Chapter 124 Curse
Chapter 124 Curse
Yin Lishang hid behind Ning Zhe, clutching his sleeve tightly and carefully poking his head out. In front of him was a pile of snow-white broken bones. His grandmother's head was lying in the corner, staring at him with eyes wide open, her lips trembling, and no one knew what she was saying.
At this moment, a dark shadow quickly passed by the porch and disappeared.
I saw it! That's the thing that killed Grandma!
Yin Lishang was so frightened that his face turned pale. He hugged Ning Zhe's waist tightly from behind like a frightened raccoon: "Brother, what should we do? Our house is haunted. There are really ghosts in the world..."
This sentence sounded strange when it came out of her mouth in such a context, but Ning Zhe did not dwell on this issue too much. He gently comforted Yin Lishang and silently took out a copper coin from his pocket.
Ning Zhe had already made plans for his next move when he calculated that the money he had on him was not enough to support him to reach the deepest part of the abyss and realized that he had no hope of unraveling the secret of Yanglao Village.
A thief never leaves empty-handed. Even if he fails to solve the puzzle, he will never accept going back empty-handed.
Ding--
It was the sound of coins falling to the ground.
Yin Lishang looked up when he heard the sound, and saw a copper coin being thrown out from his brother's hand. It drew a graceful parabola in the air and finally landed in a pale palm that exuded a foul odor of corruption. It fell into the open cloth bag held in the palm of the hand, and collided with the copper coins already in the bag, making a crisp sound.
The owner of the hand was a skinny old man wearing a loose Confucian robe. His skinny body, like a withered firewood, had a round, bulging belly, just like a pregnant woman.
In the middle of the old man's shoulders was half of his neck left after being beheaded. He held a cloth purse in one hand and an old man's head with long gray hair in the other. It was his own head.
Ning Zhe didn’t know how Lan Shiwen controlled Wutong, but he could still do business with Wutong, and that was enough.
The God of Wealth took the copper coin from Ning Zhe and stood there without any movement.
"Not enough money?" Ning Zhe frowned, then he quickly understood what was going on.
——I am now using the identity of Ji Taiyu to buy my life from the God of Wealth. If it is the first time for a person to buy his life from the God of Wealth, the price of one life should be one copper coin.
But now, one copper coin cannot buy a life from the God of Wealth, which means that this is not the first time Ji Taixuan has seen the God of Wealth. He has bought his life from the God of Wealth before. When was it? How many times did he buy it? Where did the money for buying life come from?
Ning Zhe didn't know.
Ning Zhe silently took out another copper coin and threw it into the palm of the God of Wealth. At the same time, he changed his face. If Feng Yushu was standing inside the door instead of outside, he would be able to recognize that this person was the security guard of Bishuiwan Manor, Tian Chengyun.
Yin Lishang, who was standing behind Ning Zhe and hugging him, did not notice the changes in his brother's facial features. He only saw that after receiving two copper coins, the God of Wealth finally nodded.
Ning Zhe bought a life from the God of Wealth Wutong in the identity of Tian Chengyun.
Suddenly, the originally silent world had a sound. At the same time, the grandmother lying in the corner disappeared.
Ning Zhe heard the rustling of the wind through the bamboo forest, the croaking of toads in the kitchen, the ubiquitous ambient white noise, as well as his own breathing and heartbeat. The world before him was still black and white, but there was sound.
"Back to '聻'." Ning Zhe nodded slightly. Yin Lishang behind him was still hugging his waist tightly. He could feel the girl's warm body temperature and steady heartbeat.
After returning to "Xie" from "Xi", Ji Taiyu's grandmother disappeared, but Yin Lishang did not disappear. Does this mean that Yin Lishang actually exists in every layer of the world at the same time?
Well...the God of Wealth also exists in every level of the world.
Ning Zhe took out four copper coins again and put them into the God of Wealth's hand.
Thus, the originally black and white world regained color. The red paint on the door, the white putty on the wall, the dark gray cement floor underfoot, and the red dress on Yin Lishang also became brighter... But there was still an inexplicable depression in the closed hut. This was the underworld. Ning Zhe took out 8 copper coins again and put them into the hands of the God of Wealth.
The God of Wealth remained unmoved.
"It seems that the number behind 4 is not 8, but 16." Ning Zhe felt a little tricky, but fortunately he had enough money in his hand. He took out 8 copper coins again, added up to 16 and put them into the hands of the God of Wealth.
Wutong took the money and sent Ningzhe back to the world of the living.
The five links disappeared.
Ning Zhe changed his face back to Ji Taiyu's appearance, turned around to look at Yin Lishang who was cowering behind him and trembling with fear, and felt a little confused.
Caishen Wutong's trading rules have two characteristics:
1. Raise the price
The price of transactions with Wutong will become more expensive each time. Ning Zhe has just verified that starting from the second transaction, the price of each transaction is the square of the previous one.
2. Forced buying and selling
Anyone who sees Wutong will be forced into a transaction, either buy or sell, there is no third option.
"But from what he did just now, Wutong doesn't seem to consider Yin Lishang as a trading partner?" Ning Zhe was puzzled. Why were there more and more mysteries surrounding this little girl? But the current situation also made Ning Zhe more clear about one thing - Ji Taiyu's sister was indeed the key to solving the mystery in Yanglao Village and obtaining the Yin family's inheritance.
"Brother...ghost, is the ghost gone?"
Not until grandma and Wutong disappeared did Yin Lishang nervously let go of the hands that were holding Ning Zhe's waist, tears welling up in his eyes with fear.
"Yes, the ghosts are gone." Ning Zhe took out a pack of tissues from his arms, wiped away the tears that slid down her cheeks to her chin, and said, "I used money to send those ghosts away. Now you don't have to be afraid."
"Hmm..." Yin Lishang nodded obediently: "What about grandma? And grandpa, how are they?"
"They were all killed by ghosts." Ning Zhe's face showed a sad expression, and he said softly: "I came back this time because of this. Our family was cursed by evil ghosts."
"Is the curse like Sadako's videotape?" When talking about curses, the first thing that came to Yin Lishang's mind was The Ring, which was one of the few horror films she had watched.
"Almost." Ning Zhe nodded and continued, "Dad and Mom have both met with misfortune, and Grandma and Grandpa have not escaped the pursuit of evil spirits. Now we are the only ones left at home. Before Mom died, she told me to protect you."
"I..." Yin Lishang was at a loss for a moment. For a little girl who had never seen the world, the shock of four relatives dying one after another was still too great.
"Let's go. I'll take you away from here and take shelter somewhere else." Ning Zhe took Yin Lishang's hand and walked towards the village entrance.
"Okay." Yin Lishang nodded obediently, followed Ning Zhe closely and left the small village where she was born and raised.
(End of this chapter)