Fa Dian pointed to the four surrounding families, and said that the ninth person to be sacrificed to the river was a monkey, born around three o'clock in the afternoon, and was in one of the households.

I casually asked, "Can't you see where this person is?" Whether it's a man or a woman, it's better to see who it is. ”

Fa Dian glanced at me: "How can you think so simply, if my master is alive, maybe I still have this ability...... As for the world today, there are definitely no more than 20 people in the circle who can be narrowed down to one mile. He grinned smugly at me, revealing a mouth full of yellow teeth.

"What then? You can't go door-to-door! ”

I remembered the embarrassment of the fat woman chasing Fa Dian just now, and I couldn't help laughing.

Fa Dian didn't think so, and smiled: "It seems that I'm not good at this matter, monks, and it depends on you!" ”

Look at me? This is after hitting the nail and kicking the ball to me.

I thought about it for a while, and felt that it was imperative to understand the basic situation of the four families first, so as not to repeat the mistake of the law just now. Most of them are superstitious, and they are especially concerned about the eight characters of birth.

When I was a child, I heard the blind pickling moon in the village say such a thing:

It is said that a landlord's family had two sons, and after the landlord was over 60 years old, he began to worry about the division of family property, and finally divided all the fields, real estate, shops, money, etc. into two halves, and the two sons were one and a half.

In fact, the landlord prefers his youngest son, who is smart and benevolent, and although he is just fifteen years old today, he can already help the family do a lot of things.

But at the end of the second year after the family property was divided, the youngest son suddenly had a high fever, and talked nonsense, and did not get better for several days, seeing that the eyes of the people were deep, the landlord spent a lot of money, and it was useless to invite a lot of doctors, and then the bookkeeper of the family found an old man who walked the streets and alleys to tell fortunes, and the old man glanced at the landlord's youngest son a few times, sneered a few times and went out.

The landlord and his wife thought it was strange, so they chased them out and asked the fortune teller if he had seen anything.

The fortune teller took out the compass and walked around the courtyard, pointed to the east wing and asked, who lived in this house.

The landlord said that it was his eldest son's room.

The fortune teller asked the landlord to go into the house to find something under the pillow, and the landlord entered the house with doubts, lifted the pillow, and saw a small rag doll full of embroidery needles.

The landlord's eldest son is in his twenties, although his personality is a little withdrawn, but he is not feminine, how can there be a rag doll under the pillow that only girls like!

The landlord handed the doll to the fortune teller, who really sneered twice, and did not reach out to take it, but turned around and walked towards the gate, until he reached the door, he turned around and replied: Peel off all the embroidery needles, burn them together with the rag doll, and finally sprinkle the blood of the black dog. If his son's illness is cured tomorrow, please send someone to send two taels of silver to the Chenghuang Temple outside the village.

After speaking, he took out a kitchen knife from his bag and slashed it on the wooden door, saying that this was his rule for seeing a doctor, and when the disease was cured, he took the kitchen knife to repay the money.

The landlord's eldest son happened to be away from home these days, and the rest of the people were stunned on the spot, even the master and the servants, a total of a dozen or so, no one understood the meaning of the fortune teller's words, and the landlord also complained about the account manager, saying that he brought a charlatan back.

Mr. Guan said that he is not an ordinary fortune teller, but a knife man on credit, usually lives on the Phoenix Mountain five hundred miles away, and goes down the mountain once every five years, and goes around to tell people fortunes and see evil spirits.

Knife man on credit? The landlord had never heard of this name, and although he was angry, it was difficult for the keeper to break out because he was an old servant of his family.

The landlord asked people to collect the kitchen knives, and he didn't take what the fortune teller said to heart. 110 eBooks

As a result, as soon as it was dawn the next day, I heard the housekeeper say that the second child woke up, not only could he walk and talk, but also said that he was hungry and wanted to eat.

The landlord cried with joy, and instantly the old tears were crossed, and he asked the second child how he felt, and the second child said that he always felt confused these days, no strength, no energy, and always heard someone crying in his ear.

When the landlord heard this, he remembered the words of the fortune teller yesterday, and hurriedly asked the bookkeeper to take two hundred taels of silver, and some expensive gifts from the warehouse, and went to the Chenghuang Temple outside the village.

As a result, an hour later, the bookkeeper came back with gifts and most of the silver, saying that people said that it was two taels of silver, so they would only accept two taels, and they would not accept any more, let alone other things.

The landlord was disappointed and regretful, so he asked the bookkeeper if he had told the man on credit the reason for his son's illness.

The bookkeeper nodded, took out a piece of paper, and wrote a few lines on it: family wealth, two brothers, jealousy and hatred, little witchcraft, fine needles and nails, eight characters of birth, don't show people.

At first, the landlord didn't understand what this meant, so he asked the bookkeeper, and the bookkeeper seemed very embarrassed, and finally told the landlord that the words of the credit knife man should be to say that the eldest son knows the younger son's birthday, after all, he is a brother! Using the eight characters of birth, using witchcraft to harm his own brother, this kind of witchcraft, commonly known as "piercing the villain".

At that time, although I was only eight or nine years old, I didn't quite understand why my brother would harm my younger brother for the sake of the family's property, and I didn't understand what the birth date was.

It is estimated that this is also the reason why Fa Yi was chased and beaten by fat women.

The two of them circled around the courtyards of the four houses, the four courtyards were about the same size, and the difference made me feel that the difference was the family to the east of the fat woman, and there were more than a dozen coffins in his yard, and they all looked quite new.

When I walked to the gate, I saw a small black sign hanging on one side of the door frame, with three words written "Coffin Li".

After thinking about it for a while, it dawned on me that it was made of coffins.

It was just noon, and this place belonged to the edge of the village, and there was no one outside, so Fa Dian and I had to walk to the center of the village, thinking that we could ask anyone we could ask for an idea.

After walking a few hundred meters along the street, there was a small supermarket on the left side of the intersection in front of me, thinking of my previous experience, I quickly went to the supermarket to buy two boxes of cigarettes and two boxes of eight-treasure porridge.

Didn't Andy Lau sing it in his songs - many people are not to blame!

When I was shopping, I asked about the coffin Li family by the way.

The supermarket proprietress replied while sipping melon seeds: "He should be a good person!" The family has been making coffins for several generations, and the one that used to be made of wood is now made of cement! When someone dies in more than a dozen nearby villages, they will come to his house to buy coffins, and the business is quite good, that is...... It's because of this that I've been a single man for a lifetime. ”

I asked, "What about the other three families next to him?" ”

The proprietress didn't hesitate: "It's all honest dealers - what, why are you asking this?" ”

I smiled awkwardly, "It's okay! Just ask. ”

When she went out, the proprietress "Alas! He called out to the two of us.

"If you don't buy a coffin, don't provoke Old Man Li!"