Chapter 2: Coastal Ghosts
Binhai County, the extreme north of the Great Xia Dynasty, is not easy to get here, I am eight years old this year, this time is the 991st year of the Great Xia Wu Yuan calendar, when Binhai County has just been incorporated into the territory of the Great Xia Dynasty, post stations and ports and other passages are still being established, I and the master Zhang Xiuxiu is the flying magic weapon of the Yamen of Xiyue County, to the territory of Binhai County.
The two of us then transferred to the post coach and horse, and then arrived at the Zhou Mansion of Binhai County, and when we arrived at the Zhou Mansion, almost all the onmyoji in Binhai County gathered in it.
However, after I walked in with Shizun, all the onmyoji at that time took the initiative to give way, and almost every onmyoji, whether it was from the Great Xia Dynasty or overseas, all saluted Zhang Xiuxiu with great respect.
Zhang Xiuxiu nodded in return, and entered the hall and sat unceremoniously on the edge of the main seat, on the first chair, and then I found out that Shizun, don't look like a weak woman, but she really has a high status in the psychic world.
I was standing behind Zhang Xiuxiu, and when I was still thinking crankily in my mind, an old man who was old in the middle of the house came out of the inner hall, hunched over and on crutches, and walked to the main seat and sat down with a slight trembling.
About my master Zhang Xiuxiu, I have to introduce, she is a very beautiful woman, she looks beautiful, and she can't tell me how strong her cultivation is, but it is said that she is a big man at the head of the hall in the psychic hall, but she quit the psychic hall when she was bored in the psychic hall and became an onmyoji.
I once heard a senior say that my master once went into the Netherworld Mansion alone, and the ten Yin commanders all fought each other, which made the ten Yan Luo angry and sent the Yin army to arrest them, but in the end, they didn't do it, and finally became the Yin and Yang envoy in charge of the Baili Land Realm.
Of course, as a master among the onmyoji, Shizun is never short of money, but he is also short of money, is it a contradiction?
In the words of the master: "As an onmyoji, it is easy to earn money, and then earn it when the money runs out, as a woman, we have to live exquisitely and beautifully, we have to enjoy life, if we burp one day, it will be a big loss."
So as an adult, I never lacked money, never saved money, and I couldn't help but buy whatever I liked, and my personality was somewhat influenced by my master.
I am the only disciple of the Demon Refining Ghost Sect established by Shizun, and I have always thought that she accepted me as an apprentice in order to inherit her mantle, but she actually said: "You are so stupid, how can you inherit my mantle, my aunt and grandmother are pitiful and raise you to play."
This is the master who raised me to play, the former big man in the psychic hall, the yin and yang envoy in the onmyoji, and Zhang Xiuxiu who crisscrossed the yang world of the underworld.
In my eyes, she is naturally the best and closest person in the world......
After the introduction, then we are talking about the affairs of Zhoufu.
After the old lady Zhou sat down on the main seat, Zhang Xiuxiu's willow eyebrows were upside down, and she suddenly stood up and pulled me out.
This move immediately attracted the attention of the other onmyoji around him, and a middle-aged uncle in brocade stood up in surprise and said, "Senior, why is this leaving?" Is there something that is not well received? ”
"Why don't you leave? You deceived us and didn't tell the truth, I'm busy and have time to fool around with you. Zhang Xiuxiu said very facelessly,
Hearing Zhang Xiuxiu say this, the guards with knives around the hall came over all of a sudden, all of them were martial arts masters, and they knew that they were characters who were not easy to mess with.
Shizun is not afraid at all, these guards with knives obviously have a murderous aura on their bodies, I am the first time I encountered this scene, and I suddenly shrank behind Shizun a little cowardly.
"Stand down! I'm sorry, Senior Zhang has been lazy, and please come to the inner hall for a gathering. ”
I didn't expect that at this time, the old lady of the Zhou Mansion spoke, and even asked my master to go to the inner hall for a gathering, at this time I saw the master, and smiled at me with a smile on his face, generally the master interferes in big business, but as a master, he naturally has his own arrogance, and the cultivation of psychics is extremely costly, so he will naturally accept the entrustment of some mortals, but you have to have money, you have to have money, you have to have money, you have to have money, and important things are said three times.
The Zhou Mansion is very big and magnificent, from the outer hall where we are, all the way to the inner hall, there is actually a stick of incense time, into the inner hall, Shizun frowned slightly, I immediately felt as if entering an ice cave, the temperature of the whole body dropped in vain, Shizun immediately handed me a pill, and then whispered to me: "The yin qi here is very heavy, your cultivation is too shallow, take this Juyang Pill into your mouth, be careful not to bite it, let it melt slowly."
I nodded, put the pill in my mouth, and took the cuffs of the master into the inner hall, the inner hall was dim, only a few oil lamps were on, emitting a faint light, I looked around curiously, the windows around the inner hall were blocked by black cloth, for some special reasons, those bloody guards with knives had stayed away from the inner hall.
The old lady of Zhoufu sat on the rosewood chair in the inner hall, and then I saw that there was an altar to worship the ancestors in the middle of the inner hall, and a portrait was hung on the altar, which was an old woman with gray hair, dressed in red, with a smile on her face, but the smile was very weird, giving people a ghostly feeling.
When I stepped into the inner hall, I had the feeling of being stared at by the person in the painting, and the old woman in the portrait seemed to be alive, and I involuntarily stepped back, and my feet were numb and there was a sense of powerlessness.
Shizun noticed my strangeness, and quietly put his hand on my shoulder, I suddenly felt a warm current, pouring into my body from my shoulder, the whole person was much more relaxed, at this time, how dare I leave Shizun's side, obviously there is something strange in this place.
