"Boss, I just want to get rich and have a wife and kids in the future! Is that not possible?"
Hu Zi said dejectedly.
"The good fortune of this car is drawn by a beautiful ghost, and with the reversal of fortune, the person using the car must stay away from women to receive good luck. Otherwise, they will lose as much as they gain, and might even be worse off than before." Lu Fei looked at him with a smile.
"Getting rich, or getting married, you can only choose one."
"It's such a hard choice!" Hu Zi felt pained, suddenly realizing what it meant to not be able to have both fish and bear's paw. He sighed in regret, "Whether she is beautiful or not is secondary, but I can't let the Lao Zhao family line end with me!"
Return to Sinisterium Pawnshop.
Lu Fei was about to go back to sleep.
Liu Fugui rushed in, calling out loudly, his face full of anxiousness.
"Disaster! Disaster! Something big has happened!"
"What's the commotion about?"
"Slimming Treasure..." Liu Fugui was gasping for breath, "The Slimming Treasure, it seems to be failing!"
"Oh, find a place to burn it then."
Lu Fei's expression remained calm.
Given the ruthless pressure from the unscrupulous businessman, it was already very difficult for Blood Leech to hold on this long.
Hu Zi casually said, "No worries, Old Liu! We have plenty of treasures at the Sinisterium Pawnshop. If we run out of slimming treasure, we still have..."
However, Lu Fei interrupted Hu Zi, "Old Liu, you've been working hard these days. Go back and rest."
"Then... are there any other treasures?" Liu Fugui was unwilling to leave.
"Not for now." Lu Fei lowered his head to take a sip of water.
Liu Fugui was taken aback. He deliberately paid Lu Fei the money for the blood leeches, and after some probing, seeing that Lu Fei remained firm, he had no choice but to let it go.
"That's right, my ex-wife came back to Jiangcheng with our daughter, and I should spend more time with her. When the time comes, Brother Lu, come over for a meal,"
Hu Zi was surprised, "You have a daughter?"
"Why can't I? Let me tell you, my daughter is beautiful and looks just like me! Back in my youth, I was quite the dashing figure, a true sight to behold." Liu Fugui immediately puffed out his chest and glared at Hu Zi defensively.
"I'm warning you, don't get any ideas about my daughter!"
"Looks like you? That's a disaster! Even if I never find a partner, I won't look for someone who looks like you!" Hu Zi shook his head vigorously.
"You'd better not have any ulterior motives!" Liu Fugui coldly snorted and left.
Lu Fei glanced at the amount and couldn't help raising his eyebrows.
Unexpectedly, the little blood leech had earned over a million in total.
No wonder Liu Fugui was so reluctant to part with it.
He transferred a portion to Jing Jian and told him this was the final dividend.
"Boss, we clearly have Golden Toad Wine and the Fortune-Turning Cart. Why didn't you tell Old Liu about them?" Hu Zi was very puzzled.
If these items were put out, they would surely make a lot of money again.
"Are you really that short on money?"
Lu Fei glared at Hu Zi.
"Old Liu is already greedy by nature. If we keep giving him more treasures, wouldn't he become even greedier?"
"Look at him lately, he's been so smug that he doesn't know which way is north or south. If this continues, he's bound to get into trouble!"
"Sinisterium Pawnshop has already produced many treasures; it's time to slow down unless someone brings in an evil item to trade."
"The boss is right!" Hu Zi didn't dare to say any more and silently picked up the broom.
Lu Fei continued to keep the accounts as usual.
Lucky Used Cars.
Evil Item +1, total of 28 evil items collected.
Having received two evil items at once, one of which was a good item called Pi Ma Diao Sang Sha, he called Xu Bei to express his thanks.
"Mr. Lu, you're too kind! I have already convinced that friend, and he said he could meet next week. Will it be convenient for Mr. Lu then?"
"No problem, I will definitely set aside the time!"
There was still plenty of time, and Lu Fei decided to take a few days off.
He let Hu Zi watch the store, while he made tea in the courtyard and enjoyed a rare moment of leisure.
He spent two carefree days.
"Boss, someone is looking for you!"
"Coming."
Lu Fei got up and walked into the pawnshop, where he saw a familiar figure.
"Little Brother Mo Lin, why do you have time to come today?"
"Lu Fei, I came specifically to find you!"
The visitor was indeed Zhang Mo Lin, wearing a faded Taoist robe, holding a red cloth-wrapped object, looking travel-worn.
"Is this an evil object?"
"An evil object?"
Lu Fei perked up, put on his gloves, and slowly unfolded the red cloth.
Inside was a gleaming golden bracelet, with peony flowers carved on it, appearing particularly splendid and valuable.
But upon closer inspection, something was off.
Lu Fei took out the lightning-struck jujube wood and gently tapped the bracelet.
The golden luster of the bracelet instantly faded, and it turned into a fragment of grayish-white bone.
It seemed to be from some kind of animal, still carrying a faint trace of阴气 (yin energy).
"What's going on? How did a perfectly good golden bracelet turn into dead bone?" Hu Zi was greatly startled.
"It's just a common trick used by malevolent spirits." Lu Fei looked curiously at Zhang MoLin, "Brother MoLin, where did this dead object come from? With your abilities, you shouldn't have been deceived."
Some demons and ghosts often transform dead objects into gold and silver treasures to lure people in.
But Zhang MoLin is not an ordinary person.
"It's a long story."
Zhang Molin let out a slight sigh.
"No rush, sit down and take your time to tell us." Lu Fei had Hu Zi serve the tea.
"In the village near Wuxing Temple where I often eat communal meals, one family's child has fallen ill with a strange disease."
"His parents came to Wuxing Temple for help. When I went to see him, he was possessed by an evil spirit."
"I temporarily suppressed the evil spirit and asked him if he had come into contact with anything unclean. He mumbled for a while before finally producing a pair of gold bracelets, saying he had found them unintentionally."
"I immediately noticed something was wrong with the bracelets and used a talisman to reveal their true nature."
"The child was terrified and then told the truth. He and a few other delinquents had stolen them from someone's house. That family had a large chest full of such jewelry."
"Could it be a haunted house?" Lu Fei became interested.
There are many such stories in Liaozhai Zhiyi.
A mansion suddenly appeared in the desolate wilderness, not only grand and luxurious, but also filled with countless gold, silver, and jewels.
If a living person were to be tempted by greed and take something, they would be in for serious trouble.
"I also think it's very likely, but I haven't gone to check it out yet. I came to inform you first. If it's really a haunted house, there might be evil things inside." As he spoke, Zhang Moli took out his cash sword.
The red thread on the sword was replaced with golden silk.
A faint golden light flickered slightly between the coins, making it look much more powerful, as if upgrading from a musket to a cannon.
"Since I was young, my master taught me that even the smallest act of kindness should be repaid tenfold. You gave me such a precious treasure as the golden silk. If I don't repay you, I can't even sleep well." Zhang Moli chuckled naively.
"Since it's related to evil things, of course, I had to come to you first."
"Thank you!" Lu Fei gratefully clasped his hands. "Where is that family? If it's really a haunted house, we should indeed investigate it."
"We need to go back and ask Erdan for more details, but he mentioned that the family is very strange." Zhang Moli shook his head, an odd look in his eyes.
"He said that when they went in to steal, he inadvertently saw that the chickens in their coop didn't have heads!"