Raising Ghosts Records

Chapter 138 A Busy Day

(It's awkward to be called Qiu's third cousin, so let's just call him Qiu's second cousin!)

Most places in Guidong, Guangxi are similar. If the guests come during the meal time, the host’s first priority is to cook, which is the most important thing.This woman should be Zhou Bazhi's wife, so I'll call her Aunt Zhou Bazhi!
Seeing that Zhou Bazhi's house was still built of mud bricks, and from what Qiu Laoer said, he was a well-known Feng Shui master in all towns and villages.Although it is in the countryside, don't look down on such a person, he is a distinguished guest wherever he goes.If anyone can be respected by everyone in so many towns in a county, even if he has no money, that would be a great thing.But for a person like Zhou Bazhi, why doesn't he build a good house at home!This is really inconsistent with his identity.

Aunt Zhou asked us to sit down for a while. She went to the town to buy vegetables and came back after a while, and it only took more than ten minutes to walk.

Qiu Lao Er pretended to be very polite, and told Aunt Zhou Ba that there was no need to buy it, just cook some vegetables.

Of course, this is just a kind of polite talk. If you really don’t buy it, you will neglect the customer, just like when we give red envelopes to children during the Chinese New Year, their parents will say that they don’t need to give them.

I looked around in the room and found that there were many awards on the wall, densely pasted, many of which had turned yellow, and it could be seen that they had been pasted for some years.This should be Zhou Bazhi's son or daughter's previous award!Reading is really good. If I had books to read, I might have more awards than the ones posted on the wall.

Seeing me staring intently at the certificates on the wall, Qiu Laoer told me that Zhou Bazhi has two sons who are college students!One is in Guangzhou and the other is in Shanghai. There is no second one in Fuluo Town.This is also the manifestation of his ancestors. Zhou Bazhi found a good place for his three generations of ancestors, and all of them were buried well. Not only did two college students grow up in the family, his eldest daughter even married a city leader!
College students in the early 90s were treasures. Unlike now, there were not as many junior high school graduates as there are now. If you graduated from junior high school, you could call yourself a scholar.

I asked Qiu Laoer, and said that Zhou Bazhi is so capable, he must have made a lot of money!Why don't the houses be built better, at least two or three floors must be built!

Qiu Laoer smiled, and said that Zhou Bazhi knew that he had not yet reached the age of happiness!In addition to making money for children to study, the rest must be saved.Speaking of which, Qiu Laoer went out of the gate to have a look, and then came back and told me in a low voice, saying that Zhou Bazhi had already found a treasure land for himself a hundred years later, and that his two sons would both be high officials in the future.If anyone knows where the treasure land he is looking for is, and secretly moves his family's ancestral graves there, then the offspring will be prosperous!

Qiu Laoer almost drooled when he said this, and his tone was full of envy and jealousy.

Qiu Laoer and I were drinking tea and bragging. After a while, Aunt Zhou came back and bought a pig's foot, a large piece of pork and some bamboo shoots.

As soon as she came back, she asked us if we were bored!She forgot to turn on the TV to show us just now, so she walked to a wooden cabinet in the living room, opened the door of the wooden cabinet and found a black and white TV.

I was very excited when I saw the TV. The last time I watched TV was at Uncle Babu Xiao’s house. It was the popular Journey to the West at that time. I fantasized that I was Monkey King all day long.

Zhou Bazhi is really not simple. Although the house he lives in is shabby, there is even a TV set at home. For ordinary people at that time, especially in rural areas, TV sets were expensive. Ye Feiji’s wish is to buy a TV set .

Aunt Zhou pressed the switch of the TV, and a sound came out immediately. She turned to a channel, and it was playing Liaozhai starring Chen Hong. I watched it with great interest.But the downside is that the TV picture is a little numb, it would be nice if it was clearer.

Aunt Zhou immediately walked out of the house and walked under a bamboo with an antenna frame tied to the top. She saw Aunt Zhou holding the bamboo and turning it around, and the TV screen immediately became clearer.At that time, the taste of watching TV is not experienced today. I don’t know if the TV series has changed or we have changed. It should be that the times have changed!

Aunt Zhou returned to the kitchen to cook after finishing the TV, and served it to the table not long after. When we were just about to eat, a tall man in his 40s came in outside the door.

As soon as Qiu Laoer saw the tall man, he immediately put down the bowl and chopsticks, and said to the tall man, "Oh mynah! You are back, you busy man!" Then he took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took He took one and handed it to the tall man.

It turned out that the tall man was Zhou Bazhi, so I immediately stood up and politely called Bashu.

Zhou Bazhi took Qiu Laoer's cigarette, said something politely, and when he heard me call him, he answered and told me to eat it!You're welcome, just treat it like your own home.

Aunt Zhou immediately went back to the kitchen to get an extra pair of bowls and chopsticks. Zhou Bazhi sat down and lit a cigarette, and chatted with Qiu Laoer.They were speaking Fuluo dialect, which I couldn't understand at all. It was almost the same as Zhuang language, and it was so hard to understand.

