Chapter 1 The Peculiar Shop
When Zhong Ling was born, she was destined not to live an ordinary life, because her family was a unique family. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info As the descendant of the Heavenly Master Zhong Kui, she was born to subdue evil ghosts and protect the human world.
Since the Zhong family is a mysterious profession, it has been ten generations of single transmission. It was supposed to be passed on to men but not to women, but when it came to Zhong Ling's father's generation, only Zhong Ling was a girl.
Coincidentally, Zhong Ling was born with a "swastika" Buddha seal birthmark on the palm of his right hand. The Sanskrit word reads "Sri Rakssa", which means "auspicious sea and clouds", that is, an auspicious symbol presented between the sea and the clouds. It is painted on the chest of the Buddha Nyorai, and is considered by Buddhists to be "Ruixiang", which can gush out precious light, "its light is shining, and there are thousands of colors".
The old lady of the Zhong family pinched her fingers and thought that Zhong Ling, this girl was the reincarnation of the ancestor Heavenly Master Zhong Kui, who was born with spirituality and was an excellent candidate to inherit the family's mysterious profession, so he made an exception and asked Zhong Ling's father to pass on the mantle to Zhong Ling.
What kind of profession does the Zhong family do?
When it comes to the shop opened by the Zhong family called "Flowers on the Other Side", it is famous in the yin and yang world!
That's right, it's a shop for ghosts. As long as there are things related to ghosts, as long as the client speaks, there is nothing that Boss Zhong can't do!
really responded to this sentence, the flower on the other side is a flower that blooms in heaven... It is also the only flower that blooms on Huangquan Road...
Speaking of which, some people may ask, the customers recruited by this store are not only living people, but also a large part of them are ghosts, they only have dark coins, and they can't pass in the yang world, how does the Zhong family live?
Hehe, you don't have to worry about it, Zhong Ling's grandfather is very smart, he helps the ghost to do something, collects a drop of the ghost's blood and tears, and uses the exclusive alchemy secret recipe to refine a hundred drops of the ghost's blood and tears into a piece of blood jade. This thing is a valuable treasure both in ancient times and now, and at the current market price, it is more than 100,000 yuan. Over the course of a year, the income is quite impressive.
As soon as Zhong Ling was born, her father hung a peach wood plaque around her neck, which was engraved with a bright red manzhu sawa flower. First, the peach wood is used to ward off evil spirits, and the other is to show his identity, which is the next generation of the Zhong family's "flowers blooming on the other side", and all ghosts avoid it.
Since she was sensible, her father began to teach her the Maoshan technique, and seeing her strength getting stronger and stronger, although her father didn't say it, his daughter's progress was so fast that he was surprised. As a descendant of Heavenly Master Zhong Kui, this should have been a fortunate thing, but Zhong Ling's father has been feeling more and more uneasy recently, is this power really good for his daughter?
After Zhong Ling graduated from university, she originally found a job in the provincial capital, and she planned to stay here and didn't want to go back, to be honest, she often saw grimaces when she was a child, it has always been her nightmare, she didn't want to inherit the ancestral business, and she dealt with ghosts all day long. But it backfired, and it didn't take long for the bad news from her hometown that her father was critically ill, and she hurried home.
Before his father took his last breath, he said that he had already checked in the underworld, and his fifty-six-year-old Yang Shou had arrived, and people had a life and death, so don't Zhong Ling be too sad. He asked Zhong Ling to take over the "flowers blooming on the other side", because this is the legacy left by the ancestors, unless there are no heirs in the family, then the incense will be cut off.
Under his father's eager gaze before his death, can Zhong Ling say no?
Seeing that Zhong Ling agreed, his father stopped breathing after saying these few words, looking at his satisfied smile, Zhong Ling knew that he was relieved because she agreed to take over "Flowers on the Other Side", and he also made up his mind that for the sake of his father, he would never change his career in this life.
Since taking over "Flowers on the Other Side", Zhong Ling has deeply realized what life is like for people who are not normal.
The store opens at 1 p.m. every day, and during the day, "Flowers on the Other Side" is ostensibly a small jewelry store selling Buddhist beads, amulets, etc., and there are basically no customers. At the beginning of the evening (23 o'clock), the official start of work, the end of the ugly hour (3 o'clock) in the early morning closing, because this period is the ghost active period, early no customers, late to 3 o'clock in the morning, basically the chicken is about to crow, and it is also the time for the ghost to go back. The big living people who know the details of this store are also assigned to the commission at this time.
Every day at three o'clock in the morning, Zhong Ling had to boil the ghost tears he got into a red solution with a special potion, which was the raw material of blood jade, and put it into a sealed jar, and when he had stored enough of a hundred drops of ghost tears in the solution, he could refine it into blood jade to exchange it for cash. Because the source of this thing is unknown, and it has been in stock for a long time, the right way cannot be sold, and she can only find a buyer on the antique black market, but fortunately, there is no need to worry about this, her father has already left her a way.
It was already five o'clock in the morning, and her mother made her breakfast, and she ate and slept, and it was 12 o'clock in the afternoon before she got up for lunch, and she even suspected that her father's early death was related to this abnormal lifestyle.
Today is the first day of October, what everyone calls the Ghost Festival, this is a traditional festival, regardless of the north and south, will sacrifice to the ancestors on this day, some can not return to the ancestral grave to worship, often burn paper money at the intersection of the place of residence.
