I spent the night in the morgue without justice, so forget it; I accidentally hit my chin and fainted, so forget it; I pretended to be crazy and fought with the corpses, so forget it. But when I thought about all this on the way down the mountain, I always felt uncomfortable.
I seemed to be trying my best to prove something to someone I didn't care about that I didn't need to prove to anyone. Although the process was not perfect and I suffered some losses, the problem was finally solved satisfactorily. However, my mood never got better. Since I came to Hubei, this is the worst mood I have ever had.
But since it is something I personally promised, I must complete it according to the agreement. Whether it can be completed depends on ability. Whether you are willing to complete it or not depends on your attitude. Now I have no problem with confidence in both aspects. If this senior Qin still makes things difficult in every possible way under this premise, I will not continue to be so polite.
So on the way down the mountain, I imagined many things that might happen when I see Senior Qin again today. And various situations in which he might continue to make things difficult for me, I seriously thought about how I should respond when these situations arise, etc. I even thought about how I should ask him for help if he was playing tricks on me from beginning to end. Give a fair response or something like that. I had been thinking wildly for a long time. When I walked not far from Senior Qin’s house, it was already dawn and there were gradually more people on the street.
It was still quite cold in the late autumn morning. I barely slept last night. I sat at the door of the supply and marketing cooperative waiting for the door to open, because I hadn’t eaten a bite of food since last night, and I hadn’t even had a sip of water. In addition to feeling depressed, I just feel angry. It's really bad to have this feeling on my back early in the morning. What's even worse is that I have to go back to the guest house to renew my room fee to prevent my luggage from being thrown on the street. I even feel like this again. It continued until three quarters past noon.
So that whole morning, I clearly had time to take a nap in the guest house, but I tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep. The irritability in my heart also made it impossible for me to calm down and think about the various routines I had clearly planned in the morning when facing Senior Qin. At this moment, I forgot everything.
Finally at noon, just like the previous day, I stood guard at the entrance of the alley outside his house five minutes early. It's just that I didn't sleep well these two nights, but at the moment I was full of resentment. After arriving at the time, I walked directly to Senior Qin's door. His door was open. I didn't wait for him to wave me in, so I got in directly.
Just like the day before, he stood in the same posture at the door of the back room, looking at me like this. Even with half of his face covered by his beard, I could clearly feel his smile, but it was difficult to distinguish it. What kind of smile this is, whether it is relief or ridicule, there is no way to judge.
Watching Gan Mu slowly climb down from the bed-like place in the back room, he walked to Senior Qin's feet. Senior Qin stretched out three fingers, as if he was going to perform the "snap your fingers and close the door" trick with me again. I stretched out my palm to face him, and then said, Senior Qin, there is no need to close the door, I don't know how. Stay for a long time, ask questions and I will leave.
My tone was firmer and I didn't seem too polite. Senior Qin was startled for a moment, then slowly put down his hand that was about to snap his fingers, and then asked me, "How is it? The day has come. Have you finished your work?" I didn't answer, I just reached out from my bag and took out the small wooden figure that sealed the ghost, and then threw a parabola at his feet.
When the wooden man landed, it made a crisp sound. I don't know if it frightened Ganmu who was lying on the ground. It suddenly raised its head and looked at me with hostility. Senior Qin obviously didn't like my rude behavior, so he just looked down at the wooden figure at his feet, but didn't pick it up. I pointed at the wooden man and said, this is what you told me. I have captured it for you. You are an elder. Whether you want to handle it yourself or let me handle it, it is up to you.
Senior Qin snorted and sneered, then stretched out his hand to stroke his beard and said, this person's name is Yang Deming, he has a veteran background and is the core backbone of the local rebels. During his lifetime, he was domineering and domineering. He took the lead in destroying Confucian and Confucian temples and knocked down countless statues of gods and Buddhas. During the 720 period, he was one of the main leaders in responding to the high-ranking officials of a certain military region, and even plotted such abhorrent things as assassinations and kidnappings. He has been active in the struggle team since 1966. During this period, people from twenty-three households were killed unjustly by him, and the number reached forty-seven. Although he was not killed by his own hands, they were killed because of died on his command. Originally, God should take care of such people, and we should not be interfered by people from the Xuanmen. However, a family I once helped was imprisoned in Wenfeng Pagoda and starved to death because of his relationship. It was just two adults, but among the people who starved to death, there was also a little girl under seven years old.
Senior Qin's tone suddenly became very excited as he spoke. This was somewhat different from the initial impression he left on me. I thought he was a cold-blooded and ruthless person with a confused sense of right and wrong. His attitude at this moment surprised me.
