Hu Zhiwen's words not only stunned Grandmaster, but left me, listening at the side, completely confused too.
Old Mr. Hu had studied the Book of Changes for most of his life. Knowing his time was drawing near, he had then had a strange dream in which someone did not want him to die and wanted him to live?
"I don't quite understand."
Grandmaster asked in bewilderment, "What exactly happened in this dream?"
Hu Zhiwen thought for a moment and said, "My father dreamed that our family was eating at home. After finishing his meal, he was resting on the living room sofa when a stranger walked in. It seemed only he could see this stranger. No one else in the family could."
"He found it strange and had no idea how this stranger had gotten in. The stranger told him his time was drawing near and he had come to take him away, and asked him not to resist."
"My father has a clear understanding of life. He realized this might be someone from the Underworld coming to take him away, so he followed him. Then the man took him straight through the wall and out of the house."
"But just after they left the house, a masked man appeared and drove the stranger off. The masked man then barked at my father, telling him to hurry back inside."
"My father was afraid of the masked man too, so he could only obediently return to the house."
At this point, Grandmaster was about to speak, but Hu Zhiwen continued, "A few days after my father had this dream, the stranger who had come to fetch him before brought two more people to take him away."
"This time, just as they stepped outside the house, the masked man appeared again. The