Chapter 2 Makes you greedy for money
"What's wrong with you?"
Seeing that I was trembling and jumped up, Lao Liu asked suspiciously.
My face turned pale, and I pointed to Huang Zhiyuan's corpse and trembled: "Why do you see that he has two hand prints on his thighs?" ”
On the ankle of the corpse, there was a cyan handprint the size of a baby's palm, and the marks were very deep, as if a baby had been dragged to the calf.
"Baby handprints?"
Lao Liu gasped when he heard this, and immediately squatted down and took a closer look, the more he looked at it, the more solemn his face became, and his brows were wrinkled into a Sichuan character.
I said with a lot of hair in my heart: "You often say that there are water ghosts in the river, was this person killed by water ghosts?" ”
Lao Liu frowned and said, "Don't talk nonsense, this may be a tattoo." ”
God tattoos, who has ever seen tattoos the same as baby handprints, I know that Lao Liu has gone to the extreme for this piece of jade at the moment, and immediately comforted: "Lao Liu, I think let's forget it, this jade is not clean, I am afraid there will be a disaster if I take it." ”
Lao Liu scolded: "I'm afraid of a fart, how can you do big things after you are so cowardly?" If I hadn't seen you pitiful, I came here to earn money in order to help my daughter-in-law treat her illness, I didn't bother to tell you about the value of the jade pendant, how good the was it for me to swallow it myself? ”
I was speechless for a moment, and Lao Liu said again: "Anyway, I will definitely take the jade pendant, even if this person is really killed by the water ghost, so what?" Will he come to us again? This piece of jade has entered the water and come ashore, and we will sell it and it will be ours. ”
After saying that, Lao Liu's eyes closed his hand and let go, and he threw the corpse directly into the river, I wanted to stop it too late, the waves were deep, and the corpse disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Things have developed to this point, it is superfluous for me to say anything, and after Lao Liu told me to keep my mouth shut, we returned to the prefabricated house, and that night, I couldn't sleep all night.
The next day, I went directly to the jade market in the city with Lao Liu, Lao Liu found a connoisseur to palm, the connoisseur saw the jade and immediately excited, and said that this jade has a very big origin, it seems to be an antique in the Song Dynasty, and the legend is that Song Huizong gave the world's first prostitute Li Shishi, but the truth of the story is unknown, but it is a pity that the jade pendant is missing a corner, there are flaws, the price is OK, but it will definitely not be too expensive.
I was still a little disappointed when I heard the words "not too expensive", but I didn't expect to do something immoral and not get any reward.
Unexpectedly, when we sold the jade pendant to the connoisseur, the connoisseur opened his mouth for 300,000 yuan, and at that moment, my excited heart almost jumped out of my throat!
300,000 yuan, even if I share it with Lao Liu, I will have 150,000 yuan, which is enough to take my daughter-in-law to the hospital.
As the saying goes, the Huang family has a priceless jade, we were still pitted by this expert at the time, and it was a long time before I learned that the value of this piece of jade was at least 500,000 yuan, because there is a legendary story hidden behind the jade pendant.
But at that time, my mind was full of 150,000 yuan, and I didn't expect so much at all, when I came out of the jade shop, a poor boy turned into a small boss with more than 100,000 yuan, and the feeling of excitement was hard to describe.
After we returned to the embankment, Lao Liu said that we could not stay any longer for the sake of insurance, and he told me to take the contract to settle the payment, while he went to the fishing village in the upper reaches of the river to see if he could find out about Huang Zhiyuan.
When I came back from the contractor, I saw Lao Liu sitting in the prefabricated room smoking vigorously, his face was ugly.
I asked him what happened to you?
Lao Liu sighed and said, "Do you remember the baby handprint on Huang Zhiyuan's ankle?" ”
I nodded, I don't know why Lao Liu suddenly asked like this.
