In the summer, the days are long, and it gets dark after seven o'clock.

The countryside is different from the city, there are no colorful neon lights and colorful lights, and after the day is completely dark, you can't see your fingers.

According to local customs, if the deceased is a man, burn a horse and a groom leading the horse, if the deceased is a woman, you need to burn a white paper sedan chair and four paper grooms, and if you want the deceased to have a better life, you can also add a few paper maids to serve you.

Hong Wei operated according to the highest specifications, and burned a total of eight sedan chair men and six maids before and after, and in the process of burning, the children had to shout "go to the southwest" while reporting the birth date of the deceased, pointing the way for the souls of the dead.

"Meow~"

With an abrupt meow, a figure rushed into the fire out of nowhere.

"It's it, it's it!" Hong Wei screamed when he saw the cat, he said that this was the white cat that Hong Yan had raised before his death, and when the fire faded, the white cat had been burned into a black mass of charred meat.

Why?

Why did it suddenly appear when it was gone?

Why did it self-immolate?

"Master Zhang......" Hong Wei looked at me with blank eyes, and I was a little uneasy: "It's useless to ask more, it's better to go into the ground as soon as possible." ”

There is a record of such a phenomenon in the book, similar to a kind of stand-in, if a dead person resurrects his soul with the help of the breath of an animal, this is a violation of yin and yang, and he will be arrested by the ghost, but there is a trick to avoid the ghost, that is, to use an animal to replace the human death, but the premise is that you have to succeed in resurrecting the soul, but Hong Yan's situation should be a failure to resurrect the soul, unless......

I have a bad premonition, because cats are very evil animals, as the saying goes, cats have nine lives, in the past Liaozhai Zhiwei and wild history records, cats are very easy to become sperm, originally Hong Yan is pregnant enough to be strange enough, not to mention that the fetus's head is a cat's head, people have to wonder who borrowed whose corpse, and whose soul was returned?

Mom, what do you want to do so much, the most important task at the moment is to complete a dragon, take the money and leave, and the rest is my!

After pointing out the way, I took my sister and brother to the nearby Land Temple to pray for the deceased.

I ordered the cook to specially fry nine dishes that the land loves to eat, accompanied by fine wine, and respectfully placed them on the table for them to enjoy.

The land lord is also called the god of the stove, although the official position is not big, but the relationship and connections in the sky and the earth are mixed well, the starting point of the bribery is to let him say hello and take care of him on the way to the underworld, which is like asking the coach to have a meal when you take the driver's license, it has no big effect, but it can be more or less convenient.

After the wine and food are arranged, start to light the incense,

Many people don't know that incense is very particular, and incense to Taoist gods has to be singular.

An incense represents a heart to worship God, three is the public incense, five is the peace incense, seven is the marriage incense and the promotion of the official incense, nine capped, the folk called the supreme incense, in ancient times only the imperial power of the rich and noble people are qualified, non-semi-urgent things are not easy to order, it is said that the point will be more will be broken, do not believe you can try, you will understand what is called "untimely death".

According to my request, Hong Wei put incense in his left hand and one hand, inserted the incense burner and retreated, and before I had time to thank him, I noticed that something was wrong.

Usually after the incense is applied, the cigarette will float up with the top, if the smoke is rising, it means that the gods have received your message, but they may not necessarily respond.

If the smoke rises in a straight line, it means that the gods have answered your needs,

But at this moment, the smoke from the incense is unbelievably floating down, bucking the trend, this is an ominous sign, I also saw it for the first time, when I was a child, I heard my father say that such a situation means that the gods have rejected your request!

Are there really gods?

After a day of tossing, I really can't say.

Hong Wei's face was not very good-looking, he re-lit three incense sticks, but the smoke was still drifting down, he still wanted to change the brand and order it again, but before he could do anything, a gust of evil wind blew in outside the house, knocking over all the wine and food on the altar to the ground, and the six incense sticks in the incense burner were also inexplicably broken at the waist.

"Stop!" I hurriedly drank him, the broken incense is a great omen, the land temple has three solid walls, the gate faces north, and the general wind can't blow in at all, how can there be such a coincidental thing, if you guess correctly, this is the land lord is angry.

In wild history and folklore, the land has always appeared as amiable, and generally does not get angry easily, unless your actions violate his bottom line.

I have also brought some family members of the undead to "bribe" the land lord before, and this has never happened like this, it must be that there is something wrong with Hong Yan's corpse or soul.

"Master Zhang, what's going on?" Hong Wei asked anxiously.

"Probably....... Heavenly Court has been strictly controlling lately, and we mortals have no choice but to take advantage of the situation by arresting corrupt and bribe-taking officials. "I'm talking nonsense, thinking that I should hurry up and get the money, and I don't want to get too involved in this hanging thing.

