Chapter 23: Haircut

By chance, I was out for dinner with friends one night, had some drinks, and took a taxi home where I met a taxi driver. The driver's surname is Zhu. Let's call him Master Zhu.

Listening to the accent is Jiangzhou, especially good at talking, because of the drinking of 2525, so I have also become very good at chatting, after talking about astronomy, geography, national events, world finance, it is related to my profession.

I said that I was a soul giver and specialized in dealing with ghosts and gods. Actually, when I said it, I said it in a joking tone, after all, I didn't expect him to believe it. But to my surprise, Master Zhu not only did not have the slightest suspicion, but told me that he believed in this very much, and he said that they drive taxis, and sometimes this kind of thing will happen.

I was so relieved that I had the urge to tell him a few stories. Then he suddenly spoke. We have a recent incident at home, I don't know if you can help me take a look, little brother. Because it was very late, I not only drank but also didn't bring out anything alive, so I said no, you tell me first, I'll give you an analysis, and I'll contact you tomorrow for the rest of the things, Master Zhu said yes, and after leaving a phone call for me, he began to talk to me about this matter.

Here's the thing, Master Zhu's family of three has been begging for a living in Guangzhou for eight years. He drove a taxi, and his wife rented a storefront in an alley on Fengle Middle Road in Huangpu District. Opened a small barber shop. Himself is also a store manager and a hairdresser. A very small shop, with only two haircutting positions, is the most down-to-earth little barbershop of the kind, with their bedroom and kitchen behind the façade. The family lives a simple life, and the business is so-so, although they don't make much money to buy a house. It's a lot of fun. But two months ago, there was a strange thing in their house, they usually close at 9 o'clock, but that night because Master Zhu came to a friend, they kept chatting in the store, and they chatted until more than ten o'clock.

As soon as my friend left, when he was about to close the door, a little old man came and said that he wanted to shave his head. The face is very poor, the face is wrinkled, and it looks very old. He was supposed to have gray hair at an age but he had black hair. And it keeps going, and I can cover my ears. Originally, Master Zhu's wife didn't plan to do this business, but under the bitter pleading of this little old man, she still agreed to do this business. Now that the hair coloring technology is mature, the color of the hair doesn't say anything at all.

So although I think that the little old man is very old, even if he has black hair, it is not surprising, so Master Zhu's wife helped the little old man shave his head.

After receiving the money, he sent the little old man out of the door, and then turned around to clean up and go to bed. But when she swept the hair on the floor. Seeing on the ground, the hair she cut off turned gray. This is a very unbelievable thing. And what's even more bizarre is that the little old man originally gave her a face value of twenty yuan, but at this moment it has indeed become a dark coin.

When Master Zhu said this, I couldn't help but feel numb in my scalp. I'm pretty sure that little old man, if not a spirit himself, is possessed. Not only possessed, but also controlled. And he would cover his eyes, so I hurriedly asked Master Zhu if he knew the little old man. He said he didn't know, I said later, is it not your family at peace, he looked back and said: Yes! In the past two months, our house has been very peaceful! After ten o'clock in the evening, there will be all kinds of inexplicable sounds in the room where the haircut is made. And once when I came home from the night shift to pick up something, I saw a ghost in the mirror!

I asked him how he saw it, what did he see?

He said he came home at 11 o'clock that day and did not close the door. I was about to go to the back room to get something, and when I walked through the two positions of the haircut, I deliberately looked in the mirror. The two mirrors were so close that he saw himself in one mirror, but with the peripheral vision of his eyes, he saw another completely unfamiliar face in the other mirror! It scared him a lot at the time. I didn't have time to get anything, so I quickly closed the door and went out again.

I asked him what it looked like when he saw that thing.

He said he was also a little old man, and I asked if it was bald. He said no, it was white-headed.

I asked him again if he was the little old man who had come to get a haircut that night, and he said he didn't know, because he hadn't seen the little old man, and when the little old man came to get a haircut, he had already gone into his room to sleep

I said, then you didn't tell your wife about it?

He said no, for fear of scaring her.

By the time we got here, Master Zhu had already driven to the downstairs of my residence. He stopped the car, handed me a cigarette, and continued. And there is more than that, my son has seen it, and he has not been scared for several days. It's just a bit better now, but it's not as lively and cheerful as it used to be

I said, "So how did you spend your nights?"

He said he would enter the room at 10 o'clock in the evening and would not come out after entering. Sometimes there's movement outside, but it's okay if you don't go out.

