…possession
translator: baumkuchenย editor: ellabells
The tomatoes in his home were all sold just like that, even the still-unripe ones in his field. Lu Qingjiu had originally wanted Chao Qianyu to stay for lunch, but who knew that Chao Qianyu would make the excuse of having something to do at home and hurriedly left. Even if Lu Qingjiu wanted to stop him, he couldnโt.
After Chao Qianyu left, Lu Qingjiu finally understood that Chao Qianyu had come here for the tomatoes planted by Bai Yuehu. He just didnโt know what other benefits these tomatoes had compared to normal tomatoes.
But he could see that Bai Yuehu didnโt plan on explaining, simply sitting back down on his chair and dozing off.
Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun went off to the fields, the two of them planning to pick a few vegetables to make lunch with. However, on the way there, Lu Qingjiu received a call from Zhu Miaomiao. On the phone, Zhu Miaomiao exclaimed, โQingjiu!! Youโve got money to earn!!โ
Lu Qingjiu asked, โEn?โ
Zhu Miaomiao said, โDo you still remember old President Zhang Chuyang from that company we partnered with?โ
โI remember, whatโs up?โ Lu Qingjiu asked.
Zhu Miaomiao said, โHe asked my where I got my hair transplant done! I said I just went to go visit a friend for a few days, and it got better!โ
Her hair used to be so sparse, you could almost see her scalp, but after this visit, her hair turned both dark and thickโโ even more beautiful than that of a modelโs in a shampoo commercial.
The moment she said that, Lu Qingjiu immediately understood, โYou told him?โ
Zhu Miaomiao said, โHow could I have? Itโs too mysterious. I just said your family has a secret technique for growing hairโฆโ
Lu Qingjiu said, โAh, but itโs not like I could just get him to come and pray to that well, could I?โ
Zhu Miaomiao said, โWhy not? Let me tell you, this is how you should do itโฆโ
According to Zhu Miaomiao, he just needed to use something else to distract the attention away from the well. For instance: make President Zhang eat something, then get him to go pray to the well and tell him that the thing he ate was the key to hair growth.
Lu Qingjiu said, โThatโs fine, but why doesnโt he just get a hair transplant?โ
โHe had one before,โ Zhu Miaomiao said, โBut the problem isโฆ it all fell out again. Heโs only thirty, and actually quite handsome, but no matter how handsome, a man would be done for after going bald.โ No matter how handsome someone was, if they had a Mediterranean Sea hairstyle on their head, they were done for.
Lu Qingjiu had met Zhang Chuyang before. He was incredibly handsome and also very capable, but had the same habit as Zhu Miaomiao of wearing a hat on his head. It was fine for daily life but not very suitable for formal occasions.
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โLetโs talk after I ask about it,โ Lu Qingjiu said, โDonโt be in a hurry to reply to him.โ
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Bai Yuehu nodded.
After hearing from Bai Yuehu, Lu Qingjiu called up Zhu Miaomiao to let her know she could bring the man over and that she shouldnโt tell other people about this anymore. Zhu Miaomiao instantly agreed. To be honest, she had actually been worried that Lu Qingjiu, after having resigned, had no way of making a living, so she thought of finding him some clients. After all, he had never farmed before, who knew how well he was doing after running off to farm.
โThen Iโll find a good time to bring him over.โ After saying this, Zhu Miaomiao hesitated before asking, โIsnโt that Bai Yuehu staying at your place very skilled?โ
โWhyโd you ask?โ Lu Qingjiu asked.
โSomething happened to my neighbourโs kid,โ Zhu Miaomiao said, โThey brought him to the hospital, but they couldnโt help. His mother suspects heโs been possessed, does Bai Yuehu know anything about such things? Could you help me ask him about this?โ
Lu Qingjiu asked, โSomething happened? What?โ
โYou know about that school next to our office, right?โ Zhu Miaomiao said, โHe goes to that school.โ
Of course Lu Qingjiu knew about that school. In fact, that school was very well-known in their city. It was well-known for two reasons, one was that the quality of teaching was high, and the other was that it was famous for being haunted.
