bullyxtreme Chapter 112 The Educated Youth Tricked into Going to the Countryside (6)
Chapter 112 The Educated Youth Tricked into Going to the Countryside (6)
Upon hearing this, everyone began to look at the house.
A courtyard house built with bricks, with many rooms.
The main gate of this courtyard house is on the far right. To the left of the gate is a rear building. Going through the gate leads to the outer courtyard, and then to the inner courtyard.
Although villagers often come to clean, it only looks clean on the outside; the inside is dilapidated, with tables, chairs, and benches lying askew on the ground, covered in cobwebs.
"Well, if any of you are going to sleep here, please come back with me to get your supplies first, and then we'll clean up."
After entering the house, the village chief felt uneasy and wanted to leave as soon as possible.
So he addressed the group of people who were strolling around the house.
"Village chief, this house is quite nice. I've decided to live here." A male educated youth looked around the house and, after hearing the village chief's words, said that he would live here and would go with the village chief to collect daily necessities later.
"Okay, is anyone else going to stay here?" The village chief nodded, then looked at the group of people who had come up to him and asked.
During this time, Liu Jia clung to Lin Jingyi, trembling with fear.
"Village chief, I want to stay here." Lin Jingyi quickly expressed his opinion regardless of Liu Jia's opinion.
"No, Xia Lin, what are you thinking?" Liu Jia was very puzzled. Xia Lin clearly seemed timid, so why did she want to stay here?
When they heard Lin Jingyi say he wanted to stay here, the group looked on in disbelief.
The village chief was only shocked for a moment, then smiled and said to Lin Jingyi, "Little girl, you're quite brave. Is anyone else here?"
The remaining male educated youths said they wanted to stay there.
Three female educated youths remained silent. Although none of them really wanted to live there, not only because someone had died there, but also because of some bad rumors, they were all a little scared.
However, when they saw Lin Jingyi and several male educated youths saying they wanted to stay there, they were too embarrassed to say they wanted to move out.
So the three of them told the village chief that they also wanted to live in this house.
Afterwards, the village chief led the group to collect some daily necessities and their own luggage.
After the villagers learned that the group was going to move in, they adopted a wait-and-see attitude. If there were no problems with the group living there, they felt that such a nice house shouldn't be given to outsiders.
Let a few people stay there first and see how it goes.
After receiving their necessities, the group returned to the courtyard house. The men chose rooms upstairs in the east and west wing rooms, while the girls stayed in the back wing.
Although it was daytime, Lin Jingyi could feel that the temperature inside the house was several degrees lower than outside.
It felt a bit cool inside the house in the middle of summer, and Lin Jingyi thought there might really be some supernatural elements to it.
But based on the principle that if you have a clear conscience, you have nothing to fear, Lin Jingyi wasn't that scared.
Moreover, she herself is a soul, but she is possessing Charlene's body.
I wasn't afraid anymore in an instant.
"Xia Lin, shall we share a room?" Liu Jia looked at the other two girls who had already decided to share a room with Lin Jingyi, who looked calm, and couldn't help but ask Lin Jingyi to share a room with her.
Lin Jingyi shook his head upon hearing this and calmly said, "Forget it. I like to sit up in bed at night, which will affect your sleep."
Lin Jingyi was referring to the incident last night when she sat up and Liu Jia took her anger out on her.
He continued, "Although I'm a coward, I've decided to sleep in a room by myself so as not to disturb your sleep."
Lin Jingyi's words were entirely for Liu Jia's benefit. Liu Jia didn't know how to refute him, after all, she had been mean to him the night before.
But the thought of sleeping alone in a room that night overcame her pride, and she could only say apologetically:
"Um, I was too tired last night, so my tone was a bit harsh. Please don't mind."
Towards the end, she sounded a bit gritted-teeth. Although that's what she said, only Liu Jia herself knows what she really thought.
"Oh..." Lin Jingyi said calmly when he saw her reluctant look. Seeing that the other two educated youths had already started cleaning their rooms, Lin Jingyi also began to prepare.
"Xia Lin, do you want to share a room with me?" Not getting a clear answer, Liu Jia caught up with Lin Jingyi and asked.
"No." Lin Jingyi parted his lips slightly and uttered two words softly.
"..." Liu Jia felt that she had apologized for nothing.
"Comrade Charlene, do you need any help?"
Lin Jingyi brought up a bucket of water, and a male educated youth saw this and asked a question.
Xia Lin is the most presentable of the four female educated youths, and her current personality is gentle.
When listening to ghost stories, Lin Jingyi deliberately acted scared, which aroused the protective instincts of several boys.
Everyone was quite excited when they heard that Xia Lin wanted to live in this courtyard; being close to the water makes it easier to get the moon first, after all.
Seeing Lin Jingyi doing some heavy work, a male educated youth put down his own work and walked up to Lin Jingyi to ask him something.
Lin Jingyi waved his hand and declined with a smile:
"Comrade Quanbiao, I didn't fetch much water, I can do it myself, you go and do your own thing."
"Okay then, feel free to call me if you need anything."
Upon hearing this, the educated youth named Quan Biao scratched his head, left with a red face after saying a few words.
Everyone watched this scene with different thoughts.
The female educated youth thought Xia Lin was like a vixen, able to seduce men wherever she went.
The male educated youth complained that Quan Biao was too cunning, taking advantage of everyone's busyness to curry favor with them.
After Quan Biao left, Lin Jingyi put away his smile, picked up the water bottle, and went upstairs to the second floor.
