《The Ghostdom Enforcer》


 Chapter 1 Demons and Ghosts Are Nothing

    I was raised by the iron-blooded revolution. I have always believed that good prevails over evil. As for the sayings about ghosts and gods, I only remember what my grandfather often said: If you see a ghost, kill it; if you see a god, kill the god!


    In 1992, the third year after my mother passed away, my father was forced by my grandfather to marry. At that time, it was popular to wear a wedding dress, but my stepmother Jiang married my father in a red wedding dress, a pair of embroidered red shoes, and holding a clay doll brother. It was also because of that doll brother that my life changed dramatically.


    The story has to start with my father''s death. It was the second month of his remarriage. The military doctor diagnosed it as a heart attack. The whole family was hit by my father''s death. I was only seven years old. I followed my father all day and found that he was getting haggard. Sometimes he squatted in a corner and talked to himself, but he seemed to be a normal person in front of others. Now he suddenly had a heart attack and seemed to be stimulated by something, but a child had little influence, so he kept his words in his heart.


    After all, everyone was sad at that time, but a few days later, Jiang felt sick and went for a B-ultrasound. The result showed that she was pregnant. Later, she gave birth to a big fat boy. Grandpa was finally happy. He cried and laughed and said that the Chen family finally had an heir (I was a girl). He spent a lot of money to make a longevity lock made of gold. The next day, Jiang replaced it with a small coffin. The small coffin was about three inches long, about one inch wide and high, and was finely made. The lid and the coffin body were staggered, tied with a red rope, and hung on the child''s neck. Grandpa immediately frowned, and I also felt it was unlucky. Jiang hurriedly explained that this was a popular hand-held ornament in their southern part, which meant promotion and wealth. This child was a third-generation red, and as a mother, she naturally hoped that the child would have a prosperous career in the future.


    Grandpa snorted coldly and didn''t say anything, just teasing the child, but I was looking at the word "Dian" on the small coffin, and I was horrified. Since this plaything had a word "want", it was not a real thing, but did it even have the word "Dian" written on it?


    Although I was curious, I would not bother to do it.


    Until the day when the child was one month old, just after the full moon banquet, my grandfather fell seriously ill without any signs. His face was pale, the corners of his mouth were blue, and the wrinkles between his eyebrows were almost spread out. He was about to die. In a daze, he called me to the bedside while I was crying. Suddenly he opened his eyes, full of energy, just like the last breath of the old people: "Chen Xi, are you still a descendant of the Chen family if you cry so much? Listen to my grandfather, you go to Jiang''s room now, steal the coffin handle from the child, and then move the baby brother away to see if there is any writing underneath."


    I wiped my tears as soon as I heard it, and my heart was beating. I took this matter as my grandfather''s last wish.


    The lights in the yard were bright. The news of my grandfather''s critical illness spread. Old comrades came to ask about it from time to time. Besides my grandfather and I, there was only Jiang in the family. I was just a child, so Jiang received the people who came to ask about it in the yard. I took advantage of her busyness and sneaked into her room. As soon as I entered, I was choked by the smell of incense. When I was about to cough, I covered my nose and tiptoed towards the big brother. The big brother was wearing a blue coat and was worshipped on the table. He stared at me blankly, which made me feel cold all over. Three incense sticks burned two long and one short. The middle one burned rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. I didn''t have time to think about it. I stood on a stool and climbed onto the table to move the big brother away according to my grandfather''s instructions. I saw that there was actually handwriting on the base: March 1966.


    I took note, put the baby brother back to its original place, sneaked to the bedside, and climbed over the pillow blocking the bedside. Chen Shan was sleeping soundly with a small coffin on his small neck. I always felt it was unlucky, and I didn''t know what Jiang thought was good. I despised it in my heart, but my hands were light, for fear of waking Chen Shan up. I slowly lifted his head, and from time to time I checked whether the door was pushed open. Finally, I took the small coffin in my hand, but the next moment, Chen Shan suddenly opened his eyes and looked at me blankly. I subconsciously looked back at the baby brother, and I trembled with fear. The eyes were exactly the same. I began to be afraid, and quickly stepped back from the bed, ran to open the door and rushed out. Before I ran to my grandfather''s room, I heard a baby crying loudly. I looked back every three steps and finally arrived at my grandfather''s room. My grandfather had sat up at this time, his face was much rosy, and asked me if I had taken it.


    The more I looked at Grandpa, the more he seemed to be in his last moments. I felt bad and put the small coffin in Grandpa''s hands.


    Grandpa touched the small coffin and took out a small knife from under the pillow. The knife looked a little blunt and had been used for years. The handle was covered with yellow paper and there were some faint red marks on it. It was held by Grandpa, and only a little was exposed. I couldn''t see it clearly. I could only focus on the small coffin.


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    "There are descendants nails!" Grandpa was shocked. I looked up and Grandpa''s lips were trembling. He knocked the small coffin open with a knife. I carefully counted and pried it seven times. Then he shoveled it hard and the lid of the coffin fell on Grandpa''s legs. The next moment, a clay figurine lay in the coffin, wrapped in red cloth, just like the newborn baby Chen Shan with his hands and feet bound, but his eyebrows, eyes and nose looked very much like the baby brother.


    Grandpa''s hand trembled, and the small coffin slipped from his legs and fell to the ground. The clay figurine broke into three pieces, and a white note fell out from the bottom. I hurried to pick it up and took a look: November 1966.


    Suddenly, a pressure filled the room, like a pair of invisible big hands pinching my neck, and I couldn''t breathe. The note slipped from my hand. I looked up with difficulty, but saw Jiang holding Chen Shan in her left hand and the baby brother in her right hand. The cold wind blew, and Jiang was laughing. Blood was flowing from her eyes, nose, ears, and mouth corners. The laughter and the heart-wrenching cry of the baby were mixed together.


    "Xiao Xi!" Grandpa yelled, and I didn''t know where he got the strength. He jumped off the bed, hugged me with one hand, and pointed the coffin-opening knife at Jiang with the other hand, muttering something at an incredibly fast speed.


    Jiang, who was pointed at by the knife, stopped for a moment, her head drooped, her black hair covering her face, and the dolls in her hands, my elder brother and Chen Shan, were also motionless. Grandpa took the opportunity to hold me and ran out of the door. As soon as I ran out of the heavy district compound, I heard the cry of a baby behind me. Grandpa held me and ran while putting the knife in my pocket, his eyes full of bloodshot: "Chen Xi, remember to go out of the compound and find a family surnamed Ge in J District, T City, find Ge Tao, and ask him to contact your second uncle. The only thing Grandpa can leave is this knife, but Chen Xi, you must remember that Grandpa wants you to live happily and never come back again, remember, never again!" After saying that, I felt that I was thrown out by Grandpa. The intense pain of landing made me dizzy, and I could vaguely hear Grandpa''s painful cry and the baby''s sinister smile I heard the sound of a tumbling sound, and I ran away, crawling and rolling. The special critical area is in the deep mountains and old forests, surrounded by wild forests. On the ground are the shadows of tree branches cast by the moon, swaying like the hem of Jiang''s skirt. I shivered in my heart and ran out with my head held high. I saw that I had reached the end of the wild forest. There was a big river in front of me. The big river flowed from the west. The forest stretched to the south of the big river. Walking east along the big river, you can see the road. At that time, I felt that my legs and feet were no longer my own. I ran for an unknown period of time and finally got out of the wild forest. I immediately sat by the river and breathed heavily.


    There was no end to the east along the river. If you want to walk to the road, it will take at least a day and a night. My grandfather raised me as a boy since I was a child, and I was very tough. I squatted by the river and drank water. Thinking of my grandfather, my heart tightened and I dared not delay any longer.


    I got up and walked along the river. There was a slight sound of footsteps behind me. I immediately quickened my pace and walked faster and faster...


    Suddenly! A black car came into view in front of me. It was unusual for a car to appear out of nowhere on the way from the special heavy area to the highway, but the situation at that time did not allow me to think too much. I was afraid that something was really following me, so I ran over and knocked on the car window: "Can you give me a ride?"


    The car window rolled down, and a man with black semi-long hair sat in the driver''s seat. His nose was a little crooked and his lips were pale. I said I was going to T City, and he just nodded and asked me to get in the car. The car drove slowly, and I felt more and more that something was wrong: "What are you doing here so late?"


    The driver didn''t say anything either. I shrank in the seat and felt a little uneasy. I took out the carving knife from my pocket and held it tightly in my hand, looking around. There was nothing wrong in the car. The only thing that made me uncomfortable was that the seat was a little wet, and the driver didn''t say a word: "I''m going to J District in T City."


    The driver was indifferent to my repetition.


    Suddenly! The car started shaking wildly. I quickly grabbed the front seat, but the driver looked back at me with a strange look on his pale face. He bared his teeth and spit out a mouthful of water. Then I heard a muffled sound. The whole car was sinking. The whole car fell into the water!


    "Ah!" I was so scared that my throat tightened. I quickly knocked on the window with a carving knife, but I saw the driver''s hand reaching out to me. Suddenly the glass broke and water gurgled in. I relied on my small body to swim out of the window. In a few strokes, I swam out of the range of the sinking car. I looked back and could only see half of my body dimly. His hands were stretched out towards me, sinking and floating.


    When I swam to the shore, my physical strength was overdrawn. I dared not delay and continued to walk with heavy steps, but the footsteps following behind came again, and they were getting louder and louder. I shivered and slowly turned back. I saw a winding river behind me, and then a barren forest.


    "Huh..." I heaved a sigh of relief, thinking it was an illusion and continued walking, but my foot suddenly stopped and I tripped. I looked again and realized that the thing that tripped me was actually a clay doll. It was wearing a blue coat, with the same curve at the corners of its mouth that never changed. It stared at me blankly. The horrifying appearance of the clay figure in Jiang''s hand appeared in my mind again. I was so scared that my eyes turned black and I lost consciousness.

 Chapter 2: Second Uncle and Lao Ge

    When I opened my eyes again, I was already lying on a comfortable bed. I wiped the sweat from my forehead and sat up, looking around in confusion.


    "Awake?" The bedroom door was pushed open, and a 1.9-meter-tall man in a well-dressed suit walked in. Although his appearance was blurry, I would remember it. "Second Uncle?"


    When my grandfather threw me out, he clearly told me to go to J District, T City to find Ge Tao, and let Ge Tao find my second uncle. Why did my second uncle suddenly appear? Thinking of the doll brother I saw before I fainted, I couldn''t help shaking all over. I climbed down from the bed without fear and grabbed my second uncle''s legs: "Uncle, have you seen a clay doll? Where did you save me?"


    My second uncle looked at me strangely: "Are you tired and stupid? When I saw you, you were by the river. Where was the doll next to you?"


    I was puzzled and urged my second uncle to save grandpa. My second uncle said in a muffled voice: "You rest first, I''ll prepare the tools. You can''t save Dad this way. We''ll go on the road tomorrow."


    Although I was anxious, I knew that what my second uncle said was right. I immediately lay back on the bed. My second uncle stood at the door and looked at me without moving. I looked at my second uncle curiously: "Uncle, why don''t you go home? Is this wooden house yours?"


    My second uncle nodded and didn''t answer. I felt bored, sleepy and tired, and fell asleep soon.


