Chapter 9: The Creditor Comes to the Door
The tombstone, the broken tombstone, the tombstone that had been carried out, suddenly appeared in the corner of the courtyard.
"Young master, this, this ......"
Uncle Wang's voice trembled a little.
Chen Youniao's face was calm, he thought for a while, and said, "I know what's going on." ”
When I was in the Laoshan Dojo, I read a volume of Taoist observations, which recorded a lot of evil and treacherous things.
All evils in the world are generated by obsessions, or resentment, hatred, or evil thoughts...... If it is condensed, it will take shape. In some ways, it is somewhat similar to the Yin God cultivated by Taoism. It's just that the ontology is different, the Yin God is basically cultivated from people, and the treacherous and evil, the origin ontology of their birth is strange, it can be a tree, it can be a stone, or even a coffin board, an embroidered shoe, etc. Attachment to it and changes can produce evil.
In the beginning, this evil cult did not have a complete consciousness, and it was muddy, but it had an instinctive appetite for plundering people's souls and using it as food to strengthen their own bodies, so when they met someone close to them, they would be bewitched and absorbed. After the man was hit, he became insane, stupid, and in the jargon, he was called "bumping into evil."
From the crazy gangster, to the weirdo last night, to this weird tombstone, the three are connected, and the answer is about to come out.
Chen Youniao is a person who has been in the Laoshan Dojo for ten years.
Uncle Wang said, "Then why don't we smash this tombstone?"
Chen Youniao replied: "It's not that simple, this evil has been able to get out of the body, and with a bit of climate, the tombstone is no longer the fundamental place for it." In other words, the way it is now, it can hide in other things. ”
Uncle Wang was startled, looking left and right, for fear that there was something strange lurking around him.
Chen Youniao frowned, thought of an unreasonable place, and muttered: "It shouldn't be, if it can be detached from the body, it is a very powerful evil level...... No, no, this tombstone is not its attachment origin at all, there must be something else. ”
"Yes, this tombstone is a dead thing, deliberately left in the house, can give people a strong sense of fear, people see it, don't say anything else, this heart feels uncomfortable, feel scared, don't want to live here......"
Especially when the tombstone that was moved out appeared in the courtyard overnight, ordinary people and others found out about such a strange situation, and they were not scared?
said that just now, Uncle Wang was frightened.
After clarifying this, it suddenly dawned on me.
The other party's intention is to occupy this mansion and not allow anyone to live here.
This is the origin consciousness of evil, which has a very strong regional nature, and it is also a kind of limitation that is difficult to break free from. The low-level evil is centered on the origin that was born by attachment, and as it slowly becomes stronger, it radiates out in all directions, and the area it occupies is proportional to its strength.
Resentful spirits, evil spirits, ghosts.
The three forms illustrate the strength of the evil spirit.
Judging from the situation when the evil was scared away last night, it should be a low-level resentful state, and it does not have a vicious killing trick.
There is also a possibility that it is afraid of Chen Youniao.
Chen Youniao, after all, has studied Taoism, even if he has not really started, but he has the aura of Taoism.
This is a great restraint for the evil spirit.
So last night, this thing appeared sneakily, and he didn't dare to get Chen Youniao, but came to find Uncle Wang.
Uncle Wang's age is there, in this ancient world, people's life expectancy is generally not high, and after fifty, they are old people.
The elderly are old and weak, and their spirits are weak, and they are most easily eroded by evil spirits.
Chen Youniao looked at Uncle Wang, secretly worried. There is an evil in the house, and I don't know where to hide at present, and the other party does not dare to show up during the day, and will only go out at night. As soon as it came out, it came to find Uncle Wang, and it was impossible to prevent it, so could it be that Uncle Wang wanted to live in a room with him?
Just as he was thinking about it, there was a noise outside, and someone shouted: "Chen Youniao in the house, come out quickly." ”
Chen Youniao was stunned, and went out with Uncle Wang to see what was going on, and saw a fat boy standing outside the door with two healthy servants, a few feet away, as if he was afraid of something and didn't dare to enter the door.
Uncle Wang hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Dare to ask Gongzi?"
The fat man glanced at Uncle Wang, ignored it, and then looked at Chen Youniao: "You are Chen Youniao?
Chen Youniao nodded: "I am." ”
"That's good, Chen Mudao owes my family 5,000 taels of silver, he ran away, his father and son repaid, this money, I will look for you. Oh, and the interest has to be added, and the interest has ...... Well, three hundred and fifty-eight taels. ”
The fat boy raised his hand and showed an IOU with fingerprints on it.
"Five thousand taels!"
Uncle Wang gasped when he heard this: all the net worth of his young master now, and the interest can't be paid.
Looking at the fluttering note, Chen Youniao was silent. He knew that the IOU was real, and it was also true that his father had borrowed money from others.
I knew this when I returned to the clan yesterday.
Chen Mudao has a lot of debts, and most of them are mainly borrowed from the clan's fellow clansmen, and these moneys have basically been paid off by mortgaging the land and ancestral homes, etc., but there are still debts outside, which are more than 5,000 taels that this fat boy came to ask for today.
Over the years, Chen Mudao has spent a lot of money, some of which he uses himself, but a considerable part of it is spent on Chen Youniao.
In the Laoshan Dojo, Chen Youniao has to spend thousands of taels of silver every year, including tuition, food and living, and donations for further education.
It's a bottomless pit.
All in all, these debts are inseparable from Chen Youniao, his father ran away, no matter what, he has to admit it and pay it back.
Immediately arched his hand: "Didn't ask for advice?"
"It's good to say, our family is the Song family in the south of the city, my name is Song Tianfu, and I am known as 'Rich Son'. ”
Chen Youniao pondered for a moment: "Rich boy, I just came back from Laoshan, and many things are not clear, can you give me a little time to deal with it?" You can rest assured, I will definitely pay back the money that my father owes, and I will not miss you." ”
Hearing the word "Laoshan", Song Tianfu's eyelids jumped, if Chen Youniao is successful in learning and can become a formal Taoist priest, these thousands of taels of silver are trivial. It is impossible for the Song family to come to collect debts, but they will treat this money as a favor, come to congratulate and make friends. But now that Chen Youniao has been swept out of the house and become an abandoned child in Laoshan, it is different.
So after hearing the news that Chen Youniao was back, Song Tianfu came to the door the next day. He glanced at Chen Youniao a few times, and said with a smile: "Okay, my Song family has always had dealings with the Chen family, so I'll give you a month to raise money." ”
"A month?"
Chen Youniao frowned.
Song Tianfu said loudly: "This money is really in arrears for too long, and another month of grace is already benevolent, but I said ugly things ahead, and there will be no money to pay back when the time comes, don't blame our family for being polite." ”
Uncle Wang said with a smiling face: "Rich boy, if you have something to say, why don't you go into the house and have a cup of tea?" but wanted to help his young master gain more time to repay his debts.
Song Tianfu glanced at the mansion, and his expression became strange: "This house is not clean, I don't dare to go in." Chen Youniao, it is better for your master and servant to live in another place, so as not to have trouble, and I will not be able to find anyone to repay the money by then. ”
As he spoke, he turned around and walked away with the servant.
"Young master, how can it be more than five thousand dollars a month?"
Uncle Wang was so anxious that he stomped his feet.
Chen Youniao sighed: "There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and there is always a way." ”
Uncle Wang rolled his eyes when he heard this: As the saying goes, "a hero can't die for a penny", this is more than 5,000 taels, what can be done? Could it be that the young master has been on the mountain for a long time, and he doesn't know what the concept of 5,000 taels is?