Chapter 130 Ghost Market (ETL) Part 1
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Chapter 130 A Fart That Ruined the Entire Team
[From previous chapter: Gu Ye suddenly laughed and said something nonsensical in a local dialect, “Seeing that wall reminded me of Wang the silversmith.”]
Gu Ye’s seemingly random remark left Xie Cheng completely bewildered. “What does that mean?”
Gu Ye smiled and said, “I’ll tell you when we get outside. If I do now, it’ll be obvious.”
Helpless, Xie Cheng could only suppress his curiosity for now.
Just then, that mean nurse was about to leave. This whole incident had caused her and her boyfriend to break up. She was shocked and frightened, and in a bad mood. When she reached the door and saw Gu Ye and Xie Cheng, she glared at them fiercely, “Busybody!”
Getting scolded, Gu Ye thought to himself that if it weren’t for him, this old lady would have died, and you’d have to pay for her life. How is it his fault now? He hadn’t intended to pay the nurse any attention, but Gu Ye couldn’t hold back any longer. “Auntie, you have absolutely no professional ethics. You’re really not suited for this job. If you don’t quit, you’re going to be in trouble.”
Even with a mask on, Gu Ye looked to be in his early twenties, not much older than the nurse. Being called ‘Auntie’ infuriated the mean nurse, who retorted sharply, “You’re the one who’s doomed! Your whole family is doomed!”
“Hah, so arrogant?” Xie Cheng pulled out his phone. “Let’s call the police then.”
Knowing that she was in the wrong, the nurse was too frightened to say anything. She glared at them and stormed off.
Xie Cheng curled his lip. “Anyone who marries a girl like that is doomed.”
Gu Ye said disdainfully, “That’s why I say some medical staff are angels, and some are… well, shit.”
“Pfft!” The two started laughing wickedly. Xie Cheng even gestured (the shit), only to be kicked by Gu Ye. So disgusting!
On the other hand, Dr. Qin was still furious about the incident and chased after the mean nurse to the door. He shouted, “Don’t leave! Come with me to see the hospital director later!”
“I’m off work, and my uncle is off work too. We’ll look for him tomorrow.” The nurse didn’t even turn her head; her words clearly showed she was fearless.
Dr. Qin stood at the door, his hand gripping the doorframe with rage, as if he wanted to crush it. However, he couldn’t say anything. He turned back and put the medicine bag that he had removed from the old woman into his coat pocket. He told the plump nurse, “Restart her IV. I’ll write another prescription; use it once tonight, and change to a different medication tomorrow. Don’t get it wrong.”
The chubby nurse took out a notebook and made a note. “Don’t worry, I’ve written down everything.”
Gu Ye whispered, “This doctor won’t get the result he wants even if he goes to the director.”
Xie Cheng said sympathetically, “That’s how it is in every profession. The hardest to deal with are those with connections. This doctor might even lose his job.”
Seeing Dr. Qin looking over, Gu Ye shook his head and said nothing more.
Nurses often start their careers as interns at the bottom. Large hospitals and private clinics tend to have more rigorous evaluation processes. But in smaller local hospitals, those who stay are either highly performing, have connections, or come from wealthy families who pay tens or hundreds of thousands of yuan to secure a job. Some people have paid the fees and bought the job; it’s good enough if they work diligently. Everyone’s just doing it for a living; their parents have worried themselves sick (for their children’s future).
What’s truly worrisome are those who rely on family connections, acting arrogantly and treating patients like dirt if they don’t receive bribes. Being sick is already uncomfortable enough; to have to put up with that is unbearable.
Still suppressing his anger, Dr. Qin checked on Shao Yinfan and said gently, “It’s nothing serious, don’t worry.”
Shao Yinfan’s parents relaxed considerably. Seeing this, Gu Ye looked at Xie Cheng and said, “Settle the payment, let’s go.”
Xie Cheng understood and went to Mother Shao for the payment of their service. The aunty was embarrassed1 and hurriedly transferred the money. Taking advantage of this moment, Gu Ye noticed the yin energy surrounding Shao Yinfan and casually removed it. This way, Shao Yinfan would be able to function like a normal person in 6 months. Otherwise, this weak constitution would have taken him 3 to 5 years to recover, and he would frequently encounter ghosts and experience constant bad luck.
The moment the yin energy was extracted, both Gu Ye and Xie Cheng could see that it was a thick, black mass. Xie Cheng grinned, “Such heavy yin energy. For a normal person to get themselves into this state is quite an achievement.”
