Night Lights

Chapter 108
The wall of the city pool is to guard against, and the water of the city is also a ditch; there is a god to make an envoy, about three feet long, wearing purple clothes and red crowns, named the God of the City God, and eating incense and candles in the city, protecting the city from floods, droughts and diseases, for The wishes of the people are to stop the rain to protect the city, to protect the city, and not to be invaded by military strategists; this name is called: City God and Water God. ——Excerpted from Tongyin Eight Volumes of "Wordless Book of Heaven".

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It was gray, and it seemed to be the fifth watch.

Yinshi is the time when night and day alternate!
Swallow's flying skill is very light, his legs are nimble, and he turned over the house like walking on the ground. He first ran to the abandoned house in the outskirts of the city, called all the brothers to gather with Bai Shibao and others, and then the soldiers led them to the "ghosts" in Chongwenmen. Road 'run away.

Outside Chongwenmen, there is a market called 'Dongxiao City', which also has an alias: ghost market!

There are four major ghost markets in Beijing, namely Deshengmen, Chongwenmen, Xuanwumen and Panjiayuan.Before dawn, there is a faint light and shadow between the sky and the earth. Just at this time when 'no one can see who', someone enters the market to buy and sell.Rich people usually carry a lantern to visit the market, but poor people can only use flint. The light is like a will-o'-the-wisp, and the dark shadows illuminate the passing people, which looks erratic!The ghost market is like the underworld, full of eerie ghosts, and some people take advantage of the darkness to sneakily sell some shady things.

certainly!This ghost market is not only patronized by living people, but also dead ghosts, who sell the things they scoured here, exchange some incense, candles, and paper horses, and worship for themselves...

"It's here!"

The soldiers led the crowd to walk a few miles west at Chongwenmen, and turned south again, and in the distance they could see a ghost market full of people.The soldier pointed to the front with his finger and said to everyone: "You go across the ghost city and you will see a trail at the foot of the mountain. If you walk along the trail for a few miles, you will be out of the boundary of the capital..."

"Thank you brother for escorting me all the way here!"

Bai Shibao took it out of his pocket, stuffed two pieces of ocean into the soldier's hand, and said, "This is what you mean... Please accept it, brother! Please thank Commander Xu for me when I go back... If I have the opportunity to come back again in the future... When I return to the capital, I must thank you face to face!"

"rest assured!"

Holding the silver dollar in his pocket, the soldier said to the crowd: "I will definitely convey it, and I hope you all go well!" After that, the soldier bowed his hands to the crowd, then turned back and returned to his command.

Everyone looked at the ghost market, hurried a few steps, and arrived nearby in a short while.

Although it was not yet dawn, there were quite a few people coming and going. Some of the stalls hung sheep's heads selling beef tongues, some hung a kite made of paper, and someone hung a very expensive and very worn-out glass silk decal lamp.

The colors of the things on the stall can't be distinguished at all in this kind of darkness, but the shapes can be distinguished!Pots, bowls and pans, tea chairs, tables and stools, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, brushes and swords; bamboo tubes, fishing lines, smoke lamps, mahjong tiles; bottles and jars, pots and tiles, porcelain, iron, bronze, lacquerware; Manchu Gege The footbath for washing the feet, the sleeves of the Han lords; patch, quills, beads, hat tops... Some people are holding a freshly born pig, and some are coiling a boa constrictor, everything that one expects to find, a mess!
The old ghost king hurried a few steps, leaned forward, leaned next to Bai Shibao's ear and said, "This place is not easy to walk, it's very evil!"

Bai Shibao was stunned for a moment, and asked, "Why did you follow?"

Uncle Wang grinned and said, "You haven't burned my maid yet!"

"..."

Uncle Wang turned his head to look at Lin Jiu, and continued: "Please tell that Taoist priest, little brother! I don't want this paper maid anymore, can you give me the 'blood droplet' covering that person's head?" I?"

"Blood droplet?"

Bai Shibao turned his head and looked at Lin Jiu. He was holding the blood drop in his hand, and Chen Xiaohu, who was unconscious on his back, followed closely behind him!Lin Jiu touched the entrance of Xuedizi before, and turned the handle of Xuedizi slightly, the three blades seemed to be unloaded, and bounced back with a 'click'...

Bai Shibao turned around and asked Uncle Wang: "This thing is not harmful, what do you want it for?"

Uncle Wang smiled and said: "This is an old thing that I passed down at that time, I think it's kind!"

"If you want to, tell him yourself!"

"No way!"

To be honest, Uncle Wang looked at Lin Jiu with a little fear, and replied, "You saw his soul-absorbing spell just now! Maybe he also accepted me!"

Bai Shibao didn't talk to him, so he changed his mind and asked, "That's right! What did you mean when you said that this place is evil?"

