Chapter 102 Li Shan (ETL) Part 1
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Chapter 102 Hehe! Be gone, all of it!
Huang Yong ‘greeted’ Master Meng’s 18 generations of ancestors in his heart. The man spoke like a recluse Master, but in fact, he only cared about money. One stick of incense costs 1,000 yuan. If you want him to do something, you must burn incense first. The minimum is to offer 3 sticks, and the more the better. Of course, you have to pay extra for the master to do his work, and the price also depends on the work. If the money is too little, the master will not care.
And now, to request Master Meng to save his life, Huang Yong can’t show dissatisfaction on the surface. He is determined and gritted his teeth, “I will pay 80,000 yuan of incense money.”
Master Meng only narrowed his eyes and took a sip of tea. Tapping 2 fingers on the table, he said unhurriedly, “I see that you are destined to be rich and noble. Is your life only worth 80,000 yuan? The ancestor thinks that you are worth more than this price.”
The master’s 2 fingers deliberately tapped again and again, meaning: Double the amount.
Huang Yong’s breath was choked, but he gritted his teeth and said, “160,000 yuan.”
“The ancestors think this amount is acceptable.” Master Meng then slowly stood up, took 2 drawn talismans from the drawer with a smile, and wrapped them in a cloth bag. “Take this pouch first to drive away the resentment that was sticking to your body. Now, go to the back room and have a good sleep. Wait for me to close the shop at night, and then I will go home with you. I want to see if the ghost dares to come again.”
“Thank you, Master Meng.” Huang Yong accepted the pouch with both hands. In his heart, he cursed this money-hungry and pretentious master countless times, but on the surface, he still bowed several times in gratitude. Anyway, knowing that the master is here to save his life, he relaxed immediately. His body suddenly became exhausted, and he really wanted to take a nap.
Master Meng’s shop has 2 rooms and a living room. One of the rooms is a bedroom for his own use, while the other room, a hole has been opened up to fit a small window, where he sells things. The living room is filled with talisman paper, peach wood swords, and other miscellaneous things. The house is messy and disorderly, and the place for him to sleep is a small, cheap bed on the balcony, which is also full of miscellaneous things. However, at moments like this, Huang Yong didn’t mind it and lay down to sleep.
Thinking he could finally sleep peacefully, Huang Yong didn’t expect that when he closed his eyes, Li Shan’s face with blood flowing from all orifices appeared in front of him again. The other party didn’t say anything but just smiled at him. The strange gaze made Huang Yong wake up in his dream. He sat up instantly and broke out in cold sweat. Looking at the pouch containing the talisman, Huang Yong was unsure now. Does the talisman work? Is this a dream? Or is Li Shan really here?
Master Meng is quite an arrogant person. If Huang Yong went and questioned him about the talisman, he may be considered as not trusting him, and Master Meng may lose his temper. Hence, Huang Yong didn’t dare to ask. He held the talisman tightly in his hand and lay back for a while, but still he couldn’t fall asleep. The air conditioner hanging on the wall was blowing chilly air, which made him think of the scene of Li Shan crawling out of the air conditioner outlet. The more he thought about it, the colder he felt. The more he thought about it, the more scared he became. His heart, which had just been relieved, jumped up to his throat again, and he was so nervous. If this continued, Huang Yong felt that he would have heart failure.
Enduring until the evening, Huang Yong was famished. He hadn’t eaten breakfast or lunch, and finally couldn’t stand it anymore, so he called the hotel next door and asked them to send 8 dishes and 2 bottles of good wine. After Master Meng had eaten and drunk his fill, he slowly followed Huang Yong to his home.
As soon as they entered the door, Master Meng’s expression turned cold, “Such a heavy grudge, this ghost will not easily let you go.”
Huang Yong thought of the scene last night and was so scared that his legs went weak.
Master Meng said calmly, “Don’t be afraid. After this calamity, you will be promoted and get a raise, then become rich and powerful.”
The good news made Huang Yong delighted, and he said nervously, “Thank you, Master Meng, for saving me! It’s all thanks to you!”
Smiling slightly, Master Meng put on a Taoist robe and hat. Then he took out a peach wood sword with a righteous look and chanted a spell. Next, he set up the altar, sat on the ground, and began to meditate, “Don’t worry, as long as the ghost dares to come, I will disperse his soul.”
