36 years ago, on the night of the full moon, the core figures of the six families in the southeast, Sun, Xu, Zhang, Fu, Zhong and Fan, gathered in Yanweiling Village, and found the old man at home with a thousand taels of gold. Ghost Eye Stone San sat on the longboard, fine beads of sweat stained his forehead, under the dim light, he trembled and lit the cigarette in his hand slightly, and his red eyes looked at the two boxes of bright orange gold bars in front of him motionlessly.

Beside him, there were two middle-aged people who had reached the age of not being confused, and I saw the elder one arching his hand and said: "Thank you for your promotion, I, Shi Baisen, am here for the third uncle, thank you for your concern, now my third uncle's old problems have relapsed, and I can't follow you, if you can believe it, I, Shi Baisen, and my second brother Shi Baichuan can follow you instead of my third uncle." That night, more than a dozen people disappeared into the night, and their whereabouts have been unknown ever since.

Thirty-six years later, in the urban village of Guangzhou, which opened in early April, there was a light rain, and the streets at night were full of pedestrians, silent, and occasionally a few whistles were heard from a distance. In a row of old and low commercial buildings, there is a new shop that has just opened not long ago, under the illumination of neon lights, the shining name of the store is particularly dazzling, 'Wan Shi Feng Shui', on both sides of the door with red tiles scalded with a large pair of gold lacquer couplets: to ward off evil town house point feng shui gate please enter, ask God to ask the hexagram to pass the yin and yang for you to solve your worries.

The owner of this shop is a young man Shi Yijian, who has just stepped into the society for a few years, after graduating from college, he responded to the call of the country, followed the trend of independent entrepreneurship of college students, spent tens of thousands of family savings, and opened a shop here to exorcise evil spirits and see feng shui. However, due to the newcomer, one has no reputation, the other does not understand marketing, and this profession is very inconsistent with my age, in the eyes of others, Mao has not grown up Qi The boy can have much ability, so most of the people who enter the store come to buy some feng shui pendant gadgets, and occasionally some people who are in a hurry to go to the doctor see Shi Yijian, the shopkeeper, and turn around and leave.

The Shi family was originally a yin and yang client passed down from generation to generation, dealing with ghosts and gods, it was normal, I thought that with his ability, he opened a shop in the metropolis of the provincial capital, and earned him millions a year, it was an easy thing. It's just that the ideal is very plump, the reality is very skinny, it has been open for more than half a year, and the business is not as good as a day, I am afraid that if it lasts for another month or two, it will be closed. Finally, Zhang Fan, a feng shui gentleman was invited from his hometown, so that he could barely make a living. And Shi Yijian's eldest nephew Wang Youqiang, who was killed halfway, has a lot of connections and a bit of a way, so he made some space in the store and started a wholesale of tobacco and alcohol, not to mention, the working capital in the store has been enriched a lot.

In the afternoon of this day, Shi Yijian sat on the boss's stool, cocked Erlang's legs, calmly listened to the mournful music from the computer speaker, and quickly typed the keyboard quickly, and laughed a few lewdly from time to time, and his sloppy face was full of joy. Uncle Fan, who was cleaning up the dust with a chicken feather blanket in the store, was a little creepy by his inexplicable behavior, and he stepped forward and asked, "Yijian, what are you doing here, the gods are chattering, and you are playing such unlucky music, are you stimulated by something?" ”

Shi Yijian glanced at Uncle Fan who came forward, and said to him with a smile: "Uncle Fan, there is a big business coming to the door, you hurry up and go to the bald guy's roast meat shop to chop half a roast goose and come back, and wait for the next dish." ”

Wang Youqiang, the fat man who was sitting at the tobacco and alcohol counter playing with his mobile phone, immediately bounced up from the stool when he heard that he would add food tonight, came to Shi Yijian's side in a hurry, handed over a cigarette, and said with a spring breeze on his face: "Uncle, what is so happy, say it to make everyone happy." ”

Shi Yijian took the cigarette, picked up the lighter on the computer desk, snapped crisply, and a familiar smell of tobacco instantly filled the entire space, he hooked his fingers, turned sideways at the fat face who came forward, and said: "Look at the record yourself, I'll go and release the water first." After saying a lunge, he rushed to the toilet. When he returned to the computer desk, the fat man said with a smile on his face: "Yo, uncle, this is really not open for a year, and it is enough to eat for a year." ”

Shi Yijian returned to the stool, gave him a blank look, and said angrily: "Just your broken mouth, it hasn't been opened for a year, and I'm so poor that I want to commit suicide now, are you a mockery or congratulations?" So saying, he flicked the ashes into the ashtray and said, "Come with me tonight to see what is going on, maybe it won't work out." ”

The fat man snorted, stood aside and refused to move, Shi Yijian glanced at him from the corner of his eye, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Can you borrow one or two thousand first?"

"What's the matter?" Shi Yijian turned to look at him.

"Uh...... See a doctor. The fat man squeaked and whined for a long time, and then answered.

Shi Yijian saw his expression, he was lying, and hurriedly asked, "What kind of disease?" ”

"Gynecological diseases."

Shi Yijian smiled and asked, "Infertility?" ”

"Online shopping."

"If you don't want money, if you don't give your life, get out of here."

After eating, Shi Yijian returned to the rental house, changed into a more mature and stable clothes, smeared some hairspray, and after carefully tidying up, he pulled a small suitcase out of the room, handed it to the fat man, and pretended to be serious and said: "Take it, this is a guy who eats, can you cure your gynecological disease, it will depend on it tonight." ”

The fat man took the suitcase, followed Shi Yijian into a taxi, and according to the positioning given by the party, the two came to a courtyard gate. Looking through the towering courtyard wall, the four-storey courtyard building is inlaid with white porcelain tiles, and the stainless steel gate is parked on both sides of various small cars and miscellaneous motorcycles.

