Chapter 30: One Corpse, Two Lives
"Yan Shang Taoist priest...Yan Shang..." To be honest, when Taoist priest Chen Guang first mentioned the words "Yan Shang Taoist priest", Zhang Guozhong felt that this person had an extraordinary background and was probably closely related to Zhu Yunwen, or that was Zhu Yunwen himself. In the legend of folk unofficial history, Zhu Yunwen changed his surname to "Rang" after his escape, to express his helplessness of being forced to "avenge". Some scholars and scholars of ancient and modern times even directly called him "Zeng Emperor". The name of "Yan Shang Taoist" in the story is at least highly consistent with this legend. Isn't it true that the word "Yan" plus the word "Shang" homophonic to "Shang"?
Youdao is that enemies are narrow. Just when Zhang Guozhong was about to say goodbye to Taoist Master Chen Guang and went to inquire about this "Taoist Yan Shang" and the mysterious "Han Bone Cave", the young man who was just now appeared not far away, looking around, and the aunt who had just jumped to curse seemed to have not followed. "Hey! Taoist Master!" Hearing his tone, the young man seemed to have no hostility.
"Comrade, I think you might have had some misunderstanding just now..." Seeing that he had been discovered, Zhang Guozhong had to smile again.
"I know it's a misunderstanding!" The young man quickly approached next to Zhang Guozhong and Taoist Master Chenguang, and squatted down like a thief, "Tao Master, is there any way to resolve what you just said?"
"Eh...this..." Master Chen Guang frowned, "Young man, this kind of thing cannot be resolved by just resolving it. You should first talk about what's going on. Is there anything I'm talking about?"
"This..." After hearing what Master Chen Guang said, the young man immediately looked embarrassed and turned his head and looked at Zhang Guozhong awkwardly, as if something was inconvenient to say in front of Zhang Guozhong.
"Well... This is the head of Maoshan, the main disciple of Maoshan Sect. You have anything to say but it's okay!" Taoist Chen Guang pointed at Zhang Guozhong, "He should have a better way to do your business than me!"
"Oh! So it's Master Zhang... I'm lucky, my name is Kong Fei..." The young man smiled awkwardly, "To be honest, it's true that it's the same as this Taoist priest said, it's a corpse and two lives, but I don't want her to die, nor is it that I'm hurting her. Please show your compassion and save me..."
"What a corpse and two lives? Are you..." To be honest, Zhang Guozhong was also confused at this time. When he appeared just now, the aunt next to this guy had already started fighting with Taoist Master Chen Guang. As for what the two had said before the fight, he didn't know anything.
"You can't see it?" After hearing Zhang Guozhong say this, Kong Fei immediately felt a sense of suspicion on his face, "Look at me, isn't that special?"
"You?" Zhang Guozhong looked at it carefully. To be honest, the face is not Zhang Guozhong's strength. At this moment, except for the fact that this guy Yin Tang is going black, it seems that there is nothing special. "Brother, your Yin Tang is going black, but what kind of big trouble will happen? If you ask yourself, there is not a way to resolve everything!"
"Oh... Actually..." Kong Fei seemed to have struggled for a while and finally spoke, "Let me say so, there is a woman who is pregnant and dies with a big belly. What about this matter... More or less has something to do with me, do you understand?"
"What then?" Zhang Guozhong nodded. To be honest, Zhang Guozhong has not had many hobbies in his life, and inquiring about gossip news is a particularly important part of these few hobbies. When encountering this matter at this moment, it seems that the situation is going to develop in an improper direction of relationship between men and women. How can such free gossip news be spared?
"Then it's like this!" Kong Fei looked bitter and revengeful. "Now people have been buried. They are specially looking for graves to be picked by people. They also ask the monk to recite the scriptures. They are all the money I spent. What do you want me to do!"
"Reciting the scriptures?" Zhang Guozhong was stunned, "What scriptures did you recite?" To be honest, according to the theory of Taoism, there are different ways of dying to save different ways of dying. Those who drown, those who die of illness, those who die of burning, and those who die of falling, each have their own scriptures. If you encounter two swords and chant in one go, it will be counterproductive.
"Oh, this is all arranged by the teacher. I don't know. If you say chant, just read it. Who would have thought that it would become such a mess now?" Kong Fei sighed constantly.
"Must? What a mess?" Zhang Guozhong continued to ask.
"Oh, Master Zhang, don't ask the bottom line. Anyway, I've told you about the general situation. Just tell me what to do. Money is not a problem!"
