Chapter 82 High Price Deal
The three of us hid in the Lu family's old house until around 4:00. The rain outside stopped, so we climbed back to the ground using a ladder. At this time, we could see clearly that the floor of the inner room was made of wooden boards, covered with a thick layer of mud. The wooden boards looked very strong and would not break even if someone walked on them. However, it happened that Xiao Pang, who weighed more than 200 pounds, tripped when he entered the door, and fell straight down, breaking the wooden boards.
If it weren't for this, in a few years, if the house hadn't been rebuilt, the underground morgue would never have been discovered. But yesterday, I heard from Mr. Lu that this old house was where the old man lived. Before he died, he said that the feng shui of this house was not good and that his descendants should not live in it. So his descendants followed his will and have not rebuilt it or rebuilt it for forty years.
Who is that mummy ? What is its relationship with the old man that deserves his attention? The answer is probably only known to the old man, and since he has become an old zongzi, this question may become a permanent mystery.
We removed the windows and put them over the hole, and dug up the soil around it to cover it up. This house had been uninhabited for a long time, so it was no longer popular. People would consciously or unconsciously think that this house was a haunted house, and even children would not dare to come here to play hide-and-seek. So we were not afraid of someone coming in and finding us, so we simply blocked the hole. Before leaving, we cleaned up the footprints , ran back to the cemetery before dawn, picked up the talismans, masonry cones and sticky rice, and ran back to the mountain.
As expected, the soil in the cave surged out, and the female corpse inside disappeared. When we were packing up, we heard the sound of a bird flapping its wings. Xiaopang shone his flashlight upward and saw a white-headed black bird, which he thought was quite rare. I had a vague sense of foreboding in my heart. This bird must be related to the blue-eyed man-fox, as we could tell from the fact that it didn't suffocate to death when we buried it just now. We hurriedly packed up our things, filled up the cave, and went down the mountain.
But when we got to the foot of the mountain, Xiao Pang suddenly stopped walking with his head raised, and didn't say anything for a long time. I knew something was wrong, so I pushed him and asked quietly, "What's wrong?"
"A black shadow...just flew past!" said Xiaopang in horror.
Lin Yuxi covered her mouth and laughed: "Did you see a UFO?"
I knew it was definitely the blue-eyed fox. I thought it might have been discovered by the white-headed bird and notified the fox to come find us. If we continued along the path, we would definitely not be able to escape. So I pulled them both into the cornfield and pasted moxa leaves on their foreheads. Lin Yuxi realized the seriousness of the situation and dared not make any more noise. She obediently covered her mouth and nose to prevent her from breathing out.
I crouched like this for more than 20 minutes, and then I heard the sound of light footsteps, followed by a faint green light outside the cornfield. My heart tightened, the blue-eyed fox was coming!
It went up the mountain along the path, just passing by the cornfield where we were. We were at the edge of the field, and through the gaps in the straw, we could see clearly what was happening outside. As the green light moved closer, a dark shadow slowly approached. With the weak green light, they both saw clearly that the woman was naked, with one left eye emitting a green beam of light like a flashlight, and the right eye was blood red!
Lin Yuxi and Xiaopang snuggled up to each other and began to tremble again. I couldn't help but sweat in my palms, thinking that I must not touch the corn stalks, otherwise we would have to go to the underworld together. Fortunately, after entering the underworld, they stepped on the nearby corn stalks. There was nothing around them, so they didn't trigger any sound because of the trembling.
The blue-eyed fox probably expected us to hide in this area, so it walked forward for more than ten meters, then turned back and wandered on this path. It seemed quite leisurely, as if it was taking a walk, but the three of us were extremely nervous. After it circled back and forth a few times and didn't find us, it went up the mountain.
We dared not move, and waited for 20 minutes before we slowly slipped out and ran back. Among the three of us, Lin Yuxi was the fastest, but I had more endurance than Xiaopang , who was too fat to run far. I had to wait for him for a while after running a few steps. We ran and stopped like this, and we left the cornfields around the village and reached the highway. It was dawn at this time, and we sat on the side of the road and breathed heavily. As long as the sun rose, the blue-eyed fox would not dare to appear again.
After I relaxed, I asked them, "Do you know what a vixen is?"
Xiao Pang scratched his head: "You said it was a vixen, who knows if it's true or not? What if there is a silly girl in the village, running out to play naked in the middle of the night, it's normal."
"That's right, there are all kinds of birds in the forest. Even if they are not fools, they may have mental problems. There are many people who like to run naked at night." Lin Yuxi hurriedly agreed. This girl will never bow her head and admit defeat to me.
I asked them both, "Why does its left eye glow green?"
The fat boy was speechless. Lin Yuxi rolled her eyes and said with a sneer, "Isn't that hard to explain? He wore a lighting tool on his left eye. You are so smart, how could you not think of it? Okay, don't ask anything. I don't want to answer your stupid and stupid questions that have no technical content at all."
Well, she started to keep her mouth shut again!
When it was bright, I hailed a van and returned to the city. After taking a hot shower and changing clothes, I had breakfast downstairs, went back upstairs and slept for an hour before being woken up by Lin Yuxi. It was already eight o'clock and I had to go to work. Now I feel that this girl is not cute at all, and she is more hateful than Zhou Baopi.
She called us into her office, yawned, and said, "Mr. Lu called just now and asked us how our preparations were going and what the price was." I realized then that she had been woken up by Mr. Lu's call and had not let us sleep.
I rubbed my eyes and told her that the old Zongzi was not in the ancestral tomb and had been subdued, so Mr. Lu's family would be safe for the time being. But the old man must be buried in time, otherwise it will bring more serious disasters to future generations. And the blue-eyed fox must be dealt with tonight, and it must not be allowed to harm people. You agreed with Mr. Lu to solve it tonight, and you can decide the price.
When Xiao Pang heard that there was nothing for him to do, he walked away in a daze, and seemed to be sleeping while walking. Lin Yuxi called Mr. Lu in front of me. The items needed for the ritual were hard to find, so they could only be gathered tonight. The price is 100,000 yuan, which is just a base number. If the situation changes, you may have to pay more. If you can accept it, then it's a deal, otherwise, please find someone else.
Mr. Lu was extremely anxious and immediately agreed to the price. He agreed to pick us up at 7 o'clock in the evening. He would pay half of the deposit first, and then pay the balance after the ritual was successful.
Lin Yuxi hung up the phone, stretched out his arms and cheered: "One hundred thousand in hand!"
But I poured a bucket of cold water on her face: "If we can't deal with the blue-eyed fox, the old man can't be reburied. If things go wrong, we may all die."
The girl pouted and said, "We'll just have to act according to circumstances. If we can't handle it, we'll just run away. At worst, we won't have to take his 100,000 yuan. We still have a priceless jade Guanyin!" She hurriedly took out the jade pendant and looked at its color in the sunlight. Suddenly, her face changed drastically and she said in horror, "How could this happen?!"
