Chapter 16: The Thief Steals His Life
After the Wang family's affairs were settled, the old white ghost said that he would go on a long trip and would not come back until before the next Yuan Festival.
I understood what he meant, the old fox was going out to avoid the limelight.
After getting along for so long, I have long seen that the white old ghost is not simple, and he is not just a corpse collector who specializes in art.
It's just that this old guy is very low-key, never leaking, and still a dramatist.
The first time I came to the door, I was fooled by him, just take Huanghe Niangniang as an example, he knew her existence, and he still coaxed me to act.
and the time when Scarface came, the old white ghost pretended to be the same as the third grandson, and even took out the ancestral tablet.
It's really a horse, life is like a play, it all depends on acting skills, and it's a pity that he doesn't compete for the Oscars.
With the wail of the dragon corpse in the Nine Dragons Cave three days ago, the old white ghost couldn't hide it after all. There are too many secrets on his body, the Taoist priest more than a hundred years ago, the death of the king of the Yellow River, and the things behind the Nine Dragons...... And my background.
I suspect that many of the secrets of the white old ghost may not be known to the master of Huiji Guan, so after the dragon corpse wailed, Lord Chen sent someone to spread the word and invited him to go to the mountains for a few days, and he decided to go out to avoid the limelight after getting the news.
"After I'm gone, don't stay with me, go home first, and I'll come back to you on the next Yuan Festival." The old white ghost said to me.
I don't have an opinion on this proposal, I was originally a corpse digger to make money and marry a daughter-in-law, and now there is no hope of marrying a daughter-in-law, and I don't need to deal with dead corpses every day.
I haven't been home for a long time, and I haven't even returned to my little nephew's full moon wine, for fear of bringing bad luck to my family. Ever since the rumors of Huixiang's haunting spread, everyone knew that I had fished out her corpse, and they were afraid of me.
When the old white ghost left, he gave me all the cash in his house, and I roughly estimated that it was hundreds of thousands, which touched me very much, but his next words directly brought tears to my eyes.
"Anyway, you don't have much time, you can take this money home and honor the old man."
"Uncle Bai, I'm not married yet, it's a bit inappropriate for you to curse me like this, right?" I was speechless.
"If you don't say that you got married, I almost forgot, your marriage with Huanghe Niangniang hasn't been done yet. In fact, you can do this yourself now, the statue on the ancient altar of the Yellow River in Xiaba Village is still there, you take the mermaid tears to hire, and if you have the same words, you can take it home to the cave house that night. ”
"Can I really take her home?" I asked.
"Nonsense, marry a chicken and marry a dog with a dog, do you still plan to want her to live in the Yellow River for the rest of her life?"
"No, I mean there is a difference between yin and yang, I'm afraid I'll commit yang taboos."
"I'm afraid of an egg, your ghost daughter-in-law has taken the merman's tears after the yin body is eternal and ordinary people, you also know the truth that people eat and smell the fragrance, and she wants to wear paper clothes, there is a paper shop in the town, the handiwork is exquisite and the price is fair, you can make a few more clothes when the time comes, and take it back to burn it for her to wear."
"Uncle Bai, is there anything else to pay attention to?"
"It should be gone, Lao Tzu has been a bachelor all his life, where do you know so much, you two will do it yourself when the time comes."
I didn't go home for a long time, and when I got home, my mother made a table full of delicious food. There are my favorite mash meat, ground three fresh, steamed osmanthus fish, fried snails, dry fried river shrimp, and my father also opened a bottle of ten-year aging.
In the past, I was worried about my family because of my cheating, but now that I came back this time to give my parents so much money, they were happy for me in their hearts, and at the same time, they were also surprised how I made so much money. I told them that it was useless for the old white ghost to keep money alone, and that he also sponsored me to become a family.
My brother and sister-in-law are also very happy, most of the rural brothers do not agree with each other, but my brother and I are not like this. The relationship between our brothers has always been very good, and when I can't eat in Guangzhou, I always ask him to send me living expenses.
My sister-in-law is a kind-hearted woman who takes care of the family very well, and has never blushed with my mother since marrying into our family. The little nephew is white and chubby, and his big eyes are particularly pleasing to people.
Looking at this perfect family, I felt a lot of emotion in my heart. Compared with the strange talk of the white old ghost, this is real life.
