Chapter 82 Tracking
The host and guests enjoyed the meal very much. After eating and drinking, we each went home to prepare food. I ate and I drank, but we still had work to do in the evening.
Sitting in the car, Xiao Di looked at Tan Xuan intently, as if he was looking at something new, with a puzzled expression.
Tan Xuan was annoyed by the look and asked, "What are you looking at? There's something on my face. Have you never seen a handsome man?"
Xiao Di curled his lips and said, "There's nothing on your face, so don't think I'm staring at you just because you're handsome. I've known you for a long time, but I'm just curious why Old Qiu is so respectful to you. It's obviously you who needs his help, and after dinner he would rather take a taxi home than let you take him home. What's going on?"
Tan Xuan chuckled, "He was polite to me. Maybe he was impressed by my personality. He didn't let me see him off. He was probably afraid that I would visit his home."
"Bullshit!" Xiao Di curled his lips and pretended to retch, "Huff..."
"You really have no shame. You are so arrogant. You have no personal charm at all. If Old Qiu hadn't given me the chance to explain, I would have bothered to explain to him your purpose this time. What do you mean by doing it for others? It's all for your Jiang Yingyue. How can you be so noble? Why are you so shameless..."
There was no one else around, and Xiao Di, still drunk, gave Tan Xuan a good scolding.
"Don't say it out loud, we still have something to do as friends. Thank you for holding back and not saying anything, for saving my face. Take a break, I'll take you home right away."
It is foolish to argue with a woman, because there is absolutely no chance of winning. It is even more foolish to argue with a drunk woman, because not only will you not win the argument, but it may also be dangerous. Tan Xuan has learned his lesson now, and he flatters Xiao Di directly, not giving Xiao Di a chance to lose his temper.
"Send me home. Who told you I was going home?" Xiao Di looked at Tan Xuan and asked. "Don't think of leaving me alone and sneaking out with Old Qiu at night. I'm not going anywhere today. I'll follow you. I must participate in tonight's operation."
Tan Xuan said helplessly: "When did I say not to let you go? You have to go back and rest for a while. I have something to do in the evening. I also want to go back and rest for a while to recharge my energy."
"I'm not going back. I'm going to sleep at your house. Jiang Yingyue has already moved to your house, so I won't make a difference..."
Tan Xuan wanted to explain, but Xiao Di didn't listen at all. Tan Xuan had no choice but to take Xiao Di back to his home. He would be very busy at night and he needed to get enough rest beforehand. Fortunately, his house was big enough so no one could affect anyone else.
It was getting dark, Jiang Yingyue called and said that the company had held a welcome party for her, and she would be back late, so Tan Xuan didn't have to worry about her dinner. As soon as Jiang Yingyue hung up the phone, Qian Bo called and invited Tan Xuan to go over and play.
Tan Xuan had no time to join in the fun, so he rejected Qian Bo's invitation directly and firmly. At the same time, he asked Qian Bo to send Jiang Yingyue back after the show, even if it was just to send her downstairs.
Jiang Yingyue didn't come back to eat, but Tan Xuan needed to eat, not to mention that there was one more person waiting for food at home, so he still had to cook the food he needed to cook, and he had to cook more. Although he ate a lot at noon, he couldn't help but drink more, and he even went out to clean his stomach in the middle. If he cooked less, it wouldn't be enough for him alone. One pot of rice, two dishes, two people ate until the dishes were clean.
The Hai Hour starts at 11 o'clock at night. When everything is quiet and no one is around, it is a good time for ghosts to look for people and for people to look for ghosts. Because the Hai Hour is the time for casting spells, Tan Xuan and Xiao Di arrived at the agreed location at around 10 o'clock, which was much more proactive than when they participated in Su Cheng's activities before.
Tan Xuan and Lao Qiutou agreed to meet at the riverside, because that was the focus of Wang Dongxue's life and the starting point of her ghost life. In order to find the guy behind the scenes, Tan Xuan was not afraid of the trouble. Da Shuang started to track down Wang Dongxue from the moment she became a ghost to see where she had been.
