I let Shen Bing sleep in my doghouse for a while. Although she was not happy about it, she had no choice but to go into my room. Although my mother hadn't slept for three days and was too sleepy to lift her head, she still went to burn incense and worship in front of the ancestral tablets, thanking the ancestors for helping me get through this disaster, and then went back to sleep.
Since I had no place to sleep, I moved out the alchemy furnace and started to make Yin-boosting pills in the living room. Before the New Year, I gave almost all the pills I made in the year to Director Cui. Now I don’t have any ready stock, so I have to make a batch and send it to the underworld. He’s been very busy, so we can’t be disloyal.
I was refining the elixir and I fell asleep without knowing when. I was awakened by a knock on the door. I rubbed my eyes and ran out to open the door. It was Wang Zijun. I said, "It's so early in the morning. You just slept for a short time. Why are you here again?"
Wang Zijun pointed at the sun in the sky and said, "It's already past twelve o'clock, and it's still early in the morning. Are you sleepy?"
I looked up and saw that the sun was high in the sky. My mind cleared up and I asked him why he didn't go to take care of his uncle's funeral and why he came to see me. His expression suddenly became very mysterious and he whispered to me, "I was woken up by the mayor. Master Mao died in the square when he hit a street lamp at dawn."
After hearing this, I was moved and asked him, "Is the street lamp the one Liu San and his gang killed?"
"Yes, it's very weird. I think the ghost boy has been scared out of his wits, so why are there still people bumping into him?" Wang Zijun scratched his head and said, "The mayor invited me over, but I don't see what's going on."
I also found it strange, so I casually said to him, "It could be a coincidence, or maybe she knew that the lamp post had killed someone, and maybe she had a change of heart after she became mentally ill, and she was repenting for the death. It's not surprising that she died there."
"What you said makes sense." Wang Zijun nodded and said to me, "I asked the mayor to remove that street lamp because it was too unlucky. The mayor even rewarded me with a pack of Yunnan Yunnan cigarettes. Haha." The boy took out a pack of cigarettes from his down jacket and shook it in front of me.
I told him that you should learn something else in the future. You are impatient and not suitable for the job of a Taoist priest. As I was talking, his cell phone rang. When he answered the phone, his expression was extremely horrified. He just kept nodding. After hanging up the phone, he pulled me aside and said, "Come with me to the square. Something happened there again."
I hurriedly asked him what happened, and then I went back to the house to put on my coat. Just then, Shen Bing got up and came out. I heard Wang Zijun shouting outside the door: "When the street lamp was being dismantled in the square, two people were hit. Blood and water were gushing out from the ground..."
When I heard this, I thought it was weird and I didn't bother to talk to Shen Bing. I ran out of the room with my coat on. Shen Bing followed me out. How could she be missing from such a lively place
When I ran to the edge of the square, I saw a lot of people running there. The town was very busy these two days. Accidents happened one after another, making it difficult for everyone to have a good New Year.
We squeezed into the crowd and saw that the bolts of the street lamp had been removed from the ground and it had fallen to the ground. Two workers were pinned to the ground with blood all over their heads and faces. The doctors from the health center were busy carrying them to the ambulance. It seemed that they were not dead yet. Sure enough, blood and water were bubbling up from the ground around the street lamp, forming a circle.
Shen Bing asked, "Is it because the blood of the two dead people seeped into the ground and is now oozing out again?"
I gave her a thumbs up and she smiled smugly and said, "I'm pretty smart, right?"
"Congratulations, you got the answer wrong!"
The mayor was directing the rescue of the wounded. When he saw Wang Zijun, he really thought he was a Taoist priest. He grabbed his hand and said, "Nephew, think of a way quickly. Don't let anything happen here again!"
Wang Zijun looked at me, wanting to hear my opinion, but I was staring at the circle of blood and had no time to answer him. He could only say to the mayor: "Let me place two talismans to suppress the evil spirits."
I suddenly thought of something, waved my hand and shouted at him, "You can't put the talisman there, it will only cause trouble."