I thought it would only take a day or so for my injuries to heal, but I was clearly overestimating myself. The injury dragged me on for three days, and on the third day I was able to walk well, but my knees were still very sore, and I couldn't help but limp as I walked. The finger injuries were all healed, but my wrist still didn't exert much force, so that I had to wipe my buttocks with my unskilled left hand, which I was not skilled in, when I squatted in the pit.

Jia Ma Dan came to talk to me almost every day, and after a few days, we talked almost nothing, as I said, maybe everyone knows that when Jia Ma Dan leaves this ghost city, maybe it will be the time for us to say goodbye, and after that, maybe we will never see each other again. So as my body gradually improved, we more and more had a sense of sympathy for each other that was about to be separated, but no one said it, the children of the rivers and lakes, they all know in their hearts that there is no feast in the world, and no matter how confidants cherish each other, there will eventually be a time to part.

On the third day, Jia Ma Dan came to look for me and Da Mao in the house, and I told him that my injuries were almost healed, and that you could set up a stall tonight and lure each other to show up as we had agreed before. In that case, let's wait for the night market to open and go out a little later, so that the stalls can be closer to the silly girl's room, and there will be fewer people. I nodded, then turned my head and asked Da Mao, "In the past few days, you have climbed the roof every night to find that silly girl, and the only candy left is gone, have you ever heard any more clues?"

Da Mao lowered his head a little embarrassed and said with a smile, hehe, Brother Shankong, you know, she has a bad brain, and she always speaks upside down, but in fact, she didn't find any new information, just like what we had before... I scolded you stinky boy, you didn't hear the news and consumed so much candy from us, and you still stay so late every night before you go back to the house!

Although I was scolding, I felt funny in my heart, because I understood that Da Mao actually liked this silly girl, as for why, I can't say this, maybe only the person concerned understands it in his heart. In the afternoon of the same day, Jia Ma Dan went back to prepare the things that would be set up in the evening, and he only had the female ghost of the green cheongsam in his hand at the moment, and after tempering it with his furnace these days, the female ghost had also been carved with a bamboo plaque by him, just like the other ghosts before. The other ghosts that were originally in Jiamadan's hands were also bought by me a few days ago, and now they are all in the array. I repeatedly told Da Mao and Jia Ma Dan that before the person behind the scenes appeared, we must not startle the snake and not make the other party suspicious.

That night, Jia Ma Dan calculated the time, and put his stall out, Da Mao and I watched from a distance, the silly girl knew Da Mao and me, so we both covered our faces, anyway, there are all kinds of weirdly dressed people in this place, and it is not worse than one or two of us. About half an hour after he was seated, the door of the silly girl's room opened, and she was brought out. I saw that the silly girl was still the same woman I had seen before, and although the silly girl was haggard, her expression was still very relaxed, and I could see that she actually liked the "sister" who followed her, for the simple reason that she would not murder her, and give her candy to eat.

Jia Ma Dan's booth was about twenty or thirty meters away from the silly girl, and there were about a dozen stalls in between, but I noticed that since the stupid girl went out, Jia Ma Dan's eyes had been looking at the girl from time to time. The silly girl looked at the ghosts behind the vendors, then shook her head from time to time, meaning that she hadn't found it, and then turned her head and asked the woman for candy. Since I don't have a yin-yang eye physique, I can't see what kind of state the ghost behind me is, but fortunately, Da Mao has been standing beside me and whispering to me, so I can construct that picture in my mind.

Soon the silly girl walked to the vicinity of Jia Ma Dan's stall, and at this time, she seemed to notice the female ghost behind Jia Ma Dan. At first, she didn't seem to believe her eyes, so she approached Jia Ma Dan's side, tilted her head and looked over and over for a long time, before happily jumping and clapping her hands and saying something to the woman behind her, although she couldn't hear it clearly when she stood far away, but it was obvious that the silly girl was telling the woman behind her that she had found the "sister" of the green cheongsam, because from what she had said before, this silly girl was actually not afraid of ghosts, but only of mice. I doubt she can really understand the difference between a ghost and a human.

As soon as the woman behind her understood what the silly girl meant, she immediately changed her expression from her amiable smile, remembered the location of Jiamatan's stall, and then turned around and took the silly girl back to the house, and then turned around and came out and asked the other two men I had seen to lock the door, and then the three of them walked towards Jiamadan's stall together. I whispered to Da Mao, let's go, let's move over slowly. So Da Mao and I also walked in the direction of Jia Ma Dan, but we didn't deliberately show it, pretending to be fine.

