You were only one or two years old then, and little ones have only been remembering since they were five years old, so you don't remember now. That time I took you to my grandfather's house, and when my grandfather saw that you looked weak and weak, he asked you what was wrong. But you don't answer him, and you sit alone, not lively at all.

Grandpa looked at your eyes and hair, pinched your fingers, and told me that this kid is eighty percent gone. But don't worry, the soul has just left, and there is still time to save it.

So Grandpa wrote down your birthday on red paper, what year, month, day, and hour, cut off your fingernails, toenails, and the hair on the top of your head, and wrapped them in red paper.

At that time, there was no brick factory in our village. Your grandfather said, leave it to me. He took a cigarette and went to the blacksmith shop in Thrushcross Village, pretending to light a fire, and threw the red paper bag into their iron-burning stove.

As soon as your grandfather returned, your face was much better.

At dinner that day, the blacksmith came to the door and asked your grandfather what he had done during the day.

Your grandfather asked the blacksmith what was wrong.

The master of the iron said angrily, I have been beating iron for six years, and the technology is quite old and quite proficient, and I have not encountered such a strange thing, and I have not beaten a piece of formed iron all day today.

I interrupted my mother when she heard her say "Birthday Bazi" and asked, "What is Birthday Bazi?" "To be honest, I've heard others mention the "Eight Characters of Birth" more than a hundred times before, and I have always thought that the Eight Characters of Birth is as simple as the date of birth. Because our fortune telling is also called "counting eight characters".

Actually, it's pretty much the same as I thought, but if you write it like this, it would be bad if you wrote it on such and such a year, month, and day, and it would be ineffective even if you burned your nails and hair.

Not only in our place, but in the whole of China, there is another way to calculate the calendar in addition to the international calendar - the lunar calendar, also known as the lunar calendar. The difference between the two calculation calendars is known from the name alone.

What is written on the red paper is the lunar calendar, and the year, month and day of the lunar calendar are different from the solar calendar. However, many modern young people know the lunar calendar but do not know what it says. I didn't know before, but since I learned Fangshu from my grandfather, I also had to learn some ancient Chinese culture.

Suppose I was born between 5 and 7 o'clock on November 24, 1985 in the lunar calendar, and I wrote the words "Yi Chou Winter Moon Twenty-four Mao Shi" on the red paper. Instead of the eight words "eight five thousand one, one two, four, five points" as I had imagined earlier. If you are born in December, you should write "wax month", and if you were born in January, write "first month". (For other dates, I will write about the work in the next chapter to explain it to you, so that everyone can know their birth date.) ）

After listening to my mother's story, I realized that this was the reason why my grandfather said that he couldn't let the blacksmith find out.

Still, I don't believe that those nails and hair have such strange power that a skilled blacksmith can't make iron. After a few days of catching the ghost with my grandfather, I realized that it had more than just so much power.

For the rest of the day, my grandfather and I were at home waiting for news. It's uncomfortable to wait for bad news, and it always makes me feel like a gloating badass.

But there is no way, like grandpa said, "everyone is like this". If I had gone with my grandfather in advance to tell Sanxiang that his son was in danger, they would have driven us out of the gate like crows with a broomstick.

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"Haunted by Two Souls" !!!