Night Lights

Chapter 2

The essence of all things is the soul, the yang is the soul, and the yin is the soul; the art of unblocking yin is exquisite and profound, the sky acts as the law, and the earth acts as a tool to collect yin objects and dissolve yang blood; Ghosts have their yin, or swallow their stomachs, and reshape their bodies; anyone who practices the Dharma must first explore the spirits of all things, absorb the essence of the sun and the moon, and only have the essence of heaven before they can be polished into tools. ——Excerpted from Tongyin Eight Volumes of "Wordless Book of Heaven".

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"I went to Yincao and can I come back?" Bai Shibao asked.

"Ordinary people can't make it, if they go, they will go. We people who can communicate with Yin can indeed."

"Do you have such magic power?"

"You know, there are thousands of sects in the world, such as Maoshan technique, head lowering technique, Gu technique, sorcery, witchcraft, etc., but our 'Zou Yin' is unique and different from others. Today someone Ask me to walk in the yin, just need someone to accompany me, if you dare to accompany me in the yin, I will take you as a disciple, and pass on the method of walking in the yin to you, in the future, walking in yin and yang, catching ghosts and exorcising demons can save the world Peaceful."

Bai Shibao bowed his head in thought, I'm afraid he can't do it himself, he just wants to increase his lifespan and live happily for a few years, but I'm afraid this old man will deceive me, so I have to ask carefully.After thinking about it, Bai Shibao asked, "Why did you choose me?"

Blind Zhang smiled, pointed to his own eyes and said, "Look at my eyes. People call me blind Zhang and think I'm really blind. In fact, these eyes are called 'ghost eyes', which can tell people's life span; There are two kinds, one is Yangshou, the other is Yinshou, Yangshou is the lifespan in the yang world, and Yinshou is the lifespan recorded in the underworld; now I see that you have only one Yangshou, which does not match the Yinshou, so I guess you are going to hit evil."

"So you guessed that I would gamble my life with those three ghosts?" Bai Shibao felt vaguely like a rope binding his fate to this blind man tightly tonight, while Zhang The fact that a blind man can actually see the life span of others made Bai Shibao shudder.

"As the saying goes: When manpower is exhausted, the destiny cannot be violated; I confided secrets to you back then, but you didn't listen, and now it's just a coincidence. It's your luck to let you follow me."

Bai Shibao spat with his mouth crooked, what kind of luck is dealing with ghosts?If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, how could I believe that there is still such a business in this world? Going to hell is not a good business, and ghost gate is not a good place to go.Up to now, I have no money and no family, no family, no adult, dragging half my life, I just want to follow him to get back my life, I will take a gamble first, if I win, I will get my life back.

"Where are we going now?"

"The time has come, and now it's time to go overcast."

"You don't care about the stall at the entrance of the alley?" Bai Shibao remembered that he still had a stall of funeral objects at the entrance of the alley, and now he was going to go to the Yin, and the stall was left unattended. He felt strange and asked curiously. .

"Today, I was lucky. I sold some things and burned them. The rest of the things can't be left overnight. They should be tied up on the same day and burned that night. The rest should be burnt for the convenience of the errands. It's considered a tax. "

Bai Shibao was very surprised when he heard this, and thought to himself: "People say that officials are very respectful, but it's not true that ghosts are even worse. This kind of thing turns out that yin and yang take everything."

Blind Zhang took out a red thread from his gown, tied it to Bai Shibao's ankles, and said to him, "The left foot is yin, and the right foot is yang. Follow me when walking in yin, and follow my steps." Let's go, don't rush to break the rope."

Bai Shibao bent down and tugged at the three-foot-long red rope, feeling that it was loosely tied, thinking that if his steps were unsteady, he would stumble and not be torn apart, so he was about to tie it firmly with his hands when he heard Zhang Blind Man shout: " It’s unlucky to tie the rope around your feet without a knot!”

Bai Shibao stopped suddenly, bent his waist and turned his head to look at Zhang Blind Man, shaking his hands in front of him, thinking: Are you really blind, old man, or just pretending to be blind?How come you know what I do, as if he can see it.

Blind Zhang took out the bag of black dog bone powder from his bosom, and handed it to Bai Shibao to tell him to set up an array on the ground according to the position of the Big Dipper in the sky, and counted with his fingers: "Tonight Kuixing is in charge, and the North Star is overcast, sprinkled in the northwest." According to Zhang Xiazi's instructions, Bai Shibao raised his head to correspond to the star position, sprinkled seven small piles of black dog bone meal on the ground, and then returned the empty cloth bag to Zhang Xiazi, Zhang Xiazi took out two paper bags from his pocket, and the two shared one each. .

"Master is like a juggler, he can catch whatever he wants!" Bai Shibao exclaimed in surprise.

"This is a blood steamed bun given by the person who asked you to go to hell. When you go to hell, there will be a black dog leading the way. It barks, you break off a piece and throw it to it. You have to throw it seven yuan along the way; don't let it go in advance. It's full, and it can't leave the blood buns behind."

Bai Shibao flicked the paper bag open in his hand, and when he fixed his eyes, it was indeed a bloody steamed bun, steaming hot and exuding a pungent bloody smell.He was so frightened that he hurriedly wrapped the bloody steamed bun, with lingering fear in his heart, he thought to himself: This steamed bun is bloody and scary, what dog would eat it?What's more, if you are nervous for a while, and you don't have a sense of proportion, what should you do if you break less and more?
Blind Zhang fully guessed Bai Shibao's thoughts, pointed to the black dog bone meal on the ground and said, "I will let this yin dog lead the way in a while, and I have chicken blood on the buns, and this yin dog will be eaten as internal organs. I am thinking about the blood steamed bun in my hand, it is used when we return to Yang, you have to be careful with the one in your hand, if you annoy it, we will not be able to come back."

