Early the next morning, Li Kan called me up, got in the car and took me straight to a nearby vegetable market.

He took me around the market, first buying two big roosters and then weighing a big bullfrog.

Originally, I was still wondering, but when I saw the big rooster, I understood, this is the way to open the altar, but why do I need to carry a bullfrog, I don't quite understand.

Li Kan didn't explain much, just said that I should go with him to meet someone.

Passing by the supermarket, he got out of the car again and bought two bottles of 52-degree Wuliangye.

The car drove all the way to the fruit wholesale market on Nanjing Road, the market was full of big trucks coming and going, our car was not easy to enter, so we simply parked outside the market, and we walked into it with our things.

Most people go to the supermarket to buy fruits, but I have never been to this kind of wholesale market, and I walked behind Li Kan's ass, and I looked around and thought it was quite interesting.

Like many small commodity wholesale cities, there are small shops one by one, and there are only one or two kinds of fruits in each shop, and no more than five kinds of fruits. Li Kan said don't underestimate these small faces, the annual shipments are very large, and many bosses have made a fortune.

He said that if he had money back then, he would have invested in two houses here, and now he is very happy just collecting rent. I asked him how much he could get an annual rent, and he gave me an exaggerated price with his hand.

As we spoke, we walked to the door of a room. Strange to say, the fruit market is naturally a fruit business, but there is no fruit in this shop, but there is a bunch of paper people, paper horses, and paper houses.

Li Kan told me about it, and then he pushed open the glass door and walked in.

I looked up at the signboard - the paper man chapter, I laughed in my heart, there is a copycat version of everything in these years, I only heard that there is a clay figure in the capital, but I didn't expect there to be a paper figure chapter here.

When I entered the door, I noticed that there was an old man hidden in the pile of paper. He didn't hide there on purpose, he was just concentrating on piercing a paper figure.

Because there was a bell tied to the glass door, he noticed it as soon as we entered the door, and when he looked up, he saw that it was Li Kan, and he didn't do too much politeness, just nodded slightly to say hello.

The old man didn't even look at me, and Li Kan didn't help me introduce me, just pointed to the plastic stool next to me and asked me to sit by myself.

The old man asked Li Kan, did you bring the things?

Li Kan handed him the bullfrog in his hand, and then motioned for me to bring the rooster and wine as well.

The old man frowned, and said why there was so much mess.

Li Kan smiled and told him that everything else was given to him.

The old man was not polite, so he let us wait while he himself went inside.

Li Kan went to the small coffee table next to him and made a cup of tea for each of us, and then found a small plastic stool to sit down.

I was a little disappointed, I originally thought that Li Kan had prepared so many things for some kind of spell, who knows if it was just a gift for this old man to enjoy.

However, there must be a demon when things go wrong, this old man looks not young, his face is full of folds, he can use the store with such an expensive store in the fruit market to open a paper shop, there should be something outstanding, otherwise with the price of these paper ties, if the shop is not his own, he would have lost the same as me.

As I pondered, the old man came out again, carrying a basin in his left hand and a knife in his right.

I was startled and thought to myself what he was going to do.

I turned my head to look at Li Kan, who watched the old man's movements intently, his expression reverent like a primary school student listening to a class.

I saw the old man put the basin on the ground, and took out two yellow dumpling leaves from the basin and spread them on the ground.

He took the bullfrog to the basin and scratched it with a knife, so that he knew that it must have been disemboweling and miserable.

After a while, it was estimated that it was finished, and he began to fish out the internal organs of the bullfrog from the basin, took them out and placed them one by one on a yellow dumpling leaf, and then pressed it up with another yellow dumpling leaf, and then tied it with hemp rope.

After doing this, he stuffed the dumpling bag into the stomach of the paper man he had been piercing when we entered the door just now. Only then did I notice that this paper figure was completely different from what I usually saw.

The purpose of the paper burner is to send servants to the deceased family members, hoping that they will be able to live a life of being served there. Therefore, the cleaner and more beautiful the paper man, the better, and if possible, a pair of boys and girls will be selected, which is more motivating, but the arms, legs and even the head of this paper man are tied with bandages, does anyone need to send a disabled person down to be a servant?

I was about to open my mouth to ask Li Kan, but he signaled me not to make a sound, only to see the old man light three sticks of incense and respectfully bow to the paper man, and then took a piece of paper from the shelf behind him, and pasted the paper man's stomach very carefully.

When everything was done, the old man got up and took out a small paper bag from the drawer of the chest of drawers and handed it to Li Kan, then nodded at him, saying that he could please leave.

Li Kan asked me to carry the paper figure on my back, and I saw in the mirror that he took a piece of red cloth handed over by the old man and covered the paper figure on my back tightly.

Li Kan nodded, took out a wallet from his pocket, took out a hundred-yuan bill and put it on the table, the old man nodded, said thank you, and then handed Li Kan a black folding umbrella, saying that the sun was poisonous outside, so pay attention to cover it.

When I went out, I was finally able to speak after holding back for a long time, so I asked Li Kan how he was like a big girl getting married, wearing red and playing an umbrella, isn't he just a paper person.

