Chapter 18: The Padfoot

Lu Qingjiu wanted to keep Chao Qianyu for lunch, but he left in a hurry, saying that he had a family matter to attend to.

After Chao Qianyu had left, Lu Qingjiu realised that Chao Qianyu had probably come here for the tomatoes grown by Bai Yuehu, but wondered what the benefits of these tomatoes were compared to those of ordinary tomatoes.

But seeing that Bai Yuehu had no intention of explaining, he went back to his chair and dozed off.

Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun headed towards the vegetable patch, intending to pick some vegetables for lunch. As they walked on, Lu Qingjiu received a phone call from Zhu Miaomiao, who said, "You've made money on sake.

Lu Qingjiu said, "Yes."

Zhu Miaomiao says: "Do you remember Zhang Chuyang, the director of our partner company?"

"Remember, why?" Lu Qingjiu said.

Zhu Miaomiao said, "He asked me where I got my hair done and I said I went to a friend's house to rest for a few days and it was fine."

Her hair was so thin before that you could barely see her scalp, but this time she went back with dark, dense hair that was even more beautiful than the models in the shampoo ads.

As soon as she said that, Lu Qingjiu immediately understood: "You told him."

Zhu Miaomiao said, "No way, this is too mysterious, I just said your family has a secret recipe for hair growth"

Lu Qingjiu said, "Ah, but I can't ask him to come and worship the well too, can I?"

Zhu Miaomiao said: "Why can't I tell you, you do that"

According to Zhu Miaomiao, it means taking something else to give cover to the well, such as having Zhang eat something random and then having him pay homage to it, telling him that what he eats is the key to hair growth.

Lu Qingjiu says: "Yes, but why doesn't he get a hair transplant?"

"He's had implants," Zhu Miaomiao says. Zhu Miaomiao says, "But the problem is that it's falling out again. He's only 30 years old and he's quite handsome, but even the most handsome man with baldness is finished." No matter how handsome a man is, a Mediterranean haircut is the end of him.

Lu Qingjiu had met Zhang Chuyang, a handsome and capable man, but like Zhu Miaomiao, he wore a hat, which was fine on weekdays, but always inappropriate for formal occasions.

"I'll go and ask about it." Lu Qingjiu said, "Don't be in a hurry to give him a reply."

Zhu Miaomiao agreed.

Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun picked some fresh vegetables in the field before they started to walk home, and when they arrived Lu Qingjiu told Bai Yuehu about it.

"Yes." Bai Yuehu Although he looks quite immortal, he is actually not at all resistant to mundane things, after all, without money there is no meat to eat he is well aware of this, "There are no after-effects to that well, but aren't you humans all quite afraid of the dead"

"It's okay." Lu Qingjiu said, "He doesn't know."

Bai Yuehu nods.

After receiving Bai Yuehu's news, Lu Qingjiu sent a message to Zhu Miaomiao, agreeing to bring him over and asking her not to tell anyone else about the incident. Zhu Miaomiao agreed, but in fact she was worried that Lu Qingjiu, who had quit his job, would not have a source of livelihood, so she wanted to find an income for him, as he had not done farming since he was a child, and who knew if he would get a good harvest when he went to grow vegetables.

"Then I'll bring him over sometime." Zhu Miaomiao finished the conversation on the phone, then paused for a moment and said, "Isn't Bai Yuehu, who lives in your house, very powerful?"

"How?" Lu Qingjiu asked.

"Something has happened to my neighbour's child." Zhu Miaomiao said. Zhu Miaomiao said, "He was taken to the hospital but could not be cured, his mother suspects that he is possessed.

Lu Qingjiu says: "What's going on?"

"You know the school next to our company, right?" Zhu Miaomiao said, "That's where he went to school."

Of course Lu Qingjiu knows about the school, in fact it is very famous in their area. It is famous for two reasons: the quality of teaching is very good, and the school is notorious for being haunted.

That's right, it's haunted.

The school, because of its large footprint, usually chooses an address that is cheaper, and this is in the heart of the city, where there is naturally only one type of cheap place to go, and that is the cemetery.

So most schools are built on cemeteries, superstitions aside, it's really always for economic reasons. Of course, if this was the only reason, it would be fine, but the problem is that after the school was built, there were many strange phenomena, such as girls being heard crying in the toilets at night, or the security guards finding loud noises coming from the dormitories, which were supposed to be empty, and so on and so forth, all of which could not be explained by science.

