Chapter 7: Corpse Complaint

The masseuse was called Xiao BaiDie, butthe people in the massage parlor called her Little Bai.

Little Bai and Mimi were in a house.Mimi was kind-hearted, so she listened to Bai’s story, and she was very sympathetic.She said to Bai, “This thing is not a long-term solution, and this business is shady.Your boyfriend is cheating onyou, so what are you relying on? Why not run away?”

Baihad a stubborn temper; she really put those words to action.She ran away every two days, but every time was caught and brought back by herboyfriend.

Her boyfriend was also really not agood person, he grabbed her and threw her to the cabin and beat her with his belt.The other masseuses coming to persuade him had no effect.

Herboyfriend said that if Bai didn't earn three hundred thousand this year, he would kill the entire Bai family.

Of course, his threats were just angry words, but they were enough to show that this man was really a scumbag.

Baiwas really stubborn. Even though shewas caughtand beaten, she still ran again.Just one weekearlier, she ran away, but this time her boyfriend was thoroughly annoyed.Nobelt;instead he used awet towel dipped in salt water.

The towel dipped in salty water was just likesteel bar.Every strike tore the skin into bloody pulp, and the brine stung her flesh.Baicried in pain.

On the same day, Baiwas beaten half-unconscious.Fortunately,the owner, Zhang,cameback, and that ruthless hooligan wanted to help her. He pointed to the scumbag and scolded, “If you continue hitting her, she will die. Go away.I’ll let a few employees comfort Bai.If you can do, just do. If you can’t, just go. You are so dependent on your wife;who do you think you are?”

Zhang knew a lot of peoplein the underworld, and that scumbag dared not provoke him, so he just went away.

But that night,after Baiwokeup, she felt she had nothing left to live for, jumped in thecity's Trickle River, and drowned.

I listened to the storyof Bai, sighed, and said, “Bai was really miserable, but what was herrelationship with you, Mimi? You toldher to run out of kindness;she couldn’t have become a ghost just to find you.”

"If that were all there was to it, Baiwouldnot harm me.But the problem is that, the next day, when her body was picked up, I went to see her, and she was covered with a white cloth.I pulled open the white cloth, wanting to see her the last time…but when I pulled open the white cloth, I...I..."

Mimi seemed to recall something terrible, and for a time, could not say a word.

I comforted Mimi, told her to slow down, and poured her a glass of water 

Mimi took the glassand said she opened the cover of Bai’s corpse and sawher unexpectedly open her eyesand look at her resentfully.

She was cowardly, and immediately put downthe white cloth.

Probably after five minutes, Mimi felt Bai couldn't possibly open her eyes, so she opened the white cloth again.This time she found the tightly closedeyes did not open.

She calmed down then, but from then on she felt a pair of eyes always staring at her.

At the beginning, there was only a feeling, a persistent creepy feeling in her heart, until yesterday,when Mimi very clearly felt that she had been stared at.

To this day, Mimi had been completely unable to endure.Whenevershe was alone, she always feltthere wassomeone on her back,staring ather.

Mimi did not originally want to find me to have theyin and yang tattoo drawn.She made a phone call to aTaoist who was introduced to her by a friend. 

The Taoist priest said that Mimi washaunted by a ghost. 

It was a common thing to be born and die, but aperson whocommitted suicide would be rejected by the king of Hell. Whentheydied, theywould become wandering ghosts,withvery heavy grievances.

The masters who had brought Bai's body out of the river quickly covered her with a white cloth, so as to hide the grievances of the dead body.

When Mimi lifted the shroud, she became haunted by the ghost. 

Mimi also asked the Taoist priest whetherthe haunting was serious.

The Taoist priest said, "You are haunted by a ghost, whichmeansyou were remembered by the ghost.At first it will just frighten you, but after a period of time, it might even harm your life."

Mimi was gripped in fear and immediately beggedthe Taoist to help her.

The Taoist priest said that a religious ritewould costforty thousand. But if he sawthat the situation wasvery serious, it would be an extra ten thousand.

Mimi thought the Taoist priest was expensive, so that was why she came to me.

"Forget it, forget it.My brother, I didn't want to do a yin and yang Tattootattoo.It was terrible.I’ll go to find a Taoist and spend the fifty thousand. Money is less important than life.” Mimi waved her hand again, sayingshe didn't want to have ayin and yang Tattoo tattooed.

I was ready to open my mouth to persuade Mimi, to say that a yin and yang Tattoowas cheaper, and the money was deserved;that the effect of the yin and yang Tattoo was absolutely betterthan a religious rite.

I hadn't opened my mouth yet when Mimisuddenlyjumped into my arms. “My brother, my brother, she comes again,Baicomes again.”