Record of Yin and Yang

"Why did you die?!" the man murmured.

The fear in Uncle Six's eyes turned into resentment, looking at the man and the woman, "Because he is sick and has no money to treat him."

The implication is that if Cao Chengye had the money to treat his illness, then he would not die, and his own Min Nier would not see Cao Chengye's ghost, and then be frightened and lose his soul.

The woman noticed Uncle Six's eyes, and her panic turned into anger, "What are you doing looking at us like this, it's not our fault that your Minnie lost her soul!"

She dragged the man away cursing, but her panicked back revealed her guilty conscience.

Uncle Six angrily withdrew his gaze, continued to shake the bamboo pole in his hand, and bitterly called Min Nier's name.

Shao Yi drove the donkey cart over, and Gu Jiu called out to Sixth Uncle: "You won't be able to call back your soul like this."

Uncle Six looked at him in surprise, "You understand this?"

Gu Jiu nodded with a smile. He took out an oil-paper umbrella from the car, opened it, and walked to Uncle Liu, "How old is your child, where did you lose your soul, and how long did you lose it?"

Uncle Liu said: "I was 13 years old, I lost it at noon by the pond in the village."

At the age of 13, I already know a lot, and the concept of ghosts is also very clear. The momentary fear is too much to bear. No wonder I lost my soul when I heard that what I saw was actually a dead person.

Gu Jiu pointed them out, "Generally speaking, the living souls who run away will linger near the lost souls for a short time, so you should first go to the pond to call the souls, if you delay, the living souls will not find a place to return, and you may be at a loss leave."

Uncle Liu nodded quickly: "The old man in the family probably meant the same thing. We also came to the village first because we were afraid that Min Nier would run out."

As he said that, Uncle Six wanted to turn around, but hesitantly looked at Gu Jiu.

Gu Jiu was considerate, looked back at Shao Yi, and said, "Let's go with you."

Uncle Liu hurriedly thanked: "Hey, thank you young people."

Uncle Six called a young boy who was sixteen or seventeen behind him, and asked him to take the donkey cart home to feed the fodder. Shao Yi and Gu Jiu followed them to the pond under umbrellas.

The pond in Huaitou Village is in the center of the village, and the whole village lives around the water, and the direction they went in happened to be the direction in which the man and woman left.On the way, Gu Jiu asked about the couple.

Gu Jiu said: "Why do I feel that when they mentioned that Cao Chengye, they looked guilty?"

Uncle Six said contemptuously: "They are naturally guilty, because Cao Chengye was also killed by them."

The man and woman, the man named Qiu Lixing and the woman named Mao Juan, were married for more than a year.

Qiu Lixing's family was poor, and his father died a long time ago, so his mother took him to live. When he was a child, the family was poor. It was only later that Qiu Lixing was able to work and earn money, and the family situation improved.Because his father died of illness back then, the family owed a lot of money, and Qiu Lixing has been saving money to pay off the debts in recent years.Because of the debts and the dilapidated house at home, no girl has been willing to marry.After Qiu Lixing paid back the money and worked hard to build the house, he finally had the confidence to start talking to someone, but it took so many years, and it was hard to find someone when he was older, so this talk took almost a year.

Cao Chengye is a man from the next village, about the same age as Qiu Lixing, 25 years old, and they are friends.

Cao Chengye's situation is similar to that of Qiu Lixing, but worse than Qiu Lixing's. His parents died of illness together, and he is the only one left in the family. He is also an old bachelor.

When Qiu Lixing built the house and was busy getting married, Cao Chengye paid off the debt and continued to save money to build the house.

At this time, Qiu Lixing finally mentioned a woman about his age who was a widow, and this person was Mao Juan.

In some people's words, Mao Juan was married once, and the market is not worth it. Mao Juan only needs a gift of one tael of silver from the Qiu family, but the wife that Qiu Lixing saved is not enough at all, and he has to deal with the wedding later. For expenses, I asked Cao Chengye to borrow money.

All the savings Cao Chengye had at that time was only two hundred Wen, which he lent to Qiu Lixing.

But as the saying goes, it is easy to borrow money and difficult to ask for money. Once money is involved between friends, it is very difficult to say.

Qiu Lixing, who married a daughter-in-law and has his own small family, is in good spirits on happy occasions. He also had to pay back the money at the beginning, but at that time, half of the money on his body was handed over to his wife and half to Mao Juan. , There is no copper plate left in his hand.He wanted to repay Cao Chengye's money and asked his wife, but his mother only said that she borrowed it and paid it back.Ask Mao Juan, it is even more impossible for Mao Juan, when he heard that he wanted to take the money away, no matter what he was doing, she refused to agree.

There is no reason to spit out the good things you eat in your mouth.

Qiu Lixing, who had no money, began to avoid Cao Chengye because of his guilt towards Cao Chengye.For a poor person, two hundred Wen is really not a small amount of money. Cao Chengye would find Qiu Lixing to ask questions from time to time. Thinking that this person came to ask for money again, knowing that he has no money to pay back, why did he keep asking?

So his attitude towards Cao Chengye turned into disgust.

