Chapter 31
A row of famer’s houses lay between two large and empty fields.
As the night fell, many villagers who had just returned home from work sat in front of the door to enjoy the coolness. But in this row of farm houses, a large shed was built on the drying yard in front of the house in the middle. It had three high-wattage lights on the top. In the dark surroundings, these three lamps are like the sun, turning night into day.
This household was conducting a funeral. There were many people sitting in front of the door of the shed, crying one after the other.
There is no doubt that the lonely wild ghost guided by the golden light should be from this household.
Lian Xi and Lie Chen stepped forward together.
Funerals in the countryside are no longer as troublesome as before when the corpse had to be kept at home for seven days. Now they could put it in the freezer for three days and burn paper day and night. Then they would take it to the crematorium on the fourth day and complete the final rituals before burying the ashes by hand.
Many relatives and friends sat on the drying yard in front of this house, all of whom had come to express their condolences and also to eat.
There were so many people but none of them were like Lian Xi and Lie Chen.
As soon as the two of them walked into the drying yard, the eyes of relatives and friends shot over. After staring for some time, a village woman with burlap on her shoulders came over: “Who are you looking for?”
Lord Black Reaper put his hands in his pockets, showing no emotion.
The Whie Reaper didn’t expect him to do or say anything. He didn’t even look at him. He directly replied: “We are just passing by. We lived in this area when we were young, so we came back to take a look.”
Several villagers around became curious.
“Which family is this kid from?”
“Didn’t Lao-Zhao’s family move to WuXi the year before last?”
“Doesn’t look like them, it must be someone who moved away a long time ago.”
“Then I don’t know them. So many people move to WuXi every year nowadays.”
Rural people in JiangSu, ZheJiang and ShangHai would often use the name of the territory to refer to the city within it. It was as if they didn’t also live in WuXi territory. Anyway moving to WuXi referred to moving to the urban area of WuXi.
The village woman looked at the two Lian Xi: “My family is conducting a funeral.” After speaking, she looked them up and down.
Lian Xi: “Oh, I’m sorry, my condolences”
The people snuck away and walked down the road. They didn’t go far and just stood by, watching quietly from nearby.
Nowadays, people no longer live like they did in ancient times. In ancient times, people were very simple. Due to underdeveloped transportation systems, outsiders are rarely seen. Back then if you were conducting a banquet and a stranger to the village suddenly appeared, you would enthusiastically invite them into your home for a meal. Wedding ceremonies were especially crowded and lively. Funerals are also no exception. To change sorrow into joy, families would host large meals and invite everyone to eat.
It’s different now.
SuZhou City’s Black and White reaper smuggled into WuXi. Originally they already needed to keep a low profile to avoid being caught by the local ghost official with their tails between their legs. Now the host family didn’t invite them in, so of course they can’t just go in by themselves. Otherwise they would draw too much unwanted attention.
Lian Xi understood this point, but Lie Chen didn’t.
President Lie raised his eyebrows: “Aren’t we going to catch the ghost?” Was the White Reaper planning to go on strike and be lazy again?
Lian Xi: “Wait a minute, we don’t have any reason to go over now. If we go in casually, they’ll either think we came to bum a meal off them or that we have another purpose.”
Lie Chen replied, “Don’t we have another purpose?”
Lian Xi looked at it. He glanced.
Yes but not one you can say out loud!
It’s really impossible to communicate with Lord Black Reaper.
Lian Xi had long discovered that SuZhou City’s new Black Reaper was very powerful, however it was a pity that King Yama was always fair. So this person also seemed to have a problem with his brain. At least, he didn’t really understand the human world.
In the Lord Black Reaper’s mind: I catch ghosts so my actions are justified. If you don’t let me catch ghosts then it’s you that has the problem.
As for what the people in the living world are thinking, the Lord Black Reaper doesn’t care at all. The sky was high, his performance ranking was the most important, even if he died he didn’t want to be last.”
Lian Xi: “I have to think of a way.” As he was thinking, Lian Xi’s eyes narrowed and he looked at a humpbacked old man squatting in the corner of the drying field. He paused for a while and then he pulled the corner of Black Reaper’s clothes: “Look there.”
Lie Chen lowered his head and looked at the hand holding the corner of his clothes, and then followed the direction to look up.
Lian Xi: “Is that him?”
Lie Chen narrowed his eyes and looked in the direction of his fingers. After a long while, he said “En” softly.
