Chapter 41 The Half Emperor Snake

Liao Min was splashed all over with water by me at first and now she was almost dry, but she got wet again due to the cold sweat covering her body.

I pulled her up and told her: “That witch was right, and it is really a possession by a ghost. However, the weasel was divine and the amateur ones might have different ways to deal with it.”

I thought for a while and told her: “You need a Yin tattoo to make him go.”

Yin and Yang tattoos, the tattoo for Yin and Yang.

Yin and Yang tattoos were totally different; Yin tattoos were more evil and sometimes you might lose your life.

But a weasel, if you hurt it, will curse you till the day you die, so we had to use a Yin tattoo to get rid of the evil.

I thought for a while and told her: “Everything in the Yin business is interactional, so I have to get you the enemy of the weasel, who burned to death.

“The snake is the weasel’s natural enemy, and the water will put out the fire.” I thought for a while and told her: “I will give you the Yin tattoo of ‘the half emperor snake’.”

“What’s the ‘half emperor snake’?” Liao Min was very sensitive now.

I said to her: “You asked me this question, but did you know the story of how Liu Bang upraised himself by killing the white snake?”

Once, Liu Bang drank too much and he met a big snake on Mangdang Mountain, and then he took out his sword and killed that white snake while he was drunk.

Later, Liu Bang felt very sleepy after walking a few more steps, and fell asleep under a tree. In his dream, that snake came again and wanted to eat him.

So Liu Bang took out a knife and killed the white snake.

When he woke up, he continued on his way and met an old grandmother. She was crying sadly.

Liu Bang asked her why she cried.

The old grandmother spoke with tears: “Bai Dizi was my son, but you just cut him into two pieces, so why shouldn’t I cry?”

Obviously… Liu Bang was the future emperor. The times were changing as he had just killed the previous emperor.

So, after Liu Bang killed the white snake, he became more and more ambitious and decided to go up against the ruling Qin dynasty.

As a result, the half emperor snake was filled with infinite resentment.

Whenever the old dynasty was replaced, there would be the ‘half emperor snake’.

It had the pattern of a Yin and Yang tattoo just because of its resentment.

People would soon become insane when they were given this kind of Yin tattoo.

The reason why Liao Min could use this tattoo was just because there was resentment inside her body from the weasel, so we could use the “half emperor snake” to kill this one.

Liao Min nodded quickly when I said so and asked me: “Could I get it now?”

“Wait, let me make a call first.”

I needed to know whether Liu the Sixth had the ghost or not.

A Yang tattoo only required a common soul, and I got ten at once from him for spare use, but a Yin tattoo, since it was so evil, required a special soul, and I would usually buy them from him only when I needed one.

I picked up the phone and dialed Liu the Sixth’s phone number.

He picked up the phone and asked me: “Shui, you want to order?”

There was a flickering smile in his voice.

I nodded and said: “Mr. Six, do you have a water ghost? The more evil, the better.”

“Not now.” He answered definitely.

I asked him when I could get it.

Liu the Sixth said it was hard to tell; he had to ask his apprentice first and reply to me later.

I agreed.

Before he hung up, he told me he would tell me whether it was OK or not in half an hour.

“All right.” I smiled, and hung up.

I told Liao Min to wait first.

In the half hour of waiting time, I talked with her about her career.

I told her she was rather an immature girl when she last came for a Yin and Yang tattoo, since she had only graduated not long prior. Now, two years later, she seemed to be very mature.

She told me it was rather a hard life, trying to sell houses.

Those customers didn’t only want you to take them to check the houses, they wanted to have beautiful girls guide them.

“Though I don’t need to follow the customers, I did a breast augmentation surgery just in order to make customers call me.” Liao Min said.

So, her breasts were fake?

On the other hand, how many real g-sized breasts were there in this world?

Liao Min told me, why she could rest last week. There was one guest who always told her he planned to buy a house from the beginning of the year and checked the house with her very often. They even checked the house several times a day, but when they finished checking, this guest would tell her that the house was not suitable.

Then the next day, this interesting guest brought his coworkers and checked the house again.

The third day, he brought his wife and checked it with her.

On the fourth day, he brought his relatives there and checked the house again.

After several days, he still didn’t make up his decision to buy or not to buy.

Liao Min told me: “It was a good housing market in the past six months, but this bad customer just reduced my performance so much and I was feeling so tired all the time… Last week I told that guest… that the house was sold… Then I told him a lie and applied for leave. I had just gotten a hen and wanted to treat myself to a good time, but… I felt so tired then.”

I could understand her. As a sales girl from the bottom rung of society, it was not easy for people like us to earn such little money. It was even not enough for family expenditures. Each family had its own problems.

