C30 Gao Yuan Had Disappeared

"You'll have to ask it. Ever since I was born, I've been able to see things that ordinary people can't." And with that he let his hair fall back, his helpless face a mixture of joy and annoyance, convinced that this particular skill, though it had helped him a great deal, must have troubled him in some way that he was not proud of.

"Could it be the Yin Yang Eyes?" Su Qian looked at him in surprise.

However, he was also confused, "Maybe. The ancestors of the Gao family were Taoists, and Tao Fu was passed down from generation to generation. That's why Gao Zhenhui was able to scare away those evil ghosts last night."

"It's weird." His eyes grew blank, as if he were talking to himself. "I don't know how many times I've walked through that cornfield when I was a boy, but I've never seen anything like it."

Not to mention her, even Su Qian felt that something was not right. Although she had only been in the Wind City for a few days, she had reacted for no reason. She couldn't understand what was going on.

"Xiao Ming!"

At this moment, Auntie Qiu suddenly barged into the room. Su Qian turned her head with difficulty and saw that her face was ashen and filled with panic.

"Gao, Gao Yuan is gone..." She said with a trembling voice, and it didn't seem like she was joking.

Gao Ming slightly focused and waited for her to continue.

"This morning, your father went to my uncle's house and left a document there, so I asked Gao Yuan to deliver it to him. But it was only about ten minutes' walk from here to my uncle's house." She narrated in detail in panic.

Su Qian thought for a while and asked, "Could he have gone to the neighbor's house to play?"

After all, children liked to play. Once they saw something they liked, they would forget what they were supposed to do.

"No, he would have told me where he was going, and he doesn't have any friends here. His father and I have been looking for him for a long time."

As she finished speaking, her eyes were sparkling and she was very nervous.

It had been three or four hours since this morning, and his mobile phone had not been switched off. There was indeed something wrong with it. Most importantly, Su Qian had just been through a traumatic experience last night.

Gao Ming stood up, put his phone back in his pocket, and walked out of the room without a word.

Auntie Qiu followed him out.

Su Qian was worried that something might happen to Gao Yuan, so she also tried to get up from the bed. Although the wound that she had accidentally touched was still painful, it was still bearable to her.

Uncle Gao went to the east, Auntie Qiu and Li Zezhe went to the north, and Su Qian and Gao Ming went to the southwest, which was the route to Second Uncle Gao's house, to expand the search area.

"Gao Yuan!" Su Qian shouted along the way, but no one answered except for the barking of the disturbed dogs.

She felt a slight pain in her spine. She could only support herself with one hand to make herself feel better so that she could keep up with Gao Ming's hurried steps as soon as possible.

As they were going around the other side of the mountain, two villagers suddenly came running from the fields below. They seemed to be working on a farm, but for some reason they were heading west.

"I heard that a child died in the lotus pond. I wonder whose family it belongs to."

"It's such a big matter, quickly go and help!"

...

Su Qian was shocked. She looked at Gao Ming in surprise and quickly ran forward!

They saw a group of people surrounding an acre of lotus pond in the west. Someone was using a bamboo pole to move on the surface of the water.

Su Qianyun's heart was in her throat, and she prayed that it wasn't Gao Yuan. As she pushed through the crowd, she finally saw the corpse that was lying on the ground due to CPR. It was a little girl of eight or nine years old.

She heaved a sigh of relief. She was glad that it wasn't Gao Yuan, but at the same time, her heart was heavy. This little girl had died so tragically at such a young age...

"She seems to be the granddaughter of the Shui Wu Clan. She's already dead," one of the villagers said regretfully.

The man who performed CPR also lowered his head in disappointment. After a long while, he said painfully, "Go and inform Shui Wu to come and collect the corpse."

Two villagers left one after another, and the onlookers discussed this matter animatedly.

"The Shui Wu family is about two miles away from the lotus pond, and they don't have any fields here, so why is Xiao Fang here?"

"Who knows? I don't even know how these adults look after their children. When his son comes back, he will hate Shui Wu to death!"

...

Su Qian looked at Gao Ming, who was beside her. His cold gaze lingered on the rocks on the other side of the lotus pond, as if he were staring at something.

Su Qian couldn't help but pull his sleeve, "Brother Gao Ming?"

He turned his head and seemed to be thinking about something with his complicated eyes. Then, he pulled Su Qian away.

"What did you see?" Su Qianran asked uneasily. She suspected that he might have seen something that no one else could see.