A minute later, the two who had just left went back and returned to the shed of the funeral home. However, this time they did not go to a crowded place but in the dim night, the two walked to the corner of the drying field and stood in front of a hump-backed old man.
Lian Xi glanced away.
The old man leaned against the corner tremblingly and was wearing a tattered shirt covered with blood. He lowered his head and leaned against the wall without saying a word but there was a big crack in the top of his head. The red and white substance inside were dangling out in the moonlight, but nothing dripped out—
Because he was a ghost.
Lie Chen glanced lightly, took out the black reaper record and opened it.
“Heaven and earth has its path but hell hath no door…”
“Are you here to take me away?” The old man said suddenly.
Lie Chen’s voice stopped.
Lian Xi lowered his head and looked carefully for a long time, only to realize: “Are you blind?”
The old man nodded obediently.
Lian Xi looked at Lie Chen strangely, his eyes asked the question: If someone was blind before death, then do they also turn into a blind ghost?
President Lie responded: Yes, catch ghosts.
The next second, President Lie began the spell again. But he had only read half when the old man ghosts suddenly interrupted him again. “Ghost officials, I would like to ask, have my family’s boy and girl both come?”
After being interrupted for two consecutive times, Lie Chen frowned and showed displeasure.
Lian Xi looked at the old man with a kinder look. Although he could not see them, he still bowed to the air and pleaded with them politely.
Anyway, he was just asking a question. Lian Xi stopped the Black Reaper who was about to forcibly catch the ghost again and asked: “What do your family’s kids look like?”
The old ghost: “I had kids late. My girl is thirty this year and looks a bit plump. She’s not tall and has a large mole on her face. My son is nearly forty this year. He has small eyes, a big mouth and buck teeth.”
Lian Xi craned his neck and looked at the crowd: “They’re both here. “
The old man ghost grinned widely: “It’s good that they both come. Good they both came. They still have this old man in their hearts. I heard someone crying just now, is it my girl?”
Lian Xi said, “En, yes. “
“How come they’re not crying now?”
“It’s dinner time, relatives and friends are all sitting down. So they are going around to greet the guests.”
“Oh, I understand.” The old man smiled, “Ghost official, you don’t know but my girl and boy have been living in the city for a long time. I used to own a blind massage parlor in WuXi. I closed the shop and returned to my home village the year before last. I went blind when I was 20 years old. My kids were busy and didn’t have time to see me. I haven’t seen them for more than six months. I thought they wouldn’t come back but they did. And they even cried. Turns out they still think about this old man.”
Before he died, he knew that at least his son and daughter were thinking about him. The ghost was very pleased and wiped the corners of his eyes.
Lian Xi: “You should go on your way.”
The Black Reaper on the side was impatient for a long time. A sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth and with a big wave of his hand, this time he didn’t even recite the spell and sent the old man directly into reincarnation.
A line of names slowly appeared on the reaper certificate.
[Liu Zhaoqiang, 1951-2020, died in an accident.]
Lian Xi couldn’t wait to turn over the performance rankings and take a closer look.
Lie Chen also saw the newly increased performance points.
The bodies of the two froze instantly.
Lian Xi didn’t want to believe it. He closed the reaper certificate, closed his eyes and took a deep breath then opened it again.
Lian Xi: “…”
Lie Chen: “…”
That’s it? !
That’s it? ! ! !
They saw the last line of the performance rankings, impressively printed with the latest score of SuZhou City’s Black and White reaper-
2043 points.
From 1943 points to the current 2043 points… So, they ran all the way to Wuxi, racing against time. It took Lian Xi 150 yuan to take a taxi and finally they got here. As a result, this old ghost is only worth one hundred points? !
So thick a golden light, so thick that it makes people breathless, was only worth one hundred points? !
Lian Xi collapsed in an instant.
There absolutely did not make sense! Lian Xi calmed down: “Lord Black Reaper, did you make a mistake? This old ghost only is only worth one hundred points. There are only two possibilities in this situation. First, the thickness of the golden light is not necessarily related to the points or second …” Lian Xi raised his head, “There is another ghost in this village!”
Lie Chen didn’t hesitate: “I think it’s the second.”
Lian Xi was firm: “I agree. “
The two nodded very tacitly.
Anyway, it definitely can’t be the first one!
It’s like drawing cards in a game. The first nine draws are all R cards and only the last one is left. In your heart you know that you can’t be saved, but you still want to hope for the one in a thousand chance: What if? What if it’s an SSR?
