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Chapter 15 Bai Shibao's Underworld Investigator

The world is transformed, and all things are spiritual; cows understand human nature, and shed tears at the sight of knives and axes; dogs understand spirituality, so they are prophets; There are no less than a hundred kinds of psychic states such as snakes wrapping around coffins, red turtles horoscopes, black horses carrying corpses, and so on. ——Excerpted from Tongyin Eight Volumes of "Wordless Book of Heaven".

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"Soul-binding red rope, blood steamed buns, black dog bone meal, Yin-tong armored horse, mulberry leaves..."

Taking advantage of the faint light of the candle, Bai Shibao looked down at Zhang Blind Man's yin-walking method written in an old book, and at the same time compared with the yin-walking magic weapon neatly placed in front of him, matching them one by one.

These days, Bai Shibao has worked hard. Although he is not very clear about the method of walking yin, he has also realized it a little. He has drawn no less than a hundred pieces of armored horses to practice yin, and he used a red rope stained with dog blood to refine the bondage. The red rope of the soul has just been practiced without going through the shadows.Today, the master came back to life for the first seven days. After waiting for a long time, and after drinking a few glasses of strong wine, he boldly decided to go to the underworld to find Zhang Blind.

Bai Shibao scattered seven small piles of black dog bone powder in front of the coffin in the courtyard, tied the soul-binding red rope between his legs, pinched his fingers and recited the formula, and burned the armored horse with the candle in front of the coffin. Whip, put the blood steamed buns and mulberry leaves on the chest, go back into the house and put the shoes on the front and back, lie on the bed and wait quietly for the dog to bark...

"Why do you always feel that something is wrong?"

Bai Shibao recalled the first time he and Zhang Blind had gone through the shadows, the itinerary along the way and various magic tools, and took stock of the steps to use the magic tools. He still felt something was wrong in his mind, and he couldn't tell what happened. He opened the old book in his arms and checked the routine carefully, but he closed his eyes and fell into a drowsy sleep.

Wang Wang...

A few barking dogs woke Bai Shibao up. Bai Shibao got up and saw a black dog lying on the ground, staring at him dumbfounded with its ears raised, and said with a smile, "It's done!"

Bai Shibao took out the bleeding steamed bun from his bosom, broke off a piece and threw it to the black dog, the black dog ate it right away, got up and ran outside, Bai Shibao grabbed the steamed bun and chased after him.

It was pitch black between the sky and the earth, and it was hard to tell which was the sky and which was the earth. Bai Shibao chased the black dog for an unknown distance, and suddenly saw a figure in front of him, who was bending over and carrying a board in front of him, moving a heavy pace.

The black dog ran to the side and barked, Bai Shibao chased after him, broke off a piece of bloody steamed bun and fed it to the black dog, and the black dog stopped barking.Bai Shibao looked at this man. This man was about sixty years old, thin and short, wearing a brocade gown, with a pocket watch hanging on his chest, and took out a handkerchief from his cuff to wipe his sweat. He is a wealthy master.

"Coffin...coffin!"

When Bai Shibao looked up, he couldn't help but gasped, this man was actually carrying a thick coffin board.

The man turned his face, his face seemed to have been painted with rouge, pink and white on the base, red cheeks painted on, and sunken eyes. Seeing Bai Shibao standing beside him, he nodded to Bai Shibao with a smile.

"Why are you walking with the coffin on your back?" Bai Shibao asked puzzled.

"My family burned it for me. I was reluctant to throw it away. I carried it behind my back on the road. When I was tired, I used it as a bed and fell asleep!"

The man grinned, revealing a copper coin in his mouth.Bai Shibao had heard that a copper coin was pressed on the tip of the tongue when the dead were buried. He was afraid that the dead person's nonsense speech would hurt the living, so he used the copper coin to press the tongue.Bai Shibao suddenly remembered that now his soul is freed and he is walking in the underworld. He is walking towards the underworld with the coffin on his back, so he must be a ghost who just died.

"Where are you going?" the man asked.

Bai Shibao pointed forward with his finger.

"how did it get here?"

