Chapter Twelve: Five Flaws and Three Deficiencies

  I believe there must be a lot of money in this card. Although Yin Lao Liu didn't help the master much this time, the master still seems to respect him very much, speaking to him with an attitude as if he had seen his ancestors...

  After Yin Lao Liu got on the car, after I drove the car out for a distance, I finally couldn't bear my curiosity and asked Yin Lao Liu: "Grandpa Yin, didn't the host give you some benefits just now? I saw it, he gave you a bank card, there must be a lot of money in that card!"

  Seeing me ask like this, Old Six Yin smiled and said: "Not a lot of money? I don't know about that, maybe there are just a few cents on the card!"

  When I saw Old Six Yin answer me like that, I suddenly felt how this old guy became so hypocritical? So I slightly dissatisfiedly said: "It's said that generally, Xuanxue Daoists are all viewing money as dirt, you know Xuanxue, at least you're half a high-ranking Daoist who has attained the Way! How can you still be so concerned about money?"

  Hearing me say this, Yin Laoliu suddenly burst out laughing: "Haha! I'm not some kind of high-ranking Taoist or immortal, just an ordinary person who makes a living from the dead and knows a bit about mysticism. My character isn't that noble! Besides, little guy, don't think that those supposedly great Taoists aren't greedy for wealth. If it weren't for the fact that they'll inevitably encounter five flaws and three deficiencies when they enter the Tao, or are destined to lack money and power, who knows if they'd be even greedier than me!"

  "What's 'five evils and three lacks'? What does it have to do with being greedy?" I couldn't help but be curious when Old Man Yin said that.

  "The 'five evils' refer to widowers, widows, orphans, childless and disabled people. In simple terms, they are bachelors, widows, orphans who lost their parents at a young age, those without children, and the physically disabled. And the 'three lacks' refer to lack of life, money, and power!"

  "Oh! Then what's lacking in your 'five virtues and three lacks'?" I curiously asked.

  As I asked this, Yin Lao Liu's eyes suddenly dimmed for some reason, and a hint of sadness spread across his face.

  He sighed and Old Sixth Yin replied to me with a tone of helplessness: "I have an unlucky fate, five defects occupy three, till now I am alone, no wife, no children. When I was less than six months old, my parents died in a flood..."

  "Huh?"

  When I heard Old Six say this, I was shocked and also sighed endlessly. I didn't expect that this old man, who drives a BMW and has an unknown net worth, would be so miserable. For a moment, I didn't know how to comfort him, I... fell silent...

  Seeing me not speaking for a long time, Old Man Yin continued: "This world is not entirely fair, but it must be balanced. The good and the evil are rewarded and punished respectively. That's why I don't easily give people fortune-telling, offending the heavenly principle will result in punishment. Just like those horse-riding immortals you saw, some of them can really calculate some heavenly secrets, but their fate won't be good in the end. As time goes by, their behavior will become strange, their spirit will become abnormal, and they'll eventually become a crazy person."

  Listening to Old Six Yin, I thought about it carefully and indeed, as far as I know, our Xiaonan Village and Beishan Village have produced many horse-riding immortals, but they tell fortunes for others and in the process become muddle-headed themselves. Now listening to Old Six Yin, I really can't help but believe it.

  But just as I was driving and thinking about these things, Yin Lao Liu suddenly burst out laughing again.

  "Haha! But it's okay, it's okay! Although God gave me five flaws and took away three, I don't have any of the three deficiencies. So, even if I take more money, God won't punish me."

  Looking at Yin Lao Liu's smiling face, for some reason, I found that his smile was even uglier than crying. This wasn't a happy smile, but a painful one, a helpless one...

  Yes! Even if he has all the wealth and power in the world, even if he lives a long life of a hundred years, but still doesn't have a single loved one by his side, isn't that just a pitiful thing?

  The rest of the way, both Yin Lao Liu and I fell silent. Yin Lao Liu was silent because he leaned back in his seat, looking like he had dozed off. And I was silent because I suddenly felt sorry for this old man, compared to him, although I wasn't as wealthy, at least I still had loved ones by my side, and parents who loved me...

  Around three o'clock, we returned to Beishan Village. I originally planned to drive Yin Laoliu back to the small wooden house in the cemetery and then walk back myself. But unexpectedly, after Yin Laoliu got out of the car, he actually asked me to drive the car back to my own home. He said that this car was lent to me first, anyway, he didn't use it usually. And told me, as long as I did a good job in my midnight work, he would give me the car!

  This really made me unbelievable, so I hurriedly asked Yin Lao Liu: "Grandfather Yin, why are you so generous? Is it because of my job? Tell me honestly, why do you want me to do this job? What can this job bring to you? Do you attach great importance to this job?"

  When I asked him like this, Yin Lao Liu smiled and replied: "This job can't bring me anything. To be honest, it can only bring me endless trouble. But I have to arrange for someone else to do this job. Unfortunately, I chose you. This is your fate, you are destined to follow this career, dealing with the dead all your life!

  Listening to Old Six Yin say this, my eyebrows are almost twisted into a tangled mess.

  "I said to Old Master Yin, what's this about me having dealings with a dead person for a lifetime?"

  Seeing me ask like this, Yin Lao Liu smiled and didn't answer directly. Instead, he changed the subject and said: "The woman from the bride's family that our master married previously, I think you should know her?"

  "Ah?" Hearing Yin Lao Liu ask this, I hastily became nervous and hurriedly replied: "How...how could I possibly know her. I...I had no idea who she was!"

  Seeing me so tense, Yin Lao Liu didn't ask about our relationship at all. Instead, he continued to say to me: "You and she should still have a chance to meet again, I calculated before, I found that you......" At this point, Yin Lao Liu suddenly stopped talking.

  "What's happened to us?" I asked hastily.

  "Alas! Never mind, I won't say anything more. All these are fate, you take care of yourself! It's getting late, the sky is almost bright, hurry up and drive back home! After going back home, have a good rest, tonight has passed 12 o'clock, you still need to go to work tomorrow! Remember, don't enter the wooden house before 12 o'clock, must leave before 4:01, after leaving, must lock the door tightly, must remember!"

  Seeing Old Six speak to me like this, I couldn't help but think of that eerie wooden house and the two uninvited guests who came before it, who should be ghosts. The whole thing made me feel very uncomfortable. But things have already come to this point, and I can only grit my teeth and take it one step at a time.

  Driving the majestic BMW X6, I returned home smoothly. After arriving home, I parked the car in my yard and was about to enter the house. However, just as I closed the car door, I suddenly remembered the package that my previous boss had given me, which contained information about his deceased young son. So, I opened the car door again, picked up the heavy package, and walked towards the house.

  At this time, my parents were already awake. Normally, they wouldn't wake up at this hour, but maybe the headlights and noise of the car when I drove into the yard disturbed them, so that's why they woke up so early.

  After I came back, they asked me a few questions. Then my mother made breakfast and after eating with my father, they went to work in the fields. As for me, I was preparing to take a good nap on my own kang.

  But before I go to sleep, I want to open that package and see what's inside, why it's so heavy. I don't believe it's just personal data that would be this heavy.

  But when I opened this package, I was shocked, I couldn't believe what I saw in front of me... The noble gathering hall is shrouded in mystery.

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