Chapter Thirty-Seven Nightmare 1 (Bonus Chapter with Nutrient Solution)
Half a month passed in a flash.
Yunxin was surprised to find that the new company was actually quite good.
There are few colleagues in the department, the interpersonal relationships are simple, the work is easy and easy to learn, and there are no worries.
"A cold wave is coming! It will pass through many cities, and the lowest temperature will drop below zero." The peak work season was over, and the group finally had some free time. Ning Lu openly browsed the news and told the others, "Didn't there be an earthquake in the city a few months ago? I heard that all the houses collapsed. Fortunately, the government sent people to build temporary housing to resettle the victims, otherwise they would have frozen to death this winter."
"In the past, there were no earthquake-resistant requirements for building houses. It is said that the standards have been consciously raised in post-disaster reconstruction, and the houses built must be able to withstand earthquakes of at least magnitude 7."
"The disaster victims are fortunate, but we don't know when these houses will be completed."
Liu Yongchang exclaimed in surprise, "Then won't these people be able to move into the new house then?"
Yin Hang said quietly, "If they had a choice, these people might not want a new house."
Living in a house you bought yourself, busy every day, going to work on time. Not rich or powerful, but not starving or freezing to death either—this is the happiness of an ordinary person.
“You can’t say that,” Liu Yongchang disagreed. “They suffered a lot because of the earthquake. But every cloud has a silver lining. Once they get through these tough years, they’ll move into new houses, find new jobs, and life will go smoothly again.”
"Are you envious?" Ning Lu asked.
"I'm envious," Liu Yongchang said without hesitation. "After graduation, I saved money by living frugally for five or six years and finally took out a loan to buy a second-hand house."
"After getting married and having a baby, I found that living in the old house was really uncomfortable. I wanted to move to a new house, but when I checked, the prices of new houses were shockingly expensive."
"After working so hard for so many years, I still can't afford a new house. Can you believe how frustrating that is?"
"I heard that the government will rebuild the houses of the disaster victims. I wish there would be an earthquake in our city so that my house would collapse."
Ning Lu remained silent.
Yin Hang didn't respond.
Liu Yongchang sighed with envy.
Yun Xin didn't notice; she was carefully examining the calendar at that moment.
After repeatedly calculating and confirming that today was indeed her fifteenth day at the company, she couldn't help but feel a surge of emotions—it had been so long since she had spent half a month at the same company; this company was quite resilient!
There's a saying: "Extreme joy begets sorrow."
During the day, Yunxin was overjoyed that she had made it through fifteen days at her new company.
She had nightmares when she slept at night.
Yunxin doesn't usually dream, but on this day, she not only dreamed, but it wasn't a bizarre or strange dream either; instead, it was a recollection of her childhood.
Yunxin displayed extraordinary talent as a shrine maiden not long after her birth.
Her mother was so worried that her daughter would bring bad luck to her partner that she sent her away when she was a child and had her grandmother take care of her.
My maternal grandmother was a well-known sorceress in the area. Wealthy people often paid a lot of money to her to ward off disasters, dispel evil spirits, and ensure peace.
Grandma would be out all day, and sometimes she wouldn't be back in time. She also preferred to live alone and didn't want a nanny to come to the house, so she simply took Yunxin with her every time she went out to work.
Gradually, the employer noticed that sometimes a casual remark made by the child brought by the witch was more accurate than the witch's own prophecy!
People not only don't object to the shrine maiden bringing her child along while she works, but some even give up consulting the shrine maiden and instead ask Yunxin for advice.
Over time, Yunxin's reputation grew, her wallet thickened, and she was ostracized at school...
Adults always say that they are still children.
But actually, children can be very clever.
Some children can clearly distinguish who they can bully and who they cannot.
Yunxin was young, a girl, and thin. Her parents were not around, and her only relative was her maternal grandmother, who did strange work as a witch. Naturally, she was targeted.
One day, Yunxin was sitting by the river in a daze when four boys suddenly ran over.
