Chapter 2 Chapter 2 The Corpse Inn

At this time, the boss of the corpse inn wiped the dusty shrine with a rag, and took out three incense sticks to light—of course he didn't light incense with bare hands, he used flint.I worshiped the shrine three times and offered incense. Careful people will find that the boss is not an ordinary Guanyin or a fairy like a Tathagata, but a monster with a bull's head and a human body. The boss smiled and said, "If I remember correctly, you are from the Wei family in Chenzhou, right?" The old man bowed slightly, and said, "Yes, I am Wei Qiuxi, and this is my grandson Wei Ning. Ning'er, his name is Grandpa."

Wei Ning was a well-behaved person, and quickly called Grandpa.The boss seemed to like him very much, patted his head, and said with a smile: "You look good, I don't know why your grandpa is willing to let you eat this bowl of rice." Wei Qiuxi smiled slightly and said, "The things passed down from the ancestors should never be lost." The boss seems to have a cheerful personality. He introduced himself: "My surname is Zhang, and everyone who knows me in Guanzhuang calls me Zhang Laosi. Counting from my grandfather's generation, this inn has been open for a hundred years. That is to say, in recent years, there have been wars and ruins every year, alas..." Zhang Laosi looked a little sad and sighed, "I just didn't expect that there would be a rushing gentleman coming here recently-the Wei family should have been chased by no one for a long time. feet?"

Wei Qiuxi's expression changed slightly, and he quickly regained his composure, and said with a smile, "The Zhang family in Guanzhuang has heard about it since my grandfather's generation. In the past, all the masters who drove from Xiangxi passed through Guanzhuang, and there was no rest here—— Originally, my Wei family has long since stopped doing this business, but this time it was really entrusted by others, so I had to take this trip. Nowadays, young people are very open-minded, chanting slogans such as science and democracy all day long , we don’t understand either, alas. The times have changed, how can anyone look down on us old immortals who deal with the god of joy all day long.”

"Yeah, the times are different." Zhang Laosi sighed and changed the subject: "Xi Shen hasn't eaten yet, so I'll do it now." Zhang Laosi turned around and entered the house, and after a while, he brought out three dishes, one stir-fried potato, one eggplant, and a small bowl of pepper sauce unique to Xiangxi, plus two bowls of rice. It seems that Zhang Laosi's family is not rich . Wei Ning, who had been hungry for a long time, was not polite, and hurriedly grabbed the bowl and was about to start, but was stopped by his grandfather: "Xi Shen didn't even eat, why are you in a hurry."

Wei Ning quickly stopped, Wei Qiuxi ordered each dish with chopsticks, muttering something, as if he was inviting the god of happiness to eat, and then burned a stack of Ming coins in the southeast, and Zhang Laosi poured all the food back into the pot again After frying it again, it was brought up again, which means Xishen has used it. After the meal, Wei Qiuxi called Wei Ning and said: "Go and see the seven orifices of Xishen, whether the cinnabar has fallen off, if it falls off or becomes loose, then fill it up with cinnabar, if the seven orifices are not connected, you will get angry."

Wei Qiuxi conjured a stack of Chenzhou talismans from his bosom, handed them to his grandson, and said: "Put this talisman on the forehead, chest, arms, and knees respectively. Be careful not to remove it until the new talisman is pasted on it." Old talisman, otherwise the corpse spirit will attack, and the consequences will be disastrous." Wei Ning responded, and because Xishen was tall, Wei Ning pulled a bench and stood on it, Xishen's eyes were closed, and his seven orifices were sealed with cinnabar, a specialty of Xiangxi. Wei Ning was timid and bold, facing the corpse Not at all timid, he checked Xishen carefully.Wei Qiuxi stared intently at the lamp in the southeast corner, the flame was straight without any trembling.

Wei Ning knew that the matter was important, so he didn't dare to be sloppy at all. He stuck the Chenzhou talisman on the designated position according to his grandfather's instructions, and then tore off the old talisman. scattered like butterflies. Wei Qiuxi breathed a sigh of relief. Although Wei Ning was young, he did things neatly and neatly, not inferior to adults at all—even if you are an adult now, I am afraid that you would not dare to be in the same room with the corpse, let alone help the corpse change. spell. Suddenly a gust of drafts blew over, and the flames in the southeast corner flickered, Wei Qiuxi's expression changed drastically, and he hurried forward, hoping to protect the dancing flames, at this time Wei Ning was facing away from the god of joy, and was sitting on a chair with a bench superior.

Huh, Wei Ning only felt a gust of wind blowing behind him, turned his head to look, and was frightened out of his wits. It turned out that Xishen had stood behind him at some point, and his eyes, which were originally closed, had opened, wheezing. Breathing out white air, he stared at Wei Ning intently. "Grandpa!" Wei Ning yelled in fright, but Wei Qiuxi had just walked to the oil lamp at this time, four or five meters away from Wei Ning, how could he catch up with Xishen who was behind Wei Ning? "The god of joy is gone!" Zhang Laosi yelled in fright, jumped three feet from the table, and ran to the back of the main room.

Xishen stretched out his long arm from the shroud. His pale arm was frighteningly green, without a speck of blood on it. His fingernails were long and sharp, and they were black. His arm was covered with white hair about an inch long. He grabbed Wei Ning with both hands. Lifted upside down. "God of joy, calm your anger!" Wei Qiuxi took out a small sword made of copper coins from his bosom, and lit a string of charms with his left hand as if conjuring. , making a clicking sound, lifting Wei Ning even higher, as if he wanted to hold his feet and tear Wei Ning apart.Wei Ning struggled desperately, but the dead body seemed to be so powerful that it grabbed Wei Ning's legs alive, no matter how hard Wei Ning struggled, he couldn't break free.

