Chapter IV. Have a finger in the pie

Da Mao rubbed his forehead and then said to me, Master and I have been looking for it every day, and we have been looking for it for a month, but we still haven't found anything. Maybe it's because we don't get anything every day, and we are locked up in that broken house every day, which makes us still very mentally affected. In the last few days, I couldn't help it, so I took advantage of the night when I opened the door and caught the man who took us every day to look for ghosts into the house, and asked him when he let us go, and the other party's answer was, when we found it, we will be released when we can't find it, unless we tell each other clearly that there is nothing we can do and we can't find it.

Da Mao said, before I could answer, the master preemptively said, please tell our employer that we are not as skilled as others and cannot do anything, so we will not do this. Ask him for permission and let us go home.

The more I listened, the more strange I became, Wang Chengqian was not such a person in my mind. Since he has done this, it shows that the employer behind him is really not small, Wang Chengqian not only did not dare to offend, but also was a little afraid of the other party.

Da Mao said, so the master and apprentice went to look for it as usual that night, but they still couldn't find the woman wearing a green cheongsam. And the man who guarded them that night also went to reply, and at the end of the month, he released their master and apprentice, and when they left, they were the same as when they came, and covered their eyes with strips of cloth, until they were sent to the county seat, and then let them go home on their own.

It is not difficult to know from Da Mao's oral statement that this "Sanchuan Ghost Market" is not a place that many people know, at least Wang Chengqian was blindfolded when they went, indicating that the employer behind it actually did not want this location to be exposed or spread out. And Da Mao was distressed about this matter, not because his master and apprentice were ineffective and could not complete the commission, but because he and Wang Chengqian both thought that this matter seemed a little wrong from the bottom of their hearts, but he couldn't say what was wrong.

In view of myself, I also scoffed, since I had never even heard of the existence of this place, naturally I couldn't talk about any opinions, so I just comforted Da Mao and said, as long as people come back safely, you are all thin like this, it seems that although there is nothing missing in that month, but I feel aggrieved. Da Mao said that it was not true? You've been in the industry for so many years, when have you ever seen someone begging someone to do something under house arrest? Is this begging or pressing?

Because I listened to what Da Mao said, he didn't know where that place was, but he knew that it was not far from Chengdu in Shuzhong, but it was so wide on the Great Plains that it was really difficult to find. So I asked Da Mao, then you are telling me this today, are you just trying to share it with me, or do you mean something else?

Da Mao didn't speak, didn't even raise his head to look at me, just hugged the wine glass with his two hands, and remained silent. After a long time, he said to me, Brother Shankong, I don't think this matter is right, if a person needs to find a ghost so secretly, and it is still in such a market where ghosts are sold, and the other party's background is not well understood now, if we know but don't understand clearly, we may be implicated in the future.

In fact, only he and Wang Chengqian were implicated, and people like us who didn't know about it in the first place would not actually be affected, but from Da Mao's tone, he seemed to be telling me vaguely that he wanted to find out about this matter, if it was just a simple search for people, there were many ways, and going to the market was not only not the best one, but even the least likely one.

Da Mao said, look, everything that can be taken out and sold is more or less worth selling, and people with low prices can be arrested by themselves, so why bother to buy and sell. It shows that the female ghost wearing a green cheongsam must have a big effect. Coupled with the bullet holes in her head, it means that this person's death was a shooting, and this kind of ghost is difficult to exceed, if the employer behind it has some big purpose in looking for this ghost, then it may affect our entire industry.

That's right, if I'm the employer behind it, if I have any shady tricks, I'd also wish that the fewer people I knew, the better, in that case, it can explain why when I take Da Mao and Wang Chengqian, I have to be blindfolded, and I have to lock them in the house during the day and don't let them go out, and every night when looking for ghosts, I am also accompanied by special people, just to reduce the chance of Wang Chengqian and Da Mao and the people around them, plus they are both our locals, I went to a foreign place and almost no one I knew before, so cautious, it had to make people suspicious.

