Chapter 51 Can I use ghost money to settle?
Facing Liu Haoyu’s questioning, Qin Liu was unable to answer for a moment.
The life of a ghost exorcist is inherently precarious, and death can come at any time.
Perhaps Liu Haoyu could only live for five years? Ten years? Or less than a year?
As Qin Liu was stunned, Liu Haoyu stepped on his cigarette butt and returned to the house with a flourish.
Even so, it could still be seen that his heart might not be as calm and composed as it appeared on the surface.
When Qin Liu returned to the room, she saw the man pick up his bowl of white rice again.
He didn’t eat any dishes, and just shoveled the rice into his mouth, bite by bite.
Finally, Qin Liu couldn’t stand it anymore.
“Why don’t you have some dishes…” Qin Liu said, and then suddenly felt something was wrong. She added again: “There are too many dishes made by that girl, and I can’t finish them all. Besides, they will go bad if left here. You should eat them.”
“Oh?”
Liu Haoyu did not expect Qin Liu to be so proactive. If it were before, she should have been very resistant.
“First of all! I didn’t eat any of it!”
Perhaps sensing Liu Haoyu’s confused gaze, Qin Liu’s face turned a little red at this moment.
“Is that so?”
Liu Haoyu didn’t think too much about it and casually picked up a chicken leg from the altar and started gnawing on it.
Only the chicken leg had been eaten!
Qin Liu’s eyes were a little vacant at this moment.
After a while, Liu Haoyu finished all the food and dishes on the altar. After he was full, he washed all the bowls and chopsticks and put them aside.
Seeing that he was full, Qin Liu asked again.
“Speaking of which, is it really okay for you to do this?”
Anyone with eyes could see that Deng Xiaolin definitely had a good impression of Liu Haoyu, and even thought of him very highly.
Although Qin Liu also knew that she and Liu Haoyu were not even considered friends, she still tried to advise him.
“You must also like her quite a bit, right?”
Facing Qin Liu’s question, Liu Haoyu wanted to light a cigarette, but found that he had run out. So he simply sat on the bed and said.
“I’m also a normal man. If I said I didn’t like it, you wouldn’t believe me.
But precisely because I am a man, I cannot make excessive promises to anyone.
In our line of work, death can come at any time, just like Elder Deng’s companions, who might suddenly die at home one day. This not only harms oneself but also implicates their families.
I have long since put life and death aside, but being with me will only harm her.”
Liu Haoyu’s voice was a little low, and his mature gaze, which far surpassed his peers, moved Qin Liu.
Even so, she still tentatively said.
“Then… why don’t you quit this profession? It doesn’t pay much, does it?”
Yes, after understanding these days, Qin Liu knew that Liu Haoyu was not a ghost exorcist with official background.
He had a salary, but this salary was more like a commission, with very uncertain income, sometimes more, sometimes less.
So doing this line of work…
To put it nicely, it was called dedication.
To put it bluntly, it was purely working for free.
No wonder Elder Deng would advise Liu Haoyu to quit this profession. Extremely dangerous, day and night shifts, and unstable pay. If any of these three were present in a normal job, people would shy away from it.
And ghost exorcists had all three.
What was Liu Haoyu persisting for?
To this, Liu Haoyu did not give an answer. The young man just smiled.
“Isn’t it because I heard that female ghosts are quite pretty?”
No one knew whether Liu Haoyu was joking or speaking the truth.
Even Qin Liu could not discern it, and as she was thinking.
Liu Haoyu continued to speak.
“So, dear Miss Qin Liu, shouldn’t you show yourself so I can see you?”
Qin Liu did not expect Liu Haoyu to be so disreputable so quickly, and then she gave him a sideways glance.
“Pah! I’m standing in front of you now. If you can’t see me, it’s your problem, not mine.”
“I can only see if I have enough spiritual sight.”
Liu Haoyu shrugged. At this moment, Qin Liu felt that this man was still quite sad, and his expressed disreputability was probably just a disguise.
People like to put on a disguise for themselves, and Liu Haoyu was no exception… perhaps?
“By the way, I plan to visit Zhu Xingxue’s house again tomorrow. Do you want to come?”
Faced with Liu Haoyu’s invitation, Qin Liu actually wanted to refuse.
But she was just a ghost who couldn’t leave the house, and if she wanted to go out, she needed someone to bring the Hong Yu with her.
After carefully considering, Qin Liu said to Liu Haoyu.
“Yes, but after this is done, I want to go to Jiangliu City.”
“You want to go to Jiangliu City?”
Liu Haoyu did not expect Qin Liu to take the initiative to go out, so he couldn’t help but ask out of curiosity.
“What are you going to do in Jiangliu City?”
“It’s not that I’m going to do anything in particular. I just want to stroll around, look around, and buy some food.”
For Qin Liu, staying in this house all the time was a bit boring and tedious.
Especially after eating delicious food just now, she naturally wanted to see if there were any other delicacies in the city.
After becoming a ghost, she didn’t have to worry about going to work or going to school. Life was actually quite leisurely.
“Buy food? Do you have any money?”
“No, and even if I did, I couldn’t use it,” Qin Liu’s gaze fell on Liu Haoyu, looking at the silent man, “I’m counting on you to buy it.”
“…”
“You can’t expect me to work for nothing, can you?”
Liu Haoyu looked at his empty wallet.
“Can I use ghost money to settle?”
“No!”
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“Officer Li Rongjun, the two missing university students have been found, at Zhu Xingxue’s home.”
At the Public Security Bureau, a heroic female police officer stood in front of Li Rongjun and handed him a thick stack of documents and photos.
Taking these photos, Li Rongjun took a look.
One was Wang Qiang’s head, preserved as cured meat.
One was Sima Cai’s head, found under a table that had been split in half, just like the table.
The bodies were not found, only two piles of ashes were found in the underground cellar.
DNA identification confirmed that they matched the DNA of these two university students.
What was even more terrifying was that the murderer who killed Zhu Xingxue’s entire family and the two university students had not been found to this day.
No traces could be found in that house at all.
Even the murder weapon was unknown. The deceased were torn apart by hand and their heads were torn off.
Li Rongjun rubbed his temples.
Beside him, a female police officer named Li Suqin said with a pounding heart.
“This is truly bizarre…”
She collected the photos again and took another look. The female police officer frowned slightly and said.
“I don’t know what’s going on, but there have been more and more unsolved cases like this recently, making it impossible to figure out.”
Li Rongjun clenched his fists and fell into thought. Various guesses flashed through his mind, and finally, he seemed to have locked onto a possibility.
“Suqin, do you believe that… there are ghosts in this world?”
