Story 14: Five Ghosts and Fortune (2)
Chen Xiao was about to take a taxi according to the address Zhao Xiaoming said, but as soon as he got into the taxi and reported the address to the driver, the driver gave him a strange look. I wanted to say anything but never said it, and Chen Xiao didn't notice the driver's abnormal behavior at all.
After arriving at the destination, Chen Xiao was afraid that he would not be able to get a taxi after the matter was done, so he wanted the driver to wait for him for a while, but the driver ignored it and drove away.
"It's sick!" He muttered a curse.
This is a section of the road that is still under development, and there are hardly any cars on the road. There are only rows of uncovered rough buildings, and I don't know if it's because of the night, there is no light on the construction site.
According to the address provided by Zhao Xiaoming, Chen Xiao found a villa that was considered completed. He looked at the house number: No. 65 Lianhua Road, Building 3, yes, here it is. He stepped forward and knocked on the door vigorously, but no one opened the door for a long time.
What's going on? Chen Xiao thought to himself, it won't be Zhao Xiaoming's grandson who is playing tricks on me, right? But I thought it was unlikely, so I kept knocking on the door. Who knew that this time he used too much force, and he actually pushed the door open. It's pitch black inside, and it's a little weird and scary. But for the sake of money, he still had the courage to go in......
"Anyone? It was Zhao Mingming who asked me to pick up something, is there anyone? He stood on the edge of darkness and cried for a long time, but no one answered him. Suddenly, a man's voice sounded in front of him: "Why did you come, I've been waiting for a long, long time." β
Chen Xiao thought to himself: Why have you been waiting for a long time? I came on time!
Hearing that there was someone in the room, his heart suddenly felt a lot more relieved, and the fear he had just now immediately decreased a lot.
The man said to Chen Xiao very politely, "Please come in." β
Chen Xiao looked at the environment in the room, because it was too dark and he couldn't see anything clearly. He said to the man, "Can you turn on the light?" β
The man said apologetically, "I'm sorry, because it's not finished yet, so there's no electricity yet." β
When Chen Xiao heard it, it turned out that this was the case. This Zhao Xiaoming didn't make things clear, and he was as mysterious as the underground party. He took out his phone from his pocket to light it up, but as soon as he opened it, there was no one in the place where the man's voice came from just now.
Strange! He looked to the side again, but there was still nothing. Chen Xiao couldn't help but shout: "Sir? Where are you? β
A faint voice sounded behind him: "I'm here......"
"Bang!" The door of the villa slammed shut, and no one had seen Chen Xiao since then.
Today is the day of the lottery, and Zhao Xiaoming sat by the TV early and waited. Looking at the small balls that popped out of the lottery machine one by one, his heart beat faster and faster, but fortunately, Zhao Xiaoming's heart was still healthy.
One hit! Two hits! Four hits! Hey? How can one be missing? only won a second-class general, but there are few people in the second prize this time, and 10 bets are just 5 million! Oh my God! Ha...... Ha...... Ha, Zhao Xiaoming laughed madly at home.
Zhao Xiaoming was in a state of extreme happiness, but he felt a little uneasy. There has been no news from Chen Xiao in the past few days, and I heard that his family has called the police. Alas! No matter! Since I have won the lottery, it means that the five ghosts are indeed reliable. The things I promised the five ghosts before, I have to do them one by one.
Since Zhao Xiaoming won the lottery, his life seems to be really different. His relationship with Bai Xiaoqiu is also developing rapidly...... It didn't take long for him to propose to her. He bought a three-bedroom house in the busiest section of the city center as a wedding home for the two of them.
He quit his job and bought a storefront not far from his home and opened a supermarket on a sizable scale. All of Zhao Xiaoming's lives seem to be developing towards the word consummation, including himself.
His and Bai Xiaoqiu's wedding was scheduled for three days later, which was a good day agreed by the old people on both sides. Seeing that the wedding date was approaching, Zhao Xiaoming couldn't be happy. Think of his wedding night, the candles in the cave...... And he was troubled. is like a flower-like bride, and he wants to let the old ghost who has been dead for hundreds of years be ruined, and his heart is as uncomfortable as frying and burning.
Suddenly, his mind moved. Who said that the candles in the cave room have to be placed on the wedding night? You can't afford to be cheap, that old ghost! That night, he made an appointment with Bai Xiaoqiu and invited her to have a very romantic French dinner together, during which Bai Xiaoqiu also drank some red wine. After the meal, Zhao Xiaoming offered to invite Bai Xiaoqiu, the bride-to-be, to inspect the new house, and the two were about to get married, and Bai Xiaoqiu had no reason to refuse at all.
