Night Lights

Chapter 68

Mourning is approaching people, changing palace merchants into an elegy; fleeting years of luck, meeting the star of mourning, entering the tomb of the owner of the house, worrying about mourning clothes; the four-pillar spirits are the mourning gate, hanging guest, tengu, and Tai Sui; their fate is not good , The murderer of the fleeting year can use the sheep blade to break the murderous spirit, and it is a horizontal pass to avoid disasters; the name of this mourning door is: mourning clothing, also known as: ground mourning. ——Excerpted from Tongyin Eight Volumes of "Wordless Book of Heaven".

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"Brother, are you going to let him go like this?"

Yan Zifei stomped his feet on the ground, feeling that the numbness in his legs had dissipated, and strength was growing in his thighs.While helping Bai Shibao to climb out of the cave, he asked Bai Shibao in puzzlement.

Bai Shibao replied: "Everyone said: Scratching the skin doesn't relieve the itch, and killing a little boy doesn't relieve the hatred! I want to get a 'big head'!"

Yan Zifei smiled and said, "Brother, do you mean to capture the thief first?"

Bai Shibao nodded.

Yan Zifei was overjoyed and said: "Brother! I see that you should not go back to the capital. Why don't you go to Tianjin to look for the 'Strange Qianma Wuye' together? Then we can discuss it together. How many people can make up our minds? Let's see." How can we kill Yuan Datou!"

Bai Shibao lowered his head and pondered for a while, then said, "Actually, I'm not very interested in his head. What I want is the head of Kui over there. I want to use him as a sacrificial wine for Master!"

"Okay! I will definitely help you with this matter!"

At this time, the two walked on the dirt road, Yan Zifei looked up and saw that the sky had already dawned, and it was about Chen's hour, he turned around and hesitated: "Huh? Why are there no horses? Your dog How did the slave come here?"

Bai Shibao looked at the empty dirt road, only their overturned carriage and the dead horse, and there was nothing around, he couldn't help wondering in his heart: Could it be that Liao Gouzi and the others were sent here?
Yan Zifei thought for a while and said: "Brother, why don't we wait here, maybe we can meet some kind-hearted people who will take us along for a while, as long as we enter the city, we will hire a carriage and go north!"

Bai Shibao touched his body, the money was lost!He touched his chest again, and found that the old book and scroll were still on his body, which finally made him breathe a sigh of relief.

I thought: the silver must have been touched by that Li Jiuzi, but fortunately he didn't know what to buy, so he kept this old book handed down by his master.

Bai Shibao turned to Yan Zifei and asked, "Brother, do you have any silver?"

Yan Zifei shook his head and said: "Our corpses have been left here for so many days, and all the money on our bodies has been touched, where did the money come from!"

Bai Shibao asked puzzledly: "Then what money do you use to hire a carriage?"

Yan Zifei took out a few dollars from his bosom, weighed them with his hands, turned around with a smile, and said, "Your dog slave has quite a lot of money, just now when I got close to him, I touched a few dollars from his bosom. It's an ocean, just enough to hire a carriage!"

"..." Bai Shibao didn't know how to praise Yan Zifei.

Yan Zifei supported Bai Shibao to lean against the overturned carriage, letting him rest for a while.

At this moment, the sound of a carriage grinding sand and soil was suddenly heard in the distance.

Rumble!
The wheels spun rapidly, causing the stones to rattle.

Yan Zifei was overjoyed and said: "Brother, look, here comes a driving car!"

Bai Shibao turned his head to look, and saw a brown mule pulling a flatbed carriage galloping towards this side. Sitting in the carriage was a thin old man, wearing a black leather jacket, with his hands in his sleeves and his elbows tucked between his elbows. A riding whip, sitting in the carriage half drunk, half-closed his eyes half asleep, as if he was taking a nap.

Seeing the carriage approaching, Yan Zifei jumped to the side of the road and shouted to stop him: "Master! How about giving us a ride?"