Huang Yong looked at Master Meng’s outfit and completely relaxed. Master Meng looked very reliable, and Huang Yong felt that he was saved.
At night, Li Shan and Ghost Doll still came. Although Huang Yong’s house had the aura of a living person, the lights were off. There were flickering lights in the living room, as if a brazier was lit. Both Li Shan and Ghost Doll were sensitive to the atmosphere and did not go in.
Ghost Doll sniffed, “I seem to smell the scent of incense. Or I should say, an inferior incense, the quality is a million miles worse than the one used by Master Gu. I get drunk when I smell those.”
Li Shan’s expression was gloomy as he said, “That master really came back with him. With money, it’s easy to get things done.”
Hearing that, the ghost doll took out a hell money from his pocket and smiled. He gave it to Li Shan, “Uncle, I give you my money to spend.”
Li Shan was stunned, then smiled, “If you gave it to me, how can you buy things?”
The ghost doll touched his head and smiled, “I don’t need it. It’s fine as long as I have a place to live. I have food to eat, and clothes to wear, so I don’t need money.”
Li Shan’s expression softened, and he stuffed the money back into the ghost doll’s pocket. “You keep it to buy candy, Uncle doesn’t want it.”
While speaking, Master Meng, who was meditating, opened his eyes vigilantly, “Such a strong ghost energy! Two ghosts?”
Huang Yong was so scared that he shrank under the table, looking at Master Meng for help.
Master Meng picked up the peach wood sword, curled his lips, and comforted Huang Yong, “Don’t worry. I’m here, no one can hurt you.” Standing up, Master Meng walked a few steps to the window. He used his sword to stab through a talisman and said coldly, “Where did the evil ghost come from? How dare you harm people? Let’s see this Taoist priest will purify you today!”
When a white light slashed over, the ghost doll pulled Li Shan to dodge it and ran away, “My goodness! Someone is beating up a ghost! Run!”
The ghost doll was so scared that he didn’t even have the intention to resist, and ran very fast. Li Shan had never seen such a scene before, so he could only run with the ghost doll.
At this moment, 2 talisman papers were thrown out from the window. Following their ghostly aura, the talismans chased after Li Shan and Ghost Doll with glowing light. Even from a distance, they could already sense the danger above. This Taoist priest was really quite capable.
“Help, help, help! Master Gu, save me!” The ghost doll was scared and screamed, running for his life frantically.
Just when the talismans were about to catch up with the ghosts, a murderous ghost energy condensed into a sharp arrow and flew past the ghost doll’s ear. The arrow silently blocked the 2 talisman papers behind the ghost doll, and pierced through the two with one arrow. The black ghost energy burned the talisman papers into ashes. The ghost doll looked up in surprise, “Ye Li! Ling Ling!”
The 8-year-old Ye Li stood in the air with a cold face. He was wearing a black robe, a red belt, and a head of black hair tied with a red hairband. With a black longbow in his hand, he looked at the ghost doll and Li Shan with an expressionless face. Then, he coldly pulled them behind him with a burst of ghost energy before saying, “Go away, you’re in the way.”
The ghost doll shrank his neck in fear and dared not say a word.
Ye Li pulled the longbow and aimed at the glass window door on the 20th floor. The murderous ghost energy shot directly into Huang Yong’s house, violently dismantling all the protective things set up by Master Meng to counter ghosts. After the ghost energy collided with the white light, all the talisman papers and magic arrays were destroyed. Ye Li’s eyes turned cold. He snorted with contempt and commented with two words, “Too useless.”
Ling Ling sat on Ye Li’s shoulder, wearing the same style of clothes as Ye Li. Her long hair hung down to her waist, fluttering in the wind. Her big purple eyes flickering as she watched the show, her feet swaying leisurely. Ling Ling clapped for her brother, and proudly said, “You (HY) still dare to ask for help, do you think we don’t have ghosts (backup) at our side? Ghost doll, are you two okay?”
Ghost doll shook his head and laughed foolishly, “It’s okay, we run fast.”
Master Meng watched the magic array he had carefully laid out being destroyed. The room was in a mess, and the ghost energy even suppressed his spiritual energy. With a gloomy face, he swallowed nervously and asked, “Who are you?”
Ling Ling grabbed her waist proudly in an arms akimbo pose but almost grabbed her armpits, and told Master Meng smugly, “I am Gu Ye’s daughter, Gu Ling Ling. The one who beat you is my brother. My father said that this ghost (LS) is under his protection, so go back to where you came from, or he will deal with you too.”
