Night Lights

Chapter 48
There are times in heaven, morning and dawn are controlled, sunrise and sunset, alternating back and forth, and successively recursively; choose from dawn to dusk, divide seven shifts, called daytime, choose dusk to dawn, divide five shifts, called night and day; , press the drum to tell the time, ghosts and ghosts travel at night, and hold the watch to confuse; Offering sacrifices to the souls of the dead; the name is: ghosts fight more. ——Excerpted from Tongyin Eight Volumes of "Wordless Book of Heaven".

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Buddhism emphasizes universal salvation of all living beings, opening the door of convenience, building temples and building temples, the more the better; while Taoism would rather persuade ten people to return to vulgarity than to persuade one person to become a monk.

Someone asked: "Why are monks so fat and Taoists so thin?"

Just because of the difference in the upholding of Buddhism and morality, Buddhism emphasizes roundness and squareness, while Taoism emphasizes the spirit of immortality. This can be regarded as a change in 'morphology'.So there is a saying: 'Taoist priests enter the temple but not the temple'.

But Bai Shibao has no taboos, if you ask him if he is a Taoist priest, he himself is not sure!

"It's not so evil, is it?"

Bai Shibao just replied with a pen on the wall, but an inexplicable evil wind blew out the candle on his hand, which made Bai Shibao tremble all over, gasped, and hurriedly took half of the candle He took a few steps back, retreated to the corner, and blinked his eyes to sweep around the hall.

The hall was pitch-black and eerily quiet.

chap!
Bai Shibao lit the candle, protected the candle and looked around the hall again, but there was still no one there.

Bai Shibao sighed: "It's probably because I'm too tired and overly nervous. I'd better get a good night's sleep and leave this ghostly place early tomorrow!" Wrapped, took out two mulberry leaves to cover the eyelids, lay down on the ground and fell asleep.

There was a thunderstorm outside, and there were gusts of wind blowing in the temple. The rain dripped down the damaged temple roof, tick-tock, as if beating rhythmically. The tone sounded like someone was whispering:

"I'm so wronged to die..."

"Who?"

Bai Shibao woke up from the dream, sat up, stared and looked around, the ruined temple was still empty, the half of the candle beside him had already burned out, leaving a small wax wick emitting white smoke, Looks like it just went extinct.

Bai Shibao scratched his head, thinking: It's really a dream ghost in the night temple, no one can sleep well in this kind of place, he was about to find something to shelter from the wind and cold, but he suddenly froze!

A thunder flashed, and the scarlet blood characters on the opposite wall, I do not know when a few more words appeared...

Gods and Buddhas don't act, ghosts don't reincarnate, they can't return to their homes, and they sleep peacefully in ruined temples.

"Strange, who wrote this?"

Bai Shibao wondered in his heart, after such a long time, who added another sentence on the wall?He touched it with his hand and sniffed it to the tip of his nose. There was a smell of blood in the handwriting, which was not written with his cinnabar pen. When Bai Shibao turned his head, his hairs stood on end in fright, and his eyes widened...

Ah!
At some point behind Bai Shibao stood a woman. This woman looked young and beautiful, with a graceful figure and a ruddy complexion. She was a beauty, not a ghost; Candle in red, staring at Bai Shibao expressionlessly.

Bai Shibao said in shock: "People are scary, they will scare people to death!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Shibao saw the woman looking down at his feet...

"What do you mean?" Bai Shibao also followed her movements and lowered his head to look at her feet. A pair of red cloth shoes were covered with big purple petals, and the little feet were light and fluttering. When Bai Shibao took a closer look, the feet were so far off the ground. Half an inch away, and... no shadow yet!

"Ah... are you a ghost?"

Bai Shibao turned pale with fright, leaned his back against the wall, and touched his waist subconsciously with his hands!
Oops!

Bai Shibao left the ghost whip and those charms in the corner over there, except for the two mulberry leaves stuck to his eyelids, there was nothing on his body...

"Don't be afraid, I didn't mean to scare you."

The female ghost frowned, showing a look of resentment and helplessness, and her voice was soft and without any anger.

Bai Shibao trembled, pointed at her body, and shouted: "It's no wonder you're not afraid! You're a ghost in red clothes when you die!"

Hearing what Bai Shibao said, the female ghost stretched out her hand to look at the red cuff, her face became sad, then she pointed to the wall in front of her and said, "I see you answered my words..."

"I have nothing to do to amuse myself, don't take it seriously!"

Bai Shibao kept complaining, he knew that writing poems would attract ghosts, so why bother to fiddle with writing and ink here, pretending to be noble?
The female ghost sighed and said, "I thought you could avenge me, but it turns out it's just for fun..."

Bai Shibao was taken aback for a moment, thinking: so?Dare to love this ghost, it's hard to get justice!Why don't you stabilize her first, don't make her angry, and listen to her grievances before she speaks, and then asked: "What grievances do you have, why don't you tell me, I will help you think of a way?"

The female ghost was overjoyed when she heard that, she sized up Bai Shibao, and said, "If you are willing to help me avenge my grievances, I will definitely benefit you!"

