Chapter III. Mikawa Oni City
Mikawa Ghost City? What's going on? What Da Mao said, I really haven't heard of it. Da Mao told me that it was not only me, but even Mr. Wang Chengqian, who had heard of it for the first time at that time. I hurriedly asked, do you think those small vendors along the street are the ones who sell ghosts?
Da Mao nodded and said yes, before this, the master and apprentice had never thought that there was a place in this world that was specially used to buy and sell dead people's ghosts, and a bazaar had actually been formed.
Da Mao said, these three Sichuan, in fact, because Sichuan is divided into eastern Sichuan and western Sichuan, southern Sichuan and northern Sichuan, the northern Qiang nationality, the western Tibetan nationality, the southern Miao nationality, the eastern Han nationality, the four ethnic groups each have their own culture and craftsmanship, but in the western Tibetans, they pay attention to reincarnation, and they believe that the spirit is immortal, so since they are not extinguished, where are the ghosts? So in these three Sichuan ghost cities, the only one who does not have it is the part of the Sichuan Tibetan people.
I was surprised and asked, that is to say, this is a distribution center for the masters of the various ethnic factions that formed the southeast, south, and south, to exchange and trade with each other and to buy and sell the ghosts they captured and collected, right? Da Mao said yes, and this place is not without people during the day, but they are all sleeping, because this market will only be formed at night, and people should sleep at night, so over time, this place is considered to be a market that ghosts will visit, so it is called a ghost market.
I was dumbfounded, I didn't know what to say for a long time, I always felt that something was wrong, but I couldn't say exactly where it was. Because I myself am also a person who was born to catch ghosts, I know that it is not easy to catch ghosts, and some ghosts will be more or less so angry because they are so strong that they cannot exceed it in a short period of time, and they must be offered for a cycle of Zhou Tian, and they will not be sent away until the resentment is weakened or dissipated.
My sect is not bad, I can keep these ghosts as soldiers and horses, let them be used by me on the one hand, and accumulate my own merits by helping me do good deeds, so as to achieve the goal of transcending as soon as possible, which can be regarded as a kind of meritorious service. But I know that some sects do not have the inheritance of the five rampant soldiers and horses, and these people accept ghosts, and the ruthless ones find a random place and shoot them out, and the kind-hearted ones will make special spiritual positions to worship, and the altar seems to be not much money, but every day is like this, and the cost is not small, just the incense and candles, it will cost a lot. Therefore, if some masters are living a tight life and exchange or sell the ghosts that they can't worship in their hands to other people who need this ghost more, then it really can't be said that it is wrong, it can only be said that some people are respectful and stay away.
I didn't even know about this kind of large-scale sales until today, and I was stunned. So I hurriedly asked Da Mao to tell me carefully about the business status of those vendors, and then I immediately filled Da Mao with a glass of wine.
Da Mao said, Master and I are both people who have opened the eyes of the sky, so we can tell at a glance that there are not only living people here, behind the vendors, under the stalls, and on the top windows of the broken houses, in fact, they are crowded with all kinds of ghosts, some are missing arms and legs, some are strangely shaped, men and women, old and young, as long as it is the type of ghost we have seen, we can basically find it in that place. And above, all made bamboo signs, on which the basic attributes of ghosts were written, such as men, women and children, size, strength and weakness, etc., but the names were not written, but on the back of the bamboo cards, with chicken blood stained with chicken feathers pasted on them. In front of a small vendor's stall, there are as few as twenty or thirty bamboo signs, and as many as more than 100.
I was shocked when I heard this, then this scale is really not small, I have used the soldiers and horses for so many years, and until now I have only maintained the number of thirty or fifty, which means that if I go to that place to sell all my soldiers and horses, it can only be regarded as a small and medium-sized stall. On the one hand, it may be a lonely ghost with no name or surname, so there is no worship and worship, so it can only wander around, and then be collected and sold by this group of people. Another is that the name actually symbolizes a specific person, who can find this ghost market and come to hang out and buy things, more or less are people in our industry, for example, I go, as long as I have the name of the other party, then I am fully capable of stealing this ghost secretly, so this is probably the so-called "business" anti-theft measures.
Da Mao said that because the master and apprentice can see it directly, the scene is still a little creepy, because people and ghosts, especially when the two stand together, it is actually easier to distinguish between them, and those ghosts everywhere, some of them also have a sign on their necks, and there are also chicken feathers and information on the signs, but these things look virtual, indicating that these ghosts are bound by the brands sold by the merchants, and they may not be willing to be sold. Da Mao also said that in the ghost market of Sanchuan, a long street, even if you don't go at all, just keep walking, you have to walk for half an hour to be able to reach the end of the city, of course, there are also indiscriminate fillers, but there is a sign there, but there are no ghosts around, or the ghosts do not match the description on the brand.
