Chapter 67: Chen Papi
Ning Nanxi's words surprised and delighted me, and I was surprised that she was able to make the soul that had entered the Netherworld return to the Yang World again, which was by no means something ordinary people could do.
The good thing is that the monkey plays an important role in this matter, if we can really see him again, we will definitely be able to know more about the inside story, and we will also be able to know the truth about Chen Shuheng's death at that time.
Although Ning Nanxi showed a confident appearance when he spoke, I still secretly beat the drum in my heart.
After death, since people have returned to the underworld, how can they return to the yang world, could it be that those yin differences are vegetarians?
"Do you really have a way to get the monkeys in? You can't be joking with me, right? I looked at Ning Nanxi and asked tentatively.
Ning Nanxi glanced at me when she heard this, and her face showed displeasure: "When did this girl joke with you, with my current Taoism, it is indeed impossible to enter the underworld to find someone, but it is not difficult to invite the dead back to the yang world, as the old saying goes, money can make ghosts grind, as long as we don't lose our manners, we will definitely bring monkeys up obediently." ”
Seeing that Ning Nanxi was holding the victory, my hanging heart finally fell to the ground, and then Ning Nanxi asked me to prepare something.
In addition to the paper virgin and the ingots and incense candles, she also asked me to prepare incense sticks and roosters, which she said were the things used in the opening of the altar, without which the monkey could not be invited.
Our village is far away from the county seat, and we have to ask the papermakers in the village to do a white thing on weekdays.
This person's name is Chen Xuanji, who is probably in his sixties and has a strange temper.
Although he is a cripple, he has a lot of work in his hands, and the paper man and paper horse that he tied are vivid, just like the living person.
Every time someone in the village does a white thing, he will buy an ingots paper man at his house, although the business is dull on weekdays, but as long as there is a white thing, he will be able to make a lot of money.
Therefore, the villagers also gave him the nickname of Chen Papi, which means that as long as anyone has a white matter, he will be skinned by him.
I don't have much money in my hands, but I have to go to his house to get the monkey up.
When I got home, it was almost noon, and my parents were preparing lunch in the kitchen, and from their expressions, there was nothing special, as if nothing had happened.
Seeing that they deliberately concealed it, I didn't continue to ask, and if they could ask about the ugly person, they didn't need to hide it from me in the first place.
Anyway, we'll be able to see the monkeys soon, and if we follow the clues, I'll be able to find out nine times out of ten, even if they don't say anything.
When Li Hai entered the house, he had already gotten up and was sitting on the edge of the bed playing mobile games, he saw me come back and threw his phone aside, looked at me and asked: "Chen Mo, I said that you are too inadequate, why did you and that little girl throw me here by yourself, and said, what did you two do in the morning!" ”
"What are you talking about, I went to Chen's house with Miss Ning to inquire about the news, and I want to know some clues from Li Qiuyan." I looked at Li Hai and explained.
"Did you get any useful news?" Li Hai asked.
I sighed helplessly and said, "The clues we know so far are of little practical use to us......"
Without waiting for me to finish speaking, Li Haibai glanced at me, revealing a sneering face: "I already knew that you couldn't find clues, that's because you don't care at all, this lonely man and widow is always together, where do you have any intention to investigate, I'm from here, I want me to ......"
I was interrupted by Li Hai before, and this time I didn't listen to him, so I jumped on the bed and picked up his backpack, and then rummaged through it, and after a while, I took out the wallet in the backpack, and directly drew ten hundred-yuan bills from it, and then put it in my pocket.
Li Hai saw that I took a thousand yuan from his wallet quietly, his face turned green, and he hurriedly stopped: "Chen Mo, you have already taken five or six hundred yuan from me, I didn't say anything before you funded your aunt and the Chen family, if you dare to give the money to that little girl now, then I won't agree, their family has a big business, can they use your funding, and people can't look down on this money, don't do this unreliable thing, if this money is replaced with a steel hammer and smashed into the water, I can still hear a sound, If you give it to that little girl, I'm afraid you won't even be able to hear a fart! ”
Seeing that Li Hai was talking more and more, I directly reprimanded: "What nonsense are you talking about, this money has nothing to do with Miss Ning, I took this money to buy paper people and ingots incense candles......"
Then I told Li Hai what happened after I went to Chen's house and what happened when Ning Nanxi wanted to invite the monkey up, and Li Hai couldn't help but be dumbfounded and amazed when he heard it.
"I can't see that this little girl is not very old, but she is not small, and she can still invite the dead back to the yang world, this is a rare thing, I will go to Chen Papi's house with you in the afternoon, I want to see how this little girl invites the monkey up." Li Hai said with interest.
At noon, there was a dead silence at the dinner table, no one spoke, and everyone was thinking about something.
