Soon, the convoy arrived at the airport.
Everyone had a quick meal at the airport and then started waiting for the plane.
The flight to Xiaoguang City was at midnight, a standard red-eye flight, but it was the earliest ticket they could buy, and there were no other options.
Lu Yingjiu had nothing to do and didn’t want to sleep, so he strolled around the airport with Jing Xian.
Jing Xian kept urging him to go into various shops and buy whatever he wanted, but Lu Yingjiu was not interested in shopping and only bought necessities. He looked around at all the goods, but didn’t buy anything.
Jing Xian felt it was a pity.
He said, “I haven’t given you anything valuable.”
Lu Yingjiu said while looking around, “Those sports cars you parked at my house are valuable enough.”
“How can that be enough?” Jing Xian said, “But I did give you a diamond ring before, and you didn’t seem to like it.”
When this matter was mentioned, Lu Yingjiu couldn’t help but laugh.
At that time, he had his first dream of Jing Xian. He didn’t see him clearly and thought Jing Xian had bad intentions, so he broke the longevity lock.
Jing Xian saw that the longevity lock was broken and thought he was disliked, so he quickly took out a big diamond ring to give him.
That diamond ring was still at Lu Yingjiu’s house and had never been brought out.
In a sense, it’s quite a waste.
Lu Yingjiu laughed and said, “You suddenly gave me a diamond ring, I can’t accept it.”
“But it’s not sudden now,” Jing Xian said, “When will you wear it out and let everyone know that you are a married man?”
“Your diamond ring is as big as a pigeon egg, as if you’re afraid others don’t know how much money my home has.” Lu Yingjiu said, “I’ll be robbed as soon as I step out.”
Jing Xian put his arm around his shoulder, “Who dares to rob you! If someone really dares, I’ll send a ghost to rob it back. Let the hanging ghost knock on his window every night, stuff a human head under the bed, and fill the sewer with the hair of female ghosts, and it will gush out once he takes a bath.”
Lu Yingjiu: “…”
This sounds like it could kill someone, scared to death in a few days.
However, speaking of the topic of buying gifts…
Lu Yingjiu asked again, “Where does your money come from?”
He seemed to have never studied the source of that money.
Now that he thought about it carefully, he suddenly realized: Could it be that Jing Xian was a corrupt Ghost King who used all the ghost world’s funds for his own use?
Jing Xian said, “Ah, the ghost world is actually quite rich.”
Sure enough, Lu Yingjiu thought silently, Jing Xian is indeed a corrupt Ghost King.
Jing Xian added, “The ghost world actually has a lot of gems and ores, of high quality, and they fetch a good price when sold in the mortal world. The ghost world has a special priest in charge of this… in human terms, there is a finance manager, I haven’t worried about this matter.”
“Of course, we won’t sell too many gems to avoid affecting the normal operation of the mortal world.”
“Usually, no ghost will use this money, because there are not many ghosts going to the mortal world, and over time, it accumulates a lot, enough for several lifetimes.”
Upon hearing this, Lu Yingjiu hesitated for a few seconds.
Then he asked, “Then… then you shouldn’t be corrupt, right?”
“…What corrupt?” Jing Xian was stunned.
“That is,” Lu Yingjiu tried to find a tactful term, “you see, you embezzle public funds to buy cars and houses, won’t you suddenly be taken away? Then we can only cry behind bars.”
“How could that be?” Jing Xian was even more confused.
Just as Lu Yingjiu was about to think that he had misunderstood Jing Xian, he heard Jing Xian say, “Isn’t all the money in the ghost world mine? Where does the corruption come from?”
Lu Yingjiu: “…”
Alright.
Jing Xian urged him again, “So, buy whatever you want, this money will depreciate if left there, it’s better to cash it in.”
“You know quite a lot,” Lu Yingjiu said as he walked and picked up a roly-poly toy to look at, “How many books did you read to learn this?”
“Thousands and thousands.” Jing Xian said, “And also a lot of movies.”
Then he slowly understood everything about the mortal world, and slowly understood what kind of world Lu Yingjiu was in.
“That must have taken a long time.” Lu Yingjiu said, “I’m surprised you had the patience to keep reading.”
“Of course, isn’t this all for courting you?” Jing Xian leaned affectionately into his ear, “And I read fast, so it didn’t take much time. I spent most of my time learning to cook.”
Jing Xian’s cooking skills were really good, full of color, aroma, and taste, which was rare for Lu Yingjiu to have an appetite to eat.
Lu Yingjiu said, “No matter how fast you read, it must have taken several years at least. I remember you just woke up from a deep sleep, how could you have so much time?”
“Because it’s really fast.” Jing Xian said, “If you don’t believe me, I can prove it to you.”
