Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 333 Ou Caixia

"Could it be related to these five ghost eyes?"

Ran Qing lowered her sleeves again and frowned.

When the Goat God gave him the five ghost eyes, he warned him that it was best to completely cover them up and only reveal them when he needed to use them.

But the Ghost-Eyed Goat God did not explain why.

Now it seems... these five demonic eyes carry the aura of the Demon Eye Goat God?

Or does it carry some kind of power of His?
Ran Qing pondered the reason, but now she had no way to find bandages or anything to wrap her arm with.

He could only try to pull his sleeves down as low as possible and tie the cuffs tightly with a red string.

While it's convenient to use the aura of the Demon Eye Goat God to intimidate and scare away evil spirits blocking the way, it might also attract the Demon Eye Goat God's enemies.

There are quite a few evil lords who are hostile to each other.

Ran Qing nervously looked around. It was good to have picked up five ghost eyes for free, but it would be bad if she ran into the enemy of the Ghost Eye Goat God.

The wooden chair continued to bounce in the darkness.

Ran Qing walked along the desolate and dilapidated mountain path.

He had walked for an unknown amount of time, and he was in a daze. It felt like only a few minutes had passed, but also like several years had gone by.

In this strange, confused state, the chair leading the way suddenly stopped moving.

It seems to lead to the end.

Ran Qing walked to the chair, and suddenly an old building appeared out of thin air in the darkness in front of her.

Tall earthen walls, low and narrow gates, holes in the walls for observation, and spiked fences.

What appeared in front of Ran Qing was a traditional earthen fortress from an old era.

Ran Qing had seen these earthen forts built of loess in old black and white photographs.

During the Republic of China era, there were many such earthen forts in Zangke.

The local wealthy people and villagers would build earthen forts and commit crimes like bandits and thieves.

Often, a single earthen fortress was home to a large family.

Unlike the wealthy families depicted in modern TV dramas, the rural rich in the old days were stingy and shabby. The earthen fortresses they lived in were often cramped, dark, and gloomy.

Just looking at the photos, you can feel the oppressive atmosphere.

And standing in the darkness before us is such an old-fashioned earthen fortress.

Ran Qing paused for a moment, then looked at the chair next to her.

The chair remained motionless, as if it had already fulfilled its purpose by arriving here.

and so……

Are Ran Jianfei and my mother both inside?

Ran Qing looked up at the low, compact gate of the earthen fortress and murmured to herself.

Behind the spiked fence, the gate of the earthen fortress was rickety and almost completely open, bearing the marks of time.

This is also a burial site, but its size and shape are far too enormous.

Ran Qing, holding the staff with the severed head, walked expressionlessly through the low gate.

—Although it is low, it is only in comparison to the tall loess wall.

Ran Qing, who is 1.7 meters tall, walked in, and there was still a long distance between her head and the door frame.

Upon entering the gate, Ran Qing saw a dark alleyway with several wooden plank walkways overhead. Ahead were walls, a gate, and rows of low, dilapidated old-fashioned wooden houses.

The layout of this earthen fortress was almost identical to the old black-and-white photographs Ran Qing had seen.

The only difference is that this burial site is covered with eerie white paper everywhere.

On square pieces of white paper, the character "囍" (double happiness) was written in bold, flowing black ink.

It looked like a wedding banquet. After passing through the alleyway leading to the entrance and around the rows of low houses, Ran Qing saw a table full of tables in the small open space in the center of the earthen fort.

The white-on-black "囍" character is still plastered everywhere. The tables are laden with cold, messy food and wine, like a wedding banquet that has already ended, with guests having left but the dishes still uncollected.

Ran Qing frowned as she looked at the scene before her, trying to guess the relationship between this haunted house and her mother.

Based on reason and available information, this burial site should belong to the original ghost in the ghost city. That ghost died during the Republican era and had existed outside Moonlit City for decades.

But for some unknown reason, the ghosts in the ghost town have now become mothers.

And this dark dwelling deep within the ghost realm of the Wujiang River thus became the mother's...

Ran Qing looked at the mess of tables and bowls on the open ground and slowly observed and searched.

He has already entered the haunted house, but so far, he has not encountered any evil spirits.

Ran Jianfei, who was carrying his mother on his back, did not appear.

Perhaps Ran Jianfei is delaying the death of his wife, who has become a ghost?

For those who practice spirit possession, catching ghosts also requires some understanding of ghosts.

There are many kinds of ghosts, and different spells are needed to deal with different ghosts.

Moreover, understanding ghosts is essential to finding their weaknesses.

Since Ran Qing did not want to use the ancestral tablets of past masters, he could only resort to the old method of using underworld figures.

He cautiously walked through the messy scene of the banquet in the open space and continued walking in.

The more and more strange double happiness characters with white backgrounds and black lettering are pasted inside, the more they appear.

There are also many white cloths hanging overhead and on the walls.

If it weren't for the stark white color, which lacked any festive feeling, this should have been a lively and bustling scene.

Even the firecracker scraps on the ground turned a ghastly white.

— Ran Qing saw white firecracker paper scraps for the first time.

And as he went deeper and saw more and more, he gradually understood.

This earthen fortress was not intentionally designed to be a gloomy and pale wedding scene.

Instead, the entire earthen fortress lost its color!

This earthen fortress is strikingly decorated with only black and white colors.

The trees inside the earthen fort have white leaves and black trunks.

The things in those rooms, even the patterned sheets and blankets, were all in cool black and white tones.

And the further you go in, the more distinct the cool black and white tones become.

He walked through this strange black and white world and became the only thing with color.

This bizarre situation was as if Ran Qing had unwittingly stepped into a black-and-white film from an old era.

Finally, Ran Qing followed the double happiness symbol and hanging paper decorations along the way and found the location of the wedding room.

This is a family living in an earthen fortress. They have a courtyard and must be people of high status within the fortress.

Outside the bridal chamber, there were even many congratulatory couplets with white backgrounds and black characters hanging on the door.

[XXX congratulates the Ou family's daughter on her marriage]

……

There were many similar congratulatory couplets, all from prominent figures in the area at the time.

Ran Qing didn't recognize the people who brought the gifts, but the family's surname was...

"The surname Ou?"

Ran Qing was stunned for a moment.

This surname is extremely rare; he has only ever seen one family with this surname in his entire life.

That is my mother, and her family.

The family that married off their daughter decades ago was surnamed Ou, and Ran Qing's mother, who became a ghost decades later, was also surnamed Ou.

Was the original ghost here...?

"Elders in my mother's family?"

(End of this chapter)