Lao Liu frowned and said: "To the south, that Huang Zhiyuan may have really been killed by the baby water ghost." ”
When I heard the word water ghost, my heart began to furry, and I hurriedly asked, "How do you know?" ”
Lao Liu said: "I inquired about Huang Zhiyuan, this guy is really a fisherman from an upstream fishing village, he has a nickname called Huang Da Leper, the reason why he died in the river was not because he lost his footing, but because of the jade pendant." ”
I heard the frightened tone in Lao Liu's words, and hurriedly asked, "What the hell is going on?" Why is it still related to jade pendant? ”
Lao Liu said: "The people in the village said that a few days ago Huang Zhiyuan did something immoral, he saw an abandoned baby when he was fishing by the river, and there was a piece of jade pendant and cash in the swaddling clothes of the abandoned baby, Huang Zhiyuan took the jade pendant and cash and did not care about the abandoned baby, and then the tide rose and fell, and the abandoned baby was swept into the water and drowned. ”
I felt very uncomfortable when I heard it, I didn't expect Huang Zhiyuan to look very honest, he would actually do such a thing, the money and jade pendant in the abandoned baby's swaddling clothes must have been put in by the biological parents of the abandoned baby, in order to make the person who picked up the abandoned baby treat the baby better, but Huang Zhiyuan didn't care about the life or death of the abandoned baby after taking the thing, even if you don't want to abandon the baby, you can send the baby to the police station or orphanage, it's really not a thing!
I scolded and said, "Huang Zhiyuan must have been killed by the water ghost, so will it be okay for us to sell the jade pendant?" ”
Lao Liu gritted his teeth and said: "There is a fart thing, we have nothing to do with that abandoned baby, as long as you don't get close to the river in the future, the water ghost will come ashore to find you." ”
That night, Lao Liu left after settling the payment, and he advised me to leave quickly, and not to mention our jade sales to anyone, and even if we could meet again in the future, we must pretend not to know each other.
I was also very scared, and the next morning I also left the river embankment and rushed home, when I returned to Banyue Village, it was already night, my parents went to the relatives, and my daughter-in-law Xiaowen was cooking dinner, I hugged my daughter-in-law and whispered: "It won't be long before we can go for surgery!" ”
Xiaowen gave me a blank look: "Where did you get so much money?" If it really doesn't work, let's just adopt one, I feel very uncomfortable seeing you suffer outside every day. ”
I was so excited that I just wanted to tell her about the huge amount of money I had, but I thought of what Lao Liu said, so I had to swallow the words that reached my throat back into my stomach, and it was not too late to wait for an opportunity to say it slowly in the future.
At night, I had a nightmare, dreaming that I took Xiaowen to cure her illness and took her to swim in the West Lake, but I didn't expect a baby with blue faces and fangs to pop out of the lake, dragging me into the water, I was so scared that I woke up, my head was full of cold sweat, I couldn't sleep anymore, I looked back at Xiaowen next to me, but this look, I was stunned!
I saw that there was nothing empty next to me, and Xiaowen was not there at all!
I looked at my watch, and at two o'clock in the middle of the night, where could she go?
I was just about to get out of bed to look for it, and the bedroom door was pushed open with a creak, and Xiaowen walked in in her pajamas with a puzzled face and said to me: "Nanzi, have you heard any strange sounds?" ”
"What's the strange sound?" I wondered.
Xiaowen tilted her head and said uncertainly: "It seems to be the sound of a baby crying." ”
I smiled and said, "You must want the child to go crazy, go to bed early." ”
Xiaowen still muttered suspiciously: "I really seem to have heard it." ”
In order not to make my daughter-in-law suspicious, I got up and rummaged through every corner of the bedroom, and only after making sure that there were no babies in the house did I say to her, "Now rest assured!" ”
Xiaowen fell asleep again, and I was lying on the bed and suddenly I was a spirit, baby? Damn, could it be that the baby water ghost who killed Huang Zhiyuan came to the door?
It's impossible, it must be Xiaowen's auditory hallucinations!
I thought suspiciously, but my heart became more and more unsteady, who would have thought that the things behind would become more and more terrifying!
I had the same nightmare the next day, and I woke up in the middle of the night, and when I looked sideways, Xiaowen was not in bed again, and I began to feel a little panicked in my heart, and I called out my name a few times, but no one answered.
At this time, there was a creaking sound in the cabinet in the bedroom, and I was suddenly horrified, and cautiously shouted to the cabinet: "Daughter-in-law? Daughter-in-law? ”
However, no one in the cabinet answered, only the creaking sound kept coming out, which was creepy!
Could it be that Xiaowen is hiding in the cabinet?
Impossible?
The cabinet is very narrow, although Xiaowen is petite, it is impossible to accommodate her body, unless she is a baby?
