Chapter 198: Compliments
Seeing this, the middle-aged man patted Liu Wan Yan's shoulder, signaling him to hand over the ghosts he had caught.
Seeing this, Liu Wan Yan took off the red rope and took the heavy gourd off his body and gave it to the middle-aged man.
As soon as the man got the gourd, he waved his hand, and the people behind him soon came up, and together they held up what was in their hands, and began to recite this mnemonic in preparation for invoking the ghost messenger.
Only to see a sudden, as if last night, the sound of insects in the grass instantly disappeared, for a moment, the wind is still trees stop, in mid-air, actually vaguely appeared two a black and a white figure.
That figure and usually see the ghost shadow is different, they are around the body around the aura of respect, the black figure is actually black, far away from the shadow of a black silhouette where; and white figure looks more transparent, can only be seen clearly an outline, but the same is that they are not able to see how people look.
Only to see those two figures seemed to move something in their hands, and then saw that the lids of the implements in the hands of the crowd actually opened automatically, and repeated white smoke accompanied by whimpering and wailing sounds flew towards their front.
Not long after, these white smoke will be transformed into human nature, showing the original ghost shape, and these ghosts also have to neck sets of chains, one in a row, one after another, have lined up, was two ghosts pulled, slowly disappeared in mid-air.
Sent straight to all the ghosts completely disappeared, that group of people slowly put down their hands, mouth no longer recite skill.
Liu Wan Yan three people looked at this group of people dumbfounded, once again exclaimed: really is a professional ah!
After those people cleaned things up, one by one, they packed up their things, with a relaxed look, looking no different from normal people, completely lost the look of a worldly superior just now.
The middle-aged man saw Liu Wan Yan three people staring at himself and his companions, a slight smile, said to this them, "In fact, ah, we are also ordinary people, don't look at just now we are so serious, in fact, we are the same as you guys, are so over."
Then, added: "You do not know, in recent years, do this line ah, more and more less, we this institute lack of people ah?"
The company's business is a very important part of the company's business. Three people heard, immediately eyes bright, as if knowing the middle-aged man next to say something.
This middle-aged man is also very quick, directly to the three people handed a 200,000 check, said: "Here, this is your honorarium. You guys don't know, although this line of work is a bit tiring, but fortunately the reward is still very high."
Once the three people heard him say this, they nodded with deep sympathy.
Seeing that these three people probably knew what he meant, the middle-aged man added, "Seeing that you guys caught eighteen evil ghosts on the first night, plus your previous cases that we also read, your strength is very good. We are all straightforward people, so I'll get right to the point and ask if you guys are willing to join us and join the National Mysterious Things Investigation Institute."
Join the National Mysterious Things Investigation Institute?
The trio's hearts were ecstatic when they heard this.
Seeing that the three people did not reply, the middle-aged man continued to say, "You know, the bounty we usually get is not low! Still belonging to the state's specialized agencies, the benefits are only more and less ……"
"Of course, of course we are willing." Before the man finished speaking, the three people replied cheerfully.
Join the Investigation Institute
The middle-aged man was very happy to see the three people agree so quickly, and said straight away that he would take them to the headquarters to have a look.
Liu Wan Yan three people heard to go to the headquarters, readily agreed, this is the headquarters of the National Mystery Investigation Agency ah!
So, the three asked the middle-aged man to get on the car, followed the front of these people drove behind the convoy, all the way to another road.
Along the way, the three people's car drove at the end, looking at the front of a BMW, Land Rover and so on the car fleet, inside the worst are Beijing Hyundai, they once again exclaimed, catch ghosts in this business is really very lucrative na!
It seems that they also have the potential to become a rich man ah! Three people in the car thought happily.
Along the way, Li Xianzheng sniffing his own thick smell of blood, rubbing away the bruises on the body, with a complaining tone, said: "I said Liu Wan Yan ah! Just now, you also hit too hard!"
"It wasn't hard enough to drive the ghost away!" Liu Wan Yan explained smilingly.
Thanh Nhat Hanh also came up to intervene and said, "Is it possible that you still want to keep him in your body? But then again, this is not the first time you have been possessed by a ghost, your body ah, look quite big, how so easy to attract ghosts?"
This is true, Li Xianzheng thought, he is not the first time to be possessed by a ghost, I do not know how, may be Liu Wan Diem and Thanh Nhuoc Son from childhood will be able to do something, so every time the ghost possessed, is attached to his body.
Thinking of this, Li Xianzheng still feel the part of his body that was hit by the coin sword vaguely painful, so he said in a bad mood, "Liu Wan Diem, you are also, know that with chicken blood can drive it out, why do you still take the coin sword to hit me."
