Chapter 24 Yang and Yang Fish
I was
totally annoyed by Niu Xiao’er.
I just
wanted to let him go quickly when I finished the Yin and Yang Tattoo…I really
didn’t want to have any connection with him.
At the
same time, since we were classmates, I just wanted to persuade him to give up
gambling.
I was in
a complex mood.
After
about half an hour, Liu the Sixth came in.
When he
came in, he gave me a look and looked at Niu Xiao’er who was sleeping on the
tattoo bench, and then he called me out.
The
moment I went out, Liu the Sixth said to me with a
straight face: “Shui, you said you were doing a favor. Well, it
was for your friend there, right?”
“Yes”, I
replied.
Liu the Sixth
said with a
scornful look: “Shui, you shouldn’t help him; I know this
guy well.”
“You know
him?” I was a
little surprised.
Liu the Sixth
said: “I had a small…under my name, and one night one year ago, I was there
with my friends, and your brother was also there.”
“Oh, yes,
he likes gambling.” I said with a smile.
Liu the Sixth
gave a brittle laugh: “Only ‘likes’ that? He wants nothing but gambling. At that time…he lost all of
his money…Then…this asshole knelt down to plead to the dealer, saying that he
wanted to gamble on his fingers. Did you know what I did then? I thought that I
just wanted to teach a lesson to such a person who didn’t even know his mother
when he was gambling. Well, he wanted to gamble on his fingers, right? Ok, let
him go. Then I told my staff to speak to the dealer…One finger cost thirty
thousand Yuan, and only for two fingers, no more than that. Then my staff cut
two of his fingers in order to let him think about the things left to him
rather than cutting all of his fingers, so that he wouldn’t live a bad life.”
I raised
my eyebrow: “Mr. Six, don’t you
think you were too cruel?”
“Cruel?
Did you know what he said after we cut his two fingers?” Liu the Sixth asked
me.
I shook
my head.
Liu the Sixth
said: “He said…he could gamble on the fingers again, the rest eight fingers, it
would be ok at twenty thousand per each…He is not an
ordinary gambler, he is addicted
to it like it’s his life…”
Ah!
I just
sighed.
Then Liu the Sixth
continued: “Well, forget it. You wanted to give him the Yin and Yang Tattoo to
help him to earn money, right? But in our field of this Yin business, there are five
things that we can’t help
with.”
“What are
they?” I had only just come in to
this field and didn’t know what the five things that we couldn’t help with were.
Liu the Sixth
said directly: “Simple. The
five things that we can’t help
with are defrauding,
cheating, abducting, deceiving, and stealing. The ghost
business, though it is scary,
is still normal
business, and we can’t help
these illegal elements.”
“So it
is, but I have to help him.” Then I told Liu the Sixth:
“Actually…he saved my
life before, and then he threatened me to help him with this Yin and Yang
Tattoo, so now I have to
comply.”
Liu the Sixth
stared at my face. After
a while he sniggered and said: “you have such a heavy sense of righteousness… Well,
you can do
it, but I have to
tell you, it is not
a good thing to help an asshole
like that.”
“I don’t
know. Let me do
it first, and I’ll see what will happen,” I said.
Liu the Sixth
gave me the bamboo jar filled with the new soul: “Go ahead as he wanted.”
I took
the jar and went
into the tattoo studio. After I prepared the dye, I went out and woke up Niu Xiao’er.
Niu Xiao’er
was having a sound sleep there. He glanced at me with squinting eyes when I
woke him up, then he closed his eyes and asked me directly: “So, Brother Shui,
ready now?”
“Yes,” I said.
Then Niu Xiao’er
rolled over and
got up, asking me: “So when I get this tattoo, isit true that l would win in
gambling?”
“Yes, but
it might not be so good at the beginning. It will
take a long time to have a better effect and change your life.” I said to Niu Xiao’er.
Hearing
this, Niu Xiao’er became
very happy: “Good, good, very good, just do it now.”
I nodded,
and told to Niu Xiao’er as a rule: “You have to choose
the pattern carefully since there are different meanings
to the
patterns. Once
you are given
the tattoo, it is hard
to remove, so just consider it well beforehand…So Brother
Niu, you need to consider it well; are you sure you want to have this Yin and Yang Tattoo?”
“Yes,
yes, yes!” Now Niu
Xiao’er was just thinking about winning the money. He insisted
I give him the tattoo, so I followed him.
I told Niu
Xiao’er; “There are both Yin
and Yang tattoos inYin and
Yang Tattoo, and the pattern
for your tattoo is a “Yin
and Yang fish”, which belongs to the Yang Tattoos. Yin and Yang fish could be
used to collect money; it uses the
method of “twine”, which means the
yin fish on the left hand and the yang fish on the right hand. So are you sure you
want to do it?”
“Just do
it.”Niu Xiao’er opened his two hands.
I had no choice and gave him
the tattoo.
I wore
the “Wu Sa”, and
after the process of “the ghost knowing its master”, I began to draw the
tattoo for him.
The yin
fish on the left hand and the yang fish on the right hand, both on the wrist.
The
pattern was not so big. After
one hour, I finished it.
Then came
the coloring.
It was
easy to mix the new soul with the dye.
I poured
out the dye onto the tattoo, and it
colored by itself.
After the
coloring, the “Yin and Yang fish” tattoo was finished.
Actually,
if I had wanted to
earn money, I wouldn’t
only include the slow-working Yang
Tattoo, but also the fast-working Yin
Tattoo.
