Volume 2 Chapter 1 Blind Date
I didn't stop making black pearls with ghost teeth because of the case of raising corpses alive. Instead, I changed from working in the underworld to being aboveboard. At the reminder of Prime Minister Yan, when refining black pearls, I added materials to eliminate evil spirits, so that it would be impossible to extract the evil spirits of hundreds of ghosts from the beads.
Ermao, this kid, has been scared out of his wits by the last time he was chased by Yan Xiang, and has not dared to come back since staying in the underworld. Later, I asked the "customer" to bring the Yin-boosting pills to the director and the drunkard, and also brought a message to Ermao, asking him to come back to see me. As soon as he came in, he smiled and told me that because I brought the Yin-boosting pills to the director, he was "very pleased" and looked at him, a "servant" of the ghost store, differently, and arranged for him to reincarnate in the next few days. Even if I didn't bring a message, he would come back to say goodbye to me.
This is good news. My brother 's reincarnation has always been a concern of mine. Now he finally has the chance, and I am happy for him. I gave him a few Yin-boosting pills and told him to go back and take care of the reincarnation process so that he can cross the Naihe Bridge smoothly.
After a period of peace, my mother suddenly asked me to go on a blind date. I thought to myself that my mother never cared about this matter, why did she think of this? After asking, I found out that there is no parent in the world who is not anxious about their children's marriage. Although she didn't say it all day, she was always thinking about it in her heart. Because she had seen my two girlfriends (she included Shen Bing in the list, and she never knew that I was lying to her), each one was more beautiful than the other, and it was hard to find such high-end girls in our town. She was afraid that she would find someone who was not good-looking and I would not like her. Therefore, she secretly asked the matchmaker to find one. No matter which one, she had to pass her test first. If she was not pretty, there would be no talk.
Look, there is a girl who is a college student in the south of the town. She is pretty, but not as pretty as Yaxue and Shenbing, but she is one of the best in our town. But after graduation, she felt that she had a degree, so she picked and chose, and finally she was left at home.
According to our customs, men are usually married before the age of 20. There are few good men who are not married after the age of 20. It’s not that there are none, but most of them are divorced. How can this girl be interested in him? Besides, there are still men who don’t like her.
The more unmarried a girl is, the greater the pressure on her family. In a few years, I'm afraid she will really find a man who is not good at making money. My mother was very satisfied with this girl after meeting her once. She looked pretty and dressed in a fashionable way. She was basically in line with Yaxue and Shen Bing. That's why she dared to ask me to go on a blind date.
I have Yaxue in my heart and don't want to have a girlfriend for the time being, but my mother has never asked me to do anything in my life. When she asked me for the first time, I felt I couldn't refuse, so I agreed.
The blind date was originally at the matchmaker's house, but on that day the matchmaker's relatives came to the house and asked me to go directly to the girl's house. I said I'd better postpone it, thinking that it would be best if it didn't happen. My mother knew that I had a stubborn temper, so she brought the girl to our house. The girl was quite open-minded and not restrained. She was sweet and called me aunt or brother all the time. She was the same age as me, both of us were 25 years old, and I didn't know who was older. Are you afraid that I would think you are old by calling her like that?
The girl's name was Fu Xueman. She was pleasant to the eye, with big eyes, a clever look, and a sweet mouth, which made people feel very friendly. Because her name contained the word "Xue", I couldn't help but have a better impression of her.
We sat in my room and chatted. Although we were from the same town and were in the same class in elementary school, people's hearts were rather feudal at that time. Male and female classmates sitting next to each other hardly talked to each other. What's more, we had all been away from home for several years, and I was a person who slept during the day and was out at night. I almost never showed up in the town during the day, so we seemed very unfamiliar with each other, and the atmosphere was quite awkward at first.
But Fu Xueman was smart and generous, and she took the initiative to ask questions, and soon the atmosphere became lively. Because I had never been to college and was doing a "shady" business, I felt inferior and had nothing worth talking about, so I just listened to her talk about her own things.
