Chapter 32: Soul Hunting

In this world, different peoples, colors, creeds, and religions have different descriptions of death, and Westerners believe that they will be favored by God after death, and they will be greeted by angels with white wings, and they call that place heaven. And in the West, there is also hell, which is a dark world, an endless abyss controlled by Satan the Devil, which is the opposite of a gorgeous and happy paradise, only in this way can people fear punishment after death, and only in this way can people keep a pure heart while they are alive.

Although the cultures of the East and the West are different, in the local religion of Taoism, you can still see the theory of Taoism, Taoism believes that after death, people will go to a world called the underworld, where people will be judged by the "judge", he will faithfully record and examine the good and evil, right and wrong in your life, and then decide whether you need to be punished, they have the right to decide the good and bad of your next reincarnation, and also spur the world to do more good and accumulate virtue while alive.

Yin cha corresponds to the angel in Western culture, a kind of usher, bringing the recently dead from the yang world back to the underworld for judgment, and they have to walk through a yellow spring road, which is the only way to the underworld. The Chinese who are good at association have given this path various legends, and Taoist priests are believed to have a mana to help those who lead to the underworld pass through the path quickly and smoothly, so that they can be judged to reduce their guilt and obtain a good reincarnation in the next life.

I asked the river map if this ritual was useful at all, and I was a person who liked to drill the horns of the bull. He smiled and said that any clergy also needed a means of making a living, and rituals were part of their work, and as for where the dead man would go in the next life, no one really knew and there was no way to confirm it. But he also told me that tradition does not mean superstition, funeral is a part of the culture, but the funeral culture has absorbed some superstition, but its prototype has a certain truth, otherwise it is impossible for every sect to attach so much importance to it, and it is unified in some links.

In other words, when you look at it with awe, it makes sense, and when you look at it with a playful mind, maybe it's nonsense. It's just that if there is still a person who has the heart to abuse when death is in front of him, his life may have been abused. Respect death, fear of death, as the old saying goes, the dead are great, and when life ends, any merits and demerits should be turned into dust, just let him come to this world and then leave.

Yin Cha is an errand clerk from the underworld, not the kind of black and white impermanence bull head and horse face shown in the TV series, black and white impermanence are two gods, but they are gods in the underworld, "Bai impermanence" is called "Xie Bi'an", tall and thin, with a white face; "Black impermanence" is called "Fan Wu Save", with a short and fat body and a black face, and he is called "short master" or "eighth master". These two great gods do not appear easily on weekdays, and the bull head and horse face are the other two ghost pawns, also known as soul messengers, and they are not easy to appear, Yin Cha is an ordinary little ghost, whose status is much lower than those famous ones, and it is also considered drudgery, and this drudgery naturally likes to fish for oil and water, which is why Taoist priests can often achieve the purpose of helping the dead through practice!

As the saying goes, the little ghost is difficult, this little ghost is the clerk, and the role of the local practical handling of things is to pull and lure the dead to the underworld every day. Most Taoist priests can't reach the level of supernatural powers like Zhang Daoling, they can talk and laugh with the Lord of Yama in person, and those who can communicate with the little ghost are already considered capable, but the reason for life and death is determined by the life and death book of the King of Yama, and it is not negotiable. But Zhang Weidong felt that Cha Wenbin had a chance, why? Because Zhang Weidong died horizontally, his longevity is endless, if such a person is not taken away by the ghost, he can become the legendary evil ghost and lonely ghost, and he needs to find someone to back his back to be reincarnated. So the yin is coming, if you don't find the soul and go back, you won't be embarrassed, this kind of thing happens every day, and it is estimated that the gang of gods in the underworld are not surprised, what Cha Wenbin has to do is to get rid of those bad ghosts and drag this time back.

Since the little ghost will come to take away Zhang Weidong's soul, then now Cha Wenbin must first trap Zhang Weidong's soul, which is nothing for a Taoist priest, but the person who has just died for two days is not very murderous. The mourning hall was stinking because of the smell, no one wanted to go in, Cha Wenbin himself was also stubborn, he took out the compass and stood at the gate and glanced around, trying to determine Zhang Weidong's position at the moment, but when he looked down, he found that the compass had not moved at all. At first, he thought that he had made a mistake, but after looking at it again and again, it was like that, and some people saw that he had been tinkering there for a long time and there was no reaction, so he coaxed: "Brother Fairy, you can't accept apprentices, just shake it twice and earn the money, it's too simple." ”

Cha Wenbin didn't have the time to deal with those people at the moment, in order to prove his judgment, he took out a small bottle and wiped a few drops of something on his eyelids, which were cow tears. The cow has a certain status in Taoism, Taishang Laojun's mount is a green ox, the cow is very humane, the cow will shed tears before the owner decides to kill it, some Taoist priests will collect this liquid, it is said that through it can see those erratic existence and other world things.

