Night Lights

Chapter 53
The situation is too empty, at the beginning of the catastrophe, wandering in five directions, sinking or floating, revealing its presence, and darkening its absence; there are ghosts in the house, who like to sleep soundly, and when they see people lying on their beds, they will sleep on their bodies, and the person is ill If you encounter a room that has been empty for a long time, sweep the bed with your hands, sleep on your side, and protect your body from the sun fire, which can defeat ghosts; this name is: ghost press bed. ——Excerpted from Tongyin Eight Volumes of "Wordless Book of Heaven".

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Swallow Fei was surprised to see it from the beam of the house. The corpse, which was flaunting its claws and waving its claws to take people's lives, actually knelt in front of Bai Shibao and begged for mercy. High man!Then he asked curiously: "What method did brother use to make that corpse kneel down for you?"

Bai Shibao smiled and said, "I invited his father to come!"

Yan Zifei was stunned for a moment, but without thinking too much, he shrugged and picked up the sack, and said to Bai Shibao, "I brought you what my brother wanted!" After finishing speaking, he threw the sack beside Bai Shibao, and it fell to the ground. With a bang, it can be seen that the weight is not light.

Bai Shibao untied the sack, and saw an old hen inside, flapping its wings in the bag, and went to eat the millet in the bag. Bai Shibao reached out and grabbed a handful from the bag, and took a look. Soybeans and soybeans are all kinds of grains.Bai Shibao thought to himself, this is not enough time for a cup of tea, yet Yan Zifei has prepared all the things he wanted, the speed is shocking.

Bai Shibao said: "Brother, hurry up and get the silver, I'll deal with this corpse!"

Yan Zifei nodded, turned over from the beam, and used the copper bar to pry the cabinet.

Here, Xu Fu asked Bai Shibao: "Brother, what are you going to do with this corpse?"

"Under Brother Xu's arrangement, as long as he is told not to kill people..."

Xu Fu nodded, turned around and said to the corpse: "The three souls have not left their bodies yet, and report to the Yin Division?"

The corpse knelt on the ground and begged for mercy: "My son is outrageous, he colluded with a fake Taoist priest to swindle money, I couldn't be more angry, I reasoned with him, but he was sealed to death by him, if I can't kill him and stop his sin, How can I 'hit the road' with peace of mind?"

Xu Fu saw that the corpse dared to talk back to him and lost face in front of the three ghosts behind him and Bai Shibao, so he shouted: "Bold! Life and death are determined, it doesn't matter whether he is a kind-hearted Bodhisattva or a bloodthirsty devil. Heaven has its own judgment. How can you kill people here?"

Bai Shibao didn't know why Xu Fu was suddenly angry?Then he went up and built a 'step', and said to the corpse: "You can rest assured to go on the road, I will take care of your son's affairs, and I promise that he will not harm anyone in the future!"

The corpse thought for a while and answered, knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Bai Shibao, stood up, leaned back, the corpse fell to the ground, the three souls floated out, swayed on the spot, and came out through the door.

Bai Shibao was puzzled and said, "Let him just leave like this? Why didn't Brother Xu lock him up and escort him with three souls?"

Xu Fu replied: "The Yin Division has official documents to point out, this one more is not counted, let him go by himself..."

Bai Shibao nodded, thinking that this is also good, lest he be dissatisfied with grievances, talk back to Xu Fu on the road, and be tortured. Thinking of this, he thought: "Oh no, I forgot to accept the grievances in his mouth just now, that's Zengyang Shou s things……"

Snapped!
At this time, Yan Zifei pushed the lock open with a copper bar, touched the two cabinet doors, and pulled hard, a pile of snowflakes and silver shone brightly, like a small mountain of silver, shining silver light piercing the eyes.

After Xu Fu saw it, he asked Bai Shibao in surprise, "Brother, why are you stealing money here?"

Bai Shibao laughed and said: "These are all ill-gotten gains from the common people. Today we are going to dispose of them and lose his family's wealth!"

Xu Fu stared at a cabinet of snowflakes and silver, stared blankly, and said to himself: "It's really dazzling to look at so much white silver!"

Bai Shibao vaguely understood the meaning of Xu Fu's words, and leaned beside Xu Fu's ear and said silently: "I will secretly save some for Brother Xu, turn it into money, and let Brother Xu use it for drinking..."

Xu Fu's face was overjoyed, he suppressed his figure, looked back at the three ghosts behind him, cleared his throat and said, "Seeing that we are about to see the sky, I am on business, so I will take my leave first..."

Bai Shibao nodded repeatedly and said, "Business matters!"

Xu Fu patted Bai Shibao on the shoulder, pulled the iron chain in his hand, and was about to leave with the three souls, but suddenly turned around and said to Bai Shibao: "Oh, I almost forgot, Ma Guicha told me to remind you , don't forget about him!"

Bai Shibao replied: "Brother Ma, don't worry, since I agreed at the beginning, I will naturally take this matter to heart!"

Xu Fu nodded, and once again turned towards the pile of snowflakes and white smoke, turned around and said goodbye to Bai Shibao, and pulled the three souls through the door...

At this moment, Yan Zifei took off his gown, spread it on the ground, and filled the gown with silver with his hands. Bai Shibao stepped forward and said, "Brother, how much can this hold? Isn't there a sack over there?"

Yan Zifei shook his head and said: "In our business, we have to 'reserve the end', we can't all move away, leaving some end also gives them a 'way out'..."

Bai Shibao thought he was right!Originally, he wanted to use some money to set up a trap, but now he really saw the money and became malicious. Fortunately, Yan Zifei's professional ethics is here to remind him, just get enough!Besides, with so much money, they couldn't move it away!
Bai Shibao said: "If you can't bear it a little, you can make a big mess! Success! Just treat it as a mouse moving its nest, let's move it little by little..."