    When I woke up again, I was awakened by a rustling sound. I couldn''t fall asleep, so I simply opened the bedroom door and went out to find a glass of water. This was a wooden house with two bedrooms and a living room. There was light in the living room, and there were two candles on the wooden table, dimly lit. There was a rustling sound coming from the house opposite. I knew that someone was looking for my second uncle, but it was strange that someone would come to my house so late. I didn''t want to disturb them, so I had to pour myself a glass of water and drink it. There was a tattered newspaper on the table weighed down by the candlestick. I put the cup on the table and replaced the newspaper in my hand. The title "Submerged Truck in Deep Mountains and Old Forests" attracted my attention. After reading it, I found that it was a black car that had a brake failure and rushed into the water. The person was dead, and his body was broken by the huge force, with only a point connected, which was no different from a dismembered body. Although the picture in the news report was partially mosaiced, I could be sure that it was exactly the same car I had just ridden in. I gasped, my hands shook, and the newspaper fell to the ground. The date on the newspaper was seven days ago.


    The more I thought about it, the more scared I became. I ran to my second uncle''s room and knocked on the door quickly: "Second uncle."


    At the same time, the rustling voices inside suddenly disappeared. My second uncle didn''t open the door for a long time. I didn''t care about anything else and pushed the door open. There was no one in the room, only two candlesticks with white candles on them. There was a black and white photo between the two candles. My second uncle''s familiar face hit my eyes. My throat was dry and I couldn''t speak. I almost cried. It felt like there were stones under my feet and I couldn''t move. Is my second uncle dead? I didn''t dare to believe it, and I didn''t dare to think about it. I walked towards the coffin with my head held high. When I got to the side of the coffin, my whole body was numb and my back was cold. A baby brother suddenly came into my sight. I wanted to cry but couldn''t. It was the baby brother again. Why was the baby brother in my second uncle''s coffin? No, where is my second uncle!


    My mind was in a mess. What happened at that time was far beyond the processing ability of a seven-year-old child. I don''t know how I rushed out of the wooden house, and I don''t know if anyone chased me. I only remember the whistling wind in my ears and the excessive fatigue. When I rushed out of the road, I collapsed on the side of the road. Although it was late at night, there were still vehicles. I rested for a long time before I started to stop cars on the side of the road with my little hands: "I want to go to T City."


    Almost no car stopped. Occasionally, one or two cars asked me if I had money first. I could only shake my head. In the heavy area, I basically didn''t need money. When I came out, my grandfather only put a carving knife in my pocket. I walked to the side of the road dejectedly and sat down, trying to save some strength and try again in the morning when there were more cars. While thinking, I looked back to see if anyone was chasing me. Suddenly, my grandfather''s words came to my mind: Never come back again, remember, never again!


    But why?


    "Here''s the money." Suddenly, a little boy appeared in front of me, wearing a gray robe, holding a thick stack of money in his little hand, which was still blue hundred-yuan bills at that time.


    I didn''t dare to take it. The little boy took my hand and stuffed the money into my hand, then pointed to the old man sitting on the ground not far to the right who was also wearing a gray robe: "Take it, my master asked me to tell you something."


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    "What?" I looked at the thick money in my hand, and my heart was warmed and I squeezed out a smile that I thought was gentle.


    "The pearl is covered with dust, turned into the underworld, and was overturned into the ups and downs." The little boy sighed in a serious manner, "In the face of disaster, meeting is fate, just take this thousand yuan and leave, and we will meet again someday. Oh, by the way, the master said, you don''t have to go, just go wherever you should go."


    I bowed to the old man in a gray robe sitting on the ground in the distance, turned around and left. My grandfather told me to be decisive since I was a child. I never hesitate about choices, and I will never regret it once I choose.


    I got a taxi with 1,000 yuan. Since I didn''t know the exact address, I could only ask the driver to drop me off at the entrance of the J District Police Station. The policeman asked what happened, and I could only say that I was separated from my father, and my father was Ge Tao. Unexpectedly, the person who came to pick me up was an old man who was nearly 60 years old.


    He saw me puzzled: "You said I was your father?"


    I didn''t say anything either, but just took out my grandfather''s carving knife and put it in Ge Tao''s hand. Ge Tao was about to speak, but he was stunned when he looked at the carving knife.


    "Chen... Chen..." Chen said for a long time but didn''t say anything. He squatted on the ground and started to cry uncontrollably. I couldn''t help crying when I heard Ge Tao crying. The two of us cried for more than an hour, and no one paid attention to each other, which made the police station at a loss. Later, I thought that maybe everyone thought we were weird and crazy at the time. Whose family lost their children and found them together and cried? I have never seen them crying separately.


    Later, Ge Tao cried enough, wiped his tears, and hugged me. His hair was gray and his eyes were cloudy. He said something that I will remember for the rest of my life: "Follow Lao Ge in the future. Where I am, you can have a foothold. Come on, kid, go home and tell me what happened."


    It was already five o''clock in the evening when I arrived at Lao Ge''s house. Lao Ge didn''t know how to cook, but his house was quite big. Later, Lao Ge introduced himself and I learned the inside story. It turned out that he was my grandfather''s comrade-in-arms. During the civil war, the two of them made contributions. Later, my grandfather was assigned to a special heavy area as a civilian, while Lao Ge chose to go into business and do some small business. Now he is also a wealthy family: "Girl, I tell you this to reassure you. I want to know how Lao Chen died at that time."


    Lao Ge began to sob again: "He must be dead. Lao Chen knows my phone number. It''s daytime now. If nothing happened, he would have called to report safety."


    I Hearing this, she also started crying and explained the whole story. Lao Ge immediately grasped the key point: "Have you checked the family background of Jiang?"


    I shook my head: "I don''t know."


    Lao Ge sighed: "That baby brother was originally an evil thing. He died when the four olds were destroyed. The two strings of numbers you just mentioned can be used to calculate that the child in the coffin is eight months old, and he is a dead baby. Fortunately, he died before he came into the world, otherwise..."


    Lao Ge looked at me with fear: "You and Old Chen will all die on the spot. You are also a girl with a miserable life. Your fate is very light. Keep this carving knife with you and never leave it. If you see any dirty things in the future, remember to tell me! Hey... What is coming will come!"


    I listened to Lao Ge''s instructions with a puzzled look. I didn''t know what the dirty things he was talking about were. Lao Ge was worried and said he would go out to buy some food and arranged a small room for me to rest before leaving.


    After Lao Ge left, I sat up. Although I was young, I felt that these things were deliberately framed. The culprit was Jiang. But why did Jiang bring the baby brother to my house and kill his own son? I racked my brains but couldn''t figure it out. I remembered what Lao Ge said, took out the carving knife, and then found a ball of red thread, twisted the red thread into a rope and made a live button to hang around my neck, and then lay down with peace of mind.


    When I woke up again, I only smelled the fragrance of rice. Lao Ge was sitting next to me, with tears in his eyes. Seeing that I woke up, he wiped it without leaving a trace, and then handed the rice to me for me to eat. He was pretty good to me, but I never told him about my second uncle. As for what the little boy told me, I didn''t take it to heart at all.


    Lao Ge was a businessman, and his work was very busy. He had to go on business trips from time to time. I didn''t stay at home for half a month before he said he would go out for a week. Before leaving, he hired a nanny for me and told me not to go out after 8 o''clock in the evening.


    The nanny who stayed with me was named Liu, an old lady in her sixties, who loved to laugh. Every day, besides cooking for me, she would tell me how well-behaved her granddaughter was. I also liked her granddaughter very much and said that we could be friends if we had the chance. Granny Liu was very happy to hear that.


    The night before Lao Ge came back, Granny Liu suddenly received a call from home and burst into tears. I hurriedly asked what happened?


    She wiped her tears and said: "The child is sick and has a high fever, but you can''t leave someone here. I am worried about leaving you at home."


    I was anxious at the moment: "I will go with you."


    When I went out, I just felt that the sky was a little dark, and I didn''t pay attention to the time at all. Granny Liu led the way while crying, and I comforted her beside her, but the more we walked, the more we strayed, and finally we arrived at the edge of a forest.


    I stopped timidly: "Grandma Liu, did we go the wrong way?"


    "No." She sobbed, "My family is poor, and we live in the village behind this forest. Are you scared, girl? If you are, don''t go in."


    "I''m not scared!" I patted my chest and followed her in. The forest was not as dark as I imagined. The forest surrounded a small hill. The hill was undulating and concave in the middle. The arc was particularly like the outline of an eye.

 Chapter 3: Crossing the Notch, Thatched House

    At the foot of the mountain, the forest began to become sparse, and Granny Liu stopped crying. There was a stone staircase built on the side of the hill. It seemed that I had to climb up and then climb down. I looked back at the road I came from, which was already blocked by the forest.


    "Just climb over this hill." Granny Liu said in a slightly low voice, "Be careful, the road is very slippery in the deeper dew."


    I nodded and followed Granny Liu. When I got to the top, I knew why there was a notch. This was a place dug by humans for people to rest before going down the mountain.


    Granny Liu said that she was afraid that I would be tired and asked me to rest here. At the same time, she stood in the notch and looked down anxiously. There were a few houses with dim lights not far away. I guessed that was her home.


    The wind from the concave was so cold that it was bone-chilling. I tightened my clothes and didn''t want to stay any longer: "Grandma, I''ve rested well, let''s go down."


    "Okay." She smiled, raised the corners of her mouth, and reached out to pull me, "I''ll support you, the way down the mountain is not easy."


    Grandma Liu''s hands were very cold and rough. This was my first reaction. When I got down the mountain and followed her to the small thatched house in the west, it turned out to be a thatched house? I had never heard of people living in thatched houses in this era. I suddenly felt a little pity in my heart. No wonder she said her family was poor and she had to work as a nanny at such an old age.


    The thatched house is divided into two rooms, the outer room has only a simple table with a worn-out yellow landline phone on it, and the inner room has a bed. When she heard us coming, an auntie came out of the room, wearing a very eye-catching yellow dress: "Auntie Liu, since you are back, I will leave, don''t leave the child alone at home anymore."


    Grandma Liu said yes repeatedly, and the auntie looked at me carefully when she left, smiling brightly. Grandma Liu grabbed me and pulled me in front of her and said coldly to the auntie: "Isn''t it time for you to leave?"


    The auntie smiled awkwardly, and left with her hips twisted.


    Grandma Liu smiled awkwardly and told me not to mind, and pulled me into the room. There was a little girl lying in the room covered with a red quilt with flowers embroidered on it, and a pair of small embroidered shoes on the ground. Grandma Liu''s clothes were neat, but they were old at a glance, while the clothes on the little girl were brand new, which showed that Grandma Liu really loved her granddaughter.


    But the little girl''s face was pale, and the corners of her mouth were black, obviously she was seriously ill. Granny Liu rushed over and cried loudly: "My Qianqian."


    I felt a little awkward, and retreated outside to sit on a stool and wait, but I didn''t expect that the aunt just now didn''t leave. She stood at the door and looked at the direction of the inner room with her eyes straight. When she saw me coming out, she blinked and walked over. I was still a little scared of her at the time: "Auntie."


    "You have a sweet mouth." The aunt said in a low voice with a curled mouth, "You don''t know that a disaster is coming?"


    "What are you talking about?" I retreated nervously. Granny Liu''s crying came from the room, and I didn''t dare to go in and disturb her.


    "What a child." The woman looked into the inner room, with an expression in her eyes that I couldn''t understand, and turned away, "Forget it, forget it."