At this moment, Shao Yinfan slowly opened his eyes. With the yin energy gone, the heaviness in his body disappeared. The heavy weight on his chest was gone, and he could breathe much more easily. Feeling someone’s hand on his head, he looked up and saw Gu Ye. His face immediately darkened, and he sat up abruptly, saying angrily, “You two murderers! Get out! I don’t want to see you!”
Shao Yinfan’s parents were startled by his impulsiveness and quickly stopped him, saying, “Don’t talk nonsense. Those two masters saved you; you can’t be ungrateful.”
“You killed her! You’re all murderers! Get out!” Shao Yinfan’s eyes were bloodshot with hatred as he said bitterly, “They killed Xiao Hui! If it weren’t for them, Xiao Hui wouldn’t have left!”
Hearing that, Gu Ye sneered and pressed the yin energy he had just extracted back onto the man. He wasn’t stupid enough to invite insults; if the other party couldn’t speak like a human, then he could just lie there.
Xie Cheng’s expression also turned cold. “I’m sorry, the task I took was to drive away the ghost, not to remove its ghostly aura. Give us the remaining payment, we’re leaving.”
At a loss, Shao Yinfan’s mother grabbed Xie Cheng and Gu Ye and pleaded, “He’s ignorant, he’s just talking nonsense. Please don’t hold it against him. We’ll give you extra money.”
Xie Cheng pulled the aunty’s hand away from him and said indifferently, “Auntie, my brother and I don’t want to earn this money anymore.”
Gu Ye added coldly, “Keep it for your son’s medicine; we don’t want a penny more.”
Shao Yinfan’s mother could tell the two were really angry, so she quickly pulled her son, “You need to apologize to the master right now! Mother is begging you, how can you be so ungrateful!”
Shao Yinfan turned his neck stubbornly; his body felt heavy and powerless. He said weakly, “They killed Xiao Hui, and I have to apologize to them? Then I really need to take my medicine.”
Gu Ye looked at Shao Yinfan with cold eyes and only said one thing to him, “Xiao Hui must be blind to have fallen for you.”
Grabbing Gu Ye, Xie Cheng turned around and left, saying, “We don’t need him to beg. Let him ask whoever he wants to save him. Let him live or die as he pleases.”
“Master Gu!”
“Master Xie!”
The two old couple chased after the masters for quite a distance, but neither Gu Ye nor Xie Cheng looked back.
After they were gone, Gu Ye looked Xie Cheng up and down, saying seriously, “I’m telling you, buddy, you’re really poisonous. You always get the thankless jobs. Look at what you’ve encountered today!”
Xie Cheng was exhausted. “Now that you mention it, I think I’m poisonous too.”
Gu Ye earnestly brainwashed Xie Cheng, “You are poisonous, don’t just ‘think so’, you’re basically toxic!”
Xie Cheng admitted it, “Fine, I’m toxic. I’m sorry for the trouble. Damn it, this is so frustrating!”
Xie Cheng pulled out his phone and told the people in the group: [That case from a couple of days ago, the one about the son falling in love with the ghost protagonist, is settled today. If that aunty wanted to hire someone to remove the yin energy from her son again, nobody could interfere. That bastard brought this mess on himself, and now he’s blaming us two, damn it!]
The group chat was filled with discontent: [You didn’t beat him up? Give him a good thrashing!]
[What’s his name? Just blacklist the mofo.]
[So amazing? He even dares to scold Gu Ye?]
[I don’t think he even knows who Gu Ye is. Now Gu Ye wears a mask when he goes out, afraid of being recognized.]
[Hahaha, so pitiful! Were you scared by that ghost grandma last time? Don’t be afraid, Group Flower2, your bros are here to protect you!]
The topic in the group chat was getting increasingly off-topic. Seeing Gu Ye’s expression, Xie Cheng quickly wrote: [Stop messing around. Gu Ye is pretty ruthless; he just slapped the yin energy he extracted back onto him.]
The group chat was filled with laughter, teasing: [As expected from Gu Ye’s sect lineage, so ruthless!]
Gu Ye sneered and sent a password-protected red envelope in the group, together with this sentence: [Gu Ye爸爸我错了orz]3
After a three-second hesitation, the group responded – Grab the red envelope!
The chat screen instantly filled with the harmonious [Daddy Gu Ye, I was wrong orz] messages.
Gu Ye snorted and wrote: [Good boys, y’all can get up now4!]
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At the hospital, Shao Yinfan’s mother said to her son in a frustrated tone, “Are you foolish? You can’t afford to offend these Masters. If they do something to you behind your back, you won’t be able to defend yourself.”
Shao Yinfan was actually a little scared, yet he replied with a fierce but weak voice, “Let them do whatever they want.”
Mother Shao sighed, “He’s our only child, and we’ve spoiled him rotten.”
