Chapter 41: A Lonely Soul in the Graveyard
In the dead of night, the bull head and horse face left the underworld and came to the world, the junction of the underworld and the world, the wind was gusting, and there was no trace of any living creatures on the street. The two of them walked down the street, looking around, it was pitch black. The bull head looked ahead and said, "Where should we go first?" ”
Ma Mian turned his head to look at him, a little confused in his heart, and then said, "I don't know either!" Hades only said that let's come to the world to see if there are any visions, which makes me wait and wait. ”
The bull head sighed and said, "At present, this is no different from before, it is pitch black and lifeless!" ”
Ma Mian also sighed and said, "Yes! I heard that among the people who wanted to hook the soul of black and white impermanence at that time, there was a home named Xu Yuling who was on the CD, why don't we go to the CD to have a look? It's close to here anyway. ”
Niu Tou nodded and said, "It's okay, by the way, let's see if the little girl's skin is on the CD!" I'd like to see what kind of person she is, how she can make the book of life and death mess! ”
Before he could finish speaking, the two of them stretched out their hands at the same time, made a seal, and both disappeared in place. After a while, the two came to Chunxi Road, it was already past one o'clock in the morning, pedestrians on the road could be seen everywhere, the roadside shopping malls had all closed, only the restaurants in the night market were still open, and the guests in the store were talking and laughing and eating snacks and drinking wine, so lively.
The two of them walked slowly on the road, their bodies blurred, and they were not visible to pedestrians on the road. The bull head looked at such a scene, a little surprised, and said with some envy in his eyes: "I didn't expect this road to be so lively, there is no movement in this world at all!" Life in the world is really much better than that of the underworld, how long have we not enjoyed such a nightlife? ”
Ma Mian glared at him and said: "No matter how good life is, it's just a few decades, their whole lives are written in the book of life and death, and birth, old age, sickness and death are in the hands of others, what is there to envy?" ”
Listening to Ma Mian's words, Niu Tou turned his head to look at him, and said with some surprise in his eyes: "Ma Mian!" I didn't expect you to have this awareness! It's growing up fast! ”
Ma Mian smiled and said, "If you are ugly, you have to read more books, you know!" The only way left for the two of us now is to improve the connotation! ”
Niu Tou said with some displeasure on his face: "Hmph! I'm ugly, but I'm gentle, okay! ”
Ma Mian laughed, and then said, "Gentle? You're not gentle at all when you hook your soul! ”
Unconsciously, the two came to the door of Xu Zhixin's house, the gate was closed, and the two walked through the gate and came to the courtyard. The door of the building on the right was closed, and it was pitch black. The two walked through the door and into the room towards the bedroom. The bedroom was very clean, the quilt on the bed was neatly folded, and Niu Tou was surprised: "It seems that you are not at home?" ”
Ma Mian nodded and said, "Go to another room and have a look!" ”
The two of them went through all the rooms in the building and found that no one was at home. The bull head was even more surprised, and said with a lost face: "No one is at home, look at me and run for nothing!" ”
Ma Mian looked at the bull head, feeling a little lost in his heart, and then said: "I have found a place to stay tonight, and I will go to Nanjing tomorrow night!" Look at Zhang Ju if he's not at home! ”
Niu Tou said with a melancholy face: "That's all, this errand is really boring, or it's interesting!" ”
The two then disappeared and walked towards the cemetery outside the city. They came to the cemetery, and it was very quiet, and as far as the eye could see, it was full of tombstones, and there was no end in sight. It is estimated that nearly two hundred tombstones are standing in each row, and dozens of them are indispensable in each row, Ma Mian looked at so many graves, and sighed: "Now there are billions of living people in this world, and in the past year, the ghosts have become more and more busy, and according to this momentum, it is estimated that more ghosts will be added." ”
The bull head chimed in: "Yes! Now that mortals are dying several times faster than before, the environment in the world is getting worse, and the life span of mortals is getting shorter and shorter, I'm really afraid that the underworld can't be busy! ”
Suddenly, a ghost figure emerged from the tombstone directly in front of them, and I saw that his body was shriveled up, the flesh on his face was sunken, and he could not see his original appearance, his eyes were wide open, and he looked like he was about to fall out, and he had two deep holes in his neck.
Ma Mian pointed to the ghost and said to the bull head: "Niu head, look ahead, it looks like a soul who died unjustly!" ”
Seeing this, the bull head said to him, "Let's go over and have a look!" ”
The two of them came to the spirit in an instant, made a seal, and suddenly materialized their bodies, and the soul was startled when it saw the two people who suddenly appeared, and disappeared into the tombstone in an instant.
