Night Lights

Chapter 26 Bai Shibao meets someone and talks about ghosts

Ghosts belong to one of the six realms of sentient beings. They have souls but are invisible, and they are afraid of red and yang objects. It is Zhongyang; dripping blood sacrifices refining, drawing talismans to drive away things, all ghosts are terrified, horrified and frightened; this is the method of blood sacrifice, and the ghosts say: blood taboo. ——Excerpted from the eighth volume of Jiangyin in "The Book of Words Without Words".

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The secret passage is pitch black, and nothing can be seen.

Holding a kerosene lamp, Bai Shibao bent down and groped forward in the secret passage with the help of the weak light. The secret passage was deep and dark, gloomy and damp. Bai Shibao felt that there was a dark wind in the secret passage, blowing coldly on his body.

"Since you don't want to accept him as an apprentice, why did you agree to him just now?"

Lan Xin'er saw that Bai Shibao accepted the silver dollar and promised to take Wang Xiang as his apprentice when he came back, but now Lian Sheng complained, with a face of reluctance.

"I didn't say I didn't want to, but I'm still an apprentice, how can I teach him?"

"I really met a guy lying in a coffin stretching out his hand..." Lan Xin'er pouted.

"What do you mean?"

"Death for money!"

"I don't accept this money, what are we going to use for money? Sell you? I'm afraid it will scare people..."

"...That can't be just promised."

"I ran so far because I promised to help you recover the sun. Otherwise, I would stay in this cottage, eat and drink to be the third-in-command, and be happy as a dewy couple with that Lianyu!"

"you……"

"Hush!" Bai Shibao saw a ray of moonlight in front of him, thought of the exit, blew out the kerosene lamp, walked over to push aside the grass, it was the exit of the secret passage.

Bai Shibao climbed out of the secret path, saw that the secret path was in a concave rock halfway up the mountain, turned his head to look up the mountain, the lights were bright, and the gate of the cottage was closed, thinking that the gangsters were still having a feast, then Yuan Longzhao never expected that Wang Xiang had already let me escape.

"It's not too late, don't wait for that Yuan Longzhao to react, you won't be able to escape by then!"

Bai Shibao groped in the dark, followed the mountain path and headed straight down the mountain. After reaching the bottom of the mountain, he found a village, bought a horse for ten yuan, and rode the horse for dozens of miles all night. He escaped from the boundary of Jiaolong Mountain, Yuan Longzhao's sphere of influence.

At this time, the sky is dawning, and the fourth watch is approaching.

In midsummer, the sun rises early and sets late, and passers-by are dressed in different ways. Some wear long gowns, some wear short jackets. Bai Shibao wears his master's long gown, braids on his head, and leads his horse into the city. people.

Most of the shops in the city have not yet opened, and only a few porridge shops have opened their doors to welcome customers, and the people who come and go are businessmen who are on their way early.A few rough men and peddlers who carried goods for others simply drank porridge to satisfy their hunger here, counting the time.On both sides of the street, a group of countrymen had already set up their stalls, selling blue and white soybeans, a large bag of thick watermelons, and white radishes arranged in bundles, with a carrot tassel stuck on top.

"It's a hell of a day!"

Bai Shibao looked at the small bottle in his arms, and thought: Lan Xin'er's ghost might not come out during the day, and now she is snoring and sleeping!I was exhausted from the overnight trip, so I had to search for a place to rest.It's all because of the bad timing, rushing late at night, catching up on sleep during the day, and writhing like hell!

Bai Shibao led the horse and staggered to the front of a mule and horse shop. He saw a shop sign hanging on the door, and a young man in a pair of jackets came up to him and asked, "Where did you come from so early in the morning? Where did you run?" go?"

"Going south to do some business, do you have a house?" Bai Shibao said.

"Stay in the hotel? Please..."

After saying that, the young man came over to help Bai Shibao lead the horse, and pulled it in; when he met a middle-aged man with a big smoking gun in his mouth, he came out of the account room in a mandarin jacket, stopped the young man and asked, "What are you doing? "

"Come from the north, do some business in the south, and stay in a shop."

"Stay in a hotel?" The man squinted his eyes and scanned Bai Shibao's body. Seeing that Bai Shibao was wearing an old gown with a bald head and thick braids, he looked like a beggar. He sneered and said, "There is no room, go to another house Go and see!"

Bai Shibao was taken aback for a moment, and said, "You can live in a single room, or you can live in a group."

"The big kang is also full, you should go to another house to have a look as soon as possible."

Bai Shibao thought to himself: Why does one store talk about two things?He had it before, but now he says no. Could it be that he looks down on people and is afraid that I won't pay the rent?become!There is no stay here, there is a place to stay, where the money is spent is not an inn, why bother to ask them for money.

Bai Shibao turned around and was about to leave when he heard the man reprimanding the young man, saying, "You don't have to learn to be smart when doing business. Now that the army is in turmoil, how dare you invite such a person to stay in the shop? Look at this dusty body, it hasn't been wet for a few days." Now, you dare to walk around the street with a braid on your head, do you think this kind of person can have clean hands and feet?"

"Hey..." Bai Shibao pondered in his heart: "What's the matter, do you think I'm a thief? Why don't you give me some flair, I don't know that my surname, Bai Shibao, is Guerjia!"

