Chapter 13: The Ghost Market
Ma Laosan's eyes widened, and he seemed to have sobered up a lot.
"Yo, it's a serious injury, who did it? Why don't you kid have anything to do? ”
"Don't say it, let's save her first." While Ma Laosan was talking, I could feel that the black qi on Qin Chuyun's body was constantly drifting away, which was the phenomenon that the yin qi on Qin Chuyun's body was draining.
Ma Laosan thought about it, took out a talisman from his butt pocket, and slapped it on Qin Chuyun's body after reciting the mantra, which barely slowed down the loss of Qin Chuyun's yin qi, and after that, we ran towards the position of Baichun Hall.
Although Ma Laosan was a lot sober, he still swayed left and right when he walked, and when he returned to the door of the store, he didn't step on the stairs steadily, and his head hit the ground directly, and he got a big bag.
"Well, who made you drink so much?" I complained.
"What's the matter with you?!" Ma Laosan glared at me fiercely, his mouth full of wine.
"Wait, I'll go back to the house and get something."
After a while, Ma Laosan walked out with an urn, she came to Qin Chuyun's side, looked at her wounds, and then took off the talisman on Qin Chuyun's body and pasted it on the urn.
"Your injury is serious and serious, it's not serious or serious, you just need to find a place to gather souls and recuperate for a few days, this urn is a small place to gather souls, you stay for one night, and I'll find you a place tomorrow."
"Thank you, Third Master." Qin Chuyun thanked weakly, and then turned into a puff of black smoke and drifted into the urn.
Ma Laosan handed me the lid of the urn and asked me what had happened.
I told Ma Laosan about it, and after hearing this, Ma Laosan's face sank, and he stretched out his hand, touched the broken jade pendant on my chest, and fell into deep thought.
I just watched Ma Laosan and waited for his answer, but within two minutes, Ma Laosan actually opened his eyes and let out bursts of snoring.
You can fall asleep when you open your eyes, you are Zhang Fei! I shook Ma Laosan awake, Ma Laosan shook his head and coughed lightly: "Eh, I roughly understand the matter, be careful yourself, that person shouldn't be able to come tonight, you let me sleep first, let's discuss this matter tomorrow morning." ”
Ma Laosan went back to the room directly and didn't care about me anymore, there was no way, I could only go back to the room with the urn.
When I got back to the house, I remembered what the man in white had said before, so I rummaged through the boxes and cabinets of the package I had brought, but I didn't find anything special.
Weird? Grandpa obviously didn't give me anything, why was the man in white so sure that it was on me?
Lying in bed, I couldn't fall asleep tossing and turning, wondering what it was and who the man in white was.
I don't remember when I fell asleep, until dawn the next day, Ma Laosan woke me up and asked me to come out with him to unload the goods, unload? I came to the first floor in a daze, and found a Jinbei car parked in front of the store, the back seat of the Jinbei car was open, and a large mahogany coffin was placed inside.
When I saw the coffin, I woke up and asked Ma Laosan what he was going to do.
"Heal your ghost daughter-in-law." Ma Laosan said something and beckoned me to come over and help carry the coffin down together.
This coffin is much smaller than a normal coffin, and if I lie down, I guess I would have to curl my legs.
The coffin was carried into the store and stacked with a pile of Chinese herbs.
Ma Laosan asked me to close the door of the store, saying that it was not open today, and asked me to take down the urn containing Qin Chuyun.
When I came down with the urn, I found Ma Laosan holding a brush with cinnabar, drawing something on the outer wall of the coffin.
I asked Ma Laosan what he was doing, and Ma Laosan told me.
"This coffin is made of gloomy wood, and then I draw a soul suppression charm on it, and it will become a soul suppression coffin, isn't your daughter-in-law injured, and you need to find a place to gather souls? The Soul Coffin can shock and absorb the spirits of the surrounding area, and your daughter-in-law will be able to recover in less than a week while lying in it to recuperate. ”
Hearing Ma Laosan say this, I was a lot relieved, but he was your daughter-in-law, and I was still a little embarrassed to call him.
After closing the door of the store, I was idle, so I squatted next to Ma Laosan and watched him draw the charm of the soul suppression, and happened to learn it myself, and asked Ma Laosan if he knew about the man in white last night.
Ma Laosan said that if he hadn't been drunk last night, he might have been able to tell what kind of technique that person used from Qin Chuyun's wounds to confirm his identity, but unfortunately, he was drunk last night, and he didn't remember anything when he woke up today.
"Tian Laoliu's family heirloom jade pendant must have caused him a lot of damage, don't worry, he has to cultivate for at least ten days and half a month."
From day to evening, Ma Laosan did not stop, and drew the charms of the soul on the coffin, even my half-hung man on the side also watched, but the talisman is not holding a brush cinnabar, just draw it exactly the same, Ma Laosan told me that when drawing talismans, you must be calm and concentrating, and you must convey your own yang energy to the tip of the pen between strokes, once there is a half-point difference pool, the spell can not take effect.
When the painting reached the end, Ma Laosan handed me the brush and asked me to come, but as soon as I drew two strokes, I was pushed away by Ma Laosan with a disgusted face.
