"Are you willing to sign a blood contract with me?"
"That was the first thing she said to me."
After obtaining Su Jianxia's consent, Hu Shouyu lit a cigarette.
"She walked out of the statue and stood in front of me and looked at me. I was very scared at the time. Although I have encountered a lot of strange things in the tomb over the years, in fact, our profession has never believed in any gods. Ghosts and the like.
So when she stood in front of me, I thought I was going to die, and I didn't even dare to have any thoughts of resistance.
I didn’t know what a blood contract was, so of course I didn’t dare to answer casually. I called my friends’ names in the tomb, but no one responded to me. It seemed like I was the only one left in the tomb.
'Are you willing to sign a blood contract with me? '
She seemed to see that I didn't answer her, so she asked me again.
I knew that if I didn't answer, I might be stuck here forever, so I bit the bullet and asked her what a blood contract was.
But she didn't answer my question, she just kept staring at me.
Maybe half an hour passed, and she asked me the same question for the third time. I really couldn't stand the depressing atmosphere, so I told her that I didn't want to.
I thought she was going to kill me if I refused, but she just said, 'You'll do it.' ' and then disappeared. Just when I was feeling strange, I suddenly felt sleepy and fell down in a daze.
When I woke up again, I was lying in the main hall of the inner room, leaning on several backpacks. The people in the team were still searching for valuable things everywhere, not wanting to let go of any of them.
I picked up a random person and asked where the woman in the statue had gone, but that person said he had never seen any woman. I asked several people one after another, and they all told me so.
They said that after I entered the inner chamber, I suddenly fainted. They thought I was not used to it since I had not been in the tomb for too long, so they helped me to the side to rest. However, I was there from the beginning to the end and never left. There was no woman in the room.
Although that scene was too real, everyone's unanimous statement still made me think that I might have just had a dream. Because I was obsessed with this jade statue, I had such a bizarre dream.
There was nothing wrong with me at the time, so I didn’t think too much about it, so I picked a few things at random and retreated with everyone.
After returning home, my wife just gave birth to a son, who looked very much like me. The few things I brought out of the tomb also sold for a lot of money on the market. The joy of these two good things made me quickly forget what happened in the tomb. Moreover, my home was still the same as before I set off. what is the problem. "
"So the problem only occurred recently." Su Jianxia asked, "And judging from your appearance, it seems to be quite serious."
The man nodded, then lowered his head as if thinking about something. He didn't react until the cigarette in his hand burned out and he felt a burning sensation on his fingers. Then he tremblingly took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and started again. Point.
Su Jianxia noticed that when he lit the second cigarette, the man was obviously not as calm as before. The hand that lit the cigarette had been shaking slightly, and there was a little more fear in his eyes.
"It happened about three months ago." The man took a long puff of cigarette and tried to calm himself down. "I just came home from get off work and my wife told me that our son seemed to have a fever. At first, I thought it was just a normal fever. , I took him to the doctor and took medicine and infusions, but he didn’t get better at all and he lay in bed feeling dizzy every day.
I was the only one with such a child in my life, so of course I was very worried, so I quickly took him to the best hospital in the city, asked a few friends, and found the most authoritative medical professor in the city to take a look.
But the professor looked at him for a long time and said that it didn't look like a fever. His physical signs were very healthy and he was not sick at all from a medical point of view.
At the time, I just thought his conclusion was ridiculous. How could the child be healthy if he was like this? Then I went to several other hospitals, even to a hospital in Beijing, but the results were the same.
Before the matter here was over, news came from the company that a batch of goods we were leaving was found out by the police, and both the people and the goods were taken away.
In fact, this is nothing unusual for our industry, and I didn’t pay much attention to it at the time.
But in the next few days, every line in the house was checked by the police. Those who were selling the goods and those who were contacting buyers were all taken away. The persons in charge of several branches were also sentenced.
The goods for the signed orders were now gone, and the buyers' claims calls came one after another. I had no other choice but to use my family's money to advance it, and also borrowed some from a few friends.
However, several lines of goods were inspected at the same time, and the amount of compensation required was too much. I thought of all possible methods and borrowed all the money I could, but in the end I still couldn't fill half of it.
There are debts outside, and the child's strange disease also requires money to be treated in foreign hospitals. This is a lot of money.
I discussed with my wife that we should go to another big tomb and take out all the things we can. Even if we can't solve all the problems, we can at least breathe a sigh of relief.
Although it's not a good idea, no matter what method we try, we always have to try it. Our situation at that time can be regarded as desperate.
But the police seemed to have guessed what I was thinking, so they restricted my travel that day and prohibited me from leaving Jiangbei.
There can be any big tombs in Jiangbei. By doing this, they will undoubtedly block this road for me.