So I asked Da Mao, what do you want to do now, just with you little hairy child, can you still expose what is behind this? Da Mao said that even if I am a child, I also feel that I must do this thing, and I must do it with you or not.

The reason why he said so many things to me was because he sensed that something was wrong, and he thought that if this matter continued to develop, it might affect the entire industry, so he had to find the answer before everything was concluded.

Frankly speaking, I feel a little itchy in my heart, because the name of this Sanchuan ghost market, today is the first time I have heard of it, and it gives me a sense of mystery, if I have the opportunity to find this place, even if there is no such thing as Da Mao and Wang Chengqian, I am very likely to pretend to be a businessman to find out. So I asked Da Mao, what is your master's opinion on this matter, Da Mao said, Master's attitude is not to think about it, but he is also very worried about this matter, after all, although he and I have not found any results, but after all, we are also in the middle of the people, and this matter will develop in a good way in the future.

So today Da Mao came to me again, in fact, Wang Chengqian knew that he would tell me about it, but he didn't mention it, and Da Mao followed and pretended to be stupid, so it was Wang Chengqian who told me about it under the pretext of Da Mao. When I heard this, I honestly still admired Wang Chengqian's wisdom and foolishness, and he was indeed right, our young generation of masters were originally faulted because of the relationship between the times, and there were indeed not many talents that emerged, the quality was uneven, and the craftsmanship was indeed a handful. And Da Mao and I are both young generation of masters, although I have made some fame because of the previous things, maybe there are more people who know me, but there are very few people who have seen me and know what I look like, I am the same as Da Mao, they are all fresh faces, if you want to investigate this matter secretly, it is indeed better for us to come forward.

I'm a little excited, but I don't pay that much attention to whether there is a conspiracy behind this, I just want to see what the situation of this so-called "Sanchuan Ghost Market" is. So I said to Da Mao, you have a life-saving grace for me, I have been treating you as my little brother for many years, if you decide something, I will definitely support and help you.

I thought to myself that if I had been resting for so long anyway, if I continued to play, maybe my craft would be rusty. Since Da Mao didn't explicitly send out an invitation, then I'll go, just go to explore the secrets, they are all fresh faces, as long as they are low-key everywhere, they shouldn't cause any trouble, even if they are really discovered by someone, with my and Da Mao's skills, it shouldn't be difficult to get out. Besides, if it is really unfortunate that Da Mao and Wang Chengqian say that the person behind the scenes is really using this to do some conspiracy, then if we can destroy it, it will be considered a merit.

After combining these considerations, I agreed to Da Mao, saying that you can tell me in advance when you plan to leave, I have a few acquaintances in Chengdu, and I may be able to give some clues.

So that night, with the strength of the wine, Da Mao and I hastily decided this matter. After that, Da Mao needs to sort out the things in his hands first, and after inviting the master, he can leave with me, and when he is ready, we bring enough money and necessary tools to leave for Chengdu, but it is already half a month later.

Since we didn't know where the "Sanchuan Ghost Market" was, we had to inquire beforehand, so I told him that in the early years, because of the relationship introduced by the master, there were several masters who were active in the Chengdu area who had come to visit the house, and they had neglected to contact them over the years, but if we came to visit, maybe people would give us some information and help in the face of my late teacher, of course, provided that people really knew this place.

So when we arrived in Chengdu, we found a small hotel and settled down, and then I started looking for my master's old friends. I found several people, many of whom had heard about me and Qin Bukong joining forces to break through the formation before, plus the relationship between me and my master, people were still very polite, but most of them had never heard of such a place as "Sanchuan Ghost Market". But there is a master, told me that he once heard of such a type of place, but the name is not called "Sanchuan Ghost City" he does not know, it is said that the place is very remote, almost no people, and there are even rumors that that place is the junction of the two worlds of people and ghosts, just like the free trade zone between countries, without accurate guidance, it is extremely difficult for ordinary living people to find this place.

I don't understand this, what does it mean that living people are difficult to find?