But although there were these things, no one was ever killed, so people turned a blind eye and pretended that nothing had happened, but the rumours inside the school were getting wider and wider, and anyway, now it was the school where no one was allowed in once the students had finished their study sessions.

Lu Qingjiu previously scared Zhu Miaomiao, the school used because it was so famous for the paranormal events inside the school.

"What's going on?" Lu Qingjiu casually picked up a plum that Yin Xun had brought over and began to nibble on it, freshly chilled, sweet and crunchy and delicious.

"That child can't walk." Zhu Miaomiao said.

"Can't walk," Lu Qingjiu wondered, "Did you fall on your leg?"

Zhu Miaomiao said, "No, it's like this. One day when he came back from school, his mother noticed that something was wrong with him, he was always walking with his feet up."

Lu Qingjiu: "Padding the feet"

"Yes." Zhu Miaomiao said, "It was as if he couldn't put his heels down, and at first his mother thought he was playing a prank and scolded him, but then she realised something was wrong with the child and took him straight to the hospital."

"Did you find anything?" Lu Qingjiu asked.

"The doctor did a detailed full body examination and said there might be a problem in the brain, but the problem could not be found." Zhu Miaomiao said.

"Then you should be transferred to hospital," Lu Qingjiu said.

"His mother thought the same thing, but something happened that night. Zhu Miaomiao said, "When the nurses were doing their rounds, they always heard a woman crying in the ward, but when they went there, they saw that it was the child who was crying, saying that he was not happy to die and had to find a scapegoat."

Lu Qingjiu would have been surprised if he had heard this before, but now that he had experienced Bai Yuehu and the female ghost in the backyard, he was not particularly surprised to hear Zhu Miaomiao's words, and he said, "What happened after that?"

"After that, some other patients said the child was possessed by an evil spirit." Zhu Miaomiao said, "His mother kept him under observation in the hospital for some more time without identifying the problem, and the child's condition got worse and even attempted to jump out of a window in the middle of the night."

Lu Qingjiu thought it was a bit of a mystery and said, "Is the baby okay?"

"It's fine, but it's getting worse." Zhu Miaomiao said. Zhu Miaomiao said, "I didn't know either, but when I went out to take out the rubbish yesterday, I saw his mother standing in the hallway crying and asked what was going on.

Lu Qingjiu pondered for a moment, "I'll go and ask for you."

"Good." Zhu Miaomiao said, "That child is very poor and does very well in school, if he dies like that, his mother will be devastated."

Lu Qingjiu said goodbye before hanging up the phone.

After hanging up the phone, he went to see Yin Xun and told him about the incident. After spending some time together, he felt that Yin Xun seemed to know something about this, which seemed to be common to the people of the village.

Yin Xun was sitting in his room watching a movie on Lu Qingjiu's computer and munching on plums when he heard Lu Qingjiu's words and sat up straight, saying, "You said he was walking on his feet."

Lu Qingjiu said, "What's wrong," and when he saw that Yin Xun's face did not look right, he hurriedly asked, "Is it very serious?"

Yin Xun says: "How long has this been going on?"

Lu Qingjiu calculated the time Zhu Miaomiao said: "It must be almost half a month."

Yin Xun said, "That child is hanging on."

Lu Qingjiu was shocked to hear this: "How so?"

Yin Xun said, "In our rural areas, there is a saying that the ghosts pad the feet, meaning that a person's body is invaded by a ghost and the ghost pulls the person's soul from behind and the person is forced to stand on tiptoe in order to walk."

Lu Qingjiu: "Really then what?"

Yin Xun: "Find a godmother," he paused at the word "godmother" and muttered, "Oh, sorry, I forgot, the godmother in our village quit her job and got married."

Lu Qingjiu :""

Yin Xun: "But they should have other goddesses there, right? Just find a more reliable one to calm the spirits."

Lu Qingjiu said, "So what kind of goddess is reliable?"

Yin Xun said, "The first condition is that there must not be too much hair."

Lu Qingjiu glares: "Are you serious?"

Yin Xun spreads his hands: "Haha, I'm just kidding."

Lu Qingjiu suddenly felt his hands itching to give Yin Xun a few strokes on the top of the head.