“Gu Ye…”
Hearing Gu Ye’s name, Master Meng’s eyes flashed, and a bit of timidity flashed in his eyes. Gu Ye dared to kick the door of the Xuanshu Association headquarter all by himself. He broke all the magic arrays and brought ghosts in, just because the people of Xuanshu Association hurt the spirit he raised. He has such a bad temper, is stubborn, and very protective of his own. He is capable and has such a strong family background. If you go against him, you will definitely get into trouble.
Master Meng immediately had the urge to turn around and run away.
Huang Yong saw that Master Meng was not moving, and asked anxiously, “Master Meng, where is the ghost? Did you kill it?”
Master Meng’s expression sank. Thinking of the 160,000 yuan he had obtained, he was reluctant to take it out again. Besides, this construction company respected him as a master. If he quit like this, it would be difficult to find more jobs in the future, and it would be very embarrassing. So Master Meng stiffened his neck and said fiercely, “Even Gu Ye can’t be a bully!”
Ye Li snorted coldly, “Bully you? You are not worthy! Scram!”
Master Meng was frightened by the murderous aura in Ye Li’s voice. This kid was not very old, but his aura was very strong.
Ling Ling said crisply, “If you do too much evil, you will die. You old man, you help everyone who gives you money. Be careful of God’s punishment!”
Hearing that, Master Meng’s face turned red with anger. He was only 40 years old, how could he look like an old man?
Ye Li had already pointed his bow and arrow at Master Meng. His eyes were cold, and his eyes had told Master Meng that if he didn’t get away, he (YL) would send his soul to Hell!
Master Meng took a deep breath. After all, money and reputation were not as important as life. He hurriedly said to Huang Yong, “I will return the money to you. I can’t help you with this matter. I can only wish you good luck!”
“What?!” Huang Yong was shocked. Master Meng was so confident just now, how could he simply quit like this?
“Master Meng! Master Meng? I’ll give you more money! 200,000 yuan! 220,000 yuan! Master Meng?!”
No matter how Huang Yong shouted, Master Meng ran away without looking back. Just the ghosts raised by Gu Ye were so powerful, so how powerful would he be?
Huang Yong held his head in disbelief, his mind was empty. Even the greedy Master Meng didn’t want the money. What happened?
Seeing Master Meng running out of the building, the ghost doll finally straightened his chest. He pulled Li Shan to the window on the 20th floor, pointed at Huang Yong inside, and shouted angrily, “Uncle! Go! Go! Go!”
Ye Li glanced at the ghosts and didn’t bother to care. He adjusted Ling Ling, who was sitting on his shoulder, and flew back to Gu Ye.
Gu Ye took out a bundle of paper figures that Ling Ling had folded, which were covered with talismans drawn by Ling Ling. After Gu Ye injected ghost energy, he threw out the talisman. As the paper figures fell to the ground one by one, countless ghosts who looked exactly like Li Shan emerged. Gu Ye narrowed his eyes and waved his hand, with a tone fearing that the world would not be in chaos enough, he said, “Let’s go together. Those who don’t plead guilty will not sleep well.”
At the same time, in the police station, “It’s strange, why is the list of Li Shan’s case gone? Has anyone seen the list I put on the table? If Li Shan’s case is true, they are all suspects.”
“Didn’t see it, go look for it again.”
“It’s really gone.”
“Maybe someone threw it away as garbage? I’ll print another copy for you.”
That night, everyone on the list was scared shietless and cried for their parents, wishing their parents would give them two more legs so they could run fast enough.
The next morning, someone in the Xuanshu chat group asked: [Is Gu Ye in this group? Xie Cheng, pull him in.]
Gu Ye has actually been there all the time, but the people before didn’t like him, so he has always acted like he’s transparent. When he saw someone looking for him, he replied with a bubble: [I’m here, what’s wrong?]
Crayfish not too spicy: [Today, I received several inquiries from people on the forum, saying that they encountered a ghost and were scared last night. I also heard that the ghost you raised went out to fight yesterday. Does this have anything to do with you?]
In fact, everyone has guessed it almost right. Only Gu Ye dared to do this, and only his sect had the ability to create so many ghost substitutes.
Gu Ye smiled and replied: [They took the dirty money, so I scared them. Go and tell them quickly that if they want to live, go and turn themselves in. The police station has an upright aura, ghosts can’t enter.]
