Merchant of the Underworld

Although I had known for a long time that there was something fishy in this store, and it must have something to do with yin things, I never thought that the yin energy inside would be so powerful! The place where Yin Qi gathers the most is the kitchen.

Bai Lu didn't notice it and stepped into the kitchen as soon as she pushed the wooden door open.

The kitchen is also in tatters, but it's much better than the outside. At least the four walls have been painted with latex paint, which must have been temporarily tidied up in order to cope with various inspections.

There was a lot of rice and eggs placed against the back wall, and a steamer was steaming at the other end.

Zhao Wangcai was wearing a big dirty apron and was waving a long shovel to stir up and down an extra-large iron pot. When he heard the door, he turned around and came up to him with a smile on his face and said: "Ah , Hello comrade."

"Yeah." Bai Lu snorted, and then started searching everywhere.

He has been here several times, and the kitchen is not big and can be easily seen at a glance. In his opinion, there is really nothing to investigate, just a quick glance. He winked at me, then moved his body horizontally, deliberately blocking Zhao Wangcai's sight.

I was stunned for a moment, but I immediately understood.

This guy was well aware of the relationship between his brother-in-law and Zhong Xiaopang. Since the fried rice restaurant opened, he had taken away a lot of business from the food stalls opposite. Because of this, Zhong Xiaopang kept asking people to come here to do health inspections.

However, no one could find anything wrong after repeated searches. This time, his brother-in-law secretly found a stranger who wanted to change clothes and accompany him for the inspection.

There must be something fishy.

For example, secretly adding something special to the ingredients? Then he happened to be caught, and everything fell into place naturally.

As soon as I saw his movements and expressions, I immediately guessed what he was thinking.

However, I am not that sinister, and that is not my purpose.

I pretended to grab a handful of rice and looked at it, then looked at the eggs, and then walked to the corner of the kitchen casually.

The Yin Qi here is the strongest - all the Yin Qi in the store emanates from here!

But I saw a very small cubicle built in the corner. The door was only one and a half meters high. I had to take off my hat and bend down to get in.

The space in the compartment is very small, and the light is extremely dark, with only a few small red dots shining slightly.

After a while I got used to the darkness in front of me, and then I could clearly see what was going on inside.

There was only a small round table inside. On the table were three plates of fruits including apples, bananas and cherries, a burner of incense, and a statue of a god in the middle.

But the statue is not the Kitchen God or the God of Wealth, but an extremely ugly beggar with disheveled hair and patched clothes.

It held a large ocean bowl in both hands, and its two red eyes stared intently into the bowl, as if it wanted to swallow the bowl in one gulp.

I was suddenly shocked, this turned out to be the Hungry Ghost Bodhisattva!

There are many gods and Buddhas worshiped by people in the world, but most of them can be called by names. For example, Guanyin Bodhisattva and Tathagata Buddha are worshiped, but there is no one who can worship Hungry Ghost Bodhisattva.

Because the Hungry Ghost Bodhisattva is in charge of the Hungry Ghost Path in the Six Paths of Reincarnation, all people in the world who starve to death due to lack of food will become the servants of the Hungry Ghost Bodhisattva.

Worshiping it will not only fail to bring peace, but will also attract countless hungry ghosts. Therefore, the Hungry Ghost Bodhisattva is also known as one of the ten evil Buddhas!

This Bodhisattva originated in the late Tang Dynasty, when Zhu Wen, the Jiedushi envoy, rebelled and proclaimed himself King of Liang, killing Tang soldiers along the way.

But as the number of troops increased, food became a big problem, so Zhu Wen thought of a way, that is, every time he went to a place, he would steal all the food in that place, leaving not a grain of rice or wheat for the people. .

As a result, although Zhu Wen's army was full, so many people had nothing to eat. For a time, thousands of people were hungry and red-eyed. Even his wife was killed and eaten alive.

These starved people carried strong resentment and could not enter the underworld and enter reincarnation, so they wandered around the world and killed countless living beings.

So Master Hongyuan, the master of the White Horse Temple, invited the Hungry Ghost Bodhisattva to suppress the hungry ghosts.

Various places also followed suit, building ancestral halls and temples to worship the Hungry Ghost Bodhisattva, in order to attract the surrounding hungry ghosts to be liberated. From then on, the world was at peace...

Although the Hungry Ghost Bodhisattva was famous for a while, it was also extremely harmful and gradually disappeared during the Song Dynasty. Later, even many Buddhists did not recognize him as a Buddha, but regarded him as a demon.

But now, the statue of Hungry Ghost Bodhisattva is actually enshrined by Zhao Wangcai in the secret room of the kitchen?

For a moment, I immediately understood the weirdness of those egg fried rice. I checked yesterday and the fried rice here is Yin Gui rice, which has been eaten by Yin ghosts.

And those ghosts are obviously all hungry ghosts!

After a person eats it, he will naturally bring the yin energy of the hungry ghost into his body.

Hungry ghosts were starved to death before they were alive. Once possessed, how can they care about hunger and satiety? Naturally, they ate it like crazy, and since the fried rice contained the yin energy of hungry ghosts, they naturally loved it even more.

And if the Yin Qi of hungry ghosts accumulates too much, ghost babies will breed in the human body, which is what Zhong Xiaopang calls ghost fetuses with straws on their faces.

These ghost babies will continue to suck the nutrients from the mother's body. No matter how much the mother eats, most of the nutrients will be sucked away by them, so the guests will eat more and more, and they will become thinner!

This is his so-called ancestral secret recipe!

But this thing was definitely not invented by him, because making offerings to the Hungry Ghost Bodhisattva will only attract hungry ghosts, but it cannot introduce the Yin Qi of hungry ghosts into the fried rice. The reason why he has to go to the paper shop every seven days is probably to get something specially used to attract Yin energy.

Apparently, the old lady in the paper doll shop is the real culprit!

"Director Zhang, did you find anything?" Bai Lu suddenly put his head in and asked with a strange look on his face.

This guy is quite shrewd. He suddenly changed his title because he was afraid that Zhao Wangcai would hear some flaws.

But the discovery in his eyes was completely different from what I discovered.

"No, let's go." Since Sangangzi didn't want to tell him about this, I naturally wouldn't be too troublesome.

"Oh", Bai Lu retracted his head in disappointment, probably thinking: "Let me just say, we have been here so many times and found nothing. How can you, a layman, find anything? It's really incredible. I know what my brother-in-law is thinking, so seriously inviting an unreliable person."

I bent down and walked out of the cubicle. As soon as I raised my head, I saw Zhao Wangcai coming back from the front carrying an empty basin.

When he saw me, he was shocked.

With a bang, the steel basin fell to the ground.

When I came yesterday, he looked at me several times in a very strange way, and today's situation is even more abnormal.

Could it be that this guy, who is not as simple as he seems, can also see through my identity?

I smiled at him and said, "Boss Zhao's business is so good. Is his hand cramping when counting money? Why can't he even hold a steel basin?"

"Where, where." Zhao Wangcai grinned at me with his thick lips. But I found that his expression was extremely unnatural and his hands were trembling.

"Well... Director Zhang, since we didn't find anything, let's go back." Bai Lu reminded.

"You should go back first. I want to have a good chat with Boss Zhao." I said this to Bai Lu, but my eyes were always fixed on Zhao Wangcai.