CHAPTER XXI

"Xuanzi, turn off the lights and go to bed." The old man gestured for me to look at the door, and the bald head floated over to turn off the lights.

There was no movement all night.

After a night of confrontation, the sky was just dawning, and I couldn't hold on to falling asleep until the end, and when I opened my eyes again, it was already noon.

The old man walked in with his meal. "Xuanzi, eat quickly, I'll follow me to find something later."

I glared at the glare of the sunlight and said, "What's that?" Must go at noon? Isn't it okay to be cool? ”

"Cooler? As long as you dare to go at night, I don't have anything to say. "I don't know what the hell the old man is up to.

At noon, his skin was hot, "Old man, who is the owner of the skull?" ”

"What do you kid ask him to do?"

"If I'm gone, I'll have to know who's going to do it."

The old man pointed to a cemetery in front of him. Go and pick up Wang Zaizhong's grave for me, and pry out the eight coffin nails for me. ”

I looked at the cemetery, and there was not even a hint of shade. "And what are you doing?"

"I'll watch you dig, in case the king is loyal to the corpse, I can still deal with it." It's obvious that I'm lazy, and I'm so arrogant.

Walking into the cemetery, fortunately it was noon, if I was killed at night, I didn't come, last time the old man asked me to dig the grave in the middle of the night, and the dead body dug up kept going home with me, no matter how I knocked on the door, the old man just wouldn't open the door. Laughed at the bald head.

"Wang Zaizhong, Wang Zaizhong, where are you? Master is waiting for you to meet. I hummed as I searched for Wang Jae-chung's tombstone.

After looking for a long time, I didn't see Wang Zaizhong's tomb. "Hey, old man, where is Wang Zaizhong?"

"I'm here."

, who pretends to be a ghost in broad daylight? "Who? Come out to Lao Tzu, I can't kill you. ”

"Gua Wazi, you are the third on the right, hurry up and dig it." When the old man saw me standing still in the grave, he urged.

I walked to the grave with trepidations, and in front of the tombstone, my hands folded. "Uncle, you have a lot of adults, it was not my intention to dig your grave, if you want to blame the old man over there."

Almost, excavation. Picking up a shovel is a shovel. Who dug this grave, this is also too deep, if it were not for the red cloth traction, I would have thought that there was no coffin inside.

Dig more than a meter. I finally saw the coffin, the best Nanmu, which is very rich and expensive in the countryside, and the funeral goods must be indispensable.

It took a lot of effort to clean up the perimeter of the coffin. Jumping out of the grave, I shouted in the direction of the old man, and before I could shout, the old man had already appeared in front of me.

"Hold your breath and start with the footpeg."

Hearing the old man's instructions, I put a cloth over my nose, took a crowbar, walked to the low end of the coffin, and knocked out two foot pegs.

"The dead are not to blame, reincarnation is hopeful." The old man took out a yellow talisman and pasted it on the tail of the official.

"Waist nails."

I took a step towards the coffin, my eyes fixed on the middle of the coffin. When nailing the middle of the coffin, you must not see the head and tail of the coffin, I don't know the reason, but it is expressly forbidden.

I hammered out one nail and sled out another nail from the end of the coffin to the other.

"Don't blame the dead, a rich life." The old man took out a white talisman and pasted it in the center of the two coffin nails.

"Nail the head."

I walked to the coffin with my eyes closed, felt the position of the head nail, and cocked one side of the head nail. He walked from the end of the coffin to the other side and lifted the nail on the other side. At the same time, the old man offered a red talisman that I had never seen before.

"The dead are not to blame, and the children and grandchildren are full."

Back on March Slope, I was lying on the table. "Old man, what does the red charm do?"

"Suppress the corpse brown." The old man looked at me with a dark smile.

I picked up a bowl of water. "You say there's a corpse in there? No wonder I went at noon. ”

"It's safe at noon." The old man's words are getting stranger and stranger, insurance at noon, will he go home with me at noon?

I was about to ask something, but was interrupted by the old man. "You'll know tomorrow, and we'll leave home early the day after tomorrow."

"Xuanzi, why aren't the coffin nails you dug up this time wooden?" The bald head asked me in his pocket.

I was shocked and asked, "Not wooden?" ”

"Yes! You take out a coffin nail and look at it, make sure it's not wooden. "The bald head is a ghost, and he is the most sensitive to coffin nails, and he said that if it is not wooden, it must not be wooden. What kind of medicine is sold in the old man's gourd?

"Xuanzi, these coffin nails seem to be very strange, I have never encountered such coffin nails, you are digging them."

I roughly said it, and the bald head couldn't think of what these coffin nails were? Anyway, the old man said that he would know tomorrow.

There is a bell on the March slope that rings four times. The first time at eight o'clock in the evening, the village was silent for a moment. The second time at ten o'clock, it indicates that the ghost can come out and move. At four o'clock for the third time, the ghost should disappear as soon as possible. At six o'clock in the fourth time, people can come out and move. Either side has two hours of fusion time. It is also common for people to see ghosts and ghosts to see people, and they only need to bow to each other.

I don't know who set this rule for people to coexist with ghosts. Even without that bell, the ghosts of March Slope would have obeyed. I heard that an expedition team came here ten years ago, and thought that it was nonsense to think that it was ghosts and gods, and that one of them had the audacity to go out in the middle of the night to release water, and when he returned, he went crazy. The ghost that frightened him was also frightened.

The stupid family found a lot of Taoist priests to come to March Slope to catch ghosts, in addition to cheating money, a little real talent and learning, see March Slope no matter what price to go, not Taoist incompetence, it is said that no matter which sect and which faction of the book is marked with March Slope, this is a place where no one can move.

The second tone has been ringing for five minutes. The village went silent. I blew out the candles and lay on my bed, listening to the sparse sound outside, and from time to time a passing ghost was talking.

Because of the moonlight, I could see the situation on the old man's side. But what surprised me was that the old man was on the other side with his mouth open and his eyes closed, snoring one after another, shaking the sky.

When it was almost midnight, the bald head pinched me, pointed out the window, scared me into a cold sweat, the shadow of a woman, her hair scattered and floating in the air, the long skirt mopping the floor, the old man had done his hands and feet on the window before, the female ghost could not see the situation inside, because it was a papier-mâché window, and only one ghost could be seen inside, which was better in comparison.