Chapter 14 The Ghost Man
The inner room is larger than the outside area, and there are all kinds of funeral goods everywhere, such as dark money, paper people, paper horses, and many paper houses, paper cars, laptops made of paper, mobile phones made of paper, etc., in short, there are all of them in the real world, but they are all made of paper. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"Brother Yu, this business is good, so many products."
Ghost Chengfeng laughed.
"Alas, there's no way, our Yu family has been doing this business since ancient times, even when the emperor died, he used my Yu family's things, but now, good things can't be sold, and no one pays that price to buy them, but these messy things are very popular, brother, you can also want this thing in the underworld? I think it's just a fool, but I can't help it, if I didn't have these, I wouldn't be able to open this store, and this era is really incomprehensible to me. ”
Yu was speechless and shook his head repeatedly.
"Brother Yu, after all, the times are developing, and many traditions have changed, but good things are good things, and they are also applicable at any time, don't I come to beg you?"
"Don't say this word, it's my honor that my brother can find me, but what you want is too anxious, brother, you know" Hades laughs, the materials are difficult to find, and it takes time, I just have to work hard for two weeks......... By the way, who is this thing brother for? Could it really be for Lord Yama? ”
The other party was obviously curious as well.
"Alas, it's hard to put into words, it's such a .........."
After the ghost rode the wind and finished speaking, the man was speechless and stunned.
"Black impermanence? Dare to ask for three rolls at a time, that guy is really dark......... But brother, I know that you are warm-hearted, I didn't expect that ordinary person to have such a great blessing, and he must be able to get an official position in the underworld after death. ”
This speechless family is not ordinary, the ancestors of more than 20 generations are doing this business, the ancients paid more attention to the dead relatives than today, although the items burned to the underworld are not as varied as they are now, but that kind of thing is not comparable now, such as some big money made of yellow paper, it seems ordinary, but there are many mysteries.
In ancient times, there were two kinds of funerary goods, one was to bury living beings; The second is to be buried with objects, which is not something that everyone can have, and only those with great power can enjoy such treatment.
Who had the most rights in ancient times? Of course it's the emperor, many of them will have living people buried after death, this kind of system is naturally cruel to people now, full of the decay and degeneration of the feudal dynasty, but the real meaning of this is not to show the dignity of the emperor, but to prepare for these emperors to enter the underworld to establish their own power, those living people have suffered some kind of curse, the soul is very strong after death, and obey the orders of the emperor, the emperor's soul will take these souls to re-establish a force after entering the underworld.
Of course, this is just the willingness of these emperors, no matter how powerful those souls are, are they powerful in black and white? Are there 10 Hades who are powerful? Of course not, I didn't have the strength to rebel, and the result was of course even worse, so soon some emperors knew that the rules of the underworld were not obsessed with the burial of the living, and even the living burial system had been canceled in the Ming Dynasty.
There is no burial of living beings, that is, burial with objects, which leads to a big problem, not everything in the world can be taken to the underworld to use, otherwise there will be no tomb robbery for thousands of years.
But there are some that can be done, such as burning paper money, after a person's death, relatives burn paper money to use in the underworld for the deceased relatives, this system has been handed down, and it has not changed to this day.
In the eyes of outsiders, it seems that as long as the paper money bought can be burned, but in fact, the effect is too small and too small, and it is even useless.
Therefore, the production of this kind of paper money is also very particular, and the key lies in the material and production method of paper money.
As the name suggests, the material of paper money is paper, paper is too common for modern people, large paper mills can produce hundreds of tons of paper a day, its raw materials are very extensive, a little better paper is made of wood, and ordinary ones use some waste.
Now the paper money and paper people in the funeral goods are also made of this kind of mass-produced paper, but the paper money that this ghost needs to ride the wind is not these things.
The material of this paper money is also made of wood, but this wood comes from the willow tree that grows in the cemetery for more than 20 years, and the willow tree itself is yin, and it absorbs a lot of yin qi when it grows in the cemetery, which is the favorite of ghosts.
After these willows are mashed, they are added to the grave soil in proportion, and these grave soil must also be decades old, and then added to the reincarnation water for pulping after the two materials are complete, what is reincarnation water? To put it bluntly, it is a liquid produced after fermentation with an old rice in manure, animals have a cycle of death, and the same is true for plants.
The paper made by mixing these things together and then leaving it in a dark place to dry is a process that must not stick to a trace of daylight, and the dried paper is considered the basic raw material.
The above is only the first step, if this kind of paper is used directly as paper money, a seven-inch long and wide paper in the underworld is equivalent to a hundred yuan banknotes in the world, compared to those paper money on the market is not much more valuable, ordinary people even burn a ton of paper money may not have this value.