Da Mao told me that this Sanchuan ghost market was not so prosperous before, and it was originally only open on the first and fifteenth days of the new month, but in recent days, there have been too many deaths, so there are more people who come to do business, and even many people who are not from this Sanchuan land, and there are a lot of people from other places.
I nodded, because I knew what Da Mao was referring to when he said "too many people died", because in this year, a big earthquake occurred in a city in the north at night, and the dead people were estimated to be about to catch up with a small county town in the south. And whenever there is such a large-scale death or injury, there will definitely be masters from all over the world who appear there in a low-key manner, or help to surpass the soul, or help clean up the Yin soldiers and borrow the way, etc., but this natural disaster also came too suddenly, so that many people have died before they can react to what is going on, and the people who die in such a situation will have a high probability of becoming a bardo body, that is, they don't know the fact that they have died, and when they suddenly realize it, the memory is interrupted again and repeated, And then go through the process of going from being at a loss to waking up.
After these processes are repeated over and over again, they will wear away the original little humanity of ghosts, and in the end, it is easy to become a lonely ghost wandering around. Perhaps these out-of-town traders are also one of the masters, and they have collected too much in this disaster, so much that they can no longer handle it, so they come here to trade and sell.
Da Mao said that the person who brought us here said that what he wanted us to look for was not any of the people on these bamboo signs, but that we needed to look with our eyes, looking for a woman wearing a light green summer-style cheongsam, permed short hair, dressed up quite charming, but with a bullet hole in her forehead, about thirty years old.
Judging from Da Mao's description, this woman should be a woman during the Republic of China, because after the liberation, everyone was poor, and there was no place for Fengyue, so there were few women walking around the street wearing cheongsam, and those were all eradicated as a bad image of the old society, except for Ms. Song Qingling after liberation, who would dare to wear a cheongsam like this?
Da Mao said that he has experienced a lot in the rivers and lakes over the years, but suddenly saw so many ghosts of all shapes and sizes, as well as this eerie market, he was particularly scared, and although those Sanchuan ghost markets were lively, but the people who bought and sold basically did not speak, but directly compared with their hands, for example, I fell in love with the brand, I pointed with my hand, and the other party used my fingers or pen to write to tell me the price, asking the price only once, not bargaining, I paid for the bamboo card when the negotiation was completed, and I continued to shop if I couldn't negotiate.
It's simple and rude, and there is no need to use words to communicate at all, because everyone who comes to this market knows what they are here for, so why bother, and there are so many ghosts here, if you are heard by that powerful and energetic ghost, wouldn't it be bad luck for you?
At that time, Da Mao and Wang Chengqian also thought of this, so they didn't dare to speak the whole time, Da Mao said that just when he passed by those vendors, the ghosts behind him, on the ground, and on the house would look at him like sunflowers, as if these ghosts knew that Da Mao and Wang Chengqian could see them, one by one, expressionless, this feeling of being watched by many ghosts, but not daring to talk nonsense made Da Mao very afraid. Da Mao said, in fact, it's not just me who is afraid, even the master has never seen such a battle. But since it's entrusted to someone.,And the other party doesn't seem to be a good type.,More things are better than less things.,Isn't it just looking for a ghost.,If you find something, it's over.,From then on,Everyone doesn't interact with each other.,After a long time, it will slowly fade away.。
Da Mao said, but after this road was completed, he couldn't find it at all. So the other party asked to continue looking for it the next day, because there have been many deaths recently, and it is so lively here every night. The employer will send a lot of daily necessities every day, and the two masters and apprentices will be offered with good food and drink, and the only problem is that they are not allowed to go out during the day and locked in the house.
Da Mao told me, Brother Shankong, do you know that every day at night, he is pressed out like a prisoner and walks around, and the vendors who come every day are different, some of them leave after they are sold out, and some of them leave after temporarily changing their hexagrams, but they have been looking for nearly a month, but they still can't find it. Do you know what that feels like? It's like you're doing something that you already know the outcome of, once or twice fresh, once or twice as new, or twenty times, and you may not think that way anymore, being watched by a different ghost once a day, causing me to have nightmares every night from the third day, always dreaming of those strange faces, and only after waking up do I realize that everything I was afraid of in my dreams will have to be experienced again in reality.
When Da Mao said this, he reached out and covered his forehead, looking unbearable.