Half an hour passed as we talked about life, and I got the call from Liu the Sixth.

I answered the phone, and he was very excited, as if he was about to explode. He told me: “Well, let me tell you… I got the product, but the price was rather high. At leaset fifteen thousand Yuan.”

“Why is it so expensive?” I asked him.

Liu the Sixth told me: “Do you know what kind of ghost it is? I am not joking, this water ghost was actually drowned in the water with massive resentment.”

I asked him what happened to it.

He told me there was an open-air swimming pool on the Zhongxing road. It was shallow - the maximum depth was only one point six meters - but a tall man who was one point eight meters tall went to swim there… and he drowned.

He said that the tall man could not swim, but he just thought he was tall enough and went to the deep area. However, he was too nervous to float and went under in the pool.

There were many people in the pool, but they just though he was fooling around and nobody came to rescue him. When that tall man didn’t come up the people there thought there must be something wrong and swam to save him.

But that tall man was already out of breath.

In that tall man’s viewpoint, he might feel they were very coldhearted as they didn’t save him when he needed help. He must have been very resentful at the time.

Liu the Sixth asked me: “Do you want it?”

“Yes.” I nodded and said: “Fifteen thousand is OK for me… Oh, let me ask first.”

I covered the microphone and asked Liao Min: “Thirty thousand for the Yin tattoo of the cut snake; is that OK for you?”

I thought she was only a sales girl and she couldn’t have much money, so I’d just earn fifteen thousand this time, not so much.

Unexpectedly, Liao Min accepted without hesitation. She said: “OK, just thirty thousand is OK for me.”

Why didn’t she bargain at all? I doubted she was only a sales girl.

I didn’t think about it too much, but remember it after I finished the tattoo.

When Liao Min agreed, so I told Liu the Sixth: “OK… Fifteen thousand is OK for me… Bring it over.”

“Ok, deal.” Liu the Sixth seemed to be a little happy and he told me: “Shui, let me tell you something. A ghost, once sold, should never be returned.”

“Of course… When I buy something, I will swallow it myself…” I was there chattering when I heard the sound of a clash of iron plates.

“One two, one two three, evil little girl, you ask Yu Shui to take your own blame.”

I knew it was Feng Chunsheng when I heard the sound.

There seemed to be some implication from what he said.

“You are such a heartless girl, how could you let Yu Shui bear your troubles?” I judged from Feng Chunsheng that… maybe Liao Min wanted to hurt me?

Then I immediately told Liu the Sixth: “Sorry, Mr. Six, I can’t take that order. My customer is a good person.”

“So what, we are on good terms. Well, see you later. I will keep this order for you for three days.” What a big master he was in this business, since he was so perfectly close.

“Thank you, Mr. Six.”

I hanged up the phone, looking at Liao Min and Feng Chunsheng, who was hitting the iron plate, and asked: “Why?”

Feng Chunsheng hit the plate again: “One two, one two three, nice guy, kind hearted, you can prolong people`s life!”

I understood. He meant that Liao Min could read out my mind and harm me with words so that she could escape from death.

I asked Feng Chunsheng: “Brother Chun, any evidence for that?”

“Any evidence?” He squinted and laughed at Liao Min, saying: “It had nothing to do with The weasel. You can tell how many ghosts are on her since she’s bent all over.”

“Shui, let me tell you, you will be in a worse situation than when you were cheated by Bai Ling if you help her.” Feng Chunsheng said happily.

I got so frightened that my back became wet with cold sweat. Last time, l almost lost my life when Bai Ling cheated me.

I immediately pushed Liao Min out the door and told her: “Leave here, leave. I can’t help you, I am not a capable person for your matters.”

“Mr. Yu, easy, let’s talk business slowly.” Liao Min was a little anxious.

Feng Chunsheng went to the corridor, he pointed at the square and said: “Hey, girl, is that your car? BMW X5? I followed you when you parked it on the square, and I also hid behind the door and eavesdropped… How could you get the money to buy a BMW X5 when you said you were only a sales girl?”

“Oh…” Liao Min lowered her head and didn’t speak.

Then Feng Chunsheng continued: “You must have really had a good real estate trend since a sales girl could buy a BMW X5. I didn’t want to mention your story when you cheated Yu Shui at first, but then you created the fake story about a weasel and cheated him again? Well, we don’t think it necessary to cooperate with you since you never told the truth.”

Now thanks to Feng Chunsheng and I was not cheated by Liao Min. I pushed Liao Min out the gate: “Two options. First… tell the truth; second, get out of here right now. My brother is a master in this business; you can’t lie to him.”

“I…I just…”

“Will you speak?” I asked her.

She was on the verge of breaking down and said: “I just… really can’t tell the truth, or else, I would be killed too.”