"Forget the benefits, as long as you let me sleep peacefully!" Bai Shibao only said that he had listened to the whole thing, and he was perfunctory, coaxing her to leave first.

The female ghost thought for a while, and slowly told Bai Shibao about her own affairs:
It turns out that this female ghost's surname is Qu, and her single name is the word 'e'. She lives in Tianning Town, ten miles away. She lost her father when she was young, and she lives with her mother.

Today, most of the people in Ning Town make a living by farming. A year ago, there was a severe drought for unknown reasons. It was the gods who were so angry that they punished the people in the town. They had no choice but to pray to the gods to worship their ancestors, to sacrifice to the gods of heaven and earth, and to pray for blessings and rain.

Later, someone heard rumors that there was a Daoist Zhang with extraordinary cultivation in Nanshan Mountain, who was able to exorcise demons and subdue demons, and call wind and rain. Urgent; after being invited, Taoist priest Zhang set up an altar in the city and cast spells continuously for several days. Sure enough, it rained, and the people were all amazed.

Bai Shibao interjected, "This Taoist Zhang is so powerful that he can cast spells to make rain?"

The female ghost Qu'e shook her head, and continued: "At that time, I suffered from heatstroke and was bedridden for a long time. My mother borrowed some money and asked Taoist Zhang to see a doctor for me. After Taoist Zhang came to my house, he told my mother Said, I was possessed by a ghost, and I was so sick that I had to be burned to get rid of the ghost on my body..."

Bai Shibao was startled and said: "Being burned by the fire, wouldn't the people be burned to death as well?"

"My mother thought the same way, and begged Taoist Zhang to show mercy and save me a way out; Taoist Zhang said that the disease could only be cured by planting 'fairy seeds' in my body. My mother didn't understand' The idea of ​​forming a pill, seeing that Daoist Zhang is so supernatural, and only asking me to recover as soon as possible, so I agreed to come down..."

Bai Shibao didn't understand what the meaning of 'consolidating pills' meant, so he didn't interrupt.

Then I heard Qu E continue to say: "Actually, Taoist Zhang saw that I was pretty, so he cheated my mother by saying something like being bewitched by a demon. It was nothing more than an excuse to deceive sex. That night I was caught by him..." said Here, Qu'e wiped the corners of her eyes with her cuff, and cried...

After a long time, after calming down for a while, Qu E continued: "Later, my mother knew the truth, so she went to find the Taoist priest and tried her best, but was beaten to death by his disciples. I had nowhere to complain, so I wore a red dress Clothes, hang yourself from the beam..."

Hearing this, Bai Shibao cursed angrily in his heart: God damned bastard, he used the name of Dao to cheat money and sex!Suddenly angry, he asked Qu'e, "Why didn't you report to the officials?"

Qu'e cried even more, and said: "The mayor and Taoist Zhang have long conspired to divide the money they cheated into their pockets equally, and then demolished this ancient temple, and rebuilt a Taoist temple on the Nanshan Mountain in the middle of the town for Zhang's sacrifice. Taoist priests use it to extract money!"

"Since you have become a fierce ghost, you have a hard time resentment, why don't you seek revenge from him?"

"He didn't know where to ask for a talisman to avoid ghosts. He put it in his arms and carried it with him in the morning and evening. I couldn't get close to him, so I had to hide in this temple to find someone to help. It's three o'clock tonight, just in time to see you replying to me... ..."

Bai Shibao thought to himself, no wonder she has nowhere to go to seek grievances. After writing such a sentence on the wall, Bai Shibao glanced at her, was suddenly taken aback, and asked anxiously, "Since you are a ghost who died with injustice, is there something wrong with your mouth?" resentment?"

Qu E nodded.

Bai Shibao was overjoyed, and said: "If I avenge you, can you give me the grievance in your mouth?"

Qu E was taken aback for a moment, not knowing what Bai Shibao was going to do, but since she could help to take revenge, she nodded and agreed.

Bai Shibao thought to himself, she has found the right person, she needs my help to take revenge, and I just need the grievance she said to increase my life, isn't this a good deal?

Bai Shibao asked Qu E, "Where is that Taoist Zhang?"

"That Daoist Zhang is a big smoker and a pervert. He hired a concubine in a restaurant in the town. He usually stays at her home. The Taoist temple is run by his disciples. The incense is constantly burning all the year round. There are faithful men." When believers come to Taoist temples to kowtow and ask for a lottery, he will spout good things and cheat some money for him to smoke cigarettes and raise a concubine..."

Bai Shibao thought in his heart that this Taoist priest is simply a rascal, a rascal, and cursed: "Bah, how dare he have the surname Zhang? He has slandered my master's good surname!"

"..."

Bai Shibao asked again: "What's his name? I'll go find him!"

Qu'e shook her head and said: "I don't know about that. He claims to have double yin and yang eyes and can exorcise demons and ghosts. He is called blind Taoist priest Zhang, and others call him blind Zhang!"

Bai Shibao's jaw almost dropped from shock, and he exclaimed, "Zhang... blind man Zhang?"

Seeing Bai Shibao's strange expression, the female ghost Qu'e asked, "Why, do you know him?"

(End of this chapter)