Nine? What are the units?

So it wasn't until this time that I realized that when I needed to ask the other party for a price, I didn't know how much "nine" was. Is it ninety? Or nine hundred? If it's nine hundred, I'll open this guy's stall, it's too expensive! You must know that the monthly salary of workers back then was only a dozen yuan! Even those who are officials are only thirty or forty yuan.

Jia Ma Dan saw that I didn't understand, and stood still, probably thinking that Da Mao and I were both novices, and they didn't know the market here at all, and even after he gave me a gesture of nine, I didn't even know how much it was. For example, if you buy food, you can't just have money and just have tickets, you have to use them together to prove that you are justified and you are not digging into the corners of socialism. Buying cloth, buying tobacco and alcohol, all like this, except in some small black market that is not noticeable, there is a direct money transaction.

Jiama Dan waved at me, which means, "Boy, stop making trouble, and go quickly." I still stood still, but reached into my bag, took out all my money and tickets, grabbed them in the palms of my hands, and then stretched them out to Jiamadan, not to ask him to take them all, but to ask him to pick out his so-called "nine" from the money in my hand.

Jia Ma Dan saw that I was a little stubborn, so he smiled, and then stretched out two fingers, and in my pile of money, I took out a dark blue "Shi Yuan" and a yellow "One Cent". I was about to ask him, didn't he say yes, nine? Why did you charge me ten dollars and one cent? But I saw Jia Ma Dan reach out and take out a peach-colored "One Yuan" from a pocket that looked like a small purse on his waist, and then handed it to me.

In this way, it cost me a full nine dollars and one cent to buy this ghost, which is how much the working class wages for more than half a month! How many steamed buns can you eat, how many nights you can sleep in a hotel, and how many boxes of cigarettes you can buy! And what's the situation with the fraction of that penny, isn't it this business ghost, do you still have to pay taxes with the state?

Because of the rules, I still kept my mouth shut, but the pain in my heart was self-evident. I somehow spent a huge sum of money to buy a ghost who died by suicide, although I know that its final destination here is to be eliminated by me, cycle every day, and then send it away, which is equivalent to saying that I still have to have incense money and ritual money during this period, and you say that I didn't get a penny of money, and I just sent a sum of money out for nothing, what is this called?

When I was in the midst of the death of my renminbi and was grieving, Jia Ma Dan had already stuffed my money into his purse, and then took out three sticks of incense and lit them, and motioned for me to take them, and then he took out another pair of wooden fish, and put the ghost brand I bought under the wooden fish, and then gently, in units of three, knocked on the knock, a total of three sets, that is, nine knocks. It seems to coincide with the price at which I bought it. And that's when something shocked me happened.

Jia Ma Dan stood up, holding the bamboo plaque I had just bought, and then stretched out a palm, as if a blind man was touching something, and touched it behind him, and then grabbed it with his hand, as if he had grasped something in the air. I thought to myself that if you dared to fool me, I would slash and destroy the rest of your sign, but when I saw it close to the hand that grabbed the air, and then put it on the neck of the hand, and then the hand was released, and I watched the bamboo sign hang in the air so unreasonably, and the posture was as if the sign was covering the neck of something, but I couldn't see the ghost at all.

He motioned to me to reach for the sign now. I tried to reach out, and when my hand touched the bamboo sign, I instantly felt a cold feeling coming from the bamboo card, I was too familiar with this feeling, it was indeed the same as I guessed, this bamboo card was hanging in the air at the moment on the body of the suicidal ghost. I turned my head to look at Da Mao, and his complicated expression confirmed it to me. Because of my natural repulsion towards ghosts, I even felt a weight when I pulled the bamboo sign in my direction, but it was hard to spot if I didn't look closely. And when I grabbed the bamboo card, I also asked a strong smell of rotten eggs.

My heart was beating faster, holding a bamboo sign in my left hand, and secretly pinching the finger with my right hand, and secretly summoned my soldiers and horses to detain the unjust souls in my hands at the moment, and wait for me to be idle to deal with them. The five rampant soldiers and horses are not a profound craft, and even the basic courses that we have to learn at the beginning, perhaps because I can easily use soldiers and horses over the years, and the posture is relatively fancy, and Jia Ma Dan is an insider, so I know it at a glance.

