I hurried to the ghost house but Feng Chunsheng stopped me. He asked me: âWhat are you doingâ
âThere seems to be something wrong with Brother Yu; I have to check up on him,â I said.
Feng Chunsheng grabbed me and pulled me outside, he said: âAre you crazy? Youâre gonna be killed if even Brother Yu cannot handle it.â
âSo what should we do?â
âQuit; just quit.â Feng Chunsheng said: âWe have to go quickly if there is something wrong with Brother Yu. We definitely cannot deal with this on our own.â
Then he said: âWhat about this: you go back to your tattoo shop, and I continue with my begging⊠We wonât meet each other anymore, and this will be the first and last time we feel so ashamed.â
I slapped him on the back of the head: âHow can you be such an ass? You have to help when your brother is in trouble! Why do you want to escape for nothing?â
Feng Chunsheng felt the back of his skull and murmured: âWell⊠I cannot escape, since it wonât solve any problems.â
In contrast, Mimi was a loyal and trustworthy person. She took me by the hand and said: âShui, I will go with you⊠Even if Brother Yu died, it is all because of us. We wonât be righteous if we just escape.â
âOK, letâs go.â
I took Feng Chunsheng and Mimi and wanted to enter the weaselâs ghost house.
Suddenly, a voice came from inside: âStop⊠Just get a coffin with the aura of a live person and prepare ten daysâ worth of food for me. Hurry up.â
It was the voice of Chen Yuhao.
So Chen Yuhao didnât die?
I got a little excited and asked Feng Chunsheng what a coffin with the aura of a live person was.
He replied, âIt means there has to be a live person lying in the coffin when the coffin is ready.â
âWhy? What âs that used for?â I didnât understand Chen Yuhaoâs request.
But I had to do it.
I called Mr. Guan: âHello, Mr. Guan⊠Is there any coffin with a live person inside?â
âYes, you want that? It costs double,â he replied.
I said that was OK, and told him to prepare ten daysâ food such as canned beef and drinks, et cetera, and that I would pay for that.
Then he replied: âAll right, no problem⊠itâs a piece of cake. Well, tell me the address and I will arrive soon.â
I told him the address.
When Mr. Guan heard the name of the place, he wanted to back out: âI cannot go there⊠Donât you know what kind of place that is? Itâs full of ghost houses. Well, I need to charge my phone now. Bye bye.â
âOh, hey, Uncle Guan, listen to me first!â
I told him that there was a great master here.
Mr. Guan asked me what his level was.
I told him he was rather powerful⊠he could even suppress the âNine dragons draw the coffinâ.
Hearing this, Mr. Guan said immediately: âWell, I will come. Wait a bit.â
So, Mr. Guan knew this business.
After I hung up, I couldnât hear Chen Yuhao.
Then I asked Feng Chunsheng: âWhat did the weasel mean when he said those words?â
Huang Erlang requited the favors of the Chen Family. He brought wealth from far away to show his appreciation, but the Chen family is greedy, and they framed Huang Erlang to death.
Feng Chunsheng said angrily: âIf I knew, I would have already killed the weasel.â
All right.
We sat there, discussing and calculating the various aspects of the ghost house matter.
It might have happened like this: there was a weasel in the villa community. He killed many people here, so a great master was invited, who built the Yin and Yang towers in order to kill the weasel. However, he was not powerful enough, and those towers were built in vain.
Then, a few days ago, Mimi and Liao Min irritated the weasel when they were selling the ghost houses, and thatâs why the weasel wanted to kill them.
Now, we didnât know the result of Chen Yuhaoâs negotiations with the weasel. We didnât know the details about these ghost houses, and why he killed all those people.
And why did the weasel keep on repeating that anecdote?
âHuang Erlang? Itâs the weaselâs name.â Feng Chunsheng thought for a long time but he couldnât figure it out.
We were still thinking about it when Mr. Guan called us. He told us to come meet him, as he would be arriving soon.
I went to the villa communityâs gates and led the truck carrying the coffin to the ghost house gate.
Five of us unloaded the peach wood coffin from the back of the truck.
That coffin was rather heavy. I saw its lid slide open as it dropped to the ground.
âOh my god...â I was very tired. I couldnât stand the faint noise and the movements in this ghost house.
I didnât know when Mr. Guan climbed out from that coffin, but he really scared me.
I asked him why he lying inside the coffin.
Mr. Guan told me I wanted a coffin with a live person inside, so he lay inside.
Feng Chunsheng told me, âMr. Guan is a coffin craftsman. His coffin would be better if he lay in it himself.â
All right.