Gao Ming took her to a side path and passed through the fields to a small hill.

Su Qian looked down at the cemetery in horror. Not far away, there was a familiar meandering path. This was the place where she had seen evil spirits last night!

"There's a woman wearing a red bridal dress sitting on a coffin on the other side of the lotus pond and looking coldly at everyone." Gao Ming jumped onto the stairs and started to search for something.

Su Qian's heart skipped a beat and she quickly jumped down to help, "Is it the red evil beast we saw last night?"

"Yes." As soon as Gao Ming answered with certainty, his eyes were attracted by a tombstone covered with moss.

Unlike other gravestones, this one was made of good marble, and the way it was built was backward. Because no one had taken care of it for a long time, the grave was overgrown with weeds.

Gao Ming immediately swept away the moss on it, revealing a row of small, neat carvings. The person who gave the tombstone was the brother of the dead, and the deceased's name was - Chen Xiuxiu.

Su Qian suddenly remembered the wisp of red smoke from last night. The location where it appeared was probably here!

Could this be the burial place of that Red Evil? She thought to herself.

"Let's go to the ancestral hall." After receiving the message, Gao Ming turned around and walked down the path.

Su Qian followed him to a row of red-tiled ancestral halls at the entrance of the village. These ancestral halls were of different sizes and were arranged in rows.

Gao Ming found the innermost ancestral hall. There was a plaque with large gold words on it: Chen Clan Ancestral Hall. Su Qian followed him into the hall.

The man in charge of the ancestral hall was an old man who was in charge of the fruit offerings to the ancestors of the Chen family every day. After listening to the purpose of their visit, he casually looked up Gao Ming's family tree and finally found Chen Xiuxiu's name on a yellowed sheet of paper.

"Ah, I found it. This is the daughter of the Heavenly Ancestor who moved to Egret Village the earliest. She's nineteen years old and has been dead for many years." He held his reading glasses and read through the records as if he had just found out about this person. He pointed at a few lines of hard to understand words and flipped to another page before flipping back.

"How did she die?" Gao Ming asked.

The old man sighed softly and replied in a hoarse, worn voice: "It doesn't go into detail. It only says that she drowned herself on her wedding night in a lake."

"Mass grave?" Su Qian was slightly surprised and asked, "Is it the graveyard on the west side of the village?"

The old man nodded slowly, "That's right. All the children buried there died prematurely. The villagers said that the Yin Qi there was heavy, so no one worked there."

Su Qian looked at Gao Ming, who was thinking about it. After thinking for a while, he walked out of the ancestral hall with a serious face.

Su Qian could only thank the old man and catch up with Gao Ming. She asked in confusion, "Is there any connection between Chen Xiuxiu and Gao Yuan's disappearance?"

Gao Ming crossed his arms in front of his chest and put his other hand to his lips in thought. Hearing Su Qian's question, he slowly explained, "Although the rain is full of Yin Qi, ghosts that can appear during the day are definitely not weak. Think about it, if she can control all the ghosts in the mass grave, it means that she is the biggest here. If something happens to Gao Yuan, it's most likely related to her."

Su Qian felt that his analysis made some sense. As the saying went, a mountain could not hold two tigers, and after all this time, they had only met one evil spirit with strong Yin Qi.

"What should we do now?" Su Qian was still worried about Gao Yuan. The later they found him, the more dangerous it would be.

"What time is it now?" Gao Ming asked.

Su Qian opened her sleeves and looked at her watch, "It's almost two o'clock."

"It's 6 o'clock in the evening in the village. It's been raining for the past few days, so it might get dark earlier. Go back and tell Gao Zhenhui to take care of those little ghosts in the unmarked cemetery. I'll take care of that female ghost tonight."

His eyes were full of confidence as he turned back to the path and headed towards the lotus pond.

Su Qian was stunned for a moment, but she still chose to trust him without hesitation. So she spent half an hour to find Uncle Gao, who was running about in the east.

In Gao Ming's words, the bride who had died in her marriage was known as the Red Evil, and this type of evil spirit was extremely resentful and jealous. If someone were to reproduce what had happened to her before her death, it was very likely that they would be drawn out and Gao Ming would find an opportunity to get rid of them.

And this role was naturally played by Su Qian.

But they didn't have enough time to order anything from the market, so Su Qian had to put on the wedding dress that Gao Ming's mother had worn when she got married.