I followed the mourning music with Shinomatsu until we walked outside a courtyard, and I stood outside the courtyard door and looked inside, and found that a man and a woman were performing some vulgar sketches in the middle of the courtyard, surrounded by villagers who came to see the excitement, and the head of the family was handing out cigarettes to these villagers who watched the performance from time to time with heavy filial piety.

When the head of the house sent a cigarette to the courtyard door, he saw me and Xiaosong, and hurriedly moved a stool to beckon us to sit down and said, "Come in and sit down, thank you for your support." ”

I took the cigarette with Xiao Song, with a confused face, the family is dead, thank you for the cheers? What the hell is this custom? But there was nowhere for me and Shinomatsu to go, and when we saw that the owner was so enthusiastic, we simply went into the courtyard and sat down to watch the performances, all of which were so new to me and Shinomatsu.

After looking at it for a while, I felt bored, looked around, and looked at the hall of the master of the family from a distance, and there was a small table in front of the ice coffin, on which were lit two candles, as well as some fruits and non-staple foods, and a posthumous image was placed in the middle of the two candles, and I could only see clearly from a distance that it was a woman, and I really couldn't see what it looked like because the distance was too far and the light was dim.

It is not surprising that Taoist monks can not be seen in these big cities, there are few evil spirits now, as long as you know a little about the funeral rules, you can organize a funeral, besides, the appearance fee of Taoist priests and monks is quite high, and the average family is estimated to be able to save it, and will not spend this money.

Looking at the time, it was already more than nine o'clock in the evening, I also felt really bored, got up and was about to call Xiaosong to leave together, but when I got up, I suddenly found a woman's figure standing in the position of the ice coffin, it seems that the woman is not very old, I wonder why this woman's soul is still here?

Xiao Song also said 'huh' in the direction of the ice coffin, I was a little incredulous Xiao Song also saw the figure of the woman, I saw that Xiao Song was just about to speak, and quickly said to him: "Don't speak, just don't see it." ”

"Shall we leave like this, then?" Shinomatsu still couldn't help but muttered in my ear.

Xiao Song's words made me hesitate a little, if the cultivator encounters this thing and should not have seen it, then it is really a little sorry for the ancestral master, but if I want to ask about this matter, it is also unreasonable, after all, I am a foreigner, I am not familiar with the life here on the first day I arrived in Nanjing, if I rashly go to the head of the family to inquire about the situation of the deceased, what will others think?

What I don't understand the most is that theoretically, after this person dies, the ghost has to go to the local Land Temple or City God Temple to report, and then the Land Temple will guide to the Yin Cao to report, why does this female ghost still stay in the yang world and refuse to leave? Where has the local land god gone?

At this juncture, the group of people who performed the sketch didn't know why the stereo suddenly lost sound, and the two actors kept tapping the microphone to try the microphone, and after the noisy sound accompaniment, the surroundings were much cleaner, only the whispers of the crowd.

After a while, we suddenly heard a festive suona sound from far and near approaching this courtyard, I looked at Xiao Song, I thought that only me and Xiao Song heard such a sound, but I never thought that all the people here heard it, people didn't know what was going on, and they all looked at the outside of the courtyard in unison.

Xiao Song and I hurriedly pushed aside the crowd and came to the outside of the courtyard, and looked closely, good guy, a man in the distance was wearing red and riding a tall horse walking in the front, and eight people behind him were carrying a big red sedan chair in our direction, and the most terrifying thing for me was that the eight people carrying the sedan chair were exactly the same as the paper people tied by the paper maker.

Seeing this situation, I thought I couldn't stand by and watch, I taught Xiao Song a spell and asked him to give me a meeting outside the door, I went to prepare something and came, and after I finished explaining, I hurriedly ran back to the courtyard and shouted to everyone: "Don't go out, everyone." ”

Everyone also saw the man in the distance, and everyone understood what they had encountered, and the timid ones were already crying in fright, asking them to run out of the yard and collide with the man now, they really didn't have the guts.

Since Xiao Song and I just came out to hang out, I didn't bring any magic weapons with me, but I carried the Zhang Tianshi seal with me, but fortunately, now that I was doing funerals, I could still find the basic things.

I asked the head of the house to find me some yellow table paper, a brush, cinnabar this thing is not so easy to find, I was still thinking about how to fix the cinnabar when I heard Xiao Song shout at me: "Guoqiang, I can't stand it, this guy is too fierce." ”

I don't know what's going on outside the courtyard, but tonight the man doesn't seem to be a master to be messed with, and he should have come to rob his relatives in this situation, so even the local land god didn't dare to ask, presumably this evil ghost has a certain background identity.

