Chapter 22: A Dirty Past
Old man Dong is old and refined, and he has dealt with these big families a lot, and when I heard him say this, a glimmer of hope arose in my heart, and I hurriedly followed.
The old house of the Cheng family is equivalent to a large manor, Cheng Ying and they all live in the main house, only the old couple is noisy and lives in a side house.
Now that the old man Cheng is dead, and the old woman has been lifted by the ghost again, Cheng Ying has already taken her over to live with her.
The Cheng family is worthy of being a big family, after entering the restaurant, I looked at the rectangular dining table and couldn't help but secretly say to myself, this is almost enough for forty or fifty people to eat.
Dong Lao guessed correctly, when I saw Mrs. Cheng also sitting at the dining table, I knew that they wanted to confess something.
Old lady Cheng sat on the main seat, Cheng Ying was close to her, and Cheng Xi sat on the other side of the old woman.
Except for the three of them, there were no other idlers at the table, and I was a person who didn't like to be busy, so I didn't hate such a meal.
Seeing us coming in, Cheng Ying and Cheng Xi hurriedly stood up.
"Hehe, you're welcome, sit down."
Dong Lao is an old acquaintance here, so naturally he will not be polite to them.
"Brother Mo."
Cheng Xi pulled the chair next to him out and greeted me with a smile, apparently wanting me to sit next to her.
I was just about to go there, but Dong Lao sat down first, and Cheng Xi's little face suddenly pulled down.
I saw that Dong Lao was really not at ease with my character, so I had to smile bitterly and sit next to Dong Lao.
"Master Yin, have you received the reward I sent to you?"
Cheng Ying frowned slightly, but she didn't know what we were messing with, so she took the lead in talking to me.
I knew she was referring to the 200,000, so I smiled and nodded.
"Auntie, you don't have to be so polite, I have a good relationship with Cheng Xi, just call me Yin Mo directly."
Although I was polite, I still retained a trace of the reserve that a master should have, and I didn't use honorifics for her.
Cheng Ying is an ordinary character, who doesn't know what I mean, and said with a smile: "Since ancient times, the capable are the greatest, so let's do it, when there are outsiders, I still call you master, and then call you by your name in private." ”
I smiled and nodded, Cheng Ying clapped his hands, and the people below began to serve the food.
Twenty dishes for five people filled our faces, many of which were Western.
Cheng Ying smiled and pleased, and picked up the knife and fork with Cheng Xi, I was a little unaccustomed to their way of eating, and I smiled awkwardly and held the knife and fork and didn't know what to do.
Dong Lao didn't care about these at all, he reached out and grabbed a piece of steak, gnawed it with a big grin, and looked at me while gnawing, I glanced at him gratefully, put down the knife and fork in my hand, and asked the next person for a pair of chopsticks very naturally.
"Cheng Ying, you invited us over today, it's not just a matter of eating, right?"
Dong Lao's hands were full of oil, and he said while licking his fingers.
"Hehe, Dong Lao is still so smart, last time thanks to the help of the two, my mother was able to save her life, the old man recalled some things in the past, and it may be of some help to this matter."
Cheng Ying accompanied the smiling face and gently held the arm of Mrs. Cheng.
The old woman was so frightened last time, and the whole person was much older, and she greeted us tremblingly, and began to slowly talk about the origin of the dresser.
Mr. Cheng is not a local, and he had not yet built a country when he started to mix in society.
When the old man was young, he was also an idle gangster, who didn't do his job all day long, and finally couldn't find a way to make a living, so he worshipped a master in a fit of anger and went to learn to fight.
At that time, there was still a war, and there was chaos everywhere, but Old Man Cheng was clever and vicious, and he didn't get any benefits out of the fight.
When he was eighteen years old, he carried a batch of Ming ware to Huaicheng and fell in love with the daughter of an antique dealer. And the girl's father was the largest antique dealer in Huaicheng at that time.
But what surprised me was that Mrs. Cheng was not the daughter of the antique dealer, but Mr. Cheng's old friend.
The antique dealer has no children, only such a daughter, so he naturally cares about her, and after the girl and Mr. Cheng got along, the antique dealer didn't say anything, but paid for them, and Mr. Cheng planned to make a fortune.
As a result, before doing the red thing, Mrs. Cheng came to the door and scolded Mr. Cheng for being negative.
Old man Cheng was helpless to be scolded by her, so he could only find a way to return this happy event, but the two of them were reluctant to have such a big family property, and they were both ruthless people, so they planned to kill the antique dealer's daughter and then take over the antique dealer's family business.
According to the old custom of Huaicheng, before the wedding, they should send love tokens to each other, and the girl had bright long hair, so the old man Cheng promised to give her the most beautiful comb in the world.
The girl was very happy, and made a mahogany dresser with her own hands, waiting to groom Old Man Cheng.
After all, it didn't wait for this day.
On the eve of the wedding, Old Man Cheng excitedly told the girl that there was a princess's tomb near Huaicheng, and the tomb was full of the most valuable jewelry and toiletries. He swore that tonight he would go down to find the most beautiful comb in the world so that he could give it to the girl.