My parents seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, fearing that I would ask about last night again, but I never said a word, and they were visibly relieved until the meal was over.
After a hurried meal, the three of us went directly to Chen Papi's house, because Chen Papi is a dead man's business, so my parents didn't let me come to his house to play since I was a child, so I have never seen what his house is like, but this time because of the monkey thing to come but I was really surprised.
Although the courtyard of Chen Papi's house is not small, it is full of place, and there are paper people, paper horses and all kinds of coffins placed on the walls around the courtyard.
These paper figures were about the size of normal people, both men and women, with pale faces, red rouge on their cheeks, and lips as red as blood.
It looks a little crazy during the day, let alone at night, I really don't know how Chen Papi has come over for so many years, if it were me, I probably wouldn't be able to survive all night.
After entering the courtyard and looking around, I saw that Chen Papi was sitting in the middle of the courtyard with a paper figure tied to him, with one leg poked on the bench, and a dry tobacco bag in his mouth, constantly swallowing clouds and spitting fog.
Hearing the sound behind him, Chen Papi turned around, spit out the smoke in his mouth, and asked, "What's wrong with your family, someone has died?" ”
"You can't speak, shut up if you can't speak, how can you ask if anyone in the family has died, if someone like you was in the city, it is estimated that you would have been beaten eight hundred times!" Li Hai looked at Chen Papi in front of him and shouted angrily.
After hearing this, Chen Papi glanced at Li Hai, and said with a smile instead of anger: "This is not in the city, and whoever dies will use me, it's just a matter of time or time, okay, seeing that you are young and don't care about you as much, what's the matter with me?" ”
"I want to buy a paper virgin and incense candle ingots, do you have a ready-made one now, I will use it tonight." I don't talk nonsense with Chen, I get straight to the point.
Hearing this, Chen Papi glanced at me and asked, "Do you want to cook something for your master?" But if you burn it for your grandfather, you shouldn't burn the virgin, aren't you afraid that your milk will not be happy? ”
Chen Papi's words completely angered me, and I said directly: "If there is, there is, if there is no, there is no, why are you asking so much, I will give you a lot of money!" ”
"Heh, the temper is not small, but I can't get you out when the God of Wealth comes to the door, there are seven hundred paper virgins, and a total of two hundred incense and candle ingots, I only accept cash here, and I don't take credit!" Chen Papi looked at me and smiled.
Whether it is a virgin or an ingot, it is made of paper, and the cost is only a few dozen yuan at most, but I didn't expect Chen Papi to ask me for nine hundred, but now the matter is urgent, and he is the only one in the village who does white things, and I don't have time to buy it elsewhere, so I finally had to agree, and stepped forward to hand over nine hundred-yuan bills to Chen Papi's hand.
After taking the money, Chen Papi counted it carefully, and put it in the sunlight to look at it carefully, as if he was worried that there was counterfeit money.
After tossing for more than a minute, Chen Papi smiled and put the money in his pocket, then stood up with a stool, limped towards the room next to him, and after walking two steps, he turned around and looked at me, and asked in a low voice: "Boy, my family not only has paper people and ingots incense candles, but also this good coffin, seeing that you bought a lot of things today, how about I give you a 20% discount?" ”
"If it weren't for the fact that you're old, I'd have to beat you up, hurry up and take out the things for us to take away!" I looked at Chen Papi and shouted angrily.
Chen Papi didn't respond, turned around and continued to walk towards the house, but he seemed to be muttering something softly when he left, because the distance was too far and the voice was small, so I couldn't hear what he said.
"Is this dead lame man mentally problematic, he will say anything unlucky, and I want to see if he will burn all these paper figures in the evening with a fire, and he will talk nonsense again." Li Hai looked at me with a grim face and said.
"Okay Lao Li, more things are better than less things, he said that if we don't listen to him, we can't be angry with this kind of person." I was relieved.
Li Hai didn't seem to be angry after listening to me, and just wanted to continue speaking, when Ning Nanxi glanced at the room where Chen Papi was, and then said in a low voice: "This old man is not simple, he has a dead smell on him." ”
Hearing Ning Nanxi's words, I was suddenly stunned, and hurriedly asked, "Dead smell?" You mean to say that this Chen Peel is dead? It can't be, just now he was sitting here and I saw a shadow under him, isn't there no shadow of dirty things? ”
"I didn't say he was dirty, I meant he smelled of dead people, and he should have been dealing with dead people all year round." Ning Nanxi said in a deep voice.
"Aren't you talking nonsense, what he does is a white business, of course he deals with dead people all year round!" Li Hai said sarcastically.
"No, this smell on his body is not a fresh dead man's smell, but an old dead man's smell, if I guess correctly, this old man's identity is not simple, you take a closer look at the patterns on these coffins!"