Bai Shibao shook his head and didn't say anything, even if he told him that he was not dead, he probably wouldn't even believe in ghosts.

"It doesn't matter if you don't mention it! How about we go on the same road together, as a companion?"

Bai Shibao thought that the journey would be full of twists and turns, and with this person by his side, he could go faster if he chatted, so he accompanied this person all the way.

The two chatted and laughed all the way, chatting quickly, and talked about gambling, which can open Bai Shibao's chatterbox, where is dice, where is Tianjiu, where is stall cup, what is Tongsha, what is Supreme Treasure, and what is Tianmen , Bai Shibao spoke clearly and logically, and that man was also a gambler, and the two exchanged experiences and gambling interests with each other.

Not long after, the man wiped the sweat from his brow, and said to Bai Shibao: "By the way, how about young people helping me carry this?"

Seeing that he was carrying the heavy coffin board, his head was sweating from exhaustion, Bai Shibao thought: I might as well help him carry it for a while, since we chatted so happily with him, we can still be regarded as friends. A gambler friend and a hard-to-find bosom friend.

"Success! I'll help you carry it for a while, and when you reach the ground, you can carry it away..." Bai Shibao said.

"Okay!" The man just smiled after hearing this.

Bai Shibao walked behind him, lifted the thick coffin board with both hands and lifted it violently, and wanted to carry it on his back.

Snapped!
A generous palm patted on the coffin board, forcibly suppressing Bai Shibao's lifting force.

Bai Shibao looked up along the palm of his hand. One of them was wearing a funeral gown, holding a pipe in his mouth, staring at him with two white eyes, his lips quivering up and down, and said, "What? You think you're dying?"

Bai Shibao blinked his eyes, turned from surprise to joy, and shouted: "Master, Master..."

After walking around the coffin boards, Zhang Blind said to the person carrying the coffin: "I'm tired of carrying the coffin, and I want to find a voter? You dare to get my apprentice's idea? Believe it or not, I will give you a 'Taishan pressure'!" Curse 'to make you crawl?"

The person carrying the coffin saw that Zhang Blind Man was not an ordinary character, so he smiled and apologized, bent his waist while carrying the coffin, and ran away in a panic.

"Anyone dares to talk, do you know who he is?"

"It's a ghost!" Bai Shibao said.

"You know it's a ghost and you dare to go the same way? It's really kind of you to help him carry the coffin." Blind Zhang said.

"My soul is flying away from my body, and I can be regarded as a ghost. I'm afraid he will do something!"

"After a funeral, no matter how rich or noble a person was, he still has to wear sackcloth to the coffin. This person is wearing silk and satin, which is a big taboo. 'Silk' has the same pronunciation as 'qiu', and 'satin' has the same pronunciation as 'duan'. It seems that someone wants to harm him. His descendants. This person did not lie on his back when he died, but was placed on the coffin board, so he walked around with the coffin board on his back after death, not to mention suffering, and it was difficult to escape.

You don’t understand anything, no wonder you don’t know the reason for his death, if you carried the coffin on your body just now, you would never be able to take it off again, you can only find another caster like him, and bring trouble to new ghosts..."

Bai Shibao was stunned when he heard this, he felt a gust of wind behind him, his whole body trembled, and he became afraid at first.

"This man must have had enmity with his family before he died, and he will be exiled like this after his death!" Blind Zhang looked at the direction where the man was going, thoughtfully, then turned to see Bai Shibao standing there in a daze, and asked, "What are you doing?" How did you come here?"

"Today, the first seven masters come back to life. I couldn't wait in front of the coffin for a long time, so I burned my armored horse and went to the shadows to find you..." Bai Shibao saw Zhang Blind's inexplicable soreness choking his nose, and sour tears were about to flow out.

Blind Zhang smiled. This apprentice can think about him so much, it seems that he did not choose the wrong person. Then he saw that Bai Shibao was wearing his own gown, and asked with his finger: "If your clothes are taken care of by the wrong person?" It’s troublesome if you see it, why didn’t you go out in the clothes of a dead man?”

Bai Shibao patted his head and said, "No wonder I always feel like I've forgotten something, so I forgot to wear my shroud..."

