Sun Ming told Cha Wenbin that his brother married a paper man, which sounds like a fantasy, how could the paper man be married home? So Cha Wenbin decided to go and find out.

Changxian County and Anxian County are close neighbors, about two hours by car, Changxian County around the Taihu Lake Basin, since ancient times is the land of fish and rice, the territory of the south of the Yangtze River, the people believe in Taoism, Taoist priests belong to the more popular profession in this generation. Cha Wenbin didn't know that his name had begun to circulate in the neighboring county, but the people in the neighboring county didn't expect that the legendary Shinto priest Cha Wenbin would be so young.

The Sun family used to be landlords, but after the land reform, they were classified as rich peasants. This Mrs. Sun is a great character, her grandfather heard that he was a man of the previous dynasty and had been an official for a while, so Mrs. Sun had been in a private school since she was a child, and she was a learned woman. At that time, there were not many women who could read and write, but unfortunately her two later sons did not become talents, which probably had something to do with the middle of the family.

On the afternoon of the day of arrival, the Sun family has already begun to light up the lanterns, eighty-nine years old, according to rural customs, generally choose to celebrate the ninetieth birthday for the elderly on their birthdays or the Spring Festival, that is, one year earlier. There is a rule for longevity, called nine not ten, which probably means long-term and auspicious.

The Sun family was quite polite, after Cha Wenbin arrived, they had dinner first, and at the dinner table, the legendary Sun Sheng's wife never showed up, and she was busy with some relatives. How can this old lady not appear as a daughter-in-law? Could it be true that as Sun Ming said, his sister-in-law is a ghost?

Cha Wenbin took a special look at this old mansion in the Qing Dynasty, the yard was paved with a whole long hemp stone, and there was a pond for raising goldfish, and there were many rockeries made of Taihu Lake stone in the pool. The doors and windows are also carved, the fine boxwood can still distinguish the clear lines of the wood to this day, the patio is in a very appropriate position, the house is very exquisitely repaired, he measured it back and forth with steps, it can be determined that this house is guarded by the door god, it stands to reason that the general dirty things will not come in.

In the middle of the hall hangs a portrait of a Qing Dynasty official, and from the patch on the clothes on the portrait is a five-rank official, according to the current division, at least a government official at the prefectural and municipal levels. It is said that it was almost destroyed during the Cultural Revolution and survived by hiding in a cellar. Mrs. Sun's health is very good, her face is full of red light, and her teeth and mouth are also full, and now she has to eat two bowls of a meal, and the fat man will naturally say something nice during the banquet, saying that this old lady can live to be a hundred years old, which makes the Sun family very happy.

This dish has five flavors, and the wine has passed three rounds, and the main topic will come soon. Taking advantage of the excitement, Sun Ming proposed that he should let Cha Wenbin calculate a hexagram now and see what the old lady's fortune would be next.

Divination for the elderly is different from that of young people, who are already close to dusk, and fortune is no longer important, it is nothing more than a few more years of longevity and when several generations are in the same house.

After taking the old lady's eight characters, Cha Wenbin sat down and dipped his fingers in the tea and lined them up on the table, at first his face was still smiling, but then it gradually began to disappear. Seeing the change in the expression on Cha Wenbin's face, this Sun Ming was a monkey spirit, and immediately got up and said, "Mr. Cha, you come out with me first, I have another thing I want to ask you." ”

was pulled out of the secluded place outside the door by Sun Ming, and when there was no one around, he asked, "Mr. Cha, is our old lady not good?" ”

"It's not good." Cha Wenbin nodded and said: "At present, the old lady will have a hurdle, after which she can really live to be a hundred years old, if she can't pass it, it will be difficult to say." In fact, he was already very careful when he said this, and he didn't directly inform Sun Ming to prepare for the future, already considering that today was a happy and festive day.

"Can you get through this hurdle?"

Cha Wenbin shook his head and said: "It's hard to say, this hurdle is different from disease and disaster, but it can be big or small." The old lady's hurdle, according to my southern life, the second hurdle of the four hurdles, the south belongs to fire, and the weather has been dry recently, pay more attention to this aspect," he also reminded: "Especially your old house, all of which are wooden structures. ”

"Then you can't say that at the banquet later, the old lady is old, and the old man always wants to hear something nice." After that, he handed a red envelope to Cha Wenbin, but he didn't expect that this Sun Ming was quite filial. Cha Wenbin naturally understood what he meant, but since he was invited to tell his fortune, he had to give someone an explanation, in case the old lady left tomorrow, but he calculated a long life for a hundred years, it would not be a smashing of his own signboard.