After coming to the new house, Bai Xiaoqiu was already drunk. It didn't take long for Zhao Xiaoming to get to bed! Just as he was about to do something to his fiancΓ©e, a gust of wind blew open the closed window......
Zhao Xiaoming was shocked, but he still had the courage to get out of bed and close the window, but as soon as he got out of bed, his body couldn't move. He felt a biting coldness spread from the top of his head to his feet, and he didn't remember anything after that.
When Zhao Xiaoming woke up again, the sky lit up slightly. He glanced up at the wall clock on the wall, and it was 5 o'clock in the morning. For the memory of last night, Zhao Xiaoming only stayed at the moment when he went to close the window, and the rest of the matter was blank.
He turned his head to look at Bai Xiaoqiu, who was sleeping soundly beside him, and called her softly: "Xiaoqiu? β
Bai Xiaoqiu didn't react, this woman slept too dead, right? He nudged her again, but there was no response. Zhao Xiaoming suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart, he turned over Xiaoqiu's body violently and looked at it, and his heart chuckled.
Bai Xiaoqiu in front of him closed his eyes tightly, his face was pale, where was there still half of the breath of a living person? Zhao Xiaoming lifted the quilt hard, only to see that the snow-white sheets were already bloody!
"Xiaoqiu? Xiaoqiu? What happened to you? Zhao Xiaoming called out to Bai Xiaoqiu in shock and horror.
Suddenly, a cold voice sounded from the other side: "Stop screaming, she's already dead!" β
After Zhao Xiaoming heard this voice, the blood in his whole body coagulated. He slowly turned his head and saw the Qing Dynasty ghost standing upright in front of his bedside, looking at him gloomily.
"You, why are you here?" Out of fear and anger, he stuttered a little.
"I'm here to fulfill your promise to spend candles in the cave room before!" The ghost of the Qing Dynasty said unabashedly.
"That Xiaoqiu, Xiaoqiu, why did she die?"
The ghost of the Qing Dynasty pursed his lips and said: "This little lady is not perfect, the woman I hated the most in my life was the woman who hated the water-based poplar flower the most, and I couldn't get angry for a while, and I killed her by mistake." β
After Zhao Xiaoming heard this, his heart was as sad as ten thousand arrows piercing his heart, but he didn't dare to attack, so he had to say to the ghosts of the Qing Dynasty: "Great Immortal, how do you know that the current woman is not like in ancient times, and it is too normal to not be a virgin before marriage!" I really didn't expect that Xiaoqiu died because of this, and I was going to marry her the day after tomorrow, and now the bride died in my bed, what should you let me do? β
The ghost of the Qing Dynasty thought for a while and said, "This is not difficult to do. β
Zhao Xiaoming didn't understand the meaning of the ghost of the Qing Dynasty, and just wanted to ask again, only to hear Bai Xiaoqiu, who felt that he had been lying stiffly on the bed, suddenly moved. This frightened Zhao Xiaoming, thinking that Bai Xiaoqiu had cheated the corpse!
Who knew that after Bai Xiaoqiu sat up slowly, he moved his arms and legs, and then said to him: "Don't you live now." β
As soon as Zhao Xiaoming heard Bai Xiaoqiu open his mouth to speak, it turned out to be the voice of a ghost in the Qing Dynasty, and he immediately rolled his eyes and fainted. The wedding was held as scheduled, and the guests who came to attend the wedding on the same day all found that Bai Xiaoqiu at the wedding was very different! But it's not clear what the difference is. In short, it's a little weird, which makes the relatives and friends who came to the cave room not make a fuss, and left stupidly.
A few days after getting married, Bai Xiaoqiu was on the way back to her parents' house when she was hit by a speeding car on the spot. When he was taken to the hospital, the doctor in the emergency room took one look at it and shouted, "Why did you bring in a corpse?" β
Zhao Xiaoming's life should have been developing in a good direction, but Bai Xiaoqiu's unexpected death made Zhao Xiaoming find that his life seemed to be going downhill again. The five ghosts asked him to do two, and he was short of the casino covenant of the whispering ghost and the two-year longevity of the two dumb ghosts. The latter, Zhao Xiaoming, didn't know when they would come to pick it up, but the former still got his wish quickly, and he could feel at ease.
In the eyes of outsiders, Zhao Xiaoming has recently lost his will because of the "accidental loss of his wife", and he frequently appears in several private casinos in the local area. At the beginning, he always won big and won very much, but in the end, he always lost everything. Squandered all the money that could have been enough for him to live a good life for a few years.
Zhao Xiaoming has this hatred in his heart, he finally knows what nonsense is, this whispering ghost has no life to win money at all, he didn't have it when he was alive, and he didn't have it when he died. Now he's losing almost all of his cash......