He went on to say, but this guy, after doing so many evil things, took advantage of him. In a local factional fight a year ago, the two factions separated on both sides of the Han River and shelled each other. This bastard died from shell fragments. I interrupted and said, "They were all killed by the explosion. How can we still get a bargain?" So what is considered not cheap? Senior Qin snorted and said, "It's too cheap!" I was just a few steps too late and failed to catch this turtle grandson myself. I let him starve to death. One life cannot pay for everything after all, but I want to make him unable to even act as a ghost after death!
When I heard it, I was surprised. You said it would make people feel uncomfortable being ghosts, but I believe it. Even ghosts are not allowed. What kind of spirit is this? Perhaps seeing that I was puzzled, Senior Qin sneered twice and said, "Everyone of your generation has an overflowing conscience, thinking that catching ghosts and subduing monsters is a way to do justice for heaven." People say that if they did evil in their previous lives, they will be reduced to beasts and ants in this life and will be punished. I think it is all nonsense. Those who do evil should not be given the opportunity to enter the six realms of reincarnation!
Senior Qin said with gritted teeth. In my opinion, this person is not completely without conscience, but his conscience seems a bit extreme and unacceptable. I used to hear people say that those emperors who died in the previous dynasty would be dug up from their graves and whipped to vent their hatred by the current emperor. This was no longer just a way to vent anger, it was simply a perversion. So when Senior Qin said that he would not give the other party a chance to reincarnate, I had never heard of such a thing.
Senior Qin said, do you know why I asked you to come to me at three quarters in the past two days? I said, isn't it because this is the time for beheading? Senior Qin laughed and said, not bad, not very stupid. But haven't you ever thought about why I want you to come here two days in a row, especially the second day? I shook my head and said I don't know. Could it be that you want to kill my head? Senior Qin roughly calculated the time and said that it was not yet three quarters past noon, which was the time of day when Yang Qi was sufficient. In ancient times, people who were decapitated at this time would be unable to gather their ghosts because their yang energy was too strong. From the moment they were decapitated, their souls would disperse and never be reincarnated.
I didn't know that there was such a custom, and I thought it was because the officials who asked to be killed liked to choose this time in a routine way. It turned out that it meant killing them and not even ghosts were allowed to do it, which meant that these people had committed heinous crimes. Senior Qin leaned forward and seemed to be looking for something on the bed in the back room, and asked me, "Your master should have taught you that people become ghosts when they die, and ghosts die when they die." I didn't answer because I didn't know what kind of medicine he was selling. At this time, he turned around with a long sword, pulled out the scabbard, and said coldly, "At three quarters of noon, if you ask for a sword, you can't become a ghost, and you can't become a ghost!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he thrust his sword towards the ground, and the small wooden supporter I threw on the ground was split into two pieces. What's strange is that the wooden figure that broke into two pieces suddenly burned on its own without any open flame, and instantly turned into a piece of charcoal.
This little wooden man was the first tool I made when my master taught me how to make my own tools when I first started. It has been with me for how many years I have been working. Every mottled color on it records the story of a ghost possessing it. It is a pity to be cut off by him with a sword, but it really makes me happy. The one who got angry was not the little wooden man who destroyed me, but the ghost that I worked so hard to capture and punish. Just because of his personal hatred, he was completely destroyed. The key is that this incident was I did it myself, and when the cause and effect are settled in the future, this account will be recorded on my head.
So I stood a few steps forward very angrily and asked loudly, why did you destroy me without asking? Since you want to destroy me, why don't you catch it yourself and use the karma and blessings of future generations to use for your own personal grudges? , do you still look like a senior? But I had to stop after a few steps, because Ganmu saw me coming forward, and he also stood in front of me, standing his head almost at the same height as mine, opening his mouth wide, revealing four sharp fangs on the top and bottom. , and the sound of "shu--!" came out of his mouth, which seemed to be a demonstration to me, which meant that if I took another step forward, I might become a tool for it to grind its teeth.
Senior Qin said "tsk tsk tsk" a few times, and Gan Mu obediently shrank back behind him as if he had received an order. Senior Qin came up to me and said, even if it is, what can you do to me? When you become more skilled and outplay me in the future, you are welcome to take this back at any time!
His tone was contemptuous, the kind of contempt that didn't take the person seriously at all. After saying that, he reached into his arms and took out a piece of red paper. Just like the previous piece of paper, he handed it to me, and then said, you do what you say, and I do the same. I gave you the address, so get out. .
