Chapter 65: Into and Out of Hades

What's the reaction? Isn't the ghost reacting?

Ma Danlong beckoned to the copper lock: "Take out the paper money." ”

The copper lock unloaded the big backpack and took out a pile of thick and thick dark coins and paper money from it, and Ma Danlong asked each of us to take a little and scatter it as we walked.

Paper money is fluttering and fluttering in the sky. In the corridors and corridors, all the roads we walked were full of dark coins. Ma Danlong took out another black rattle-like thing, and shook it as he walked, the sound was crisp and clanging, and it was heard far away in the dark corridor.

I've seen this thing, and I took such a thing in the hands of the Tang costume master who gave Guan Feng Chaodu. I asked Ma Danlong what this was, and Ma Danlong said: "This is the soul bell, which is a psychic thing, specially shaken for the yin soul, not a thing in the yang world." When the bell rings, it can guide the lonely ghosts. I'm shaking it now so they don't come to harass. ”

I didn't seem to understand, and followed him all the way up to the fourth floor. I saw a dark hallway with rooms on either side. The room had no door, a large black hole exposed, and a dark wind blew from the inside, and the temperature was particularly low. Ma Danlong walked in front of the rattle, and I followed closely behind Li Damin on my back, and the three of them kept throwing paper money into the air in the back.

There is no light burden on the long road. Even if Li Damin didn't sink, but after climbing four floors, my arms were a little sore, and I was tired and sweaty, and I was wheezing. Just when he couldn't grit his teeth, Ma Danlong stopped outside the door of the penultimate room in the corridor.

What is strange is that this house is not like other rooms, there is actually a door, half-hidden and half-empty, and there is no light in the gaps.

By the light of the flashlight, I saw that the house number "48" was written on the door, which may refer to the eighth room on the fourth floor. When the last "8" was written, there was a lot of paint, and a mark was wiped out at the bottom circle of the "8" number.

Ma Danlong opened the door and walked in, I followed behind with Li Damin on my back, and when I stepped into the door with one foot and one foot outside, I suddenly remembered something, and I was stunned for a while, like a fool.

Li Yang pushed me from behind: "What's wrong with you?" ”

My voice was bitter, and I said to the house number: "Lao Li, look at this number, do you think of anything?" ”

Li Yang shone a flashlight: "48, what's wrong?" As soon as the words fell, he was also startled with an "ah" sound. Ma Danlong looked back at us: "What's the matter, I'm shocked." ”

We've seen this number on old paintings before! In the backyard of the Taoist temple in the painting, on the door at the foot of the courtyard, "48" is written, which is exactly the same as on the door of this room. At that time, we were speculating whether this number would be left by Li Damin.

Speaking of Li Damin, this kid's body is still behind me. At that time, I couldn't say anything, my whole body was like an electric current rushing by, and my hairs stood on end, if it weren't for my strong willpower, maybe I would have thrown Li Damin out of the city.

We told Ma Danlong about this, and Ma Danlong's expression was very calm, just "oh" and pinched his fingers: "Li Jun has been painting for a few days, and I don't know what is happening now." ”

The copper lock said: "Li Damin won't have become an immortal, right?" ”

Ma Danlong shook his head: "If he becomes an immortal, this painting will be destroyed." To explain in the language of modern science, becoming an immortal is against the sky, and it needs to absorb a lot of energy, and the vitality and charm of this painting will be completely absorbed, turned into powder, and ashes. This painting is still there, which shows that Li Damin has not succeeded. ”

"I was here last time, introducing his soul into the painting. Alas. Ma Danlong sighed: "Come on, start arranging." ”

The room was large and empty, and everywhere you could see was the black color of the fire. The windows were taped with some broken paper shells, barely enough to block the cold wind outside.

According to Ma Danlong's instructions, we began to lay out the things of the practice. The first is two mirrors, about a meter high, placed at a back-to-back slant in the middle of the room. Li Damin and I sat in front of two mirrors. Around us, Ma Danlong used candles to arrange a Taoist enchantment, which was in an irregular ring, and there were many yellow talismans in between.

