Merchant of the Underworld

In fact, after listening to his description, I felt something was wrong.

The land of Henan has been short of water since ancient times, but the drought has not ended for so long, which explains the problem!

But now Fanfan is only two years old, and my life has just settled down, and I don’t want to wade through this muddy water. At the very least, if you don’t go there now, it won’t be too late to go and have a look when you have to.

Before leaving, Xiaolong knelt down for me again and fumbled around in his inner clothes. Finally he took out a jade pendant and handed it to me as a way of repaying my kindness to him.

Of course I didn't accept it, but after he got in the car and threw it through the window, I had no choice but to accept it.

This piece of jade is as big as a goose egg and feels cool in the hand. It is probably a good piece of jade, but it has not been refined yet.

Li Mazi hadn't come back yet, so I didn't bother to study the jade carefully, so I hurried to Songshan Mountain to find him. When I got to the temple, I found him kneeling in front of the Buddha and meditating.

But the way he stuck his butt out really didn’t look like a Buddhist disciple, so I forcefully pulled him up, otherwise he might not be able to stay on his knees until the next day.

It was completely dark when we went down the mountain, and the evening breeze blew on us with residual heat, which was quite pleasant.

At this time, my backpack was suddenly tugged. My first reaction was that there was a thief. I quickly turned around and found that there was no one behind me. At this time, the backpack moved again, and I realized that it was Oyu who was doing something small, so I opened the backpack and put her up. As soon as she came out, she blinked at me. I thought she was bored all day and wanted to breathe, so I put her away. In arms.

Unexpectedly, she didn't mean it at all. She jumped on my shoulder and sniffed around, like a wolf looking for food.

I saw her sniffing left and right, not even letting go of my crotch, and finally stopped at my trouser pocket, her eyes flickering.

She only acts like this when she is in danger, but what danger could there be to me?

I touched it curiously and then remembered that I had the jade pendant given by Xiaolong in my pocket. Just as he was about to tell Otama not to make a fuss, she suddenly became irritable. He turned into a human form and stood in front of me, saying angrily: "Bad brother, there is something wrong with this jade!"

"What?"

After hearing what Wei Yu said, I quickly took out my jade pendant and observed it carefully, but suddenly I realized a problem: this piece of jade is very cold!

I picked it up from the ground, took a look at it and put it in my pocket, and found nothing unusual. Now it seems that Oyu is right. I have a lot of yang energy, but it is still cold even after it has been on me for several hours. scary...

After observing with the naked eye for a long time, I couldn't see anything wrong, so I turned on the flashlight and followed the light to check again, and finally found that the innermost part of the jade was not transparent to light!

I pulled out the scimitar, put the jade on it, and shined it with a flashlight. I was surprised to find that the opaque mass inside gradually spread out, and was eventually swallowed up by the scimitar.

It turns out that this piece of jade is wrapped in a cloud of yin energy, and jade has strong sealing properties. No wonder I didn't find the problem before.

This piece of jade was always carried by Xiaolong, and the yin energy in it should also be related to him. Thinking of this, I suddenly felt depressed. Did I try my best to help him and only get this result?

But then I thought about it, I had no enmity with him and sent him home, so he wouldn't harm me. At most, he just wanted to throw the jade to me along with the unclean things and run away.

If that's the case, I wouldn't blame him, but I'm worried that it's not that simple...

If he really offends the Yin spirits, he will be in big trouble. Some Yin spirits cannot be sent away, and they will even be angered by this!

Xiaolong is only a ten-year-old child. Once he suffers the revenge of the Yin Spirit, his life may be over. Thinking of this, I immediately decided to go to Shangqiu before him.

If we had encountered this situation before, Li Mazi would have yelled at me to stop meddling in other people's business, but now that he considers himself a monk, he just nodded lightly and said: "Brother from the Zhang family, then go over and take a look! I I won’t go and will continue to meditate and repent in the temple.”

"That's fine." He didn't follow, which relieved me.

He immediately drove all the way and arrived at the only road from Shangqiu to Xiaolong's home in the middle of the night.

The car I drove was a Cayenne that I just picked up recently. The speed of Didi’s driver’s Jetta was not at the same level as mine, so I rested for another full hour before I saw a car driving slowly towards me.

I didn't contact the driver so that I could tell if there was something wrong with Xiaolong later by watching his first reaction when he saw me!

When it was getting bright, the Jetta stopped at Lujia Village where Xiaolong was located. The driver put Xiaolong and water at the entrance of the village and left.

This driver promised to deliver water to my home, and now he did it again. I was so angry that I gave him a bad review.

I stepped on the accelerator and jumped directly in front of Xiaolong, stuck my head out and shouted, "Do you remember me?"

He Xiaolong was shocked when he saw me. He ran over quickly and asked me why I was here, his eyes full of joy. Looking at his innocent appearance, it was impossible to know that there was something wrong with Jade. I suddenly felt a little ashamed and felt that I was not as frank as a child.

Then I told him about the problem with the goose egg jade. I didn't mention anything about doubting him. I just said that I was worried and came over to take a look.

He was even more moved when he heard this, jumped into the car and hugged me.

I loaded the water into the car, followed his guidance, and gradually drove onto the bumpy dirt road.

When we were at the entrance of the village, we didn't feel the drought was severe, but as we went further in, the road became drier. The dirt road ahead was completely cracked, and the wind blew dust all over the sky.

The crops in the fields on both sides were all dead. Looking through the ridges, the ground was covered with cracks as thick as a thumb.

After entering the village, the ground was full of garbage. From time to time, I saw white couplets posted on the doors of people's houses. It seemed that many people had died in the village recently.

I sighed silently, determined to find out the cause of the drought.

I feel that I will never be able to get rid of my fate as a trader of ghost goods. Since I started doing business, this is the only time I am ready to let it go, but I end up here because of that jade pendant.

Following Xiaolong from the beginning to the end of the village, I felt like I was about to leave the village, and then he asked me to stop in front of a tile-roofed house that also had white couplets on it.

The black characters on this couplet have faded and are obviously old. They were probably posted when Grandma Xiaolong passed away.

Sure enough, Xiaolong, who was lively just now, turned sad after seeing the couplets. I patted his shoulder and persuaded him: "Xiaolong, you have to work harder."

He nodded firmly and led me into the house.

His house is a typical northern courtyard. There are several pots of flowers on the windowsill, but they are all dead now.

The ground was covered with a thick layer of browned leaves, which would break into powder if I stepped on them. I frowned and thought to myself that Xiaolong’s mother was too lazy, so she didn’t even sweep them away?

When I opened the door curtain of the room, I saw a photo of an old lady hanging on the wall opposite the door. Under the photo was a thick layer of paper money, with electronic candles flickering on both sides.

I don’t know why, I am used to seeing ghosts and ghosts, but looking at the two electronic candles now, I always feel like the tears left by the old man before he died.

This feeling is indescribably weird!