Not long after Tan Xuan turned off the car, Old Qiu came to the river. Old Qiu was still dressed the same as yesterday, with a bag slung over his shoulder and sunglasses. He was not dressed like a master at all. If he held a stick, he would be a blind man. Seeing Tan Xuan's car, Old Qiu walked a few steps to the front of the car.
"Mr. Tan, you are here. I am sorry to have kept you waiting for so long."
"It's okay, I just arrived too." Tan Xuan unlocked the door and let Old Qiu get in the car.
"Are you all ready?"
Old Qiu patted the yellow cloth bag and said confidently, "Everything is ready, please open your eyes."
As he spoke, Old Qiu took out a compass with a square outside and a circle inside, a miniature Lu Ban ruler, some talisman paper and other miscellaneous items from his bag. On the top of the compass was a small Tai Chi pattern with a pointer on it. In addition to the five elements, eight trigrams, heavenly stems and earthly branches, the outer disk also had a red longitude and latitude line with a cross, and there were also scales for the 360-degree angle of the celestial sphere on the disk. Although the Lu Ban ruler was not big, the numbers on it were even more densely packed. Xiao Di was curious and could only recognize a few of them when she took it in front of her. In the middle of the night, she doubted whether Old Qiu could see the words on it. As for whether he could see it clearly, she didn't even dare to think about it.
Watching Old Qiu taking things out continuously, Xiao Di kept trying to figure out how big the bag could hold, because the things he took out were obviously much bigger than the bag, and she remembered that there was also a wine gourd and cockroach and rat poison used for setting up stalls in the bag.
Finally, Old Qiu stopped taking things out of his bag, and the back seats in the car were already full.
Old Qiutou asked Tan Xuan with a hint of pride: "Mr. Tan, have I prepared all these things?"
Tan Xuan smiled and nodded, jokingly saying, "It's quite complete. It seems that you have not only set up a stall but also collected junk over the years. Where did you get all these?"
Xiao Di secretly poked Tan Xuan, saying that it was too rude to mock someone when asking him for help.
Old Qiu laughed. Under his sunglasses, he didn't know if he noticed Xiao Di's little move or not. "I have collected these things over the years as a personal hobby. I didn't expect that they would be useful today."
After the laughter, Old Qiutou and Tan Xuan asked tentatively: "Mr. Tan, there are few people and cars now, why don't we get started?"
Tan Xuan nodded, "Okay, let's get started. The bridgehead ahead is where Wang Dongxue's soul journey begins. It's up to you from now on."
"Don't worry, I will do my best." As he said that, Old Qiu pushed open the car door and got out.
Xiao Di was stunned, and looked at Tan Xuan who was about to get off the car and asked, "It's starting now? Didn't they say we have to wait until the hour of Hai? It's not time yet."
" It's now, there's no time difference." After getting out of the car, Tan Xuan slammed the door shut, leaving Xiao Di sitting in the car without reacting.
"This thing has time difference?" Xiao Di muttered and hurriedly got out of the car and followed.
Old Qiu walked to the bridge, looked around, and finally stood at the place where Wang Dongxue's car fell into the river. Tan Xuan did not go up to the bridge, but just watched from a distance. In fact, he also liked to watch the excitement, but he only watched the excitement of capable people. He was too lazy to watch people like Ge Youming who were worse than liars.
"How does he know that's where the accident happened?" Xiao Di asked as he stood beside Tan Xuan.
Tan Xuan snorted and said, "The aura of a place where something happened is different. People who understand will know it at a glance. There is nothing to be surprised about. Only those who seem to understand or liars would mobilize a large number of people for anything."
As he said that, Tan Xuan turned around and took off the sandalwood beads from his neck again and handed them to Xiao Di. "I don't know what will happen in a while. I know you won't go back even if I persuade you. You should still wear this. Be smart and hide behind me if something happens."
Xiao Di nodded, said "hmm" softly, reached out to take the sandalwood beads and put them on her chest, not daring to look up at Tan Xuan.
Seeing Xiao Di acting out of character, Tan Xuan was very confused, but he suppressed his curiosity and didn't ask. Instead, he pointed at Old Qiu on the bridge and said, "Don't you want to record the material? Old Qiu is about to perform the spell, why don't you take out your recorded materials?"
