I was forced to cultivate immortality when I just wanted to lie down

Chapter 82 Huyang Clan, Ghost King's Tomb

It doesn’t cost money, and there is such a good thing?
Xu Qing looked incredulous.

However, the next moment he heard Hu Baosong say:
"As long as you agree to this task and fulfill my wish, it won't matter how many corpses you want afterwards!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Qing was about to break free from Old Man Hu's hand, but immediately let go.

The two men held hands and walked into the coffin shop together. Hu Baosong closed the shop door and lit a candle. The shop full of coffins was stained with a dim yellow by the candlelight.

Xu Qing sat casually on a coffin, and the disciple who followed him closely followed, jumped onto the coffin and sat next to him.

Hu Baosong glanced at the black cat staring at the candlelight and frowned slightly.

"Black cat? For people in our line of work, raising one is unlucky!"

The black cat bared its teeth and panted, obviously very dissatisfied with the old man who spoke ill of it in person.

Xu Qing didn't care. He had seen a lot of unlucky things. Besides, being in the funeral business itself was unlucky.

He doesn't have to worry about itching just because he has too many lice on his body. The bad luck on his body has already been pickled in him. Why would he still be afraid that it is unlucky?
"Never mind the cat, let's talk business first. What's that corpse you were talking about?"

Hu Baosong took out a stick of incense, walked slowly to the candle, lit it with the candle flame jumping on the wick, and then inserted it into the incense burner.

Wisps of white smoke floated up to the beams, wrapping the red-painted square wood hanging on the beams with a layer of gauze.

Only then did Xu Qing realize that there was a heavy coffin on the beam above his head that could accommodate three people.

The coffin is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, high at the front and low at the back. Judging from the design, there should be a small coffin inside.

Could this be the coffin that Wu Yaoxing mentioned, one that can accommodate two or three people lying together?

Xu Qing was surprised, but not because of how big the coffin was, but because of the high status it symbolized. Unless the deceased was extremely wealthy or had great achievements, he would not be qualified to use a coffin.

Whether people are born or die, there are high and low.

When alive, look at the carriage, official position, salary, and land and houses. After death, look at the coffin, hanging quilt, and burial mound.

According to the funeral rules established throughout the ages, the emperor's coffin had four layers, and the large coffin was eight inches thick; the coffins of dukes and officials had three layers, and the large coffin was six inches thick; and the coffins of common people were only allowed to be small coffins four inches thick, without outer coffins.

The coffin that Hu Baosong customized for himself had at least two outer coffins. How could he, a commoner who ran a coffin shop, dare to use this big coffin privately?

If someone reports him, his ashes might even be scattered by the imperial court!

Even if the person is still alive and has not yet been buried, he will be charged with the crime of gross disrespect and will be prosecuted according to the law.

"Old Hu, you think it's unlucky for me to keep a cat. You made such a big coffin. Aren't you afraid that something will happen in the future and cost you your life?"

Hu Baosong stood opposite Xu Qing, his hands tucked into his sleeves, lowered. He looked up at the young man sitting tall in the coffin and asked with a smile:
"Why should I be afraid?"

"You are a commoner. According to ancient and modern laws, you are not entitled to a coffin and a grand burial. These are privileges reserved for princes and nobles."

Hu Baosong laughed heartily, revealing a mouthful of gaps between his teeth. "Look back hundreds and thousands of generations, and you'll see who hasn't been descended from a royal family? Why do you think I'm just a commoner?"

Without waiting for Xu Qing to ask, he spoke first: "Xu boy, have you heard of Hu Yang family?"

"Poplar?" Xu Qing was puzzled.

"The Huyang clan can be traced back ten thousand years, and even its decline was only within the past 1,300 years. According to the laws of heaven, all clan leaders can be buried in heavy coffins."

"I am not talented, but I am the elder who recorded the genealogy of this generation of Huyang family."

"The elder who records the family tree?" Xu Qing was surprised.

"Exactly."

"Then how many people are left in your lineage now?"

"I am the only one here."

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Xu Qing couldn't help but say, "Old Hu, you're almost going to wipe out your clan! Otherwise, I'll prescribe you an aphrodisiac, and we can find a matchmaker to arrange a marriage. Who knows, you might still be strong enough to have a baby."

"Do you think I haven't used it before? If it was useful, why would I come to you?"

Hu Baosong shook his head and said, "The Huyang family has been spreading for many years. It's not like they've been wiped out. It's just that the branch of the Huyang family that I remember is about to die out. That's why I came to you."

