Night Lights

Chapter 51
The way of heaven is wide and the way of humanity is narrow. The way of ghosts and ghosts steals the way of humanity.

In the middle of the night, ghosts and ghosts block the road, and people who meet at night turn into karmic creditors, begging for money and incense candles; passers-by are terrified, and run away in a hurry, not knowing that their souls have been hooked; , without the main soul, there are two souls and seven souls left, acting like a frightened fool, just waiting for the soul to return; this name is: ghosts block the way, begging for money to seduce the soul. ——Excerpted from Tongyin Eight Volumes of "Wordless Book of Heaven".

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Boom!

"One more call! The sky is dry and the things are dry, be careful of the fire and candles!"

A watchman carried a paper lantern, bent over to beat a gong, and announced the watch on the dark street. He stopped in front of a house, looked up at the big house, and shook his head. Shaking his head, sighing, knocking on the gong vigorously, walking away with his waist hooked...

At this time, two dark figures jumped out from behind the watchman, walked to the front of the house, looked up at the big house, then smiled at each other, turned around and walked around the corner of the back wall.

These two figures are exactly Bai Shibao, the 'Shadow Man', and Li San, the 'Swallow Fly'.

The two slipped to the corner, the swallow flew around to see if there was no one there, and then whispered in Bai Shibao's ear: "Brother, it seems that there is going to be a change, let's wait here first, and then go in after the second watch... "

Bai Shibao said: "It is said that the first watch is fireproof and the second watch is against thieves. Why wait until the second watch?"

"Brother, you don't understand. Turn off the lights and blow the wax on the first watch, so it is natural to prevent fire, but at the second watch, when you are sleepy, half asleep, and hazy, it is the best time to start. !"

"Then why don't you wait until midnight when you're asleep?"

Bai Shibao thought to himself: Wouldn't it be safer for people to sleep to death by then?
Yan Zifei shook his head and said: "At the third watch, once a person is woken up, it is difficult to fall back asleep..."

Bai Shibao nodded with a vague understanding.

"Brother, wait for me, I'll do a 'Wall Tester' first!"

Yan Zifei picked up the gown, tied it around his waist, touched the wall with both hands, put his feet on the ground, lay on the wall like a gecko, kicked on the wall with his toes, and jumped half a meter high in one fell swoop. Clutching the edge of the wall with both hands, he poked his head out to look into the house.

Bai Shibao was amazed. With this gecko kung fu, he climbed over the wall beam without making any sound, and his movements were clean and neat, really amazing!
Yan Zifei looked at it for a while, then jumped down, touched the ground with his toes, stood still, showed a look of surprise, and said to himself: "It's strange, it's already the second watch, why is it still bright in the room?" Lights on?"

Bai Shibao guessed, "Could it be that the person hasn't fallen asleep yet?"

Yan Zifei shook his head and said, "I heard no sound from inside. I guess it's because the lights are on and I'm fast asleep. The time is waiting for no one. Let's go! Let's go in and have a look..."

Yan Zifei rolled over to the top of the wall, leaned on the wall and handed Bai Shibao a hand. Bai Shibao stretched out his hand and grabbed it, as if he was holding a dead branch.Yan Zifei lifted it up, and Bai Shibao felt pulled up by a powerful force. Unexpectedly, Yan Zifei looked thin, but his strength was astonishing!
"Brother, step on my feet and make sure you are safe..."

Bai Shibao nodded, bent down and followed behind Yan Zifei, his feet never missed the ground, and he stepped on the places Yan Zifei stepped on everywhere, as expected, the ground was solid and would not make the slightest sound.

The two climbed from the top of the wall to the roof.

Yan Zifei got down on his knees, touched the roof tiles with his hands, found a slightly loose one, opened it with his hands, lifted a small crack, poked his head in and looked in, the room was pitch black, Faintly hearing someone snoring on the bed, Yan Zifei tapped on the tiles and whispered to Bai Shibao: "This is the room of the magistrate's wife, she is fast asleep..."

Bai Shibao asked softly, "Where is the money hidden?"

Yan Zifei pointed forward with his hand and whispered, "Come with me!"

Bai Shibao tiptoed behind him, walked to the lighted roof, Yan Zifei stopped, and whispered: "Brother, wait a moment, I'll go and see the situation!"

Bai Shibao nodded, and saw the swallow flying to the edge of the eaves, turned upside down, hooked its two feet on the eaves, and hung upside down...

"Is this the legendary 'Golden Hook'?"

Bai Shibao was fascinated by watching, his body of one hundred and eighty catties can hang upside down on the eaves without making a sound, this kind of light work is really amazing.

The swallow flew upside down in the air, dipped its fingers in its mouth, poked it on the window paper, squinted its eyes and looked into the room, its expression changed drastically, its eyes widened, its body bent, and its hands clasped. The eaves of the house flipped over again, and said to Bai Shibao, "It's really weird, no wonder you stayed up late to light the lamps, because someone died in the county magistrate's house, and a mourning hall was built in this house..."

