Chapter 63: The Night Bearer
Last night, all kinds of things appeared in front of Mo Xingran's eyes, and at this time, he sat in the wing room and sighed softly: "The judge's book is a netherworld, and it has another more popular name - the book of life and death. ”
"Book of Life and Death?!" The cat's eyes widened and she was surprised: "But 'Hades told you to die on the third watch, who would dare to keep you until the fifth watch' the book of life and death?"
"That's just a rumor in the world, there is no underworld in the Later Gods, only the Netherworld, in the Wuxian Sea north of the Wuji Mountain, and the Wuji Mountain sinks in 10 million years, and the Wufu Sea is a tide in 10 million years, and when the sea and land alternate, it is when the gate of the Netherworld opens. Mo Xingran stared out the window with his eyes: "The sea of innocence is full of ghosts that do not enter reincarnation, and it is not an exaggeration to call it purgatory on earth." ”
In the wing room, Meng's corpse was cold, and her little son and grandson Shi were huddled in the corner, looking at the people and cats in the house in horror.
Mo Xingran stood up and pushed open the wooden window, the autumn wind was a little cold.
"The Book of Heaven and the Book of Ten Thousand Gods, the Book of the Earth, the Book of Mountains and Seas, the Book of Ghosts and the Book of Life and Death, these three books are called the 'Three Books of the Ancients', which are the laws of the world and are also part of the way of heaven. It's a pity that the Three Divine Books were lost one after another after the battle of 'Tianyan'. ”
"Lost?Shouldn't this book of life and death be in the Netherworld?Why does it appear in the Sun family?" The cat's big eyes were full of doubts: "Why does the Heavenly Maiden's Wish music score appear in the Book of Life and Death?"
Mo Xingran couldn't sort out his thoughts for a while, but he lowered his eyes and shook his head, muttering, "It shouldn't be a coincidence." ”
Why did the Book of Life and Death appear in the Fanqing Realm, who appended the score of the Heavenly Maiden's Wish to the Book of Life and Death, and for what purpose, it is not easy to make a conclusion at the moment.
Mo Xingran was silent for a long time: "The only thing I can be sure of is that since the Book of Life and Death has fallen to the Fanqing Realm, the Ten Thousand Divine Strategies and the Mountains and Seas will soon appear!"
The cat jumped on the windowsill and poked Mo Xingzhi's arm with its fluffy little paws: "Then what does this have to do with me getting back the Lord God?"
Mo Xingran lowered his head and looked at the cat, his eyes were a little complicated, and after a while, his face was full of the hippie smile of the past: "Well, it doesn't matter. ”
Cat: "......"
This guy is specifying that itchy skin again!
As he spoke, there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside the door, and Lao Sun hurriedly pushed open the door of the wing room with a burlap bag.
"All, I've found it, Mo Gongzi, take a look, right? He flung the burlap bag to Mo Xingran's feet, gasped and sat down on the ground against the wall.
The dirty sack contained a few pieces of yellow paper and a piece of cinnabar, as well as a leather bag.
Mo Xingran ripped out the leather bag, and a smell of rot followed.
"This is the body bag?" the cat was a little startled, "Why do you want this?"
The bag was blackened and tattered by blood all the year round, more than half a foot long and an arm's length wide.
"The body bag is vicious, and it can keep evil spirits at bay. Mo Xingran put a few things into the sack one by one and threw them to Lao Sun: "Put it away, and take it out again tonight." ”
"Good. Lao Sun nodded busily.
"Devil, what devil?" the cat was bewildered by what he said.
Mo Xingran raised his finger and pointed at the child in the corner: "It's the evil ghost that haunts him." ”
"Where?"
"Jiangli. ”
"Huh, the one in the Chishui River last night?"
Mo Xingran nodded: "Exactly." ”
The cat sighed: "I said, can you finish it in one go?
"Oh, in short, the old Sun family has done too much to lose their yin virtues, and they have angered the spirits in the Chishui River, so his family has been suffering from disasters one after another, and now his daughter has lost her life in the river and has become an evil spirit and water ghost, and she has caught up with the old grandson who is greedy for money and uses the book of life and death without permission......"
"No, wait, how do you know that the Sun family has done something that has lost all yin virtues? What did he do?" the cat was confused.
Mo Xingran spread his hands and snorted at the old grandson on the wall: "Then you have to ask him." ”
I saw that when Lao Sun heard this, his face suddenly became whiter than the wall, his legs and stomach trembled, his whole body slid down a little bit against the earthen wall, and finally squatted on the ground and hugged his head and cried loudly: "I, I should die!"
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Lao Sun didn't even dare to look up at Meng's corpse, he was covered in cold sweat, and the whole person seemed to have just been fished out of the water: "I, my Sun family did something that lost all yin virtue, but that can't be blamed on my family, if, if not..." Lao Sun covered his head and looked around, his eyes were panicked, as if he was afraid of something.
"Don't be afraid, I'm here, just say it. Mo Xingran came to Lao Sun's side and patted him on the shoulder.
Lao Sun was so frightened that he swallowed his saliva violently, he looked up at Mo Xingran, as if he saw a life-saving straw, and grabbed the corner of Mo Xingran's clothes: "Yes, it's the city lord, and he instructed it! My ancestors have been ordinary people for three generations, if it weren't for my momentary wealth obsession, how could I take that mad job! You must save me! Please save me and Shi'er!"
