Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Ghost Monk
On July 15, the night enters the third watch, the darkness is extreme, and the time is cloudy. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info ghosts walk at night, and the living avoid it.
On the street near the north gate of Xuanzhen, two husbands, one old and one young, each carrying a gong and a bangzi, walked from the north gate to the cross street.
Bang Bang Bang, Bang.
It's safe and sound~
The old man shouted, and said to the young man beside him: "Jia Xu, today is the Midyear Festival, on this day, Lord Yama will open the door of the underworld and allow the ghosts to return to the sun, and the third watch moment is when the underworld opens its door." In the future, you need to be more careful when you play the shift. ”
When the young man named Jia Xu heard this, he was frightened, and looked around around with a gong as a shield on his chest, and asked the old man, "The king... King... Uncle, what are we going to do? ”
Uncle Wang said: "There is an unwritten rule that we should work on the 15th and third shifts of July, so as not to run into unclean things." ”
Jia Xu asked Uncle Wang and said, "Uncle, have you seen... Ghost.. Is it? ”
Uncle Wang hurriedly stopped him and said, "Today's Midyear Festival, don't say those things!" Remember, remember!"
A Xu asked again: "What if.. See... What to do? ”
Uncle Wang admonished him: "If you encounter misfortune, you must also turn a blind eye, only in this way can you save your life." Don't forget! ”
A Xu nodded yes.
After the two hurriedly finished reporting the shift, they had to cross the cross street and return to the duty station. When I walked to the cross street, I saw seven or eight black shadows appear out of thin air in the middle of the street five feet away.
The two of them hurriedly stopped, and through the miserable white moonlight, they saw that the seven or eight black shadows were all disheveled and covered in prison clothes, and there were blood marks on the clothes.
The body is like a walking wood, staggering, scattered from the center of the street in all directions.
Jia Xu was shocked, knowing that he had seen a ghost, he turned his head and fled, but found that there were also ghosts staggering behind him. He was startled and opened his mouth to exhale. Uncle Wang's eyes were quick, and he reached out to cover his mouth, so as not to be called out by him and alarm the ghosts.
Uncle Wang lowered his voice and said in his ear, "This is a walking corpse!" Don't shout! Hold your breath and go! Don't run! ”
Jia Xu looked around in horror and nodded in a wooden voice.
Uncle Wang took off the stick from his waist, held it in his hand to strengthen his courage, took a deep breath, closed his breath, and walked forward lightly, followed by Jia Xu.
The two had only walked a few steps before they were about to encounter a walking corpse.
Uncle Wang forced himself to calm down, holding the bang tightly with one hand, and pinching his nose and mouth with the other, for fear of leaking a little breath.
The two of them tiptoed along, passing by the walking corpse, but finally did not wake him up.
After walking another five or six steps, Uncle Wang breathed a sigh of relief and was about to hurry through the cross street, when four or five walking corpses appeared out of thin air in the center of the street, which frightened him to hold his breath quickly.
Jia Xu followed behind Uncle Wang, carrying a gong in one hand and his clothes in the other, staring at the ground without squinting, shaking as he walked, his body was like chaff, until he passed by the walking corpse, his heart relaxed, although he always felt that he was being stared at behind him, but he didn't dare to look back.
Jia Xu's vision was blocked by Uncle Wang, and he couldn't see the movement in front of him at all. After brushing shoulders with the walking corpses, I thought I was safe.
At this time, his ability to hold his breath had reached its limit, his face turned purple, and both eyes were about to pop out. After taking another five or six steps, I couldn't hold my breath, so I changed my breath.
Uncle Wang stopped suddenly, and Jia Xu also hurriedly stopped, almost hitting him on the back.
Jia Xu looked up and saw a walking corpse standing beside him, close at hand. The walking corpse was bald, withered, bloodless, hollow eyes, and a "hungry" sound came from his throat.
His heartbeat suddenly stopped, and he hurriedly covered his nose with his hands, not daring to move for half a minute.
