Chapter III, Section 14

"Then you didn't say it earlier. Dewang is easy to do, I'll deal with this. You tell me how to deliver the message, and I'll tell her to get ready. ”

"You stupid, how can you say this clearly? You have to guide her unconsciously, and if you can say it clearly, is it still a secret?"

"Oh, that's right. Okay, I'll think of a way, you tell me how to send the message first. ”

Brother Niu roughly explained to me the method of transmitting the message, listening to his meaning, it is much more difficult for the living to transmit the message to the dead than the dead to the living, and it needs to meet many harsh conditions to achieve.

First of all, the messenger must have a high enough reputation, which is the basic condition, if not, then it will be useless. If this condition is met, the next step is to raise eighteen silkworms by hand, which can only be fed with mulberry leaves, until the silkworms spin silk cocoons, peel off the cocoon silk to make silk, and write the message to be conveyed on it with their own blood, and then go to the recipient's burial place to wait, and see a black cat close to the cemetery and set it on fire, and after it is completely burned, this silk can be received by the people of the underworld.

"I'm so complicated? Which two Bs are thinking of a bad move?"

Brother Niu didn't make a sound, and pointed to the ceiling slightly with his hand, I immediately woke up and immediately shut my mouth, my boss is an omniscient and omniscient existence, if I hear me scolding him, I don't know what kind of expression it will be.

"Although the method is a little bit, after all, it is to prevent someone from taking advantage of the loopholes, and it is also said in the past. But I listen to you, it depends on luck whether this thing can be done or not? If the black cat doesn't come, won't it be blind in vain?"

"That's pretty much what it means, it's called the natural screening method, but you can rest assured that as long as the above thinks she's qualified, the black cat will definitely appear. But I want to remind you that black cats caught or arranged by yourself don't count. Oh, and also, you had better pick the cocooned silkworm, if the cocoon is too small, the final woven silk will not be too big, too small to write a few words. ”

I really can't understand, it's a simple thing, why do you have to be so complicated, isn't it just to screen the applicant's qualifications, the entire application form, manual screening is not over, if you still feel troublesome, get an APP system automatic sorting, it's not much more convenient than this.

Although I am disgusted by this formalism of taking off my pants and farting, it is the only way to do it, and it is better than no trick at all. So when Brother Niu said, I carefully recorded all the details.

It was almost three o'clock in the morning when Brother Niu left, and I was tired of dragging it out so late, and I fell asleep as soon as I hit the pillow, and I didn't even take off my clothes, and I slept until noon the next day, if the room wasn't too hot, I thought I could sleep until the afternoon.

After a brief tidying up, I left the rental house and went straight to Zhang Yu's house. It's time to start doing some of your own work.

The last time he fought with the ghoul, Zhang Yu's house was smashed to pieces, Zhang Jianguo originally wanted to give her another place, but she just didn't agree, she had to stay here, in order not to irritate her, Zhang Jianguo had to spend money to renovate the living room, change the wallpaper, lay floor tiles, make partitions, and even the furniture and the entire kitchen were completely replaced, and they were restored to their original state in just ten days.

After knocking on the door, Mrs. Hu was very surprised to see me wrapped in bandages, I had only been seen for a few days, and suddenly became like this, which is really surprising.

I just prevaricated to her concern, there are some things that I don't need to let her know, after all, I have to live here for a while, if she thinks that I am a dangerous person, it will be difficult to carry out work.

I lived in Zhang Yu's house for three whole days, and during these three days, she basically never went out of the bedroom door, except for the occasional toilet or something to eat, she basically did not show up, and I was a big man who could not get into her boudoir without permission, so it was difficult to find a chance to get in touch.

But to tell the truth, the three days of living is quite comfortable, blowing the air conditioner every day to sleep until you wake up naturally, and a broad wife on time to deliver meals, it stands to reason that I shouldn't complain or anything, but there is one thing that I really can't bear, this rich man's recipe is too much, every day is a variety of vegetables, so that I can be embarrassed by this pure carnivorous animal?

In order to avoid Mrs. Hu's declared healthy recipes, I basically ran out to eat every day under the guise of letting the wind go.

I woke up early that morning, probably because I had recently fallen asleep, and when I woke up, I went downstairs and walked around to soothe my rusty brain.

Inhaling the cool morning air made the brain, which had been drowsy for several days, finally refreshed.

