I was forced to open that night, and the old man drove us to a house on the outskirts of the city. The location of this house is not very remote, but it is really difficult to find.

On the edge of the city, but the courtyard of this family is very large. There are many trees planted in the yard, and although it is autumn, the leaves on the trees have not completely fallen off. In the middle of the courtyard was a black peng, and on the black peng hung a black and white photo of the fat man.

This fat man's face is full of meat, and his face doesn't look like a good thing. According to the old man, the family lived in the village at first, but then the village was demolished, and a lot of demolition money was divided to buy the land. But apparently the fat man had a good eye, because the land was about to be moved.

The fat man is 34 years old this year, but he still hasn't got a family, and there is only one gray-haired old mother at home, and the old mother's face is also over 60 years old this year. Today is the second day of the fat man's mortuary, and according to our rules here, we can be buried after tonight and tomorrow morning.

The fat man belonged to the horizontal death, so no one was willing to keep a vigil for him, and he didn't know anything about it, so it was obviously not in accordance with the rules to let the old lady keep the vigil, so he could only ask us to help. The old lady went back to the house after giving all the accounts, and the three of us were the only ones left in the yard.

The fat man belonged to the sideways death, so the old man needed to be fully prepared before the vigil. He was busy in the dark shed, while Long Long and I hid outside and smoked.

"Long Long, I've known your second uncle for so long, and I still don't know what your second uncle's name is?"

Long Long took a sharp breath and said, "The second uncle's surname is Cheng, and his name is Cheng Yutian." ”

"With your last name?"

Cheng Long nodded thoughtfully and said, "I have no father since I was born, and I have been sending my mother and my grandmother to raise me since I was a child, so I followed my mother's surname." ”

I nodded slightly, and wanted to ask something more, but seeing that Cheng Long's face was a little embarrassed, I didn't ask. After smoking, Cheng Long and I went into the dark shed.

The coffin in the shed was still a black one, and the lid was not closed, so the fat man's distorted face could be seen when he stood next to it. The fat man lay quietly in the coffin with his eyes closed, and there was a smell of decaying corpses all over his body.

The smell was not pungent, I swallowed my saliva silently, and turned my head to look at the old man Cheng beside me. At this time, the old man Cheng was holding a bundle of incense in his hand, which was inserted into the four corners of the black shed, and then sprinkled a lot of paper money around the black coffin.

I turned my head to look at Long Long beside me and asked, "What does your second uncle do?" ”

Long Long shook his head and said with a smile, "My second uncle is a well-known Mr. Yin and Yang around here, his old man has the ability to pass the Yin, and he also has a connection with the underworld officials of the prefecture. ”

"What about his son? I met him at the noodle shop that night, and it was he who took the fat man's soul with him. ”

Long Long shook his head after hearing this, and said with a smile: "He is the soul envoy of the underworld, and he has a book in his hand, and whoever appears on the account will be responsible for collecting that person's soul." By the way, did you see the black coffin in the courtyard of the second uncle's house? ”

I nodded.

"This black coffin is one of the channels to the underworld, and every month in the middle of the month, he will take those dead souls into the black coffin to give an errand below."

I glanced up at Old Man Cheng with a serious face, and then said with a smile, "Isn't that hooking soul a matter of black and white impermanence, how can it ......?"

"Hey, how many people are in this Yang world, there are people living and dying almost every second, how can it be based on black and white impermanence alone."

"You mean there are a lot of people in his profession?"

Long Long nodded and said, "The whole city has been carefully separated, where there is a city god, the city god is under the management of the city god, and where there is land, it is under the control of the land, and where there is no city god and no land, they are responsible for these soul envoys." ”

I nodded thoughtfully and asked, "Then who is under the jurisdiction of these soul emissaries?" ”

"It's all under the jurisdiction of black and white impermanence, but there are tens of thousands of envoys in every city, so no one has seen black and white impermanence with their own eyes."

When I heard this, I couldn't help but sigh, it seems that it is not easy to be an errand in the underworld. The old man was busy, so he also sat next to us, he looked at Cheng Long, who was sitting next to me, and said with a smile, "I haven't paid attention to it lately, is there no money again?" ”

Cheng Long touched the "hair wax" on his head and said with a smile, "Rich and rich, but I don't go out all day, so I don't bother to care about him." ”

Old Man Cheng nodded, and then mysteriously took out a pair of pokers from his pocket and asked me, "Will you fight the landlord?" ”

"I ...... I'll be the only one that's ......"

The old man waved his hand and said with a smile, "It doesn't matter, his soul is still at home." ”

While talking, Cheng Long moved a table from the side, and the three of us sat around the table and began to fight the landlord. I have to say that the old man Cheng at this table is simply an old naughty boy, and he is like two people when he usually does things. Moreover, the old man's level of fighting the landlord is very high, and basically the landlord has never lost.

Soon two hours passed, and it was one o'clock in the morning, and the old man suddenly got up and prepared to go to the toilet, leaving only Cheng Long and I to sit at the table and chat. Cheng Long turned the cards in his hand, looked at me with disdain, and said, "You kid still have to practice his skills in playing cards." ”

I shrugged my shoulders and smiled, "I haven't played much, so I can pass the time." ”

Cheng Long nodded, and was about to say something, but suddenly frowned.

"Old Cui, do you smell anything?"

I rubbed my nose and smiled, "No...... Is that the smell of the fat man's corpse? ”

Cheng Long shook his head and said, "No, this smells ...... Wrong. ”

While Cheng Long was speaking, his face suddenly turned pale. I looked at his face and suddenly changed color, and I was a little scared, and asked softly, "Longlong...... You...... What's wrong with you? ”

He slowly stretched his finger in front of his mouth and said, "Don't speak...... Hurry up and follow me. ”

I stared into his eyes and realized that he wasn't looking at me, but more like looking at something behind me. I stood up and looked behind me slowly, only to see the fat man sit up straight from the coffin at some point.

At that moment, his closed eyes suddenly opened, and two white eyeballs were staring at me.