Chapter 12 Telephone Help
Su Cheng knew why her cousin Su Ying asked her to come for dinner. Even though she didn't know it when she came, she understood it when she saw Tan Xuan.
After some contact, Su Cheng didn't have any feelings for Tan Xuan. Even if she did have some feelings, they weren't very good. She felt that he was a little dumbfounded. She had just wasted so much of her saliva, but in the end, he was completely ignorant. What a huge generation gap. But now, hearing the conversation between Qian Bo and Tan Xuan aroused her curiosity. What about master and apprentice? What era was this title? So she whispered to Tan Xuan, "Hey! What do you do?"
"I drive an online taxi." Tan Xuan answered very straightforwardly, without hiding anything.
"A ride-hailing driver?" Su Cheng opened her mouth exaggeratedly. She was completely shocked. Then she looked at Tan Xuan carefully and saw that his attitude was sincere and his expression was natural. He didn't look like he was joking. He was even more confused inside and out and was completely stunned.
Su Cheng looked at Su Ying beside her and Qian Bo diagonally opposite her with an inquiring look. She found it hard to imagine that her cousin's family would invite a driver to their home for dinner in such a grand manner. This completely overturned her perception of her cousin's family. The gap in her heart was not just huge, but it was a huge drop. Her expression also unabashedly lost its previous enthusiasm in an instant.
Qian Bo noticed the change in Su Cheng and sneered, "Cheng Cheng, don't underestimate my brother. I tell you, my brother is not ordinary. He drives an online car-hailing service as a hobby. In fact, he is a wizard and is very good at exorcising demons and ghosts. If he hadn't rescued her last night, your sister would be a widow today. You think that preparing a table of dishes can satisfy your cravings, but that's how your sister and I want to thank my brother."
"Mage!" Su Cheng was so surprised that his mouth didn't close, and his eyes widened. He looked at Qian Bo and then at Tan Xuan, and asked in disbelief, "Are you really a mage?"
Tan Xuan seemed not to notice Su Cheng's change of attitude just now. He still had that reserved expression and explained calmly: "Don't listen to Brother Qian's nonsense. There are no sorcerers in this world who can exorcise demons and ghosts. What era is it now? Why are you still so superstitious?"
"Then what did my brother-in-law say about your rescue last night?" Finally finding a topic that interested him, Su Cheng leaned his head in front of Tan Xuan and asked.
"Brother Qian just encountered some accidents and asked me to solve them." Tan Xuan explained vaguely. He was not unfamiliar with young people who were curious Just like the policewoman named Xiaodi last night, they were all just pursuing excitement out of curiosity. Some things were only suitable for them to be listened to as stories. If they really encountered something, they would be the first to be scared silly.
"So what's the specific situation? Tell me about it. I have been particularly interested in this since I was a child." Su Cheng asked relentlessly.
Su Cheng also followed suit, "Xiao Tan, just tell me. I want to hear what happened. Your brother Qian didn't tell me in detail when he came back."
"Can I tell this..." Tan Xuan looked at Qian Bo with a bitter face. How can I explain this? Some details are no longer interesting if they are explained, and they directly affect family harmony.
Qian Bo glared at Tan Xuan and said, "Why can't you say it? If it involves the secrets of your sect, then don't say it. If it's necessary to say the rest, just say it. It's okay. There are no outsiders. They are the ones who frightened themselves."
Qian Bo had already hinted so clearly, Tan Xuan nodded, "Actually it was yesterday..."
"Brother, you have read the Spring and Autumn Annals, you have drunk boiled wine, you have listened to the song Man Jiang Hong, tell me how to relieve worries..."
When Tan Xuan was about to say a few words to this curious girl, a sudden, sharp and noisy music suddenly sounded in the room.
"What's that sound?" Everyone put down their bowls and chopsticks and listened attentively. The sound was too different.
Tan Xuan stood up from his seat and said, "Excuse me, my phone is ringing. You guys eat your food, I'm going to answer the call."
