254. A glimmer of life
Life should be a masterpiece, and death is also a ghost.
Chai Rongsheng used to think so.
That's what he's always done.
In the first forty years of Chai Rongsheng's life, the people he killed could be piled up into a mountain. There are good people and bad people in it, Chinese with the same origin as him, and foreigners.
In his limited memory, since childhood, he was a ruthless man.
That's what the man who picked him up said it.
Chai Rongsheng can't remember his parents and hometown anymore, and he has been taken home by that man when he can remember. The man said that he bought it back for five yuan, but Chai Rongsheng thought that he was deceived by this man.
The man had thirty or forty children with his mother and wife, some big and some young, and they all called him daddy. However, Chai Rongsheng felt that these children were deceived by him, and the so-called mother and wife may also be deceived. Because who has ever seen a son beat his mother? Just because he didn't make meat for him to eat?
In those days, people were inferior to dogs. can have a bite to eat, a tile to live in, even if it is a pig or a dog, there are people who are willing.
Men bring their children back every day, both male and female, large and young. Occasionally, the little ones will be sent by him to be adopted sons, and the big girls will also be recognized by him as godparents, or pretend to be girls from his hometown, and send them to be girls and maids. But most of them didn't know where he had been sent, and they never returned.
In men's homes, older boys and girls have to work every day, and younger children have to go to the streets every day to "work" as beggars, thieves, or wait at the door of restaurants and theaters to deliver news.
No matter how they are beaten and scolded by men, they will still come home obediently at night. Because you can sleep here, and you can be killed if you sleep on the street.
Chai Rongsheng was not as pitiful as his "brothers and sisters".
First of all, he is good-looking. With red lips and white teeth, the man said that he looked like a young master.
Secondly, he is smart. The man would teach the children to roll the dice and draw cards, and he learned quickly and well, and he was born to pretend, and his face was never seen through what cards he was holding.
The man loved him even more, recognized him as a godson, and took him to the casino every time he went back, and when he got to the card table, he pretended to be a gentleman, and took his son, who was only four or five years old, out to visit the casino and tobacco house, and held Chai Rongsheng on the table, and then coaxed his son to "touch a card for your father" and "throw a handful for your father".
After Chai Rongsheng learned to change cards and roll dice, he became a man's darling, not only did he not have to be beaten every day, he could eat with a man at every meal, and he could eat a guest of ice cream when he went to the casino.
In the end, Chai Rongsheng's heart was particularly ruthless.
That's what the man said.
That was once, Chai Rongsheng was found stealing cards, and the people in the casino immediately caught the man, and then shouted Chai Rongsheng to go home and ask the adult to take money to ransom "his father".
This man's previous family is estimated to be indeed rich, and some of his outfits are old things, such as suits, shoes, top hats, pocket watches, wrenches, etc., all of which are genuine. And men have never exchanged these outfits for money, in the words of men, this is called an upside-down donkey.
So the casino really thought that this man was a loser, and caught the big one and let the small one go. They told Chai Rongsheng that they had to come back with the money within an hour, otherwise they would cut off a man's finger half an hour later.
The man's face was pale, his face was covered with cold sweat, it was the name he gave Chai Rongsheng, and he also followed his surname. In good conscience, this man may not be good to others, but not bad to Chai Rongsheng.
He said to Chai Rongsheng in a trembling voice: "Rongsheng, go find your mother and let your mother come." ”
Chai Rongsheng nodded and ran out.
But when he ran home, he didn't tell the woman and her mother that the man had been caught by the casino and asked them to ransom him. He knew that the man wanted to pay the woman to the casino, and if it wasn't enough, there were several of his "daughters" at home. Casinos always need a lady's.
What he told the woman was that the man had lost a gamble at the casino and was going to sell her to the casino so that she and her mother could run away.
The woman cried with her mother, did not dare to delay the time, stole some men's money and fled, and did not take any of the children with her.
Chai Rongsheng didn't care about the others, took the opportunity to hide some money, and then waited for dawn to go to the casino.
And the man had been stripped naked and thrown in the street, with only two of his ten fingers left, all his teeth knocked out, his face beaten like a pig's head, and his whole body without a good piece of skin. He was still conscious, and he cried when he saw Chai Rongsheng.
Chai Rongsheng said that the woman and her mother had fled, and the money had been stolen.
The man wanted to scold but didn't have the strength, so he asked Chai Rongsheng to find someone on the street and send him home.
Chai Rongsheng deliberately left the door open, and most of the children in this courtyard heard what he said to the mother and daughter at night. So when the man comes home, he finds that the house has been emptied.