And the
similar Yin Tattoo could be called “the ghost hands catch the money.”
The Yin Tattoo
had a good effect. Even though
Miao Weiwei hadn’t died due to the Yin Tattoo yet when
I was tattooing Niu
Xiao’er, I instinctively thought that it was too scary, so I was not willing to
tell Niu Xiao’er
about it.
After the
tattooing, Niu Xiao’er bent over to put on his shoes and was going to leave the
tattoo studio.
I asked
him: “Brother Niu…what about going for supper together tonight?”
“No, no,
I have to
prove it, to check whether it is effective
for gambling,” Niu Xiao’er
laughed.
Because
the tattoo couch was so high, Niu Xiao’er had to bend over rather low so that
he could put on his shoes.
At that
moment, a stack of red one-hundred dollar bills slipped out from his collar
band and dropped to the ground.
This
stack of one-hundred dollar bills was worth ten
thousand Yuan, sealed by abank note.
Obviously,
it was not opened yet.
Niu Xiao’er
picked up the ten thousand Yuan quickly
and stuffed them back in his pocket. He smiled to me in
embarrassment and then scurried out.
When he
left, I kicked the tattoo couch: “Damn you!”
I treated Niu Xiao’er
as my brother and gritted my teeth to treat him to French
Cuisine. I
also didn’t ask him for any money for the tattoo, but when I asked him for two
thousand Yuan for
the new soul he said he didn’t have money, so I didn’t force him to pay.
But this man
only gave me one hundred Yuan for
food while he actually had ten thousand Yuan in his
inside pocket.
“Humans’
hearts change so easily.” I looked at the crooked tattoo couch I kicked. I shook
my head and straightened it.
Forget
it, just pretend I never knew him before.
But was
it true that Niu Xiao’er could earn money from gambling after he was
given that Yin and Yang Tattoo?
I really
had no idea.
Maybe he
would turn to me again.
Watching Niu
Xiao’er’s back as he left, I thought of the words Liu the Sixth had said: “It is not a
good thing to give a Yin and Yang Tattoo to such gambler.”
I pushed
back the tattoo couch and continued with my daily business.
That day there was
no more business about Yin and Yang Tattoos, it was all about common tattoos.
I worked
till seven or eight in the evening.
After I
finished the last tattoo for the customer, I pulled up the roller shutter and was
about to go home.
I met
Mimi just as I went out of the floor.
Mimi
waved to me: “”Hi, Brother Shui, I’ve been waiting for you for so long and I didn’t call you upstairs.
Come on, today is Mr.
Zhang’s birthday, and I told him to invite you too. Let’s have
fun together.”
“Where is
it?” I asked Mimi.
Mimi
replied: “Happy Carols. Mr. Zhang has reserved a private room for us, and we have some
sisters there too, so let’s go.”
“No
business tonight?”
“No,
forget it.” Mimi said: “It is more important to join Mr. Zhang’s party.”
Mr. Zhang
was Mimi’s boss, he was both a good and a bad person. He always chatted with me
and I had to join for the sake of him, because I might need to rely on this
“great master” in the future, once I had a good business with the Yin
and Yang Tattoos.
…
Happy Carols
was a relatively luxurious KTV in our city. I heard that there was aminimum
consumption there, and a large private room would cost a minimum of thirty
thousand Yuan for
five hours.
I had
just eaten French
cuisine that afternoon,
so I didn’t
feel so constrained when I came there. I just followed Mimi upstairs.
When we
entered a private room on the third floor, Mimi opened the door, where some
sexy women were getting close to Mr. Zhang and other friends of his to do a lap
dance to the music.
Seeing me
coming, Mr. Zhang waved to me: “Shui, you are also here! Just come,
dance now. You are joining
my birthday party for my sake…Just make yourself at home.”
I nodded
quickly and replied: “Thank you, Mr. Zhang.”
Then Mr.
Zhang pulled me out by himself.
He took
me to a group
of sexy women and
laughed: “Dance, dance… no needed to say thanks to me, you are here,
just feel free as you like. Later, I will give you
a big gift.”
“Haha”, I
laughed and danced.
Actually
I couldn’t dance well, and just twisted there on the spot.
But there
were sexy girls everywhere, they were wearing one-step skirts, package hip
skirts and low-cut blouses, which might easily produce a physiological reaction
inme since I had “no related experience” in this as a
man.
The secretion
of hormones and the loud music made
me less
reserved than usual,
now I was just being crazy.
I didn’t
restrain myself, rubbing those soft hips and even rubbing again and
again those chests on my face.
Anyway, I
could describe it in one word-crisp.
Everyone
was there rubbing and rubbing in high spirits, producing a higher and higher
sense of sexual relations.
Just when
I was getting a lap dance there, Mr.
Zhang’s friends came to him one after another: “Oh, no, damn, l can’t stand it
any more, Mr. Zhang. Can I go and do it?”
“Go
ahead, go, go. I
have reserved all the rooms on this floor, so just choose an empty room and
enjoy.” Mr. Zhang was very generous.
I also
wanted to…but I was
embarrassed to say so.
Mr. Zhang
seemed to realize my problem, then he came to me and said: “You helped Mimi, so
you can take
her and enjoy.”
“Enjoy…enjoy
what?”
“Oh, come
on, Shui, don’t play dumb. Or else, I will kick your ass.” Then he called Mimi:
“Mimi, just go and enjoy with your Brother Shui.”
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