    After she left, I stared at the door for a long while, and only breathed a sigh of relief when I was sure that she would not come back. I tiptoed to sit on the stool next to the table, but I was anxious in my heart. Why didn''t Granny Liu take her granddaughter Qianqian to the hospital? I immediately thought that it might be a money problem. I touched my pocket and found that there was less than 500 yuan left. This was the pocket money that Lao Ge gave me. Thinking that he would be back tomorrow anyway, I got up and walked into the house and put the crumpled money on the bedside: "Granny Liu, take Qianqian to the hospital first, you take this money first, if it''s not enough... if it''s not enough Lao Ge will be back tomorrow, I will ask him to give you more wages. "


    "You kid." Granny Liu wiped her tears and touched Qianqian''s little face, "There are still good people, oh, forget it, this disease is an old problem, once you get sick, you will have a fever, there are medicines at home, but you have to keep someone at home, Granny doesn''t want this money, but it''s wronged that you have to sleep with Qianqian tonight."


    I hooked my hands, hesitated, looked at the sky outside and nodded: "Okay, you can go back before Lao Ge comes back tomorrow."


    Granny Liu''s face looked a little better, saying that the house was small and there was only one bed, she could go to the outer room to make a bed on the floor, and put the money in my pocket, and my good impression of her increased a little.


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    When I went to bed at night, Qianqian next to me was unconscious for a while and conscious for a while. When she was conscious, she said a few words to me. I tried to make her happy, and I could see that her disease would not be cured in a day or two, so I lay on the bed and slept next to her.


    But the night was getting colder and colder, and I started to shiver. I always sleep lightly and don''t like to move around, so I wondered if the quilt was gone? I opened my eyes and saw Qianqian staring at me with her eyes open, her black hair drooping, only a little finger''s height away from me, her mouth opened and closed, there was no warmth in her eyes, but the paleness on her face faded, and even a hint of redness appeared.


    No matter how stupid I was, I knew what was happening. I was so scared that I wanted to run away. Qianqian ignored me and continued to open and close her mouth. I felt my body getting colder and colder. It took me almost a minute to crawl under the bed. I had no strength left in my body. I ran out without even putting on my shoes. There was no trace of Granny Liu in the outer room. I ran out of the door. Granny Liu and the aunt in bright yellow clothes were whispering in the middle of the road. Granny Liu was startled when she saw me and was a little angry: "Why did you come out?"


    My hand quickly fumbled in my pocket, and I quickly held the carving knife in my hand and protected it in front of me. I couldn''t hear what my grandfather was muttering when he sent me out, but I knew the magic of the carving knife. Sure enough, Granny and Aunt were a little afraid.


    "Don''t come over." I spoke with a trembling voice, pointed the carving knife at them, and ran back the way I came.


    "Huh..." I was panting, a little exhausted. I heard two heavy footsteps behind me. I looked back and saw that it was Granny Liu chasing me quickly. Qianqian, who was wearing embroidered shoes, was following behind her. The stone steps up the mountain were a little slippery. I pinched myself to calm down and began to climb up step by step.


    "Don''t go... stay..." Granny Liu''s words got into my ears, and my throat was very hoarse.


    "Xiao Xi!" Suddenly a figure appeared in the notch. Although I couldn''t see clearly, it turned out to be Lao Ge''s voice. "Child, come here quickly."


    I saw hope at that moment. I didn''t need to protect myself with the carving knife. I simply climbed up with all my strength and handed my hand to Lao Ge. Lao Ge pulled me and successfully reached the notch: "Lao Ge."


    I was so scared that I hugged Lao Ge''s body. I felt his body temperature. Lao Ge hid me behind him. He didn''t bother to comfort me and pointed the carving knife in my hand at Granny Liu who was chasing me. Granny Liu stopped when she was about to reach us. Qianqian smiled at me and said, "Xiao Xi, didn''t we agree to be friends?"


    I felt like I was falling into an ice cave. I was blocked by Lao Ge just as I was about to speak. At the same time, Lao Ge muttered something in his mouth. Granny Liu and Qianqian looked paler and paler. The whole mountain forest was roaring, and then quickly faded towards the direction of the village. I trembled and stuck my head out from behind Lao Ge. The thatched house in the distance was pitch black, and there was no light.


    I was dazed when Lao Ge carried me home. He boiled water for me to take a bath. In the mirror, my mouth was pale and my face was bloodless. After taking a bath, Lao Ge had gone out to buy me food. He was a little embarrassed: "Lao Ge, I have never learned to cook in my life. This is frangipani, boiled with boiled water. Lao Chen and I always stole eggs to drink like this. It tasted quite good."


    I curled my lips, but couldn''t laugh. I picked up the frangipani and drank it. The more I thought about what happened just now, the more scared I became. I couldn''t help but shed tears.


    "Xiao Xi, don''t go out after eight o''clock in the future." Lao Ge lowered his voice, and then put a palm-sized note in front of me, "Memorize the words on this paper. If you encounter this thing again next time, use a carving knife to read the words on the note to the dirty thing. Tell me what happened today, and don''t miss a single detail..."


    I nodded silently and said I remembered it, and then told the whole story from beginning to end.


    Lao Ge sighed and said that this incident was his negligence. Granny Liu and Qianqian were both called Yang corpses, not ghosts. There used to be a grave circle behind the forest. The hill was deliberately dug by a Feng Shui master. The eye-like concave hole was called the Yinkou. There was a nursery rhyme about the Yinkou: pass the Yinkou, pass the Yinkou, come to the Yinkou and don''t look back.


    "It means that the Yin and Yang are separated. But I just observed that the grave circle has become a place to raise corpses. Granny Liu and her granddaughter are wearing funeral clothes. The graves there are old and have become living corpses. Granny Liu can get out, but her granddaughter can''t. You said that her mouth opens and closes, that is absorbing Yang Qi!" Lao Ge''s words made me sweat, "If you wake up later, you will go to see Old Chen."


    Seeing that I was scared, Lao Ge asked me to drink and go to sleep. Without Yang Qi, I had no strength and fell asleep quickly. I heard someone twisting the door handle in a daze, and the key clattered outside. Someone was opening the door.


    I opened my sleepy eyes and saw a man holding the baby brother standing at the door. I lost my sleepiness immediately. I wanted to get up in horror but couldn''t. I shouted but couldn''t say a word. The man''s face was not clear. The baby brother was like a doll in his hand.


    "Ah!" I struggled with all my strength and sat up suddenly. Looking at the empty house without a ghost, I broke out in a cold sweat and quickly turned on the table lamp. Only then did I breathe a sigh of relief.


    But I didn''t dare to sleep again. I experienced such a thing at night and had a nightmare at night. My mind was full of baby brother. Since Jiang married into the heavy area with baby brother, there have been constant disasters in the family. First, my father died, and then my grandfather risked his life to send me out. I became the only survivor. Lao Ge, who adopted me, said that I was weak and easy to attract dirty things, but I had lived in the heavy area for seven years. The more I thought about it, the more I felt something was wrong. I put on my shoes and ran to the door of Lao Ge''s house and knocked on the door.

 Chapter 4 Returning to the Wooden House, Turtle Shell Divination

    Lao Ge opened the door in his pajamas, his clothes and hair were messy, and he said in a panic: "What happened?"


    The door was half-closed, and Lao Ge stood in front of me. Although he looked nervous, he obviously didn''t intend to let me in. I cried: "Just now I dreamed of a man holding Big Brother Baby... Why does Big Brother Baby always pester me? What happened to the eight-month-old child who died? Lao Ge, is there something you didn''t tell me? I have lived in the heavy area for seven years without a carving knife, and no ghosts came to my door. But since that day, strange things have happened one after another. Lao Ge, I''m scared."


    As I said this, I couldn''t bear it anymore and started crying. Lao Ge frowned and asked me if I had taken off the carving knife. I shook my head and said absolutely not. When Lao Ge heard it, he touched my head: "Maybe you witnessed what happened to Old Chen with your own eyes, so you think about it every day. Girl, you should let it go."


    I said I was so anxious that I sucked my teeth: "It''s really pestering me."


    Lao Ge was puzzled: "How can you be so sure?"


    I pinched my fingers and gritted my teeth to tell the whole story of encountering the driving ghost and my second uncle on the way to escape from the heavy area. Lao Ge was a little sleepy at first, but his face was ashen, his eyes were red, and his lips were shaking and he couldn''t speak: "Did you drink the water from your second uncle''s house? I ask you, did you talk to your second uncle?"


    I nodded: "I did, and then I only saw the coffin and the baby brother in the coffin. I was scared and ran out without paying attention to what was behind me."


    "It''s over!" Lao Ge''s face sank, "It''s bad."


    Lao Ge slammed the door shut, and then there was a rustling sound in the room. When Lao Ge came out again, he had taken a suitcase and was dressed neatly: "Xiao Xi, you come with me now, we''re going back to the heavy area."


    I shook my head and stepped back. Lao Ge''s expression was too serious. I A little scared: "My grandfather won''t let me go back. Before he sent me out, he told me never to go back again."


    After hearing what I said, Lao Ge threw his luggage on the ground like crazy: "You are obedient now. Lao Chen asked you not to come back. Lao Chen also asked you to find me and asked me to find your second uncle. Why didn''t you listen? The reason why I hid your second uncle''s whereabouts was because he died a few days ago. Lao Chen probably didn''t know it!"


    I was completely stunned. Lao Ge''s face turned red. He was nearly sixty years old and actually shed tears: "Why don''t you believe me, girl? Lao Chen asked you to come to me, but you still dare to hide your second uncle''s affairs. I don''t know how your second uncle and the big brother of the baby got in touch. You drank the ghost water in the haunted house. If it doesn''t bother you, who else can it bother? You are now equivalent to a ghost putting a locator on your body. If you want to find you, you can find you. Your grandfather sent you out with great difficulty and lost his life..."


    I don''t have I couldn''t help shaking, listening to Lao Ge''s trembling voice, I couldn''t help but comfort him: "I''ll go with you, don''t cry." Lao Ge wiped his tears, squatted down to pick up the suitcase, took me out with one hand, and drove to City B overnight. He was familiar with the roads in the heavy area. It can be seen that he should have been to the heavy area more than once, but I have never seen him since I was a child. Lao Ge ignored me and just drove. When he drove to the intersection, Lao Ge stopped the car. I glanced at the roadside and saw that the gray-robed old man was still there, but the little boy was gone. I explained the situation to Lao Ge and took a thousand yuan to the gray-robed old man. The gray-robed old man had no beard, a round face, but high cheekbones, and was very thin. He put a stool and a stall on the roadside with a pair of black sunglasses. There was no sign, but he looked like the fortune teller my grandfather had told me about. I just put the money on the table: "Old man, thank you for your money, I''m here to pay it back. "


    The gray-robed old man''s head moved slightly, and he slowly raised his hand. The wrinkles on his hand were different from those on his face. It was very delicate, like the hands of a woman in her twenties, but the nails were thick and yellow. He trembled and reached for his eyes and took them off.


    A pair of black holes came into view, and I took a step back imperceptibly. This gray-robed old man actually had no eyes!


    "The bright pearl is covered with dust..." The gray-robed old man pointed his black holes at me, and his voice was long, "Turn into the underworld, and turn into the ups and downs..."


    "Xiao Xi!" Lao Ge urged me over there, very anxious.


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    I responded repeatedly, and I could only thank him again without caring about the old man and ran towards Lao Ge, but ''The bright pearl is covered with dust, turned into the underworld, and turned into the ups and downs.'' This sentence I heard twice was deeply imprinted in my heart. The old man had no eyes, but he said the same sentence to me twice...


    "Follow me, hold the carving knife in your hand and don''t look left and right. "Lao Ge took my hand when he saw me coming back.


    I nodded, took a breath and held the carving knife in my hand. I saw Lao Ge took out a stack of yellow money from the suitcase, squatted on the ground with a match to light the yellow money, muttering something in his mouth. The fire was erratic with the wind, but the yellow money did not move at all. Suddenly, the fire swelled, and the half-burned yellow money turned into ashes quickly.