Bai Shibao and Yan Zifei grabbed the silver from the cabinet and threw it into the gown. After a while, they filled the gown to the brim, scooped up the four corners, tied a knot, and carried Yan Zifei on his shoulders.

Bai Shibao asked: "Brother, how many can you have?"

Yan Zifei shrugged and said, "About 100 taels!"

Bai Shibao looked at the cabinet full of snowflakes and silver, without the 100 taels, it was like the tip of an iceberg, and he couldn't see it. He thought: If I steal it all for you, I'm afraid it won't let you have a long memory, on the contrary, it will be even worse. To intensify his efforts to harm people, why not use his little money to trick them into suffering a big loss!
Yan Zifei said: "Brother, it's almost time, shall we leave?"

Bai Shibao looked back at the county magistrate who was still unconscious, nodded, and said, "Let him clean up the rest of the mess himself!"

Yan Zifei resized the silver in the cabinet. It looked flat on the outside, but there was an empty 'core' inside.

This is called "ghost stealing wealth". As the saying goes: stealing the flesh but not the skin, you can't see it from the outside, but after a long time, the inside is stolen.

Yan Zifei was like a flying squirrel, carrying a hundred taels of silver on his back, still as light as a swallow, touched the beams and pillars, and thumped onto the beams.

Bai Shibao stood on the ground, raised his head and asked Yan Zifei: "Brother, do you still call me 'drilling the window and climbing the beam'?"

Yan Zifei blushed, and said with a smile: "Look at my memory, brother, wait for me a moment!" After finishing speaking, Yan Zifei removed the tiles and got out from the roof. Not long after, he opened the door from the outside and spoke to the audience. Shibao said: "This time, I have to let my brother walk through the door!"

Bai Shibao smiled, and followed Yan Zifei all the way to open the door, but all was well.

The two hid the money in the Guandi Temple, then went to a restaurant in the town, ordered some sake and side dishes, and celebrated.

There was a lot of noise in the restaurant, and the two of them kept silent about the plan. They only talked about traveling in the rivers and lakes. After a while, after a few glasses of wine, Bai Shibao asked Yan Zifei in a low voice: "Brother, do you know that the county magistrate and that How did the fake Taoist defraud so much money?"

Swallow flew around and took a look around, then grabbed a chopstick and said, "These two are playing tricks, pretending to be Taoists, and they are using tricks such as 'fairy children's tricks' and 'fairy possession'..."

Bai Shibao was taken aback for a moment, and asked, "What is 'Xiantong Borrowing Aperture'?"

Yan Zifei laughed and said, "These two still rely on this trick to make a 'signboard' and set up a 'mountain'!"

Yan Zifei gave Bai Shibao a wink, and told him to come forward and explain the method inside...

It turned out that the county magistrate racked his brains to steal money, and found someone far away to conspire with superstitious means to defraud money. This person is the fake Taoist priest.These two first spread rumors everywhere in the city. The fake Taoist priest said that his surname was Zhang, he understood Taoism, and was a wandering Taoist priest. A few days ago, he suddenly dreamed of two children dressed as fairies, one in red and the other in green. , all wearing double-crown buns, told him that a certain year and a certain month were the day they ascended to heaven, and told him to go to the foot of Nanshan Mountain in Tianning Town to welcome them.

After the fake Taoist priest finished speaking, a group of people said one after another that they had also achieved similar dreams, and they all rushed to Tianning Town to welcome Xiantong.The common people believed it was true for a while, and spread the word one after another. When the day came, they would all bring joss sticks and paper money to meet the fairy boy at the foot of Nanshan Mountain.

Just in time, the 'Fairy Boy' really came.

On the river at the foot of Nanshan Mountain, two corpses of children floated from nowhere, both about eight or nine years old. One was wearing a red satin jacket with a drawstring and yellow silk trousers; The dark green silk is also tied at the waist with a belt, and the white silk trousers are all combed with a double bun, and the feet are wearing hemp shoes.

Dress up like a gorgeous fairy boy.

Strange to say, these two child corpses did not float down the current, but were joined together, against the current, and floated towards Nanshan.At this time, the fake Taoist shouted: "The fairy boy is coming, and the corpse is floating against the water!"

Immediately afterwards, someone burned incense and money on the bank to welcome the fairy boy.The county magistrate and the fake Taoist priest called a few people with good water skills, jumped into the river and salvaged the two corpses of the children, and immediately incinerated them after landing, and then put the ashes of the "immortal body" into the two pottery statues. It can be regarded as re-sculpting the statues of the two fairies, and then launched a fundraiser to build a Taoist temple on Nanshan and place the "immortal body".

In this way, the news of the "fairy boy's arrival" spread throughout the nearby towns and villages in two days and three days. Those who believe in men and women, worship gods and seek immortals, rushed to Nanshan Taoist temple to worship' Xiantong', for a time, sesame oil was enshrined, and there were countless money.

The fake Taoist transformed himself and became the deacon of this Taoist temple, and became the "Taoist monarch" who guarded the two "fairies". A tool for fake Taoist priests to swindle money.

Bai Shibao was fascinated when he heard it, and exclaimed, "This method is really vicious!"

After Yan Zifei finished speaking, he said with a chuckle: "This person's 'Taoism' is simply a 'deception', and it is far worse than his brother's 'Taoism'..."

Bai Shibao couldn't help asking: "I heard that this fake Taoist priest can also 'cast rain'. I know that it's the same spell as this 'Fairy Child Coming' spell, which is fake, but I don't know how he does it?"

(End of this chapter)