The one in the lead, putting on a mature and condescending air, said, "I heard your grandmother was a witch who could curse people. Nobody dares to live in the house she lived in, is that true?"
“My maternal grandmother was a witch who specialized in helping people get rid of bad luck and saving lives, not a witch who harms people,” Yun Xin explained one by one. “No one lives around here because the area was demolished, and the other people received compensation and moved to new houses.”
Grandma refused to move, and since she had once saved the developer, the developer ultimately decided to demolish the area where Grandma lived but not the area.
"Liar!" the leader of the boys suddenly exclaimed angrily. "Your grandma is a great witch, and you're a little witch! You curse whoever you don't like!"
As he spoke, he pushed Yunxin forcefully.
Yun Xin didn't budge, but he fell to the ground and burst into tears, "You still say you're not a witch? You know witchcraft!"
Yun Xin, "..."
With a stern face, she said in a sinister tone, "Now that you've found out, I'm going to curse you. Not just you, but also your parents, your grandparents, and even the little dog they keep at the door—I won't let a single one of them go!"
"Anyone who dares to provoke a witch should pay the price."
The children were stunned, burst into tears, and then ran away one after another.
Yunxin, who knows nothing about curses: I'll just draw a circle to curse you, that'll be enough.
After seeing the person off, Yunxin continued to sit by the river, lost in thought.
After a while, another boy ran over and asked, "Do you really know witchcraft?"
Yunxin, whose repeated denials were to no avail, said, "I said no, but you didn't believe me."
Hearing that he didn't know witchcraft, the boy immediately became discouraged. He sat down next to Yun Xin and said disappointedly, "If only you did."
"Do we really have to pin our hopes on a curse? Can't we solve this through normal means?" Yunxin couldn't understand what boys of this age were thinking.
"My dad likes to drink, and when he's drunk he beats people. My mom couldn't stand it, so she ran off with someone else." The boy had no sense of the need to air his dirty laundry in public and told everyone about the problems he was facing.
“When my mom isn’t home, he beats me. I’ve tried telling other adults, and neighbors and the neighborhood head have all tried to talk him out. Every time, he agrees in front of others. But after a few days, he goes back to his old ways and beats me even harder.”
“I tried to run away, but I never got to run for long before someone brought me back.”
"If I can't successfully curse him to death, I'll be beaten to death sooner or later."
As he spoke, he rolled up his sleeve, revealing shocking bruises on his arm.
Yunxin froze. She was only eleven years old, and she didn't know what to do.
"Why don't you come home with me first to apply the medicine? When Grandma comes back, I'll ask her to help you figure something out?"
This was the best solution that eleven-year-old Yunxin could think of.
“Okay.” The boy wasn’t scared at all and casually followed Yun Xin back to the legendary “witch’s house.”
Yunxin fed him, cleaned his wounds, and told him to take a shower. After they had eaten and drunk their fill, the two of them waited together for Grandma to come home.
As dusk fell, Grandma returned.
Upon hearing about the boy's situation, the grandmother said she couldn't help him. Even a witch must obey the law.
At the time, federal laws were inadequate, and outsiders could only offer advice but not interfere in other people's family affairs.
The boy was disappointed, but still thanked him politely.
Later, Yunxin consciously inquired about the boy.
His name is Xiao Wei. He is twelve years old, in the same grade as her, and one year older than her.
Xiao Wei's father was even worse than Xiao Wei described. He neglected his child, was drunk all the time, and would beat people when he was unhappy.
Xiao Wei was often hungry and had a very difficult life.
Moreover, no one washes the clothes when they get dirty, and even if they are washed, there are no replacements, so the child has to keep wearing them. Over time, the child develops a strange smell, is ostracized at school, and is then bullied by other boys.
When Yunxin first met a child even more miserable than herself, she took her pocket money and asked her grandmother, "Since his father doesn't care about him, can I take care of him?"
Grandma thought about it all night and finally agreed.
