There were footsteps outside the door, and Zhou Shi quickly shouted:
"Don't come in!"
This resentful spirit is coming for Shopkeeper Cheng. If he rushes in, he might be caught on the spot!
Hearing the footsteps stop suddenly, Zhou Shi continued his abacus amidst the yells and curses from the boy manipulated by the resentful spirit.
Three times five divides two, four times five divides one...
Live fifty-five years!
The boy on the bed seemed to have been taken away from something. Suddenly, his strength was relieved, and his body that had been upright also softened, as if he had fallen asleep.
"The iron abacus also has this magical effect. It seems that if the resentful spirit knows that the body no longer belongs to it, it will settle down."
Cheng Youyi’s voice came from outside the door:
"Shopkeeper Zhou! What happened to my son!"
"It's okay! Stay away and don't listen to what's going on in the house!"
Shopkeeper Cheng, who had invited many people to exorcise evil spirits, understood that the sounds made by some evil spirits were harmful, so he quickly called his servants, and together they retreated to the other side of the yard and covered their ears.
Zhou Shi spilled some Yin wine in the room, put Hu Gongzun into the boy's hand, and then pulled open the curtains.
"Cheng Youyi! You..."
As soon as he came into contact with the light, the boy immediately began to scream, but he stopped after only two screams.
Zhou Shi said provocatively: "Barking, don't you like barking very much?"
The boy's body was still abnormally straight, and his eyes were white, but he did not continue to curse.
His left wrist shook slightly, trying to get rid of Mr. Hu, but Zhou Shi held him tightly and could not let go.
Does Mr. Hu have the resentment accumulated by Mr. Hu for hundreds of years? How can a small resentful spirit resist its pressure?
The sunlight at sunset shines in the room, causing the dark wine to quickly disperse, and countless twisted and ferocious ghosts surround the only living person in the room.
In the eyes of the resentful spirits, Zhou Shi looked extremely majestic.
"I'll first listen to what grudges and grievances you have, and then I'll decide how to deal with you. Get away from this child immediately!"
The boy's body trembled slightly, but no resentful spirit appeared.
"You are not qualified to negotiate terms with me. If you don't come out, I will kill you immediately."
Under Zhou Shi's threat, the boy's body finally reacted.
A blue-purple miasma emerged from the boy's facial features and lingered in the room for a while, but there was no further change.
"Oh, it may be that Mr. Hu, who has more resentment and higher status, is suppressing it and unable to take shape."
Zhou Shi put Hu Gongzun into the iron abacus, and the miasma began to rotate and condense, gradually turning into a human form.
Is this a wraith?
Zhou Shi had only heard Mr. Mo talk about this kind of existence, but had never seen it with his own eyes. This resentful spirit is different from ordinary ghosts. It is not bluish-white, but bluish-purple. It is also obviously much more solid and not as transparent as ghosts. p>
Moreover, even Zhou Shi, who was haunted by Yin Qi and could clearly see the appearance of the ghost, felt that the appearance of the resentful spirit was abominable, and his facial features were greatly deformed.
"Tell me, why are you pestering this child?"
The eyes of the resentful spirit are red, revealing a mouth of disproportionately large fangs, and the sound it makes is like nail nails on a wooden board, which makes people's teeth ache.
"I used to be a clerk in a sauce shop. Three months ago, I was hit by a sauce vat while I was working. The man named Cheng was afraid of being sued, so he secretly disposed of the body, leaving me with a mysterious death...
I hate it! I want his son to die unjustly and let him know how it feels!"
Is that what happened?
"Let me ask shopkeeper Cheng how he explains it. If the situation is true, I will give you an explanation."
Zhou Shi took out Lord Hu again, and the resentful spirit immediately turned into a thick purple mist.
"Wait for me here, don't harm this child!"
He was still uneasy, so he placed Hu Gongzun next to the boy's pillow to prevent the evil spirits from getting into him again, then passed through the red rope trap and pushed the door open.
As soon as he entered the courtyard, Cheng Youyi immediately greeted him.
"What happened just now? Didn't I say you can't light the lamp?"
Zhou Shi had no choice but to lie: "I didn't light the lamp. That thing went crazy when it saw me coming, but I have driven it out and will not harm anyone anymore."
Cheng Youyi thought in his heart that the shopkeeper this week really has some skills. So many eminent monks and Taoists could not do anything about it before, but they were restrained as soon as they saw him!
Without waiting for Youyi to express his thanks, Zhou Shi asked:
"Has anyone died in Jiangxing recently?"
Cheng Youyi's expression changed, and after a while he asked: "Who did you listen to?"
"People are doing it, God is watching."
Seeing that he was still hesitating, Zhou Shi added: "It's about your life, so telling the truth is in everyone's best interests."
"Oh, that's actually what happened..."
