Chapter 22: Return to the basics
Looking at the dark shadow in the depths, I had an inexplicable fear in my heart. People are like this, for unknown things, even if they know that it is just a person, they will still be afraid if they can't see their true face.
"Who are you?" I shouted to give myself courage, but my hand was already nervously grasping a handful of yellow talismans: "There is a kind of coming out and doing it openly!"
And the black shadow over there seemed to be holding the black cat just now, and one hand was caressing the black cat's back. Staring at the black cat's eyes with night vision, I shouted at him again, "Why did you lure me out, what is your purpose?"
After a sound, the surroundings fell silent instantly, and after a few seconds, the voice of the black shadow broke the silence and said, "You don't have to be nervous, it doesn't matter who I am, the important thing is that I know who you are!"
"What do you mean?" I shouted at him excitedly.
Before I could finish speaking, I saw the dark shadow suddenly disappear, leaving only a voice echoing in the air: "I'll come back to you again." ”
I told the third uncle about this, only to see him frown tightly after hearing this, and said, "I expected him to look for you, but I didn't expect to find you so soon, and the third uncle can't help you now, so be more careful yourself!"
After listening to the third uncle, I nodded and said, "Third uncle" "Gong, I know, I will be careful." ”
And the third uncle seemed to be thinking about something, and followed my words at the end of his words, saying: "By the way, Xiaoyu, when you go back to the third uncle's house after you go back to the yang world, there is a box under my bed, which contains the six copper coins I got by chance when I was a corpse chaser in Xiangxi. ”
Hearing this, my curiosity was hooked again, and I said with a smile: "Third uncle, you have also been to Xiangxi, can you tell me about it?"
I saw the third uncle pause, took the last puff of cigarette, snuffed out the cigarette butt, and said, "This is a long story, let me think about where to start!"
"It's okay, third uncle, speak slowly!"
Then, the third uncle talked about the past:
In 1958, when the whole country was opposed to feudal superstition, it was at that time that most of us academics were forced to change careers, and only a small number of people still insisted on doing our business, and I was one of them.
At that time, Xiangxi was originally mysterious, and I didn't investigate there, so I fled there in order to escape, took refuge in your old lady's old friend, and became a corpse chaser.
Once, I forgot where I was going to drive the corpse, but I remember that on the way to drive the corpse, I met a person on the road, half of his body was buried in the ground, only the upper body was exposed to the ground, and there was a slight cry for help from his mouth.
I was still young at the time, so I picked him up and took him to the nearest inn, which was the one for us corpse chasers.
After rescuing him, I asked him who he was, and he didn't say anything at first, but after I asked him repeatedly, he told him that he was a grave robber.
They originally had a group of three, but when they came out of the tomb after cleaning the antiquities, they were collapsing, and the other two were buried in the tomb, and he himself was buried halfway, and he was not saved until I stumbled upon him.
Before leaving, he gave me the six copper coins, and I only later learned that they were the long-lost weapons of our Taoist family to exorcise demons and subdue demons.
And that's where those six copper coins come from!"
After listening to the third uncle's speech, I felt that it was not enjoyable at all, and said to him: "Third uncle, you are too short, is there a longer one..."
Before I finished speaking, Bai Wuchang on the side suddenly spoke up and said, "Have you said enough, I don't have the time to listen to you talk about your family here." Xiao Chen, hurry up and finish explaining what should be explained, don't wait for others to find out that we brought someone down without permission, then we can't explain it to Lord Yama!"
The third uncle nodded hurriedly and said, "Seventh Master, I have finished explaining, and I still bother you to send him back." ”
After the third uncle finished speaking, Hei Wuchang, who had been silent next to him, opened his mouth and shouted angrily: "Do you want us to send it back?" unless you get me a foreign girl to play with." ”
Bai Wuchang also echoed and said, "Give me one too, I want Japan!"
Hei Wuchang followed and said: "I want American, Boda!"
The third uncle nodded his head all the time, but I was in a fog next to me, so he whispered to my grandfather, "Grandpa, what are you talking about? Why are you still involved in human trafficking?"
After hearing this, the third uncle snickered a few times, and then replied to me in a low voice, saying: "What kind of human trafficking, what they want is a paper man, that is, the kind that is tied in a shroud shop, you go back to find a shop to tie two people for them, and burn it down!" I laughed a few times and said, "It turned out to be paper people, I thought I was going to tie two of them!"
"Hey, what are you two muttering, what are you saying out loud!" Bai Wuchang suddenly got up and shouted.
Grandpa also stood up and said, "Seventh Master, I'm instructing him to remember to burn paper for you when he goes back to the yang world!"
After hearing this, Hei Wuchang seemed to be unable to wait, stood up suddenly, and said to Bai Wuchang: "Brother, hurry up and send him back, let him burn it for us as soon as possible." ”
Bai Wuchang smiled after hearing this, and said to me, "Let's go!"
I said goodbye to the third uncle briefly, and then walked out of the gate with the black and white impermanence, and walked back the way I came, and when we reached the ghost gate, two little ghosts stopped us and said, "Seventh master, eighth master, who are you?"
I saw Bai Wuchang lifting his voice and saying, "If you catch it wrong, don't say it, it's embarrassing!"
One of the imps immediately replied, "We didn't see anything!"
And the other imp shouted, "Open the door and let go!"
Out of the ghost gate, I don't know how long, and suddenly a bright light appeared not far in front of me, I knew that it was the exit, so I said to Bai Wuchang: "Seventh Master, it's okay to get here, I know the way." ”
Bai Wuchang nodded and said, "You must return to the physical body immediately after you go out, otherwise you will really die in three hours, and then our brothers will have to give you a run." ”
After listening to this, Hei Wuchang spoke again, and said, "The rest is not important, just remember to burn the paper for us!"
"Don't worry, I'll have someone burn it for you when I go back. ”
Walking out of the light, I returned to the entrance of the hospital, it was still dark and there were basically no people. Thinking of what Bai Wuchang said just now, I hurriedly floated back to my room, and found that the fat man was still sleeping there snoring on his stomach, and looked up at the time, it was only more than 1 o'clock, and it was less than an hour since I went to the underworld for so long, how could it be, could it be that the time in the underworld and the yang world are different!
I couldn't figure it out, I didn't want to, I hurried back to my own body. As soon as I got up, I tore up the note for the fat man, or he would have thought I was sick when he saw it.
Relaxed, lay down for a while and felt sleepy, so I went on a date with Zhou Gong's daughter.