Yin Yang Rogue

  Jiang Pangzi and Liang Yuhao understood, knowing that I was going to deal with Niu Niu's affairs. They quickly gathered their things and followed me out the door. Under Liang Yuhao's guidance, I soon found myself in front of Niu Niu's house.

  We knocked on the door of Yaoyao's house, but no one answered. Jiang Paozi came over and pounded on the door with all his might, and a man's impatient voice finally came from inside: "Who is it? What are you pounding for?"

  I frowned, and then I saw a middle-aged man come to open the door, who should be Chen Daguo, Niuniu's father. His face didn't look good, obviously he had been having a tough time lately. Seeing us coming over, he was stunned for a moment, and then said in a very bad tone: "Who are you looking for? What's the matter?"

  "Uncle Chen? I'm Liang Hongyu's brother from the neighboring village, Liang Yuhao."

  Chen Dagu looked at Liang Yuhao, thought for a moment, and then awkwardly squeezed out a sentence: "Ah, you're Yuhao, it's been many years since I've seen you, I couldn't recognize you."

  They said so, but they didn't mean to invite us in. Jiang Pangzi was unhappy: "Uncle Chen, people say that guests are welcome, aren't you going to let us go inside first?"

  Chen Dagu originally pretended to agree, but when he heard Jiang Paozi speaking like this, he immediately didn't give him a good face and directly said: "Which family's brat are you? Do I know you?"

  Jiang Pangzi immediately became anxious upon hearing this, and directly jumped up saying: "Someone comes to your door to help you, but you're so ungrateful, what kind of person are you? It's no wonder that your family lost their daughter!"

  Chen Dagu heard the fat boy talking like that, and his face immediately turned gloomy. He pointed at the door and scolded: "Get out! Get out of my house! I don't care about your family or anyone else's..."

  Although I also think Chen Da's attitude is bad, after all, he lost his child and can be understood. Pangzi's words are a bit excessive, I hastily interjected:

  "This is what happened, Niu Niu told us she wanted to go home, whether or not she could. We came to help."

  When I said that, Chen Daguang was stunned, suspiciously looked me up and down, and asked: "Niuniu? Have you guys seen Niuniu?"

  I nodded and said: "Don't you think it's better if we go inside to talk? It's not quite the same discussing things out here."

  Chen Dagu reluctantly let us in. The small courtyard was a mess, and when we entered the inner room, a woman with red eyes and a haggard face walked out, looking bewildered when she saw us come in, asking: "Old Chen, who are these children?"

  Chen Dagu said with a strange expression: "These kids claim they've seen Niu Niu and have come to help."

  This woman must be Huang Juan, Niu Niu's mother. I nodded and said: "Auntie, I have something important to tell you, but I hope you can remain calm after hearing it."

  Huang Juan's face changed, and she hastily asked: "What's going on? Is something wrong with Niu Niu?"

  Chen Dagu comforted his wife: "Maybe it's another scammer, don't be so excited, okay?"

  "Hey, you're always saying people are cheaters. Have we taken a single penny from you? We helped you for free and yet you still call us cheaters. Fine, we won't bother with you anymore."

  I gave the fatty a glare, and I figured it out - this guy's mouth was definitely up to no good. So I opened my mouth and said: "It's like this, I won't not take the money, because our line of work has its own rules, but since I've taken care of things, I'll see them through to the end."

  What I said is also correct, it has been said from the beginning that doing our line of work requires a cause and effect. If one doesn't collect even a penny, it's equivalent to doing good deeds and granting favors without any return, ultimately leading to karmic debt.

  Chen Dagu's face changed: "Isn't this still about money? Get out, get out! I've never seen anyone like you. My child is lost and you're coming to my home to swindle me. Don't you have any conscience?"

  I shook my head and said: "If I can't satisfy you, I won't take a single cent of this money. But if I really get results for you, I won't ask for more than 300 yuan!"

  Huang Juan hesitated for a moment after hearing this. After all, 300 yuan is not a lot of money, and if she was going to cheat, it wouldn't be just 300. Huang Juan said: "Little brother, you tell us first, where exactly is my daughter?"

  I looked at the two people and said: "Niu Niu is already dead!"

  When I said that, Chen Dagu was immediately furious: "If you can really give us an explanation, don't say three hundred, I'll give you three thousand! But you just died, this is truly unaccountable, and then you sent us away with the three hundred yuan. You made this money so easily! Just now you said that Niu Niu wanted to go home, but now you're saying she's dead? Haha, do you think I'm stupid? Is my money easy to cheat?"

  "Are you suffering from persecution delusion or something? Every day someone's after you, where do you rank on China's rich list? You've got tens of billions in assets, and we're just so bored that we'd rather come after you than anyone else? Are you taking yourself too seriously?"

  I quickly said: "I won't cheat you or deceive you, I'll call out Niu Niu and you can ask her yourself. But the time can't be too long, I can only support five minutes."

  Chen Daguo and his wife were stunned after hearing what I said. Huang Juan, being clever, stood up and asked me anxiously: "Could it be... that you are a master?"

  I shook my head: "I'm no master, I just understand a bit of Taoist stuff."

  Chen Daguang was about to say something, but was pulled back by Huang Juan. I took a look around the room and found a storage room in the back, which was the darkest place in the house. Then I looked at the time again, it was already the end of noon.

  "I said: 'Let's wait for ten more minutes. It will be okay at one o'clock.'"

  Chen Dagu furrowed his brow and said, "Don't try to fool me, I don't understand. That's the hottest time of day. If you really are letting my daughter out... by noon at the latest, not even waiting until evening?"

  I smiled and said: "Yin alone cannot give birth, Yang alone cannot grow. At noon, it is the horse of noon, this time because the yang energy is at its peak, things will inevitably reverse, so yin will be born."

