Chapter 37: Rules
An Zhi knows that those very weird ghost markets often exist in many supernatural legends or ghost movies.
It is often depicted as a place where ghosts trade on earth, and there are also some humans and monsters in the traders. Monsters, in the dictionary, mean supernatural beings that exist in heaven and earth in addition to humans, ghosts, and gods.
Because ghosts and monsters, these things mostly exist in the underworld depicted by feudal superstition, or in forbidden places suitable for the survival of foreign bodies. They often cannot be reincarnated immediately, and naturally they all need to live. Therefore, legend has it that some ghosts or monsters will sell their former belongings and useless objects around them in exchange for the items they need.
Usually in supernatural stories, the buyers of ghost markets are mostly humans.
For example, some monks who have learned Qimen Dunjia, Taoist priests who have refined the art of fantasy, or various people in the rivers and lakes who hide dragons and crouching tigers, they all have their own means, they can enter the ghost market that ordinary people can't reach, and trade some strange things that are not available in the world, so as to fulfill some of their wishes.
For example, a person who has just died can be used as a substitute for the shell, evil and valuable medicinal herbs, a little ghost boy who can't see the light, and so on. In other words, people can buy the life of the yang world in the ghost market, exchange the child's child's life, and use the ghosts there as an intermediary to meet deceased relatives, and so on.
Some people even say that some people with resentment and viciousness will also use the ghost market to place orders with evil ghost sellers, and choose to find someone to take revenge. Anyway, in many legends, the ghost market means omnipotent, and people can buy a lot of specific things there.
Of course, the trading method of the ghost market is also different from that of the ordinary market.
Legend has it that most of the trading methods in the ghost market are bartering. The more bizarre and difficult to obtain the item, the more the buyer needs to exchange it for rare treasures, and the terms of exchange will be extremely strange. If there are some valuable and scarce goods, the seller accepts to buy and sell directly with human coins, then most of the prices of such goods will be close to sky-high.
In other words, such goods must be expensive, and ordinary people can hardly afford to be expensive, and in the end they will only be sold to those who desperately need them, and they are either rich or expensive. Moreover, this kind of ghost market is not in the so-called netherworld, but exists in the yang world full of fireworks.
However, due to the peculiar attributes of the ghost market, there are very special restrictions on its specific opening direction, method and time of opening the market. Humans who are free to enter it often need some kind of special way, that is, they often say that they have strange arts.
It can be seen that the ghost market is completely different from an ordinary bazaar, and its operation naturally has its own set of rules.
Legend has it that in this kind of ghost market, there will be a person with strong spells, or a ghost or monster with extraordinary status and ability, to be the ruler and ruler of the market, and make profits from the ghost market. And the people who can enforce the law in the ghost market are mostly ghosts.
After they die, they have nowhere to go, so they parasitize the ghost market for a long time, relying on law enforcement in the ghost market to survive themselves. The relationship between the two complements each other and is indispensable, and it is precisely because of these rules and these law enforcers that the ghost market can always exist.
Of course, existence is truth, and it is precisely because of the special nature of the ghost market that there are many taboos in its operation.
For example, in a ghost market, buyers and sellers trade freely based on their eyes, regardless of their identity. For the things in the ghost market, it is forbidden to inquire about its origin and cost, and then bargain after being optimistic about the goods. And once the buyer buys it, it will not be refunded or exchanged. All transactions depend on a person's eyesight and level of knowledge.
That is to say, if you don't ask about the goods, there is a great risk in the ghost market, and you must be cautious when you start.
Because, the goods in the ghost market pay attention to one hand to pay the money and one hand to deliver, after the money and goods are cleared and turned around, the buyer and seller do not admit the account, and the goods are not eye-catching, all by their own ability. As the old saying goes, people go to ghost markets. That is, the water in the ghost market is deep, shallow, and the water is slow and slow, and you need to try it yourself, and it has the meaning of crossing the river by touching the stones.
Because of the strange and bizarre cause of the ghost market, it is also very popular with tomb robbers, thieves and counterfeiters. The goods in the hands of these people often do not dare to sell in broad daylight, so they often wander in the ghost market, taking advantage of the dark night as a cover to buy and sell the stolen goods.
Since these people exist, the things in the ghost market will be uneven, and many goods will be fake, and it is difficult to distinguish between male and female, and even some people can even play tricks with animals. In "Yijian Sanzhi Sijuan", there is a story about a ghost market.
The story goes that there was once a ventriloquist who painted his white cat red and then pretended to be an omniscient cat god and pretended to be a ghost in the ghost market to predict the future. Soon, there was a person who spent a lot of money and bought this prophecy cat. As a result, within two days of arriving home, this person found that the cat not only did not predict, but also faded, and finally it was a very ordinary domestic cat.
There is also a story about someone who bought a brand new unopened quilt and clothes and pants in a ghost market, but when he got home, he found that the quilt was full of tattered things. The clothes were even more inked, but they just looked very new, and to put it bluntly, many of the goods were deceptive.
However, Yasuyuki also knows very well that the so-called real ghost market is not as terrifying as the legend says. This so-called ghost market is actually mostly a trading platform for antiques, old goods, and artworks. In layman's terms, it is an all-encompassing grocery market. It is only because the trading hours of this type of market are mostly at night that it is called a ghost market.
After fully recalling the difference between the two, An Zhi replied with a message to Miao Yunge.
She asked, "Senior Sister Yunge, which kind of ghost market have you been to?" Is it a market where you buy and sell at night, or is it a truly terrifying place of legend? I'm a graduate student at the University of Ontario, living in the 21st century, and although I'm the moderator of the supernatural version, I don't believe in ghosts and gods.
Soon, Miao Yunge replied: "Senior Sister Beauty, I know that you are a rigorous graduate student, and you will not believe what I said without conclusive evidence. Well, send me your email address and I'll send you something. By the time you've finished reading it, I'm sure you'll be interested and believe what I have to say.
Her words aroused Anzhi's strong curiosity, and she quickly sent her email address. At this time, An Zhi heard someone knocking on the door of her house, she suddenly shuddered, and reflexively picked up an alarm.
"Anzhi, open the door quickly, I'm Li Ming, didn't I say that I was going to listen to the report? Then let's go to self-study together! ”