One hundred and fifty yuan has been dropped into the ocean and Lian Xi will never accept that this money has been wasted!
However, the truth is always cruel.
The village is not big and it took the two of them an hour to travel all over the village.
At night, the country folks seldom go back to wander outside, but without entering the house, Lian Xi and Lie Chen can directly check whether there are lonely ghosts floating in the house.
The breath of the living is different from that of the dead. As long as the yin breath of the dead is checked with the reaper record, it can’t be hidden.
But they searched it three times, three times! There is no lonely wild ghost!
Lian Xi: “…”
Lie Chen: “…”
Now Lian Xi gave up completely. He turned on his mobile phone: “Then let’s go back to SuZhou City, maybe we can catch a few more ghosts tonight.” But taking a taxi back would take 150 yuan again!
Lian Xi felt that his heart was bleeding.
But soon, he gave a surprised cry: “No signal?”
President Lie looked at him calmly: Although I don’t know what the signal is, as long as I don’t ask, then I can pretend I know.
Lian Xi was holding his cell phone, looking for signals everywhere: “It’s strange, nowadays even the countryside is covered in the network, why is there no signal suddenly?”
After looking for a long time along the road, the signal was still not available.
Just when Lian Xi was about to return to the farm to find someone to borrow wifi from, he turned around and suddenly stopped.
He saw a small figure staggering over on the gloomy country road.
It was a yellow dog.
This is an old dog. The yellow hair of the old dog was faded and it walked very slowly like it had no strength.
It walked slowly to Lian Xi and Lie Chen’s side, raised its neck and then looked at the man in black with clear and black eyes and then…
It rubbed the foot of Lie Chen.
Lian Xi snapped to attention. His scalp went numb and he turned his head to look at the reaper, thinking that the reaper, who was ignorant and inhuman, would give this dog a hard kick once and let it know once and for all that it was not a ghost official that could just be rubbed casually.
Unexpectedly in the dark night, the handsome and indifferent man looked at the puppy quietly with his eyes downcast. After a while, he leaned down, stretched out his hand, and touched its head.
Lian Xi was stunned.
After a while, Lord Black Reaper looked back at his colleague and asked, “What kind of creature is this?”
Lian Xi returned to his senses: “A dog.”
The Black Reaper stroked the dog’s head. There was no trace of emotion in his dark eyes but his fingers were very gentle.
“Oh, a dog. You should go into reincarnation.”
“Hmm…”
Lie Chen opened the reaper record and sent the dead old dog to reincarnation, and a line of text appeared.
[Cai Zi, 2009-2020, died in an accident.]
Lian Xi was a little dazed. Ghost officials even collected the souls of animals?
As if hearing the words in his heart, Lie Chen stood up and said coldly: “Everything has a soul, the world doesn’t just have humans as its master.”
Lian Xi: “But I have never encountered animal ghosts before.”
Lie Chen glanced at him: “Why are there ghosts that linger in the world and not automatically go to reincarnate at the moment of death?”
Lian Xi thought for a moment: “Because it either happened suddenly and they didn’t realize that they died. Or they have an unfulfilled obsession and don’t want to reincarnate if they haven’t completed it. Mostly the latter.”
Lie Chen: “All creatures are pure, except humans who have complicated minds and deep obsessions.”
By this time Lian Xi has already understood what he meant.
Animals are mostly simple creatures. They just want to fill their stomachs every day, and occasionally meet the needs of race reproduction.
But people want too much.
If you want too much, you will have more obsessions and you will be nostalgic for the world and refuse to reincarnate.
But…
Lian Xi: “What obsession does this dog have?”
President Lie put his hands in his pockets and continued to be an emotionless Black Reaper.
Lian Xi did not expect to get the answer from President Lie. But he looked at the two adjacent names on the reaper record.
Liu ZhaoQiang, Cai Zi.
Both of them died in accidents.
Does this dog belong to that old ghost?
Both humans and dogs have gone to reincarnate so no one knew the answer.
Walking on the country road, Lian Xi kept looking for cell phone signals. But he was not in a hurry, anyway he would get a signal when he got to the main road.
When passing by a farmhouse, two elderly peasant women were sitting on the drying yard, eating melon seeds and enjoying the cool night air.
“ZhaoQiang died this morning, did you know?”
“Ah, which ZhaoQiang is it?
“The one in SanCun.”
“Liu ZhaoQiang? He is my uncle’s brother-in-law! How did he die?”