    Lao Ge smiled and stood up, bowed to the intersection leading to the heavy area: "If you take my money, you can''t make things difficult for my people."


    My back tightened, and my heart was pounding. Lao Ge kicked the ashes of the yellow money and pulled me to the heavy area. The river was curved. After walking less than a hundred meters, I saw the river bank. The river reflected the moonlight and sparkled. Lao Ge''s hands were sweating: "Xiao Xi, do you remember where the wooden house is?"


    I pointed to the front right: "Over there."


    Lao Ge led me all the way, and I couldn''t help asking Lao Ge: "Who took the money just now? "


    "Unjustly killed ghosts, such as the driver who fell into the water that day, and the people who died here, turned into ghosts." Lao Ge''s voice was very soft, but it hit me hard.


    After walking for half an hour, we finally arrived at the wooden house. Lao Ge said that the last time he came here was three years ago, and there was no wooden house at that time. He pushed the door, and the wooden door creaked open, and the room was dark.


    Lao Ge rubbed a match, and there was a faint light. The door creaked again. I subconsciously looked back and saw that the door had been closed. There was a human head hanging on the door, and blood and tears were dripping from the eyes, dripping on the ground.


    "Ah!" I threw myself on Lao Ge and pointed to the door, "Human...human head!"


    "...No?" Lao Ge patted my head, "Girl, don''t be afraid. "


    I didn''t dare to look up, so I could only catch him. Lao Ge simply picked me up and lit a match to light the candlestick on the table. It suddenly became brighter. I felt the light and opened my eyes. It was still the familiar living room, sofa, table, candlestick and old newspapers I threw on the ground. Even the position of the mosaic was exactly the same. I mustered up the courage to look at the door again, but the head was gone. I breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it might be an illusion. Lao Ge put me down and opened the suitcase. I could see clearly that there were yellow paper, talismans, small tripods, small bells, small flags, and small turtle lids.


    I was curious about how Lao Ge, a businessman, could have so many Strange things, and my grandfather had been preaching to me since I was a child that I should kill ghosts when I saw them and kill gods when I saw them. I should not believe in ghosts and gods, but in the end he actually gave me a carving knife that could drive away ghosts. I was full of doubts but didn''t say them out loud. Although I was young, I knew that now was not the time to talk about these things.


    Lao Ge first took out the turtle''s shell. The turtle''s carapace was raised like the sky, and its plastron was flat. He then took out three ancient copper coins from the corner of the suitcase, put them in the turtle shell and swung them back and forth, then blew on the turtle shell and threw them to the ground. The three copper coins fell to the ground with a sound, and stood upright without falling down. Lao Ge frowned and shouted, "Oh no, such a strong evil spirit! "


    Lao Ge took the carving knife from me and took my hand, holding a tortoise shell and walked towards the room of my second uncle. I secretly said that it was really strange that a tortoise shell could tell that this room was dangerous. I was about to remind him that there was a coffin in this room, but Lao Ge glared at me and told me to shut up. I pushed the door open with all my strength, and saw that there was still a coffin in the room with candles still on, but the photo of my second uncle between the two candlesticks was gone. Lao Ge took me to the coffin, and I could feel his hand tightening around me. I stood on tiptoe. Looking inside the coffin, I saw my second uncle lying in the coffin with his eyes closed, holding a lying baby brother in his arms, and a black-and-white photo of himself on his chest. In the photo, my second uncle stared with a weird smile on his lips, which made people''s scalps numb.


    Suddenly, Lao Ge gently placed the turtle cover on my second uncle''s forehead, and instantly a baby''s cry resounded throughout the wooden house. The sound came from the baby brother in my second uncle''s arms. I wanted to run, but Lao Ge held me tightly: "You can''t run, you will die if you go out, Xiaoxi, do you believe Lao Ge? "


    "Squeak..." The door suddenly closed while Lao Ge was talking. I was sweating all over and nodded quickly. What else could I do? If I didn''t trust Lao Ge now, I would be dead.


    Lao Ge''s face darkened, and the finger that was pointed at me with the carving knife slipped and squeezed out blood. Then he took my hand and picked up the tortoise shell while dripping it on my second uncle''s forehead. A trace of blood seeped into my second uncle''s forehead at a speed visible to the naked eye. My second uncle sat up suddenly, and the photo was buckled on his legs. The eldest brother moved and the crying stopped abruptly.


    It actually worked! Before I could be happy, Lao Ge pulled me up and ran out the door. He opened the door and ran to the suitcase, and took out a talisman, a three-inch wide and nine-inch long ghost painting talisman. Then there was a clicking sound from Second Uncle''s room. I turned around and saw Second Uncle holding the baby brother out. Lao Ge rushed over with a carving knife in one hand and a talisman in the other, and quickly chanted something in his mouth. A talisman was placed on Second Uncle''s forehead. Snap, the baby brother fell to the ground and broke into two pieces, and Second Uncle looked at Lao Ge with a fierce look in his eyes, but he couldn''t move at all.

 Chapter 5: Methods of Eliminating Evil Spirits, Entering the Underworld

    I hid behind Lao Ge, looking at the doll brother who fell to the ground. His blue coat was separated by the fragments of clay sculpture, but there was black and red blood flowing out between the crisp pieces.


    "This..." I grabbed Lao Ge tightly, "How can the clay doll brother have blood?"


    Lao Ge touched my head and told me not to be afraid. He took out a small wooden stick from the suitcase. The stick was red and inserted it in the middle of the turtle shell. He held it in front of the hideous second uncle''s face, and the turtle shell actually moved. It was originally facing up with its back, but it suddenly turned over and faced up with its front.


    "Evil spirit!" Lao Ge''s voice sank, and then he took out a brush with cinnabar on it, took out a piece of yellow paper, wrote the name of the second uncle and his birth date on the yellow paper, and then burned the yellow paper with a match. In an instant, the second uncle fell backward steadily. I was shocked. Lao Ge did not stop, and put the burnt yellow paper into the turtle lid, and then walked to the second uncle and broke the second uncle''s hand and put it in his hand. The second uncle''s eyes were wide open, and Lao Ge covered them with his hands, and then lifted them up. The second uncle closed his eyes steadily, and seemed very peaceful.


    "People should rest in peace after death. This is a sin." Lao Ge shouted, and nodded with satisfaction when he saw that the second uncle was motionless.


    I shed tears in front of my second uncle''s body. I still have an impression of him. He passed away when I was five years old. Before he passed away, I held him tightly and refused to let go. He smiled and said he would bring me delicious food when he came back. But he left for two years. Every time I asked my grandfather where my second uncle went, he always told me not to ask so much. But why did my grandfather hide it? And Lao Ge knew that my second uncle had died, so why didn''t my grandfather know?


    I don''t understand, but I won''t ask. I have lived in a heavy-duty area since I was a child. Although I am young, I have learned the confidentiality and respect of people in heavy-duty areas. It is best not to ask what others don''t want to tell you, and you won''t get an answer if you ask.


    I followed Lao Ge to put my second uncle in the coffin, burned the photo, and buried it outside the wooden house with the coffin. I helped Lao Ge pack the suitcase. Looking at the bleeding baby brother not far from the suitcase, I was horrified: "Lao Ge, why is baby brother still bleeding?"


    Lao Ge stood in front of the table with his hands behind his back, listened to my question, turned around, and had a solemn look on his face: "Xiao Xi, are you willing to worship me as your master? Although I, Lao Ge, do business, it is not an ordinary business. I, Lao Ge, do business in the underworld."


    "The underworld?" Although I didn''t understand, my hair stood on end.


    Lao Ge nodded and slowly explained the reason. It turned out that he and his grandfather were brothers in the underworld when they were young. Later, when people were living in poverty, they joined the army and fought together. At that time, they were still boy scouts. It was during the civil war that they made meritorious service. However, his grandfather was left in the critical area. Lao Ge continued the story of the underworld: "Xiao Xi, to be honest, when I first heard you talk about the handwriting on the base of the baby brother and the numbers in the small coffin on the child''s neck, the time I calculated was exactly *, * was 1966, and the handwriting on the ground of the baby brother was March 1966. , the note in the small coffin indicated that the child died in November 1966, eight months old, stillborn. I calculated at the time that it might be because Old Chen* participated in the destruction of the four olds, and some family came to seek revenge. "


    I became nervous when I heard that. Isn''t it true? Who knows that Lao Ge smiled bitterly: "But today, it turns out that this baby brother is just a blood puppet. Xiaoxi, you are in big trouble. Your fate is weak... Now you will either be tortured to death by ghosts or go to the underworld. Otherwise, dirty things will come to your door, and you can''t deal with them."


    The underworld? This is not the first time I have heard this word. It was not from my grandfather, but the gray-robed old man''s words involving the underworld. ''The pearl is covered with dust, turned into the underworld, and fell into the ups and downs.'' Although I don''t know what it means, I believe in the old man''s words. I am actually related to the underworld today, and I am about to agree to Lao Ge.


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    But Lao Ge interrupted me: "Think about it, girl. If you don''t want to go to the underworld, just live your life like an ordinary person. Lao Ge will protect you at the cost of his life, but you have to forget Lao Chen''s death. But if you go to the underworld, Lao Ge can only teach you things, and you have to decipher your fate yourself."


    I was puzzled, and Lao Ge didn''t force me. He squatted down, opened the suitcase and took out an incense burner from it. There was half a piece of residual incense on the incense burner. When it was lit, the smell of the residual incense was actually bloody. Lao Ge put the incense burner in front of the baby brother, and saw that the blood from the baby brother dried up quickly at a speed visible to the naked eye. I covered my mouth, and the half of the residual incense increased, quickly became thicker, and then extinguished in a flash.


    "Puff!" Lao Ge suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, then shook and put away the incense burner, "Damn it, what on earth did Old Chen cause? We shouldn''t stay here for long. The matter of this baby brother must be resolved. It''s not that simple."


    Lao Ge took me out, then quickly walked to the car and drove away. It was already six o''clock in the morning when I got home. I had a simple breakfast and was so sleepy that I walked into the house after dinner. Unexpectedly, Lao Ge called me: "Come to my room."


    I was startled. I have been here for more than 20 days, and I have never entered Lao Ge''s room once, including last night when I woke up in shock. Lao Ge also blocked the door and didn''t mean to let me in. I immediately became more energetic: "Okay."


    But when I first entered Lao Ge''s room, the shock I felt will never be forgotten in my life. Wood, all wood, exuding a strange fragrance, black and red, no lights in the room, only red candles, and four tall candlesticks in the room, in the four corners of the room.


    Lao Ge pulled me in and asked me, "Have you made up your mind?"


    In fact, I had already made up my mind. Instead of living a life of fear, I might as well learn about the affairs of the underworld. But I really don''t understand the underworld: "Lao Ge, what is the underworld?"


    "From catching ghosts and killing ghosts, extending lives and breaking souls, to funerals and ghost marriages, and seeking wealth and directions, they are all called the affairs of the underworld. This is what I, Lao Ge, do." Lao Ge looked solemn. "Just now, I used the soul-chasing incense to cast a spell to injure the mastermind who controlled the baby brother, but I was counterattacked, so I had to tell you."


    I clenched my fists: "I choose the underworld."


    Lao Ge nodded and asked me to kneel down in front of the candles in the four corners. It was a great ceremony of three bows and nine knocks. Then the candles suddenly went out. I stood up: "Lao Ge?"


    In the dark Lao Ge said in a low voice: "Now start walking to your right, touch the first candlestick, circle clockwise, until you return to the first candlestick and touch it again, tell me what you touched."


