia Xiang is not a short-lived person. I looked into his fortune before and he can live to be 80 years old. Let’s leave for the hospital now.”

At this time, in the hospital where Xia Xiang is staying, 2 masters couldn’t take it anymore and returned the money to the Xia family. “It’s not that we brothers don’t want to save them, it’s that we really can’t.”

The older one took off his hat and said in a broken voice, “Look, they did these all to me! My junior brother’s clothes were also cut off, and there were fist marks all over his body.”

The master’s hair is like tender grass after being gnawed by cows, only a few sparse hairs are still trying to stay alive on the top of the shiny head. There is still some hair on both sides of his ears, but it is uneven. It is obvious that the person who shaved his head is not very good at it. The masters couldn’t bear it anymore after being pranked all night!

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[1] 红豆相思 – A saying, red bean/hong dou is also called lovesick bean. It is a metaphor for the longing caused by a man and a woman falling in love but unable to meet each other.

[2] Random reminder to reader, this is just a novel plot. It’s wrong to raise a dog just to boost your ego. There, Banana said it so nobody argues in the comment box ya (if there’s any comment at all lol).

[3] Banana explained before about avoiding a kneeling gesture from other people, do you guys still need me to explain again? XD

Chapter 31 Hello, Brother Ghost General! Part 2

Saying goodbye to the two respected seniors, Gu Ye went out and got into Yu Ze’s car silently. After sitting down, he hugged the paintings in his arms tightly. He felt a swelling feeling in his heart, which was indescribably uncomfortable. Inside, he wondered if it was because he was too lonely in his previous life, with no family or friends. After his master died, he lived alone without a goal, so he chose to end his life in that way? If he had chosen other methods, would it have saved lives as well? Unfortunately, there is no ‘if’.

After Gu Ye got into the car, he kept silent. A few moments of silence later, Yu Ze saw that Gu Ye is still immersed in his own world, so he moved to tug the paintings from his arms.

It is only then that Gu Ye came to his senses, he hugged the scrolls tightly reflexively. So Yu Ze pushed them back into Gu Ye’s arms again, telling him to hug tightly and not let go.

“Did the two old men tell you about life?”

“En, they said a few words, and I feel quite touched.” Gu Ye touched the painting in his arms, and smiled wryly, “Some words were never said to me after Master passed away.”

“Your master?” Yu Ze lowered his gaze to hide the inquiry in his eyes, “Hasn’t your master passed away for several years?”[1]

Gu Ye knew that he had made a slip of the tongue, and turned his head to look out the window, “En.”

Seeing that Gu Ye didn’t want to continue the topic, Yu Ze suppressed this doubt in his heart for the time being, and changed the subject, “What do you want to eat tonight? I’ll take you home after dinner.”

Gu Ye turned around and said with a smile, “You can choose. I did say that I owed you 2 meals last time. I’ll treat you tonight.”

Yu Ze thought for a while, “Then, we’ll find one with a quiet atmosphere.”

Gu Ye nodded, no objection.

At this moment, Gu Ye suddenly felt a familiar ghostly aura and looked out the window in surprise. A black mist appeared in the blink of an eye and the Ghost General with a domineering aura glanced inside the car from the window. Through the ghost’s mask*, Gu Ye clearly caught his eyes; a pair of black pupils, swirling with pressing chill.

*[Banana: Apologies for the note here. Just want to say the author should be making a typo here, as the raw said ‘face’ but it should be ‘mask’ instead so I used ‘mask’. If the later chapters prove me wrong, I’ll come back to amend them.]

Gu Ye shivered all over, and waved in surprise, “Hi! Hello!”

Ghost General didn’t expect anyone to be able to see him. He vigilantly flew away for more than 2 meters and kept this distance from the car. He stared at Gu Ye scrutinizingly, as if to see through Gu Ye’s soul.

Quickly putting down the painting, Gu Ye excitedly pressed both hands on the glass window. Then he leaned over and asked animatedly, “Brother Ghost, can you hear me? Is the glass a bit too soundproof?”

The driver got taken aback, his whole body tensed up, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. In his heart, he lamented that this master is too carefree. This is the first time he saw someone trying to chat with that kind of thing!

Gu Ye is still trying to chat with this mysterious elder brother when a hand grabbed his head and turned him to face the front. Gu Ye looked at Yu Ze in bewilderment, is it okay to grab my head like that? Does he looked like a watermelon?

Yu Ze said with a cold face, “Don’t talk to strangers, it’s dangerous.”

Feeling that the Ghost General is sitting on the roof of the car again, Gu Ye just wanted to poke at the top with the painting box. Seeing that Yu Ze is staring at him with an unkind expression, Gu Ye thought for a while but didn’t do anything. He doesn’t have the nerve to play tricks. For those who cannot see them, this may be a kind of scary situation, so let’s find another chance to strike up a conversation.

Half an hour later, they finally arrived at Yu Ze’s home, a high-end residential area close to his company. Yu Ze doesn’t like noisy environments so he bought a three-story building alone in the villa area. He only lives on the second floor, and everything else is empty.

The corner of Gu Ye’s mouth twitched as soon as he entered the door, not knowing what to say for a moment. This is no home, it should be an office instead. There is no breath of life at all. And it’s so clean that people dare not set foot on it.

After entering the door, Gu Ye sat in a corner of the sofa. Seeing that the table is clean enough to reflect his face, Gu Ye didn’t dare to move anywhere. Yu Ze doesn’t seem to live like a human being, but a heavenly being instead.

Not long after, Yu Ze took out a big old box. It is about 1.3 meters in length and 30 centimeters in width, and he put it on the table.

Rubbing his hands, Gu Ye opened the box, and a killing aura poured over his face. It is the broken sword drawn by Yu Ze, exuding the same aura as that of Ghost General. Seeing the Ghost General staring at him defensively outside the window, Gu Ye smiled, “I’m just curious, nothing else.”

Yu Ze looked out the window, “Are you talking to me, or to someone I can’t see?”

Gu Ye can’t laugh or cry, Yu Ze’s thoughts are too meticulous. Just from what he said, Yu Ze guessed that there is something outside the window that he couldn’t see. Gu Ye is just about to ask if he has heard of guardian spirits before when the Ghost General outside the window shook his head at him. Gu Ye understood and said, “I’m talking to you. There’s no one else here, right?”

Yu Ze looked out the window suspiciously. For a moment, Gu Ye thought that he and Ghost General are looking at each other. The sharp eyes made Gu Ye secretly startled. The good thing is that Yu Ze really couldn’t see ghosts. Since he couldn’t find any suspicious parts, he could only give up.

Though finally seeing the real thing, he still couldn’t chat with Big Brother Ghost openly but Gu Ye didn’t force it.

Gu Ye had dinner with Yu Ze and was sent to the door by Yu Ze. After getting out of the car, Gu Ye stood at the door and asked, “Would you like to come to my house?”

Yu Ze smiled and said, “Next time, it’s too late now.”

Gu Ye thought about it and agreed, “Then you should pay attention to safety on the road.”

The corner of Yu Ze’s mouth curved up, and he said cheerfully, “I’ll make an appointment next time when I have time.”

Gu Ye nodded in response, holding the picture scroll and watching the other party’s car go away before entering the house. Gu Yang is watching TV in the living room at the moment. When he saw Gu Ye come back, he snorted unhappily.

Gu Ye gave Gu Yang a puzzled look, not knowing what kind of nerve the brat had short-circuited. He moved to go upstairs with the painting in his arms.

However, Gu Yang got upset, “Brother, don’t you see that I’m unhappy?”

