Chapter 12: The Marginal Man of the Xuanmen
Zhang Xiaoluo took a sharp breath, and the figure of the woman with the smell of Chinese medicine all over her body and a thick lesson plan in her hand appeared in her mind.
"Branch...... Director, is Director Yuan's family in a very bad economic situation? ”
Zhang Xiaoluo finally asked a question that puzzled him. He vaguely felt that Zhi Fei should know Yuan Yincheng and Yuan Yincheng's family very well.
Zhi Fei stood up, opened the window behind him, and looked at the bustling crowd in the distance, with a complicated look in his eyes.
"Actually, speaking of which, I am also a student of Director Yuan, who was a lecturer in obstetrics and gynecology during my college years. Maybe that's why he hates me even more when he sits in this office! ”
A wry smile appeared on Zhi Fei's face and said softly.
Zhang Xiaoluo didn't speak, he knew very well in his heart what the consequences would be if he interrupted this female tyrannosaurus at this time.
"Director Yuan's wife, named Meng Jing, is also an associate professor at the Medical University, who teaches Chinese medicine, you should have met her yesterday! Ms. Meng is kind and sincere, and has always been loved by students. The couple has a daughter and a son, and their daughter Yuan Xuan is studying in the United States. My son Yuan Hang is still in junior high school, and he lives on campus on weekdays, and only goes home on weekends! Director Yuan is rigid and unsociable, and has no other income except salary. And Mr. Meng is a teacher, with a clean breeze on his sleeves. Their house was allocated by the Medical University and belonged to the property of the Medical University, and Yuan Xuan's expenses abroad ......"
Zhi Fei said, his eyes showed complexity, maybe his attitude towards Yuan Yincheng was indeed a little harsh.
Zhang Xiaoluo finally understood why Meng Jing continued to teach when her husband was seriously ill. He recalled Meng Jing's hurried figure walking towards the teaching building of the Medical University at that time, so helpless and unhesitating.
Zhang Xiaoluo now just wants to scold at the sky.
"Which turtle grandson invented money!"
Meng Jing's body was found in a grove on campus around 6 a.m. by students who were studying at the medical university in the morning. She was said to be lying on the ground naked, the brown trench coat she was wearing was neatly folded aside, and her underwear had been torn into pieces of cloth and scattered messily around the body. When found, her body was slightly stiff, with strange dark spots all over her body, and her round eyes were full of fear and despair.
Within twenty meters of Meng Jing's body, there was no trace of anyone other than Meng Jing's own. There were no external injuries on her body other than the black spots the size of copper coins. The exact cause of death is still pending the final autopsy report from the police. In order to avoid causing panic as much as possible, the case was tentatively characterized as suicide.
Zhang Xiaoluo doesn't believe in suicide! He knew that this was another humiliation of Yuan Yincheng by the other party. Yuan Yincheng, an old obstetrics and gynecology doctor who stayed in the hospital ward almost all day, what kind of grievance could the other party do such a thing against heaven and earth!
People have their way, ghosts have ghosts, and the two worlds of yin and yang have their own rules. Although there are also cases of resentful ghosts asking for their lives, the so-called "wronged head and debtor" rarely happens that involve innocent people. Coupled with the pregnant woman and mother and son in bed 18, this evil ghost who obviously came towards Yuan Yincheng has killed three people one after another!
The onmyoji walks between the two worlds of yin and yang, and is responsible for soothing ghosts and driving away evil spirits in the yang realm. This evil ghost's actions have broken the rules of the onmyoji, and the yin and yang of the Xuanmen, which has been inherited for thousands of years, are regarded as nothing.
Zhang Xiaoluo was furious, he was like a wild cat with the tip of his tail stepped on, and he began to move, quietly showing his claws.
Zhang Xiaoluo came out of Zhifei's office, left his mobile phone number at the nurse's station, and then left the hospital and returned to his nest in Qingshi Lane.
He spent the whole day in the black-lacquered wooden shop, and finally pushed the door and walked into the coffin shop when the owner of the coffin shop opposite closed its door.
"Fatty, I remember that you still owe me a favor, and it's time for you to pay it back!"
Zhang Xiaoluo's face was full of smiles like coaxing kindergarten children, and he looked at the fat man Wei who covered almost half of the entire store door, and spoke.
As night fell, the J City Annex, which had been noisy for a day, was like a new daughter-in-law who had been through the door for three days, and finally got a moment to stop.
Zhang Xiaoluo stood outside the pharmacy opposite the entrance of the hospital, holding an unlit cigarette in his mouth, tilting his head to look at the brightly lit medical technology building of the hospital opposite. A plastic bottle of Coke that was thrown on the side of the road by someone on the side of the road was trampled flat little by little under his feet, making a piercing "crackling" sound.
"Hey, Lhotse, how do I feel like you're getting bolder? Stealing corpses is going to get into the game! Those people in the bureau don't care if you're Lao Zhangtou's apprentice or not!"
Behind Zhang Xiaoluo, a fat man who was bowing his head to deal with the fried chicken leg in his hand, glanced at the opposite hospital, whispered a few words vaguely, and handed the mineral water in the other hand to his mouth, raised his head and took a big sip, his Adam's apple squirmed with difficulty, and swallowed the mouthful of chicken raw.
"Who told you you were stealing? Let's just check it out! Wei Fatty, do you remember what I told you? ”
Zhang Xiaoluo didn't look back, retracted his gaze towards the hospital, looked at the young girls and young women who were hurrying on the side of the road, and the delicate face of the female tyrannosaurus rex appeared in his mind.
"That...... Lhotse, Lao Zhangtou has been gone for some time, right? It should be back soon, why don't we wait for Lao Zhangtou to come back? I always feel like I don't know the bottom of my heart......"
Wei Fatzi's name is Wei Xun, a few years older than Zhang Xiaoluo, and he has been opening coffin shops for a living since his grandfather, but with the rise of cremation in recent years, his family's coffin shop business is not as good as day by day. In Wei Xun's generation, he was still unwilling to give up his ancestral livelihood, but while buying and selling coffins, he added small items such as dark coins, wreaths, incense candles, yellow paper, etc., and occasionally exchanged some Xuanmen magic weapons, but he didn't have to worry about eating and drinking.
According to the Taoist Xuanmen, people like Wei Xun do not belong to the people in the Xuanmen. People like them can only be regarded as marginal people at best, providing some things such as rune paper, cinnabar, etc. for the Onmyoji. The copper coin sword that Zhang Xiaoluo took out in the Broken Tail Building last time was bought by Wei Fatzi from nowhere.
Zhang Xiaoluo didn't speak, and looked back at Fat Wei, his eyes narrowed slightly.
"Don't! Luozi, I remember, after entering, you are responsible for suppressing the ghosts, and I am responsible for taking the soul-seeking things from the corpse. ”
Wei Xun's grandfather has a slight relationship with the old Zhang Tou who raised Zhang Xiaoluo, so the two guys who are not much different in age have similar smells of urine since childhood, and they are friends who "meet in winter to lick iron".
Zhang Xiaoluo looked at Wei Xun's big round face with a smile, nodded, turned around and walked forward along the street.
"Hey, Lhotse, why are you going? It's not about stopping ......."
Wei Xun looked at the pedestrians hurrying by, swallowed the word "corpse" that was about to be said, turned around and glanced at the hospital again, and strode towards Zhang Xiaoluo.