From Jiu Shu's world

Chapter 115 The Old Man in the Coffin Shop
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Henry Zhang stepped forward and knocked on the black door panel. The knocking sound was unhurried, but it was exceptionally loud in the night.

When knocking on the door late at night, Henry Zhang is not worried about someone responding, because there have been two businesses since ancient times. No matter how late the night is, as long as someone knocks on the door, the door must be opened to receive guests.

One is the pharmacy, and the other is the coffin shop.The reason why the pharmacy must be open is because the disturbance in the middle of the night must be caused by someone in the family who came to ask for medicine due to an emergency.

The second is the coffin shop. No one will knock on the coffin shop casually in the middle of the night, unless there is an urgent funeral at home. This person's death is a big deal, and it is inevitable to open the door. Taking care of people's urgency, even doing good deeds In order not to get into trouble.

Life and death are matters of human life and fate, but coincidences are also destined in the dark.

Inside the door, a deep and gentle voice sounded: "Wait, here we come."

This coffin shop is not the kind of door leaf that can be rotated, but a wooden door that can be loaded and unloaded piece by piece.There were several knocks at the door, and the person who responded just now seemed to be opening the door. After a while, he unloaded a wooden plank one person wide and put it in.

Through the exposed space, Henry Zhang looked in and saw nothing else.While watching, suddenly a dim light hit Henry Zhang’s face, and a black-haired old man in white clothes appeared in front of Henry Zhang holding an oil lamp.

The old man didn’t ask Henry Zhang what was the matter for the first time, but looked Henry Zhang up and down with his pair of piercing eyes, with a flickering look in his eyes.

Going to the coffin shop this night was either a ghost or a funeral. Henry Zhang knocked on the door in a hurry and it didn’t seem like a funeral, but when he came out, he was a living young man with a calm demeanor. The old man didn’t know what was going on, so he had such a look.

The old man holding the lamp was looking at Henry Zhang, and Henry Zhang was naturally looking at him too. Although the old man was wrinkled, he had black hair and did not look old. His movements between his hands and feet were steady, and his eyes were deep and energetic. There was something about this old man.

The old man asked slowly: "What's the matter?"

Henry Zhang cupped his hands and said: "Dare to ask the old gentleman, but is it Senior Huai Bailiu?"

The old man nodded and said, "I am."

Henry Zhangdao: "Junior Henry Zhang, it was Uncle Simu who asked me to come here to ask Senior Huai about it."

Hearing the name of Priest Simu, Huai Bailiu's tone fluctuated a bit; "Oh, Simu? This guy hasn't been here for a while."

Henry Zhang handed over the talisman given by Uncle Simu. This yellow talisman was only half, and it was regarded as a token of Simu and Huai Bailiu.Huai Bailiu took the half of the yellow talisman, glanced under the lamp, and then looked at Henry Zhangdao: "Since it is the nephew of the guy with four eyes, let's go into the room and talk."

Huai Bailiu stepped aside and let Henry Zhang walk into the coffin shop.Henry Zhang went in, and looked around the coffin shop with a little light. The shop was not too big or too small, and it was very clean. The first thing you saw was a partition wall with a shrine hanging on the wall. There was a table under the shrine. Next to the table Two chairs are arranged on the left and right, and the left side of the partition wall is a passage covered by a white cloth curtain, which should lead to the back room.

The things in the room were very simple. There was a pot of tea and a few cups on the table, and the wooden boards for making the coffin were neatly stacked on one side of the room. There was no ready-made coffin in this store.

After closing the door, Huai Bailiu walked aside holding the lamp, and asked in an old voice, "What are you looking at?"

Henry Zhang replied: "I didn't see anything, Senior Huai is a good crafter."

Henry Zhang’s words were not flattering, but the scene in the coffin shop made Henry guess that Huai Bailiu’s craftsmanship was not bad.If you want to ask how to say this, then there is something to say.

The coffin in the coffin shop is about a place for the dead to live in. If it is done well, it is sending people to the next life, and it is doing good deeds.If it is done poorly, I am afraid that disaster will happen.

Ordinary coffinmakers do not have the ability to spell, so they can only keep in mind the common taboos in this industry, and then choose coffins that are mostly unoffensive fir and ordinary pine and cypress trees. These coffins are usually built in advance, and no matter how bad they are, they have to be assembled once or twice.

This is not the case for powerful coffin craftsmen. They never build the coffin in advance, but start work when there is work.The deceased's date of birth, height and weight, as well as the cause of death, when and where he died will be asked one by one, and then the wood will be selected and built on the spot.

Even if these powerful coffinmakers are not practitioners, they can at least be called warlocks. There are opinions on the selection of materials, carving, painting and even the size of the coffin, in order to ensure the safety of the family and the peace of the deceased.

Just to give an example, for example, this pine and cypress is originally a yin tree, and it is born with the effect of gathering yin. After a long period of time, it can even lock the soul of the dead and imprison the soul of the dead in the coffin. Naturally, ordinary coffinmakers dare not use the year Wood that is too tall, or mixed with fir when used, can avoid disasters.