The man was furious, but it was too late to get angry. He was too seriously injured, and his home was stolen again, and even the only child he picked up was Chai Rongsheng. He had no choice but to coax Chai Rongsheng to ask for a doctor and take medicine for him.
The man hid money in more than one place, and after he asked Chai Rongsheng to go out, he took out some money from other places where he hid money, handed it to Chai Rongsheng, and asked him to grab medicine, buy food, buy firewood, and buy water.
He couldn't move, and of course he couldn't hit anyone, and he couldn't do anything other than take the medicine bowl and throw firewood at Rongsheng. And when his illness was about to recover, Chai Rongsheng changed his medicine.
In this way, the man lay in bed for four years.
In the end, the man also understood, knowing that Chai Rongsheng didn't want him to be good, he avoided Chai Rongsheng to hide the money, even if he didn't dare to fall asleep at night, for fear that the last life-saving money would be stolen by Chai Rongsheng.
And Chai Rongsheng is slowly growing up, and when he is twelve years old, he is already like an adult who is familiar with the street.
Men have aged terribly in the past few years. The finger he had been cut off at that time, although it was later raised, but it was really painful at that time, and the doctor asked him to smoke opium to relieve the pain, and the man couldn't afford to smoke it, so he smoked a few dollars, the kind of smoke was not good, the smoke was choking, but it was cheap, and the man was smoking every day in bed at that time, and he didn't even bother to eat food and medicine. Chai Rongsheng let him not eat, not take medicine, only smoke. After so many years, the man's body has been ruined.
It's not that the man doesn't understand, when he is short of money, he can only boil hard, and it is not the first time to hit his head against the wall, but after the collision, as long as there is a cigarette, he forgets everything.
Until now, he can't even get out of bed, his urine and urine are pulled in the quilt, and when life is worse than death, he cried to Chai Rongsheng and begged, "You spare my life"
"Rong Sheng, Brother Rong...... Your name is still my name, you call me Daddy! You're treating me like this, aren't you afraid of retribution?! ”
"Brother Rong, your heart is so ruthless...... I'm not bad for you...... Other people's fathers still beat their children, from you to me, have I moved a finger from you? You have so many brothers, sisters, brothers and sisters, even your mother and I beat me three times a day, and you hurt me like this......"
Until he died, he hated Chai Rongsheng.
But on the street, Chai Rongsheng's reputation is very good.
The neighborhood knows what a man is, since he was thrown out of the casino, his wife and children have run away, and there is only one Chai Rongsheng waiting for him, waiting for five or six years, until the man is returned to the West, isn't this a good person? What a loyal child.
After the man died, Chai Rongsheng took out an old porcelain urinal from under the bed where he slept, which was full of yellow-black urine dirt, and he smashed the urinal, but there were five or six pieces of gold and two jade wrenches hidden in it.
In order to deceive him, the man had no money, and he could stay up for four or five days without smoking, until Chai Rongsheng came back from outside to take money to support him.
Chai Rongsheng knows that a man can toss as much as he wants, and it is his own life that is tossed anyway.
After the man's death, Chai Rongluan inherited the man's surname and family openly, he repaired the family tree for the man, and wrote his name on the man's descendants, as for the mother, it was the woman who ran away.
He didn't go to the school, but invited an old show to teach him a class, learned a good hand, and began to go out to cheat.
Chai Rongsheng admitted much later that the man still left a deep impact on him. So he had the opportunity to go to school at that time, come out to find a job, and be an upright person. But he still went down, full of ghost ideas, and only wanted to get something for nothing.
At the beginning, he was also like a man, pretending to be a down-and-out son, deceiving the ladies who escaped from home under the influence of the spirit of the new era at that time, eating and drinking their food. There were a lot of people like him in Shanghai at that time. But what makes him better than those men is that he doesn't cheat sex, only money. And he doesn't deceive the locals, he deceives girls from other places. Rabbits don't eat the grass next to the nest.
This caution allowed his "career" to last for a long time, until he bumped into a red lady who was planning to go ashore.
At that time, he was only eighteen years old, and he was polished by Lao Xiucai and read a belly of ancient texts, and he looked like an old-fashioned son who did not eat fireworks in the world. Miss Hong loves him to the bone, seeing that he "does not admire wealth and is content with poverty", she is afraid that he will dislike him, so she never dares to show her true face in front of him, pretending to be a young widow and widow, and secretly helping him, and the two are getting better for a while. It wasn't until Miss Hong wanted to marry him, and he didn't want to marry, that the two separated.
