Chapter 37 Bull Head and Horse Face
I saw that the two people were burly, full of ** feet tall, one person's head was like a bull's head, two feet of cow hooves, strong and strong, holding a steel hairpin. The other was a horse-headed man, with chains and shackles in his hands. I was shocked at the moment,, isn't this the bull's head and horse noodles? It seems that Yin Si sent them to detain our souls.
Legend has it that Niu Tou Ma Mian was originally in charge of real power in the underworld, but why did he only serve as a catcher under the king of Hades? Speaking of which, there is also an interesting story. (This story may have been heard by everyone, it is a household name, and everyone can skip it if they have heard it.) )
A long, long time ago, there was a member surnamed Ma in Fengdu City, who was a giant with both wealth and power in the city. It is said that he should be satisfied, but there is one thing that is always in his mind, because he is sixty years old, and he has married eleven "partial houses", and there is only one single child. No matter how much you ask God to make a wish, you can't get it. Needless to say, Ma Yuanwai regarded his only son Ma Yichun as a pearl in his palm. But he was very worried that if something unfortunate happened, not only would the Ma family's incense be broken. And there is no successor to the Wanguan family business. For this reason, he was sorrowful day and night, and he was at a loss for what to do.
Which material leaked the house and encountered overnight rain. One day, the horseman had breakfast outside, and was ready to go out to prepare wine and food, and to make a wedding wine for his son who will turn 18 tomorrow. Coincidentally, at this moment, a Mr. Bazi passed by the door, and his mouth was full of words: "Fortune teller, fortune teller!" ”
When the horsemen heard the shouting, they were overjoyed, and they forgot all about going out. So he took the long shirt in his hand, walked down the steps quickly, and respectfully invited Mr. Bazi to come into the house and sit, and after the tea, the horse clerk said sincerely: "Sir, please tell my child's fortune, okay?" ”
Mr. Bazi nodded and said, "Yes, yes." ”
Ma Yuanwai immediately reported the birth time to his son. Mr. Bazi counted on his fingers, couldn't help but be shocked, and blurted out: "Oops, it's not good! ”
The horse crew was taken aback, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat: "What? ”
"It's inconvenient for the villain to talk about it." Mr. Bazi shook his head and sighed.
The horseman became more and more flustered in his heart, but in order to find out in a hurry, he begged: "Please don't worry, sir, and say that you can't take precautions." ”
Mr. Bazi hesitated for a moment and said, "Your young master Yilu is good, but it's a pity that Yangshou is too short, too short!" ”
"How much?"
"Eighteen."
The horseman said "Mom", fainted to the ground, and woke up after a long time, his face was as pale as dirt. Unexpectedly, tomorrow's eighteenth birthday would become the end of his life. Thinking of this, it was a heart-rending cry. After a long while, he sobbed and asked, "Sir, sir, please think of all means to save my poor son!" ”
Mr. Bazi thought for a while and said: "How can mortals have a way, there is only one, I don't know if the staff is reluctant to break the bank?" ”
When Ma Yuanwai heard that there was still a way to think about it, his heart naturally became much calmer, and he hurriedly said: "As long as I can save my son, even if the family is bankrupt, I will not hesitate to do it!" ”
Only then did Mr. Bazi tell him: In the middle of the night tomorrow night, you will make a table of the most sumptuous wine and food, put it in a food box, bring it to the twelve steps in front of the "Ghost Gate Pass", and give the wine and food to the two people who play chess. However, you have to ask them three times in a row, be patient, and don't be impatient. The horses and horses are remembered one by one.
The next day, when he arrived at the designated place, he saw two people concentrating on playing chess there. These two are none other than Niu Tou and Ma Mian.
The horsemen didn't dare to alarm them, so they had to kneel quietly to the side, put the food box on their heads and watch silently. When the two of them finished playing a game of chess, he cautiously asked, "Two gods, please eat and play again!" ”
The two of them seemed to be listening, and without answering, they played a second game of chess.
The horse waits so until the end of the second game, but there is still no movement. He was a little anxious, but he didn't dare to offend, so he had to kneel there reverently and wait. After a while, Niu Tou suddenly put the chess pieces down: "Brother Ma, let's go, the time has come." Ma Mian also hurriedly put down the chess pieces, put away the chessboard, and prepared to go down the mountain.
