Chapter 201: The Old Man of the Yin City
The sky above me finally brightened a little, although it was still gray, and that was the first feeling I had here, and I really didn't know where the light came from without the sun.
When I walked around the stele, I finally found the handwriting on it, and in addition to a couplet, there were three large characters 'Three Forks'.
I have heard of this place, when I was a child, when I heard the old lame man tell me the story, he once mentioned that there is a way to return to the soul in the underworld, and this way of the soul is in this 'three forks'. I remember that the reason why this place is called this place is because from here there are three forks in the road, only one of these three roads is a living road, the remaining two seem to lead directly to hell, and one is a road of eternal wandering.
I was a little excited to see the place in this story appear in front of me, so I looked up after being stunned for a moment in front of the stone tablet, and it seemed that I had come from one of the three paths, but I did not know whether I had taken the path of life or not.
But these things were no longer something I could think about at that time, because although I was now at the three-pronged crossing, and it was supposed that the yin market should not be far away, I suddenly found that I had lost my way again.
Because even after crossing the three forks, even if I came out of the woods, there was a plain in front of me, and there was no road as far as the eye could see, so that I didn't know where to go.
I stood in front of the stele, looking at the desolate scene, and I didn't know where to go, where should I go next, and where was the Yin Market?
I panicked, and I couldn't help but think of the one-eyed old ghost's comments to me before, his comments have already fulfilled three sentences, and the last sentence should be the key to guiding me to Su Yidan.
The last sentence is 'Wood Oni's feet go north'. If you want to say that the place I am staying in now should not be in the world anymore, all the guys who appear here are ghosts, and this wood ghost is not a ghost surnamed Mu? As long as I find this ghost, I can ask where is the north side?
But that's not right! If I want to say that I don't have any hair around me now, where do you let me go to find ghosts? Do I have to walk so far to find it? To say that I couldn't tell the direction in the fog just now, so I had to go hard, but now it's different, the fog has dissipated, I'm in the wilderness, and something called choice phobia has reappeared, so that I really don't dare to choose the path so casually, now I don't have much time, if I choose the wrong one, even if I find the yin market, but it is enough to stop Su Yidan's soul from getting on the bus.
How's that good? At that time, I was very depressed after losing my way, which may have something to do with the hope I suddenly saw in the three forks just now, just now I really thought that I had successfully walked out of this labyrinth, but I really didn't expect that after a labyrinth, there was a bigger labyrinth waiting for me.
I sighed, thinking that I should think again, not missing a few minutes, so I came to a tree next to the stone tablet at the three forks and sat down, leaning on the tree with my back, I took out my pocket, turned out a cigarette and put it in my mouth, but I found that the lighter here could not be used, no matter how I pulleyed, I couldn't rub a trace of spark, so I had to sigh, and looked up with an unlit cigarette.
The trees here are not like those dead trees in the three-pronged mouth, on the contrary, the leaves are very luxuriant, looking at these leaves under the tree, I can't help but think of the college days again, what a beautiful day, but at that time I didn't know how to cherish it, especially the period when I was in harmony with Su Yidan, every night after dinner, I had to walk with her in the school.
I remember that there was also a large forest in the school, and whenever October was approaching, the weather was not yet cold, but the yellow leaves were scattered all over the ground, and Su Yidan and I sat on the bench under the tree, listening to her tell the ghost stories that were enough to make me pee my pants in the first place. Her surname is like this, it seems that the more others are afraid of something, the more she talks, and after talking about it, she giggles at what she says, completely ignoring me at that time and even having the heart to let the bamboo take me upstairs.
Now that I think about it, the beauty of that time is like a painting, this is really a creation of people, she used to like ghosts and gods so much, but now she really came to such a strange place, and I used to be a timid little girl, but now I am no longer afraid of anything to follow her here.
Maybe this is time, maybe this is growth, we are nostalgic for the past, and we grow up unconsciously.
I sighed, staring blankly at the leaves above my head, once Su Yidan told me, she said that she heard people say, because people are now far away from nature, so people will become a leaf after death, hanging on the branches to experience a year of wind and rain, and wait until the autumn when the leaves are yellow and the leaves return to the roots can continue to reincarnate Chengren, I always maintained this skepticism about her point of view, so I asked her: After death, the bad people will also become leaves like good people? It's too cheap for them.
Su Yidan smiled at the time, and then said to me: Of course, bad people also become leaves after they die, but they become leaves of pine trees.
She is really ruthless enough, if the pine needles of the pine tree are to wither, it is estimated that it will really take years, after speaking, she smiled again, and then looked up and said with some doubts, what kind of leaves do you say I can become after I die?
I sighed and came back to my senses, thinking to myself if I had known about her sooner, would it have ended differently today? Su Yidan, Su Yidan, you are really ruthless, in order to turn into leaves, you don't even want me.
