First Chapter 24 Liu Quezi
However, since Qin Yiheng asked me to go, this person must be reliable, and I really want to meet him, because I am curious about what people who have seen the real body of the King of Hell are like. I heard Qin Yiheng say before that Liu Quezi was not originally lame, and he had a proper job at first, working from nine to five. That was more than ten years ago. One summer, it was very hot. Liu Quezi had just finished his night shift, and the house was so stuffy that people couldn't sleep. He simply spread a mat and lay on the roof of their bungalow at that time. But he fell asleep and never woke up again. Everyone in the family thought he was dead, and they were crying and preparing to cremate him, but he miraculously came back to life.
When he woke up, he told his family that he was captured by a ghost who said he was a very evil person, and then he was taken to the hall of the underworld for interrogation. As a result, the King of Hell took a few glances at him and found that he had captured the wrong soul, so he asked the ghost to take him back. He was also scared and had already wet his pants. He followed the ghost back to the door of his house. He was afraid that the ghost would change his mind, so he rushed into the house without waiting for the ghost to untie the handcuffs on his feet. As a result, when he woke up, the foot that was not untied was lame for no reason. He went to the hospital for a check-up, but the doctor couldn't explain it. When the varicose veins did not get better after a while of treatment, he was nicknamed Liu Lame.
Of course, this is all Liu Quezi's personal opinion, and no one can tell whether it is true or not, but the fact that he is lame is obvious to all. Putting aside metaphysics, there is also a so-called suspended animation state in science, so it is not a new thing, but what happened to Liu Quezi later was outrageous. According to him, after he became lame, he was in a very low mood and dreamed all day long. One night, he dreamed that the little ghost who had seduced his soul before came back to find him and blamed him for being too impatient. Now the handcuffs on his feet have returned to the world of the living and cannot be opened. However, the little ghost taught him some folk remedies in the dream, saying that it was compensation for catching the wrong person.
When Liu Quezi woke up, he actually remembered these folk remedies. He tried them several times in the following days and they really worked. He simply started to live on these folk remedies and became famous over time. I thought that Liu Quezi probably made up such a weird story to increase his own value, but whether it was true or not, I would go to see him first. At most, I would not eat such weird things.
I took Liu Quezi's address and went straight to his house. His place was not as remote as those hermits I imagined. Instead, it was in a very prosperous area, but the house was a bit old. It was said that many developers wanted this piece of land, but they couldn't reach an agreement on the compensation for demolition, so it was left unfinished. I didn't spend much time and found Liu Quezi's house according to the house number. When I walked to the door, I saw that his name Liu was written on red paper on the door. I guess he used his real name as a sign.
I knocked on the door and saw Liu Quezi. His appearance surprised me a little. He didn't look like a profiteer as I imagined. Instead, he looked very honest. I told him the purpose of my visit directly. He nodded and said it was not a difficult matter. Then he asked me to wait in the living room for a while while he went in to prepare.
I was quite nervous when he said that, wondering if he would come into the house and take out some strange things for me to eat. As I was thinking about it, I looked around at the furnishings in his house. I have been doing this for so long that it has become a professional habit.
The living room was very clean, and there was a small shrine in the corner, which was dedicated to an unknown god. I was curious, so I stood up to take a look, and found that it was a Buddha statue, but the statue was strangely placed upside down on the shrine, facing the wall and back to the outside. I was wondering in my heart, this is a very disrespectful act to the gods, he put it here so blatantly, isn't he afraid of being punished by the gods? Although I don't know much about these matters such as offerings, I just heard Qin Yiheng occasionally say a few words before, saying that this kind of god statue cannot be bought, you can only use a respectful title to ask for it back, and the day to ask for it back is also a matter of reason, you must choose a suitable day according to the imperial calendar to ask for the god. There is actually a saying about which statue to ask for, that is, when you walk into the store selling god statues, you glance at it, and you think which one is smiling at you, which proves that the statue is destined to be with you, and you have to ask for this one back to work. This may seem outrageous, but in fact many people claim to have seen the statues of gods smiling. If you look closely, basically a batch of statues are made from the same mold, so it is impossible for any of them to smile. Of course, this may be a psychological effect.
While I was thinking, Liu Quezi came out of the room with a row of needles in his hand. He asked me to turn around and sit down, and then he took a needle from the cloth holder. He held my head with one hand and told me not to move. Then he gestured a few times on my neck with his fingers and inserted a needle. This injection was not as painful as I imagined. On the contrary, I felt that the pressure in my ear was relieved. Liu Quezi squeezed some blood out of the needle hole with his fingers and told me that it was healed.
I shook my head a few times, and the tinnitus really disappeared. I didn't expect him to be so amazing. After I sat up straight, I couldn't help but look at him twice more. Liu Quezi didn't say anything, but stood up and told me again, and didn't mention the money, and turned around to go into the house.
