Chapter 16 The Hateful Soul Messenger

The name of the soul messenger is also mentioned in my grandmother's ghost story, and it is said that it is specially for Yin Si to arrest some guys who have reached the end of their yang life, but rely on family heirloom feng shui treasures, or strange people who do not die and refuse to return to the underworld.

I remember that my grandmother once said that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a militia group practice called Cao Yaoxian in Luozhong, and his father was a well-known good man in Luozhong, helping the weak and helping the poor, and preaching to monks, but also quite famous. It's just that the child's breath is not prosperous, and it was only when the middle-aged wife gave birth to this Cao Tuanlian, so she naturally liked it very much.

But this old man is also a fateful person, he got smallpox before he was five years old, and at that time, whether he could live with smallpox only depended on creation. It is said that Cao Shanren saw that his son's smallpox did not have acne for several days, and no doctor dared to come to give medicine. At the moment, he was in a hurry to burn incense and worship the Buddha, he was already middle-aged, and he gradually had a hidden illness in his body, since the birth of his son, although he accepted a few concubines, but there was no movement. Seven or eight times out of ten, this is the only seedling, how can you not be anxious.

In order to save his son's life, he vowed to visit all the temples in Luozhong. Only when he heard that there was a temple somewhere, he would definitely go to worship the Buddha and burn incense. One day, I arrived at a nunnery in the east of the city. Cao Shanren saw that there was a temple, but he was stopped by a mute nun in her teens just when she walked to the door, and the girl was compared for a long time, and he realized that men were not allowed to enter the nunnery.

This Cao Shanren burns incense and worships the Buddha all day long, and knows a lot about the rules of Buddhism, and has also heard that there are meat and vegetarian in the Buddhist nunnery, and both men and women can enter the nunnery, although there are female nuns inside, but there are also many scum mixed in it, and the Su Nunnery is a strict rule, and men are never allowed to enter, and in this kind of nunnery, there are also many Buddhist virtues stationed in Xi. Seeing that the mute girl was not allowed to enter, he did not complain, and immediately put down the offering table gifts outside the nunnery, intending to burn incense and make a wish before leaving.

He burned incense and kowtowed on the side, and the wish was just halfway through, but he listened to the nunnery: "Good, good!" I don't want to be the master of Cao Shi, but the old nun is a little sluggish. Before the words fell, an old nun came out of the nunnery, and Cao Shanren saw that her face was full of wrinkles, her eyebrows were white, and she didn't know how old she was, but she just looked a little kind.

The old nun smiled slightly, and beckoned the little mute nun: "Master Cao, do you still remember this female doll?" When he shook his head again and again, he told him what had happened in the past. However, it turned out that the imperial examination at the end of the Qing Dynasty had not been canceled, and the young Cao Shanren passed by here when he participated in the township examination, and found an abandoned baby at the intersection not far from the nunnery.

He was already kind-hearted, and he heard that this child was abandoned by his father and mother because he was born without a tongue and was disabled. At that time, I was moved by compassion. It's just that he wants to go to the scientific examination, and he can't afford it, so he sent the girl to the nunnery, and before leaving, he left enough silver taels for the girl to live for a lifetime. And at that time, he was received by the abbot of the nunnery, who was this old nun.

If it's just like this, it's okay, it just so happened that there was a famine that year, and the whole Luozhong was starving, and the nuns of a temple all relied on these silver to survive, and the old nun said and finally sighed: "Speaking of which, I owe Mr. a big favor in this nunnery." After listening to what the old abbot said, Cao Shanren remembered what happened back then, and then looked at the appearance of the old nun, but he was a little surprised, when he saw the abbot, he was already like this, and now it has been almost 20 years, but the old nun's is the same as back then.

At that time, people were already superstitious, and when they saw that the abbot's face had not changed for twenty years, they felt that this old nun was not a mortal, and Cao Shanren immediately wanted to ask her to help save his son. Before he could speak, he heard the old nun say, "With this kindness alone, the son-in-law of the husband should also live a long life, not to mention that you have done good deeds and accumulated virtues over the years, and you should not have such evil rewards." And just go back, there will be acne tonight, otherwise I will take my sister-in-law from a temple to reason with the Buddha of the West Heaven! ”

He was superstitious, and felt that the old nun was not like a mortal, so he really went home and guarded his son's door, but he didn't see the acne until the son, and saw that his son's life was gone, and he was crying sadly, and suddenly shouted, the young master had acne, pox!

Cao Shanren hurriedly stepped forward to take a look, and sure enough, his son was covered in blisters, so he let go of his heart, looked at the time, and looked at the time. But it was a quarter of an hour later than the old nun had said, and even so, he felt that the abbot was doing something extraordinary. Make up your mind to wait for your son's illness to get better, and personally come to thank him.