    I did as Lao Ge said. The room was dark, and without the candles, I couldn''t see my hand in front of me. I walked to the right and soon touched a candlestick. It was very high, two heads taller than me, so I only touched one pillar, and then touched the other three clockwise. When I turned back to the fourth one, I felt something sticky and round on my hand. I subconsciously retracted my hand, but at the same moment it lit up. A round head was hanging on the candlestick in front of me. The sticky thing was blood. I retreated in panic, and a female ghost with disheveled hair floated in front of me.


    "Ah!" I panted loudly, turned around and walked away, and a long tongue came into view, floating in the air. The ghost without a tongue in front of me was grabbing the tongue with his teeth and claws. Suddenly, I touched something soft behind me, and a pair of big hands touched my shoulders.


    "Ah!" I couldn''t help but scream, and my hands and feet began to kick and beat.


    "It''s me, Lao Ge." Lao Ge''s voice drilled into my ears. I steadied myself and slowly opened my eyes. I saw Lao Ge standing in front of me, and there were still the four candlesticks around, and it was still the house made entirely of wood. There were no ghosts.


    But I didn''t feel relieved. I was sweating coldly, knowing that Lao Ge asked me to do that, and it must not be an illusion: "I... did I see it just now? Is it true?"


    Lao Ge didn''t answer my question, but asked me what I saw. I said it carefully, fearing that I would miss something. Lao Ge laughed and knelt down in front of the candlestick: "From today on, Chen Xi will change his name to Ge Chenxi and enter the underworld."


    After speaking, the sparks on the candlesticks burned into tongues of fire, and the candles in the four corners quickly shrank, and finally became a pool of candle tears. The strange thing is that without the candlelight, I can clearly see the things in the house.


    Lao Ge looked at me, looking at me seriously: "From now on, whenever I get a job, you will follow me. Tonight there is a rich businessman who wants to have a child. You come with me. I know you are full of doubts, but rest first. I will tell you in detail tonight."


    I nodded, went back to the room obediently, lay on the bed and hung the carving knife in my pocket back around my neck, but I tossed and turned thinking about what was going to happen tonight.

 Chapter 6: The wealthy businessman surnamed Jiang and the seven-star life-extending lamp

    At night, Lao Ge woke me up. We filled our stomachs and pulled a suitcase. Lao Ge drove to the airport. The tickets were ready. Lao Ge said that a wealthy boss directly booked the plane tickets for us. The reason why he took this job was because it involved Big Brother doll.


    I was nervous when I heard Big Brother doll. On the plane, Lao Ge explained: "Originally, I would not take jobs related to seeking children, especially Big Brother doll. Big Brother doll had disappeared when the Four Olds were destroyed. Lao Chen and I participated, so we know that this thing is evil."


    I listened carefully. Lao Ge frowned and said in detail. He said that the more evil things are, the less likely they are to disappear. Big Brother doll is now widely circulated in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. This time, the rich businessman came to the door and directly said that he wanted to use Big Brother doll to seek children, and offered a sky-high price. It was nothing for Big Brother doll to seek children normally. Lao Ge hesitated, but the reason why Lao Ge finally agreed to take this kind of job was because the rich businessman''s surname was Jiang.


    When I heard this, I immediately thought of Jiang: "Is it related to Jiang?"


    Lao Ge shook his head and lowered his voice: "The heavy area is now completely blocked and I can''t get in at all. I can''t find any information. Jiang has always been a mystery. It''s just that this rich businessman''s surname is Jiang, and he actually has a big brother named Randoll, and he actually came to me. I always feel that something is strange."


    Don''t say that Lao Ge thinks so, even I, a child, think so.


    The rich businessman lives in S City. When we arrived at the airport, someone sent us to the luxurious hotel that had been booked. Everything was a luxurious reception at the level of the rich. I had never seen such a scene. I was excited for a long time, and I was also detained when I met the rich businessman''s boss.


    Lao Ge asked him if he brought his wife with him. In the past, if you wanted to have a child, you needed to secretly tie a woman from the temple of the Goddess of Childbirth back to worship. It must be a woman who wanted a child. The rich businessman''s boss was shy, meaning that we should go to see that woman.


    Lao Ge didn''t say anything, just told me to dress warmly and go. Later, the rich boss took us to a villa. It was very cold inside the villa, and the lights were not turned on. The rich explained that his wife liked the dark. I held Lao Ge''s hand, sweating, and followed the rich carefully upstairs into a room. There was a bed in the room, and I saw the rich man''s wife who was afraid of the dark lying on the bed, wearing home clothes and barefoot. There were seven lamps next to her body, forming a seven-star shape. There was a photo of a woman on the headboard. The photo was very gloomy, and there was no warmth in her pupils. I was so scared that my pores stood up, and the bronze knife I carried on my body vibrated hummingly.


    Lao Ge immediately lowered his voice, his expression excited: "I am here to give you a child, not to give you my life."


    The rich boss pretended to be stupid: "I don''t want your life, I just want this woman to have my child."


    I couldn''t help shaking, and Lao Ge was angry: "This thing is the Seven Star Life-Extending Lamp, representing the seven souls of a person. Now three lamps have been extinguished. If you save it again, you will have to bear the cause and effect. It is said that anyone who is involved in the cause and effect will be disabled at the least, or die at the worst. Aren''t you afraid of retribution?"


    The rich man smiled coldly: "Don''t scare me. How many good people are alive now? You have to fight for what you want. I just want this woman to give me a son."


    "If these seven lamps are all on, I will definitely help you, but it''s too late now." Lao Ge was alert and showed disappointment, "Who did you know me through? , who set this lamp for you? "


    The rich man changed his expression: "Master Ge is really smart. Since he guessed that I won''t make fun of you, someone really set this life-extending lamp for me. He said that you are very capable. There is nothing you can''t do about the underworld. You are the only one in the world who can make this woman pregnant with my child."


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    "What if I don''t do it?" Lao Ge grabbed my hand. I was cold all over. I hid behind Lao Ge, but my eyes were fixed on the photo above the woman''s head. She had big eyes, a high nose bridge, and a naturally raised mouth. She was a beauty. I couldn''t help but feel cold on my back. This woman looked like Jiang, at least 70% similar. Thinking of this, cold sweat broke out in my palms, from the top of my head to the soles of my feet. I pulled Lao Ge''s sleeve, trying to make him pay attention to me. Lao Ge didn''t move at all and looked at the rich man angrily.


    "No?" The rich man smiled and walked to the master and patted Lao Ge on the shoulder, "Think about it carefully, I''ll give you an hour, the girl behind you is not old, right? She still has a lot of years to live, what a pity!"


    After that, he walked out of the room, and soon the door opened, and dozens of bodyguards came in, each holding an electric baton in his hand, hitting it, and protesting to us like a gangster. Lao Ge suppressed his anger and finally nodded after a long while, and the bodyguards left the room. Soon the door opened again, and a bodyguard held a baby brother in his hand, about 30 inches long and 10 inches wide. He put the baby brother on the bed and closed the door, but my eyes were fixed on the baby brother and couldn''t move away. It was very worn out, not like new.


    Lao Ge patted my back, and I jumped in fear. When I looked back at Lao Ge, I felt that my face was cold and the blood color was gone.


    Lao Ge asked me what was wrong. I raised my hand and pointed at the woman on the bed and said, "This woman looks 70% like Jiang."


    Lao Ge''s face darkened and flushed. He asked me if I was sure. I nodded without hesitation, then I bit the bullet and picked up the doll brother and turned it over. I saw that the doll brother''s base was clearly written with the handwriting of 1966. I moved it to show it to Lao Ge, and my voice trembled: "I won''t make a mistake. This doll brother is a bit old. It''s not new at a glance. The handwriting is exactly the same."


    As soon as I finished speaking, I felt a gust of cool breeze behind my neck. Suddenly, the seven-star life-extending lamps all went out. The room was dark, but I could see from the darkness that the woman on the bed who looked 70% like Jiang sat up slowly, raised her arms straight, moved off the bed, and gurgled in her mouth, slowly walked towards me and Lao Ge.


    Lao Ge silently pulled me behind him and ran to pull the door, but the door was locked tightly, so he could only hide from the female ghost. In the dark, the big brother''s eyes were shining, and then a baby cried. The female ghost moved quickly and rushed towards me and Lao Ge. Before one of us could react, Lao Ge pushed me towards the window. At the same time, the female ghost''s hand pinched Lao Ge''s neck fiercely: "Xiao Xi, jump out of the window!"


    I clenched my fists, my throat was dry and I couldn''t speak. I held my breath and didn''t dare to breathe loudly. A burst of fire was rising in my heart. Why? Why did the people around me die one by one? I don''t want Lao Ge to die! Grandpa used to say that I was a brave man, but I never thought that one day I would be so brave. I pulled the carving knife on my neck hard. Lao Ge''s face had turned purple. I stabbed the female ghost''s side waist.


    With a bang, the baby brother fell to the ground. The female ghost sobbed and pushed Lao Ge away. Lao Ge was breathing heavily and stretched out his hands weakly. I watched the female ghost turn around and come towards me and quickly retreated. Suddenly, Lao Ge jumped up and pressed the female ghost down. I was holding a carving knife with blood all over my hands and stabbed it into the female ghost''s temple. The female ghost wailed for a while and immediately stopped moving.


    The crying of the baby brother also stopped abruptly. At this time, the door opened with a click. Lao Ge quickly picked me up and jumped out of the window. Lao Ge held me tightly. I only felt a shock. Lao Ge fell to the ground with a muffled groan. There was a rich man''s garden all around. Jumping from the second floor would not be life-threatening, but Lao Ge''s strength was obviously reduced. He pulled me outside and ran out of the rich man''s villa area. He quickly took a taxi and didn''t even take the luggage from the hotel. He bought a train ticket and rushed back overnight. After resting on the train for a while, Lao Ge didn''t say a word. His face was frighteningly pale. He didn''t fall down until he got off the train.


    I was terrified. A kind person who happened to get off the train with me helped to send Lao Ge to the hospital. Even the medical expenses were paid by the person. After three days of treatment, the doctor wanted to talk to the family, but when he saw me, the doctor said nothing. I sat on the chair and looked at the doctor seriously: "What happened to Lao Ge? Although I am young, I am his only relative. If you don''t tell me, who do you want to tell?"


    The doctor was a young doctor. He was obviously stunned when he heard what I said. Finally, he had to tell Lao Ge''s condition: "Four ribs were broken, there was a slight rupture in the neck and trachea, and the most serious thing was that the internal organs were squeezed. He didn''t have much time to live."

 Chapter 7 Wild Forest Extends Life, Scared to wet pants

    I felt my brain sluggish for a moment when I heard the doctor''s words. I opened my mouth and spoke for a long time: "How long can he live?"


    The doctor looked at me in surprise: "Little boy, how old are you?"


    I was angry and looked at the doctor seriously: "I ask, how long can Lao Ge live, what does it have to do with my age? I say again, I am Lao Ge''s only relative!"


    The doctor blinked and thought for a moment, then sighed: "I can only say that we will try our best, but you should notify the patient''s friends as soon as possible to help pick him up from the hospital."


    I jumped off the stool and walked out, feeling lost. Since my father got married, three relatives have died, my father, grandfather, and my second uncle. Now Lao Ge, who adopted me, is also critically ill. I clenched my fists and held back my tears. A wave of resentment surged in my heart. I walked into the ward and sat beside Lao Ge''s bed. Lao Ge was wearing an oxygen mask and was wearing testing instruments all over his body. He watched for several hours until he felt hungry at night and got up to eat a pack of instant noodles.


