Chapter 123: My Guardian Spirit is Dead (9)
“You can’t let the client watch while you’re exorcising ghosts,” Jiang Zhiyan said seriously. “Otherwise, your commission will be halved.”
After all, many people didn’t just care about whether the problem was solved, but also the performance. Those scammers earned high salaries because they acted like masters.
Jiang Zhiyan looked away from Xie Yunzhi. It was a good thing it was late, and this place was known for being haunted, so there was no one around, otherwise… Xie Yunzhi being possessed might become trending news.
There were many ghosts here, but few were powerful, which made it good practice for Xie Yunzhi. And after discovering that she was actually quite capable, many ghosts started fleeing towards a certain location.
Jiang Zhiyan descended. The two ghosts who had been fighting Xie Yunzhi, seeing Jiang Zhiyan, clutched their severed limbs in fear and also ran in the same direction.
The moment they entered a certain space, Jiang Zhiyan saw a rift appear in mid-air.
“What is that?” Xie Yunzhi also noticed it. “Didn’t you say you weren’t going to interfere? Why did it appear again?”
“I sensed something good and came down, these are too weak, not even fun for practice,” Jiang Zhiyan said, floating over, reaching out to touch the area where the rift had appeared, sensing the fluctuation of Yin energy, she reached inside, then withdrew her hand.
“Find a shovel and dig it up.”
“About how deep?” Xie Yunzhi asked.
“I don’t know, but there’s probably something down there, dig, once you dig it up, the problem here will be solved.”
Xie Yunzhi sighed softly: “Digging in someone’s garden in the middle of the night…”
“Keep whatever you dig up.”
“That kind of thing… the client probably doesn’t want it.” Xie Yunzhi dug about half a meter deep, and her shovel finally hit something hard. She glanced at Jiang Zhiyan and reached out to pull it out. It was a reddish metal fragment, she didn’t know if the red color was rust or blood, it felt strange to the touch.
“What is this?”
Jiang Zhiyan leaned closer and looked: “It looks like a broken piece of some burial object.”
Xie Yunzhi looked around, picked up a plastic bag from the ground, put the fragment inside, then quickly wiped her hands.
“Keep it, don’t tell anyone,” Jiang Zhiyan said.
“Why?” Xie Yunzhi didn’t understand.
“Something that can connect Yin and Yang, allowing ghosts to pass into the mortal realm, of course you should keep it for yourself.”
“Honestly, based on your description… it doesn’t sound like a good thing,” Xie Yunzhi frowned. “If I keep it, what if ghosts come looking for it?”
“They won’t, I’m here,” Jiang Zhiyan paused. “Are you suspecting I’m trying to harm you? It’s a good thing if used properly, just throw any harmless ghosts inside, killing too many ghosts is also a sin.”
Xie Yunzhi pursed her lips: “Hearing those words from a vengeful spirit is really strange.”
Jiang Zhiyan was about to speak, but Xie Yunzhi glanced at her: “You seem to really like me, then I’ll keep it, but is the baleful aura too strong?”
“I’ll teach you how to deal with it after we get back,” Jiang Zhiyan said.
Xie Yunzhi was truly curious about Jiang Zhiyan, why did she have a grudge against the Xie family? How did a family like the Xies even offend Jiang Zhiyan? Was the Xie family really that powerful many years ago?
“You… no, the previous one, what was her grudge against the Xie family?”
“The Xie family used human sacrifices many years ago to suppress an evil being.”
“Huh?” Xie Yunzhi’s eyes widened. “Is that a proper method?”
“Clearly not, the Xie family has whitewashed their history, they weren’t exactly righteous in the beginning.”
Xie Yunzhi pursed her lips: “No wonder she’s attached to the Xie family, I would be too.”
“If she could reincarnate, she probably wouldn’t be attached anymore,” Jiang Zhiyan chuckled. “They were afraid she would report them after she died, so they suppressed her soul along with the evil being, who knew there would be unrest later, and she would be released.”
Xie Yunzhi didn’t know what to say: “It’s you now, then what about her?”
“I’ll disappear later, and it will be her again.”
“Huh?” Xie Yunzhi frowned. “Then you want me to marry you? You’re going to abandon me?”
Jiang Zhiyan took a deep breath: “You’ll understand when you’re lucid, I don’t want to talk to someone whose mind isn’t clear, I’m leaving, fill the hole and go back.”
“Can’t you just help me?” Xie Yunzhi sighed. “But why was that skeleton here?”
“Some old ghosts like to move house with their bones, and many souls attach themselves to bones after death,” Jiang Zhiyan said. “No one lived here before, and it’s so spacious and beautiful, who wouldn’t like it? And there aren’t many people here at night.”
Xie Yunzhi: …
“I’m starving, let’s go, let’s get some late-night snacks,” Xie Yunzhi said, putting her hands on her hips. “My sleep schedule, which I’ve maintained for so long, is about to be ruined.”
“It’s fine, just stay up until midnight and then sleep.”