I saw that he was really capable, so I couldn't help but want to chat with him for a while. He sat back down when he heard me asking. We chatted casually. It was called chatting, but in fact it was mostly just me asking him about things I was curious about. He didn't mind and explained everything to me in detail.
I then realized that his strength was not in his prescriptions, but in his ability to cure "flipping". How to explain this so-called "flipping"? To put it simply, it is actually a disease, but it is not a disease in the strict medical sense. Many people in Northeast China should have heard of it. The so-called "flipping" is roughly divided into 36 types, some are mild, some are severe , some are acute, and some are slow, and the symptoms are also different, but conventional medical means cannot solve it. We can only seek treatment from those who can cure "flipping", because some "flipping" can endanger people's lives.
Why this thing is called "flipping" is no longer verifiable. I personally tend to think that these symptoms are similar to the process of puppies growing up, which is commonly known as intestinal flipping. If the puppies survive it, they will grow up smoothly; if they fail to survive it, they will easily die. "Flipping" is something like this, but the patients are not only children. Although there are not many people suffering from this, some people do encounter it. And the only person in this city who understands this is Liu Quezi. If he asks for a lower price, it will be easy to get rich.
In order to make me understand more clearly, Liu Quezi simply gave me several examples of "turning" diseases. For example, "heart attack turning", it is said that it can only be cured by inserting garlic into the anus; "wool turning", it can only be cured by using a needle to pick out something similar to wool from a certain part of the body, which sounds very weird. After chatting with him for a while, I learned a lot, so I followed the topic and asked directly why the Buddha statue was facing away from the outside.
Liu Quezi laughed and said that this was the artistic conception of Buddha facing the wall to reflect on his mistakes. The so-called disrespect is still respect. He believed that everything is in the mind, and only when there is no fault in the heart can one face the gods calmly. After saying this, Liu Quezi said that he had talked a lot today, so if there is nothing else, let me go back early.
Seeing that what he said before was so profound and now he directly asked me to leave, I began to doubt whether I had said something wrong. But after thinking about it, I felt that it was nothing, so I had to get up and say goodbye.
Before leaving, Liu Quezi suddenly called me and asked me if I had seen anything unclean recently. Actually, I didn't tell him about my recent experience when I came here, so I was a little surprised when he asked me this. But when I thought about it, I didn't see anything with my own eyes. But in this line of work, I always have to deal with these things, so I was curious and asked Liu Quezi what he meant by this.
Liu Quezi didn't say anything, but went into the house and got me a small broom, and told me to sweep the things on my shoulders before I went home, so as not to bring bad luck into the house. After that, he went back to the house without waiting for me to thank him.
After I left the house, I was still very confused. After thinking for a while, I took off my coat to see if there was anything on my body. It didn't matter when I looked at it. There was a vague handprint on my shoulder. This almost scared me to death. Thinking back to the time when Qin Yiheng shouted to me in the corridor of the village chief's house that the thing was behind me, I didn't expect it to be so close to me at that time. I was afraid that if I ran a little later, I would have died there. On the way home, I was still scared. Before entering the house, I quickly swept my shoulders with a broom for a long time before I dared to open the door and enter the house. However, I didn't care about being scared after entering the house. I was too tired these days. I took off my clothes, took a simple shower and went to bed.
When I was half asleep, I heard my phone ringing. I squinted my eyes and found the phone. It was Qin Yiheng calling. He told me to go to a house tomorrow and he would meet me there. I wanted to ask him why he was in such a hurry to see a house after making such a large sum of money, but I was too sleepy, so I simply said "hmm" and hung up.
I slept very comfortably that night and woke up at noon the next day. Recalling it, it seemed that Qin Yiheng called me. I found his phone and saw that he had sent me a text message telling me the address of a house.
To be honest, I really don't want to do it anymore. This is a business that requires you to put your head on the line. Besides, the one million dollars has probably already been deposited into my account, so there's no need for me to work so hard.
I called Qin Yiheng, trying to persuade him to stop, but he turned off his phone. I hesitated after reading the text message, thinking: "Why don't I go and take a look? He called me in the middle of the night just for this, so this house must be very profitable. I looked at the address, it's in the next city, and it's very fast to take the train. Finally, I gritted my teeth and stomped my feet, and decided to take a look. It wouldn't take much time anyway."
I called to book a ticket, packed up briefly and prepared to go out. As soon as I went downstairs, I heard a taxi honking at me. Liu Quezi stuck his head out of the window and waved at me, begging me to get in the car.
I was very surprised. After asking, I found out that Qin Yiheng asked him to wait for me here and then go with me to see the house. Liu Quezi was afraid of disturbing my rest, so he just waited downstairs. I was very happy now. At least I had a companion on the road and I wouldn't be bored. So I called and booked another train ticket. The two of us went to the ticket agency to pick up the ticket and went straight to the train station.