So he shook his head at me, meaning not to let the soldiers and horses take away for the time being, he hadn't officially finished it yet. After the soldiers and horses are released, where will there be rules, so I can only use my own way to temporarily suppress my soldiers and horses, and let Jia Ma Dan finish all those tricks. But I saw Jia Ma Dan put his right hand in the shape of a claw, and slowly grabbed it in the direction of my bamboo card, and then it was as if he was grabbing a lump of cotton, the height was about the position of my shoulder, as if an elder was touching someone else's head, from this height, the soul I bought should be a woman, or a child who has not grown up, otherwise it should not be so short.

And when he stretched out his hand, even with a relatively faint light, I could clearly see that in the center of the palm of his right hand, there seemed to be an eye-like tattoo. And when he caught the ghost, it was only a few seconds, and the strong smell of rotten eggs around me gradually faded, and the coldness I felt gradually weakened, so I realized that Jia Ma Dan's move was even a formal completion of a ghost transaction, and his hand grabbed it, as if to tell this ghost that I had bought, that from now on, I would be its new owner.

Then Jia Ma Dan nodded to me and motioned that I could release the soldiers and horses and take them into custody. So I stopped suppressing my soldiers and horses, and let them smoothly incorporate this revenant soul I had just bought into my lineup.

Then Jia Ma sat down, put the little wooden fish back aside, and then stopped looking at me and Da Mao, but continued to cross our feet, staring at the long street behind us. This is all set last night, in fact, it was only a few minutes, but it made me feel for the first time that the foolish business is like this, and when I was surprised, Da Mao reached out and pulled my sleeve, I looked at him, and he turned his chin towards the long street behind us, signaling for me to see.

I looked over, and the man was almost at the end of the long street with the silly girl, and judging from the look of the silly girl and the man's appearance, it seemed that they had walked the whole street at the end, but still found nothing. I'm walking back with the silly girl, planning to lock it up for another day and continue tomorrow.

Seeing that Kama didn't seem to be trying to keep talking to me, we began to keep moving forward, but deliberately slowed down so that the man and the silly girl who were walking back could overtake us. Soon they passed us, not noticing that we had already noticed each other, and the silly girl was making another fuss about two or three meters in front of me, asking for candy. Although the man would shake his head every time and say no, in the end, he couldn't resist the stupid girl's hard grinding, and finally gave it.

And the strange thing is that in the entire long street ghost market, the only sound in addition to the footsteps of pedestrians is the cry of the silly girl, although the sound is not very loud, but it must not be said to be small, at least on this long street where ghost business is quietly done, it can be heard very clearly. But even so, none of those vendors would look up at this silly girl, it seemed that they had long been commonplace, or the rules were very strict, and they couldn't go to see it.

We slowly followed behind the silly girl, until we came to the room where Da Mao was held at the beginning, the man took the silly girl into the house, and after a short while, he turned around and came out, but he hung a lock on the door, and then the man looked around for a while, as if to see if anyone was following, and Da Mao and I also avoided his eyes at this time, and then the man turned to leave, and the direction of departure was the direction of the bamboo forest that we drilled when we entered this ghost market at the beginning.

This shows that this person is already familiar with the way and knows how to get in and out of here without getting lost. And his departure seems to be to find someone to change shifts, or it was originally unattended after the lock was locked at night, or maybe this silly girl is different from other masters, changed Da Mao or Wang Chengqian, maybe at night when people are not paying attention, secretly break out of the door, but this silly girl seems to be able to stay in the house quietly as long as she is given enough candy.

Da Mao and I wandered around there for a while, and found that no one had come back since the man left, so I guessed that it was very likely that these people were also relieved that the little girl was left here alone, and they only needed to come back after noon tomorrow, and then take the silly girl a few laps after dark, so why delay their own bedtime. So I lowered my voice very low and leaned into Da Mao's ear and said to him. Let's go back and rest now, and tomorrow during the day, let's visit Jia Ma Dan first, ask him about the situation, if there is still no one in front of this girl's door after tomorrow night's ghost market, let's think of something to get out of her!