After I entered the ward, the nurse said, "Be good, there will be another doctor who will change my dressing later, and then I can get stitches after the wound is cleaned." Seeing that this nurse sister was very good-looking, I gave in. After Hu Zongren hung up the medicine bottle for me, he told me that he went to the corridor to call everyone.

Soon everyone came, including Li Jia. My family lives a little farther away, so it takes a little more time for Sister Cai to come over. But when each of them saw my swollen face, they didn't show any sympathy for the injured person, but chose to laugh at me first. Master Tie Songzi was even more excessive, he laughed exaggeratedly, like a willow branch fluttering in the wind, and said that when he lived in the temple for a long time, there was a vegetable field behind the temple, and the Taoists planted their own vegetables. He said I was red and swollen like this, and it looked a lot like a tomato he had planted thirty years ago. Situ told me that after receiving Hu Zongren's call, he knew that we had done it, so he immediately withdrew the rice array, poured engine oil on it and burned it along with the coffin and those messy things, and carefully checked it afterwards, and there was nothing left left, and the photos were washed out and brought with them. After saying that, he took out a small paper bag in the color of brown paper from the bag hanging on the wheelchair, and took out a stack of photos from it for me.

Situ said that it is really difficult to print this kind of film photo now, because we can't see what is on the photo, and we are afraid that people will see it when we get it outside to print, which will cause a panic when the time comes. So he found a friend who did black and white film photography by himself and helped him print in the darkroom. Situ said, but fortunately, there is nothing unusual about these photos. Situ said, and I looked at the photo. Compared with the photo of Xie Dongmei that Hu Zongren and I saw on the urn, the woman in the photo is much more energetic, or rather, the smile is more real and happier.

There are a total of sixteen chapters of photos, and Situ pointed to one of them and told me that this is the last one in this film. I took a closer look at this photo, the one we had always thought was strange, Xie Dongmei's neck was looking behind her at an unusual angle, and the background was a very wide road. So I boldly imagined that she had been in a car accident not long after taking this photo? So when she looked back, did she notice a vehicle coming? I continued to look at the previous photo, and it was obvious that Xie Dongmei's lower eyelids and eyebrows had a dark feeling.

It's obvious that sometimes when someone tells us that you've had bad luck these days, you notice that your friend looks more decadent than ever, and the more observant can even see that the other person has a declining face. And the sentence we often hear in martial arts novels or movies, Yintang is black, it's not just talking, people who are dying, in most cases, can directly detect something wrong from their facial features. Just like a person who returns to the light, he is obviously terminally ill, but when he returns to the light, his face is flushed and he looks extremely healthy, and it is precisely this sudden abnormality that means that great disaster is coming.

I put the photos back in the bag, and then said to Situ, it's useless to look at these now, I have sent them away, although the way is more rude, but there is no way, it was Xie Dongmei's ghost who was rough with us first, we can only protect ourselves. Situ sighed and said, after all, he is a poor man, karma is the reincarnation of heaven, and everyone should return to his own way. The atmosphere in the ward was suddenly a little heavy by Situ's words. So Hu Zongren hurriedly jokingly said, but this Xie Dongmei's ashes can be burned, like gunpowder.

So everyone laughed, including Situ. Situ said that when the body is cremated, the calcium in the bones will be fully burned, but after burning, some of the larger pieces such as skulls and hand bones will not be put into the urn if they are not crushed. In this crushing process, a large amount of dust will be released, and in addition to the calcium that has not been burned out, there is also some phosphorus in this dust. And phosphorus is more flammable, and Xie Dongmei's ashes are just separated from the soul, since the soul is still there, and your set of rituals is completely aimed at it, how can it not burn. Situ went on to say, the more the fire is strong, the more it wants to go, and it is still working against you in terms of behavior, and it is already tired in my heart, and people who have been dead for ten years, no matter how big the resentment is, it should be eliminated.

I said to Situ, that Ma Dao man said that the date of Xie Dongmei's death happened to be the day of the Ghost Gate, does this mean that the reason why it is so fierce has something to do with this? After saying that, I raised my right hand at Situ, and the layers of bandaged gauze made me feel like I was a mummy. Situ said, of course it has something to do with it, the day of death is a ghost gate, and the day of death 10 years later happens to be a ghost gate, not to mention that you still move people's bones, don't you think that the Xie Dongmei you met in the shoe store before and the Xie Dongmei you met in the columbarium have a big difference in ability? I think about it, today in Qianqiu Hall, I almost twice feel like I'm dying, even an outlaw like Hu Zongren, it is conceivable, Zhongyuan Ghost Month, don't mess with ghosts, even if you inevitably provoke ghosts, don't provoke this kind of unjust ghosts.

