I still remember that when the man said that it was because of a tree, Hu Zongren actually sneered. In fact, I was very surprised, I have seen many kinds of feelings, between people, between people and animals, and even between people and ghosts, but I have never heard of such a strong relationship between people and a tree, so that when someone speaks disrespectfully, he can even stand up and speak for the tree.

He told me that he later realized that the circle drawn on the tree had a × inside the circle, which meant that the tree needed to be cut down, but it was not to be discarded, but to be sold. I thought about it carefully, the plane tree originally grew very quickly, and the economic value was not large, so the only reason why it was not destroyed may be because it was too big and could be sold for money. I confirmed this from this man's mouth. This, he told me, is the main reason for the intensification of the conflict.

The man said that in the middle of the dispute, he was angry and refused to sign, so the developer took the people and left. In the days that followed, the developer changed several groups of people to negotiate with him, and he only had one condition, that is, he could demolish the house and the road, but not the tree. Naturally, the developer would not listen to his so-called boring words such as having his own secrets in the tree and childhood memories, and seeing his resolute attitude, he agreed to him. However, this promise was only to trick him into signing.

The man said that a month after he signed, he moved from his hometown to the county seat, and the resettlement fee from the demolition and relocation office was given to him in full, and he was given once every six months. So in the county, they also rented a house, but because there was no store, he had to go out to work to make ends meet before the new house was repaired. About a year has passed, one day he was idle, so he told his wife that he hadn't been back to his hometown for a long time, so let's go back and have a look while we have time today, and see what kind of cultivation has become now. That day, his wife saw that he was rarely so interested, so she accompanied him back to his hometown.

His house is still there, and it has not been demolished, but the door has been removed and the words are drawn. However, the plane tree had already been cut down, leaving only one stump, and judging from the traces of the broken stump, it was a long time ago, maybe it was cut down a few days after he moved away.

At that time, when this man said this, his body began to tremble a little, and I guessed that despite all this time, he was still very concerned about this matter, and since he would mind, he must be obsessed. So I paused for a moment and didn't ask any questions, so as not to continue to irritate him. The ghost's emotions are slightly more direct than ours, so if I ask at the moment, it might make it irritable and agitated.

Subsequently, he said that he was so angry that he felt that he had been tricked, although his wife kept persuading himself not to be so angry and calm down, but he still couldn't control it, he rushed directly to the nearby construction site office, and soon found a person who was present when he signed. Before the other party could remember who the man was, he was beaten up by the man, and the others in the office called the police while pulling him away. It was only after the police came that they learned what had happened, and perhaps for people who did not have the man's life experience, it was difficult for them to understand that a person who suddenly went berserk and beat someone could be because of a tree that had little economic value. So the police took him back to the police station and detained him for a few days on the grounds of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, and asked him to apologize to the person he beat in the developer unit in person.

He said that he was impulsive, and he should apologize, but when he apologized, he was sneered at by the other developers around him, he himself is also in his fifties, and he is an honest man, and he stood there in a proper manner after being criticized and ridiculed by a group of people for a long time, and when he returned home, he was depressed, and he couldn't afford to get sick, and his health was not very good when he got old, so he soon became seriously ill, and he has never been able to save it.

I asked the man at the time, and I said that in this case, no matter how depressed you are, you should also go to those developers, right, you entangled an ordinary person who was not related to you, just because your shroud was produced by his factory at that time? You're angry enough. After being trapped, after reciting the requiem mantra, the ghost who was questioned didn't have much to say, as long as it started, it was actually willing to tell you the truth, because except for me and Hu Zongren at the moment, it is estimated that it itself knows that no one can help it anymore. The man told me that when he died, his wife was hit hard and his son had returned from the army, and after the son learned about his father's death, he went to the construction site to reason with the developer. In fact, the developer didn't need to pay attention to it at all, but seeing that it had already caused a lot of death, it would have a very bad impact on the follow-up construction, so in order to calm the situation, he promised to compensate part of the money and be responsible for all the expenses of the funeral. This money may not be much for the developer, but it is a great help for the family.

So I asked the man, so when you were doing the funeral, the shroud they put on you was bought from this person's factory, right? He said yes. I asked him again, but they are factories, and they are not direct distributors, do they have to go so far to buy a shroud, just to buy one? He said he hadn't thought about it that much, and that he hadn't planned to put on this man until he lost his hat.