Blind Zhang sighed again: "It's also my fault that I didn't give you a note. You didn't arrange the black dog bone meal according to the seven stars, so you went astray. This is not a place to go to the underworld, it is completely opposite."

Bai Shibao looked around and thought to himself: No wonder I haven't seen Fengdu Ghost City after walking for so long. It turned out that I went in the wrong direction, but felt wrong, and asked, "Why is that shady dog ​​and the coffin-carrying man Are you going in the wrong direction too?"

Blind Zhang explained: "The Yin dog guides the way according to the seven stars you placed. If you place the wrong direction, it will naturally lead you to another place; and the Yin ghost carrying the coffin is a lonely ghost. If you can't enter the ghost city, you will look around for the toutou, trying to find a way to unload the coffin, and naturally I won't take you to the underworld."

Bai Shibao suddenly realized.

"I went home to look for you. I only saw my coffin placed in the yard, but you were nowhere to be seen. Then I saw the black dog bone powder and the ashes of Tongyin armored horses on the ground, so I knew you had gone to hell. , I chased you along the seven-star position you placed, but luckily I arrived in a hurry, otherwise you would be in trouble again..." Zhang Blind said.

Bai Shibao kept silent, only hated himself for being clumsy, and almost getting rid of the trouble.

Blind Zhang sat cross-legged, teaching and pointing out Bai Shibao's taboos when he was in the dark, and taught Bai Shibao the method of placing the seven stars in detail. Meet each other, after Yin Cao's death, Zhang Xiazi will be reincarnated.

The master and the apprentice exchanged pleasantries for a while, Zhang Xiazi persuaded Bai Shibao to return to the sun quickly, fearing that something might happen, Bai Shibao reluctantly knelt down and kowtowed to Zhang Xiazi for a while, after Zhang Xiazi nodded and accepted the worship, he turned around and laughed loudly, and turned to Yincao walk slowly...

The sky and the earth were dim, and the darkness was like an ink mist. Zhang Blind's laughter sounded like a melody, but in the darkness, it gradually drifted away until it disappeared without a sound.Bai Shibao and Zhang Xiazi had only been masters and apprentices for a short time, and now there is a separation between Yin and Yang. Experience it yourself.

The love in the underworld is over, and there is still unfinished business in the underworld.

After Bai Shibao regained his composure, he got up and walked back in the dark. After walking for an unknown amount of time, he suddenly saw two figures moving in front of him. in the eyes.

It turned out to be a man and a woman!
The man had a gloomy face, and was wearing an official uniform with the word "加" embroidered on his chest. He was obviously a errand, and he was pulling a thick iron chain with both hands, which was attached to the woman behind him.

Bai Shibao looked at the woman. The woman had a pretty face, with a silver comb on her head, a silver necklace on her neck, a dark purple blouse with dark background and flowers, and a pewter pleated skirt that was below the knee. A purple apron, and a pair of straw felt shoes on the feet.

"This woman seems to be from Miao Jiang..." Bai Shibao thought to himself.

Look at the woman's hands locked by iron chains, she stretched out her slender fingers in her cuffs, and suddenly pulled out a black snake. Poor neck set.

"Ah...does she want to..." Bai Shibao couldn't help shouting out!
"Who?"

The voice was heard by the Yin Cha, and he turned his head to look in Bai Shibao's direction, his brows were slightly frowned, and just about to take a step, he felt a tightness in his neck. Turning red, he grabbed the black snake with both hands, and the black snake spit out its core and bit the back of his hand, his face turned purple instantly, his eyes rolled over, and he fell to the ground.

The woman let go of the black snake, and the black snake slid into her cuff. The woman squatted down to search for the secret key. After unlocking the iron lock, she touched her wrist. A pair of dangling silver bracelets were shining. Bright.

"She, she can actually kill ghost messengers..." Bai Shibao was completely shocked by the scene in front of him, and stood on the ground in amazement, at a loss for what to do.

The woman smiled in Bai Shibao's direction, she was as beautiful as a flower, and said softly, "Why are you still hiding there?"

(End of this chapter)