Tan Xuan finally found an interface that didn't require him to make up stories. He apologized and hurried to the living room, where his cell phone was charging.
"Hello, who is this?" Seeing that it was an unfamiliar number, Tan Xuan didn't get too polite. There were too many marketing calls these days.
"It's me." A lazy voice came from the phone.
"Who are you?" Tan Xuan asked unhappily. Did anyone call me? He only heard that the other person was a woman.
The person on the other end seemed to be annoyed by Tan Xuan's words and suddenly raised his voice, "Didn't you save my number? I'm Xiao Di."
"Xiao Di. It's you. I answered the phone without even looking at who called." Tan Xuan felt ashamed. He really didn't save her number. He just gave her his cell phone number last night. After all, he didn't plan to contact her.
At the same time, Tan Xuan thought to himself that I had already heard you speak in this tone. It was obviously not gentle at all. How could you pretend to be a lady? So he smiled awkwardly and asked, "It's you. Is there something you want to talk to me about so late at night?"
"Something happened." Xiao Di's voice on the phone became weaker again. "Tan Xuan, I saw ghosts again. I saw some creepy figures during the day, and more after dark. I also kept hearing some eerie sounds that sounded like crying. It was very scary. I don't even dare to go out when I go home. Do you have any solution?"
Tan Xuan smiled, secretly cursing "You deserve it" in his heart, but he still said politely: "Officer, you scared yourself. Ghosts come from the mind. It's okay if you don't think about it."
Xiao Di was very dissatisfied with Tan Xuan's answer, "What do you mean you scare yourself? What do you mean ghosts come from the mind? I don't have hallucinations. I saw it with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears."
"And just like you said this morning, I'm getting very weak now. I caught a cold for no reason in the middle of the day. I'm not afraid of a cold or a fever, because I can get better after two days of rest. But I keep hearing things I shouldn't hear and seeing things I shouldn't see, so I can't rest."
Hearing Xiao Di's crying voice, Tan Xuan found it funny and said, "Officer, you are a policeman, why are you so superstitious? If you are sick, go to the hospital, don't believe in those illusory things. And what are you afraid of? Evil cannot invade good. As a policeman, you have a righteous spirit to protect you, and those things will avoid you. Didn't I tell you that if you don't provoke them, they won't provoke you."
"What does the police's integrity have to do with me? I'm not a policeman. " Xiao Di roared loudly on the phone.
"You're not a policeman?" This time it was Tan Xuan's turn to be confused, "Then what happened yesterday..."
She appeared at the scene twice yesterday, that couldn't be a coincidence. And if she wasn't a police officer, how could she have investigated both herself and Qian Bo so clearly, especially Lao Sun's autopsy report. Is that something that ordinary people can access?
Tan Xuan couldn't figure it out, so he asked in a deep voice: "Who are you? You said you're not a policeman, so how could you know so much?"
"I'm not a policeman, but my brother is a policeman. Whatever he knows, I can know it if I want to know it." Xiao Di continued to yell.
Tan Xuan's brows tightened, "Was that your brother last night?"
"His name is Xiao Zheng, and mine is Xiao Di. He is my biological brother, so what?"
Tan Xuan understood instantly and sighed in his heart. It turned out that this guy was a "fox borrowing the power of another" guy. If you want to know what he meant by that, you will know. It was probably misusing public resources for personal gain. But why are you being so arrogant to me when you are not a policeman? Tan Xuan couldn't help cursing in his heart.
"You're not a policeman, so why were you messing around last night? Do you know how dangerous it was last night? Are you crazy? You still want to see ghosts. Without the protection of your identity as a policeman, your illness is only a minor one. You will see ghosts if you don't get a serious illness." Tan Xuan scolded unceremoniously, wishing he could burst out all the anger that he had been holding back last night.
Tan Xuan was yelling, and the other party's roar became louder. "Why are you yelling at me? Tell me what I should do so that I can no longer see or hear those things. I'm going crazy."