This is precisely the strangest point for me, I asked him, are you cremated? He said he was cremated in Meishan. I said, how could you lose your hat. The man said that he didn't remember very well, only that he couldn't see anything clearly after he entered the stove, and then walked a long way, and could only walk to a place where there was light, and there were some people on the road, but he didn't know at all who those people were, as if they were just a bunch of shadows, and those shadows were able to make that very strange laugh, and snatched his things, except for the money paper ash in the shou bag, and his hat. He told me that he had spent the next few days thinking about whether he should seek revenge on the developer. I know that the so-called few days of his time must have been within the first seven days.

The Chinese say forty-nine after death, which means that from the day of the breath, push back forty-nine days, according to legend, this is the maximum time that the soul can stay in the world after death, and these forty-nine days will be divided according to seven days as a unit, from the first seven to the last seven, the first seven days, is the clearest time for consciousness, is reserved for the dead to remember the world, visit those who have not had time to say goodbye, see how their relatives and friends mourn themselves in front of the spirit, and also walk the places they walked before their lives. It stands to reason that after the seven-day period is up, those who are self-conscious will choose to leave on their own, and this is the only time to die without relying on the strength of others. Seven days later, on the day of the end of the seventh, its consciousness will become more and more blurred, and the human nature on the body will gradually disappear until it is gone, and in the forty-two days from the first seven to the end seventh, they will not be able to leave on their own, but will be handed over to the people of the Yin Division to lead the way, that is, we often call the bull head and horse face and black and white impermanence, this kind of ghosts and gods with special duties. Usually there will be more souls in this part, because no one wants to die, and even if there is more time after death, they will be nostalgic and feel that it is not enough. And after forty-nine days, it completely changed from a soul to a ghost, and the consciousness was also chaotic and blurred, except for those ghosts with strong resentment, otherwise they were generally in a fixed and repeated state, or appeared under some kind of inducement, but more often, they wandered outside, getting weaker and weaker, and finally became a lonely ghost and a wild ghost.

I once asked Granny Huang some things about the underworld in her mouth, and although she is a Buddhist, except that her view of whether or not to be reincarnated after death is different from mine, her understanding of the 49-day period is actually similar to ours. In Granny Huang's view, most of the people who left within seven days after her death were open-minded people who could become former disciples of the Buddha. Those who leave between the first seven and the last seven will be taken away by the Yin Si, but not beyond the last time limit, so they will be questioned by the king of Yama, who will decide whether you want to go to hell and suffer according to what you did in life. And the kind of person who was taken away by Yin Si forty-nine days later is equivalent to the fugitive being caught, and his fate can be imagined. Granny Huang also told me at the time, so you know the importance of your existence, most of the people who wander out have exceeded time but have not been captured, and you can give them a ride, which is a merit.

That's why I have to ask carefully every time for what I want, because after knowing the reason for the Dao, I can know which way I should choose to send the soul.

The man said that he also wanted to go to the developer, but he couldn't get close, that there was something else near their place, and that he wouldn't let me in, saying that I didn't have a hat and was not well-dressed. I was shocked, I had never heard of such a thing. So I quickly asked him what the thing that stopped you looked like. He told me that in his white gown, he looked about the same as a human being, and that there were several of them except for his pale skin, and that as soon as I approached, he stopped in front of me, and was sweeping the floor with a broom in his hand, but he did not hold a broom.

I quickly recalled this kind of ghost, first of all, I am sure that it is something that the developer supports, similar to the door, it is specially used to block the debt collectors who come to the door, shouting ghosts, many developers will provide this thing, because they know that in the process of their own land acquisition, it will inevitably destroy other people's graves, so they raise such a thing, although I don't know what the specific name of these things is, but it should be some kind of ghost. So I asked the man, that's why you keep looking for hats, right?

He said yes, but he didn't know how to find it, but he soon knew that the shroud on his body was produced by this man's factory, so he got on him inexplicably.

I asked him, what do you mean when you say you're going to pester him for the rest of your life? He didn't answer, his expression that had been wooden changed, he began to grin, I don't know if Lu Dao was laughing or gritting his teeth, he said, there is a body, it's really comfortable... It's so comfortable...