Infant?
Thinking of these two words, cold sweat fell down my forehead, and I hurriedly walked to the cabinet and opened the wardrobe suddenly, and I was dumbfounded, and I will never forget the scene in front of me for the rest of my life.
I saw Xiaowen curled up in the closet, her body twisted into a ball at a very strange angle, gnawing on the sawdust in the wardrobe, the crunching sound came out like this, her mouth was full of blood, and her eyes were staring at me with extreme resentment.
Without saying a word, he stared at me so resentfully, with very strange eyes!
Pedal Pedal Ped
I took a few steps back with a pale face, and I was horrified beyond words, damn, it must be a baby ghost who came to the door, otherwise my daughter-in-law wouldn't have done such a strange act, who would curl up in a narrow closet in the middle of the night and gnaw sawdust?
Click!
Xiaowen's body trembled, the bones of her whole body clicked, she crawled out of the closet in an extremely weird posture and stared at me resentfully, her lips opened lightly, and an extremely eerie voice came out of her mouth: "Make you greedy for money!" ”
However, my face turned even paler, because the voice that spoke was not Xiaowen's, and what came out of her mouth was a little girl-like voice, which was creepy!
After my daughter-in-law said this, she fainted to the ground, I gasped and hurriedly carried her back to the bed, thinking of the nightmare that was exactly the same for two nights, and the fear in my heart suddenly spread like a tide, I knew that the baby ghost must have come to the door!
Damn, why did you find me if I didn't kill you?
I thought indignantly, took out my mobile phone and began to call Lao Liu, I want to tell him about this, now the baby ghost has haunted me, although there is no move yet, but the ghost knows what it will do next?
However, Lao Liu's phone has been turned off, and he can't get through no matter how he calls!
What am I going to do?
I broke down and grabbed my hair and felt extremely remorseful, blaming me, if it weren't for the greed for money, there wouldn't be so many things, I knew that the baby ghost would come to the door, what the hell should I do with the money?
All night, I sat on the edge of the bed in a broken down, and the next day Xiaowen woke up and asked her if she remembered what happened last night, she only said that her body hurt, but she didn't remember what happened.
I didn't dare to tell her that she was so timid, you must be scared to death if she was caught by a ghost.
On the same day, I began to look up information about the ghost upper body to see if there was any way to solve this matter, of course, the best way was to find a Taoist priest to do a ritual or something, but in a hurry I didn't know where to find it.
At night, I didn't dare to sleep, so I stared at Xiaowen, the first half of the night was safe, and the second half of the night I went to the toilet and came back, and strange things happened again.
I saw that there was an extra stroller in the bedroom at some point, and my daughter-in-law was sitting in the stroller with a pale face, staring at me with resentful eyes, and her face gradually became hideous.
I tried to calm myself down, because I knew that Xiaowen in front of me was definitely not my daughter-in-law, and that baby ghost was here again!
I tried my best to put my tone very calmly and said to Xiaowen: "I know you are in my daughter-in-law's body, but she is innocent, what do you want to do, just come at me, please don't mess with her." ”
"Boom!"
Xiaowen laughed coldly and gloomily, stood up from the stroller, stared at me with vicious eyes, her face was hideous, and she yelled at me in an almost distorted voice: "Make you greedy for money!" ”
After speaking, her hands actually pinched her neck, and with continuous force on her hands, Xiaowen's face suddenly turned pale, and the green tendons on her neck were furious, but her eyes were still staring at me viciously, and the corners of her mouth were still smiling.
How could I let her strangle herself, and hurriedly rushed over to stop her, but Xiaowen reached out and pushed me away, with great force, I flew more than a meter away, trying to get up and continue to block, but found that I couldn't move, as if there was a mysterious force shrouded in me, and I couldn't use my strength at all.
Xiaowen got out of the stroller, walked to the bed while smiling, lifted the sheets with a brush, and tore them with both hands, and the sheets became strips of cloth.
She slowly walked back to the center of the bedroom with the strip of cloth, threw the strip of cloth on the beam, lifted a stool and put it under her feet, the strip of cloth buckled at both ends, and her head was directly stretched in, and then her legs kicked, the stool overturned, and the person was hanging in the air, and the strip of cloth tightened her neck.
Hang oneself!