When the dead woman looked up, I could see her face clearly by the candlelight. She was very old and wrinkled. But I couldn't tell how old she was. Maybe eighty. Maybe ninety, maybe more than a hundred.

Characters like this kind of evil sect are especially capable of living. Maybe she's been on earth for thousands of years.

I was stunned for a moment. He laughed dryly and said, "Please go home and offer it?" Do you think I have that guts? ”

The dead woman smiled and said, "Courage is all practiced. When I delivered my first baby, I was so scared that I was trembling when I saw the mother. What now? Hehe, when the mother saw me, her whole body trembled. ”

I thought to myself, "As soon as you show up, it means that these women are going to die." Can they not be afraid? ”

When she saw that I didn't speak, she persuaded me again, "There are many benefits to inviting Lord Yama back." We live in the world, and if we don't pay attention to it, we may make some small mistakes. In the future, when you come to the underworld, you will be punished. If you worship Lord Yama early. When the time comes, he will be light-haired. ”

I laughed dryly and said, "Does Lord Yama also accept bribes?" ”

The woman shook her head: "This is not a bribe. This is also accumulating virtue for oneself. ”

I asked, "Are you worshipping Lord Yama at home because you are worried about being punished when you die?" ”

The woman shook her head slightly. "That's not the main purpose. In the Netherworld, the Iron Pen Judge holds the entrances to the six reincarnations, and I am in charge of the exits of reincarnation. It can be said that the judge decides whether the imp can be reincarnated, and I decide whether the fetus can survive or not. If there is a little ghost who hides from the judge and sneaks into reincarnation, I can't take care of such a fetus, and if I do, Lord Yama will be unhappy. ”

I looked at her dumbfounded, thinking, "Is there such a theory in the world?" ”

I couldn't help but ask, "These words were passed down by your master?" Or have you seen it with your own eyes? Or did you guess it yourself? ”

The lady smiled and said, "This is what I thought of myself." And I've seen it with my own eyes. The fact is that not all fetuses should be born, otherwise, why are there so many dystocia? So before I deliver the baby, I want to ask Lord Yama. Let's see if this fetus can be picked up, and if Lord Yama agrees, I can go. ”

Speaking of which. She's already tied the paper figure. Then he held it in the palm of his hand and kept muttering in his mouth. She recited the sutra for a while, threw the paper figure into the brazier, and the flames immediately burned, and soon wrapped the paper figure. After a few seconds, the paper figure turns into paper ashes.

The lady nodded with satisfaction: "It seems that Lord Yama agreed." ”

I looked at her dumbfounded: "Is this considered an agreement?" Did you create this ritual? ”

The lady said, "This is what Lord Yama taught me, and I used to be the same as an ordinary midwife. I will go to whoever comes to me to deliver the baby, and the women who pass by my hand are both alive and dead. Later, I gradually thought that if we do this business, we must worship Lord Yama, and the truth I told you before was what I wanted to understand at that time. So I often went to the temple of Hades to burn paper. ”

"That's when I started to gossip about me. Say I'm a little ghost sent by Lord Yama. When I went to the Hades Temple to burn paper, I was reporting to the Lord of Hades. Since then, my business has plummeted, and no one dares to ask me to deliver babies again. ”

"Once, a family had a difficult birth, and it was impossible for adults and children to survive. I invited five or six midwives, but all of them were helpless. In the end, someone said, let's prepare for the future, this is Lord Yama wants to let the two of them go. Later, when the mother-in-law heard about it, she didn't know how to remember me. And she ran to my door and wept, and begged me to lift up my noble hand, and not to take her grandson away. If you have to take one, then exchange your daughter-in-law for your grandson. ”

I grinned and said, "I'm afraid you're going to be angry when you hear that, right?" ”

The lady nodded and said, "Yes, I was so angry. I thought to myself, I'm not a little ghost under the hands of Lord Yama. If so, I'll get this old woman away first. ”

