Chapter 8: The Imp Descends
The funeral of Fubo and several other villagers was held as scheduled, and they adopted the oldest burial method, the sky burial. The so-called celestial burial refers to the removal of the organs of the deceased, throwing their corpses into the wilderness, and allowing eagles, wild beasts or other birds to devour the bodies of the deceased, in the belief that the corpses are fed to these beasts is the highest state of sacrifice - charity, because they believe that birds can bring the souls of their deceased relatives to heaven.
On this day, before dawn, the villagers in the town came to Tsing Yi Village, only to see them wearing Tsing Yi, white cloth on their heads, and a pair of straw sandals on their feet. Qi Shushu knelt outside the door of Tsing Yi Village, after the organ was harvested, he saw that the mayor's eyes were slightly red, and some small blood beads hung in his eyes, he slowly stood up and said, "The auspicious time has come, prepare for the heavenly burial."
A few strong villagers kneeling outside the door lifted the bodies of Fu Bo and several other villagers and walked towards the outside of Tsing Yi Village, stopping at the mountain temple at the foot of the mountain. Putting down the corpse on her shoulder, Bai Ruoxue's steps were blurred, and with sobbing, she slowly walked to Fu Bo's side, knelt on her knees, and held Fu Bo's right hand with both hands, "Fu Bo, you raised Ruoxue with one hand, and Ruoxue has not yet come to be filial to you, so you just left." "Fu Bo, you go all the way!" Bai Ruoxue's voice was high, a little hoarse.
I walked up to her and slowly lifted her up, looking at her tenderly, "I lend you on my shoulder." Bai Ruoxue threw herself into my arms, crying even more intensely. I just felt like I was out of breath by her.
However, my deeds of killing the ancestor of the nine-headed demon beast did not make me a well-known onmyoji, most people don't believe in the existence of ghosts and gods and think I'm bragging, I didn't explain it, thinking that sooner or later they will have to believe it when they encounter this kind of thing.
On this sunny day, Zhou Shihao and I were playing a game, and when I saw that I was about to eat chicken in the finals, the annoying phone rang again...... "What's wrong Gao Chen, Lao Tzu is eating chicken" My tone was very impatient. "Three guns, I encountered a strange thing. Where are you, I'll look for you right away" Hearing this, Gao Chen's tone was panicked. "Coffin shop" I threw down three words angrily.
Not long after, I saw that Gao Chen's hair was messy, and he hadn't seen a lot of white hair grow on his head for a few days, his face was dark, Gao Chen brushed up his sleeves, and his arms were covered with corpse spots. "What's going on?" I looked at Gao Chen with a panicked expression.
"I don't know, I've been dreaming lately. In my dream, I was holding a big knife, like an executioner who was beheaded at the ancient noon gate. Every time I cut off a head in my dream, I would wake up, and a new corpse spot would grow on my arm." "You're haunted by that thing. Take your time, don't rush to tell me about some strange things you've encountered recently or places you've been," I said in a slightly slower tone.
"Haven't you encountered anything strange lately except for your dreams?"
"Think about it and don't leave any clues"
"I remembered. Gao Chen's eyes narrowed slightly as a recollection: that night, the crematorium sent a car accident deceased, and the family asked for cremation overnight. A burst of urine hit, I wanted to find a place to solve it, but I was unexpectedly tripped and fell to the ground by an ash altar in front of the grave, Gao Chen scolded angrily and kicked the ash altar to pieces, and urinated on the broken ash altar.
"Okay Gao Chen, don't say it again, I'll find the reason" I stretched out my right hand and made a gesture for Gao Chen to stop.
"Your problem is the columbarium. When you encounter this kind of thing, you can only be in awe, take me to the place where you pee in the afternoon. ”
"Brother Pao, don't be in the afternoon, let's go right away" Gao Chen looked very anxious in his words.
"You kid knows you're in a hurry at this time, why did you go early. Wait for me to get something ready," I said to him, angrily.
Gao Chen, this kid took me and Zhou Shihao all the way to run wildly, carefully looked at this tomb bag, the tomb bag was washed by the rain very small, overgrown with weeds, and there were traces of people coming to worship, from the erected stone tablet does not look like a modern stone tablet, the tablet is crooked and carved with the tomb of Li Yidao.
