Chapter Twenty-Five: The Ghost Gate
I was so frightened by Jiang Li that I didn't react to what he told me for a short time, and it took me a few seconds before I calmed down, turned around and looked down at the ground, didn't dare to look up again, and said intermittently: "Master, where are we going?" ”
Jiang Li said: "Whoever takes away your father, we will be there." ”
After talking to me, he turned to look at my mother, and was silent for a few seconds before saying, "You get out of here first, with me, Chen Xiao and his father won't have an accident." ”
The mother hesitated for a while, stood up and left her father, she chose to believe Jiang Li, and after saying thank you to Jiang Li, she turned around and walked down the road of the chestnut tree.
Jiang Li then pointed to a few words, grandma and second grandfather, who had been unable to move before, were able to make moves now, Jiang Li didn't explain too much to them, stepped forward and picked up my father's corpse, and walked in the direction of home.
Although the second grandfather and grandmother couldn't move before, they also heard what Jiang Li said, Jiang Li said that he was going to save my father, but when he entered the house, the second grandfather said: "His father was taken away by the people below, and now the people have already arrived below, and people can't be resurrected after death, Master Jiang, can this still be saved?" ”
Jiang Li'en sighed: "As long as you want to do it, there is nothing you can't do." ”
Jiang Li put my father firmly on the chair, and then gave me a candle of incense to light around the house.
After that, he asked the second grandfather: "Is there a dragon bar in your village?" ”
The second grandfather has been in the countryside for so long, but he has never heard of what a dragon bar is, and as for me, I don't know.
"What is a dragon bar?"
Jiang Li said: "It is the pole that carries the coffin, the pole that carries the coffin will transport the dead up the mountain, it has the effect of connecting yin and yang, this pole is also called the dragon bar, blessed by the gods, after a while after Chen Xiao and I left, there will definitely be lonely souls and wild ghosts to come to the door to snatch Chen Xiao's father's body, when the time comes, you use the dragon bar to guard the door of the house, and those lonely souls and wild ghosts will not dare to come in." ”
Jiang Li explained in the shortest words what the dragon bar was.
The second grandfather also knew about it, and the second grandfather looked at his grandmother and said, "Isn't there a pole to carry the coffin in your house?" Still not there? ”
Grandma hurriedly said, "It's still there, it's still there." ”
After speaking, he went into the house and took out the inconspicuous pole that had been stored in the side house before, handed it to the second grandfather, and said: "This pole has not only carried the coffin, but also carried the sedan chair when the village was married before." ”
"That's better." Jiang Li nodded, then took the pole, placed it horizontally at the door, and turned around and said, "There are a lot of incense candles around the house, if the lonely ghosts and wild ghosts come, the incense candles can delay for a while, and this dragon bar can also block them for a while, in addition, I also prepared a lot of yin and yang money before, if these two things can't stop it, burn those yin and yang money, remember, don't burn it all at once." ”
The second grandfather nodded busily.
Grandma's face was heartbroken before, but now it turned full of hope, trembling and walking in front of Jiang Li, full of pleading and said to Jiang Li: "Master Jiang, I'm confused, I was ignorant before, you didn't take half of our family's things, and you did your best to help my family, I'm sorry for you." For Chen Xiao's sake, you must save my son, the loess has been buried in my eyebrows, if I die, Chen Xiao and his father will also die, Chen Xiao will have no one to take care of him in the future. ”
Jiang Li is not a stingy person, he has never bothered with my grandmother, he smiled slightly and said: "Since Chen Xiao calls me Master, I will definitely not let his father have an accident, you can wait at home with peace of mind." ”
The second grandfather came forward with worry and asked, "Master Jiang, everyone has already gone down, how can I save them?" ”
Jiang Li didn't answer the second grandfather's question directly, but took out a few flags from the baggage next to him, took out some red ropes, and began to lay them on the ground.
In the end, the shape of the pose was a gossip, Jiang Li pulled me to stand in the middle of this gossip, and said to me: "Taoism has a kind of spell called fugue, from which a kind of yin-walking technique is derived, I will extract your soul for a while, leaving only a shell here, because you have a ghost baby on your body, you can't be away from the soul for too long, so no matter what you see for a while, you have to listen to my arrangement, once your soul fluctuates too much, the ghost baby in your body will follow your mood changes, I can't take care of it then." ”
"Can I not go?" It's not that I'm scared, I'm just worried that if I follow Jiang away, I'll drag him back.
