Chapter 10: The Evil Spirit of the Coffin Shop
With a snap, the man dropped the tool in his hand and said: "Young man, if you are going to find excitement, I advise you to think about it, ghosts and gods, don't touch some things easily, otherwise it will really attract dirty things, and it will be too late to cry at that time." ”
Li Qiufan smiled dumbly, it turned out that this person thought that he was going to play a game of spiritualism such as a pen fairy.
He smiled and said, "Since Your Excellency would say this to a stranger to prove that you are not bad-hearted, then why would you offer such a thing as an evil spirit?" ”
The man stood up when he heard this, and said with a wary look: "What Your Excellency is saying, I don't understand, I'm going to close today, please leave the two of you, and I'll not send you far!" ”
Li Qiufan ignored him, and under the nervous gaze of the man, he walked into the house and turned around seemingly casually, only to find that the windows of the house were covered with talismans, and they were covered by a thick layer of black cloth. A large number of vivid paper figures leaned together, and finally he stopped in front of one of them, reached out and pressed its head and said, "How to sell this thing?" ”
The man's face changed dramatically and he roared, "It... It doesn't sell, take your hand off if you don't want to die! ”
Li Qiufan gently patted the top of the paper man's head, "What if I don't?" ”
Manly stomped his feet: "Young man, listen to my advice, this paper man can't be touched!" ”
Li Qiufan laughed and said, "It's just an evil spirit that has lost control, what can I do." ”
When the man heard this, his eyes suddenly widened, and he looked at Li Qiufan in shock.
"Who are you, how do you know it... Is it an evil spirit? ”
"Hmph, if you don't learn the arts, you dare to raise evil spirits without authorization, if you let this thing become a climate and harm people in the future, you will really become a sinner!" Li Qiufan pointed at the man and scolded.
"You're a mage?" The man asked tentatively.
Li Qiufan didn't answer, but asked Ye Tassel to close the door, and the house that lost the light source fell into darkness in an instant, and the silence was terrifying, and even the breathing of the three people could be heard, as if something had woken up in the darkness and approached them little by little.
Ye Tassel nervously hugged Li Qiufan's arm, and his body trembled a little.
Whew, it looks like something moved slightly.
The man's breathing became heavier, and he whispered some kind of incantation.
Li Qiufan didn't seem to feel anything, took Ye Tassel's hand and retreated to the door, and fumbled for a long time before finding the switch, and the room suddenly lit up with red lights, making this room full of paper figures even more weird.
"Lee... Li Qiufan, that paper figure seems to have moved, it was obviously leaning against the corner just now! ”
Ye Tassel trembled and pointed to the paper man who was already standing in the center of the room.
"Hey, you scared my friend, now do you take the initiative to surrender or I burn you with a fire, choose one!" Li Qiufan coolly blocked the paper in front of Ye Tassel, thinking that it was good to be a mage, at least he could pretend to be a beautiful woman again.
The air was a little stagnant, and the man's chanting speed was getting faster and faster, and his voice was getting louder and louder, and the sweat on his forehead kept flowing down.
Li Qiufan looked at him and shook his head and interrupted: "Okay, it has long been out of your control, no matter how much you recite the requiem spell, it will make my ears buzz." ”
The man's voice chanting the mantra stopped abruptly, and almost at the same time, the kind-faced paper figure suddenly became evil and awe-inspiring, and came to life directly, and two pairs of sharp claws grabbed Li Qiufan as fast as lightning.
"I can't help myself."
Li Qiufan didn't move, until the paper man's claws were about to touch his neck, and then he shouted: "Get out!" ”
The paper man suddenly seemed to have been struck by lightning, and a cloud of thunder appeared above his head, and it bounced off with a bang and crashed into a coffin. The expression on the face sketched by pen and ink became hideous and abnormal, and he kept yelling at Li Qiufan.
"How's it going, the thunder tastes good, right?"
It turned out that when he touched the paper man's head just now, Li Qiufan took the opportunity to paste a thunder guide talisman on the top of its head, and then it burst out and hurt people, and the talisman was urged, and the evil spirit paper man was caught off guard.
Evil spirits are a special kind of existence, soulless and soulless, and they can only be born by relying on the offerings and thoughts of the owner, which can be said to be free from the Three Realms, and it is difficult to kill them by ordinary means, but the heavenly thunder is the nemesis of these guys.
So Li Qiufan was able to cripple it with one move.
"Did you raise it with essence blood, did you keep it or dispose of it?" Li Qiufan looked at the man and asked coldly.
The man's heart turned upside down, and the evil spirit that had put himself into a dead end was actually dealt with by this young man so easily, and he was a little confused for a while. It wasn't until Li Qiufan shouted again that he heard it clearly, and although he was extremely unbearable in his heart, he still sighed and said, "Deal with it, I can't control it anymore." ”
Li Qiufan nodded, picked up an incense candle casually, and lit the paper figure.
As the fire grew stronger, the paper figure began to writhe violently in the fire, trying to escape, and then before he could get up, he was slapped down again, and he could only let his body be consumed by the flames.
Looking at the paper figure that gradually stopped struggling, the man seemed to age a lot in an instant, and a cloudy tear also slid down the corner of his eye.
"Let's talk about it," Li Qiufan found two benches for himself and Ye Liusu.
