Chapter 20: The Fat Man Who Gets Money
Zhao Lili's house is very spacious, a table of eight immortals is placed in the center of the guest hall, in the center of the guest hall is a painting of the tiger descending the mountain, and a tribute table below the painting is placed on the rank of several ancestors. Her father and mother were dressed in the Miao family's distinctive ethnic costumes, and because they couldn't understand their dialect, they could understand our Mandarin. The fat man sitting across from us and smiling kept watching us and not talking, as if he had something on his mind.
"Abba, Grandma, let me introduce these are my juniors, they are here to travel," a few of us quickly stood up and bent down to salute. Zhao Lili's parents hurriedly shook hands with us.
"Nie Yu, this is my eldest cousin Du Dabao, you know each other!" Zhao Lili was very happy today.
The fat man in front of him looked like he was in his thirties, with a slight crow's feet at the corners of his eyes, and his big eyes were shaved bald. His round head was shining, he wore a shirt and jeans, a handbag on the table, which seemed to be full of money, a thick gold necklace around his neck, and three gold rings on his fingers, which were thick and large.
"Hello cousin, I'm Zhao Yu'er, please take care of me!" Zhao Yuer stood up and raised her glass and toasted him.
"Oh, hello, beauty, are you all good friends of Lili? This little sister of mine has a very cheerful personality and loves to make friends. I also love to make friends, come to us to drink one first, come here just like your own home, don't let go, come and eat! As he spoke, he picked up his glass and dried it all at once.
Wu Shirong looked at me and was stunned, I was also surprised that this fat man's alcohol was not small, and he dried everything in the cup in one gulp.
"Big cousin, what do you do? What kind of job do you look like a big boss? Zhao Yuer continued to pour him wine.
"I'm in the antique business, I'm buying some unearthed antiquities near this Miao Village and Wencheng, and then selling them to the province or secret buyers, just sell them at a low price and sell them high, to put it bluntly, I'm a second-hand dealer, hahaha!" With that, he drank the wine in his glass again.
"Little brother, you are Lili's junior, you really came to the right place to travel here, the scenery here is beautiful, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and our girls here are even more beautiful, isn't it Lili?" Brother Dabao seems to be a little arrogant, but I always look up and down at my eyes when I look at him.
"Brother Dabao, what kind of cultural relics have you received, or antiques?" I asked curiously.
"It's some, porcelain, furniture, carvings, jade and the like, but it's all some bargains, to be honest, I don't know much, sometimes I have to ask others, this industry is so deep, little brother, you ask so many questions, you seem to be very interested? Do you know a little bit about it? Du Dabao picked up the wine glass and filled mine.
"Laughing, Brother Dabao, I don't understand this, it's just that I learned some exorcism spells from my second uncle when I was a child, and I don't know anything else, and now I am majoring in archaeology at Haicheng University, and it has just been half a semester." I hurriedly said modestly, after all, I can't drink very much, I just drank a glass, and now my brain is a little confused.
"Oh? Exorcism? What is Exorcism? The Taoist who catches ghosts, haha! Du Dabao patted me on the shoulder.
"I just know a thing or two, that is, when other people's families do red and white ceremonies, look at feng shui, see if there is any unlucky place, or collide with the yin person, I can go to see it, and then use some spells to get things done." I couldn't control myself anymore after drinking, and my tongue was a little hard when I spoke, but I was still very clear in my heart.
"Oh, so powerful, aren't you the so-called Mr. Yin and Yang? I can't imagine that Lili's classmates are so powerful, don't underestimate our family Lili, she knows a lot, she understands all of our Miao Jiang's Gu techniques, isn't it a little sister? Zhao Lili hurriedly knocked his bald head with chopsticks, and he talked a little too much.
"Don't listen to his nonsense, I don't know anything, what you see is what I will, don't listen to him, he always loves to talk nonsense." Du Dabao covered his head, pretending to be afraid of hiding from Zhao Lili's chopsticks.
This fat man is quite cheerful and chats with us about our parents. The food cooked by Zhao Lili's parents was so delicious that my stomach swelled and I had a terrible headache after drinking a few glasses of wine, and after a while we left her house and returned to our inn. I was a little drunk along the way, Zhao Yuer kept supporting me, I could feel that her feminine breath was so strong, and I even seemed to feel the warmth of her body when I got close. I slept in a daze for a night, didn't even dream, and finally relieved the fatigue of the day.
"Open the door, Nie Yu is not here, I am your eldest brother, open the door!" At dawn in the morning, Brother Dabao was outside and banged vigorously on the door of our inn. There was a shouting and scolding from outside, and I quickly got up and opened the door.
"Brother Dabao, is there anything wrong with you so early?" I can't even open my eyes, why did this nasty guy come to me so early, I'm not familiar with him.
"Little brother, let's go into the house and say, shh He looked obscenely at the outside, saw that there was no one, and bent down to follow me into the guest room.
"Please sit down, you can say anything, Brother Dabao, I will definitely be able to help you with something!"