"Brother Kong, I know you have money, but this is not a matter of whether you are rich or not..." Zhang Guozhong smiled slightly, "Have you ever sued the court?"
"I've beaten..." Kong Fei looked suspicious, "What does this matter have to do with a lawsuit?"
"If you want me to tell you what to do, first you have to tell me what you have done!" Zhang Guozhong said, "Now you are just suing, and I am your lawyer. If you want to win the lawsuit, you have to tell the lawyer word for the cause and effect. Even if there is any illegal thing, I have to tell me what to do next!"
"This..." Kong Fei seemed a little hesitant and looked up at Taoist Master Chenguang. He saw Taoist Master Chenguang kept nodding, "President Zhang, my story is a long story. This is not a place to talk. I have to go back now. The one we are still waiting for me. In this way, will you leave a phone number?"
"This..." After leaving a phone call, Zhang Guozhong was a little hesitant. According to his plan, he wanted to listen to gossip news and then ask for precautions. After all, he didn't have time to learn from Lei Feng here.
"President Zhang, please help him. I am really destined to go down the mountain to meet him today..." Just as Zhang Guozhong was hesitating, Master Chen Guang suddenly spoke, and Zhang Guozhong was stunned. "My body can't afford to worry about him. Since you caught up today, it's a fate. Can you help him with my face? Otherwise, what do you think about the matter of Taoist Yan Shang and Han Bite Cave if you are in my body?"
Zhang Guozhong is a person with good face. After hearing what Master Chen Guang said, he could only agree. After leaving a phone call, Kong Fei hurriedly left, and Zhang Guozhong followed Master Chen Guang to Fuzhen Temple. That night, Master Chen Guang told Zhang Guozhong all the opinions of him about Kong Fei. It turned out that Master Chen Guang had someone who was destined to go up the mountain not long ago, and then went down the mountain to meet. As Master Chen Guang himself, he didn't know in advance that this person would be Kong Fei. However, since he had destiny in the hexagram, he must have a close relationship with Master Chen Guang himself or Wudang Mountain in this life, so he came forward to help.
According to Wudang's physiognomy analysis, Taoist Master Chen Guang believed that Kong Fei was like a life-threatening "Ghost", and was affected by a corpse and two lives. Although he would not suffer a disaster, if he was not resolved in time, if he allowed this "Ghost" to accumulate over the years, he would be in danger of life if he didn't have much time to do so. But when he found out why this "Ghost" came and how to resolve it, he really had to ask Kong Fei what was going on and then analyze the specific situation. Shortly after dinner, Zhang Guozhong received a call from Kong Fei, and the two agreed to meet in Shiyan the next day.
The next day, Zhang Guozhong took the earliest shuttle bus to Shiyan. Kong Fei seemed to have been waiting for a long time in a small restaurant on Renmin Middle Road.
"President Zhang, this matter is a long story..." At the dinner table, Kong Fei poured wine for Zhang Guozhong, and then stuffed a paper bag into Zhang Guozhong's hands. It was money without thinking. It should be 40,000 to 50,000 yuan. "Don't think that this is a small meaning!"
"Take this back..." Zhang Guozhong pushed back the money, "Master Chenguang and I are friends. I will help him, how can I collect your money?"
"Oh, Master Zhang, you..." Seeing that Zhang Guozhong didn't want money, Kong Fei looked embarrassed, so he simply took out two dozen or so dollars in cash from his handbag and stuffed it into Zhang Guozhong's hands with the paper bag. It seemed that he was misunderstanding Zhang Guozhong and thought Zhang Guozhong thought it was a small amount of money. "Oh, Master Zhang, you just treat it as a donation and use it to print scriptures, how about it?"
"You misunderstood..." Zhang Guozhong smiled, "I really don't need to pay. Tell me the cause and effect of the whole thing, and I'll see how I should help you!"
"This..." Kong Fei looked suspicious, "Master Zhang, to be honest, all I can get is this now. Otherwise, these are considered deposits. You can offer a price and I will make up for you after the matter is done!"
"Brother Kong, you really misunderstood. I really don't want money! Master Chen Guang said that you are destined to be with Wudang, so he went down the mountain to find you. He entrusted me to help you. I will not charge you money!" Zhang Guozhong also collapsed. What's wrong with this society? Why don't this trust bet between people?
"Since that's the case, I'll thank you first. I hope you will thank the Taoist priest on my behalf. I will definitely come to the door to thank you another day!" Seeing that Zhang Guozhong seemed to really not have money, Kong Fei also looked relieved, "Oh, this life is a fucking mistake...!"
