"Many things in the world are foreshadowed before they happen, and whether or not you can see them varies from person to person. It's not me who uses chopsticks for divination, it's chopsticks that reveal the news to me. Daddy said.

The old man stared at his grandfather coldly and asked, "Who are you?" Did you deliberately wait for me to show up? ”

Grandpa replied: "I am the matchmaker invited by Boss Zhao to tie the string, you want to marry the daughter of the Zhao family, do you say that I deliberately waited for you to appear?" ”

The old man was suspicious: "Matchmaker? He looked at his grandfather and then at Zhao Yunhe.

Zhao Yunhe nodded without saying a word, as if to ask him to admit that it was very difficult to invite a matchmaker.

"You're finally going to promise me?" The old man was overjoyed.

Grandpa was worried that Zhao Yunhe would show his stuff because he couldn't bear it, so he hurriedly said, "Of course." Boss Zhao is a former Qingju person, and he is still very traditional. The marriage contract is not child's play, and two conditions must be met, one is the 'order of the parents' and the other is the 'words of the matchmaker'. Now that Boss Zhao has finally agreed, I have to come out as a matchmaker to help. Yasheng Mencius once said, 'If you don't wait for your parents' orders, the words of the matchmaker, you will peep through the holes, and follow each other over the wall, then your parents and people will be cheap'. If you really want to marry the daughter of the Zhao family, you can't go beyond the rules. ”

The old man couldn't help but be overjoyed, rubbing a pair of dirty hands and smiling: "That's a good dare!" I've spent two years with you, and you finally know how good I am, right? Hahaha. ”

Grandpa interrupted him and said, "Since I follow the rules of 'the words of the matchmaker of your parents', I, as a matchmaker, have to ask you about your birth date and home address." After asking about your birthday, I will fit Miss Zhao's birthday on a big wedding day. After becoming a relative, it is inevitable that there will be affection, we can't not know where you live, right? ”

The old man said slyly: "Well, according to common sense, I should indeed report my birthday, not only tell you your home address, but also how many people in the family, how many old people are above, how many young people are below, what do you do for a living, and so on." But I'm different. If you have to ask, then I can tell you that I am a bare-bones, and I have no fixed residence in the four seas. Birthday...... I had long forgotten. ”

Grandpa had long expected that he would not be honest. For people who know the art of Xuanhuang, getting a person's birthday is equivalent to getting that person's life, and there are hundreds of ways to use the birth date to deal with that person. If you want to harm that person, you just need to get a handful of hair, or cut off a little nail, or get a little blood, even a little dander, and you will get a stand-in for that person.

The old man is a ghost fighter, so he naturally knows the stakes and will not easily reveal his birthday.

"If you really don't want to say the date of birth, that's fine. But you've got to tell me where you're staying, right? Since I've been a matchmaker, I'm sure I'll be running between the two families a lot in the future, so if I don't know where you live temporarily, what will I do as a matchmaker? Daddy said.

The old man hesitated. He glanced at the cold female ghost. The female ghost was motionless and could not give him any advice.

Grandpa said: "Now Boss Zhao has made concessions. If you can't do it, then it's not Boss Zhao's problem, it's your problem. ”

The old man finally relented and said that he was temporarily living in a deserted textile factory on the outskirts of the city.

During that period, there was a period when local governments set up factories to develop industries like in Japan during the Meiji Restoration, with the intention of self-improvement. Unfortunately, in the end, almost none of them managed to hold out like Japan.

That textile mill is just a small silhouette in the context of the big era.

Grandpa nodded and said, "Okay, if there's something here, I'll go there to find you." ”

The old man said, "Don't think you'll be able to catch me if you get out of my place." ”

Grandpa smiled: "This place is heavily guarded, you can enter and exit at will as you like entering the vegetable garden gate." Even if we send all the people to the textile factory, how can we catch you? We still have this self-knowledge. ”

The old man was flattered by his grandfather, and he was happy in his heart, and said proudly: "It's good to know." ”

Grandpa nodded and said, "Since Boss Zhao has agreed, don't worry about it." We also need to spend some time preparing for the wedding feast, and then choose an auspicious day of the zodiac, and when the auspicious day is chosen, I will inform you. How is it? ”

The old man was satisfied: "Good." Then he led the dead man out of the door.

When Zhao Yunhe saw the old man leaving, he was so angry that he slapped the table.

The soldiers outside heard the sound of Zhao Yunhe slapping the table, and hurriedly ran in and asked what was going on. Obviously, they didn't know anything about the appearance of the old man just now.