Coincidentally, as they were talking about this topic, they just happened to pass by a bookstore.
The two of them went in.
Lu Yingjiu casually pulled out a thick book with the most brightly colored and tender cover and handed it to Jing Xian, “Come on, let me see how fast you read.”
Jing Xian took the book.
While others flip through books in an orderly manner, he simply flipped through the book in a whoosh, and in less than five or six seconds, he had flipped to the end of the book, saying, “I’ve finished reading.”
Lu Yingjiu: ?
Lu Yingjiu said, “It’s only been a few seconds, this book must have almost two hundred pages. Have you studied quantum wave speed reading?”
“So I said I read fast.” Jing Xian returned the book to him, “Why don’t you test me.”
Lu Yingjiu took it back with some skepticism, opened the book, and asked, “What’s the protagonist’s name?”
Jing Xian: “Shang Tianxian Mengmei.”
Lu Yingjiu flipped a few more pages, glanced at it casually, and asked, “What did she do on her seventh birthday?”
“She became the youngest university student in the country, X Hua and X University were almost fighting for her, giving her a million every year just to get her to study there.”
Lu Yingjiu continued to flip back, “What did she receive at her piano performance when she was ten?”
Jing Xian didn’t even blink, “She received a piano custom-made by the world’s top pianist, and later the pianist’s son fell in love with her – but he was only the second male lead, and didn’t end well, he ended up alone in the end.”
Lu Yingjiu asked Jing Xian several more questions, and Jing Xian answered them all fluently.
It seemed that he really did read it, and very carefully at that, not missing a single detail, even remembering clearly what color the collar of the Mary Sue heroine dog wore.
After this round of questioning, Lu Yingjiu was simply amazed, “Jing Xian, you really are a genius!”
Jing Xian was praised by him, and he was overjoyed. “Of course, your husband is very powerful.”
Lu Yingjiu thought more and more that this was not just a matter of genius. If Jing Xian decided to enter the scientific research field, the next Nobel Prize might be his.
Just relying on this learning speed, visibly good learning and acceptance ability, coupled with endless life, what superluminal travel, conquering cancer, controllable nuclear fusion, space transfer and so on, all depend on the Ghost King.
The ghost world is not Jing Xian’s destination…
The stars and the sea are!
What Ghost King, go to do scientific research!
A new star in the scientific research field is rising!
Lu Yingjiu turned around and held Jing Xian’s hands tightly.
Jing Xian: ?
Lu Yingjiu said, “You study hard and delve into it. The future of mankind is in your hands. What physics, chemistry, computer, mathematics, medicine, biology, you learn all of them, to ensure the rapid development of human technology.”
Jing Xian said, “No.”
Lu Yingjiu: “Why?”
“I’m not interested.” Jing Xian answered.
Lu Yingjiu said: “You have read so many books, and you obviously have a lot of motivation to learn. How can you not be interested?”
“I read books to come to the mortal world to chase you,” Jing Xian said, “Otherwise, why would I learn so many things if I have nothing to do? There are still a lot of things to be busy in the ghost world. I ran out for so long this time, and all the work was left to the impermanence. They are all piled up together. When I go back, I will definitely have to kill thousands of ghosts.”
Lu Yingjiu: “…”
Jing Xian added, “Of course, no matter how busy I am, I will be home before ten o’clock in the evening. Don’t worry, I am a ghost who values family very much.”
Lu Yingjiu: “I’m not worried about that.”
He still wanted to try hard, and said again, “Are you really not considering learning more? You have seen a lot of science fiction movies, what aircraft, what super serum, what wormhole travel and anti-gravity, are you not interested?”
“I’m not interested.” Jing Xian said, “I just want to learn things related to you.”
Lu Yingjiu wanted to say a few more words, but Jing Xian’s attitude was too firm. Bit to death, anything that had nothing to do with Lu Yingjiu, he didn’t care at all.
His purpose of reading was very pure.
Not for making money, not for creating social value, just for dating.
In the end, Jing Xian said, “I have experienced many eras, from the earliest candles and cold weapons, to later electricity and steam trains, and now hot weapons and nuclear power.”
“This kind of change in the world is not uncommon for priests, they are all fleeting. We will eventually wait for a broader era. The ghost world will not use so-called technology, but this does not prevent us from witnessing all that.”
…Right.
Lu Yingjiu thought, Jing Xian was right.
Perhaps as a human being, his thinking still has a fixed pattern.
Those cutting-edge technologies he thought of, Jing Xian would be able to see one day, but he couldn’t. If the priests really want to get involved in this matter, they should have developed hundreds of years ago.
How the current era was, had nothing to do with the ghosts.
And when he had calmed down, he remembered again that the ghost world should not have too much contact with the mortal world.
