Chapter 31: Antecedents

Zhang Weidong is Chinese New Year's Eve six years old today, this age is a special age group among Chinese men, usually people think that men are often unlucky in a year of thirty-six, so the family will choose to use the method of firing guns to make "longevity" for men, which is a folk tradition, called "dark nine", that is, four nines equal to thirty-six. To wear red underwear and red socks for a whole year, to prevent villains and defend against right and wrong, in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, thirty-six is quite popular. These thirty-six are either done by my sister, or by someone from my wife's mother's side, but Zhang Weidong has none, in order to prevent others from saying that he is a bachelor's gossip, the second elder omitted this matter on the grounds of not believing in evil, but Zhang Weidong really can't survive this year, this kind of thing is a coincidence, and it is fate that it is fate.

He joined the army at the age of eighteen, and his luck was not bad, and he did a job that belonged to the more enviable class of soldiers at that time: a car soldier and drove a big truck. At that time, there were relatively few people in our country who knew how to drive, and they didn't have to worry about having no job after they came out, and they were assigned to which unit to drive a car for the leader was a very high-level occupation, but Zhang Weidong went to the post office by mistake after he was discharged from the army, and he originally drove a truck, but he was given a bicycle when he arrived at the unit, and people said that this was related to the Zhang family's unsociability, and others deliberately gave small shoes to wear.

But he is also his duty, this job is more than ten years, there is his Zhang Weidong in every corner of the neighboring township, the wind comes and goes, and it is rare to see a rest time for 365 days a year. Zhang Weidong is introverted, and he goes out every morning after receiving letters, newspapers and parcels from the unit, and then takes back the letters and packages to be sent after the assigned area is completed. He has almost no communication with people, I heard that when he was young, he once fell in love with a female accountant in the unit for a while, and then the two broke up for some reason, and then there was no later, thirty-six years old is an absolute older young man, he eats public meals and does not worry about no one getting married, but he is unwilling to socialize, and he has no friends outside.

The family said that Zhang Weidong had nothing unusual before the accident, and that he went to the unit early the morning before yesterday to receive the letter as usual, and came back on time in the afternoon to deliver the letter, and it took half an hour to ride from the post office in the town to Zhang Weidong's house, while the lonely soul Gangzi was in the opposite direction entirely. In the evening of the same day, it was not too dark, a fellow herding sheep saw Zhang Weidong riding a bicycle, the fellow knew him and called him specially, Zhang Weidong was silent on weekdays but would not ignore people, that day he did not have any communication with the fellow, as if he did not hear the general bicycle towards the only path leading to the lonely soul gang rode in.

The family waited for him to come back on time for dinner, Zhang Weidong almost never stayed out and dined, and waited until eight o'clock that day, and the second honest family couldn't wait to start the meal first, and after eating, they were in the courtyard to enjoy the cool, and Zhang Weidong did not come back at ten o'clock. Zhang Weidong's father was always uneasy that night, always feeling that something was going to happen, and after another two hours, the old father decided to go out to find out. There was a person in the neighboring village who was Zhang Weidong's colleague, knocked on the door and learned that Zhang Weidong had come home from work early in the morning.

Speaking of this lonely soul gangzi, it is an ominous place, Zhang's old father called out to his nephews who didn't even bother to eat breakfast and went straight to the gangzi, sure enough, on the long-abandoned dam, people found Zhang Weidong, whose body was already cold. His expression was terrified, his mouth and eyes were open, his fingers were in the shape of eagle claws, his body was curled up, and his bicycle was on his side. Sent people to the hospital in the town, the doctor looked at the pupils, and they were already dead for a while, to say that the medical treatment of that era was really underdeveloped, and it was relatively hasty to draw conclusions about the death, and the doctor judged that he might have died of heart disease, so the person was pulled back.

"When did the corpse stench?" Cha Wenbin asked.

"Last night," said the old man, "someone in the family passed away and always had to be helped, and at first everything was fine......

According to the rules, after a person dies, he must be parked at home for three days for relatives and friends to mourn, Zhang's father pulled out his coffin and prepared it for his son, and the people who came to help one after another also arrived. gave him a bath and changed his clothes, the mourning hall was also decorated, the dishes were bought, the tables and chopsticks were borrowed, everything was according to the procedure, because the Zhang family did not invite any gentlemen, they were all simple, so there were not many people left that night. The people in charge of the vigil are all juniors, and one of Zhang Weidong's nephews and nieces suddenly smelled a foul smell at ten o'clock in the night, and the smell came as soon as it was said, and then the corpse began to decompose.