“Car accident . Alas, the TV set in his house was broken and he wanted to take it to town for repairs. When he was travelling to town by bicycle, he was hit and killed by someone on a motorcycle. Now ZhaoQiang’s family is conducting his funeral.”
“I remember ZhaoQiang was a blind man. Why did he go alone to take the TV to town for repairs? Can he even see the road or the TV?”
“Doesn’t he have an old dog that goes around with him every day? That old dog shows him the way. I heard that the motorcycle was driving too fast. The old dog reacted and barked but ZhaoQiang couldn’t escape in time and was hit to death. And so what if he can’t see the TV? Both his boy and girl live in the city and neither of them are willing to take in the old man. ZhaoQiang’s wife died a long time ago so he can only live alone at home. If he doesn’t fix the TV himself, who’s going to do it for him?”
“Then did his boy and girl come back?”
“They’re back, how can they not come back? They came back at noon and asked the motorbike driver for 100,000 yuan. And two years ago, didn’t ZhaoQiang sell the massage shop he owned in WuXi? I heard he made some money. His girl got in first at noon and turned the whole house upside down looking for money. Now the two of them have gotten 200,000 yuan, and only then did they decide to conduct a funeral for the old man.”
“That’s horrible ah.”
The two village women were still complaining about the death of the old man.
Lian Xi looked down at the words “Liu ZhaoQiang” on the reaper record and remembered the lie he had told.
Are they crying?
They were crying but it was fake crying.
Even if someone was blind when they were alive, after they died they didn’t have a body anymore. So how could they be a blind ghost? He could see but just didn’t want to see.
What was the obsession of that old yellow dog? Was it because he could not save the old master whom he was so dependent on and who was so dependent on him? Did he feel the death of his master was his fault?
Lian Xi lowered his eyes and closed the reaper record.
Before closing the thin booklet, Lian Xi glanced at the performance rankings, and then…
Lian Xi tightly grabbed the Black Reaper’s arm with his hand.
Lie Chen looked at him deeply and finally said the sentence: “First you call me by my name and now you poke me?” This colleague’s courage has suddenly gotten much bigger.
Lian Xi didn’t understand what he was talking about at all and pointed at the reaper record with a look of astonishment. “Look! Look!”
Lie Chen frowned, opened his reaper certificate, and…
“?!”
Ghost official’s monthly performance rankings.
……
25th place, the ghost officials of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, with a performance of 3943 points.
Lian Xi was shocked silly: What the heck, a dog was actually worth 1,900 points? !
Are people not as good as dogs?
Then look at the WuXi’s ghost official who had a monthly performance of 4214 points!
The difference is only less than 300 points.
Beating the second last was just around the corner?
Lian Xi had momentum instantly.
The last place had a reward of one gold coin. It could be exchanged for 2500RMB.
The second last place’s reward was exponentially more, it was worth 5000RMB!
Lian Xi: “Let’s look around a bit more these couple of days, we will definitely be able to surpass WuXi.”
Lie Chen glanced at him: “Beat the second to last and then become second to last?” He sneered as usual, expressing disdain.
Lian Xi didn’t bother to pay attention to him. That wasn’t what you said when you came into the village, you weirdo.
There is no room for delay when it came to earning points.
Lian Xi quickened his pace, looking for cell phone signals.
“Huh, finally I found it.”
After finally finding the cell phone signal, Lian Xi was about to call a taxi but suddenly, an unfamiliar number called him.
Lian Xi was taken aback but he quickly answered the phone: “Hello?”
A young voice came from the other end of the phone, with a slightly impatient tone: “Hey Lian Xi, I’m Wang ZiHao.”
Lian Xi had no idea who this person was.
But soon, the person went on to say: “I have sent you a WeChat message a long time ago, why didn’t you reply? I asked Zhao Wei for your phone number.”
Only then did Lian Xi react: “Doctor Wang?”
“Yeah.”
That’s right, this person is the intern that classmate Lian Xi asked his friend to help him contact.
Guessing the reason that the doctor was calling him, Lian Xi’s face became serious. “Is this regarding finding the midwife I asked your nurse friend to look into for me before?”
Dr. Wang:. “Ah, it is. I sent it to you on WeChat already, take a look for yourself. You can also check it to see if it’s right. If there’s no problem, then make sure you make contact with them within two days. Sister Qin has been looking for you for a long time, she asked many people before finding them.”
Lian Xi was stunned: “Oh okay. I will invite Sister Qin to dinner next time.”
Doctor Wang: “Okay, then I’ll hang up. I’m busy.”
