Night Lights

Chapter 4

There are eight ways to unblock yin, the first one is to open the eyes by borrowing objects to open the eyes.

Thirty miles east of Mianchi City, at the foot of Qipan Mountain, is the ancient temple of Xuanyuan. There is a woodcut figure in front of the temple. They are tree spirits and two ghosts. One ghost becomes a peach tree, and the other ghost becomes a willow tree. Gaoming Gaojue, with eyes that can reach thousands of miles, and ears that grow along the wind; people who are open to yin can borrow the bodies of two ghosts, pick willow leaves to seal their eyes, and take peach branches to see demons and ghosts. ——Excerpted from Tongyin Eight Volumes of "Wordless Book of Heaven".

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Yincao Ghost City is a ghost mansion in name, but it is more like a ghost prison.In the east of the city, there are three Yin Mountains, a Nether Mountain, which is dedicated to imprisoning newly deceased souls, waiting for sentencing; The use of Yang.In the west of the city there is a row of official yamen, inhabited by the eighteen ghost kings of the underworld. Under their seats, there are judges who call for orders, the second master of impermanence, Taiwei who chases souls, cattle messengers, ghosts and other ghosts. There are many mansions, all of which are in the west of this ghost town. side.

Right in front of the city is enshrined a Yin Temple. In the temple, there is a clay statue of Dharma, with seals on both hands, sitting and lying on the loess, supported by clouds, with a ferocious face, the power of ghosts and fear, and the face of fear of demons. The statues of gods and ghosts stand on the left and right. On both sides, they are lower than the statue, showing the distinction of superiority and inferiority. Under the statue, there is a monster lying prone, with a blue face and fangs, a body like a tiger, a mane like a lion, and a head with horns. I don't know what it is.

"Master, who is this monster?" Bai Shibao saw the monster with its eyes closed, half asleep, and its snoring sounded like thunder, shaking the underworld.

"Shh, you have yang energy in your body, don't wake it up!" Blind Zhang pulled Bai Shibao aside, and whispered, "This Yin temple is dedicated to Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, and the name of this beast is 'Ting Ting'. You can tell the evil once you hear it!"

"It can hear the things of the six realms of the world, but its sense of smell is indeed very poor." Bai Shibao said.

"What do you mean?"

"We were so close to it that it didn't smell us!"

"Don't underestimate it. You must know that every night when the moon is full, it will go to 'eclipse the moon' and bite off half of the moon. Therefore, the night of the full moon is a big taboo for us who walk in the shadows. There is a difference between the solar calendar and the lunar calendar. For a few days, we follow the solar calendar when we go yin, and the day when this monster eclipses the moon coincides with the coincidence of the lunar calendar and the solar calendar, so we must not go yin!"

"I've only heard of the Tengu Eats the Moon, but I can't believe it's this monster!" Bai Shibao couldn't help exclaiming when he saw the monster snoring.

"It's important, let's go find the executioner's ghost."

Blind Zhang heard the ghosts crying and howling, knowing that the ghosts could not stand the torture and howling, knowing right and wrong, it is not suitable to stay for a long time, so he took Bai Shibao to the hidden place, took out a spell from Huaizhong, and used it The fire burned, and he was chanting words, and after a while he was sweating profusely. After reciting the incantation, he said to Bai Shibao: "The ghost is waiting for his soul to come back on Tongyang Mountain. I have already used the method of summoning him to come. Shi will treat you as Mrs. Zhang, no matter what he does, don't be patient, wait for me to persuade you to end this matter, so that we can return as soon as possible."

Bai Shibao's heart was shocked, thinking that he came with Zhang Wangshi's birthday horoscope, he only hoped that the evil spirit was in this underworld, so he wouldn't really treat me as Zhang Wangshi and cut me alive!
In an instant, a man with disheveled hair and blood all over his body drifted over from a distance. His angry red eyes swept over Bai Shibao's body. He was about to pounce on him when he was stopped by Zhang Blind and shouted, "Wait a minute! We are here to mediate grievances from previous lives." Come on, why don't you listen to the advice?"