Zhao Yunhe waved his hand and told the soldiers to go out, and then said to his grandfather with a complaint: "Didn't you say that you could ask about his birthday?" Nothing is asked now! Even if I know where he lives, I can't catch him, so what's the use of saying it? I also made him think that I had really changed my mind, and I made him happy and proud in vain! It's infuriating to think about! ”

Grandpa reassured: "Boss Zhao, don't worry. Although I didn't ask for his birthday, I knew where he had lived recently. I'm going to check it out around tonight, and maybe I'll get something out of it. ”

Zhao Yunhe said in disbelief: "Can you catch him alone?" ”

Grandpa shook his head and said, "Of course I can't catch him." But we can start with the female ghost he brought. The reason why he is so rampant is not how powerful he is, but that the female ghost is very powerful. ”

Zhao Yunhe said: "Do you have a way to deal with that stiff-faced female ghost?" ”

Daddy shook his head again. He could tell from the straw gray color on the female ghost's face that her strength was extraordinary, and she would definitely not be able to subdue her alone.

Zhao Yunhe sighed: "It's not okay to catch that old man, it's not okay to catch that female ghost, what can you get when you go to the textile factory?" ”

Grandpa said: "Has Boss Zhao forgotten?" They want to maximize the resentment of female ghosts. How can the resentment of the female ghost be maximized? The corpse of the female ghost must be turned upside down, the dragonfly points to the water, and the corpse head points to the ground. Such a ghost can last forever. He's been harassing you for two years now. And the average ghost can only be used for two years at most. I think he must have used all the methods of raising ghosts to the extreme. Not only did he turn the female ghost's body upside down, but he also hid her in a dry well that they thought had water and no wind. Looking at his communication with the female ghost, he will definitely be with him for a long time, and he will not be separated for too long. Therefore, it is impossible for him to hide the body of the female ghost too far away, but must hide it near his place of residence. ”

"You mean, he takes the corpse of the female ghost with him everywhere he goes, and hides it upside down in a nearby dry well?" Zhao Yunhe finally understood what his father meant.

"yes. Only by satisfying these three conditions can he achieve the best state of using female ghosts. Daddy said.

"You're going to look for a dry well near the textile mill?" Zhao Yunhe asked.

"Yes. As long as there is a dry well nearby, it is likely to be a place where the corpse of a female ghost is hidden. ”

"Are you going to destroy the corpse of a female ghost?"

Grandpa said, "Let's do it when the opportunity arises." I don't think he'll let anyone else touch the corpse of a female ghost so easily. ”

Zhao Yunhe stared at the desktop for a long time and said, "If I were him, I wouldn't let others easily touch the corpse of the female ghost." What you do after finding the dry well is up to you. ”

In the evening of the same day, my father had dinner early and left Zhao's house with a bag of black clothes. Grandpa was not familiar with the environment here, so he asked the location of Zhao Yunhe's textile factory before going out.

After arriving near the textile factory, my grandfather put on black clothes and walked around the textile factory in search of dry wells.

But Daddy wasn't looking for it blindly. Grandpa knows residential feng shui, and it is very important to know the location of the well. At that time, there was no running water in the countryside, and every household had to dig a well, or share the village well. Many people don't know where to dig the well, they just think that the water can be drawn, and they don't know that the location of the well is related to the health of the family in the house. But people who know feng shui or masters who dig wells know that the house is divided into 24 directions according to the gossip, and among the 24 directions, only the three directions of A, Ren and Geng can be drilled wells, and they have a prosperous appearance for family fortune, and the other 21 directions are all fierce aspects, which are sick and sick, and hurt the population.

The same is true for textile mills. The location of this dry well should have been considered at the beginning of the well.

Therefore, Grandpa only needs to look for it in the three directions of A, Ren and Geng in the textile factory.

Of course, in addition to some taboos that should be paid attention to when drilling wells, in fact, there are also some taboos in abandoned old wells. Abandoned old wells should be filled with new yellow soil in an auspicious direction on the day of closing. However, as soon as the textile factory closed down, no one cared about it, no one lived there, and no one cared whether the dry well was filled in or not.

Grandpa used his knowledge of the well to narrow down the search area, and soon found a relatively hidden dry well.

Grandpa was very disappointed when he cleared the grass and found the dry well. Because there is no cover at the wellhead. It is impossible for the ghost fighter to be so negligent with his female ghost. When he walked to the mouth of the well and stuck his head out to look down, there was nothing else at the bottom of the well, only a layer of clear water almost to the bottom. There seems to be fish in the clear water. People here like to put a small fish called Qin Xian Fish in the well and let it eat the worms in the well water.

Daddy kicked the well, and there was a loud sound at the bottom of the well. The little fish was frightened.

Grandpa was not discouraged. He saw that the dry well was neither big nor deep, and he thought that a well would not be able to satisfy the people of a textile factory. There must be other wells nearby.

So, he changed his position and continued to search.

After searching for a two-mile radius in three directions, my father couldn't find another well.

The night breeze almost cooled my father's heart.

Grandpa sighed and sat down on a large rock next to him. As soon as he sat down, Grandpa found that the stone was breaking out in a cold sweat like a human, and the surface of the stone was full of condensed water droplets. And the stone was as cold as ice, so that Grandpa stood up as soon as he sat down. A watermark was left in the place where I had just sit.