17. Sweep the Yin Woman
86_86322 This face is familiar, very similar to Wu Junru's starring ghost crashing ghost, the old woman who raised ghosts for the underworld boss Hu Feng, and her face was covered with cracks like lime walls.
We were stunned for a long time, until I heard the old woman's reminder, and I came back to my senses.
"Old woman, you mean that the people in the town are avoiding mandrill ghosts?" I asked. In the past, there were also rumors in the mountains and wilderness that mandrill ghosts always liked to go down the mountain to disturb people on certain days. There are some stories in the countryside that in the middle of the night, they always hear an inexplicable and continuous knock on the door, they call it a ghost knocking on the door, and the protagonist of the ghost knocking on the door is the mandrill ghost.
It was only then that I noticed the bucket behind the old woman, which contained something similar to white flour, and saw that there was a reed rope pinned to his waist, and every time the broom landed, white marks slid on the ground.
"You're a sweeper?" I looked at the woman with amazement. It is a lost profession that began to appear during the Ming Dynasty. Because there are hundreds of ghosts walking at night, hungry ghosts giving food, July 15 Ghost Festival and other special days. Whenever these days come, there are some goddesses who appear in the streets to keep vigil for the sleeping people. They carried a broom and a bucket of lime, dipped in lime and tung oil, to clean the deserted streets, and hung matches and reeds with them.
If there are mountain spirits and ghosts, they will not be able to escape their brooms, and the lime stained by the ghosts on the brooms will show their original shape, and stick to the broom, and then use Luso to fight the ghosts, and if they touch the hard stubble, they will not hesitate to take out matches and burn the ghosts to death with fire.
"When I was young, I was obsessed with spells, so that I didn't look like a human being, and I didn't look like a ghost, and I did a lot of bad things. Now that people are old, they want to change their ways, accumulate some yin virtues, and do something for everyone. The old woman heard the three words of the Yin Woman, raised her head and looked at me in slight surprise, and then swept us a few times before saying, "You are strangers, you must be very tired when you look like you are sweating profusely." ”
"I'm tired, my whole body hurts and I have a sore back." I nodded hurriedly, and when she said this, I realized that the bones were almost scattered, and my eyelids were so heavy that I really wanted to fall asleep on the street.
"Today is the day when the mandrill comes down. You're looking for a place to stay, it's hard to find a place to stay. The old woman hammered her waist and said, "If you don't dislike it, go to the old man's house for one night." ”
"Okay, mother-in-law, how much money do you want, even if you make a price, we will never bargain." The tired Lei San was overjoyed and nodded hurriedly.
"Spending a night is also considered convenient for people, since it is a merit, let alone money." The old woman packed up the lime bucket, took out a kerosene lamp from her bag and lit it, led us forward, and sang as she went: "A sky lantern, a hundred ghosts avoid, a thousand souls do not disturb, and the living avoid ......"
The voice was very permeating, and the hoarse voice echoed in the empty streets, much like Xiangxi chasing corpses. Listening to the sacrificial text she recited, the function of this lamp is to deter ghosts, but the flame on the lamp flashes with a green ghost, obviously it is to suppress evil spirits, but I feel that this is a guiding lamp that leads lonely souls and wild ghosts to the Yellow Spring, and the body of the old woman is not like a ghost suppression, but more like a guide from the Yellow Spring, the end of this dark long road seems to be ghostly
Entrance.
The old woman's house was not far away, and after walking for more than ten minutes, she led us to a large mansion with an old building. The old woman told us to wait for a moment, and then went to the door and shook the deadbolt.
"Lan'er, Lan'er, open the door." After a few clicks, the door creaked open. Immediately after, a petite figure appeared inside the door.
Amazing - I think these two words will be the thoughts of everyone present at this moment, the little girl in front of her skin is as white as snow, slim, especially the pair of peach blossom eyes on her face, casually sliding, with a seductive charm, but also born so pure, I wonder which man can resist. As soon as she came out, Lei Wu's eyes straightened.