"Senior, you should know what I need to help, right?" Old lady Zhou said lightly.
"What can it be? It's nothing more than sealing demons and driving away ghosts, walking yin and yang. But you are not a small ghost, and you dare to ask me to do things. ”
Shizun said, one hand pointed to the old lady Zhou sitting opposite her, at this time, the old lady Zhou's face, a large amount of black gas appeared, this black gas is the unique yin qi of the ghosts, a grimace appeared and the outline of the old woman on the altar is exactly the same, I was scared at the time of the legs trembled, almost turned around and wanted to run.
"What's the panic, it's not out of the way." Shizun glared at me dissatisfied, and then I reacted, the sky is falling, there is Shizun on top, what are you running?
"To tell the truth, why do you go to the body of your own relatives and refuse to enter the netherworld?" Zhang Xiuxiu has a calm and unhurried bearing when facing ghosts, and she feels like interrogating prisoners.
"Onmyoji, do you have the means to walk Yin and Yang?" The old lady Zhou on the opposite side who was possessed by a ghost, her face was pale and terrible, which made me shudder, and I lowered my head and didn't dare to look at him.
"I know all the magic powers of the Onmyoji, and I also have some connections in the Netherworld, how can I entrust me with anything?" Zhang Xiuxiu pulled out a chair, sat down and said lukewarmly.
"I need you to help me find someone in the Netherworld." Old lady Zhou was obviously attacked by this female ghost, and the yin qi of the whole person was too heavy, and the temperature in the inner hall also dropped a few degrees after the female ghost appeared.
"Who are you looking for?" Zhang Xiuxiu asked directly.
"The man I died a few years ago, I want to meet him, I miss him very much, but he has been in the Netherworld for many years, I asked many onmyoji and psychic masters to help me find him, but I haven't found it, and I have not been able to find it, and I am attached to my brother, there is no way, seniors, you know that it is not easy for yin souls to survive in the yang world, I have to rely on my younger brother to survive."
This ghost is actually for this matter, and the entire territory of the Great Xia Dynasty issued a commissioned task, which is not low, which makes me a little surprised, is it not a good kind to be able to keep the ghost that is forcibly left in the yang world? Will there still be feelings? Want to see your man one last time?
"Yes, let your people remit three thousand golden tickets in the Great Xia Qian Village, and after receiving the golden tickets, I will bring your man's ghost out of the netherworld to see you." Zhang Xiuxiu got up directly, as if she didn't want to talk any more.
There are three kinds of coins in the Great Xia Dynasty, mortals use copper coins, silver coins, and gold coins, and the transaction between chambers of commerce or big forces uses gold tickets, one hundred copper for one silver, one hundred silver for one gold, one hundred gold for one gold ticket, and the annual expenditure of ordinary people is fifteen or sixteen silver coins.
If the 3,000 gold tickets are exchanged for gold coins, it is 300,000 gold coins, and the silver coins are 30 million.
"My Zhou family has a lot of industries, and the total income of a year is only 10,000 gold tickets, and 3,000 gold tickets will be remitted to your account first? Why should I trust you? Old lady Zhou said in a low voice, staring at Zhang Xiuxiu with good intentions.
"With the fact that I can get rid of you, and with my identity as a yin and yang envoy in the yang world, the judge in the Netherworld Mansion will also sell me some face." The first sentence is the threat of Chiguoguo, and the last two sentences are strength, saying that Zhang Xiuxiu pulled me to open the inner hall, don't you say, I walked out of the inner hall, was exposed to the sun, a spirit, and the blood was immediately active, and the mysterious inscription in the pupil faded, and the black mist seen in the inner hall gradually dispersed.
"What you see in you is yin, mixed with resentment." Zhang Xiuxiu said in my ear.
Resentful ghosts will not have feelings, ordinary ghosts have less flesh, and the seven spirits dissipate and the remaining three souls of the yin souls will generally scatter their spiritual wisdom, and after entering the netherworld, they will drink the water of forgetfulness to seal their memories, and they will lose their feelings, and live in the netherworld like puppets, waiting for the dissipation of cause and effect, and then enter the six realms of reincarnation.
Zhang Xiuxiu told me: "A ghost who has spiritual wisdom in the yang world will absorb the grievances of mortals, become stronger and stronger, and become more and more spiritual, but you must remember that as long as it is a ghost that is out of the jurisdiction of the netherworld, it is a ghost, and the ghost will never be believed......
It wasn't until many years later, after I became a qualified Onmyoji, that I realized that this was the admonition left by generations of Onmyoji sages with their lives.
Three thousand golden tickets quickly, it was deposited into the account of Shizun in Daxia Qianzhuang, my Shizun is very fond of Qianzhuang, the reason is, of course, to make money, she has the Daxia Dynasty, the big and small money saving account, as long as the employer is willing, she can provide any account to collect, as a result, later often when I clean, I picked up the voucher, and it is anonymous access, the amount on it is not small.
After receiving the golden ticket, Shizun was going to squander, thinking that it was a trouble to take me, so he threw me in the Zhou Mansion very casually and went to have fun alone.
At night, I was restless, and I couldn't sleep and wandered around the Zhou Mansion, perhaps because of the mysterious inscriptions and physique, I seemed to be able to enter the ghost realm established by ghosts at will, and I would not be discovered easily.
How to describe the ghost realm, it is very appropriate to describe it with a spider web, this is an enchantment established by ghosts, and it is naturally convenient to hunt, and many people have ghosts hitting the wall is one of them.