Chapter Seventy-One: The Mysterious Cat Changes
Xiang said:
Further northeast, a hundred steps away, the sunset West Mountain, the master and son cross the corpse, the corpse Chen East Lane, furnishing the incense hall,
The sky is the quilt, the earth is the hotbed, the cats are shocked, the corpses are gone, and the yin and yang are undoubtedly measured.
Shaped like a hound, the god is like a tiger wolf, barking wildly, for a long time, suddenly the moon shines, and it comes to an abrupt end.
Everything is unlucky, buried on the spot, the place of the tomb, a hundred steps southwest, a bottle of sake, and all thoughts are cleared.
Dan Ge then moved according to the hexagram.
He started at the door of Yu Ren's house, walked a hundred steps northeast, and came to a path, where he stood, there was a ditch horizontally, and the soil on both sides of the ditch was also quite slippery, and on the side of this ditch, there was a clear trace of people stepping on it.
Dan Ge was delayed for a long time at Yu Ren's house, and he didn't see any of the master's corpses when he came here, but he could see through this trace that once upon a time, there was a person here who fell, and if it was an old master, then it was very likely that he had died as the hexagram said.
So Dan Ge crossed the ditch and continued to go inside, looking for the location of the East Lane, but although it was not long after nightfall, the doors of each house were closed, the houses were dark, and the whole village was pitch black, without any light, so that Dan Ge had the illusion that the people in this village were hiding from something, "Could it be that there are masters in their village who have escaped tonight?"
Dan Ge was thinking about it, and suddenly he heard someone approaching quickly behind him, and before he could turn his head, he saw a man running out of the darkness in front of him, and these two groups of people happened to meet next to Dan Ge by chance.
"Master Zhang, thank you, what you expected is good, my father really had a catastrophe today, our four brothers and sisters took turns to guard, not letting him go out, who knew that he was suffocating, pretending to sleep to deceive us, we just had a trace of slackness, turned his head and disappeared, wait...... When he found him, he slipped to the ditch on the way and died. The man whimpered and sobbed.
"Please mourn the monks, we came all the way, and saw that the people in the village were closed and turned off the lights, it seems that you did act according to our instructions, which saved us a lot of effort, please display the corpse of the old monk in the east lane of the corner outside your courtyard, where we set up an incense hall to guard the corpse, in case the corpse of the old monk was frightened and escaped. The answer was the head of a group of Taoist priests, a gray-haired old man.
This old Taoist is wearing a beige Taoist robe, wearing a yellow crown, holding the banner of the Willing Pull, carrying a peachwood sword, the fairy wind Dao bones are leisurely, and his words are gentle like a drizzle when he speaks, but Dan Ge can hear that there is thunder in it, this is a true Dao scholar.
"Oh, as you say, please come here. The man stretched out his hand and said.
Lao Dao nodded, but did not go immediately, but turned around, and saluted Dan Ge, his hand is very rare, his right hand holds the thumb of his left hand, forming a hug hand, which is the meaning of holding yin and yang, and it is a formal Taoist etiquette. Dan Ge's eyes flashed when he saw this ceremony, and he hurriedly returned the salute, it turned out that the old Taoist had good eyesight, and he had already seen that he was also a cultivator.
"Little friend tonight, do you want to leave or stay?" Lao Dao took this opportunity to ask secretly, to see if Dan Ge is an enemy or a friend, Lao Dao asked not about Dan Ge's whereabouts, but about the situation of the corpse, several of them are bent on guarding, if Dan Ge comes out to make trouble, they must be more vigilant.
"I can stay as long as I want, I'm afraid the sky won't allow me to stay. Dan Ge quietly pointed to the heavens.
The old Taoist said that this little doll actually talked about the number of days in front of me, I really don't know what to do, but he was afraid that Dan Ge would make trouble, so he invited: "Little friend and I are the same, how about it?"
"No. Dan Ge agreed, so that he could get any reaction from the corpse as soon as possible, and he wouldn't miss it.
Seeing that Dan Ge should go down, the old Taoist walked according to the guidance of the layman on the side, and the little Taoist priests behind followed closely, and Dan Ge fell to the end after the little Taoist priests walked by. His humble behavior won a lot of favor from the old man, but Dan Ge just didn't want to be with this group of people.
The team walked forward for hundreds of meters, came to a tall and magnificent courtyard, outside the courtyard in the east, there is a little glimmer of light, there is the east lane, Dan Ge walked to the east lane, only to see that the little Taoist priests have been busy setting up the incense hall, in this incense hall, there is a three-foot north and south high platform, on the high platform there is the corpse of the old layman, the head is in the north, the corpse is completely covered by white cloth.
In the south of the corpse of the old monk, the Taoist priests set up the altar, after the arrangement was completed, the little Taoist priest sat in the east and west of the altar, the old Taoist plate was on the south side of the altar, Dan Ge was as usual, leaning on the courtyard wall, the old Taoist raised his eyes and looked at it three times, after all, there was no speech.
The night is cool, the insects around are bursting, there is no bright moon and starlight in the long night, only a darkness, there is wind pouring in this east alley, blowing the incense and candles on the altar to fan the ghostly light, and even if the flame beats violently, it never means to extinguish, this is the mana of the old way.
This went on for a long time, until it was deeper in the middle of the night, when the wind suddenly stopped, and the old man felt the wind around him extinguish, and let out a leisurely breath, he obviously thought that a difficult difficulty had been overcome.
However, Dan Ge didn't think so, this wind was extremely weird, obviously not a good thing, and sure enough, not long after, the sound of insects suddenly stopped, and there was silence between heaven and earth, and even the breathing of the little Taoist priests could be heard clearly.
Dan Ge was faintly uneasy, he felt that the corpse of Chen would soon be frightened and changed, he instinctively wanted to prevent such a thing from happening, but he pressed the impulse, and the corpse of Chen escaped so that he could get a bottle of sake according to the hexagram, which should be a good medicine for Zigui's headache.
"Poof. There was a soft sound.
This sound was in Dan Ge's heart, he felt something soft stepping on his heart, if Dan Ge expected it to be good, in front of his eyes, although he couldn't see it, but in fact, there was already something, this thing was probably the Xuan Mao mentioned by the hexagram.
Lao Dao, who was in the south of the altar, also opened his eyes thoughtfully, but there was nothing in front of him, which made him puzzled, and he glanced at Dan Ge a few more times, and Dan Ge had already pretended to be asleep, avoiding his gaze.
"Poof. Dan Ge felt the footsteps again, the thing kept moving, it was formless, it was really not a mortal thing.
"Whew. There was a sound of wind, and the thing leaped onto the high platform.
"Meow!" A miserable and sharp cry like a cat being stepped on its tail suddenly sounded, which surprised Dan Ge, a prepared person, not to mention the old Taoist and the little Taoist priest, all of them were a spirit rushing up from the ground, and then looking at the high platform, the corpse was gone.