Jiang Li stretched out his hand and knocked on me: "You are connected to your father by blood, if you don't go, how can you find your father among so many ghosts?" ”
I nodded.
Jiang Li said with a serious face: "Okay, sit down with five hearts facing the sky, I want to start." ”
I sat down cross-legged.
Jiang Li moved his hands around and began to pinch the seal, and then pointed out: "Daomen Jiang Li, burn incense and worship the fight, Taiyin and the underworld, quickly appear light, respect my order, quickly open the ghost door, order!" ”
After reading it, it was lifted on my head, and I actually saw that I was gradually moving away from my body, and finally simply separated from my body, and then looked at my current condition, surprised, and before I could speak to Jiang Li, Jiang Li said first: "Follow me." ”
After speaking, Jiang Li also stepped forward and pulled me out of here.
When I went out, I looked back and saw my body sitting in the center of the gossip, Jiang Li's body standing majestically with his sword pointing at him.
Out of the house, Jiang Li took me directly to the land temple next to the house.
In the countryside, almost every household has its own land temple, dig a hole on the edge of the field, and then build a small shrine in the hole, which is dedicated to the land lord.
During the New Year's holidays, I also burn incense and paper for the land lord, so that the land lord can bless health and longevity, and the wind and rain will be smooth.
Standing in front of the Land Temple, Jiang Li said to me: "The land is actually the city god of the underworld, in charge of the life and death of the people in your area, your father's yang longevity is clearly not yet the soul of the people in the underworld, ordinary yin cha dare not do this, only the land can be opened, you can see the land for a while, you don't have to speak, and don't be afraid." ”
I took a breath, and Eun nodded, "Got it." ”
Jiang Li saw that I agreed, and then pulled me into the land temple.
It was dark for a few seconds before a little light gradually appeared, and when I looked forward, I saw that Jiang Li and I were in front of a bronze gate about dozens of meters high, and there were countless vicious dogs carved on this bronze gate, staring at the comers.
The bronze gate is engraved with three big characters 'Ghost Gate', on both sides of this gate, there is a couplet engraved, the upper link is 'life and death are helpless', the lower link is 'all evil in the world is not evil', in the rear of the Ghost Gate, more than a dozen people in black robes stand side by side, in their hands each bridge a half-person high vicious dog, barking at the people who come outside the ghost gate.
"Master, is this the Ghost Gate?" I asked.
"Well, let's go." Jiang Li grabbed me and stepped into the ghost gate.
The dozen or so yin people standing side by side at the Ghost Gate did not move, and let us in.
Behind the gate was a long passageway, filled with all sorts of people, wandering aimlessly, and we went in without attracting anyone's attention, and they did not bother to pay attention to us, each going about his own business.
As if I had discovered a new world, I was curious about this place, and I looked up and asked Jiang Li, "What are they doing?" ”
Jiang Li pointed to this road: "This is Huangquan Road, there are various reasons for the death of people in the yang world, some Yang Shou died unexpectedly before he arrived, such ghosts do not accept the underworld, and the souls who died in vain who entered the ghost gate will stay on this Huangquan Road, and then go to the City God Temple to judge the merits and demerits when Yang Shou arrives, and then reincarnate." However, many people know that their yang life has not arrived, and they will give birth to the heart of returning to the yang here, and want to run out of the ghost gate, and those vicious dogs and yin cha at the door are to prevent the ghosts of Huangquan Road from returning to the yang world, these people have their own thoughts, but most of them are thinking about how to escape back to the yang world. ”
I looked back at the Ghost Gate, but found that the side of the Ghost Gate Gate was engraved with different words.
"Yangguan Road." I read it out.
Jiang Lien said: "If you come in from the outside, it will be called Ghost Gate Pass, and this avenue will be called Huangquan Road." But go out from the inside, this place is also called Yangguan Road, originally there was a Yangguan Road in the underworld, which was to give those who died in vain a chance to return to Yang, but with the change of times, in order to maintain their authority to come and go, the underworld began to prevent the people who died in vain from returning to Yang, and sent these Yin and vicious dogs to guard, don't ask so much now, and tell you slowly in the future, go to the City God Temple to find your father first. ”
I looked at the vicious dogs and yin cha under the ghost gate, and I was a little worried: "There will definitely be more yin chasms in the City God Temple." ”
Jiang Li said: "As long as you want your father to live, no matter what the price is, I will definitely let him live." ”