1990, T, China.

Wang Le, male, was born in 1956 in a small local county in Shanxi, and said that he was born, but in fact, the master picked him up there in the early morning in the autumn of that year, so he was born that year. Whenever the old man smoked a cigarette bag and pot, he talked about going to Shanxi to help people run errands, and when he passed by a locust tree and picked him up as a baby, Wang Le felt that it was similar to picking up a dog. I used to hear the old man say that he had found Wang Le's parents, but he didn't have a clue, and the old man was also unrelated and had no reason, so he asked Wang Le to raise him with him, and the old man's surname was Wang, Mingle, and the two lived in a small village near Changsha, Hunan.

Why do you call Old Man Wang a master?

Because the old man Wang is a folk ghost gentleman, that is, the person who specializes in helping people deal with things such as seeing ghosts and evil spirits, looking at feng shui and looking for yin houses, etc., what kind of faction Wang Le also asked the old man, but he didn't say it, Wang Le thought that they were idle people with no door and no faction, etc., the old man was embarrassed so he didn't say it, until a long time later, Wang Le realized that this was not the case.

After Wang Le was 6 years old, as long as it was not too dangerous, the old man began to take Wang Le to do it, and taught Wang Le what he knew, forcing Wang Le to practice, draw talismans, recite spells, and not let Wang Le play with the children in the village. In 1966, ten years of turmoil spread all over the country, the old man and his kind of people must be arrested and criticized in the local area, at that time the old man was arrested to close the cowshed, parade the street, and even beaten and fed cow dung, 10-year-old Wang Le followed Leng with a snot and tears on his face, but there was no way, and the 10-year-old child did not know what to do.

The old man is miserable, and Wang Le is miserable. Although the old man never made it clear to the public that Wang Le was his apprentice, no one dared to take him in, so in order to survive, Wang Le had to go to the town to pick up leftovers, or go to the field to dig tree roots, wild vegetables to eat, and even go to the grave of the dead to steal tribute, he also did such things.

It was also Wang Le's hard life, and he actually let him survive when he was in the most chaotic time. Later, when he was 15 or 6 years old, and the old man was sent to Xinjiang to pick up cow dung a few years earlier, everyone gradually forgot his relationship with the old man, so he lived by helping others do odd jobs.

Those ten years can be described as dark, in Wang Le's own words, even if he is dead, no one will pity him, no one will bury him.

Master survived ten years of turmoil, but finally survived. Later, I heard the old man say in private that someone above wanted to protect him, otherwise the old man's body and bones in his fifties at the time would definitely die. After coming back, the old man quickly found Wang Le, Wang Le was reluctant to live with him at that time, he thought that the old man picked him up and taught him those things to hurt him. However, after the old man talked to Wang Le for a night, and he himself was hungry by doing odd jobs, the two lived together again. In fact, there is a deeper reason that Wang Le is a little afraid of the master's obscenity, this old man doesn't talk much a lot of the time, but he never leaves a hand when the cigarette stick in his hand is waved, and Wang Le eats the beating of the cigarette stick.

Relying on the little savings that the old man had hidden before, he opened a small grocery store in the town, and the two lived like this. If you want to say that an old and a small exorcism is okay to collect a ghost, how can you do business, if you don't occasionally secretly help people do white things, the shop can't be maintained, and at that time, many places in the country began to implement cremation, plus the local turmoil has just passed, there is not much "live", life can only be regarded as a piece of tile to cover the head, and life is tight.

At the end of 1980, Master's bad old man suddenly said that he was going to Xinjiang, and explained some things to Wang Le before leaving, but what Wang Le didn't expect was that the old man never returned, and there was no news at all. At first, Wang Le also looked for him, but he didn't even find a hair. Later, when I inquired about the news, I happened to hear a person who knew him say that he was likely to go to Lop Nur, and he knew that the old man should not be able to come back, because several major events happened in Lop Nur in 1980, and many people failed to come back, these things spread in the country, Wang Le knew that the old man's past and ability must also be involved in it, the most famous of those things is the mysterious disappearance of Pengamu and the re-mentioned incident of the Great Northwest Ruins in the 60s, I won't go into detail here (if you are interested, you can check it yourself).