Ma Danlong asked Li Yang to take out four small white lanterns and hang them in front of the door. When lit with a lighter, the fire in the lantern was faintly lit, and in the darkness it looked like a Kong Ming lantern rising into the air.

The lantern also has a big "soul" character written on the seal, which looks weird and gloomy, and this atmosphere is even more terrifying than the appearance of real ghosts.

Ma Danlong instructed the copper lock to squat in the corridor outside the door and burn paper money with a brazier, which was burned to the lonely ghosts in this building, and the attitude must be respectful, not joking. Otherwise, if you are entangled in the femininity, you will have to peel off the skin if you don't die.

The copper lock made a bitter face and went outside to burn paper.

Ma Danlong personally placed a shrine under the wall of the room. It turned out that the immortal he offered was none other than the ghost king Zhong Kui. This Zhong Kui is about half a meter high, and it is colorful and vivid. He was bearded and angry, holding a sword in his hand, and he was above his head, and the golden rooster stood on the ground alone. The plane is clearly going to slay down the evil spirits and sweep through the underworld.

With all this set up, it's eleven o'clock, and there's still some time. Everyone didn't speak, and the atmosphere was a little depressing. Li Yang did not miss any opportunity to search for materials, and set up magnetism with Ma Danlong, asking him why he could cross the two worlds of yin and yang, and what the underworld was like.

Ma Danlong said, people and ghosts have different paths, and there are many things that cannot be told to you, and there are no things that can be said. Talking to the living about the world after death is like talking to a summer bug, and although I try my best to describe what winter is like, it is still completely beyond the cognition and imagination of summer bugs. Besides, I'm not a master of literature, and my language can't describe what winter should look like.

Li Yang did not give up and continued to ask.

Ma Danlong smiled: "Otherwise, next time I go to the underworld to find someone, you go with me." ”

Li Yang swallowed his saliva: "Just go." ”

"I'm not responsible for whether I can come back or not." Ma Danlong laughed wildly.

Ma Danlong looks like an old fritter in the rivers and lakes, smiling, and full of heart. Li Yang couldn't ask anything, so he asked Ma Danlong to tell a story about his experience.

Ma Danlong thought for a while and said, "Seeing that you are so curious, I will tell you one." That was the first time I knew that I had the power to enter the underworld. ”

Ma Danlong was eighteen years old that year, he was a native of Northeast China, grew up between white mountains and black waters, and grew up in the countryside. Their village is rich in hawthorn, and the roads are convenient, although it is in the countryside, it is very prosperous, and every family is living a good life.

Ma Danlong was still a young man at the time, dropped out of school at home, and farmed with his father and mother. Their neighbor lived a little widow, twenty years old, and the man had been widowed since he had been killed by a stone in the early years. This little widow doesn't look good-looking, she has a birthmark on her face, but she can't stand being at a good age, her body is graceful, and she twists her ass when she comes out and goes in, which really causes a lot of gossip.

Ma Danlong was when he was strong, and he often peeked at the widow's house on the wall, although he couldn't see anything, he also felt extremely excited.

On this day, something happened.

On this day, I was catching up with the big market in the town, and my parents went to the market, leaving Ma Danlong at home by himself. Xiangxiang, who was sleeping, heard someone slamming the door outside the courtyard, he rubbed his eyes and walked out of the house in a daze. When I came to the courtyard, I suddenly found that something was wrong, it should be a sunny morning, how in a blink of an eye, the sky was low, and it became a gray and gloomy dusk, and the sky was densely covered with lead-gray clouds, looking like a mountain rain was coming.

He didn't think much of it, maybe it was going to rain. The door was still "clanging", and he shouted "Coming, coming". He pulled his shoes and opened the door. Outside the door, the fog was foggy, and the previous village road was actually invisible, like a heavy haze rising. There were three people standing in front of the gate, the first one was the neighbor's little widow, and the two in the back were adult men, dressed in black suits, and they didn't look very comfortable. The two men were hidden in the fog, their faces were blurred, and they could only vaguely see human figures.