About half a year ago, Cheng Youyi's nephew came to Jiangdu to find him and asked him to let him work in the sauce shop.
His nephew is in his early twenties and is a well-known lazy man in the countryside. He is only one step away from the gangsters. This man's parents, the shopkeeper's sister and brother-in-law, saw that he was old and had no ability, and they refused to work in the field.
, had no choice but to send him to his younger brother in the city.
The shop’s business is already busy. What can this nephew do, since he can’t write, do arithmetic, and interact with others? Shopkeeper Cheng has no choice but to let him do some hard work. Everyone in the store knows that he is the shopkeeper’s nephew, and he usually does some hard work.
Take care of yourself.
But this nephew is a lazy and shameless man. He wanted to go to the city, so he just came to his uncle's house to eat and drink. He never thought that he would have to work?
As a result, I never see other people when I work. I either go to Goulan to listen to music or go to the casino to make money, and all of this is recorded in the account of the brothel. As a result, brothels and theaters come to visit the brothel every now and then, and they become colleagues.
The laughingstock among them.
This is a bitter endeavour. He spent money to hire an ancestor for himself, but he still can't fire him. It's not enough for the nephew to ruin his uncle's reputation. Sometimes he drinks too much outside and even comes to the sauce shop to act drunkenly and make the sauce go crazy.
There was a lot of commotion in the line, and the workers were also complaining.
This rogue learned a lot of bad words at home, but when he arrived in Jiangdu, the first clean word he learned was:
"Shopkeeper Cheng, how about lending me ten taels of silver?"
That day, my nephew drank with a bunch of local scoundrels and went to the sauce shop to cause trouble. Some of the clerks refused to let him in, but who knew which string he had picked up was wrong and he actually climbed in through the back wall. As a result,
It fell directly into the miso vat in the corner.
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No matter what kind of sauce, drying is an essential process. The doenjang vat in the corner was full of soybean paste. My nephew inserted it headfirst into it and drowned directly. It was not until the next day that the workers turned over the sauce.
Found.
Cheng Youyi now had an even bigger headache. His nephew died at home, how could he explain it to his sister? If word got out that there were dead people in his sauce vat, who would buy his sauce?
As a result, he was temporarily obsessed and did not report it to the official. Instead, he concealed the matter with the clerk who knew about it. They fished out his nephew's body and secretly buried it underground in the sauce shop.
My nephew was very drunk when he died. He didn't know how he died, and his resentment could not be relieved. As time passed, the earthly soul wandering in the world turned into a resentful spirit and came to take revenge on shopkeeper Cheng.
After Zhou Shi listened, he found that shopkeeper Zhou Da did have anecdotes about the brothel's Mr. Turtle going to the brothel to demand payment, and the disheveled men causing trouble in the brothel. They were all heard from the customers. However, shopkeeper Zhou is a
A person who adheres to rules will always forget what his guests say, and he will never talk behind his back.
"What a nephew, what a good sister..." Zhou Zhi praised in his heart.
"What do you want me to do? Alas, I was just confused and timid..." Cheng Youyi fell into self-blame.
Zhou Shi asked Cheng Youyi to stay back and went back to his room to confront the resentful spirit.
What I didn't expect was that since the resentful spirit openly admitted what he had done, he didn't take it seriously.
"Is it because the resentful spirit has lost its mind and has no concept of good and evil? No, the nephew should not have such a thing in the first place..."
Zhou Shi took out Mr. Hu, beat the resentful spirit into smoke again, then untied the boy's cloth belt, tied it to his back, and tied the iron abacus to his chest.
Finally, he struggled through the red rope trap, took out the fire stick, lit it, and ran away.
Huozhezi's yin fire exploded in the house, and the blue flames engulfed the entire room!
Standing in the yard, Cheng Youyi was stunned - with his mortal eyes, he could only see Zhou Shi running out with his son on his back, and blue will-o'-the-wisps flickering in the room behind him!
In that will-o'-the-wisp - it seems like my nephew's face is howling!
What did the shopkeeper do this week to make the battle so big?
Zhou Shi handed the boy to Cheng Youyi and said: "The resentful spirit has been removed and he should wake up soon. The windows of this room must be opened and left in the sun for seven days before living in. Do you understand?"
"Ming, I understand..."
At this time, Zhou Shi saw a bead on the iron abacus flicker.
Is there a reward? Could it be that getting rid of the resentful spirit counts as a dead person... Yes, my nephew's earthly soul has been broken, and the evil he has done has been repaid, so this debt can be crossed off.
Information enters the mind, and the reward this time is-a book?
There are two big words written on the cover of the book——
Monument bearer!
"Shopkeeper Cheng, I really don't know how to repay you for being so kind and kind."
"This is simple." Zhou Shi replied simply, explaining his purpose.