Wow!

The old man was startled awake, stopped his horse hastily, stared at Yan Zifei, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Yan Zifei hurriedly said: "Old man, we are passing traders, unexpectedly we met a big bug here, killed our horse and injured my brother, Xiang Shunlu took your car to the town ahead... ..."

The old man shook his legs, jumped out of the carriage, turned around the overturned carriage, saw the blood on Bai Shibao's body again, shook his head and said, "Tsk tsk! You are fooling me, I don't look like it." !"

Yan Zifei said anxiously: "Old man, why did I lie to you with what I said? You see, this horse's belly has been ripped apart by the worm, and even the intestines and heart have been eaten up!"

The old man smiled and said: "Hey, I have crossed more bridges than you have traveled, you can't fool me... Are you deserters?"

Bai Shibao and Yan Zifei looked at each other for a moment!
Bai Shibao hastily winked at Yan Zifei.

Yan Zifei smiled awkwardly: "The old man has really good eyesight! To be honest, we are really deserters. It's not that we have no backbone, it's that our team was broken up..."

The old man nodded and smiled, "I guessed it a long time ago, but I still want to fool me!"

Yan Zifei smiled apologetically and said: "My brothers escaped here, the car broke down and people were injured. I was thinking that the old man could help out, do good deeds, and give us a ride! There are relatives waiting for us at home, we can't die it's here……"

As he spoke, Yan Zifei's eyes really turned red.

The old man shook his head and sighed: "Hey! I really don't understand. In a good world, what kind of war do you fight? You ruin your family, let alone your wives and children, and there are dead people everywhere... Forget it! Don't say anything, I Let’s pull you for a while! Once you enter the city, you can figure out your own way!”

Yan Zifei was overjoyed, and thanked the old man with cupped hands, then ran over to help Bai Shibao get into the old man's carriage.

spit!

drive!
The old man swung his horsewhip, slapped the whip in mid-air, and drove the carriage up.

At this moment, Yan Zifei spoke to the old man from behind, and asked, "The old man is so early in the morning, where are you going?"

The old man pursed his lips and said, "Go get the dead!"

Bai Shibao was lying on the carriage, and after hearing this, he sat up suddenly, regardless of the pain all over his body, and exclaimed in his heart: What?Pull the dead?Could it be that this old man was hired by Liao Sanhe to pull their corpses?

Bai Shibao asked urgently: "Old man, where are you going to kill people?"

The old man replied: "Thirty miles in front of the mountain! I have been dragging it for several days. There was a battle there a few days ago, and thousands of officers and soldiers died. We collected money to help drag their bodies back to bury them." Already!"

After hearing this, Yan Zifei glanced at Bai Shibao, and whispered, "No wonder we met Yin soldiers to make an excuse, so they are here to collect souls!"

Bai Shibao nodded, and asked the old man, "Who paid for you to collect the corpse, old man?"

The old man turned his head to look at Bai Shibao, and said with a smile, "Who else is this young man asking? Of course it's the leader of this group of officers and soldiers! What use is the enemy asking for their corpses!"

Bai Shibao felt relieved, thinking that as long as it wasn't Liao Sanhe's master, Bian Kui, it would be fine!
Thinking of this, Bai Shibao raised his head and looked forward, and suddenly said in surprise: "Be careful!"

The old man hurriedly turned his head and saw that on the dirt road in front of him, there were pairs of green eyes drifting unhurriedly!Bai Shibao rubbed his eyes, and took a closer look, it turned out to be a fat fox squatting on the road, and behind the fox there were four or five cubs lined up in the aisle.

Yan Zifei exclaimed in shock: "Oh! I hit evil!"

The old man shouted, "Hey! Look! Old Fox Immortal! Old Fox Immortal!"

Bai Shibao said anxiously: "Be careful, don't bump into them!"

At this time, the old man not only did not tighten the reins, but swung his whip and lashed at the mule, cursing in his mouth: "I told you to play tricks on people, old fox fairy. If you don't believe me, you won't be afraid of running over!"

