Chapter 0003 - Life is damaged, and the curse cannot be escaped
"If your life is damaged, there will be retribution. Small disasters continue, and big disasters are inevitable! Anyway, you don't understand, anyway, the consequences are serious. Ye Zhiqiu shook his head, took out the paper talisman, and accepted Tan Simei:
"You follow me for the time being, stay in the paper talisman, and I'll go back to the village to have a look."
After accepting Tan Simei, Ye Zhiqiu carried a shovel and strode towards the door of his house.
The village was haunted just now, which alarmed the whole village, and the old house of Ye Zhiqiu's family was also lit up.
Ye Zhiqiu still didn't go through the gate, climbed over the wall into the backyard, knocked on the back window of his grandfather's bedroom, and shouted in a low voice: "Grandpa, I'm Zhiqiu, I'm back." β
There was a creak, and the window opened from the inside.
Ye Zhiqiu's grandfather, an old man in his seventies, looked around: "Zhiqiu, are you Zhiqiu?" Why are you hiding in the backyard? β
"It's me, grandpa, I'm Zhiqiu, the master said that I learned the skills, let me go down the mountain! Grandpa quickly opened the back door, and I went into the house to talk. Ye Zhiqiu hurriedly said.
The old man nodded, limped out of the bedroom with a limp and staggered out of the bedroom, opening the back door.
Ye Zhiqiu burrowed into the house like a rabbit and whispered, "Oh no, grandpa, something went wrong!" β
"What went wrong?" The old man looked at Ye Zhiqiu and asked.
Ye Zhiqiu stomped his feet and told his grandfather about conniving at Tan Simei's haunting, strangling Chen Mazi, and scaring the old woman of the Chen family to death.
Grandpa slapped him: "You little rabbit cub, just came back, and you made such a big fuss!" Hurry up and hide in my room, don't make a sound, I'll go to Chen Mazi's house to have a look. β
Ye Zhiqiu nodded, obediently hid in his grandfather's bedroom, turned off the lights, and waited in the dark.
Grandpa opened the front door, grabbed a flashlight, and went alone.
Sitting on his grandfather's bed blindly, Ye Zhiqiu was even more depressed.
I learned a skill, and the first time I went down the mountain, I was like a grandson, hiding in the dark and not daring to see people!
Half an hour later, Grandpa returned.
"How about grandpa, Chen Mazi and his old woman, are they all dead?" Ye Zhiqiu hurriedly asked.
Grandpa shook his head and sighed, "It's all dead." Chen Mazi was strangled to death, and his neck was broken. The old woman of the Chen family was scared to death, and she fell to the ground, and a bloody hole was knocked out of her head. Now, both of them have been taken to the hospital. But what's the use? People are dead. β
"Oh I'll go, it's really over this time...... Oh my life! Ye Zhiqiu wanted to cry without tears, and asked, "Grandpa, what should I do now?" β
"You didn't kill people, just go out and hide. You leave immediately, and no one in the village knows that you have returned. Grandpa said.
"But where am I going?" Ye Zhiqiu asked blankly.
Grandpa thought for a while and said, "You go to Gangzhou City in the south and find a person named Liu Zhengliang, who is your father's former brother and your father-in-law." β
"Father-in-law? When did I have a father-in-law? Where is my daughter-in-law? Ye Zhiqiu asked in surprise.
"Back then, Liu Zhengliang and your father made an agreement for you and the daughter of the Liu family to marry. So, Liu Zhengliang is your father-in-law. Grandpa said.
Finger belly for marriage? I'm going, and there's such a thing? Ye Zhiqiu was stunned.
"You were too young to tell you a lot of things. Now, let's talk about our own history...... "Grandpa lit a cigarette, took two puffs, and said slowly:
"Your grandfather started by robbing tombs, and before liberation, he was a bandit in the northeast, with four beams and eight pillars and mountain eagles, hundreds of people and horses, and unlimited scenery. But he killed too many people, and he didn't accumulate virtue all his life, and finally died at gunpoint. β
"As for me, I worked as a tomb robber for a few years when I was young, and then I broke a leg in the tomb, and I became what I am now."
"Your father didn't take the right path either, twenty years ago, he robbed the tomb with Liu Zhengliang and was trapped in a large tomb in Kunlun Mountain, and his life and death are still unknown."
"For three generations in a row, our family has done good things, and it didn't end well. Zhiqiu, I sent you to Maoshan to learn the Tao, on the one hand, to avoid disaster, and on the other hand, to change the fate of our Ye family. But I didn't expect that you had just come down the mountain, and there was such a big mistake, alas......"