"What do you mean? Didn't you say you'd collect endless corpses for me? Old Hu, if you talk about other nonsense, I'm not interested."

"Young people are impatient. Please listen to me slowly."

Hu Baosong was tired of standing, so he found a chair to sit down. At this time, he looked like a skinny old monkey, curled up on the wide chair like a dead branch.

"Last year, your master Liu Youdao dug up a coffin on the Hekou Ancient Road. That coffin was a burial object from the Ghost King's tomb. Inside it were either the Ghost King's concubines or the ghost generals and ghost soldiers who guarded the Ghost King."

"Your master was lucky. He took advantage of the Yang Fire sealing the tomb and stole the coffin out. Unfortunately, the fire disappeared just as quickly as it appeared. Liu Youdao had the courage to steal the coffin, but he never had the courage to open it. I thought that with his personality, he wouldn't be able to endure it for long. Who would have thought that he didn't die in the Ghost King's Tomb, but died outside instead."

Xu Qing said with a bad face: "Last time I asked you, you didn't say anything like this!"

Hu Baosong said with a chuckle, "When you meet someone, only say half of what you want to say. Don't reveal your whole heart. If I didn't leave any room for you, how could you be willing to sit here and listen to me talk about these things?"

Xu Qing smiled and took note of this sentence.

"Master Liu Youdao, Yang Qiying, was once a registered disciple of the Yinshi Sect. The Hekou Ancient Road, a place forbidden to living people, is the Yinshi Sect's favorite place for cultivation."

"You have the Yinshi Sect's inheritance of raising zombies. If you enter the Yinhe Ancient Road, you might be able to gain the Yinshi Sect's protection and find the path to the Huyang Ancient Tomb."

"The only reason I'm looking for you is this: to return to one's roots."

Xu Qing of the "Yinshi Sect" had flickering eyes when he heard this.

When he was praying for Liu Youdao's soul to be reborn, he only saw the scene of Yang Qiying driving corpses in Xiangyin from the other party's revolving lantern.

Yang Qiying did not tell Liu Youdao anything about the Yinshi Sect.

Even when Liu Youdao was dying, he still thought that his master was just an ordinary corpse driver in Xiangyin.

"Why didn't Yang Qiying tell Liu Youdao about his sect?" Xu Qing's thoughts raced.

He didn't dare to gamble on the relationship between Yang Qiying and the Yinshi Sect. Perhaps the other party had betrayed his master, or the sect had some unspeakable secrets. All of these were still unknown.

What if he went to the Yinshi Sect and was treated as an enemy? Who could he turn to for justice?

Xu Qing tried to ask for more details, but Hu Baosong was unable to tell him.

"The Yinshi Sect has always been unconventional in its actions." Hu Baosong hesitated for a moment, as if considering his words. "These things happened over a hundred years ago. Back then, I met Yang Qiying once, and then I met you two, master and disciple."

"More than a hundred years?" Xu Qing looked at Hu Baosong in surprise. Could it be that this old man lived longer than Emperor Longping?

The black cat beside it also pricked up its ears. This was the first time it had seen such a long-lived human.

"My Huyang clan has a well-organized inheritance. Even though my generation is declining, we still have some extraordinary skills and techniques. If the Yinshi Sect had seen my Huyang clan a thousand years ago, they would have probably called us ancestors. Unfortunately, it wasn't established at that time!"

Xu Qing's heart moved, and he asked, "Yang Qiying's surname is Yang, what is his relationship with the Huyang family?"

"You're quite clever." Hu Baosong couldn't help but sit up and said, "There is a little bit of blood, but it's not as pure as mine."

"Huyang, could it be that you also have the ability to deal with the vagina?"

"Haha." Hu Baosong sneered, "My Huyang family is the ancestor of the Yin Sect business! Do you think I have lived for so many years and don't have any skills? When your master Liu Youdao came to ask for advice, he called me 'old senior'."

Xu Qing's eyes lit up when he heard this. "Old Senior, you don't want your family's inheritance to be cut off like this, do you?"

"Don't worry about my abilities. Your last name is Xu and mine is Hu. Even if you say anything, you will never be included in the family tree of my Huyang clan."

Hu Baosong stood up and walked to the incense burner. This time he lit three more incense sticks.

"But as a reward, if you let me return to my roots, I can hand over this shop to you and give you a treasure that can help you locate corpses."

As soon as he finished speaking, Hu Baosong took out a boxwood compass from his arms.

According to Hu Baosong, after a person dies, the aura around him will change. At this time, one only needs to use the corresponding spell to calculate whether there are any corpses of newly dead people within a radius of twenty miles.