Chapter 31
A row of famer’s houses lay between two large and empty fields.
As the night fell, many villagers who had just returned home from work sat in front of the door to enjoy the coolness. But in this row of farm houses, a large shed was built on the drying yard in front of the house in the middle. It had three high-wattage lights on the top. In the dark surroundings, these three lamps are like the sun, turning night into day.
This household was conducting a funeral. There were many people sitting in front of the door of the shed, crying one after the other.
There is no doubt that the lonely wild ghost guided by the golden light should be from this household.
Lian Xi and Lie Chen stepped forward together.
Funerals in the countryside are no longer as troublesome as before when the corpse had to be kept at home for seven days. Now they could put it in the freezer for three days and burn paper day and night. Then they would take it to the crematorium on the fourth day and complete the final rituals before burying the ashes by hand.
Many relatives and friends sat on the drying yard in front of this house, all of whom had come to express their condolences and also to eat.
There were so many people but none of them were like Lian Xi and Lie Chen.
As soon as the two of them walked into the drying yard, the eyes of relatives and friends shot over. After staring for some time, a village woman with burlap on her shoulders came over: “Who are you looking for?”
Lord Black Reaper put his hands in his pockets, showing no emotion.
The Whie Reaper didn’t expect him to do or say anything. He didn’t even look at him. He directly replied: “We are just passing by. We lived in this area when we were young, so we came back to take a look.”
Several villagers around became curious.
“Which family is this kid from?”
“Didn’t Lao-Zhao’s family move to WuXi the year before last?”
“Doesn’t look like them, it must be someone who moved away a long time ago.”
“Then I don’t know them. So many people move to WuXi every year nowadays.”
Rural people in JiangSu, ZheJiang and ShangHai would often use the name of the territory to refer to the city within it. It was as if they didn’t also live in WuXi territory. Anyway moving to WuXi referred to moving to the urban area of WuXi.
The village woman looked at the two Lian Xi: “My family is conducting a funeral.” After speaking, she looked them up and down.
Lian Xi: “Oh, I’m sorry, my condolences”
The people snuck away and walked down the road. They didn’t go far and just stood by, watching quietly from nearby.
Nowadays, people no longer live like they did in ancient times. In ancient times, people were very simple. Due to underdeveloped transportation systems, outsiders are rarely seen. Back then if you were conducting a banquet and a stranger to the village suddenly appeared, you would enthusiastically invite them into your home for a meal. Wedding ceremonies were especially crowded and lively. Funerals are also no exception. To change sorrow into joy, families would host large meals and invite everyone to eat.
It’s different now.
SuZhou City’s Black and White reaper smuggled into WuXi. Originally they already needed to keep a low profile to avoid being caught by the local ghost official with their tails between their legs. Now the host family didn’t invite them in, so of course they can’t just go in by themselves. Otherwise they would draw too much unwanted attention.
Lian Xi understood this point, but Lie Chen didn’t.
President Lie raised his eyebrows: “Aren’t we going to catch the ghost?” Was the White Reaper planning to go on strike and be lazy again?
Lian Xi: “Wait a minute, we don’t have any reason to go over now. If we go in casually, they’ll either think we came to bum a meal off them or that we have another purpose.”
Lie Chen replied, “Don’t we have another purpose?”
Lian Xi looked at it. He glanced.
Yes but not one you can say out loud!
It’s really impossible to communicate with Lord Black Reaper.
Lian Xi had long discovered that SuZhou City’s new Black Reaper was very powerful, however it was a pity that King Yama was always fair. So this person also seemed to have a problem with his brain. At least, he didn’t really understand the human world.
In the Lord Black Reaper’s mind: I catch ghosts so my actions are justified. If you don’t let me catch ghosts then it’s you that has the problem.
As for what the people in the living world are thinking, the Lord Black Reaper doesn’t care at all. The sky was high, his performance ranking was the most important, even if he died he didn’t want to be last.”
Lian Xi: “I have to think of a way.” As he was thinking, Lian Xi’s eyes narrowed and he looked at a humpbacked old man squatting in the corner of the drying field. He paused for a while and then he pulled the corner of Black Reaper’s clothes: “Look there.”
Lie Chen lowered his head and looked at the hand holding the corner of his clothes, and then followed the direction to look up.
Lian Xi: “Is that him?”
Lie Chen narrowed his eyes and looked in the direction of his fingers. After a long while, he said “En” softly.
