Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Lin Hanyang came back with his wife and mother tremblingly. He was completely convinced now.
He received nearly thirty years of materialist education from elementary school to graduate school, but all the dialectical relationships between matter and consciousness became paper tigers before the pictures he saw with his own eyes.
Lin Hanyang was no longer the Lin Hanyang he used to be. At first he swore that all his bad luck was due to the normal changes in the market economy, but now he wanted to throw away paper money even when he stepped into his own house. When he saw Wei Xi after entering the house, he immediately felt ashamed. To be honest, he was still holding on to luck before seeing Fengyang Immortal showing off his power and dragging the old Taoist priest away.
He looked at Wei Xi and then at the Lu family. He couldn’t guess who had solved the Fengyang Immortal. He could only ask Taoist Wang, whose legs were so weak that he couldn’t stand still. Taoist Wang looked at one of them in fear.
Lin Hanyang and his wife and mother immediately surrounded Wei Xi excitedly.
“Master Wei, is that female ghost really eliminated? Will she not come back again?”
Wei Xi thought for a while: “No.”
The old Taoist with a long beard looked disgusted when he saw his harmless appearance.
Lin Hanyang and the others were huddled in the corner of the entrance hall, unaware of what was going on in the room. They only thought that Fengyang Immortal had been salvaged by Wei Xi. Mrs. Lin clasped her hands together and immediately recited several lines of Amitabha.
Lu Wenqing couldn’t ask any more questions. Hearing this conversation again, he suddenly asked Shuo Zong in surprise: “Sir, didn’t you solve the ghost inside?”
Shuo Zong thought of the fierce ghost that had been chewed into pits when he entered and was silent for a moment: “Not entirely.”
Lu Wenqing thought this was Wei Xi’s help in solving part of the problem. He was shocked and jealous, lamenting that he had not been able to make any breakthroughs in his life for decades: “Damn, how about this? He actually learned how to catch ghosts after not seeing him for a few months?”
Shuo Zong glanced at him: “Do you know him?”
Lu Wenqing thought he was just curious, so he mentioned the gossip he had just discussed with his cousin again. When he mentioned the word gay, he added annotations for fear that the other party would not understand. Shuo Zong didn’t say anything after hearing this but looked meaningfully at Wei Xi in the crowd.
Wei Xi had already begun to talk about his salary, as this was the first suggestion from the Lin family. Lin Hanyang had no experience in asking others to do it. According to the standards given by his mother to other masters bur fearing that he would be underpaid, he asked Wei Xi respectfully asked Wei Xi to do it himself: “Master, I wonder how much you charge for a ritual ceremony? I will let my family prepare it.”
How much did it cost?
Wei Xi was confused again when asked.
He came to have a meal for free. There was no concept of charging for him, but it seemed that the Lin family wanted to give him another sum of money. Considering his current penniless situation and his goal of reviving the sect, Wei Xi decided not to refuse, but how much should he receive?
The money in this country was completely different from what he had imagined. He carefully dug out what he had seen and heard on his way down the mountain to look for clues. The cake cost ten yuan a bowl, and the man who had separated from his wife at the foot of the mountain asked him for three hundred yuan, and his attitude is very tough, which showed that this was a lot of money for the other party.
One hundred could buy ten bowls of cakes, which was indeed quite a lot.
So he weighed it up and felt that the price of the work should be higher than this, so he said: “Five hundred.”
Shuo Zong: “…………”
Everyone present: “…………”
Wei Xi saw the Lin family staring at him blankly without saying anything, and felt bad, but just as he was about to lower the price by another two hundred, Shuo Zong came over and covered his mouth. At the same time, he said to Lin Hanyang with a stern face: “Give him the market price.”
As soon as Wei Xi smelled it, he wanted to take the opportunity to bite him. As soon as he opened his mouth, Shuo Zong’s hand fell away.
Lin Hanyang was at a loss and even wondered whether Wei Xi was still dissatisfied with the two hundred yuan he had given him in the first place. When he heard this, he immediately felt like he was being pardoned and hurriedly asked his family to give another one hundred thousand according to the standard given to the Lu family. Then he looked at Shuo Zong: “Who is this…?”
Lu Wenqing immediately recovered and explained: “This is Mr. Shuo Zong, the authoritative advisor of the Lu family.”
“Ah!” Lin Hanyang was startled. He glanced at the other’s handsome face and the unruly lines on his arms, and secretly felt ashamed. “Guo, it’s really different.”
The long-bearded Taoist priest who received a total of 30,000 yuan from this ritual began to have strong self-doubt in his heart, and he was in a trance for a while.