In fact, Wang Le himself has always been not interested in those things of God and Taoism, after the founding of New China, he advocated literacy, he also wanted to go to school when he was a child, but the old man just didn't let it, saying that his natural yin and yang eyes, not doing this line of work is a waste, which is another reason for the bad relationship between the two. When I was a child, I practiced walking Gang step (a kind of footwork when the mage practiced to exorcise evil spirits, the legend was created by Dayu in ancient times, also called Yu step), drawing talismans, and practicing spells are forced, the old man's spell charms, purple emblem bucket number, eight-character criticism of these expert learning, the first one has learned a lot, and the latter two have only learned a little fur, in Wang Le's own words, if the old man has ten skills, he can learn three points himself.

As a result, as soon as the old man left, Wang Le couldn't support the shop by himself, and no one believed a hairy boy if he wanted to secretly help people do white things and watch the yin house.

The shop was closed, and he simply sold all his belongings, Wang Le came to T City with all his savings, originally Wang Le planned to go south and north to broaden his horizons, but as mentioned earlier, the old man told him some things before going to Xinjiang, one of which was to stay in T City. T city in the year just after the end of the ten years of turmoil occurred a major earthquake disaster that shocked the world, killing and injuring more than 100,000 people, T city almost turned into ruins, people think of it are very sad, at that time there were some folk sayings, some said that the earth dragon turned over, some said that the Yin soldiers borrowed the way, all kinds of things. The old man said that no matter what the reason was, T City would definitely not be very peaceful for a period of time in the future, so he asked Wang Le to come over and watch it. Wang Le thought to himself that the old man must know something, but with his temperament, even if he asked, he couldn't get a fart sound, so he simply didn't ask. And Wang Le is very disdainful of the old man's thoughts, he can't eat enough and wear warmth, you care so wide, and you have to pull me, but after thinking about it, after all, the old man has the grace of nurturing himself, how can he not be too ruthless and unrighteous, and Wang Le has no other place to go, he can live anywhere alone, so he listened to the old man's coming to T City, and when he first arrived, he happened to meet someone selling the old house cheaply, so Wang Le spent most of his savings to buy the dilapidated house in the old city and lived in.

But after buying that house, Wang Le quickly regretted it, he didn't have any other skills to make a living, his skills naturally couldn't be publicized, the old man Wang's experience was still vivid, Wang Le didn't want to be caught as a propagator of feudal superstition, so he almost didn't starve to death when he first came to T City. Fortunately, he also learned some electrician work when he used to do odd jobs, so he became a freelance electrician, that is, someone came to the door after watching a psoriasis advertisement on the street, and he followed to repair wires, electrical appliances and the like, and the days after that slowly stabilized, although the income was only barely passable, but Wang Le didn't care much, he has always lived alone, and he belongs to the kind where one person eats enough for the whole family and is not hungry.

When he came to the age, Wang Le also wanted to deal with the object, but when he was a child, the old man used the purple emblem bucket to tell him his fortune, saying that Wang Le's fate was a bad star, plus his natural yin and yang eyes, not to mention raising cats and dogs, even raising a cricket can't survive, and he is destined to be alone in this life. Wang Le didn't believe it at the time, and later secretly verified that as long as he raised a small animal, it would die or disappear inexplicably, at that time, Wang Le scolded his mother and made a fuss for a few days, and asked the old man if there was a way to crack it, but the old man didn't say anything, just told him not to say it, otherwise he would be arrested and studied, Wang Le felt a little wrong when he thought about it, why was the old man who lived together fine? I wondered if the old man had played some trick to deceive himself, and the old man also saw Wang Le's thoughts at that time, so he said that he was not afraid of being restrained, and he was also a lonely person, who could not control whom, and choked Wang Le speechlessly.

Whenever I think of the life that the old man gave him, I don't dare to think about the object, for fear of killing people, others are not bad, and there is also a craft, and after staying for a long time, occasionally a matchmaker wants to talk about matchmaking, so Wang Le pushes it, because Wang Le is not less criticized by others behind his back.

The lonely and boring days made Wang Le feel that he was no different from a salted fish, and he was also a eunuch salted fish, fortunately, he later adopted a local dog that he sent to the door. Wang Le still remembers that it was a rainy day, the little white earth dog came to scratch the door in front of the house, although it looked pitiful, there was a feeling of sympathy, but naturally could not take it in, but this dog no matter how to drive away, I thought that this is your own choice can not blame me, so it was raised, who knew that this raising is 5 years, nothing at all, Wang Le felt strange, until later Wang Le found that this dog is very spiritual, and the general evil is still afraid of it, this is something to understand. It was also after the dog was added to the family that Wang Le's life was a little more colorful.

Wang Le himself didn't expect that he would stay in T City for 8 years.