She sighed: "But although this old woman is hateful, the child is innocent." I followed her anyway. When I got to the delivery room, I saw that the woman was no longer dead. In fact, my delivery skills are already higher than others, and if this family had come to me earlier, I would have been able to ensure the safety of their mother and child. It's a pity that the delay was too long. I tried a lot of hard work, but I didn't save the mother, but only saved the baby. ”

The woman got up from the futon, rubbed her knees, looked at the candle flame on the altar, and said, "I still remember that the woman was very scared. She grabbed my hand and said to me, I'm still young and I don't want to die. Can you let me live? My child is not sensible and does not know how to be afraid, but I am so scared that I am dying, can you save me? ”

The woman sighed: "But there was really nothing I could do about that day." I saw a pregnant woman die in front of me. Hey, when I went back that day, I had a bad night. ”

"The next day, I heard rumors in the streets. said that the family had a difficult birth, and the adults were fine, but the fetus was going to die. Finally, the mother-in-law fell on her knees and begged me to exchange my life for my life. So I killed the mother and saved the baby. As soon as this rumor came out, everyone believed that I was sent by Lord Yama. ”

When the dead woman said this, she slowly knelt down again, and while kowtowing to the idol of Lord Hades, she said, "I feel very wronged, so I went to the Temple of Hades to cry." That night, in a daze, I dreamed of Lord Hades. I dreamed that he told me about the six realms of reincarnation, exactly as I usually think. And taught me this set of paper-burning rituals, so that I can distinguish whether the fetus should be saved or not. ”

"From that time on, every time I went out, I would burn paper figurines. If the paper figure can be burned, I will save people, if it can't be burned, I will not care. ”

When she said this, she got up from the futon. He waved his hand to me and Xue Qian and said, "Let's go." ”

The three of us walked slowly down the street.

I asked suspiciously, "Why do all the pregnant women who pass through your hands end up dying?" ”

The dead woman laughed twice and said, "I burned paper for Lord Yama, and his old man asked me to keep it small." And the mother's parents-in-law also asked me to keep me young, what can I do? Actually, I would like to let their mother and son be safe, but every time they come to me when the matter is urgent, it is already too late for me to go, and I can only die. "Brother Yu of Taishi.

I blurted out, "Then why don't you listen to what the mother has to say?" Only listen to your parents-in-law? ”

The midwife sighed and said, "To be honest, the vast majority of mothers still want to live. After all, the little fetus doesn't know anything, so what can it do when it dies? Adults are different, they see the world of flowers, and they are very afraid of death. But after thinking about it, I still didn't protect the adult. After all, if you marry into such a family, you will be angry when you live, so it is better to be reincarnated. ”

I smiled bitterly in my heart: "This old woman's theory is very strange. ”

I sighed and thought to myself, "This old woman's so-called dream of Lord Yama is probably because she is tired and confused, so she thinks about it day and dreams at night." She used her imaginary principles to save people, but it was a bit too hasty. ”

I tried to persuade the dead woman to pick up the dead woman, but I couldn't find fault with her, so I had to give up.

The midwife asked lightly, "What's going on with today's mother?" Dystocia? ”

I scratched my head and said, "Then I don't know, I keep crying out that it hurts." Add in the time we came to you, probably more than an hour. ”

The woman nodded, with a happy look on her face: "An hour? Then I might be able to save her. Hey, this rumor is finally going to be broken, but it's a pity that the old guys who spread the rumor to me back then are all dead. ”

When I heard this, I couldn't hold back any longer, and asked cautiously, "Old lady, are you old this year?" ”

The lady smiled at me and said, "Don't worry, young man, I'm not some old monster who doesn't die. I'm not yet 90 years old this year. ”

I hurriedly smiled and said, "Look at your bones, it won't be a problem to live another seventy or eighty years." ”

The woman smiled, "That's really a monster." ”