Chapter Twenty-Three: Falling into the Coffin
Big Wave asked. "It sounds like a boy with an innocent background, why don't you agree, grandpa?"
Old Man Su shook his head and said helplessly.
"It's because this man's background is too innocent and his family is too good. From ancient times to the present, as the old saying goes, men and women should pay attention to the right match. If the door is not right, the two are too different, and they are destined to not go to the end.
Rujin's family conditions are miserable, her mother has congenital mental illness, and her father is a bad gambler. Rujin didn't finish junior high school, and she was still a woman who studied metaphysics. How could the man's parents agree that their son was with such a woman?"
I muttered to myself. "Could it be that the man abandoned Aunt Qin? Sure enough, there are infatuated women in the world, and love is a catastrophe that every woman is destined to be unable to escape in this life. ”
Old Man Su waved his hand and denied my statement.
The man was so in love that the two decided to elope. Just a few days before leaving, Rujin told me that she was leaving the Huangquan Dumpling Restaurant and wandering the world with this man, sharing life and death. ”
"Sounds pretty good, too. ”
The big waves were fascinated by it, and a pair of upturned Danfeng eyes flashed with amazement.
Old Man Su continued.
"I made a divination for the two of them overnight. ”
The two zodiac signs are in opposition to each other, and the eight characters do not match. If you have to be together, the man will have a short life, and the woman will never recover.
I told this hexagram word for word. But she didn't believe it, and she said, 'Even if I don't recover, I will fight with heaven and earth.' She thought that after studying the mystical method for a few years, she could pass through yin and yang, and see gods and ghosts, so she could escape the fortune of the destiny of heaven. I really don't know, one life, two luck, three feng shui, four accumulation of yin virtue and five reading. In this world, who can twist the fortune of heaven!"
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One life, two fortunes, three feng shui, four accumulation of yin virtue and five reading. This proverb, which I have heard since I was a child, is like a dagger that pierces my heart deeply.
There are thousands of kinds of people in the world, and who is not secretly destined for fate from the day they are born.
Some people are born with a golden soup spoon in their mouths, and they can break up as clouds and cover their hands as rain from the moment they land. It seems that one day, he bumped into someone, broke the law, entered the bureau and raised for a few years, and changed his name when he came out, he is still the son of a singer, with a lot of tickets and a bright future.
Some people are born with illness, like the little treasure I sent away a few days ago, at a young age, every day by needle, basin by basin to pump out of the lungs, only after death, can I breathe comfortably.
Some people, like me. Obviously ambitious, he was admitted to a key university. But because of his father's illness, he had to return to Penang, a small town in the fourth and fifth tiers, and he could only work hard to take the exam and seek a stable and decent job.
Fate is never fair, and it is never in our own hands.
Old Man Su looked at the big wave and said pointedly.
"Danhong, do you understand? Born as a member of the Su family, it is your life. It is also your life to inherit the Su family before the age of 30. In Penang, stop doing your unrealistic ideas. Waste yourself and be embarrassed. ”
This is the second time that Old Man Su has said that big waves are unrealistic today. Could it be that she is the same as me? I have some regrets in my heart, I don't want to die, but I have to die.
Big Wave's neck stiffened, biting his lower lip.
"Who said that the Su family must live like this! Didn't Dad learn the metaphysical method? He didn't do what he wanted to do and fled abroad!"
"That's because of your mother. ”
Old Man Su suddenly exploded emotionally. "Su Changmin, he is not from the Su family, not my son. I've raised you for twenty-seven years, do you want to defect like Su Changmin?"
The big wave of eyes stared at Old Man Su deadly, and his eyes were full of grief and unwillingness. But her flaming light finally dimmed.
"I won't, I will fulfill your will and inherit the Su family before the age of 30. But my dad is not wrong, and when I give birth, I will be like my dad, stay away from this place and do what I want to do. ”
The dumpling restaurant was suddenly full of gunpowder, and the man with gold-rimmed glasses was the best at being a peacemaker, and when he saw that the situation was wrong, he hurriedly went up to play a round.
