Half a Brick

Chapter 71 Ominous Signs

A drop of blood between the eyebrows is never a good omen.

So, I told Molihua that she could go out anytime, as long as it wasn't these three days. She could see anyone she wanted, but during these three days, she should stay in my shop, no matter what happened, and not leave.

To make sure Molihua took my advice seriously, I brought up the previous example. Last time, she didn't listen to me and entertained a guest she shouldn't have, so she was caught by Bai Tingting and locked in the abandoned house, almost violated by a bunch of rats.

If she didn't want such a terrifying thing to happen again, she had to remember to not go out for these three days, not even a step.

If there was something she absolutely had to deal with, she could let me handle it, or let me accompany her. If she felt that some things weren't convenient to tell me, a big man, she could also find Mei Ying or the other evil spirits in my shop.

I thought I had made myself clear enough, but Molihua still went out. She didn't tell anyone, and left alone. Ding Kan thought she was just going to the market to buy vegetables, and even told her specifically that he wanted to eat water spinach, asking her to buy some for him.

As a result, Molihua didn't come back after going out.

"Ding Kan, you have two eyes, don't you? Can't you tell that something would happen to her on this trip?" I said irritably.

"I can't tell. I only know how to fight, not how to tell fortunes." Ding Kan looked at me very seriously, and by the way, asked me if Molihua didn't come back, would I go to buy vegetables later? Remember to buy water spinach, he wanted to eat water spinach.

Eat, eat, eat, all you know is to eat. The cook is gone, you eat farts.

I quickly called Molihua, but her phone was turned off. I used the abacus to calculate what happened to her, but I only calculated misfortune, great misfortune, and couldn't calculate anything specific.

Find her, I had to find her. I called out all the evil spirits in my shop and told them to find her for me, but after searching for a day, there was no news at all.

How could this be? Molihua was just an ordinary fallen woman, she shouldn't have provoked any powerful evil spirits. How could I not be able to calculate it, or find her? What exactly happened to her?

In the evening, I was scratching my head in frustration, pacing back and forth in the shop, when I suddenly saw a figure outside the glass door, a small figure with two white flowers on its head.

Chinese people are very particular about this kind of thing. Normal families would never let a child with white flowers on their head go out at night. This child must be strange.

I suddenly pulled open the glass door, but the outside was empty. There was nothing there.

Was I seeing things? How could it be? There was clearly a little girl outside just now.

Little girl, that's right, little girl.

I immediately went upstairs and asked Ding Kan what the little girl who came to the shop to deliver the human skin looked like.

Ding Kan said, "Big eyes, round face, white skin, red lips, wearing two braids, with a conspicuous white flower on each braid."

"Anything else?"

"Also, holding a big black umbrella."

"Ding Kan, are you doing this on purpose? Is that a little girl?"

"Do you think it's a little boy?"

"That's clearly a little ghost. You're doing this on purpose, you're definitely doing this on purpose."

I went downstairs angrily and opened the box containing the human skin.

Sure enough, the box was empty. The human skin was gone.

No wonder I couldn't find Molihua. It turned out that she didn't go out directly. She went out wearing the human skin from the box. The human skin concealed her aura. She was now going out completely as another person.

Human skin, little girl, Molihua, ominous sign. What is the relationship between these things?

Molihua wouldn't wear someone else's skin for no reason. Was there some compelling reason, or did the human skin in the box bewitch her?

I put the abacus directly into the box and used the human skin to start a divination. This time I finally calculated something, but the result I calculated was the door.

Could it be that Molihua is at the door of my shop?

I suspiciously pulled open the glass door of the shop again, and I really saw Molihua.

Molihua slowly took off the hood of the human skin cloak, revealing her pale face. Just as she was about to say something, her body suddenly went limp and she fell directly into my arms.

I quickly helped Molihua into the shop. Ding Kan heard the noise and came down from the second floor, taking her pulse and pouring water, very attentive.

Molihua was actually fine, it was just that wearing the human skin for a long time had a sequelae similar to being possessed by a ghost.

"Tell me, what did Ding Kan ask you to do?" I looked at Molihua like I was interrogating a prisoner.

Molihua took off the torn human skin cloak and handed it to Ding Kan, sighing, and said, "It's too late, that woman's soul is no longer there."

Ding Kan turned around and went upstairs, but when he reached the middle of the stairs, his body suddenly swayed, and he spat out a mouthful of blood. He lost his balance and rolled down the stairs.

I quickly helped Ding Kan to Little Rabbit's clinic, and then asked Molihua what happened.

Molihua said that she didn't know much either. Ding Kan asked her to go to an abandoned house in the old city to see a soul, and recite a spell to that soul. To protect Molihua's safety, Ding Kan asked her to wear this human skin. As long as the human skin was there, neither people nor ghosts could hurt her.

I glanced at the human skin, sighed, and said, "Of course you're fine. All the attacks from those wronged souls and ghosts were transferred to him. This time, he's probably in serious trouble."

Ding Kan was already seriously injured and hadn't recovered, and now he had endured a large wave of attacks through the human skin. He was in a serious coma. The Little Rabbit sisters tinkered upstairs all night, but he didn't wake up.

I asked the Rabbit sisters, could this person be saved?

The Rabbit sisters told me very clearly that as long as they were breathing, there was no one they couldn't save.

I also asked the Little Rabbits, since he could be saved, when would Ding Kan wake up?

The Rabbits told me, "That's hard to say. It could be a day or two, or it could be three or five days, or it could be three or five months. Anyway, as long as they're breathing, they'll keep tinkering until they've tinkered them alive."

Ding Kan understood his own physical condition. He knew that letting Molihua go out wearing human skin might have consequences, but he still did it.

Why? Whose soul was he going to see? And why did he want to see that soul? Did it have anything to do with what he said before about the old city?

I asked Molihua what spell Ding Kan asked her to recite. Molihua repeated it to me completely, but I had never heard of such a spell.

I looked at the human skin in my hand, "It seems that I have to ask that little ghost."