    While eating, Lao Ge''s fingers suddenly moved. I widened my eyes, hurriedly held Lao Ge''s hand, and called Lao Ge. Under the light, his eyelids slowly moved, and he opened his eyes to see me. He closed his eyes again. After several times, he finally woke up, but he still ignored me when I called him. I hurriedly called the doctor, who said that I could go home after a few more days. Then he told me that it would be best to ask Lao Ge''s friends to come home to help prepare for the funeral. The wounds of internal organ failure could not be seen on the surface.


    I nodded, and tears finally fell. For the family members, the most desperate thing was not that their family members were in the hospital, but that the hospital had given up treatment. I cried in the corridor for a long time, wiped my tears and returned to Lao Ge''s bed. Lao Ge looked at me, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, as if he wanted to talk.


    "Lao Ge, the doctor told you to rest more. We can go home in a few days." I paused and asked, "Do you have any friends? You are not in good health, and I am afraid I can''t move you. I will ask your friends to pick you up from the hospital and take good care of you at home."


    After I finished speaking, Lao Ge''s hands moved, and he slowly took off the oxygen mask, and his lips opened and closed: "Xiao Xi... let''s... go home."


    "Let''s go back in a few days." I touched Lao Ge''s head to comfort him.


    But unexpectedly, Lao Ge said: "Go... home to continue... life."


    I opened my eyes wide, and immediately thought of the day when Lao Ge led me into the underworld and I asked him what the underworld was. Lao Ge said that everything from catching and killing ghosts, continuing life and breaking souls to funerals and ghost marriages, and seeking wealth and directions are all called underworld affairs.


    Lao Ge reached out his hand, and seeing him pointing at the carving knife on my neck, he quickly took it off and handed it to him. Lao Ge trembled and put it on his chest with his hands, and then muttered: "Heaven grants my wish, the earth does not allow punishment, I dive three thousand feet, and take the fate of heaven to pay."


    After these four short sentences, Lao Ge''s face turned slightly rosy, and then he reached out and pulled out all the instruments on his body. Under the doctor''s dumbfounded expression, he personally handled the discharge procedures. Before leaving, he said to the doctor with contempt: "Quack."


    Although the voice was small, I saw the doctor''s face turn green in an instant. I looked at Lao Ge in disbelief. I didn''t expect that Lao Ge still had the mind to play tricks on people at this time.


    After returning home, Lao Ge personally contacted the kind-hearted person who helped us advance the money and paid it back. Everything seemed like a farce, but it really existed. On the third day, he bought a pig and a sheep, and at midnight he actually arrived at the forest where Granny Liu was. Lao Ge said that extending life is to take away the destiny of heaven. He borrowed the life of the earth from heaven with a carving knife and a spell, and he had to pay it back eventually. He borrowed it for one day and paid it back for one year, so he had to hurry up to extend his life, but extending life was different.


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    The silence in the forest was terrifying. I followed Lao Ge and a cow and a sheep were slowly being pulled by Lao Ge. Lao Ge said that this was a sacrifice. Maybe these two animals knew their fate, so Lao Ge pulled them with great effort.


    The moonlight today was not as bright as that day. It was hairy and dim. The branches under my feet made a crackling sound. I tightly grasped Lao Ge''s sleeves and held the carving knife in my hand, fearing that Granny Liu, her granddaughter, and the aunt in bright yellow clothes would jump out and eat my yang energy.


    While comforting me and telling me not to be afraid, Lao Ge explained why we came here. Extending life is also called creating life. Creating life requires spiritual energy, so we must choose good mountains, rivers, dragon caves, sand and water. But where can we find good mountains and water in a short time? Lao Ge thought of this forest. Here, a mountain blocked the yin and yang. At this time, taking advantage of the hazy moon, we can vaguely see the yin mouth, just like a person''s eyes penetrate the yin and yang. Lao Ge said that generally, the transformation of corpses into ghosts is not based on age or years, but depends on the terrain. This place is a place to nourish yin. Any place that nourishes yin must have spiritual energy, which is a good place to extend life.


    I heard that my palms were sweating. I thought Lao Ge just wanted this forest, and any place would be fine, but I didn''t expect that he would turn over to the side of the yin mouth. My feet felt a little heavy. Lao Ge led the cattle and sheep in one hand and held a small box in the other. I followed behind. Although I was afraid, I didn''t retreat at all. I was just a little worried about how the cattle and sheep would turn over.


    It was not until we reached the foot of the mountain that Lao Ge stopped. He tied the cattle and sheep to a tree closest to the Yinkou, then took out the formation flags and copper bells and set up a formation in front of the cattle and sheep and at the foot of the mountain to the maximum extent. Lao Ge said that this was a small seven-star formation based on the Big Dipper. The seven-star formation was like a spoon, and then a lamp was placed on the "spoon". Lao Ge lit it with a match, and suddenly the surroundings were bright. There was wind at night, and the flame of the lamp swayed with the wind. It looked a bit like Will-o''-the-wisp, Lao Ge put his hand to his mouth and bit it, dripping on the lamp. The lamp didn''t move at all, and I exclaimed: "Strange."


    Lao Ge sighed: "Now this lamp is connected with my life. It is there when I am here, and it will go out when I die. The old saying that someone dies like a lamp goes out means this."


    After saying this, Lao Ge smiled and said that if you don''t die, you have a chance. The two of them hurriedly ran towards the direction of the Yinkou. Lao Ge''s words were deeply engraved in my heart: if you don''t die, you have a chance.


    When we arrived at the Yinkou, a cool breeze suddenly blew. I shivered and tightened my clothes. Looking down, it was pitch black.


    "Xiao Xi, follow me later." Lao Ge took out five talismans from the box, "Last time you said you saw three zombies?"


    I nodded, and Lao Ge stuffed the talismans into my hand: "If you see them, stick them on them. Do you remember the carving knife spell I taught you?"


    "Remember." I held the talisman and carving knife tightly in my hand, and my voice was firm. As for my heart, there was only one thought: Lao Ge can''t die.


    Seeing my determination, Lao Ge wiped his tears and walked down with firm steps. I followed him. Lao Ge didn''t look back. After going down the vagina, I suddenly felt a chill on the back of my neck. I turned back suddenly, but there was nothing, but the hair on my body told me that it was not that simple. Lao Ge stopped, opened the box and set up a seven-star formation, then put a lamp in and lit it, dripped blood, and the wick also lit steadily. After packing up, I continued to move forward.


    Suddenly, a hand reached out from my right shoulder and clasped my shoulder tightly. The hands with long and dry nails made me tremble all over: "Xiao Xi, we meet again, child."


    "Aunt...." This voice was not Granny Liu''s voice, but that aunt. I turned back quickly with trembling, stuck the talisman in my hand on her body, and then ran away. Lao Ge went to the front to find the location of the formation. It can be seen that he was some distance away from me. I stopped, swallowed and turned back. She was wearing a bright yellow shroud with loose hair and an extremely pale face. She was motionless after being stuck with the talisman, but her eyes were bulging and she stared at me fiercely. I gritted my teeth, raised the carving knife, and said tremblingly: "Heaven has permanence, earth has its own way, ghosts are impermanent, heaven and earth cannot tolerate them!"


    The body in the bright yellow shroud began to tremble, leaving two blood marks on the pale face, followed by the nostrils. The bronze carving knife kept vibrating, which made my right hand numb, and the talisman on the handle became hotter and hotter.


    With a bang, the woman in the bright yellow shroud fell down, and the carving knife immediately quieted down, but my legs began to shake like dice, and there was a warmth between my legs... I pursed my lips in embarrassment... Uh...


    "Xiao Xi!" Lao Ge called me, and walked closer and closer until he was in front of me. When he saw the female ghost, he showed an incredible look, "Oh my God, it was solved, it''s incredible, how is it possible?"


    Lao Ge''s doubts were louder than the words, and finally he suddenly sniffed hard and laughed out loud: "Frightened to pee your pants?

 Chapter 8: Ghost Corpse Battle, Seven Star Life Extension Formation

    I felt my brain sluggish for a moment when I heard the doctor''s words. I opened my mouth and spoke for a long time: "How long can he live?"


    The doctor looked at me in surprise: "Little boy, how old are you?"


    I was angry and looked at the doctor seriously: "I ask, how long can Lao Ge live, what does it have to do with my age? I say again, I am Lao Ge''s only relative!"


    The doctor blinked and thought for a moment, then sighed: "I can only say that we will try our best, but you should notify the patient''s friends as soon as possible to help pick him up from the hospital."


    I jumped off the stool and walked out, feeling lost. Since my father got married, three relatives have died, my father, grandfather, and my second uncle. Now Lao Ge, who adopted me, is also critically ill. I clenched my fists and held back my tears. A wave of resentment surged in my heart. I walked into the ward and sat beside Lao Ge''s bed. Lao Ge was wearing an oxygen mask and was wearing testing instruments all over his body. He watched for several hours until he felt hungry at night and got up to eat a pack of instant noodles.


    While eating, Lao Ge''s fingers suddenly moved. I widened my eyes, hurriedly held Lao Ge''s hand, and called Lao Ge. Under the light, his eyelids slowly moved, and he opened his eyes to see me. He closed his eyes again. After several times, he finally woke up, but he still ignored me when I called him. I hurriedly called the doctor, who said that I could go home after a few more days. Then he told me that it would be best to ask Lao Ge''s friends to come home to help prepare for the funeral. The wounds of internal organ failure could not be seen on the surface.


    I nodded, and tears finally fell. For the family members, the most desperate thing was not that their family members were in the hospital, but that the hospital had given up treatment. I cried in the corridor for a long time, wiped my tears and returned to Lao Ge''s bed. Lao Ge looked at me, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, as if he wanted to talk.


    "Lao Ge, the doctor told you to rest more. We can go home in a few days." I paused and asked, "Do you have any friends? You are not in good health, and I am afraid I can''t move you. I will ask your friends to pick you up from the hospital and take good care of you at home."


    After I finished speaking, Lao Ge''s hands moved, and he slowly took off the oxygen mask, and his lips opened and closed: "Xiao Xi... let''s... go home."


    "Let''s go back in a few days." I touched Lao Ge''s head to comfort him.


    But unexpectedly, Lao Ge said: "Go... home to continue... life."


    I opened my eyes wide, and immediately thought of the day when Lao Ge led me into the underworld and I asked him what the underworld was. Lao Ge said that everything from catching and killing ghosts, continuing life and breaking souls to funerals and ghost marriages, and seeking wealth and directions are all called underworld affairs.


    Lao Ge reached out his hand, and seeing him pointing at the carving knife on my neck, he quickly took it off and handed it to him. Lao Ge trembled and put it on his chest with his hands, and then muttered: "Heaven grants my wish, the earth does not allow punishment, I dive three thousand feet, and take the fate of heaven to pay."


    After these four short sentences, Lao Ge''s face turned slightly rosy, and then he reached out and pulled out all the instruments on his body. Under the doctor''s dumbfounded expression, he personally handled the discharge procedures. Before leaving, he said to the doctor with contempt: "Quack."


    Although the voice was small, I saw the doctor''s face turn green in an instant. I looked at Lao Ge in disbelief. I didn''t expect that Lao Ge still had the mind to play tricks on people at this time.


    After returning home, Lao Ge personally contacted the kind-hearted person who helped us advance the money and paid it back. Everything seemed like a farce, but it really existed. On the third day, he bought a pig and a sheep, and at midnight he actually arrived at the forest where Granny Liu was. Lao Ge said that extending life is to take away the destiny of heaven. He borrowed the life of the earth from heaven with a carving knife and a spell, and he had to pay it back eventually. He borrowed it for one day and paid it back for one year, so he had to hurry up to extend his life, but extending life was different.