A minute later, the two who had just left went back and returned to the shed of the funeral home. However, this time they did not go to a crowded place but in the dim night, the two walked to the corner of the drying field and stood in front of a hump-backed old man.
Lian Xi glanced away.
The old man leaned against the corner tremblingly and was wearing a tattered shirt covered with blood. He lowered his head and leaned against the wall without saying a word but there was a big crack in the top of his head. The red and white substance inside were dangling out in the moonlight, but nothing dripped out—
Because he was a ghost.
Lie Chen glanced lightly, took out the black reaper record and opened it.
“Heaven and earth has its path but hell hath no door…”
“Are you here to take me away?” The old man said suddenly.
Lie Chen’s voice stopped.
Lian Xi lowered his head and looked carefully for a long time, only to realize: “Are you blind?”
The old man nodded obediently.
Lian Xi looked at Lie Chen strangely, his eyes asked the question: If someone was blind before death, then do they also turn into a blind ghost?
President Lie responded: Yes, catch ghosts.
The next second, President Lie began the spell again. But he had only read half when the old man ghosts suddenly interrupted him again. “Ghost officials, I would like to ask, have my family’s boy and girl both come?”
After being interrupted for two consecutive times, Lie Chen frowned and showed displeasure.
Lian Xi looked at the old man with a kinder look. Although he could not see them, he still bowed to the air and pleaded with them politely.
Anyway, he was just asking a question. Lian Xi stopped the Black Reaper who was about to forcibly catch the ghost again and asked: “What do your family’s kids look like?”
The old ghost: “I had kids late. My girl is thirty this year and looks a bit plump. She’s not tall and has a large mole on her face. My son is nearly forty this year. He has small eyes, a big mouth and buck teeth.”
Lian Xi craned his neck and looked at the crowd: “They’re both here. “
The old man ghost grinned widely: “It’s good that they both come. Good they both came. They still have this old man in their hearts. I heard someone crying just now, is it my girl?”
Lian Xi said, “En, yes. “
“How come they’re not crying now?”
“It’s dinner time, relatives and friends are all sitting down. So they are going around to greet the guests.”
“Oh, I understand.” The old man smiled, “Ghost official, you don’t know but my girl and boy have been living in the city for a long time. I used to own a blind massage parlor in WuXi. I closed the shop and returned to my home village the year before last. I went blind when I was 20 years old. My kids were busy and didn’t have time to see me. I haven’t seen them for more than six months. I thought they wouldn’t come back but they did. And they even cried. Turns out they still think about this old man.”
Before he died, he knew that at least his son and daughter were thinking about him. The ghost was very pleased and wiped the corners of his eyes.
Lian Xi: “You should go on your way.”
The Black Reaper on the side was impatient for a long time. A sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth and with a big wave of his hand, this time he didn’t even recite the spell and sent the old man directly into reincarnation.
A line of names slowly appeared on the reaper certificate.
[Liu Zhaoqiang, 1951-2020, died in an accident.]
Lian Xi couldn’t wait to turn over the performance rankings and take a closer look.
Lie Chen also saw the newly increased performance points.
The bodies of the two froze instantly.
Lian Xi didn’t want to believe it. He closed the reaper certificate, closed his eyes and took a deep breath then opened it again.
Lian Xi: “…”
Lie Chen: “…”
That’s it? !
That’s it? ! ! !
They saw the last line of the performance rankings, impressively printed with the latest score of SuZhou City’s Black and White reaper-
2043 points.
From 1943 points to the current 2043 points… So, they ran all the way to Wuxi, racing against time. It took Lian Xi 150 yuan to take a taxi and finally they got here. As a result, this old ghost is only worth one hundred points? !
So thick a golden light, so thick that it makes people breathless, was only worth one hundred points? !
Lian Xi collapsed in an instant.
There absolutely did not make sense! Lian Xi calmed down: “Lord Black Reaper, did you make a mistake? This old ghost only is only worth one hundred points. There are only two possibilities in this situation. First, the thickness of the golden light is not necessarily related to the points or second …” Lian Xi raised his head, “There is another ghost in this village!”
Lie Chen didn’t hesitate: “I think it’s the second.”
Lian Xi was firm: “I agree. “
The two nodded very tacitly.
Anyway, it definitely can’t be the first one!
It’s like drawing cards in a game. The first nine draws are all R cards and only the last one is left. In your heart you know that you can’t be saved, but you still want to hope for the one in a thousand chance: What if? What if it’s an SSR?