The man touched away his tears, patted his thigh hard and said, "It's all my fault for being confused!" Then he talked about the reason why he raised evil spirits.
The man's name is Song Fu, the family depends on him and his son Song Xiaoqi, although the days are poor, but they do not worry about food and clothing, who would have thought that the child had a serious illness, unfortunately died early, he missed it unstoppably, happened to meet a traveling mage, taught him a set of methods of raising spirits, so he took a finger bone of the child and put it on the hand of the paper man, and fed it to the paper man with his own blood every day, it was okay at first, the paper man would become his child's appearance into his dream every night, and meet him, the father and son shared the family in the dream, and made some requests, Song Fu Aiko was heartfelt, and of course he agreed.
But over time, the paper man's temperament has changed greatly, and the requirements are becoming more and more excessive, at first he just wanted to drink chicken and duck blood, but it was easy to find, and then he had to drink other people's blood, which made him where to look, and the request was not satisfied, the paper man began to go crazy, seeing that the spell taught by the mage was about to be uncontrollable, Xu Fu had not slept well in the past few nights, and had been staring, for fear that it would sneak out in the middle of the night and harm people.
Just when he was about to collapse, he happened to meet Li Qiufan who came to the store to buy things, so there was a scene where he destroyed the evil spirit.
Li Qiufan was also a little uncomfortable after hearing this, although he didn't have a child, but he could feel the grief and sadness of the Taoist man, so he comforted: "People have their own lives, how long can they live is just an account in the hands of the king of Hades, maybe your child is destined to have a catastrophe, the cycle of heaven, his soul is estimated to have already been reincarnated, this evil spirit is just spying on your memory, to confuse you, so as to help it achieve its goal, it has nothing to do with your child." ”
When the man heard this, he burst into tears and began to weep.
Li Qiufan saw the sadness coming from it, and he couldn't bear it, so he said: "The dead can't be resurrected, and your son definitely doesn't want to see you now, if there is fate, you will meet in the next life." ”
"Really?" Song Fu raised his head, and there was a hint of hope in his eyes.
Li Qiufan sighed: "Really, Yin Si is not so incomprehensible. ”
Song Fu wiped away his tears, took out a photo from his arms and rubbed it gently, on which a cute boy looked at the camera with a smile on his face, "If that's the case, then I'll always wait for him, Qi'er remembers the way home..."
After a long time, the man put away the photo, bowed to Li Qiufan and said, "Let the master smile, you wait, I'll go get something for you." As he spoke, he stood up and took out a bunch of wooden boxes from the cabinet, prepared the magic medicines that Li Qiufan wanted one by one, then wrapped them in paper, found a black plastic bag and handed them over, "Look at it, it's a lot." ”
Li Qiufan took the bag and said: "Don't look at it, remember, there is only hope if you live well, otherwise when your son comes back, he probably won't recognize you." ”
There was a glimmer of light on Song Fu's face, and he nodded emphatically and said, "Master don't worry, I will definitely take care of myself and live well!" ”
Li Qiufan was relieved and was ready to pay, but Song Fu didn't want it anyway, so he didn't force it anymore, said goodbye and left with Ye Tassel and went to eat beef noodles.
However, after what happened just now, neither of them had any appetite, and they looked at the red and white, fragrant beef noodles for a long time.
Ye Liusu was the first to break the silence: "Song Fu's son, will he really come back?" ”
Li Qiufan paused his hand, put down the chopsticks and said: "The things of the underworld are all determined by the underworld, all living beings, there is life and death, death and return to the soul, six reincarnations, and the underworld is decided." It is the duty of the underworld to hook the soul of the dead, to judge the merits of the ghosts, to judge the afterlife of the ghosts, to punish the evil of the ghosts, and to destroy the rebellion of the ghosts. All ghosts, through the ghost gate, through the Yellow Spring, into the underworld, the soul through the trial, reincarnation, through the Yellow Spring, drink Meng Po soup, step on the Nai He Bridge, cross the Lechuan River, reincarnate as a human. Huangquan has a door, a bridge, the entrance is the soul, and the bridge is a person, so after reincarnation, there is no memory of his life, where will he be remembered..."
Ye Liusu covered his mouth and exclaimed: "Then you just now..."
Li Qiufan sighed: "I didn't say that just now, can Song Fu still live?" If the heart is to die, the gods will not be saved! ”
Ye Liusu's eyes reddened slightly when he heard this, and said, "Isn't this too cruel?" After a lifetime of waiting, it ended up being a waste..."
Li Qiufan took a bite and said: "Saving someone's life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter, it is better to die than to live, maybe he will meet other people in the future, marry a wife and have children again, no one can say for sure." ”
"Hurry up and eat, we've done everything we can, and then it's up to him."
Ye Tassel didn't say more, lowered his head and ate noodles.
A good date, because of Song Fu's incident, the two of them were in no mood to continue, so they went back to school after eating, and Li Qiufan took advantage of the fact that he had nothing to do at the moment, and burned the knife, paper, incense and candle to the ghost messenger Wang Dabao.
Wang Dabao accepted the money and praised Li Qiufan again, and then left satisfied.
People are humane, ghosts have ghost paths, no matter people or ghosts, they are all working hard for survival, even if it is hard, they still have to continue to live. Thinking of this, the depression in Li Qiufan's heart also decreased a little, and he cheered up and went to duty.