I laughed and said: I have also summed up the law, admire!

Master Zhu also smiled awkwardly and said, No way. After ten o'clock in the evening. The barbershop outside is its territory! I haven't been able to find a master to solve this kind of thing. I said that then we met, it was really fate. I'll give this a try. He was a little excited and said, that's great. Then I'll wait for your call tomorrow.

At that time, it was 78 yuan to play the meter,

I took out a hundred and gave it to Master Zhu, Master Zhu said no, just make a friend, I quickly said, one yard is one yard.

Actually, I'm afraid that I'll accept this favor, and it won't be good to offer tomorrow. The next day, I got up to run, eat breakfast, and finish my morning class. I called Master Zhu, the phone rang, Master Zhu picked it up, he said he had just come back from shift, and he hadn't slept all the time, just waiting for me to call, and I said sorry. He said are you coming over now?

I said no, I'll go over in the evening, I'll call you first and ask for an address, go over at about 10 o'clock in the evening, and then talk to you about the remuneration by the way.

Master Zhu said: You can say how much it is, although our family doesn't have any money, but we should still be able to afford it. I know that Master Zhu is a lover, and he directly gave a low price. I only said the numbers in the front, and the units in the back didn't say anything, and he agreed, and it seems that he is really in a hurry.

I said okay, I'll go over in the evening, are you on the evening shift today? He said: I'll wait and ask someone to help me get off work, and I'm not out of the car today.

I said well, see you that night. At ten o'clock in the evening I arrived at the place he said on time. And before they could find their barber shop, Master Zhu's phone call came on time.

I said where to park and then he ran to pick me up. His face looked very heavy, as if it was a gamble, if I couldn't solve it. Then their family still can't live a normal life, I smiled and comforted him and said, it's okay, promise to complete the task.

He should have seen hope in my confident smile, and his brow furrowed. When I was about to walk to the door of their house, it was still very lively outside, and there were still people playing mahjong in the mahjong room not far away.

But when you enter their home, it feels like two worlds entirely. The cold breath was very heavy, even if the light was turned on, it felt weird, and at this time, Master Zhu's wife also came out to say hello to me, obviously knowing that I was coming. I said, "Close the door, and you will go into the room." Don't come out when you hear anything. Anything valuable is taken in. Master Zhu said, what is valuable, don't you still believe you, little brother? Even if you are busy with you, even if the house is demolished, I have no opinion.

I said with a bit of shame; Not really. Go in first. If the matter is settled, I'll go in and tell you to turn on the TV and turn it up. Don't eavesdrop, let alone peek.

After I was done, I was sure they wouldn't do what I said. I directly took out a pair of red candles and lit them, fixed them on the two barber tables, and the two candles became four in an instant when they were reflected in the mirror, and the room even looked bright. Then I turned the light off, and I was sure it was in this room. I didn't take the compass to look for it, I just sat on the barber's chair, facing the mirror, looking like you were here to scare me. Let's see if we can wait for it to come out...

Yet even if I made a look of intimidation. It doesn't scare you, which makes me a little uncomfortable.

I looked in the mirror and shook Jiro's legs, and everything in the room reflected by the dancing candlelight seemed to be jumping and jumping. The mannequin head on the table looked so weird after a long time. Obviously there is no wind. The wig on the model's head began to move. I started to get excited. It's finally here......

The candle was already half-burned, and I was staring at the model's head. Although the head was expressionless, it seemed to be staring at me and the shaking of his hair was getting worse and worse, which reminded me of Mei Chaofeng in the Legend of the Condor Heroes, I remembered that the little old man came to shave his head before, and then there was an accident in Master Zhang's house. Then it's normal for this spirit to be attached to the hair. It's just that this way of playing is a bit exciting. Also fiddling with the wig on the model's head. I'm not sure what it's going to do. If only it was just to scare me. That's fine, because I'm not afraid of something that doesn't make sense, in order to overwhelm it in momentum

I stood up and stared down at the head. Maybe it was my proud look that it off, and the next thing I saw, even though I thought I was more courageous. Still startled, the hair of the plastic head suddenly drooped down and stopped floating. Not only that, but the expressionless model actually started laughing! And the candles started flickering. I stared in the mirror, and inside was my muscular body, but my head was not mine! It's the head of the smiling model.