Shi Yijian listened to the noise coming from inside, and couldn't help but be a little nervous, after all, it was the first time to receive such a large order of business from the Internet, and it was inevitable that he would be a little nervous. He settled down, took out his mobile phone, dialed the phone number, and a crisp girl's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Hey, is it Master Shi?" ”

Shi Yijian replied in a deep voice: "Well, I am, I've arrived, just outside the gate." ”

"Oh, okay, I'll be right out." About two minutes later, I saw a young girl wearing a red cloth and white scarf coming up from the courtyard gate, and whispered to Shi Yijian: "I'm sorry to trouble you to go in the middle of the night." ”

Shi Yijian glanced at the girl with a little messy hair, and tried to pretend to be a high-ranking person: "Miss Zhou, please mourn, you can take us in to have a look." ”

Just as the two of them walked through the courtyard and just wanted to step into the gate, they were stopped by a young man in his early 20s with pimples on his face, and shouted: "The Zhou family is holding a funeral, no one is waiting for you, please leave quickly." ”

Shi Yijian stopped his steps and blocked the fat man who was about to go up to theorize. The little girl of the Zhou family saw that the master she invited was blocked from the door, and immediately got into the room and pulled a middle-aged man dressed in linen and filial piety, with a little gray temples and walked over, and she whispered to the middle-aged man: "Dad, this is the Master Shi I am talking about." ”

The middle-aged man's gaze immediately fell on the two people standing on the door, only to see that the young man led by him was tall and healthy, a little handsome face, a pair of deep eyes, looking at himself kindly, and behind him, there was a fat man with a big waist and a round waist, who was glaring angrily. The middle-aged man looked at the two young people, and it was difficult to associate with the title of master, but out of politeness, he still stepped forward, nodded to the two of them, and said: "Thank you two for coming, but I have invited a Master Zhang, if you don't dislike me for being noisy here, you can rest in the house for a while." ”

Before coming, Shi Yijian had already learned about the whole thing through the girl, this week the old man had died of illness seven days ago, according to local regulations, the mortuary is generally taken to cremation in two or three days, but the idea of burial still has a certain market in the local area, as long as a fine is paid afterwards. The Zhou family is a big squire, very influential, and there are a lot of people who come to mourn, and the local old man Zhou has repeatedly ordered that he must be buried after death, so he postponed the burial until the fifth day.

Just when everything was ready, just when the firecrackers went off, the coffin was lifted, and many filial sons and grandsons began to cry, an unexpected thing happened. The eight coffin bearers used all their strength to feed, but they couldn't lift the wooden coffin of two or three hundred catties, and the relatives of the Zhou family thought that these people were just trying to make more money, so they stuffed a big red envelope into them, but these eight coffin bearers thought that this matter was very evil and they didn't dare to take the money. There was no way, the Zhou family could only ask Nan Wulao, who was in charge of handling the funeral, to open the coffin and see what was going on.

This half-Nan Wulao has presided over the funeral for most of his life, and the first time he encountered this situation, he couldn't help but feel a little hairy, if the coffin lid was opened, and the old man Zhou inside turned into a zombie and suddenly jumped out and bit him, wouldn't it be a substitute for the dead? Thinking of this, Nan Wulao suddenly felt a chill in his neck, this broad daylight, it won't be so fierce, right? Under a series of red envelope attacks from the Zhou family, Nan Wulao finally couldn't resist it, this person died for money, and the birds died for food, not to mention that in broad daylight and in front of everyone, he didn't even dare to open the coffin for an autopsy, so how could he eat this line of food in the future.

Thinking that the whole family would have to rely on his craft to make a living, Nan Wulao gritted his teeth, crossed his heart, and died. It's just that the moment the coffin lid was pushed open, Nan Wulao saw the most terrifying thing in his life, only to see the old man Zhou lying in the coffin with his eyes wide open, his gray eyes suddenly turned a few times, and then stared at himself, looking like he was dead, so frightened that his scalp exploded, his knees weakened, and he cried, and then he collapsed and fainted on the coffin.

The Zhou family saw that the situation was not right, so they invited the monks in the temple to recite the scriptures for the old man Zhou that night, but the old man just refused to close his eyes. There is no way, the anxious Zhou family invited the very famous Zhang Shenstick from Shili and Eight Towns to come over the overall situation, and his apprentice is standing at the door and shouting acne face, but this Zhang Shenstick is busy from morning to night, and there is still no way to deal with it, so he has no choice but to directly suggest cremation on the spot, so that everything can be guaranteed.

His son Zhou Ziyang has been hesitant about this matter, after all, he will be cremated on the spot, and in the future, it may become a murderous house, and he can't live in it is secondary, but this person in front of and behind him will definitely be poked in the backbone by the villagers for a lifetime. When I learned that my daughter had invited a master on the Internet, I planned to let this master I had never met before making a decision. This can still be a bit of a fantasy if you don't look at it, but at a glance, his mood is even heavier, nine times out of ten he is here to cheat and drink and make some dead money, so he is quite polite to speak.

If you change to the hot personality of a fat man, you will immediately go home, but Shi Yijian understands that the older you are in this profession, the more popular you will be in this industry, just like looking at Chinese medicine. In addition, he has not done a decent big business since he opened for more than half a year, and he is so poor that he is about to go crazy, if he gives up like this, wouldn't he really have to sit and wait for the closure of the business?