One hundred and fifty yuan has been dropped into the ocean and Lian Xi will never accept that this money has been wasted!
However, the truth is always cruel.
The village is not big and it took the two of them an hour to travel all over the village.
At night, the country folks seldom go back to wander outside, but without entering the house, Lian Xi and Lie Chen can directly check whether there are lonely ghosts floating in the house.
The breath of the living is different from that of the dead. As long as the yin breath of the dead is checked with the reaper record, it can’t be hidden.
But they searched it three times, three times! There is no lonely wild ghost!
Lian Xi: “…”
Lie Chen: “…”
Now Lian Xi gave up completely. He turned on his mobile phone: “Then let’s go back to SuZhou City, maybe we can catch a few more ghosts tonight.” But taking a taxi back would take 150 yuan again!
Lian Xi felt that his heart was bleeding.
But soon, he gave a surprised cry: “No signal?”
President Lie looked at him calmly: Although I don’t know what the signal is, as long as I don’t ask, then I can pretend I know.
Lian Xi was holding his cell phone, looking for signals everywhere: “It’s strange, nowadays even the countryside is covered in the network, why is there no signal suddenly?”
After looking for a long time along the road, the signal was still not available.
Just when Lian Xi was about to return to the farm to find someone to borrow wifi from, he turned around and suddenly stopped.
He saw a small figure staggering over on the gloomy country road.
It was a yellow dog.
This is an old dog. The yellow hair of the old dog was faded and it walked very slowly like it had no strength.
It walked slowly to Lian Xi and Lie Chen’s side, raised its neck and then looked at the man in black with clear and black eyes and then…
It rubbed the foot of Lie Chen.
Lian Xi snapped to attention. His scalp went numb and he turned his head to look at the reaper, thinking that the reaper, who was ignorant and inhuman, would give this dog a hard kick once and let it know once and for all that it was not a ghost official that could just be rubbed casually.
Unexpectedly in the dark night, the handsome and indifferent man looked at the puppy quietly with his eyes downcast. After a while, he leaned down, stretched out his hand, and touched its head.
Lian Xi was stunned.
After a while, Lord Black Reaper looked back at his colleague and asked, “What kind of creature is this?”
Lian Xi returned to his senses: “A dog.”
The Black Reaper stroked the dog’s head. There was no trace of emotion in his dark eyes but his fingers were very gentle.
“Oh, a dog. You should go into reincarnation.”
“Hmm…”
Lie Chen opened the reaper record and sent the dead old dog to reincarnation, and a line of text appeared.
[Cai Zi, 2009-2020, died in an accident.]
Lian Xi was a little dazed. Ghost officials even collected the souls of animals?
As if hearing the words in his heart, Lie Chen stood up and said coldly: “Everything has a soul, the world doesn’t just have humans as its master.”
Lian Xi: “But I have never encountered animal ghosts before.”
Lie Chen glanced at him: “Why are there ghosts that linger in the world and not automatically go to reincarnate at the moment of death?”
Lian Xi thought for a moment: “Because it either happened suddenly and they didn’t realize that they died. Or they have an unfulfilled obsession and don’t want to reincarnate if they haven’t completed it. Mostly the latter.”
Lie Chen: “All creatures are pure, except humans who have complicated minds and deep obsessions.”
By this time Lian Xi has already understood what he meant.
Animals are mostly simple creatures. They just want to fill their stomachs every day, and occasionally meet the needs of race reproduction.
But people want too much.
If you want too much, you will have more obsessions and you will be nostalgic for the world and refuse to reincarnate.
But…
Lian Xi: “What obsession does this dog have?”
President Lie put his hands in his pockets and continued to be an emotionless Black Reaper.
Lian Xi did not expect to get the answer from President Lie. But he looked at the two adjacent names on the reaper record.
Liu ZhaoQiang, Cai Zi.
Both of them died in accidents.
Does this dog belong to that old ghost?
Both humans and dogs have gone to reincarnate so no one knew the answer.
Walking on the country road, Lian Xi kept looking for cell phone signals. But he was not in a hurry, anyway he would get a signal when he got to the main road.
When passing by a farmhouse, two elderly peasant women were sitting on the drying yard, eating melon seeds and enjoying the cool night air.
“ZhaoQiang died this morning, did you know?”
“Ah, which ZhaoQiang is it?
“The one in SanCun.”
“Liu ZhaoQiang? He is my uncle’s brother-in-law! How did he die?”
