Chapter 09: The Money, the Man, the Dog
Sister Xiang was so frightened that she trembled, and the dark money in her hand also fell.
The dark money floated on the tile surface, and a bunch of odds and pieces were dazzling.
A breeze blew, and the dark money was blown onto Sister Xiang's high heels.
"Ahh
Sister Xiang jumped up in fright, and the dark money fell.
"Why are you so flustered?" Qin Anyi walked out of the counter, picked up the dark banknotes on the ground, put them on the counter, and pressed the two dark bills with Durex by the way.
"What the hell...... Can you not panic?" Sister Xiang hid behind Qin Anyi, put her hands on Qin Anyi's shoulders, shrunk her head, and looked at the dark coins on the counter.
"Aren't you still dead?" Qin Anyi put his fingers on the two dark coins in his middle of eating.
Backtracking, activation.
Familiar dots, lines, and surfaces, and then Qin Anyi saw a black and white photo placed on the chest of drawers.
The old man's eyes are sunken, his cheekbones are protruding, his cheeks are sunken, and the folds on his face are deep.
The old man was indeed dead, but he didn't know what disease he died of.
A middle-aged man dressed in linen and filial piety held incense in his hand and gave incense to the old man.
"Dad, my son is not filial, you have never enjoyed happiness in your life, when you get below, your son will burn a lot of paper money for you, and when you get below, bless and bless your grandson to be admitted to college." The middle-aged man muttered in his mouth, and then inserted incense on the incense burner.
The portrait shows the old man's eyes sunken in his eye sockets staring at the man.
The man's heart was a little hairy, and he left quickly.
In the back-of-the-world world, Qin Anyi walked around with his hands in his pockets, the house was not big, about forty square meters, many old objects, there were flowers and plants on the balcony, and a local dog was lying on the ground crying.
Many of the relatives were crying, and the few who were not crying were also red-eyed.
There was an old grandmother who didn't cry, but kept stacking gold ingots.
"Old man, you've been picking on the door for a lifetime, don't be so picky in the next life, don't use these gold ingots when you get there, don't use them when you get there, if it's not enough, give us your dreams."
"Grandpa Xia, you're good to go." A young man in his twenties, dressed plainly, knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
One after another, many young or middle-aged people came to kowtow to the old man, and after kowtowing, they stayed at the door.
Because the room couldn't stand, Qin Anyi stood in the crowd, like an illusion, and Qin Anyi standing in the crowd was like wearing a mold.
He walked outside, there was a wreath outside, Qin Anyi looked at the wreath, the old man was called Xia Chi.
During this period, the old man's son walked outside and answered a phone call, and Qin Anyi watched all this.
"Why don't you pay for it? I'm running out of money......" The voice of a young man on the other end of the phone was full of resentment, and I could still hear others on the other end of the phone.
"Tonight's consumption will be paid by Cheng Gongzi!"
"My dad died, and if you want to make money, you have to earn it yourself." The middle-aged man suppressed his anger and said.
"Huh? What are you doing here? Didn't you say that you would send me money every month?" Cheng Gongzi on the opposite side panicked.
The middle-aged man had already hung up the phone.
Going back here, Qin Anyi probably understood what kind of person the old man was, so he ended the backtracking.
After returning to the present, Qin Anyi looked at the watch in his hand, and nineteen seconds passed.
"Okay, Sister Xiang, don't panic, maybe it's a trick, I'll take a look at it with you." Qin Anyi picked up the dark money and put it in his pocket.
Sister Xiang's hair salon is not far away, just next door, called Dream Lisa Hair Salon, a flavor of the eighties and nineties of the last century.
"Where's the old man?" Sister Xiang walked into the hair salon with Qin Anyi, and when she turned around, she was about to pull down the roller shutter door.
"Hey, what's the matter? I'm not here to make, okay?" Qin Anyi stopped Sister Xiang.
"I'm sorry, I'm used to it." Sister Xiang hid behind Qin Anyi and picked up the curling iron next to her.
"Alright, alright, don't be afraid." Qin Anyi comforted Sister Xiang and pushed open the secret door.
There was no one in the secret door at all, only a stack of banknotes left on the bed, Qin Anyi took a cursory glance, four or five thousand yuan.
There is also a stack of dark coins next to it.
He picked up the folded bill, looked at the sun, touched it with his phantom limb, and nothing changed.
"It's true." Qin An thought about putting the banknote in Sister Xiang's hand, "If you don't believe it, you can order it more."
"How dare I?" Sister Xiang didn't dare to take it at all, "Anyway, there won't be anything wrong with this person, right? Who's going to eat chicken with the money? Is it wide?"
"I don't know." Qin Anyi took the money and turned on the backtracking again.
In the retrospective, these money are all private money hidden by the old man himself in the slippers and insoles, and the old man who has become a ghost has come here with the dead money and the real money.
Then the old man cowered and first gave the money to Sister Xiang and asked Sister Xiang to buy a small umbrella.
waited for Sister Xiang to go out before she left the real money.
The stack of dark money on the bed was left by Sister Xiang herself.