Bai Shibao led the horse and walked over, took out a large silver dollar from his pocket and threw it to the young man, saying, "Show me!"

The young man pinched the silver dollar in his hand, puffed his cheeks and blew, put it in his ear and listened to the buzzing of the silver dollar, and said to the man with a smile: "Shopkeeper, really!"

"Young man has good eyesight, this silver dollar will reward you!" Bai Shibao said.

The young man was taken aback, looked at Bai Shibao and said in shock: "This..."

The shopkeeper bent over, cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Oh my lord! Seeing the trouble, someone just collected the bedding roll this morning, and there is still a seat on the big berth, I ordered it to be ready for you, my lord?"

"Hmph, the master who has got his eye on money..." Bai Shibao took out another silver dollar from his pocket, threw it over, and said, "Zhu Bajie is carrying a golden cudgel—serve me (monkey)!"

The shopkeeper took the silver dollars and ordered the young man to prepare the bedding, and walked over to lead the horse by himself.Bai Shibao handed over the reins of the horse, pointed with his finger and said, "Feed my horse with bright yellow rice sticks, don't use grass roots and wood to deal with it!"

"Come on, I'll go buy it."

"In addition, help me buy some yellow paper Mingqian, brush and ink and cinnabar!" Bai Shibao added.

"It's already past Qingming, what do you want Huang Zhiming's money for?"

Bai Shibao stared at the shopkeeper, the shopkeeper nodded again and again, didn't ask any more questions, and went shopping for Bai Shibao himself with silver dollars in his pocket...

Bai Shibao was led by the young man to a side room facing the east of the street in the store. There was a big kang in this room, and five or six people were lying on the kang in a mess, still sleeping soundly. There were two cart handles on the side of the kang. Shi was drinking and chatting over donkey meat.

"They all have foot strength and handlebar style for driving at night." The young man brought a basin of clean water for Bai Shibao to wash his face.

After Bai Shibao washed his face, he touched the vacant seat on the kang, hugged the things in his arms tightly, and was about to fall asleep with his arms between his arms.

This journey was still in shock, Bai Shibao was full of thoughts about how Wang Xiang would explain to Yuan Longzhao now, and would Yuan Longzhao be disadvantageous to Wang Xiang because of this?
But the most important thing right now is Lan Xin'er's matter. After calculating, there are still three days left. If it's really too late, won't she become a lonely ghost and haunt me, right?

After thinking about it, Bai Shibao fell asleep with his eyes closed.

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"Brother, keep talking, what happened next?" The two handlebars crossed their legs on the kang and continued to chat.

"Then it was even more scary. Someone knocked on the door of his house during the day and found that the door was ajar. After pushing the door open and looking at it, guess what?"

"What's the matter?"

"A family of seven, none of them alive, the whole yard is like a river of blood, the man's eyes are as big as a bell, two pregnant family members, their abdomens have been ripped open, and the children in their womb was taken away..."

Bai Shibao sat up from the kang, stared at the two unmasked handlebars, and asked in surprise: "What did you say?"

The two handlebars were startled, looked at Bai Shibao, then at each other and said, "Oh! I'm really sorry, we were chatting and interrupted your rest."

Bai Shibao got up and jumped off the kang, walked to the two handlebars with his shoes on, bowed his head and sat down on a wooden block beside him, looked at the donkey meat on the table, and then saw that he had drunk enough He turned around and shouted to the young man, "Come here, the shopkeeper!"

The boy pushed the door open and entered the house.

Bai Shibao took out a silver dollar from his pocket and threw it over, saying, "Go and cut me some cooked beef, and bring me a few catties of good wine!"

The two handlebars looked at each other and asked puzzledly, "Who are you?"

"I can't sleep, I heard you guys chatting happily, and I want to have a drink and chat with you!"

The young man brought wine and meat, and Bai Shibao placed it on the table, and while filling the two handlebars with wine, he asked, "Is what you just said true or not?"

Seeing that there is good wine and good meat, the two handlebars are not too polite, they raised their necks while holding the wine glass, and one of them pursed his lips and said, "If you believe it, there is it, if you don't believe it, you don't!"

"I believe it!" Bai Shibao said.

"I've been traveling all over the country as a car driver for most of my life, and this is the first time I've encountered such a thing. It's really amazing!" The car driver picked up a piece of beef and stuffed it into his mouth, then took another sip of his wine, The spicy taste chokes straight into the nose.

Another handlebar said: "Stop being a fool, this brother wants to listen, so you can tell him again!"

The handlebar wiped his mouth with his hands, and said: "A few days ago, I transported grain for a big family. This big family is very reputable, and the remuneration is calculated every three days, but it happened that it didn't give me five days later." , I couldn't wait and knocked on the door of his house, but no one opened after knocking for a long time.

At this time, a neighbor dragged me aside, saying that the family recruited evil spirits, all seven members of the family died overnight, and the government did not find out when they came for an autopsy. It looks like she was scared to death, the woman also died strangely, and there are two pregnant women whose bellies were ripped open and the fetuses were taken away by ghosts..."

Hearing this, Bai Shibao opened his mouth wide and stared, as if thinking of something, he stammered and said, "Putting corpses into ghosts..."

(End of this chapter)