After Shuo Zong pulled Wei Xi out, he signaled Lu Wenqing to go to the room where the incident occurred, took out a simple-looking pottery basin, and said, “The female ghost used to hide here. Where did you get this basin?”
When the Lin family heard this, their expressions changed drastically. Old Mrs. Lin almost fainted again: “This, I picked this up on the street a few years ago at a construction site! Many people tried to rob it at that time, saying it was dug out from among a lot of antiques from the ground when they were digging the foundation, so I grabbed this one. After I got it back, I asked my friends to appraise it, and they all said it was a genuine antique and that I made a lot of money! Why, how could it be…”
When she found out that it was genuine, the old lady was very happy. She felt that she was so discerning and lucky that she could pick up good things without spending a penny. But now after listening to Shuo Zong’s words, she suddenly realized that her son’s business problems and her daughter-in-law’s poor health seemed to have really started when this pottery basin entered the house.
Lin Hanyang also knew his mother’s temperament. She had a difficult life when she was young. Although she was better off now, she couldn’t change her mentality of taking advantage. The same thing happened after she was brought to Beijing. Although his family was clearly not short of money, she still had to use his senior citizen card to take the bus during rush hour and travel a long way to buy groceries. What she bought back was only some wilted vegetable leaves at a discount. When she went out to eat, she would pick the high-end hand sanitizer and toilet paper in the restaurant bathroom, when she went shopping, she had to line up several times to grab the small gifts that the other merchants gave away for free. Even when she travelled abroad, she refused to give the proper tip. She tried every means to steal “souvenirs” such as dead branches and leaves at various scenic spots, and she would argue if he tried to stop her, which often made him and his wife very embarrassed. Lin Hanyang was very helpless. However, the other party was his biological mother who had raised him for decades. No matter how different she was, he could only advise his wife to pretend that she was invisible. However, this time, no matter how good-tempered he was, he couldn’t stand it anymore. After all, his mother’s greedy behavior almost brought disaster to his family.
He sighed: “Mom, didn’t I tell you, but you usually don’t listen to my advice. Can your family really make a fortune by taking this little advantage?”
“Don’t I just want to save some money for my family!” The old lady was stubborn at first, but then she thought about the consequences she had caused.? “Then, what would happen if we didn’t find it?”
Shuo Zong glanced at her and was too lazy to speak. Lu Wenqing behind him hurriedly explained: “When digging foundations at construction sites, graves are sometimes dug out, and the antiques unearthed are of course the burial objects in the tombs. How can such things be taken home casually? Burial objects are somewhat unclean, and if the tomb in which they are buried has bad geomantic omen, it will be even worse. As for the female ghost you are talking about…”
Lu Wenqing had never seen the female ghost before, so he couldn’t tell. However, Shuo Zong only glanced at Mrs. Lin and said to Lin Hanyang: “A lot of the vitality has been sucked out of your body, which is why you are so weak and sick. If you had continued like this, then the female ghost would eventually eat her and then transform into her to continue living with you.”
The hairs all over Lin Hanyang’s body stood up now. When the old lady heard that she had almost become a family member with a female ghost, the old lady was so frightened that she turned pale and didn’t dare to speak harshly again. She promised again and again that she would change her ways from now on and never mess up and take things again.
Now that the family saw this clay pot, they got cold all over and didn’t dare to touch it. They hid far away: “Well, what should we do with this thing?”
Lu Wenqing thought for a while, it was still difficult to solve this kind of thing. If you send it to the museum, it might cause trouble in the future, but it was not that simple to destroy it. After all, it had been immersed in the tomb for hundreds of years and was later used to hide by evil spirits. It was no longer the same as ordinary pottery. It would never be broken by ordinary beatings, and it must be resolved first.
So he thought for a while, and based on his experience, he listed a series of complex raw materials such as black dog blood and cinnabar, as well as solutions such as soaking evil things in it for seven or forty-nine days. He was about to speak, when there was a sudden lightness in his hand, and he looked to the side. Wei Xi had already taken away the pottery basin and raised it to his eyes for a closer look.
Lu Wenqing was about to remind him to be careful when he saw the young man in front of him put his hands against the jar and break it on both sides——
Wei Xi raised his hand and said, “Okay.”
Lu Wenqing: “???”
He was stunned for a moment, and then saw the other person holding up two pieces of pottery before throwing away the fragments and taking a bite of it as if on a whim.
Lu Wenqing: “!!!”
How can you put this kind of thing in your mouth?! He was shocked and turned pale. Just as he was about to stop him, Wei Xi started vomiting.
Alas! There was a lingering muddy smell and a scummy texture, which was very unpalatable.
Lu Wenqing: “………………”
F**k you black bitch.
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