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Chapter 5 Five Ghosts Carrying the Coffin

The sky is cloudy and rainy, the yin is strong, the yin is avoiding, and the charm is coming. Under the eaves and above the stove, do not burn incense, for fear of disturbing the yin and avoiding disaster, eat the rice and millet in the world; the round mirror in the room is upside down Closed, do not dress up, for fear of causing femininity to paint skin in the mirror, the phantoms in the mirror are all caused by femininity. ——Excerpted from Tongyin Eight Volumes of "Wordless Book of Heaven".

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Bai Shibao saw that the yin dog was frightened away. The rooster was ringing the bell to go to the yang to announce the dawn. The time of day is approaching. If it is half a step late, the soul will not be able to enter the body to return to the yang. With no support, you can't report the cause and effect even if you go to the underworld. Wouldn't it be that you will be a lonely ghost for the rest of your life?
"I was delayed by the executioner, and met the chicken mother-in-law to wake up in the yang world. This trip is really evil." Zhang Blind threw the remaining bloody steamed buns on the ground, complaining.

"The rooster has disappeared. If I don't chase after me, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up. It's just that there is such an iron chain tied to my foot, it's really inconvenient to run." Bai Shibao weighed the iron chain tied to his foot with his hands. Chain, said anxiously.

"This red rope will become a 'soul lock' in the underworld. The soul is very light. If you don't use this iron lock to hold it, the soul will float in the air, and even if you take off the soul lock, you will not be able to catch it." Blind Zhang said.

"I saw it stop and go, why can't it catch up?"

"This rooster is a ghost that announces the dawn, don't see it walking slowly, one step is ten steps faster than us!"

"I, Bai Shibao, have had bad luck today. I lost Yangshou in a good bet, and I'm going to accompany you to go to hell again." Bai Shibao collapsed on the ground, regretting that he had promised Blind Zhang to go to hell with him, but instead lost his life in advance in order to increase his life.

Blind Zhang looked up at the sky, counted with his fingers, and asked Bai Shibao, "Do you have any copper coins with you?"

"Copper coin?" Bai Shibao took out the last copper coin from his bosom and said, "This is the last year of my life, are you going to take it now?" Blind Zhang said with a smile: "There is still time, now It is the moment of mao, when the signs of yin disappearing and yang growing, and the aura flourishes, I want to use psychics, hoping to use the power of yin ghosts to send us back to yang!"

Bai Shibao was overjoyed when he heard this, and handed the copper coin to Blind Zhang. Seeing him stick chopsticks into the hole of the copper coin and stand it upright in front of him, he took out three yellow paper talismans, placed the copper coins in a circle, and walked out with seven-star gang steps. The battle is coming.

Bai Shibao didn't understand what he meant, and asked: "Are you going to set up an altar to practice?"

"Get up the altar? I don't have so many magic tools, it's just setting up the stage. I use this technique called "Five Ghosts Carrying the Coffin Technique". After a while, we lie flat on the ground and don't move. I call out the five ghosts to carry us Go chase that rooster, and hope to return to the underworld before it does!"

Bai Shibao was astonished, but he didn't expect Zhang Xiazi to have such a skill, using copper coins as bait, summoning five ghosts to carry the coffin, and using the ghost's feet to chase after the rooster, but he didn't know how it felt to be carried by this ghost.

At this moment, Blind Zhang finished his steps, sat cross-legged, closed his eyes slightly, and began to chant a mantra secretly. Suddenly, the wind swept wildly, and the sky was covered with dead leaves and flying sand. The surrounding area was covered with thick fog, and he couldn't see the direction clearly.After a few moments of cursing, Zhang Blind fell on his back and yelled, "Let's go!"

Bai Shibao was lying flat on the ground, squinting his eyes to see five white-faced ghosts coming in front of him, blowing the trumpet, and the ghost playing the trumpet in the front had red cheeks on his face. He took it away, put it on a pendant around his waist, and picked up a chapter of yellow paper charms on the ground. The direction and address were written on it by the blind man. The ghost looked at it and swallowed it in his mouth. He signaled the four ghosts behind him to carry them, the master and the apprentice.

Bai Shibao felt his shoulders and feet being picked up by the two ghosts, as if his body was entrusted by the Yin wind. The master and apprentice were carried on the shoulders by the four ghosts. All the funeral tunes were played, and the four ghosts stepped on the tune, running flickeringly.

