Chapter 91: 91

91 "Rhino Horn Fragrance?"

After saying that, Lan Yi felt the direction of the cold air seemed to blow toward her.

She pulled her jacket close, "Let's eat quickly, the dishes will get cold in a moment."

After finishing their meal, Lan Yi and her friends left the cafeteria.

The man seated at that table didn't move, watching them leave the whole time.

Across the aisle, Tushan Jiu was eating happily.

"Sister-in-law, is this enough? If not, I'll go buy another plate for you."

Xie Jingting and Xie Jingzhou, who were about to drive back to the ancestral home, received the news that Tushan Jiu was coming to South University, and hurried over.

Tushan Jiu didn't have a cafeteria card for South University, and topping up would require a long queue; she was too lazy, so she dragged the two of them to eat braised pork with small potatoes.

Hearing Xie Jingting ask her, she raised a hand and waved it, saying, "Enough, enough, I'll be full soon."

"Sister-in-law, did you come specially just to eat?"

This time it was Xie Jingzhou who asked her.

Tushan Jiu shook her head, "No, I have something to do."

As she spoke, she also glanced at the man across the aisle.

Xie Jingzhou caught her small movement, thinking: See, he just knew.

Following her gaze, he looked over and only saw a cleaning aunt wiping the table across the aisle, with no one else there besides her.

Xie Jingzhou felt he now understood; Tushan Jiu's coming guaranteed she was going to see a ghost.

So he asked again, "Sister-in-law, do you need our help?"

By help he meant showing the way or finding someone, that sort of thing.

Tushan Jiu knew the younger brother was sharper, so he must have figured it out.

She scooped the last little potato into her mouth, chewed and swallowed, then said, "A year ago, there was an acute murder case at South University; you've probably heard of it, right?"

Xie Jingzhou had heard of that incident, because it caused South University's enrollment rate to drop by 0.1 percent.

"I've heard that it started because a male student obsessively pursued a female senior, and that female senior had a childhood sweetheart boyfriend who was outstanding.

Then that male student was a bit obsessive; even knowing the female senior had a boyfriend, he refused to give up and instead intensified his sexual harassment of her.

On the day of the incident, it's said that the male student cornered the female senior in the school's equipment room, trying to force her to agree to him, but then the female senior's boyfriend found out and rushed over to find her.

The two ended up in an argument, started fighting, and nobody expected that the male student actually had a knife in his pocket..."

Xie Jingzhou didn't continue with the rest, because the incident was quite bloody.

The female senior's boyfriend was stabbed over ten times by that man, one of the wounds being fatal to the heart, and he died on the spot.

Because of this, the female senior took a year off from school; otherwise she would have graduated last year.

Moreover, the point is, he heard that the female senior's boyfriend had already proposed to her, agreeing that they would marry after graduation.

Who would have thought that only a few months apart, it turned into a tragic separation of life and death, yin and yang.

The deceased senior was actually a professor, and that professor had also mentioned him, saying he was excellent, and if the incident hadn't happened, he would surely have achieved something.

Tushan Jiu nodded, "Yeah, that's right, that's the incident; your female senior's boyfriend is sitting over there."

Xie Jingzhou was surprised, turned his head and looked over again.

Well, he couldn't see it.

Beside him, Xie Jingting was lowering his head to reply to a message, half hearing, half not.

Not knowing what the person on the other end of the phone said, he let out a laugh.

Both Tushan Jiu and Xie Jingzhou looked toward him.

He raised his head, gave an embarrassed, silly laugh twice, shifted his focus, and asked, "You brought a knife, then what?"

Tushan Jiu smiled faintly, answered his question: "The female senior's boyfriend was killed by that emotionally agitated madman, and now that boyfriend is sitting at the neighboring table."

Xie Jingting's smile froze, his hand gripping the phone instinctively tightening: "Just, just right there, next to us?"

Tushan Jiu didn't lie, so she nodded.

Xie Jingzhou was worse, tilted his head that way and said, "He's staring at you."

Xie Jingting felt awful, his body went rigid, his Adam's apple rolled, and he hard swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

He held his phone and silently sent a voice message: "Fang Qingyi, you finally replied to my message; I need your comfort now, I'm about to see a ghost again!"

After saying that, he didn't forget to send a pitiful, scared expression.

Xie Jingzhou: "..."

Alright, it seems his courage is growing.

Xie Jingzhou glanced around; there were still many students eating in the second cafeteria, and he thought, this is probably also why the sister-in-law didn't act right away.

Indeed, Tushan Jiu can't act to catch him right now.

Too many people would cause panic, especially now in the internet age; if it were filmed and posted online, handling it would also be troublesome.

So the timing isn't right; we still need to wait a bit.

While they were talking, the man over there made a move.

He stood up and walked toward the cafeteria exit.

Outside, the sun hadn't fully set yet, and he was also smart, walking along the shady parts of the buildings.

Occasionally passing through places without shade, he would wait for someone to pass by, then use their shadow to dash quickly past.

Of course, he would sometimes get sunburned, but he only frowned slightly and then sped up to glide past.

Tushan Jiu, Xie Jingzhou, and Xie Jingting each held a cup of milk tea as they followed behind.

Just now, Xie Jingzhou asked Tushan Jiu if he could also look at that senior; Tushan Jiu said it was a trivial matter.

She took out a small stick of incense from her bracelet.

Pinching the seal and chanting the spell, the incense lit itself without fire.

The white smoke had a very strange smell.

Tushan Jiu took the incense and fumigated Xie Jingzhou.

Then Xie Jingzhou's vision changed.

Tushan Jiu pointed at the male student walking ahead in the shade and said, "Here, that's him."

Xie Jingzhou felt very surprised.

The previous two times he saw ghosts, it was because the ghost had already manifested, so he could see it.

This was still the first time he had seen something by opening the Technique.

He turned his head to look at the incense in Tushan Jiu's hand, his eyes full of curiosity.

Tushan Jiu's forehead twitched; she quickly blew a breath to put out the burning incense, swooped her hand back, and said, "This won't do—this can't be casually researched; this is rhino horn incense, very precious."

"Rhino horn incense?"

"Um, have you heard that saying? 'Raw rhino horn cannot be burned; when burned, the incense is strange; attached to clothing, one can speak with ghosts.' We can only obtain this once a year, just one stalk at a time."

"After all, in this day and age, where could one still find a heavenly rhino? Even if there were, it's a state‑protected animal—who would dare to saw off a rhino's horn?"

Xie Jingzhou first stared in surprise; it was rare to see his sister‑in‑law so stingy, and he couldn't help laughing as he said, "Sister‑in‑law, I'm not a research maniac—I'm just curious. Besides, even if I got it, I wouldn't be able to figure it out."

Tushan Jiu let out a breath, patted her chest, and said, "That's good—otherwise, if you keep talking, I might relent and scrape some off for you; then if you don't want it, it's fine. Having the incense on you for a few hours is no problem—let's go."

Xie Jingzhou: "......"

"Thanks, but you don't have to be so blunt about it."