Li Kan followed me and told me to wait, everything will wait until I get in the car, and leave the fruit market first.

Along the way, our strange appearance attracted a lot of attention, but it seemed that most of the people who were fresh and puzzled by it were foreign merchants and their cart drivers, and those shop owners seemed to be strange, and many of them were busy with their own business, and did not look at us at all.

When he arrived at the parking place, Li Kan put the paper figure horizontally on the back seat and wrapped it tightly in red cloth as usual.

As the car drove on the road, Li Kan relaxed and told me that in the eyes of the general public, the old man was nothing, but in the circle of witchcraft and witchcraft, the paper man Zhang was a celebrity.

Paper Man Zhang is his grandfather's old acquaintance, who was an apprentice before liberation and has been living by tying paper figures. Later, he was not allowed to tie the four olds, and arranged for him to go to work in the factory, and later after the reform and opening up, he quit his job and continued to work as his paper-tying man.

The paper figure of the paper man chapter is not only beautiful, but the old man can also do some witchcraft, which can solve some problems that others are not easy to solve, so from the eighties to the present, the old man has made a lot of money.

I said I really couldn't see it, the neckline of his old man's shirt was deformed, and he really didn't show his wealth at all.

He said that he couldn't see it, don't look at this old man's kind eyebrows, in fact, his character is very stubborn, his current shop is the original site of his old shop, at that time, this trade city was demolished, and he paid him this shop.

After the trade city was sold, a company came and wanted to charter this trade city to operate a fruit wholesale market.

When they talked about the old man's place, the old man refused, saying that he would not rent this shop from anyone, and planned to keep it for himself.

Of course, the company is unwilling, saying that the old man is not suitable for this, which is not in line with the business category and makes people feel unlucky, they persuade the old man to say that he is so old, it is better to rent out the shop to enjoy the blessings, as if the company was a bit of a bully at the time, the words were a little rushed, and the pressure was a little tight.

The old man was furious and said that if he was not allowed to do it, then the wholesale fruit market would not be done.

The people in the company are all funny, what kind of big bull is he bragging about an old man, is it still the local snake underworld here?

As a result, the old man didn't shout and cut people, but just went home and took a non-woven handbag and threw it in front of them, and the people in the company were dumbfounded when they saw the contents inside.

This bag is full of real estate books, and it turns out that in addition to demolishing the façade that accompanies him, the old man paid for a row of nearby storefronts, and there are twelve of them.

The people of the company knelt down at that time, knowing that if they did not agree to the old man's conditions, it was estimated that there would be no need to talk about it later, if the old man was unhappy and changed all the shops under his name to paper shops, then this fruit wholesale market is estimated to be changed to a funeral supplies wholesale market.

So the result of the final negotiation was that the old man rented the eleven shops under his name to the company, leaving the old man to run the business by himself and not interfering with his business projects.

I was dumbfounded, such a high rent multiplied by ten, the old man is simply an invisible rich. If I were an old man, I would have traveled the world a long time ago, and I would have earned Li Kan a hundred yuan by pouting my ass just now.

Li Kan said, what do you want, this is the old man's hobby. He is now in a half-income state, not a strong relationship, and he is not willing to take the job.

He gave us this paper man to help for free, and the money he gave when he left was the rule of the paper man chapter, which means that the other party gave the money, and the ownership of the paper hand was transferred, and what went wrong in the future was not involved with the paper man chapter, if it caused any hatred or grudge, it would not find the old man.

We have such a paper man in our hands, when we want to put aside the previous business, we really talk about money, and we can't get it without one or two thousand yuan.

I was so frightened that I sneezed, saying that this paper figure kills a frog, and it can cost tens of thousands of dollars with just two clicks? This money is also easy to fool, right?

Li Kan's tone suddenly became serious, he asked me not to underestimate this paper figure, why did the old man say "please" instead of "take" or other words when we took away the paper figure, because when the old man finished this paper figure with paper ties and bullfrog entrails, it already had "life", and to some extent it can be said to be a living person, so we should respect it.

I couldn't help but glance to the right, looking at the red cloth-covered paper figure in the rearview mirror of the car, and hearing Li Kan say that it was actually a living creature, I suddenly felt a little scary in my heart.

Li Kan saw through my thoughts, he sneered, and reassured me that it would not suddenly jump up from the back seat and pinch my neck, saying that it meant a living person, not that it could run and speak like a living person, it was a living person in the eyes of ordinary people.

The living person he said refers to the living person in the eyes of the ghost, the ghost looks at the person and the person looks at the person is not the same angle at all, just like you look at a person with the naked eye, look at a person with infrared rays, and look at a person with thermal imaging, all of which are different principles and angles, so this paper man is a living person forged by the principle of ghost looking at people, in the eyes of ordinary people, this is still a paper person, but in the eyes of ghosts, this is a big living person.

I understand Li Kan's explanation, and I think it's quite fresh, but I just don't understand, he spent so much time, what does it have to do with tonight's soul night?

Li Kan lit a cigarette for himself, took a deep breath, and said two words - liar.