Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 14 Mountain Monkey

Aunt Liu's eyes widened in shock, and she questioned Ran Qing excitedly, trying to confirm what she saw.

Ran Qing was extremely shocked and could not understand Sixth Aunt's extreme reaction.

Yin Shou Shu...

Ran Qing was not unfamiliar with this word.

When Yuezhao was little, he'd often heard this thing mentioned in the ghost stories told by the elders. It even appeared frequently in operas where Yin-Yang masters buried the dead and chanted sutras.

According to the elders, the so-called Yin Shou Shu is a ghost book that can only be read by Yin Yang masters. It is said that everyone has a Yin Shou Shu in their body, which records a person's life, good and evil deeds, life span and other major and minor deeds.

However, the living cannot read this book. Only after a person dies and reaches the underworld will the ghost messengers extract the Yin Shou Shu from the body. Then, King Yama will judge the ghost according to the good and bad deeds recorded in the Yin Shou Shu.

Good people who do good deeds will be reborn in a good place in the next life. Bad people who do evil deeds will go to the eighteen levels of hell...

This is the Yin Shou Shu that Ran Qing knows, a very simple folk legend.

But didn’t Sixth Aunt say that there is no such thing as the underworld or the Black and White Impermanence?

But the Yin Shou Shu actually exists?

Ran Qing was extremely stunned.

Ran Qing's silence seemed to wake Aunt Liu up.

She obviously realized that the young student in front of her knew nothing. After taking several deep breaths, Aunt Liu slowly put down the pocket drumstick with trembling hands.

"That thing you saw, she was wearing a school uniform, she was your classmate...right?"

Aunt Liu said with a cold expression, "That devil actually wanted to keep me here. It's really weird."

"She wasn't scared at all when she saw the ghost-eyed sheepskin drum, and she even wanted to hurt me! The little bitch is trying to turn the tables!"

Sixth Aunt cursed furiously, her face livid. Clearly, Li Hongye's terror had surpassed her expectations. When people encounter horrific events, aside from feeling grateful for their survival, they often feel anger and resentment, like Sixth Aunt, who cursed furiously.

After angrily cursing, Aunt Liu looked at Ran Qing and said with a sullen face, "This classmate of yours is even more terrifying than I expected."

"She's carrying the Yin Shou Book, and she's not afraid of my ghost-eyed sheepskin drum... You and your father are really lucky!"

"I've never heard of such a horrible and weird thing!"

Aunt Liu cursed and swore as she stood up to pack her things.

She hurriedly stuffed the incense, candles, bronze mirrors and other miscellaneous items into the small box, and said to Ran Qing: "Little boy, do you still want to try it?"

"We failed to save your father this time. There's basically nothing we can do."

"That thing is guarding your dad, there's no way he can be saved!"

"But I have another method I can try. Maybe I can kill that thing, but it's more dangerous. Do you dare?"

After Aunt Liu packed up all the things, she hurriedly carried the small wooden box into the inner room on the left, and then dragged out a dirty nylon bag from the inner room.

After the dirty nylon bag was dragged out, a strong stench suddenly filled the air, like the strange smell of dead fish. Furthermore, the nylon bag was moving, as if there was something alive inside.

As Ran Qing looked at her in astonishment, Sixth Aunt dragged the nylon bag to the door of the main room, sat down directly beside the door and looked at Ran Qing.

"The best way to deal with dead things is to burn the bodies."

"I'm going to find your classmate's body and burn it. Even if she doesn't disappear, she'll be skinned alive. Then it'll be much easier to save your father's soul."

"But even if we dig up the body of this evil creature, it's going to be difficult to deal with. So I want you to be the bait. You'll face that evil creature alone, buying me time to burn the body."

"This means you have to go meet that thing alone... Do you dare?!"

Aunt Liu said this with a ferocious expression, and her cloudy eyes, like dead fish, were filled with a cold light.

The dangerous experience just now obviously stimulated her.

This woman, who originally had no intention of taking charge, was even more extreme than Ran Qing at this time. Knowing that the situation was dangerous, she still wanted to get rid of Li Hongye completely and came up with an extremely dangerous method.

Her vicious eyes and resentful tone made Ran Qing feel a little creepy.

At this moment, the Sixth Aunt in front of him seemed not to be the Sixth Aunt anymore. She seemed to have become something else.

Such associations made Ran Qing nervous.

But before he could answer, a burst of rapid and shrill dog barking suddenly came from outside the door.

The sickly dog ​​tied at the door suddenly roared madly.

The ferocious dog barking was extremely harsh in the dark night. The local dog outside the door seemed to have seen something terrifying and ferocious, and was roaring wildly.

When the dog barked, Aunt Liu, who had a ferocious expression on her face, was stunned for a moment, and then she relaxed completely.

Her shoulders slumped, her eyes grew cold, and she returned to her lazy, numb, dead-eyed self. That ferocious, fierce look just now seemed like an illusion to Ran Qing.

Hearing the barking of dogs outside the door, Aunt Liu reached into the nylon bag and took out a dirty toad.

Before Ran Qing could see the toad's full appearance, Aunt Liu opened the wooden door a crack and threw the toad out.

The jumping toad quickly disappeared into the darkness outside the door, but Aunt Liu continued to take things out of the nylon bag.

The second one, the third one...

Aunt Liu, dragging a nylon bag, threw eight toads out of the door in one breath.

Until the nylon bag was empty and shriveled, a strange chewing sound was heard outside the door.

The crunching sound was extremely harsh in the darkness.

But the chewing sounds lasted for a while and then quickly disappeared, and then the barking of dogs outside the door continued.

Those things seemed to be getting closer again.

Aunt Liu frowned as she emptied the bag. She wiped the mucus off her hands with a nylon bag, closed the door, and then looked at Ran Qing.

"It's not just an ordinary trouble..."

As Aunt Liu finished speaking, the wooden door behind her shook violently, as if something was hitting the door from outside.

The dull thud was extremely harsh.

Ran Qing was caught off guard and was frightened. He stood up suddenly and looked at the wooden door.

"Sixth Aunt, outside is..."

Ran Qing was a little shocked.

The thing knocking on the door outside was clearly some kind of living creature.

As the thing banged on the door frantically, the roar of the local dog tied to the door became even more shrill, as if the dog wanted to scare away the thing at the door by barking.

But Aunt Six, who had locked the wooden door, had a cold look in her eyes and was indifferent to the strange noises outside: "Don't pay attention to them. They are here to collect debts, not your classmate. Don't be nervous."

Aunt Liu's eyes were as lifeless as those of a dead fish, and her cloudy and cold eyes stared straight at Ran Qing.

There were repeated banging sounds outside the door, as if there were many things banging against it. Although they made the door bang, they could not break the thin wooden door.

Aunt Six said in a cold tone, "Every time I use the Ghost Eye Sheepskin Drum, these mountain monkeys come to collect the debt."

"What we encountered tonight was too weird, and the mountain monkeys wanted more than usual. The ghost toads I raised were not enough, so I had to default on the debt."

"After daybreak, these mountain monkeys will go away on their own. They don't dare to come out during the day."

Aunt Liu's cold narration revealed a lot of information.

The mysterious ghost-eye sheepskin drum she used actually came at a price?

But mountain monkeys...what are mountain monkeys?
This was the first time Ran Qing heard of this thing.

But Sixth Auntie obviously had no intention of explaining to Ran Qing. She stood by the door, listening to the noise of the mountain monkeys banging on the door outside, and said coldly: "Think carefully about what I just said, and decide whether you still want to save your father."

(End of this chapter)