But this is not the case for a coffin maker who is capable. If they encounter the ghost of the dead, they will die in peace and have resentment in their hearts. They will even take the initiative to use the old pine and cypress trees to seal the grieving ghost in the coffin.Don't get me wrong, they are not doing justice for the heavens, but for salvation.

They worked hard on the size and pattern of the coffin, and engraved spells and scriptures on the subtleties, so as to gradually save the dead souls in the coffin, eliminate their grievances, and allow them to escape from the world and rebirth.The coffin was also tricked. After being buried in the ground, they also knew that after a few years of decay, the souls of the dead who were imprisoned and rescued after the coffin decayed would naturally be able to pass away.

Therefore, Henry Zhang saw the decoration here, and had the endorsement of the four-eyed Taoist priest, so he praised: good craftsmanship.

Huai Bailiu glanced at Henry Zhang, and was not humble, and said: "You are a young man, but you have good eyesight."

As he spoke, he put the kerosene lamp on the table, and sat on the chair on the right. He said, "Sit down and talk."

Henry Zhang sat on the left, the flame of the kerosene lamp danced, and the light shone across the faces of the two of them. It looked a little weird in this dim coffin shop.

Huai Bailiu seemed to be thinking about something, with a strange expression on his face.After a while he lifted the teapot, poured a cup of tea for Henry Zhang, then put it in front of Henry Zhang, and said, “Please drink tea.”

Henry Zhang didn’t know what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd, so he reached for the teacup on the table, touched it slightly, but couldn’t pick it up, and it seemed like a heavy weight when he remained motionless.

Henry Zhang’s face did not change, and he knew it in his heart. It seemed that Huai Bailiu didn’t fully believe in the half of the yellow talisman, and used a small magic technique of forbidden objects to try Henry Zhang’s weight and origin.

The small magic technique of this forbidden object is not difficult. All sects and sects and even warlocks know a thing or two. They cast spells secretly to imprison things like a thousand catties, making people unable to lift them. Most of them are used to test catties and scare people. Refund the other party.

It is obviously used here to test Henry Zhang's strength, to see what kind of spell Henry Zhang used to solve the curse, and whether the origin is from Maoshan, and the second is to see how capable he is.

Henry Zhang kept his composure, and chanted the mantra secretly, the aura broke through the confinement, and the situation was broken in an understatement. He took a sip from the teacup, and said, "Good tea." It was quite calm.

Huai Bailiu saw that Henry Zhang had broken the forbidden technique, and he believed it a little bit, and said in his mouth: "Your junior is a little bit better than that guy with four eyes."

Huai Bailiu has not seen Taoist Priest Four Eyes for more than half a year, and the natural impression is that Taoist Priest Four Eyes is in the Yin God Realm. Seeing that Zhang Xuan is so calm, he naturally thinks that Zhang Xuan has a higher cultivation base.

Although this Huai Bailiu is only at the ninth level of Qi training, his tone is not small.However, Zhang Xuan didn’t underestimate him when he saw him like this. It’s one thing to talk about cultivation, but another thing to say about experience. It's just because of qualifications.

Huai Bailiu boasted, and then asked: "Simu asked you to come, but what's the matter? In this troubled time in Qinglin Town, there are a lot less foreign traders, and fewer people died. The day is over."

Henry Zhang replied: "I don't know if there is a tree heart of the five Yin trees that are more than a hundred years old here?"

When Huai Bailiu heard this name, he said with a little bit of surprise: "The tree of the five yins, the four eyes want to form the formation of the five yins gathering evil?"

The Five Yin Gathering Evil Formation is an evil formation, which gathers evil energy. Generally speaking, no one would set up such a formation for no reason, unless it is for refining corpses or to harm people.

Huai Bailiu's suspicion lies here, Simu is from Maoshan, although he escapes from others, he will never set up a formation to harm others, which is why he let Simu exchange for this formation back then, but now this young man unexpectedly Said to take the tree of the five shades, this
Seeing that he was suspicious, Henry Zhang explained: "The person who set up the formation was not the uncle, but the junior. The junior found an ancient corpse by chance, and the formation was for refining the corpse."

Henry Zhang spoke thoroughly, a blood-eating locust appeared in the palm of his left hand, crawled to the left, looked at the right, and then moved his body as if saluting Huai Bailiu.

When Huai Bailiu saw this Gu insect, he showed his original expression, and sighed: "Witch Gu, it's no wonder you and Simu are so close, he even gave you the formation of five yin gathering evil spirits."

Simu likes the trick of refining Gu and refining corpses, he knows a thing or two, but because of the teacher's order, he dare not make it his main business, but it doesn't prevent Simu from liking it.

Huai Bailiu's eyes moved slightly, as if he had made some decision, and said, "Of course I have the heart of this hundred-year-old tree of five shades. But I also have something more suitable than this."

"Ok?"

Henry Zhang looked at Huai Bailiu suspiciously, wondering what this meant, and was thinking of asking questions.Suddenly there was a series of rapid knocks on the door, and an anxious voice outside the door shouted:

"Master Huai, something happened."

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