An old lady who lived next door to Ma Jingang's house saw him lying in bed every day, like a dead snake, so she said to Ma Jingang's wife, "Your husband may have been beaten, find a powerful person to provoke trouble."

Ma Jingang's wife didn't know who to turn to, so she told Ma Jingang what the old lady said and let him make up his own mind.

Ma Jingang asked his wife to ask his father for help.

When Grandpa came to Ma Jingang's house, he saw that he was blue between his eyebrows, and he was already seven or eight points sure in his heart. Grandpa asked him if he had gone to the deceased's house before he was dying, and went to the deceased's bedside.

Ma Jingang said yes. He was afraid that the bereaved family would find the Eight King Kongs in advance, and he would not have his share, so he went to the deceased's house when the deceased was about to die. He was beside him when the deceased took his last breath.

When Grandpa heard this, he confirmed that he had been beaten.

Ma Jingang and his wife are busy begging their grandfather to provoke him.

Grandpa looked at the sky outside and said, I can help you choose, but today is a cloudy day, you can't pick a cloudy day, I'll come back when the weather is clear. If it is cloudy, it is easy to disperse the trouble, which will be more serious.

After the weather was clear, my father went to Ma Jingang's house again, took a woman's embroidery needle and picked it out in the blue place between Ma Jingang's eyebrows, and squeezed the blood after picking. The blood that came out was black and had a foul smell. After raising his eyebrows, he raised his chest and back.

After picking, his father told him not to go out or take a bath for ten days. Washing your face and feet can only be wiped with a wrung out hand towel, not directly with water.

Ten days later, Ma Jingang came to his father's house in good spirits to thank him.

Ma Jingang is a lucky person, knowing that he has suffered a beating, and has found someone who will provoke him. But not everyone is so lucky.

The story of Ma Jingang's beating was relayed to me by my grandfather later.

I later brought it up in front of a friend. The friend sighed and said that her second grandfather had been poisoned by this kind of gas. She said that her second grandfather was notoriously bold in his hometown, so anyone who died would ask him to dress the deceased in a shroud. One day, a man in the next village committed suicide by drinking pesticides, and his death was so horrible that no one in his family dared to approach him. The people of that family asked the second grandfather to help put on the shroud. The second grandfather agreed. The second grandfather saw that the deceased was full of dirt such as foaming foam, so he kindly wanted to wash the man's body. Unexpectedly, when the second grandfather washed the chest of the deceased, his hand rubbed a little heavier, and the deceased actually spat out a breath from his mouth! That breath is probably the last breath that the deceased did not breathe out when he was dying and was blocked in his throat by foam or thick phlegm. At that time, the second grandfather didn't pay attention, and when the deceased exhaled his last breath, he just inhaled and sucked the deceased's last breath into his stomach at once. The second grandfather was smoked by this very disgusting smell, and he retched immediately. When he returned home, he began to fall ill, and within a few days he was in bed and could not get off the ground. He knew that if he took the last breath of a dead man, he would become seriously ill or even die, but his family was too poor to afford a doctor. At that time, he may not have known that he could ask someone to provoke him if he encountered a beating, or he may have known that there was a problem but could not find someone who would provoke him, so he died not long after.

After listening to my friend's story, I thought that if my grandfather had been in her second grandfather's village, he might have survived.

But even if some people have been saved, they will not always be grateful. Later, when my grandfather was forced to move out of the Ma family's old house and look for a new foundation to make a mud house, because the foundation had to be used in the public foundation of the village, and Ma Jingang thought that he had a share in it, so he quarreled with his grandfather and almost started a fight.

Grandpa was very angry and said a few angry words in front of his father, saying that his father should not have provoked Ma Jingang in the first place.

Grandpa smiled bitterly, how much effort did it take as parents to raise their children for him to eat and wear? However, there are many children who hold a grudge against their parents because of one or more arguments with them. If you are like a child, why expect others to remember a certain kindness from you?

However, this did not affect his grandfather's friendship with his mute son.

Daddy continued, "When a person exhales his last breath, it is also the time when the soul leaves the body. The cat ghost seems to be sucking the last breath of the deceased, but I'm afraid it's the soul of the person who really wants to suck it. ”

Helian Tian smiled appreciatively and said, "Yes." The last breath that a person exhales when he dies is called a calamity or a calamity. This breath floats in the air and then lands in one place and does not mix with other air for three days. Because this is the transformation of the vitality in the human body, it is different from the breath that is usually exhaled. Disaster can also be said to be a kind of evil spirit. In some places, it is called white. At the same time as the person breathes his last breath, the human body loses its traction on the soul, and the soul leaves the dead body. The cat ghost sucks away the last breath of the deceased, which is equivalent to sucking away the soul of the deceased at the same time. Cat ghosts are originally horcruxes, and the souls of the deceased are preserved in the body of the cat ghost and will not dissipate, just like ghost dealers use the body of a dog to pretend to be a ghost. Horcruxes like dogs are far inferior to cats, so we have to weigh the souls obtained by ghost dealers, and most of them will dissipate in the process of transporting them. The more weight you dissipate, the less money you get. Of course, the weight of souls varies from person to person, but this is the only way we can force the ghost dealers to sell us as good souls as possible. ”

Daddy nodded in understanding.