After chatting for a while, Hu Zongren received a call from Sister Cai, so he went downstairs to pick it up. After a while, I heard Sister Cai ask in an anxious voice outside the door, how are people now? Hu Zongren said to her, that's it anyway, you must be calm. Hu Zongren's voice was quite loud, I think it was deliberately for me to hear, so I don't know what it is, everyone in the ward is childlike at the moment, and they began to pretend that I am about to die, and they are sad. I lay down in silence and covered my face with the quilt.

Footsteps sounded, and I quickly suppressed my laughter and remained motionless. Hu Zongren said to Sister Cai, I know that you are sad, and he is also my best friend. Master Tie Songzi also said, let's all go outside, let the two of you talk about your hearts. Then there was a sound of everyone squirming and preparing to get up, and then Sister Cai suddenly said, no need, everyone stay. The voice was unusually calm, so calm that I couldn't believe it. Before I could react, Sister Cai continued, since the man is dead, then I will throw away all his things tonight, and tomorrow I will find a man to marry, and then sleep in his bed, eat his dishes and chopsticks for dinner, and spend all the savings he has put at home for that man.

"You!!" I was angry all of a sudden, lifted the quilt and sat up, glaring at Sister Cai, but soon I became angry, and I had thought of a tragic remark, but at this moment it came out of my mouth, and it became: "Wife, my hand hurts..." When everyone heard this, they laughed happily one by one. Sister Cai didn't hold back her laughter, walked to my bed and sat down, and said to me, you and Hu Zongren will definitely not be able to do anything good together. When Hu Zongren called me, he asked me to come over quickly and say that people were dying, I really believed it at the time, and I wanted to call your mother, but I thought that I still had to see people first, so as not to alarm the old man. I still believed Hu Zongren until I arrived at the hospital, but as soon as I entered the ward, I knew that I had been fooled.

Sister Cai looked at Hu Zongren with a smile, and the meaning in her eyes was, you dare to lie to your sister-in-law, you are quite fat. Sister Cai said, I haven't seen a hanging bottle when I'm so old, and then my stomach will still breathe.

Everyone laughed, Sister Cai raised my hand, saw me bandage my wound, and then asked me distressedly, is the matter resolved? How can it be so dangerous this time. I wanted to tell her what had happened, but when I opened my mouth, I didn't say a word, just held her hand tightly and smiled.

The doctor gave me stitches, and I specially chose a biomaterial thread so that the thread could blend into my skin and try not to leave a scar. In the evening, Situ and the others sent Li Jia back to their home, because the matter had been resolved. Hu Zongren asked Fu Yunni to go back first, saying that he still had something to discuss with me. I didn't think my body was in any serious condition, so I asked Sister Cai to live with Fu Yunni at their house tonight. By about 10:30 p.m., the family members of the hospital wards visiting the patients were almost gone, and they were quiet. Only occasionally there were a few coughs from the direction of the corridor, and Hu Zongren was watching the time, so I asked him, didn't you say that there was something else to discuss with me? If you have something to say, say it quickly, if you don't have anything to do, hurry up and get out of here, and before you leave, please go buy me a pack of cigarettes and make a box of instant noodles.

Hu Zongren said to me, don't worry, people haven't come yet. I asked him who it was? He said that who else could there be, of course, the horse man. I asked Hu Zongren, did you tell him that we were here? He smiled and nodded, I said that's okay, since the matter is solved, let's see if he can think of a way to help intercede, if the rest of the things can be avoided, it will be avoided, the river water does not interfere with the well water, and everyone is upset if they provoke it.

What I'm saying is the truth, I'm already exhausted after a long time of fighting wits and courage with people, and I can even say that I've resisted a little. Hu Zongren smiled bitterly and said, Brother, maybe what we encountered is not as simple as we thought, no, we guessed the wrong direction from the beginning. I asked him, what do you mean? He said that the two of us went to the columbarium today to clean up the female ghost, and it stands to reason that this matter should be over, but I think we seem to have been tricked.

I got nervous again, so I sat up and asked him what was going on. Hu Zongren didn't speak, just stood up with his back to me and lifted up his clothes. I was surprised to find that there was another scar on the Baji seal, a new scar.

I asked Hu Zongren, what is the situation, it means that we are desperately trying to survive today, and it is useless, is it? He smiled wryly and put down his clothes and said, "It looks like this." I was furious, gritted my teeth and asked Hu Zongren, you made an appointment with Ma Daoren, when will he come? Hu Zongren said that he just said that he would come, and I also wanted to ask about it.

"Knock knock" sounded on the door, and a Taoist priest pushed the door open and came in, it was Ma Daoren.