Chapter 174 The House Is Haunted

At night, Song Qing, who successfully sent the condemned prisoner to be reincarnated, with dark circles under her eyes, was about to go downstairs to find food to solve the problem of food and clothing.

As he walked, he thought: "No, grafting can be used on the human body, for example, damaged organs can be replaced.

"So, can it be more subtle? For example, the rebirth of a broken limb, well, this is the unique ability of a third-rank martial artist. If I can research the mystery in alchemy, it will definitely shake the world.

"Xu Ningyan said that bioalchemy should be more subtle things, but the human naked eye can't see those tiny dusty things. Now, I can make things like telescopes."

Telescopes exist, and concave-convex mirrors were developed shortly after the discovery of glass. Binoculars are quite popular in the army, usually equipped with ordinary soldiers.

Elite scouts seldom use it, because Wu Fu's eyesight will feel greatly improved after training Qi. The stronger the strength, the stronger the five senses. The binoculars seem a bit tasteless.

"Where's the scent?" Song Qing sniffled her nose.

Following the scent, he walked to the stove downstairs, and saw Chu Caiwei ordering a few people in white clothes, and something was cooking in the pot.

"Yo, there's still chicken soup, Junior Sister Caiwei has a heart." Seeing the chicken stewing in the small stove, Song Qing felt better.

"Go, go." Chu Caiwei spat at him: "This is the alchemy that Xu Qi'an taught me. If it works, it will be able to spread delicious food all over the world."

Listening to Chu Caiwei finished explaining the principles of chicken essence and monosodium glutamate, Song Qing pondered for a while, and sighed: "Xu Ningyan is really a strange person."

Yes, this is alchemy too.

Extract essence from medicinal materials to condense elixir, purify steel from ore to make weapons, and in front of you, extract umami from mushrooms to make monosodium glutamate.

It is consistent with his knowledge when he opened the lecture that day.

Alchemy contains many fields, and the secret is to extract those things that cannot be seen.

"I don't have a clue about the MSG he said, because he didn't provide the process, but simply said to stay away, and it is extracted from grains." Chu Caiwei said.

"Brother will help you." Song Qing touched Chu Caiwei's head.

The renovation of the new house was completed two days ahead of schedule, Xu Qi'an asked for leave from the Yamen to help his second uncle and aunt move together.

The aunt, who was wearing a dark blue robe and a jacket of the same color, pinched her waist with one hand and waved a handkerchief with the other, looking like a general leading an army in battle, directing the servants to carry things.

This posture, if it is replaced by a mediocre woman, it will appear to be full of market spirit, which is unpleasant.

But it can be replaced by a thirty-six-year-old aunt who looks like a young woman in her early thirties, with a beautiful and delicate face, and a plump and graceful figure, which is a beautiful scenery.

Xu Qi'an wondered whether the beautiful girl beside her, with three-dimensional facial features, would be as charming as her mother in another twenty years.

Or better.

Hey, Lingyue is also at the age of marriage. I don't know which guy is lucky enough to marry such a beautiful girl. Xu Qi'an sighed that the girl was not allowed to stay, so Botou and his second uncle acted as porters.

Because enough horse-drawn carriages were hired, it only took two trips to finish moving the things in the house. My aunt planned to buy some odds and ends in the inner city, so I just took this opportunity to exchange them for new ones.

Aunt and second uncle are elders, although Xu Qi'an bought the house. The main house on the east side is reserved for two people.

When assigning the house, Xu Lingyue, who has always been gentle, had a rare quarrel with her aunt.

The Sanjin house is very large, but the core inner courtyard actually has limited rooms. Of course, the master will not live in those guest rooms and areas for the servants of the house.

According to my aunt, the room in the west wing belongs to Xu Qi'an, after all, he will marry a wife in the future.

But Xu Lingyue had the audacity to live there and live next to her elder brother.

My aunt said, you, a big girl, still live so close to your elder brother, you don't feel ashamed.

Xu Lingyue suddenly became anxious, argued loudly, and even quarreled with her mother.

In the end, she also lived in the West Wing, but her aunt arranged Erlang's room in the West Wing as well, and discussed with Xu Qi'an that Lingyue and Erlang would live in the North Wing after he had a wife.

