By the time we arrived at the nearest county seat, it was past nine o'clock in the evening. The city is the city, and the deep mountains are completely two worlds, although this county is just a small county town without a name, but the night here is still brilliantly lit, everywhere is red and green, which makes me a person who has been in the mountains for two years, for a while, it seems like a world away.

Back in the county seat, we went directly to the restaurant, probably because of the terrible and bloody scene on the national highway, although we were all hungry and hungry, but everyone had no appetite.

At the dinner table, Lao Hu said that they would go back to Beijing tomorrow and asked me where I was going.

I said that I didn't think about where to go for the time being, so let's go wherever I went! I just want to do more good deeds and accumulate virtue, so that I can safely survive the calamity next year.

I didn't lie to them, now I really haven't figured out where to go or what to do, I'm just taking one step at a time.

When the two of them learned about my situation, they asked me if I would like to go back to Beijing with them.

I said, "What can I do when I go to Beijing?" I'm not going to go with you to rob tombs. "Who said that you should go to rob the tomb, I mean that I and the fat man have an antique shop in Beijing, and the area is quite large, so it is better for me to give up a piece of land for the shop and let you open a Taoist hall or something." Old nonsense. "Is this okay?" I didn't know anything in my heart when I heard this.

Lao Hu said: "It's not that my brother is bragging here, ~a~Ben~Read~ Novel ybdu As long as you have the ability, I'm afraid that everyone who asks you for help will have to line up at that time." ”

The fat man also very much agreed with Lao Hu's idea, he said: "Lao Hu is right, we have also seen some of your skills, as long as you want to do nothing, there is nothing you can't do." In Beijing, as soon as the fake warlocks catch a handful, they can all get mixed up, not to mention that you have real skills! ”

I thought about it, and the fat man made a lot of sense, and I really didn't have any better plans now, so I nodded and agreed. I was so happy to follow them back to Beijing, and I happened to have a companion along the way.

But what I didn't expect was that it was because of this decision that Lao Hu and the others escaped, and I fell into a quagmire

In the evening, when we drove out of the county, it was already subhour. There is a lot of fog on the road, Lao Hu doesn't dare to drive fast, maybe the temperature difference here at night is large, I always feel cold, I want to sleep but I can't sleep.

Just in the drowsiness, Lao Hu suddenly shook me awake, frowned and asked me: "Brother, did you say that the evil thing I encountered this evening was really resolved?" ”

I nodded: "It's resolved, if it doesn't be resolved, you will be the one who killed someone on the national highway this evening!" ”

Lao Hu nodded, and then pondered for a while, and then wondered: "But something is wrong, you said that the evil sect thing in the evening has been resolved, but why do I have that evil sect feeling in the evening again?" "Huh? Do you see those things with broken hands and feet on the road again? I panicked, sleepy, and sat up quickly.

And the fat man sleeping in the back row also immediately sat up and exclaimed: "I said Lao Hu, don't scare me fat, I can't stand two such frightes!" ”

Lao Hu shook his head and said, "No, I didn't see those severed limbs and arms this time, but it was the same as in the evening, and I couldn't see any other vehicles on the road." It's the middle of the night, but on such a big road, there are one or two passing cars, right? "What, you can't see the car with your eyes anymore?" The fat man exclaimed, then hurriedly stuck his head out of the window to look at it, and then said with a smile: "Old Hu, it turns out that you will be scared sometimes, but you are too fussed, because there are indeed no other vehicles outside." ”

My first instinct was to look out of the car, and the fat man was right, except for our headlights, it was pitch black. I also said, "Maybe you were frightened today, so you thought too much." Everything is normal outside, you can drive with confidence! ”

Although I heard us say this, Lao Hu did not relax in the slightest, still frowning, he said: "No, I just feel weird, I can't see a car on the road, but look at the sky, but I see two moons hanging in the sky, I feel more and more that my eyes are fascinated by ghosts again?" And this road, it stands to reason that in the direction of the provincial capital, it is a national highway, and the road will only get bigger and bigger, but you look at this road, it is smaller than the county road where we went out of the county, and it is still remote, as if it was on the way into the mountain. ”

Lao Hu said as he pointed to the sky and both sides of the road.