Gu Ye just stepped up two steps and stopped. He answered in confusion, “I can see it.”

Gu Yang raised his hand, wanting to slap the table, but after he raised it high, he didn’t dare to slap it down. In an aggrieved tone, he asked, “Then why don’t you ask me why I’m unhappy? You’ve always asked me before!”

Gu Ye suppressed a smile and said, “You were young back then, but now you got older, isn’t it normal to have unhappy things? I can’t interfere with your human rights.”

Gu Yang turned off the TV angrily, unable to hold back anymore, “You didn’t take me when you went out to play! You used to take me everywhere! That man, who is that man? How can you make friends with people in society? What should you do if you were cheated?”

Gu Ye shook his head dumbfounded, “All this is just because you want to go out to play with me? That’s fine. Tomorrow I will go fishing with my friends and I will take you with me.”

Gu Yang stomped his feet angrily. It’s not about going out to play, the point is getting cheated by people in society! But if Gu Ye can take him out to play together, he will forgive him this time.

Mrs. Gu came down from upstairs, “He’s not allowed to go anywhere, the final exam is coming up next week.”

“Oh, the exam is coming soon,” Gu Ye read Gu Yang’s eyebrows and then burst out laughing, “Pfft! He might not do well in the exam this time. Mom, you have to be mentally prepared, it’s really bad!”

“You…” Mrs. Gu pinched Gu Ye’s ear angrily, and said through gritted teeth, “Don’t say it out for such a thing! Don’t say it!”

Gu Ye nodded obediently, “Okay, I won’t talk about it in the future.”

Mrs. Gu let go of Gu Ye angrily, but in her heart, she already felt despair (with GY’s result). It was already so bad before, how could it be worse?!

She signaled at Gu Ye with her eyes and said weakly, “Your father is angry. He said that you only knew to run out everywhere after your wings could fly. He wanted to wait for you to have dinner with him earlier, but you didn’t come back. So hurry up and coax him.”

Picking up ‘Man Jiang Hong’ from his stash, Gu Ye went upstairs helplessly. After coaxing the young one, he has to go to coax the old one next. It’s not easy for him every day. Pushing open the door of his father’s study, Gu Ye put the painting in front of the cold-faced and angry Gu Decheng, “Here.”

“What?” Gu Decheng frowned with a look of disdain.

“You’ll know when you open it. Originally I wanted to wait 2 more days until your birthday to give it to you, but I’ll just give it to you in advance now. I made a trip outside today just to ask for this for you.”

Gu Ye is not in a hurry so he leaned on his dad’s table. Crossing his arms, he smilingly watched his father looking curious but desperately trying to keep up a front, and not wanting to open it.

“This is something that even money couldn’t buy, are you sure you don’t want to see it?”

“Hmph, what good thing can it be? Just for this, you didn’t even go home.”

Gu Decheng opened the box angrily but unable to hide the curiosity in his eyes. The moment he saw that it is a painting scroll, his movements became more careful. Upon opening it, Gu Decheng stood up suddenly, “Is this… this… written by Old Master Yu?”

Gu Ye pursed his lips and teased, “Yeah. I went to the Yu family’s residence today and did Old Master Yu a favor, just to ask for a birthday present for you. So, are you still mad at me?”

“Who is angry?” Gu Decheng cherished the scroll so much that he didn’t know what to do, for fear that he would accidentally tear up the scroll if his touch is too strong. “Who told you that I was angry? You are so filial, how could I be angry? Aiya, this word is so beautiful!”

Gu Ye suppressed a smile, “It’s good if you are not angry. I’m tired so I’ll go back to my room and wash up, then go to bed.”

“Go, go ahead.” Gu Decheng didn’t look up when he said that. He is holding the scroll happily, his eyes searching all over the wall looking for free space. He wanted to hang it up so that he could admire it carefully. Getting angry or whatnot, it’s long forgotten.

Gu Ye shrugged, this one is also quite coaxable.

Going back to the room to take a shower, Gu Ye left the bathroom wiping his hair. Suddenly, he felt a wave of ghostly aura. He walked a few steps to the window and saw a dark ghostly figure raising a two-meter-long sword. The figure smashed the protection shield he had set up at the window and rushed up to him in the blink of an eye.

Gu Ye’s expression darkened. Just as he opened the window and is about to start scolding, the ghostly figure stood outside his window sill, his hoarse voice sounded somewhat embarrassed, “I’m sorry, I used too much strength.”

Gu Ye: “…Then next time, cut lightly.”

“En.”

There is an embarrassing silence for a while and Gu Ye couldn’t hold back anymore, “Since you didn’t follow Yu Ze and came to see me at a time like this, you have something to say?”

“En.”

The short reply caused Gu Ye to be twitchy, “Then, say it!”

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Brother Ghost General: I’m embarrassed to say.

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[1]Raw: “有些话，是在师父过世之后，再也没人对我说过的.” and “你师父不是过世好几年了吗？”

Chapter 31 Hello, Brother Ghost General! Part 1

Hearing what Yu Ze said, Gu Ye stood stiffly on the chair. His hands are still raised to take the painting while his face is showing a stunned expression. His fingertips trembled as he asked, “So it’s not just Old Master Yu’s masterpiece in this room?”

Yu Ze put one hand on the chair and stabilized it, “His so-called treasure is this one. On his birthday one year, I forgot to prepare a present. So I drew this for him impromptu, and he hung it up as a treasure.”

Gu Ye is shocked, Yu Ze must have been influenced by his father to draw so well! He really can’t imagine that the cold and calm Yu Ze could have such a mind at the age of sixteen. This person’s appearance is too deceiving.

“Well, the sentence just now… doesn’t count.” Thinking of what he said just now, Gu Ye explained awkwardly, “I thought it was all Old Master Yu’s work.”

Yu Ze’s eyes darkened, and he asked lightly, “Which sentence?”

Gu Ye hehe-ed twice. He can’t tell Yu Ze that it’s the part where he said he has fallen in love. Seeing Yu Ze’s expression, it seems that he doesn’t care at all. Gu Ye felt relieved immediately, normal men should not be so sensitive. He took off the painting and shifted to another topic directly, “It’s nothing. So, can this painting be given to me?”

Yu Ze suppressed the emotions in his eyes that no one else could understand, “If you like it, just take it away.”

Gu Ye smiled with curved eyes, “I like this one the most, and can you write a few words for me?”

Yu Ze refused in disdain, “The painting is too ugly. It is not worth an inscription.”

Gu Ye looked at the painting again, and really couldn’t agree with Yu Ze’s sense of aesthetics, “Where is it ugly? It’s so handsome, alright?! Please write me an inscription, thank you!”

Yu Ze stretched out his hand to help Gu Ye get off the chair but didn’t answer.

There’s nothing Gu Ye couldn’t do if he wanted to do it. How could he just let Yu Ze go like this? Grabbing Yu Ze by the sleeve, Gu Ye dragged him to sit at the desk by the wall, “Please write me a sentence, consider it as my reward.”

Yu Ze is still unmoved, “You have taken all 3 paintings, and you still want a reward?”

Gu Ye pressed Yu Ze on the chair, acting like a rogue, “It’s because the old master likes me and appreciates me, so it doesn’t count.”

Yu Ze laughed, “So clever to see it like that.”

Gu Ye pointed to his eyes, “Brother Monkey’s golden fire eyes*, I can tell whether others are looking down on me or not/take me lightly.”

*Reference to Monkey King who has golden fire eyes that can see through the disguise of demons

Yu Ze laughed, “It’s a good skill. But I want to know, why did you choose this one among so many paintings?”

