Chapter 17 Fat Master
"It turns out that the light on the leaves has gone out. Fatty, you have really opened your eyes. Since you can see it, light it up." Chen Qingshan said.
"Do you think this is an oil lamp? Just say it? As the saying goes, if the gods don't open their eyes, the evil ghost will blow the lamp. The one who blows the lamp is the evil ghost. How can it be so easy? Brother Thief King, if you are fat, I guessed it right.
If so, your light has been out for twenty years. I think your age should be twenty-three this year. From this point of view, when you were three years old, you must have experienced something that scared you extremely. To put it bluntly,
, you just saw a ghost, Fatty, did you guess wrong?" Fatty looked at me and said.
I squinted at the fat man. Although my face was calm, there was a huge wave in my heart. People walking at night told me not to look back. I heard the saying from the old people that the ghost who turns around blows the lamp, but I had a burn on my left shoulder.
This is the first time I said that I turned off a light. If you think this fat man is talking nonsense, his subsequent explanation of why I turned off a light is completely correct.
What happened when I was three years old was a secret that only existed between my family and Chen Shitou, but he revealed in one word that I experienced a "ghost incident" that year.
"Yi Zi, Fatty asked you something." Chen Qingshan pushed me gently and said.
Only then did I realize that I was in a sluggish state just now because I was too immersed in my thoughts. I smiled sheepishly at the fat man and said: "Three years old? I was still a shit-eating kid at that time and couldn't remember anything. You have to wait.
I'll go back and ask my family."
The fat man gave me a look that was meaningful, but he did not argue with me and said: "Everyone has some secrets that are not humane to outsiders. If you don't want to tell me, I won't force you, Fat Man, but there is nothing you can do if you don't tell me.
Light the lamp, village chief, tell me what is going on in the village?"
He could still endure Chen Qingshan being interrupted twice by the fat man. This was different from his usual style. You must know that Chen Qingshan usually kept his word in the village, but on this three-acre land of Fudigou,
What he said was the decree.
Chen Qingshan told the story about the fool, how he was picked up, how he died, what happened after his death, and what happened recently. Chen Qingshan also told him.
What Chen Qingshan said was known to him and to the villagers, but for example, the fool's trouble was because of the child in his belly, and the fool's body was pulled by a hand in a sarcophagus. Chen Qingshan didn't know, so he didn't know.
I didn’t say anything. To be honest, if this fat man hadn’t been introduced by Tang Renjie, and he didn’t look like a second-rate gangster, maybe what he just said to me could have calmed me down, and I might have told him what I knew.
I also told him to ask him to solve the problem, but because of my preconceptions, I was extremely distrustful of this fat man, so I didn't say a word.
After the fat man heard this, he reached out to touch the oranges on the table, but found that there were no more oranges. He could only touch a few melon seeds and crack them while saying: "Village chief, I'm not telling you, what you are saying is nonsense!"
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After hearing this, Chen Qingshan's face turned green and white, but he still endured it, suppressed a smile that was uglier than crying, and asked: "Fat Master, what do you mean?"
"The fool came back to make trouble. He wanted Chen Shitou's life, but he wouldn't take it. Later, the judge, Mrs. Wang, threw herself into the river, but you said it was a fool who killed him. How could a person who couldn't even take the life of a mortal be able to take it?
Kill a judge?" The fat man said concisely.
"This, I really haven't thought about this problem." Chen Qingshan scratched his head and said.
"I guess your words were spread by rumors among the villagers. People, sometimes they lack everything but their brains." The fat man pointed at Chen Qingshan and said.
"You said I have no brains?" Chen Qingshan asked, pointing to himself. His good temper was finally worn away by the fat man's naughty talk, but I almost laughed. I have known Chen Qingshan for so long.
I saw someone talking to him like this once.
"Well, do you think you have?" the fat man raised his eyebrows.
Seeing Chen Qingshan's face turned green, I became a little curious about this fat man. In fact, I also thought that maybe I was overthinking. What if this fat man can really solve the problem? I just stopped.
Chen Qingshan said: "Village chief, calm down, I can see that this fat man speaks more directly, but this is the magnanimity that an expert should have. He doesn't talk around the bush. If he is also full of lies, then he is just like us."
What’s the difference between people?”
"What are you talking about?! Do you mean he was right in saying that I have no brains?" I wanted to persuade him, but who knew that this sentence would go so far that Chen Qingshan was furious on the spot.
"That's not what I meant. The problem is that we have to solve the problem now, right?" I quickly blinked at Chen Qingshan. Chen Qingshan was really more tolerant than usual this time. He calmed down for a while and said:
He opened his mouth and pulled out a smile and said to the fat man: "Fat Master, then I, a brainless person like me, will ask you to help us clear up our doubts. Could you please tell me that Mrs. Wang was not killed by a fool?
