Judgement

Chapter 10 Friends with Ghosts

Human feelings are cold and warm, and the world is hot and cold.The people in Chenjiazhuang saw that Chen Youfu's body was still cold, and Chen Mengsheng was plotted by his second uncle so that he didn't even have a place to stay.Shopkeeper Zheng was a businessman after all, and he would never be so generous to the stranger Chen Mengsheng that he would not accept money. He thought in his heart that the Liuzhou wooden coffin had already saved his capital, so he waved his hand, forget it.

Chen Mengsheng was unaccompanied when he came out of Chenjiazhuang, so there is no place for Chen Mengsheng to stand in such a big place.Chen Mengsheng walked aimlessly along the main road outside the village, feeling really uncomfortable.Father entrusted himself to his second uncle, the closest person is like this, who else in the world can be trusted.

This day is getting colder and colder, and the wind is like a knife.Chen Mengsheng walked to the bank of Qiantang River, the sky was rolling like black clouds, and a heavy rain was coming.Chen Mengsheng saw a fishing house not far away, and ran into the fishing house in three steps at a time. As soon as he entered the fishing house, it began to rain heavily.

This fishing house must have been abandoned for a long time. The adobe walls on three sides are mottled and mottled, and there is a large fishing net near the river that is also tattered and drooping in the Qiantang River.The roof was dripping with water, and Chen Mengsheng hugged the big tank in the house to catch the rain, but there were too many leaks in the roof, and there was only one bucket left in the fishing house besides the big tank. Alright, let's deal with it for a night first.

These days, Chen Mengsheng was really exhausted because he had to take care of Chen Youfu's affairs, so he fell asleep in a daze while leaning against the broken bed in the fishing house.In the middle of the night, Chen Mengsheng woke up from the cold, and stretched his hands into his arms to keep warm.The tentacle touched something, took it out and saw that it was a beautiful purse stuffed by the shopkeeper Zheng in his coat, and there were four or five taels of silver in it.Alas, I didn't expect that a stranger would give me help in a timely manner.

It was still raining outside the fishing house, and there was a pot of boiling water in the Qiantang River, with a few fish jumping out of the river from time to time.Chen Mengsheng's stomach kept rumbling, and apart from eating some sweet potatoes in the morning, he really didn't eat any water.

Chen Mengsheng searched in the fishing house, which was seven or eight steps from one end to the other. Under the broken bed, Chen Mengsheng saw a gourd.Chen Mengsheng reached out to take the gourd, but the gourd remained motionless as if it had taken root.Chen Mengsheng was very surprised that with all his strength, he pulled up the gourd, and a puff of black smoke rose from under the gourd.In the black smoke, there was a human figure faintly, and it rushed out of the fishing house with an "oooooo", plunged into the Qiantang River and disappeared...

Chen Mengsheng was puzzled, but he was not afraid.When Chen Mengsheng met the judge Cui Yu earlier, he felt a sense of familiarity.Chen Mengsheng saw the word "Sun" written on the gourd. He shook the gourd with his hand, and there was a sound in the gourd.Unplugging the wine, Chen Mengsheng happened to be cold and hungry, so he drank half a catty of wine.A warm current from the abdomen began to flow directly to the head.

There is nothing to do all night, and there are three poles in the sun.Chen Mengsheng pushed the door and walked out. People by the Qiantang River all avoided him when they saw Chen Mengsheng.Walking out of Sanlidi is a big market, which brings together passers-by from south to north.

Chen Mengsheng found an breakfast stall and ordered two rice dumplings and a bowl of soy milk.There were still a few diners at the breakfast stand, among them were two sons dressed as Wen Sheng talking.

"Brother Yueshan, the emperor is recruiting craftsmen again this year. It seems that the foolish emperor doesn't want to regain lost ground, he only wants to be comfortable and happy."

"Brother Meng, you can't say this. Be careful that walls have ears. Brother, I heard an anecdote today."

"What anecdote?"

Everyone has a heart of curiosity, and they want to hear about any strange news and strange things.The people at the stall stopped talking earlier, and they all pricked up their ears.The scholar who spoke said: "Today, in the morning, my uncle who was driving the cart came back from delivering the goods on the Qiantang River, passing by the haunted fishing house by the river, and saw a person coming out of the fishing house."

"Ah, are you talking about that haunted house of old man Sun?"

"Exactly."

The breakfast seller was an old woman in her 50s. Hearing the two scholars' words, she shook her head secretly and sighed: "The old man Sun is called Sun Tianci, and he used to live next door to the old lady's house. He is also a hard-working person. His parents died when he was young. Later, he moved to the Su family by the Qiantang River, but they didn’t treat him as a person. Sun Tianci only lived on fishing every day, and he loved the things in the cup all his life. Three years ago, Sun Tianci After selling the fish, I was greedy for a few more cups, and fell into the Qiantang River. Since then, the fishing house in the Qiantang River has always been haunted by ghosts. Many people have seen Old Man Sun in the middle of the night, and they all say that it is Old Man Sun. No one dares to go to that haunted house for the sake of others’ pleasure.”

As soon as Chen Mengsheng heard it, he understood that the old man Sun Tianci should be in the black smoke yesterday.He also drank other people's wine, Chen Mengsheng paid the bill and bought a new fishing net and a piece of linoleum in the market.I went to the hotel to drink a gourd of wine, bought two catties of cooked meat, and returned to the fishing house with incense sticks and paper foil.

