Dongyang County, dark candle shop.

It's late at night.

A taxi slowly stopped in front of the street entrance of the candle shop, Yue Yang held the red cloth package in both hands, paid the fare, and then walked down the door with great difficulty, moved to the door of the store, took out a brass key from his trouser pocket, and opened the door.

He is the owner of this shop!

Turning around and locking the door from the inside, Yue Yang wrapped the red cloth in his hand on the table in the living room, and instead found a bundle of worship incense from the cupboard, and after lighting it, the smoke wafted.

The red cloth opened, revealing a dark wooden box hidden inside.

The wooden box opened, and layers of 'meat oil' that had already solidified, mixed with black dregs, appeared in Yue Yang's sight.

"You're dead, I'm just doing what I have to do, don't offend each other, don't blame."

With his hands folded, Yue Yang bowed three times to the meat oil, and said with words in his mouth.

That's right, this meat oil is not extracted from any pork.

On the contrary, this grease is the legendary corpse oil!

The so-called 'dark candle', in terms of appearance, is not much different from the ordinary candles that ordinary people have seen.

But in fact, even if you talk about it for three days and three nights, you will never be able to say it!

In terms of materials alone, ordinary candles are made of butter refined.

As for the Dark Candle, what is needed is terrifying corpse oil!

Legend:

The oil oozing out of the dead man's body is slightly fused, and finally made into a unique dark candle, which can change life, judge yin and yang, and ask cause and effect!

To be honest, at first when he came into contact with this industry, Yue Yang was quite refused, after all, let him, a young man who should go to college and enjoy life, suddenly have to deal with the grease on the dead every day, this kind of thing, no one will agree.

But clinker, five years ago, my father disappeared inexplicably, and I don't know whether he was alive or dead, and since then, it was also the first time that Yue Yang came into contact with the dark candle, and asked about his father's whereabouts through divination.

It is precisely because of this that this dark candle shop naturally fell into the hands of Yue Yang.

And once you do it, it's five years!

By now, he had long since become accustomed to this lonely and eerie environment.

"Whew!"

Thick smoke erupted from his throat, and Yue Yang rubbed his somewhat sour eyelids, and then he laid out the mold in the cabinet, and poured the corpse oil he had just bought from the crematorium into the mold.

In the next half hour, Yue Yang relied on the blood of the cockscomb to draw two more 'evil charms', which were pasted on both sides of the door, and added some cinnabar and other materials that can be used for grease to coagulate, and then waited for them to take shape.

'Knock-knock-knock-knock! ’

At this moment, a knock on the door suddenly sounded, making Yue Yang, who was already in a high degree of mental concentration, widen his eyes, and then he impatiently looked back at the direction of the door, got up and opened the door.

This way of knocking on the door is the unique rule of the candle shop, most of the time, his shop will be closed, and only the 'destined people' who are well versed in the rules can enter.

The people who can know his rules here are almost all regular customers, otherwise they are also introduced by old customers, so he is almost certain that there is business coming to the door.

Really.

As the door opened, a woman with pale skin and an extremely beautiful appearance gradually walked in.

"Mr. Yue, I'll buy candles."

After the woman entered the house, because she didn't turn on the light, Yue Yang couldn't see her expression clearly, she only felt that the woman was staring at her, her voice was very weak, but it was extremely clear.

"Please come in."

Seeing that there was business coming to the door, Yue Yang naturally would not slack off, and hurriedly raised his hand to turn on the light, but he never thought that his hand had just touched the switch, but the woman here suddenly grabbed Yue Yang's arm, and said in a low voice: "No need, I'm here to buy candles." ”

"Huh?"

Somehow, being touched by the woman's clean hands, Yue Yang's heart was a little irritable for no reason, and now in the middle of the night, this woman was not allowed to turn on the light, which made Yue Yang a little annoyed.

However, seeing that the woman insisted, Yue Yang naturally didn't want to say anything, so he could only shrug his shoulders, pulled a chair casually, and motioned for the woman to sit down and wait, then shook his head and said: "It's unfortunate that you came, the candle has been sold out, if you really need it, please come back in three days." ”

“……”

Hearing this, the woman didn't say a word, but her eyes stared directly at the dark candle that had not yet taken off the mold, and her pale face actually increased a little flush at this time.

After two minutes of silence, the woman stared at Yue Yang with her eyes like dead fishes, and said unhurriedly, "Isn't there one?" ”

"Huh?"

Yue Yang didn't feel anything about this woman's slow reaction, but saw her look at the batch of candles she had just made, and explained: "This batch of candles is not for sale for the time being, and you need to wait for three days." ”

Since ancient times, there has been a rule that the newly made candle must be exposed to the sun for three days at noon and sun, so as to remove the sins and resentments of the deceased before it can be lit.

Otherwise, the Candle's own resentment will not be eliminated, not only will it bring trouble to the user, but even he himself will suffer misfortune because he has broken the rules set by the ancestor!

To this day, he still remembers that in order to make the candle vein stronger, his grandfather did not hesitate to collect apprentices everywhere and teach the art of the candle, and there was a disciple who was once called the 'fourth uncle' by Yue Yang, because he broke this extremely simple rule, he lit the candle that had just been made to summon the spirit, and unfortunately he was devoured by the evil ghost, and the skin of his body was torn and shattered overnight, and the death was miserable and terrifying.

And the blood relatives of the fourth uncle all died violently within a month, or in a car accident, or a natural disaster, because he broke the taboo, none of them died well!

Immediately, Yue Yang hastily explained these taboos to the woman, hoping that the other party could understand his suffering.

But who would have thought that after listening to his words, the woman not only did not mean to leave, but stared at Yue Yang, her lips buzzed, and said, "Mr. Yue, don't worry, after I bring the dark candle back, can't I expose it to the sun for three days?" ”

"This ......"

For a while, Yue Yang couldn't help but make a difficulty.

He had never experienced this kind of thing before, and the candles in the store had always been well stocked, but in the past few months, there have been frequent problems at the crematorium, which has cut off his supply for a while, and only then has all the made candles squandered.

"It's okay."

After thinking about it, Yue Yang finally stubbornly said.

As long as a woman can take it home and stand still for three days, this is not a violation of Master Zu's rules, but Yue Yang didn't dare to trust the other party, and asked patiently: "This is not a joke, are you sure you won't use the candle for a short time?" ”

"Yes."

I don't know why, Yue Yang always felt that the woman's smile was unusually cold, "Perhaps, I will never use it." ”

What do you mean?

Yue Yang frowned, but he didn't have a good time to ask more, and while starting to detach the solidified candle from the mold, he asked casually, "Miss, your surname?" ”

"Lin Xi."

Hearing Yue Yang's words, the woman was stunned for a moment, as if she was thinking of her name, and replied slowly.

Lin Xi?

Yue Yang frowned slightly, feeling as if he had heard it somewhere.