"Oh, it's been a long time, and your grandfather and grandson have been arguing for three days, and two days for a small quarrel, and according to me, the most important thing now is how to get rid of the female evil.
Xiao Wang's father is still in a vegetative state in the hospital, and I heard that a little girl has become mentally ill and is imprisoned in Kangning Hospital. There was another death at the door of our dumpling restaurant just now, but we must not let this woman continue to do evil. If it's bigger, it's harmful to society, and if it's smaller, it's going to smash the signboard of our Huangquan Dumpling Restaurant!"
Lao Xu walked to the counter and fiddled with the abacus.
"Our dumpling restaurant is still quite profitable during the day, and this night shift has not made any money at all in the past month or so. Xiao Niu Zi also said two days ago that he wanted to advance two months' salary in advance this month. If the reputation of our Huangquan dumpling restaurant is bad, and if you don't pay every day, you will first lay off employees, and finally you have to hang a sign and close the door. ”
"Can we still make money on the night shift?"
I worked part-time at a dumpling restaurant for about a week, and didn't the night shift just make dumplings for those ghosts who had just died, so that they could eat enough and go on the road? Most of these ghosts paid for the dead currency, although the face value of each piece was very expensive, but when converted into yuan, it was worth a few cents.
"Of course there is an entry!"
Lao Xu pouted to me.
"Our Huangquan dumpling restaurant is using the dumpling restaurant as a guise, and trading with the soul is the industry. However, what we do is a righteous and bright business, and we don't go down the wrong path. So there is not much business in normal times, but it is quite profitable. It belongs to half a year and will not be opened, so let's open for half a year. ”
The words of this gold-rimmed glasses man confuse me. I have been busy in the dumpling restaurant for a week, doing useless work to help others, and I haven't received any real work!
I inquired curiously.
"Uncle Xu, what kind of work is it, is it life-threatening?"
"That's not for sure. ”
The man with gold-rimmed glasses waved his hand, looking like a person who had come over.
"I think when I was on the night shift, I went to the cemetery in the back mountain in the middle of the night to pick up the bones of the dead. I didn't take a few steps, and I was falling into the newly dug grave, and it rained all night and landslides, do you know? I was almost buried alive by quicksand!"
Just listening to this story, I found it thrilling. No wonder the night shift attendant is paid 20,000 yuan a month, and the feeling is to fight for his life.
Uncle Xu saw my concern and smiled at me mysteriously.
"Do you know how much I got paid that time?"
"Dividends?
"Of course, 20,000 yuan per month is the minimum salary, doing special work, and of course there are high dividends. The ghost of that errand was a coal boss when he was alive, and I got this number. ”
The gold-rimmed glasses man proudly stretched out two fingers.
I guessed. "Twenty thousand?"
Uncle Xu shook his head. "Multiply by ten. ”
"Two hundred thousand!" I opened my mouth to the limit in surprise, and my jaw was almost dislocated.
"No!" Uncle Xu still pretended to be mysterious.
"How much?" I couldn't wait.
"Two gold bars, each of which is 500 grams. 99.99% pure gold. Converted to the current market price, four or five hundred thousand. ”
"So much!"
It's unbelievable, being buried alive once is exchanged for a suite in our Penang town!
The gold-rimmed glasses man gave me a look, and he skimmed Old Man Su and whispered in my ear.
"I'm all a small profit, and the old man has taken the big head. Do you know why I am not retired in my sixties and can't work the night shift, so I work as a cashier in the dumpling restaurant during the day shift? I just wait for the day when such a big family will come again, and I will desperately make such a fortune for him again. ”
Unexpectedly, I really underestimated this small Huangquan dumpling restaurant. In this way, even if Mr. Su's net worth is not the richest man in Penang Town, he can squeeze into the top ten no matter what.
Listening to the conversation between her and Old Man Su, Da Wave's father is abroad again. Come to think of it, she is not a woman with poor money.
Thinking of this, I have a little more doubt in my heart.