Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Lin Hanyang carefully supported his wife and was led by housekeeper Zhou through the courtyard. When she saw Wei Xi after entering the door, Mrs. Lin couldn’t hold back her tears: “Master! Your kindness is so great that we, as husband and wife, cannot repay you!”
Wei Xi had a good impression of this woman who had helped him for no reason after he came out of the mountains. So, he glanced at her and asked knowingly, “Are you pregnant?”
Mrs. Lin couldn’t hide the excitement on her face: “We just found out, it’s been more than a month. Hanyang and I have been looking forward to this child for more than ten years. If it weren’t for your help…”
Wei Xi said curiously, “You donated money to charity and had a child. What does it have to do with me?”
He simply thought that Mrs. Lin’s gratitude was strange, but the Lin couple thought that he was not seeking credit and were even more impressed for a moment.
After the couple settled the matters in Fengyang Town, they returned to Beijing and found that the company’s fortune had changed. Every day, Lin Hanyang was busy dealing with those cooperations that he had negotiated for a long time but with whom deals could not be concluded. At the same time, the couple did not forget Wei Xi’s reminder before leaving, so during this period, every time there was a charity event, they would donate. A few days ago, the couple had just attended a fundraising cocktail party for children with cancer. When after returning, Mrs. Lin began to vomit. Lin Hanyang thought that his wife’s health, which had finally improved, had problems again, and he was terrified while sending his wife to the hospital for examination. Who knew that what followed was this incredible surprise.
Lin Hanyang pulled Wei Xi and stuffed another red envelope into his pocket. He thanked him profusely before introducing the guest he had brought with him: “Master Wei, this is my old classmate Qiu Guokai.”
Qiu Guokai was a fat, middle-aged man with sparse hair on his head. He looked at Wei Xi with a smile, but there was doubt in his eyes. He quietly pulled Lin Hanyang to his side and whispered in his ear: “Is this the master you mentioned? Why does he look so unreliable?”
Not only did he look young, but the residence he saw when he first came in was very strange. There were so many women sitting and chatting in the yard. It didn’t look like a master’s residence at all. It was obviously like a popular coffee and tea house.
Lin Hanyang’s face changed slightly when he heard this, with an expression that said, “You insulted my faith.” “Don’t talk nonsense!”
Qiu Guokai was silent for a while. He really couldn’t understand how his old classmate who used to be rational and materialistic had become like this. However, he was not a materialist. He remembered what his classmate had said about the master’s ability to deal with the rebellious ghosts in his home. In addition, there were really strange things happening around him recently. He thought about it and decided to try his luck: “Master, this is what happened.”
Qiu Guokai always felt weird lately.
He had a successful career and a happy family, with a lovely wife and young children. Logically, his life should be perfect and impeccable, but he had seen strange shadows at home several times recently.
It started when he returned home early from a business trip. The lights were off at home, and when he opened the door, he saw a shadow passing by. The shadow was so fast that it disappeared in an instant. When he looked back, he saw nothing but an empty yard. He was so scared that he woke up everyone at home, but the servants and his sleepy wife said he must be mistaken. Qiu Guokai was under a lot of pressure at that time, so he didn’t think much about it.
Unexpectedly, the incident got out of control. After the shadow, he often encountered strange troubles, from lying at home playing with his phone and hearing vague curses in the air, to suddenly feeling a pain on his face when he was working seriously, as if he was punched by someone. This experience had become more and more bizarre recently, for example, when he was staying at home, the TV that was turned off suddenly turned on and started playing a TV series. At the same time, while the TV series was playing, he heard curses and felt his face being hit.
Qiu Guokai was so frightened that everyone around him said he was hallucinating, but the pain on his face was absolutely real. He even felt that his face was swollen, although his wife insisted that it was because he was fat.
Qiu Guokai touched his cheeks which were so fat that they seemed to be sagging, and he looked obviously dejected by this consolation.
Wei Xi looked around at him and asked his apprentice in a low voice: “Who do you think is fatter, him or Xiao Pang?”
The second disciple glanced at him and ignored him, but the eldest disciple Tuan Tuanyi was very excited because he didn’t have to endorse any business. He carefully looked at Qiu Guokai and said to his master, “He is still fatter. Xiao Pang is fat, but his face is not as fat as his. It’s like a pumpkin.”
Wei Xi took a look and indeed, Qiu Guokai’s face was clearly shaped like a pumpkin!
He couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration, thinking how full he would be after eating such a big piece.
Then the second disciple coldly asked the eldest disciple: “How well have you memorized the book? Can you tell what happened to this person?”
Tuan Tuanyi, who had just been pleased with himself for having won the master’s favor, immediately lowered his head in a depressed manner. However, he did not dare to disobey his junior brother’s order. He carefully looked at the man’s face and scratched his head cluelessly: “I can’t tell. He doesn’t look evil. Except for being a little fat and having a bad relationship with women, everything else is quite normal.”
After saying that, he didn’t wait for his junior fellow apprentice to answer, and he picked up the book and murmured, “It must be that I haven’t learned enough. If I recite more, maybe I can figure out something.”
Shuo Zong: “…”
Wei Xi turned around and looked at him: “Why don’t I see anything? Apart from being a little fat, he seems to be quite normal in other aspects. At most, he has a bit of rotten peach blossom luck.”
Shuo Zong was silent for a while, feeling that this master and disciple were really frustrating in a sense.
After hearing what Qiu Guokai said, Lin Hanyang and his wife felt a little scared. Mrs. Lin asked Wei Xi worriedly, “Master, do you think he has encountered a fierce ghost like us? It sounds even fiercer than Feng Yangxian. Feng Yangxian only hid at home to cause trouble, but how could this one he encountered beat people in broad daylight?”
Seeing that someone supported him, Qiu Guokai became more excited and rolled up his trouser legs to confide, “Yes, you see, this ghost is very fierce when it makes trouble. I suddenly found a lot of such marks on my legs recently. I suspect that they were caused by it.”
Everyone looked over there, and Wei Xi also saw the dense blood vessels on his legs, his eyes narrowed.
Then the second disciple’s cold voice came from the side: “This has nothing to do with the attack of ghosts.”
Qiu Guokai: “Huh?”
Shuo Zong: “You are too fat, lack exercise, and have blood stasis, which leads to varicose veins in your lower limbs.”
Everyone: “……”
Tuan Tuanyi smelled the scent of money when he heard this, and stepped forward to sell: “Mr. Qiu, not exercising for a long time is very bad for your health. I see that you must be very busy at work and may not have time to go to the gym regularly. Would you consider applying for a membership card of our Taicang Sect? Gold card members can enjoy 20% discount on rituals and 10% discount on daily leisure club consumption. We also have a haunted house that is about to be chained and a private detective agency that is about to open. With the membership card, you can get different discounts!”
Qiu Guokai: “…”
Wait, wait a minute.
Let’s put the scientific diagnosis of varicose veins aside for now. What are the membership card leisure clubs and haunted house private detective agencies?
Was there something wrong with the scope of this master’s career?
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