Xu Qi'an was a little reluctant, because if he lived too close, his younger sister would find out if he didn't come home at the teaching workshop. Time to complain again.

Xu Lingyin was placed in the room of her uncle and aunt. The children preferred the bed and the environment, and the aunt was afraid that the little girl would not sleep well at night and would have nightmares.

Anyway, the East Wing is very big, with three rows of houses.

Xu Qi'an quickly arranged his room. His original small courtyard was almost undecorated, and there were not many things to decorate.

He walked out of the room to bask in the sun, and saw Xu Lingyin squatting by the well alone, her little face turned pale with fear, but she seemed to be trying her best not to let herself escape.

"What are you doing?" Xu Qi'an asked.

"Big brother" Xu Lingyin felt relieved when he saw the highly skilled big brother coming, and pointed at the mouth of the well with some fear: "This place is haunted."

"So, what are you doing squatting by the mouth of the well?" Xu Qi'an was a little confused.

Now that you know it's haunted, shouldn't you hide away in fear? Why do you have to squat by the mouth of the well, and persist while being afraid.

"My sister said that ghosts only eat children." Xu Lingyin frowned.

"Then?"

She suddenly became sneaky, trotted over, whispered: "I'm tricking it out, shhh don't let it hear you."

"???"

Xu Qi'an looked at her blankly for a long time, then gave her a thumbs up: "He who knows food is a hero."

Everyone has ideals. Xu Lingyin found her own ideal at a young age: there is nothing in this world that cannot be eaten, only whether I want to eat it or not.

The determination and perseverance to use oneself as bait for delicious food is, in a sense, a genius.

"Then keep working hard, and when the ghost is tricked out, the elder brother will cook something delicious for you." Xu Qi'an patted her head.

"En!" Xu Lingyin pecked her head in fear and yearning.

Before dusk, I booked a private room in a restaurant not far from the new house, and the family was very satisfied when they ate at the restaurant. Although the taste was not as good as that of Guiyue Restaurant, it was cheaper and closer.

Xu Qi'an was lying in the spacious and comfortable new house, looking at the beams above his head, and suddenly remembered something.

It seems that he didn't write to Erlang about the move?

"Forget it, I don't need to worry about this matter, go to sleep."

east house.

My aunt put Xu Lingyin to sleep, and when she returned to the bed, she looked at her husband sitting cross-legged and contemplating, she suddenly felt a little worried:

"Master, when Ning Yan marries a daughter-in-law, will she fight with me for the power of housekeeper? Will you let us move to Westinghouse?

"I heard that daughter-in-laws are very vicious, and they always think of ways to fight mother-in-law."

My aunt is happy. When she married her second uncle, the two members of the Xu family had long since passed away. She was never oppressed by her wicked mother-in-law.

But I have never eaten pork, I have always seen pigs running. Especially this house was bought by Xu Qi'an, her name as "mother-in-law" is not justified.

Xu Pingzhi opened his eyes and thought for a while, "With your temper and personality, you can't beat others."

"Hum!" My aunt was speechless, so she snorted softly.

Xu Pingzhi comforted: "Maybe Ning Yan will marry a stupid daughter-in-law in the future."

When my aunt heard it, it made sense, and she secretly prayed that her nephew would marry a stupid wife in the future. This way she can bully others.

"By the way, I haven't written to Erlang yet. We moved to the new house. He didn't know about it yet. He went back to the outer city and couldn't find us." The aunt was concerned about her son.

"You don't need to worry about this matter, you don't know a lot of big characters." Xu Pingzhi, who is also not very literate, said:

"Ning Yanhui wrote it."

Two days passed in a flash, Xu Qi'an's life was very peaceful, he patrolled the streets every day, practiced, and took time to exchange feelings with Wei Yuan at the Haoqi Tower.

Because of the downfall of the Minister of Industry, the struggle among the various parties has cooled down a lot, and no party has targeted the beaters for the time being.

That night, when Xu Qi'an went home, he found that his second uncle was not there.

"Today's night watch," my aunt replied.

It is also possible that Xu Qi'an complained in his heart when he went to the Jiaofang Division.

The second uncle is an imperial sword guard with a hundred households. Sometimes he patrols the streets during the day, and sometimes patrols the streets at night. The working mechanism is the same as that of a watchman. If Xu Qi'an was involved in so many cases in a row, what awaited him would be white and black work.