“Because ‘Broken Sword’ is very imposing, and I feel quite similar to myself. I have been abandoned by thousands of people, and yet I am still standing here strong.” Gu Ye then asked proudly, “Looking at the entire mystic society now, who else but me?”

Gu Ye put the calligraphy brush into Yu Ze’s hand and urged him, “You won’t understand anyway even if I explained, just help me write it!”

Facing those longing eyes, Yu Ze dipped his brush in the ink helplessly, “What do you want me to write?”

Gu Ye said seriously, “Please write – Gu Ye is number one in the world, everyone else is bullshit!”

Yu Ze just wanted to put the brush down.

“Eh? Don’t put it down, write it quickly! You must sign it with your name, and also state the date.”

Amidst Gu Ye’s urging, Yu Ze wrote such a second-grade/chuunibyou sentence with a sullen face. After finished writing, he held his forehead with his palm. Gu Ye patted him on the shoulder to comfort him, “Mr. Yu has written such good words. The stroke is proud and flamboyant. Someday when I set up a stall under the overpass, you can sell calligraphy by my side. We will definitely get rich.”

Yu Ze imagined the scene with a sullen face. Then he put down the pen with a cold face, never wanting to pick it up again.

Gu Ye chuckled a few times. He put the painting on the table and admired it again. In his heart, he felt that this painting not only has the temperament of the Ghost General but also magically complements his life. He, Gu Ye, is dead, but so what? He has come back to life and kicking, and he has done so many good things that even God can’t bear to take him.

And so, the painting is placed on the table while Gu Ye went around in the study again. Finally, he chose a calligraphy scroll of majestic poems, Yue Fei’s ‘Man Jiang Hong’. Gu Ye felt that his father would definitely like the heroic style of Yu Lao’s cursive strokes.

As soon as Gu Ye picked up the calligraphy scroll, Zhao Pengyu entered while eating an ice cream, and saw the painting on the table at a glance. Then, when he saw the inscription on the painting, Zhao Pengyu couldn’t control his tongue out of shock.

“You guys… Uncle, are you being hor-n-y (fā sāo)?”

Yu Ze’s expression darkened and he said sternly, “Swallow what’s in your mouth before speaking.”

Zhao Pengyu quickly wiped his mouth, “I mean, do you have a fever (fā shāo)? You even wrote this for him!”

Zhao Pengyu is in a complicated mood and doesn’t know how to describe his feelings. After hesitating for a moment, he choked out a sentence, “You guys…you are so childish!”

Gu Ye rolled his eyes, “What do you know!”

Zhao Pengyu went and sat down on a chair. He really didn’t understand why his uncle doted on Gu Ye so much.

“Gu Ye, I heard that you took that female ghost away, what do you want to do with it?”

“Not a ghost, she is a spirit and she agreed to be my servant. Good points about her are good-looking, good at singing and dancing, and playing the pipa. In the future, we can develop her skills to do laundry, cooking, accepting delivery, and takeout.”

Gu Ye carefully packed the ‘Man Jiang Hong’ and ‘Broken Sword’ into a box. After a moment of consideration, he planned to ask Old Master Yu later about ‘Broken Sword’. Since it is his treasure, why would he tell him to find it and take it away? Can’t figure it out.

Standing by the window, no one knows what Yu Ze is thinking, but when he hears their conversation, he asks without turning his head, “Spirit, is there a physical body?”

Gu Ye waved his hand and said regretfully, “No, to cultivate a physical body, it will be a hundred years later, or unless she encountered a big lucky encounter. But I took her because I didn’t want to see her destroyed.”

Zhao Pengyu shuddered when he thought of Gu Ye carrying a female ghost-like spirit with him, “I feel chilly when I see you.”

Gu Ye still said the same sentence, “People like you don’t understand at all.”

Seeing Gu Ye holding the painting in his arms, Zhao Pengyu suddenly remembered, “I seem to have seen that broken sword in the painting before, eh? Uncle, isn’t it the one that was placed in your study before?”

Gu Ye’s thoughts are instantly captured, “Is there a real thing?”

Yu Ze turned around, “Do you want to see it?”

Gu Ye had a premonition that the broken sword is definitely related to the Ghost General. Now that it is getting dark, it is time for the Ghost General to show up. “I want to see the real thing, is it convenient?”

“Let’s go.” Yu Ze turned around and left. Gu Ye is taken aback by the swift decision, Yu Ze is really easy to talk to.

“Mr. Yu, wait a moment. I need to say goodbye to Old Master Yu.”

Yu Ze said with a gentle face, “I’ll wait for you at the car then.”

Zhao Pengyu quickly raised his hand, “I want to go too!”

Yu Ze’s expression turned cold, “No, you don’t want to.”

Zhao Pengyu: “…”

Gu Ye hurriedly went to look for Old Master Yu and saw that those masters had all left. Old Master Yu is drinking tea with Elder Tang. When he saw Gu Ye holding 3 scrolls, he asked him with a smile, “Which other 2 did you pick? Let me have a look.”

Gu Ye opened the scrolls with a smile. As soon as Old Master Yu saw Yu Ze’s writing, he burst out laughing, “You really have some abilities, to be able to make him write for you. I asked him to write for me before, but he didn’t do it.”

Gu Ye said with a smile, “Because I’m shameless enough, I can play tricks.”

Old Man Yu chuckled, “How can you be so self-deprecating? This is also your skill. I really want to know what expression Yu Ze had when he wrote these words.”

Gu Ye thought for a while, then smirked, “Probably a despairing expression.”

“That must be very interesting.” Old Master Yu took a sip of tea happily, “So tell me, you coming to see me shouldn’t be just to say goodbye, right?”

“Yes,” Gu Ye put away the painting, and asked earnestly, “I don’t understand. Since you have always cherished this painting, why did you give it to me now?”

Old Master Yu looked at Gu Ye with a smile, “Because I think you are destined for this painting, so I know you will fall in love with it. I hope that even if you encounter setbacks in the future, you will not change your original intention. A gentleman must have the will to break rather than bend. Even if broken, there must be the belief in yourself to be able to take down the enemy. I was very happy that Yu Ze was able to draw such an imposing manner years ago, but now he has learned to restrain his sharpness. I seem to see the younger version of him in you.”

Old Master Yu then said regretfully, “It’s a pity that now that he’s grown up, I can’t figure out what he’s thinking, alas.”

At the side, Elder Tang’s words gently stabbed Old Master Yu, “Didn’t he already have such a temperament since he was a child? But you never didn’t guess it.”

Old Master Yu pressed the teacup on the table with resentment on his face, and several drops of water splashed out.*

*Not sure how to phrase this to make it gentler because they are not quarreling.

Gu Ye almost laughed. He understood the meaning of the two old people’s words, and sincerely thanked them, “I understand what you two mean. Thank you for the teachings, seniors. No matter what happens in the future, I will not change my original intention. As for temper, I will listen to Elder Tang and try to change it.”

Elder Tang said happily, “That’s good. Your senior brother was just too rigid. There are many ways to save people but he chose the most extreme way. When the entire society of mystic art was at a loss, he slapped them with the fact that he saved a whole city of people with forbidden techniques, at the price of his life. His death made me feel so sad, and it also made me understand that the society of mystical arts needs to be reformed. Otherwise, even if it is passed on, it will be deformed and unhealthy.”

Gu Ye said obediently, “I will cherish my life in the future, don’t worry.”