Yes, haunted.
Because schools all needed to occupy a large area, they tend to choose a cheaper location. In the city center, there was only one kind of cheap location, which wereโฆ cemeteries.
So most schools were built over graveyards. Superstition aside, it really was because of economic reasons. Of course, if it was just this, it wouldnโt matter. But the problem was that there had been many supernatural incidents since the schoolโs founding, such as hearing a girl crying in the toilet at night, or security guards hearing noises from dormitories with no one living in them. There were countless such incidents, with not one of them able to be explained away with logic.
Despite such incidents, since none of them ever resulted in the loss of human life, most people just closed one eye and pretended that nothing had happened. Anyways, now, the moment the self-study period in the mornings was over, the school wouldnโt allow anyone else to enter.
Lu Qingjiu had previously been able to scare Zhu Miaomiao just by mentioning that school because that schoolโs supernatural incidents were just that famous.
โWhat exactly happened?โ Lu Qingjiu casually picked up a pear that Yin Xun had brought over and took a bite. This pear had just been chilled in the fridge and was both sweet and crisp, very delicious.
โThat child canโt walk anymore,โ Zhu Miaomiao said.
โCanโt walk?โ Lu Qingjiu asked, confused, โDid he fall or something?โ
Zhu Miaomiao said, โNo, itโs like this, one day after he came back from school, his mother realised that there was something wrong with him. When he walked, he tended to walk on his toesโฆโ
Lu Qingjiu: โTiptoeing?โ
โRight,โ Zhu Miaomiao said, โAs if he couldnโt put his feet back down. At first his mother thought it was a prank and even scolded him, but afterwards, she realised that something wasnโt right and directly took him to the hospital.โ
โDid they find anything wrong?โ Lu Qingjiu asked.
โThe doctor did an in-depth examination of his whole body. They said that there could be something wrong in his brain, but the problem was they couldnโt find out what it was.โ Zhu Miaomiao said.
โSo they should transfer him to another hospital, right?โLu Qingjiu said.
โHis mother thought the same way, but then something happened that night,โ Zhu Miaomiao said, โWhenever the nurse visited the ward, she always heard the sound of a woman crying inside, but when she went in, she saw the one who was crying was that child. That kid said he was dissatisfied with his death, so he needed to find someone to die in his place.โ
If it had been before, Lu Qingjiu wouldโve been shocked hearing this, but having met Bai Yuehu and that female ghost in his inner courtyard, he wasnโt too surprised by what Zhu Miaomiao said. He asked, โThen what happened?โ
โAfter that, another patient from the same ward said the child had been possessed,โ Zhu Miaomiao said, โHis mother let him stay a little longer in the hospital for observation, but they couldnโt find the problem, and the childโs condition became worse and worseโฆ to the point where he even tried opening the window and jumping out once in the middle of the night.โ
Lu Qingjiu felt that the situation was a little unbelievable now, he asked, โWas the kid okay?โ
โHe was alright, but the situation kept getting worse,โ Zhu Miaomiao said, โActually, I didnโt know about it either. I was taking out the trash yesterday and saw his mother standing in the hallway, crying. Thatโs when I asked about what had happened, and so I thought of youโฆโ
Lu Qingjiu muttered to himself irresolutely for a moment, before saying, โIโll help you ask.โ
โThanks,โ Zhu Miaomiao said, โThat child is really pitiful and his academic performance is really good. If heโs gone just like that, I think his mother might die of heartbreak.โ
Lu Qingjiu made a sound of acknowledgement and hung up.
After hanging up, he went to find Yin Xun and told him about the matter. After interacting for this period of time, he felt that Yin Xun seemed to know a bit about this kind of topic. It seemed to be a common point among the villagers.