Walking aimlessly, I came to a bazaar, which is located under a section of elevated railway bridge, and the bazaar was full of people, and it looked quite lively, in line with the fine tradition of the Chinese people, I squeezed into it without hesitation.

Take a closer look to know that this is a flower, bird, fish and insect market, along the road on both sides of the long stalls, each house has some strange things, small hamsters, crickets, mealworms, large squirrels, rabbits, chameleons, attracting people to stop and watch, because I am the first time to visit this kind of place, so I also see the amazement.

I walked around curiously, and when I came across a stall with people watching, I squeezed in to take a look. In fact, the vast majority of people who visit here just look at a fresh, and there are not many people who really pay for trading, but I am different, just found out that this is a worm market, I thought of the eighteen silkworms, and I guess I can find them here.

In fact, when I was a child, I didn't raise silkworms, I remember that in the summer, there would be several aunts selling silkworms at the gate of each school, and they could buy several for five cents, and they also gave away a handful of mulberry leaves. There are also some children with more pocket money, who will directly take out a large ticket to buy silkworms and mulberry leaves. But when I think about it when I grow up, I feel that it is very special, who doesn't have a few mulberry trees in the courtyard in the countryside? On the way out of school, you can take a detour to the ditch, you can pick a big bag of mulberry leaves in minutes, and you can eat some mulberry fruits by the way, so why spend that money.

Now it seems that the old man said that it is still very reasonable to see the old since he was a child, he can't understand the world of Hao since he was a child, and he can't naturally become a Hao when he grows up.

But just because it's not Hao doesn't mean that my IQ is worse than Hao, but I really found a stall selling silkworms here.

On two newspapers spread on the ground, there are more than a dozen small plastic boxes neatly placed in front of the front and large in the back, each box contains some strange-looking insects, some of which I can name, such as the longhorn beetle, the golden beetle, the cricket, and some of which I have never seen at all. But one of the boxes contained the silkworms I was looking for, and to my surprise, these silkworms were all amazingly large, each one was almost the thickness of a little finger, and I thought that the cocoons of such a large silkworm must not be much smaller.

The stall owner was an elderly man, with gray hair, holding a teacup and shaking a fan, with a leisurely demeanor.

When I got closer, he was talking to a man with gold wire glasses.

"Why are you here again? Hungry (I) have given you a club (said) If you don't sell it, if you don't sell it, why are you still coming to the group?"

"Master Worm, don't worry, listen to me. I went back and thought about it, I accepted the price you offered last time, and according to the 1,000 yuan you said, we will make a deal. ”

"Forget it, if you are hungry in the Ming Society, you will not sell 1,000 or 10,000 to you, so you can get rid of it. ”

"Why did you regret it again? 1,000 yuan is not low, you ask who else can pay this price. ”

"Hungry to your society is not clear, anyway, it seems that (that is) not to sell you, you bag is annoying and hungry, drive away." ”

The glasses man begged for a long time, but this insect master just didn't bird him, and finally had no choice but to leave.

As soon as the glasses man left, I walked over and squatted in front of the stall, carefully looked at the silkworms, the insect master glanced at me, did not greet, still sipping tea and shaking the fan, there is no modern sense of service at all, but it is not strange in this kind of place.

After confirming that these were silkworms, I asked out loud: "Old man, are these silkworms sold?"

The insect master looked me up and down and asked, "What are you buying silkworms for?"

"Why, you have to check your family background to buy silkworms?"

"That's not, you have to tell you what you're buying it for, if you're going to go home and fry it, you won't sell it for any money. ”

"Look at what you said, if I want to eat, I can't eat anything in the restaurant, and I need to buy it myself, it's not troublesome enough. I took it back and raised it. ”

As soon as the insect master heard that I was going back to raise him, his brows immediately relaxed, and his tone improved a lot.

"Oh, that's fine, I can sell you, if I do anything else, then I can't sell you. ”

"What's the point of that?"

"It's not a big deal. These insects are small but they are also life, I have to consider their safety when I sell them, even if they don't raise them well and die, it's a bad life, but I know that if I sell them, I have to die, and I sell them, which is tantamount to doing evil. Did you see that person just now? Engaged in insect research, he is about to buy my longhorn beetle to make a specimen for a thousand dollars, so do you think I can sell it?"