In the past, Xu Qi'an trusted his second uncle just like his aunt, but ever since that "encounter" at the Jiaofang Division, and the subsequent operation of using orange peels to remove the smell of perfume, Xu Qi'an has understood.

A man's mouth, a deceitful ghost.

I don't seem to be qualified to complain about my second uncle Xu Qi'an eating with his head down.

At night, Xu Qi'an was suddenly awakened by a scream. He opened his eyes, turned over and sat up, and at the same time reached out and grabbed the black gold long knife leaning against the bed.

When I came to the yard, I saw Lingyue's servant girl sitting on the ground, the candlestick fell to the ground, her face was pale, and she pointed towards the wellhead, trembling and speechless.

"What did you see?" Xu Qi'an said in a deep voice.

The door behind him opened, and Xu Lingyue, who was wearing a coat, came out to check the situation.

On the other side of the east room, the candlelight in the aunt's room was also lit up, and she led Lu'e out following the sound.

"What's wrong?" Aunt frowned.

After the number of people increased, the fear in the servant girl's heart weakened a lot. She pointed at the mouth of the well and said in a trembling voice: "Well, there is a head in the well."

Several screams sounded together.

Xu Lingyue's face turned pale, she shrank behind Xu Qi'an, and tightly grabbed his sleeve. My aunt also leaned over in fear.

"You, didn't you say?" The aunt opened her beautiful eyes wide, terrified.

She didn't say "the ghost has been dispelled", and the servants in the mansion should not know about it.

Is there a head in the well? Xu Qi'an clenched the black gold long knife, pressed his hand, and signaled his sister and aunt not to panic, and he slowly approached the mouth of the well.

The vengeful spirits in the well have indeed been eliminated, and the well used to raise ghosts on the other side of the den of thieves has also been purified. It is said that it is impossible for such things to appear again.

Could it be that Xu Qi'an strode over, went around to the back of the well, and saw Xiao Douding sitting by the well, looking sleepy.

"It's a cauldron"

After Xu Qi'an slapped him awake with the scabbard, Xiao Douding rubbed his eyes and muttered.

"Why are you here?" Xu Qian said with confidence that it was so.

"I'm hungry, so I'm going out to look for something to eat." Xiao Douding looked at the mouth of the well with a look of admiration on his face: "It can really hide, and children won't come out at the door."

Xu Qi'an reckoned that what the servant girl saw was Xu Lingyin lying on the mouth of the well and looking around, he had a rare sense of aggrieved feeling that his stomach was full and he couldn't get it out.

"Brother asked the kitchen to bring you pastries." Xu Qi'an picked her up and walked back.

"Ring tone?" The aunt was taken aback, and then raised her eyebrows, "You son of a bitch, you sneaked out in the middle of the night to scare people."

Only then did she realize that Lingyin was not in the room.

Xu Qi'an angrily interrupted her aunt's roar: "She's just hungry."

Although she ate three bowls for dinner, she was just hungry.

My aunt lacked confidence now, snorted, pinched her waist, stared at Kazilan's big eyes, and glanced at the young girl.

Xu Qi'an comforted his younger sister, aunt, and a few maidservants, coaxed them to sleep, went to the kitchen to get some pastries, and fed Xu Lingyin.

Little Douding didn't need to be coaxed, he fell asleep after eating.

Xu Qi'an returned her to Lu'e, went back to the room and continued to sleep, when he heard someone knocking on the door.

"Big Brother" Xu Lingyue's clear and melodious girlish voice came from outside the door.

"What's the matter?" Xu Qi'an didn't open the door, in the middle of the night, an older brother couldn't open the door for his younger sister, it was out of courtesy.

"I, I can't sleep, I'm afraid." Xu Lingyue paused, and added: "Mother can't sleep either. Just now when Lu'e asked, Mother told me about the haunted house. As they talked, the two of them also scared.

"Father is not at home, they dare not sleep."

It's none of my business if they don't dare to sleep, everyone sit down and play mahjong all night? Xu Qi'an recalled the time when he used to move, and felt the same way, so he said patiently:

"Don't be afraid, there are no ghosts in the house."

Xu Lingyue didn't answer, but hesitated for a few seconds, "Can big brother accompany us?"

PS: This chapter is an update from yesterday.