Jing Xian held him backhand and said seriously, “Traveling through wormholes can’t find you, and anti-gravity can’t please you. Why would I be interested?”
Lu Yingjiu: “…”
He smiled. “Indeed, it sounds like your brain circuit.”
He looked at Jing Xian again.
A new star in the scientific research field… is falling.
Jing Xian was indeed more suitable for concentrating on dating.
Before leaving, Jing Xian quantum fluctuation speed read several cooking books, saying that he would go back to make new dishes for Lu Yingjiu.
The two left the bookstore, looked at the time, and it was almost time to board the plane.
Just walking towards the boarding gate, they saw Chu Banyang in a suit and leather shoes from a distance, with one hand in his pocket and a cup of coffee in his right hand, followed by a bunch of assistants.
The assistant was carrying so many things, and he was slow to walk.
Lu Yingjiu roughly glanced at it, and realized that it should be either clothes or luxury goods. It seemed that Master Chu had a lot of consumption.
Chu Banyang nodded slightly to them, greeted them, pointed to the boarding gate and said. “It’s time to go up.”
****
Two hours later.
The wheels extended at the bottom, the plane landed heavily, and the windbreak on the wings stood up.
It trembled, sliding along the runway dotted with indicator lights, until it stopped steadily in front of the terminal.
As soon as they got off the plane and left the terminal, there was a dedicated driver to pick up Chu Banyang.
The same was true for Jing Xian. The little ghosts under his command brought a car. It was in the parking lot, and they would not waste a minute.
Yao Gou, who had never seen this scene, was dumbfounded: “Are your trips so luxurious? Why are there cars and people to pick you up everywhere? Am I too poor…”
“No, it’s not that you’re too poor.” Lu Yingjiu said, “It’s that these two people have problems.”
Yao Gou was still muttering, obviously doubting his economic situation greatly.
At this time, it was two o’clock in the middle of the night, the vehicle started, and they found a nearby hotel to stay in.
They were very tired from running around all day, and everyone fell asleep as soon as they hit the pillow – except for Jing Xian who remained energetic, and kissed Lu Yingjiu a few more times before going to bed.
Lu Yingjiu was so sleepy that he felt Jing Xian’s hand touching him all over several times, touching all the places that should be touched, and almost all the places that shouldn’t be touched.
In the end, he couldn’t bear it anymore, kicked Jing Xian off the bed with one foot, and the matter ended.
The next day, they got up early and went to the suburbs of Xiaoguang City.
According to Chu Banyang, Chu Qianju once taught at Jianjia Middle School in Xiaoguang, and might have stayed for half a year.
So, the dream of the Peacock God shattered here.
When they followed the navigation and arrived at the place, what they saw was an empty campus, with weeds growing at the gate.
The old teaching building was silent in the sun, the playground was ragged, the flowers in the flower bed and the old banyan tree on the roadside had long died. The notice board still posted the notice of the sports meeting, but the paper was damaged, and the last date stayed in [2004].
They parked the car by the roadside.
When they stood at the school gate and were studying how to get in, an old man rode a bicycle and swayed past them.
The old man had ridden several meters away, suddenly stopped, looked back at them and said, “Are you planning to go in?”
Lu Yingjiu nodded.
The old man agitatedly clapped his hands, not even holding the handlebars of his bike, and said, “You must not go in! There are ghosts in there! Some young people came before, saying they were some kind of anchors. As a result, they came out two days after they went in, and they were all scared out of their wits!”
Lu Yingjiu raised his eyebrows and asked, “Really? Has anyone seen a ghost?”
“I don’t know about that.” The old man answered, pointing to an old building in the distance, “I live there, sometimes at night, I hear those students making noise in the building.”
Yao Gou scratched his head. “So, you mean, you heard voices coming from the school?”
“Right.” The old man nodded, “They are all the laughter of those kids, as if they are in class. My neighbors were so scared that they ran away, but I haven’t done anything wrong, I’m not afraid of anything, I’ve been living here for many years.”
Lu Yingjiu asked again, “Do you know if anything has happened in this school? For example, murder cases, missing cases, all kinds of mysterious cases are fine.”
The old man heard this, turned around and pointed in a direction. “There is a coastal bridge over there, do you know?”
“Not very clear.” Lu Yingjiu said, “Has something happened there?”
The old man replied, “Right. There used to be a class that organized a group activity. They took a bus across that bridge. As a result, the driver fell ill and suddenly took all the people in the bus into the sea. It’s a sin, a bus full of students and only one survived…”
He shook his head as he mentioned this, full of regret.
This sounds like a sufficient reason for haunting.
Lu Yingjiu searched online and quickly found the report of that year.
It was almost the same as what the old man said. The driver suddenly fainted, the bus hit the railing, and all the people in the bus fell down together, killing 23 students and 1 teacher, with only one survivor.
