Paper Maker

Chapter 64

The old man rolled his eyes, picked up a bunch of incense and knocked on my forehead again: "The jade pendant has been inspected, why don't you believe it? Why is your brain so bad!"

I thought to myself, it's obvious that you, a bad old man, are so far from the master and uncle I imagined, why are you still blaming me.

The old man naturally saw the doubts in my heart, and he said: "You are called Shenbao, right? Your grandfather entrusted me with a dream early in the morning, saying that you arrived in the local area, and the old man counted, and it was calculated that you had nothing to do when you first arrived in the local area. Money, I will set up a stall for fortune-telling, so the old man will go to the street to wait for you that day."

"You...you can count this?" I was surprised, or more precisely, doubted, because what he said was too false, how could he count it if I would go to set up a stall.

"Didn't your grandfather tell you that this old man is a fortune teller?" The old man said with a smile on his face.

I rolled my eyes, not wanting to hear his beard blowing, and asked him if he knew my grandfather's name, but the old man not only told me my grandfather's name, but also his birthday and address along the way.Now I was really dumbfounded, I couldn't help but believe it, the old man in front of me, who seemed to be cheating, was really my uncle.

Seeing that I no longer doubted it, the old man smiled proudly, and then told me that his surname was Ma, and the locals called him Ma Zhenren.Seeing that I was in a daze, he couldn't help but frowned, and said, "Oh, why don't you call someone when I say you kid? Come on, call Master Uncle to listen."

Hearing this, I once again felt a group of crows flying over my head, and felt like being knocked down by a thunderbolt. This old man was indeed too old and disrespectful.But at this time, I also understood that he was indeed the uncle I had never met, so I had to obediently call him uncle.

Old man, no, it should be Ma Zhenren, he responded happily, and then asked me if I still live in the house surnamed Zhu?Tell me to move to his shop to live in the future.

I was surprised and asked how he knew.He said nonchalantly: "I told you that I've been paying attention to you since you came to this place. How come the old man doesn't know what you've been up to these days?"

I said: "Then since you know that I am the person you are looking for, why didn't you recognize me earlier?"

"Wouldn't it be nice to let you practice more alone?" Ma Zhenren said.

I muttered: "Then why do you recognize me again today!"

Master Ma said a little angrily: "It's not you who treats the old man as a liar. I told you that you have a bad omen these days, but you don't believe me. If something happens to you, how can I explain to your grandfather! You Said, if I didn't tell you that I am your uncle, would you still believe what I said!"

I nodded, and then I couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Could it be that I have really suffered a bloody disaster recently?"

At this moment, I don't dare to treat the old man in front of me as a liar anymore, after all, he is my uncle, although I don't know why he pretended to deceive the woman before, but I know he definitely won't Lied to me.

Ma Zhenren said: "That's right, so, listen to the old man, don't worry about anything these days, just stay in my shop with peace of mind, take care of your food, take care of your living, you know?"

When I heard it, I immediately felt warm in my heart.Although Ma Zhenren was a liar in my eyes before, but now when I hear him say such words, I really feel a kind of family affection that I haven’t had for a long time. Maybe it’s because I haven’t had family affection for too long, so although it is Ordinary words, but I was very moved.

To be honest, I almost shed tears. I thought that no one would care about me in my life, I thought I would never have family affection in this life.Unexpectedly, although my grandfather left me, he still cares about me secretly, and now there is a master uncle.

Looking at the smiling Ma Zhenren in front of me, I really wanted to cry, but just when I wanted to speak, he said with a smile: "When you move here, I will hand over the affairs of the store to you, and tie me up every day." These paper people and paper horses can tell fortunes for guests and solve disasters, so I have time to fight landlords in peace!"

When I heard this, I was so shocked that I almost lost my footing and fell to the ground.I said how could you treat me so well in terms of feelings? So you called me here as a free laborer?I was almost moved to tears just now.

Ma Zhenren said to himself: "Shenbao, don't be embarrassed, and don't be moved, we are all on our own, just treat this place as your own home. Hehe..."

I secretly wiped off my sweat, and hurriedly asked him to get a few handfuls of yellow paper for joss sticks, and then left the shop in a hurry.

I didn't expect that when I came to buy yellow paper, I would meet the uncle I had been looking for. Although this uncle was a bit wretched, at least let me know that I have another relative in this world.

Taking the incense candle yellow paper that Ma Zhenren gave me, I went out of the shop.Because I was delayed in the store for too long, it was already dark at this time, I took a taxi, the taxi driver asked me where I was going, I told him, I went to Fushou Cemetery, and the driver was stunned. , I thought my ears had heard it wrong.

Yes, today is the [-]th of July Ghost Festival, everyone has returned home early, and there are fewer pedestrians on the street tonight than at any other time.There were piles of burnt papyrus ashes everywhere on both sides of the street. When the night wind blew, the ashes of the papyrus rolled up, which looked really weird.