Looking at the compass, Xu Qing finally understood Hu Baosong's intention.

It turns out that the free corpse that Old Man Hu mentioned was his own corpse, and the countless corpses that he could get afterwards were referring to this treasure for finding and locating corpses.

"Senior Hu, when do you plan to die?" Xu Qing almost blurted out, then he quickly changed his words and changed to a more euphemistic way: "I mean, when do you plan to be included in the family tree?"

Hu Baosong looked at Xu Qing and said with a half-smile, "If I die, how can I know whether you will fulfill your promise and send me back to the ancestral tomb?"

"You must swear an oath!" Hu Baosong lit three incense sticks and said, "I have a method to prove my inner strength. If you dare to swear an oath before this lamp, I will teach you the method of finding corpses."

As the old saying goes, when a person dies, it is like a lamp going out, so swearing at a lamp is a very serious matter.

Xu Qing looked at the corpse oil lamp Hu Baosong took out and said with a smile: "Swear on the lamp?" "Swear on the lamp!"

The two hit it off immediately, and immediately used the corpse lamp to prove the will of heaven, wrote the red words of heaven and earth, and each cast a spell.

"Dan Zhu testifies to the divine power of the mouth, and the Way of Heaven testifies to the human heart. If what I say today is false, all those who are normal will perish, those who are high will fall, those who unite will separate, and those who are alive will die!"

Xu Qing's eyelids twitched when he heard this. Old man Hu's oath was really vicious!

By the time it was his turn, the light in front of him had already burst into flames three feet high.

There is a god three feet above the head.

Xu Qing gathered his thoughts and his expression suddenly became serious.

"Faith is like the earth of the five elements, without a fixed place or name, while water, gold, and wood all await those who live with it. Today, I have reached a deal with Senior Hu to relocate his body and bury it, allowing him to return to his roots. If I break my oath, I will be transformed into a zombie after death, and will never be reborn!"

Xu Qing remembered this saying, and now that he was learning and applying it, he made a perfect vow.

As soon as the two men finished their oath, the lamp filled with corpse oil suddenly burst into flames. The Heaven and Earth Certificate written by Hu Baosong using the Proof of Mind Method spontaneously combusted without wind, frightening Xu Qing so much that he stepped back repeatedly.

When Black Cat saw the flames rushing towards the beams, he couldn't help feeling uneasy.

If the disciple breaks his oath, the immortal shouldn't be struck by lightning, right?
Hu Baosong nodded with satisfaction upon seeing this, and his eyes towards Xu Qing became much softer.

"Xu boy, you are very good!"

Xu Qing coughed lightly and said, "In business, trust and loyalty come first. You and I are neighbors, so I will naturally not break my contract."

Hu Baosong let out a long sigh and handed over the old compass and the corpse-finding spell.

"If I want to pass this shop on to you, I must have the neighbors as witnesses, and the house deeds and land deeds will be transferred by the government. As for when to take them to the ancestral tomb..."

"Seven days from now will be an auspicious day. I'll have to trouble you to bury me then."

After leaving the coffin shop, Xu Qing was still thinking about the Huyang family's inheritance.

Hu Baosong is very tight-lipped and would rather be buried in the ground than pass on his skills to the world.

It is such a pity that so many skills from ancient times to the present have disappeared just like that.

But fortunately, he still has the Sutra of Saving People.

He just didn't believe that Old Hu's revolving lantern would be as tight-lipped as his own mouth.

When he arrived at the door of the coroner's shop, Cheng Caiyun, who was picking vegetables, cried out "Ouch" and walked towards him, twisting her plump waist.

"Oh, Xu Xiucai is back! I haven't seen you for a long time, and you look more handsome than before."

Looking at the proprietress of the incense and candle shop in front of him, Xu Qing chuckled, "Thanks to Boss Cheng's concern, I was lucky enough to win a place in the Student category. I wasn't going to win at first, but then I remembered the prize Boss Cheng promised me, and I got inspired and won the fourth place in the Student category!"

The lucky chance he mentioned can be traced back to before the imperial examination, when Cheng Caiyun joked that she would give him a basket of fresh eggs when he passed the exam.

Cheng Caiyun laughed awkwardly upon hearing this, pretending not to hear Xu Qing's hidden words.

"Now that you've passed the imperial examination, you should host a feast and give some money to the neighbors."

Xu Qing said in surprise, "I've only heard of successful candidates giving out wedding gifts. I'm just a poor scholar, how can I possibly boast about this?"

"But I still remember what Boss Cheng promised."