“Car accident . Alas, the TV set in his house was broken and he wanted to take it to town for repairs. When he was travelling to town by bicycle, he was hit and killed by someone on a motorcycle. Now ZhaoQiang’s family is conducting his funeral.”
“I remember ZhaoQiang was a blind man. Why did he go alone to take the TV to town for repairs? Can he even see the road or the TV?”
“Doesn’t he have an old dog that goes around with him every day? That old dog shows him the way. I heard that the motorcycle was driving too fast. The old dog reacted and barked but ZhaoQiang couldn’t escape in time and was hit to death. And so what if he can’t see the TV? Both his boy and girl live in the city and neither of them are willing to take in the old man. ZhaoQiang’s wife died a long time ago so he can only live alone at home. If he doesn’t fix the TV himself, who’s going to do it for him?”
“Then did his boy and girl come back?”
“They’re back, how can they not come back? They came back at noon and asked the motorbike driver for 100,000 yuan. And two years ago, didn’t ZhaoQiang sell the massage shop he owned in WuXi? I heard he made some money. His girl got in first at noon and turned the whole house upside down looking for money. Now the two of them have gotten 200,000 yuan, and only then did they decide to conduct a funeral for the old man.”
“That’s horrible ah.”
The two village women were still complaining about the death of the old man.
Lian Xi looked down at the words “Liu ZhaoQiang” on the reaper record and remembered the lie he had told.
Are they crying?
They were crying but it was fake crying.
Even if someone was blind when they were alive, after they died they didn’t have a body anymore. So how could they be a blind ghost? He could see but just didn’t want to see.
What was the obsession of that old yellow dog? Was it because he could not save the old master whom he was so dependent on and who was so dependent on him? Did he feel the death of his master was his fault?
Lian Xi lowered his eyes and closed the reaper record.
Before closing the thin booklet, Lian Xi glanced at the performance rankings, and then…
Lian Xi tightly grabbed the Black Reaper’s arm with his hand.
Lie Chen looked at him deeply and finally said the sentence: “First you call me by my name and now you poke me?” This colleague’s courage has suddenly gotten much bigger.
Lian Xi didn’t understand what he was talking about at all and pointed at the reaper record with a look of astonishment. “Look! Look!”
Lie Chen frowned, opened his reaper certificate, and…
“?!”
Ghost official’s monthly performance rankings.
……
25th place, the ghost officials of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, with a performance of 3943 points.
Lian Xi was shocked silly: What the heck, a dog was actually worth 1,900 points? !
Are people not as good as dogs?
Then look at the WuXi’s ghost official who had a monthly performance of 4214 points!
The difference is only less than 300 points.
Beating the second last was just around the corner?
Lian Xi had momentum instantly.
The last place had a reward of one gold coin. It could be exchanged for 2500RMB.
The second last place’s reward was exponentially more, it was worth 5000RMB!
Lian Xi: “Let’s look around a bit more these couple of days, we will definitely be able to surpass WuXi.”
Lie Chen glanced at him: “Beat the second to last and then become second to last?” He sneered as usual, expressing disdain.
Lian Xi didn’t bother to pay attention to him. That wasn’t what you said when you came into the village, you weirdo.
There is no room for delay when it came to earning points.
Lian Xi quickened his pace, looking for cell phone signals.
“Huh, finally I found it.”
After finally finding the cell phone signal, Lian Xi was about to call a taxi but suddenly, an unfamiliar number called him.
Lian Xi was taken aback but he quickly answered the phone: “Hello?”
A young voice came from the other end of the phone, with a slightly impatient tone: “Hey Lian Xi, I’m Wang ZiHao.”
Lian Xi had no idea who this person was.
But soon, the person went on to say: “I have sent you a WeChat message a long time ago, why didn’t you reply? I asked Zhao Wei for your phone number.”
Only then did Lian Xi react: “Doctor Wang?”
“Yeah.”
That’s right, this person is the intern that classmate Lian Xi asked his friend to help him contact.
Guessing the reason that the doctor was calling him, Lian Xi’s face became serious. “Is this regarding finding the midwife I asked your nurse friend to look into for me before?”
Dr. Wang:. “Ah, it is. I sent it to you on WeChat already, take a look for yourself. You can also check it to see if it’s right. If there’s no problem, then make sure you make contact with them within two days. Sister Qin has been looking for you for a long time, she asked many people before finding them.”
Lian Xi was stunned: “Oh okay. I will invite Sister Qin to dinner next time.”
Doctor Wang: “Okay, then I’ll hang up. I’m busy.”