As a result, Cha Wenbin was disappointed, there was indeed no Zhang Weidong's soul in the house, and the people in the courtyard were too full of yang energy, so it was even more impossible, so it only explained one problem: Zhang Weidong's soul was still outside!

He didn't say much, just discussed it with the Zhang family, saying that he was going out and would come back before dawn, and this coffin should not be sealed for the time being. The Zhang family has no backbone at the moment, it all depends on how Cha Wenbin tells him to do it, he immediately turned around and rode out of the house, waiting to see the lively Taoist priest actually left so quickly, but his heart suddenly lost interest, and the three and three began to go back. But good people are always good things, seeing that Cha Wenbin was gone, someone actually proposed to follow him, they wanted to see what this Taoist priest was going to do, and in the end it was the four little ruffians in the village who participated in this proposal.

This person's courage is actually about the same, some people lack hearts, and after being instigated, they forget about the southeast and northwest, they really think that they are not afraid of heaven and earth, and those people also followed Cha Wenbin all the way in laughter, and where is Cha Wenbin going? The answer is the place where the accident happened, the lonely soul gang in Merlin Town!

At that time, there were no street lights all over the streets, but the bicycle at that time was different from now, there was a light in the middle of the handlebar, using the principle of pedal rotation to generate electricity, the faster you stepped on it, the brighter the lamp, but people can not always maintain a constant speed, and its illuminating effect is similar to that of a flashlight with insufficient power, which is better than nothing.

The weather was not very good that night, there was no starlight, Cha Wenbin knew that he was followed by a group of people, and he stopped several times to dissuade him, but in exchange for laughter, people said that this road is not your home, what do you care about us? For such people, Cha Wenbin was reluctant to talk to them, so he had to go all the way to the entrance of Namerin Town.

This town, once famous in the history of Anxian County, is now long deserted, and the buildings are either buried underground or hidden in the mountains, and only a small road remains that can be passed. This place, he has not been to this place anymore, and it is also a dangerous thing to lose his way in the dark night, and the ruffians behind him have also begun to realize this problem a little, but none of them are young and vigorous and unwilling to pull down their faces first, after all, it is a very humiliating thing to admit in front of their companions.

"That Taoist priest shouldn't be going to the place where Zhang Weidong died, I heard my grandfather say that the place is haunted, and no one dared to live there before liberation."

"Are you scared? If you're scared, you can go back first! "Whoever is afraid, who is afraid of who is the grandson!"

As for Cha Wenbin, he is also like a mouse that has entered the tunnel, anyway, there is only one road in front of him, and the car is halfway to the point that he can't ride, so he simply found a place to come down and lock the car. The young men saw that he had a candle in his hand, and that the darkness around him was so dark that one could not see his fingers, and they came out with nothing, the only thing they could do was a kerosene lighter.

In fact, when he walked here, Cha Wenbin found that the lonely soul gangzi was worthy of its reputation, first of all, it was cold, and he wore a long-sleeved shirt at most at night this season, but when he arrived here, he could still feel the coldness when he was wrapped in a Taoist robe. This kind of cold is different from the reduction of temperature, as if throwing people into the cellar all at once, that kind of cold is all-encompassing, oppressive, and also called gloomy cold. This shows that the yin qi in this place is very heavy, and the more you go into the mountains, the more obvious it feels, and this feeling is also slowly discovered by those young people, and an unconscious and inexplicable fear begins to gradually come to their hearts.

At first, I followed Cha Wenbin for fun, but now it is not like that at all, the numbness on the scalp one after another, the chill behind it, and even the cough of my companion will make me nervous for a long time. This is the fear of people's subconscious, fear can be hidden, but when it can no longer be suppressed to a certain extent, it will take on a volcanic eruption.

Finally, he couldn't hold it back, and someone couldn't help shouting: "That Taoist priest in front, can you walk slowly." ”

Cha Wenbin turned around helplessly to look at those people, the fire shone on his face, and the bright yellow robe was particularly conspicuous, just this action made those people push each other in fright, Cha Wenbin sighed and said: "Now you go back I'm afraid there will be an accident on the way, your momentum is not as high as before, and it is very easy to be targeted." ”

Their mouths are still very hard: "What are you targeting?" You don't want to scare people? ”

Cha Wenbin pointed behind those people and said, "There is a hanged ghost ten meters away from you, and it has been waiting for an opportunity to ......."

As soon as these words fell, the group of ruffians suddenly became like bees that had blown up their nests, where could they still take care of any face, and they all rushed towards Cha Wenbin's side with "wow".