At this moment, the horseman was panicked, worried that he would miss the opportunity and miss a major event, so he hurriedly raised his voice and shouted: "Two gods, please eat and then leave!" The bull looked back and asked, "Who are you?" ”
Seeing that the time had come, the horseman hurriedly said: "The two gods are too hard, I think that at this time the belly is already hungry, the villain has prepared a little vegetarian wine and simple food, please satisfy the hunger and quench your thirst!" ”
The bull head and the horse couldn't help but salivate when they saw this person's sincerity, and saw that the delicacies in the box were so rich. Ma Mian whispered to Niu Tou: "Brother Niu, we haven't eaten yet, so let's have a full meal." It's hard to have a heart for this person, what do you think? The bull head also had this intention for a long time, but it was inconvenient to say it, so he nodded and said, "It's not too late to eat and go down the mountain." After that, like the wind sweeping the leaves, he ate the food and was about to leave, when he saw that the person who delivered the food was still kneeling on the ground, so he asked, "You must have something to ask for for me?" ”
The horseman hurriedly kowtowed and said, "The villain is in trouble, ask the two gods for help." As he spoke, he burned a string of money papers.
The bull head and the horse face couldn't help it, so he had to say, "What's the matter with you, tell me quickly!" I've got some important things to do. ”
"Two gods, I have only one life, Yang Shou is about to end, ask the two gods to raise their noble hands."
"What's your name?"
"Ma Yichun."
Niu Tou flipped through the "Soul Hooking Order" given to him by Judge Cui, and said in shock: "Brother Ma, the two of us are going to arrest no one else, it is his son, but the time has not yet come, I didn't expect this."
The horse crew kowtowed repeatedly: "If the two gods can prolong his yang life, the villain will be grateful, and he will be grateful!" The bull head said: "The laws of Yin Cao are strict, and it is not easy to do!" ”
The horse member was secretly anxious, and with an idea, he turned to the horse and said, "I have a brother surnamed Ma who is also in charge of the Netherworld, and if you don't do it, I have to go to him." ”
Ma Mian listened to it and thought to himself, I know everything from the king to the ghost in this underworld, and there is no one else with the surname Ma except me. If this relative was me, but I had never seen him, I asked tentatively, "I also have the surname Ma, I don't know who your brother is?" ”
Ma Yuanwai said in surprise: "The villain has eyes and no beads, and it is difficult to write two 'horse' words in one stroke, and there is Brother Lao." ”
Ma Mian said: "You said you are my brother, why don't I remember?" ”
"You drank ** tea after you arrived in the underworld, and you forgot everything about the yang world, where do you remember?" Ma Mian thought about it, what he said was true, and now that he has eaten his things, this thing is not good, so he exchanged a look. The bull head will understand, since this is the case, just make a personal favor, and also want him to spend a few changes. So, while he was drunk, he went back to Cao. This matter was known to the Son of Yama, and Bai Wuchang was sent to find out in person, and it was indeed true. The Son of Heaven of Yama was immediately furious, and immediately ordered the head of the ox and the face of the horse to be brought to the temple. In order to kill a hundred people, he blamed them for forty boards in front of the ministers, and then blew two more yin winds, and suddenly, the bull's head and the horse's face returned to their original shape. When the Emperor of Yama saw that they were really repentant, he reduced them to servitude and stayed in the underworld as a deserter.
It's a bit far, let's get back to business! As soon as I entered the house, I didn't dare to do anything, and if they arrested me, I would really die.
But fortunately, as soon as the two fierce gods came in, they walked directly towards the two paper figures, and then the chains locked on the two paper figures, and a gust of wind suddenly appeared, and the two disappeared......
As soon as the bull head and horse face left, the wind also stopped, and the inside of the ancestral hall instantly returned to dead silence, as if nothing had happened before. However, seeing that the bull's head and horse face were gone, my worried heart finally landed, indicating that I finally saved a small life in the yang funeral situation.
Stand-ins are often used in the yin and yang industry, such as the most common child life, they say that it is a child in the sky, such as a sweeper, a gatekeeper, and a furnace keeper, this kind of boy often sneaks down to the mortal world, so once it is known by heaven, it will be caught. In order to avoid the eyes of the heavens, they had to burn a dummy as a stand-in so that they could continue to stay in the mortal world.
There are also those who are about to die, if their lives should not be extinguished, they will also be a stand-in, let them cross the paper bridge, as long as the stand-in crosses the paper bridge, it is equivalent to a stand-in for you to cross the Nai He Bridge, that is to say, to die for you, so that you can escape a catastrophe.
Now that the door of the ancestral hall has been opened, although I don't know whether Yang Quan deliberately deceived me, or if he really didn't know that he had planted a wrongful debt, but now I can't leave him alone, so I patted him on the shoulder and took him out of the Miao family ancestral hall.
As soon as we got out of the ancestral hall, we were shocked to find a person standing more than ten steps away from the entrance of the ancestral hall, this person was dressed in black, and he was about forty or fifty years old. Although we have never met him, we know that this person must be the person who mourned Buyang, and at the same time, he is the person who deliberately invited us here......