My Ghost Lover Is Too Annoying

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40. Something Wrong about the Grave

Chen

Ming made tea, poured a cup for the man, and said, “Please start your

story.” Then, he sat down slowly on the old rattan chair, which made

a creaking sound as he crossed his legs.

The man’s name was Li Muquan.

Recently,

the children of his, his brothers, and even his sisters had all been ill and

unlucky. Some caught a common cold for months, but the hospital found the child

to be healthy. The sickly ones caught a high fever and had been taking intravenous

injections in the hospital. What’s worse, one was drowned in the river a while

ago.

It

seemed the bad luck was always with this family. If things went on like this, it would lose all of its offspring.

Li

Muquan had sweated from telling the story and said, “I don’t know what to

do. Maybe there’s something that science cannot explain, so I came to see

you.”

“Give me your hand.”

“Ah?

Oh…” Li Muquan showed his hand in a daze.

Chen

Ming grabbed his wrist and stared at the palm. After about a minute,

he was no longer serious and regained his laziness. He snapped his fingers,

“It’s simple. Alas, have tea.” As he spoke, he took a sip.

Li

Muquan didn’t touch the disposable paper cup at all, “It’s simple? Then,

how much?”

Chen Ming thought this was a clever man. He extended two fingers and smiled, “This.”

Li

Muquan was astounded and then asked, “Two thousand?”

Chen Ming nodded slowly.

Li

Muquan rubbed his hands and didn’t reply.

Zhou

Nan could tell that this man’s economic condition was not good. He looked

at Chen Ming uneasily, hoping that the latter could cut the price.

Chen

Ming noticed Zhou Nan’s hint. But he ignored it and added, “Is

it expensive? It’s about your offspring. If we don’t deal with it earlier, it

might get worse.”

This

touched Li Muquan. He trembled slightly and stuttered, “I… I can’t pay all of

it for the time being. Can

you tell me the solution first? I’ll pay half the price, and pay off the

remaining half when things are settled.”

Holding his chin, Chen

Ming thought about it for a while and then agreed.

Li

Muquan took out the small, rugged bag that had been tightly grasped and

unzipped it. He counted the notes one by one and pushed them to Chen Ming.

Chen

Ming took a glance and didn’t rush to collect money. He talked about the

solution first as agreed: ” I think there’s water in your

grandfather’s grave. Either remove the water or move the grave.”

Zhou

Nan was amazed by the solution, which was indeed unrelated to science.

Li Muquan also asked in disbelief: “Is it over?”

“Yes.”

“It’s

impossible! You must be fooling me. My grandfather’s grave is very dry. There

cannot be water in it!” Li Muquan stared at the money on the table and

felt not worth it.

It

was a big deal to dig and relocate the graves, and no one wanted to do it

unless it was necessary.

“You’ll

know if I lied by checking the grave yourself.” Chen Ming said

calmly, “I have told you the method. If you want a refund, then I have

helped you for free?”

“You…” Li Muquan’s

eyes were red from anxiety, “You have to go with me. If the earth is dry, I’d drag you to the police for fraud.

It

was not difficult to understand why he was so emotional. A thousand yuan was

also a significant sum of money and shouldn’t be earned so easily.

Meanwhile,

Zhou Nan was concerned about the man’s latter half sentence. Whether or not Chen

Ming told the truth, anyone who made money through superstitious ways would be

questioned.  Maybe Chen Ming should return

the money for his safety. It was better to avoid trouble.

But Chen

Ming was annoyed-he hated being called a liar.

“A

liar?” He got up to find something and came back with his tools.

Li

Muquan was frightened, leaning back on his chair and trembling, “You… what are you

doing?”

Chen

Ming grabbed his collar and pulled him up. Pointing to the man’s nose,

Chen Ming said, “You wanna go now? Come on! I want to see how you are

proved wrong. ”