The First Business
When the antique-coloured wooden box was opened, there was a long bamboo tube inside, and on the outside of the bamboo tube floated an oedematous woman's face, yellow and wrinkled, and as soon as I saw it, it smiled cheekily at me, scaring me so much that I almost flung the whole thing out, but in the blink of an eye, the face inexplicably disappeared again.
I didn't know what it was, and it took me a long time before I dared to touch it. I picked it up and realised that there was a line engraved on the top of the bamboo tube: Yin - inspired Tattoo paint, Ghost!
The other side is also engraved with a line of words: date of death April 8, 2019, cause of death drowning, betrayed by her boyfriend and her girlfriends pushed into the water, drowned, the grievances do not dissipate, become a water ghost.
This ... is a ghost? There is a water ghost hidden inside this bamboo tube!
I was so scared that I hurriedly put it back to its original place, I dare not even look at it again, Yang - themed Tattoo pigments with cadaver blood, cremains, corpse oil, Yin - inspired Tattoo pigments with ghosts, this bamboo tube inside the ghost should be the grandfather's pigment.
I know the method of Yin - inspired Tattoo, but I have never used it, and I don't dare to touch the ghosts in this bamboo tube, because I have an inexplicable fear of ghosts in my heart.
Apart from the bamboo tube containing the ghost, there was a black box inside, which was opened with a key and a piece of paper with an address.
There are two addresses, one for the Vervecity tattoo parlour and one for Jennings' house.
Grandpa said Jennings lost his daughter to him as his grandson's wife, or a pair of twins, thinking about this is a little bit beautiful, just don't know if it's reliable.
Twins, that is every man's dream!
After giggling for a while, I started to pack up and leave my hometown to head to Vervecity, which is a big city and has to take a six-hour bus ride to get there.
I was bored on the bus, so I started recalling my grandpa's words, and the one that puzzled me the most was that if my parents came looking for me, then I should kill them and burn their bodies.
What was the meaning of this? Why do you want me to kill my parents? This is too outrageous, isn't it? My parents have been missing for so many years, I'd be thankful if they could be reunited, and for me to kill them, am I not out of my mind?
I couldn't figure out how to say this, and when my head got sleepy, I fell asleep.
When I woke up, I had almost reached Vervecity, after getting off the bus, I directly followed the address and found the tattoo parlour.
This tattoo parlour is in a dark alley, there are two floors, but it's already very old, the wall skin is worn and yellow, and moss, which means that no one has lived there for many years. The tattoo parlour had a big signboard hanging on the door, Tattoos of Gods and Ghosts, but the signboard was so old and worn out that it swayed when the wind blew, and I didn't know when it would fall down.
The lock on the door was so rusty that it took half a day to turn the key to open it. This kind of house is probably the same whether it is locked or not, just like a haunted house, who would be happy to come here.
After I went in I cleaned half a day before I dared to sleep, otherwise it is all dust, the next day I brushed the outside wall, and then simply decorated, the ground floor as a tattoo room, the first floor to live, and then you can open the door to do business.
The main thing is that the money is almost used, not to mention making 100 million, and then no money into the account, I have to starve to death, grandpa earned money I did not find a cent, I do not know where he hid, even the bank card, passbook are not.
Waiting at the door for half a day, not even flies, not to mention looking for my tattoo, this alley is so remote that no one passes by during the day, but there are many prostitutes at night.
Just when I was about to despair, suddenly Wechat rang, it was a girl in my village, called Chloe, she asked me where I had moved to, want to find me to do tattoos but could not find anyone.
I heart a happy, this is not a business come well, hastily sent an address to Chloe.
Chloe said coincidentally, she is also in Vervecity, fortunately, she first asked the village.
Indeed, not a moment later there was a car parked at the entrance to the alley, and then a fashionably dressed beauty walked in from the entrance to the alley.
'Hey Ror, why did you move to this kind of hellhole?' Chloe stepped on her high heels while complaining about the poor environment here.
She said the countryside was a bit backward, but it was better than this shithole.
I invited her in, poured tea and water and waited on her, I couldn't let this first deal go sour.
Not long after Chloe asked me where my grandfather had gone, I lied that my grandfather had gone on a trip, she drank a few mouthfuls of tea and then asked me if I knew the Tattoos of Gods and Ghosts.
I was so happy that I patted my thighs and said I would definitely do it, it's a family heirloom.