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Chapter 30 Gu Ye: I’m going to fall in love with him! Part 2

Gu Ye has always heard people call ‘Old Master Yu’ here and there, so he thought that the old man would be a rigid old pedant, the kind who is more rigid than his own father. Unexpectedly, he turned out to be a refined and handsome old man, with a smile on his face, looking very kind. Looking at Yu Ze standing next to him, Gu Ye understood that Yu Ze’s appearance doesn’t come from his mother’s genes, the old master’s genes are extremely prevalent.

Old Master Yu briefly greeted everyone. After everyone sat down, he said, “A friend gave me a nameless ancient painting so I’m inviting every master here to come today, to help me take a look. Is this young lady alive?”

If someone dared to say such nonsense as the painting being alive, everyone here would laugh out loud and reply, “Bullshit!” However, as soon as Old Master Yu said this, everyone’s expression became serious, “Is it possessed by a spirit body? It is impossible for the person in the painting to come to life.”

“It’s better to get the painting out, let’s take a look.”

When everyone saw the ancient painting in the glass container, they all praised it, “What a solid foundation! The lines and ink are well-defined, and the colors are bright and colorful. The most important point is that it is so well preserved, huh? There is no signature?”

“There is resentment attached to it, giving off an ominous feeling. I’m afraid it was dug out from the ground (burial ground)?”

The moment the painting is placed for viewing, everyone can feel the resentment emanating from it, but they can’t see any figure in this painting moving by themselves. Old Master Yu turned his head to look at Yu Ze who stood far away with a cold and disdainful attitude, not wanting to join in.

Yu Ze said with a cold face, “Don’t ask me, I can’t see anything.”

Old Master Yu pointed to the door, “Then, please go out first. You should know that ghosts and gods dare not breathe/move when you are around.”

“Pfft!” Gu Ye couldn’t hold back and laughed out loud. It’s no wonder that Yu Ze didn’t believe in ghosts and gods. With his aura, he really couldn’t see anything strange. When he is around, ghosts and gods don’t dare to come out.

Yu Ze looked helplessly at Gu Ye smiling at him. There is a little resentment in his eyes (for not being able to stay back).

Gu Ye immediately gave Yu Ze a look that said ‘I understand you. It’s not easy being a child born in old age. The parents will be old people when you grow up, and old people are always unreasonable.’

Yu Ze went out with a sullen face.

With the curtains drawn, the entire study room is darkened but the girl in the painting remains motionless. Old Master Yu said to everyone, “Now. I can only ask you gentlemen to show your abilities. I have no malicious intentions and just want to know the reason (what is happening). Whoever can find out, you can go to the second floor and choose one of my calligraphy and paintings to take with you.”

Earlier, Gu Ye was not interested in the painting, but hearing Old Master Yu’s words, his eyes widened. Those are all the calligraphy of Old Master Yu. They are treasures and ever so valuable!

Except for Elder Tang, everyone is eager to try their hand, obviously moved by the reward that Old Master Yu said.

“If she doesn’t show herself, then I can only force her to come out.” Someone already prepared a magic weapon at hand, like a warrior who slays demons and defends the weak.

But Gu Ye simply walked over from the back and pushed that person away. Ignoring everyone’s gaze, he put his hand on the glass container and closed his eyes, trying to feel something with his heart.

The young man wanted to speak, but Old Master Yu gave him a ‘shush’, signaling him to be quiet and not to interrupt Gu Ye. The young man could only endure it. Looking at the magic weapon in his hand, he somehow felt that he was like a joke.

2 minutes later, Gu Ye opened his eyes and asked Old Master Yu, “So, as long as you can figure out the reason, it’s fine? There’s no need to kill her, right?”

“Yes.” Old Master Yu nodded appreciatively, “I just want to know the reason.”

Gu Ye smiled, “There is indeed a spirit attached here. She is imprisoned in this painting. She wants to leave, but she can’t. This young lady is also a poor soul.”

Old Master Yu expressed his interest, “Oh? I would like to hear more about it.”

“A thousand years ago, a local corrupt official wanted to give his boss a birthday gift. He heard that his boss loved calligraphy and painting, but he couldn’t produce one himself, so he found a scholar to do it for him. This scholar has his own arrogance so naturally he doesn’t listen to the official. Hence, the official sent someone to arrest the scholar’s family and threaten him. The scholar had no choice but to paint.”

Gu Ye looked at the woman in red in the painting again before continuing, “The scholar drew a picture of a seductive young woman who is pretending to be a girl from a good family, secretly going out on a date, waiting for her sweetheart in the mountains. He is insinuating that the corrupt official did terrible things but wanted to maintain a good reputation at the same time. In the end, the official won’t get anything from the wait.”

Old Master Yu suddenly realized, “No wonder there is no inscription or signature on this painting, the scholar should be disdaining it ba?”

“How do you know so clearly?” The young man who got pushed away by Gu Ye just now asked in a bad tone, “Who knows if you are making up stories to bluff people.”

Gu Ye raised his eyebrows and sighed, “Because I’m smart, I’m talented, and I can form empathy link, can you?”

The young man stared at Gu Ye with envy and hatred. He really didn’t have this kind of talent, “Then you still haven’t explained why she is coming alive.”

Hearing that, Gu Ye’s expression turned cold, “This is also an inhumane tragedy. In order to make sure this painting never faded, the corrupt official added corpse oil to the paint and specially refined it with a secret method.”

Everyone’s expression changed. There were indeed many such inhumane things in ancient times, and there are also many people who used live people as sacrifices. They just didn’t expect this kind of thing to happen in this painting.

“For thousands of years, this painting has not changed a bit. The young lady in the painting, because of long-term contact with things used by living people, started to feel the emotions of human beings, and gradually gained spirit. However, being trapped by the corpse oil with a resentful aura, she couldn’t escape, even if she wanted to leave.”

Gu Ye asked seriously, “Can’t you guys feel her despair?”

Very well, Gu Ye understood from their expressions, they couldn’t feel it.

“Your talent is really…” Gu Ye doesn’t want to go on but everyone understood the meaning – too noob!

Being embarrassed by Gu Ye, the young man wanted to get some dignity back and said, “This matter is easy to solve, just get rid of this spirit.”

“Getting rid of it is too much,” another rather kind-hearted master said, “The human world is not a place for her to stay, why not send her to reincarnation instead? It is not easy for a non-living thing to be able to form spiritual consciousness, reincarnation is the greatest kindness to her.”

Gu Ye laughed, “Why did you decide for others? Have you considered this young lady’s opinion?”

“Yin and yang are different, she can’t survive in this world. It’s for her own good.”

“Then why don’t you ask this big sister what she thinks.” Gu Ye stretched out a finger and tapped the glass lightly twice, “Miss big sister, if you still don’t show up, they will kill you for real.”

With everyone paying attention, the woman in the painting finally moved. The beautiful woman in red put down the things in her hands and bowed to Gu Ye, every movement is beautiful and pleasing to the eye.

Gu Ye pointed at her and asked everyone, “Look, how sensible. You guys have the heart to kill her?”

An old man in the group earnestly advised, “She is a spirit and not a human being. If given the chance, she can cultivate into a Yao/spiritual being. Not doing bad things now doesn’t mean she won’t do it in the future. Furthermore, letting her reincarnate doesn’t mean killing her. Don’t be tempted by her beauty, you young man.”

Gu Ye sighed, “Old man, to be reincarnated or not, you have to ask the person concerned. Little big sister, do you want to reincarnate?”

The woman in the painting shook her head. She finally acquired spiritual consciousness. If she goes to reincarnate, she will no longer be herself.

Gu Ye narrowed his eyes, “Can you play the pipa?”