The two of them stared at the tombstone, which was pasted with a black-and-white photograph of a man with short hair, a handsome young face, an innocent smile, and squinted eyes. In the middle of the tombstone is inscribed: The tomb of Ho Ren Kan, and on the far right is engraved a line of small letters: Died on April 1, 2011 AD.
The horse faced the tombstone and whispered, "He Renkan! The two of us are the bulls and horses of the underworld, why don't you go to the underworld to be reincarnated? ”
He heard the sound of the horse's face, slowly walked out of the tombstone, looked up at them, and said very aggrievedly: "The underworld doesn't accept me!" ”
The bull head frowned, and said with some strangeness in his eyes: "Why don't you accept you?" ”
He Renkan said slowly: "At that time, the ghosts of the underworld came to my house, brought my soul to the underworld, and lined up in front of the gate of the underworld to check. It was estimated that a number of people died that night, and I waited in line there for a long time before I came to check on me. The person in charge there touched my head with his hand, and then said to the ghost next to me: His soul is very strange, he can't be reincarnated, send him out of the underworld! Then he threw me out and came out in the middle of the night every day to breathe and look at this cemetery! ”
Ma Mian was suspicious in his heart, and said with some surprise on his face: "There are such things, how did you die?" ”
He remembered the scene of that night, his body was shaking, and then he began to remember that it was the night before April Fool's Day, after two o'clock in the evening, and two of his friends helped him to staggered out of a bar called Where to Return Home.
He shook his head and said to the two of them: "You continue to play, I can't do it, I'll go home first!" ”
One of them said: "We don't worry about you going back, let's send you back!" ”
He shook his head and said, "No! I'll just take a taxi and go back! ”
At this time, a taxi happened to come up, they waved, and the taxi stopped. One of them opened the back door of the taxi, and the other helped him into the car. He propped up the chair in front of him with both hands, turned his head to the two people outside the window and said, "Go back, I'm fine!" ”
The two nodded, didn't say much, closed the door and walked towards the bar. He sat in the car groggily, and after I don't know how long, the driver said to him, "Young man! Your house has arrived! ”
He opened the window, looked at the familiar road and the familiar house outside, and then said, "Master, how much?" ”
The driver turned to look at him and said with a strange smile: "No money!" ”
He shook his head and smiled, "Don't want money? I've drunk too much and my ears are not bright? ”
The driver smiled and said, "You heard it right!" I really don't want money! ”
He paused for a moment and said, "Is there such a good thing to fight?" I've got a good start today! "Then I want to open the door and get out of the car.
The driver nodded and said, "You met me, you are indeed lucky!" ”
He opened the door for a long time, but did not open it, and said a little strangely in his heart: "Master, why can't you open the door of this car?" ”
The driver suddenly appeared in the seat to his left, he was startled, and quickly rubbed his eyes, the driver was indeed sitting next to him. There was some uneasiness in his eyes and he said, "How did you get here?" Wasn't it just in front? ”
The driver turned his head to look at him, looked at him for a few seconds, and said, "Do you know why you don't want money?" ”
He shook his head, the uneasiness in his eyes growing stronger and stronger, and said, "I don't know! Master, you open the door, I want to go home! ”
The driver's face changed suddenly, he opened his big mouth, and two long tiger teeth showed out: "Because I want your life!" I'll send you back to my hometown right away! ”
His eyes were full of horror, he kept shouting for help, his hands kept pulling the car door, and suddenly the driver held his head with his right hand, pressed his shoulder with his left hand, and stretched out his big mouth to his neck, and his long tiger teeth sank into his body.
He came back to his senses, looked at the bull head and horse face in front of him and said, "That's it! ”
The bull head looked at the bloody hole in his neck and wondered, "Those two holes in your neck were bitten by him?" ”
He nodded, then knelt on the ground, and said with a cry in his voice: "Please, the two gods, help me plead with the king of Hades, let me go to the underworld to reincarnate!" I'm going crazy to stay in this cemetery every day, I don't want to be a ghost! ”
The two of them looked at him, full of doubts in their hearts, and some sympathy in their eyes, Ma Mian said: "When we return to the underworld, we will definitely tell the king of Hades about this situation, and you will follow us in the future, and take you back to the underworld in a few days!" ”
Hearing this, he felt hope in his heart, and said in his heart: "My death is unknown, I don't even know who the enemy is, I don't have a chance to take revenge, what did I do in my last life?" Heaven wants to do this to me? ”
Then he said to them: "Thank you two great gods, your great kindness, I can only repay it in the next life!" ”
Niu Tou bent down and stretched out his hand to help him up, and then said with some embarrassment: "Can I borrow it from your house tonight?" The two of us aren't going back to the underworld tonight! ”
He looked at them and said with some surprise in his heart: "It turns out that the people of the underworld don't go back, and they can still do this, it's amazing!" ”
He said, "Yes! You are my great benefactors! Don't be afraid of the small place! ”
Then the three of them disappeared to the ground and entered He Renkan's tomb, which was indeed very small, with an urn inside, but none of them took up space, as long as they could avoid the daylight and spend the daytime tomorrow. In this way, the head of the ox lies in the middle, with the horse face on the left and He Renkan on the right.