When the little widow saw him, she blushed and muttered, "Xiaolong, can you do my sister-in-law a favor?" ”

Ma Danlong was young and vigorous, and the heat was running straight all over his body, saying that there was no problem.

The little widow said, I'm going to go a long way, but I'm too tired to walk, can you carry me for a while?

This request is really weird, just imagine, a woman suddenly knocks on your door and asks you to carry her, no matter how you say it, it is unreasonable. But Ma Danlong didn't know if it was the sperm worm on the brain, or he was dazed and didn't wake up at all, so he agreed, and felt that he had taken a big advantage. He often worked in the fields, and when he was young, he was also a calf, and it was not a problem to carry a woman. He closed the door, put his shoes on, squatted on the ground and said, "Sister-in-law, come up." ”

The little widow was not polite either, and went straight up to his back. Ma Danlong hugged the woman's ass from behind with both hands, and suddenly his body reacted, swallowed his saliva and asked, "Sister-in-law, how do you move?" ”

The little widow pointed to the two men in the fog and said, "Follow them." ”

The two strangers in the suit didn't speak, turned around and walked into the depths of the haze, Ma Danlong followed behind with the woman on his back.

As he walked, Ma Danlong chatted with the widow and asked her where she was going.

The woman said, don't worry, it'll be there in a while.

This walk, the road has no end, there are no buildings around, and when you look up, the boundless desolation is black and yellow. I don't know how long I walked, but a boundary monument appeared on the side of the road, and Ma Danlong's first reaction at that time was that Lao Tzu could really go, and he went to the neighboring county. But if you look closely, there is a dirt bag bulging behind this monument, unlike a boundary monument like a tombstone. He was a little dazed, not that he was afraid, but he felt that something was wrong, in his memory, there was no such strange place in this area.

He saw that the two men in suits had crossed the boundary monument and stood in the yellow mist on that side, obviously waiting for the two of them to pass.

Suddenly, he heard the little widow crying behind him. Ma Danlong didn't look back, and said as he walked: "Sister-in-law, why are you crying?" ”

The little widow was still crying, and besides, there was an unknown smell wafting from her, and the spicy smell was stinking. The little widow sobbed and said, "I'm going to see my man soon, I'm excited." ”

Ma Danlong shook his head, and when he looked up, in the middle of the two men in suits, there was a shadow of a man, which was very blurry, and he couldn't see his facial features clearly. Ma Danlong was shocked and frightened, and then remembered that the little widow's man was dead, how could he appear again now, could it be that the boundary monument was separated by the two worlds of yin and yang?

As soon as he turned around, he found that he had crossed the boundary monument, and his whole body was cold, and he shouted: "You are dead and dead, how can you deceive me?!" As he spoke, he threw the little widow on his back to the ground, but it was okay not to fall, but he heard a "click", and what fell on his back was a red coffin board, which fell to pieces......

"And then?" We listened with bated breath and asked. Ma Danlong, the old boy, does have a set of storytelling, and he paints it vividly.

"Then I woke up and found myself still sleeping in the house. Hurriedly ran out of the courtyard, and heard many people shouting that Widow Feng had committed suicide. I ran over to join in the fun, and saw a corpse covered with a white sheet lifted out of the door of the neighbor's house, it was the little widow, who had died of drinking pesticides. The smell of pesticides she drank was exactly the weird smell that emanated from my body when I carried her. This is not evil, what is even more evil is that we did not carry out cremation in the village at that time, a water burial, when she came out of the funeral, the young man who carried the coffin because he did not look at the road, stepped on the air, causing the whole coffin to fall to the ground and shatter, and the coffin was the red ......"

I heard the hairs standing on end, this Ma Dan gentian is too big, if it were me, I would have been paralyzed.

Li Yang asked, "Then you can go in and out of the underworld?" ”