"There is an injustice and a debtor. I was ordered to punish me but was accused of false accusation by this seductress. I suffered a thousand cuts in the underworld. I suffered unspeakably. Now I want her to suffer all the crimes!" It's the ghost of the executioner, but now it's torn apart, not human, nor ghost-like.

Bai Shibao saw that he was covered in blood, so he didn't dare to look up, hid behind blind Zhang and listened to him say: "The world of the world has its own laws, even though she told you to lose your life, it didn't happen for a reason, you took bribes from her back then. But you didn’t pay her, and you can’t blame her entirely for this fault; and you have already received the torment of the underworld, why do you have to torture yourself when you are about to return to the sun?”

"I was beheaded in the yang, and I was tortured in the underworld, but this temptress is happy in the underworld, how can I swallow this breath?" the executioner said angrily.

"Now that she is near the end of her life, whether she will be cut alive with a knife or an axe, or burned in a frying pan, let her bear it. It's the same pain. Why do you earn it sooner or later? She asked me to come here to find you, just to resolve the grievances." , let you reincarnate without any resentment, I am willing to ask the Buddha to save you, and burn money and banknotes for you to enjoy!"

After the executioner heard what Zhang Blind said, he calmed down a little, showing a troubled face.Seeing this, Zhang Blind continued to say: "When will you repay your injustice? Since you have already been punished by the underworld, you only need to be reincarnated at a good time. If you don't stop, you will be punished even more if you are caught by ghost messengers!"

The executioner was startled when he heard this, lowered his head and pondered for a while, and said: "If the temptress agrees to me, I will spare her. Otherwise, even if she cannot be reincarnated, turning into a ghost will exhaust her lifespan."

Blind Zhang hesitated when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?"

"I have never been married in my yang life, and I have no children or daughters under my knees. If she is willing to arrange a yin marriage for me and let a live girl marry me, after I have enjoyed the fun of life, I will spare Zhang Wang's life." , reincarnation without complaint!"

Bai Shibao thought to himself that this guy is actually a pervert, what kind of shady marriage is there when everyone is dead?
"Yin marriage is a matter of heaven. In the yang world, who's children are willing to marry ghosts and be buried together after death?" Zhang Blind looked serious and said angrily that the executioner was unreasonable. How could he force this?You know, a yin marriage requires paper to paste the ghost vessel, and the dowry accompanied by the woman is also made of paper. The woman holds the photo of the deceased to worship the heaven and the earth, and finally cremates the burial together. Marriage and burial with a red rope is all that is needed, but the most difficult thing to do is to die!
"If you don't agree to me at this time, there is no need to say more!" The executioner said angrily.

After listening in, Bai Shibao wondered: This blind man can make paper money, why not make a paper man, draw his eyebrows and eyes, burn it and serve him, so that he can give up his idea of ​​getting married?
So he lay on his stomach and whispered in Zhang Blind's ear for a while, Zhang Blind smiled, and secretly praised Bai Shibao for being smart, but he didn't think of such a way, so he paused and said to the executioner: "I'll go back and make trouble for you!" This beauty, burn it for you, so that you can have a partner who will serve and love you; getting married is too complicated and cumbersome, if you find someone who is willing to marry you, it may take three to five years, wouldn't you The waiting time is up."

The executioner laughed happily when he heard that, "It's also possible!"

Blind Zhang said: "There is no evidence for fear, and the words are evidence." He took out a piece of yellow paper and asked the executioner to write an oath on it, dipped it in blood and drew a pledge. After a while, it was sorted out and the matter was finally announced a paragraph.The executioner's ghost floated away joyfully, and went back to wait for Xin'er. The remaining master and apprentice received the letter and returned to the underworld.

Blind Zhang threw a piece of bloody steamed bun, and the big black dog ran back after a while, and brought the master and apprentice back to Yang.The two of them passed through the back-yin mountain in the east of the city, and walked among the gloomy foothills. Bai Shibao saw that this was not the way he came here, so he asked blind Zhang, "Master! I'm afraid I went the wrong way. Why haven't I seen this road before?" ?”