Back at Hong Yan's house, it was close to twelve o'clock after burning the gold ingots, and it stands to reason that the children of the Hong family should accompany the spiritual bed, but after a series of strange things, they didn't dare to live in the house, and played with their mobile phones in the car for a night.

And I and Er Mazi found a broken hotel in the village to make do for one night, when the sky was bright, I received a call from Hong Xin, she spoke eagerly, saying that Da Kui was evil, let me come over quickly.

When I arrived at Hong Yan's house, a group of people had already gathered at the door of the villa, and there were many onlookers around.

When I got closer, I saw a strange Da Kui, he was leaning on a bamboo chair, his head tilted to the left, his sideburns almost touching his shoulders, the whole person was listless, languishing, like that seriously ill person, how could he still have half of yesterday's sharpness.

"What's the matter, the stiff neck?" I was a little abrupt in my heart, and asked with a little sarcasm, there is nothing polite to this kind of person who has no virtue.

When Hong Xin saw me, she almost didn't kneel down, grabbed my arm and started chattering.

Da Kui was fine when he came yesterday, but after he went back, he began to have problems.

At first, he felt pain and numbness in his left shoulder, and he didn't care about it at first, but when it was getting dark, his left shoulder and arm slowly lost consciousness, and the muscles in his neck involuntarily leaned to the left.

What's more painful is that he has become a crooked neck, and there is no way to control it to be straightened, so he went to the hospital early in the morning for examination, and the doctor couldn't find a reason, and the advice to him was to amputate his arm and strengthen his neck.

After listening to the doctor's words, Da Kui, a thirty or forty-year-old man, cried on the spot, he told Hong Xin about it, Hong Xin couldn't help but tremble, and concluded that it was Hong Yan's ghost who did it, complaining that he pretended to be forced yesterday, but was grass, Da Kui remembered that there was a woman's voice shouting his name in front of the mourning hall yesterday, and he was terrified, and immediately bought a lot of spiritual supplies and ran back to the spirit bed to kowtow to Hong Yan to apologize, and his face was swollen and still useless, so he invited me over.

Da Kui estimated that Hong Xin said my background and ability, as if he had grasped a life-saving straw, gave up his dignity, knelt on the ground and called me "immortal", as the saying goes, reach out and don't hit the smiling person, seeing him like this, I also have some sympathy, after pondering for a while, I said: "There are immortals and ghosts, you are afraid that you will be blown out by ghosts." “

"Ghost blowing out the lamp? Isn't that a movie? Da Kui stared at me with ignorant eyes, I shook my head and explained: "The old people in the village often say that children have three fires on their buttocks, in fact, everyone has three fires, respectively on the left shoulder, right shoulder and the top of the head, also commonly known as the three oil lamps, representing the yang fire on the person, there is a folk saying, if you hear someone calling your name when walking at night, don't look back, because it is not necessarily a person who calls you, and don't easily let others pat your shoulder or cover your head with a hat, it is easy to extinguish the yang fire, once it is extinguished, it is missing." The spirit is spirited, and the ghost is heavy......"

Hearing the words "ghost pressing", Da Kui instantly became excited, and he was even more convinced that there was a ghost attached to him, and begged me to help him like a dog, but I was just hearsay, and I was not completely sure, so I didn't dare to agree immediately, just said to try it.

Er Mazi took advantage of this opportunity to change his way to pit Dakui's money, and his mouth was tens of thousands, I wanted to stop it, but when I thought of my poor economic situation and the pressure from my girlfriend's family, I could only keep silent, and I was relieved that the Hong family's inheritance was millions, and it was nothing for me to lose it.

In order to deal with Da Kui's affairs, I specially went back to the shop, and flipped through the notes left by my father, the notes were actually handwritten by my grandfather, which recorded a variety of knowledge, and it is said that some of them were adapted from the "Book of Burial", which was not deep, but very practical.

Soon, I found a solution to the "ghost blowing the lamp", and I just had to rekindle it.

Hearing that the "oil lamp" could be lit, Da Kui couldn't wait to take out the lighter and burn it on his shoulder, almost didn't burn the hair, I couldn't cry and laugh when I saw it, and said to stop: "You need a yang fire to ignite, two of your three lamps have been extinguished, if you don't ignite it as soon as possible, I estimate that it won't be long before you can say hello to your mother-in-law below." ”

Da Kui was so scared that he asked me where there was a yang fire, and I said that the best yang fire was the sun, and let him find a place where the sun's rays were strong and bask for three days and three nights, so that he could "cure the disease".

In the afternoon of the same day, Da Kui took a plane and ran to the Massawa region of Africa to bask in the sun, this season, the temperature there should be around 35 degrees, which should be enough for him to change his mind.......