Chapter 24 So That's How It Is

  The male ghost walked up to the entwined couple and lamented: "Damn it, good cabbage was dug up by a pig."

  The female ghost smiled: "You can go up second."

  "Just pull it open, I'll go first..."

  "You really are bold and daring, don't you want to die?" The female ghost said sternly, then added in a gentler tone: "However, tomorrow we can open a room."

  "I have no interest in chopping and cooking cabbage." The male ghost rubbed his forehead with one hand: "My head is a bit dizzy."

  "Me too." The female ghost looked at the pornographic couple on the ground who had stopped moving.

  "Good dizziness." The male ghost fell to the ground.

  "What's wrong?" Three seconds later, the female ghost followed and fell to the ground, seeing the still smoking talisman, and said: "It's indeed human and ghost extermination."

  Ten minutes later, Zhang Ruonan led four policemen into the ancestral hall and walked to the main hall. "MD, there really is a cat's nest. Be careful, there may be anesthetics in the smoke." He walked to Yu Ming's side, where his hand was still in a certain position. Zhang Ruonan pulled out Yu Ming's hand and helped Du Qingqing fasten her bra and shirt buttons: "Little thing, eating tofu randomly."

  ……

  The next day, Du Qingqing slowly woke up. Her first reaction was to feel her body. She had clothes on, so she felt relieved and opened her eyes a little wider. She found herself still lying in the ancestral hall on a blanket, with another blanket covering her body. There were many more people in the ancestral hall now. They were all police officers. She turned her head slightly and saw Yu Ming on the other side, who had thrown off his blanket and was chatting with a female police officer.

  Yu Ming drank N mouthfuls of water and said: "Officer Zhang, you are extremely unkind. I think we should be in the hospital by now, why are we still here?"

  "Alright, sudden interrogation. They said someone would come to make a deal at 2:30 in the morning, so we set up an ambush. In order not to alert them, I'm afraid you'll have to be inconvenienced."

  "Who are they?"

  "They were the sales personnel of a drug manufacturing factory in City A. This ancestral house was their targeted location. Here, they wholesaled ice and other psychotropic substances to City A and three surrounding county towns. We had long suspected that there was an organized supply of soft drugs in City A, but we never had any leads." Zhang Ruonan said: "They were very careful, each time giving the consignee a hood, then walking on remote mountain roads to this ancestral house. There is only one natural village nearby, with just a few households, old and young. It was impossible to discover their nefarious activities."

  "This ancestral house was also their storage point. Every time they transported drugs from the drug factory in the middle of the night, they would hide them under the floorboards. They could sell enough for a month with just one transportation. This place is remote, with no village in front and no shops behind. It's very safe for them. One time, a villager from the natural village stumbled upon one of their transactions and thought it was a ghost. So they took advantage of this rumor to make the nearby residents dare not get close."

  Yu Ming nodded: "Then why did I feel something was wrong before I fainted?"

  "It must be hallucinogenic! Narcotics and aphrodisiacs." Zhang Nuon said: "In the past few months, someone has been harassing us. They have a special workshop that makes wooden incense sticks. As long as they are burned, they will release the drug. The more they burn, the better the effect. They also installed spray-type hallucinogenic drugs everywhere. This is to prevent resistance. If someone resists and loses their life, the police must conduct a large-scale search of this ancestral house."

  He understood that these soft drugs were very cheap and asked: "What about blood?"

  "The mixture of mud and blood is splashed with cow's blood or some other kind of blood, then washed away after a while. Nothing can be seen. But when the fire is big enough and the mud is hot enough, the fresh blood that has seeped into the ground will rise up. This is a common trick used by South American witches to swindle money." Zhang Nuonan said: "I think they set it up quite well. Why are you sure you're human and not a ghost? Why did they faint?"

  "Hey, do you guys reimburse for cell phones?" Yu Ming answered irrelevantly. There was a signal amplifier inside the phone. Yu Ming crushed the phone and the signal disappeared. Zhang Ruonan took action. In the morning, after Yu Ming made a circle, he went to a nearby natural village and contacted Zhang Nuonan. The small props were also provided by Zhang Nuonan.

  "Reimbursement." Zhang Nuonan said: "Your mobile phone seems to be a second-hand goods, the original price is more than 200... We will reimburse according to the original price."

  "Officer Zhang, that's it, we won't cooperate next time." Yu Ming smiled and looked at Du Qingqing who was closing her eyes, asking: "Officer Zhang, last night... I don't remember very clearly."

  Zhang Nuonan glanced at Du Qingqing and said in a low voice, "When the time comes, your hand was placed where it shouldn't be. But both of our pants were tight."

  "I just ate some tofu."

  "Almost."

  "Can you help me with this part..."

  "Don't worry." Zhang Nuonan said generously: "You help me, I help you. Now you help me, you answer me, why do you think he is a human not a ghost?"

  "There are shoe prints." Yu Mingdao said, "At first I wasn't sure, but yesterday morning when I checked the room, I found several shoe prints. Women's shoe prints. Although it's been a while, as far as I know, there haven't been any women active here recently. And ghosts don't wear shoes. Also, Li Fu was dragged away, resulting in his heels scraping against the ground with blood."

  "Why didn't you just call the police?"

  "Since we have different positions, your duty is to catch the thief, and our duty is to investigate the truth of this haunted house. If you call the police, they will come and find nothing. The person will be scared away by you again, and we can't explain it. So I ask you to hide in the mountains. Thank you very much for listening to my one-sided words."

  "It's not all your one-sided words." Zhang Nuonan said: "This ancestral house case has been hanging in our criminal police team. However, since there were no casualties or losses, the civil police have investigated again, so we didn't conduct a special investigation for this case. When you called me yesterday morning and said that there was a problem with the ancestral house, I became very interested. Last time, it was you who cracked the killer's mystery in Sun Ziping's case. I think I can trust you once again. Besides, the ones who came with me yesterday were all off-duty brothers, even if you fooled us, it wouldn't affect our regular work. One last question, what did you burn? It almost knocked us down."

  "Seal of incantation." Yu Ming smiled. He had soaked these talismans in the medicine he bought from Ni Qiu, then dried them with a blower overnight. At that time, the medicinal power of those talismans could knock down five cows, of course, it was an injection effect. The smoke effect after incomplete combustion was also good, because there was no wind, and they were in an airtight hall. However, Yu Ming thought that it was mixed with the drugs of the drug dealers, which doubled its power.

  Where did he put his hand that shouldn't be there? Du Qingqing thought of it. The objective conditions were eaten by a bit of tofu, and both parties pretended not to know best. She didn't rush up like in Korean dramas and slap Yu Ming, then slowly start a tear-jerking love story with the audience. What Du Qingqing never expected was that everything was under Yu Ming's control, and he even contacted the criminal police team. This kid didn't tell her anything, letting her spend a night in shock and fear.

  "My boss is really nice, yesterday I was genuinely a bit scared, she's a woman and must be more afraid than me. But she protected and comforted me like an older sister, very bravely. I believe even if there were real ghosts, she wouldn't faint."

  Zhang Nuonan smiled and said: "Then your actions yesterday are suspected of being incestuous."

  "Officer Zhang, you're disgusting. Besides, I don't remember a thing, so it doesn't count as taking advantage of me."