Chapter 17: The Buying and Selling of Liu's Blind Belt
In the afternoon of this day, there was a burst of aroma in the courtyard of Chen Laogou's house, which was not easy for the Chen family, who had always been on the verge of poverty. Because the day before, they had bought a lot of gold and jade from the purple gold toad's nest, which made the two of them very happy, so they decided to be a little extravagant and open a few hard dishes.
In fact, these hard dishes are just what they often see on the dinner table of ordinary people, but this Chen family, who has always been a vegetarian, is already very happy!
"Dad, hurry up and serve a bowl to the fox fairy, and then let's hurry up!" "Don't worry, I'm counting that someone will come in a while." As soon as Chen Laogou's words fell, he heard a knock on the door of the house.
"Dad, you can still pinch it now." "This is the benefit of receiving a fairy, you can also receive one." Chen Xiaobraid couldn't help but feel very strange when he saw that someone was really coming, but when he heard his father's words later, he understood that his father wanted to lure him out of the horse again!
"Who? It's annoying to pick someone's time to eat. "Haha, I smell it." Chen Xiaobraid opened the door while complaining to his father, but he didn't expect that the first thing that reached out of the door was a long wooden stick.
"What's the matter, pigtail, you don't welcome the old man to come for a meal?" When he saw the person clearly, he realized that the person who came was the blind man Liu who was a fortune teller in the bazaar, and walked into the house little by little with his guide cane in his hand.
"The rules of the road, the meal will not let you invite in vain." "Uncle Liu, please come in, please come in." In addition to telling fortunes and reading feng shui, this blind man usually does business behind his back, but he doesn't know what he came here for.
"Don't be like a child, Lao Liu sit down and eat." Chen Xiaobraid was still a little stunned at this time, but Chen Laogou was an old man, and he knew that Liu Blind would have a plan when he came to the door, but he didn't ask, just beckoned him to sit down and eat.
"That's what I'm proud of." "Come, I'll fill it up for you, there's no good wine, old white. Energetic. Chen Xiaobraid saw that his father was pouring wine and chatting with Liu Blind for a while, but he didn't say anything serious, and he couldn't talk about it, so he simply lowered his head and ate it violently.
"Haha, this wine is really strong." Not to mention, this blind man Liu is really not polite, he sat down on the table, picked up a glass of white wine poured by Chen Laogou, and poured it down as soon as he raised his neck.
"Let's get down to business first, don't drink too much and delay things for a while. I'm here to talk to you about a deal. After a glass of wine, Liu Blind said the purpose of his visit.
"Oh this! No one in ten miles and eight villages can do it except you two. "It seems that there is really nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, this Liu blind man came with a deal this time, and listening to the words, this deal is a must for the Chen family's father and son.
It turned out that near the market where Liu Blind usually set up a stall, there was a shop specializing in selling beef and mutton, and the business was usually quite good. The owner of the butcher shop is a man in his thirties, surnamed Xu Dajun, who usually buys a raw cow or a few live sheep, slaughters them by himself and then divides them and sells the meat, but he is also a man who can endure hardships and hardships.
But after all, he is a thick man, and he usually doesn't speak well in business, he only knows how to sell meat with his head down, and his life is quite rich, but he has always been single and single.
Every night when the stall is closed, he is the only one left in the entire empty house, this man in his thirties is the age of blood and strength, and the taste of living alone is really uncomfortable.
Every night, this guy just drinks to pass the time, but these glasses of wine are down, and it is inevitable that some sad things will come out......
"Daughter-in-law, what's wrong with you?" "Hell... Our ...... We have ghosts! Skeleton ghosts! "It turned out that this Xu Dajun used to have a daughter-in-law, who was quite beautiful, and the young couple had a good life, but the daughter-in-law got a kind of madness inexplicably a few days after she passed the door.
"Skeleton ghost, don't come here...... Don't eat me! "As soon as this daughter-in-law got sick, she said that there were ghosts in this house, and she cried and screamed for a while, and slowly she couldn't even take care of herself.
Xu Dajun worked for a day during the day, and he had to take care of his daughter-in-law at night, and when he could sleep every day, it was the second half of the night, but this was not over......
According to his crazy daughter-in-law, she would often see a dark figure come to their bedside, with a huge grimace with two reddened eyes, staring at her all the time, trying to eat her.
Therefore, his daughter-in-law often slept until the second half of the night, and she would scream and get up sick, saying that there was a ghost who wanted to eat her, and Xu Dajun couldn't sleep well all day, so his mother's family brought his daughter-in-law back.
Because he often heard screams, it was rumored that Xu Dajun beat his daughter-in-law and drove her crazy! Since then, no woman has been willing to marry him, and every time he thinks of these Xu Dajun, he can only use alcohol to kill his sorrows, but he never believes that there are ghosts in his house.