You said that you have to run to the cemetery on such a big night on the ghost festival, which sounds a bit shocking no matter how you hear it.

I said the destination again, and the driver said, young man, you are quite courageous, dare to go to that kind of place at such a late hour, okay, I will take you there.

In this way, the taxi driver drove me to the side of the road under the cemetery.The cemetery is located in the suburbs, and there are no people in the surrounding area. There are few cars passing by a road during the day, and it is even more empty tonight.

I stood by the side of the road and called Mr. Zhu, who told me that he was coming to my place.And the female ghost's husband also said that he was rushing this way, so let me wait a little longer.

Just as I was waiting for them, I ran into an episode.I saw a man coming down from the cemetery. The man was about fifty years old. When he passed by me, he couldn't help but stop, looked at me, and then talked to me: "Oh, you are quite brave. Yes, dare to come to this place tonight."

I smiled and didn't speak, because this is the second person who said that to me today, the taxi driver had said that before.However, if he knew that I specialize in hunting ghosts, he probably wouldn't think so.

Seeing that I didn't speak, the other party seemed to want to scare me deliberately. He said, "Young man, do you know what day it is today? Ghost Festival, you come here at night, aren't you afraid of seeing ghosts?"

I still smiled and didn't want to deal with such boring questions.

Maybe it was because he saw that I was always silent, so he took another look at me, and then asked me: "Young man, why are you here at night?"

I replied: "Wait for someone to give me money."

After listening to my words, the man glanced at the yellow paper burned by someone else not far away, couldn't help but let out a scream, turned around and ran away.While running, he shouted in horror: Oh my god, what the hell...

Looking at the back of the man running away, I suddenly seemed to understand something, and couldn't help catching up a few steps and shouting: "Uh, what, uncle, wait a minute, listen to my explanation..."

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But it was fine if I didn't yell, but when I yelled, the man ran faster and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Looking at the direction where that person disappeared, I couldn't laugh or cry, this is really a hell, do I look like a ghost?
Closer to home, not long after, Mr. Zhu and the female ghost's husband also came. When they came to the female ghost's grave, I handed over the joss sticks and yellow paper to Mr. Zhu and burned them to the female ghost.

In front of the grave, Mr. Zhu sincerely apologized for his actions back then.He sold his car for more than 40 yuan and gave [-] yuan to the family of the female ghost to resolve the enmity between them.

The female ghost's husband also said that although the reason for his wife's suicide was demolition, he also knew that part of the reason why he committed suicide was because his wife couldn't think about it.Therefore, he was very pleased to see Mr. Zhu come to Daoqian like this.

Things went smoothly, and the promise I made to the female ghost was finally fulfilled. That night, I left Mr. Zhu's house and moved to Ma Zhenren's shop with my luggage.

On the first day when I first arrived at Ma Zhenren's shop, Ma Zhenren pulled me into the inner room and said that he would teach me some skills.I thought to myself, Master Uncle is indeed Master Uncle, and he will teach me skills as soon as he comes.But as soon as he got to the inner room, he dragged me to talk a lot, and I was staring and sweating profusely.Because the so-called skills he told me are not the skills of making paper, divination and drawing talismans, but teaching me how to deceive people, how to check the appearance, and how to sell the things in the store at a high price .

I felt that the old man in front of me was too wretched. Is this fucking really my uncle?
Ever since I was a child, my grandfather taught me not to lie to others, and not to use the skills I learned to make money for profit. Even when my grandfather left, he also told me to accumulate more evil and less evil.But Ma Zhenren and grandpa are brothers from the same sect, why is there such a big gap in life?
Ma Zhenren was there to educate me and teach me some experience, but I was thinking in my heart, who cares, anyway, it is this wicked old man who is cheating, and it has nothing to do with me. If there are really evil guests Yes, I can still help others.

I also asked Master Ma, why do you deliberately deceive others?

Ma Zhenren said, I deceived rich people and officials who have done bad things, and they are rich and unkind.Since they earned their money through illegitimate means, what's the point of me cheating them?

Hearing his explanation, I really didn't know how to refute him for a while.

Ma Zhenren's store business is really not so good. Every day, a large number of customers come to the door, and officials and rich businessmen are indispensable among them.When a guest came, Ma Zhenren asked me to help him read and play the cards, because fighting the landlord was his only hobby.And he would sit on the grand teacher's chair, stroke his white beard, pinch his hands, and put on a pose, with a fairy-like, profound and mysterious appearance.And if the guest leaves, the old man will push me away from the computer, and then continue to fight happily with the landlord.

Such a day is not tiring, but seeing Ma Zhenren pretending to be a ghost in front of the guests, I feel very wicked and wretched no matter what.After staying in his shop like this for four or five days, I received a call from Captain Wang of the Municipal Criminal Police Team. He told me that they had received another call from Liujia Village and asked if I would like to go with me.
(End of this chapter)