"Hey, hey, I'm not thinking of saving as much as I can by listening to Thanh Nhat Hanh. Who knows that this ghost is so difficult to deal with, it won't come out even after being hit by the copper coin sword." Liu Wan Yan scratched his head, a little embarrassed and said, "Not to mention that you were not a soldier! Your skin is thick, so a few hits won't bother you, haha!"
Li Xianzheng heard him say so, had to roll his eyes, speechless.
Seeing the three of them talking and laughing in the car, for a moment, the atmosphere in the car was quite active, and the fatigue accumulated from the night of ghost hunting was swept away.
The middle-aged man looked at them with great satisfaction, and with an appreciative tone, said, "I see that your company only has three of you, and is very small in scale, but works very well together, it's really good!"
Once the three of them heard someone praising them so much, their hearts were also very pleased, but their mouths still said modestly, "Where, where."
"Don't be modest, I see you guys, especially you and you two." Said the middle-aged man looked down at Liu Wan Diem and Thanh Nghia said, "You two seem to be a bottom, is from childhood to start learning it."
Liu Wan Diem and Cheng Kexing looked at each other, this man is worthy of being a man who has been here before, his eyes are good, so Liu Wan Diem confessed, "My father is a zombie catcher, I was peeled out of a coffin by him, and since I was a child, I have been able to see those things, so I have learned a few things since I was a child."
"I was picked up on the mountain by a Taoist priest and also learned a few things to make a living." Cheng Kexing also roughly explained.
"No wonder, seeing that you guys have caught so many ghosts, although you are not prepared enough, you are not ambiguous when it comes to doing things." The middle-aged man said indistinctly.
From the middle-aged man's mouth, they learned that in fact, many of these ghost hunters of theirs were not like Liu Wan Yan and the others, who lived on ghost catching alone on weekdays. In fact, the members of the National Mystery Investigation Center were scattered in all corners of the world.
The daily roles of the members were also different. Some were policemen, some were forensic doctors, some were temple monks or Taoist priests, some were even teachers or students, and of course, some opened their own ghost-hunting companies, just like Liu Wan Yan.
On weekdays, ghost hunters did not meet often, and only by virtue of a special bracelet could they know that the other party belonged to the same national organization as they did, and only a task as troublesome as stopping the Hundred Ghosts Nightly Walking could bring all the members of a region together.
In fact, the headquarters of the investigation institute was located in a neighboring city, not far from Liu Wan Yan's city, just a few hours' drive.
Therefore, they soon drove to their destination.
The headquarters of the National Mystery Investigation Institute was not like other national offices, the building was not so luxurious, but was located in a street courtyard.
The three people got off the car and were led all the way in by the middle-aged man, and found that the outside of this courtyard looked four-square and not very big, but in fact inside there was a different world.
This courtyard because of the age of the reason, looks some years, ancient color, the compound is also planted a few acacia trees, the other side is also very elegant to stay a clump of Xiaoxiang bamboo, lush piece, vaguely through a point of melodious ancient charm.
In fact, everything has a spirit, a house of this kind of what plants are also a matter of taste.
Sophora tree in feng shui is considered to represent the Loc, the ancient court planted three acacia nine thorns, ministers and doctors sitting under it, the face of the three acacias for the three males, so the acacia tree in the highest taste, the town house has the authority. But it is also known as the ghost tree, generally in addition to understand the feng shui mystery of the people in the line, the general family is not very dare in the yard.
Like a lot of ancient times of the big family, especially the family has the old man, especially like in tsubaki tree.
Because, tsubaki tree in "Zhuangzi – free travel" in the cloud: "the ancient times there is a big tsubaki, to eight thousand years old for the fall." Therefore, tsubaki tree is the omen of longevity, later generations also used it as a father's pronouns, in feng shui has the protection of the house and pray for longevity function.
Some families with a large population also like to plant begonias. Because, begonias its flowers bloom brightly, so that the rich and noble full, and Tong Di Hua, symbolizing the brotherhood and harmony, their happiness.
The three people followed the middle-aged man and found that every door, whether it was the main door of the lobby or the side door of the corridor, actually still had ancient gossip mirrors hanging on it, and looking at those gossip mirrors, the age of those gossip mirrors must not be shallow.
Even the carvings on the eaves, it is not like the usual courtyard wall hook dragon scratch phoenix, but carved with the four great beasts, respectively, "East Canglong, West White Tiger, South Bird, North Xuanwu". Some of the wall and Zhong Kui wall statue, look can not help but be fearful.