But until a month ago, business was not good these days, Xu Dajun drank a little more, and was about to go back to the house to sleep, when he suddenly heard a sizzling sound from the glass behind him, as if something was scratching the glass.
But when Xu Dajun looked at the glass, he was so frightened that the little wine he drank almost turned into cold sweat and dripped down. It turned out that on the window behind him, there was a long black shadow lying on his stomach at this time, and the head of the black shadow turned out to be a big white skeleton.
Zizi ...... Zizi ...... The black shadow was opening its mouth to himself, his face was very hideous and terrifying, and there were many thick hands on the black shadow's body, scratching the glass, and the sound pierced people's eardrums.
Xu Dajun was so frightened by this terrifying scene that he didn't dare to move for a long time, and the ghost stared at Xu Dajun for a while, but didn't come in, turned around and disappeared into the darkness.
Xu Dajun reacted at this time, ran to the kitchen and took out a sharp knife to kill cattle, and ran out of the house to check in a trembling manner. But by this time the ghost had disappeared, and the courtyard was quietly empty, and there was nothing.
This time he looked for Xu Dajun but didn't see the ghost, and his heart was a little calmer, but this made him can't help but remember what his crazy daughter-in-law said before......
But at that time, he only thought that he had drunk too much alcohol and was under too much pressure, perhaps because of the hallucinations caused by his crazy daughter-in-law's words, and when he saw that he didn't find anything, he went back to sleep......
But when this happened, how could Xu Dajun sleep? Until the second half of the night, Xu Dajun was still rolling on the bed, and at this moment, Xu Dajun seemed to hear something in the courtyard.
The sound was not loud, but it was still clear in the silent and empty courtyard, and it seemed to come from under the window of the room where Xu Dajun slept.
This time, Xu Dajun didn't dare to go out immediately, he got up and pricked up his ears and listened carefully for a while, and finally determined that the sound came from the wooden barrel placed under his window.
When the voice was gone, Xu Dajun boldly walked out of the house, wanting to see the barrel......
This look frightened Xu Dajun, it turned out that the barrel was filled with the blood of the cattle and sheep he slaughtered that day, but at this time the barrel was empty, where did the bucket full of blood go? Could it be that the ghost drank it all? Thinking of this, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
From that day on, Xu Dajun found that as long as it was the night of the fifteenth full moon, the blood in his barrel would disappear, but the ghost didn't do anything to himself except steal the blood, and slowly became less nervous and afraid!
Until a few days ago, Xu Dajun was sleeping, and suddenly heard a strange sound above his head, and when he opened his eyes and looked up, he was immediately scared stupid!
Xu Dajun saw that on the beam of the roof of his house, the ghost appeared again, and he didn't know how it came in, and he was lying on the beam on the roof at this time, staring at himself.
Seeing that Xu Dajun didn't dare to move for a while, the ghost shadow was even bolder, and he actually swooped down and rushed towards Xu Dajun, causing Xu Dajun to scream in fright and quickly get up.
The ghost figure went up to Xu Dajun, and the two sides met in mid-air and made a face-to-face, and the distance between them was only a dozen centimeters, and a miserable white skull was in front of him, and a pungent fishy smell rushed straight to people's heads, and the courage that Xu Dajun had just mustered up was instantly gone.
Fortunately, the ghost stared at Xu Dajun for a long time, but did not hurt him, and his body turned around and returned to the beam.
But even so, after the skeleton ghost disappeared from the beam, Xu Dajun was still so frightened that he screamed like crazy. Suddenly, the hysterical cry of a large man spread throughout the street.
People think that since Xu Dajun's daughter-in-law went crazy, this Xu Dajun has also gone crazy, and Xu Dajun's home has been rumored to be a ghost house. Slowly, people will walk around here, and no one dares to come to buy meat, and the life of this army is plummeting.
"I set up a stall near here to tell fortunes, and I am still famous, so this Xu army found me." Xu Dajun was forced to have no choice, and was introduced to Liu Blind, hoping to find a way to break this ghost and live a normal life again.
"My eyes are useless, and I can't do this job, so I'm coming to you two!" Liu Blind lived on the road by pulling left and right, and as soon as he heard this, he agreed, and turned around to find the Chen family father and son.
"Dad, we can't take this job, we're going to deal with Tujiao soon, how can we have that time." After Chen Xiaobraid heard this, he thought that he would have to start a war with that Tujiao after a while, and his father would definitely not agree.
"It's okay now, it's two months before that thing crosses the road." "Dad, what do you mean?" But unexpectedly, Chen Laogou lit a bag of cigarettes, and he actually had the intention of taking over the job.
"Didn't you kid boast that I was old, just wait for your filial piety in the future, it's time for you to behave." And at this time, his father's words were full of squeezing energy, which made Chen Xiaobraid a little surprised.