Bai Shibao closed his eyes tightly, stretched his body straight, heard the wind whizzing past his ears, felt as if he was floating in mid-air, and felt sleepy in his eyes, as if he was about to fall asleep.

"Bite your tongue quickly! You have been attacked by the evil energy of these ghosts." Blind Zhang yelled.

The blood of the tongue is the blood of the most yang in the body, and the blood of the ten fingers is the thing of the middle yang. Bai Shibao was carried on the shoulder by the yin ghost, and the yin energy penetrated his clothes and entered the soul. Turning purple, he was suddenly woken up by blind Zhang, his hands and feet felt cold, his body became stiff, his shoulders and feet were restrained by the ghost, he was shocked, he was about to tear his tongue out, a cavity of hot blood was in his mouth.

The two ghosts under him ran forward with a smile on their shoulders, Bai Shibao sprayed blood on the ghosts, the two ghosts yelled, turned into a cloud of thick smoke, disappeared, and with a bang, Bai Shibao came from He fell to the ground in mid-air, and looked back to see that Zhang Blind Man had sat firmly on the ground, and the seven piles of black dog bone powder beside him had been burned into coke, and the smoke had long since cleared.

"Back to the sun?" Bai Shibao felt severe muscle pain all over his body, and struggled, the iron chain under his feet turned into a red rope, it seemed that he had returned to the sun world.

Blind Zhang stood up slowly, and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his hand. Apparently he had bitten his tongue just now, and said to Bai Shibao, "These five ghosts have evil intentions and work for money. They took our money and returned it." If you want to steal your soul, luckily you found out when you returned to Yang just now, otherwise it will be too late to regret it!"

"Am I a human or a ghost now?" Bai Shibao raised his legs and arms, feeling extremely heavy all over his body, exhausted and without any strength.

"We've already returned to Yang before that chicken mother-in-law." Blind Zhang said.

As soon as Blind Zhang finished speaking, he heard a rooster crowing to announce the dawn. Bai Shibao was overjoyed when he heard it, and said with a smile, "Master's magic of walking with ghosts is really powerful, and he finally caught up with that rooster."

"Cough, cough..." Blind Zhang felt oppressed in his chest, and a cloud of hot air surged up, and he coughed up a mouthful of blood. Bai Shibao was shocked when he saw it, and ran over to help him to ask. Blind Zhang stood up tremblingly, and said, "Let's go." Yin is the business of yin and yang trading. Although this "Five Ghosts Carrying the Coffin Technique" is also trading with yin things, it hurts the vitality. In addition, when I went to the place where yin gathers, I have a lot of resentment. The body can't take it anymore. I need to find a place to cultivate a bit."

After hearing this, Bai Shibao said: "There is no one in my house, Master can go to my house to cultivate quietly."

Blind Zhang nodded after hearing this, and said: "When you join our sect, you will travel all over the world, eat and sleep in the open, and have no fixed place to live. It's good to have a shelter from the wind and rain."

Bai Shibao helped Blind Zhang all the way back home. It was already dark and there were few people walking on the street, only drug sellers and street sweepers wandered around with whistles. Bai Shibao was afraid of encountering whip-cutters, so he walked around Jie detoured back to his home from the alley, supported the blind man on the kang, and asked, "Master, no one visits me at home, you can cultivate yourself here."

Seeing Bai Shibao's kind heart, Zhang Blind said, "You are my apprentice after you have gone away with me. After I finish training, I will accept you as an apprentice. Are you willing?"

"It's good to be a master's apprentice, but I'm afraid my lifespan will be exhausted, so the master will close the door!" Bai Shibao only accompanied Zhang Blind to go to hell and learn from his master, and he just wanted to prolong his life, but he didn't say it clearly.

"After you accept me as your teacher, I will definitely teach you the method of increasing your lifespan. This is not a problem, but to enter my school, you need to draw your destiny. Being poor, young, or lonely, it's the same as choosing. Being poor means being poor for a lifetime, and being young is easy." To die at any time and anywhere, to be alone is to be alone for a lifetime, would you like it?"

Bai Shibao thought to himself, "These three things are really unlucky, but it's better to live than to die. It's lucky for a dying person to save his life. How can we control poverty and loneliness?" Said: "I don't know what the master drew?"

"Yao!" Blind Zhang said.