The results were both unexpected and reasonable.
Miss Hong found another person to go ashore, was cheated out of her money, and committed suicide by swallowing opium.
After Chai Rongsheng learned about this, he had the idea of avenging others for the first time. He bought incense candles and red paper from the street, wrote down the eight characters of the two of them, burned them to the Immortal King, and married Miss Hong.
He refused to marry Miss Hong, to put it bluntly, it was also a very boring and ridiculous insistence: because he felt that he had no parents and no background, the name Chai Rongsheng was married to him by a liar, and if he married a wife, it was tantamount to deceiving people.
Miss Hong came to sleep that night.
She called him with a flushed face: Brother Rong......
Chai Rongsheng said: I will avenge you, and I must die for him!
Miss Hong whispered: I tell you a secret, he hid the money under the portrait of the Lord of the Stove, there are more than a dozen gold bars, you go and take them out.
Chai Rongsheng told the family of the young lady he was cheating, and sure enough, he saw this person die on the street soon after. After that, Chai Rongsheng moved to the house he rented before his death and dug up gold bars.
Then, he found a new way to make money.
Chai Rongsheng found that it was easier to make money from the dead than from the living, so he was out of control from then on. He avenges the ghost, and then quietly sweeps away the dead man's money. gradually entered the door, and then through this hand, he turned to the name of ghosts, looking for living people to cheat money, and became a master. He deceives rich people, because he can attract ghosts, talk to ghosts and tell them about intimate things, and eight or nine times out of ten, he can bluff people. There are also people who are hunted down and killed because of this.
Miss Hong has been his ghost wife for several years, and she has also recruited a lot of ghost servants for him, but she disappeared at some point. At that time, Chai Rongsheng already had dozens of ghost servants, and his feelings for Miss Hong were not as good as before, but for these ghosts, it was Miss Hong who really invested in his feelings, and since Miss Hong, it was no different from pigs and dogs in his eyes.
In order to resist ghosts, he learned a lot of methods, and he used both grace and power. If it doesn't suit his wishes, his soul will be gone. Ghosts are ignorant, not as good as the living, and they will not resent even if they dissipate. There are also evil spirits that make him suffer.
It's a lifetime in the blink of an eye.
Chai Rongsheng did all the evil things in the first half of his life, but he wanted to be a good person in the second half of his life. He married a wife, who, like Miss Hong, had a small mole on her brow.
Giving birth to a child, whether it is a man or a woman, is very loving. Sons and grandchildren, and when he closed his eyes, he was satisfied to see that his children and grandchildren were all around him.
But he also knew how terrible the demons he left behind were. He was reluctant to take this road with his own blood, and specially confessed again and again before he died. As a result, when he closed his eyes, none of his children and grandchildren did what he said.
The ghost did not disperse, and his spirit could not move.
He watched his children and grandchildren suffer and was helpless.
The worst thing is that these stupid children actually found someone else to come to the tomb.
That's the one in this town.
What he left behind was not the town's, but the one that sustained his soul. This reversal made him suffer a lot.
Until this time, the people who came to the town tomb sent a spirit snake!
The spirit snake was born with evil energy, and it was extremely pure, as soon as it was released, it washed away the demons on Chai Rongsheng's body, and also liberated Chai Rongsheng.
But Chai Rongsheng was not very good at this time. He should have entered the underworld early and returned to the underworld early, but he wasted years in the yang world being detained by demons, and if he didn't find another way, he would soon disappear.
Now, in fact, he is also a ghost.
When he saw the spirit snake, he was overjoyed. The human snake does not belong to him, he didn't think about swallowing this snake, what he wanted was to detain this snake by his side as a protector, and then use the spirit of the snake to nourish his soul, delay for a while, and see if he can think of something else.
As a result, the snake was so fierce that he couldn't surrender. I wanted to find the master to take a trick, but I didn't want the owner of the snake to find a knowledgeable person to restrain him.
Chai Rongsheng had no choice but to let go of the snake, but he became interested in the girl below.
Obviously, the girl had entered the door and had passed the door.
It can be said that she has a good heart, but she obviously does not care about the life or death of the snake's owner; said that she was not good, but meddled in something that had nothing to do with it.
It is unceremonious to say that she is easy to talk to, and to talk to him; said that she was not good at talking, and let him go so easily.
Chai Rongsheng is afraid and loves this girl, both afraid of her fierceness and her ability.
If he can get her help, maybe his life will be tied to her......