The girl waited for him to come back late at night, and finally ran out to find him in the early hours of the morning.
When she arrived at the place that Old Man Cheng said, she found that the princess's tomb was a lie, and her appearance was also a lie, but the knife in Old Man Cheng's hand was real.
What the girl waited for in the end was the death of her lover.
The tomb was just an ordinary bucket, which had already been hollowed out, and the two of them filled the tomb with the corpse and blew up the tomb with the explosives that had been prepared, and buried all the secrets.
Old man Cheng covered himself with injuries, gritted his teeth and broke one of his legs, and returned to the girl's house to cry bitterly, saying that he had met a ghost in the fight, and he failed to protect his lover, and the girl died.
Old man Cheng searched for death and life several times, and everyone saw that he was so sad, the tomb was also blown up, and the corpse was nowhere to be found.
The middle-aged antique dealer lost his daughter, and he was so grief-stricken that he soon whimpered and mourned.
Since then, Old Man Cheng has taken over the family business of the antique dealer, which is why the current Cheng family is born.
Perhaps because of his lack of heart, Old Man Cheng never dared to throw away the dresser made by the girl, but stayed in the room to burn incense and bow down every day, which has been left until now.
And the location of the buried corpse back then, the Cheng family also sent someone to check it at the front time, and the place where the rat-faced man went down was the bucket.
Listening to Mrs. Cheng slowly finish talking about this past, I realized that my back was already wet with sweat.
Cheng Xi stared at his grandmother with a shocked face, as if he didn't want to believe that such an immoral thing was actually done by them.
"Hehe, it's also karma and reincarnation."
Dong Lao took a sip of wine and sneered.
I pursed my lips and didn't speak, and as soon as Mrs. Cheng told me about this past, all my doubts came to light up.
After all, the negative person will not get a good end, and the comb he promised will eventually have to be made with his own blood and bones.
She has the ability to come and go in the mirror, and it is so easy to capture Fluttershy, I'm afraid she used Fluttershy's image to seduce me, which is also a different kind of revenge.
"Two masters, the past has passed, and my father has also paid the price, but if this powerful ghost continues to exist in the world, it will definitely cause more killing, I am willing to pay a price of 500,000 yuan to hire two masters to eliminate harm for the people."
Cheng Ying thought for a moment, then stood up and said to me and Dong Lao.
Hehe, I sneered and didn't say anything.
These people are always this virtue, in the final analysis, they all think about themselves, and they can always put forward high-sounding reasons, if I don't help today, she can still send 500,000 or even 1 million to eradicate the hidden danger of mirror ghosts.
"There is karma and reincarnation, there are too many causes and effects involved, I can't decide on my own, but as long as my brother needs it, I will help."
Dong Lao leaned on the back of the chair, picked his teeth very rudely, and said lazily.
I know that he is leaving the decision to me, and I can see that Dong Lao is also very shameful about the Cheng family's approach, but for the sake of face, he will not say it so clearly.
"I've got a cause and effect with that mirror ghost, and I'm going to go."
I stared at Cheng Ying's eyes and said very seriously.
"But I don't want a penny from you, and it doesn't represent the Cheng family, I will deal with the cause and effect of my own business."
Cheng Ying didn't seem to think that I would not want money, but when she heard that I was willing to eradicate the mirror ghost, she still showed a happy expression on her face, and kept thanking me, but Mrs. Cheng looked at me silently and did not speak.
"Brother Dong, I'm done."
I didn't accept Cheng Ying's thanks, and said coldly.
"Okay, I'm full, let's go back early and fight the mirror ghost."
Dong Lao stood up with a smile, waved his hand to say hello, and pulled me to turn around and leave.
"Brother Mo!"
Not long after Dong Lao and I walked out of the restaurant, we heard Cheng Xi calling me, and I stopped and watched this girl panting and running in front of us.
"Brother Mo, my mother... They're those kind of people, don't be angry. ”
Cheng Xi's face was flushed, and there were fine beads of sweat on her forehead, she wanted to explain something, but found that she couldn't explain it.
"It's okay, I know."
I looked at her with a smile and said.
"Will you still stay with me in the future?"
"No, I'm going to go to Dong Lao today."
"That's... Will we still be friends in the future? ”
Cheng Xi asked cautiously, his expression very nervous.
I looked at this simple and kind girl and smiled.
"Of course."
Cheng Xi got the answer he wanted, and happily sent us to the door, and then reluctantly waved goodbye.
"Elder Dong, don't you worry about me going to harm your little apprentice?"
I sat in the car, laughing and joking with Dong Lao.
"Hehe, your grandson wants to do it, why is it not an opportunity?"
Dong Lao glanced at me with a smile, but then changed to a serious expression.
"But I really didn't expect you to have the strength to refuse the 500,000, 500,000 for a different way to solve the cause and effect for yourself, is it worth it?"
I turned my head to look at him, then patted myself on the chest.
"It's a solid place!"
Dong Lao and I glanced at each other, looked at each other and smiled.
"When are we going to fight that mirror ghost in the tomb?"
I had enough laughing before I asked.
"Hehe, don't worry, I'll take you to meet a master."