  Chen Dagu muttered a couple of sentences, I knew he was still half-believing and half-doubting. Seeing that the time was almost up, I entered the storage room with two people. First, we drew symbols in all four directions of the entire storage room. I used my sword to draw symbols directly into thin air. This is a unique skill passed down by my master Nan Lao San, called Heart Chanting Technique. With heart intention as the guide and spirit as the medium, drawing symbols in thin air communicates with the energy of heaven and earth. Then, the three of us entered the house, leaving Jiang Pangzi and Liang Yuhao outside.

  I said to the two of them: "You can light a candle. Don't turn on the lights."

  Chen Daguang nodded and lit the candle, Huang Juan was also very nervous beside him. At this time, she told me that Yaoyao had already died, and I somewhat believed it.

  "You guys need to prepare yourselves mentally, because Yaya's appearance before she died... wasn't very pleasant!"

  I drew a "clear heart and calm symbol" in the air, and then tapped Chen Daguo and Huang Juan's foreheads twice. Immediately afterwards, I took out the soul-guiding banner and released Nianian.

  Niang Niang appeared, Huang Juan let out a scream and almost fainted. Chen Da Guo beside her was also staring at me with an expression of horror, pointing at Niang Niang again. I ignored them because I had to focus all my attention to maintain this world where yin and yang coexisted.

  Everyone has "essence, energy and spirit", and in order for both worlds to communicate normally, it is necessary to consume "essence and spirit".

  Niang Niang saw Chen Da Guo and Huang Juan, her expression was a bit timid, also a bit wronged, suddenly she cried out silently, on the left half of her face which was unbearable to look at, flowed blood.

  Huang Juan was after all Niu Niu's mother, seeing the child cry, she couldn't bear to be afraid anymore, and followed Niu Niu in tears. She went forward wanting to hug Niu Niu, but ended up empty-handed. Chen Daguang also trembled, his eyes red-rimmed, unable to speak.

  "Hurry up and get to the point, I won't be able to hold on for much longer."

  The two of them finally came back to their senses and started asking each other questions. Niu Niu blinked her eyes, pointed at me and said: "It was this big brother who brought me back. Mom, I'm scared... Can I still come back? From now on, I won't run around randomly anymore, I'll be obedient! Do you guys still want me?"

  After hearing Niu Niu's innocent words, Huang Juan and Chen Da Guo couldn't help but burst into tears.

  I said aside: "Niu Niu is not afraid, now you know that your dad and mom love you, there's nothing to regret, brother will take you where you should go, okay?"

  Niu Niu knew she was already dead, and seeing Huang Juan covering her mouth and sobbing, she nodded understandingly and said: "Big brother, I'll go with you. Dad, mom, don't cry. Niu Niu doesn't want to make you cry. Niu Niu has grown up, and will take care of herself."

  Chen Dagu and Huang Juan nodded repeatedly, I sighed, although reluctant, still took out the talisman, recited the Jingyuan Wangling Scripture. Transcended Yaoyao. Huang Juan collapsed into Chen Dagu's arms, crying.

  But I didn't have the energy to care about them, and my whole body was completely exhausted. So I took a few deep breaths and recited "Qing Xin Zhou" several times, and gradually calmed down a bit.

  Chen Dagu never dared to be disrespectful to us again, and with a thousand thanks, he ran into the house and took out 3,000 yuan to hand over to me. I shook my head to indicate that I would only take 300. But Huang Juan was not willing either, she said that if it weren't for me, she wouldn't have been able to see her daughter's last face, and at first, there were people coming to deceive them saying that Niu Niu was in their hands, asking them to pay 10,000 yuan to redeem the person, but they didn't even see a shadow of a person.

  They had a glimmer of hope for their daughter, and they could take out 10,000 yuan for a scammer. How could they possibly dismiss someone who really helped them with just 300 yuan like they were giving alms to a beggar?

  In the end, I had no choice but to accept the 3,000 yuan. As I was leaving, I told them where the body was buried and asked them to report it to the police first, then figure out a way to dig up Niu Niu's body and give her a proper burial. The rest would be left for the police to handle. Later on, it was indeed found that the Liu surname driver was responsible, and Niu Niu's case came to an end, but I only heard about this later from Liang Yuhao.

  It was already past two o'clock when we finished dealing with things that day. Chen Daguo wanted me to stay for dinner, but I was worried about Yaoyao's affairs and managed to decline after some persuasion.

  On the way back to Liang Hongyu's home, Pangzi's eyes were red, and he insisted on becoming my apprentice. I naturally didn't agree. Jiang Pangzi told me that he wouldn't tell his father about the three thousand yuan matter, and in the future, if he had any more dealings with this kind of thing, he would specifically look for me. He looked like a loyal subordinate who had pledged allegiance to his superior.

  I don't really care, but thinking about the 3,000 yuan in my pocket still feels a bit unreal. The past few years living on the mountain with Master Nanlao have been too tough, and before that, I was just a poor kid. Having an empty pocket is a common occurrence for me. This can be considered as my first bucket of gold.

  When I arrived at Liang Hongyu's home, I saw that the couple was very anxious, probably worried that I wouldn't return. The two of them brought out the dishes from lunch, which had been kept warm for us in a large iron pot all along; it's been a long time since I've felt this way.

  My master is very kind to me, but he has never been this way. He only lets me take care of myself and live a comfortable life. On major issues, he corrects my direction, but he never wastes his mind on trivial matters.

  After finishing dinner, it was almost five o'clock. I had Liang Hongyu and his wife prepare the things they needed to get ready. I also reminded Li Shannan a few words before letting him take the banner to the crossroads.