But fortunately, the property and the supermarket are there, anyway, what he promised them now, he needs to do it himself, and he has done almost it, and the remaining two are what he is waiting for the five ghosts to do.
Because he didn't know when the two dumb ghosts would take their two years of longevity, Zhao Xiaoming was always at ease. His supermarket is running quite well, and within a few years he has opened three chain stores.
After that, he married another wife and gave birth to a big fat boy, but he still felt empty in his heart and lived so unsteadily! On this day, he came out of his supermarket and was confronted by an old lady. He looked a little familiar, and suddenly remembered, isn't this Chen Xiao's mother?
Thinking of Chen Xiao, Zhao Xiaoming's heart was inevitably a little strange, although he owed himself money first, but after all, it was a human life, just because of three thousand yuan, it was too worthless!
He stepped forward and took the initiative to greet Chen's mother, but the old lady didn't recognize Zhao Xiaoming for a while. When he explained that he was Chen Xiao's classmate, her eyes were a little red. It turned out that they hadn't found Chen Xiao all these years, and they didn't know whether he was alive or dead. The old lady was all her son, living in a place where they couldn't find him, and she didn't want to think he was dead.
Seeing off the Empress Dowager Chen, Zhao Xiaoming's heart was a little panicked, it seemed that the matter of the year was still not over for a long time. "Is Chen Xiao really dead?" He was also troubled by this question for a long time, but the final answer was yes, because he didn't believe that the coarse ghost would let Chen Xiao go.
Zhao Xiaoming's baby son was about to go to elementary school, but on this day, his wife suddenly called and said: My son is sick! When I went to the hospital for an examination, the doctor said that it was leukemia. This is really a bolt from the blue for Zhao Xiaoming!
However, his son's illness could not be delayed, and in order to raise money for medicine, he sold several supermarkets in his hand at extremely low prices. But my son's medical expenses are still like running water, and it won't be enough for a long time!
There was no way, he sold his house again, but it could only last for a while. Relatives and friends persuaded him to give up, but every time he saw his lovely son, he felt a heartache like a knife.
As a dad, how can you tell him to give up? Now the only thing that can save my son is money...... Thinking of this, he quickly went home and rummaged through the cabinets and found the yellow charm that the blind man gave him back then. He used one back then, and now Zhao Xiaoming still has two in his hand.
He thought it would be impossible for him to use it again in this life! Because every time he uses it, the price he has to pay is too great. But now, for the sake of his son, he has to use it again!
At midnight, Zhao Xiaoming, as he did back then, set up an incense case in the northwest corner of his home, on which were placed five porcelain bowls filled with rice, lit five incense sticks, punctured his middle finger, dripped blood on a spiritual talisman, burned it with fire, and waited for the five ghosts to come.
After a while, the five ghosts really came, and this time it was a little different from the five ghosts who came last time. Apparently the Rough Whisper was gone, replaced by a short, emaciated man. Zhao Xiaoming never saw the appearance of this new ghost clearly, but he saw that his figure was a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it.
The first to speak was a whispered ghost: "Boy, we meet again!" Tell me, what kind of gold and silver treasure do you want this time? β
Zhao Xiaoming said firmly: "I want to win 5 million!" β
"Still the same as last time?" The whisper asked.
Zhao Xiaoming nodded and said, "Yes, just like last time, I want to win the lottery." β
The whispering ghost shook his head and said with a smile: "I said boy, you still owe the dumb people two years of yang life last time, and they haven't taken it yet!" Are you willing to exchange Yang Shou now? β
Zhao Xiaoming was a little hesitant, but thinking about his son, he nodded vigorously and said, "Change!" β
"Okay, then let's talk ugly in front, this time each of us wants you to have a year's longevity, do you agree?" The whisper asked smugly.
"Agreed!"
"Okay, refreshing! Deal. β
The next day,Zhao Xiaoming couldn't wait to come to the lottery station,Buy a note that day has a color. Unexpectedly, I won the first prize in the lottery that night - 5 million.
Zhao Xiaoming took the fastest time to complete the formalities and take the money. His son was finally saved. After several matchings, he finally found a stem cell donor who was suitable for his son. After my son's surgery, he recovered very quickly, and he was finally able to go to school like a normal child.
But the good times didn't last long, and during this time, Zhao Xiaoming always felt a sore back. I went to the hospital a few times, and I didn't come out of nowhere, but the situation got worse and worse......
He himself also felt that something was wrong with him, his hair was originally thick, but now he fell off one by one at every turn, and his face was also gray and gray, no matter how he looked at it, it didn't look like the face of a man in his early 30s. I feel very tired every day, and I will be out of breath after walking a few more steps. I feel like I'm ten years older!
Could it be that they took away their 7 years of yang life?
To be continued