Chapter 19: Partners
The old people often say that if you want to take your baby out at night, you have to light a stick of incense and hold it in your hand, and this tradition is still followed by some people to this day.
Because the young children who have just been born have pure eyes, and the "eyes of the sky" open and close, it is easy to see those dead spirits wandering in the world, in order to comfort them, not to let these ghosts disturb the children, incense is used as a lamp, so as to shelter.
As they grow older, their "eyes in the sky" will gradually close, but some people... Their physique is already special, and the "Heavenly Eye" will never close for the rest of their lives.
Most people with this psychic physique are physically weak and sickly, just because they can communicate with the dead and stand in the center of the yin and yang worlds.
In the early Tang Dynasty, the famous warlock Yuan Tiangang once created the thaumaturgy called bone fortune-telling, and used everyone's birth date to calculate the weight of the fortune-telling grid.
In general, this kind of aura is meager, and people who are lowly are very easy to be entangled by yin and evil.
No matter how much Qi Yan didn't understand, he could still understand this sentence.
For some reason, the arrogance that should have been quite strong in his body is weakening, combined with what happened in the past two days, what else could be causing it?
After understanding the meaning of Li Lan's words, Qi Yan was like a patient who had just learned from a doctor that he was suffering from a serious illness, and even the lunch box in his hand almost fell off.
Li Lan continued in a daze: "It... It's devouring your arrogance as a 'reward', and it still seems to be a coercive demand. Maybe you don't feel it now, but if this continues...... You'll slowly become like me, able to easily peek into the dirty stuff that you can't see with the naked eye, and that's not the point. The scariest thing is... Your physical condition will become weaker and weaker, and even affect your lifespan! ”
"Enough!" Qi Yan interrupted, his lips trembled slightly, and his eyes were dull, "I know what this means......"
After that, he fell silent again, and sat down on the couch without saying a word.
Li Lan also felt a little lonely about this, turned his head and asked his sister, "Sister, is there any way you can help him?" I'm not alarmist, his arrogance is really much weaker than before. ”
"It's... This..."Li Ruoke squeaked, and finally the corners of his mouth twitched a few times, "Otherwise, I will send him a few lucky charms wholesaled from Nanyang?" That's right! I have a piece of precious jade in my private collection, which I went to Zenyin Temple a few days ago to find an old monk to open the light. ”
Drink! As soon as she said this, Qi Yan became even more depressed. After that, I couldn't hear what the sister and brother were saying at all, and finally eased a little nerves and became chaotic again.
A terrible yin card that can't be thrown away and can't be destroyed...... Not only will it manifest itself on its own initiative, but it will also forcibly demand its own yang energy as a reward for it?
It's really ...... It's easy to please God, but it's hard to send God.
Then I fell asleep, I slept all day, and now I can't sleep.
Qi Yan moved a small stool and sat in front of the windowsill, asked Li Ruoke for a pack of Thai popping cigarettes, and sat there in a daze.
Cigarettes one after another, when he was nervous, his addiction to cigarettes was even greater, and his thoughts were not as chaotic as before, but became blank, and no one paid attention to them.
From twelve o'clock until half past three in the morning, everyone couldn't sleep, so they gathered in the living room to worry.
After smoking more than half of the whole pack of cigarettes, the room was full of second-hand mint smoke, Li Lan went to work in the kitchen again, and his sister Li Ruoke also sat next to Qi Yan and looked at the night scene below from the window with him.
"You smoke so much and you can't smoke away the evil spirit that haunts you... It choked both of us uncomfortably. ”
"Ahem, cough, cough..." Qi Yan's throat had already dried up due to uncontrolled smoking, and he couldn't help coughing a few times.
Li Ruoke sighed and continued, "Actually, things are not as bad as imagined, that yin card will absorb the arrogance on you, it sounds quite crazy, but then again, I think you... It doesn't seem to be the type with good luck, right?