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    The silence in the forest was terrifying. I followed Lao Ge and a cow and a sheep were slowly being pulled by Lao Ge. Lao Ge said that this was a sacrifice. Maybe these two animals knew their fate, so Lao Ge pulled them with great effort.


    The moonlight today was not as bright as that day. It was hairy and dim. The branches under my feet made a crackling sound. I tightly grasped Lao Ge''s sleeves and held the carving knife in my hand, fearing that Granny Liu, her granddaughter, and the aunt in bright yellow clothes would jump out and eat my yang energy.


    While comforting me and telling me not to be afraid, Lao Ge explained why we came here. Extending life is also called creating life. Creating life requires spiritual energy, so we must choose good mountains, rivers, dragon caves, sand and water. But where can we find good mountains and water in a short time? Lao Ge thought of this forest. Here, a mountain blocked the yin and yang. At this time, taking advantage of the hazy moon, we can vaguely see the yin mouth, just like a person''s eyes penetrate the yin and yang. Lao Ge said that generally, the transformation of corpses into ghosts is not based on age or years, but depends on the terrain. This place is a place to nourish yin. Any place that nourishes yin must have spiritual energy, which is a good place to extend life.


    I heard that my palms were sweating. I thought Lao Ge just wanted this forest, and any place would be fine, but I didn''t expect that he would turn over to the side of the yin mouth. My feet felt a little heavy. Lao Ge led the cattle and sheep in one hand and held a small box in the other. I followed behind. Although I was afraid, I didn''t retreat at all. I was just a little worried about how the cattle and sheep would turn over.


    It was not until we reached the foot of the mountain that Lao Ge stopped. He tied the cattle and sheep to a tree closest to the Yinkou, then took out the formation flags and copper bells and set up a formation in front of the cattle and sheep and at the foot of the mountain to the maximum extent. Lao Ge said that this was a small seven-star formation based on the Big Dipper. The seven-star formation was like a spoon, and then a lamp was placed on the "spoon". Lao Ge lit it with a match, and suddenly the surroundings were bright. There was wind at night, and the flame of the lamp swayed with the wind. It looked a bit like Will-o''-the-wisp, Lao Ge put his hand to his mouth and bit it, dripping on the lamp. The lamp didn''t move at all, and I exclaimed: "Strange."


    Lao Ge sighed: "Now this lamp is connected with my life. It is there when I am here, and it will go out when I die. The old saying that someone dies like a lamp goes out means this."


    After saying this, Lao Ge smiled and said that if you don''t die, you have a chance. The two of them hurriedly ran towards the direction of the Yinkou. Lao Ge''s words were deeply engraved in my heart: if you don''t die, you have a chance.


    When we arrived at the Yinkou, a cool breeze suddenly blew. I shivered and tightened my clothes. Looking down, it was pitch black.


    "Xiao Xi, follow me later." Lao Ge took out five talismans from the box, "Last time you said you saw three zombies?"


    I nodded, and Lao Ge stuffed the talismans into my hand: "If you see them, stick them on them. Do you remember the carving knife spell I taught you?"


    "Remember." I held the talisman and carving knife tightly in my hand, and my voice was firm. As for my heart, there was only one thought: Lao Ge can''t die.


    Seeing my determination, Lao Ge wiped his tears and walked down with firm steps. I followed him. Lao Ge didn''t look back. After going down the vagina, I suddenly felt a chill on the back of my neck. I turned back suddenly, but there was nothing, but the hair on my body told me that it was not that simple. Lao Ge stopped, opened the box and set up a seven-star formation, then put a lamp in and lit it, dripped blood, and the wick also lit steadily. After packing up, I continued to move forward.


    Suddenly, a hand reached out from my right shoulder and clasped my shoulder tightly. The hands with long and dry nails made me tremble all over: "Xiao Xi, we meet again, child."


    "Aunt...." This voice was not Granny Liu''s voice, but that aunt. I turned back quickly with trembling, stuck the talisman in my hand on her body, and then ran away. Lao Ge went to the front to find the location of the formation. It can be seen that he was some distance away from me. I stopped, swallowed and turned back. She was wearing a bright yellow shroud with loose hair and an extremely pale face. She was motionless after being stuck with the talisman, but her eyes were bulging and she stared at me fiercely. I gritted my teeth, raised the carving knife, and said tremblingly: "Heaven has permanence, earth has its own way, ghosts are impermanent, heaven and earth cannot tolerate them!"


    The body in the bright yellow shroud began to tremble, leaving two blood marks on the pale face, followed by the nostrils. The bronze carving knife kept vibrating, which made my right hand numb, and the talisman on the handle became hotter and hotter.


    With a bang, the woman in the bright yellow shroud fell down, and the carving knife immediately quieted down, but my legs began to shake like dice, and there was a warmth between my legs... I pursed my lips in embarrassment... Uh...


    "Xiao Xi!" Lao Ge called me, and walked closer and closer until he was in front of me. When he saw the female ghost, he showed an incredible look, "Oh my God, it was solved, it''s incredible, how is it possible?"


    Lao Ge''s doubts were louder than the words, and finally he suddenly sniffed hard and laughed out loud: "Frightened to pee your pants?

 Chapter 9: Dream within a dream, curse

    I looked at myself in the mirror and trembled, especially when I saw the abscess on my neck, the clear teeth marks, which were obviously black, and my expression in the mirror became more and more terrified.


    Lao Ge said with a gloomy face that this was corpse poison, and asked me: "Do you know what corpse poison is?"


    "Isn''t it the poison on the corpse?" I blurted out, and could only think of the superficial meaning


    Lao Ge was right, but his expression was very serious: "That place is a place that nourishes yin in Feng Shui. After a long period of gestation, the corpse there can be nurtured into a living ghost, and living ghosts do not have corpse poison."


    I don''t understand, and frowned: "Living ghosts don''t have corpse poison, so why does Qianqian have it?"


    "It can only mean one thing." Lao Ge said word by word, "It means that the ghost corpse is controlled, but we don''t know whether the other party is a human or a ghost, If it''s a person, it''s fine, but if it''s a ghost... Hey, that place that nourishes yin can raise corpses into living ghosts, absorb yang corpses, and is half alive and half dead. There is corpse poison in the body. After being controlled, it has thoughts, but this thing obviously came from the col to my house to be a nanny. It dragged you away when I was away, and now it''s killing you again. It''s obviously targeting you, but how could you offend these underworld things at such a young age. "


    Lao Ge paused, and said with a gloomy face that he suspected that it was in the same group with the person behind the control of the big brother. There are two reasons for the suspicion. One is that it is highly targeted, and the other is that the control methods of zombies and blood puppets are similar.


    My face turned pale instantly, and I was sweating from clenching my hands. Lao Ge said, "Don''t be nervous, I''m here. But it''s too late today. I''ll help you get rid of the corpse poison tomorrow. My master told me before that people who are poisoned by corpses will either die or be assimilated. Those who can live conscious are lucky. Lao Ge, I hope you are lucky. I''ll observe you again tomorrow morning."


    Lao Ge said something serious and gave some instructions, asking me to have a good rest. I finally got to the house with mixed feelings, but I tossed and turned on the bed and slowly fell asleep.


    I felt someone pushing me in the middle of the night. When I opened my eyes, it was Lao Ge. Lao Ge sat beside my bed and didn''t let me move. He looked worried: "How are you? I see that your complexion has improved a lot. I made you a bowl of medicine. Drink it."


    I took the bowl from Lao Ge and drank it all. A fishy smell went into my throat. I frowned and looked at Lao Ge: "What kind of medicine is this? Why is it so fishy?"


    "Fishy?" Lao Ge stood up and laughed sarcastically, "Of course it smells fishy. Is there any blood that doesn''t smell fishy?"


    My back was numb, and my hand holding the bowl trembled. The bowl fell to the ground and broke into several pieces. The face of Lao Ge in front of me changed rapidly, and his figure also retreated quickly, and finally turned into a black shadow hiding at the door, laughing: "Is it fun? Everything has just begun."


    "Who are you!" I panicked, angry, and roared hard. Suddenly, my eyes lit up and I woke up. The cold sweat on my forehead was very greasy. I wiped the sweat on my forehead and looked straight at the door, but found that it was just a door and nothing else. I looked down at the ground, the ground was clean, and there was no bowl. I took a long breath, wiped the cold sweat on my forehead, and glanced at my arm with a red blood.


    "Huh?" I was stunned, and my eyes slowly moved over. I saw an irregular blood stain on my arm. I touched the edge of my mouth with my fingers. My fingers were sticky and shockingly full of blood. What I just drank was blood. Could it be true?


    Thinking of this, my heart was pounding, and my mind was full of the sentence "Is it fun? Everything has just begun." ¡¯


    I grabbed the quilt and looked around vigilantly, and finally looked around at my bed. On the right side of the bed, there was a clay doll brother with a red mouth, wearing a blue coat, with an unchanging smile, but there was no warmth in his eyes. He was broken all over, and blood was seeping out from many places. When he saw me looking over, the doll brother giggled.


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    "Ah!" I screamed and jumped off the bed, rushing to Lao Ge''s room regardless of anything, slapping on the door, but there was no movement in Lao Ge''s room.


    Suddenly, the door opened, and I stumbled in, but Lao Ge turned his back to me and said in a low voice: "If you want the people around you to live, don''t ask others for help, otherwise I will let everyone around you die."


    "Lao Ge?" I listened to the content of Lao Ge''s words, and I felt my hair stand on end, and my feet moved back step by step.


    Suddenly, Lao Ge turned around, but I saw a face that was not Lao Ge''s. He was taller than Lao Ge, with a clear scar on his arm, and he was moving towards me.


    My mind was confused at the time, and I ran away with a start. I was so anxious that I tripped over the sofa and fell to the ground. My consciousness went black and I fell to the ground. In the end, I only saw the man''s black shoes close to my face.


    "Huh!" I opened my eyes again, and in front of me was the familiar bedroom. My pajamas were soaked and stuck to my body. I sat up tiredly and looked around. There was nothing, including the big brother and the man just now. In an instant, tears flowed down the corners of my eyes.


    "Everything has just begun."


    "If you want the people around you to live, don''t ask others for help, otherwise I will kill everyone around you."


    These two curses lingered in my mind. I hugged my head, and my mind was full of what happened in the past few days. I sat there all night. That night is still painful for me in the future. You know, I was only seven years old and still a child.


    The next morning, I left the room. Lao Ge prepared breakfast and sighed at my appearance. He said he was going out and told me to stay at home. When he came back, he had a little black dog in his hand.


    The black dog had a pointed mouth and was not pure. There was no white on its paws and belly.


    Lao Ge pulled me into the room and put two candlesticks on the table again. Then he put the black dog in the middle of the candlesticks. The black dog whimpered and looked around, but did not move.


    Lao Ge pulled me and asked me to kneel on a futon: "Xiao Xi, kneel down."


    I knelt down in response. To be exact, I didn''t know what Lao Ge was going to do, and I was not interested in knowing it at this time. My mind was full of what happened last night. I clenched my fists and secretly looked at Lao Ge and swallowed my saliva.


    Lao Ge thought I was nervous and touched my head with a smile. Then he found a wooden barrel from the box and poured out soil from the barrel. Lao Ge piled the soil into a small mound, then put the little black dog on the mound, took out a yellow talisman, and burned it on the candle while chanting: "Ge Chenxi, six blessings from heaven, four blessings from earth, humans and animals are mothers, the purest body, indestructible."