Bai Shibao frowned and said, "If someone is dead, why isn't there a funeral lantern and white cloth hanging outside this door?"

Yan Zifei nodded and said: "Well, I'm afraid there's something tricky about it. I saw the county magistrate also guarding the side of the mourning hall, wearing hemp and mourning, but I didn't see who died!"

Bai Shibao said: "Don't worry about him, we'll take the money and leave!"

"No, the silver is in this room!"

Bai Shibao said in surprise, "Ah..."

"Shh!"

Yan Zifei covered Bai Shibao's mouth, then listened for a while before letting go.

Bai Shibao asked softly, "Then what should we do?"

Yan Zifei lowered his head and pondered for a while, then said: "I see that they are already fast asleep, why don't we go to this room to get them!"

"This……"

Bai Shibao was a little worried, if they woke up from a start, wouldn't they be caught right?

Yan Zifei patted Bai Shibao's shoulder, indicating that he can rest assured, then lay flat on the roof, listened for a while, and then untied the skirt of his waist, and uncovered the tiles one by one with his hands, The placket is pocketed.In an instant, a small hole was opened on the roof, and Yan Zifei said, "Brother, come in with me!"

After all, the swallow flew upside down, like a loach, "slipped" and got in.

Bai Shibao crouched at the entrance of the cave, looked in, and saw Yan Zifei squatting on the beam, beckoning him down with his hands.Bai Shibao didn't have such "upside down" kung fu, lying on the hole, slid down along the body, just when his toes touched the beam, Bai Shibao's hand slipped, a tile was swept down, Bai Shibao was shocked, Almost called out.

Yan Zifei stretched out his slender arms, grabbed the tile in his hand, and looked back to see that Bai Shibao was sweating profusely and his face was pale.

Bai Shibao hugged the beam of the house tightly with his hands, not daring to make a sound.

Yan Zifei opened the front of his clothes, grabbed the tiles with his hands and swished them over his head, and repaired the hole in the roof. It was exactly the same as before. I wouldn't have guessed that someone would come in from here...

Bai Shibao lowered his head and looked into the room. There was a black coffin in the middle of the room. There was a brazier in front of the coffin. There was still paper ash in the basin. The candles in the room were brightly lit. There were four or five people beside the coffin wearing hemp, Wearing a filial piety, he lay down on the side, obviously tired from guarding the spirit, and fell asleep.

Yan Zifei whispered: "That fat man with white face is the county magistrate, and he locked the money in the cabinet..."

Bai Shibao looked in following the gestures of swallows flying, and there was a sandalwood cabinet at the far end of the house, which was locked with a lock. Then he turned his head and looked at the ground, and there really was a fat man lying on the cushion, whistling. fell asleep.

Bai Shibao asked in a low voice: "If you don't have a key, how can you get it?"

Yan Zifei swept his hand around his ear, took out the copper bar, and smiled at Bai Shibao: "You wait here, I'll unlock it!" Housing beams, move your body down...

creak!

At this moment, a strange sound came out from nowhere.

Bai Shibao and Yan Zifei were startled and looked down.For some reason, the coffin lid suddenly moved!
Immediately afterwards, there was a rustling sound, like the sound of clothes rubbing against the coffin, and then there was a slight knocking sound, as if someone was pushing the lid of the coffin!

Bai Shibao and Yan Zifei paled in shock, they glanced at each other.

Yan Zifei thought: "Could it be that I ran into an evil spirit?"

Bai Shibao stiffened his neck and peeked at the coffin from the corner of his eye. Under the flickering lights of the mourning hall, a man had already sat up from the coffin. Sallow, with white eyes and no expression on his face, he turned his head slowly and scanned the entire mourning hall...

The swallow flew half-hanging in the air like a sausage, terrified.

The whole house was dead silent.

Bai Shibao's heart raised his throat, and his eyes were fixed on the person in the coffin.

The man stood up stiffly from the coffin, his face was illuminated by the candle like gold paper, rolled his eyes, sniffed around vigorously with his nose, and suddenly jumped out of the coffin, stretching out his hand as if to touch Thinking about something, walking around in the mourning hall...

"This... this is a fraudulent corpse!"

Yan Zifei has never seen this kind of thing before, but he just heard from others that cheating corpses is no joke!

I saw that person walking slowly to the candle, warming his hands in front of the candle, his hands were slowly blackened, he walked up to a person on the ground, smearing the person's cheek with his blackened hands, When it hit it, the man's leg shook and he stopped moving.

Then the man went to bake his hands again, and when the hands were blackened, he did the same thing. The people sleeping on the ground died one by one. At this time, the man went to bake his hands again. As soon as he raised his head, he rolled his eyes, his face was like golden paper, as if he saw Bai Shibao and Yan Zifei!
Bai Shibao was shocked and said: "Oh no, he came running after us!"

The man's purple mouth suddenly smiled, slowly moved his steps, opened his two black hands, and flew towards the swallow hanging in mid-air...

Bai Shibao hastily stretched out his hand to Yan Zifei, and shouted: "Come up quickly, or he will kill you..."

(End of this chapter)