Chapter 41 0041

"It's really..." Shorty Shi Er shook his head and said to himself: "An invisible fourth judge, who made people so scared? We didn't provoke him back then, but we were a little afraid of him. I've already provoked him, so what's there to be afraid of?!...In this kind of empty Pingyang, except for the ghosts of the Da Luan Tomb, I'm afraid I can't even find a rabbit, so how can there be any bandits hiding...?!" "Hey, dwarf, what's wrong with the drinking method you just mentioned?" The big bear said, "You've just sold it for a while, and you haven't figured it out yet?"

"Look at this messy mound, let's talk about it!" Shi Er'ao stuck out his tongue and licked his lips, and said alarmingly: "This kind of messy mound seems big enough, right? You don't know our hometown is 18 The seat mound is much bigger than here,... the card drinking method is not easy to practice, I said,--don’t listen to you timid ones, those who practice the card drinking method must first ask the master for a talisman, Take advantage of the dark night of the stars and moon, find a grave to burn, you have to be alone, on the day of the July 15 Ghost Festival, go to visit the grave where you burned the talisman, sincerely burn incense, candles and paper horses, Kowtow to talk to the ghosts in the grave,..."

The setting sun set behind the cloud curtain, and those large and small barren tombs slowly rotated around people.The dusk in winter is pitifully short, and within a blink of an eye, the twilight swims over strand by strand, stretching out its ears in the shade of the tomb, approaching people as if eavesdropping on something; It's not dim, just covered with a very thin layer of transparent haze, but it can make those dead tombs alive, like some white elves standing in the phantom, rushing into people's eyes with their teeth and claws... Shorty Shi Er didn't know where he came from, and raised his voice so that people five or six salt trucks away could hear his exaggerated voice... "While you kowtow, you must do everything possible to trick that Ghost," Shorty Shi Er said more and more seriously: "You have to coax him to say: I am really forced by life to do this job, I have nowhere to go, and I have to do something... Do you understand? - that If the ghost is kind, it will agree to change cards and steal cards for you if you can't stand your begging. This kind of ghost who doesn't listen to people's three good words and doesn't see people's sad faces is full of people in this world. Honest people are still honest ghosts after death, they are the easiest to deceive..."

"Hey, that's interesting!" Big Bear said, "If you didn't choose such an honest ghost when you transformed the talisman, what would you do?" "What's the matter?" Shorty Shi Er said in a muffled voice, "Ghosts are actually not the same as humans? But humans are in the yang world and ghosts are in the underworld! There are three or six or nine classes of people, so ghosts, uh, of course they are divided into three types." Six or nine ghosts! As the saying goes: When you see someone say something, you should naturally use something to coax him?!... For example, there is a money-grubbing ghost whose eyes can only see gold. Paper, silver foil, and big-headed ghost tickets—exactly, exactly the kind of ghost that Yang Shi described as "seeing money with eyes open". , jumping to death in front of him is a waste of effort!... If you meet this kind of ghost, you have to promise him some real benefits; you have to tell him the benefits of drinking cards, and allow him to win money. He burns paper and foil for him during the holidays, gives gifts, and stuffs red envelopes, and he never refuses..."

"Once the ghost agrees, a green will-o'-the-wisp will roll out of the grave, nod and wink at you, and you should know what to expect when you see that scene." The second dwarf Shi said again. Turning to the topic and saying: "Then, you have to scatter the six dice and a deck of cards prepared in advance in the wild grass around the tomb; There are stars and moons, or there are no stars and no moons, you have to come to the chaotic tomb every night, touch this grave, and secretly pick up a card or a dice,... Waiting for you to throw you away one day. If you have picked up all the cards and dice, then you have mastered your card drinking technique!"

"I can't think of a card drinking method that has so many tricks?" Wang Dagui said, "Is this how you practiced it?" "Isn't it?!" Shorty Shi Er said, "There is nothing easy in the world. Just think about it, there is a drizzle of rain on an autumn night, the sky and the ground are all slippery and sticky, and the sky is so dark." You can't see the stars and the moon when you raise your head, and you can't see the shadow of the road when you lower your head. Who among you is not allowed to bring lights and fires, and quietly, like a thief, grope into the messy mound ten times larger than this messy mound, You can't see your fingers, but you have to touch the original grave, and you have to hold your breath and reach out into the wet grass to find cards..."

"It's really not easy," said the big bear, clicking his tongue. "It's not easy?!" Shorty Shi Er said: "Sometimes you get unlucky and what you touch is not a card, but a soft and cold thing! Maybe it's a snake's tail, er, maybe it's a big toad, Maybe...maybe it's a dead child who was thrown away, smelly and messy,—you shouted to the sky?...It's too late to shout to the heavens!" "Shh," Xiang Lao San, who was walking in front, couldn't help spitting out, "Let's talk, let's talk, don't be disgusting people there, okay?!"

"Hey, that's wonderful!" Shorty Shi Er said, "I didn't feel sick when I touched it, but you felt sick when you heard it?... I went to Luanzuo to draw cards, and I have experienced everything. Grandma's, ghost fire circle I was spinning around, and the wind made my hairs stand on end. Whoever wants to learn how to drink cards will be disgusted!--What? Big bear? I said, do you still mean it? " "Why do I want to learn evil ways?" The big bear said: "Evil things don't make a fortune, you are just like a mother! You can drink cards, and I don't see where you saved your money?! Isn't it just like everyone else? Is he a pauper who can hardly afford to wear pants?!...This set of things can't fool people, but you can only fool little devils in the pile of mounds!"

"Don't be so serious, brother," Shorty Shi Er said, "I just think that everyone's long journey is boring, so I just make up something to cheer you up! I'm not in the mood to deceive ghosts. " The sun is about to sink, red like a persimmon, sitting listlessly on the treetop in front of the field shop, the sharp wind sweeps the bare branches, weeping softly, the scene of the cold winter is the most depressing , falling into the pupils of the eyes, imprinted into the bottom of the heart, making people feel empty and empty, feeling that the person suddenly becomes lighter and smaller, no longer a person pushing a salt cart on the road, but Are some dry leaves whirling with the wind, where do they fall?The salt carts creaked, and the pile of graves fell into the darkness behind them; on a long journey, people don't feel anything when they are chatting, but once they fall silent, they will immediately be overwhelmed by a sense of grayness. Covered by the sorrow of the world, countless distant, floating, overlapping, and changing images form a nightmare in the emptiness in front of my eyes. Even if I struggle with all my heart, it is difficult to get out of that nightmare; at this moment , everyone hopes that someone will say something, break the nightmare with bursts of laughter, and even Shier Shorty's rambling nonsense is good, but Shi Er Shorty actually held back Jin stopped chewing and just pushed his car.

"Short ghost, how about you play another part?" Big Bear said, "Blow another part, just push the car to the door of Yepu." "I can't talk!" Shorty Shi Er said through gritted teeth. "No one put a seal on your mouth?!" Xiang Lao San said, "Just now you were bragging about two hundred and five, how did you become unable to speak?" "I, my fucking stomach hurts!" Shorty Shi Er said, "Perhaps he was a big fish in the salt market. He ate too much oil and water, and he sweated a little on the journey and got a little cold. To loosen up."

"If you have diarrhea, just turn your legs to the side of the road, and you can do it yourself?!" Lei Yipao said, "Is there such a thing as a fuss?" Shorty Shi Er said: "I have no choice but to grit my teeth and bear it, and forget about sending shit to Yepu's cesspit!" Everyone was about to laugh, but was interrupted by Lei Yipao's voice.