Chapter 10. Make a deal
Out of my understanding of Da Mao and the instinct of my profession, I knew that Da Mao's action was because he saw something, so that he had a feeling of deliberately avoiding it. Da Mao himself is the master of Tianyan, although I know that there are all kinds of ghosts here, but Da Mao himself is not afraid of ghosts, these ghosts are also controlled by those who sell them, and they will not make trouble casually.
So I pretended to look ahead casually, but I saw that on the long street about thirty meters away from us, the guy who was guarding the door during the day was walking on the road with a little girl with a ponytail. The little girl looked about eighteen or nineteen years old, and looked very haggard, but her expression was a little dull, and even a little silly. The dress is also very earthy, even in our era at that time, her way of wearing it is similar to that of an ordinary village girl, but she has a melon seed face, her eyes are quite big, she is afraid for a while, she smirks for a while, and when she has a normal expression, she looks like a girl with not ugly facial features.
The man stood behind the little girl, and from time to time reached out to give her a touch on her shoulder, as if to make the little girl go on her way, rather than lingering on a stall. There is no doubt that if this little girl is not also a Tianyan master, then she is a person with a special physique and yin and yang eyes. Because from her trance eyes, it can be seen that although she seems to be shopping at the street stalls, her eyes have been looking behind the small traders, which is probably exactly the same as when Da Mao and Wang Chengqian came here.
This shows two things, first, the mysterious person behind the scenes of the Sanchuan Ghost City is searching for this kind of Tianyan or Yin-Yang Eye masters on a large scale to help find it, Da Mao and Wang Chengqian failed to find it, so they changed a group of people, but this girl didn't know how many they were. Second, since she is still searching, it means that the purpose of the mysterious person behind the scenes has not been achieved, and the female ghost in the green cheongsam has not yet appeared.
We took a few steps closer, and at this moment I didn't have the extra experience to care about the hidden expression of the big hair, but continued to observe the little girl carefully. At the moment, although there was only the light of the lanterns around me, I could still see the little girl's expression clearly. Although for a little girl of this age, if she sees something that scares her, she will naturally appear that kind of fear and withdrawal, this is normal, her fear shows that she does not often see something terrible, let alone the whole market is full of ghosts. But what puzzles me is that she still occasionally shows that innocent smile, feeling a little silly, if a person is under house arrest during the day and will be brought out to witness all this every night, he will definitely feel the same as Da Mao and Wang Chengqian at the beginning, they will be tired, they will collapse, they will be depressed, and they will definitely not be happy.
Just as I was puzzled, the little girl suddenly turned around and stretched out the palm of her right hand to the man who was following her, and kept stamping and jumping under her feet, as if asking for something. But the expressionless man in the back shook his head, stretched out his hand and pushed the little girl's shoulder, which probably meant that she wanted her to continue to move forward, but the little girl refused, and began to pester the man like a little scoundrel, and said something but because of the distance, we couldn't hear clearly, and she still refused after being pushed, and still stretched out her hand, which seemed to say: You give it to me! If you don't give it to me, you won't leave!
I'm curious, could it be that the mysterious people behind this scene didn't negotiate the price when they approached these supernatural people? And need to take a few steps to give money once? Judging by the mystery of this person and his ability to control this ghost city, it seems that he would not commit such stupidity. So I continued to pretend to go shopping, but my eyes still looked at the man and the little girl from time to time.
The man seemed to be unable to resist the other, so he shook his head helplessly, and then reached into his arms and felt a small colored round ball. I know that thing, it's a small candy that was particularly popular in those years. In fact, it is made of ordinary cane sugar into a round shape, and then some food coloring is added to make it colorful, which looks very delicious. The little girl reached out and took the candy from the other's hand, and then stuffed it into her mouth at once, and the bright smile on her face was as if she had eaten an extremely delicious food, and she smiled extremely happily.
So I was even more puzzled, how could it be that the reward for inviting this little girl to find the ghost was not money, but candy? But the innocent smile of the little girl, it seems that she has long forgotten about ten seconds ago, she was still frightened by the ghost on the side of the road, I believe that there are many naturally optimistic people in this world, but this girl seems to be too big-hearted, right?
I saw that the little girl continued to go shopping with a jump, and then the expression on her face was also cloudy and uncertain, sometimes scared, sometimes happy, sometimes excited to see something new, and then she did not forget that after eating the candy in her mouth, she turned around and asked the man for it.
