Ma Yiyan drove Santana and me towards the city.

On the way, I took the initiative to apologize to Lao Xuan, but Lao Xuan was an adult who didn't care about villains, "Forget it, I know that you need money on the one hand, and on the other hand, you have studied for a while and want to prove yourself, they are all people who have been apprentices, I can understand." ”

I was relieved when Lao Xuan said this, and I was worried that Lao Xuan would resent me and expel me from the school because of this.

"How are the preparations for building the Yin Bridge, you have been gnawing on the "Liujia Heavenly Book" for a few months, you should have already made a trip, right?" Lao Xuan took out a dry cigarette from his waist, and then took out a beautiful small iron box from his pocket.

Lao Xuan clicked open the small iron box, and the iron box contained some rusty red dried tobacco, Lao Xuan gently pinched two pinches of tobacco with his withered fingers, and began to stuff the dry tobacco.

"Well, it should be almost ready." I said this, but my eyes kept falling on Lao Xuan's hand that was fiddling with dry tobacco.

Because I have never seen Lao Xuan smoke dry cigarettes, I have only seen him smoke some ordinary boxed cigarettes.

It wasn't until later that I learned that Lao Xuan's dry tobacco would only be smoked at the stall of yin and yang business.

Lao Xuan said that what he put in this dry tobacco is not ordinary tobacco leaves, but those rusty red tobacco, which is a plant branch and leaf called yarrow (shi).

Lao Xuan said that this yarrow is extremely rare even in the whole country, and there are only three places in the country that have this kind of rusty red yarrow, one is Qufu, Shandong, one is Shanxi Jin Temple, and the other is Chenzhou Taihao Mausoleum.

In other places, even if yarrow grows, it is only blue, and this rust-red yarrow can no longer be found.

This rusty red yarrow is extremely rare, and legend has it that it only grows in the land of the best people.

According to Lao Xuan, in fact, this yarrow has another important use, that is, to dispel evil and avoid yin!

In the Yin and Yang merchant industry, yarrow is also known as blood yang grass, in ancient times, the blood yang grass in three places in the country was supervised by the imperial court, and only in the palace can be picked and used, even if the people want to take a look, it is very difficult, let alone pick.

Every year, the emperor would order his ministers to go to the three places where yarrow grows to pick yarrow and bring it back to the palace, and then ask the mage to open the light, and order the internal affairs office to dry and grind the yarrow, and finally make these yarrow powder into purses and wear them close to the body to dispel evil and avoid yin.

Lao Xuan said that in fact, the idea of yarrow to ward off evil spirits is not groundless.

The reason why these rust-red yarrows can grow in those three places is because the soil below them is the land of the extreme sun.

Lao Xuan said that he had heard from the mouths of the elder Yin and Yang merchants that those three places were the places where the dragon's blood was buried a long time ago. The dragon's blood is yang, buried in those three places for a long time, and over time, the soil will be edified by the dragon's blood yang, so the yarrow that grows will be affected, the branches and leaves will become rusty red, and the leaves will be filled with the dragon's blood to the yang.

Lao Xuan said that his yarrow was also obtained from those three places, and every time before doing yin and yang business, if he smoked a yarrow dry tobacco, his body would be contaminated with the blood and yang qi in the yarrow, and those evil things would not dare to easily approach and avoid it.

At that time, I didn't expect that the tobacco in these districts would have such a great origin and ability, so I didn't care.

At this time, Lao Xuan asked while fiddling with dry tobacco: "Which path did you choose to build the Yin Bridge this time?" ”

I read in the "Book of Heaven" that the methods of building a bridge can be summarized into four types.

They are called, "Please go up", "Open the Yin Gate", "Seal Sand Marks" and finally "Human and God Friendship".

Each of these four methods has its own saying.

Let's start with "please get up". This method is clear that the so-called ghost upper body, ghost possession, that is, let the ghost attach to the person's body, which is even if it is a bridge between the yin, then the ghost can use the human body to communicate with other people.

Because this method of "please go up" is relatively straightforward and relatively simple to operate, this is also a method that those charlatans often use to build a bridge between the yin and the yin.

This "please go up" is also the method I chose to build a bridge this time.

However, when I told Lao Xuan about my decision, I was sternly rejected by Lao Xuan. "No! Let's take a different approach! ”

I asked inexplicably, "Why not, isn't this 'please go up' the easiest and most commonly used way to build a bridge between the yin?" ”

Lao Xuan snorted lightly and said lightly: "Okay, if you don't want to be taken away by that evil thing, then you can use it well." ”

I was taken aback by Lao Xuan's words.

To take away is to be taken away from the body. We often see those people who have fallen into evil spirits, that is, for some reason they have been robbed of their bodies by ghosts, and their original minds and the minds of the ghosts are crowded together in the same body, and the body will inevitably be uncontrollable, which is why we often see that the mental state of those who have fallen into evil is not very normal.

If you think about it, a body is commanded by two brains at the same time, one says east and one says west, and the body itself doesn't know what to do. The original mind in the body will keep talking because it wants to break free from the control of the ghost, but the words spoken are inevitably affected by the ghost, so to outsiders, the words spoken by the evil person who have been taken away are just gibberish.

However, there is also a unique method in the "Rokko Heavenly Book", which distinguishes the words spoken by the original owner of the physical body from the disturbance of ghosts, and can understand the words of those evil people, and this skill is also understood by those charlatans.