"Who said I didn't take it out? I was ready long ago." Xiao Di snorted, still not looking directly at Tan Xuan, and directly put the sunglasses on his head on his glasses.
"Your glasses..."
Tan Xuan is not a fool. Seeing Xiao Di also wearing sunglasses in the middle of the night like Old Qiu, Old Qiu wore glasses because of his own reasons. His left eye was not suitable for light, so he had no choice but to wear them. However, there was nothing wrong with Xiao Di's body. It was obviously the problem of the glasses. After a closer look, Tan Xuan indeed found the difference in the bridge of the glasses. He did not look carefully during the day, and only now found that there was a hidden camera there. Only then did he understand why she always wore such a pair of glasses. It seemed that she had been prepared for it.
Before Tan Xuan finished speaking, Old Qiutou on the bridge had already made a move. Tan Xuan quickly motioned Xiao Di to look over there. Old Qiutou was holding a yellow talisman in his hand, slowly folding it into a bird shape similar to a thousand paper cranes, and then took out a handful of hair from his sleeve, pulled out a strand and tied it around the bird's neck.
"He took Wang Dongxue's hair?" Xiao Di asked in a low voice.
"Hmm." Tan Xuan didn't move, just hummed and motioned Xiao Di to continue watching.
After putting the rest of his hair back together, Old Qiu squatted down, rubbed the bird made of the yellow talisman on the ground, and then threw it directly into the air.
"this……"
Xiao Di was suddenly stunned on the spot, because the wings of the bird made of yellow paper suddenly burst into flames, and then the flames engulfed the bird. Without falling, it turned directly into ashes and quietly drifted away in the night. After shaking his hands, Old Qiu put his hands behind his back and returned the same way he had come, not caring about what happened next, seemingly unconcerned.
Xiao Di was confused. She didn't know what Old Qiu was going to do. There was nothing here, so why did he come back? She was quite puzzled.
"Mr. Tan, let's go." Old Qiu walked up to Tan Xuan and said respectfully.
"Okay, from now on it's all up to you to show the way. Get in the car." Tan Xuan also responded politely.
Old Qiu got in the car, and Tan Xuan also got in the car. Only Xiao Di reacted a little slower, but she followed closely. Xiao Di knew that the show was about to begin, and she had to follow closely at this time. If she was a little slow, Tan Xuan would not wait for her.
After sitting firmly, Old Qiu picked up the compass and held it in his left hand. He took out a talisman with his right hand and stuck it on the back of the compass. Then he bit the tip of his middle finger and smeared the blood on the longitude and latitude lines of the compass, and finally on the Tai Chi pattern of Tianchi.
"Chase!"
Old Qiu let out a low roar, and a red light suddenly flashed on the Tai Chi on the compass. Then the pointer on it suddenly started to turn automatically, very quickly. After a few circles, the pointer suddenly stopped, as if it was suddenly pressed down.
Old Qiu looked at the direction of the needle and said to Tan Xuan, "Drive along the road. It's heading southeast."
Tan Xuan did not delay at all. He stepped on the accelerator and the car rushed out suddenly.
"Who is it?" Xiao Di was stunned for a moment and guessed that it might be the paper bird that turned into ashes just now.
"stop!"
Just after the car passed a few intersections, Old Qiu called out to Tan Xuan again.
"It paused here for a moment, and now it's turning right, it's going that way."
So Tan Xuan quickly turned on the turn signal, turned right, and then followed Old Qiu's instructions to go straight and turn.
Gradually, a smile appeared on Tan Xuan's face. He was able to determine the route first before Old Qiu gave the next instructions.
"Mr. Tan, how did you know it was coming this way?" Old Qiu was surprised and puzzled by Tan Xuan's ability to predict the future.
Before Tan Xuan could pretend to be profound, Xiao Di in the passenger seat directly interrupted him and said, "Because he is familiar with this road. He has walked this road several times in the past few days."
Xiao Di was right. The road they were taking was not only familiar to Tan Xuan, but also to her, because it was the direction to Wang Dongxue and Jiang Yingyue's dormitory.