Gradually, we got closer and closer to each other, and after observing this cycle several times, I felt that this little girl should not be a Tianyan master, because she felt that she had not learned this, at least those who had learned this, should have normal intelligence, and she had clearly made me feel that her intelligence was a little deficient. And this part of the seemingly crazy fools, because they often talk crazy nonsense, basically the people who hear it will not take it seriously, even if she is telling the truth. So I think this person should have yin and yang eyes, and I have mentioned to many people that I can see a lot of demons and monsters, but the people around me don't believe it, but they are known by this mysterious person behind the scenes, so they also took her to captive and look for ghosts for themselves.
This inevitably gave me a new message, that is, this mysterious person behind the scenes, in fact, has a feeling of desperation, maybe the regular master who can be found before has been searched, and everyone has not been able to find the green cheongsam female ghost he wants, and now he really can't find another master to replace, so he caught a silly girl with yin and yang eyes.
I'm still very confident in my own judgment and observation, so I dare say that my speculations are not all right, but at least eighty percent right. I secretly thought that this guy was too picky, and he didn't even give a big son, so he sent people with candy, but if the money and candy were placed in front of this girl, it was estimated that she would also choose candy.
So I kept an eye out for me, even when I was passing by the girl and the man, I would look back at each other from time to time, because this silly girl wouldn't lie, and if she found the ghost, I would be able to detect it.
The whole market was quiet, except for the occasional distant sound of the silly girl asking for candy. The vendors who set up stalls on both sides of the road would have stared at the long street in the middle, but as far as I could see, none of them were looking at our faces. That is to say, those of them who sell ghosts only judge by the feet of pedestrians on the long street if anyone is approaching their vendors, and before that, they did not look at us.
About ten meters after the man and the silly girl had crossed us, I spotted a vendor on the side of the road, who was none other than Jiama Dan, who had been mistakenly broken into by us during the day. And Jia Ma Dan, like all the people around him, was looking at the ground of the long street, so when Da Mao and I approached, he only knew that there was a guest coming to the door, but he didn't find out who the other party was. So I took Da Mao and walked to Jiamadan's stall, and it wasn't until I was still standing that he looked up at us. Seeing that it was us, he was stunned at first, then smiled and shook his head, which seemed to mean that it was you two children, don't make trouble, let's leave quickly.
But I didn't leave, didn't he open the door to do business? Can't I just buy it? So I didn't talk to Jiamadan, and according to the rules of this ghost market, everyone didn't talk to each other. I took a closer look at the small bamboo signs on the stall in front of him, there were three rows of them, and there were about a dozen signs. This means that when Da Mao and I broke into his house, Da Mao Shu was surrounded by ghosts, and there were probably more than ten of them. Fortunately, I didn't move at that time, otherwise these more than ten people would have besieged me together, and I really had no chance of winning.
I carefully looked at the sign in front of him, among which there were accidental deaths, drowning, suicides, and shooting people who took poison, these are actually more common ways to die, but it is not difficult to observe that the brand in his hand, except for suicide is willing to die, the others are unwilling to die, that is to say, the resentment of this kind of ghost will be relatively heavy, and regardless of good and evil, right or wrong, just from its own attributes, the size of the ghost's resentment is like the size of the righteousness of the living, the greater the resentment of the ghost, It is estimated that the more it can be sold for a good price, because the size of its own resentment determines the strength of its strength, since they have all come to this place to buy and sell ghosts, there is no reason to point to the weak one to buy.
Not to mention the suicide, after death, the pain of death is repeated every seven days with seven days as a cycle unit, because suicide is basically the same crime as homicide, and the person who commits suicide has no chance to leave on his own, because he needs to receive punishment, so if there is no suitable price, the masters will not be willing to overtake the suicide person, and the cause and effect will be relatively greater. And judging from the previous interview, Jia Ma Dan is fully capable of surpassing the suicide soul, as for why he stayed until now, he didn't say, I don't know.
I thought to myself, since I want to buy it, I will buy the king of cards. Among the more than a dozen signs, there is no doubt that the most powerful is the person who committed suicide, so I pointed to which brand, and then looked at Jia Ma Dan. Jiama was a little surprised, smiled slightly, and made a "9" gesture to me.