Bai Shibao was startled, and it was too late to stop him!
There was only a scream of 'Zhi', and the carriage ran over the fox...

Bai Shibao asked in surprise, "Crushed to death?"

But the old man laughed and said: "It ran over its dog's tail!"

The carriage didn't stop, and ran forward quickly, Bai Shibao looked back, and saw that big fat fox was holding a cub in its mouth, rolled its body into a ball, curled up on the ground to protect the cub.Apparently the big fat fox just got under the carriage.

Unsurprisingly.

Bai Shibao sighed: "It's okay! It's not under pressure!"

The swallow flew to the old man and asked, "Why didn't the old man stop the car just now?"

The old man shook his head and said: "You can't get used to this fox fairy, otherwise it will stick its nose on your face and always come to block your way..."

Bai Shibao and Yan Zifei looked at each other and remained silent.

It took about one stick of incense to drive the horse-drawn carriage to a narrow and rugged mountain road. There was a deep ditch on the left and a hillside on the right. There was only a gravel path in the middle. The old man drove the horse carefully, for fear that he would stray into the ravine inside!

Oh oh oh!
I don't know where the crying came from.

At this time, I ran into a funeral carriage head-on, pulling a thick coffin on the carriage, and several family members dressed in sackcloth and filial piety were supporting the coffin and weeping bitterly. The middle-aged man driving the carriage was carrying a soul-inducing banner, and his eyes were red from crying.

Appeal!
The old man stopped the carriage and shouted, "Isn't that unlucky? I met a funeral attendant early in the morning!"

Bai Shibao felt that the old man had a temper, and was afraid that he would mess around again, so he whispered behind him: "The dead are the worst! Don't be arrogant about this kind of thing, let them go first..."

The middle-aged man driving the car came over and bowed to the old man, and said sincerely: "Master! We are in a hurry to mourn, can you let us go first?"

The old man said: "Such a narrow mountain road, two cars can't miss it! But I can't do it this way!"

The middle-aged man was anxious, and begged: "Old man! Look at you, you must be a master who has traveled far and wide, and you must have more knowledge than me. Give me an idea!"

The old man looked around, pointed to the hillside beside him and said: "You have many people and the car is heavy and you still carry the coffin. We have an empty car. Otherwise, we should lift our car up the hillside first, and wait for you to pass by." Help us lift it down again?"

Bai Shibao turned his head to look at the hillside beside him, and thought to himself, "I'm afraid it will take a lot of strength to lift up such a high hillside!"

"Success! The old man still has an idea, I admire it!"

The middle-aged man yelled at his family members to jump out of the car and help them together.

The old man drove the mule up the hillside in front, and everyone behind them carried the carriage. After a lot of effort, they finally lifted the carriage to a gentle place on the hillside.

At this time, the middle-aged man and his family members returned to their car, and drove the carriage forward, showing no intention of coming back to help...

Yan Zifei was surprised and said, "Huh? Didn't you agree to help us lift the car down? How did you go so fast?"

Just as the old man was about to chase after him, he saw that the carriage pulling the coffin suddenly disappeared!

I can only hear the laughter of "Chi Chi" echoing in this empty valley!

Halfway up the mountain.

The old man looked at Yan Zifei, and Yan Zifei turned to look at Bai Shibao.

Bai Shibao said in shock: "Oh no! We were fascinated by the fox just now..."

"fox?"

Bai Shibao said: "You didn't notice just now, the woman sitting in the carriage has thick dark circles around her eyes and winking eyes, isn't she very similar to the fox who was lying on the road just now? The family members beside the coffin just now, Isn't everyone a child?"

The old man exclaimed in surprise: "Could it be that old fox fairy that was crushed just now?"

Bai Shibao nodded.

Yan Zifei looked down and asked, "By the way, how do we lift this carriage down?"

(End of this chapter)