How did you die?"
"How do I know?" the fat man said, spitting out a melon seed peel.
Chen Qingshan's face turned dark instantly. I almost spit out the water I just took a sip of.
"Can't we just call her out and ask her?" the fat man said easily. This sentence made Chen Qingshan and I look at each other, not knowing whether the fat man was telling the truth or bragging.
"What are you two looking at? Is this difficult? According to what you said, Mrs. Wang must have some skills no matter how deep or shallow she is. Ordinary people fall into reincarnation after death, but this judge will always have a trace of his soul after death.
Practicing with the local city gods is their reward for maintaining order in the world. How casual is it to want to talk to them? Besides, Mrs. Wang was the local judge. Before she died, she said that the verdict was wrong.
Even if a case is settled, people like them who convict a wrong case are under the jurisdiction of the City God, so this matter must be known by just asking." The fat man sneered.
"City God?" Chen Qingshan asked.
"A minor official in the underworld is in charge of the same area as a county magistrate." The fat man said casually.
"Please, Fatty, please open our eyes." I pushed Chen Qingshan with my shoulder and said.
"Okay, you don't know what Fatty is capable of without showing off your skills. Just go ahead and go, go, go to Mrs. Wang's house and find something she left behind before she died. Fatty, I can naturally call her out to chat with you."
After the fat man finished speaking, he happened to finish the plate of food prepared for him by Chen Qingshan. He patted his butt and stood up, asking us to lead the way.
We both felt a little intrigued by this fat man now, so we stood up and led him the way. We went to Wangjiazhuang next door and found Mrs. Wang’s house. Although Mrs. Wang was no longer here, her daughter-in-law
Now she is also a goddess. Half a year after the death of Mrs. Wang, she announced that she was leaving the mountain. She said that Mrs. Wang had one last word, which in full was: "I judged the wrong case and am about to die. I will pass on my mantle to you."
Already."
When we arrived at Mrs. Wang's home, her daughter-in-law was now in her forties or fifties. There were many statues of gods enshrined in the house, and the layout was similar to when Mrs. Wang was alive.
Mrs. Wang’s daughter-in-law’s surname is He, and her nickname is He Xiangu. This name is much louder than Mrs. Wang’s name. We all know her. When she saw us coming, she said with a sad face: “Hey
Hey, what kind of wind brought you two here?"
As soon as I saw it, I knew what was going on. Chen Qingshan invited an outside Taoist priest to perform the ritual ceremony in front of the fool's grave a few days ago but did not invite her. She was angry. In fact, Chen Qingshan explained this problem to me. The main reason was that
She was afraid that something would happen to her family again. Didn't Mrs. Wang die because of a fool?
I told Fatty about this on the way. After He Xiangu cried out to us, Chen Qingshan and I didn't know what to say. Fatty said: "A big-ass guy who doesn't have a temper is not a weak one. He can deceive this person with arrogance."
In the past few years, I have relied on the little kindness that Mrs. Wang left behind. Fortunately, I didn’t come to you for that matter. If I had come to you, I would have gone to your mother-in-law to have a family."
The fat man really had no words left in his mouth. This sentence made He Xiangu's face turn green. She pointed at the fat man and said, "Where did you come from? What nonsense are you talking about?"
"You have no control over where the fat man comes from. Telling him will scare you to death. As for whether you are talking nonsense or not, you know it in your heart. Don't show your teeth in a hurry. The fat man has no interest in exposing you. Go and get the things that your mother-in-law left behind when she was alive.
One thing, I want to call her spirit, and I need to ask her about something." The fat man waved his hand and said.
"You're not talking softly, are you trying to summon souls? Okay, just wait, I'll go find them for you right now. If you can't summon them, kneel down and kowtow three times!" He Xiangu was also irritated and left this
After saying a few words, he went into the back room and came out after a while with a silver bracelet. The silver bracelet was almost all black. It looked like it had been there for a long time. Most of the silver jewelry of the rural old lady was black. It was not the silver that was black, but the silver.
It's covered in a layer of dirt.
The fat man took it and He Xiangu said: "Aren't you afraid that I will randomly pick something to fool you?"
The fat man rolled his eyes at her and said, "You think I'm a fat man and I'm a vegetarian?"
The fat man was holding the bracelet. There were many statues on He Xiangu's altar. The fat man took one of them over. It seemed that it was the statue of the Lord Chenghuang, the chief of the underworld county. Then he put the bracelet in front of the statue and stretched out his hand.
Chapter completed!