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In the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, there was a small town not far from Maoshan. There was an old carpenter named Yang in the town. It is said that this carpenter was previously an Taoist priest on Maoshan. Later, he was expelled from the master's sect because he violated certain rules and settled down in the town. He usually relied on helping the villagers in the town to do some carpentry work.
Carpenter Yang has reached the age of obedience and has no children. Every night he sits alone in front of the bed and sighs. It is not because no one inherits his skills, but because he thinks that no one will die in a hundred years, and every time he thinks of this, he feels sad. Perhaps God's pity for him, Carpenter Yang took in a male orphan soon. Carpenter Yang was not worried about the fact that someone would send him to his death in the future.
The boy usually helps the carpenter in the shop in the morning to handle some simple matters. After closing at night, the carpenter teaches some carpenter skills to the boy, and lives day after day.
On this day, Carpenter Yang went out to do his job and left the boy to look at the shop in the store. When the appointment was in the morning, an old man walked into the shop.
This old man was wearing a round hat, black sunglasses, and black clothes. When he entered the store, he saw the boy and asked, "Can you make wooden tools?"
After hearing this, the boy said that we could make wooden tools, but he didn't know what kind of wood tools you need.
After hearing this, the old man described the size, shape and pattern of the wooden utensil.
The boy frowned when he heard the old man say this, because he had never heard of any of these things, let alone done them! Just when he was in trouble, Carpenter Yang returned to the store and saw the old man and the boy muttering something, so he went up to ask what had happened.
The boy informed Carpenter Yang of the old man’s request just now. After hearing this, Carpenter Yang asked the boy to wait aside first. Then he came to the old man and said to him: "The little apprentice just now is innocent and knowledgeable. We can do those things here, but we have to take the liberty to ask what you are going to do?" After listening to Carpenter Yang, the old man said that there were too many mice and bugs in his house and needed these things to catch. The old man then asked how long it would take to do it. After receiving the reply from Carpenter Yang, he readily paid the deposit, saying that he would settle the remaining balance when he came to pick up the goods in three days.
At night, the two of them worked overtime in the store and the boy asked Carpenter Yang what he wanted to do with these things?
After hearing this, Carpenter Wang said that he didn’t say that he would use it to catch mice and bugs?
The boy said he didn't believe the old man at all, saying that if he caught mice and bugs, why would he have carved patterns on these wooden tools?
After hearing this, Carpenter Yang used the reason why the person might think this is better looking and told the boy that he would do whatever he wanted, and don’t ask any other questions.
The boy did not speak after hearing this and continued to work. Yang Mujiang actually knew in his heart that he had met a fellow man this time, but he had retired for many years and no longer wanted to care about these things. Now he just wanted to be a carpenter and pass on all his carpenter skills to the boy so that the boy could send him his death in the future.
Three days later, the old man came to the store again, and Carpenter Yang handed over the made wooden tools to the old man. The old man checked it and found that there was no problem, he settled the remaining money. Before leaving, he praised their skills and would come again if he needed it in the future.
When the old man was young, he was a local guard in the village next door. Later, by chance, he followed a master to learn some magic. When his master was alive, he kept teaching him to use these magic to help people in need. At that time, he did do it according to his master's requirements. A hundred years later, because no one was disciplined, he suddenly had evil thoughts and wanted to use these techniques to do some stealing things.
The old man has a technique that is specially used to catch mice or insects. First, he placed a special wooden tool in certain locations to form a siege. As long as a mouse or insect walks within the range of these wooden tools, he is like a person walking into a dead end, and he can't get out of no matter what he is trapped in it, and he will eventually starve to death.
In the early years, he and his master helped many people with this technique, but now he uses this technique to tease people or squeeze money.
The old man put the wooden tools near his yard, then moved a Taishi chair and sat in the yard, waiting for someone to pass by his doorstep. If a man passed by his doorstep and was trapped, he would ask the others for a little money. If someone didn't pay, he would keep consuming it. In the end, the trapped people could not stand it and could only lose money and eliminate disasters.
If a woman in the village passes by his doorstep and is trapped in it, he will invite the woman to the hospital and chat with him. Most of the chat content is unpleasant, which makes the people in their village suffer. However, if they know that this person knows some magic, they can only swallow their anger when they are afraid of revenge from him in the future.
There is a witch in the village - Li Sanniang. It is said that Li Sanniang married into this village from a distance. She looked beautiful when she was young, but now she is about 40 years old and still has charm. After her husband passed away, she became a local witch.
Many women in the village went to Li Sanniang to complain after being bullied by this old man. Li Sanniang was furious after hearing this and suggested that she would go to meet the old man for a while.
On this day, Li Sanniang deliberately walked to the old man's yard. As expected, just like what she heard. After a while, she was trapped in it and couldn't walk out. At this moment, she heard a sentence from the yard: "Sister, come in and chat with me."
After hearing this, Li Sanniang walked into the yard without saying a word, and then found a stool and sat down.
It was normal for the old man to chat at the beginning, which was just a common family matter. After chatting for a while, the old man realized that Li Sanniang's husband had long passed away. Li Sanniang is now alone and started to think again.
The old man began to say some dirty words intentionally or unintentionally. If ordinary women had heard this, they would have been blushing and wanted to find a hole to crawl into the spot, but Li Sanniang still remained calm. When the middle-aged man saw that he had encountered a tough problem, he then said that the scale was getting bigger and bigger, but Li Sanniang still listened without blushing.
The old man was a little tired and was about to get up to get tea. Just as he got up and turned around, Li Sanniang took out a piece of white cloth from somewhere, and then directly patted the white cloth on the old man's head, slapped it while scolding.
The old man was a little confused by the sudden slap, and staggered and fell to the ground. He wanted to get up, but he couldn't stand up no matter how hard he stood up. At this time, Li Sanniang got up and came to him and muttered to him a few more words. Then he saw Li Sanniang swaying out of his house. Only then did he realize that he had met a master.
In the days to come, Carpenter Yang was still doing carpenter work. Li Sanniang continued to be her witch. Only the old man became crazy and could not speak. He was found to starve to death at home.