According to Kong Fei, the biggest nightmare in his life is the wife who is fourteen years older than him, the aunt who jumped and scolded Taoist Master Chenguang yesterday. The man's name is Wu Jie, the owner of a supermarket chain. The two met in a bar.
Kong Fei is not small in origin. His father was once a bureau-level cadre. He lived a life of food and drink since he was a child. Under the arrangement of his father, after graduating from a technical secondary school, Kong Fei successfully entered a public institution to work. In just two years, he got into the position of a department-level position. He was quite promising, but unexpectedly, in the third year of his work, his father was under double supervision due to financial problems, which affected Kong Fei's career path. He was just promoted and was made excuses by the unit not long after.
After evacuating it, Kong Fei simply quit his job and took some money from his family to start the clothing business. But to be honest, doing business, especially clothing business, requires diligence and vision. Kong Fei does not have these two points either. He soon lost all the remaining tens of thousands of yuan in the family. At this time, his girlfriend, who had been dating for three years, also proposed to break up with Kong Fei. The double frustration of career and love made Kong Fei start drinking all day long and drowning his sorrows.
Five years ago, Kong Fei and a group of friends met Wu Jie while drinking in a bar. At that time, Wu Jie had not gained weight yet, and her dressing was still charming. With the help of alcohol, Kong Fei and Wu Jie hooked up. During the relationship, Wu Jie took care of Kong Fei in every detail and was extremely generous. Once Kong Fei celebrated his birthday, Wu Jie actually bought an Audi sedan and gave it to Kong Fei as a gift. In addition to being moved, Kong Fei had to "do it"
"I promised to repay them. Kong Fei's family naturally strongly opposed the marriage between the two, especially Kong Fei's father, although he had already been dismissed, he was also a bureau-level person and was considered a well-known person in Shiyan. When he learned that his beloved son, the old Kong family had to marry an "aunt" who was fourteen or five years older than him, he was in anger at the time. Even so, Kong Fei still obtained a marriage certificate with Wu Jie without hesitation.
"It's also a fault that I was young at that time. I couldn't find a big deal. It wasn't until I got married that I realized something was wrong. That girl was simply crazy!" Kong Fei frowned, "She was divorced. I heard her say before getting married, but she rarely mentioned her ex-husband to me. At first I thought this was normal, but later I was tortured by her, so I started to inquire about her ex-husband from outsiders. Only then did I realize that her ex-husband ran away from home! She disappeared for five or six years, and she never saw anyone but died or died... Sometimes I even doubted..."
"What do you doubt?" Zhang Guozhong frowned.
"I doubt that the man has been killed by her..." Kong Fei shook his head, "That woman is a lunatic, she is mentally abnormal. She treats me meticulously when she is good, but as long as she disagrees, she will slash me with her knife!"
"Ah?" Zhang Guozhong almost squirted onto the table with a sip of wine, "She? Cut you? Really cut?"
"Yeah!" Kong Fei nodded, "If I were holding a kitchen knife, I would only make a gesture twice at most. If she was holding a kitchen knife, she would really dare to cut it! Look, this was what she cut with a knife, and she had sewed more than thirty needles!" After that, Kong Fei simply unbuttoned the buttons, and saw a big scar lying on Kong Fei's front chest like a centipede, spreading from his chest to his navel.
"Then you won't divorce her?" Zhang Guozhong was stunned. He was so cut like this. Is it necessary to live together?
"Oh! Master Zhang, you don't know anything..." Kong Fei shook his head, "Working to her is to find a dog-skin plaster. That woman is not as simple as I imagined. After I met her, I realized that she had contact with people from the ** side. Her possessiveness is too strong. The most common thing she said is, 'No one can get what I can't get!' I even suspect that his ex-husband was because he wanted to divorce her..." After that, Kong Fei used his hand to "sweep his neck" posture, "Besides, I have no way out. In order to marry her, my family and I have a quarrel. Now I have nothing, no money, no house, and no job. What should I do if I divorce her now?"
"So, you have an extramarital affair?" Zhang Guozhong smiled slightly, and Kong Fei shivered all over his body, "Master Zhang, you are such a god! You... calculated it!?"
"This...I guess!" Zhang Guozhong smiled, "Is it your lover who died of pregnancy?"
"Shh!" Hearing Zhang Guozhong say this, Kong Fei hurriedly made a "shhhh" gesture and subconsciously looked around, "To be honest, I don't know how she died! But I think something is strange!"
"How do you say this?" Zhang Guozhong frowned, "Do you doubt Wu Jie?"