It is said that there is a bank in the underworld that is responsible for receiving money, and as long as your children and grandchildren burn it, they will give you the original amount of money and goods according to the registered catalog.
The business in the store has not been too prosperous recently, and there are only one or two customers on average every day, and today is the festival, and the ghosts will be busy collecting sacrifices, I am afraid that there will be no customers, Zhong Ling hesitated to go or not. Finally, I think about it, I can't sleep at night anyway, so I might as well go to the store and read a book and think about some spells.
Zhong Ling went out of the house, ready to cross the road to the opposite alley, arrived at an ancient street, walked 100 meters inside, and it was her shop. At this moment, I suddenly heard a terrible ghost scream, and followed the sound to find a small alley, only to see two evil ghosts entangled with a teenager.
The two demons are black shadows, the young man seems to be just a fledgling little celestial master, with one enemy and two, he is no longer an opponent, his body moves quickly, looking for an opportunity to receive the two demons into the copper gourd, but the two demons attack one after the other, making him quite embarrassed.
Seeing that the young man had fallen into the wind, Zhong Ling was about to come to the rescue, only to see the young man suddenly take out a pillar of incense from his backpack and stick it on the ground, light it and shout: "Zhang Tianyu, the sixty-ninth generation descendant of the Heavenly Master, invites the ancestor to come out of the mountain!" ”
Zhong Ling snorted, nonsense, the two little black shadows couldn't be beaten, and he actually wanted to ask Master Zu for help, which was really ridiculous and generous.
I saw Zhang Tianyu's body tremble a few times, the look of his eyes was completely different from just now, and his pace was steady, "With my Dao heart, I will prove the Six Realms Gate." The four elephants are guarded, and the Shura realm is opened! ”
I saw Zhang Tianyu, who was possessed by the grandfather, slashing his fingers in all directions, laying out a net of heaven and earth, and the two black shadows were about to flee when they saw that the situation was not good, but they were bounced back in an instant, taking advantage of the momentum of the bounce back, Zhang Tianyu took out the copper gourd and aimed it at the two evil ghosts: "Enter!" ”
The two evil ghosts were sucked into the copper gourd, Zhang Tianyu shook it a few times, and there was a "knock" sound inside, and the two evil ghosts turned into a puddle of black water in a blink of an eye.
Zhong Ling finished watching the trick and was about to leave, when Zhang Tianyu spoke: "Girl, go slowly." ”
This voice is steady and old, it is the ancestor of the Heavenly Master Sect!
Zhong Ling turned around and walked over, rubbing his hands: "What do you have to do with your predecessors?" ”
"Zhang Tianyu is my sixty-ninth generation, but unfortunately he is not good at learning and art, and he is frizzy and lacks the city government." The voice said: "Now that I have failed the college entrance examination, the road ahead is boundless, I hope you will take him in for the sake of my thirty-seventh generation disciples." You must already know about him, pay the price of your life to save your Zhong family, you must repay this love. ”
Zhong Ling's heart moved, her father had indeed told her about it.
Zhong Ling frowned slightly, Master Zu actually pressed people with grace, the technique was not very authentic, seeing Zhong Ling's hesitation, Master Zu said: "Although I am in the underworld, but the king of Yama has been in the underworld for a long time, if there are descendants who need help, you can let me out of the underworld to possess me, yin and yang, I don't know less than the ghosts." ”
Zhong Ling nodded: "But, this alone is not enough for me to accept Zhang Tianyu." ”
"What a greedy little girl! Anyway, I'll give you another strange book that can be compared to ghost books. Master Zu said: "The Hundred Ghost Diagram contains ghosts and strange things that have appeared in the past, if you can never forget it, what else can stump you in the future?" ”
Zhong Ling came to his senses at this time: "That's not bad, where is the book?" ”
With a flick of the ancestor's right hand, a ball of light flew over and hit Zhong Ling's forehead, her eyes were dark, and suddenly a huge picture scroll unfolded in the darkness, one after another, each with illustrations and explanations, from ancient mythical beasts to charms, to ghosts, there is everything!
Zhong Ling looked at it very carefully, and saw each one clearly, just a few minutes like receiving a century of education, and when the light disappeared, Zhong Ling's understanding had entered a new chapter, and the situation just now was restored.
Master Zu also attached to Zhang Tianyu: "How about this reward, please take more care of this unsuccessful apprentice in the future." ”
"Well said." Zhong Ling nodded and said.
Seeing that Zhong Ling agreed, Master Zu couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Since this is the case, we will treat the contract as if the contract has been completed, and he will hand it over to you." ”
Zhang Tianyu's body shuddered, his head dizzy, and then waited for his eyes to be sober, only to see Zhong Ling in front of him: "Are you a human or a ghost?" Why are you a girl here in the middle of the night? ”
"It's my turn to ask you, think about what just happened." Zhong Ling said coldly.
Looking back on what Zhang Tianshi said, Zhang Tianyu had a bitter face, as a descendant of the Heavenly Master, he was the only one who asked Master Zu to come out to make a living for him! And it's still followed by a little girl! Shame on you!
"If you don't want to starve to death in the imperial capital or let the beggars take you in, come with me." Zhong Ling resolutely turned around, regardless of whether Zhang Tianyu followed or not, Zhang Tianyu behind him hung his head and followed without much thought, and the hardships he had suffered in the past few days made him know that it was a happy thing to have food to eat.