There is also an impression in the mirror next door, which is the spirit god. It's the same as Master Zhu described. Little old man with white hair. It's laughing too. Staring at me in the mirror with an eerie smile. This is one of the more common ways to scare spirits. As mentioned before, it's called Ghost Occult. It is a truth that the twenty yuan that Master Zhu and his wife received before turned into paper money.

This kind of thing is amazing, and I can't explain how it works. But I know how to deal with it. In fact, everything is fake, just to scare me, and the model head around my neck in the mirror is fake. The spirit in the mirror next door is also fake, and it is really on the hair of the model's head

I recited the mantra of sobriety. I took out a handful of cinnabar ash and threw it at the dummy's head. At the moment when I finished scattering ashes. The two red candles went out almost at the same time, and the room became dim and dark. But it's not completely dark, and there is still a glimmer of light from the outside that has become my spiritual sustenance. I don't like the total darkness of the environment. At the same time as a spirit in a completely dark environment. It makes me feel very passive. There will also be a feeling of suffocation. I quickly pulled out a spare flashlight. After opening it, there is a light on the person's head. There's nothing out of the ordinary.

It's definitely already out

I looked in the mirror with a flashlight, and the light reflected from the mirror shone on me. And a little gray-haired old man behind me, I breathed a sigh of relief. Because I didn't seal the door, what I was most afraid of was that it would run away. But now it's a good thing. Because it allows me to see, it means that we can communicate.

We stared at each other in the mirror. I knew I wouldn't be able to turn back and even move my flashlight. I'm afraid I'll scare it away. It stared at me in the mirror and didn't make any sound. Obviously a little surprised, why I wasn't afraid of it, we just looked at each other in the mirror so quietly. Listening to the sound of a costume drama fighting coming from inside the house. My blood was suddenly boiling. There was even an urge to fight it.

But this is unrealistic. It's not Mei Chaofeng, and I'm not Guo Jing. I just looked at each other for a few minutes, and I couldn't help it. A friendly smile was revealed. Meaning doesn't blame it for deliberately scaring me, it also shows a smile.

That means it didn't mean to hurt me. After I read what it meant. Just turn around slowly. Actually, even if it wants to hurt me. I can't help it. In addition to frightening people and influencing people's yang energy, the general spirit spirit leads to the appearance of various pathologies. There is no other means. Of course, the slightest touch and provocation will not cause much harm. I didn't stand on the roof either, and there was no possibility of being pushed down. Those spirits on TV strangled people and bit people to death is really just a plot need. I turned to face it. It was still staring at me with a smile on its face. Except that the eyes are a little air-conditioned. Not even the face is pale. I lit the candle again, then pulled up a chair and sat down. It stood in front of me. The picture looks very incongruous. It's as if the dean of students is teaching students who have done something wrong.

I quickly stood up and said, "Old man, you sit. Let's talk if you'd like. It sat down unceremoniously. I also pulled up a chair and sat opposite.

It said: "Young man, you have great courage. It doesn't scare you. I said, "I do this, you should see it." It says: Well, I know. I said, "Old man, why are you here?" It makes people uneasy. The little old man paused, then smiled and said to me. It's a long story. It's inconvenient to talk here, or let's talk about it in another place, right? I said, okay, go to my house and talk, it's quiet. Do you continue to go back to the hair on the model's head, or do you use my vehicle? It says it's better to use a fake head, so that you can also have an account for their family.

I understand what it means. I said okay, you attach it first. I'll go talk to them, and the little old man smiled and nodded. It slowly blurred in front of me. Wait until everything is in order. I turned on the light. Pack your stuff. Then he knocked on the door of the back room. Said Master Zhu, it's all done. After Master Zhu opened the door,

Hand me an envelope directly. It contains a gratuity. I said you don't have to give me the full amount first, give half first. Wait until nothing happens after half a month, and then you hit the rest into my card. Master Zhu smiled and said, It's okay, I believe you. You take it first if there is anything else to do later. I'll call you again. Since he's so cheerful. I don't squirm either. Put away the envelope and Master Zhu said. This model head I need to take away.

Master Zhu didn't ask anything. Just say no problem. Take it away. I was thinking about the agreement with the old man. didn't say much, directly said goodbye to Master Zhu and walked out the door. As I was leaving, I heard the ending song of the TV series coming from the TV in their back room. It's as if they're celebrating the resolution of their family's troubles. Then what Master Zhu didn't know was that this matter was far from over. There's another story to the white-haired old man... Something that makes me angry. To solve this matter,

I even got into a fight with someone and got a little bit hurt.

The point is, this thing is completely gratuitous......