Mortal Prison Chapter 28: Ghost Market

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This child...

Too smart!

Sometimes the cleverness puts Ding Bing and I in a bit of trouble.

The two of us looked at each other and saw the hesitation in each other's eyes.

The ghost market is not a kind place. Except for drugs, arms and people, everything is on display. No one dares to go there. We are looking for trouble today, I am afraid there will be no peace.

With a child, what is this?

"Brother Ninth, I won't drag you down."

Xiaodouzi seemed to have guessed something, and said again: "I said, I want to find out what happened to my father."

She was very young and looked skinny because she had been bedridden for too long, but her tone was firm and had the power to touch the soul.

"How about bringing it with you?"

The soldier felt compassion and said: "Brother Jun entrusted her to us. He knows what we do. This child is destined to never live a normal life. It's better to go and see her early." ”

When I thought about it, it seemed to be the same reason, so I simply stepped forward and gently took off the bandage that covered Xiaodouzi's eyes.

There was still some dried blood in the corners of Xiaodouzi's eyes. It seemed that the light was too dazzling, and she couldn't open her eyes for a while, and her eyelids were trembling slightly.

I asked with concern: "How do you feel?"

"I'm fine, Brother Ninth, don't worry about me."

Xiaodouzi replied softly, her eyelashes fluttering, and she tried to slowly open her eyes.

What kind of eyes are these?

There is almost no white in the entire eye socket, it is pure black, and there are ripples in the pupils, which looks very strange.

However, as Xiaodouzi kept blinking, the black in her eyes quickly gathered, and finally formed pupils. Her eyes gradually returned to normal. Although there were still some dark spots left when the dead cow's eyes faded away on her face, they were no longer It's harmless, and given time, it will definitely return to normal.

Without the dead eyes, she is actually a very cute little girl with a round face and exquisite facial features, worthy of the word "pink jade", especially those eyes, which are dark and bright. Very.

These eyes... seem a little unusual.

I thought to myself, after all, this is a pair of jade eyes.

But there are no clues as to what is different from normal people. Now is not the time to explore. I touched Xiaodouzi’s head and said: "Get up and wash up. It’s time for us to set off. Everything depends on me and It belongs to your soldier brother."

Xiaodouzi nodded obediently.

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The ghost market opens at four o'clock in the morning. It's not that particular. It's just that it is said that the earliest ghost market started in the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, the Qing government fell and many Eight Banners disciples suffered from financial ruin. I have no ability to survive, so I have to sit back and take some antiques and cultural relics from home to sell. When there are more people doing this, a market is formed. After all, this is not a glorious thing. They are all good-looking and choose to do it at four or five o'clock in the morning. When we went out, there were the fewest people walking around, so we were afraid that others would recognize them.

Now, many of the rules of the ghost market have changed, but the habit of opening the market at four in the morning has remained.

Dabing and I left early to catch the morning market, but there were too many people there and we couldn’t get in.

When I came out of Xiaomei Hotel, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening. I took a taxi and went straight to Dadongtou, Taiyuan.

On the way, I tried to contact Ni Huang several times, but I didn't get any response. Finally, I was heartbroken and simply turned off the phone. It is better to seek help from others than to ask for yourself. It is better to give up my own thoughts and go to the dark side.

This time the ghost market was held in Taiyuan, but in fact it was already out of Taiyuan. After leaving the beltway, we walked dozens of kilometers of national highway before we finally arrived.

This is a "three no matter" area. In the early years, the Japanese built concentration camps here, and many people died. Several families living here complained that they were haunted, and they moved away one after another. Now it is really It has become a place where birds do not poop, leaving only an abandoned sewage treatment plant.

The ghost market is held in the sewage treatment plant.

When we arrived, it was already three o'clock in the morning. We got off the car and walked for a while before we saw the sewage treatment plant, surrounded by iron fences. There were flickering lights in a factory building in front, and black shadows were moving at the door. , someone was guarding the door.

"We've arrived."

I lowered my voice and said to the soldier: "Bring it out."

"Okay!"

The soldier responded and took out three paper lanterns with red candles in them from the backpack he brought.

You need to bring a lantern with you when you go to the ghost market. You don’t hold a lantern in the ghost market, so you have to use a lantern to look at the objects. This lantern is also a symbol of status. Those who are not familiar with the industry will not be able to enter, and those tough guys at the door will look for you." chatting.

