Chapter 393: Ghost Play
Li Qiufan's exaggerated description of the help-seeker was no longer strange, so he asked him lightly what the murder method was, and the driver slowed down and told the story.
It turned out that a material exchange conference was being held in their town recently, and the beginning was quite smooth, but just as it was about to end, something happened.
According to the custom, the material exchange conference is generally on the same day as the local temple fair, one of the customs of the year, also regarded as a sacrifice to the gods, the town as usual invited a quite famous troupe to sing, the price is not cheap, more than 20,000 a day, modern people have not much interest in opera, there are only a few old people with Mazha in the audience to watch with relish, there is basically no one behind the backstage after dark, but even if there is no one, the troupe is still singing on stage, and there is no slack, singing in one move and one tone at a time, extremely serious and focused, this is a tradition, and everyone who sings opera knows it, because it is not only people who come to see the opera.
As soon as the play starts to sing, it is a listener from all directions, a mortal on one side, and a ghost and god on the seven sides, and once it starts, it can't stop, no matter whether anyone listens to it or not.
The strange thing happened on the last day of the material exchange conference, at ten o'clock in the evening of the same day, the troupe sang the last song and prepared to go back to the hotel to rest, but who knows, at twelve o'clock in the evening, the uncle who watched the scene got up to make it convenient, and suddenly heard the sound of gongs and drums from the stage, and the audience was full of people watching the play.
The uncle thought that he was asleep, and rubbed his eyes several times and looked at it again, yes, he was indeed still singing, but there were so many people in the audience, surprisingly, the silence was terrible, there was no noise at all, and the spectators were motionless like wooden stakes.
The uncle stepped forward curiously, stretched out his hand and patted the shoulder of a person in the back row, the hand was cold and piercing, the man turned his head, and immediately scared the uncle, his face was black and blue, and his pupils were pale, where is this living person! The uncle's drowsiness suddenly woke up completely, and after living for decades, he knew that he must have encountered a ghost show, so he ran away and told the person in charge of the material exchange conference about it.
The person in charge was a nephew of the uncle, and he was surprised when he heard this, but he still didn't believe it in his heart, after all, the old man was old, and it was inevitable that he would be dizzy and talk nonsense, so he decided to go and see it the next day.
Early the next morning, the person in charge took a few workers to the scene to check, because there is no vacant land in the town, the material exchange conference and the stage are set up in a relatively remote place in the suburbs, after the conference, except for a group of wild cats and dogs in the garbage heap to eat, there is no one else.
The group rushed to the stage, and the scene at that time directly made more than a dozen middle-aged men feel numb on their scalps and break out in a cold sweat, because on the stage, they were really singing, and it was the troupe that was originally going to leave in the morning... And the repertoire was something they had never heard before, and the decoration on the stage was completely different from the previous one, with paper lamps and white cloth, like a mourning hall set up after a dead person, and several musicians with bloodless faces and blood-red cheeks blowing stiffly.
There are long tables and benches in front of the stage, but there are only three Taishi chairs and three antique tables in the front row, there is an incense burner on the table, three pillars of incense are inserted, the green smoke is slowly burning, and the incense burner is surrounded by some food, but after a closer look, I found that these meals are actually prepared according to the meal of the dead!
A bold young man yelled at the troupe a few times, asking them what they were doing, and they still sing, but no one paid for it, but after calling several times, no one answered.
Just when everyone was at a loss, a yin wind suddenly blew, and everyone only felt a flower in front of them, and when they looked at it again, they found that the table under the stage was already full of people.
A group of people instantly felt a chill rush from the soles of their feet to the top of their heads, hugging and moving to the side, only to see this
The group of 'people' all had black and blue faces, pale eyes, and stiff faces, and they leaned on the burning incense and sucked it violently, and the incense immediately burned to the bottom, and then sucked at the dead man's rice on the table...
This scene directly caused everyone to fall into an ice cave, and they turned around to run, but they found that their legs were frozen in place as if they had been filled with lead, and they couldn't move anything.
After sucking the dead man's meal on the table, a pair of white eyes stared greedily at a group of living people...
With a scream, the person in charge of the material exchange conference was terrified to the extreme, touching his body, a string of bracelets was torn off by him, fell down, just landed on his feet, and then his legs were suddenly able to move, not caring about others, the person in charge fled here without looking back, but the group of people who went with him never came back.
This is not the end, since the day of the fight, people in the nearby residents have disappeared from time to time, looking around, and found that they are all staying under the stage to watch the play, and that appearance is obviously no longer alive...
After listening to the driver's narration, Li Qiufan couldn't help but sit up straight, if what he said was true, then this group of sneaky people would not be simple...
While walking, he said, more than two hours later, the car stopped in front of a small villa, and there was a middle-aged man standing at the door, dressed as a successful person, but his hair was a little messy, his face was waxy, and there was a faint layer of gray gas, which looked listless.
"Come in, you two, I've admired the name for a long time, if you can come, we will be saved!" The middle-aged man warmly welcomed the two into the door, poured tea and smoked very respectfully.
Li Qiufan lit a cigarette with the fat man, took a puff and said, "What is the boss's name?" ”
The man himself lit a cigarette and said, "My surname is Lu Yuan..."
Li Qiufan said: "The ins and outs of the matter, the driver is almost the same as we said, but we still have to go to the scene to see what the specific situation is." ”
When Lu Wanyuan heard that he was going to that ghost place again, his body shook unconsciously, and he swallowed and said, "Now? Want to stop preparing? ”
"Prepare what?"
"Black dog blood, rooster blood and the like, don't you mages need these to catch ghosts?"
