A few minutes later, in the open space about ten meters away from Cha Wenbin, a human figure was faintly visible, and the fragrance in his hand also spread in that direction. Not only did the smoke not take off, but it condensed together and slowly became a clump, and the clump became more and more like a human figure, this is Zhang Weidong's soul, Cha Wenbin finally saw it.

He slowly opened a small umbrella, which was very small, made of black oiled paper, and opened it just like a person's palm, with the appearance of Tai Chi gossip painted on it. If you see someone holding this kind of umbrella on weekdays, it's best not to play with it rashly, because it is a dead man's umbrella specially used to collect souls.

Open the umbrella in his hand and flick it slightly, the umbrella flew out diagonally like a bamboo dragonfly, and fell lightly on the figure, and after a while, Cha Wenbin got up and put away the umbrella and said: "Okay, a few little brothers, you have worked hard tonight, you can follow me down the mountain." ”

Going down the mountain is completely a chirping autumn outing, but this is not easy to walk at night, after this battle, these little ruffians instantly feel that they have become a human being, even if they have seen the world, they don't feel sleepy in the middle of the night, their minds are full of freshness, and they are pestering to follow Cha Wenbin to learn Taoism. Cha Wenbin naturally didn't want to mislead people's children, and after sending them home to rest first, he had to go to Zhang Weidong's house overnight, where there were other things waiting for him.

Everyone's time on the road is different, this is all need to be calculated by the Taoist priest, when to get out of the coffin, when to be buried, when to be buried have a set of strict procedures, you can't mess around, just because the time taken away by the yin is fixed. The Taoist priest has to calculate the whole process according to this event and the time spent on the road, which is one of the reasons why the Taoist priest is indispensable in the traditional funeral culture.

Seeing Cha Wenbin come back, the Zhang family dared to open the door, since he left, the entire compound was empty, and even the entire village closed the door. People are rumored that there is a bad luck to catch ghosts tonight, and they need to close their doors, and they all say that Zhang Weidong is a wronged ghost who died horizontally, and if the Taoist priest does not accept it, it will become a powerful ghost and hook people's lives. This kind of rumor is naturally very harmful to the Zhang family, and seeing the Zhang family is like seeing the plague god.

Cha Wenbin asked one person to enter, while others, including family members, continued to avoid it, but he had to open the door. After entering the house, Cha Wenbin now set up a taboo in the mourning hall, used a red rope to string copper coins around a gossip pile, put the small umbrella upside down in the middle position, slowly opened the umbrella and shook it gently, and then threw the umbrella into the brazier and burned it, which can be regarded as bringing the soul back.

He didn't care about the rest, and then he put two more talismans on the door, gently closed the door of the mourning hall, and sat alone in the courtyard and began to drink tea. This tea is also a little different from ordinary people, his arm is pressed by a lantern, this lantern is temporarily made by Zhang's old father, white paper, bamboo bones, on which is written a big black "Dian" word, inside is not a candle but a small bowl hooked with wire, the bowl is oil and wick.

The table where he sat was also exquisite, with a half-cooked pig's head, a chicken, duck and fish, as well as raw eggs and raw rice, and there were also drinks on the table, and two pairs of dishes and chopsticks were placed in each of the four directions of the table, so that a total of eight people could sit. I don't understand, I thought he was waiting for someone to eat, but in fact, this table meal was prepared by Cha Wenbin for a banquet.

Next to his bench were some ingots folded with gold, silver and tin foil, which were specially used to honor the ghosts, and they did not make the yellow table paper used by ordinary dead people, which was an insult and disrespect to the yincha. Yin cha belongs to the gods, and the gods must not use that kind of paper and dark coins, and can only use hand-folded ingots, because ordinary yellow paper is burned for the souls of the dead.