Then Mr. Guan took out a big bag from the truck. He said it was enough food for ten days, and the total cost of the food and the coffin was seven thousand.
âSeven thousand?â I told Mr. Guan I would transfer the money when I got back home.
Mr. Guan said he trusted me. Then he got on the truck and left with his boys.
The coffin with the aura of a live person was ready, so I called out to Chen Yuhao: âBrother Yu, the coffin is here now.â
Boom!
The front door of the house opened, and Chen Yuhao walked out bare-chested, with blood trickling from his mouth.
âAre you OK? Brother Yu?â
âIâm OK. Itâs only a minor injury.â Chen Yuhao told us: âI made an agreement with the weasel⊠The weasel was fooled by Mimi and Liao Minâs bosses. There is supposed to be another condition, and it can only be solved when their bosses are dead.â
When he said this, I could see Mimi and Liao Minâs lips moved a little⊠They didnât want to tell us who the bosses were.
Then Chen Yuhao changed the subject and said: âWell, Iâve talked him out of the plan to kill Mimiâs boss⊠but there is one more thing we have to do so that the weasel wonât make trouble for you.â
âFor us? Doesnât it refer to Mimi and Liao Min?â I asked Chen Yuhao.
He laughed: âThe weasel will go after anyone who entered the house.â
What?
So I just endangered Mr. Guan and his boys?
I felt a little angry.
Chen Yuhao patted me on the shoulder: âShui, I know you are a kind-hearted person. You can satisfy the weaselâs wish, since you have such great concern for them.â
âWhatâs the wish?â I asked him.
Chen Yuhao said: âGet the old man named Chen Sanli here⊠Then, the problem will be solved.â
âWhoâs Chen Sanli?â I asked.
He picked up the thirteen methods and used a spike to poke three air holes in the coffin. Then he poured all the food out of the bag⊠He said: âFrom now on, I will keep this coffin beside the weasel for ten days⊠I will seal myself in this coffin, and I will be able to kill him after ten days.â
I asked Chen Yuhao: âWhat will happen in ten days?â
Suddenly, his appearance became ferocious: âIf I canât deal with the weasel, the coffin will be destroyed and everyone here will die⊠and you cannot escape from the weasel. You must remember this.â
After that, he carried the coffin on his shoulder and walked back into the ghost house. The tattoo of ânine dragons drag the coffinâ on his back was very elegant and graceful.
Feng Chunsheng grabbed my shoulder and said: âShui, Chen Yuhao trusts you⊠He is sealing himself in that coffin alone, which means that he has entrusted his life to you. Therefore, you have to be careful and find Chen Sanli.â
âI will.â I turned to Liao Min and Mimi: âLetâs go back. I will search for this old man with Brother Chun.â
âOK.â Mimi talked to me seriously: âI wonât run away in these ten days. You must tell me if you cannot find that person after ten days⊠I will be here, anyway. We will all die together.â
I really admired Mimi; she was very loyal. I told her: âDonât follow me; itâs better if you do your own business.â
âDonât worry, I have the idea.â
We parted.
Feng Chunsheng and I went directly to the library, because I thought, there should be a long and deep story about the weaselâs revenge and the ghost building.
I had to go to the library to check the geographic records and see if I could find Mr. Chen.
When we were about to arrive at the library, Su Yizi called me: âHello. Are you free this afternoon, Mr. Yu?â
There was also the problem of Su Yiziâs blood curse from the Fox Empress.
If this had been our first discussion, I would have definitely refused to help her. After all, I had to concentrate on the ghost house matter and find Chen Sanli, since so many peopleâs lives depended on it.
However, I had already agreed to help her yesterday⊠I also get a deposit from her, and it might ruin my reputation if I refunded the deposit and cancelled the deal. Of course, whether I could cancel it or not was another matter entirely.
I had to help her with the curse of the Fox Empress.
I thought for a while and said: âWhat about tonightâŠ? Come tonight.â
âOK.â She hung up the phone.
Feng Chunsheng and I entered the library and reached the small loft at the top; then we began to check the records.
It took us some time, but we found the Chen family history according to the location of the villa community.
According to Chenâs familyâs historical records, there was a place called Wild Dragon Valley, where wild dragons lived. The Chen family built a wall there and named the wall the Dragon Wall of the Chen Family.
Then I hurriedly opened the Chen family history and looked for Chen Sanli.
But Chen Sanliâs name on that family tree wasnât helpful⊠That family tree was written a long time ago and Chen Sanli must have died already.