"Besides, this time there is also Liu Blind as the backing." "Okay, okay, I promise, don't keep talking about me in the future." But the pigtail thought about it, his father was afraid that he would not deliberately use the agitation method.
"Uncle Liu, how much does this work cost? I won't go without it. "Yo, pigtails can come out and be on their own! I also learned to bargain. Since Dad agreed, he had nothing to say, and the pigtail immediately lost no time in talking about the price with Blind Liu, who was eating and drinking.
"This living master's family gives 10,000, of course, according to the rules of the road, I, the bridge builder, only receive 1,000." Unexpectedly, the blind man Liu actually quoted a very attractive price, and the blind man Liu was also very righteous and obedient, because he didn't contribute to this work, so he only charged an introduction fee.
"How? Let's pay attention to it. "The price is okay, but I have a helper!" Uncle Liu, you won't cheat me, right? This blind man Liu was so righteous that Chen Xiaobraid, who originally wanted to bargain with him, suddenly lost his words, because he couldn't get rid of his oily tongue, and began to tease Liu Blind again, asking him if he would deduct in the middle.
"Lao Liu is not that kind of person, but you, be less pitty!" "Dad, I ......" didn't expect that Chen Laogou's words dismantled his own stage, and Chen Xiaobraid didn't swallow a mouthful of something in his throat for a long time.
"Dad, aren't I all thinking about our family's livelihood!" "Haha, this little pigtail cub will live again." The pigtail thought in his heart that this work would only last two days at most, and it would not delay him from fighting with his father, so he packed up his things with confidence.
"Okay, now that it's settled, let's leave after eating." After Liu Blind was full of wine and food, Chen Xiaobraid also prepared a large bag of things, and after saying goodbye to Chen Laogou, the two of them went on the road.
Chen Xiaobraid embarked on his second solo journey to eliminate demons.
"Dagang, we think about you whenever we have something to make money, can you not keep putting on this stinky face along the way." By the time Chen Xiaobraid and Liu Blind found Lu Dagang and rushed to the market town together, it was already dark.
"Last time, I was divided into four hundred for a thousand jobs, and I was embarrassed to find me."
"Four hundred is also money! Don't you still rely on me for the whole process, I'll have a hundred dollars more than you. ”
"Hmph, you kid can divide me as much as you want, but you actually hide it from me."
"Okay, okay, I'm wrong, okay."
Along the way, Da Gang had a straight face, and because of the last account sharing, he had a conflict with the pigtails. The pigtail knows that he is at a loss, and he is accompanied by a smiling face all the way.
"So how much money do you have to do this time? How much are you going to share with me! "Ah...... This..." "Why are you spitting and spitting, are you trying to trick me again?" Unexpectedly, Da Gang let go of the previous things and mentioned this work again, but he didn't expect Da Gang to suddenly become smarter, and he immediately caught Chen Xiaobraid off guard. As soon as Lu Dagang saw that he asked Chen Xiaobraid, he panicked for a long time and didn't say a word, and immediately became angry.
"How... How could it be...... Don't think about it. "Just tell me how much money is going to work this time and how to divide it. Is it hard? In fact, Chen Xiaobraid has been thinking about this matter all the way, but he really hasn't figured out a good way to separate from Lu Dagang, after all, with Liu Blind here, this lie is not so easy to make up.
Lu Dagang didn't explain it for a long time when he saw Chen Xiaobraid, and felt that he was playing tricks again, and the more he talked about it, the more angry he became.
"Don't quarrel with the two of you, I'll take this job." At this moment, Liu Blind, who had been walking behind without saying a word, opened his mouth.
"yes, yes, I don't know." "I don't even know the price of the pigtails, only I know." Blind Liu's answer immediately relieved the pressure on Chen Xiaobraid, and the blind man Liu took all this matter on himself.
"The main family gave 6,000 yuan, and the three of us divided it equally, how about 2,000 yuan for each person?" "Okay." Liu Blind reported the number, Lu Dagang immediately suppressed the fire, in his heart, it didn't matter how much money he had, the important thing was that there could be no falsehood.
At the beginning, Chen Xiaobraid, who was still a little grateful to Liu Blind for helping to relieve the siege, suddenly became excited. Before, Liu Blind had already said that he would only charge a 1,000 introduction fee, but at this time, when Lu Dagang settled the account, he took the opportunity to become 2,000, the key is that this time the pigtail is bitter and can't say it, and now he can only suffer a dumb loss!
"Then it's time for you to carry the bag this time!" "Hmph, if it weren't for your honesty this time, I would have ignored you!" Chen Xiaobraid was angry, put the heavy bag on Lu Dagang's shoulder, looked back at the proud blind Liu, and thought to himself that he was still not as good as these old rivers and lakes by playing tricks!
Chen Xiaobraid sighed silently in his heart, and followed Lu Dagang to the front without saying a word, and embarked on his journey of catching demons.