Ordinary tattoos cost a thousand or so yuan, and a large sum of money is only a few thousand, but Tattoos of Gods and Ghosts is different, tens of thousands of start, this is the first business, and the first time to come to a fat sheep, I can not be happy?
Chloe asked, 'Ror, can this Tattoos of Gods and Ghosts ward off evil spirits?'
I said, 'Yes, Tattoos of Gods and Ghosts can do many things, such as warding off evil spirits, transferring luck, ensuring peace, generating wealth, promoting family prosperity and peach blossom, and you can get them tattooed on your body for any reason.
Chloe still looked at me half-heartedly, saying, 'Is it really that magical? Don't sell yourself short.
I firmly patted my chest and said, if there is no effect, a full refund, and the boy and the man, and then I asked her in the end encountered what to do Tattoos of Gods and Ghosts.
Most of Tattoos of Gods and Ghosts' word of mouth is word of mouth, if nothing is wrong who is going to do Tattoos of Gods and Ghosts.
Chloe didn't answer directly, but kept looking out, and then asked me if there was anything following her when she arrived.
She didn't mean people, but things, which puzzled me a bit.
I shook my head and said, 'There's no such thing following you, you were the only one here.
Chloe was a little relieved to hear this, she said that lately she always felt that there was something 'dirty' following her, and sometimes when she looked in the mirror, she would find a man standing behind her, but when she turned around, he disappeared.
Another time she went to the toilet without turning on the light, actually found a man squatting on the toilet, but once the light was turned on and disappeared, that night she was so scared that she did not dare to enter the toilet.
Chloe's story sounds weird, could it be that she's hit a bad spot? I asked her if anything special had happened recently.
Chloe said yes, not long ago a man died in her bed, as if from that time onwards, she always felt that someone was following her.
What happened was that Chloe worked in a nightclub, and I won't tell you what the job was, but it was fast money and comfortable work.
That night, a man ordered her, may be too excited, not a few minutes that man's eyes straight white, and then hiccups, this has nothing to do with Chloe, to the bureau soon released, but after that night, Chloe always feel that someone is following her, and bizarre things also appear frequently.
Chloe is a year older than me, her life is more pitiful, her father is a gambler, she was ten years old when her father because of gambling debts were chopped off the hands and feet, and then the people did not take long to die, her mother with her and two sisters in the countryside can not live, and then remarried an old man of fifty years old.
That old man is not a good thing, a drink to beat them mother and daughter, Chloe eighteen years old was also by the old man's hands, a young girl in her flowery season so he destroyed, her mother did not let her alarm, said the old man is the pillar of the family, but also rely on him to support the family.
Chloe grief and indignation, in a fit of anger fled the village to go to Vervecity, two years later she was bright and shiny driving a car home.
A little girl, no money, no background, no education, just two years to mix so well, Chloe do what everyone should think of, the village people are pointing at Chloe.
But Chloe does not care, the world laughs at the poor but not laughing at the prostitute, she also took her sister and mother to live in the city, and the old man once drink stroke no one cared about, died in the house no one knew, and when people found the body is rotten.
I'm an open-minded person, there is no discrimination against any occupation, as long as the tattoos pay, and Chloe is kinder than anyone, she sometimes sends money back to help those orphans who can't eat in the village.
After listening to Chloe's things, I have an idea in my heart, whether it is evil, I do not know, but as long as I give her a tattoo to ward off evil spirits, it is guaranteed to cure the disease.
I introduced her to a Tattoos of Gods and Ghosts, called Ghost - Begging Yaksha, Yaksha is a kind of hellish evil spirits, one of The Eight Classes of Supernatural Beings in Buddhism, the general Yaksha like to eat people, and the Ghost - Begging Yaksha is a kind of hellish evil spirits. Ghost - Begging Yaksha likes to eat ghosts and is priced at 20,000 yen.
Although it was the same The Eight Classes of Supernatural Beings in Buddhism, Yaksha was harder to tattoo than Rakshasa, so it was twice as expensive.
Chloe frowned when she heard that, how could she tattoo an evil ghost on her body in the line of work she was eating? Wouldn't that scare the customers away? And the price is a bit expensive, she makes a lot of money, but it's not easy to come by.
Chloe began to hesitate, and she does not know if she hit the evil yet, may just be paranoid.
It's over, the cooked duck shouldn't be flying, right?