Chapter 4: Halloween in the seventh and a half months
"Seventy years of mortals are rare, and Yan Huan has only thirty years in her life. Ling Jun hesitated, but decided to tell Lan Xu.
"It sounds like this girl is blessed and short-lived, no wonder people say, 'Since ancient times, there is a thin life'. Lan Xu approached Ling Jun and asked in a low voice, "Hey, do you have any relationship with this girl in your previous life?" You tell me, I promise not to tell others. ”
Ling Jun stared at him and slowly spit out two words: "Boring." ”
"Cut, love to say it or not, you think I don't know if you don't say it, if you have nothing to do with that girl, the ghost doesn't believe it. Lan Xu shouted on the side.
Ling Jun didn't want to argue with him, and his figure disappeared in a flash. Lan Xu saw him leave, and hurriedly chased after him, "Hey, wait for me." ”
Time flies like flowing water, and in a blink of an eye, it has arrived in Zhongyuan.
The midyear festival, commonly known as the Ghost Festival, is called Obon in Buddhism in the seventh and a half months. Legend has it that on this day, the ghost gate is wide open, and the ghosts of the underworld will be forbidden. Spirits of descendants and descendants go home to receive incense offerings, while ownerless souls wander about, wandering wherever they can find something to eat. Therefore, in July, people hold "Pudu" and "almsgiving" almsgiving activities such as food sacrifices and chanting sutras, so as to prevent the lonely souls and wild ghosts from causing disasters to the world, or pray for ghosts to help remove epidemics and bless the safety of their homes.
On this day, Yan Huan went to Ruyuezhai as usual and checked the account books with the steward. Because of the Midyear Festival, the guys all went home early.
The steward looked outside and said to Yan Huan: "Young Dongjia, you see it's not early, it's Zhongyuan again, let's go back." ”
Yan Huan looked up at the sky, saw that the sky was gradually darkening, and nodded: "Go back." ”
The two of them went out of the store, and the steward was not worried that Yan Huan was alone, Yan Huan said: "It's okay, I am very familiar with this road, and there are still people on the street, so it will be fine." ”
When the steward saw this, he did not say any more, but made a gesture and went away alone.
Yan Huan walked slowly, and at first he didn't realize it, but gradually he heard the ringing of the bell, which seemed to come from a long distance, faintly, and he couldn't really hear it. Yan Huan was wondering where this bell came from, and suddenly remembered that ghosts like to listen to ringtones, and today happened to be half of July, so he was afraid that he had bumped into something unclean.
Just thinking about it, Yan Huan felt that there was an invisible force imprisoning her, and no matter how hard she struggled, it would be useless.
"Little girl, don't waste your efforts. A gloomy female voice sounded in her ears: "Anyway, you are also short-lived, it is better to help my sister, it can be regarded as your creation." ”
Yan Huan listened to her words, and only felt creepy. She was met by a female ghost, and maybe a ghost! She opened her mouth to speak, but she couldn't make a sound. I thought that the female ghost had already taken precautions, and she was afraid that she would call it out and cause extraneous branches, so she simply didn't let her speak.
Help! Yan Huan shouted in her heart, even if no one would come to save her.
"Don't be unwilling, if you die, you can be reincarnated, sister, I won't have such good luck. It's okay, it's useless to talk more, you can bear with it..."Before the words fell, a strong wind swept by, Yan Huan only felt that the sky was spinning, and finally stabilized, and saw a man in green clothes confronting a female ghost.
"Hey, who should I be, it turned out to be Lord Lingjun. I don't know that the adults are here, Hongyuan is rude. The female ghost blessed Ling Jun, looked at Yan Huan again, and smiled charmingly: "If you want to be busy, then Hongyuan won't bother." ”
A gust of wind swept around the female ghost, as if she was about to escape. Ling Jun waved his sleeves to disperse the wind, and used a rope to fu the female ghost. The female ghost was shocked: "What are you doing, sir, let me go!"
Ling Jun was unmoved, turned his head and asked Yan Huan, "Is there something wrong?"
Yan Huan had never encountered this kind of thing, and was a little stunned, and when she heard Ling Jun ask her, she subconsciously replied, "It's okay." ”
Ling Jun looked her up and down, and felt that she was just too frightened, so he said to the female ghost: "Hongyuan, are you guilty?"
The female ghost said: "Hongyuan knows his mistake and asks the adult to be gracious." ”
Ling Jun pondered for a moment and said coldly: "I think you are a first-time offender, and I will spare you once, if you commit it again, I will never spare it!"
"Yes, yes, thank you. ”
Ling Jun untied the rope, and the female ghost thanked her again before leaving.
Yan Huan came back to his senses and asked, "Just let her go, what if she harms others again?"
"She didn't dare. ”
Seeing that Ling Jun was so determined, Yan Huan couldn't answer for a while.
"Are you a heavenly master?" Yan Huan always thought that he was a rich son, but today's hand, no matter how he is, he will not be an ordinary person, thinking about it, only this identity is reasonable.
"Why do you think that?" Ling Jun was a little surprised.
Yan Huan took it for granted: "Otherwise, you can't be a monster." ”
Ling Jun was a little crying and laughing, and tried to explain to her: "It's not a monster, and it may not be a heavenly master." I've learned some exorcism talismans from the masters before, and I happened to use them today. ”
"Oh, it turned out to be the apprentice of a master outside the world, then it's no wonder. Yan Huan felt that this also made sense.
Ling Jun saw that her expression was as usual, and he put his mind at ease, "It's not early, I'll send you back." ”
Yan Huan also felt that he should go back, but he said: "Don't worry, you accompany me for two steps, there is a store not far ahead, I invite you to eat wontons." ”
Ling Jun saw that she was still in the mood to eat wontons, and secretly said that this girl was really not an ordinary person.
Yan Huan is an honest and good girl, and not long after the two left, they saw a small shop. Yan Huan stretched out his finger and pointed, "Look, I didn't lie to you." ”
Lingjun...
The two of them entered the store, and there was only an old woman in her fifties in the store, and when she saw a guest coming, she hurriedly greeted her: "Two of you, please sit down, what do you want to use to tell my Granny Wang, it's not me who blows, my Granny Wang's craftsmanship is a must in Dongcheng." ”
Yan Huan thought about it and asked for two bowls of wontons, then turned his head and asked Ling Jun, "Do you want anything else?"
"Nope. ”
Eating wontons in the summer doesn't sound too wonderful, but Yan Huan likes it.
She watched Ling Jun while eating, and she was simply taking a beautiful man to eat.
"I didn't expect you to be so capable!" Yan Huan didn't forget to sigh when he was eating wontons.
Ling Jun laughed and went back to the topic.
Yan Huan didn't know what to think, and asked again: "Then do you know martial arts?" I heard that many scholars also practice martial arts in order to strengthen their bodies. ”
"Some. "Lingjun is as good as a stream.
Yan Huan was very satisfied with this answer, and felt that he had talked too much today, so he simply stopped speaking and buried himself in eating wontons, and after a while, a bowl of wontons came to the bottom. Seeing that Ling Jun also ate about the same, he was ready to check out and leave. In the end, it was Ling Jun's account, Yan Huan felt a little unhappy, but he couldn't pay him back the money from a few copper plates, so he could only let it go.