"Why are you shouting? If you have the ability, go and fight those guys. Why are you pretending to be a shrew in front of me? Don't you want to see a ghost? Now I've satisfied you. What are you afraid of? What about your original abilities? It's too late to regret it now. If you have a way, you can go. If you don't, you'll die." Tan Xuan replied impatiently. It was obviously her own fault. Why was she so self-righteous? What's wrong with the family of the police? Even the police can't be so arrogant and unreasonable.
"You bastard!"
There was silence on the phone. Xiao Di on the other end of the line cursed and then fell silent.
Thinking that Xiao Di had first polluted his aura with "dirty" water, and then was possessed by an intangible object, he could not escape a serious illness. Tan Xuan could not help but ask, "Hey! Are you okay?"
"He's not dead yet." There was movement on the phone again, but the voice became muffled, as if the head was covered.
"It's good that you're not dead." Tan Xuan breathed a sigh of relief. "The ancients said it well, respect ghosts and gods but keep them at a distance. But you insist on doing the opposite. You have broken your own aura and have been possessed by virtual objects, so it's normal for your body to be weak, but it's no big deal, just suffer for two days, and you will be fine after a few days of recuperation. During this period, ignore what you see and hear, just pretend to be blind and deaf, and they generally won't provoke you. After a few days, when your aura is restored, you won't see those. If someone is blind enough to provoke you, just come to me."
Hearing that it would take several days to recover, Xiao Di collapsed, "But I don't want to see those things now. Is there any way you can make me not see those things? They have made me unable to distinguish between human and ghost. I am going crazy."
Tan Xuan did not sit idly by. Although he still felt resentful, he still pointed out a method. "It is easy to avoid seeing those things. Wash three bowls of rice, preferably barley. Use the rice washing water to wipe your nine orifices three times. After a good night's sleep, you will not see those things anymore."
"Really?" Xiao Di's voice softened instantly, and then he asked again, "But what are the nine orifices? Shouldn't it be seven orifices? What are the other two orifices?"
Tan Xuan was speechless at Xiao Di's ignorance, and said helplessly: "Besides the seven orifices on your head, what other two places on your body can connect to the outside world?"
“Uh…” Xiao Di was stunned for a moment, and then he started yelling again, “You hooligan, Tan, you’re a pervert.”
Tan Xuan frowned, "Are you sick? I'm kindly reminding you, why are you still cursing?"
"you……"
I guess Xiao Di on the other end of the phone was extremely embarrassed. She hesitated for a long time and didn't dare to say anything else.
"Okay, hang up if you have nothing else to do. I'm charging my phone." Good intentions are not often rewarded, so Tan Xuan was too lazy to say anything more.
"Hey! Wait a minute." Xiao Di shouted.
"What?" Tan Xuan was very impatient.
"Well, thank you." Xiao Di said in a low voice. If it weren't for Tan Xuan's good hearing, he would have almost not heard it clearly. Then she changed the subject and raised her voice again, "Let me tell you something. This morning my brother found the person who set up the gambling in the Second Hospital. The man was seriously injured and is being treated in the hospital. You and Qian Bo can rest assured. He will be sent to the detention center when he is discharged from the hospital. He will be sentenced to several years."
"Oh, I see. Your body will become weaker in the next two days. You should buy a black-bone chicken as soon as possible and take its comb blood. Mix it with brown sugar and drink it with rice soup for a few days. It will help your body recover. Get more sun these days..."
Tan Xuan thought it was a return of favor, after all, the other party brought good news, but he didn't expect to hear an angry voice on the phone again, "Why didn't you say so earlier?"
"It's not too late to tell you now. It seems you are not afraid at all. You have already washed the rice."
"Ah, wait!"
Xiao Di then remembered what he needed to solve most now. While hanging up the phone, he did not forget to threaten Tan Xuan .
"Tsk! That's unreasonable."
Tan Xuan shook his head, put down his phone and returned to the restaurant.