Xia Lin has a soft personality and is not good at saying no to others, while Lin Jingyi doesn't want to maintain his persona right now.
After all, the original owner returned to her hometown and wouldn't be going back to this village unless something unexpected happened, so she felt that there was no problem with the character setting being disrupted now.
After Quan Biao left, Lin Jing also walked past Liu Jia, carrying water upstairs.
As Liu Jia watched Lin Jingyi's retreating figure go upstairs, a hint of hatred flashed in her eyes.
Even after she told Xia Lin all that, she still refused to sleep in the same room with her.
Soon, the courtyard was empty; everyone had returned to their chosen rooms to unpack.
Liu Jia looked at the empty courtyard, shrugged, and walked towards Tao Tao and the other person.
I hurried upstairs.
Seeing the two people cleaning, Liu Jia stood at the doorway, unsure where to put her foot, and said to them with a fawning smile:
"Tao Tao, Song Xiaoxiao, can I sleep in the same room as you?"
"Liu Jia, this bed is just big enough for the two of us. If you were there, there wouldn't be enough room."
Upon hearing this, Song Xiaoxiao stopped what she was doing and looked at Liu Jia apologetically.
"Didn't you sleep with that Xia Lin?" Tao Tao asked Liu Jia while continuing to do her work.
When Liu Jia heard Song Xiaoxiao say that only two people could sleep in the room, she understood that the two were politely declining. When she heard Tao Tao mention Xia Lin, she became even more unhappy.
Most likely, they couldn't bring themselves to say it, so in the end they had no choice but to bite the bullet and say:
"Charlene said she has a bad sleeping posture and needs to sleep alone... I'll go check on her."
As she spoke, Liu Jia walked towards Lin Jingyi's room.
"Charlene, I don't mind if you suddenly sit up in your sleep at night. Let me sleep with you, okay?"
At this moment, Lin Jingyi's door was closed, and he was sitting in his room feeling the spiritual energy of this world.
Suddenly, I heard Liu Jia knocking on the door.
Sensing the faint spiritual energy in the air, Lin Jingyi had an idea. He got up, opened the door, and smiled at Liu Jia outside:
"Sure, but you'll have to sleep in your own bed." He pointed to a bed in the room and said, "There's only one bed in this room, but you can bring another one from another room."
Finally, Liu Jia asked two male educated youths to help her move her bed.
When everyone had almost finished tidying up, the village chief came to find them.
Today, I'll guide you to familiarize yourselves with the village, including which households have which people, which fields they cultivate, and so on.
They also told everyone to meet at the village entrance the next morning to go to work in the fields.
Everyone cooked dinner in the east wing, making it seem like a group of city people were on a rural tourism trip.
Everyone had completely forgotten that this was the haunted house the villagers had mentioned, and after cleaning it up, they felt it was even better than their own home.
night.
Lin Jingyi sat cross-legged on the bed by the window, activating the Cosmic Technique to carefully absorb the energy in the air.
It contains spiritual energy, the essence of the moon, resentment, and subtle ghostly energy...
Lin Jingyi's eyes snapped open; he hadn't expected that vengeful spirits really existed in this world.
He then closed his eyes and focused on his cultivation.
They fear they will be powerless to defend themselves when facing vengeful spirits.
All the fear stemmed from insufficient firepower.
When facing a vengeful spirit, no matter how frightening it is, as long as you have the ability to deal with it, it is nothing more than a paper tiger.
Looking at Lin Jingyi, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed, Liu Jia couldn't understand his behavior.
Although she was puzzled, she didn't dare to say anything, fearing that if she did, Lin Jingyi wouldn't want her to sleep in the same room anymore.
She could only turn her back to Lin Jingyi and close her eyes.
This house is further away from other people's houses, surrounded by fields and a mountain behind it.
The sounds of frogs croaking and insects chirping grew louder.
Meanwhile, Lin Jingyi was constantly compressing the absorbed energy and expelling impurities from his body.
In this sweltering summer, the stench was even more intense.
A ghost that was lingering outside the door, wanting to come in, smelled the faint stench coming from inside and had no choice but to pinch its nose and leave, moving to another room.
Liu Jia, however, was disturbed and couldn't sleep. She was a little scared, so she turned over and saw Lin Jingyi sitting cross-legged with her legs straight.
Against the moonlight, Lin Jingyi's face was not visible; only a dark figure sitting cross-legged could be seen. Xia Lin looked less like a living person and more like a ghost.
Liu Jia began to regret her decision. If she had known Xia Lin was so strange, she wouldn't have slept with her. Now it was too late to change her mind.
She had no choice but to turn her back to Lin Jingyi, face the wall, and hide under the covers, trembling with fear.
But soon he was covered in sweat, and when he looked up again to breathe some fresh air...
A strong, pungent stench filled the air, seemingly right beside me; it came suddenly and was very strong.
Liu Jia was so frightened that she continued to hide under the covers.
She dared not think about where the sudden stench came from, and forced herself to sleep with her eyes closed.
But her brain was unusually active at that moment, and finally, unable to bear the heat of the bed, Liu Jia stuck her head out of the covers.
Holding her breath, she faced Lin Jingyi with her eyes tightly closed, afraid that she might see something terrible.
"Xia Lin, are you asleep?" Because her eyes were closed, she didn't know if Xia Lin was asleep or not. She stuck her head out for a while, asked Lin Jingyi, and then Liu Jia shrank back into the quilt.