Yin Changsheng

Chapter 12 The Red-haired Ghost

Although he said this in a joking tone, in my eyes, he is really the most powerful person.

Because Zhang Duangong's body still had some corpse gas, in order to prevent accidents, Jiang Li ignited the talisman and burned Zhang Duangong's body clean.

There was nothing to be found here, so Jiang Li took me out and looked at the dilapidated house not far from Zhang Duangong.

That room is where Du Hai grew up. Jiang Li said that he might be able to get some news from there, so he took me to that room.

The house is more dilapidated than what Jiang Li and I imagined. It has not been lived in for a long time. The front of the house is full of weeds. If you are not careful, you will not be able to find how high the threshold is. Jiang Li pushed aside the weeds outside the threshold and stared at it. He glanced at the wooden threshold.

I asked, "What happened, Master?"

Jiang Li pointed to the threshold and said to me: "Do you know why the threshold of your township is higher than that of other townships?"

I shook my head to express my ignorance.

Jiang Li smiled and said: "I've heard about your township before. When the commune was established, the red-haired ghosts in your township were very troublesome. The red-haired ghosts are what we call zombies. The limbs of zombies are stiff and unable to bend. In order to prevent the red-haired ghosts from Ghosts enter the house, so your township built the threshold very high, red-haired ghosts can only jump and walk, if the threshold is high enough, they can't jump in."

I heard about the red-haired ghosts from my second grandfather. He said that the ditch next to our village was full of red-haired ghosts. During the day, those red-haired ghosts would bury their heads in the mud beside the ditch, revealing One leg is outside, and when I push hard, there will be a mooing sound in the soil.In addition, the red-haired ghost has red hair all over its body, so it has such a name.

I thought this was just an old man's remarks to scare children, but I didn't expect it to be true.

I nodded to express my relief, and Jiang Li bent down again to touch the grain on the threshold, and said, "This threshold has been kicked to make mottled marks, it seems that red-haired ghosts often visited this family before."

After all, take me in.

There was a musty smell in the room, and the cobwebs were all over the place, we couldn't move forward, Jiang Li picked up a discarded wooden stick next to him and cleaned the cobwebs, then stood in the room and looked over and over again.

After about 3 minutes passed, Jiang Li said, "It looks like we're going to sleep in this room tonight."

I said ah on the spot, although the countryside is not very clean, but this kind of gloomy house with extremely poor environment, I really dare not live in it.

Seeing my face full of disgust, Jiang Li patted his forehead and said in a rather helpless tone: "It's just that I can spoil you, if it were someone else, the apprentice must obey what the master says."

After Jiang Li finished speaking, he took off his blue Taoist robe, wrapped it around me, and said with a frown, "It's okay to sleep in my Taoist robe, if you still dislike me, I'll throw you out."

How could I dare to dislike him, so I immediately smiled and said to him, "Thank you, Master."

Jiang Li also smiled slightly, patted the back of my head, and let me enter the room.

I stood next to him, and he cleaned up the house. Jiang Li didn't seem like a person who knew how to do housework, but to my surprise, this messy house was quickly cleaned up by him.

After tidying up, it was gradually getting dark. He spread clean straw on the bed and put his other things on it before letting me lie on it. He sat beside my bed.

Wrapped in his Taoist robe, I was a little curious to see that he was not sleeping, but it was not easy to ask him why he was not sleeping, so I changed the subject: "Why do we live here?"

Jiang Li said: "The shrine mountain in this house enshrines the statue of Avalokitesvara, and even the Anzhai charms on the beams are covered by the wishing charms. In addition, there are many places in this house where the wishing charms are pasted. It can be seen from this that although Du Hai lives in this family, he is not welcome, they don't regard Du Hai as their son at all."

I poked my head out and asked again: "But we don't have to live here."

Jiang Li looked back at me, more helpless than before, but finally he sighed and said, "Why do you have so many questions, you'll figure it out in a while, go to sleep."

I groaned, lay down and tossed and turned for a long time and couldn't fall asleep, so I simply sat up, shoulder to shoulder with Jiang Li.

Sitting up, I saw that Jiang Li's eyes were not open, and his mahogany sword was standing beside him. His posture was very strange, but also very sacred.

Mostly feeling that I was paying attention to him, Jiang Li said: "This is called meditation. The essential point of meditation is to turn the five hearts to the sky. There are four hearts in the palms and the soles of the feet, plus the top of the head. There are five hearts in total. Five hearts can calm the mind the fastest. It's too dirty, so I just have three hearts, and you can try it too."

Immediately after listening, I sat up according to his instructions.

Jiang Li opened his eyes and squinted at me, then shook his head and closed his eyes, obviously I did something wrong.

After sitting like this for almost an hour, Jiang Li suddenly said, "Chen Xiao, remember, if you want to make ghosts and ghosts afraid of you, first you have to calm down and stop thinking, even if you are afraid, you have to pretend to be fearless. It's called momentum."

I nodded kindly, yes, I immediately knew why he said this to me.

Just after nodding, at least dozens of children suddenly appeared in the room, all standing beside us. I took a closer look and found that these shadows turned out to be children one after another. I was so scared that I immediately grabbed Jiang. away clothes.

These children all looked at me curiously.

Knowing that I was looking at them, one of those children asked, "Are you also a transformed child?"

I didn't know how to answer, Jiang Li immediately hinted that I would admit it.

If I was alone in this environment, I would definitely be terrified, but with Jiang Li by my side, this kind of fear would be much less, so I nodded and answered in a weak voice: "Yes."

Jiang Li asked at this moment: "How do you know that he was born by transformation?"

