Chapter 5 The Night Banquet in the Ghost Market
The lead balls in the temple Zhu Lao Liu took out in his hand, which was really not an ordinary thing. There was a elixir inside the elixir mercury molten lead on the outside. It is said that it was an ancient relics of the Heavenly Master Ge Xuan. The elixir is a mysterious elixir made of refined. After the rootless water is transformed, it is a dot of the Ren meridian with the Wenwu Yang pen and the Du meridian. The elixir of the Wenwu Yin pen is divided into the Du meridian. It can seal all the blessings of the human body, heavenly gifts, darkness, misfortunes... ghosts can also be sealed and will never be seen by others!
Speaking of which, this is the pill to relieve yin and yang. No matter how good or bad it is, it will be written off by this transaction and will naturally die if there is a blessing from heaven. But if it is a ghost, it will be a good medicine to cure diseases and save people.
If there were no such pill, then this child would be implicated in bad luck all his life. Not to mention that he would kill many people, he would still say whether he could lead the majority. It can be seen that Lao Liu's "Help you a bunch" was light and expensive. Even so, Bayue still muttered with suspicion:
"Uh, Mr. Liu, you must be real, don't wait..." I understand the meaning, don't believe it!
The most taboo thing in the ghost market is to inquire about the length of others. August always suspected that Lao Liu was also a member of the Onmyoji who had different pulses, but this lead sealed phoenix pill clearly belonged to the Taoist sect. He had to ask if it was important, but as soon as he said this, he knew that it was wrong-
Old Liu looked lazy and said squinted: "Oh! You said you are so hateful. Just give me a treasure and give me no gratitude, but I'm still talking nonsense... Cough! I've become Lu Zu today," he clasped his lips and stuffed the thing into his pocket: "It's rare to sympathize with someone else, but I was bitten by a dog as soon as he came..."
Turn around and leave!
"Stop!" Wu Bayue hurriedly bowed and said, "Can you behave when I say the wrong thing? Can you behave when I can't spit out ivory? - Old Liu, help me, help me!" After bowing for a few seconds, Old Liu had no intention of taking it out. Suddenly, Fu Youxin shouted: "Fatty Lu, hurry up, get two side dishes and a few pots of wine, prepare it for us Mr. Liu - we will go over and eat after we finish it!"
Whoosh ~
Lead pills appeared again like magic...
This phoenix elixir is extremely precious and it is even more difficult to use. At least according to Lao Liutou, a ghost talisman is needed, just like a medicine that suppresses the heart meridian. If not, then how can this child stand the conflict and stimulation of the yin and yang qi at that time?
Next, we naturally remove all the things on the donkey cart and prepare to open the market at night - if we want to find ghosts, we have to find ghosts, but what about places where souls gather than ghost markets?
Three days later, it will be the day when the ghost market will open.
As night fell, the child was asleep after drinking a bowl of thick rice soup. Everyone got out of their own shop, just like the entire ghost market became active in an instant.
Everyone held brooms in their hands and swept the bluestone slabs between their shops and the treasure-making gourd cauldron. After the broom, a shallow gully appeared on the bluestone. They pinched handfuls of powder from the cloth bag in their hands and sprinkled them into the ditch, and then poured sesame oil into it.
At this moment, Temple Zhu walked out with a large handful of ingots and silk, threw them into the treasure gourd cauldron, and the blazing flames immediately rolled up with the blue smoke. He muttered something in his mouth and threw the dark silk in. The flames jumped endlessly as he recited them, and it became more and more and faster-
Bang!
Suddenly, the flames in the tripod suddenly exploded!
A few sparks flew out of the cauldron and fell into the gullies on the ground. Flames immediately ignited there, but the flames burned for only a moment, and instantly turned into blue flames the size of beans!
A thick, humid, cold mist came from nowhere, covering the entire Chenghuang Temple. Countless figures swayed and swayed during the period, with only a vague outline. The temple prayed to throw the remaining ghost coins into the cauldron, then took out a thick incense that was long on his arm and lit it and inserted it on it, coughing twice:
"Okay, let's start!"
Immediately, all the figures in the fog gathered at the treasure tripod, and then ran along the blue flames on the ground to various stores.
The Ghost Market has been around for thousands of years since ancient times. The only place between Yin and Yang can connect with each other for trading, and it is also the place where the underworld gives ghosts to trade with burial objects. Although this place is dealing with ghosts for trading, the profits are dozens or even hundreds of times that of other businesses, so there are many people who make a living to take this path - as long as your horoscope is pure Yin, your fate is lower than that of ordinary people, and the three fires are almost invisible, and you can enter the Ghost Market by chance.