Our generation of young people living in the metropolis is already unlucky enough, growing up eating unclean additive food, whether they go to work the next day or not, they will stay up until one or two o'clock before going to sleep, the pressure is great, they will not take care of their body, you are still so coarse in smoking... In fact, in a situation like ours and a life schedule, even if we don't encounter this kind of bad thing, we shouldn't be able to live for long.
Besides, you said that you were an urban youth who couldn't even keep a job, and now you are unemployed, right? I guess what, a credit card overdraft? No savings, no house, no car, no girlfriend...... Fortune is already scum, where else can the slag go? ”
Qi Yan's eyes were still staring outside, and there was no change in expression on his face, but he said in a hoarse voice, "Your kind of can-breaking comfort method is much more useful than ordinary chicken soup for the soul...... Go on, tell me more. ”
Li Ruoke didn't continue to hit him, but turned the conversation to a very serious and deep topic: "Do you have faith?" I think you can still go to the temple, the Taoist temple or... The church went to try its luck. ”
Qi Yan was really shocked by her thought jump, but at this time, there would not be much mood swing, she took a puff of cigarette butt, and said bluntly, "No." ”
"Even if you've experienced these supernatural things yourself?"
Qi Yan thought about it for a while, but finally shook his head, "No, although I am a materialist, I still understand this amount of knowledge."
Even if you never see it, but you always believe in it, you can call it faith! And people like me who don't go to God and worship Buddha until they meet a real ghost... Hehe, to be honest, I don't think any god or Buddha will bless me, right? ”
His words made Li Ruoke a little surprised, there are more people who don't believe in gods and Buddhism in this era, but there are not many people like him who clearly know reason, but still firm in their own ideas.
Even though you are extremely sure that you are haunted by ghosts, you still don't want to choose to seek the protection of the gods?! What kind of mindset is this?
Li Ruoke turned his head and saw an indescribable stubbornness in his eyes, with constant bad luck and unabated fear, but he still insisted on his own ideas...... This stubbornness made her unable to find the words to answer for a while.
Finally, she changed the topic to a big point: "It's better to be like this, you're a vagrant now, right?" Would you like to consider coming to my shop to do it together? Idle is idle, why don't you do it these days? No matter what, you have to have an income first, and it would be too embarrassing not to starve to death before you were killed by a ghost......
Qi Yan didn't expect her to talk about such a thing at this time, and finally looked at her and frowned, "You want me to open a store with you?" Only... Just your little studio now? ”
"Your tone is a little wrong, you seem to look down on it... Cut, what's this? Even if you work for others, no matter how capable you are, you are a slave, and no matter how small you are to start your own business, you are also a boss, I think a smart person like you should not be incapable, and the reason why you don't have a job is because you don't want to be controlled, right? Come to me, let's have a two-share system, you enter the dry shares, completely equal, earn more and earn less, what do you think? ”
Qi Yan didn't look like she was joking when she looked serious, she looked back at her studio shop again, and asked, "I heard your brother say that you do a lot of business, not only helping people tell fortunes on the online platform, but also doing purchasing and selling Buddha cards?" ”
Li Ruoke nodded and said, "First of all, I not only sell Buddhist cards, but also sell dreamcatchers, lucky stones, amulets, homemade drinks, and so on...... Secondly, I'm not helping people with fortune telling, I'm divination! ”
"Does it make a difference?"
At this time, Li Lan came out of the kitchen, holding three glasses of drinks in her hand, just heard their conversation, and added with interest, "Don't underestimate my sister's business, as I said before, she has more than 100,000 fans on Weibo and more than 1,000 friends on WeChat...... Divination, if you are lucky, these fragmented businesses add up to more than 20,000 profits in a month! ”
"Yes..."Li Ruoke nodded first, then immediately reacted and turned around and squirted, "Phew! Pay attention to the wording, what is flickering? ”
Qi Yan didn't agree immediately, he didn't want to say anything at all, he just asked with some doubts, "You... Why offer me a job? Also joint-stock system? ”
"Because you saved my brother, whether intentionally or unintentionally."