unscrupulous spirit catcher

Chapter 217 Food
The ground next to the stone statue was filled with empty jars.

The empty jars are placed neatly among the withered grass, and the outside of each jar is painted with red paint.

The red paint is the same as the coffin, and white paint is used to draw a very realistic picture of "Riding a Crane on a Journey to the West".

These are all things painted on the coffin.

These empty jars are actually placed here as "empty coffins" by others.

Empty coffins are hollow objects and can easily attract ghosts. The purpose of placing so many "empty coffins" together is self-evident, which is to attract ghosts.

This place is really evil, it's always attracting ghosts.

Song Yu casually dispelled the ghost spirit inside and continued walking around the palace.

They are all things that attract ghosts.

Broken mirrors, tablets, shrouds, all these ominous objects appeared here, surrounding this place into a small gathering place.

After a lap, Song Yu found the entrance.

The entrance is two heavy doors, which are also dark and without any light, blocking out all sounds inside.

Song Yu glanced at the wall and felt that he might be able to climb over it with his two "long legs."

She blew out the lamp in her hand, tied up her clothes and pants, and was about to step forward, when suddenly there was a sound of heavy footsteps from inside, and someone came out.

The door was held up and lifted up to avoid making any noise. Soon, the door was opened quietly.

Song Yu hid among the shrouds and paper-tied people, using the light coming from inside to look at the people coming out.

The first ones came out were two stern-looking middle-aged women, both carrying white paper lanterns, incense candles, paper money and other items in their hands, while the four young palace maids who followed behind them carried several heavy lanterns in their hands. food box.

The food in the food box still smells delicious.

Song Yu was surprised by what he saw, wondering what on earth these people were going to do, why were they doing it like a funeral?
When everyone came out, the first two people started to work with ease. They put paper money and incense candles one by one and burned them in different places.

After the paper money was burned, the wind blew and the ashes immediately swirled and flew everywhere.

But when the wind stopped, the paper money also stopped.

The two people who were burning the paper felt something was wrong. They looked at each other and whispered.

"Why is it different from usual? Did something happen?"

"Don't talk nonsense, the master said, as long as you make offerings, it will be fine."

"But this paper money... forget it..."

The two of them said a few words, then stopped quickly and continued to burn paper.

Song Yu knew what was going on.

Originally, this place was full of lonely ghosts, but now they have been devoured by her. Naturally, there will be nothing to claim the paper money.

The paper money was quickly burned, and the palace maid carrying the food box stepped forward, took out the meals one by one, and placed them in different places.

What was brought out were the twelve bowls used to worship the deceased, including rice, spring dried vegetables, leeks, dried tofu, fish, meat, turnips, red balls, noodles, and some small plates.

Arrange these things one by one and insert chopsticks upside down. After the ghosts eat, these meals will become the food of the dead.

That is, a cold meal for children.

But it’s okay to have a meal once in a while. After all, even if there are only five bowls for the poor, they won’t be willing to throw them away.

But if you eat it every day, it will be bad.

What are these people trying to do?
Good food is not eaten by others, it must be sacrificed to the dead before it can be eaten by others.

Song Yu looked confused, and the six women standing outside were also confused.

Why isn't this food cold yet?
It's the middle of winter now, and the food cools very quickly, and the heat is gone in a short while, but when you touch the edge of the bowl, you still feel a little warm.

"Does this...do we need to invite the master to take a look?"

"Normally at this time, there would be no temperature at all."

The coldness of the meals eaten by the dead is biting cold, and often the meals are completely cold in an instant.

At first, they may even feel scared because of this situation, but as time passes and they get used to it, they will become panicked because the rice was not eaten by the ghost.

Is it because these ghosts are dissatisfied with them?
The most stern woman walked back in a hurry: "I'll ask the master to take a look, you all don't move!"

The others nodded and stood there without daring to move. No one saw the little one slip through the crack in the door and disappear inside.

After Song Yu followed in, he immediately used his petite size to hide and wander around.

How come the arrangement here is like a funeral?
It was either black or white, and there was a lingering smell of death and putrid smell everywhere, as if two feet were stepping on the grave.

Song Yu walked along the corridor and was about to go elsewhere when he saw the woman who came in hurriedly leading a Taoist priest out.

魖！
From the flickering lights, Song Yu saw that the Taoist priest's neck was like porcelain, without any blood.

It seemed that Zhen's hands were stretched much longer than they thought. There were even so many in the palace, and he was still pretending to be a Taoist priest.

However, the origin of this Taoist priest has nothing to do with the emperor in all likelihood, otherwise the emperor would not have mixed up with the liar Zihua Taoist priest.

Song Yu watched the two of them go out, and he pressed against the wall like a croaker, entering from the direction they came from.

Not far away, she smelled a faint smell of blood and the voice of a child talking.

"Why haven't you eaten yet? I'm so hungry."

"I'm hungry too, but I don't want to eat this meal."

"I don't want to eat either. Xiaofu said he would be back soon. Why haven't you come back yet?"

"If you are found out, you will definitely get beaten."

"I want to go out too."

Song Yu poked open the window and looked inside.

A group of children were talking loudly, and each one was the same as the dead one. They were obviously alive, but their bodies were lifeless, their faces were pale, and there was no blood at all.

Next to the child, there were two pregnant women sitting. These two pregnant women looked numb, their eyes were dull, and they didn't care about their current situation.

They seemed to eat and live together with these children.

Song Yu thought about the current situation and thought of a possibility.

It doesn't matter if you eat the dead man's meal once in a while, but what if you start eating it from the stomach?
Not to mention eating the food of the dead, he has been growing up in a place where yin energy gathers since he was born. If he is not exposed to yang energy, he will probably grow like a living dead.

As for the child who quietly ran out, after suddenly eating food with pyrotechnics, the internal organs that had been soaked in Yin Qi in his body seemed to be burned by fire, and he died in pain.

What do these people want to do?
What's the use of raising a child who is neither human nor ghost?

Song Yu had never heard of such a situation, and he couldn't guess what this was going to do.
Soon, Xiao came back.

He looked suspicious, obviously not understanding why the lonely ghosts outside disappeared completely.

No matter what the reason was, he had to put these things together again.

As for today’s meal, of course there is no more.

(End of this chapter)