Ye Zhiqiu interrupted his grandfather's words: "Grandpa, don't worry, my life is damaged, I can slowly make up for it." You just said that my father's life and death are unknown? Maybe it's still alive? β
He and Liu Zhengliang went to Kunlun Mountain to rob the tomb and never came back. Liu Zhengliang later called and said that your father was trapped in the tomb and did not come out. I think that if Liu Zhengliang is telling the truth, then your father will also die. Grandpa said.
Ye Zhiqiu frowned and pondered, it seemed that a trip to Hong Kong was inevitable.
Even if there is no such thing as a finger for marriage, he has to find Liu Zhengliang and ask about his father's whereabouts.
As a son of man, the life and death of his father are unknown, and he has no trace, isn't it a great unfilial piety?
Grandpa got up, opened the small cabinet at the head of the bed, and took out a paper bag: "I don't know too much about Liu Zhengliang, I only know that he is in the antique business in Gangzhou City." The marriage contract of the year is here, you can take it to Hong Kongzhou. β
"So does the Liu family have a daughter? Is it pretty? Ye Zhiqiu asked again.
Grandpa glared: "How do I know?" You went to Gangzhou and saw Liu Zhengliang, didn't you understand? β
Ye Zhiqiu took the marriage contract and looked at it, and suddenly smiled, if the Liu family had a daughter, what would it look like?
Grandpa took out a thousand yuan from the bedside and handed it to Ye Zhiqiu: "Don't giggle anymore, let's go quickly, and leave before it's dark!" β
"Okay grandpa, I'll leave now, I'll get rich in the future, come back to pick you up and go to the big city to enjoy happiness, you must take care of your health!" Ye Zhiqiu took the money, got up and said.
"After you find Liu Zhengliang, inquire about your father! Your father doesn't see anyone alive, he doesn't see a corpse, he doesn't even have a handful of ashes, alas...... "Grandpa is in tears."
"Knowing grandpa, I will definitely find out about this matter!" Ye Zhiqiu waved his hand, went out the back door, climbed over the courtyard wall, and hurried away in the night.
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Two days later, early in the morning, Ye Zhiqiu appeared at the City God's Temple antique market in Gangzhou City.
Liu Zhengliang is in the antique business, and if you want to find him, you can only go to the antique market to inquire.
The antique market here is a courtyard house, covering an area of four or five acres, surrounded by antique three-story buildings, most of which are antique dealers who open shops. In the middle of the huge open space are vendors who set up stalls.
As the saying goes, gold in troubled times, antiques in prosperous times, antiques in the prosperous period of peace, antiques are even hotter, the tide rises, and the coarse porcelain bowls in the Republic of China period can be sold for thousands of yuan.
At this time, it was only seven o'clock in the morning, and the antique market was already lively, with stalls, wanderers, leaks, friends, and people.
Ye Zhiqiu carried his bags on his back, swaying back and forth in the market, looking around.
Before looking for his father-in-law and fiancΓ©e, Ye Zhiqiu planned to make an unannounced visit.
In case the girl of the Liu family is an ugly dinosaur, she has to run quickly, and she can't send it to the door.
When the antique shops around opened their doors, Ye Zhiqiu walked over one by one.
Those who open shops have business licenses, and Ye Zhiqiu wants to see if there is Liu Zhengliang here.
Regarding the clues of this marriage, Ye Zhiqiu only has a marriage contract in his arms, and he doesn't know anything else.
But after visiting all the stores, there was no one surnamed Liu.
Turning from the shop to the stall, Ye Zhiqiu wandered for a long time and stopped in front of a stall.
This stall is strange, it occupies a palm-sized piece of land, and a red cloth is spread on the ground, and on top of it is a yellow-colored open clay pot more than a foot high.
The clay pot is inconspicuous, but the stall owner is a young beauty, in her early twenties, with white skin and a good figure, and she is very fashionable. Looking at the faces, there is the charm of movie star Li Xiaolu.
The beautiful woman sat quietly on the horse, guarding the only clay pot in the stall, and said nothing.
Ye Zhiqiu was condescending, and he could even see a trace of spring light inside the collar of the beautiful woman.
"This girl is interesting, a broken clay pot has been sold for seven days, and it is still being sold......" someone walked by and muttered.
"This clay pot is as ugly as a urinal, who wants it? There is no mark, and I can't tell the age. And this kid is not like a businessman, during the summer vacation, let's experience life. Someone else answered.
The beautiful stall owner listened to it and remained calm.
Ye Zhiqiu squatted down opposite the beauty and asked, "Beauty, what are you...... How is it sold? β
The beautiful stall owner raised her eyes: "I'm not selling, I'm giving it away." Those who know the goods do not take a penny, and those who do not know the goods do not sell their money. β
"Haha, then you have met a bosom friend, I am a knowledgeable person!" Ye Zhiqiu grinned.
"Really? Then tell me about the origin of this clay pot. The beauty glanced at Ye Zhiqiu and asked.