The middle-aged man also introduced to them, the back of the courtyard also specializes in a medium-sized conference room, a bookstore and treasure cabinet, conference room is usually not commonly used, while the bookstore and treasure cabinet is furnished with a lot of books left over from the ancient times and on the age of the artifacts, and even some of the monks left behind after nirvana of the relics.
For the bookstore, three people are okay, compared to two of them are from elementary school crafts, ancient books are read a lot. On the contrary, it is the treasure cabinet, this is the headquarters of the National Investigation Center! The country's ghosts of the treasure is estimated to be here, even if it is to go in to take a look, it is also a surprise.
Soon, Liu Wan Yan three people came to the reception room, the middle-aged man arranged for them to sit down, and then went out.
Not long after, he came back, behind him came to lead an old man with a head full of white hair.
Don't look at that old man's age, white beard and white eyebrows, but his face is rosy, and he walks as fast as he can. Hands and feet, vaguely give people a feeling of the world.
Walking into the reception room, as soon as he sat down, the old man began to scrutinize the faces of the three Liu Wan Yan people.
Full of wise eyes circled back, in a short while, smiled at the self-introduction: "Hello, my name is Mu Qing, is the person in charge here, everyone calls me Master Wood."
Mu Qing? The old man in front of him is actually the ghostly Ching Mu! A look of surprise flashed across the eyes of Liu Wan Yan and Cheng Kexing.
They had only heard of this man, Mu Qing, from the mouths of their corpse-driving father and master, and he was said to be a legendary figure in this line of work, since he had been engaged in ghost hunting, he had never failed, not even once, so much so that the evil spirits were scared at the sight of him, and that was why he had been given the nickname "Ghost Seeing Sorrow" in the line of work!
Not only that, they also heard that Mu Qing is not only very good at catching ghosts, but also good at all kinds of mystical gossip, whether it is divination, mediumship, or Zen practice are very powerful, he is in this line, almost no one knows no one knows.
If they remembered correctly, this Mu Qing's age was older than both their father and master, and should be a hundred years old.
But this old man in front of them, although his head was full of silver threads, his spirit looked better than the young people, his face was rosy, his eyes were clear, how could he look at most seventy years old, where did he look like a hundred year old man?
Although they thought so, they still did not dare to be ambiguous, and said very respectfully, "Master Mu, how are you! We are from the 'Li Wan Cheng' Ghost Hunting Company, and we just joined this investigation office today."
Master Mu looked at their respectful faces, very accustomed to it, so he waved his hand and said, "You guys don't have to be too formal, I'm the same as you guys, I'm a ghost hunter, I ah, I'm already an old man of the past, now the world, it's already your young people's world."
"I've read your previous cases, you guys did a good job, a few of them are still without a fight, without using force, you solved the matter, good job!" Mu Qing stroked his white beard and praised without leaving any room for error.
Mu Qing said, but also from the pocket of the three complicated style of red rope, hand over, said "Well, are their own people, the token of our institute to bring."
Three people are being idol boasted dizzy, a look, into the investigation actually have a token, do not think about it on the joyful brought up.
Mu Qing saw three young people so dry took over the token, and voiced a reminder to, "this red rope is our old Taoist priest in the preparation, with the ancient good craft, but also on the top of the spell, a red rope divided into two, half in your hands, half tied to the top of the bell, hanging in the head of the wall of life and death."
"Whether it is blistering fire burning knife cut are not afraid, as long as people do not die, the red rope is in, when you if you encountered a difficult thing, dying, this end of the bell will ring, our side of the divination out of your specific location, but also will try to send people over to support you, and ah, this rope is a lifetime to bring up to the death also can not be taken off. "
The three heard, looked down to the wrist, only to see that the red rope is very fit on the wrist, like there is no connecting mouth generally, the wrist more thick rope on how big, not loose and not tight, together just right.
"What about the mission? How should we take?" Liu Wan Yan opened his mouth and asked.
Seeing them ask about the mission, Mu Qing explained again, "From today onwards, your company will be equivalent to a subsidiary under the investigation institute, and you can take on your own missions as usual on weekdays?"
"What about the Institute?"
"When the institute has a task you will be notified in advance, you have to rush to complete it immediately, of course, the task given by the institute also has a generous honorarium, if it is a task that needs to be accomplished in cooperation, your honorarium will also be distributed according to the headcount ratio."
This was not bad, and once the three heard of such an arrangement, they quickly and readily agreed.
Auntie is here.
In this way, Liu Van Diem, Thanh Khe Hsing, and Li Xianzheng joined this state-affiliated organization, along with their own small company firms.
