It was getting cold, so I wrapped myself in my military coat, made a bucket of instant noodles, and was about to eat when there was a knock on the door outside.
"Who is this in the middle of the night?" I walked over and opened the door with a cigarette in my mouth.
It was drizzling outside and the sky was very dark. Through the small pink lamp at the door, I could barely make out a girl wrapped in a black cotton-padded jacket standing outside the door.
"Come for a massage?" I asked.
Her lips turned purple from the cold, and she looked up at the sign hanging on the door lintel: "Is this the Estee Massage Health Club?"
"Yeah. Come in."
I opened the door wide and let her in.
This girl was about twenty-three or four years old. She had long dyed purple hair and big, twinkling eyes. She looked very well-behaved.
"You find a place to sit first while I eat something."
She obediently found a relatively clean chair and sat on it, looking curiously at the entire room.
I took out a piece of fish intestine, broke it into several pieces, threw it into the instant noodle bucket, and ate it.
"I was introduced here by an acquaintance," the girl said, "You will know as soon as I mention the second uncle."
The second uncle is a family friend of my grandfather. Takes great care of me. Since he borrowed my money to open this massage parlor, he has been introducing clients to me every day.
But my massage parlor has rules and not everyone is welcome.
"Did you know that if you come here for a massage, I won't be allowed until three days?" I asked the girl.
The girl was a little confused, "They said that massage here can ward off evil spirits, so I came here. I don't know what the rules are."
I finished eating the instant noodles, wiped my mouth with paper, put them into the instant noodles bucket, opened the door and threw them into the trash can outside. Only then did he come in with a satisfied burp.
The girl could smell the smell of instant noodles in my mouth from afar, so she covered her nose but did not dare to show her disgust.
I pointed to an A4 piece of paper taped to the wall, with three rules for massage parlors written on it.
"First, don't press the button for men."
"Second, only give massage to those who are possessed by evil spirits."
"Third, those over fifty and under fourteen are not eligible."
When the girl saw these three rules, her face looked like a bitter melon, she stood up and said, "I'd better think about it again."
"By the way, my store has another hidden rule." I said: "It is closed during the day. It opens at eleven o'clock in the evening and closes at six o'clock in the morning. Of course, except for special circumstances."
"Oh, oh." She got up and left like a little quail, really treating me as a bad uncle.
I shouted from behind: "If you come back tomorrow, you need to pay more."
I smiled evilly.
She ran faster.
After closing the door, I staggered into the back room, sat down on the single sofa, turned on the TV and started playing the game of Bully.
Although now I am so poor that I only eat instant noodles, my pocket is cleaner than my face, and I don’t have a single customer yet, I still have confidence.
Because exorcism is a necessity in this era.
Nowadays, there is so much hostility between people. The alleys are full of great fairies who look after things and ask gods. Monsters and ghosts are walking sideways on the streets. Everyone's mental state is extremely depleted. How many people suffer from depression every year?
As a client, you can either accept my rules or suffer the consequences. The choice is yours.
I call this a big bully in the shop, or Jiang Taigong fishing.
My name is Qin Lianlian. The art of massage is passed down from our ancestors. According to my grandfather, he was a Taoist priest in Liutai Mountain when he was a child. At that time, because of his amazing bones and a coincidence, he was accepted as an apprentice by an expert hermit and taught him. Massage is a profound magic to exorcise evil spirits.
During massage, the true energy in the body is aroused, and the true energy is poured into the patient's body through techniques such as pressing, kneading, pressing, and pinching, and then using techniques such as scraping and cupping to draw out evil spirits and seal away evil spirits.
At that time, the master told my grandpa that this method of exorcising evil spirits was called ghost hand massage, and that you were a generation of ghost hand masseur.
My grandfather didn’t dare to take this position and said respectfully, Master, you are the first generation.
The master shook his head and said, I am ashamed to be a professional. When you go out, don't say that I taught you.
My grandpa’s nose was almost crooked.
Fortunately, the master said: "In the future, you will enter the world and use ghost hand massage to help people exorcise evil spirits. It may seem like a low-class thing, but in fact, you are using massage to enter Taoism. It is no different from those famous sects. From now on, you will have to subjugate and eliminate demons and protect the common people." "
In the end, the master explained two things. First, after he left the mountain and entered the world, my grandfather was not allowed to mention his name, nor to his own son or grandson.
The second is that ghost-hand massage inevitably involves physical contact with members of the opposite sex, which can easily lead to misfires. From time to time, he would disguise himself and go down the mountain to check. If my grandfather and his descendants were dedicated to protecting the road and acted upright, there would be nothing wrong with it. If someone commits adultery and violates the law, he will clean up the family and kill everyone.
After my grandfather came down from the mountain, he opened a small massage parlor, which he passed on to my father within a few years. My father was a romantic person, and besides my mother, he had affairs with many women.
My grandfather was furious. The teachings of the master were right in front of him. He didn't want to see his son being exterminated and his head fell to the ground. He was so cruel that he severed the meridians in both hands of my father and drove him out of the house to find a way to survive.
As soon as my father left, his whereabouts disappeared. My mother also died in depression.
I grew up by my grandfather's side. I went through rigorous training in my childhood, including sitting and standing in meditation, pouring cold water on my head, opening up my meridians, and practicing superior exercises.
The most important thing is that until now, I still keep my yin and yang in check. Grandpa told me that only in this way can I be immune to all evil spirits when exorcising ghosts.
When my grandfather passed away, he gave me countless warnings, telling me to swear an oath not to commit adultery. Although I would not take it as my duty to protect the Tao, I must walk the world with integrity and be incompatible with evil spirits and evil spirits!
Now I am the only one left in the old Qin family. I am the only one in the world who inherits this ghost hand massage.
I don’t want to do anything else, it’s tiring and I don’t make any money, so why not use such a skill.
I borrowed money from the second uncle and opened this late-night massage parlor in the alley. But so far, except for a few old people who have come to inquire, no one has come.
I haven't opened yet, and I eat instant noodles every day.
It would be a lie to say there is no rush, who doesn’t want to get rich? But my character is that no matter how anxious I am, I can’t lose my sense of proportion.
I know in my heart that the most difficult thing is to go from zero to one. As long as you close the first customer, the rest will fall into place.
At three o'clock in the morning the next day, I was sleeping soundly when there was a sudden bang on the door.
I woke up from my deep sleep.