“You really don’t know how to be considerate,” Xie Yunzhi said, giving Jiang Zhiyan a disappointed look.
“I am considerate, my heart aches for you, if you don’t believe me, I can dig it out and show you.”
“There’s no need for that,” Xie Yunzhi said, leaving with her bag, then after making sure everything was fine, she messaged the homeowner.
They seemed to have been waiting for her message. Seeing Xie Yunzhi’s concise “It’s solved,” they felt inexplicably relieved.
They cautiously checked the surveillance footage, but after the garden lights turned on, the footage went dark, they could only vaguely hear sounds of fighting, it only returned to normal when Xie Yunzhi left with something in her hand.
“Was that really not a show? This girl is too young.”
“Someone should go back and sleep there tonight to find out.”
“You try it first.”
…
Not many restaurants were still open at this time, even the night market was almost deserted. Xie Yunzhi casually ate something at a street vendor’s stall and sat on a bench, looking at the street: “It feels both lively and deserted.”
“What’s lively about it?” the stall owner asked, looking around warily.
“I meant there are many stalls here,” Xie Yunzhi paused. “Have there been any strange incidents here recently?”
Could it be this coincidental?
Xie Yunzhi didn’t really want to continue working after finishing a job, but her conscience prompted her to ask.
“Yes, some people here received hell money,” the stall owner said mysteriously. “You know, most people use electronic payments now, few use cash, so everyone remembers clearly when they receive cash, it was clearly real money when they received it, but when they counted it later, it turned into hell money.”
Xie Yunzhi looked at the stall owner, a little puzzled: “Do you always tell your customers this kind of thing? No wonder there are so few people eating here.”
Stall owner: …
“But you’re quite conscientious,” Xie Yunzhi continued.
Hearing this, the stall owner’s hand, which was reaching for a talisman, trembled slightly.
“Of course,” the stall owner still took out the talisman. “So, do you want to buy a safety talisman? It’s been consecrated, very effective, only five yuan.”
“No,” Xie Yunzhi glanced at it and shook her head. “This doesn’t look like a safety talisman, more like a luck-changing talisman.”
Xie Yunzhi put down her chopsticks and pinned the stall owner to the table. He struggled to get up, but felt like a cold mountain was pressing down on him, immobilizing him, he looked at Xie Yunzhi in terror.
“There are still people using this kind of scam these days, taking both your money and your life.” Xie Yunzhi called the Xie family, who arranged for someone to pick her up. After dealing with the situation until four in the morning, Xie Yunzhi finally returned home.
“The Xie family said they would investigate whose luck he changed, but I feel like… they won’t,” Xie Yunzhi said, resting her chin on her hand.
“They will.” The Xie family was on the female lead’s side, although some of them weren’t exactly virtuous, they were generally “good people.” “Not many people in the Xie family know about what happened back then, they see themselves as good people.”
“I’ll find an opportunity to tell them…” Xie Yunzhi looked at Jiang Zhiyan sincerely. “Will that lessen your resentment?”
“No need, just leave it, there’s no proof, even if you tell them, they won’t admit it, they’ll just think you’ve been deceived by me, they might believe you in their hearts, but they won’t admit it, because it would damage the Xie family’s image.”
Xie Yunzhi exhaled deeply, looking at Jiang Zhiyan, she felt extremely unhappy. Although Jiang Zhiyan didn’t seem sad at all, the thought of her being used as a sacrifice made her heart ache.
She truly believed Jiang Zhiyan now.
She really had forgotten many things.
Xie Yunzhi reached out and hugged Jiang Zhiyan.
Xie Yunzhi successfully resolved this incident, even doing a good deed for society along the way, earning praise from all sides, and the Xie family felt even more confident in entrusting the matters in City A to her.
Xie Yunzhi didn’t really want to do it, but seeing the commission, she felt like she could.
“Why are you working so hard? You’re not short of money,” Jiang Zhiyan frowned. “You’ve lost weight recently.”
“But my muscles are firmer now,” Xie Yunzhi flexed her arm. “I’m planning to have someone carve a small house out of jade for you, you can come with me to choose the jade later.”
“No need, the current jade bracelet is very comfortable,” Jiang Zhiyan said. “The size doesn’t really matter.”
“Of course it matters, the current one is too small,” Xie Yunzhi wagged her finger. “And I don’t trust the Xie family’s things, who knows what they’ve done to it.”
“Didn’t you say you wanted to save money? You’re not even sure if I’m her.”
“But my intuition tells me you are,” Xie Yunzhi pondered for a moment. “I dreamed of you hugging me and crying last night, I don’t know why you were crying, and I also heard many people talking to me.”
“What did they say?”
“They told me to be nicer to you,” Xie Yunzhi said, leaning against the sofa.
“Were they being sincere? Or did someone tell them to tell you to be nicer to me?”
“Of course they were sincere, it was a dream,” Xie Yunzhi raised her hand. “I want to touch your face.”
“It’s very cold.”
“I still want to touch it,” Xie Yunzhi said, looking at Jiang Zhiyan intently.
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