Taboos in the Underworld: Starting from being paid a lot of money to beg for a child

As soon as the door opened, a faint orange light was turned on in the bedroom.

Mu Xue lay quietly on the large bed covered with quilt.

She put her right hand to her face, and the light shone on her face, which looked very good and flushed.

Seeing that Mu Xue looked so good, I smiled happily and slowly walked towards Mu Xue.

Over the past few months, this has been the only thing that has made me happy.

When she left home to go back to Guangzhou to work, Mu Xue still looked sick. Now she has finally become normal. How can she make me unhappy?

I walked to the bed in two steps, slowly bent down, and prepared to put her hand under the quilt.

The rain outside is getting heavier and heavier, accompanied by the faint sound of thunder.

The temperature is getting lower and lower at night, and I'm afraid she will catch a cold if she sleeps like this.

I don't know if it was a coincidence or something, but just when my hand touched Mu Xue's hand, there was a sudden thunder in the sky, which startled me.

At the same time, Mu Xue was also frightened awake by the thunder.

She opened her eyes suddenly and screamed.

I patted her forehead and said with a smile: "It's okay, sister, brother is back."

Mu Xue gasped for air and turned to look at me. Then her eyes got bigger and bigger, and her mouth got longer and bigger.

When her mouth grew as big as possible, she screamed loudly, the sound was extremely high-pitched, as if she had seen something strange.

Seeing Muxue like this, I suddenly panicked and didn't know what to do.

I hurriedly tried to hold her in my arms to give her a little more sense of security.

When Muxue was a child, I was her favorite. Every time she cried, her mother would ask me to hug her, and she would stop crying as soon as I hugged her.

Later, when she grew up and became sensible, I asked her why she liked my hug so much. She said it was because her brother’s arms were very comfortable and safe.

Before I picked up Mu Xue, my father heard the sound and rushed over and turned on the headlights.

Mu Xue kept shouting, heartbreakingly.

My mother asked me loudly and anxiously what was going on. I said she must have been frightened by the thunder, and that she would be fine if I hugged her.

The movements in his hands did not stop, and he stretched out his hands to forcefully hold Mu Xue in his arms. The moment Muxue was pulled into my arms, she suddenly stopped shouting.

I felt happy, thinking that Mu Xue had recovered. Before I could feel happy, I heard my mother say from behind:

"Xue, Xue, what's wrong with you, what's wrong with you!"

I hurriedly put Mu Xueping on the bed. Mu Xue's expression was completely different from before. Not only her face, but also her expression made her look heartbroken, extremely heartbroken.

Mu Xue's face was as pale as a piece of white paper, white bubbles kept coming out of her mouth, her eyelids were rolled up, and only the whites of her eyes could be seen but not the blacks.

"Mom, what's going on? Didn't you say that Mu Xue's illness is cured? Why did it suddenly become like this?"

I asked my mother anxiously, hoping she could give me an explanation that would make me feel at ease.

My mother also said anxiously:

"I don't know. He was fine during the day. Go and ask Dr. Li to come over and take a look."

Dr. Li is the only barefoot doctor in our village.

He is nearly [-] years old and has practiced medicine all his life, especially Chinese medicine.

"What's your name, Dr. Li? He must have been frightened by the thunder just now. He may have been frightened away. We should go find Master Wang to have a look..." My dad said her guess.

My mother immediately retorted:

"Why are you running away from me? It rained and thundered so many times in the past. Sometimes it was even worse than this. How come you weren't scared away?"

"This is like being scared away."

"Stop talking nonsense and think of a solution quickly?"

Before, I would have thought my dad was talking nonsense, but after what happened to Yu Man that night and what the two old men said to me, I suddenly felt that what my dad said made sense.

"Let's do this, Dad, you go call Dr. Li, and I'll call Master Wang and ask them both to take a look at Mu Xue. Is that okay?"

I said something.

Mom nodded and said, "Quick, go quickly, I'll be here with Xue'er."

I turned around and ran outside. My dad didn't dare to delay, and followed my steps and rushed out of the bedroom.

I heard that Master Wang is a person who knows some yin and yang skills. Of course, many people call him the old magic stick.

Because he is always nagging, and often goes to other people's homes for no reason and says that there is going to be a disaster in your family. You must not go out these days, and don't walk at night, or tell others about your dead father. It's not a good life down there, so go and pay homage and burn more paper money.

Because of this, many people in the village did not want to talk to him.

Because there must be nothing good he says, and these things have all been verified in all likelihood.

Of course, there are a few people who believe in him, such as my dad.

But more people hate him, saying that he has no conscience and always likes to curse others. Some people directly blame the disaster that happened later on his head, saying that he is a crow's mouth, a disaster star, good or bad. A broken spirit.