I didn't have time to think about it, I took out the yellow table paper and tore the shape of the two paper figures with my bare hands, I don't care if I tear it or not, anyway, I can probably have a silhouette, after tearing it, I picked up the incense candle to worship the woman and put it on the head of the paper man, and read casually: "All beings in the underworld, on my orders, arrest evil spirits, heaven and earth are infinite, and they are as urgent as the law." ”

After finishing speaking, I immediately set fire to the two paper figures, and as the two paper figures turned into ashes, two ghost soldiers dressed in black and white clothes immediately appeared outside the door of the courtyard, and both ghost soldiers had red flame marks on their foreheads.

When these two ghost soldiers appeared, it was also a relief for Xiaosong, and it also bought me a little time, at this time I looked at my fingers, yards, and endured the pain to bite a bloody wound on my middle finger, picked up a piece of yellow table paper and drew a soul charm again.

After finishing the painting, I took out the seal of the Heavenly Master from my arms and stamped it, and then I came to the ice coffin and shouted: "Don't go back yet?" ”

After the woman's figure disappeared, I immediately pasted the soul charm on the ice coffin, and when I finished pasting the talisman, I turned back and shouted to the family: "The family members hurry up and cry." ”

I don't know what kind of status I have in everyone's hearts now, but everyone can really see the talisman I drew by biting my finger just now, so there will be no objection to my arrangement, and seeing that the house is properly arranged, I quickly came to the outside of the courtyard.

This will be a little embarrassed, fortunately, the timely appearance of the two ghost soldiers gave him a chance to breathe, the eight paper people saw the ghost soldiers and panicked their own positions, there is a feeling of wanting to escape, I know in my own heart, I just recruited the Yin soldiers attached to the two paper people, and I can only scare and scare the general ghosts, if it was really the Yin soldiers, I would have caught those little ghosts a long time ago.

The man in red saw the two yin soldiers guarding the door, and rushed over directly on his horse with some annoyance, it seemed that this guy wanted to break in, just when the guy was about to rush to the door, he saw a beam of white light shining out in a trance, I looked up, it turned out to be a gossip mirror embedded in the door of the courtyard of this house.

I kind of understood, no matter how fierce the ghost was, but after all, he was afraid of the Taoist magic weapon, so I beckoned Xiao Song to quickly hide in the courtyard, and when I saw that the man in red refused to leave, I shouted at him: "Who are you evil spirit?" This soul has not yet been buried in the ground, and you dare to rob it? ”

After I finished drinking loudly, I suddenly heard a very empty voice coming to me and said: "Little Taoist, don't be self-conscious, what ability do you have to meddle in the matter of not even caring about the land?" Do you really think I can't help it? ”

After hearing this ethereal voice, I couldn't help but feel scared for a while, because this is the first time I have communicated with ghosts face-to-face, although there are some psychic methods in the notes, but talking to ghosts is really my first time, although Ma Laodao has taught me to persuade since I was a child, but now I can't persuade this posture.

Thinking of this, I played the scoundrel and shouted at the evil spirit: "Come here, come here, come here if you have the ability, don't fix those who have and don't." ”

"Hmph." After the man in red snorted coldly, the wind suddenly fell all around, although I can't use it now, but I estimate that it is still impossible for the evil spirit to enter the courtyard, even if he can come in, I will at least have a Heavenly Master Seal, I don't believe that there is no way to cure him, thinking of this, I swaggered to the courtyard and closed the courtyard door, letting the evil spirit make waves outside, anyway, he can't do anything to me.

When everyone saw me calmly and calmly walked into the courtyard, they all fell silent and looked at me, and I said to the head of the house with some dissatisfaction: "Cry, keep crying, if you want the deceased to be at peace after death and be robbed by him to be a daughter-in-law, you can not cry." When the head of the house saw me say this, he hurriedly took the lead in crying again, crying and shouting, "Daughter-in-law, I can't stand you." ”

Xiao Song rubbed his arm and came to me and whispered to me, "What next?" ”

"What can I do? Wait until dawn. I replied helplessly.

After a while, I saw that the family members were crying hoarsely, so I interrupted: "Okay, okay, let's rest, with my soul suppression talisman, don't try to snatch the soul of this deceased person with his great ability." ”

When the family member heard this, he got up and wiped his tears, and hurriedly handed me a flue to thank him, and I couldn't help but ask him with curiosity: "Who is this deceased?" It doesn't seem to be very old, why did you go like this? ”

The family will come over and say to me in a pure Nanjing dialect: "Little master, let me tell you, I don't know how to go back to four, my wife is still dripping at night, a few mornings I called her to give me a drink after the chaos, which knew that I shouted dead and didn't have to react, I said in front of her to see, hanging, she pressed, I thought, this smashed, I hurriedly helped my wife to the hospital, who knew that the hanging doctor said that he died last night, this is not a nonsense? The doctor on this dog day will cheat the people out of money. ”

After listening to the words of the head of the family, I had a black line on my face, and said to him helplessly: "Please speak well, speak human words, I don't understand." ”