"It's just getting warmer, and my chickens aren't laying many eggs."

"If you really can't come up with it, you can exchange it for something else!"

Xu Qing looked at the woman in front of him with a smile.

Cheng Caiyun's ears flushed red upon hearing this, and she said angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about? Who else do you want to change to?"

"Two bundles of candles, made of good bay oil. I'm just about to reopen my business, and I can't do without candles."

Cheng Caiyun curled her lips, turned around and went back to the shop.

Through the wallpaper shop, Hu Baosong called out Wu Yaoxing's family. When they saw Xu Qing, they were so eager.

The Wu brothers wanted to know where he had been studying for the past two months. Maybe he had run into some romantic guy and was so engrossed in him that he forgot to come back.

Unfortunately, the two of them couldn't get a word in for a while because Wu Yaoxing was too talkative and never stopped once he started.

"Brother Hu has been lonely all his life. It's a good thing that Brother Xu can take care of him in the future!"

"I'll call the neighbors to bear witness for you two. From now on, you two will be one family, and everything will be one."

Wu Yaoxing's words settled the matter. When Hu Baosong passed away one day, his coffin shop would naturally be transferred to Xu Qing's name.

Xu Qing was not very interested in the shop on the street, but if Hu Baosong was really dead, this funeral street would be missing a leader.

After all, the most important thing in funeral matters is the coffin.

If there were no coffin shops, would it still be called a funeral street?

Xu Qing thought that maybe he could go to the pawnshop to look for Mr. Li Si in the future. Even if he could charge less rent, as long as he could find a replacement, it would be fine!
After finishing the chores here, Xu Qing returned to the coroner's shop and began to worry about setting up the temple for the shaman.

The cat in front of him was also setting up a hall for the first time, and his only experience was gained from catching lone gray fairies and torturing them.

It asked Xu Qing if he understood.

How could Xu Qing tell it that he also learned the ability to perform rituals by torturing a lone disciple?

Not a family, do not enter the door.

A cat and a zombie finally shared their experiences and established the Cat Fairy Hall.

As a result, the cat, who had just entered the industry and had not yet officially started working for him, started to get angry again.

"Who's called Xijianshu?"

"This morning when you were eating sweet potatoes, I gave you a name for your Taoist priesthood. It's so easy to remember, and you didn't refuse, didn't you?"

"I didn't hear that! Cat Fairy is also a fairy, how could she have such a vulgar Taoist name?"

"Then what do you want to be called?"

"Someone just said that the two young men next door are the top of the scholar list or something."

"Yaqui."

"Then go find them and give me a Taoist name that sounds like a fairy. That way, I can look respectable when I go out!"

Xu Qing was eager to use the shaman to see the origins of the two coffins in the shop. It would be a shame if his important matter was delayed because of a name.

Resisting the urge to throw Xijianshu into the street to be trampled upon by children, Xu Qing ran to the next door house late at night to ask the two talented brothers of the Wu family to name the stray cat he had "picked up".

"That's not right, Brother Xu should go to the port and ask for a fresh fish as a betrothal gift. That's the proper way to betroth a cat."

Wu Zhiyuan and Wu Wencai chatted about this and that, and before they even decided on a name, they had already moved on to other things.

On the wall between the two houses, Xijianshu was sitting there, looking at Xu Qing expectantly.

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I asked you two to come up with a name, not to add business to me!
Xu Qing responded in a muffled voice.

They chatted for a while, and when they returned to the coroner's shop, Xu Qing, who had a new name, took a pen and paper and wrote down the name of the spirit on the memorial tablet in the hall.

Inscribed on it is "The position of Empress Qingqing of the Cat Fairy Hall in the Xu Family Mansion".

Qingqing is the name of a famous ink among the four treasures of the study.

The Wu brothers were well versed in poetry and literature, and had their own ideas on how to name things.

Just based on the color, there are no less than twenty kinds of famous inks from ancient times to the present, such as Yuanguang, Qingsong, Xuanxiang, Qingqing, Songyan, Yuanshuang, and Qiyan.

Finally, only the name Qingqing is a reduplicated word, which is suitable for calling a cat, and is still elegant, which just matches the character and appearance of the black cat.

In addition to the name of the immortal, Xu Qing also wrote a couplet on the left and right sides of the hall list according to the method of setting up the hall.

The first couplet is "cultivating the mind and nourishing the nature in the deep mountains".
The second line reads 'Leave the ancient cave to keep your family safe'.

In this way, a written hall is established.

　The name of the disciple who is going out this time should be nice, right?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)