When Zhou Bazhi was pinching vegetables, I saw that his hands really only had four fingers, and neither of his hands had a little finger, and he couldn’t see any scars, which meant that Zhou Bazhi’s hands were born without a little finger. How strange.

I told Qiu Laoer that I couldn't understand Fuluo, and told them to speak Hakka, so they switched to Hakka.Qiu Lao Er didn't talk about the old house at the dinner table, and only told Zhou Bazhi the purpose of our visit after dinner.

Zhou Bazhi nodded while listening to Qiu Lao Er's talk, and finally made a price, saying that it would be 100 yuan.

Qiu Lao Er was a bit embarrassed. Although he was a pretty good guy in the village, he could afford 100 yuan, but the amount was a bit too much for him. After all, demolition of old houses was a public matter, and he was asked to do it alone. One hundred is really not justified.

Seeing that Qiu's second son was in a difficult situation, I immediately agreed, still secretly happy. I paid 200 yuan for my seventh aunt, but this week Bazhi only reported 100 yuan.It seems that I don't have much concept of money. Anyway, money almost falls from the sky, and I don't feel bad when I spend it.

At this time, we have eaten and talked about things, so it’s time to leave. Zhou Bazhi returned home and his buttocks were still hot, and he went out with us again with a black leather bag on his back. He has his own car, so there is no need for three people to squeeze one car.We returned to Majiang in more than half an hour. When we arrived at the entrance of the village, Qiu Laoer told Zhou Bazhi that the old green brick house in front was to be demolished.

Zhou Bazhi said he couldn't enter the village, so we went to have a look now, so we stopped the car by the side of the road and took him towards the old blue brick house.After we entered the old house, Zhou Bazhi looked around, then went out to look outside the house, then went up a nearby hillside and looked down.Zhou Bazhi has been frowning tightly since he entered this old house. He doesn't know what kind of trick he saw, or he frowned because he didn't see the trick.

Sure enough, as I guessed, Zhou Bazhi told us that there is no problem with Fengshui in this old house. The implication is that the accident here is not caused by Fengshui, and he doesn't know what the reason is.

I have long guessed that it is not a matter of feng shui. The landlord must have asked an expert to look at the house when he built it. How could he be so stupid to build a house on the ground.On the contrary, Qiu Lao Er had always guessed that it was a Feng Shui problem, and now the famous local Feng Shui master told him that it was not due to Feng Shui, which made Qiu Lao Er frown.

But Zhou Bazhi told us to rest assured that his trip would not be in vain, no matter what the reason is, he still has a way to demolish this old house, and guarantees that there will be no accidents.

Hearing Zhou Bazhi's confident words, Qiu Laoer and I both asked him in unison: "What way?"

Zhou Bazhi said that he had to pick a suitable day, use Taishan stone to suppress the earth evil, and then let us start the demolition at the moment when the yang energy is the most intense at 11:45, that is, [-]:[-] in the morning.Of course, this demolition is just a formality. It is enough to smash a brick on the wall with a hammer, and use explosives to blow up the rest.

Zhou Bazhi said that he would go back tonight to choose a date, and he would come over tomorrow morning to inform us of a suitable date, but he hoped that we could prepare some explosives as soon as possible.After speaking, he raised his hand and looked at his watch, and said that he would go back first and come back tomorrow morning, and let us wait for him at the intersection tomorrow.

After Zhou Bazhi finished speaking, he walked out of the old house, returned to the side of the road and drove away on his motorcycle. At this time, I asked Qiu Laoer, where did I get the explosives?

Qiu Laoer said that the explosives were not difficult to obtain. He had a brother who was in charge to work in the quarry, specializing in drilling holes and blasting rocks. He could just ask him to help when the time came.I don't know when the day of Zhou Bazhi's picking will be. I hope I don't have to wait too long. It's only the middle of May in the lunar calendar. The best day to pick is within this month.

On the way back to Sangu's house, I saw Ye Feiji carrying water again on the way. The two buckets of water weighed at least 80 catties.I hurried over and jokingly said that the sun is coming out in the west, Ye Feiji, why are you so diligent!
Ye Feiji gave me a blank look, and said that I can't do it if I don't work hard!Your concubine Xue can only pick one-third of the bucket of water at a time, and she has to pick three times when she picks one.

Seeing Ye Feiji picking up and walking for tens of meters and then resting, it was only in the year of the monkey that he could pick up and go home. I immediately took over the burden and walked home briskly.

At dinner, I told Sangu that I was going to ask someone to demolish that old house, and your illness would be completely cured by then.

The third aunt asked me who owned the old house, would they demolish it for you, and don't demolish it, but build it back again.

I told her that the whole village next door wanted to demolish it!Who wants to keep a haunted house, and it's just an unowned house, no one cares about it.

After dinner, I fell asleep on the bed without even taking a shower. The next day, Zhou Bazhi came early, still holding the black leather bag. Already waiting at the intersection.

Zhou Bazhi parked the car on the side of the road, and told us the first sentence, saying that the date is today, let us prepare for the opening at [-]:[-] in the afternoon.

(End of this chapter)