Chapter Fourteen: Taboo

  After Wu Jia sat in someone else's car and left, I also drove Yin Lao Liu's car back to my own home. After all the commotion, half of the morning had almost passed.

  I thought I could go home and sleep on the kang, but at this time, someone came to our house to buy corn, so in order to help my parents share some of the workload, I didn't rest immediately and helped them with their work instead. Several households in the village that have a good relationship with us also rushed over to help.

  It's also possible that I just got a 20,000 yuan windfall and my good mood made me energetic, so I worked very hard without feeling tired at all. After busy working until around 9 pm, we finally finished it.

  Because of the large quantity of corn at home and this year's good market conditions, my parents suddenly earned nearly 30,000 yuan.

  Although 30,000 yuan seems like a lot at first glance, don't forget that this is their total income for the entire year, and it doesn't even include various expenses. If you factor in those expenses, they'd be lucky to have half of that amount left over.

  After finishing work, I relaxed and suddenly a wave of fatigue hit me, making me so sleepy that I almost died. So, I didn't even have time to eat dinner, I fell asleep on the kang as soon as I lay down. Before sleeping, I told my mother to wake me up at 11 o'clock, I still need to go to work tonight...

  I don't know how long I slept, but anyway, I felt very uncomfortable and not rested when my mother woke me up from my dream and told me it was almost 12 o'clock, then hurry up to get up and eat and prepare for work.

  As soon as I heard it was almost twelve o'clock, I suddenly felt a surge of energy and my drowsy brain immediately became alert.

  Although Old Yin Liu didn't say that going into the small wooden house late would be taboo, I still can't go and violate those taboos that Old Yin Liu might not have mentioned. Besides, being late for work is the most shameful thing, I definitely cannot be late.

  I hastily got out of bed, and since I wasn't in a great mental state, feeling very tired and exhausted, I didn't even bother to check the time. I quickly grabbed some food, not even bothering to pick up my watch from the side of the bed, took my phone, keys to the wooden cabin, and flashlight, and hastily rushed towards the small wooden cabin.

  Because my mother said it's almost twelve o'clock, I didn't bother to check the time on my phone either. Anyway, it's all late, looking at it is also useless, so I simply don't look.

  At first, I was going to drive there. But I always felt that driving out of the house was too showy, so I simply ran all the way to the wooden house.

  Because of the first rush, this time although still very afraid in heart, but mentally has become much calmer.

  After rushing to the wooden house, I didn't say a word and directly took out the key, opened the door of the wooden house, and walked in.

  After I turned on the light in the small wooden house, I found that nothing had changed inside. It seemed that no one had come in after I left. So I sat down on the chair and started to stare blankly.

  But daze is still daze, mentally I didn't relax at all. Since the last time I met those two people, to be precise "ghost men"......

  Ever since I last met those two "ghosts", I didn't dare to be careless, although I'm still a bit sleepy now, but I still forced myself to be spirited and waited for the situation that might happen at any time.

  But what I didn't expect was that this time, the young man who was sipping a small cup of fragrant white wine came again in less than five minutes after I entered.

  As the door was pushed open, he appeared in front of me like this, but this time after he came in, his eyes looked at me with a very unusual gaze.

  "Brother... brother, you're here again!" Since I knew he might also be a ghost, when I saw him, I immediately got up from my seat and stood up straight, my whole body tense.

  As I spoke with him, the young man first took a sip of wine, then raised an eyebrow and asked me: "Why haven't you come to work for several days?"

  "Oh! I took a few days off, something came up in reality, so it was delayed." I casually replied.

  "Oh! How come you're here so early this time? As far as I know, coming too early is a taboo for someone like you, a ghost agent, and it's going to bring bad luck!"

  When the young man spoke to me like this, I suddenly felt that something was not quite right. So I hurriedly asked: "How come it's early? I should be late, shouldn't I? Compared to last time, I came later this time, didn't I?"

  Listen to me, the young man's eyebrows were raised even more fiercely: "Earlier than last time? Last time you arrived on time, but this time you really came early. Look at the time, you really did come early!"

  When he said that, I felt like this "ghost" was a bit abnormal. Obviously, I arrived late, but he insisted that I came early. So I took out my phone, lit it up and placed it on the table edge facing him, saying: "Take a closer look, now it's definitely past the time."

  The young man really leaned in close to the phone and then replied to me, "You see for yourself, your phone clearly shows 23:43."

  "Twenty-three forty-three, you're talking nonsense..." Just as I was about to pick up my phone to take a glance at the time, preparing to shout loudly at him, I caught sight of the time on my phone and was shocked to discover that the current time was

  23:44!

  That's right! It's 23:44!

  I actually didn't even make it to 00:00, that is, I hadn't reached midnight twelve o'clock, and yet I rushed into the small wooden house...

  I've committed a taboo!!!!!

  At this moment, I was completely stunned. I didn't know what the consequences of violating taboos would be, but I felt that it must be quite terrible.

  But why did my mother have to tell me that it's almost twelve o'clock when she was at home? Why did she want to say this to me? Why did she want to deceive me?

  Just as I couldn't figure out what was going on, the young man in front of me spoke up.

  "Brother, now you know that you came too early, right? Don't you know that entering this small wooden house ahead of time as a ghost medium like you is against the rules?"

  He said that, I replied with a bitter face: "Someone told me before that I must not rush in before midnight. But maybe it was...I got the time wrong......This...this...brother, you say I came in early and broke the taboo, how serious is the consequence? Do you know?"

  I asked him like this, and the young man shook his head at me with a look of frustration: "Alas! Before you, Yanzifang who came to work here was also like that, and now you are too! How come you all have such poor memories?"

  "Yanzi Fang? Are you referring to the name left on the file cover of the desk? She used to work here too? Did she also break this taboo? And what happened to her afterwards?"

  "How was it?" As soon as I asked this, a sad expression suddenly flowed out of the young man's eyebrows. He first poured a mouthful of wine into his own mouth, and then replied to me: "Because she violated the taboo of coming too early, her mother fell into the river and died inexplicably the next day. She thought it was the consequence of violating the taboo, so she also committed suicide afterwards..."

  "What? Committed suicide?! You're saying that my previous one, that woman named Yanzi Fang, she...she's dead?!"

  "Alas! It wasn't supposed to be like this! Everything was going well, but because of her poor memory, she arrived early and ended up causing her mother's death by drowning. Overwhelmed with guilt, she also... Alas!" The young man let out a deep sigh as he spoke.

  "How is that possible? Wouldn't it be that her mother was originally unlucky and then fell into the water and died? Maybe this isn't even the so-called cursed doing its work?" I retorted back at him.

  "Bad luck? Looks like you don't know anything! Do you know what this taboo is called? This is called "Harm to Kin", in short, if you offend this taboo, someone around you will be unlucky!"

  I was frightened by what he said, and my whole body broke out in a cold sweat. However, I still had some doubts, so I retorted to him: "How do you know so much? Who knows whether what you're saying is true or not, and what kind of heart you have!"

  "How did I know so much? What kind of heart am I at ease with? Ridiculous, do you know who I am? Do you know what I do?"

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