"This……"

"It's okay, I've lived through yin and yang for so long, and I've accumulated a lot of yin and yang virtues. Even if I die at any time, I won't regret it." After Zhang Blind finished speaking, seeing Bai Shibao bowed his head in silence, he took out the The executioner wrote the note in Yincao, handed it to him and said: "You send this note to Zhang Wang's family outside Dongcheng, and tell her what the executioner asked, so that she can rest assured that this trip to Yincao is over." .”

Bai Shibao took the yellow paper, looked down, and saw that there was no word on it. He frowned and asked, "Master, I saw that the executioner dipped in blood and wrote something. Why is it a piece of yellow paper?"

"You can't see ghost things, just ask her to put them away. If you want to ask, you ask her to boil a pot of hot water, pour half of the pot, and then pour in half of cold water to mix it with yin and yang water. You can see it on the yellow paper." Zhang Xiazi said.

Bai Shibao put the yellow paper into his bosom, got up and boiled a pot of boiling water for Zhang blind man, searched the house for half a bag of tea powder, brewed it and put it in front of the kang, covered Zhang blind man with a quilt, and hurriedly washed it Shaking his face, he turned and went out to the east city.

Along the way, Bai Shibao was full of thoughts. Since he went to Yincao with Zhang Blindzi last night, he realized that there are so many strange things in this world. Usually, there is a different world after death.

After Bai Shibao went to Dongcheng, he inquired about the neighbors, only to learn that Zhang Wang's home was the third one on the west side of Dongtou Yangjiao Hutong. Zhang Wang had been a widow for many years, childless, and lived poorly by sewing needles and thread.Sewing the poor is a livelihood that is specially made for people. Naturally, the people who sew the poor are also the poor. The rich and the rich will not wear shabby clothes that have been mended, so sewing the poor was also the hardest and most humble way of making a living.

"Bang bang bang..."

Bai Shibao walked to a broken house and patted on the door with his hand. After a while, the door creaked open. An old woman stuck her head out with her waist hooked and asked, "Who are you?" The old lady invited her into the house, and Bai Shibao looked around the house, and found that the house was completely dilapidated and dilapidated, and the old tables, chairs and benches were old, which was comparable to his own house, but his own house was indeed lost because of a big bet.

"Why don't you see Master Zhang?" the old woman asked.

"Trouble, my master is cultivating at home, so I'm going to hand over this note to you." Bai Shibao took out the note, handed it to her, and explained in detail about the future.

After hearing this, the old woman burst into tears, crying repeatedly: "It's not easy! It's not easy!" Then she showed her trouser legs for Bai Shibao to see. Bai Shibao looked down and almost vomited. The flesh that was about to fall rolled up and turned into a bloody scar, which was extremely terrifying.

"This ghost is really evil, and even when he dies, he will drag someone to be buried with him!" Bai Shibao said angrily.

"That's all, that's all! There is a reason for this. If I hadn't sued him, he wouldn't have lost his life. Now, thanks to Master Zhang's settlement of this matter, there is finally a result!" The old woman took out two yuan from the drawer. When the silver coins came, he handed them to Bai Shibao and said, "These are not many silver coins. I saved them by mending clothes. Now hand them over to Master Zhang for me, thank him for saving his life."

"This money..." Bai Shibao knew that the money was not easy to come by. He didn't know how many stitches and callouses he had on his hands to save enough money, and he didn't know whether he should take it or not.

"Don't refuse. Master Zhang is working hard on my affairs. Although he doesn't have much money, buying some supplements for him to take care of his body will not avoid my gratitude. Please accept it!"

Bai Shibao refused, so he had to accept the silver dollar, turned around and said goodbye to Mrs. Zhang. Before leaving, Mrs. Zhang said to him: "Master Zhang's job is not easy, and he spends half his life accumulating virtue. Since you are his apprentice, I only hope that you can study hard." Fa, in the future you will be able to go back and forth and do good deeds for others.”

Bai Shibao nodded after hearing this, bid farewell to Mrs. Zhang's home, and walked back.When passing by the entrance of Chengxiao Alley, he met a group of people watching in a circle, making a noise as if something had happened, Bai Shibao leaned forward and squeezed in, looking around, he saw how many people in the crowd were betting with horsetail mane and crickets for money.

Bai Shibao suddenly became addicted to gambling, his palms were itchy, and he held the two silver dollars tightly in his palm, watching the two big black crickets pinch and bite each other, his heart itched unbearably, and he was eager to try.

(End of this chapter)