Chapter 16 Remember to collect money
"I will lose eight hundred years of my life by talking to you, so you should shut up." Shang Xingjian closed her eyes and chose to refuse to communicate.
"What a coincidence, so am I." Cheng Mai snorted and turned away to ignore him.
The car became quiet, and Cheng Mai took his cell phone to read the news.
The Meteorological Bureau is reminding everyone of thunder and lightning weather to avoid unnecessary going out.
Long Xu also sent a message telling him that he had arrived home safely, which reassured Cheng Mai. He also took a selfie of himself back home to show her.
Cheng Mai replied and asked him to get the news as soon as possible.
"Boss, boss." Cheng Mai replied, suddenly slapping Shang Jian and calling twice in succession.
"I'm not deaf, I have something to say."
"Boss, the runes on Long Xu's necklace are red." Cheng Mai enlarged the picture, and the evil-proof runes that Shang Xingjian had originally painted were red, as if stained with blood, "Could he have been contaminated with something in the bamboo forest? ”
"It's just that he's popular but not dead. What are you worried about?" Shang Xingjian took the phone and took a look at the photo. "It's just a ghost of luck. Director Cheng has been praising him so much recently. Isn't it normal for a few people to be jealous?"
"What should we do?" Cheng Mai frowned.
Shang Xingjian threw the phone to Cheng Mai, "Ask him to find Xiao Qian and remember to collect the money."
"Money, money, money, you can't live without money." Cheng Mai muttered, and sent Xuanhe's company profile and address to Long Xu, telling him that he had nothing to do in the past two days to go to this company, and said that she asked him to go. , the front desk will tell him what to do.
Although Long Xu didn't know what it meant, he replied immediately and said that he would go soon.
The car stopped at a barren mountain in the suburbs, and Cheng Mai followed Shang Jian step by step.
"What kind of place is this? You're probably looking for a place to kill people and bury their bodies. I can't even scold you a few times." Cheng Mai grabbed Shang Xingjian's arm and looked around defensively.
"If I kill you, do you still need to bury your body?" Shang Xingjian tutted, but he didn't refuse her pulling his arm.
The further you go in, the more desolate it becomes. When you step on the withered yellow leaves, you make a thin crunching sound.
Dead leaves?
Or layer by layer?
But it’s only July, when the leaves are at their greenest.
Cheng Mai lowered his head and looked at the dead leaves at his feet in the moonlight, then looked up at the surrounding trees. They were bare without any leaves.
"Boss, why is this place so evil?" Cheng Mai whispered.
"The place where the shady things live is certainly evil." Shang Xingjian saw her getting closer and closer, almost hugging his arms, but he didn't remind her.
"I, let me tell you, I'm not afraid of what's inside, I'm just afraid that this thing will suddenly appear. I'm not afraid of what it is." Cheng Mai hugged Shang Xingjian's arm tightly, still emphasizing this matter.
"Okay, okay, okay, okay," Shang Xingjian said perfunctorily.
Cheng Mai knew that Shang Xingjian was perfunctory with him. She didn't want to be on the same level as him now, so she could talk about it after going out.
The two of them walked deeper and deeper, passing through a patch of mud. Shang Xing simply held an umbrella and completely covered Cheng Mai under the umbrella.
After passing the muddy area, Jian put away her umbrella and continued walking forward, but the gloomy atmosphere disappeared.
The two of them walked upward for more than an hour and reached the top of the mountain.
The moonlight was bright, and looking back, I saw a green mountainside.
Cheng Mai paused, "Why is this happening?"
"It's just a trick." Shang Xingjian raised his hand, and the bright moonlight disappeared in an instant, and the greenery turned into a piece of bare dead wood.
"How does it feel to come all the way?" Shang Xingjian asked.
"It was eerie and smelled of blood, as if I had been exposed to the sun all day and suddenly entered a room where the air conditioner had been on all day," Cheng Mai described.
Shangxingjian: "..." Suddenly I don't want to turn on the air conditioner.
"That person's home base in City A is right where you just walked." Shang Xingjian ignored her description and said.
Cheng Mai was stunned and looked back subconsciously, "But when we come here, there are only barren mountains."
Shang Xing simply put his hands around her waist and jumped off the mountain with her before Cheng Mai could react. Cheng Mai clasped his neck with both hands and didn't scream, just held him tightly.
The two of them landed on the ground. Shang Xingjian looked at the person buried in his arms and said, "Okay, it seems that he is really not afraid anymore."
Cheng Mai stepped on the ground and stepped hard a few times to make sure it was safe before letting him go, "You won't fall to death on me."
Shang Xingjian smiled softly.
This was a dark cave with almost no light. Cheng Mai could only hold on to Shang Xingjian's arm.
Cheng Mai can't see here, but the businessman is walking on the ground.
Passing through the long and decaying passage, there was gradually light, the brightness of candlelight.
Shang Xingjian added the Invisibility Technique to Cheng Mai, and the two of them walked in with great swagger.
Cheng Mai looked at the dilapidated door that appeared in front of him. He could stir up a layer of dust even as he stepped in. There was a yard of lanterns hung inside.
"If this was a commercial haunted house, the police would be called. If you come to a sedan chair, you can directly play the new wedding dress." Cheng Mai put her hand on the door and was able to pass through. She looked at Shangxing Jian in shock, which was very novel. .
"Go in and take a look." Shang Jian took her hand and walked directly through the door.
It was an abandoned Taoist temple. The old Taoist priest had his back to them. There was a man lying on the altar. Cheng Mai stepped forward.
"Cheng Ying?" Cheng Mai whispered.
Cheng Ying was lying on the altar with her eyes closed tightly. Her slightly floating chest showed that she was still alive, but she was still alive with more air coming out and less air coming in.
The old Taoist priest felt something and suddenly looked back, but couldn't see anything.
"Look for the ashes." Shang Xingjian reminded.
Cheng Mai nodded and started looking for his mother's urn near the chicken altar.
In the dilapidated Taoist temple, even the statues of gods were smashed to pieces. Shang Xingjian looked up and saw the crumbling plaque, Xuantian Taoist Temple.
The Taoist priest was still reciting some words, and Shang Xingjian knew that he was reciting some crooked things even if he didn't get close.
"Can't find it, not here?" Cheng Mai searched everywhere he could, but there was no urn for his mother.
"Master, Master, it's not good, the big rice dumpling has been caught." Outside, the little Taoist boy crawled in. This time they seemed to have offended someone they couldn't mess with, and even such a big rice dumpling was caught.
The Taoist priest suddenly opened his triangular eyes, "Not good."
He said and ran away.
With a bang, the door of the dilapidated Taoist temple was closed.
The old Taoist priest was not only touched by ashes, but also bounced back by an invisible force.
The little Taoist priest's eyes widened instantly, and he knelt on the ground and called his ancestor.
The old Taoist priest waved the fly whisk, almost foaming at the corner of his mouth, and finally shouted: "Where is the monster, please do it quickly."
Shang Xingjian pulled out a deck chair and sat down. The yard was stirred up, dust was flying in the wind, and the broken furniture made various noises.
Cheng Mai: "..." I have to say, how long has the boss been alive? He has great magic power.
"Who is he? Don't pretend to be a ghost. Come out." The old Taoist priest looked around cautiously.
Cheng Mai: "He still knows how to pretend to be a ghost?"
A scoff, clear and distinct.
"Who, who!" the old Taoist priest heard.
"Where are the ashes?" Cheng Mai asked in a deep voice when he saw that he could hear her.
(End of chapter)