Someone replied: [It depends on the situation, good ghosts can also enter.]
Gu Ye: [I’m just deceiving scumbags (lighting a cigarette.jpg)]
There was a lot of laughter in the group. They didn’t expect Gu Ye to be so easy to talk to and to be able to joke. They all became familiar with Gu Ye and said that they had learned this method from him. One person may not be able to think of a dirty trick, but if everyone thinks of it together, there is no worst, only worse.
So, the police station received more than a dozen calls from people surrendering themselves that day. For the first time, in a case without evidence, the suspects surrendered in a group!
The police in charge of the case were also confused. What’s going on?
At this moment, Huang Yong couldn’t stand it anymore. As the main suspect and an insider, even if he had good psychological qualities, he couldn’t stand being constantly scared. He ran to the police station and hugged the door. He knelt on the ground weakly and cried, “I surrender, please arrest me quickly! Whatever you ask, I will say it. Don’t let me go, I can’t stand it!”
Police: “…”
Faced with more than a dozen criminals who surrendered, all crowded in an interrogation room, scrambling to pour out their crimes like pouring beans, the police officer who took the statement kept twitching the corner of his mouth, not knowing what to say.
The highlight was still Huang Yong, so he was interrogated alone. Huang Yong was no longer as calm as when they first met. His face was sallow and his eyes were dark, as if he hadn’t slept for several nights. He was trembling, as if he could faint in the next second.
“Li Shan did fall down while working on our construction site and died on the spot. The main reason was that the safety measures were not good. We took out 70% of the money meant for safety protection and divided it equally. Chen Hong took one-third of it, and the rest was divided equally among us. This is not the first time. We have done this before, and we have used inferior ropes, hollow chains, and old nets for several years.”
The police raised his eyebrows in surprise and looked at Huang Yong in confusion. It was the first time he saw such a cooperative suspect and explained the dirty deeds so clearly. Did he not want to go out (of prison) or what?
Huang Yong continued, “After Li Shan fell to his death, I called Chen Hong to discuss. In order not to affect the delivery of the building and the performance, I ordered 4 of Li Shan’s co-workers to put his body into the cement mixer. The body was crushed on the spot, mixed with several tons of mud and sand. The body was gone after everything was mixed. What else do you want to know? As long as you let me stay in the police station, I will tell you everything.”
The police felt their scalps tingling when they heard it. This method of destroying the body was simply cold-blooded. “Let’s catch Chen Hong first!”
Chen Hong had been under police surveillance for a long time. When they said they were going to arrest Chen Hong, the police in charge of monitoring him reported anxiously, “Chen Hong is missing. I have been watching him. He didn’t come out of the house, but I don’t know why a living person simply disappeared into thin air!”
The police immediately sent people to find Chen Hong, and at this moment, Chen Hong was standing on the roof of Building 15 of Changming Community. Of course, he didn’t want to come here by himself, but was brought there.
“What do you want to do actually?” Chen Hong felt the wind blowing from above. Looking at the building in the distance, he felt dizzy. He felt like his feet were hanging in the air, and he was so scared that he squatted on the ground, pressed his hands on the ground, and dared not move.
Li Shan asked indifferently, “As someone who died unjustly, what do you think I want to bring you to do here?”
“I don’t want to die! I can’t die!” Chen Hong used his hands and feet to crawl to the stairs, trembling all over. He was so scared that his whole body was cold.
Li Shan walked over and grabbed Chen Hong’s collar. He dragged him to the edge like a dead body and lifted him up. Forcing Chen Hong to stand up, Li Shan pinched his neck and made him look down. Chen Hong was instantly scared to despair, shaking like a sieve, and dared not open his eyes.
Li Shan slightly exerted force on his hand that pinched Chen Hong’s neck, and asked in a sinister tone, “Is it very high? You will definitely die if you fall down, right?”
Chen Hong nodded vigorously, “It’s too scary! I can’t do it, I’m afraid of heights!”
Li Shan said coldly, “Look, it’s this high, right at this position. If you fall down here, the protective net below is really not strong. It will break if you hit it. Do you want to try the feeling of jumping down?”
“No! Let me go! I am willing to be your sla’ve in the next life! I will burn incense and worship Buddha for you every day!” Chen Hong was so scared that his voice changed, begging for mercy incoherently, trembling, “Please! I was wrong, please let me go!”
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