Huashengzi is a Sichuan-Chongqing dialect. Dead babies turn into ghosts because of persistent grievances. Usually, adults in the family often call children Huashengzi. To prepare the coffin like an adult, you can only use a dustpan to carry it up the mountain, dig a random pit and bury it, and then buckle the dustpan on the mound, hence the name.

After Jiang Li asked, the huashengzi in front of him said: "We saw a lot of big ghosts looking for you during the day. Those ghosts are very bad. They like to eat huashengzi. We thought you were going to be eaten by them. There are sangzi in this room. Avalokitesvara blesses us, we will hide here every night, so that those big ghosts will not dare to come in, we see that you also hid in, you must be a transformation child, right?"

Jiang Li'en asked again: "Did you see a person dressed similar to me or different from the others among those big ghosts during the day?"

The group of children in front of them was silent for a while and said: "There is one, his clothes are newer than those big ghosts, and finally he went to the east, and the other big ghosts went to the west, but we didn't see his appearance clearly. .”

Another Huashengzi said: "You must not go out at night, those big ghosts are waiting outside, we have been hiding here for decades, and come here every night."

Later, I learned that because the souls of children are clean and unpolluted, the souls of the transformed children are naturally clean as well. This has caused many lonely ghosts to covet them, and they will catch the transformed children to eat whenever they have the opportunity. They think this will make them more healthy. powerful.

Jiang Li said: "I won't let him out. You have been hiding here for decades, do you know Du Hai?"

"Yes, we used to stay in his room every night, and he often played with us, but then he went to the coal mine and got tuberculosis. His parents disliked him, so they took him outside and threw him away. But he He didn’t die, and he didn’t know where he went, we only found out some time ago that he finally died and was taken away to get married.”

Jiang Li nodded in relief.

At this time, there was a sudden bang from the main room outside, and the room began to shake immediately after.

Jiang Li immediately stood up and said, "The beam of the room was knocked down, hurry up."

As soon as I finished speaking, I tucked it under my arm and went outside. The group of metamorphosis behind hurriedly called me: "Don't go out, there are big ghosts outside."

Jiang Li said: "The begging talisman on the beam is gone, and the shrine must have been destroyed. They can still come in if they stay here."

At that time, I really didn't feel worried at all, and I was full of vanity, I just showed off to them: "Don't be afraid, my master is very powerful, he will protect us."

This group of huashengzi had lived for decades. Although they looked like children, their state of mind was far beyond their age. After hearing Jiang Li's words, they immediately rushed out with Jiang Li.

After waiting, Jiang Li put me down from the armpit.

With a bang, the dilapidated house behind finally collapsed, smoke and dust rose everywhere, and the already dark sky became even less visible.

But on the collapsed ruins and in the grass around the house, nearly a hundred black shadows appeared, staring at us.

The Huashengzi behind him panicked and was too frightened to speak.

These hundreds of black shadows are naturally wandering ghosts who coveted these transformed children. After the house collapsed, they all greedily set their eyes on us.

A wild ghost shouted: "Songzi Guanyin is gone, if we eat them, we can come back to life."

These words made the other wandering ghosts very excited, and immediately gathered around us.

Huashengzi's emotions affected me to some extent, and there were hundreds of wandering ghosts opposite. Although I believed in Jiang Li, it was impossible to say that I was not afraid of so many wild ghosts.

Jiang Li took a deep breath: "Who told you that you can be resurrected after eating Hua Shengzi? Yin and Yang have their own way, and the barrier is indestructible. If you leave now, I can let the past go, otherwise."

But these ghosts ignored Jiang Li at all, I felt a little embarrassed and said, "Master, they don't listen to you."

Jiang Li patted his forehead angrily: "Stinky boy, you will die if you don't tell me." Then he said, "Since they won't listen, then force them to listen to me."

After speaking, he suddenly took a step forward, stood in front of us holding a mahogany sword, and said coldly: "Who dares to take another step!"

This sound really frightened the gathered ghosts.

And then came the most terrifying thing. I experienced it once in the tomb, and this time the fear came again.

Jiang Li didn't seem to have changed at all, but all the Huashengzi and wandering ghosts here became quiet, and I looked at Jiang Li's back in a daze.

At that time, I didn't understand why I was so afraid of this back, but later I understood, he told me, this is called momentum.

Pig butchers and executioners kill too many animals, there will be evil spirits on them, people will be afraid of executioners, animals will be afraid of pig butchers, this is also a kind of momentum.

And Jiang Li's momentum can not only deter lonely ghosts, but also living people.

Like Nine Nether Hades appearing, holding a mahogany sword as towering as a mountain, the noisy scene just now was as deathly silent, Jiang Li suddenly burst out: "Get out."

These hundreds of ghosts escaped without a trace in an instant.

After all these ghosts had escaped cleanly, Jiang Li put away the mahogany sword and turned back. He was as friendly as before, not as inaccessible as before, but these metamorphosis sons seemed to have seen Yama, even I dare not move.

Jiang Li said: "Go and find a Town God's Temple nearby, and the people from the underworld will come to pick you up. It's better to reincarnate as soon as possible, rather than wandering around in the world."

The group of transformed creatures felt relieved, they didn't dare to pass by Jiang Li, but turned over the ruins and ran away.

After they all left, I looked at Jiang Li and asked him, "Master, why didn't you kill those wild ghosts?"

Jiang Li frowned, and said with a very serious expression: "Among other crimes, killing is the most important thing. Among all merits, releasing life is the most important. Don't think that killing people is an easy thing."

(End of this chapter)