Six Ways of Fumo

Chapter 31 Phosphorus Fire
Following this chilling voice, a figure slowly poked its head out from behind the coffin.Wan Shugao was so frightened that he ran away and bumped into Ding Ermiao who was entering the door.

Ding Ermiao held Wan Shugao's back with one hand and helped him stabilize his body: "Why are you panicking? What the hell?"

"Look... there's someone in the coffin." Wan Shugao pointed to the big coffin, his body still shaking.

Ding Ermiao took a closer look, and found that the coffin was open without a lid.And the person just now poked his head out from behind the coffin. Because of the dim light in the room, it looked like a person sitting up from the coffin.

No wonder Wan Shugao was afraid.The man had a face like dry tree bark, and his eyes were sunken deeply into their sockets, lifeless, and looked like a mummy.You can't tell how old you are, it just gives people a very old feeling.

Ding Ermiao stepped forward, put his hands on the edge of the coffin, leaned forward, and looked at the "mummy" face to face for a long time, then suddenly smiled: "Is it a human or a ghost?"

The "mummy" stood up from the recliner behind the coffin and moved his eyes: "People are separated by a piece of paper, ghosts are separated by a mountain."

Ding Ermiao smiled slightly and said: "Thousands of evil things can't be done, and ten thousand evil things can't be done away with."

"We are strangers, two strangers?" The "mummy" walked around the coffin and came out. He looked at Ding Ermiao with his eyes, showing a bit of surprise.

"I'm a local, so I can tell by my accent, right?" Wan Shugao let go of his fear, walked to Ding Ermiao's side, and looked at the "mummy" shopkeeper in front of him.

Ding Ermiao waved his hand, interrupted Wan Shugao's words, and said to the "mummy": "Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, three gives birth to all things; man follows the earth, the earth follows the sky, heaven follows the Tao, and the Tao follows Naturally. Humans, ghosts, immortals and monsters are all in the Tao, how can there be an inside and outside?"

"Mummy" glanced at Ding Ermiao again, nodded slightly and said: "Such a young disciple of Maoshan? It's amazing. My surname is Han, and I am the shopkeeper here. I wonder what you want to buy when you come here today?"

Ding Ermiao put her hands behind her back and looked around Lao Han's shop.The three large rooms outside the shop are filled with messy artifacts, including paper figures and horses, wreaths, shrouds, paper stacks of gold and silver ingots, and various banners.Just looking at the appearance, it is no different from other stores.

Seeing Ding Ermiao's sophisticated look, Wan Shugao followed suit and looked around pretendingly.

"I want three notes of soul-inducing incense, a pair of shark oil soul-inducing lamps, a hundred Yinshan peach wood chopsticks, and a 48-foot tripping rope." After looking at it for a long time, Ding Ermiao spoke.

Old Han listened silently, and after Ding Ermiao finished speaking, he walked to the back hall without saying a word.After a short effort, he walked out with a bunch of items and said: "There are no more shark oil lamps, only phosphorus fire lamps, which can also be used. However, they cannot be opened until they arrive at the scene, otherwise, the phosphorus fire will not last long enough."

Ding Ermiao thought for a while: "Then add a pair of phosphorus lamps, just in case there is not enough time and it will ruin my job."

Old Han went to the back room again, brought a small box over, and handed it to Ding Ermiao.Ding Ermiao checked it and made sure it was correct before settling the bill.

A total of eighteen hundred pieces, Wan Shugao stuck out his tongue in fright: "It's too expensive, just this little thing?" But he was thinking in his heart, it seems that Ding Ermiao's ghost hunting also costs money.It only cost 3000 yuan to install an air conditioner for him, but he spent [-] yuan on shopping here and didn't make much money for himself.

"This is the cost price, I didn't make a penny." Lao Han said expressionlessly: "For many years, no one has bought these things. It's rare that this young master has a kind heart, so I will half sell and half give away. Accumulate some moral virtue yourself."

"No one has bought it for many years? Will your stuff expire?" Wan Shugao suddenly became nervous.These things were bought by Ding Ermiao to help him catch ghosts. It is still unknown what the consequences will be if he misses again.

"Stop talking, no one will think you are dumb." Ding Ermiao glared at Wan Shugao, then turned to Old Han and smiled: "My name is not Little Master, my name is Ding Ermiao. Ding from A, B, C, D, Two of one, two, three, destroys the seedling and encourages it to grow. This time it will be reborn, and the second time it will be ripe. From now on, we will be old friends. Please take more care of us in the future."

"Please visit the store more often." Old Han nodded and said, "Leave a phone number."

Ding Ermiao shrugged: "There is no phone yet..." Suddenly remembering that Wan Shugao was beside him, Ding Ermiao turned his head and said: "Leave your phone number to Lao Han first."

Wan Shugao didn't know what riddle the two men were playing, and he didn't dare to ask again. He obediently wrote down his phone number on the paper given by Lao Han.

After leaving the coffin shop and standing on the roadside to take a taxi, Wan Shugao felt a little warm in the sun while he was basking in the sun.He asked Ding Ermiao: "Brother Er Miao, you and Lao Han both said that you want each other to take care of you. What do you take care of? You take care of him because you take care of his business. But what can he take care of you?"

Looking around, there was no one around, and Ding Ermiao said: "A shop like Lao Han only has special customers. These special customers, more or less, have some things they can't handle, so they are special. Do it with Lao Han Good relationship, he will also introduce business to me.”

"Oh..." Wan Shugao nodded as if he understood, and then asked: "This old Han is about a hundred years old, right?"

Ding Ermiao smiled: "No, I think he is 60 years old at most. However, his shop has too much yin energy, so he has to take medicine to increase yang energy every day, and even take cinnabar. The stimulation of the medicine leads to He accelerates aging."

As he was talking, a taxi drove over.Wan Shugao stretched out his hand to signal to stop, but the taxi passed by.

"It's so evil, there's no one in the car, why don't you take us?" Wan Shugao gestured his middle finger at the taxi going away, and cursed.

Ding Ermiao also looked at the car, frowned and said to himself: "The sun hasn't set yet, why did it come out?"

"What happened, Brother Ermiao?" Wan Shugao was confused.

"Didn't you notice?" Ding Ermiao pointed at the almost invisible taxi: "There was no one in the car just now, but the taxi driver was talking and laughing. Why? Who do you think he was talking to?"

"Ah...!" Wan Shugao's expression changed: "Could it be...that there was... in the car..."

"Don't worry, there is a ghost sitting in the car. The taxi driver doesn't know it, and he is still chatting with the customer stupidly." Ding Ermiao said: "When he finds out tomorrow that he has received ghost money, he will be scared to death."

"Fuck..., this is too scary. You can meet ghosts just by driving a car!"

The two waited for a few more minutes and finally got into a taxi.Going back now, unlike wandering around blindly just now, has an end point.The taxi took a shortcut and arrived at Rupingtu Restaurant half an hour later.

As soon as he got out of the car, Ding Ermiao's expression changed, uglier than when he saw a ghost.

(End of this chapter)