I rubbed my sleepy eyes, pulled on my shoes and opened the door. It turned out that the second uncle was here.
The old man came into the house and smelled it with his nose. He frowned and said, "Lian Lian, can you put some smell in there? What's the smell in the house? Have you eaten daddy?"
I yawned and opened the door and window, and a gust of cold wind blew in, making me shiver from the cold.
The second uncle said: "It hasn't opened recently?"
I handed him a cigarette and sat on the broken sofa wrapped in a military coat.
"Otherwise, you can open a regular massage parlor." The second uncle suggested.
"What's wrong with my place?" I was unhappy: "I don't do anything illegal, I don't eat anything bad, I operate with a clear conscience, and I don't make any mess."
"That's not what I mean." The second uncle said, "I mean don't do that thing about exorcising evil spirits and haunting people. Seriously, give people massages, cupping and so on. I'll introduce you to a few clients, all of whom are my old buddies who work all year round. If you suffer from arthritis, rheumatism or lumbar muscle strain, don’t think you are an old man, it’s an improvement.”
"I have my principles." I said: "Throw away all the skills you learned from such a crime when you were young? Second uncle, you don't understand. This is my ethics. I would rather starve to death than give up for five buckets of rice."
"Fuck you uncle..." The second uncle felt that the scolding was wrong, coughed twice and said: "What, your brother is getting married, money is a bit tight... I really regret lending you the money to open this store..."
"Brothers will settle accounts tomorrow," I said, "We have a loan contract, and I don't have the money you want now. How about I help my brother and sister pay for it for free?"
The second uncle left with a dark face.
I put a cigarette in my mouth, and when I make money in the future, I will be the first to deliver it to him. It is not easy for the old man.
I didn't go out for a day, and it started to rain lightly at night. I was playing tank game in the back room when there was a knock on the door.
I pressed the pause button and went out to open the door. Standing outside the door was the girl who came last night. There was also a female friend beside her, who should be a best friend or something.
I opened the door and let the two of them in.
I asked what it meant.
The girl bit her lower lip and said, "I thought about it carefully and decided to give it a try. I brought my best friend here, do you mind?"
The best friend next to me has short hair and looks like a tomboy. She said provocatively: "While you are massaging, do you allow others to watch?"
"Just watch it. You won't learn it even if you don't see it." I said.
My best friend muttered, meaning who wants to learn.
I asked the girl what she called her.
The girl told me that just call her Xiaoying. Her best friend's name is Rongrong.
They didn't trust me, so they probably gave me a fancy name. OK, we meet by chance, why should we have known each other before?
"It's your first time. I won't charge you more. You try it first. If you think it works, we can talk about the follow-up." I said, "You can give me three hundred yuan."
My best friend Rongrong's eyes widened: "What the hell? Three hundred? Go out and ask around. The massage parlors outside are doing activities at the end of the year. You can do more than a dozen things with one hundred dollars."
I was impatient: "Then you go outside and massage. I not only massage but also exorcise evil spirits. I guarantee that the evil spirits will be eliminated and you will have a bright and sunny day."
"Three hundred, just three hundred." Xiaoying took her mobile phone to scan the QR code.
As soon as I smiled, business came to me.
This technique of mine will ensure that you will want to do it a second or third time after doing it once, so that you will know what it means to feel like a fairy.
"How about a massage? Do I need to put some incense on it to drive away evil spirits?" Rongrong asked provocatively.
"Don't tell me yet, if you really need it, come with me."
I took the two girls to a room inside. There were no lights in the room, only two small light bulbs burning on the shrine gave off a faint red light.
There are no Buddha statues or gods on the shrine, but a huge iron bagua hanging on it, completely made of metal, which my grandfather brought down from Liutai Mountain.
I’m not sure exactly where it comes from, but it’s quite interesting to put it here, it seems like that.
There is a mahogany sword hanging in front of the iron bagua, but unfortunately it is only half-cut. The first half is missing for some unknown reason.
"Where is this?" Xiaoying was a little scared.
I said: "This skill of mine is inherited from my family, and the gods are passed down from old to old. Have you seen the peach wood sword? It was left behind by my grandfather when he was catching monsters in Yuecheng. The fight was so brutal." , so only half of it is left.”
Xiaoying took her best friend Rongrong's hand and expressed her fear.
I took a long incense stick from the shrine and handed it to her. I asked her to light it, knelt on the ground, put the incense stick on my forehead, and then kowtowed three times.
I saw my grandfather do these rules before. I was still young at that time and asked my grandpa what was the use of these.
Grandpa said that there is actually no need to pay, but you have to go through this process, and most people will be willing to believe you, and they can only pay if they believe you.
This is called charlatanism.
Later I learned that there is a proper term here called emotional value.
Xiaoying took the incense, knelt on the ground and kowtowed according to the process I told her.
Rongrong is a thorn, I can guess it. As my best friend, the purpose of coming today is to protect Xiaoying, and to see if I am a liar.
But in this atmosphere, she didn't dare to make a mistake.
I sneered, my ultimate move hasn't been released yet, it won't scare you to death if I release it.
Xiaoying knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times. Then she stopped moving. She grabbed the ground with her head and stuck her butt out, motionless.
After waiting for a moment, Xiaoying still knelt on the ground without moving.
"What's going on?" Rongrong asked quietly.
I was also a little puzzled. After all, it was my first time to take on a job. Why did something go wrong before it even started?
At this moment, a sound suddenly came from the silent room, and it creaked like some iron pieces were rubbing together.
Rongrong was so scared that she grabbed my arm.
My eyes fell on the iron Bagua disk on the wall. The Bagua disk was slowly rotating, and the two Tai Chi fish made of pig iron moved their positions.
"Hey, there's a reaction!" I was secretly surprised.
No matter how my grandfather got the Iron Bagua, after all, it came from Liutai Mountain and is an old magic weapon with many years of history.
I squatted next to Xiaoying and patted her shoulder gently. Xiaoying slowly raised her head.
Rongrong glanced at the side and screamed out in fright.
Xiaoying's eyes turned gray and her face was expressionless, which was indeed a sign of being possessed by evil spirits.
