Chapter 17: The Night Watchman of the Cemetery
There was very little solemnity on Chen Shanjin's face: "If it is a cultivation that can be taken away, it is very dangerous for you to go alone, I will accompany you, although the master is more to teach me how to use the time and place, as well as to deal with people, but at least in case one of us is taken away, the other can still think of a way." β
Huang Chen looked at the magic weapon in his bag and shook his head: "I cut off the six desires, it is impossible to be taken away from the six dusts, I have no way to take the other party with it at most, it is more appropriate for me to go alone." β
Chen Shanjin drove Huang Chen to the foot of the cemetery, and the suburban grave mountain, which had no street lights, was so dark that he could hardly find his way up the mountain.
Huang Chen asked Chen Shanjin to wait a little farther away to go down the mountain, and then walked towards the mountain with a flashlight.
The mountain road is not rugged, after all, it is a relatively high-end cemetery, there is only one road up the mountain, and it is a cement road, it is not difficult to walk, and there is no need to worry about getting lost.
The smell of rotting leaves was thick with moisture all the way, and if the light of the flashlight hit the nearby woods, it always felt like there was an unknown danger hidden behind the branches and leaves that swayed in the wind.
Although Huang Chen, who didn't open his eyes, couldn't see Zhang Weixiong, who had been following him, he could feel his fear through his six senses: "Do you know that you're scared now? I admire your courage to dare to go up the mountain alone after getting drunk." β
After walking for about half an hour, he finally came to the gate of the cemetery, Huang Chen was just about to go in directly, when he was stopped by a voice: "Young man, are you lost? β
Following the voice, it was an old man with a weak flashlight, squinting at Huang Chen because of the light of the flashlight.
This is the most ugly-looking old man Huang Chen has ever seen since he went down to earth, his wide nose seems to be collapsed on his face, and his triangular eyes seem to be stared at by a poisonous snake when he looks at people, obviously he is not smiling, but he grins and shows his jagged teeth, which can almost scare children into crying, and can even scare crying children.
Huang Chen could see it directly, which proved that it was not a ghost, Huang Chen pressed the light of the flashlight down to avoid directly shining on the old man's face and said, "Then why are you alone on this grave mountain?"
The strange-looking old man walked towards Huang Chen, the sound of mud-stained rain boots dragging on the ground was particularly harsh, the old man looked behind Huang Chen and said: "I am the night watchman of this cemetery, do you know that the young man has unclean things following you?"
Huang Chen: "Are you Yin and Yang Eyes?"
The old man's eyes narrowed: "It doesn't seem to be an ordinary young man, you have such long hair, you are a Taoist priest, right? β
Huang Chen: "There are some strange things at the bottom of the mountain, and I suspect that the ghosts of the cemetery are haunting, so I came to investigate." β
The old man turned around: "Come into the house with me, it's windy outside." β
If it was an ordinary person, he would not dare to follow such an old man into the house, but Huang Chen used his six senses to investigate and found that he didn't want to harm himself, so he followed the old man into the house generously.
After the old man entered the house, he turned off the radio that was playing, the small room was full of wreaths and paper money, incense and candles, and the old man poured Huang Chen a cup of hot water: "I have been keeping watch on this mountain for decades, and there is no guy on our mountain who will harm people, are you looking for the wrong place?"
Huang Chen took the teacup: "Thank you, I don't dare to judge, but this ghost who followed me drank too much before he died and strayed into the cemetery, and then died in vain." β
Old man: " My eyes are not good, I can only see clearly that you are a young man with long hair, you don't speak, I can't even tell the difference between men and women, but since I was a child, I can see some phantoms, and later I learned that it was the yin and yang eyes you said, because I was not afraid of seeing more, I didn't have much culture, so I relied on daring to guard the grave mountain alone, and I guarded it here for decades, because it was really not good-looking, and I liked this pure errand when I was disliked a lot, the boring ghosts on the mountain sometimes came to listen to the radio with me, and I felt less lonely, and even had some feelings, if you are really a Taoist priest who can catch ghosts, can I say a few words for the ghosts on the mountainοΌβ
Huang Chen: "After I investigate clearly, if it is really the ghost on the mountain, it promises not to commit it again in the future, and I will not be embarrassed, as long as it honestly waits for the ghost to pick him up, and don't do evil before that, I am also for its good, otherwise the punishment after going to the underworld will be ten million times more painful than the harm it causes to people." β
The old man nodded: "You are a good person, I can't help much except for being able to see, the mud road in the cemetery is a little slippery, you should be careful not to fall." β
Huang Chen took a sip of hot tea and left the old man's room, walking towards the cemetery, Huang Chen closed his eyes after entering the cemetery, and found that in addition to Zhang Weixiong, who was a little nervous behind him, there were only a few spirits on the mountain who looked at him very curiously, but soon Huang Chen noticed that there was a spirit with guilt in his heart.
After Huang Chen applied the powder that temporarily opened his eyes, he looked in that direction, and the ghost of an old man was standing on a small mountain not far away, staring at Zhang Weixiong behind him.
Huang Chen got up and came to the old man's ghost: "It's the one behind me who you killed after you went down the mountain, right?"
The old man looked at Huang Chen and couldn't react, and said suspiciously: "You can see me like the guy who is keeping vigil?"
Huang Chen nodded, and the old man was even more surprised: "You can still hear me?"
Huang Chen: "I can hear it, but it's only a stick of incense, you should remember the one behind me, right?
The old man sighed guiltily: "Hey~." After this young man drank too much, he came to my grave, and poured me some wine, saying that he had lost a lot of money, and he couldn't afford to eat, and said that there was not so much when he died, and no one had swept my tomb when he saw it, and said that he was estimated to be such a miserable appearance after he died, and after kowtowing to me, he asked me to bless him to win some money, and when the time came, I came to sweep my grave, and I followed him, trying to help him win some money, and after getting on his body, I also liked to play cards when I was alive, and then forgot that people want to rest, and I just reacted when he ran out of energy, but it was too lateγ β
Zhang Weixiong behind Huang Chen thought about it, frowned and said: "It seems that this is indeed the case, so it is also my own fault, hey~ Death is dead, what are you talking about, it's just that Uncle you are dead and there is a grave, my family even donated my body when I died, there is no point in living, no one cares, there is no place to go when I die, his grandmother's, what kind of sin he made." β