dhibooks Chapter 22 Camphor Wood [2]
Chapter 22 Camphor Wood [2]
After 10 minutes of contemplation in the corner of the living room, Su Qiu finally felt ashamed and accepted his trumped-up charges of "disloyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness", and explained the process of being deceived in detail under the whip of Xiaolong's feather duster.
It turned out that when he slipped to the mountain in the middle of the night to hone his various skills as a beast, he heard crying in the yard of a farmhouse on the mountainside. His heart softened for a while, and as a human being, he went to visit the farmer at dawn.
In the farmhouse, there was only one young and beautiful woman sitting on the high threshold and sighing. Su Qiu asked the reason. The woman said that her husband had an accident and surgery would cost money, but the family was poor, and the only valuable table was destroyed. People can't pawn it as an old fake.
The beautiful woman was crying like pear blossoms with rain, her eyes were red and swollen like nuclei, and Su Qiu, who felt compassionate, didn't think she was lying. After he saw the square wooden table for sale, he was even more sure of the young woman. pitiful.
"Since the table can be refined, it means that it is indeed an ancient relic from the Qing Dynasty," Su Qiu said pitifully, "The wood is also very good camphor wood. It was originally used as a desk in that family. The woman did not lie to me. I originally wanted to give her an emergency first, wait for the table to be brought back, and then find a reliable seller to resell."
"Just that stuff, who are you going to sell it to?" Xiao Long poked at the square wooden table like a sharp sword with a feather duster in his hand, and said in disbelief, "Or, you Who do you want to harm?"
Su Qiu lowered his face and let out a long sigh.
After hearing so much, Su Chi stood up from the sofa, and said with a cold face: "Let's go, go to that woman first, you can tell if she's a liar or not."
Xiao Cage patted Su Qiu on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "Let's go, you idiot."
Su Qiu also stood up from the corner, and took the two girls out to seek revenge with a sad face, no, it was a return.
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The mountainside that Su Qiu was talking about was not far from the urban area, they hailed a taxi, and soon found the farmhouse where Su Qiu met the young woman on the mountain.
This time, Xiaolong has a new heart. Before entering the yard, he pestered Su Chi and asked, "How is the Fengshui of this house? Is it lucky? Is it evil? Can I enter?"
Su Chi passed her and walked forward without looking sideways.
Only then did Xiaolong stride into the courtyard with big strides, ran to the front, and knocked on the closed gate of the farmhouse.
The doors and windows were locked, and no one answered for a long time.
Xiao Cage doubted: "Could it be that he escaped with the money?"
Su Chi glanced across the dusty window sill and remained silent.
When Su Qiu was about to climb up the window to look in, a middle-aged woman with a baby in her arms ran out from the yard next door, and asked them righteously, "What are you guys doing?"
"Where is the mistress of this house?" Su Qiuke asked politely, "I have something to do with her."
"What mistress?" The middle-aged woman said with a gloomy face, "This house was a deserted house decades ago, and there was no one living there. Where did the mistress come from! What nonsense are you talking about in broad daylight?"
"No one?" Su Qiu opened his eyes blankly, "But I did see a young woman in this house last night. She was wearing a yellow dress, young and beautiful, and she told me while crying..."
"Bah, bah, bah! Amitabha!" The middle-aged woman spat on the ground holding the child, and said angrily, "Shut up! Bad luck!"
Su Qiu turned his head and looked at Su Chi suspiciously.
Su Chi was also puzzled, she walked towards the middle-aged woman, but the middle-aged woman quickly backed away, fearing that these people would be in danger, she cursed: "Don't come here!"
"...I won't go over, I'll just stand here and talk." Su Chi frowned and asked a few meters away: "Do you know that there is a man in this family who just had an accident and is still being rescued?"
"How do I know! Didn't everyone say that there is no one living here?" The middle-aged woman became more and more frightened as she thought about it, and ran home with a pale face, as if she had seen a ghost.
The three of them walked out of the courtyard together, Xiaolong said angrily: "Could it be true that you were deceived?"
Su Qiu asked anxiously, "How could I be wrong?"
Xiao Long laughed and said, "Could it be possible that you really saw a ghost? I didn't expect ghosts to be obsessed with money."
"...I never knew that ghosts also want to sell tables." Su Qiu said weakly: "Now that I think about it, maybe it's really a ghost..."
"It's not necessarily a ghost, you probably read it right." Behind the two of them, Su Chi suddenly said, "That young woman might be that table."
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When Su Chi and the others returned home, in the living room, the square wooden table that was firmly tied to the wall posts was still dishonest. While they were not at home, they secretly rubbed the table legs against the rope, trying to break it.
Su Qiu squatted in front of the square wooden table, begging: "Quickly confess your master, I promise I won't torture you."
"What's the point of talking to it?" Xiaolong kicked Su Qiu away. She got out a chainsaw out of nowhere and said with a grinning smile, "Let me saw off one of its legs first! Then I still have gasoline. Burn a few more holes into its body, it won’t die, but it’s definitely too painful! Hehehehehehe!”
The square wooden table retreated steadily under Xiaolong's approach, and finally shrank in the corner, trembling.