It's just that because ordinary people don't know the real reason for this, they think they can understand nonsense, but in fact this is just a misunderstanding on their part.

Far from it, these are all off-topic.

When I heard Lao Xuan say this, I knew that I had made a mistake, but I didn't understand it for a while.

Lao Xuan looked at me with a confused look, so he said patiently: "'Please go up' is indeed the most commonly used way to build a bridge between the yin, but this time we have to face not ordinary things, your Taoism is shallow, I am afraid that you are not the opponent of the evil thing, in case you are eaten by the evil thing, it will be troublesome, I am afraid that even I may not be able to help you!" ”

When I heard this, I was even more shocked. Could Jin Siyu's ghost really be so powerful, even Lao Xuan was a little unconfident. I began to regret that I had been too reckless this time, and I hastily agreed to the horse without asking anything, but now that I am on the boat, I remember the burden on the shore, and it is useless to regret it.

The horse driving in front of him heard Lao Xuan say this, turned his head and said: "I said Lao Xuan, don't scare Xiao Shuicheng, you have beaten the drum of retreat before we have opened, isn't this deliberately bad for my business!" Xiaoshui, don't listen to Lao Xuan's nonsense, a little girl has nothing to be afraid of, just please go up. ”

Without waiting for me to speak, Lao Xuan picked up the dry smoke in his hand and knocked it heavily on the top of Ma Yan's head, which hurt so much that Ma Yan screamed, "My grass, Lao Xuan, you want to knock me when I am an egg, oops, my head hurts to death." ”

The horse rubbed the top of his head vigorously.

"It's your egg!" Lao Xuan scolded, "The eyes are filled with money all day long, why don't you dig out a dog's eye and put it on your blind eye, so that you can decorate your eyes with more money, so that you can still make money!" You've forgotten how blind you are! ”

"I ......" Ma was speechless when he was scolded by Lao Xuan, he and Lao Xuan are old acquaintances, naturally know Lao Xuan's temper, and he can't hold it back when he is stubborn.

It was also the first time I saw Lao Xuan angry, and I was so scared that I didn't dare to talk more.

After a while, when I saw that Lao Xuan's anger had almost subsided, I dared to ask: "Lao Xuan, if the road of 'please go up' does not work, then which way do you say you should take?" ”

Lao Xuanba took a few puffs of his cigarette, thought for a moment and said, "Then 'print sand marks', this is safe for you." ”

The so-called "sand marks" refer to the use of sand to communicate with the ghost, and this specific matter will be discussed later.

The reason why I didn't choose this road was because I felt that my path was not enough, if I used this "sand print", the chance of success should not be too large, maybe I might not be able to build a yin bridge overnight, if this is the case, wouldn't this be a joke for others.

Lao Xuan guessed my concerns at once, and said quietly: "Don't worry, I will help on the side when the time comes, it should be no problem." ”

I was a little relieved, but I was still a little worried about taking such a difficult road for the first time.

Maybe there are officials who are interested in the other two ways of building the Yin Bridge, "opening the Yin Gate" and "making friends with people and gods", so I won't sell it, and I'll tell you about it here.

Let's talk about this "opening the door of the underworld" first.

The so-called "opening the door of the underworld" is to open the door of the underworld.

"Open the Yin Gate, point out the ghost genealogy, and name the surname Huiyang Mansion."

The method of "opening the yin door" is one of the more difficult to build a yin bridge, and it is much more difficult than the "sand marks".

The last time he was in Zhang's house, Lao Xuan used this method of "opening the Yin Gate" to keep Zhang Tingwang's ghost. But last time, Lao Xuan used a trick. Last time, that Zhang Tingwang had just just died, his soul had just flowed out of his body, and he hadn't reported to the underworld, he hadn't taken Huangquan Road, he hadn't crossed the Nai He Bridge, Lao Xuan intercepted him with a soul locking array in the middle of the road, so it was relatively simple, and it was not a real sense of opening the Yin Gate.

The real "opening the door of the underworld" refers to directly naming people (ghosts) from the underworld, even if they are ghosts that have been dead for several years, as long as they have not been reincarnated, they can name them from the ghost genealogy, and then let them go with them.

This "opening the door of yin" requires an extremely high level of Taoism, which is absolutely impossible for ordinary people. As for Lao Xuan, I don't know if he really has the ability to "open the door of the underworld".

After talking about "opening the door of yin", let's talk about this "human and divine relationship".

The method of "human-god sex" is the most difficult of the four methods in building a bridge between yin and yin.

"Human-god communication" is also known as "God with words", as the name suggests, that is, asking the gods to bring words to the ghosts of the underworld.

People only worship gods, not ghosts, so the gods in the world are spiritual, but the ghosts in the underworld have no sense of existence.

Even if it is the black and white ghosts in the underworld, the king of Hades in the underworld, or Zhong Kui who patrols yin and yang, these people have never been worshipped, these people have no incense in the world, no incense, which means that there is no contact, there is no medium of existence, so the ghosts cannot talk through these characters in the underworld.

People in the yang world, if they want to know the news of the ghosts in the underworld, they can only use those gods to let those gods help the ghosts talk, which is the so-called "human-god relationship".

However, this "human-god relationship" is extremely profound, it needs to communicate with the gods, and it requires extremely high Taoism, and I am afraid that there are very few people in this world who can do this. The person who can do this "human-god relationship" can almost be called a real half-immortal!