He had a bad reputation in the village, and he was poor. He made a living by making wreaths and making paper figurines. The house was full of black and white wreaths and various paper figurines.

It felt eerie even during the day, so no one wanted to marry their daughter to him, which led to him being a bachelor for decades.

In the past, many people advised him to work hard in farming, or go out to work, earn some money to build a new house, get a wife and have children, etc., but he laughed it off.

He also told others nonchalantly that he could do nothing in his life but this, and he was doomed to live in the underworld for the rest of his life.

Those who advised him would basically curse and leave after hearing about the meal from the underworld, feeling that this person was hopeless.

Afterwards, not many people wanted to deal with him.

The reason why my dad believed in him happened in the past two years, because he told my dad when my mom just gave birth to Mu Xue:

"There is a disaster in your family. Your son and daughter are too severely punished by their horoscopes and are not suitable to stay together. If we insist on staying together, your little daughter will not survive childhood!"

My mother was still in confinement at that time. When she heard what Master Wang said, she got angry on the spot and drove Master Wang out with a broom.

I was very angry when I heard this, and kept scolding Master Wang, saying that he was old, had a crow's mouth, was an old bastard, and would not die a good death.

My dad was also very angry at what he said at the time, but after so many years, it really seems like he was right.

I didn't bother holding an umbrella and ran frantically towards Master Wang's house. He lived at the foot of a mountain a kilometer or two opposite my house. He only had his own house in that area.

The house is basically surrounded by rice fields and there are no roads. The only way to get to his house is through the ridges of the fields.

The old man said that it was a good graveyard, so besides Master Wang’s house, there were also a few sparse graves, and my grandma was buried there.

The field ridges were very slippery in the rain, and I almost fell down several times.

The night in the countryside is very dark, so dark that you can't see anything.

I held a flashlight wrapped in a transparent plastic bag and walked quickly, one step at a time. My mind was filled with the heartbreaking look that Mu Xue had just shown.

At the same time, my ideas are also changing. Perhaps as Master Wang said, the horoscope punishment between Mu Xue and I was too severe, and it was me who caused her to become like this.

I have experienced so many strange things in the past two days, which are a bit beyond the scope of my cognition.

I don’t know how long I ran, but except for the flashlight in the transparent plastic bag, my whole body was soaked.

My eyes were hard to open due to the rain. Relying on my familiarity with that stretch of road, I wiped the rain from my eyes while running towards Master Wang's house.

When I passed by my grandma's grave, I stopped for a moment, pointed my flashlight at my grandma's grave and shouted loudly:

"Grandma, please protect my sister and don't let anything happen to her, okay? Please."

There was no response, only the majestic sound of rain, which kept falling.

After shouting, I felt a little happy, and I was about to turn around and run towards Master Wang's house. But the moment I turned around to leave, I seemed to see a person standing on my grandma's grave, a hunchbacked old man dressed in white. Madam, your height and figure are exactly the same as when my grandma was alive.

At that time, I was so frightened that I turned around and wanted to run, but my body became very stiff and it felt very laborious to run.

"Chen, it's grandma. Aren't you here to see grandma? Why are you leaving?"

A voice that sounded unfamiliar to me penetrated my ears clearly, as clear as if there was no rain around, and the voice was very slow.

These words sounded like what my grandma said to me, but the voice was different. It seemed familiar, but I couldn’t remember where I had heard it.

"This is not grandma, this is not grandma!"

I trembled and said to myself, and looked at Master Wang's house more than ten meters away. The lights in the main room were still on, but the door was closed.

I shouted with all my strength:

"Master Wang, help me, something is wrong, Master Wang, Master Wang!"

"Chen, don't leave. Now that you're here, kowtow to grandma a few times before you leave."

This damn voice appeared in my ears again, making me almost have a nervous breakdown.

I wanted to run, but my body movements were surprisingly slow.

It was as if there was a push pushing me towards my grandma's grave.

I yelled Master Wang loudly and ran forward as hard as I could.

Just when I felt desperate, the door of Master Wang's house opened, and Master Wang shouted at me:

"You sneaky thing, what are you doing running around in the middle of the night?"

After I heard him calling for fun, I saw him running toward me with a flashlight in his hand, holding a bamboo branch in his hand. He was waving it constantly while running, and at the same time he kept cursing in his mouth:

"Damn it, go back, go back, go back quickly, or I'll beat you to death if you don't go back."

As Master Wang got closer and closer, the pushing force on me seemed to become smaller and smaller.

It wasn't until he came completely to my side that all the pushing force on his body was relieved...