Su Chi walked into the kitchen alone and poured herself a cold cup. In the midsummer day, she ran around outside, and her back was already sweaty.
After drinking all the water in the glass, Su Chi turned around, but was startled by a woman's face suddenly approaching him, the glass in his hand fell to the ground, and shattered.
"Girl, help me! Help me!" The strange woman held Su Chi's hand tightly, wishing she could get into her arms, crying and scolding: "They are going to set me on fire! Is there any law! There is no reason! It's too cruel and inhumane! It's too scary!"
Su Chi was pushed to the edge of the pool, and was so horrified that he couldn't speak for a long time.
Who is this woman?
How did this woman get into her house?
this woman...
and many more.
"You are..." The alarm bell rang in Su Zhi's mind, and he shouted: "Little cage! Su Qiu!"
After hearing Su Chi's call, Xiao Long, who was light and light, rushed into the kitchen first, grabbed the strange woman by the back collar, and threw her flying.
The strange woman bumped into Su Qiu's arms who rushed in afterward, and after a while of dizziness, Su Qiu caught her straight again.
"It's you!" Su Qiu tightly grasped the woman's wrist, his eyebrows raised in anger, "The guy who cheated my feelings!"
"..." Su Chi rolled his eyes.
Xiao Long put his palms in front of his mouth and reminded in a low voice, "Hey, it's money."
Su Qiu turned back angrily, "Compassion is also emotion!"
Xiao Cage covered his mouth and stopped talking.
Su Qiu forcefully asked the strange woman, "Why did you lie to me? What about the money? Where did my sister's money go?"
The strange woman's wrist was pinched and hurt, and she grinned and shouted: "I didn't lie to you! The money was sent to the hospital, and it was all in the hospital!"
Xiao Cage asked, "You're a ghost, where did you get your human husband?"
"He is not my husband, but he is my master, and I must save him!" The strange woman cried loudly: "There is no money in the family! The only valuable thing is me. If you don't sell me, who can save him!"
"What's the situation?" Su Qiu let go of the woman's hand, and asked, "Are you trying to save your master?"
Su Zhi looked at the young woman in the light yellow dress. She was indeed as Su Qiu said, beautiful as a flower, and those who saw her felt pity.
The woman in yellow rubbed her wrists, with a sad expression on her face, "As you guessed, I am indeed a centuries-old camphor table handed down from their family. After seeing many joys and sorrows in the world, I gradually gained some ability I have become what you call a ghost, but I have never harmed anyone, I just need to guard my family and continue to live for ten or hundred years."
"Then your master..." Xiao Cage asked suspiciously.
"Presumably you also understood when you went to find me. Our family's fortunes have fallen, and in my young master's generation, he is the only child left. Originally, I didn't expect anything extravagantly, I just hoped that the young master will get married safely Have a child and be a happy mortal for the rest of your life." The woman in yellow wore a more painful expression on her face, "But who knows, the little master accidentally fell down when he was taking pictures on the roof a few days ago. His head fell to the ground, and his life was almost lost."
"Then what happened next?" Su Qiu asked.
The woman in yellow mourned and cried: "Because the little master has no relatives around me, I can only show him a human form and send him to the hospital. All the savings of the little master were depleted after his first emergency operation. He was still in a coma, and the doctor had to keep him in the intensive care unit for observation. After the operation, he was hospitalized for recovery, including recuperating and recovering from injuries in the future. I became a master, and the table was unknowingly different from ordinary antiques, and the people in the pawn shop said it was an old fake, and the money I paid couldn’t even pay my little master’s medical expenses for a day.”
Su Qiu asked: "That's why you cried so sad the day I met you?"
"I didn't protect my little master well, and I don't know what to do in the future. I'm really sad. I went back to the ancestral house to plead guilty to my ancestors that night. I didn't expect to meet you." The woman in yellow said, and asked Cry out loud.
"Since Su Qiu bought you and you came to my house again, why can't you make a safe and secure dining table?" Xiao Long asked strangely: "In the end, I exposed myself and almost hurt Su Chi."
"Because you said you wanted to return the product..." The woman in yellow murmured, "I was afraid that you would ask me to pay back the money, so I was in a hurry..."
Su Chi asked, "Then how is your master doing now?"
"I don't know, I originally wanted to sneak back to take care of the little master, but you tied me with a rope..." The woman in yellow said aggrievedly: "I am not an ungrateful person, please let me out, I have to Go to the hospital to see my little master."
"No!" Su Qiu learned to be smart this time, and said firmly, "I have to meet your master before I can believe your words. Let's go, you take us to the hospital."
The woman in yellow was already worried about the little master, so she hurriedly said: "Then go, as long as you let me see him, I will take you there right away!"
Both Su Qiu and Xiao Long followed the woman out, but Su Zhi stood there motionless.
Xiao Cage retreated to her side and asked, "Don't you want to go?"
Su Chi frowned and said, "Not only do I not want to go, but to be honest I don't want you to go either."
"Why?" Xiaolong asked, blinking his eyes.
Su Zhi sighed: "...I'm afraid that if you go, I will lose more than 5 yuan..."