Back at the wine table, this Cha Wenbin relieved the old lady, when he talked about that hurdle, he didn't go bigger, only said that the old lady had better be accompanied by someone in the past month, don't get involved in fire and other things, and put a few more buckets of water in the house to nourish the gas. Then he counted the first half of the old lady's life, from her birth to her outrageous, from giving birth to her husband and passing away, Cha Wenbin basically spoke the same, which really made the old lady very happy.

In fact, those buckets of water were used for fire prevention, and until they left, Sun Sheng's eldest daughter-in-law did not come out, but I heard that she was from the north, and she was a little unaccustomed to the water and soil when she came to the south, and her health was not good. Before leaving, Cha Wenbin glanced at the window a few times, the curtains were firmly drawn, and there was nothing inside.

If people don't come out, you can't break in, and besides, this can't be put on the table, although everyone thinks it's a little strange, but after all, it's someone's family affair, and you can't control it.

In the evening, they decided to go to the county seat to find a place to live, and they planned to go out early in the morning. I heard a long time ago that there is a Taoist temple in Changxian County that is quite famous, just on the edge of Taihu Lake, and it is said that it has been there since the Song Dynasty, and Cha Wenbin plans to go

On the way to send them there, Sun Ming kept talking about his sister-in-law, this man did have a very broken mouth, and he was a little annoyed by his nagging, Cha Wenbin said: "I'll give you something, you give it to the woman's meal, if there is no ghost, it doesn't hurt to eat it, if there is really a problem, it will definitely be in place." ”

This is a packet of powder, which contains a small amount of sun-dried and ground rooster blood and black road hoof slices and ground powder, and the two mixed together have a great restraint against evil things. But ordinary people don't react when they eat it, so it won't cause any bad consequences, Sun Ming is naturally very happy to get this thing.

When I returned home, I happened to meet Sun Sheng walking out with the quilt, and went up to ask, it turned out that in the afternoon Cha Wenbin said that the old lady was old and it was best for someone to take care of her, he thought that he finally came back for a trip, so he did his filial piety, and let his daughter-in-law sleep with the old lady these days.

Sun Sheng was scheduled to leave Changxian in three days, and he himself said that his business in the northeast was very busy. In fact, Sun Ming also wanted his brother to take him out to the rivers and lakes, but his brother refused, only saying that it was very cold over there, and he was afraid that Sun Ming would not get used to it.

Before going to bed, Sun Sheng cooked a few sugar eggs by himself, which was one of the best foods at that time. divided two bowls, one for his daughter-in-law and one for the old lady, taking advantage of his brother's inattention, Sun Ming decisively sprinkled the bag of powder into the pot......

That night, after a little more effort, Sun Ming felt smoke coming from in a daze, and by the time he opened his eyes, the open flames outside were already clearly visible. It didn't rain for several months, and the speed of the fire couldn't be controlled at all, and the flames in the house that ran to the yard were red, and the old lady's cry for help made Sun Ming wrap his head in his clothes and rush into the fire again, his old lady was already out of breath when she was carried out, and the old lady still had tears in her eyes when she died......

In a blink of an eye, the happy event became a funeral, and it really made Cha Wenbin right, the fire in the Sun family's house became bigger and bigger, so that Sun Sheng wanted to rush in to save his daughter-in-law and had no way out. The fire was extinguished by daybreak, and there was nothing left but a pile of broken bricks and tiles.

You have to say that this fire is quite big, Sun Sheng and his wife obviously didn't come out of it, it stands to reason that no matter how good a living person burns, he can have some bones left. But the scene was turned over and over, not to mention human bones, not even teeth. Now that the old lady is gone, and the daughter-in-law is gone, Sun Sheng squatted on the ground and cried all the time with his hair......

Cha Wenbin was about to go to the Taoist temple in the morning, and when he was eating breakfast on the street, he heard that someone had been burned, and it was the Sun family. The news spread quite quickly, so that the fat man didn't swallow a single wonton, and choked on his throat. Yesterday, he heard Cha Wenbin explain the hexagram, and it took a little more time, which worked, are you Cha Wenbin also a little too good.

The fat man reminded him: "Zha Ye, I think we should not go to join in the fun of this matter, turn back, in case people want to say that we curse people......"

Cha Wenbin glanced at him and said, "Did you take someone's red envelope?" Take it, then return it today. ”

"What else? Isn't that what we eat, besides, they all reminded them to be careful of the candles, who told his two sons not to listen. ”

"Don't say it, I really think this thing is more strange," Cha Wenbin said: "This old lady has a fire barrier, you didn't hear the person at the table just now, saying that two people died, it was a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law even burned her bones." ”

The fat man said, "The fire is too big." ”

"Impossible, no matter how big the fire is, it won't burn all the corpses, if what Sun Ming said is true, then it is possible that I set the fire......"