Chapter 26 Chapter Twenty Six

Wei Weisheng shrank into a ball in fright, as if being scalded by hot water, he yelled and retracted his limbs. "Eccentric wins..." Ah Ling moved close to him and touched his arm lightly.Wei Weisheng curled up even more, trying to run away from A-Ling, but his mouth that was always spitting out harsh words was trembling, as if he was about to cry. "It's natural to be afraid," the laughing monk said softly, "but you are not alone, right? There are many companions here. You can tell the truth. The ghost inhabiting the body of your adoptive father, Sun Bingwei, is not you One person can handle it."

"Partner, partner?" Wei Weisheng said tremblingly, "What can you do? Everyone in the courtyard has escaped." Ah Ling recalled the silence in Sun Bingwei's courtyard, and asked, "Could it be that the people in the courtyard ran away because the landlord didn't look right?" "how is this possible?" In the tone of his retort to A-Ling, there was still a bit of usual weirdness. "Without the landlord's consent, we couldn't move at all. Everyone was scared and hid at home." "So, the people in Dazayuan also discovered that Sun Bingwei has changed?" Xuanzhisuke sat down, shaking his hem vigorously.A Ling relayed Gennosuke's question to Katsuki.

"It's no wonder we didn't find out!" Wei Gesheng said as if he was going to bite someone. "The landlord's expression changed, and he did things that the landlord we are familiar with would never do. He threw the wild cat into the well and drowned. They also kicked and beat children, wandered in the courtyard, entered tenants' houses without authorization, destroyed things, and beat women..." "It's crazy." Gennosuke touched his chin and asked, "When did it start?" A-Ling asked on her behalf, and the eccentric wins by counting. "Three days ago... no, four days ago."

"Did he become like this all of a sudden?" A Ling asked, "Was the landlord so thin before?" Wei Weisheng shook his head violently and said: "Although he is not fat, he was not that thin before. But he didn't lose weight suddenly. The landlord is not in good health recently." "When did it start? Did you take care of him alone?" "About... ten days ago. He said that his stomach was uncomfortable and he couldn't eat... Sometimes he lay down and sometimes got up, but at that time he was still the landlord on weekdays, and I could take care of it by myself."

"What a good boy." Ami said with emotion, but this sentence seemed out of tune with the atmosphere of the scene.Wei Gesheng should not be able to hear her words, but suddenly blinked frequently in dejection, as if he wanted to cry. The smiling monk didn't change his face, and he didn't know what to mutter to himself. Ah Ling couldn't hear clearly, she leaned closer to her ear and asked, "What are you talking about? Laughing monk, I can't hear you." "I heard it." Xuanzhisuke responded in a low voice, "Father, is this true?" "What are you talking about? Say it clearly, so that I and Geeky Sheng can understand it too, otherwise be careful and I will yell!"

The smiling monk kept a straight face, slightly twitched his closed eyelids, and said slowly: "Sun Bingwei is not in good health and is getting old. He fell ill ten years ago, and finally passed away four nights ago." Ah Ling's eyes widened, and Queer Sheng retorted first: "How is that possible! The landlord is obviously still walking around." "Sun Bingwei is dead." The laughing monk said indifferently, "Then, other souls broke into his body which became an empty shell." In the past, Ah Ling did not believe such a thing would happen, but now it is different, after all, she has only seen the examples of Shimaji and Ginji.

"The invading souls are evil spirits, so that's why Landlord Sun Bingwei became a bad ghost?" "yes." "I don't believe in that kind of thing." Wei Weisheng said with tears in his eyes, "It must be that the disease on his body spread to his head, so the landlord became like that, as soon as he recovers from the disease, he will return to his original state, and he will definitely recover. " "Who told you that?" Xuanzhisuke asked, "It was the housewives in the courtyard?" His voice was full of anger, "They told you so, telling you to hold back, and they will push all the care of the landlord to you , do you all huddle together and hide?"

After A-Ling told these words, she said strangely and sharply, "Nah!" Ami said softly again: "This child is really good." This sentence is not as abrupt as before.Quirky Sheng rested his fists on his face and lowered his head. "First confirm the true face of that ghost." Xuan Zhisuke looked back at the smiling monk and asked, "Father, do you have a bottom line?" The laughing monk suddenly raised his pale eyebrows that seemed to have nothing, and his bald forehead was deeply wrinkled: "Why do you ask me?" "Nothing, just asking."

"I remembered something, you too." The laughing monk looked at Ami again and asked, "Sister, too? Did you remember something?" Ami slowly shook her head to avoid the laughing monk's gaze, and said something completely irrelevant in a low voice: "Where is Amei?" "When we went to find the landlord Sun Bingwei, she showed up, maybe she came with us." Ah Ling said, "Weird Sheng was very close to Amei before, right?" Wei Weisheng no longer shed tears, but his eye sockets became red because he wiped his eyes vigorously.Ah Ling replaced Wei Weisheng and told everyone about him and Ah Mei, and what Ah Mei looked like when she appeared in Sun Bingwei's courtyard today.She also thought of one more thing.