I saw that the woman walked up to Jia Ma Dan and saw that there was only a bamboo sign on Jia Ma Dan's stall, so she reached out and pointed a few times on the bamboo card, and Jia Ma Dan raised her head and compared a nine first. I was about to say that this Jiama Dan is too bad at business, and this female ghost in green clothes is actually paying a price for the suicide ghost he sold me! Then I might as well sell it myself! It's finally back to basics. Just as he was thinking about it, Jia Ma Dan compared another "nine", then paused, and compared another "nine".

Damn, this guy is really crazy about money, and he actually asks for 999 from others!

In 1976, this was a sky-high price, you must know that the per capita annual income of everyone that year was only about 60 yuan, a dime can buy more than ten eggs, a pack of cigarettes is only two or three cents, and it is a good smoke. Watching a movie, going to the best theater is only 5 cents a ticket, even if the life is luxurious, you go to the people's commune canteen every day, and you will have a whole meal of four dishes and one soup, and after a meal, it will be less than a dollar...

Nine hundred and ninety-nine yuan, almost catching up with an ordinary farmer, without eating, drinking, or buying, it takes 16 years to save enough!

At that time, I shouted in my heart, people may think that the asking price is too high, turn around and leave, or worse, people may not buy it, and directly send someone to rob it, then the matter will be big. After all, the rules of the ghost market are that you can't bargain, although these people are just doing things on orders, but the basic rules, I believe they all know it.

But to my surprise, the woman probably thought it was very expensive, but after thinking about it, she turned her head and stretched out her hand to the two men, and the man obediently took out a stack of banknotes from his arms, a thick stack, all of which were ten yuan bills, and in those days, the largest denomination of the yuan, that is, ten yuan, which meant that she needed to count out ninety-nine pieces in exchange for this bamboo card.

I thought to myself that it is good to have money, and if I have money in the future, I will have to spend it like this. The woman handed the whole stack of money to Jia Ma Dan, Jia Ma Dan estimated that he had never seen so much money in his life, he was overjoyed, and reached out to take it, I was really worried that he would forget what we agreed on as soon as he was happy. I saw that the woman was about to reach out to get the bamboo sign on the stall, but was stopped by Jia Ma Dan. The woman looked up at Jia Ma Dan with a puzzled face, her eyes full of puzzlement. And Jia Ma Dan only stood up at this time, grabbed the money in his hands, put his hands on his lower abdomen, and said to the woman with a smile, this sister, you don't know, if you take this brand, you will blame it.

Jia Ma Dan estimated that he was also out of the way, thinking that he would not come to this Sanchuan ghost market again in the future anyway, so he ignored the rules here and even spoke. The woman was very surprised, so she looked around for a moment, and then asked, what do you mean by this, how do you know that there is someone above me? Also, who's your sister!

I couldn't help laughing in my heart, because Jia Ma Dan is much older than that woman, he calls each other sister, in fact, it is just a black word in our industry, regardless of men and women, old and young, as long as the relationship between each other is distinguished, all men are big brothers, and all women are sisters, unless the other party is too shorter than his own generation. And this woman's rhetorical question can be regarded as immediately exposed, she obviously has not been in this industry, she is just ordered to do things, to do business.

"I've been here for a long time, and you guys take turns to bring people around, but you always live in the same room, which means that you are here to look for things purposefully, so I can conclude that you are just doing things, not real buyers." After saying that, Jia Ma Dan picked up the bamboo sign on the stall, and then said to the woman, this thing is different from the ghost of this market, this guy is going to recognize the owner, you buy it, it only recognizes you, others can no longer make it move, it has become a waste, I kindly remind, whoever wants this thing, who will buy it in person, if you don't believe it, you can also buy it, the responsibility behind it, is not something that I can control as an idler!

Jia Ma Dan's words came out slowly, and his momentum was full of confidence. After speaking, he handed the bamboo sign in his hand to the woman, but now the woman didn't dare to reach out to take it, which meant that she was thinking about what to do. So she turned around and whispered to the two men for a while, and then said to Jiamadan, "Okay, let's make this deal tomorrow." After saying that, she also stretched out her fingernails and pointed to the wad of banknotes in Ma Dan's hand.

Jia Ma Dan smiled slightly, and returned the nine hundred and ninety-nine to the woman.