Thinking of this, I smiled bitterly, and then looked up at the leaves above my head, I looked at this tree and wondered a little in my heart, what kind of tree is this, saying that the willow tree is not a willow tree and that the poplar tree is not a poplar, there are more than ten oval small leaves symmetrically distributed on a branch and leaf, is this a unique species in this yin city?
No, why do I think this tree looks familiar? I look like I've seen it somewhere...... After thinking about it for a while, I finally figured out what kind of tree this is, this is an ordinary locust tree, speaking of which, I seem to have become a little nervous after coming to this ghost place, and I can't even distinguish the locust tree, you must know that the locust tree is ............ Wait a minute! My eyes widened suddenly, and something suddenly occurred in my heart, so I hurriedly lowered my head and began to write on the ground with my fingers: Wood Ghost feet go north............ Isn't this 'wood ghost' just 'Huai'?!
Damn, that's what the last comment the old ghost gave me!
That's right, the wood ghost should be talking about the locust tree, and the wood ghost is at the foot of the wood ghost, which is also where I am now! His grandmother, I really can't imagine that I rode a donkey and looked for a donkey for a long time, so that's the case!!
Thinking of this, I was overjoyed, so I hurriedly stood up and carefully looked at the locust tree next to the three-pronged mouth, and after a while, I saw some clues, and I found that the leaves of this tree seemed to grow in one direction, almost like a road sign, and the direction of those leaves was the direction of two o'clock on my right.
That's the North over there! There was a burst of ecstasy in my heart, it must be like this, it can't be wrong! Otherwise, the one-eyed old ghost wouldn't have said it to me.
At that time, I was so excited that I judged the old ghost like a god for a while, looked in the direction of that side, and prayed silently in my heart, if I could really go back, I must find the old ghost to come to the door to thank me, it really helped me a lot.
Thinking of this, I no longer hesitated, so I picked up the golden knife again, got up and walked in the direction of that side.
I don't know how long it has been, and time seems to have lost its meaning here, and when I felt lonely again, the scene in front of me finally changed, although the sky was still overcast, but the sky seemed to appear on the other side of the ground, the clouds seemed to be slowly churning, and a small city appeared.
This should be the 'yin market'! I was so excited that I didn't stop and ran all the way, watching the city get closer and closer, and the feeling of the city became more and more shocking.
You have to know what kind of city it is! The shape of the tall buildings I saw just now was all caused by fog, and the fog in this place was so thick and terrifying that I could even see that somewhere in the 'city' seemed to be on fire, and a mass of fog rose and gathered in the air, forming clouds that looked like human faces, and those 'human faces' were distorted and changed in the air, like a nightmare.
I looked at the sky above the smoke-filled 'city', and I couldn't stop because it wasn't stopping, because it was my last chance.
Finally, I came to the edge of the smoke, took a deep breath, and plunged headlong into the smoke.
The feeling inside the smoke is actually different from the outside, because there is almost no fog here, and it is cold all around, and a straight street appears, and what really surprises me is that there are a lot of 'people' on both sides of this street!
No, these shouldn't be people, I thought to myself, look at their line and state, they should be real ghosts, and the appearance of these ghosts has once again refreshed my hellish record, there are too many fucking things, how to describe it? It was a bit like the streets on the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and there were still many cars driving slowly on the streets, and there was no sound in everything, and the silence made me wonder if I was deaf.
And in addition to the shock, I felt a burst of ecstasy in my heart, here, this must be the yin market where yin and yang meet! All the ghosts are going to the underworld from here, and Su Yidan must be here, I couldn't stop the excitement in my heart at the time, great, it took so much hard work, buddy finally killed all the way from Harbin to here, and then it's time to find Su Yidan!
Thinking of this, I didn't hesitate any longer, and looked at these ghosts walking straight along the direction of the street, and the direction they were walking in was exactly where the locust tree pointed just now, Su Yidan was in front of me, what were I waiting for? So I ran quickly towards that side, looking at the ghosts beside me as I ran, hoping to find Su Yidan in them, but I never found them.
I ran like this for a while, and suddenly there was a special sound in my ears, the sound was like the sound of the steam train whistle that I heard when I was a child, and when I looked again, I saw a square at the end of the street, and the smoke I saw on the periphery of this yin market just now was floating out of the direction of this square, and when I took a closer look, I saw that there were two buildings in the square, and in the middle was a place like a railway station, and next to the train station, was a dilapidated red brick building, The ghosts came and went in and out of the small building, silent, but they looked quite lively.
I thought to myself, I'm afraid this is the train station to go to the underworld, if Su Yidan hasn't left yet, then I will definitely be able to find her here, Su Yidan, Su Yidan, don't go!
After seeing this station, my heart was very anxious, so I hurriedly ran to this square to look for Su Yidan's shadow, but I didn't see her, but I saw a strange thing.
