Chapter 5: The Appearance of Death

Not human?

My heart pounded, isn't it a ghost if it's not a human?

As if reading through my thoughts, Lai Pizhou chuckled twice, saying that he was not a ghost.

"Then you ......," I said, confused.

"The reason why I say he is not human is because he is more terrible than a ghost, and if you ask him for help, you may die faster!" Speaking of this, Lai Pizhou waved his hand and said, "Don't talk about this, it's better not to see this person, and we haven't reached the worst step yet." ”

Lai Pizhou didn't go on too much on this topic, but said that I should stay with him for one night, wait for the rooster to crow and see how the bowl of rice was going after the ghosts left.

After saying that, he went to bed without heart and lungs, and complained to me that for my business, he would delay his work tomorrow, and he had no money to send home.

It made me upset, so I just said to give him 300, which is considered as a day for me to cover him.

Lai Pizhou's room is only about ten square meters, and in addition to the bed, there is a large refrigerator, surrounded by various buckets of water one person high and bags of rice noodles.

It's small enough, and there are so many things piled up, and the smell is as bad as it gets, like living in a sewer.

But I didn't dare to go upstairs, for fear that as soon as I opened the door, I would see something dirty squatting in the corner eating rice, and I would be scared to death.

Lai Pizhou slept comfortably, lying on the bed on all fours, snoring and snoring.

I sat cross-legged in my chair and couldn't sleep, wondering who that friend was from Ripizhou.

The more he didn't say anything, the more curious I became. A man scarier than a ghost? It's a little exciting to think about!

Will it be like the Taoist priest in the movie, scattering beans into soldiers or something.

By daybreak, I had imagined his friend to be a soldier.

"You sat all night?" Lai Pizhou rubbed his eyes and started from the bed, his face full of surprise, "If you don't sleep, you said it earlier, the bad man deliberately squeezed the wall last night, thinking of leaving a place for you." ”

I'm not angry if I don't say this, I want to curse as soon as he says it.

Does 10 centimeters also count as a place for me?

I didn't bother to talk to him, so I lit a cigarette and smoked it, waiting for him to accompany me upstairs.

……

As soon as he walked into my house, Lai Pizhou shrunk his neck and said that it looked like something dirty had been here last night.

I shuddered, quickly shrank behind him, and asked him how he could see it.

"Isn't it obvious, you see that bowl is empty, the rice and oil are gone, could it be that you ate it?" Lai Pizhou pointed to the bowl in the southwest corner and rolled his eyes.

Eaten all up?

I didn't care about being afraid, and ran to the bowl in three or two steps.

The rice and oil in this bowl were all eaten clean, and there was not even any rice residue left, as if you had to lick it clean with your tongue after eating it all.

The hairs on my back exploded, but luckily I ran downstairs last night to find Lai Pi Zhou, otherwise I would have been scared crazy when I turned around and saw a guy in a shroud squatting in the corner eating rice.

"How so?" The cold sweat on my head kept dripping down.

Lai Pizhou looked at the surroundings and said that you didn't put it in yet!

I put it in?

Just as I was about to open my mouth to refute, I suddenly remembered that my grandmother had told me something when she was not dead.

She said that people knock on the door three times, and only ghosts knock four times.

So when we used to go home when we were young, we didn't bring the key, and we would only knock three times when we knocked on the door, and it was very unlucky to knock four times, and we would be scolded.

But last night my mind was completely messed up and I forgot about it.

Didn't that mean I put this filth in myself?

"That'...... Is the thing gone? I swallowed, changed my position uneasily, and tried to take out a cigarette and light it, but I couldn't light it, and my hands trembled terribly.

Lai Pizhou shook his head and said that he should go, what he didn't understand now was why this filthy thing ate all the rice and oil, his friend hadn't told him about it before, and it seemed that we had to go to the cemetery to find clues.

When I heard that I was going to the cemetery, I shook my head like a rattle, and I didn't want to go.

"It's okay if you don't go, I'm afraid you won't be able to survive this year!" Lai Pizhou finished speaking, and looked at me with a dead man's expression.

I swallowed, and I felt furious, and I didn't know if he was scaring me.

"When are you going?" I asked weakly.

He told me to wait for a while, then took out his phone and checked the calendar, saying that it was not appropriate to worship today, and that he would go tomorrow.

Then he asked me for 2,000 yuan, and said that today he would go to buy some sacrifices and burn them in the cemetery tomorrow to the female ghost, and see if he could talk to the female ghost and let her let me go.

Originally, I was reluctant to see him take 2,000 yuan with me to buy sacrifices, but as soon as I heard this, I endured the pain and asked him to buy a good one, buy a high-grade one, and then gave him a bank card.

If my life is gone, what do I want money for?

After getting the money, Lai Pizhou went out to buy sacrifices.

I took one look at the deserted home, but I didn't dare to stay longer.

……

Walking down the street, looking at the bustling crowd, I was not so scared.

It's only morning, and I still have more than a dozen hours to go until tomorrow, and I don't know where to go.

