Night Lights

Chapter 101
The ghosts of the old house sleep with people, the yin and yang are upside down, and they regard the house as a burial; people don't know that when they hold candles at night, some ghosts blow them out, and the bowl of water stays overnight, and the day is empty; The body is dark, the mouth and nose are blurred, the limbs are yellow and swollen, and the clothes are ashes, pacing around the house, and retiring at dawn; this name is: a ghost dwelling in a human house. ——Excerpted from Tongyin Eight Volumes of "Wordless Book of Heaven".

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As the saying goes: If you don’t have two buckets of grain, you can’t be a king of kids!

Asking a ghost for help is like asking someone to do something. If there is no benefit, who would want to run errands in vain?
Yan Zifei is honest, his stomach is not bent, Bai Shibao told him to buy some yellow paper money, he thought to himself: "I beg ghosts to do things, how can money show sincerity?" ’ So I threw another ten yuan to the boss, and bought some extra paper people, paper horses, paper cars and paper sedan chairs, silver flags and snow willows, and a piece of white flowers.

Seeing that he bought too much, the boss gave Yan Zifei a pair of black and white impermanence made of paper!

Bai Shibao and Ma Wuye set up a magic altar in a dark alley corner, filled a sea bowl with millet, put three sticks of incense on it, Bai Shibao mixed cinnabar, and drew amulets on yellow paper.At this moment, he saw Yanzi flying 'big bags and small parcels', carrying all the funeral objects on his shoulders, Ma Wuye went up to him and asked, "Why did you buy so many things?"

Yan Zifei laughed and said: "Once the Ghost Festival is over, the funeral shop's stock will be half price!...Look! This paper figure is a maidservant, the paper horse is a tall and thin white horse, and this paper sedan chair is a large sedan chair with eight carriages. The paper window on the sedan chair can be opened and closed... That's right! Just look at the paper maid's eyelids and she can still blink!"

Bai Shibao exclaimed in shock: "This pair of ghost masters can't be burned! The ghosts are afraid of these two, no one dares to take them!"

Yan Zifei lifted Bai Wuchang's arm, which was light and drooping on his heels, and said with a smile: "It's a gift from the shop owner, and I want it for nothing!"

"..."

At this time, the sky was getting brighter, and Bai Shibao knew that if he didn't hurry up, there would be no ghosts to be found after dawn.So a circle was drawn on the ground, and a row of charms were placed around it.The three of them put the yellow paper money inside the circle and set it on fire!Afterwards, Bai Shibao turned around and walked to the altar, and handed the two of them the "Zhong Kui Suppressing Ghost Talisman" that he had just drawn as protection, then wiped his eyes with mulberry leaves, sat cross-legged, and began to chant spells to attract ghosts...

cluck cluck!

Yan Zifei and Ma Wuye stood behind Bai Shibao, looking at the sea bowl containing the millet, it was shaking, the bowl seemed to be bubbling, and the millet gushed out!
At this time, the sky became overcast, with lead clouds hanging low overhead.

Suddenly, gusts of wind blew up, blowing up the paper dust on the ground, rolling it all over the sky!
After Bai Shibao finished reading, he whispered, "Here we come!"

Yan Zifei suddenly felt the wind whistling behind his back, making his whole body tremble with the cold whizzing, clutching the 'Zhong Kui Town Ghost Talisman' tightly in his hand, secretly looking around, it was empty!
Yan Zifei and Ma Wuye couldn't see...

At this time, they were already surrounded by a group of ghosts. There were so many ghosts that the alley was blocked.

The ghosts stared at the circle drawn on the ground, and what they saw in the circle was not Zhijin, but Mingqian!

Thick money!
Bai Shibao stood up, looked around, nodded in satisfaction, and thought to himself: "About a hundred ghosts have come, that's enough!" ’ So he bowed his hands to all the ghosts and said: "The small boat has to sail through thousands of sails and waves, and the family will not be flooded by the flood! Xiaodao opened an altar here to call all the ghost brothers to come, but there is something to ask for!"

The ghosts looked at each other without saying a word.

I only heard Bai Shibao continue to say: "There is no other filial piety, I just burned a few thousand taels of money here, and I gave it to brothers to spend..."

A ghost asked: "I don't know what we are doing with the long move?"

"It's not that difficult!" Bai Shibao said with a smile, "I just ask you brothers to help me find some friends!"

"find friends?"

As soon as these words came out, the ghosts exploded, whispering and talking to each other.

"Isn't it a trap?"

"I don't see it! Look at the eyes of those money, it's not fake!"

"Don't just stare at the money! Look at the money, it's all covered by talismans!"

"Yo! Really!"

"Exactly! Looking for a friend? Why doesn't he find it himself?"

Seeing that the ghosts were suspicious, Bai Shibao cupped his hands and said, "These friends of mine are separated from us in the city, and it's hard to find them. I just want to use your feet to help them look around. After you find them, you just need to guide them here. it is good!"

A ghost asked, "What do your friends look like?"

Bai Shibao was taken aback, and thought to himself: "Oops! Forgot about this shortcoming! How can so many people explain clearly..." So he lowered his head and thought for a while, and said, "This is simple! As long as you look like you are hiding from officers and soldiers, you will help me Bring it over!"