The soldiers and I are very familiar with this place. Holding a lantern, we can go all the way without any obstruction. The gatekeepers don’t search you. The ghost market is not afraid of you making trouble. Those who want to rob have to go to other places to block the road. It doesn’t work here. This is people's self-confidence. If they dare to run a ghost market, they won't be afraid of you. In the past, there was a man in the south who was crazy about money and got a dozen brothers to rob the ghost market. As a result, there didn't seem to be many guards in the ghost market, and once a commotion broke out Hundreds of people jumped out from the surrounding area, and a dozen of them were all crippled, tied with stones, and sank into the Yangtze River.

Right now, the equipment in the factory has been cleared away, leaving only an empty house with two floors, the layout of which is like a duplex house. The lower part is full of street stalls, and the upper part is a single room.

When we arrived, all the street stalls were set up below. The small stalls were connected in a series, with pedestrian aisles in the middle. The light inside was dim and it was too early. There were only a few people walking around inside. The lights you see outside are these lanterns.

"Hey, you two, come and take a look!"

As soon as I entered the door, a person jumped out from a corner next to me and grabbed my arm. I raised the lantern in my hand and saw a face with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks. This grandson was a stall owner, wearing black and white clothes. He was wearing a striped suit, his hair was parted in the middle, and his hair was sharp and angular, looking like a butt. He was grinning happily, and his mouth was full of gold teeth shining brightly in the dim light.

I frowned and asked: "Who?"

"If your surname is Xu, everyone will call you Shopkeeper Xu."

"Golden Teeth" grinned happily, then took out an object from his sleeve, and said with a smile: "Little brother, he is a sensible person at first glance. He knows that there is a good product here. I happen to have such an object here. Just now The **** plug taken out from the pit was from a female corpse from the Song Dynasty. Look at the blood on it. It's authentic! If you smell the stench again, how deep is the stench?"

I glanced at the object in his hand, which was a bright red jade bead, and then I shook him off and started to leave.

Is there any good stuff in the morning market?

That's nonsense. It's still early and the ghost market hasn't officially opened yet. The street stalls below rarely sell "big items", but not Xibei goods. Only when the ghost market is about to end, the single room above Only the stall owners of the stalls will appear, and only the valuable things will be there, and the important figures will be the finale!

"Hey, little brother, I have no eyesight!"

Shopkeeper Xu was not convinced and wanted to pester.

The soldier couldn't stand this temper anymore, so he grabbed him and sneered: "Don't be upset, do you really think that we two brothers are fools? With your broken beads and bad reputation? I can't stand this far away. It smells so irritating to the eyes. Have you ever seen a real thing that smells like this? It must have been soaked in a latrine and exposed to the sun, right? And that Xueqin, infused with chicken blood, right? That’s it. If you dare to show off your counterfeiting techniques, you are always making excuses!"

When the soldier said this, shopkeeper Xu knew that he had been kicked against the iron plate, so he smiled and stopped talking.

"Okay, I won't criticize you anymore, brother."

The soldier waved his hand and said, "I want to ask you something. Do you know who Mr. Chen is?"

"Are you looking for Mr. Chen?!"

Shopkeeper Xu's expression changed, and he lowered his voice and asked, "Are you also after that thing in Master Chen's hand?"

The soldier smiled and said nothing.

"Pretend to be confused!"

Shopkeeper Xu patted Da Bing **** the chest and said, "You can't tell, this little brother is still a financial sponsor!"

My heart moved and I interrupted: "The shopkeeper is joking, how can we be the sponsors?"

"Boom!"

Shopkeeper Xu curled his lips and said: "Who doesn't know that Mr. Chen has a jade eye in his hand? Everyone is here for this. The little brother asked Mr. Chen, what else could he want if not this? Jade eye , big price!"

As he said that, shopkeeper Xu stuffed his business card into my pocket and said, "Little brother, I have a real guy here. Let's make a good relationship. Let me know what you want later!"

Another person who is crazy about money...

I subconsciously glanced at Xiaodouzi’s eyes and thought that I had found the right place this time. Brother Jun might have come back at the last moment to mess with Mr. Chen. Then, I patted my pocket and smiled. : "Okay, I left the business card. Where is Mr. Chen? Can you give me directions?"

Shopkeeper Xu became even more happy when he saw me accepting the business card. He raised his hand and pointed to the single room in the middle of the second floor and said, "We're already there, in there."

It was dark in the single room and nothing could be seen.

I got rid of Shopkeeper Xu with a few words, and Dabing and I kept groping in that direction. When we got closer, we finally saw clearly that there was a vague figure flickering in the single room, and Mr. Chen should be in it.

The soldier lowered his voice and asked me: "Are you going to go up and kill him?"

I'm hesitant.

"Don't go yet!"

Suddenly, Xiaodouzi interrupted: "There were several people in that house, and one of them didn't seem to be a human being..."

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