Old man Shen, who only dared to do tricks behind people's back, put his hands behind his back and slowly returned to the Shen family.
Meanwhile, Xiao Quezi, who had hurriedly and stumbled all the way home, threw himself on the kang as soon as he entered the house, and it took him a long time to recover.
The road was difficult to walk on, and he had one leg longer than the other, so walking was difficult to do. In addition, he had something on his mind, so he walked until he was sweating.
Xiao Quezi, who had recovered from his shock, turned over and lay on the kang, pointing at the old woman sewing shoe soles next to him: "Quickly pour me some hot water."
After hearing this, Xiao Quezi's wife Zhang Guihua put down her needle and thread, went downstairs to pour a bowl of hot water for the old man and handed it to her son. She watched Xiao Quezi take it and drank it in a few gulps without caring about the heat.
"Oh, it's hot. Please slow down. Why are you in such a hurry?" Zhang Guihua almost tried to snatch the bowl from his hand. Who would drink hot water like this?
After the boiling hot water entered his stomach, Xiao Quezi felt alive again. He put the bowl aside, held the old woman's hand, and muttered in fear: "I almost couldn't come back today!"
"What's wrong? You look so unhappy. Did you fall on the road?" Zhang Guihua quickly stood up to check Xiao Quezi's leg.
My old man's legs are not very good, and it has just snowed outside, so the road is slippery. He might fall somewhere on the road.
"No, I didn't fall. It was really a ghost today!" Xiao Guizi quickly held down the old woman who was about to get up, and said with lingering fear.
"What's the matter? Is there something dirty going on in the Shen family?" Zhang Guihua thought the old man had heard some gossip, and her eyes immediately lit up.
"That's not the case. It's a real ghost. The fourth girl from the Shen family is really possessed by a ghost. It might even be a fierce ghost. I've lived for decades, but this is the first time I've seen one in my life."
Zhang Guihua blinked her eyes and looked at the old man lying on the kang with a face full of fear. Didn't he look like he was teasing her?
"What's going on? Tell me quickly, how did you figure it out? Are we going to exorcise the ghost after that?" Zhang Guihua grabbed Xiao Quezi's arm, her voice clearly filled with a tone of wanting to watch the fun.
"You old woman, do you think I am too old? I have already told you it is a fierce ghost, how dare I provoke it! And you want to exorcise the ghost? Then you will be in trouble when the time comes, or you will cry!"
"Then...then can they let you come back?"
Zhang Guihua also knew that her husband was the only fortune teller in the surrounding villages. If she were in his shoes and encountered such a thing, she would not let the man go, right?
Xiao Quezi approached his wife and whispered to her, "I didn't dare tell Old Man Shen. I just said what we agreed when he came to see me. I didn't tell him the truth."
The man's pride got in the way. Fearing that his wife would think he was a coward, Xiao Kuizi added, "Evil ghost, how can you expect me to bear such a huge consequence for just his half a pound of flour? What if I lose my life in the process?"
"Besides, why doesn't this evil spirit go to other families' homes? It must be that family's fault. I looked at several people in his family, and they all had dark green energy in their foreheads."
"God wants to punish their family, who can stop him?"
"What does that evil ghost look like? How did you identify it? Tell me quickly!" Zhang Guihua's curiosity burned like a raging fire.
In order to get her old man to speak faster, Zhang Guihua stood up again, pulled a mattress from the kang cabinet next to her, and put it against the wall for him to lean on.
Xiao Quezi was also looking for someone to talk to, so he immediately found a comfortable position and began talking to his wife.
"You know, I can see the peculiarities of everyone's forehead. But the fourth girl from the Shen family has an empty forehead. There is nothing there. When I saw it, I thought I was seeing things!"
"I looked at it several times before I was sure that the little girl's face really didn't show any anger at all. Who would be like that? Only dead people, you know? Only dead people have no anger on their foreheads!!!"
"And I heard that this girl was very depressed before. She might not say a word all day. She was very obedient at home. Now she's suddenly slashing and biting people. Isn't this evidence?"
"I thought about it for a long time, but in the end I didn't dare to tell the truth to Old Man Shen. I was afraid. Everyone has their own destiny. Their family was destined to have such a disaster. If I resolved it for them, I'm afraid that this disaster would have to be transferred to our family."
"If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have gone even if it was just a bag, let alone half a pound of flour."
Speaking of flour, Xiao Quezi sat up and quickly asked the old woman, "Where is Zhuzi? Hurry up and ask Zhuzi to send the flour back to Old Shen's house, and stay as far away from Old Shen's house in Dongliang as possible."
Zhang Guihua was immediately unhappy when she heard that she had to return the flour she had obtained: "Why do we have to return it? Apart from anything else, you can't even return it after running such a long way?"
"It's not Old Man Shen who wants to take it back, it's me who doesn't want it. You old woman don't understand. Don't touch their things in the future. It's unlucky, do you understand?"
Zhang Guihua was a little reluctant to give it up: "I finally got some white flour, and I was thinking about making a few more dumplings during the Chinese New Year."
Although there are always people who ask Xiao Guizi to tell their fortunes these days, the rewards he gives are not very good. Usually they just give a little cornmeal or a few sweet potatoes.
So the half pound of flour given by Old Man Shen, although not much, made Zhang Guihua really happy for a while.
Now that I heard that it will be sent back, I feel so uncomfortable.
"As a person, you can't be too greedy, especially in our line of work. If you want me to die sooner, just keep it!"
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