While drinking tea, there was a boy and a girl on the left and right sides of the courtyard gate in the distance. Cha Wenbin is still very satisfied with the craftsmanship of the paper shop in Anxian County, the red place is red, the green place is green, especially the pair of small twist braids and the blush on the face, looking at it can make children cry. The inferior red and green cardboard was rustled by the wind, and the pair of welcoming men and women also had trays in their hands, and on one side of the tray was his Cha Wenbin's big seal, and on the other side was a handful of incense candles. This means that there are Taoist priests in this house, and there are things I want to discuss with you, whether you are willing to take money or are you willing to make enemies. Most of the yin will choose to take money, the Taoist priest is actually a kind of psychic role, is the agent of the connection between the underworld and the yang, no one wants to easily offend the Taoist, less he will produce a lot of sacrifices and money, everyone cooperates, you help me take care of the dead soul, I help you ask the living for money, all are beneficial.

This tacit understanding is an unspoken rule reached for thousands of years, and each other is careful not to make trouble for each other. Cha Wenbin, who was half-squinting, seemed to be a little asleep, and about half an hour later, the candle lit on the threshold suddenly went out. Houses in the countryside, whether they were in the past or in the past, will have a threshold, which is of great significance in Feng Shui, indicating that the house is inhabited by living people, has an owner, and has a similar role to the door, it is a dividing line, which can block some bad things from crossing this boundary. Therefore, Cha Wenbin put a candle in the middle of the threshold, and when something invisible crossed, the yin qi would sink and the candle would be extinguished, which was like an alarm.

So what does the yin look like? Yin cha in the folk description is the kind of master who jumps up and down with a fierce face and evil look, in fact, it is not, Yin cha is varied, it depends on who is in charge of this generation. There is a saying that there is indeed a professional yin in the underworld, belonging to the small gods who have a system, but the number of people who die every day is also rising, and the original soul messengers are greatly understaffed, so it is necessary to hire yang souls or big living people to temporarily work for the underworld, these people are also called yincha. What is a yang soul? It's the soul of some people who are still alive, maybe this person is Zhang San and Li Si in the village, because of some coincidences, his soul was selected, helping the underworld to do a bad job, and there is also a kind of person who claims to be able to psychic Some gods and goddesses, this kind of person generally only has one chance in his life, which is equivalent to a passive state after being possessed.

Therefore, there are often rumors among the people that so-and-so suddenly fell into a coma for a long time, and after waking up, he claimed to be possessed by a great god who could pass through yin and yang. In fact, this can't be blamed on these goddesses and gods, they may indeed be selected once as a temporary worker, and they do have some vague memories in their minds, so they rely on this memory to package themselves, and some completely think that they are the messengers of the gods, in fact, they will not be selected for the second time after this time, because this is a practice of folding life, which is against the principles of heaven. So, these people borrowed the god-sounding experience to do some other things, but in fact they were just extras. The messenger of the yang soul is also in this state, and there is another exception, that is, some of the dead people have also turned into yin, these people are often dead or unwilling to be reincarnated, but they are taken in the underworld, because of some relationships they are mixed into the organization and become a kind of temporary worker, almost similar to contract workers with equal pay for equal work, but they do not belong to the establishment.

This kind of yin soul to do the yin is the most common, most people are by them to perform specific work after death, and this kind of yin is often the most insatiable, because without the preparation can not enjoy the money and incense, can only rely on the side door to get some, after all, imagine that they can get mixed with this job also needs a little "relationship", go back and have to reward those who cover themselves.

Cha Wenbin got up and began to stand at the table with some respect, gently pulling a bench in his hand, and then as if someone had sat in it, he restored the bench again. Then he poured the wine, poured three glasses, and then put a little bit of food in the bowl in front of him, all as if he were performing a silent puppet show.

Then the words begin to come out of the mouth in a language that people don't understand, and the speech is extremely fast and the pronunciation is very complicated. This language is the word of mouth of Taoist priests, an official language that is said to be used only when people communicate with ghosts, similar to our Mandarin. Someone has studied this language, and after testing it with the sound spectrum, it was found that its frequency is extremely low, but the fluctuations are very complex, and it does not belong to any language family, and only Taoist priests will understand the meaning of this.

After about a stick of incense, Cha Wenbin got up and pulled the bench again, and then began to burn those ingots in the yard, and then put all the dishes and chopsticks in with a bamboo plaque after burning, and gently put them down on the path that has been sent to the door with his hands.