Even though the person in the painting didn’t understand why Gu Ye asked this question, she still nodded.

“Then can you sing and dance?”

The person in the painting nodded again.

“Can you come out and hold the umbrella for me when it’s raining?”

The person in the painting froze for a moment, then nodded again.

“Can you help me get takeout when I’m hungry?”

The person in the painting couldn’t understand what takeaway meant, but thinking that it is probably about running errands, she nodded again.

Gu Ye snapped his fingers, “Okay! It’s you then! From now on, you will be my No. 1 servant. I will rescue you from the painting, and you will serve me for 80 years, how about it?”

Gu Ye’s words immediately caused an uproar, “Are you crazy? It is forbidden to raise ghosts and spirits!”

Gu Ye ignored them at all and took out a small porcelain bottle. After that, he took out a cinnabar pen and drew a spell on the bottle. The next moment, the beauty in red in the painting finally gets out of the painting and is put into the porcelain bottle in the blink of an eye. Gu Ye curved the corner of his mouth. Clenching the porcelain bottle tightly, he looked at the crowd with a provocative expression, “It depends on my mood whether to raise (ghost/spirit) or not.”

“Humans and spirits are different. Child, don’t make trouble for yourself!”

“Crazy! If you don’t listen to advice now, something will happen sooner or later!” Several masters present shook their heads and sighed as if they had expected that Gu Ye would be killed by this woman in the near future.

Gu Ye looked at Old Master Yu and Elder Tang who had been silent all this time, “Is this matter settled?”

Old Master Yu looked at the painting, and said regretfully, “Oh, if the spirit is gone, the core of this painting will be gone as well.”

Gu Ye couldn’t help laughing. At this moment, the old master is actually feeling sorry for his painting.

“It’s fate to meet you,” Old Master Yu took the key and opened the glass container. Taking out the scroll inside, he rolled it up and put it in a box, “Since you took the person away, take this painting with you as well.”

Gu Ye asked anxiously, “Then, can I pick another one (prize) to take away?”

Old Master Yu is amused and says, “Take it. Since I am happy today, I will allow you to pick 2 more instead.” Old Master Yu whispered in Gu Ye’s ear, “I’ll tell you in secret. In my collection, lies a most precious treasure. Most people can’t pick it out, so it depends on your eyes.”

Hearing that, Gu Ye’s eyes lit up. “Since you said that, then pardon my rudeness. My dad likes your handwriting very much. He will be turning 60 years old soon. Originally when I accepted the invitation, I wanted to ask you to write him a few words as a birthday present. Unexpectedly, I hit the jackpot today! Hahaha~”

“Okay, go pick it!” Old Master Yu patted Gu Ye on the shoulder, and Gu Ye went upstairs under the eyes of everyone who wanted to bite him with envy.

After inviting several other masters to the tearoom, Tang Lao said, “I didn’t expect to finally able to pick one with wits after searching so long. Unconventional, knowledgeable, and courageous, he seems to be able to resist pressure as well.”

Old Master Yu nodded and said with a smile, “Unfortunately, he is too young to convince the majority, but he will be doing great in a few years. In order to pick someone for you, I lost 3 paintings.”

“Yeah sure,” Tang Lao stroked his beard, and casually said, “Obviously you like that child yourself and are willing to give the paintings away. Don’t I know you yet?”

At this time, Gu Ye had already wandered around Old Master Yu’s study room. He could see the aura in the calligraphy and painting. Old Master Yu’s calligraphy is majestic, and every piece is worthy of being treasured. Gu Ye couldn’t pick one as he wanted every piece he saw. After checking around, Gu Ye couldn’t find the treasure that Old Master Yu mentioned. He walked to the window and saw Yu Ze standing outside the main door. Gu Ye shouted, “Mr. Yu!”

Yu Ze looked up and saw Gu Ye waving to him with a smile all over his face. He is signaling to him, ‘Come, come!’

Yu Ze paused but really went upstairs.

Gu Ye asked in a low voice, “Old Master Yu said that there is a treasure hidden here, can you tell me which treasure is it?”

“He even told you this?” The corners of Yu Ze’s mouth curved up, “Has anyone ever told you that you are very likable?”

Gu Ye waved his hand, “No, but many people say that I’m crazy, even ghosts are afraid of me.”

Yu Ze frowned, and said in dissatisfaction, “It’s because they are stupid and ignorant.”

“Yes, I think so too.” Gu Ye raised his hand and signaled Yu Ze to give him a high-five. As expected from heroes who see the same thing.

Yu Ze looked at Gu Ye’s face approaching in front of him, slightly lost in thought. At this moment, the setting sun is shining its last through the window, and Gu Ye’s fair cheeks are tinted with a thin layer of pink by the sunset. With his bright smile, his long eyelashes flicker like two cute little fans. He looks delicate like a doll, but his temperament is like a glass of strong wine. The timid dare not get close to it, and those who dare to taste it will get drunk when they touch it.

Yu Ze stretched out his hand without thinking and fulfilled Gu Ye’s wish, tapping his palm lightly. Seeing Gu Ye’s happy face, he also smiled and said, “The treasure he said is just what he thinks is a treasure. It has no value at all in the eyes of others.”

At this moment, Gu Ye’s eyes suddenly fell on a painting in the corner, and he couldn’t move his eyes away. This painting is obviously one size smaller than the other drawing papers, and there is no inscription on it. It is just a thick blood-stained broken sword, inserted in the devastated desert. The surrounding wind and sand are rustling, and the sky is vast. The broken sword is just left here, which should have given people a sense of desolation. However, the feeling of this painting is domineering. It emanates an aura of ‘Who’s there to take the brunt of responsibility but me’. Even if it is broken, it still does not hold back its edge.

Gu Ye suddenly thought of the Ghost General sitting in Yu Ze’s car. How come the feeling of this painting is similar to that Ghost General?

Gu Ye couldn’t help touching the painting, “This painting is so handsome. What kind of mind should the person who painted this picture have? I am going to fall in love with him. This is the one I want! I want this painting!”

Gu Ye excitedly moved the stool and climbed up to take down the painting. He is very much in admiration for Old Master Yu. He decided to go to Old Master Yu later and begged the old man for a few words (calligraphy).

Yu Ze raised a finger and poked Gu Ye’s waist twice, “This is my casual drawing when I was 16 years old. It doesn’t worth any money, do you really want it?”

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Gu Ye: “Sorry, what I said just now doesn’t count!”

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Chapter 30 Gu Ye: I’m going to fall in love with him! Part 1

Gu Ye got out of the car at the gate of Yu’s old house, looked at the courtyard, and exclaimed, “What an amazing feng shui spot where water gathers with hidden dragons.”

Yu Ze pushed open the door, and an old man in a blue Tang suit with gray hair came up to him. The old man smiled and said, “The young master is back, and this is…?” Seeing Gu Ye who was blocked by Yu Ze, the old man is taken aback. This is the first time Yu Ze brought someone home.

“Gu Ye, he is the master I invited. This is Uncle An.”

Gu Ye smiled and said hello, “Hi Uncle An. Old Master Yu invited me to come and see the painting.”

“The master who saved Young Master Pengyu?” Uncle An asked in surprise. “You are sure young and promising. Master Gu, please come in.”

Gu Ye smiled awkwardly. Promising young man or whatnots, it is the first time he heard someone use this word to praise him. Other people usually say he is someone who is not doing his job properly.