Chen Mengsheng replaced the old linoleum on the roof, added many bricks and tiles, and repaired the stove in the fishing house that was about to collapse.The new net net fish turned out to be nine out of ten nets, only some small fish and shrimps were caught.At night, a thin layer of cold dew rose on the Qiantang River.Chen Mengsheng lit incense sticks and paper foil, offered two bowls of fish and shrimp, worshiped his parents and old man Sun, and sprinkled most of a gourd of wine in the river.

Nothing happened all night, but last night there were bubbles in the fishing net.Pulling up the fishing net, it turned out to be a net full of fish.

In the market, other people sell fish with a fish basket, and there are three or five fish in the fish basket. If a buyer comes to find the fish, it will be over as soon as the price is weighed.But that's not the case for Chen Mengsheng, he carried two loads of live fish, and that load weighed more than a hundred catties including fish and water.The fish picked all the way from the Qiantang River are still fresh and jumping, and that Chen Mengsheng is so bold, it goes without saying that he sells fish.This is different from Chen Mengsheng's selling eggs. Eggs are sold for ten cents each, but fish, big or small, can't be sold individually, and how much they weigh.It's not that there is no scale, it's that Chen Mengsheng can't understand the seven-star scale.

Buying fish is all based on estimates from the seller. The fish buyer saw a fool at first glance. He estimated that a fish of three catties would be one catty. Just like this morning, there was a fool who sold fish and it was spread all over the world. market.

Later, people in the whole market waited for Chen Mengsheng to come to buy fish. Chen Mengsheng's business was getting better and better, and those who were greedy for ###yi could not be greedy anymore. It was three catties of fish. If you estimate One catty, someone next to him will estimate two catties, you estimate two catties, I estimate three catties, there are still a lot of people who want to save face, you estimate three catties, I estimate four catties... Although Chen Mengsheng has not studied much, he is not stupid. .Chen Mengsheng's Qiantang Village by the Qiantang River sells fish for a living, and he sells them for five years, and he has earned a lot of money during these five years.

Today, Chen Mengsheng shouldered his burden again.When he came to the market, his fish was robbed in a short while, so he laughed at Chen Mengsheng in the market so stupidly that he couldn't laugh anymore.All the fish buyers in the market came for Chen Mengsheng, and Chen Mengsheng's reputation represented the fish seller.

Chen Mengsheng, who only sells a load of fish every day, always goes to the Taibailou Restaurant to eat a bowl of noodles after selling the fish.Then hand over the wine gourd behind you to the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper will fill it up for him.It has been like this every day for the past few years, and the shopkeeper will always cut up two catties of pork head meat, or cut up half a chicken and wrap it in lotus leaves and give it to Chen Mengsheng.

The fishing house where Chen Mengsheng lives has already been built by him with three tile-roofed houses, with people living in the back and fishing in the front.In the evening, Chen Mengsheng opened the lotus leaf bag by the river, threw half of the meat in the river, poured half a gourd of wine on it, and then had dinner by himself.

Today, at night, just after Chen Mengsheng poured his wine into the river, a big bubble appeared in the Qiantang River, and after the bubble burst, a ghost was half exposed on the river water.

The ghost in the middle of the river said to Chen Mengsheng: "You boy, take my house by force and steal my wine."

Chen Mengsheng first bowed to the water ghost: "You are Uncle Sun, the junior Chen Mengsheng is very grateful to Uncle Sun, if there is no fishing house for Uncle Sun. Chen Mengsheng would have froze to death in the wilderness."

The water ghost was shocked: "There are three golden lights on your head. You are the body of a fairy and I am the body of a ghost. I can't bear it if you salute me. When you came to my fishing house that day, what you wore on your body The Devil's Falling Ruler was so scary that I hid in the ground because I was greedy for that gourd of wine, and I almost let the Devil's Falling Ruler be chopped off. Later, I deliberately tripped you up and told you to go out of your way. Hahaha. "

Chen Mengsheng couldn't help laughing when he thought that it was true that there were ten nets and nine skyscrapers that day.

"Later, I saw that you sacrificed incense candle paper foil to me, and poured half a gourd wine for me to drink, so I decided to help you and help you drive fish into your net every day."

"No wonder, I am also surprised that there is a net full of fish every day, how about a few drinks with Uncle Sun?"

"Aren't you afraid of me? I'm a ghost." He lifted up the wet hair that hung on his face, revealing an iron blue face.

Chen Mengsheng said with a smile: "People are much scarier than ghosts, alas. Uncle Sun, I offer you a toast."

"Haha, there is a magic ruler hanging in your yard, I'm scared, let's just drink like this."

Holding Huludao in one hand and lotus leaf bag in the other, Chen Mengsheng sat by the river.Jiang Zhong poured out the wine and threw a piece of meat, and drank the wine himself.

"Uncle Sun, why didn't you reincarnate on July [-]th when the gate of hell is wide open?"

"Hey, it's hard to explain in one word. I'm a vain ghost and can't enter the six realms of reincarnation. Besides, what can I do if I become a human being in reincarnation? It's not about being bullied, it's better to be able to drink alcohol every day."

One person and one ghost chatted like this until it was dusk, and Sun Tianci couldn't see the light, so he bid farewell to Chen Mengsheng in a hurry...