Yin Xun had originally been curled up in the house, using Lu Qingjiuโs computer to watch movies as he munched on pears. After hearing what Lu Qingjiu had to say, he immediately sat up and asked, โYou said he tiptoes when walking?โ
Lu Qingjiu asked, โWhatโs wrong?โ He saw Yin Xunโs expression wasnโt right and hurriedly asked further, โIs it really serious?โ
Yin Xun said, โHow long has he been like this?โ
Lu Qingjiu calculated the timeline Zhu Miaomiao had told him, โShould be about half a month already?โ
Yin Xun said, โThat kidโs in trouble.โ
Hearing this, Lu Qingjiu was shocked, โWhy do you say that?โ
Yin Xun said, โIn our farming village, we have a term, ghostโs tiptoe. It means that the personโs body has been invaded by a ghost. The ghost pulls out the personโs soul from behind, forcing them to have to tiptoe to walk.โ
Lu QIngjiu, โReally? Then what should they do?!โ
Yin Xun, โFind a shaman….โ When he said the word โshamanโ, he paused, then muttered, โOh, sorry, I forgot, our villageโs shaman retired and got married.โ
Lu Qingjiu, โ…โ
Yin Xun, โBut do they have another shaman over there? Find a reliable one, then just have them steady his soul and he should be fine.โ
Lu Qingjiu asked, โThen what kind of shaman is reliable?โ
Yin Xun said, โThe first requirement, they must not have a lot of hair.โ
Lu Qingjiu stared at him, โ…Are you serious?โ
Yin Xun waved a hand, โHaha, Iโm just joking.โ
Lu Qingjiu suddenly felt like his hand was a little itchy, wanting to beat Yin Xun over the head with it several times.
The author has something to say:
I donโt know if everyone else has this custom where they come from, itโs if you donโt like to have heel cushions, you should definitely cut them offโฆ
(T/N: I think this is a reference to the how the term referring to the heel cushion could also be read as โfollows behindโ (ๅ่ท), so if you can live without them, you should chop them off, or you could attract something to follow behind youโฆ *shudders*
Thatโs my interpretation at least. Let me know if I’m completely off the mark XP)
Thanks for the chapter! ๐๐๐
Thanks for the chapter!
Is it just me or is the guy in the foto a kid with a fake combover?
XD yes his name is Wang junkai and heโs very famous in China. He definitely ainโt bald but seeing him photoshopped in that hair styles gets me ๐๐
Thank you for the update and your hard work.
New knowledge for me, Mediterranean Sea hairstyle. ๐คฃ๐คฃ So it has specific terms for the spot of baldness. I wonder what yhe bald on behind the head is called. Thank you for the translation..
thanks 4 the chapter ๐
Thanks for the chapter!
Looks like our MC is on his way to being the new shaman ๐
Thanks for the chapter!
Thank you for the translations!
Yin Xun is soooooooooooo suspicious.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING AWESOME! ! ! ! ! !
Thanks for the update!
I must really remind myself not to read thos in the middle of the night. I have goosebumps allover my body.
Great, great. Thats what you get for “just one more chapter”. Im trying so hard not to think about the ghost. ๐ญ๐ฑ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ
Thank you so much for the chapter!(เนยด>แ<)~โค
Yin Xun seems to know a lot, I wonder if he’s a supernatural creature too…like a real low-level one.
Tiptoeing or toe walking is very common for people with autism.
I remember the old generation did mentioned tiptoeing meant there is ghost possesing…hence they will scolded the childrens if they walked tiptoeing for fun๐ ๐ ๐
I walk my tip toe 24/7 ( even now ๐ง๐ปโโ๏ธ) and the amount of dis-rick-pet ( disrespect) so I HAD to make account and comment TO show how off-hened eye am- ๐๏ธ๐๐๏ธ
Well guess I am possessed ยฏ_(ใ)_/ยฏ(I am just kidding ๐ btw thanks for the chapter ๐ )
I suddenly remember all the gossips when I was in grade school that out school used to be cementery hahaha
Tho during senior high school the new school beside the school I attended at used to be a very old abandoned hospital(they said haunted too) that I even get to see before lol
Then wouldn’t women stop wearing heels if that was true? ๐ค