Volume 2 Chapter 29: Being Smart
I felt extremely disgusted when I saw her. I looked at Wang Zijun without even glancing at her out of the corner of my eyes .
"Who was the man who took the lead just now?" I continued to ask him.
Wang Zijun was stunned: "You don't know him?"
I said, "Nonsense, why would I ask you if I know him?"
Wang Zijun said: "He is Fan Xiaobing, the richest man in our town and one of the top ten outstanding young people in our county this year."
Bullshit Top Ten Outstanding Young People, I cursed in my heart, the judges are all blind, Fan Xiaobing's business seems to be legitimate, but it's actually almost the same as a brothel, how can he be an outstanding young person with this?
"Ah, Mr. Fan has been here?" Fu Xueman was very smart. Seeing that I ignored her, she knew how to interrupt at the right time to eliminate the embarrassment for herself.
I felt disgusted when I heard her call out Mr. Fan. I snorted coldly, thinking that my mother would definitely not tell anyone about my resurrection, otherwise people would be scared to death. How did they know? Not only did Fan Xiaobing come, but he also brought Master Mao with him. It was obvious that they wanted me to stay away from coming back.
At this time, my mother walked out of the shop, looked at a few brave people hiding and peeking in the distance, and said to me: "Xiaofeng, let's go home. As long as you are alive, we won't cause trouble." My mother has a good temper, so I nodded in agreement.
I went back to the store and checked the entrance to the life gate in the middle of the shelf. The plaster was well pasted, so I called Wang Zijun to close the shelf. Because the store door had not been repaired yet, if someone came in and was as curious as I was and took off the plaster to take a look, it would be troublesome, and I would have to go to the underworld to ask for the person.
Just as I was walking out of the store, Shen Bing came running back, panting. She said angrily, "They drove away and I couldn't catch up."
I asked her, "Do you want to catch up with them?"
"Think about it. I couldn't find my car."
My mother said, "Your car was missing last night. It might have been stolen by a car thief."
I guess her car must have been stolen by this group of people. If she died, the car would become ownerless property. Wouldn't it be divided up by this group of ruffians? I smiled and said, "It's easy to chase them. If you go back to the underworld, I guarantee that you will be faster than a car."
Shen Bing rolled her eyes at me and said, "Go away, stop making fun of me."
We went home together, and Wang Zijun and Fu Xueman also came with us. However, Fu Xueman saw that I was very cold to her, and she looked very nervous. She lowered her head and walked without saying anything. On the way, Shen Bing shouted that she wanted to call the police. I said it would be better not to call the police, because no one would believe that we were resurrected after death. When the police came and asked the witnesses, they would definitely say that there was a Taoist priest who was solving the problem of resurrection. If the police still regarded us as ghosts, it would cause a lot of trouble.
My mother also advised Shen Bing that since we were all alive, she should stop looking for trouble. Shen Bing didn't buy my story, but she still listened to my mother and stopped talking.
When I got home, I asked my mother what had happened in the past two days.
My mother didn't answer at first. She went to the kitchen and brought the millet porridge that she had cooked earlier. She gave me and Shen Bing a bowl each. I hadn't eaten anything in the underworld for the past two days. After a bowl of steaming millet porridge, I felt much better. My mother then sat down and talked about what happened in the past two days.
That day, the five ghost boys made a big fuss in the store, which had already alarmed the neighbors. After we passed through the living door, someone ran to the store and found our bodies, and notified my mother. My mother hurriedly asked the neighbors to call the health center to come over. When she heard the doctor say that the two of us had no vital signs and to prepare for the funeral, she was so sad that she almost died.
The next day, the news of our death spread, and it immediately shocked the whole town. Two people had died in the square the day before, and at night someone saw Shen Bing and I running back and forth like fireworks. We died inexplicably again, and our deaths were both sudden and bizarre. Everyone guessed that there were evil spirits in the town, and every household was busy asking the celestial master for amulets to protect their lives, just like the panic of grabbing salt during the SARS epidemic.
Fu Xueman's family also came. Aunt Ping cried for a long time and returned the betrothal gift. Wang Zijun and his classmates and friends also came to pay their respects. My family is a single-family household with no relatives to help. My mother is a lonely woman and helpless. Wang Zijun is a good friend. He didn't care about his uncle's funeral and helped me with the arrangements. My mother didn't know how to deal with Shen Bing's body, so she took it back home first.
The funeral rules here are that the coffin will be placed after three days. The coffin was made on the first day, and we were about to be put into the coffin after the third day. My mother hadn't slept for three days. Suddenly, she had a dream when she closed her eyes that night. She dreamed of her great-grandfather. The great-grandfather told her that her great-grandson was not dead yet. As long as they were heated up in a large steamer, placed in front of the store shelf, surrounded by eight candles and lit, they would come back to life before three o'clock in the morning.
My mother also thought that I was not dead. Although it was a dream, if the relatives of the deceased encounter such a thing, most of them would rather believe it than not. Most families in the town have a large stove that burns firewood. My mother asked Wang Zijun to help find a large steamer, and she placed the two of us horizontally on it and heated water to steam us.
Once this news got out, many people came to watch the fun, and surrounded our house in three layers. After steaming for a while, my mother found that our bodies were hot and our flesh was a little soft, so she asked someone to carry us to the store and light candles. It was just after two o'clock in the morning, so we didn't waste any time.
My mother knelt in front of the corpse and prayed. Wang Zijun had never seen such a thing before, so he hid outside the door and dared not come in. Some people in the town heard the news and felt curious. Some people got dressed and rushed over to see the excitement. More and more people gathered. It was almost three o'clock, and we hadn't come back to life yet. My mother was already discouraged.
At this time, Fan Xiaobing came with his men in a threatening manner and invited Master Mao. The shrew pointed at the store and said it was a place of evil spirits, where corpses could easily resurrect and harm the people in the town. She also lied that the suicide in the square was caused by the evil spirits in our store, and asked the onlookers to point fingers at my mother and denounce her.
My mother had no words to say to them. Wang Zijun was squeezed outside the door by a dozen ruffians and couldn't move. He pleaded with Master Mao, but Master Mao ignored him. Later, Master Mao asked people to put out the candles, but my mother stood in front of them and refused to do anything. When the ruffians pushed her away, Shen Bing and I just came back to life!
We knew what happened next without our mom telling us.
Fu Xueman interrupted again, "So that's how it is. Big brother is really resurrected. That's great!"
I looked at her coldly and asked, "You just know this now?"
"Yes." She responded with a confused look on her face, but suddenly shook her head and said, "No, I actually heard it from someone else just now." She looked a little flustered.
I sneered and said, "Did you hear it from Fan Xiaobing?"
Fu Xueman's face suddenly changed color and she quickly lowered her head, looking a little uneasy.