Later, I thought about it, should I go to the temple to worship and find a master to help me.

Lai Pi Zhou, that guy said that he only picked bones, and he didn't learn Taoism, so he probably didn't have much hope to count on him.

I took a taxi and went straight to Tianma Temple.

Tianma Temple is quite famous in our place, it is a big temple, and every day people crowd people to throw money to the Buddha to keep safe. If you encounter Qingming or National Day, you can't even enter the door, and there are all heads at a glance.

When the master who drove the car heard me say that I was going to Tianma Temple, he asked me if I was going to seek marriage or wealth.

I said peace of mind.

He suddenly came to his senses, and asked me in a low voice if I had hit an evil spirit, and if so, he would introduce it somewhere.

I waved at him and said it was okay, just to join in the fun and let him drive well.

How can I not understand the little ghost in his heart, generally this kind of taxi master will collude with some small temples, and if I go with him, I will definitely be slaughtered severely, and it is okay to deceive outsiders.

Along the way, he bragged to me about how that place worked, and that he had won the lottery last time he went to beg for the night.

I sneered in my heart, since it's so effective, what kind of taxi do you drive, wouldn't it be good to buy lottery tickets all day long.

When I arrived at Tianma Temple, the priest still didn't give up, and when he made up the money, he stuffed me with a business card, saying that if it didn't work here, he would call him.

Although it is not a holiday today, there are a lot of people, most of them are old men and grandmothers, and there are also many young couples who come to seek marriage.

Monks in monks' robes can be seen walking around everywhere outside the Tianma Temple, chatting with people from time to time.

But these are fake monks, cheating money. At night, you may go to a star-rated hotel.

Before I entered the gate of the temple, I was stopped by a monk with a bright brain, who said that I was unlucky, and asked me if something had happened.

Seeing that he said that I had black gas in the center of my eyebrows, I asked him how to solve it.

The monk's eyes suddenly lit up, and he took out a small wooden Buddha statue from his hand, saying that as long as he brought this, he could keep safe, and he could give 20 yuan of incense money.

This is all a routine, if it is a couple, he will first say a lot of congratulations, saying that you are destined people, this string of Buddhist beads to the two of you, I wish you a happy life or something, and then let you donate some incense money. Ten and twenty pieces.

If you come alone like me, he will say that you are not lucky. A lot of people will be fooled.

I didn't take the little Buddha statue in his hand, but I just said Master, you read me a Sutra of Amitayus to open up this Buddha statue, otherwise I am afraid that it will not work.

In an instant, his face turned green, and he muttered a few words and left.

Damn, you still want to lie to me!

When I entered the temple, there were quite a lot of people, all of whom knelt down in front of the Buddha statue and kowtowed devoutly, muttering quietly in their mouths.

I didn't know who to find to help me with this matter for a long time, so I walked around the temple.

Don't really say it, I don't know if it's a psychological effect, after entering the temple, I feel much more comfortable and energetic.

As I walked into the backyard, I saw a large group of people in front of me in a circle, and every now and then let out an exclamation.

I curiously pulled over an eldest sister and asked her what was going on in front of her, what were these people doing in the backyard without going to the front door to worship the Bodhisattva.

The eldest sister pulled me aside and whispered, "Shhh ”

I pursed my lips and sneered in my heart, thinking that it was something, it turned out to be a fortune teller.

There are fortune tellers outside the temple in this temple, and there are fake monks outside the temple, although the temple is said to be a real monk, but it is the same pit for your money, and you don't need money when you first calculate, but when you can help you change your life, that is the lion's mouth.

There are only a few dozen fake monks outside, and it costs thousands or tens of thousands to change their lives here. I can't stand the coaxing of others, not only to help you open the light, but also to call all the monks to help you recite the scriptures.

When the eldest sister saw that I didn't speak, she probably saw my thoughts, and said that I didn't lie to you, young man, this master doesn't charge money for fortune telling, only depends on fate.

After saying that, she said that she was the one who was destined, and the master helped her calculate, and she would be able to get pregnant this year.

I was a little convinced, but when I heard her words, I was happy to see her age and wrinkles on her face.

This eldest sister looks like she's in her 50s, right?

casually said a few more words, and the eldest sister went out in a hurry, the smile on her face could be squeezed into a chrysanthemum, and her steps were much brisker, and I don't know if she was in a hurry to go home and make people.

Seeing that it was still early and I had nothing to do, I went over the crowd to see the strangeness.

In the middle of the crowd sat an old man, about 70 years old, with a goatee, wearing a Taoist robe, looking like a fairy.

He didn't put up a banner next to him like those people outside, with the words "The First God in the World" written on it.

It was just a simple table with a compass and a tortoise shell on it.

I watched from the side for a while, and found that it seemed to be really the same as what the eldest sister said, this master is based on fate.

Many people can count, and many people he directly waved his hand.

I was also curious, and when it was my turn, I sat in my chair.

Before he could speak to the old man, he spoke first.

"I don't watch the lives of the dead."