In the folk, the northerners take foxes, snakes, hedgehogs, rats and weasels as the god of wealth, see these five, dare not offend, so there are five temples of the god of wealth. Among them, the weasel Wong Tai Sin is the most famous. What Xing Ruyi didn't expect was that all kinds of encounters between Wang Fu and Wang Shu were caused by this Huang Daxian.

The wind was gusting in the coffin shop, and Gu Anniang searched for a long time before she found half a candle and lit it, and what shone in the candlelight was a coffin covered with dust.

"It's been more than 20 years, and I can't imagine that it's still the same here." Gu Anniang walked to a coffin and gently stroked it with her hand, as if she was stroking her own child, her expression was very strange, with a little happiness in her sourness. If it weren't for the fact that only half of her face was left, Xing Ruyi would probably comfort her from the bottom of her heart.

"To be honest, Anniang is very curious, what is the environment in which you grew up? An Niang grew up in this coffin shop since she was a child, and when she was a child, her father and mother were very busy, her father was busy choosing wood, making coffins, and was responsible for soliciting guests, and her mother was responsible for making paper, which was better than An Niang. Since Anniang remembers, she has often been placed in this coffin, which is not only a place for Anniang to play games, but also a place to sleep. Often when I wake up, I hear the sound of my father pulling a saw, and when I look up, the candlelight is my mother making paper. Those paper figures are vivid, An Niang always feels that they will talk to An Niang. ”

"The so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to eat the water, your family is in the coffin business, and it is not unusual to live in such an environment since childhood. It's just that does this have anything to do with Wang Fu, Wang Shu and Ziyu? Xing Ruyi loves to listen to people's stories, but at this time it is nearly five watches, and after a while, the sky will be bright, Xing Ruyi has neither that time nor that leisure, to listen to Gu Anniang's story.

The ghosts put down the mahogany coffin and stood outside the door one by one. Xing Ruyi recited a few spells, but it was actually a meeting code with Niu Tou Ma Mian, and summoned a ghost to send him and ordered him to bring the ghosts back to the underworld and place them reasonably. The ghosts were very grateful, and before the fifth watch came, they followed the ghosts and disappeared in front of the coffin shop.

Seeing the ghosts and ghosts leaving, Xing Ruyi turned around and looked at Gu Anniang: "I don't have much time, and you make a long story short, we don't know each other very well, so there is no need to remember the bittersweet ones, although I am interested in your past, it doesn't mean that I want to hear it now." ”

"Miss Ruyi's words are really cold, and people can't help but feel cold in their hearts when they hear it."

"Really? I think it makes people feel even more chilling when they think back to the time when Ziyu was alone and hung on the black locust tree in front of Wang Fu's house. There is also Wang Fu's eldest son, the child who was only about six or seven years old at the time, if it wasn't for the idea you gave Wang Shu, how could he have returned to the underworld. Gu Anniang, although I sympathize with your experience, but if you think about it carefully, your current appearance is just evil and evil retribution. The reason why I came to this coffin shop with you is just to find out what he wants to do. So, don't play any poor emotional cards with me, you are not a kind person, I am soft-hearted and look at the object, so if you have something to say, you can talk about it, this girl is still busy. ”

"Miss Ruyi's words, since they have all been said clearly, what can I say about Anniang. I don't deny that I did everything back then, and what I did was just to save my husband. Human nature is evil, and selfishness is inevitable, so in this matter, An Niang does not think that she is at fault. Gu Anniang said, her eyes rolled slightly, as if she was looking at the man on the other side. The woman's hand and the man's hand are in one place, and the image is both eerie and bizarre.

"An Niang said before that An Niang's family has been in the coffin business for generations. This coffin can only be used by the dead, so over time, the people who deal with it are all people in this circle. My family's surname is Yu, and he is a dead man's trader, in the words of the Tao, that is, he touches the golden captain, and is commonly known as the tomb robber, or the inverted fight.

Originally, the one who sold the coffin and the inverted bucket were two trades, and the one that sold the coffin and the inverted bucket, one was regarded as accumulating yin virtue and the other was regarded as damaging yin virtue, which seemed to be similar, but in fact, eight poles could not hit one place. The reason why it is involved is related to the coffin. Some wealthy families have extremely high requirements for coffins, such as the need for some fine rosewood, agarwood and so on. These timbers, not to mention the high price, are still very difficult to find. But there is one place, but there are many of them, and that is the tombs. So, my father and mother would occasionally bid for the craftsmen of the inverted bucket to help find some fine wood from the tomb. That's how I met my husband.

Although he is not good at words, and he is a bit fierce, he is very good to me. One year, he found some grain and plant seeds from the tomb, which was probably from the Yin Shang and Western Zhou dynasties. Although it is very old, the thing is very well preserved. I found a few lotus seeds from them, discarded them in the water tank in the courtyard, and they still grow. ”

"I've heard of such things, too." Xing Ruyi recalled that when he wrote in later generations, he had read the records of the Northern Journey Book written by the Ming people, which contained a record of lotus seeds, saying that there were stone lotus seeds in Ningjin County, Zhaozhou, all of which were buried in the soil.