"Grandma, why did you come back so early?" Lan'er rubbed her hazy sleepy eyes and asked the old woman.
"I've met a few guests, Lan'er, you can clean up the spare house and let these guests stay," the old woman said weakly, and walked into the house with a lime bucket and a broom.
Miss Lan'er closed the door, turned around, and smiled at us: "It's been a long time since there have been guests at home, brothers, you go and sit in the house, and I'll clean up your room later." ”
This innocent smiling person was a little distracted, and it was hard to imagine that an old woman with such a cracked face could give birth to such a beautiful daughter.
There was a "snap", a very violent slapping sound sounded, and I turned around, only to see Lei Wu's face flushed, and his hands were still behind his back.
"What's wrong?" Lan'er turned around and asked. When everyone was inexplicable, Lei Yi said lightly: "It's nothing, there were mosquitoes just now, I just hit the mosquitoes." After speaking, Lei Yi's eyes slanted Lei Wu slightly, and the warning in his eyes was extremely strong.
Looking at their strange looks, I figured out what that slap was all about. Lan'er was talking to us just now, and she was standing in front of Lei Wu. From the moment he saw Lan'er, Lei Wu's gaze was too hot, and he couldn't wait to eat people. That slap should be Lei Wu's hooligan attack, and he wanted to touch Lan'er's buttocks, but Lei Yi beat him in time.
"Lei Wu, put away your lust, if I let me know that you will take revenge, I will never let you go" When I walked into the house, I quietly warned Lei Wu again, with Lei Wu's disciple nature, this has to be guarded against.
Entering the house and sitting down, Lan'er poured tea for a few of us first, and after Lei Yi and my warning, Lei Wu didn't dare to mess around, although his eyes were there to look around, but fortunately there was no deviant behavior.
"Hehe, this chick is really punctual." After Lan'er left, Lei Wuse smiled and rubbed his hands: "If I can be happy with her once, it will not be in vain to be reincarnated as a master in this life." ”
"Shut up, you can do whatever you like. But if you dare to mess around tonight, I'll definitely chop off your hand. Lei Yi frowned and warned Lei Wu, lowered his head, and said to Lei Wu in a disapproving, but warning tone: "If you can't send Mr. Chen to Lei Ye's character because you have stubble on the way to escort Mr. Chen, you also know Lei Ye's character." ”
A simple sentence made Lei Wu shudder fiercely, and the expression on his face was as if he had seen a ghost. This Lei Ye is really very deterrent, and Lei Wu is afraid of it. However, I looked at Lei Wu's slightly calculating expression after he was shocked, and I knew that this matter was probably not over.
I sighed slightly in my heart, I didn't expect that this excuse might lead to a disaster. I thought to myself: Before leaving, I must tell the old woman to move out of here, otherwise I will definitely turn around and return after this Lei Wu sends me to Daolaizhou.
"Knock knock...... Open the door, open the door, I'm sleepy, I want bed, I want sleep. Just as everyone was struggling in their chairs with their heads down, there was a very continuous and violent knock on the door.
At first, I was startled, but as I listened, I couldn't find the sound so familiar.
"Open the door, open the door quickly, my eyes are dying of pain, I want a bed, I want to sleep" The knock on the door was repeated, the tone was like a child's coquettish trick when he asked his elders for candy, but it was this voice that made everyone's faces change suddenly.
"It's the confused one, the one sleeping under our car." Recalling the tragic situation when he was beaten, Lei Er and Lei San's face was too pale.
"He must have chased after him. I guessed that I was ghosted in the bamboo forest, and he was the one who did it. Lei San's face turned pale, and he trembled with fright from the knock on the door.
"Maybe you're thinking too much, I don't feel like he's a bad guy." I shook my head, this fool was demented and weird, but I didn't feel like he had any ill intentions, at least not at all.
"I'd better open the door." Seeing everyone's hesitation, I prepared to walk out the door. At this time, there was a scolding in the inner hall
"Don't open the door, that's a mandrill ghost, here to get a soul!" The old woman's solemn drinking also made our hearts cold