Stepping into the gate, they crossed the front yard, passed through the vertical flower carving gate, and then entered the inner courtyard. On the left and right sides are the east and west wing rooms, and several servants hang lanterns at the door. Yu Ze looked back at Gu Ye who is half a step behind him, “This is my father’s study room. Even the east and west side rooms are filled with books, calligraphy, and paintings.”

Gu Ye sincerely praised, “Old Master Yu is very knowledgeable, and it’s normal to have a lot of books.”

The more Gu Ye walked, the more he admired the surroundings. He sighed in his heart that the Yu family is worthy of a scholarly family. All the buildings are kept in antique-style interiors, from the stone tables and stools to the wooden carvings in the corridors, all of which demonstrate the owner’s cultural accomplishment and rich family heritage. Moreover, to have such a large courtyard house so close to the center of the imperial capital, the value of this courtyard must be at least several hundred million. The rarest thing is that there is a layer of golden light above the Yu family, which is the aura of merit and virtue that can only be formed by doing good deeds. The Yu family is so rich but does good deeds so low-key, which shows the nature of this family.

After walking forward for dozens of steps, they arrived at the main room.

“Hidden from the wind but gathers water, four corner spirit protecting the house, good Fengshui!” After Gu Ye sighed in admiration, he gossiped in a low voice, very curious. “Mr. Yu, if standing on the roof of your house on October 1st, is it possible to see the military parade?”

Hearing that, the corner of Yu Ze’s mouth curved slightly. He smiled and said, “You can go up and have a look later.”

Gu Ye gave Yu Ze a puzzled look, how could he be so casual about this?

Yu Ze nodded, indicating that it’s okay, just go to see if you want.

However, Gu Ye smiled and shook his head. It’s not good to walk around other people’s houses, it’s too impolite.

Soon, Yu Ze brought Gu Ye to the backyard. When they stepped into the door, Gu Ye found a familiar figure squatting by the pond. Gu Ye slowed down, and walked over to look. Next, he felt like wanting to kick the person down, “Are you virtueless?”

The koi fishes in the pond look silly and naive, and Zhao Pengyu is trying to fish them up with a fishing rod.

“Yo~ Heavenly being is here!” Zhao Pengyu smirked, “I’m going fishing tomorrow, so gotta try out the fishing rod in advance.”

Hearing that, Gu Ye became speechless. This person is sure virtueless.

Zhao Pengyu raised his head and asked, “Are you coming with me?”

Gu Ye answered with interest, “Sure, let’s go together tomorrow.”

“I heard that you went to the countryside to experience life. So how is it, and why did you not get tanned?”

“Anyone with a high IQ can’t get tanned.”

Zhao Pengyu touched his face and rolled his eyes speechlessly. He got tanned from playing basketball.

Yu Ze looked at the watch on his wrist and said to Gu Ye, “You can take a rest here. Someone will call you later when it’s starting.”

Gu Ye nodded, “If Mr. Yu has something to do, just go and do your stuff, don’t worry about me.”

The corner of Yu Ze’s mouth curved up, “Okay, by the way, do you want to eat the dessert from last time?”

Zhao Pengyu raised his hand, “Want!”

Gu Ye is not a hypocritical person either so he said the same thing, “Want!”

“There is a pastry room in the back kitchen, let Pengyu ask for whatever you want to eat.”

Gu Ye grabbed Yu Ze’s sleeve, and smiled until his eyes are narrowed, “Thank you.”

Yu Ze got slightly taken aback, but Gu Ye immediately let go, with a smiling expression on his face, making it hard to guess what he meant. Yu Ze looked at his own wrist and left without saying anything.

Zhao Pengyu looked despair, and waited for Yu Ze to leave before he dared to complain, “I seem to be your nanny.”

Gu Ye looked at the purple qi remaining on his five fingertips with emotion, “Your uncle is so good at taking care of people, a warm-hearted person ah!”

“You…” Zhao Pengyu’s eyes were filled with a blatant question: Have you gone crazy?!

Gu Ye didn’t bother to pay attention to Zhao Pengyu. He happily took out his mobile phone, logged into the game, and cracked the hero egg that he had never dared to touch for a long time. Next, a notification sounded: [Congratulations to the player [I run darn fast] for getting the S-level hero – Nuwa.]

“Oh my f god!” Zhao Pengyu threw away the fishing rod enviously and said, “What kind of dogshit luck you have?! This hero can add an extra life during battles so that players can be resurrected after death! I want it too!!”

With a hehehe, Gu Ye looked at the purple qi on his fingers that had been used up, and secretly suggested, “Then you can go and touch your uncle, and see if you can get lucky.”

“I dare not! He has germophobia! You grabbed him just now and he actually didn’t throw you out,” Zhao Pengyu stretched out his paw angrily, “Can I touch you a bit? Are you also covered in lucky aura?”

Gu Ye grinned in disgust, “Get away! I’m a lucky person now, and this lucky person doesn’t want to talk to you.”

Zhao Pengyu: “…” This friendship will end sooner or later!

After resting for a while, Uncle An came to look for Gu Ye, “My master invites Master Gu to the side wing hall.”

Gu Ye put down the half-eaten cherry blossom jelly in his hand and followed Uncle An to the East Wing. Upon entering the hall, he found that there are several other colleagues there. After Gu Ye sat down, he saw a familiar face opposite him, and he happily said, “Yo! We meet again! Where’s your little apprentice?”

When the person opposite saw Gu Ye, his expression is not very good and he answered sullenly, “Luo Huai is still young, so he is not suitable for this kind of scene.”

It is the master Gu Ye met in Daliu Village.

As if Gu Ye didn’t hear the hint in the other party’s words at all, he said, “You’re right, still young. Still didn’t learn much, need to practice more.”

Stunned, Huai Xiang Guo’s face turned red instantly when he heard these words. Doesn’t this mean that he can’t teach well?

Uncle An put the half-eaten jelly on the table as if he didn’t hear the conversation between the two, he said kindly, “You can continue to eat. The old master and the young master are talking so they will only come over in a while.”

Gu Ye thanked Uncle An with a smile and started to eat on his own. All the masters present looked at him with scrutiny in their eyes. Those who can come here are all famous figures in the circle, but Gu Ye, a young face, has received such courteous treatment, which really makes people confused about his background. Huai Xiang Guo also had to shut up at this time and endured it.

The old gentleman on the table next to Gu Ye took a sip of tea, and asked tentatively, “Can I ask where this little gentleman learned your skills from?”

Taking a bite of the jelly, Gu Ye’s eyes curved with a smile. He casually replied, “No school/clan, no sect, I just mess around by myself.”

This is obviously a lie. The old gentleman saw that Gu Ye didn’t want to tell him so he didn’t ask further.

However, Huai Xiang Guo said flatly, “He is Gu Ye’s younger disciple brother, also called Gu Ye.”

“Gu Ye?” The expressions of all the people around changed. Some are surprised, some are sorry, and some are disdainful.

Gu Ye smiled and said, “That’s right. My name is Gu Ye too, and my father is Gu Decheng. When my family needs to change the feng shui someday, I’ll invite you. My father is rich.”

Huai Xiang Guo’s words are blocked in one breath, his face flushed from holding back.

The old man next to Gu Ye sighed, “Your senior brother is a good person. In fact, there is no need to distinguish such a clear distinction between Taoism and sects, and there is no need to distinguish between good and evil. As long as one doesn’t do bad things and uses it in the right place, it’s good. From Gu Ye’s death, haven’t you all understood it yet? It’s time for the Xuanshu Association to reform. The rules and regulations have restricted everyone inside a tight circle, and this is the real reason why this line of work cannot be passed on.”