Uncle Wang smiled and said, "Humans and ghosts gather here, and it's very evil! I went to the capital once after my death, and it was just in time for Lafayette to celebrate her [-]th birthday. I heard that she didn't want anything at that time, just like a fox fur coat." , Prince Baylor ordered the little eunuchs to find a way to buy it! At that time, BJ City was almost empty, where could I find fox fur clothes?
Seeing that the birthday of Lafayette is approaching, the little eunuch was anxious to die, so he went to worship Buddha and burn incense. When he kowtowed, he faintly heard the word "ghost market" from the Buddha statue!This little eunuch came to the ghost market, don't say it!He really asked him to find a fox fur coat, it was snow white without any stray hairs, who would have thought that the seller would disappear in a puff of smoke after the transaction..."

Bai Shibao asked, "Is it a ghost?"

Uncle Wang shook his head and said with a smile: "The little eunuch touched the fox fur coat with his hand, and it was still warm! Turning over the inside, it was still stained with blood! Only then did I find out that the seller was a fox fairy. He took off his skin and rescued him." His little life!"

Bai Shibao smiled and said, "You made up a lie to deceive me! I live in the capital, why haven't I heard of this?"

"You do not believe?"

Bai Shibao shook his head.

At this time, Uncle Wang glanced to the left and whispered: "Look at the coffin seller here, he is a ghost! The mourning clothes around the waist are exposed outside!"

Bai Shibao glanced at the man, it was so pitch black that he couldn't see if there was any shadow under him, but the man tapped his toes on the ground, and beside him was a thick lacquered wooden coffin, the coffin boards were still stained with mud. As if it had just been dug out, half of the seven 'sealing nails' on the coffin lid were pulled out!
The man met Bai Shibao face to face, grinned, and asked, "Do you want an old coffin?"

Old coffin?
Bai Shibao was taken aback, this kind of thing is a taboo, who would buy an old coffin to sleep in after death?

Uncle Wang guessed what Bai Shibao was thinking, and said, "This kind of thing is justified! After the poor die, they have no money to buy a new coffin. It is normal to find an old coffin here. It is better than wrapping the corpse in a straw mat... "

Bai Shibao thinks it makes sense!
At this moment, someone beside her was slapped heavily, and when she turned around, it was Lin Jiu!

Lin Jiu frowned, and whispered to Bai Shibao: "Don't talk to them, these ghosts carry coffins to sell, they are here to find 'voters'! If you are targeted by them, I'm afraid you will get sick even if you don't die. "Yang upper body', don't touch this bad head!...Now is the time when yin and yang alternate, and the yin energy here is too strong, tell everyone, let's go!"

While speaking, dark clouds approached, and the sky seemed to be covered with a layer of black mist.

Bai Shibao sent a message to everyone, urging everyone to hurry up and don't linger here!
At this moment, the coffin seller saw that Bai Shibao was not interested in the coffin, so he took out a pair of bracelets from his bosom, and asked loudly, "Do you want the jade bracelets that accompany the coffin? The ones are still bloody!"

Bai Shibao didn't dare to speak, and his pace gradually quickened...

The crowd ran for several miles without resting, and finally ran to the trail at the foot of the mountain that the soldiers had mentioned.Bai Shibao looked back at the ghost market, it was already like a star point, knowing that it was far away, he breathed a sigh of relief.

boom!
Suddenly a thunder flashed in the sky, followed by a roar.

Yan Zifei scolded angrily: "I just left the ghost market, went to the 'ghost road', and caught up with such a ghostly weather, I really saw a ghost!"

As soon as the voice fell, Ma Wuye said in surprise: "Listen, what is this sound?"

L!

L!

Everyone vaguely heard the sound of happy blowing and beating!

The third monk turned his head and said to Ma Kuiyuan, "Could someone get married?"

"Who is getting married at this hour? It's not like..."

Ma Kuiyuan shook his head.

"Look at it!"

Xiao Taohong opened her mouth wide, pointed forward and said, "This is..."

Lin Jiu turned around and shouted to the crowd: "Everyone, turn your back quickly, don't look back!"

Everyone hurriedly hid by the side of the road, turned their backs to their bodies and didn't dare to look too much, they only heard the sound of the suona getting louder, and gusts of cold wind poured into the clothes!
Xiao Taohong nodded, not daring to say any more, and closed her eyes tightly.

L!

tick tick...

At this time, the suona sound suddenly stopped behind everyone!
When everyone heard chatter and laughter behind them, they trembled in fright, and they didn't dare to look back, their hands clenched into fists.

suddenly!
Bai Shibao felt as if something was floating over his head, and when he looked up, he saw a white cloth covering his head!Bai Shibao hastily grabbed it with his hands, as if he had been struck by a thunderbolt, his whole body was numb, and when his eyes went dark, he didn't know anything...

(End of this chapter)