"It may not be uncommon for a thousand-year-old stone lotus to bloom and bear fruit, but the fault is that I shouldn't think that it is a kind of auspicious light, let alone use the lotus leaves to make a meal for my husband to eat." Gu Anniang said, shaking the man's hand with her hand: "That day, I was going out to relieve my boredom, and I overheard someone talking, saying that lotus leaves can also cook, and the method is very simple." I grew up in a coffin shop, my father and mother, who were busy with business and didn't give me any cooking skills. After marrying my husband, I rarely cooked, and since he was a dead man's trader, he rarely ate at home. Maybe I heard that Na Lian was a little moved, maybe I thought that my husband was about to come back, maybe I wanted to take the opportunity to show my duty as a wife in front of my husband, or maybe I just wanted to prove that I could be a virtuous lady like other women. Anyway, I eavesdropped on the lotus leaf fried rice, and then went home, took the freshest part of the lotus leaf, and made the lotus leaf fried rice in a decent way. ”

"The two people who are talking to each other can't be Wang Fu and Ziyu, right?" Xing Ruyi asked.

Gu Anniang nodded: "It's just that at that time, I didn't know them. ”

Wang Fu once said that he and Ziyu met very early, but he did not specifically say the age of the two acquaintances, and now that I think about it, it is possible that Gu Anniang and Wang Shu met earlier.

"And after that? Your husband ate the lotus leaf fried rice you made himself, and something happened? ”

"Yes! On the night when I made the lotus leaf fried rice, my husband came back. The harvest of that trip was not small, and the husband was also very happy, and drank a few more glasses of wine in the evening, but the meal was not of much use. When I woke up in the middle of the night hungry, I remembered the lotus leaf fried rice I had made during the day, so I gave him a bowl. Who would have thought that in the second half of the night, he began to have a fever, and his whole body was hot and hot, as if he had just been fished out of the coals. I was in a hurry to get out of the house, looking for a doctor. Who would have thought that as soon as I went out, I bumped into a pair of eyes. ”

"A pair of eyes?"

"Yes! A pair of eyes. Gu Anniang said, shivering, and the other half of the man's body couldn't help but tense: "Those are a pair of wolf-like eyes, flashing green and faint in the dark night." I grew up in a coffin shop, and naturally I had more courage than ordinary women, so I took a lantern and looked at it. Only then did I see that it was a weasel that was rare in the city, and it was also called Wong Tai Sin. ”

"And then? What did you do? ”

"I didn't do anything! At that time, Gu Anniang was just an ordinary coffin shop proprietor. At most, it's a little bolder, and there is no ability to do it. I first gave Wong Tai Sin a salute, saying that my father-in-law was sick and was in a hurry, hoping that he would not blame me. It glanced at me a few times and was gone.

I immediately breathed a sigh of relief and continued on my way with the lantern. The person I'm looking for, Miss Ruyi, you may have heard of it, it is Ji Shengtang's shopkeeper Liu, he was still young at that time, but his medical skills were already very good in Luoyang City. Originally, it didn't take much effort to take a shortcut from the coffin shop to Ji Shengtang, but I couldn't get out of that road for nearly two hours.

Just when I was about to despair, a man appeared in front of me, an old man in a yellow shirt, white hair, and a white beard. He told me that my husband was not sick, but evil, and ordinary doctors could not cure him at all, and the one I just met was a ghost hitting the wall. Now, he has taken this troublesome evil thing away, and told me to go home quickly.

At that time, hearing such words, it was like a drowning man seeing a log floating on the river, and I immediately begged him to go back with me and save my husband. ”

"You first met a Wong Tai Sin, and then you happened to meet an old man in yellow clothes. If my guess is correct, then the old man has ** is that Wong Tai Sin became. ”

"Miss Ruyi knows again?"

"Weasel, weasel, has both the wit of a rat and the ferocity of a wolf, and I have never had a good impression of it. Besides, I also met a little weasel who had achieved cultivation before, and what he did was simply punished ten times without losing anything. Xing Ruyi is talking about the yellow skin who stole the child, and was finally sent into the river by her design, replacing the drowned undead and becoming a water ghost in the river, which can be regarded as a disguised punishment for it.

"Miss Ruyi is right, but it's a pity that An Niang didn't have that discerning eye at that time, and she couldn't tell whether it was an immortal who rescued the suffering or a yellow immortal with bad intentions." Gu Anniang said, and shook her head: "In a hurry, I will take him back to the coffin shop." At that time, his husband was lying on the bed, his face was painful, and his face began to molt layer by layer, and his bones began to change. At the end, that face became weasel-like, and it was so distracted that I couldn't even hear what I was saying.

When the old man saw this, he told me to prepare, saying that he was possessed by an evil spirit, and if he was any later, his life would be taken away by the demon. Naturally, I didn't dare to hesitate, so I followed his instructions and set up the so-called Nine-Star Soul Attraction Array in the coffin shop. ”

Gu Anniang said, turning the candle in her hand: "It seems that this half of the candle was left by the array at that time." You see, this candle is different from others, and it is said that it is mixed with human blood. ”

Xing Ruyi glanced at it, the middle of the candle was really dark, and I didn't know if the so-called "blood" in Gu Anniang's mouth had changed color over the years, or if the candle heart was originally black.

(Education 123 Literature Network)