"You put the date of birth of the person who entrusted Yin away, and when you arrive at the place, if someone asks you, you pass this to him." Zhang Blind handed Bai Shibao a yellow note, on which was written in red cinnabar: March 24th of the Gengxu Year.

"I don't understand, why did this person entrust us to play tricks on him?" Bai Shibao asked puzzled.

Blind Zhang tied the red strings around his feet, took out the scaring whip, touched the end of the braid with his hand, and said thoughtfully, "You know the executioner, don't you?"

"The executioner?"

When Bai Shibao's father was alive, he took him to the Meridian Gate to watch beheadings. At that time, whenever there was a beheading execution, hundreds of people would come to watch it, like visiting a market, it was very lively.

Bai Shibao remembered that the prisoner seemed to have committed the crime of murdering the master, and was sentenced to be hanged and beheaded.In the autumn of the next year, the Meridian Gate was executed, and the officer waited for an hour before reading out the indictment. Then several burly executioners escorted the prisoner to the execution platform, stripped the man naked, and poured a bottle of blood into his mouth. Some anesthetic, then cut off a piece of breast meat from the prisoner's chest and throw it into the air, which is called offering sacrifices to heaven.The second cut was on the prisoner's forehead, and Pi Sheng was pulled down to cover his eyes, which is called blindfolding.

The prisoner was going to receive 360 ​​knives all over his body. The executioner covered his body with a fishing net so that the meat was exposed from the net, and began to cut the meat piece by piece with a sharp knife. When the meat came, the executioner reported the number of knives to the magistrate. After 360 knives, the prisoner was cut to death.The coldness and cruelty of the executioner made Bai Shibao shudder, which left a deep shadow on his heart when he was young.

"The person holding the shade is Zhang Wang, an old woman outside the east city. Back then, Zhang Wang's husband fell grass in Qinglong Mountain and became a bandit. He committed all kinds of crimes by burning, killing, looting, and was captured alive and sentenced to Caishikou. This piece of Wang's family was found overnight. The executioner, who has a lot of money, just wants to give her husband a "one-shot cut" to make her husband happy; after receiving the money, the executioner went to drink and fool around at night. It took three or four knives to cut off the bloody head; Zhang Wang was wronged and asked someone to write a complaint and sued him to the Yamen, saying that he had cut three more knives, which was equivalent to killing his husband three times in a row. According to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, this executioner He was also sentenced to death."

"I didn't expect this executioner to pay for his own life! Since the payment was made with his life, the matter is settled, so why do we have to play tricks?" Bai Shibao was surprised, and continued to ask.

Seeing that Bai Shibao listened seriously, Zhang Blindman smiled and continued, "The executioner was wronged by his death, and his ghost held a mouthful of resentment. At night, he entrusted a dream to Zhang Wang and said, 'I am wronged by death, and my soul wanders without a return. Pay for my life!' Later, Mrs. Wang got a strange disease. The skin all over her body seemed to be cut by a knife. The flesh festered and fell off. The doctors in the city couldn't cure it. Finally, she thought that it might be the executioner. The ghost is at work, so she asked me to do it for her, and put an end to this matter!"

After hearing this, Bai Shibao sighed beside him. As the saying goes, what is good has a good end, and evil is rewarded with evil. No one can tell who is right and who is wrong in this matter. When is the time for retribution? The living are at ease.

"Master, you can get a lot of money by going to the yin, right?" A person who is a good person will definitely reward him with money, so he asked blind Zhang with a smile.

"Of course there is money, but only after the yin has passed, will the person who entrusted the shady pay for it." Blind Zhang replied.

Bai Shibao was overjoyed when he heard that, now he is penniless and his life expectancy is not long, if he walks with this blind man, he can not only earn some money, but also increase his life with his help, it is not in vain to gamble his life. Happy day!Why not?

"Master! What are we waiting for? Let's go to hell!" Bai Shibao said urgently.

Blind Zhang put the bloody steamed buns on the ground, took out two bundles of armor paper, drew a half circle on the spot, left a gap at the northwest entrance, and burned it with his hands, then took out two wax paper clothes from his pocket. , I put on a gray-brown one by myself, and handed Bai Shibao a snowflake white one, motioning to him: "Put this shroud on your body, the time has come, we should go on the road!"

Bai Shibao took the paper garment, and after unfolding it, he saw that the paper garment was very delicately drawn, the collar of the skirt was carefully pasted, and a large character "Dian" was written on the front of the chest.This word is a concatenated character, and it is read separately: "Going to the Western Heaven". Bai Shibao felt that it was unlucky for a living person to wear the clothes of the dead, so he muttered: "Wearing sacrificial clothes before death is also a taste of death." smell."

"If you don't pretend to be a Yin ghost, how can you get the Yin Cao?"

Blind Zhang lit the black dog bone meal with a torch, billowing thick smoke suddenly rose, pulled Bai Shibao into the Kuixing pile made of black dog bone meal, took off his shoes, put one upside down, and put the other on the ground. Zheng, and then said to Bai Shibao: "This yin dog will come soon, close your eyes and sleep, and don't panic when you wake up later, don't panic what I said earlier, don't make trouble."

Bai Shibao put on his shroud, and imitated Zhang Blindman's position and lay down with his eyes closed, but he couldn't fall asleep. He felt the smoke from the seven piles of smoke beside him, and the strong wind swept over his head, making his chest numb and numb. The bloody steamed buns in the paper bag were warm, and I felt the warmth in my chest, my eyelids were so heavy that I couldn't open them, and I suddenly felt sleepy.

(End of this chapter)