Father Shao suggested, “How about we give them some extra money as an apology?”
Mother Shao thought about it and agreed, so she quickly transferred another 20,000 yuan to Xie Cheng’s account. Unexpectedly, just a few seconds after sending it, Xie Cheng returned it. Mother Shao said helplessly, “They won’t accept it.”
“Looks like they really don’t care about this little bit of money. I’ve heard that many masters have eccentric personalities. Sigh, we’ve offended them. What are we going to do?”
“They really don’t lack money. I heard they travel by plane.”
Shao Yinfan’s parents were extremely worried. Shao Yinfan wanted to argue back, but he was getting more and more tired, his eyelids were getting heavier, so he drifted off to sleep again.
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Xie Cheng put his phone in his pocket and said dejectedly, “Poverty doesn’t diminish ambition. Twenty thousand yuan is enough to buy several beef legs. Laozi doesn’t want any more than that.”
Gu Ye raised his hand to indicate, “I’m not poor, so I really don’t care.”
Xie Cheng said disdainfully, “I know, you don’t need to emphasize it. Laozi is poor. Laozi is so poor that my eyes turn red even with two thousand yuan, let alone twenty thousand! Never mind, let’s not talk about it anymore. By the way, what did you mean by that sentence you said earlier? That Wang the Silversmith.”
Gu Ye laughed. “Have you heard of a local opera called [The Story of the Wall]?”
“No.”
“[The Story of the Wall] tells the tale of an old man who struggled to raise his two sons, only to find that neither son was filial. They took turns caring for their father, one for half a month, the other for half a month. Sometimes, even with only 31 days a month, the son who took an extra day felt wronged, and the two brothers often quarreled over this.”
“One day, the eldest son brought his elderly father to the second son’s door, but the second son wouldn’t open it. The eldest son didn’t want to take his father back either, so the couple came up with a plan. They placed the elderly father on the second son’s courtyard wall, then dusted themselves off and left.”
“The old man’s pitiful state was witnessed by his good friend, Wang the Silversmith, who suggested a plan: to lie and claim that the old man had hidden a treasure. From then on, both the eldest and second sons vied to take care of their father, treating him with utmost filial piety. Until his death, the two brothers would try to trick the old man into revealing the location of his hidden treasure. On his deathbed, the old man uttered a single sentence with deep emotion, “Seeing that wall reminds me of Wang the Silversmith.”
“When I looked at that family, I suddenly thought of [The Story of the Wall]. That old woman was a sharp-tongued, gossipy woman; she certainly wasn’t likable. The old man (her husband) probably knew what his wife was like, and he also knew what his son was like. Afraid that his wife would be left without anyone to care for her, he lied before he died. Their family didn’t have that kind of fortune; what expensive treasure could they possibly have?”
Xie Cheng was speechless after hearing this, unable to even say a word of criticism. This family, reduced to surviving on lies, is pathetic. The old lady is pitiful, and so is her son.
“Oh, right,” Xie Cheng suddenly remembered, “should we go find that old lady who teaches Xiao Hui to sew a human face? Do you have time to go to the ghost market?”
“We have to go. The ghost market used to be scary, but it was still orderly. Now they’re even accepting human skin! This kind of practice that encourages crime is out of the question.” Gu Ye laughed, “I’d really like to see which bastard has the guts.”
Looking at Gu Ye, Xie Cheng thought he was going to get into a fight. The ghost market sounded like a place no normal person should go. He said seriously, “It’s not safe for just the two of us. Let’s call some people tonight, everyone can go together.”
Every cell in Gu Ye’s body was refusing. “I don’t want to take them.”
Xie Cheng said casually, “Let’s go together! It’s safer and fun. It’s decided then5.”
Gu Ye and Xie Cheng walked towards the subway station across the street, talking as they went. Just as they reached it, they heard a cry of ‘AIYA!’ They turned around and saw the mean nurse, dressed in a flamboyant manner, leaving the hospital. She happened to be there during a roadside landscaping project, and she didn’t know why she was so unlucky; she stepped on a water pipe and got sprayed with water. Then an ambulance drove up, driving in a hurry. It splashed water on the roadside, getting her covered in mud and water all over.
The mean nurse, who was originally dressed very nicely, was now a drenched mess of mud and water, a truly unsightly sight.
“Pfft!” Xie Cheng couldn’t help but chuckle mischievously. “Even the mud hates her.”
Gu Ye snorted coldly, “I told you she has no professional ethics. Continuing in this line of work will bring bad luck. She might dodge the police, but she can’t dodge God’s wrath; the retribution will be plentiful and long-lasting.”
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Raw word count: 7262 (whole chapter)
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