"What did you say?"

I was so shocked that I yelled.

The old man repeated it again, then turned and went into the back room, and when he came out, he had something more in his hand.

"Bring this thing, maybe she won't hurt you."

The old man stretched out his calloused hand, and I saw that the palm of his hand was a black stone threaded with a red rope, about the size of a dollar coin, but with a bumpy surface.

"What is this?"

I reached out and retracted it again.

"Ambergris!"

After a moment's hesitation, I reached out and took it.

"Thank you! This ambergris is so powerful? ”

I've heard people say that some special jade or Buddha statue pendants can ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters, but no matter how you look at it, it's not like that.

The old man laughed dryly: "In fact, it is the dung of the Yellow River Jiaolong, the dragon is a pure yang thing, the spirit of heaven and earth, its feces have the ability to drive away evil and resist demons, in our circle, it can be regarded as a rare treasure, an absolute rarity." ”

After speaking, the old man turned around and sat down at the small wooden table, and then I noticed that there were several small dishes on the small wooden table, all of which were very ordinary and cheap wine and food, and there was a bottle of star pie on one side.

The old man directly grabbed a few peanuts with his hand and stuffed them into his mouth, took another sip of wine, and made a "swish" sound in his mouth.

"Sit down and have a drink with me!"

Just as I stood a little overwhelmed, the old man pointed to the small chair opposite me and said in a low voice.

"Good!"

I was suddenly full of curiosity about the old man watching the gate in front of me.

At noon today, Xue Chunshan asked the canteen master to make seven or eight tables of dishes, saying that he called all the factory workers to celebrate, and I noticed that even a few cooking masters in the kitchen were sitting around the big round table in the corner.

But he didn't call the old man who looked at the gate, probably because of the old man's withdrawn personality!

After pouring me a glass of wine, the old man opened up the conversation.

"My surname is Wu, twenty or thirty years ago, I was also a well-known Mr. Yin and Yang in the north, and I also have a beautiful and virtuous wife and two lovely children, but unfortunately twenty-two years ago, I and a few people in the circle worked together to deal with a powerful evil, but I didn't expect that we underestimated the ability of the evil, but was killed by him, which eventually led to the destruction of the family, and I only had half a life left."

As he spoke, he drank half a glass of wine, then reached out and grabbed his left leg pants.

I instinctively tilted my head to look, and I saw that Old Man Wu's left leg was actually a prosthetic leg made of wood below the knee.

In other words, his left leg and knee were broken all at once.

After a few contacts, I only noticed that he was limping when he walked, and I never expected him to ......

"Uncle, what's the matter with your legs...... How did it break? ”

Old man Wu poured himself full of wine again, and then sneered: "If I say that I cut it with a kitchen knife myself, do you believe it?" ”

"Ahh The glass in my hand almost fell to the ground.

"Yourself? Did something happen at that time? ”

Hearing her say this, I first thought of the movie and TV series, those who were hit by poisonous arrows or bitten by poisonous snakes, in order to save their lives, endured the pain and broke their arms.

"I couldn't control myself at all!" The old man said, his brows furrowed, and his cloudy eyes were full of fear, "Because the evil came to me, I watched myself pick up the kitchen knife, and then raise it and slash at my left leg. ”

Startled again, I quickly put down my glass and listened intently to what he had to say.

"At that time...... I was very conscious, I knew what I was doing, but my body didn't seem to be my own...... I counted for myself and slashed thirty-one times until I cut off my leg and saw the blood dripping down — the point was that I was still feeling it, and the pain was a nightmare that I had for twenty years. ”

After saying that, I wanted to pick up the wine glass and drink it all.

I was afraid that he would get drunk, so I quickly reached out to stop him.

"Uncle, slow down...... Drink slowly, I'll chat with you! ”

The old man laughed dryly, and put down his glass.

"In the future, you can call me Lao Wu!"

"Hmm!" I nodded, and took a sip from my glass.

"It's been so many years, you still have to look away!"

Lao Wu nodded: "Everything is arranged by God, when I was apprenticed to learn art, the master said that once I entered the yin and yang circle, I would inevitably suffer the pain of 'five disadvantages and three deficiencies', and it was difficult to die well. ”

"What the hell are you talking about?" I couldn't help but ask.

"I don't know!" Lao Wu shook his head slightly, "I only know that it originally didn't belong to the upper world, but secretly ran up from below, and then I took a lot of effort to find out that it came from this place, and it was also from this place to go back, so I came to the ferry factory ten years ago as a janitor." ”

Lao Wu's words once again made the back of my neck cold.

"You're saying there's something wrong with this ferry?"

I remembered what the nose in the factory said before, he said that the factory was not clean before.

Lao Wu nodded: "The Yin Qi of the ferry factory is extremely heavy, in the past hundred years, I don't know how many people have died, let's just say that the fire in the early eighties burned more than 30 people on the spot, and even four or five people have never found the wreckage." ”

"Ahh So why not abandon this ferry factory? ”

As soon as I finished saying this, Lao Wu looked up to the sky and laughed.

"Abandoned? How dare they! ”