Volume 3 Chapter 22 Lobby Manager
Qu Mo nodded, and continued, "The painting tells a story about an ancient scholar lying on the bed and dreaming. He dreamed of having a meeting with a fairy..." He fell silent here.
I wondered why she stopped telling the story. This girl is a master storyteller and always leaves the audience in suspense at the key points. I looked back at her and saw that her face was red and she was looking down, wondering what she was thinking.
When she saw me looking at her, she hurriedly turned her head and brushed her hair with her hands. Her posture was very graceful and moving. I heard her continue to say: "He dreamed of sleeping with a fairy... and from then on he had sweet dreams one after another, and finally... finally he died." She spoke in a voice so low that it was almost inaudible.
It's just a dream of making love with a fairy. I do it every day. I guess it's not just once a night. How can an ordinary person bear it? It would be strange if he didn't die of exhaustion. What's there to be ashamed of? Just treat me as a woman.
I thought she had finished talking, so I asked her about what happened last night, but she continued, "There are a lot of things buried around the cemetery..." At this point, her face turned red and she didn't say any more.
I was so anxious. What on earth was buried? It took so much effort to explain a few words. However, I looked at her shy expression, touched my nose and guessed about 70% of it. I asked her: "Are there things buried around like the tree outside the cave?" I don't know why, but after asking this question, my heart started beating.
She uttered a soft "hmm" and nodded.
I understand. This is a man who was possessed by an evil spirit. He had sex with fairies in his dreams every night, over and over again , and eventually he died. Then his body was buried in this cave, and a large number of male genitals were buried around the stone tomb. It was probably a kind of folk sacrificial evil magic to replenish the body of this male ghost.
However, I am not sure whether the ghost making trouble here is this male ghost. I can only know it after I catch it. But this thing is too powerful. I don’t have enough confidence to deal with it.
In order to avoid this awkward atmosphere, I changed the subject and asked her what happened to her strange behavior last night.
She immediately regained her composure, frowned and said, "It may be because the evil spirit in my body has been attacked by a lot of Yin energy. It has never shown its true face in ten years. Suddenly, at that moment last night, it showed up in my mind! It squeezed my mind into a corner. I watched it make strange gestures and fled towards the canyon. When it got under the big tree, it and I couldn't hold on. The Yin energy rushed to our brains and we fainted."
I nodded, thinking that the evil in her body had always been lurking, as if it had merged with her body and was always controlled by her. But when it was awakened by the invasion of ghost energy from the outside world, it would of course become crazy and unreasonable.
"You saw it, what is it?" I asked, staring at Qu Mo.
Qu Mo looked up at me warily and said, "I, I didn't see it clearly."
Her eyes betrayed her, she was clearly lying. This was her privacy, and she hadn't harmed anyone to the point where I had to intervene, so there was no need to get to the bottom of it.
I said to her, "You don't have to tell me. If you really want to drive the evil spirit out of your body, I'll help you find a way when we get home."
Qu Mo nodded vigorously and looked at me with trusting eyes. That sincerity made me feel uneasy. Another girl trusted me as much as Shen Bing did. I was scared!
"Then, then... Master Xi, what do you think this ghost could be?" Qu Mo suddenly became panicked and spoke incoherently, which was very different from his usual calm demeanor.
The more she acted like this, the more uncomfortable I became. I didn’t know what was wrong, but my tongue started to beat around the bush: “I don’t know about this or that yet. I… let’s go back to the hotel.”
The atmosphere between the two of them was very awkward for a while, but Qu Mo regained his composure, nodded, stood up and walked towards the mountain path. On the way back to the hotel, my heart was always in a state of anxiety, and I didn't even say hello when I returned to my room.
Although I was very sleepy, I couldn't fall asleep while lying on the bed. Wang Zijun's snoring was so loud that I really wanted to put two talismans in his nostrils. Qu Mo actually seemed to be a little abnormal to me, but I had no interest in her at all, and I didn't dare to have any interest in her. I was fighting a positional war with Shen Bing right now. If she interfered, not only would it be difficult to explain to Wang Zijun, but wouldn't my relationship with Shen Bing also fail? I wouldn't even have a place to cry then.
No, the battle of Huangshan must be concluded quickly, and then Shen Bing should be taken to other places for fun. She cannot stay with them anymore.
I turned over and sat up from the bed. I didn't want to sleep anymore. I had to start working and prepare for the decisive battle tonight. I opened the curtains. It was just after seven in the morning. The sun had risen in the east. The warm sunlight shone in. I felt warm all over. I felt indescribably comfortable.
Take the bag and put it on the windowsill, pour out all the contents, and lay them out one by one. I guess after noon, all the damp items will be dried.
The incense sticks were all rotten to powder. I ran to the hotel store. The most popular item sold here was incense sticks, and they were very expensive. A bunch of incense cost ten yuan, while in our town you could buy several bunches for one yuan. Anyway, I had already spent a lot of money, so why should I care about these few dozen yuan? I bought seven or eight bunches at once.
When I returned to the room, I met the lobby manager in the hall. He was a man in his twenties, always smiling, as if he never had any worries.
"Mr. Xi, I heard from the porter this morning that your patient has recovered?" He asked with a smile, bending over.
I nodded: "Okay, didn't you see us walking around the back hill just now?"
"Okay, okay, just tell me if you need anything." He had a humble look on his face and kept bowing and nodding to me.
Just as I was about to leave, I suddenly noticed that there was a lot of black energy on his forehead, and his eye circles were black, with a faint evil spirit in his eyeballs. I had long thought that there was something wrong with the hotel. This lobby manager might have been dealing with ghosts for a long time and was contaminated with ghost energy. He looked like a consumptive ghost. If this continued, within a few years, he would not even have the strength to roll in bed, and would basically be a useless person.
I didn't want to bother with him at first, but then I thought, damn it, I'll scare him first, so I leaned over and whispered in his ear, "Have you been having trouble having sex lately? Not only can you not get it up, but you can't last long either. Your appetite is poor, and you always feel cold in your stomach. You can't burp or fart?"
His eyes widened in surprise, as if he had seen an alien. He finally nodded, looked around, and asked me in a low voice: "Mr. Xi is amazing. How did you know what's wrong with me? How can I cure it?"
I chuckled and said, "Go to the temple and ask for a lucky charm and hang it around your neck. Go to bed on time at 6pm, get up at 8am, and don't touch women for three months, then you'll be fine."
He lowered his head, looking embarrassed. I asked them to do this so that he would not be contaminated by ghosts. The amulets in the temple are all blessed and basically effective, and ghosts will find it difficult to get close to them. In addition, if you go to bed before dark and get up at dawn, you basically have no chance to meet ghosts again. Looking at him like this, I guess he can't do any of them.
I thought to myself that it doesn’t matter if you can’t do it, I’m going to put an end to all of your hopes tonight, and I ran back to the house.
He stopped me and said with a bitter face: "Mr. Xi, I'll tell you the truth. I can't sleep at night. I have nightmares as soon as I fall asleep..."
"Cough cough" a coughing sound came from the side, he immediately shut his mouth, turned around and left without saying hello.
I quickly turned my head to look in the direction where the cough came from, and a familiar figure instantly disappeared at the entrance of the corridor. Damn, it was the guide!