"That's it, little brother, when I sleep at night, I feel like someone is blowing a cool breeze on my face, I can't see anything when I wake up, but I always dream that a middle-aged woman stretches out her hand and asks me for something, I have this dream every day, can you help me see what's going on?" Brother Da Bao showed a panicked look.
"Oh? What does a middle-aged woman ask you for? Have you offended someone? "I feel like she's messing with something unclean.
"No, absolutely nothing, I have always been above board, I have never offended anyone, if you can help me with this, I can call you Brother Yu." He stared at him with a serious look.
"Don't, don't call me Brother Yu, I'm terrible, you're more than ten years older than me, I can call you uncle, when are we leaving?" I hurriedly got dressed and put on my shoes.
"Let's go now, let's go to my house now, and see if you can help me get rid of that old lady, I suspect she might be a ghost." His eyes looked at me uncertainly, as if he was deliberately hiding something.
"Okay, let's go, I'll try to help you if there's anything, but don't you Miao Jiang know Gu arts, why can't you solve this problem?" I was a little puzzled by what he said.
"We in Miao Jiang are indeed a lot of people who know Gu art, but Gu art can only deal with the living, I haven't heard of Gu art to deal with the dead, your industry will definitely be a popular profession when you come to us.
After a polite turn, Wu Shirong and I followed Du Dabao down to the second floor of the inn, on the first floor, he invited the two of us to eat, and Zhao Yuer was still sleeping in the inn and didn't get up. After breakfast, we walked for about half an hour to Du Dabao's house.
Du Dabao's home is also a Miao village building, a two-story wooden chamfered building, and he quickly followed him to the second floor. When I entered the room, I took out the yellow cloth pocket of the second uncle, burned a stove of incense ashes, and drew a charm to exorcise evil spirits according to the instructions on the "Nine Imperial Divine Strategies", and the preparations were all done, and I didn't move in his house, Du Dabao didn't dare to stay at home and go to the inn opposite.
I waited on the second floor of Du Dabao's house for a day, didn't wait for anything, simply ate something and continued to come back and wait. I fell asleep in his bed, and suddenly I was awakened by a cool breeze, and looked at my watch, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening. I hurriedly took out the willow leaves and smeared them with cow tears, pasted charms on the four windows, and then took a piece of Du Dabao's clothes and put it in the quilt to attract the attention of the ghost, because ghosts only catch people according to the breath of people, and I am going to catch this ghost.
I hid under the bed, and there was a squeak as if the door had opened a crack, and as the crack opened the door, a cool breeze blew in, and I put the leaves on my eyelids to see that I was a ghost. This ghost didn't see me go straight to Du Dabao's bed and went around, and I wanted to go out when I saw no one in a circle, and then I pulled the prepared red rope and closed the door, the female ghost was stunned for a moment to push the door, but her hand pushed the charm and screamed in pain, I jumped out and a charm was attached to her back.
"You evil ghost, why did you come here to harm people, don't you leave quickly! Be careful that I take you! "I remembered what happened to my second uncle and little sister, and I hated these harmful things, so I picked up the peachwood sword in my hand, and I wanted to stab her with a spell on the blood.
"Wronged, wronged!" This female monster was busy protecting her chest with her hands for fear that I would stab her, and she looked like she was in her forties, wearing the traditional clothes of Miao Village.
"Wronged? What are you wronged? Tell me about it. "I sat down and felt inexplicable when I saw her shouting injustice, could it be that Du Dabao killed her?
"Little Taoist, listen to me...... The female ghost told me what happened.
It turned out that half a month ago, she and her husband traveled to this Miao village together, and never thought that the car of the tour group broke down in the middle of the road, and the two of them got out of the car to breathe, and at this moment a big truck drove over and killed the two of them, becoming a ghost who died horizontally, and at this time Du Dabao drove by here, and sent the two of them to the funeral home. A few days later, their son came to collect their corpses, and this Du Dabao actually asked him for 20,000 yuan for transporting the corpse, otherwise he would not have been allowed to take the corpse away. As a result, his son gave him the money for his parents to go home and bury him quickly, but he never thought that his son's daughter-in-law was sick and had no money to see a doctor, and his mother's family was arguing for a divorce because of this. All this is because Zhao Dabao is too greedy, so this female ghost came to Zhao Dabao to ask for money. She came to Zhao Dabao's house every night to stretch out her hand just to ask for money he didn't deserve.
"So that's the case, what I said, that Du Dabao is really a money obsesser, he did a good thing to send you back, but he can't ask your son for so much money, and your family is not rich." I shook my head, it's really making dead people's money, it's too lacking in morality.
"Yes, you just let me go, please, I don't want to hurt him, I just ask him for money, if he gives money to my son, my daughter-in-law can't quarrel to divorce him, he's too greedy." This female ghost actually shed tears.
If what you said is true, I will help you solve this matter, I will go to that Du Dabao now and see if I can get your son's money back, you can wait for me here, and I will come back when I go.