I heard my grandfather once mention that Li Yidao was a famous executioner in the Qing Dynasty. There are countless people who died under Li Yidao's knife, and legend has it that Li Yidao's head was never ambiguous, and he was nicknamed the first knife in the Qing Dynasty. I heard my grandfather say that Li Yidao has been on a red desertion hundreds of times in his life, and he has never slashed the second time, and the happy ghost who died under his knife, whether it is a Jiangyang thief or a thief who rapes and humiliates him, all admire his knife skills, and they all feel that it is a rare honor to die under his knife.
"Gao Chen, now you are in big trouble, it is not good to offend anyone to provoke an executioner, often the executioner's anger is big, and it is difficult to disappear after death, ordinary people are not in a hurry to hide when they encounter this kind of thing, you are so good to provoke him." Gao Chen became even more panicked when he heard what I said, and his legs began to tremble.
"Three cannons, what should I do then?" he was about to cry when he saw it.
"Gao Chen, don't worry, this matter is easy to do, it's easier to do, it's harder to do, it's harder than climbing to the sky. It's up to Li Yidao to forgive you."
I took out the incense, ingots, candles, and raw chicken. "Gao Chen lit the incense and then kowtowed to Li three times, to be sincere"
I saw that Gao Chen's trembling hands were holding lighters, but they couldn't catch fire. I handed him the lighter in my pocket, but it was still the same.
"It depends on the situation, Li Yidao didn't intend to forgive you" After listening to me, Gao Chen sat on the ground with a pale face at this time, kept slapping himself, and said while pumping his mouth: Let me be cheap, let me be cheap.
I walked to Li Yidao's grave, bowed respectfully three times, and then said in my mouth: Dao Ye blames my little brother for being ignorant and offending you, and please raise your noble hand and let him go. After speaking, I took the lighter in Gao Chen's hand and lit the candle in my hand. I thought this would be fine, but I didn't expect that in this afternoon without a trace of wind, the candle was extinguished.
"Dao Ye, since you don't forgive my little brother, what do you need him to do, please give him your dream tonight. After speaking, I turned around and waved my hand, signaling Zhou Shihao and Gao Chen to go back with me.
Back at home, Gao Chen sat there, not saying a word, his eyes blurred. looked worried, "Gao Chen, come and eat, don't worry about the three cannons, it's not a big problem, let's eat something first" After speaking, Zhou Shihao handed a bun to Gao Chen.
"Three guns, really, is it really okay" Gao Chen looked at me with a hint of fear. I smiled slightly, "Don't worry, Lao Tie, no accident, Li Yidao will trust you with his dream tonight, and then you will do what he said in his dream."
The next day, before dawn, Gao Chen screamed, waking me up from my dream, only to see his eyes frightened, the corners of his mouth twitched, "He, he, he gave me a dream, he wanted me to be executed by Ling Chi." "What?" I shouted, looking at Gao Chen with a questioning expression. I have checked the information, and the so-called Ling Chi is to cut 3,228 knives on him, one knife cannot be more, and one knife cannot be less. "Let me think about it for a moment".
I closed my eyes and pondered, "Yes, Gao Chen will give me your birth date, height, and unique birthmarks on your body." "You, what do you want to do with that?" Gao Chen looked at me with a suspicious expression. "Don't talk nonsense, if you want to live, give it to me quickly".
After a while, Gao Chen handed me the note in his hand in disbelief. "Shihao, quick, get up, help me". Zhou Shihao reluctantly sat up on the bed, stretched out his hands, and then yawned.
"What are you going to do? Zhou Shihao looked very calm. "Tie a paper figure that is exactly the same as Gao Chen, and there can be no errors in the characteristics of the height and body" I turned my head to look at Zhou Shihao. "Shihao, you go kill a chicken and get some chicken blood"
After six hours, the paper figure was finally tied and brought to Gao Chen's side, well, the height is not a penny, and the facial features are similar, I took out the chicken blood that Zhou Shihao had already prepared, mixed the chicken blood in the cinnabar, and wrote Gao Chen's birthday on the paper figure. Then he took out the yellow talisman, pasted one on the back of the paper figure, and burned it to make Gao Chen drink the talisman ash. In this way, Gao Chen and the paper man had a heart-to-heart relationship. "Whether Li Yidao can forgive you or not depends on tonight. "I pretended to be calm.