But for Ghost Chengfeng, this kind of paper money is far from enough, it is too bad, so the rest needs to be speechless.
Yu Wuyu's surname is very rare, and there are only two families in the country that are this surname, one is the same city Yu family, and the other is not far from here, but there is no kinship between the two, the Yu family is a family that only existed in the Tang Dynasty during the Wuhou period, it was originally a branch of the Li family, and it was only because of the rebellion and disobedience to the Wu Hou that it was given the surname Yu, and the Yu Wuyu family has been passed down for thousands of years, at least in the Han Dynasty era.
The origin of the surname of the Yu family is no longer available, but in the genealogy there is a very special description of the twentieth ancestor of the speechless, the family tree writes that the ancestor was born when a hundred ghosts walked at night strange things, he often said to himself when he was a child that he could see ghosts, these ghosts all respect him, begging him to burn paper sacrifices, so the twentieth ancestor became the first person to master the production of paper money, and it is also the first generation of ghosts of the Yu family.
Since then, the people of the Yu family will appear every other generation a ghost person, the paper money they make is very valuable in the underworld, this is not only the material of the paper money is very particular, but more importantly, their identity, as long as their ghost people's mark is stamped on the paper money, it is worth a lot, the highest value of which is a kind of paper money called "Hades laughs", as the name suggests, this kind of paper money is the Hades will also be overjoyed, you can imagine how precious it is, but this kind of paper money needs to be printed with the bones of the ghost people.
The ghost people have a history of more than 500 years, the previous generation of ghost people is still the grandfather of Yu Wu, because their identity is very special, so the life span is very long, the grandfather of Yu Wuyu lived to the age of ninety-five before he died, not only that, after the death of the ghost people will generally hold some positions similar to small officials in the underworld, just like the contract workers in the mortal world, in general, the Yu family is very popular in the underworld, as long as they do not do too much sin, they can be reincarnated and reincarnated.
But there is a problem in the generation of Yu Wuyu, every city has been engaged in construction in recent years, the land in the countryside has been expropriated for development, many of the original old graves have been moved away or razed to the ground, what decades of willows and old graves are less and less, two years ago Yu Wuyu came to a historic city in Guanzhong in order to collect materials, the city due to the deep inland, the development and construction is not so large-scale, many places in the countryside still retain a lot of old cemeteries, As a result, Yu Wuyu provoked a powerful ghost when collecting materials, this powerful ghost has reached the peak level of the illusion ghost, and its strength is very strong, this kind of ghost is very difficult to deal with, because it does not enter the underworld, even if you burn paper to it, you can't receive it.
This powerful ghost entangled Yu Wuyu, and finally confused him and almost died, but fortunately, the ghost Chengfeng happened to pass by here at that time, and subdued and rescued Yu Wuyu, and since then Yu Wuyu has regarded the ghost Chengfeng as a life-saving benefactor.
This time, the ghost Chengfeng asked him, and he naturally tried his best to help.
"Brother Ghost, this is the material I prepared overnight yesterday, and now it has begun to dry in the shade, and it should be ready to use within three hours."
Yu Wuyu led the two into a secret room, where several drying rods were placed, and on the poles were placed nearly a hundred sheets of paper that still emitted moisture, there was no electric light in the secret room, but dozens of finger-thick large candles were lit around it, and the candle flame was so hot that the room was hot.
"These materials must be very difficult to get by."
Ghost Chengfeng asked.
"It's okay, alas, now the city is building too fast, the old grave soil is better, it takes a little effort to get it in the countryside, and you can save some at a time, but this old willow tree is a bit laborious, but brother is still no problem with this, fortunately, modern people don't need these things, these materials can be used in serious places."
"Yes, the times have changed too much, and many old things are getting fewer and fewer, but these things are still indispensable, but people don't recognize them yet, and it's too late to realize them after death, but Brother Yu, don't worry, wait for me to take the time to wander around with you, and collect more materials for emergencies."
"Haha, thank you so much, brother, I won't be afraid of those ghosts with you, but then again, there are a lot of ghosts now, and my grandfather rarely encountered things that were entangled by ghosts at that time."
Thinking of the incident two years ago, Yu was still very afraid, if it weren't for the ghost riding the wind, his life would probably be gone.
"The anger in the world is too heavy, and there are more powerful ghosts, and don't you find it, big brother, somehow, the ghosts in the mortal world are too strong now, and many people don't enter the underworld after death to stay in the world and affect the living beings."
"yes, I feel that way, and I don't know what's going on in the world.........."