Everyone present did not dare to say anything, they lowered their heads and listened quietly to the teaching.

The old man looked at Gu Ye’s eyebrows again, and said with a smile, “Little mister has merits and virtues, and doesn’t care about trivial matters. This is a good thing. But your temper has to be restrained a little, so as not to offend others. You must know that ‘it is easy to hide from a visible spear, but it is difficult to guard against the hidden arrow.’ (idiom)”

Putting down the jelly in his hand, Gu Ye stood up. Then, he bowed to the old man, and said respectfully, “Thank you, Elder Tang, for your advice.”

Elder Tang is surprised, “You know me?”

“I do. The respected seniors in the mystic circle are completely different from those hypocrites who are trying to gain fame.”

Elder Tang shook his head helplessly. Listen to those words, he is still not afraid of offending others.

Behind the screen, Old Master Yu, who is nearly 70 years old and has gray hair, couldn’t help laughing when he heard Gu Ye’s words, “This kid you brought is quite interesting.”

Yu Ze had a cold expression with disdain, “Much better than the people you invited.”

As soon as Old Master Yu came out from the back, everyone in the hall stood up.

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Chapter 29 My god, my brother ran away with a man!

Without turning back, Gu Ye knew who the person standing behind him is, and he also knew why the other party is looking for him. But he still stayed calm and continued burning the offering; the beauties and the tractor to his master. As he did it, he muttered to his master, “Although it’s not Qingming or the 15th day of the month, I feel that you don’t care about these rules anyway, old man. Just treat these as receiving a courier, and you can use it when you receive it. I haven’t dreamed of you for a long time, and I don’t know if you have been reincarnated. It would be a pity if you were reincarnated. These beauties are expensive yo.”

Hearing that, Qi Zong, who is standing behind Gu Ye, twitched his mouth again.

By the time Gu Ye burned everything, it is already dark. He stood up, patted the ashes on his hands, and looked at Team Leader Qi, “This Sir, you’ve been waiting for a long time.”

Qi Zong coughed and recovered from Gu Ye’s nagging, “Hello, I am the leader of the investigation team of Xuanshu Association, Qi Zong.”

Gu Ye tilted his head, “What can I do for you?”

“Are you Mr. Shao’s second apprentice? As far as I know, Mr. Shao has only one apprentice, Gu Ye.”

“That’s right because the time I got accepted was not during my master is alive. My senior brother was the one who accepted me. Coincidentally, my name is also Gu Ye.” Gu Ye smiled, “My senior brother mentioned that in the future, I will also get an apprentice and call him Gu Ye.”

The statement caused Qi Zong to choke on his breath. One Gu Ye is enough to give them a headache. These days, many young people who are new to the association are fans of Gu Ye, and they all think his lawless temper is very cool. Now there is another junior brother of Gu Ye, who is as lawless as him and has the same name and surname as him. Just thinking about it makes his head hurt.

“I came here to ask if you want to join the Xuanshu Association.” Qi Zong seriously threw out an olive branch, “We have many colleagues discussing academics together, learning from each other, and helping the people deal with unknown and dangerous events. There is a monthly salary, social insurances, and a housing loan. Since now you are the only one left in your sect, you should join us. Metaphysics gradually depreciated as time passed. With everyone staying together, at least we have someone to take care of each other’s back.”

Gu Ye waved his hand, “No, no, no, I think Mr. Qi has misunderstood. I don’t need organization, nor do I need to learn from each other, and I don’t need others to take care of me.” Gu Ye straightened his back and said proudly, “My father is Gu Decheng. My dad has money, he has plenty of money.”

Qi Zong is speechless. It’s precisely because he knew that Gu Ye’s father is rich and that he didn’t want Gu Ye to join Xuanshu Association that he(QZ) chased him(GY) to here. Gu Ye is still young, but his ability is very high. It is a pity that such a talent is left alone to grow free-range (without rules and guidance). And with this temperament, if no one manages him, he will be the next Gu Ye in the future who would dare to slap the face of the entire mystical arts world when stimulated.

“I’ve finished talking. Goodbye, Mr. Qi.”

“Hey!”

“Don’t follow me!” Gu Ye’s expression turned cold in a second. He pointed at the man and said seriously, “Otherwise my master will crawl out of the coffin and take you away with him.”

Qi Zong: “…” Can’t continue with this talk anymore!

Gu Ye suppressed a smile, put his hands in the pockets of his jeans, and walked away in his small white sneakers. When passing by a small mound of dirt, he can even skip along, just like an innocent boy who is not bothered by the world.

Qi Zong couldn’t even muster the strength to get angry. Finally, he shook his head helplessly, feeling powerless all over his body.

Gu Ye returned to the village, tidied up the house, and packed his backpack. Then he burned some joss paper in the yard, and said to the empty yard, “You poor little ones who have nowhere to go, it’s okay to stay in my house. Just remember to take care of the weeds and don’t let the house gets dusty.”

A breeze rose in the yard, and it spun around Gu Ye a few times. The corner of Gu Ye’s mouth curved up in a beautiful arc, and he nodded, “Okay, see you next time.”

…

Early the next morning, Gu Ye picked up his backpack and quietly left the village without closing the gate. At the entrance of the village, he stood there and yawned. Gu Ye has dark circles under his eyes as he finally dreamed of his master last night, after a long time. He was back to the days when he lived in the alley in the capital when he was a child. The old man chased after him all night with a walking stick. After running past eight streets, Gu Ye is too tired to walk now.

Counting something with his fingers, Gu Ye then raised his hand to stop a taxi and said when he entered the car, “Go north.”

The driver is puzzled, “North? Where should I stop then?”

Gu Ye leaned lazily on the seat. He closed his eyes, wanting to sleep, “Go north all the way and don’t look back, I’ll pay the distance you went. I have good fortune in the north.”

The driver master stepped on the gas pedal speechlessly, thinking that this young man is good-looking, but his brain is not good.

…

With this, Gu Ye ran out to play for several days. Mrs. Gu saw that Gu Ye seems to have enjoyed himself too much outside and didn’t intend to come back, so she sent him a message: [Come back quickly after playing enough, your father wants to send someone to catch you again.]

Gu Ye took a picture of a particularly rural road, surrounded by weeds and lala plants (Japanese hops), and sent it to his little mother: [Mom, when you are old, your son will take you here for a trip, isn’t it beautiful?]

Mrs. Gu replied in seconds: [Not going, thank you!]

Gu Ye secretly posted the conversation on his socmed: [This little old lady really doesn’t know how to appreciate the beauty of the world.]

Mrs. Gu is so angry when she saw the nickname ‘little old lady’ that she wanted to blacklist this unfilial son.

Unexpectedly, there are people who liked Gu Ye’s post. Mother Zhao looked at her son’s phone screen curiously and smiled, “From Gu Ye’s attitude, it can be seen that Gu Ye’s mother is still good to him, not as bad as the outside rumors.”

At this moment, another Like appeared under Gu Ye’s post. Seeing that,  Zhao Pengyu’s eyes widened, and he stood up in shock, startling Mother Zhao who was talking.

“Mom! Tell the truth, am I my uncle’s biological nephew? He even gave Gu Ye a thumbs-up (a Like in his post). He never gave a thumbs-up to me!”

Mrs. Zhao is also very surprised by this because Yu Ze is someone with deep thoughts since he was a child. No one would know what he is thinking unless he said it out.

“Probably… because you are ugly.” Mother Zhao couldn’t find a suitable reason, so she could only explain it this way to the child.

Zhao Pengyu angrily replied to Gu Ye: [Same world, same mother!]

