A Guest In A Ghost House - Chapter 221 The Past of The Pool

According to Huang Xiaolong, even those people, who were successful in practicing Taoism, could only delay their aging and lived for a little longer time. It was impossible to always keep the age of about 20 years old.

What puzzled me most was that Li Guihua’s appearance would not get old, but she still dared to appear in a small town, and even was recorded as a strange story. You have to know that the people like her probably would be regarded as ghosts or monsters in those days. However, it seemed that Li Guihua even still lived a good life.

Nonetheless, it was useless to think more now. As long as we got to that pool, we may find out the truth. After all, the possibility that Li Guihua was the nine lifetimes of ghost was the greatest.

When we set off, we told nobody, just me, Wu Jian and Huang Xiaolong. Although such a combination made me very worried, I thought she would not do anything to his son-in-law, if Li Guihua was really the ninth lifetime of ghost.

We didn’t wait until the night in this time and we got to the pool during the day. There seemed to be nothing special about the pool during the day. The water of the pool was very clear but there were no those creatures like fish or shrimp. We found nothing strange, let alone Ni Min’s whereabouts.

Wu Jian walked round the small pool and then tiredly asked Huang Xiaolong, rubbing his temple, “Have you found anything?”

Huang Xiaolong was bending over and inserting three sticks of incense on the ground. The smoke curled up. After hearing the question of Wu Jian, he shook his head and said strangely, “No, there even are no bones under the pool.”

Huang Xiaolong said it very unbelievably. I didn’t know what method he used to be sure that there were no bones under the pool, but now I could only trust his judgment.

My earliest judgement was that the bones of the nine lifetimes of ghost was under the pool, but now he said there was nothing, so I didn’t know what to do next for a moment. After thinking for a long time, an idea suddenly flashed through my mind and then I asked Wu Jian, “Do you remember that old man?”

Wu Jian was a little stunned and his eyes suddenly became bright, “The one we met by the pool?”

I nodded my head. Then Wu Jian began to walk back and forth, muttering to himself, “Yeah, yeah, the old man. What’s his name? His name is…is…His name is Lin Mu. Right! Lin Mu.”

Wu Jian said loudly, “Let’s go to find him.”

I interrupted him, saying, “Whatever. We should find the old man first. After that, we could talk about other thing.”

Having made up our mind, we took actions separately. Huang Xiaolong and I followed the direction in which the trees appeared last time, while Wu Jian would use his own identity to find the administrative staff of the scenic spot and ask them for some information. During this period of time, we kept in touch by the phone at any time.

Although the position of the pool was within the scope of the scenic area, it had not been developed at all. Huang Xiaolong and I could only walk hard in the bushes, but fortunately this area hadn’t been developed and there were many traces left in the trees. Besides, it seemed that they weren’t left by only one time and it also indicated that Lin Mu often went to the pool from this path.

It also much proved that it was very possible to find the shelter of Lin Mu along this path.

The terrain was all the way up here and we should be climbing the mountain. I didn’t know how far we had walked and a precipitous mountain suddenly appeared, so there was no path.

Huang Xiaolong and I just took a look at each other and then I said, “It should be right here.”

Huang Xiaolong just nodded his head. In front of us appeared something that clearly didn’t belong here, a dilapidated reclining chair, whose supporting legs were broken and were tied with a grass vine by someone.

Huang Xiaolong planned to search along the cliff. My way was even more simple that I directly yelled, “Lin Mu.”

Obviously, my way was more efficient. Not long after, the trees beside us began to shake and a familiar man came down from the trees, and that was Lin Mu. He still looked like the same as we first saw him, whose dress was broken and dirty but face and hair were very clean.

At this time, Lin Mu held a few pine cones in hand. When he saw us, instead of feeling surprised, he just put pine cones in a pocket at his waist, then sighed and greeted us, “Follow me.”

Obviously, he knew what we were here to do. I blinked at Huang Xiaolong. He walked in the front and I made a phone call to Wu Jian in the back, telling him our location and asking him to come as soon as possible.

Lin Mu led us into a dry cave and motioned us to sit down. I observed the cave carefully and found it was not deep. Besides, there were many man-made traces, which should not be formed naturally. In addition, in the cave put a simple seat. At a glance, I knew it was made by himself because its look was very ugly.

I and Huang Xiaolong sat together opposite Lin Mu. When he saw us on alert, he laughed, “You guys don’t have to be so nervous.”

Huang Xiaolong and I didn’t answer him, just looking at him and waiting for his explanation to us.

When Lin Mu saw we didn’t answer him, he just shook his head, served both of us tees, then sat down and said, “Alas, nine lifetimes of ghost. I would never think of it. Now I am old and this could be an excuse, but in the past, when I was young, I even see it wrong.”

I could never understand his words and only could sat there. Lin Mu seemed also to sigh. Then he picked up his weird water cup, drank the water and continued to said.

“At that time, ah, I was still young and probably not much older than you, but I was already one of the best masters in the South. Catching a ghost or something was a very easy thing to me.”

“I was young, passionate, skillful and bold at that time and I even felt there was no ghost I couldn’t catch in this world. Once upon a time, I was curious to hear others talk about this glowing pool, and then I also came to have a look.”

“At that time, there was a girl dancing on the pool, who was about 20 years old. She was really beautiful. Well, although she didn’t offend me and also didn’t hurt someone, I always thought that if someone was dancing, she was seducing me. Accordingly, I decided to perish this ghost I had never seen.”

“That girl even persuaded me to leave and told me that she had never hurt anyone. However, I would never believe what these ghosts said and thought I must catch her today. As a result, after I took actions, I found she was wronged ghost. Hey Hey, if the wronged ghost wanted to find that one who had wrongly accuse him, even the Hades would protect him. I should have left it at the time, but I had taken some actions. I also didn’t catch her. If I just left, I would lose my face. Ah, young man.”

“At that time, I planned to catch her first and then let her go. Therefore, I also could save my face. But, after a few days of fighting, I couldn’t even catch this ghost. Not only didn’t I catch her, but also I was beat by her very seriously.”