Maybe it’s because my family has always had everything going smoothly, and I haven’t actually encountered any major setbacks. This situation is actually no different to me than waiting to die.
Two days ago, I made an impromptu trip to the ancestral hall, wanting to close the door and meditate, but suddenly I discovered that the lower part of the jade statue next to the ancestral tablet seemed to be stained with blood.
I thought someone secretly entered the Patriarch Hall and accidentally stained it with blood.
But when I took it over and looked at it carefully, I found that it was not the blood stains, but the jade stone, which naturally turned blood red.
I suddenly remembered the scene I encountered in the tomb two years ago. The woman who came out of the stone statue asked me a question.
Only then did I realize what the last words she said to me, "You will be willing to do," meant. Since she can make my Hu family prosper for a long time, she can also make us hit rock bottom.
I quickly put her down, knelt on the ground and asked her what she wanted.
But this time she had no reaction.
I found friends who I could still contact in the industry and asked them if they knew experts who were proficient in this field. They all introduced a few Taoist priests and magicians, but no one could tell the reason. It was more like a group of just people. A swindler who knows how to cheat.
Later, someone said that the trouble I was encountering could only be solved by coming to Jiangning and finding a person named Wei Ziqi. To be honest, I no longer believe in these people, but there is really no better way. I'm willing to give it a try if I meet you. "
After saying this, Hu Shouyu took his last puff of cigarette and looked at Wei Ziqi behind the bar.
"Who introduced you here?" Su Jianxia frowned.
Hu Shouyu hesitated for a moment and said carefully: "It's a lawyer who has had some dealings with him before."
"Lu Ji?"
"It seems that we have met Miss Su." Hu Shouyu breathed a sigh of relief, but that is not what I said.
Su Jianxia was speechless, "I think so, no one is that boring except him."
"Mr. Wei, is there any way you can help me solve my current trouble?" Hu Shouyu asked the two of them.
Su Jianxia didn't even look back, and stretched out his hand to pat the bar behind him. Wei Ziqi seemed to have come back to his senses and looked at Hu Shouyu.
Hu Shouyu sighed inwardly. Looking at Wei Ziqi's absent-minded look, he probably didn't listen. Maybe he wasn't as good as the magic sticks he met before.
"This matter is a dead end." Wei Ziqi said.
"Dead end?" Hu Shouyu was stunned. "Mr. Wei, can you make it clear? Does it mean there is no way to solve it?"
"You have two choices now. I can help you terminate this contract, but similarly, your family has prospered because of the contract, and will return to its established destiny because of the termination of the contract.
The second is to accept this contract and nourish her with your flesh, blood and soul. Then everything will be restored to its original state, and your son's illness and family property problems will also be solved. The only difference is that you have to sacrifice yourself in exchange for this. everything. "Wei Ziqi looked at the man, his tone was very soft, but it was like a big mountain weighing heavily on the man's heart.
Hu Shouyu was stunned, "What is the family's determined destiny?"
"Your family is not destined to be rich and noble. There is one thing you didn't say. The reason why your elder has to go to the grave regardless of the risk in his later years is because your family owed a huge debt back then. It was so big that the whole family had to pay for it. It's impossible to make up for it." Wei Ziqi thought for a moment, "Just like the situation you are facing now, it should have happened a thousand years ago. Although the family will continue, each generation will always be at the bottom of society.
The elder in your family felt that he was old, and the spirit of self-sacrifice for the prosperity of the family in that era affected everyone, so he signed a blood contract with the jade statue and fed the jade statue for nearly a thousand years.
Counting the days, it is almost this year and his flesh and blood has been exhausted. The jade statue will definitely choose its next target. As for why it chose you, there are some earlier causes and effects involved. You don’t need to know, just Just need to make a decision. "
Hu Shouyu said in a daze: "How do you know about what happened to our family back then? This is obviously the most shameful past event for our family, and no one will tell anyone about it."
Wei Ziqi did not answer, but looked outside the store again. The moon had just risen above his head. The bright moonlight reflected through the glass in the store on some antiques in the corners. The surfaces of those antiques seemed to be covered with a light fluorescent color. Surrounded by antiques, it’s just that the antiques are not displayed conspicuously. If you don’t look closely, you won’t be able to see them at all.
"That's all, Mr. Hu. We have already said what needs to be said. The choice is yours." Su Jian Xia Jian Wei Ziqi didn't want to answer, so he could only relay it himself.
"What if I choose neither of these two." Hu Shouyu stared at Wei Ziqi closely.
"Then the current situation will continue, and families will be destroyed." Wei Ziqi's voice sounded emotionless, "It's just a business problem now. In a few days, the rest of your family will be infected like your son." He suffered from that strange disease until he died. Your son got sick earlier, so he may have seen signs that his life is about to pass in the past two days."
