Chapter 34 Infant Spirit
The boy was getting more and more excited, and he couldn't stop talking. He told me how to pursue a girl I liked. For example, I could pester her when her boyfriend was not around, or work with him to come up with a heroic plan to save the beauty, so that she would be moved and maybe she would marry me.
I said your uncle knows nothing. He has been chasing after his neighbor for many years and is still single. He even taught me how to pick up girls. I'll tell you the truth. I know that girl and I once saved her life. I haven't seen her for three years. I didn't expect that she has a boyfriend and doesn't recognize me anymore.
Fatty scolded me for a long time, but he calmed down. After listening to me, he laughed and said, "In today's society, many women only care about money and not people. What's the point of saving your life? It's nothing. If you have money, they will come to you without you saving them. Didn't you see that man, wearing a white suit, he looks like a prince charming. Look at you, you are wearing a shabby outfit, you have no money, you have no looks, and you are a toad, and you are a low-quality toad among toads."
This kid is so mean, I said angrily: "What's wrong with the prince charming? The one riding a white horse may not be a prince, he may be Tang Monk."
"What's wrong with Tang Seng? My brother, Tang Seng has charmed countless beauties, not to mention the fairies. The Queen of the Kingdom of Women has such a high status that she insisted on making Tang Seng her queen..."
I slapped him on the arm and cursed, "Nonsense, that's to make Tang Seng the king, not the queen. Can a man be the queen?"
After chatting with him for a while, the depression in my heart was mostly gone. This kid said that if he hadn't had a fever, he would have drunk something at home today. I said that if you want to drink, it's easy to do. I immediately burned a body purification talisman , mixed it with yin and yang water to make talisman water, and asked him to drink it. After about ten minutes, his fever subsided. This kid was very curious and said that this was too magical. He begged me to teach him this magic.
I said you are impetuous and not suitable for learning Taoism. Stop talking so much. I am hungry. Your doghouse is dirty and smelly. Let's go to a restaurant for a drink. He actually had a similar experience to Zhou Sijing. His parents died early, he was ugly, and he was a fortune teller who sold fortunes on the street. He could not get married. What's more, this boy was very lazy and made his doghouse look like a pigsty. Which girl would be interested in him?
We went to a Hunan restaurant we often go to. The food here is delicious and not expensive. It is a must-go place for us losers to drink and get together. We sat down and ordered a plate of peanuts and fried chicken. Since it was not cold, we ordered a box of beer. We are not big drinkers, so we each drank six bottles of beer and went home to sleep.
While drinking, Xiaopang mentioned Xiaojing's possession of evil spirits and asked me what exactly are infant spirits? I told him that infant spirits are those little ghosts who died just after birth or in the womb. Since they died just after birth or before seeing the world, they have a lot of resentment. Think about it, the dead ghosts finally waited for a chance to reincarnate, and happily crossed the Naihe Bridge to reincarnate, but died before living for a day. How could they feel comfortable? This is more resentful than those unjustly dead ghosts who died in great injustice.
If the child dies abnormally, then the resentment will be overwhelming. It will be the most evil among all infant spirits, also called "evil ghost infant spirit"!
Xiao Pang stuck out his tongue and asked me if the ghost that appeared last night was a fierce ghost or a baby spirit. I shook my head. It was hard to say because I only had theories but no practice. I had helped people exorcise ordinary evil spirits before. This was the first time I had encountered a fierce baby spirit like this. I had to wait until I caught the little cub before I could tell what kind it was.
He asked me again, since the girl who beat me couldn't deal with the baby spirit, should we continue to help and catch the baby spirit at night?
I drank three bottles at this point, and my head started to feel dizzy, but my mind was still clear. I shook my head like a rattle, "No. This kind of kid holds a grudge very strongly. Either you deal with it, or don't get involved. Otherwise, if you can't deal with it, it will always haunt you until it kills you."
Xiaopang didn't know my depth in this aspect. After hearing how scary I said it was, he stopped forcing me. He was not going to play with his life. But after a while, he asked again, he lived so close to Xiaojing and had met the brat before, would the brat come to trouble him at night?
I said it was hard to say, generally speaking, anyone who had come into contact with it would not let it go. Xiaopang almost cried when he heard this, and said with a bitter face, "Then you should continue to help. Even if it's not for Xiaojing, you have to get rid of the baby spirit for me." I still didn't agree, and asked him to stay in my rental house for a while, and we'll talk about it after the baby spirit incident.
After six bottles of beer that day, I was actually drunk and was carried home by Xiaopang. I slept from the afternoon until the next morning and found that Xiaopang was really living with me.
The house I rented was not far from Yonghe Street. It was a makeshift shed on the roof of an old building. This kind of house was rented to migrant workers from other places. The price was very cheap, only 500 yuan a month. Although the shed was not big, it was more than enough for two people to sleep. In addition, I was diligent, so I kept the house clean and tidy, unlike Xiaopang's three tiled houses, which had no place to step.
Xiaopang went home yesterday afternoon and brought the stall over. We went downstairs to have breakfast and chatted for a while before setting up the stall. You don't have to go too early to tell fortunes, otherwise there will be no customers. Generally, business starts to come after 10 o'clock in the morning. If the business is good every day, you can make 300 or 200 yuan, and at worst, you can make dozens of yuan. At the end of the month, you can earn about 3,000 or 4,000 yuan, which is enough to make a living.
We set up our stalls together as usual. Xiao Pang put on sunglasses, picked up the brewed tea, and chatted with me while drinking. But business is not very good today. It is almost noon, but there are still no customers. On the contrary, the business in front of the stalls of those old guys is booming. The old guy next to us is surnamed Cheng, and I don’t know his name. Because he has a limp in his left foot , people call him Cheng Guaizi. This old guy is the worst. Whenever we have no business, he will gloat over our misfortune and laugh at us.
It was the same today. Cheng Guaizi was telling fortunes for the customers, and he smiled at us smugly from time to time. Xiaopang took off his sunglasses in anger and cursed in a low voice: "You old idiot, I'll make you fall into the sewer when I get home..." As he was cursing, a taxi suddenly stopped in front of us, and a pair of high heels stretched out after the door opened.
Xiaopang immediately perked up, put on his sunglasses and shouted: "Fortune telling, fortune telling, I can tell you about your past and present lives, fortune and love, birth, old age, sickness and death... I can tell you your horoscope, predict your marriage, and predict good and bad luck..."
His shouting really attracted the woman. The woman in high heels and sunglasses came to my stall with a clattering sound, twisting her willow waist, and bringing a gust of fragrant wind. I cleared my throat and was about to take the job, but I didn't expect the woman to suddenly kick my stall!
"You little hooligan, I let you tell my fortune, I let you act like a hooligan, I let you be right about everything you say..." The woman kicked the stall and then kicked me. I was caught off guard and was kicked twice.