"No! It's impossible it's her!" Kong Fei said, "She shouldn't know about this. If she knew, I would definitely be the one who died first!"
After getting married to Wu Jie, Kong Fei became the deputy general manager in charge of finance in Wu Jie's company and specializes in accounting. This shows that Wu Jie still trusts Kong Fei very much, but trust does not mean feelings. Two years after getting married, Kong Fei met a bank cashier named Liu Qian. Like himself, although Liu Qian is married, she is also a victim of domestic violence. The tragic experience of being connected to the same life made the two quickly establish an ambiguous relationship. Because both of them have families and the family is fierce, the two pay great attention to confidentiality while dating secretly, so they usually contact a telegram.
He had never even talked, and the secret meeting was always the opportunity to go to the bank to do business. Kong Fei secretly wrote a note and handed it to Liu Qian in the document to agree on the location of the meeting. It was like a spy agent during the War of Liberation. In order to secretly date Liu Qian, Kong Fei even secretly rented a house next to his parents' house. He had a chance to have a chance with Liu Qian in this house under the name of going home to see his parents. Wu Jie also had suspicions about Kong Fei's "visiting relatives" every few days and had secretly followed him several times, but found that Kong Fei had indeed entered his building and stayed there for a long time, so he believed it.
"Her husband used to run a billiards hall, but later he stopped doing it. He bet with others every day, plays at night, and sleeps during the day. Liu Qian's work has a non-standard day of rest. As long as she doesn't have a six-day break, we will go to the house I rented!" Speaking of this, Kong Fei looked full of sighs, as if he was very nostalgic for this romantic day.
"Since Liu Qian has a husband, why do you have to pay for the funeral?" Hearing this, Zhang Guozhong seemed a little puzzled. It is said that a couple has a hundred days of kindness. No matter how bad a husband is, he must take care of collecting the body of his wife, right? You can't let his wife lie in the morgue and ignore him, right?
"This is strange, but this is strange!" Kong Fei pursed his lips, "She and her husband drowned in the same place!"
"What do you say?" Zhang Guozhong was stunned, "Who is ahead and who is behind?"
"Sometimes her husband is not in the city for gambling money. He gambles big and tens of thousands of dollars, and he basically goes to the Lijiawan area!"
Liu Qian's husband is Li Guoli. As far as Kong Fei knows, Liu Qian is an orphan. When she married Li Guoli, she had no job or money, and she had no money to get married and buy a house. This directly led to Liu Qian basically having no status in the old Li family. Even if she was bullied, no one would help her. At the beginning, Li Guoli's parents could persuade her son to say a few good things to Liu Qian from time to time, but later the two old people died of illness and Li Guoli
He even disliked Liu Qian. When Li Guoli's father was alive, he worked in a bank when he was alive. Before he retired, he had a job recruitment place. It happened that Liu Qian was a major in accounting, so he took the opportunity to arrange his daughter-in-law to work in the bank. Now Li Guoli was even more reasonable, so that in the future, the money Liu Qian earned every month was to be handed over to Li Guoli except for the car fee and meal fee he had to leave. Li Guoli's only way to deal with the money was gambling.
Speaking of gambling, Li Guoli was not stupid to bet, but colluded with a few old gambling sticks to put in a circle every few days to get a cheating cheating Kaizi. If you really encounter a big head, it is normal to cheat tens of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars in one night. The size of the gambling game will also change. Once you catch a big head with a cash of over 10,000 yuan, for safety reasons, the gambling game must be set up in the suburbs, which is the legendary Lijiawan. If you gather in the city, you will be reported by neighbors and be taken over by the public security bureau, hiring in prison is a trivial matter. The thousands of cash on the table will support the construction of the country.
"Li Guoli will not go home for at least two days when Li Guoli goes to Lijiawan. I could have stayed with Liu Qian for one day, but it happened that her family had a housing procedure that had to be handled on the same day, and she had to take the original ID card of Li Guoli. Li Guoli's ID card was always with him, so Liu Qian could only take leave and go to Lijiawan to find Li Guoli. As a result..." Kong Fei shook his head and sighed, "It was not until the forensic autopsy that I knew that Liu Qian was pregnant, and I didn't even know who the child was..."
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Fate-breaking "ghost": Usually, the so-called "fate-breaking" of something in Taoism does not mean that the thing hits the victim's body, or something attached to or around it, but that the victim is contaminated with certain unchanged aura or commits certain taboos. "Zi" is pronounced as "tai", which is the same as "fetal".
Chapter completed!