The appearance of this walking corpse is clearly the monk in Cai's Tofu Workshop.
The monk hesitated for a moment, thinking that he had not found the two, and continued to walk.
Jia Xu's heart was beating like a drum, and the sound of dong was endless, and he and Uncle Wang hurried a few steps through the center of the street.
Before the two entered the north street of the city, a black cat jumped off the wall and landed at their feet.
Jia Xu's nerves had reached a critical point, and he could no longer bear the fright, so he jumped up with a snort.
The monk behind him felt the breath of a living person, turned around and chased after him.
"Hungry! Hungry! ”
When Jia Xu looked back, he fled with his legs. Before he could run ten feet away, he was blocked by a walking corpse that appeared in front of him.
There were jackals in front and tigers in the back, Jia Xu panicked, and suddenly felt that there was no way to enter the heavens and no way to enter the earth.
"Come over here!" Uncle Wang's voice came from his side.
Before Jia Xu could react, he was dragged into the dark alley by a big hand covering his mouth.
The walking corpse chased to the mouth of the alley, disappeared from the breath of the living, looked left and right, and walked towards the alley.
Uncle Wang covered Jia Xu's mouth and hid behind a pile of grass and reed mats. Seeing a few black shadows flickering in, the two panicked and thought: My life is over!
At this moment, a dog barked from the depths of the alley, and a wild dog jumped past the hiding place of the two and pounced on the walking corpse at the mouth of the alley.
The monk, who was originally as dull as a wooden man, came back to life after seeing a living creature, and was very agile. Reach out and grab the wild dog, tearing it in half in a single blow. Several walking corpses swarmed up and ate the dogs.
Uncle Wang and Jia Xu took this opportunity to quietly flee from the reed mat to the depths of the alley, and with the sound of chewing bones behind them, they climbed over the courtyard wall, not knowing where to hide.
On the roof of the house at the corner of the street, a dark shadow flashed, and the walking corpses in the alley disappeared, leaving only the wreckage.
In a private house in the south of the city, the lights are on.
Since she was frightened in the cemetery, Aunt A has taken refuge in her home. After pouring a few corners of soju, he fell asleep. and heard three bangs of sticks outside the window before waking up from a drunken dream.
She felt her throat dry and her belly hot like fire, so she got up and lit the oil lamp, and went to the water tank to scoop a ladle of cool water and poured it down.
Bang bang bang, bang bang bang.
Aunt A was in a daze when she heard someone banging on the courtyard door, the voice was very urgent, she opened the door and shouted out of the door: "Who? ”
The knock on the door stopped abruptly: "Mother! It's me! Hurry up and open the door. ”
When Aunt A heard that it was her son, she said in her heart, how could she come back so early on the first day of the shift today.
She staggered across the patio, dropped the deadbolt and opened the courtyard door: "How is it today..."
The door was empty, and there was no son at all.
Aunt A was stunned for a moment, and called tentatively twice: "Son, son..."
No one answered.
Aunt A's cold hair stands upside down, and the cool breeze behind her is biting. She hurriedly closed the door and ran into the house.
"Knock knock!" There was another knock on the door.
Aunt A didn't dare to answer, picked up a pair of scissors from the table, held them in her hand, and hid under the statue of Zhao Gongming.
There was a clang, the courtyard door was slammed open, and Aunt A was frightened.
After waiting for a while, there was still no movement in the courtyard, and Aunt A relied on her courage and moved to the door with scissors.
Look through the crack in the door and look into the courtyard.
The moonlight was bright and shone like day.
The gate of the courtyard was opened, but the courtyard was empty, and there was nothing.
Aunt A breathed a long sigh of relief, and comforted herself in her heart: Maybe it's the wind.
As soon as he turned around, a black shadow flashed in his eyes, and the monk in Cai's Tofu Workshop appeared in front of him, his eyes were dead, his mouth was full of blood, he still had a piece of meat in his mouth, and he was carrying a bloody dog's head in his hand.
Aunt A couldn't stand the fright, screamed and fainted.