Chapter 170: Counterattack
Due to disagreements on the disposal of the little ghost, Jiang Yifeng and I were unable to go to Hu's house to take any effective measures in the following time. And until we find out whether the little ghost is a child of the Gu family, we don't plan to tell the Gu family just like that. First, so that they would not be impulsive, and second, so that they would not rejoice in vain.
But what we didn't expect was that on the third day after leaving the Hu family, the person surnamed Hu took the initiative to find me.
After I was convinced that he was raising a little ghost, I no longer called him 'Brother Hu', but called him by his first name, Hu Qifu.
"Do you have anything to do with me?" I asked him.
Hu Qifu was even thinner than when I saw him the day before yesterday, and the whole person looked more than a whole circle of thin, his face was yellow, and his body also exuded bursts of cold air. Even people like us, even ordinary people, can sense that something is wrong with him.
He had been keeping his head down since he entered the door, and when he heard me ask him, he trembled a little, and then he knelt down in front of me with a plop, crying: "Little coffin, save me!" Help me! ”
I was a little puzzled at first, but then, I remembered the little ghost's rebellion, and I couldn't help but sneer: "You let me save you? I'd like to see how you died! Can you do such a damaging thing? If you don't die in his hands, I don't even think there is heavenly reason! To tell you the truth, I can't save you, please be smart! ”
"Impossible!" Hu Qifu raised his head violently and shouted at me, "Little coffin, how could you not save me?" You are the only one left among our coffin bearers, if you don't save me, who am I going to beg for? ”
Jiang Yifeng was impatient listening to it, and stepped forward and scolded: "People like you, no one is willing to save you!" You'd better leave before it's too late! Besides, the little coffin master is a coffin bearer, not a Taoist, not a goddess, and can't collect ghosts for you! ”
When Hu Qifu heard this, he naturally didn't believe Jiang Yifeng's words, so he only kowtowed to me and kept kowtowing.
I saw that he was still knocking up, and I was a little annoyed, and I couldn't help frowning.
Jiang Yifeng had a worse temper than me, and he couldn't stand him, so he immediately kicked him on the heel and said, "Is it useful for you to worship people?" A bad person like you, even if you worship God, you can't save you! ”
Hu Qifu's body was very thin, and Jiang Yifeng couldn't get up for half a day.
After struggling on the ground for a while, he got up again, but he still knelt on the ground, jerked his two mouths, and said to me, "Little coffin, you are good!" It's all my fault, I'm not human! Please! I beg you to save me! I deserve to die, but my wife and children are innocent! You can at least save them. ”
Hearing him say this, my heart moved.
Yes, he is right, even if his wife aids in the abuse, at least his children are still innocent. Moreover, I didn't want to ignore the matter myself, but I just wanted to teach him a lesson, so that he wouldn't deceive me with some false words.
Thinking so in my heart, I asked him with a straight face, "Then you say, what is going on?" The children of the Gu family, did you steal it? ”
"Gu Family?" Hu Qifu was stunned.
The look on his face at that moment told me that he probably really didn't know about it.
Sure enough, he shook his head again and again: "I didn't!" I don't! The ghost I raised, he was a child who died young, and when I picked him up on the side of the road, he had frozen to death! I didn't steal the child, it's none of my business! ”
Jiang Yifeng and I glanced at each other, and then asked, "You dare to say that it really has nothing to do with you." ”
Hu Qifu hurriedly swore: "Really! I swear! It really has nothing to do with me! ”
Hearing him say that, I don't think what he said is fake.
Immediately after, I listened to him tell him about the whole thing.
It turns out that their little ghosts still have a heritage. His father was killed by the ghost because he raised a ghost, and he almost killed the whole family, and he was not spared.
When I got to him, I also accidentally found a recipe recorded by his father. I asked around again and learned about the many benefits of raising a ghost, so I couldn't help but want to raise a ghost to give it a try.
Of course, he belongs to the kind of person who has a thief's heart, but not a thief's guts. After hesitating for a long time, he didn't dare to steal anyone's child, let alone dig in the cemetery.
But as fate should have been, on the way home, he drove an ox cart and picked up a child who had frozen to death near the place where the accident happened that night.
The child had just died, and he took the child's body home, and according to the method recorded by his father, he disemboweled the corpse, took out the third rib on the left side, and enshrined it, and recited a mantra. After doing it for seven days and seven nights, he really let him refine it.
At first, the little imp had a small amount of food, and only needed to take a drop of blood from his fingertips every day to feed him. And, immediately afterward, he also saw the role of raising little ghosts.
He usually goes into the city, and knows of an underground gambling stall in the town, and sometimes he has spare money in his pocket, so he goes to gamble twice. But there are always more losses and fewer wins, and most of the time they lose well.
But since he got that little ghost, he's been in the running.
He played with dice, and every time the imp could know the size in advance, he commanded him to bet on the treasure, and he won nine out of ten, which made him win a lot of money, and his family gradually became rich.
That's how he is, he went the wrong way.
But then, the thing that troubled him came, and as the little ghost's ability became higher and higher, the amount of food he ate every day slowly increased. From a drop of blood to a cup of blood, he simply couldn't afford to supply it. And, if that's all there is, it's fine, but the problem is that the little ghost's temper is getting more and more impulsive.
But if Hu Qifu did something against the will of the little ghost, he was teased a little, and even broke his bones once, and it took a few months for him to get better.
In this way, gradually, Hu Qifu also had the idea of abolishing that little ghost.
But his father himself was killed by the imps, so how could he leave any way to get rid of the ghosts? If there is such a way, then his father will not have to die!
Hu Qifu found many people, but he never got his wish. What's worse is that the little ghost actually sensed his intentions, and even threatened him, and had the intention of killing him.
Later, he didn't know where to find out, and the only way to let the little ghost not harm others was to let him reincarnate.
Therefore, Hu Qifu hurriedly asked his wife to have a child, just so that the little ghost could be reincarnated as soon as possible. Who would have thought? That little imp didn't want to! He even lost his temper with him.
The night he met me, he insisted on letting me go with him, in the hope that I could restrain the little ghost for him. And the reason why he doesn't live in a hotel, but must go home to live, is also because the little ghost refuses to stay in a hotel, otherwise he will be restless.
After hearing him say this, I kind of understood that it was all caused by greed for a while.
Raising little ghosts has harmed two generations of the Hu family.
This kind of evil Taoism itself should not exist in this world.
I pulled him up from the ground and said to him, "I can help you, but you also have to do me a favor." If you can help me recover the body of a child who died in childbirth, and help me get him reincarnated, then you have atoned for a little bit of your sins. However, your sins are too deep to be atonement this time. I can help you as much as I can, but I can't guarantee to what extent. If I can save you, I hope you will truly repent and never do this kind of covetous thing in the future. Think more about how to work hard, that's the right way! You know? ”
Hu Qifu nodded again and again, and promised that he would inquire about the children of the Gu family for me.