People are more evil than ghosts in troubled times, and this ghost market becomes more prosperous.
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Lao Temple Zhu Liu Piyun and Wang Bayue had already sat in the pub of Fatty Lu. On the table was a bowl of red eggs, a plate of dried tomatoes, a half-bouquet of peanuts, and a bowl of fried oil residue from peppers and a plate of wild game. But neither of them had ever moved their chopsticks, as if they were still waiting for someone.
Even the wine pot filled with rice wine on the table was nowhere to touch it.
It seemed that Wu Bayue was a little anxious and looked out from time to time, but she never looked at the shop where Luo Erni took care of her. Instead, she kept looking at the position of the treasure tripod. After a while, the treasure tripod suddenly sounded a few crisp sounds, and his old face suddenly stretched out:
"Old Liu, Old Liu..."
After shouting twice, the old man Zhu Liu, who closed his eyes and rested, interrupted him: "Don't panic, don't panic! I'm here, it's easy to discuss, right..."
Just as he was talking, a cold and bone-thrusting wind in the Huabao Cauldron whizzed in, and a voice in the wind laughed:
"Oh! What a big day today? Two people actually prepared such a sumptuous table of wine and food," a figure appeared opposite: "You are not so good on weekdays... It depends on your attitude, do you want to ask me for something?"
In the hazy state, I saw the visitor wearing plain clothes, a sign hanging around my waist, a black chain on my shoulder, and an iron ruler on my hands. After sitting down, the person's body suddenly became clear, as if he had looked at the person through the glass and now he had pulled away the glass tiles.
If there was still a trace of residual heat in the air, it was immediately taken away, and the entire tavern became cold, just like an ice cave!
Although he smiled, his lips, eyes, and eyebrows were all smiling, but he had an indescribable cold smell that made people unable to laugh!
As soon as the ghost appeared, the air on the table next to him immediately rippled like a wave. Several vague shadows under the oil lamp quickly appeared in their personal shape. They greeted him with laughter, and threw down a full golden lump and disappeared immediately.
The visitor nodded indifferently, and he reached out and grabbed the chopsticks and picked up a piece of wild game to his mouth. He took a deep breath. Suddenly, the piece of meat shrank a circle at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the color became much dimmer. He raked his mouth a few times and praised: "No, it still tastes so good... Fatty Lu, this guy is really good at craftsmanship!"
"That's it!" Temple Zhu Liu Piyun coughed twice and advised diligently: "If you don't try this red egg again, it tastes bad."
As soon as this sentence was spoken, the man put down his chopsticks!
He glanced at the temple Zhu and then at Wang Bayue, and suddenly laughed: "No wonder before going out today, the master said, 'There is no good wine and no good banquet'. This is what I mean for a long time - OK, if you have something to say, don't hide it, otherwise I will eat this food without any taste."
Liu Piyun laughed apologetically: "Since this is the case, I won't delay it. I really want to ask you for help if you have something to do - Is it okay for Guilu to get one for me?"
The ghost talisman is also known as the soul seduction talisman, which is the document that is placed when seizing the soul of a dying person. The Yin Si found the birth date and horoscope of the person, and then wrote it on the specific Yin Qi with a judge's pen. Before the name appears on the Life and Death Book, you must have a specific ghost man!
When he heard that it was a ghost talisman, the smile on his face immediately disappeared. He asked about the child's condition and had to go and see it with his own eyes, then took out his own iron ruler and measured the baby's three-fire length.
His face became increasingly ugly.
Seeing that he didn't speak for a long time, Wang Bayue guessed that it would be impossible to ask for the ghost talisman. She was talking about what to do with Liu Piyun, but who knew that the man suddenly walked behind and took out a dustpan and placed it on the table, and turned his head to them: "Wait, I'll inform them to send the ghost talisman up."
He actually agreed!
He scooped a gourd of clear water from the water tank and poured it into the dustpan. The clear water rippled and did not leak out of the eye of the dustpan. When the clear water filled the dustpan, he slashed the water with his hands in the air, and the water gradually retreated, and a mist-shelved ice cube appeared below.
He whispered a few words to the ice cube, then listened for a moment, nodded and said something...