Although smallpox is ruthless, as long as there is a pox, it is easy to treat it tightly, and I asked a few doctors to prescribe medicine, and within a few days, my son's illness was cured. Even if he brought the whole family, young and old, prepared all kinds of gifts, and personally went to the nunnery to thank him. When I arrived at the place, I found that there was no one in the temple.

When he inquired about the whereabouts of the old nun, he learned at a nearby monastery that on the day his son had a pox, all the nuns in the nunnery, including the mute little girl, were facing the west and smiling. Cao Shanren was taken aback when he heard this, and then he knew that the old nun was right, but his son was saved by the nun in this hospital.

The abbot of the nearby monastery, Master Fu, took another letter to Cao Shanren, saying that it was found by the old nun after she sat down, but it was written to him. opened the letter at the moment to watch, but it was the old nun who told him that after the child recovered, he could be named Yaoxian, and he would live a long life, but he should not enter the pharmacy for the rest of his life, let alone use swords and soldiers, etc.

Cao Shanren was grateful for the kindness of the old nun, and immediately changed his son's name to Yaoxian, which was later the Cao Tuanlian, and since then, he has no illness or disaster, and he is naturally stronger, and likes to dance with knives and sticks. However, when Cao Shanren was alive, someone was in charge, but he never really used knives and guns with anyone. When he was thirty years old, there was a long hair in the south, and it happened that Cao Shanren had passed away, and this Cao Yao had no restraints and wanted to fight for wealth in the troubled times. He held a group exercise in his hometown.

In the second year, the Twist Army hit Luozhong, and this Cao Tuanlian saw that the opportunity came, and he was unwilling to let go, so he immediately rushed to Luozhong with his subordinates to help the prefect defend the city, and even the family moved into Luozhong City. It was also his good luck, the Twist Army attacked for a few days, saw that the terrain in Luozhong was dangerous, so he abandoned this place, and went to the north again, this Cao Tuanlian because he killed a lot of Twist Army when defending the city, won the appreciation of the prefect, and was promoted to the general regimental training. It's just that within a few days, a tumor grew on his back.

Originally, I didn't care, who knew that the bigger and bigger, and the severe pain was unbearable, I invited a few doctors and didn't look good, then I remembered what my father said back then, knowing that it was the retribution caused by his unauthorized use of swords, so he went around asking God to worship Buddha, and happened to hear that the city god temple in Luozhong was the most effective, so he went there to incense and make a wish. When I came back, I passed by a pharmacy and unexpectedly found that the appearance of the doctor sitting in the shop was exactly the same as the book growing next to the city god.

Thinking that this city god is in charge of the life and death of the people, the characters around him will definitely be able to come back to life, but because he was afraid that the old nun said that he could not enter the pharmacy, he went home immediately and ordered his subordinates to invite the gentleman to his home for treatment.

Soon, the gentleman of the pharmacy was invited to Cao's house, the doctor was also happy, and immediately prescribed a prescription, then Shi Shiran left, not even a while for a while, Cao Yao first took the prescription like a treasure, and immediately sent someone to grab the medicine and drink it, and as a result, he returned to the west in the evening. When the family saw such a situation, how could they be kind, so even if Mrs. Cao took the family slaves to the pharmacy, she checked but there was no such person.

Fu called the servant who followed the master to interrogate carefully, and after learning the reason, he chased to the City God Temple, pointed to the City God Old Man and the scholar statue beside him and scolded, the City God Temple already had a temple blessing, seeing that she was scolding unbearable, she immediately asked the reason, listened to the cause and effect, and immediately said: "This is Cao Tuan's practice should return to the west, but what is the matter with the City God!" "It turns out that the scholar next to Chenghuang is the soul envoy......

When Cao Yaoxian was five years old, he was destined to die, but the nuns of that temple repaid his kindness and promised him a long life of 100 years, with the protection of the Buddha, the ghosts and other creatures in the underworld could not catch him, and the only thing that could catch him was the soul messenger who walked between life and death.

And the soul messenger in Luozhong is Lang Zhong in the medicine shop. When he was in the Yang world, he was arrested in the underworld because he prescribed the wrong medicine, and was later accepted by the city god as a soul envoy, walking in the two worlds of yin and yang, specifically to detain a living person like Cao Yaoxian who was changed his life, as long as he took the medicine he prescribed, no one could survive the next day.

I remember that my grandmother also said that there is still a habit in the pharmacy called "Gongxingda" that there will be an empty table and chair without a doctor in the lobby, which is prepared for this soul messenger.