"Cats are different, especially the cat ghosts that have been cultivated by our people, and the souls contained in the cat ghosts will hardly be damaged. Since the cat ghost sucked the last breath of the person when he was about to die, the preserved soul was the most complete and almost flawless. Of course, the cat ghost is a half-spirit Horcrux, so naturally it will not be injured like ordinary people. ”

Helian Tian said that these preserved souls are used for "soul grafting".

Other people's people simply write down the names of the deceased in their family tree, while their people store the souls of the deceased in Horcruxes. When a woman finds out that she is pregnant, the soul from the horcrux is extracted and transferred to the pregnant woman's womb. The method is like an apple is grafted to a sand fruit, a pear is grafted to a pear, a persimmon is grafted to a black date, and a walnut is grafted to a walnut tree, so that the grafted branch replaces the original branch bud. Their people thought that the growth quality of apple trees, pear trees, persimmon trees, and walnut trees would become worse and worse by means of seed propagation, so they believed that the traditional way of propagation would gradually make their fine varieties become mediocre, so they learned the grafting method of plants and invented this "soul grafting" - the generation will change, but the soul will not change, so as to ensure the superiority of their people.

That's how he lives until now. Of course, even so, he can't avoid the mystery in the womb, and he will still forget the things of his previous life like ordinary people.

He has experienced many lifetimes of "soul grafting" and has lived to this life.

Due to his previous life and family, he learned to raise cat ghosts very quickly when he was a child. His intelligence was extraordinary, and he read the Four Books and the Five Classics very well. He originally wanted to embark on a career through the imperial examination, but unfortunately there was no progress after being admitted to the examination, and he failed to test Sun Shan three times in a row. So, he found another way to go to Japan to study abroad, and studied at the Japanese Army Military Academy for a few years, hoping to join the army after returning and enter the political circles.

But when he was about to return to China, his temperament changed drastically, and his goals changed.

He saw a portrait of a woman at an exhibition held by a famous painter in Tokyo. The first time he saw the portrait of the woman, he felt bitter in his heart, and he couldn't help but shed tears. This sudden sadness surprised him very much. That night, he had a dream, in which he went back to more than 1,300 years ago, dreaming of the angry Emperor Yang of Sui, dreaming of Queen Dugu interceding for him, dreaming of the killed Xu Ani, and dreaming of Xu Ani's cat.

Xu Ani in the dream is like coming out of that portrait. The only difference is that the woman in the portrait has an extra tear mole under her eye.

He remembered his previous life more than 1,300 years ago, and he remembered that he was the reincarnation of Dugutuo, and the woman in the portrait must be the reincarnation of Xu Ani. When the Imperial Forest Army rushed into his house with bright knives and guns and took Xu Ani away, he didn't have time to say goodbye to Xu Ani.

The next day, he went to the famous painter and asked him where he had seen the woman and painted it for her.

The painter said that he saw this woman in Shanghai, and he only took a quick glance to note the woman's face, which he has always remembered, so he painted this painting when he returned to Japan.

So, after returning from Japan, he did not go to see Yuan Xiangcheng, nor did he meet the warlord leaders who occupied various territories, but went crazy in Shanghai to find a girl with a tear mole under her eye.

He tried everything, but he couldn't find the girl in Shanghai. He guessed that the girl might have left Shanghai, so he expanded the scope of his search.

But the world is so big, and the world is in chaos, it is not easy to find such a girl.

He searched for many years, all in vain.

When he was at a loss and helpless, someone told him about someone. A person who can capture dreams.

He was overjoyed. He thought that if he showed the portrait he had bought from Japan to that person, and then asked him to search for the girl's shadow in other people's dreams, then the probability of finding her would be greatly increased. Some dreams are memories of past lives, and some dreams are dreams of day and night, whether the dream is of the past life or the scene of this life, as long as the shadow of this girl appears in the dream, it is an important clue to find her.

His thoughts are exactly the same as when his father asked Zesheng to capture dreams and find the reincarnation of Xiaomi.

After being introduced, he met the Dream Catcher of the Gualga clan.

The Dream Catcher of the Gualga clan put forward his terms. The Guerga clan will help him find the girl in the portrait by capturing dreams, and he must help the Guerga take over the sale of souls.

He accepted it without even thinking about it.

So, he came to Baoding and began to deal with these ghost dealers. Because he is good at raising cat ghosts, and cat ghosts are better Horcruxes than cats that can hold nine souls, he has done a good job in the soul business, and has won the trust of dream catchers.