In the evening, Ma Laosan threw an old book with a peeled cover to me, which recorded the drawing methods of various charms, and how to control the transmission of their own yang energy when drawing charms, I read it for more than an hour, and my head was big, which was more grinding than math class, but Ma Laosan wanted me to learn the most basic drawing talismans during the week when Qin Chuyun was recuperating in the soul coffin, and said that if I couldn't even learn to draw talismans, don't say that I was Chen Jiujin's grandson.
This is quite shocking, thinking of what Ma Laosan said before, you must become a great heavenly master to have the capital to fight with Xuanmen, in order to rescue grandpa, although I don't understand what level the great heavenly master is, but it must be very powerful, at least better than my grandfather and Ma Laosan.
Early the next morning, I was called up by Ma Laosan to learn to draw talismans, tossed for three whole days, seven or eight hours a day to practice uninterruptedly, and always keep paying attention, I almost drove Ma Laosan crazy, finally in the afternoon of the third day, after hundreds of failures, drew a talisman enough to make Ma Laosan nod.
"Okay, although the painting looks like a worm, at least it is a success, compared to your grandfather's time, your kid's talent is quite good."
This is the first time I have known Ma Laosan for so long, and he has affirmed me.
"But in order to draw this talisman that doesn't have any effect, you spent a lot of my materials." Ma Laosan looked at the time: "While it's still early, I'll take you around the ghost market and buy something." ”
I originally thought that the yellow paper cinnabar used to draw the talismans and the like could be bought in ordinary stores, but Ma Laosan said that the cinnabar yellow paper bought in that kind of store was not authentic enough, and it was easy to buy fakes, so Mr. Yin and Yang like them would generally choose to buy such things in the local ghost market.
The ghost market is not a market set up by a group of lonely ghosts, but a place where people in the Yin and Yang world trade special items, such as Lao Li, who had a relationship with him in the hospital before, is a ghost market merchant.
Went out and stopped a taxi, Ma Laosan took me to the antique street in the center of the city, at noon, there were not many people who set up stalls in the antique street, after getting off the car, Ma Laosan took me to the inside, almost to the end of the street, Ma Laosan pulled me into a larger antique jade store, Ma Laosan and the reception of the etiquette lady said something, the etiquette lady led us to the counter, Ma Laosan took out a wooden card from his pocket, the wooden card is carved from willow wood, and there is a word engraved on it that I can't understand at all, It should be something that falls under the category of passes.
The bald man took the wooden sign handed over by Ma Laosan, and after reading it, he returned the wooden card to us, and shouted to the hostess who had just beckoned us in, asking her to take us down.
Then, Miss Manners walked up to the two of us again and said to Ma Laosan: "Today, Master Biao will patrol in person, please pay more attention to your behavior, don't anger his old man." ”
"Touring today? What kind of crazy thing is he smoking? I know. Ma Laosan muttered.
Then Miss Manners took the two of us to a small door behind the jade shop, opened the door, it was a spiral down staircase, Miss Manners made a gesture of please, Ma Laosan walked in first, I followed my heels, and after we entered together, the door behind was closed by Miss Manners, the corridor was pitch black, and I could only go down by the light of the faint candle flame on the wall.
Walking all the way to the end, there was another door in front of him, Ma Laosan stopped, turned around and reminded me: "You will follow me later, don't walk around, and don't keep asking me questions, Chen Biao is patrolling today, if you accidentally provoke him, you will bear the consequences." ”
I said in my heart that there was a ghost market outside this door, and if I didn't let me speak after entering, wouldn't that be to suffocate me, so I asked before opening the door: "Who is Chen Biao?" Isn't it amazing? ”
"This ghost city belongs to his jurisdiction, don't you say it's powerful?"
Pushing the door in, the scene inside the door is not much different from the antique street on the ground, there are still two rows of people setting up stalls, and some few customers, but in this ghost market, in addition to ordinary humans, I also saw many animals, walking upright like humans, and talking to people.
This scared me a lot, and the whole person shrank behind Ma Laosan, and the group of vendors around me laughed when they saw my cowardice.
Ma Laosan comforted me and told me not to be nervous, after the animal has cultivated to the essence, it can walk upright and spit out human words, which is nothing surprising.
Follow Ma Laosan towards the ghost market, along the way, the things on the stalls opened my eyes, all kinds of golden talismans, strange kinds of flowers and herbs, old books with shabby covers, and even a clay pot sealed with a ghost, the clay pot is pasted with yellow paper, and the yellow paper marks the specific year, type, and price of the ghost.
The things that Ma Laosan wanted to buy were very common in the ghost market, so he randomly found a few vendors, compared the prices, chose one of them, and bought a sack.
Before leaving, Ma Laosan originally wanted to take me to Lao Li's booth and say hello to him by the way, but he remembered that today was Lao Li's day to rest, so he was ready to take me out of here.
Just as we were turning to leave, I stumbled upon a familiar figure in the crowd.
A white shirt, wearing a mask and a sunhat, and most importantly, the palm of this person's right hand was wrapped in a circle of gauze, and it was his right hand that was injured by the jade pendant when the man in white attacked me that day!
I hurriedly told Ma Laosan what I found, and after hearing this, Ma Laosan looked at the man in white, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he said in a low voice: "It's really a narrow road, little rabbit, let me catch you." ”