Before Aunt Mei could answer, Jolina's weary voice came from upstairs: "Yuyu, come up."
Zhuang Yuning smiled at Aunt Mei and climbed up the stairs.
Aunt Mei watched her go up, continued to lower her head, and gently dragged her up on the ground with a mop. The room was too dark, Zhuang Yuning didn't notice before, there was a pool of sticky blood under Aunt Mei's feet, which was rubbed by the mop and dragged around on the ground.
Jolina was sitting quietly on the bed in her own bedroom. The light in the room was darker than the outside, and there was a musty smell.
"It's been so dark for most of the day." Zhuang Yuning wondered, stepped forward and opened the curtains a little, turned her head to look, Qiaolina's eyes were dark, and she looked very haggard, as if she hadn't slept well for a long time.
Zhuang Yuning pulled up a chair and sat across from her.
Qiaolina looked at her fixedly, tears streaming down suddenly, choked up and said: "Yuyu, I'm sorry for you, I... I hurt you."
Zhuang Yuning took a deep breath, and said in the calmest voice possible: "You're talking about the corpse ointment, right? And that wooden talisman, is that the name?"
Jolina was stunned, and mumbled, "You know everything?"
Zhuang Yuning nodded, her eyes moistened, "I'm very sad, you will treat me like this, after knowing the truth, I haven't slept well these days, but... since you brought it up, maybe you also have some difficulties, I'll give you a chance to explain."
Jolina sighed and shook her head, "I don't ask for your forgiveness, but I want to make this matter clear, I don't want to watch you die step by step, listen to me tell you from the beginning..."
At this moment, in the living room on the second floor of the Chinese medicine store, all the windows are sealed, the curtains are drawn tight, and the room is only illuminated by a large chandelier.
In a cubicle surrounded by screens, five men and one woman, six people, were sitting on a Chinese-style mahogany sofa and chatting.
Ye Shaoyang and Ma Cheng sat in the dimly lit partition next to them, drinking tea while listening to their conversation.
"Do you know all these people?" Ye Shaoyang asked in a low voice.
Ma Chengdao: "I have seen a few of them, and they are all in the upper middle class of Shicheng."
These few people chatted for a while about stocks and other unsalty topics. After a while, Hu Wei came up from downstairs, exchanged a few words with them, finished refilling tea for them, and sat down on the side. Several people suddenly changed the subject and talked about Gumantong.
A bald man took out a Gumantong from his backpack, put it beside him, patted the back of his head lightly, and said, "Hongguo, come out."
Gumantong swayed, and after a while, an illusory figure came out of Gumantong's mouth, and after landing, it turned into a four or five-year-old girl, looking up innocently at its master.
"Your Hongguo looks good recently." said the woman who looked to be in her forties and still had charm, "What did you hear her eat recently?"
"In addition to the previous ones, I added a candied haws to her every day, haha, she likes to eat it."
Ye Shaoyang and Ma Cheng looked at each other in surprise, kid, do you still like candied haws
Then a fat man sitting next to the woman also put out his Gumantong and said, "Come out!"
A wisp of smoke fell to the ground, turning into a little boy as fat as him, sitting lazily on the ground.
"My family knows how to eat pig's head meat, pig's ears, whatever is rich in oil, and doesn't drink water, only beer."
The brat who eats pig's head meat and drinks beer... Shit, Ye Shaoyang wouldn't believe it if he hadn't heard it with his own ears.
At this time, a little girl's sharp voice sounded from the woman: "Get off your dirty hands!"
A tall man next to him immediately moved aside in embarrassment, a little girl jumped out of the backpack next to the woman, and shouted at the man angrily: "Don't touch my mother!"
The woman glanced at the man and said: "I knew you were uncomfortable sitting next to me, so don't touch me."
The tall man smiled and said, "I did it on purpose, to see if your daughter will show up to protect you."
The woman snorted, and said: "She, take me seriously. I raised her not for money or good luck, but just to prevent stinky men from taking advantage of me in the business world."
The fat man said: "Don't look at my son as a fool, but since I have him, my company's business has improved a lot, and the few debts I borrowed before have been repaid by others, haha."
Several people began to show off how the kid in their family brought them fortune, good luck and so on. Hearing this, Ye Shaoyang and Ma Cheng were startled.
The little ghosts left Gumantong and started playing in the living room. Just by looking like this, they are no different from ordinary children, just as innocent and full of childlike innocence.
After about half an hour, several people stood up together and summoned their little ghosts. The little ghost bounced back to his Gumantong. Then several people bid farewell to Hu Wei and went downstairs one after another.
Hu Wei brought Master Four Treasures to the cubicle where Ye Shaoyang and the two were, smiled at them, and said, "This kind of gathering happens every half a month. With me, they feel at ease and can do whatever they want. So when discussing the harvest and experience of raising little ghosts, don't be afraid to reveal the slightest bit."
Ma Cheng let out a deep breath, and said: "I never thought that there are so many people around me who are raising little ghosts, and they have raised such a variety of patterns, it feels like another world."
After thinking for a while, he said, "However, the fortune they talk about is really related to raising little ghosts?"
"Little ghosts raised alive will not have much greater impact on one's life than Feng Shui. It is more of a psychological effect, but after getting along for a long time, they have already regarded the little ghosts as a kind of support, even as their own children. , how much benefit the brat can bring them is secondary."
He pointed to Ma Cheng's Guman Tong, and said, "You little devil, you will be as lively and cute as them in the future. What kind of character you have depends on how you raise it."
Ma Cheng frowned and said, "But when it entered Gumantong, it seemed to be in pain?"
Hu Wei said: "They are used to living a free life, so of course they don't want to be restrained by humans, but once they are supported for a long time, they will realize this kind of goodness: someone supports them, they can practice at any time, and they have a spiritual body that can avoid danger. All the brats will adapt and like this feeling, trust me."
Ma Cheng nodded, stroked Gumantong's smooth head with one hand, and said, "I like this gift very much, thank you very much. But I still want to win that girl's heart."