In the past, when my grandmother told this story, Ren Song was very young and had already forgotten a little, but at this time, when I heard Judge Chen say that he wanted him to be a soul envoy, I remembered it again and couldn't help but hesitate.

Guylo is even more taboo against this soul envoy than broom star.

The broom star is just unlucky, and this soul messenger is a character who really stare at whoever is holding his leg and who is looking at whom. I remember when I was a child, there was a girl named Melon Girl in the big yard of Ren Song's family, her mother died as soon as she was born, and when she was ten years old, the family suffered a fire again, and only she and her father escaped in the family, and the two fathers and daughters moved to the compound, and not long after, her father died in an accident at work.

Since then, the girl has become an orphan completely, and Director Chen, who was originally the director of the neighborhood committee, saw that the child was lonely, so he wanted to take her to his own home to take care of her. As a result, before anyone could be brought in, that Aunt Chen had a heart attack and passed away. Since then, no one in the compound dared to look at the girl directly, and many people said that the girl was the messenger of the soul.

Ren Song remembered passing by her door when he was four years old, but he was rushed out of the gate by the melon woman, snatched the walnut cake that his grandmother bought for him, and ran to complain to his grandmother in tears, but his grandmother, who had always indulged him, warned sharply: "If you see her in the future, run away, that is the soul hook of the city god, and provoke her to break your legs!" "He was so scared that he didn't dare to cry. Since then, he has not dared to pass through the girl's door. Within two years, the girl was gone.

The melon woman just had a bad fate, and she had the false name of "soul seducer", and she had already provoked the disgust of her neighbors, and the sixth street was uneasy.

If he answers the Judge Chen, he will really be true and deserve to become that kind of character. That consequence...... It's really a bit serious......

Thinking of this, Ren Song asked a little unnaturally: "That judge's sister, is there any other way......

The beautiful judge in a wedding dress didn't look at him, and sneered: "I said it immediately, I can't help you if you don't do it." After that, he didn't bother anymore, but walked forward silently.

When he walked to the dilapidated family building, Judge Chen ordered Li Hu Ergui to put Ren Song down, but he stood in place and recited the incantation, what is dead, alive, heavy, light, and the babbling just doesn't stop, Ren Songjue's mantra is so familiar, but he can't remember where he heard it......

Judge Chen recited the incantation several times, but there was still no movement, and he frowned: "What the hell is this old woman doing, in the past, she came with one move, why didn't she react today?" ”

Just as they were puzzled, a black donkey cart came out from behind the family courtyard and drove straight towards them, and the beautiful judge saw that her face sank and said, "This is ...... But it's troublesome. ”

As soon as she finished speaking, the donkey cart had already driven in front of everyone, and Ren Song also recognized it at this time, isn't this the ghost chariot on Huangquan Road, how did you get here? Just as he was thinking about it, he saw the back door of the car being pushed open, and two ghosts walked out with an old lady on their feet. This coward's eyes are sharp, and he can recognize it at a glance, the old woman in the middle is the old liar of Aunt Jin's grandmother, although she hasn't seen her for many years, she still recognizes her facial features, but she is much older.

Being held by two ghosts, the old woman looked a little nervous, and shouted in panic: "Judge Chen, it's not that I don't obey orders, it's just that the limit has come, and I can't get away by these two errand officials, you ...... You ......"

She rambled on and on, but when she saw the beautiful jade hand on the other side, she was suddenly silent and bowed her head silently. Judge Chen glanced left and right at the two ghosts beside her, and asked indifferently, "Which side is the ghost?" Whom was he sent? This old woman is eighty-four years and seven months old, so there should be three months left, right? Why did you come so early? ”

Originally, according to the rules of the underworld, the life and death information of this mortal was only qualified to be known by the real Yin officials. Although the two ghosts heard the old woman call her to judge, and saw that she was doing this, they originally believed it, but this wedding dress was really a little weird, and the two of them stayed in place for a while, and they didn't know whether to answer or not.

Judge Chen saw the scruples in their hearts at a glance, and when his right hand was raised, a black laptop appeared in his hand, and the two ghosts recognized it at a glance that it was the book of life and death, and they didn't dare to hesitate at the moment, and the slightly chubby ghost on the left clenched his fists and said: "Judge, we are the ghost servants of the God's Temple in Tianshui City, Gansu, and we were sent by Judge Zhao to come to Luozhong to collect her back, but why it was three months earlier, we really don't know." ”

"It's out of town again!" Hearing this, before Chen Juan and Zhao Jie could speak, Li Hu and the two ghosts suddenly jumped up......