His face immediately looked little scared, and he said: "Oh, my brother, I have to tell you the truth… I have never killed anybody, even a stray dog, while driving."
He clapped his chest and said: "I would rather delay for one minute than rush for one second, I have never broken the law in all the years I've been driving."
I gave him a look and asked him why he cut off the truck driver, then.
Qi Long said with a smile: "This brother must be a greenhorn."
Nonsense, I had never driven a car before.
Qi Long told me, when we are in a traffic jam and there is a truck before us, we should slow down and let it go quickly, or overtake it. But this was different, it was not running so fast.
I blushed with shame. Damn, I became a joke because I couldn't drive.
I waved and asked Qi Long: "What about exchanging that car for a new one since you think there must be something wrong with this one? Cars aren't so expensive these days."
It was rather easy to buy a new car. The down payment was only about 40 percent when the car was around one hundred thousand, and the interests were very low.
Qi Long said bitterly: "I would, if I had enough money."
Then he told me, "You need to have contacts and a good reputation to be given contracts."
As a result, in order to make themselves look better, many contractors pretended to be influential and rich.
Qi Long had borrowed money and spent about seven or eight hundred thousand to buy a Land Cruiser to pretend he was already highly successful.
So how could he change the car again, since it had only been used for several years?
He couldn't afford to do so, since it would take him another year just to repay the loan.
I told him his situation was rather difficult. There could be a ghost in that car.
Qi Long said: "My brother, I heard that your tattoos could be used to suppress ghosts, so what about me?"
I told him it was possible to suppress the ghost, but I needed to know what kind of ghost was in his car. It would be such a waste of his time if they didn't match.
"I need to think about it carefully." He shook his head and said: "There was nothing unusual recently for me, except… except."
"Except what?" I asked Qi Long.
He told me he met a mad woman on the road when he drove to Xiamen.
"What was she like?" I asked him.
Qi Long told me he met her on the highway.
That mad woman stopped his car and kept talking about pity and a cursed thing.
She even solicited him to buy a wind horse wheel and spin it several times while he was driving, so that his family could live better when they passed away.
Qi Long also told me that the mad woman was very dirty, with rags all over. She was very dark, and carried a rattle drum.
"That's not a rattle drum, it's a wind horse wheel."
Feng Chunsheng entered while Qi Long was talking.
Feng Chunsheng laughed at Qi Long since he didn't know anything when he came in.
Qi Long squinted his eyes and shot a look at Feng Chunsheng, asking me: "Who is this?"
"He's the technical consultant in our tattoo shop." I got this title for Feng Chunsheng and replied so.
Qi Long stood up quickly and shook hands with Feng Chunsheng, saying: "So… a consultant."
Feng Chunsheng told him: "That mad woman you met was not crazy, she was a Buddha woman."
What was the Buddha woman?
Actually, they were believers of Tibetan Buddhism from Tibet.
Those people would worship at Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in Tibet, and then go out to pursue Buddhism.
Usually they had one thing in common. Though they looked dirty, with dirty feet and hands as well as dark faces and ragged clothes, they had eyes that could read your mind with pure spirit.
Feng Chunsheng told him: "Those people are very sensitive to ghosts and souls. It might be the truth when they say so - so were there any relatives who died wrongly?"
"Relatives?" Qi Long thought for a while and said: "It must be my son and my wife."
"Your son and wife died?" I asked Qi Long.
Qi Long replied "Yes, I had just bought the car, but my son suffered from a strange disease and died of dehydration, and my wife took a sleeping pill to commit suicide several months after his death, since she was sad all day long."
Qi Long suffered a lot of pain in his life since he lost two family members within one year.
He burst into tears mentioning his son and wife.
He was a pitiable man. He might be outstanding on the outside, but… there was also the time when he felt lonely.
I took a tissue paper and handed it to him. His son and wife's passing away was a thing of the past. Just keep it in mind and look ahead.
Qi Long took the tissue paper, wiped his tears and asked us: "Brothers, do you think it has something to do with my wife and son's ghosts?"