The three were also very proud of this, and all of a sudden, their tails went up to the sky with joy.
Aiya, small master's identity now, how to be considered a civil servant of the state rice bowl!
Since Liu Wan Diem three people joined the National Mysterious Things Investigation Institute, it is really good to ride on the back of a big tree, "Li Wan Cheng" ghost hunting company's reputation rose, a time to find them ghost hunting people endless.
But this company full count is only a total of three people, even if there are three heads and six arms can not take so many orders, but also afraid of offending people, also had to play the name of the rest of the task in hand all pushed, said to recuperate for a while.
Anyway, the previous single there are 200,000, how also enough to spend a good while.
This day, the three are gathered in Li Xian is drinking beer and farting together, and is chatting about knocking it, there is a gaudily dressed woman came to the door.
"This, is this the home of a man named Li Xianzheng?" The woman, carrying a black umbrella in one hand, didn't knock on the door, and when she saw that the door was open, she walked straight into the house and asked.
"I am Li Xianzheng, what is it that you are looking for me?" Li Xianzheng said as he stood up.
Carefully measured Li Xianzheng for a while, only to see the woman violently "wow ……" a cry howl, the opposite side of the three people were startled.
Only to see the woman while touching the tears, while with a crying voice said: "first Zheng ah, I am your aunt Chunhua ah! What? Do you still remember me?"
"Auntie Chunhua" Listening to this name, Liu Wan Diem and Cheng Kexing almost spit out a mouthful of wine and almost laughed, this is a good name!
Li Xianzheng frowned, half a day did not think of their own number of relatives, since he survived death, but also identified by the outside world as a mental problem, the people around him to avoid themselves, where they dare to take care of themselves.
The woman saw Li Xianzheng did not say anything, also self-concerned crying said, "You really do not remember aunt Chunhua? When you were a child, I also hugged you a few times, your family lives in XX village under the Tun, and then a little older to go to the army, am I right?"
Li Xianzheng still froze, did not react, this woman is really right. However, if you want to really talk about it, there are still some relatives who have been around the block, so I don't know what this is in front of me, but I still greeted her and sat down.
This woman see Li Xianzheng greeted himself to sit down, thought he still has an impression of himself, and then cried: "You hit hear your news would like to come to see you, compared to when I was a child aunt is also seen you a few times, but it is the family is busy ah, aunt is really can't get away."
"That …… then you find me what is the matter?" Li Xianzheng see her has been crying, a time also do not know what to say, had to open the mouth to ask.
The woman heard, the tears a wipe, look to Li Xianzheng, said: "aunt ah, I heard that you in the city as a boss, but also opened a ghost hunting company miles, is not it?"
Hearing her say this, Li Xianzheng feel a little embarrassed, this company is not his alone, how can I say, also when the boss!
But this is not wrong, Li Xianzheng also ignore her, and asked: "Then you find me, what is the matter?"
"Xianzheng ah, these years you can make good ah, you do not know, aunt suffering ah!" Then the woman wiped her eyes again.
"What's wrong?"
"You don't know! Aunt's family do not know if the feng shui is not good, a series of ah died five children, originally rural ah, said the child wild, good to live, but just do not know why, a series of seven births, a series of five, none of them have passed a month, are just born less than a month, on the unexplained death."
"Then ah, go to the temple for nine months in a row to seek, with great difficulty to get two talismans, barely, survived a son and a daughter, but a paralyzed, one is stupid, this is what sin yo!" Once the woman remembered the request, she couldn't stop patting her thighs and crying and said.
Bad feng shui? Even if the feng shui is bad, this isn't that tragic! The three men looked at each other in dismay.
This situation was rare, which made all three men frown.
After the woman cried, and wiped the tears with a bitter face, said: "This is not, I heard that you, ah, have a piece of ghost hunting company, the ability can be big, just want to let you go to help look at, to see where in the end is the home of the feng shui problems."
The ability is big? Li Xianzheng thought with a bitter smile, capable of great is true, but capable of great is not me, is my two brothers ah!
"Maybe it's not a feng shui problem?" Liu Wan Yan said quietly.
Right! What if it's not a feng shui problem? The three men exchanged glances: perhaps we should go and have a look.
One is not tolerate this woman to cry again, plus relatives, people are begging the door, it is not too good to refuse: Secondly, this is such a thing, it is rare, but it is evoked the curiosity of Liu Wan Diem and Cheng Kexing.
So, the three discussed, they agreed to go home with the woman to see, if it is really feng shui problems, can help the way to try to help, although they are not very proficient in feng shui, but as a ghost hunter, these things are still more or less understand one or two.