The reason why Gu Ye chose to wander in the countryside is that the environment is good and pollution-free. The pace of life is slow too, which can reduce stress. The second is that there are many strange happenings in the countryside. Not only can he find some fun, but he can also help people solve their problems, which is also considered a merit.

When Gu Ye was young, his master told him that in order to cultivate oneself, one must first cultivate one’s mind, and one can do so among the people. Only when one is down to earth and understands people from all walks of life, then they will know how to be grateful and also know who actually needs their help.

Carrying a bag with him, Gu Ye played outside for half a month amidst Mrs. Gu’s soul-chasing calls. It wasn’t until Yu Ze called him to ask him for something that he stopped. Gu Ye calculated that his grades would come out soon so he head home slowly.

After entering the house, Gu Ye handed his bag to the nanny. Raising his hand with difficulty, he said, “Please turn on the air conditioner to 18 degrees Celsius, and give me a cup of strawberry-flavored shaved ice, thank you.”

Mrs. Gu sees that Gu Ye’s hair has grown so much that it became an eye-sore, “After going out for so many days, why didn’t you get tanned? See, your hair is so long that it can be braided. How did you live outside like this?”

Gu Ye fell on the sofa, lying flat like a salted fish, and said with a smile, “Can’t help it, this kind of thing follows whoever raises me. Since my mother is good-looking, I can’t get tanned no matter what. Even with a funky hairstyle, I will still be heaven-defying good-looking.”

Mrs. Gu glared at Gu Ye for a while with her mouth pursed. But soon, she couldn’t hold back the corners of her mouth, and patted Gu Ye’s shoulder happily, “Oh, you brat, hahaha~ Sister Wang, tell the kitchen to cook more dishes for lunch today. Xiao Ye likes to eat beef so make a steak too! I think he seemed to have lost weight, so we need to nourish him.”

Gu Ye grinned in pain and took the shaved ice handed over by the servant. Then he smiled too, my mom is so easy to flatter!

During lunchtime, Gu Yang also came back with his schoolbag on his back. Kiddo got invited by a group of girls to play at the claw game machine after school. The result was a great haul, and he carried several strings of dolls on his back. Seeing that his brother is back home, Gu Yang jumped up and down excitedly. The dolls behind him swayed from side to side, up and down. They were very colorful and Gu Ye wanted to sigh when he saw them.

“Brother! Where did you go to play? Take me with you next time! Take me with you!” Gu Yang threw himself on Gu Ye’s back and put his arms around Gu Ye’s neck. With a grin, he tried to knock his brother down.

Gu Ye clicked his tongue, this brat has grown up fast recently. He as the child from a premature birth seems to be the shortest of the brothers. If this kid dared to rebel even now, how about later in the future?

Gu Ye moved away to avoid the force of Gu Yang’s attack. With a kick from the bottom of his foot, he hit the acupuncture point on Gu Yang’s ankle. Kiddo fell down on the sofa with a gr0an, and Gu Ye pressed him down firmly with just one hand, “Easy. If I have a chance, I will take you there. Don’t get scared until you peed your pants yo.”

“Whoever is afraid is a dog!” Unable to struggle free, Gu Yang stiffened his neck and exclaimed.

Gu Ye suppressed Gu Yang again, and added the other leg, pressing down on Gu Yang that he could only wave his limbs around. He floundered like a little turtle being pinned to the ground, but unable to turn over.

Gu Ye didn’t expect Gu Yang to be serious with his words, because during the summer vacation, he really led Gu Yang to catch ghosts. At that time, he reminded Gu Yang, “You said it yourself, whoever is afraid of a dog, you are not allowed to back away.” As a result, Gu Yang hugged his arm and barked all the way, making Gu Ye so angry that he don’t want to bring him out anymore.

After taking a nap at noon, Gu Ye took a shower, changed his clothes, and went downstairs.

Gu Yang secretly followed behind Gu Ye and asked, “Brother, where are you going?”

Gu Ye answered without turning his head, “I have something to do outside. Don’t wait for me for dinner, I probably won’t come back to eat.”

Gu Yang asked cautiously, “Who are you eating with? Girlfriend?”

Gu Ye looked back helplessly, “What is this about girlfriend and boyfriend? Brat, don’t make wild guesses.”

Gu Yang curled his lips and ran to the top attic in one breath. He took out his binoculars and looked out. In his view, he saw a familiar luxury car parked in the shade of the gate outside. A young man in a white shirt is standing beside the car. The man is estimated to be over 1.85m, with long legs and a straight back. He just stood there quietly, but full of aura. Looking at the face, he is as handsome as the model on the poster. Next, Gu Ye can be seen at the gate and greeted the man with a smile. The other party raised his hand and shook it lightly, as a greeting. His gestures are elegant and handsome.

Gu Yang saw his brother get into the car and felt displeased. He doesn’t know when his brother made such a friend. At first glance, this kind of person seems to be very good at deceiving children!

When Gu Ye got into the car, Yu Ze said, “Is someone in your family hostile to me?”

“It should be my younger brother. That little brat, I don’t know what’s wrong with him.” Gu Ye smiled, but inside, he couldn’t help admiring Yu Ze’s ability. This person’s sensitivity is terrifyingly sharp. To be able to feel hostility from such a distance, is he still a human being?

Since they are closer distance with each other now, Gu Ye clearly felt the ghostly aura on Yu Ze’s body. It is daytime, and the cool Ghost General did not appear, but Gu Ye could still feel that the general is protecting Yu Ze. This is very strange to Gu Ye. Why did that Ghost General choose to follow Yu Ze who couldn’t see him? The general should come to him, be his No. 1 spirit servant!

Seeing that Gu Ye is silent, Yu Ze took out a game console from the drawer, “Want to play?”

Gu Ye took it over and saw that it is new and unopened, “You didn’t buy it now, did you?”

“At your age, you might be bored on the road.”

Yu Ze’s voice is so soft that people can’t feel how caring he is but the warm gesture made Gu Ye curve the corner of his mouth. He and Yu Ze haven’t actually spoken a few words, and he doesn’t know each other’s temperament but judging from his facial features, Yu Ze is not a person who will take the initiative to care about others. On the contrary, he should be terribly indifferent, and there should be nothing for him to care about except his family.

“Actually, Mr. Yu doesn’t need to keep thinking about the incident where I saved Zhao Pengyu. He and I are buddies and I am happy to save him. You really don’t need to pay off the debt for him.” Gu Ye attributed Yu Ze’s kindness to him from Zhao Pengyu’s incident.

After opening the box of the game console, Gu Ye shifted to a comfortable position and sat down. Then he asked, “What do you think Old Master Yu asked me to see? Is it about the tea party?”

“No.” Yu Ze said with a helpless expression, “Someone gave him a painting. But he said there is something wrong with it, so he wanted to have a master to look at it.”

Gu Ye couldn’t help laughing. This is not easy for Yu Ze as he didn’t believe in ghosts and gods at all. But his father believed in this and invited the masters to his home for gatherings every year.

…

At this moment in the old house of the Yu family, the study room is filled with priceless ancient paintings. In a beautiful landscape painting, a beautiful woman in a red dress, holding a pipa and a red paper umbrella stood up from the stone bench under the tree and flew lightly to the tree.

The attendant who cleaned the study swallowed nervously as soon as he walked to the painting. Mustering the courage to look at this painting, he then threw away the feather duster in fright, screaming, “Sure enough, she moved again! That woman moved again! She moves as soon as the young master is not at home!”

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When Yu Ze is at home, the beauty: Dare not move, dare not move, dare not move…

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