Look at the consciousness of others, and at a glance, you will know that they are people who have gone through great events, and these remarks alone are worth learning from our generation.

"Oh, well, I thought he was going to buy your worms for drinking. I've taken a fancy to these silkworms, but it doesn't seem to be enough, do you still have them?"

I just roughly counted them, and there were only eight in the box, which was far from eighteen.

"Yes, but at home, how much do you want?"

"At least eighteen. ”

After I said the specific number, the insect master's hand shaking the fan suddenly paused, and even his pupils shrank sharply, although it returned to normal in a very short time, but I still noticed it.

The insect master quietly took a sip of tea and said, "Yes, there are bigger ones than this, but you have to go to the house to get them." ”

He replied very naturally, and it sounded completely unusual, so that I was a little unsure, could it be that what I had just noticed was just my own delusion?

I began to ask tentatively, "What do you call you?"

"Oh, people here call me Worm. You can call it that, too. ”

"Master Worm, do you have anything else to say?"

"What do you say? Oh, the price? Five yuan a piece, buy more than two and get a bag of mulberry leaves. ”

I still can't see anything wrong, I thought to myself, it can't be that my order is too big, so he was a little excited just now? Thinking about it, I think it's funny, the old man even pushed a thousand yuan of business, and he still cares about this piece of eight cents?

But why did he have that reaction when he heard about the eighteen silkworms?

I was a little reluctant to give up, and continued to probe: "Oh, the price is easy to say. But the silkworm I want must be big and spin a lot, and I hope you can help pick it out. As long as I qualify for one, I am willing to give 100. I'm going to weave a silk silk out of these silks. ”

When I said the first few sentences, the insect master didn't react, and he didn't even show any excitement with the bid of a hundred yuan, but when the last sentence was said, his pupils shrank again, this time I saw it clearly, and it would definitely not be wrong.

Now I can basically confirm that this old man must know something, at least he also knows about this yang letter and yin transmission, if ordinary people hear that I want to raise silkworms and weave silk silk by myself, at most they will ask a few words curiously, and it is impossible to react like that.

So I changed my serious tone and said, "Master Worm, do you know what I'm doing with this silk?"

He should be able to hear this kind of almost explicit words, as long as he is an infielder as I expected, then he will naturally pick up my words.

Hearing my question, the insect master stopped the pu fan in his hand and said a word very casually: "Burn!"

Although I already have this kind of preparation in my heart, but the sudden verification of the guess still gave me a big shock, just like when you buy a lottery ticket, although you have been thinking about winning the jackpot, but you will have a feeling of disbelief when you really win.

"You are ......"

I was about to ask about his identity, but he stopped me.

"This is not the place to speak!"

As he spoke, he glanced around with his eyes, and I suddenly realized that there were so many people here, and it was really not suitable for talking.

The insect master pushed out a small three-wheeled car from behind the bridge pier and began to tidy up the stall, and I also took the plastic boxes containing the insects to the car.

Seeing this, the stall owner next door asked curiously: "Master Worm, why is it so early today?"

"I don't have any business today, so I'll take it first. By the way, get a few silkworms for this boss. ”

The insect master took me out of the insect market, and went around to a nearby residential area, through a narrow road, and came to the door of a small bungalow, from the appearance of the house belongs to the dilapidated kind, many bricks on the wall are broken and falling off, it looks pitted, the door is still the kind of rotten wooden door from decades ago, the paint has fallen off, revealing the original color of the wood.

The gate was not locked, and it opened as soon as it was pushed, and the courtyard inside was very small, and after the small tricycle was stopped, there was only a one-person-wide aisle left. There was a tiled house on the east and west sides of the courtyard, but the roof of the one on the west side had collapsed into a large hole, and it seemed that it could not be inhabited.

Master Worm led me into the tiled house on the east side, and as soon as I entered the door, I could smell a foul smell, a bit like bird droppings.

"Sit down. By the way, I don't know what your name is?"

"My name is Wei Tengyuan. ”

"Let me ask you first, do you weave silk silk to burn?"

I nodded, and he asked.

"Where are you going to burn?"

"Graves. ”

"Oh, it's a sacrifice to the ancestors, is it?

"Not a sacrifice, it's faith. The silk should be written with blood, and the black cat must be waited for before burning. ”

"Tell me all about what you know. ”

"I know a lot, but I just don't dare to say it. ”