"Xuanzi, clean up the guys, let's go to Hao's house in the evening, don't make any mistakes." The old man stood in the courtyard and looked at the gloomy sky.

"Old man, nothing will happen, do we have anything to say?" I patted my chest confidently.

"How many times have I said it, call Master. Nothing big or small. The old man picked up his pipe and waved it at me. Fortunately, the old man's pipe was empty.

My name is Zhang Xuan, and I was abandoned by my parents under the locust tree at the entrance of the village. The old man picked me up there, I was hungry for three days and three nights, when the old man brought me back, the neighbors nearby said that I couldn't save me, but fortunately the old man didn't give up on me, he burned the kang head hot, and went to the aunt's house next door to ask for a bowl of goat's milk, put it in the pot and steamed. That's how I got a little life back.

The old man didn't let me call him Dad, according to him, he was a person who walked yin and yang, he had three disadvantages and five shortcomings in his life, no children, even if he married his wife, his wife died early, so he didn't go to harm people's yellow flower daughters.

When I first started learning to speak, the old man taught me to call him master over and over again, but I just couldn't learn it. When I learned like that, the fifth child in the west of the village ran into the courtyard in a panic.

"Master Zhang, my mother-in-law has started to run into evil again." Lao Wu said breathlessly.

The old man was packing up his things and said, "Didn't you give her a charm?" Let her carry it with her all the time. It was originally the fate of attracting evil. ”

"Isn't that when you wash your clothes?" Lao Wu hurriedly explained to the old man.

The old man put me in a bamboo basket, carried the bamboo basket and followed the fifth child to his house. When the fifth mother-in-law saw the old man enter the door, she immediately scolded. "Old Five, hurry up and drive this old immortal away."

The fifth mother-in-law saw that the fifth child was stupid in place, and stamped her feet angrily. "Old man, let me tell you, you can protect her today, I see if you can protect her every day." Said that the whole person fell to the ground.

"Old man, old man." I giggled in the back basket.

After that, the fifth family moved next door to us, for fear that the female ghost would retaliate again, I grew up so big, I went to his house for dinner.

Since I learned the old man of the female ghost, I have completely forgotten the master that the old man taught me before. Years later, I still call him Old Man.

The old man is actually not old, he is about fifty years old, and he was in his early thirties back then, I don't know why the female ghost called him old man. If it hadn't happened later, I would never have known this shocking secret for the rest of my life.

The old man said that my life is hard, I can't die, and no ruthless character can help me. So take me with you every time you go out.

Today's work is more troublesome, the daughter of the Hao family who has not left the cabinet, seeing that there are more and more people who say that the matchmaker is proposing, but she didn't think that the house was robbed by robbers that night, and she broke her virgin body, and she hanged herself if she couldn't figure it out for a while. Because the age is less than the age of death registered in the prefecture, it is still a suicide, and it is impossible to enter the prefecture, and the Hao family is heard crying every day, and a domestic servant died not long ago, and the result given by the police station is myocardial infarction. This can't blame them, they are doing people's business, this ghost, they are also worried, besides, the medical level in that era was less than one-fifth of what it is now, and it was still a rural area. Let a sleeping dog lie.

The mistake that the old man said was that today is a lunar moon and a cloudy day, if it is cloudy. Lord Yama can't take care of this when he comes.

I packed up the guy and carried it on my back, and followed the old man out of the door, the Hao family is a well-known local rich family, because of their kindness, their reputation has always been good.

"Old man, you said that the Hao family is so good, and God took his daughter away, isn't it too unfair." I followed the old man and looked at the old man's back.

"You'll know when you get there." The old man didn't answer me directly.

climbed a hill and finally saw the Hao family. When I saw the Hao family, I got goosebumps all over my body.

"Old man, how can this be?" I pointed at the Hao family and frowned.

"What, do you see any clues?" The old man looked at me with a smirk.

"The gate of Hao's house faces west, and the wall is made of a whole piece of bluestone, and the bluestone is too high to see the house structure inside. Shielded from the sun's rays, the entire Hao family is built in a place of shade, if the grave of the dead is here, the descendants will definitely be able to have children. But where is this living man? I looked at the entire Hao family suspiciously.

"Yes, the Hao family can live in this place for so long, there must be someone to guide them. It seems that this master is not out of good intentions, and the Hao family owes a lot of debts. The old man shook his head and walked towards the door of the Hao family.

Like the old man, a master level, will not take the initiative to knock on the door of the master's house, I hurriedly walked to the door, reached out and grabbed the dragon nose ring, a burst of coldness spread from the palm of the hand to the whole body, I looked down, why is this faucet so strange, the faucet seems to be laughing. I quickly knocked twice and let go of the dragon's nose ring on the door.

"Master Zhang, you can come, our master has been waiting for you for a long time." The housekeeper who opened the door was a fat man, and it seemed that he had been fishing for oil and water on weekdays, so he ignored me directly, walked towards the old man and made a gesture of inviting in.

The gate of Hao's house faces west, but the houses inside face east. One side is facing the sun, the other is facing the shade, and a palm-sized bronze mirror hangs in front of the door of each room. The corridor leading to the host and guest is of fine sandalwood with a faint reddish hue.

I looked at the Hao family curiously, the Hao family was built in a place of yin, it stands to reason that a living person has lived here for a long time, and his face should be shattered, and he looks like a dead person, but everyone in the Hao family has a ruddy and shiny face, which is stronger than me.

As he spoke, he entered the host and guest of Hao's house, and there was a landscape map hanging on the main living room, giving people a sense of grandeur, and the great rivers and mountains were unobstructed. Below is the table and chair where the host sits, and there is no wood to be seen.

The old man sat in the guest seat of the host and guest, and I stood behind him. This is the rule of our profession, no matter how many chairs are set up in the master's house, the master sits, and the apprentice stands behind the master.

"Master Zhang, I will entrust the matter of the little girl to you, I am dissatisfied with you and said, I haven't slept well for three months. Not long ago, a subordinate died, and you said that I had created something in my last life. The one who spoke was a middle-aged man wearing silk and satin, his face was slightly tired, this is the master of the Hao family, Hao Fugui. I don't know if it's pretending to be real or real, tears have come out of my eyes.

"Well said, well said, as long as you don't hide anything from me?" The old man squinted his eyes and didn't look at Hao Fugui sitting in the hall.

"Master Zhang, how can I hide it from you. I've told you everything I know. Hao Fugui was obviously stunned for a few seconds before speaking, and even I could see that Hao Fugui was lying.

"Hehe, it's better to be like this. Take me to Miss Hao's boudoir. The old man didn't care if what Hao Fugui said was true or not.