So Yunxin raised him like a puppy, feeding him, giving him new clothes, and bathing him.
At the same time, for the first time in his life, he seriously drew circles in his little notebook, cursing Xiao Wei's father.
Unfortunately, I'm not a professional, and several months have passed with no results.
Just as Yunxin was feeling frustrated, she saw black mist on the man.
A person afflicted by death energy will generally die within one to three days.
That was the first time Yun Xin had seen death energy on someone else, yet she didn't want to do anything about it. She didn't want to warn them, didn't want to salvage the situation, and even wished the death energy would circulate faster.
Yunxin couldn't wait to tell Xiaowei the good news, but when she saw Xiaowei the next day, he not only had injuries on his body, but also on his face.
That man was actually good at putting on a show; he usually wouldn't hit his child's face. He seemed to think that as long as there were no injuries on his face, no one would know he was abusing his son, and no one would bother him.
"I might not live much longer." Tears streamed down Xiao Wei's face, but he stubbornly pursed his lips. "If I die someday, you'll sue him for me."
Yun Xin hugged Xiao Wei and whispered in his ear, "Just bear with it a little longer, it will be fine in three days at most."
Xiao Wei didn't say anything, but simply hugged Yun Xin back.
Less than three days later, Xiao Wei's father died the next day.
The cause of death was alcohol poisoning.
It turned out that his father was an alcoholic who didn't work and gradually squandered the family fortune.
But even though I've lost my money, I still want to drink.
Xiao Wei’s father heard from someone that industrial alcohol was cheap and had an alcoholic taste, so he bought several kilograms of industrial alcohol to drink at home.
He drank himself to death.
It is said that on the day of the funeral, a man wept bitterly in front of the memorial tablet, saying, "I was just joking, how could you actually buy it! And drink several kilograms at a time, without diluting it with water..."
In any case, Xiao Wei is finally free.
Just as Yunxin was getting ready to take good care of her puppy, Aunt Xiaowei jumped out and said she wanted to adopt Xiaowei.
Grandma said that according to the law, if a relative is willing to raise a child whose parents are deceased, then that relative should indeed raise the child.
Yunxin initially wanted to give up. She told herself that as long as she was doing well, it didn't matter if she didn't live with her.
But otherwise, how could they be considered siblings?
Xiao Wei had only stayed at his aunt's house for a few days when new bruises appeared on his body. It was said that he had misbehaved at home, and his aunt had "disciplined" him with a feather duster.
Yunxin asked, "Would she use a feather duster to discipline her own son?"
Xiao Wei shook her head, "No."
Very good, the fist is hard.
Yunxin didn't sleep all night, thinking of many solutions but rejecting them one by one. Finally, she listed a few that seemed more reliable and planned to try them one by one.
First... she wrote an IOU and had Xiao Wei sign it.
Then, holding the IOU, he went to his aunt's house and said, "Xiao Wei's father used to neglect him. He ate at my house, lived at my house, and I prepared all the clothes for him. Now that you are Xiao Wei's guardian, please settle the debt since you are kind-hearted."
Xiao Wei's aunt didn't take it seriously at first, but when she saw the amount, her eyes almost popped out of her head. "Did he eat dragon liver and phoenix marrow? Why does he owe 500,000!"
"Clothes, custom-made! Food, hotel takeout! Residences, villas! Charging these prices isn't much." Yun Xin asked for exorbitant prices, and she did so with great self-righteousness.
Beside him, Xiao Wei nodded vigorously, "Five hundred thousand, we should give it."
Judging from the tone, they not only acknowledged the debt but even wanted to pay more.
Xiao Wei's aunt was furious and kicked Xiao Wei out of the house that very night.
Other relatives were also afraid of taking on the debt and refused to adopt Xiao Wei.
Xiao Wei was finally able to move into Yun Xin's house and live with her.
On the first day of his stay, Yunxin returned the IOU to him and said with a smile, "I've chased away all the bad guys, so no one will bully you anymore."
(End of this chapter)
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