After hearing this, Hu Shouyu seemed to have become decadent in an instant. He closed his eyes and asked, "Why is it our family? Why is it me?"
Wei Ziqi didn't pay attention to his reaction. Although Su Jianxia was a little sympathetic, he had seen too many such things and didn't even want to say words of comfort.
"Do I have any other options? Or is there anyone else who can save me? No matter what the price, I am willing to pay. After our Hu family's business improves, I can afford any expensive reward." Hu Shouyu asked carefully. road.
"There is only one person in the world who can save you now. If you are willing to agree to the first clause and untie the blood contract, I can take you to find him." Wei Ziqi casually took a business card from the table and threw it to Hu Shouyu On the table in front of me, "You can go back and think about it first, and make this call when you decide."
Hu Shouyu took the business card. It only had the word Chaoge and a phone number written on it. It was an ordinary store business card.
Hu Shouyu was stunned for a while, sighed heavily, stood up and bowed to Wei Ziqi, then carefully packed away the jade statues on the table, turned and left.
"If the contract is terminated, he can at least save himself and the whole family's lives, so why would he still hesitate?" Su Jianxia looked at the man's sluggish back and shook his head.
"This kind of big family that has been passed down for thousands of years will be instilled with the idea of family honor first from birth. Coupled with the daily habits and feelings of being the leader of the big family, for them, the decline of the family is sometimes worse than killing. It’s more uncomfortable for them, so it’s normal for him to be unable to make a decision for a while.”
Wei Ziqi raised his finger to the sky, and the light on the moon hanging high in the sky began to dim, and then disappeared into the sky.
On the busy streets, everyone is busy looking for their own happiness. Coupled with the various colorful LED lights, no one will notice that the moon has disappeared into the sky.
Wei Ziqi looked at the direction in which Hu Shouyu left, and said softly: "It is originally a body of yin, and it can absorb yin energy from the moonlight. It is indeed an incredible thing."
"It's just a pity, it's such a tragedy."
"What will he choose in the end?" Su Jianxia was a little curious.
Wei Ziqi did not answer directly, but answered the question, "I will take you to meet someone in two days."
"It can't be the Miss Xu who went on a blind date today." Su Jianxia suddenly had a smirk on his face.
Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, Wei Ziqi, who was just a little far away from the world, choked up and opened his mouth for a long time, unable to speak.
"It's really a pity that I didn't see your thousand-year-old iron tree blossom." Su Jianxia pressed forward step by step, "I thought you wouldn't come back tonight, and I was ready to tell Hu that he would come back tomorrow. .”
"Why don't I come back?" Wei Ziqi was stunned.
"You are an old thing who has lived for thousands of years. Isn't it easy to attract a little girl like this? It takes such a long time to eat, just release your charm casually, she will not be able to follow you tonight." Su Jian Xia had a look of hatred on her face, "I didn't expect you to come back tonight. Thanks to me working so hard in front of Sister Wang, I gave you a chance. For someone like you who is still single, there is no need for you at all." Contribute to the country’s fertility plan.”
Wei Ziqi shut his mouth. He knew that no matter what he said at this time, Su Jianxia would seize the opportunity and get angry again.
But today, after Su Jianxia finished speaking, she picked up her phone and looked at it. She jumped up from the sofa with a "yeah" sound and said, "It's already past ten o'clock. I even forgot to agree with Yueyue to go to her in the evening." The bar where she is a resident singer has arranged for her performance."
Wei Ziqi thought for a while and then remembered that this girl named Yueyue was Su Jianxia's college roommate. She was a child from a rural area. Her parents borrowed money to pay for her tuition, so she often wandered around. Work in various places to earn living expenses for yourself.
I remember that Su Jianxia said last time that this girl was singing in a bar on the street. If she had nothing to do, he would help her to boost her performance, which would make her feel much more comfortable than giving her money directly.
Su Jianxia just opened the door and went out, but quickly came back, "By the way, uncle, it seems that Yueyue will be a nightclub from now on. The school dormitory will be locked at 11 o'clock. She will definitely not be able to go back. She can't be here at all." Let’s stay at the bar for one night, or let her stay in the hotel when she works part-time in the future, there are so many empty rooms anyway.”
"Isn't it up to you to decide these things? Just make the arrangements." Wei Ziqi turned around and prepared to make himself a cup of coffee and then go to bed.
He never cared about life matters. Su Jianxia basically just reported it every time she told him. In fact, it had already been arranged.
"Okay." Su Jianxia tilted her head and narrowed her eyes and smiled, then closed the door and jumped out.
Wei Ziqi accidentally raised his head and glanced up. Among the dense crowd, Su Jianxia's tall back stood out. Her long pony tail swung back and forth with the beat, which turned many heads.
Wei Ziqi looked at it for a while, shook his head, smiled, and continued to make coffee.
