Episode 8 Chapter 86: Medicine
I asked who this "person" who was haunting me was. Master Nan said that if he told me about it, I might be disappointed, because it was just an insignificant ghost. Then Master Nan took a file bag from the old lady's house and gave it to me, asking me to read it myself. The file said that the person's name was Su Rui. I was a little confused when I saw that it was a woman, because I considered myself to be a decent person and had never been a playboy. How could a woman's ghost follow me for no reason?
So I continued reading and found that this person was admitted to the museum four years ago and was also unclaimed. Seeing that no one claimed his body, I thought that it might be because I had investigated too many files of this type recently, so I developed a mental inertia. So I asked Master Nan whether this person was cremated or the body had been kept in a cold storage.
Master Nan told me to read on, so I read on and found that the column for disposal said cremated, and her ashes were buried under a tree in the funeral home as part of the popularization of tree burials. Master Nan said he went to the tree where Su Rui was buried and there was nothing wrong, but for some special reasons, he did not try to dig up her ashes.
It was only later that he went to investigate Su Rui's identity in detail and found that this woman was not simple. I asked why she was not simple, and Master Nan said that the files I saw did not mention the cause of her death, so I might not know that she jumped to death.
"She died by jumping off the building?" I immediately became sensitive and looked at Master Nan, wanting him to continue. Master Nan said that she did die by jumping off the building, and I had heard of her story. This woman was the one who suddenly ran to the roof of our community and jumped to her death for some unknown reason after the roof was completed.
I exclaimed, it was her, but why would she pester me for no reason? The building where he jumped off was obviously not the one I lived in. Master Nan said how I got into trouble, and we can investigate from Li Ming and Liu Chi, although whether Li Ming and Liu Chi really exist has yet to be confirmed. Hearing Master Nan say this, I asked Master Nan , "Do you also think there is something wrong with Li Ming and his wife?"
Master Nan nodded and said that he was not sure whether they really existed for the time being, but what Lu Fei said about them being a pair of dummies was not groundless. Su Rui's appearance at the beginning was because Liu Chi saw it and spread it. Li Ming and his wife lived upstairs from me. If they were really the pair of dummies, then it meant that they led Su Rui to me.
But what is their purpose? And the pair of dummies have been dispersed by the old lady, and their bodies have been burned. If it is true as Lu Fei guessed, then they should be considered non-existent. Now the old lady and Master Nan have helped me burn Su Rui's ghost. Does it mean that the things that are bothering me in this lineage have been completely solved?
But Master Nan said that this might just be an inducement. Just like boiling Chinese medicine, you always have to add inducer medicine before boiling it so that it can take effect. And now Li Ming and his wife and Su Rui are just like the inducers of this medicine. Only after the inducer is added can the medicinal properties of the medicine take effect. So in the past two days, I have obviously begun to feel that something is wrong. Everything that happens is aimed at my life, which means that the dormant thing has begun to move.
My heart, which had already given up, suddenly tensed up again. Master Nan said that he felt that the matter of Su Rui had not ended yet. Although her ghost had been dispersed, there was one thing that puzzled him during the investigation. No matter how he investigated, he could not find out Su Rui's life experience, where she came from, or who she was . It was as if she suddenly appeared here, like a person with no past.
I heard that she might be from another place, but Master Nan shook his head and said that I might not understand what he meant. Master Nan repeated that what he said was that there was no way to find out how Su Rui appeared in this place, no matter what means were used. When he said this, Master Nan added that if I had any doubts, I could ask Shan Lanjin or Shi Hu. They must have investigated this person, and I just needed to ask them if they had come to the same conclusion.
Since Master Nan said this, it meant that he had already known something about Shan Lanjin and Shi Hu's investigation. So I didn't say anything else. Thoughts were circling in my head, and I finally asked Master Nan, then why did he forge police documents to take away Old Man Liu's ashes? Why did he take Old Man Liu's ashes away?
Master Nan asked me if I had received any hints, telling me that Old Man Liu's ashes could not be placed in the funeral home. I was surprised that Master Nan knew such a thing. Could it be that the hint he mentioned was given by him? But Master Nan took out a note and gave it to me. He said that I should be able to distinguish the handwriting of the note from what I saw, and I could also tell whether Master Nan was just making a fuss.
So I took the note and saw that it said: Old man Liu’s ashes cannot be kept in the funeral home, you need to send it to the designated place as soon as possible.
When I saw this written on the note, it turned out to be very similar to the content on the note I saw. I remembered that when I took out such a note from my pocket, it also said that Old Man Liu’s ashes could not be placed in the funeral home. At that time, I received his ashes and sent them back.
I asked Master Nan who wrote this. Master Nan shook his head and said he didn't know. At that time, the forged document and the note appeared on him. Later, after thinking about it, he decided to do it because he felt that this matter would involve me and even more so himself.
I then asked Master Nan where the safe place mentioned above was, but Master Nan did not tell me, saying it was a secret and he could not tell me. I was surprised that Master Nan actually believed the note left by someone he did not even know, and actually did such a thing, but Master Nan said that if this person was me, I would do the same.
I didn't understand what Master Nan meant. He said that he was indeed entangled by something and he didn't lie to us. I said it was the thing that was driven away by the old lady, but Master Nan shook his head and said that he knew from the beginning that it was not this thing, and that the things attached to the dummy could not entangle him at all.
I asked in surprise what it was, and Master Nan said, "Have you ever heard someone say that you have the same dream every night and dream about exactly the same thing? The thing that is entangled will appear in your dream every time, until you feel that one day it seems to have come into your life and become reality from a dream. When you sleep at night, you can even feel it looking at you and feel its breathing."
I just looked at Master Nan in surprise. I didn't expect that he would also encounter such a situation. It was exactly the same as what Old Man Nie described to me. I asked Master Nan what the "person" he saw was. Master Nan looked at me and wanted to speak several times but stopped himself. It seemed that he found it difficult to speak and he seemed to be afraid.
I looked at Master Nan with even more confusion, as if I saw the exact same old man Nie. At that time, old man Nie was also extremely reluctant to mention this "person", and I saw that his whole body was trembling, as if he was extremely scared . Now, although Master Nan's body is not trembling, his fear can be seen from his hesitant expression.
Seeing Master Nan’s reaction, I knew I couldn’t press the issue any further, so I told Master Nan that I wasn’t going to force him to answer, and asked him not to be nervous or to think about that “person”. The most important thing right now is to relax, because the more afraid you are, the more you will not be able to escape it.
Master Nan looked at me, his eyes constantly changing, and finally he sighed deeply, saying that this was easier said than done. In fact, it was okay to tell me about this, but he was afraid that it would cause me further trouble and fear, making me even more unable to sleep or eat. I became curious, could this matter be related to me?
Master Nan sighed again and said, "The person I dreamed about repeatedly, and even the 'person' who appeared by my side at the end, is you!"