Now I am one step away from consummation, and I am about to marry the Yellow River Niangniang home, with her beauty, my father and mother will definitely feel angry.
But I don't have a record in my heart about this, and I don't dare to mention it to my parents.
"Lan'er, corpse digging is not a serious business, now that you have money, hurry up and change your career, and I will ask a matchmaker to tell you to go in person. You don't look bad, I don't believe that there is no girl who likes you. My mother said.
"Look at what you said, that old white ghost came to Lan'er again and again, and he ran away when he got the money, can the old white ghost agree?" My dad glared at me and said.
"What do you disagree with, the old white ghost is not an outsider, Lan'er is happier than anyone else to be able to get married." My mother said.
When I heard it, it was a little wrong, what does it mean that the white old ghost is not an outsider, why has I never heard my mother say this. Even when he was a child, he thought about taking me as his godson, but it didn't work out later.
"Mother, what does the old white ghost have to do with our family?" I asked.
When my mother heard me ask this, she knew that she was speechless, and she wanted to say something, but after glancing at my father, she stopped talking. As soon as I looked at the situation, it seemed that my father and mother must have something to hide from me.
If my father and mother didn't say anything, I asked my brother. So I pulled my brother up from the table and went outside to light a cigarette for him.
"Brother, is my father hiding something from me?" I asked.
"Brother, don't ask me about this, I'm a year older than you, and I don't know anything." My brother said hesitantly.
"Pull it down, I've been working outside the school and you've been at home all these years, I don't believe you haven't heard anything about it." I pouted.
"I've heard a little bit, this thing is related to your birth, our mother gave birth to you with a difficult birth, and you almost couldn't survive when you were born." My brother said.
"Then how can it have anything to do with the old white ghost?"
"I don't know, you go ask our father. You're so old now, they can't hide it from you for the rest of your life. ”
That night, I stayed in my father's room.
"I said his father, Lan'er is so old, let's talk to him about some things." My mother couldn't stand it, so she persuaded my father.
"Alas, Lan'er, it's not that your father and mother deliberately hide it from you, you are afraid that you will have some thoughts after you know it. For so many years, my father and mother have treated you as if you were their own son......"
"Wait, Dad, do you mean I'm not your own?" I interrupted my dad.
"People are biological, but your life is not the life of my Xie family's descendants!"
My father's words made me directly confused, what kind of statement is this?
Then I thought of the words of the old white ghost, after Chen Qiu's death, I asked him if my eight characters were very evil, and he said at that time that my eight characters were not evil, and the evil door was my life.
Next, my dad told me about my strange birth.
I was born on the first day of the first lunar month, and the old yellow calendar says that Kowloon controls the water.
In fact, in addition to the omen of Jiulong to control the water on this day, there is also a saying on Ziwei Doushu that is not written on the old yellow calendar, this day is still the day of the thief, and the thief star is on duty.
Taoism has clouds, thieves, and thieves in the moon.
When my mother gave birth to me, I was born with a black body, no breathing and no heartbeat, obviously I had lost my life in my mother's womb, and my father and mother were grief-stricken.
On our side, newborn babies cannot be buried if they die, but are buried in the Yellow River. Because babies are the most resentful, it is most difficult to surpass if they become infant spirits.
This water burial is actually sent to the river to feed the fish, saying that this can resolve the resentment of the infant spirit, which is how the legend of the kappa came from.
At that time, my grandfather was still there, so he wrapped me in a torn coat and carried me to find the white old ghost. At that time, the medical conditions in the countryside were poor, and there were many babies who died early, so he often took over some water burial business.
My grandfather sent me to the old white ghost's house to show his intention, who knew that after the old white ghost glanced at me, he showed a very strange expression on his face, and asked my grandfather a question: "This child can actually be saved, do you want me to save him?" ”
"What? This child has been dead for a long time, can he still be saved? My grandfather asked, surprised.
"He was born without life, he was born dead, but because of the pure yang of the eight characters, his vitality is still there." The old white ghost said.
When my grandfather heard him say this, he quickly said that you should hurry up and save people.
At this time, the old white ghost said again: "Saving can be saved, but after rescuing, the child's life is not your Xie family, you have to think clearly, I can cast a spell to save people." ”
The old white ghost said that he would definitely not be able to save me on another day, and today is the Thief on duty, and he has a way to steal a life for me......