Liu Piyun and the others were waiting quietly until the dustpan suddenly burst out with a rush of clear water all over the ground. When they looked up, they saw that the man had sat back at the table: "I have agreed that they will write it when they find the horoscope."
"Thank you, thank you..." The two of them thanked me, but the man stood up and clasped his fists and said, "Okay, this matter has been done for you. It's not too early, and the master asked me to go back too. - Remember, this child must not go on the evil path, and your cause and effect will not be washed away by then!"
As he spoke, his body gradually faded away. By the time the last word was heard, it had turned into a faint ball of white smoke, and the sneering sound disappeared.
A moment later, a few blue Mars exploded from the treasure-making gourd cauldron, and a black smoke emerged from it, hovering in the air for several circles and flew straight to Fatty Lu's tavern.
The black smoke gathered in the air and showed a ferocious head. He didn't say anything but grinned at Liu Piyun. When he saw their faces clearly, a gray talisman flew away from the smoke to the table, which was the ghost talisman she needed.
When I looked up again to thank me, the black smoke had already dissipated.
The two of them were not negligent and rushed towards the City God Temple. On the way, there was a familiar ghost saying hello to them and there was no time to respond. When they entered the temple, Liu Piyun took out a three-legged snake and hugged the Qiankun Mountain and River Cauldron, uncovered the lid and put the phoenix pill in it.
Then Liu Piyun ordered to bring the child to August, and he was in the Yin-Yang Department, the Quick Report Department, the Picking Department, the Good Dealing Department, the Punishment Department, the God of Wealth Department, the Sushi Department, the Eight Department, the Merits and Demerits Department, and the Inscription of Sushi. He lit the incense in front of the Eight Department of the Merits and Demerits Department, and promised him in turn. When the incense in the end was inserted into the city god, the cauldron had already started to jump, and the lid was knocked and cracked, as if there was something alive inside.
When the baby was brought, he was already asleep. Wang Bayue put the child in front of the shrine, took the remaining sponge from Basi in turn, and handed it to Liu Piyun with mugwort ash, willow root shavings, cat feces and other items. Then he gently glued the ghost talisman to the baby's forehead.
The ghost talisman was like something on a swamp, and his voice slowly melted into his body.
Suddenly, a slight green light appeared on the child's face. A faint shadow gradually floated out of him, gradually rising and rising, and no one needed to pull him. The shadow peeled off from him and lay beside him.
"Okay!" Seeing this, Liu Piyun quickly took the copper cauldron and poured the rain water in. When he opened the lid, a thick white mist flew up from the cauldron and penetrated straight into the child's nostrils like a snake.
After a moment, this soulless body actually twitched!
The soul was not idle when the body twitched, but it actually jumped up and down. In the end, it was exactly the opposite of the rhythm of the body, and it matched it tightly and as if it had been trained.
August quickly pressed the child's body with one hand, and pinched a Vajra handprint with the other hand and pressed it on the soul. He recited the "Soul-Stationing Curse" in his mouth, but the chanting did not improve at all. Instead, the child twitched more and more violently. His originally blue and white face also had black gray marks...
Beads of sweat gradually oozed out from August's forehead, and he turned his head and shouted, "Old Liu, what do you think you should do?"
Who knew that when I turned around, I saw that Liu Biyun was bowing deeply to the City God. Something had just burned in front of me, "Please help me with the City God Temple to survive this kid!"
Before he finished speaking, the mud-fetal Buddha statue suddenly moved!
Suddenly, a faint golden light appeared on the Buddha statue, and the light shone on the Buddha niche and completely enveloped the baby!
The child was twitching more and more violently, and the light became more and more intense. As the two of them were entangled, the child's soul melted slightly!
"Not good!" Temple Zhu shouted: "This Yin Si eliminates filth and evil, and the child's soul seems to be unable to withstand it - come on, you seal the Yongquan and the perineum, I guard the Niwan and pour the child's soul back, otherwise I am afraid that his double reflection and double removal will be gone!"
The two of them moved as soon as they were moved. The two of them allowed the golden light and the child's fate to be entangled, and they quickly stuffed the child's soul back - but it was strange that at the moment the child's soul returned to their position, everything suddenly stopped!
The light in the room disappeared and the two of them were not used to it. They waited for a while and could not help but be shocked after checking carefully:
The baby's destiny was all blocked, but the child's three fires and three fires were gone! From then on, the child's destiny had been separated from the book of life and death!
Chapter completed!