The news spread quickly, some people said that Zhang Weidong's death was strange, and all kinds of rumors came to him, and the timid simply didn't dare to help, and there was a shortage of manpower at home. It is precisely because of this, the post office, as Zhang Weidong's work unit, in the spirit of humanitarianism, specially took out a day and arranged for people to come over to fill the vacancy, but no one dared to really get close to Zhang Weidong's body.

The Zhang family thought that they would simply survive the past three days and pull it down, after tonight, tomorrow morning they were buried, everyone had a pimple in their hearts, but no one dared to open it easily, who knew that this Cha Wenbin appeared, and drove straight into it with the slogan of providence, and finally lit the fire that had been burning in the heart of the Zhang family for a few days.

"Sadist, you said that you were aware of a grievance, so did my son kill someone?"

Where did Cha Wenbin dare to judge this now, he just said: "Your son has some aftermath to explain, but I didn't have time, I had already greeted the imps before I came, and I could give a grace period of two days, so this corpse can't be buried for the time being." If he doesn't close his eyes, it means that the grievances are not settled, which may bring disaster to the family in the future. ”

Old man Zhang doesn't believe in evil, but he also understands that since ancient times, the mortuary has been three days, and after that, it is a missed time, and he can't make up his mind for a while, so he discusses it with the old man in charge. Fortunately, Cha Wenbin's reputation and reputation are thunderous in the Anxian area, since he insists on doing this, the Zhang family will not object, not to mention, Cha Wenbin patted his chest and assured that he had already said hello to the underworld!

How can this be taken back? Comrade Cha Wenbin is also asking for trouble, and he still needs to say this hello, but it is by no means as light as he said. This person has been dead for three days, there will be a yin to take the soul away, take the Yellow Spring and cross the Nai He Bridge, and from then on the separation of yin and yang will have nothing to do with it, this is the rule set in the underworld, how can it be changed? But he needed time, so it was up to him to make a "deal" with the implicitmen.

As the old saying goes, the king of Hades wants you to die on the third watch, and he will never stay until the fifth watch. It is said that once a person's life and death come, there is no room for negotiation, and once the longevity is over, it will be like the oil and the lamp is extinguished, and no one can change it. Old Zhang's father is a person who understands, and when he cried and swollen his eyes, he still touched a red envelope and planned to secretly stuff it to Cha Wenbin, this is also a rule, and Taoist priests have to eat.

Seeing this, Cha Wenbin hurriedly prevaricated: "This is not good for me, it is already disturbing to check someone uninvited, it is better for the old gentleman not to stay in the courtyard tonight, it is more appropriate to spend the night at a relative's house elsewhere." He has always spoken tactfully, and he can't say in front of people that your son is probably haunted at night, and it is not easy to leave anyone, Zhang's father understood the meaning of his words, and silently cleaned up with his wife and beckoned the relatives at home to start walking out.

Seeing that the Zhang family was gone, some of the people who watched the excitement also began to leave, but there was still a group of people who were not afraid of things to continue to stay, they saw that there was no one, so they simply wandered into the kitchen to move out the wine and food, and sat in the courtyard and made loud noises, this kind of good thing can be found everywhere. Cha Wenbin didn't bother to care, just sat cross-legged on the ground and closed the door to recuperate, and those good deeds seemed to have discovered a new continent and laughed at Cha Wenbin, who was a god and a fool in their eyes.

Cha Wenbin is waiting, he has already calculated Zhang Weidong's eight characters, this person should not have died, it should be regarded as a vain death, and he also calculated when it should be Yin and take the soul away, usually, at this time, the Taoist priest is going to enter the house. To cross the fairy bridge, to open the light, but now all this is not needed, he has to wait for the yin to come.

Speaking of this inconsistency, the discerning person probably thinks that it is just a folk fabrication, no one has ever seen it, right? That's because the yin difference belongs to the extreme yin, and ordinary people belong to the yang, and the two are not on the same line, and if you can see ghosts, you may not be able to see the yin difference. But just because people can't see it doesn't mean that they can't see other things, when my grandfather died, there were two more strangers in the room that I never knew, and those two people were not like other relatives who were in pain at the bedside, and they didn't dress like ordinary people, a bit like the kind of singing opera in Peking Opera. Later, Cha Wenbin told me that the two people I saw were the yin who was responsible for hooking the soul!