Even if they can't, it's just like going to the countryside to get some fresh air and take a vacation.
After preparing themselves, the three of them arrived at Wang Jia Au Xia Tun under the women's guidance.
To the Wangjia Au when the sky has been a little dark, relying on the car headlights, vaguely can still illuminate the road.
However, since the road was too narrow and the village was built halfway up the hill, they had to park the car at the foot of the hill and walk up.
People who have not lived in the countryside will not have this feeling, some villages because of the address of the remote relationship, the road is very bad repair, even if there is a road is the kind of potholes in the mud road, if a sunny day is good, walking is still flat, if it rains, the road is muddy mixed with slurry water, a step down is a pit, mud and water splash, dirty very bad.
The countryside is not like the city, a night on the street lamps, the general countryside are out of sight more often, some of the road can be vaguely relying on the light from the houses to see clearly, and some of the road can only be groped by themselves.
Fortunately, Liu Wan Yan three people grew up in the mountains, although now to the city to work, but just by virtue of self-consciousness, but also in the night peacefully walking the road.
Just walking to the entrance of the village, there had long been a group of people waiting there, as if to come to meet the three Liu Wan Diem.
In fact, these are the woman's neighbors and relatives, their family's strange more or less heard some, at first, everyone thought it was the family's body out of the problem, but also advised them to go to the hospital to see. Who knows that they took their family to the big hospitals all over the world and ran countless times, checked countless times, but just did not find out what the problem is.
Even the boy who was paralyzed and the girl who was stupid were sudden illnesses, and most of the hospitals said that some of the nerves were out of order, but they couldn't tell you exactly what was wrong.
So, everyone began to talk a lot, some say they did something wrong, was retribution, some also said it was destined to be a calamity, in short, is still more and more evil, and even there is a long tongue said that their family is built on other people's graves only to attract the trouble.
But this family does not believe, here they have been living for hundreds of years, the previous generations are not still full of children and grandchildren, to say that there is something wrong, how did not have an accident before? The family did not have a lot of people have been seriously ill.
We think about it, but also, on the mute.
Sometimes, people do not know or can not explain things, like to rely on the gods.
Therefore, this family can only guess that the family has placed something wrong, resulting in feng shui problems.
Seeing the woman lead the three people up, at this time, a man in the crowd with a pale face and eyes that were probably swollen like a peach due to prolonged tears greeted them.
"This is Xianzheng, isn't it!" The man probably still recognized Li Xianzheng, so he greeted him as he greeted him.
Li Xianzheng looked up, he recognized this man, when he didn't go to the army as a soldier, this man often came to the village over his house to visit and drink.
At that time, Li Xianzheng is still a half-grown boy, from the family aunt that learned that the man's surname is Wang, is the Wang family under the Au Tuen's, specifically what he called him can not remember, but at that time, everyone called him Wang Dezi.
To say that this Wang Dezi ah, is ten miles eight villages are famous for delicious and stingy man. Not to say that he is not good, Wang Dezi is hardworking, every day to serve the family's land than their own mothers are attentive, the soil in the ground that is called a fertile, so planted out of the grain, not only more, but also very full, in the fall, a yellow piece of growth is extremely pleasing.
Wang Dezi hard-working to hard-working, but there are two bad points, one is gluttony, the second is stingy.
This heard the village old man mentioned, Wang Dezi has two brothers, he grew up in the family ranked second, the grade is not up and down, neither do not want to be as important as the boss, but also like the little brother as loved, belonging to the kind of neglected by parents, coupled with the years of poverty when I was a child, often a meal full of starvation, eat something if not grabbed and save a little bit, simply can not eat.
Time a long ah, he can not change. Although he grew up and became a family, with hard work he has long been not worried about food and clothing, but still habitually where there is good food, sniffing the smell on the way in, like a hunting dog.
And he is also stingy, the clothes on the body are young and patched, so many times, we see him wearing the kind of red piece of green piece, all kinds of patches connected to the clothes.
It is said that his family eat vegetables put oil are put according to the number of drops, which is still his daughter-in-law protested many times before the habit, the beginning of his family dishes do not put oil, are fried, put on the oil altar smoked, and then take to the table to eat.
Infant spirit haunting
Li Xianzheng's memory, Wang Dezi has always been a rosy-colored, slightly chubby round-faced man, he even remembers Wang Dezi often came to the village to eat wine at that time, each time to eat to the belly rolls, before hiccups, a handful of leftover wine and vegetables, walking home on the dim night road.