    As Lao Ge chanted, the talisman burned out, and I felt a sweet smell in my throat, and then my stomach It began to twitch, spitting a mouthful of black blood onto the ground, and suddenly felt a little relieved. The black dog sitting on the mound of dirt had bright eyes and ran down, licking the blood with its tongue. Lao Ge quickly covered the ground with all the remaining dirt, then chopped a small golden axe with a talisman on it on the hill and yelled: "If you use an axe on the head of Tai Sui, I will live!"


    My eyes were clear, and the candle on the square table burned brighter and brighter, illuminating the whole room, until the candle burned out, and the little black dog suddenly fell down.


    Lao Ge put the little black dog in the wooden barrel just now, and then shoveled all the dirt on the ground into the barrel with a small axe: "Xiao Xi, bow three times and kowtow nine times to the wooden barrel, and say goodbye to your mother."


    I was unhappy, my mother had died a long time ago, and she was awkward and refused to call.


    Lao Ge''s face darkened: "This black dog is the most yang thing in the world. When you knelt down just now, you acknowledged it as your godmother. It licked your poisonous blood to pay for your fate of being poisoned and dying. Now you send it off as a condolence, isn''t it? Xiaoxi, Lao Ge violated a taboo in order to save you. You are too ignorant!"


    I shrank my neck, knowing that Lao Ge was really angry, but I was still uncomfortable all over. I knelt on the ground with my head stiff: "Goodbye, godmother."


    As soon as the voice fell, the candlestick standing on the table fell down and fell straight into the wooden barrel. I immediately looked at Lao Ge in my heart, but I saw that Lao Ge wiped his sweat in fear and took me to the backyard to bury the little black dog. There was nothing particular about the burial. Lao Ge dug a small pit, poured the soil, the dog and the candlestick into it at once, flattened the soil with a shovel, and added some other soil on top to make the pit level with the ground: "Scared to death, Lao Ge, I''m so scared!" Ge, if you hadn''t called out "godmother" just now, you would have died the next moment."


    I was also scared: "What kind of trick is this, Lao Ge, you are so powerful."


    Lao Ge listened to me praising him and smiled: "This is called black*, a method of exchanging death for life, and also a method of prolonging life. Exchanging death for life is like you are poisoned, and you would have died in a few days, but you can still hold on for a few days, so you can exchange death for life. The black dog can''t detect it, so it will have resentment after death. If you don''t call out "mother" to comfort it, it will probably attack you with its ghost the next moment. The ghost of the black dog is very powerful. I will tell you about these later. The method of prolonging life is simple. If you encounter such a simple matter in the underworld in the future, you can go instead of me, just like the case just now, with the corresponding spell, let the person who is born with a short life bow three times and nine times and shout "mother" loudly, and treat the black dog well in the future, and generally there is no problem living to a hundred years old."

 Chapter 10: Boss Jiang Calls, Portrait

    I opened my mouth wide, thinking about why Lao Ge had to go to the wild forest to extend his life, and I was puzzled: "Lao Ge, why don''t you accept the black* to extend your life?"


    Lao Ge smiled and said: "You are talking nonsense, girl. I was dying at that time, my life was hanging by a thread. My life was borrowed, it was a negative number, and I couldn''t use that method. And if I didn''t calculate my natural short life, that method would not be applicable."


    Lao Ge and I walked into the house, and asked curiously: "How can that person''s life be calculated? If the life can be calculated, doesn''t it mean that the person''s life is doomed?"


    Lao Ge asked me to sit on the sofa. He walked into the house and took out a blue book, and then spread it out for me to see: "This is a tortoise shell divination. There are three ancient copper coins with the words of heaven, earth and man. It can predict evil and good fortune. When fortune-telling, you only need to ask the fortune-teller''s birth date. Recite silently in your heart, or if you come in person, watch the other party tell fortunes. It is very accurate and can be asked anything. In addition to telling fortunes, this tortoise shell also has another function, which is to ward off evil spirits. Your second uncle was obviously controlled that day, and the evil spirit on his face may also be related to the cause of death. The five-corner method of warding off evil spirits was used that day. The so-called five-corner method is the five-corner method of heaven, earth and human destiny. Burn the birth date and eight characters with fire and then pour them into the tortoise shell, and place them steadily on the corpse to ward off evil spirits. This method of warding off evil spirits also includes the method of warding off corner evil spirits. "


    "What is warding off corner evil spirits?" I flipped through the blue book with great interest. The reason why I was so interested was that these were all life-saving things. I believed the content of the nightmare last night. Dad, grandfather, second uncle, left me one by one. Now if Lao Ge leaves me again, I will be a real orphan. I must become strong!


    Old Ge touched my head. Just as he said it was a Feng Shui issue, the phone rang. Old Ge asked me to wait. I nodded obediently. After a while, Old Ge walked up to me with a heavy face. His serious eyes shocked me: "Xiao Xi, the rich man surnamed Jiang called us to come over."


    I was shocked. The scene of escaping in the villa that night was shocking. My heart was pounding and I was angry at the same time: "How dare he call us?"


    Old Ge took out a piece of paper from behind. There was a woman''s face drawn on the paper. She smiled brightly with white teeth, and there was an arc at the corner of her mouth. There was no warmth in her eyes. That smile was exactly the same as that of the big brother. It was very familiar. I couldn''t help shaking all over, and my voice was unstable: "Jiang... Jiang?"


    Old Ge widened his eyes: "Jiang? The rich businessman surnamed Jiang called me just now Come over and ask me to get a painting from the mailbox outside the door, saying that I will definitely go. I took this painting and felt that it was somewhat similar to the woman that day. Is this Jiang? "


    I swallowed hard and nodded, telling Lao Ge that the woman who was seeking a child that day was 70% similar to Jiang. Lao Ge immediately sucked his teeth and said, "Let''s go immediately."


    "Lao Ge." I pulled Lao Ge''s sleeve and tightened my clothes. I felt cold in my heart, "I don''t want you to be in danger."


    Lao Ge shook his head: "I will never feel at ease until this matter is investigated clearly."


    I tried to persuade him, but how could a child make Lao Ge''s decision? In Lao Ge''s words, he did it not only for me, but also for grandpa and second uncle. Speaking of second uncle, Lao Ge faced this problem for the first time. I asked him why grandpa didn''t know that second uncle was dead at that time.


    Old Ge''s answer was very simple. There were two reasons. First, Second Uncle followed him when he came out, and he was the one who arranged the mission, so he was the first to know the news. Second, the news at that time only said that Second Uncle was dead, and then disappeared. Old Ge did not see it with his own eyes, so he could not be sure whether Second Uncle was really dead or the other party was cunning and misrepresented the news. At that time, Old Ge read the fortune for Second Uncle, and it was indeed a bad omen, but Old Ge insisted on seeing the body, and then he got my news. Everything was too hasty.


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    I suddenly realized that Old Ge sighed, just tidied his clothes, took me to buy a plane ticket to the rich boss, and the person who picked us up at the airport took us directly to a brand new villa. Boss Jiang personally met us at the door with deep guilt. He was fat to begin with, and when he walked over, he was actually staggering, completely without the agility of last time. When he came in and out, I found that the corners of his mouth were blue, his face was pale, and his expression was a little trance. He said with a distressed face, and suddenly knelt on the ground and hugged Old Ge''s thighs and refused to let go: "Master Ge, I''m sorry, I''m really sorry." Old Ge frowned: "What are you doing? You can''t kneel down to apologize to me. I lost my life because of you!" "I will pay, I will pay." Boss Jiang said and actually cried, tears streaming down his face, "I beg you, save my son''s life, Mr. Ge, I am I''d rather give up my life than offend an unclean thing. Please save my son."


    When I heard that Boss Jiang had a son, I exchanged glances with Lao Ge and was immediately surprised. Then I handed the painting from Lao Ge to him: "Let me ask you first, who is the woman in this painting?"


    "It''s my sister." Boss Jiang looked at me with hatred, and then with a sad face, "I know what you want to ask... I know you are Chen Xi, the child of that man... My poor sister has been married to your family for just over a year, but her body and head are separated."


    I snorted coldly: "Separated body and head? Why don''t you say that it was your sister who killed my whole family, my grandfather, and my father?"


    Boss Jiang looked determined: "Impossible, my sister was reluctant to step on even an ant since she was a child."


    When Lao Ge heard it, he asked the key point: "Don''t talk about who killed whom first, the baby that day Where did the big brother come from? "


    Boss Jiang held Lao Ge''s legs and refused to let go: "A month ago, I received my sister''s body, right at my doorstep. I angrily called Lao Chen and asked him how he treated my sister, but no one answered the phone at home. Later, I dreamed that someone was talking to me. He said... He said that someone in your family killed my sister. This kid, the big brother, could help me kill the only root of the Chen family, that is, you. Later, I used a trick. It was a coincidence, eh!"


    Lao Ge didn''t believe it: "Where is the woman who prayed for a child that day?"


    Boss Jiang sighed, looked at him as if he was dizzy, and hit his forehead: "She is my sister''s friend. The two grew up together. It is said that friends will look alike when they are together for a long time. My sister and Xiaoqing are like this. In my opinion, Xiaoqing is elegant and cute. I like her very much. I like her, but when I found out that I liked her, I was already married. Later, my wife passed away, and I slowly approached Xiaoqing. I didn¡¯t expect¡­¡±


    Boss Jiang told a sad story. He said that he didn¡¯t expect that the girl also liked him. He wanted to have a child after getting married, but he didn¡¯t care, after all, he already had a son. Who knew that the woman kept praying to the gods and Buddhas until a few months ago, when she began to be bedridden. Boss Jiang was desperate and found someone who knew about the underworld to set up the Seven Star Life-Extending Lamp. Later, the person recommended Lao Ge to him. The time was just before receiving Jiang¡¯s body. At that time, Boss Jiang was worried about how to get the big brother doll that the master said, and found Jiang¡¯s body at the door. Jiang was holding the big brother doll in her hand. Then Boss Jiang had a plan to kill two birds with one stone. In the end, it failed, but Lao Ge¡¯s life was still consumed.


    I was horrified when I heard this. Old Ge frowned and remained uncivilized. Boss Jiang cried loudly: "But I didn''t expect that I would lose Xiaoqing''s life before I could accomplish my mission. That doll must be an evil creature. My son got sick after you escaped that day. The next morning I felt exhausted. I am a businessman and usually pay the most attention to health preservation so that I can live a few more years with my own money. But I always get distracted during meetings these days. Sometimes the servants even say that I am sleepwalking. This is not terrible. What is terrible is..." Boss Jiang suddenly kowtowed to the ground loudly: "I am a beast. I actually sleepwalked and strangled my son. Fortunately, the servants stopped me. I beg you, Master, I beg you to help me. We must have encountered something unclean. "


    After listening to this, Old Ge frowned, with deep wrinkles on his face: "I''ll see Jiang first, how did you deal with that Lao Ge?"


    When Boss Jiang heard this, he burst into laughter and stood up: "Okay, no problem, just take care of me, the Lao Ge is in my sister''s coffin, I have been thinking about making trouble for the Chen family, so my sister''s body has not been cremated."


    When I heard this, I immediately showed dissatisfaction on my face: "You are making trouble for our Chen family? I became an orphan because of your sister who put the Lao Ge in my house. She even killed her own child. The wasp''s tail stings, the most poisonous woman''s heart!"


    When Boss Jiang heard this, he shook his head like a dice: "Impossible, my sister''s dowry was all prepared by me, there is definitely no Lao Ge!"