The city lord's eyes shrank suddenly, and he jumped on Mo Xingran's shoulder and looked at Lao Sun condescendingly: "What the hell is going on? You tell the truth!" Who is this city lord of Yanyun City, first Yuru, and now the Sun family...
Lao Sun often goes in and out of the City Lord's Mansion on weekdays, and occasionally sees some strange people in the City Lord's Mansion, and those strange soldiers generally have some 'spiritual things' around them, some are sword spirits and some are rare beasts, so he doesn't feel strange when he sees this talking cat now.
At this time, he nodded in a trance, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and explained the whole story and the whole story...
"The ancestors of my grandson family for three generations are all burdenmen who rely on the river to eat, and it is the same in my life, I have lived on the edge of this river since I was a child, and I am more familiar with this river than anyone else..."
Lao Sun Ben ordered Sun Anfu to be a burdenman on the Chishui River for decades.
The job of the bearer is not something that ordinary people can do, this is a personal work, fortunately, Sun Anfu is strong when he is young, he is born with great strength, and the burden on his shoulders can pick up dozens of stones of goods at a time, and he is more greedy for money, and at the end of the day, he can run several times more than other burdenmen.
Within a few years, he became familiar with the merchants who came and went on the Chishui River, and many merchants even recognized his family, and all the goods were handed over to him for transportation.
But even so, his family can barely open the pot, and there is not even an extra child in his pocket, for no other reason, just because he has contracted a bad habit in the past two years - gambling.
For this, his wife Meng Shi quarreled with him a lot, a son and a daughter in the family have reached the age of long physique, and his father and mother are in their twilight years, and there are more and more places to spend money, and there is no rice in the family for a while.
However, the more this is the case, the more Lao Sun wants to go into the gambling house to fight, if the time comes to win a big one, it will also solve the family's dilemma.
That day, he was blinded by lard, and when someone else opened a big market, he took out the title deed of his family on an impulse, but the house leak happened to rain overnight, and he lost everything.
This is good, let alone eating, the family will soon lose even a place to live.
Just when he was at a loss, the owner of the gambling house gave him a plan......
"The owner of the gambling house said that the city lord's mansion was looking for a 'night bearer' recently, and the price he gave was four times that of ordinary work, and I was moved at the time..." He took a deep look at Meng's corpse not far away, tears rolling down his eyes.
As the name suggests, the so-called 'night bearer' is a bearer who works at night.
Sun Anfu thought that there would be a lot of people robbing this fat difference, but unexpectedly, as soon as he went to the city lord's mansion that day, the person in charge directly gave him two taels of silver, and told him that the city lord was very satisfied with him and asked him to come to take care of the 'goods' tonight.
This made him very happy, and he took the matter that night and went to the city lord's mansion.
The city lord's mansion at night is still magnificent and solemn, and the carved beams and beams on the door are carved with lifelike dragons and phoenixes, but the door is quiet, and there is not even a person who guards the door.
Lao Sun didn't think much about it, and according to the requirements of the steward, he came to the side gate of the City Lord's Mansion when he was approaching the time.
Soon, a valet dressed in subordinate clothes opened the door for him and led him to a damp and dark room.
As soon as Fang entered the house, Lao Sun smelled a very fishy rancid smell, like the smell of stinky fish and rotten shrimp, and he didn't dare to ask more, and put the 'goods' designated by the manservant into the burden.
The man immediately instructed Lao Sun to just pick the 'goods' to the edge of the Chishui River, and don't worry about the rest, and you must not check it privately on the way.
Lao Sun summed up, this relationship is good, much easier than the work in the daytime, after all, ordinary bearers not only have to pick up luck, but also help with loading and unloading, he is not interested in seeing what this 'goods' are, after all, he is just here to make money.
He immediately said hello, and with great enthusiasm, he picked up the things to the river, and then went home without looking back to sleep.
After a month or two, Lao Sun's family can be regarded as relieved, and he gradually saved some money, thinking that he would redeem the deed after a while, but he couldn't really let the family live on the streets.
But often people's hearts are so strange, the more things go smoothly, the 'little ghosts' in people's hearts will jump out to make trouble.
On this day and night, Lao Sun went to the city lord's mansion to pick up the 'goods', and hummed a little song all the way to the riverside, but I don't know who had no conscience and skimmed a watermelon peel on the riverside, and he accidentally stepped on it.
The soles of Lao Sun's feet slipped, his body lost his center of gravity, the burden on his shoulders slammed on the ground, and the 'goods' wrapped in black cloth in the basket also fell to the ground...
Lao Sun hurriedly picked up the two 'goods' into the basket, but one of the 'goods' was slightly damaged - the black cloth was worn by sharp stones and a hole in the hole, and there was a faint stench in the hole eye, which made people dizzy.
What is this? Why does the City Lord's Mansion spend a lot of money every night to bring this foul-smelling thing to the Chishui River?
Lao Sun couldn't stop jumping out of his heart, and his strong curiosity urged him to make an impulsive decision - he wanted to see what kind of 'baby' was the 'goods' in this black cloth!