Hearing him say this, I didn't dare to be too casual, so I hurriedly looked around, and found that what the old man said was really right. Under the illumination of the headlights, the road is indeed smaller than the national highway around the county, and I saw that one side of the road is full of dense forests, and the other side is desolate meadows.

My heart began to beat drums, did I really hit the evil again? Or are you on the wrong track?

Thinking of this, I looked up at the sky from the top of the windshield to see if it was really as the old nonsense said, there were two moons hanging in the sky.

But when I looked up at the sky, I was shocked, wow, this is too, because I saw that there were not two moons hanging in the sky at all, but three moons!

At that moment, I asked Lao Hu to stop, and seeing my panicked look, the two of them also guessed that something was wrong, so they hurriedly asked me if I had also found something?

I nodded and said, "It's really wrong, damn it, I actually saw three moons in the sky." "What, three? Why do I only see two? This time, Lao Hu was surprised.

The fat man immediately stuck his head out of the window, looked up at the sky, and then exclaimed, "Sure enough, it is three moons, one curved and two round." Immortals are stilted, what kind of trouble is this! "Brother, did you think we're running into ghosts again?" Lao Hu asked me in a panic.

I am also puzzled, today is the seventh day of the lunar calendar, and it stands to reason that the moon at this time cannot be round. So I said, "There's definitely something wrong with this, those two round ones can't be the moon!" "If it's not the moon, what could it be?" Coming out of the county seat, the two round moons have been coming above our heads. Lao Hu said. What? Then why didn't you say it earlier! At that moment, I didn't say anything more to them, just jumped out of the car, and looked at the two moons above my head.

Walking out of the window, there was no windshield to separate, and the vision was much better. Then I immediately saw it clearly, and exclaimed, "Where the hell is the moon, it's clearly two Kong Ming lanterns!" "Kong Ming lantern?" When Lao Hu and the fat man heard my words, they were puzzled. The fat man said: "It's not the Lantern Festival today, who the hell has nothing to do to play with Kong Ming lanterns, it's scary in the middle of the night!" ”

I said, "Although this is a Kong Ming lantern, it may be a spirit-conjuring guiding lamp for a while!" "What, the Soul Summoning Guiding Light?" Lao Hu and the others were suddenly frightened, and their faces were full of horror

I nodded, since ancient times, this Kong Ming lantern has never been related to making wishes and praying for blessings, on the contrary, it is contrary to it.

Kong Ming lantern, said to be invented by Mr. Zhuge for military use, this is the official version. In fact, in earlier Buddhism, the Obon Festival, the seventh half of the lunar calendar, which is what we call the Ghost Festival, put river lanterns. The river lantern is to light the candle in a bowl, or in a paper boat, which means that the river in the world and the river in the underworld are connected, and the river lantern can be used to surpass the soul.

As for the Taoists, they put sky lanterns, that is, Kong Ming lanterns, to guide the souls of the dead, and in some rural areas, there is still this custom. Moreover, there is a saying among the people that if you send away bad things such as diseases and ghosts on your own body or your own family, you will borrow this Kong Ming lantern to send it, so it is extremely unlucky. Because this thing is related to yin and these things, if you put one, it is not successful, you have to continue to put it, you have to let the lamp fly away, it burns and falls, if it falls on any yard or house, it is a very, very bad thing, the family will be unlucky, it is equivalent to the plague and the ghost and other things sent to that person's house.

Now the two Kong Ming lanterns that have been floating in the air with us, I am sure that they must be used to summon spirits and guide the way. In Maoshan Shu, it is believed that the road between the yang world and the underworld is extremely dark, and they are two different worlds, which are generally inaccessible and inaccessible, and the ghosts of the underworld cannot go to the underworld, and the living people in the underworld cannot go down to the underworld, of course, unless you die.

And every time the 15th day of the seventh lunar month is the Ghost Festival, the ghost door is wide open, and the descendants of the yang world miss their deceased relatives, and the ghosts of the underworld also miss the relatives of the yang world, so there is a special guide light for the yin and yang to illuminate the Huangquan Road. Whether it is the river lantern in Buddhism or the sky lantern in Taoism, the purpose is to enable the deceased relatives to find their way home under the guidance of the guiding lamp.