Wang Haozi and Hu Kehao searched all the way for the traces left by the middle-aged man, and they saw very shallow three-wheeled rut marks on the ground. The rut marks are not stable and will slowly disappear after a while on the ground. There is the grave of Wang Fang, the daughter of Wang Hezi, who passed by here along the rut mark and couldn't help but feel sad again. He bought incense paper money from the street and burned it on the grave.

In the light of the burning paper money, Wang Haozi heard a person shouting: "There are big families recruiting relatives in front, let's go and see the excitement!" ”

The road was crowded with people, rushing from all directions to the big house, just like the villagers in the 80s who crossed the mountains to watch the Yuanba movie. Wang Haozi and Hu Kehao also followed, walked for a while, and saw a middle-aged man who borrowed dishes and chopsticks from the owner of the noodle restaurant. Wang Haozi asked, "Big brother, where are you going with the dishes and chopsticks?" The noodle shop owner said he didn't know you, what kind of magic did you use to get him to lend you the dishes and chopsticks? ”

"There is a family in front of me who wants to hold a happy event and invite guests, and I help them borrow dishes and chopsticks. Only the owner of the noodle restaurant in the township has the most chopsticks, so borrow it from him and will return it to him. The middle-aged man said.

A notice was posted under a magnificent embroidered building, saying that this was a rich family, but the people were not prosperous, and only the old lady, the old servant and a young girl had to use the method of testing literary talent to choose a husband for the girl. The man is required to be between 20 and 30 years old, dignified in appearance, whether it is a dignitary or a pawn, as long as he passes the assessment, he can enter the family and inherit the family property.

Spectators are eager to see the beautiful bride. After waiting for a long time, an old mother came out of the embroidery building, and the visitors were very disappointed. The old mother announced the rules of the competition, and the content was about poetry and songs, word riddles, and so on. Some of the big bosses can't recognize a basket of big characters, can't play these crepe games, and take the initiative to choose to quit. Three young people came out of the audience, willing to take the test.

The old mother announced the first session: literacy. As long as you can pass the test, you can move on to the next link. The three young men confidently called the old mother to the question. As long as it's not a strange word, who can't be literate? The old mother unfolded a white cloth with the word "shooting" written on it, and the old mother asked the three people, "What do you read with this word?" ”

"Contemptible people are shallow in learning, and they also know their thoughts." A young man said.

"It's so simple, who wouldn't know how to pronounce it? I forgot to remind me just now, you can't interpret this word according to conventional thinking, you must dare to break the convention, understand this word from another angle, as long as it is reasonable, even if it is passed, you think about it again. The old mother said.

"I think it should be like this, the meaning of the word 'shooting', the left body and the right inch, which means that the height is only one inch, should be read 'short'." The second young man said.

"It's, it doesn't make sense at all." The third young man said.

The old mother wrote another word "short" and asked the third young man, "What does this word read?" ”

The third young man shook his head, wondering what the old woman was doing.

"The contemptible and lonely are unheard, they only know how to read stupid books, and they only know how to read AI." The first young man said again.

"The word 'short' is the left arrow and the right committee, the arrow is also the arrow, the committee is also released, the arrow committee is the meaning of the arrow (archery), and the word 'short' should be read as 'shooting she'." The second young man said.

"You pronounce 'shoot' as 'dwarf' and 'dwarf' as 'shoot'. It's really confusing right and wrong, reversing black and white, referring to the deer as a horse, and slipping the world's ridiculous! I won't play with you anymore! The third young man said.

"It's their rules of the game, if you don't play, get out!" Someone in the crowd said.

The old woman was satisfied with the answer of the second young man, and he passed the first day, and the old woman allowed him to enter the inner court.

The moon was shining brightly in the sky, and a young and beautiful girl appeared on the boudoir, and she made a gesture of pushing the window with her right hand, and chanted in her mouth: "Close the door and push out the moon before the window", asking this young man to make a couplet. The young man was momentarily stumped, carefully observing the scene around him, and pondering the next link. I saw a jug in the courtyard that received rainwater, which was full of clean water. Suddenly, a small stone fell into the jug, and the young man was inspired to suddenly open up and chanted, "Throw a stone to break the bottom of the water."

The young man passed two exams, entered the hall of the inner courtyard, and met the old lady. After a few conversations, the old lady was very satisfied with the young man's manners, etiquette, appearance and knowledge. The old lady said, "We also have a newborn child at home, who was picked up from outside, do you mind?" ”

"When I was in the Yang world, I was an orphan since I was a child, and unfortunately I was in a car accident and came to the fourth dimension of the underworld, thanks to your old look, where would I mind if there was another orphan in my family?" The young man said that he was a man who had been killed in a car accident. People who die unexpectedly are usually accidental, and often very tragic. After a person dies, he has not yet returned to any of the six realms (heaven, man, asura, beast, hungry ghost, and hell), and this middle is called the bardo body, and at this time he does not necessarily go to the ghost path, and he cannot be called a ghost. The time of the bardo body, some of them are very short, and some of them are more persistent because of horizontal death, and the time of reincarnation is relatively long, but the longest is forty-nine days. The bardo body is called the soul in our Chinese language, and it has not yet been reincarnated. Anyone who dies or commits suicide is very troublesome. They were looking for a stand-in, and when they were looking for a stand-in, he was in the bardo. After he finds a substitute, he has to go to a certain path according to his own "karma", and when he reaches the ghost path, he becomes a "ghost", and he will not associate with people; In addition to "ghosts", he can also be reincarnated into other paths, and the specific ones are known to ordinary people.

The audience outside are all people who have died unnaturally, most of them are now in the bardo body, and they are still wandering in the fourth dimensional supernatural space, not that they will continue to wander, and at some point they may also go to reincarnation. If there is no reincarnation, there is only one way to fend for oneself and live in the gray area of the fourth dimensional supernatural space. In fact, everything that exists in the universe is nothing more than how to obtain "energy", as long as you can obtain "energy" through a certain way, no matter what space it is, what can it do to you?

The old lady felt that there was no need to deceive the young man, so she told him the truth of the matter, saying that the girl died in childbirth, and that the child in the family was her child, and that the young man himself was a dead man, and he accepted it. The old lady summoned the girl out of the inner room to meet the young man. This girl is the granddaughter of the grandfather, she is good-looking, and the two of them have a good impression when they meet. When the old lady saw that the two were in love, she wanted to arrange a marriage. There were only three people in the house, the old lady, the old servant and the girl, so they invited the guests who were watching the excitement outside the door to come in and immediately worship the church.

One of the guests was familiar with the wedding etiquette and served as the celebrant of the bride and groom. The old lady and the old servant sat in the middle of the hall and received the worship of the newlyweds. Wang Haozi and Hu Kehao were also watching the excitement in the crowd, but they found that the bride was actually their daughter Wang Fang, and the old lady was actually Wang Wuye, who was scared to death during the large collective period. Wang Haozi saw Wang Wuye when he was a child and still remembered his appearance. During the period of the big collective, Wang Wuye stole cucumbers, and Wang Haozi was the one who lied and said, "Uncle, run quickly, people are coming!" And the child who scared Wang Wuye to death, Wang Erdan. Wang Haozi's elder brother is called Wang Hong, and he is the eldest in the family; Wang Haozi is the second in the family, and his nickname when he was a child was Wang Erdan. Wang Erdan teased Wang Wuye and scared him to death, and then he always had a nightmare in his heart, afraid that Wang Wuye would seek revenge on him, but fortunately Wang Wuye didn't. In fact, Wang Wuye was about to starve to death at that time, and Wang Erdan frightened him and accelerated his death, which may be a relief for him.