"That's right, the underworld is like this, there is a way to go, but there is no way to come; we can return to the sun by following this yin dog!"

Bai Shibao nodded, and walked behind blind Zhang, chatting about a lot of things going wrong along the way.Blind Zhang intended to take Bai Shibao as his apprentice, and he explained in detail the precautions along the way, and Bai Shibao took it seriously in his heart.

Ordinary people say that if you go to the underworld, you have died once, but Bai Shibao went to the underworld with Zhang Blind, and you have died once. Instead, he was excited and curious about the unseen world. This kind of change is more unpredictable and exciting than regular gambling.

"Master, why do you want to make a living like this?" Bai Shibao asked.

"All business is due to someone's demand, and the living and the dead are divided into yin and yang, so naturally there is a business like ours." Zhang Xiazi replied.

"I wander around the streets and alleys on weekdays, and I hear about everything, but I never know that there are some masters out there."

"There are so many strange things in the world, there are still many things you don't know, such as some evil-hearted Taoist priests using the dead body to refine corpses..."

"Refining corpses?"

Blind Zhang suddenly stopped in the middle of speaking, as if he saw something, pushed Bai Shibao to the ground, covered his mouth and whispered, "Shut up!"

Bai Shibao was lying on the ground, not understanding what happened, only the sound of crying, accompanied by the faint sound of bells, came slowly from a distance.Bai Shibao stared intently, and saw an old woman in white walking slowly, bent over and carrying a paper lantern. She looked like a ghost, and her voice was like a child crying, which was very frightening.

The old woman's walking posture was very strange, her neck stretched forward very long, she took a step and stopped, paused for a moment, then nodded, and continued to move forward.When he walked to Bai Shibao's side, Bai Shibao's eyes were wide open, and he was covered in cold sweat. The old woman's complexion was sallow, her eyes were blurred, there was a spot of rouge between her eyebrows, her white hair was tied in a bun on her head, and she was tucked behind her head. Thin and dry, wearing a white burial gown on the upper body, and green fat pants on the lower body, stepping on the ground with bare feet, leaving a "ya" footprint, the old woman's feet turned out to be a pair of chicken feet!
At this moment, the big black dog ran over suddenly, licked Bai Shibao's hand, and begged for blood steamed buns. Bai Shibao's face became gloomy, and the old woman seemed to have noticed them, and turned her sallow face to them , blinked his eyes, then suddenly smiled and said, "What are you doing?"

Bai Shibao was so frightened that he was trembling all over, his mouth was covered tightly by the blind man, and he couldn't make a sound. The big black dog beside him looked at the old woman, howled suddenly, and ran away with its tail between its legs.

The old woman stared at Bai Shibao for a while, and said: "You dog blocking the way, leave when you are full!" As if she hadn't seen the master and apprentice, she carried a dim paper lantern and continued walking forward. While walking, he sang a whistle: "It's sunny when it's sunny, and it's dark when it's cloudy. The rooster will feed you refreshing soup; if you drink up the refreshing soup, it will only make ghosts stiff, God's heart will be sad, and demons will be ill..."

The sweat on Bai Shibao's back soaked the paper shroud, and he felt cold all over his body. He stared wide-eyed until the old woman walked away before he calmed down. He was about to ask Blind Zhang when he heard Blind Zhang say, "Oops!" ! This is the Illuminating Ghost, the ghost messenger responsible for announcing the dawn, when its bell rings, the rooster will wake up and announce the dawn!"

"So what?" Bai Shibao asked puzzled.

"The hour of the rooster dawns, which means that we have wasted too much time. It is already the time of day, and if we haven't returned to the world at dawn, our souls will never be able to enter the physical body again!" Blind Zhang said seriously.

"Ah... what should I do?" Bai Shibao asked in surprise.

(End of this chapter)