And since this incident happened, the school’s feng shui seemed to have not been very good.
Coupled with the pressure of public opinion, Jianjia Middle School became less and less prosperous, and finally closed down.
The old man was still staring at them, warning, “You are not really going in, are you? I tell you, this is not a joke. Someone came here before wanting to level this school, but something happened on the same day. Walking on the road, he broke his leg…”
Yao Gou pointed at the three of them and said. “Don’t worry, old man. These are all top-notch in the ghost exorcising industry. They are professionals who specialize in solving such things. No matter what ox head ghost or snake god, it doesn’t matter.”
The old man widened his eyes and scolded, “What nonsense are you talking about! If you want to go in, don’t use such a lame excuse! I don’t believe it! Go away, don’t come back! I can’t stand young people like you who are courting death!”
After saying that, he parked his bicycle by the side of the road, showing a determination not to leave unless they did.
The group didn’t dare to directly defy the old man.
After all, if the old man got angry, it could be very dangerous, and this old man seemed to have a bad temper.
So Lu Yingjiu took the lead, and they bypassed the main gate of the school, pretending to leave.
It was only after the old man was satisfied and rode away on his bicycle that they quietly circled back.
The main gate of the school was blocked by a large iron gate, a huge lock was rusted, and the key was nowhere to be found.
Lu Yingjiu looked up and estimated the height of the iron gate.
Then he took a few steps back, ran and accelerated, and reached the highest point by stepping on the iron bars. With strength in his hands and waist, he easily climbed over and landed steadily.
Jing Xian and Chu Banyang were also as agile, after all, they were all good at fighting, and this height was nothing to them.
Only Yao Gou was left outside, dumbfounded. “Ah, can any of you help me?”
Lu Yingjiu pulled out a piece of talisman paper and wrapped it around the lock.
The talisman paper sizzled and slowly burned the lock. He said, “Wait for five or six minutes, and the lock will open.”
“Okay, okay.” Yao Gou nodded, “You guys go in first, I’m not in a hurry.” He chuckled, “I’m tired from driving just now, I’ll take a break.” After saying that, he sat down under the shade of a tree by the road.
The three of them walked forward.
Right in front was the largest teaching building. Walking through the corridor, the windows were open, and the bright morning sun pours in, illuminating the spider webs in the corners.
There was no obvious Yin energy along the way, and nothing unusual.
It looked like an ordinary abandoned school.
They went all the way to the 4th floor.
Chu Banyang went in the other direction of the corridor, while Lu Yingjiu and Jing Xian stayed in a classroom.
Each classroom here was not large, with desks and chairs arranged in a mess, and no one had taken them away. Several pairs of sneakers and backpacks were thrown in the corner, covered in dust. The mop from the storage cabinet was sticking out, and a few colored chalks were scattered near the podium.
There seemed to be words on the blackboard, but they have been blurred by time, and only a little white trace could be seen, which were the remnants of questions and formulas.
From these scenes, Lu Yingjiu could vaguely imagine the laughter and conversation in the campus back then.
The teacher’s pen fell on the blackboard, and when they reached the point of being agitated, they slammed the teaching whip, and the chalk splashed out heavily. The students wrote vigorously on the books, the test papers were piled high on the table, and the minute hand ticked by, but they could never finish writing the answers – however, when they really finished writing, it was the day to part with the teacher and friends.
Lu Yingjiu stopped in front of a desk and gently wiped off the dust on it.
ZHY (heart) YMQ
It was probably a trace carved on the table by a couple who were secretly in love.
So blatant, not afraid of being discovered by the teacher.
He couldn’t help but smile.
Jing Xian also looked at the table and said, “Shall we carve our names on it too?”
“That’s too childish,” Lu Yingjiu said.
“What’s wrong with that?” Jing Xian smiled, put his arm around his shoulder, and kissed his hair, “We are all young couples.”
After leaving this classroom and walking forward, it was the senior year classroom.
Lu Yingjiu had just walked a few steps in that direction, preparing to find Chu Banyang, when he suddenly felt a chill behind him.
It was like a gaze licking over.
He turned his head.There was no one in the corridor, and the sun was still shining brightly.
[Thud!]
A few seconds later, a sound came from the end of the corridor.
[Thud! Thud! Thud!]
[Thud! Thud! Thud!]
Closer and closer.
It’s like something was hitting the ground.
Lu Yingjiu squinted his eyes–
Only to see a basketball bouncing at the end of the corridor.
It was brand new, out of place with the surrounding environment, as if it had just been brought here by someone.
It bounced for a while and then lost its strength, starting to roll in the corridor.
It rolled all the way to Lu Yingjiu’s feet, stopping in front of his sneakers.