Li Qiufan smiled, patted his bag and said: "No need, we are all ready to prepare, we can easily hook away the souls of so many young adults, things like black dog blood don't play a role anymore, you just lead the way, and leave the rest to us, rest assured, take you there, and we will definitely be able to bring you back safely." ”
Lu Wanyuan gritted his teeth and thought about it, and nodded heavily: "I believe in the ability of the two of you!" Let's go! ”
Getting in the car, the three of them went out of town, and it didn't take long for them to come to a vacant lot in the suburbs, and when they got out of the car, Lu Wanyuan still couldn't help but shiver, and the cold sweat on his forehead kept coming out, there were still hundreds of meters away from the stage, but he could clearly hear the sound of singing, the open space was under a mountain, and it was cloudy, plus it was a cloudy day today, so it felt a little dim and the atmosphere was forested.
Li Qiufan opened the Heavenly Eye and looked over, and sure enough, he saw a cloud of yin qi coiled above the clearing, gathering but not dispersing, judging by the intensity of the ghost qi, the number of ghost things here is not a few, and there may even be a ghost general level ghost thing!
Li Qiufan said in a deep voice: "Boss Lu, you have found us a big job!" ”
Lu Wanyuan said: "Master, as long as you can settle these ghost things, I will increase my revenge tenfold!" ”
Li Qiufan raised his eyebrows: "Ten times that of 100,000, it is 1 million..."
The role of a mage, I'm going to fight them today. ”
"Mage righteousness! Thank you on behalf of the people in the neighborhood! Lu Wanyuan bowed his hand with emotion.
Li Qiufan took a deep breath, asked the fat man to activate the Qianji umbrella to protect the rich man, and then the three of them walked straight to the stage, the closer they got to the stage, the louder the opera sound that made people get goosebumps, and the yin qi became more and more intense, and the temperature became much lower.
Needless to say than Li Qiufan said, the fat man directly took out the ghost bell and shook it, the bell was crisp, and a circle of spiritual power that was invisible to ordinary people rippled out, forcing back a lot of the yin qi that surrounded him, and then the fat man threw out a thousand machine umbrellas, and a golden light sprinkled down, covering the two of them, and Lu Wanyuan instantly felt less cold.
"Master Li... Don't you have to come in an umbrella? Lu Wanyuan was shocked by the fat man's hand, completely convinced, and cared about Li Qiufan again.
The fat man smiled: "If he has to hide, then we can run for our lives." ”
The three of them finally walked under the stage, the piercing and shrill singing sound desperately drilled into people's ears, making people a little dizzy, and the figures of a hundred and ten people sat neatly under the stage, staring at the stage motionless with their miserable white eyes.
Li Qiufan watched it for a while, and he happened to know the play he sang on stage, called "Tanyin Mountain" is about a girl Liu Jincia Lantern Festival night lantern watching, was deceived by the scoundrel Li Bao, forced to marry and did not obey, was hanged by Li Han, the witness Yan Cha dispersed, but was unjustly killed as a murderer for the county Jiang Wanli, Yan died and did not fall, Yan Fu sued Bao Zheng, Bao Zheng Xia Yin Cao decided the case, the judge Zhang Hong is Li Bao's uncle, secretly tampered with the book of life and death, unfortunately was discovered by the oil ghost, Bao Zheng went down to the five halls, the king of Hades ordered the judge Zhang Hong to check the book of life and death, and the book noted that Liu was hanged by Yan, Bao didn't believe it, and then went to Yinshan, visited the ghost of Liu, and learned from the mouth of the ghost that the judge was Uncle Nanny Li, because of the fact that Li changed the book of life and death privately, and then asked the ghost to confront him, the truth was revealed, Yan Jun angrily reprimanded Zhang Hong, Bao Zheng knife judge, ordered someone to arrest Li Bao, Liu Jin Cicada returned to Yang, and Yan Cha broke up the marriage.
When I was a child, as long as there was an opera troupe in my hometown, it was guaranteed to be full.
Li Qiufan listened to it very attentively, and after singing the song, he still felt a little unfinished, shook his head and smiled, raised his voice and said on stage: "Sing well, I still want to listen to the song "Zhong Kui Marries Sister", I don't know if it's convenient?" ”
The sound of gongs and drums on the stage stopped abruptly, and the actors and the audience twisted their heads towards Li Qiufan almost at the same time.
A hollow laugh came out of the mouth of a Hua Dan, and then a flicker, appeared in front of Li Qiufan, with a light wave of his long sleeves, and an extra pair of tables and chairs appeared in the open space.
"Your guest has a request, we should obey it, please take a seat!"
Li Qiufan sat down with a golden knife and looked at Hua Dan with a smile: "The ghost will be cultivated, do you still need to borrow it?" ”
Hua Dan poured Li Qiufan a cup of tea and said: "When you sing on stage, you have to find a host who is with my heart, please use tea, the pastries are also good, I made them myself." ”
Li Qiufan picked up the teacup and looked at it and said: "Dead man's tea, yin ghost rice, the living can't eat it..."
"The Point Guard Is Here"
When the refreshments entered his abdomen, the Gang Qi in Li Qiufan's body automatically surrounded him, forcing the ghost qi in the almost body out of his body.
Lightly exhaling a breath of black gas, Li Qiufan said: "I drank the tea and ate the pastries, can I sing?" ”
Hua Dan smiled: "Yes, it's just "Zhong Kui's Marrying Sister", I haven't sung it for a long time, but there are other tracks, do you want to listen to it?" ”
Li Qiufan nodded, called the fat man and Lu Wanyuan to sit down, ready to enjoy this ghost show!