"By the way, Amei seems to know the ghost that occupies Mr. Sun Bingwei's body. She stared at the landlord and told us to go back, as if she wanted us to escape..." "Of course she does." The laughing monk said, "Not only Amei, but we all know the ghost attached to Sun Bingwei, which is why we are so uneasy." Ah Ling couldn't understand what the laughing monk said, so she looked at everyone in turn.Xuanzhisuke seemed to be angry, with a serious expression on his face. It was not the first time Ah Ling saw him like this. When Pengfa said before—"Xuanzhisuke hacked him to death", Xuanzhisuke also had this expression on his face.

"Pengfa said that he was the subordinate of the murderous abbot of Xingyuan Temple." The laughing monk continued, "And he said that Gennosuke hacked him to death, but Gennosuke forgot about it. Afterwards, I thought about it. I thought maybe I forgot something very important.” "Yes, that's right." Ami responded in a low voice like a rap, "I've thought about it a lot too." "This was originally the cemetery of Xingyuan Temple, and Xingyuan Temple was the place where the murderous abbot started killing thirty years ago, and we have also become ghosts here. Since Pengfa among us lives with Xingyuan Temple If we are related, then maybe we are also related to the abode. I try to think about it too." "I don't even need to think about it." Xuanzhisuke said to A-Ling with a smile, "A-Ling has already found out about me at Nagasaka's house. I went to Xingyuan Temple single-handedly, and I heard that I died there. I know if I succeeded in killing the abbot, but since I heard that the abbot has escaped, does that mean I failed?" Wei Weisheng was fascinated by it as if watching a magic show, staring at Ah Ling and Xiao Monk intently.Ah Ling had grabbed his wrist to comfort him, but when she came back to her senses, she realized that she was leaning against him.She felt uneasy, and had a vague premonition that the fog in front of her eyes was about to lift. "I'm not a decent woman," Ami said with eyes lowered a little tiredly, "I probably don't play the role of a hero like Ah Xuan. I must have been killed in Xingyuan Temple." "I think so too." The laughing monk said, "Although I don't know what will happen to you, I also think I was killed in the monastery." "Then it's Amei," Gennosuke said. "The child is the same. She knows the abbot of Xingyuan Temple." Ah Ling recalled the dream she had before: falling to the bottom of the well, melting into bones little by little in the icy water, looking at the rising and falling moon.The feeling was not so much scary, but cold and lonely, very sad. At that time, Ah Ling thought it was Ah Mei's dream, but now she is more convinced.Ah Mei was also killed in Xingyuan Temple, and her body is still at the bottom of the well in the temple. "A Ling..." Quirky Sheng whispered, "Is there really a ghost here?" "I'm sorry, brat." Xuanzhisuke smiled, "But we won't hurt you. Ah Ling, you want him to rest assured." A Ling conveyed Gennosuke's words, Katsuki looked at the smiling monk, then at Gennosuke and Ami who should not be able to see. "I know, because...you feel...just like us, just like us." Geeky Sheng hesitated for a moment, as if he was about to say something quickly, and said firmly: "You are different from that monster in Sun Bingwei's courtyard, that is not the landlord... the real landlord... must be very scared to be possessed by that monster... and I can't do anything..." "Son, it's not your fault, no one can do anything about it." After Ah Mi finished speaking, Ah Ling spoke again to Wei Weisheng.Wei Sheng looked at the sky where Ami was in disbelief. "No one can help..." Wei Weisheng finally raised his head and smiled at A-Ling, and A-Ling returned him a bright smile. "The one attached to Sun Bingwei is the abbot of Xingyuan Temple." Gennosuke said calmly, his tone as calm as reciting lines on paper, "Since we are still here, the ghost of the abbot may still remain. In the human world. He may have escaped the fire and the public servant's pursuit, and died not long ago. Or he died a long time ago, and his soul wanders in the human world, possessing Sun Bingwei before possessing others ..." "Anyway, the abbot has turned into a ghost and returned to Xingyuan Temple." The laughing monk closed his eyelids even more tightly, "What should we do next?" Ah Mei, who followed Ah Ling to Sun Bingwei's courtyard, was probably the first to notice that the abbot's soul was in Sun Bingwei's body, and urged Ah Ling and the others to escape.What is Amei doing now?Where is the abbot now? There were pattering footsteps in the hallway, and someone was screaming.Is it Aunt Ateng's voice?Ah Ling and Wei Weisheng almost jumped up, and they were tightly attached to each other. "What happened?" Gennosuke's voice sounded, and at the same time, someone opened the paper door.Sun Bingwei stood in front of everyone.