At eight o'clock in the evening of the next day, after left, the Zhangjia Building on Zhangjia Street in Nanjing was brightly lit. I saw a person pacing back and forth in the hall, his temples were gray, his hair was graying, his brows were tightly locked, and his face was eager and worried. There were two rows of chairs on either side of the hall, and on the chair to his right, a man was seated. The man also had white temples, a little wrinkles on his face, looked out with some uneasiness in his eyes, and held a cup of tea in his hand, he was Zhang Bao, the contemporary patriarch of the Zhang family.
Zhang Bao suddenly looked at Zhang Gon and comforted: "Big brother! It's useless to be anxious now, Ju'er Jiren has his own natural appearance! ”
Zhang Gon stopped on his feet, turned his head to look at him, and said with worry in his tone: "Second brother! Can you not be in a hurry? I made a phone call for several days in a row, but I didn't hear from him at all! ”
Zhang Bao put the teacup in his hand on the table next to him, stood up from the chair, walked up to Zhang Gon, patted him on the shoulder, and said with concern in his eyes: "Big brother! Don't worry! Let Jue'er go to Xi'an tomorrow to see if there are any clues! ”
Zhang Gon nodded, still uneasy in his eyes: "This can only be the case!" But it's not appropriate for Jue'er to go alone, right? ”
Zhang Bao looked at the courtyard outside the hall, thinking about other things in his heart, and said casually: "Now he can only go alone, we can't get out at all, and now the enemy is dark and I am clear, and our generation can't leave the Zhang family building at all." ”
Zhang Gon looked at him, and said helplessly in his eyes: "Yes! It's about to be thirty years, and the Zhang family is about to usher in a hard battle! ”
Time passed slowly, and Niu Tou Ma Mian took He Renkan to the door of the Zhangjia Building on Zhangjia Street in Nanjing. The building is surrounded by a red fence covered with black tiles. In front of them were two red gates, two men tall, closed, and above them there was an eave, on either side of which hung two lanterns, on which were depicted a man with a bow in his left hand.
Ma Mian looked up at the building in front of him, it was estimated that it was seven or eight stories high, each floor was lit up, and on the outermost four corners of each floor, there was a copper bell hanging, which was an ancient building. Judging from the material, it should be all wood, and I don't know how many years it has been standing here.
He sighed and said, "This building is a bit dazzling here, especially at night!" ”
The two people beside him nodded, and then the bull head spoke: "Go!" Let's go in and find out! ”
The three of them slowly walked through the wall to the left of the gate, and as soon as the bull's feet stepped into the floor inside the wall, a red light shot at him from the brass bell on the top. Seeing this, he casually pulled He Renkan on the right to his side, and the red light hit him, and he fell to the ground from the wall. He got up from his body halfway up, and suddenly a voice came from the hall: "Who?" ”
Before the words fell, Zhang Bao appeared beside him, and before Zhang Bao was stable, he stretched out his right hand and grabbed his shoulder. In the blink of an eye, the hand crossed his left shoulder and passed through his neck, and he pounced.
Zhang Bao withdrew his right hand, and said with some surprise in his eyes: "You are not human?" What is it? ”
He Renkan's face was expressionless, and he was a little surprised in his heart: "He can actually see me!" ”
Then he spoke: "I'm a lonely ghost who doesn't even dare to ask for the underworld! ”
Zhang Bao looked at him, his face was a little angry, and he said with some murderous anger between his eyebrows: "You shouldn't come here!" Since you are here, no matter what you are, you have to pay the corresponding price! ”
As soon as the words fell, he stretched out his hands into palms, and at the same time, three figures flew out of his body and instantly landed around He Renkan. Then he and the three figures stepped forward at the same time, and eight red palm prints flew towards He Renkan from four directions, extremely fast, and they were in front of him in an instant.