All the ghosts looked at each other and felt that the work was worth doing, so they made money by running errands!

So they nodded in agreement.

Bai Shibao paused and said: "Of course! Ugly words come first! If you take money and refuse to do things, don't blame me for reckoning!"

The ghosts said: "Of course I don't dare!"

Bai Shibao nodded, bent down, picked up the charm on the ground, put it into his arms, and said, "Then I will trouble you brothers, if you agree to help find someone, come and get the money!"

All the ghosts swarmed up, ran over and reached out to pick up the money in the ashes, then shook the paper ashes, put the money into their arms, cupped their hands to Bai Shibao and said, "Don't worry, Brother Daochang, we'll find it right away!" , turned into a cloud of smoke and left!

In a blink of an eye, all the money burned had been robbed.

Yan Zifei felt that the surroundings suddenly calmed down, and the wind disappeared without a trace, so he stood up and asked Bai Shibao, "How is it?"

Bai Shibao said: "Let's wait for the letter here! They went to help find it!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Shibao felt something dark in the corner, so he walked over slowly...

I saw an unkempt old ghost in a ragged shirt sitting on the ground, motionless, neither stepped forward to withdraw money, nor turned around to walk away, just bared his teeth and smirked as if he was watching the excitement.Looking at his attire, Bai Shibao guessed that he was a beggar on the street before he died, so he stepped forward and asked, "Brother ghost, why didn't you come to withdraw money?"

The old ghost laughed and said, "I'm too lazy to run errands, I just want to make a deal with you!"

Bai Shibao was taken aback, and asked, "A deal?"

"That's right!" said the old ghost, "I know where your friends are!"

Bai Shibao asked anxiously, "What? Do you know where they are?"

The old ghost didn't talk to him, but turned his head to stare at the paper-wrapped maid in a daze.

Bai Shibao turned his head to look at the paper-wrapped maid, he understood a little bit, and said to himself, "Ganqing is an old woman, ghost!"

At this time, the old ghost pointed at the paper maid, grinned and said, "I don't want money, I want this!"

Bai Shibao said: "Success! Tell me where my friends are, and I'll burn this maid to you!"

"and this!"

"Oh, and that, and those two... I want it!"

The old ghost pointed to the paper horse, the paper sedan chair, and finally the pair of impermanent masters!
Bai Shibao asked suspiciously: "What use do you want this for Master Ghost?"

"You don't understand!" The old ghost grinned and said, "I'll put the two of them in front of my grave! I'll see which evil spirit dares to press down on my grave..."

"Is this thing so amazing?"

This is the first time Bai Shibao has heard of using the second master Wuchang to town the tomb.

Bai Shibao nodded and agreed, "Success! Tell me! I'll just burn these things to you!"

The old ghost shook his head and said, "No way! You burn it to me first!"

Bai Shibao was helpless, thinking that he had met an 'old ghost', so he got up and asked Yan Zifei to help, and burned the paper figure, paper horse, paper sedan chair, black and white impermanence on the spot, and then asked the old ghost: "How is it?" ? Don’t you? Can you say it now?”

The old ghost ran over, held the paper maid's hand, pointed behind him, and said, "When I came here just now, I watched a good show at the 'Derenshun Teahouse' in Suanshikou! A man was captured by a soldier, and the leader of the soldier said that they seemed to be fleeing from the city..."

Bai Shibao was startled, turned his head to Yan Zifei and Ma Wuye and shouted urgently: "Too bad, they were captured by a group of officers and soldiers at Suanshikou!"

Yan Zifei asked in surprise, "What? When did it happen?"

Bai Shibao pointed to the side with his hand, and said: "This ghost brother said that it happened just now! He saw it right when he came!"

After hearing this, Ma Wuye said anxiously: "What are you waiting for? Let's save them quickly! We'll collect the corpses if it's too late..."

Without further ado, Bai Shibao turned around to leave, but was stopped by the old ghost, and said, "Seeing you burn so many things for me, I will warn you! ... There is a man in a long gown at the teahouse, you But be careful, he is holding an iron birdcage and covering the head with a silver thread in his hand, with a light pull, the head will be cut off..."

"An iron cage?"

"That's right! He took out a bunch of cattail leaves from his arms, wrapped the head, and then dragged the body behind the tree and covered it with branches! When he came out, a boy just ran over. As a reminder, the young man tripped over him, and as a result, the two of them lost the pu leaf bags in their hands, and they got skewers!"

Bai Shibao asked urgently: "Who is this person who died?"

The old ghost shook his head and said, "I don't know, it's probably your friend! The people who were caught later, it seemed that they started fighting because of the dead one, but they were caught by the soldiers..."

Bai Shibao was confused and didn't have time to think about it. He thanked the old ghost, and hurriedly chased Yan Zifei and Ma Wuye, and the three of them headed straight for De Renshun Teahouse in Suanshikou!

"These idiots, just ran over to die!"

The old ghost put his arms around the fat maidservant beside him, held the rein of the horse with his hand, grinned at Bai Shibao's retreating back, and shouted back, "Let's go! Go home and sleep!"

Two servants dressed in black and white impermanence, carrying a sedan chair, followed closely behind this old ghost...

(End of this chapter)