Cao Chengye trusted Qiu Lixing so that he would rather lend the money to the other party when he was short of money. At that time, he did not write an IOU when he borrowed it, and there was no third person present. He only made a verbal agreement on when to pay it back.Cao Chengye was an honest person, or it would be more appropriate to describe him as a wimp. If he didn't have money and no evidence, he could borrow the law to get it back, and he didn't dare to make trouble with Qiu Lixing.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, and Cao Chengye, who had already lent out his savings, got a cold.

As for the wind and cold, sometimes after drinking ginger soup, you will sweat and wrap your arms around the quilt for a while, maybe it will be fine.But Cao Chengye was so poor that he couldn't even drink ginger soup. He dragged his sick body to Huaitou Village, and pitifully went to Qiu's house to ask for money.

But Qiu's family was determined not to return his money, and Qiu Lixing's wife and Mao Juan yelled at him, conversely saying that he wanted to blackmail him.The villagers were skeptical about this matter. After all, the Qiu family also owed a lot of money before, but they paid it back slowly.

The sixth uncle said disdainfully: "Because Mrs. Qiu is a widow, she seldom communicates with others, so many people don't know that if the money owed by the Qiu family at the beginning is not paid back, his son will not be able to marry a wife. I have to pay it back."

Gu Jiu knew that wind and cold were easy to treat, but there were also many people who died due to wind and cold. The two hundred Wen owed by Qiu Lixing was equivalent to life-saving money for Cao Chengye at that time.

The Qiu family has a hard heart, and asking them to pay back the money is tantamount to cutting blood on them with a knife.Cao Chengye blocked the door to ask for debts, Qiu Lixing only hated his "persecution" even more, and ruined his family's reputation.

The sixth uncle sighed: "After that day, no one in the village saw Cao Chengye come over again. It wasn't until two days ago, when I went to the market, that I learned from the population of their village that a kind old woman in their village found Cao Chengye when she was delivering meals to Cao Chengye. Cao Chengye died of illness in bed. Qiu Lixing and Mao Juan have been working at Mao Juan's family these days, so I don't know."

While talking, they turned around a house and arrived at the pond in the center of the village.

In just a short while, the sky was completely dark, Sixth Uncle and the others held lanterns in their hands, illuminating the small rain curtain around them.

Gu Jiu looked around, Shao Yi suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed in one direction, Gu Jiu looked over, and saw a living soul floating there, it was a girl of twelve or thirteen years old, looking around blankly.

Uncle Six followed their gaze, but saw nothing. He asked, "Should I continue shouting like I did just now?"

"Take off the clothes." Gu Jiu said, "Later, while you are calling the child's name, unfold the clothes, then quickly close them, and put the clothes under the armpit." Then she looked at Uncle Six's wife, "Sixth Aunt, when Sixth Uncle puts the clothes under his armpits, you reply 'I'm back'"

Uncle Six and his wife nodded nervously, expressing that they had made a note of it.

Gu Jiu and Shao Yi retreated to the side, indicating that Uncle Six could start calling his soul.

Uncle Six rolled his throat twice, shook off the wet clothes, and shouted: "Minnier, Minnier..." He closed the clothes and pinched them under his arm like a child.

"I'm back, I'm back." Aunt Six replied tremblingly.

The two yelled and answered, repeating repeatedly, the girl in the corner was stunned for a moment, then the blankness on her face gradually faded away, she looked at Sixth Uncle and Sixth Aunt, and said happily: "Father, Mother!"

As soon as the cry came out, Minnier's living soul fluttered uncontrollably, gradually moving away from the pond until she couldn't see it.

Seeing this scene, Gu Jiu didn't let the sixth uncle and aunt stop, until the boy leading the donkey cart ran over in the rain, "Dad, mother, my sister is awake!"

Gu Jiu smiled slightly and said, "Okay, you can stop."

Uncle Six and Aunt Six were overjoyed, "This child finally woke up!"

Just now they were afraid that Minnier's soul would run out of the village, so they yelled around the village first, until their voices became hoarse, but no one came to inform that the child had woken up.The two were grateful for Gu Jiu's suggestion. The sixth uncle wiped off the rain on his face, and said with a smile: "It's getting dark, you two haven't eaten yet, let's go, go home, eat some warm food, tonight we will eat at the uncle's house." Just rest."

Gu Jiu said with a smile: "We came to the village just to stay overnight, so we will bother you."

"If you're bothering or not, don't be polite with your uncle or aunt." Uncle Liu said, leading the way enthusiastically with other family members.

When everyone turned around, they saw a black figure standing in the rain curtain behind them. The other party was wearing a coir raincoat. As soon as they saw them, they ran away in a panic.

Uncle Six frowned and said with a snort, "It's Qiu Lixing."

Originally, a person who died alone, like Qiu Lixing who owed the other party, would have been guilty for a while if it were normal.But when they came back, they just heard that Min Nier lost her soul because of seeing the dead Cao Chengye, so they would be a little scared anyway.

Gu Jiu and Shao Yi also frowned, not because of the guilty Qiu Lixing, but because of the ghost following Qiu Lixing.

Seeing Qiu Lixing running away, the ghost floated unsteadily after him, his face was pale, his eyes were dull, and he was muttering.

"Pay back the money."

"Pay back..."