"Strange." Qin Anyi couldn't understand the motive, "Shouldn't this be a big lust after death, there are so many real money that you can eat high-end goods, instead of coming to Sister Xiang, although Sister Xiang is not bad, she still comes to send money after she dies, is there a family or a reason?"
In the backtracking world, the old man looked at Sister Xiang and went out, sighed deeply, and walked out of the wall.
The old man left after passing through the wall, Qin Anyi chased him out, and saw the old man just squatting under a tree on the side of the street, his eyes full of guilt.
Qin Anyi ended the backtracking, took Sister Xiang's hand, and persuaded her.
"Okay, Sister Xiang, don't worry about it, maybe it's just hypnosis? The few thousand left behind should be used to compensate you for your mental damage, after all, there are a lot of weirdos in this world." Qin Anyi lied.
After Sister Xiang listened to Qin Anyi's words, it was not logical at all to think about it a little, but at first glance it still made some sense, and it was not unacceptable if you thought about it carefully.
The main thing is to have money to get, after all, people want to have just the right meal.
"Okay, I'll deal with these coins for you, I like to play with fire." Qin Anyi smiled, took the dark coin and went out, "Sister Xiang, help me take a look at the store, thank you."
Regardless of whether Sister Xiang agreed or not, Qin Anyi walked out with that kind of dark coin, and after a circle, Qin Anyi came to the place where the old man was.
He found a corner against the wall and squatted down, picked up a stone, drew a circle on the ground, and wrote the words "Xia Chi Harvest" on the outside of the circle.
Qin Anyi lit a dark coin and threw it into the circle.
"Let's talk about it, old man, what does it have to do with Sister Xiang?" Qin Anyi opened his mouth and asked the old man.
"Can you see me?" The old man asked Qin Anyi strangely, very surprised.
"Hey, hell, how new is this, I still see one in the morning? I almost strangled to death." Qin Anyi flipped through the silver and said, his hand movements were not slow, and he was still burning paper money, "Tell me, what is your relationship with Sister Xiang?" Your illegitimate daughter?"
"Yes, I was ignorant at the time, I had an affair, and then I didn't know she was pregnant, and then I broke off contact with her, until she was dying and someone found me and told me that she had such a daughter, but she did...... Well, if I were responsible, she wouldn't be doing this for a living." Xia Chi lowered his head, his eyes were red, and his voice was full of self-blame.
"I know everything, but why do you want to sponsor others?" Qin Anyi asked Xia Chi, "And I'm still swishing."
"There's no reason for it, I just think it's a shame if those kids can't go to school because they don't have money." Xia Chi replied to Qin Anyi, "It doesn't matter if I'm poor, I have a family to live and something to eat, so I'm still okay."
"Although I can't control the third leg, it's half a good person who is surprised." Qin Anyi looked at Xia Chi and sighed, realizing that something was wrong, Qin Anyi quickly changed his words.
"He's a good ghost."
"......" Xia Chi Shen
Silence, "That ......"
"No help, no money, don't look for me, next." Qin Anyi threw out the rejection of the fourth company.
"I haven't said anything yet." Xia Chi was stunned for a moment.
"I don't know what you're trying to say? It's nothing more than taking care of Sister Xiang, I'm sure of this, after all, Sister Xiang usually takes care of me, and then your family shouldn't worry, after all, you came to Sister Xiang for the first time, and the rest is the person you are sponsoring now, or those people, right?" Qin Anyi said, his tone was disgusted, and he continued to burn the paper, "You don't look at what you're funding, just blindly fund it."
"......" Xia Chi was silent, standing beside Qin Anyi in a daze.
In the distance, a dog barked, and Qin Anyi turned his head to look over.
A local dog galloped over, barked excitedly, and ran to Xia Chi's side, turning in circles as if flattering, rubbing Xia Chi's trouser leg.
"Noble?!" Xia Chi touched the head of the earth dog with some surprise and shouted affectionately.
"Got the paper money." Qin Anyi saw it in his eyes, put down the last stack of paper money, and found a stick and dialed it at random, so that the paper money burned more fully.
"When you get it, it's time to hit the road." Qin Anyi said, and the ghost sent a certificate floated out, "Don't worry, it's just excess, it's not killing you."
Qin Anyi had already seen that the dog was also a soul body.
"That, little brother, I have this one wish, can I let my family continue to sponsor him to finish college?" Xia Chi looked at Qin Anyi with a slight pleading.
"Wang~" Earth Dog echoed.
"Okay, okay, okay, yes, yes, yes, I know." Qin Anyi perfunctory six times, holding the ghost card, the ghost card emitted a soft white light, enveloping Xia Chi and the earth dog.
A man and a dog gradually became illusory, until they disappeared completely.
There are also two new portraits on the back of the ghost card, a man and a dog.
"Excess time: 2022
Status: Complete
Abilities Acquired: Etherealization, Illusion, Stealth.
Gain Yin: 100 points."
This one is from Xia Chi, and the next one is from Noble.
"Excess time: 2022
Status: Complete
Acquired Abilities: Wolfbeast Intuition, Wolfbeast Smell.
Gain Yin: 10 points."
Qin Anyi took a look at it and put away the ghost card.
"Rotten good guy." Qin Anyi lit a cigarette and stopped a taxi.