What should I say?
Maybe they had some relation.
I looked at Feng Chunsheng.
Feng Chunsheng said: "It might be so. Well, let's check your car first."
Qi Long said: "OK, please come downstairs with me, my car is there."
We followed him downstairs and saw his Land Cruiser in the parking lot.
He opened the door and invited us in.
Feng Chunsheng and I sat there.
We just felt around inside the car.
Actually, doing this was useless… We couldn't see the ghost at all.
Then Feng Chunsheng figured it out, he said he had a good idea.
I asked him what it was.
Feng Chunsheng asked me: "Shui, you know how each time you do the Yin and Yang tattoo, you have to invite the Wu Sa and let the Yin soul know its master?"
"Yes, so?" I asked him.
Feng Chunsheng told me: "You can see the ghost in the mirror when you do the introduction process."
"Really?" I replied.
He nodded and said: "So what's the problem?"
"Good."
I would try it. Maybe I could really see the ghost inside the car.
I went back to the shop and wore the Wu Sa. I got the mirror and went back inside the car.
I sat in the driver's seat and Feng Chunsheng sat in the passenger seat, while Qi Long sat behind me.
Feng Chunsheng said: "Shui, only you can see the ghost in the mirror, so I can't help you this time. Just take it easy."
"All right."
I told everyone to be ready, then covered the mirror with the wide Wu Sa and murmured the words for the Yin and Yang Tattoo. After a long while, I took up the mirror and looked into it.
I raised up the mirror and saw Qi Long first.
Qi Long seemed to be very nervous, as if there was some ghost in this car.
But I saw Qi Long smiling when I was about to move the mirror.
That was a weird smile.
My heart thumped. I wondered why this guy was laughing.
I was about to move the mirror in a hurry when I saw two hands on Qi Long's mouth.
Those hands were small, fat, white and soft.
So Qi Long wasn't actually smiling. His face was pulled by those hands to form that weird smile.
I felt a little worried. What happened to him?
Then I changed the angle of the mirror… It reflected the shape behind Qi Long completely. It was a child, with a pale face and blood-red eyes that were staring at me.
There was really a ghost in this car… and it was a kid?
I put back the mirror quickly.
But it was useless, since I could clearly feel that ghost climbing on my neck.
Its two hands grabbed my ears.
I could even hear its breath.
The sound of puffing and blowing…
The ghost was breathing?
My master had said that there were three lamps on a person's shoulders, the three souls of the "three souls and six spirits" — the Yang soul, Yin soul and Li soul, and ghosts had to blow out the three lamps on our shoulders if they wanted to possess us.
When the three lamps were blown out, those ghosts could do whatever they wanted.
So… this child soul wanted to blow out my three lamps?
I couldn't help but feel very nervous, and glanced at Feng Chunsheng beside me.
But he seemed to be ignorant.
He was sleeping in order not to interrupt me.
How could he sleep when a ghost was climbing all over my back?!
I was strained in my heart.
But luckily, this ghost didn't intend to hurt me. It was close to my ear and wanted to speak with me.
After it spoke, I could finally understand the reason Qi Long met that Buddha woman and she said those things to him.
I felt that ghost had gone after it finished its talk.
I was lonely there on the driver's seat. I sat there for a long while and then sighed.
Why there were so many hidden injustices in this world?
I opened the door, went out of the car and called Feng Chunsheng and Qi Long.
I went close to Qi Long and said: "Mr. Qi, I know the reason… There is indeed a ghost in your car."
"A ghost?"
"It's your son," I said to him.
Qi Long shouted suddenly and asked: "My son's soul is really in the car?"
I nodded and said to him: "Now you have two options. First, I can give you a Yang tattoo. It can suppress the ghost and kill your son's soul."
"No, impossible." Qi Long waved a hand.
I continued: "Well… the second option is you go to a Taoist priest or monk to stick one magic symbol or lection paper inside your car, and you son's ghost would disappear soon."
"No, not that either."
Qi Long smacked the hood of the car and shouted.