I was walking around the square at the time, and suddenly there was a sound of scolding in the direction behind me, and I thought to myself that this is really strange, you must know that although I have been here for a short time, but the first impression I have here is that it is quiet, because those ghosts seem to be like fools, even if you ask them anything, they will not answer, why is there a fight this time?
Thinking of this, I looked back, and sure enough, about five hundred meters away, the group of ghosts gathered around, and it seemed that there were really ghosts in the circle, because I was a little curious, so I also stepped forward, and squeezed in through the ghosts, and I was stunned again.
I saw that there were four ghosts in the circle at this time beating a ghost, the appearance of these ghosts refers to the two ghosts I saw before, anyway, none of them are good-looking, I saw them punching and kicking a ghost who fell to the ground, scolding while beating back: "Get out, don't let us see you again!" ”
The ghost looked like a man, naked, lying on the ground covering his head and screaming, but I couldn't tell what it was like in my heart at the time, my heart was full of emotion, this is really the end of the world where not to meet, actually in this broken place can let me meet acquaintances, I smiled helplessly, isn't this grandson Huang Shan?!
That's right, this person who was beaten by the ghost is my old rival Huang Shan, think about it at the beginning of the year, this old grandson did a lot of injustice and finally died in his own hands, I really didn't expect to meet here, where do I go to reason?
But this seems to be a little wrong, I thought to myself that this old miscellaneous hair has been dead for so long, it stands to reason that he should have gone to hell a long time ago, why is he still wandering around here? And why did it get beaten?
Of course, I want to think about it, but I was not stupid enough to persuade the fight, speaking of which this old grandson was not wronged at all, so I was happy to watch the excitement on the side, only to see that this old guy was beaten in the mouth and did not stop, he covered his head and shouted: "I am the descendant of Peng Zu, you can't do this to me!" You can't do that to me!! ”
After hearing it shout this, those ghosts actually started more ruthlessly, this time the electric cannon flew to Huang Shan's body as if he didn't want money, I saw this pleasure in my heart, and I saw a ghost cha scolding: "What kind of grandson do I care you are?" Dare to make trouble here, believe it or not, I'll just chop you up and use it as a fly? ”
After that, I saw that this ghost was almost 'Cangchang' and pulled out the saber, and Huang Shan saw that this master had drawn his knife, and his mouth suddenly stopped, only to see the ghost on the side glance at the ghost, and then said to it: "Forget it, don't waste your tongue with it, the impact is not good." ”
"This guy is so infuriating." I saw that the ghost who drew the knife withdrew the knife, and then kicked Huang Shan's body hard, and then said: "Always go here to make trouble, I don't know what he has to make trouble, who else can blame him for being mixed up like this bear?" If you want me to say, it's really better to cut it down. ”
The three ghosts next to him smiled, and then didn't say anything, very strange, the ghost said that he was going to hack this Huang Shan to death, but in the end he still didn't start, I saw that they beat this Huang Shan for a while, and then he yelled 'what to see, hurry up and get on the train' while pushing away the crowd, and walked directly to the red brick building next to the station.
After the ghosts walked away, these ghosts also dispersed, leaving only Huang Shan, who was lying on the ground half-dead, I looked at this Huang Shan, and there was no extra thought in my heart except for the word retribution, so I didn't want to come forward to talk to him, so I turned around and left.
But before I could take two steps, this Huang Shan found me, only to hear him say in a very surprised tone: "Yao, Yao Yuan? ”
I snorted coldly at the time, and didn't pay attention to it, so I continued walking, but I didn't expect Huang Shan, the old loach, to be a cockroach, just now I was beaten by that stinky beating, and now I actually got up, I saw it crawling to my side, and then stared at me with wide eyes, I believe that its mouth was open enough to stuff a light bulb, only to see it said to me in disbelief: "Sure enough, it's you, you...... How did you come here?! Don't...... Have your drums been taken away by the Boss? ”
I looked at this old loach, my heart was full of contempt, and I was even very angry in my heart, you said that I came here to find Su Yidan, why did I see this old bastard? It's still drumming, this old bastard didn't even find out that Shao Yu was playing until he died, but speaking of which, it's dead now, and my previous revenge is revenge, but even then I didn't give it a good look, so I snorted and said to it: "If you want to take care of it, stay where it is cool." ”
After listening to my words, Huang Shan was not angry, on the contrary, his expression was very excited, seeing me was as if he saw a savior, only to see its eyes swept away, swept to my right hand, because after arriving in the Yin City, I put the golden knife back in the backpack, so only the string of copper bells hung on the right hand, and this Huang Shanwang saw the copper bells, his eyes flashed with excitement again, I saw him stretch out his hand and grab my two arms, and then said to me in a voice similar to crying: " It must have been the boss who called you, it must be like this! That's great! Take me out!! ”
(To be continued)