She liked the blue sky and white clouds, liked literature, and liked the great poet Pushkin . She talked about how beautiful and intoxicating his poems were, and she even read me a passage from "To Kane".
I suddenly got goose bumps all over my back. No wonder she couldn't get married. She was too high-class. How could she have children and live a good life if she was always so intoxicated?
Come on, let's just send her away, otherwise the hair on my body will stand on end, damn, this rarely happens to me.
"Let me interrupt you for a moment. I think two people should be honest when they are together and not hide anything. I am a married man, do you mind?"
Fu Xueman chuckled, with a hint of Yaxue and Shen Bing's charm. She looked at me and said, "You don't talk for a long time, but when you talk you lie."
I was stunned. Generally, when hearing that the guy is married, most girls will leave immediately without hesitation, and a small number of girls will ask what's going on. But this girl is the third type. She didn't leave or ask, and even said I was lying.
"Why am I lying?" I wanted to hear her opinion.
Fu Xueman lowered her head and said in a daughterly manner, "I have already found out everything about you. You joined the army after graduating from high school, and then came back to do business. You have been single ever since. I didn't expect you to have such a strong sense of humor."
I was stunned. Is this a sense of humor? Does anyone joke about this on a blind date? Well, I'll let you be humorous. I opened the drawer, put the urn on the table and said, "These are my wife's ashes."
Fu Xueman was stunned at first, but when she saw the words "My beloved wife Yaxue" written on it, she screamed, jumped up with her eyes wide open, and rushed out like a gust of wind.
I breathed a sigh of relief and finally asked this "grandma" to leave.
The next morning, as soon as I lay down to sleep, I heard the matchmaker yelling in the yard: "What kind of person is your son? If he didn't like the girl, he wouldn't have used the urn to scare her. Look how scared she is. Who do you think your family is? You do shameful business all day and night. Everyone in the town knows that your son is not a good person. I had to persuade the girl to meet your son. Isn't it a slap in my face to play with her like this?"
This matchmaker is not a good person. She is very mean. Once she quarreled with someone and cursed for a whole day. Her voice was not hoarse. I thought to myself that my business was indeed a shameful one, but how could I be a bad person? I ran out of the door in anger and saw my mother bowing and apologizing to her. I glared at her and said angrily: "Get out. You dare to come here and make trouble when you know I am not a good person. If you scream again, I will really slap you in the face!"
The arrogant are afraid of the stupid. When I lost my temper, the matchmaker was so scared that she turned around and ran away, shouting loudly: "Someone's been beaten to death, someone's been beaten to death!"
Fuck you, I didn’t even touch you, and you beat someone to death?
My mother chased me to the door, looked outside, and then lowered her head back. When she passed my door, she looked up at me, sighed, and went back to the house without saying anything. I felt sad. I had gone too far and hurt my mother's feelings.
I slept until the afternoon and woke up to see my mother who had just come back from outside. Her eyes were red, as if she had been crying. I knew she must have gone to apologize to someone, or maybe she was scolded and cried. She was too kind-hearted and didn't know how to say anything. When I thought about her being scolded, I felt like a knife was stabbing my heart.
I stopped my mother and asked, "Did someone scold you?"
Mom sighed and said, "No one scolded me. I just went to Fu's house to check. Xue Man was in a trance after returning from our house. She is still talking nonsense. I am a pitiful person, so I cried."
I was stunned and asked her : "What nonsense is she talking about? Is she reciting poetry?" If she was reciting poetry, it would be normal.
"Alas, she has always said that she died unjustly. Her father went to Shuiliu Village to invite Mr. Luo over, and burning a few incense sticks didn't help."
I thought this was not normal, it looked like he was possessed by evil spirits. I knew Mr. Luo from Shuiliu Village nearby, he was just a little sorcerer, he had no skills at all, he only knew how to burn incense when he encountered problems, and after burning incense he asked for money.
"Mom, take me to see her. Maybe I can cure her."