Seeing that Wei Ning was about to be torn apart alive by this dead body! "Quick!" Wei Qiuxi strung up the burning charm on the copper coin sword in his hand, and ran forward quickly. The copper coin sword pointed directly at the forehead of the dead corpse, and went straight through the forehead of the dead corpse! What's even more strange is that the dead body did not bleed. "Dang!" With a loud noise, the copper coin sword passed through the dead body's head and landed on the wooden board behind. On top of the burning Chenzhou Talisman. Phew, the Chenzhou Talisman not only did not go out when it met the water, but burned even more vigorously.

Wei Qiuxi yelled: "Please return the god of joy!" The god of joy seemed to be stiff, his hands stopped in mid-air, Wei Qiuxi hurriedly rescued Wei Ning. Wei Qiuxi slapped the bronze coin sword on Xishen's chest, back heart, hands, and feet several times, then took out a wooden nail from his bosom, inserted it into the throat of Xishen, and sighed : "There is a person in front of you. I didn't expect you to be so evil after death. I can only lock your soul with locust wood. After you are buried in the ground, I will naturally release your soul and let you reincarnate. I have offended you, please forgive me." Wei Qiuxi lit a few more talismans, put the burnt talismans into a white bowl, and said to Wei Ning, who was still in shock, "Drink it, so as not to be poisoned by the corpse." Wei Ning frowned looking at the dark things in the water, but still reluctantly drank it. At this time, Zhang Laosi appeared out of nowhere and said, "Did you meet a ghost blowing the lantern just now?" Wei Qiuxi nodded, and Zhang Laosi said: "I have grown up so much, this time it can be regarded as an eye-opener. Could it be that the master met a black-hearted businessman, and the spells and cinnabar he bought were all Xibei products--people nowadays, He dared to lie to the dead, unlike us back then, beware of retribution." Zhang Laosi sighed and shook his head. Wei Qiuxi said indifferently: "These are handed down from the ancestors, not bought temporarily." Zhang Laosi patted Wei Ning's head and said, "Little friend, are you injured? You were so brave just now." Wei Ning was obviously very dissatisfied with Zhang Laosi's escape just now, snorted, turned his head away, and did not let Zhang Laosi touch it, Zhang Laosi didn't care, and said: "Master has been tired all night, since Xishen's corpse evil has been relieved, Just go to bed early, it’s still the old rules, I will keep the lights for the masters.” Wei Qiuxi frowned and said: "That's not right, the god of joy is beckoning, I have never encountered it in my travels, let alone me, even my Wei family has never encountered it in several generations - there must be something beckoning around here, Zhang Fourth brother, have you heard that there is something unclean around here?" Zhang Laosi shook his head and said, "Our place has always been clean, I have never heard of it." Wei Qiuxi murmured: "This is really strange, it shouldn't be like this!" Wei Qiuxi glanced at Xishen, at this moment he was standing there upright, the pagoda tree in his throat was particularly eye-catching, Wei Qiuxi couldn't understand it, thinking I thought too much, so I said to Zhang Laosi: "Then please help me keep an eye on this lamp. It must not be extinguished. As long as there is any movement, you must wake me up immediately." Zhang Laosi said: "It's not the first time I've looked at the lamp, I still know the stakes in it, you can just rest." Wei Ning was frightened by the God of Joy, and lay far away from the God of Joy, lying in Wei Qiuxi's arms, and soon fell asleep.Wei Qiuxi was also tired, so he gave Zhang Laosi a few words and fell asleep leaning on the table. "Not good!" Wei Qiuxi woke up from the dream and sat up abruptly. At this time, Wei Ning was soundly asleep. Wei Qiuxi pushed Wei Ning away from his arms, only to see that the oil lamp in the southeast corner had been extinguished! And Zhang Laosi actually fell asleep on the ground! Wei Qiuxi hurriedly woke Zhang Lao Si up, and said anxiously, "You, how could you fall asleep!" Zhang Laosi answered in a daze, Wei Qiuxi was so angry that he slapped him hard, "Why is the Xunxiang lamp off?" "What?" Zhang Laosi trembled in fright, and saw the oil lamp go out. Wei Qiuxi was trembling with anger: "Didn't I tell you to take care of it! You, how could you let it go out! Something big happened!" "I don't know why I fell asleep. I went to bed very early last night. Besides, it was in broad daylight. What, why did I fall asleep?" "I'm too lazy to talk to you, where's Xishen?" "God of Joy, what's wrong with God of Joy?" "The God of Joy is gone!" Wei Qiuxi turned pale with anger. What, the god of joy is gone, only then did Zhang Laosi realize it, and looked behind the door panel, it was really empty there. Did Xishen go away? "Alas..." Wei Qiuxi sighed for a long time, recovered his reason from the rage, and said, "You also know what will happen if the god of joy goes mad. You saw it last night. I tried my best to suppress it, and the seven orifices As a result of being sealed by cinnabar, if the God of Joy once fully opened its seven orifices and turned into a corpse, what would be the result?" "Remember the Wang family in Xupu a hundred years ago?" Zhang Laosi shuddered all over his body. A hundred years ago, the Xupu Wang family was originally the largest family among the mortician artisans. Because they lost a corpse, they turned into corpse ghosts, killing more than 200 people in a village overnight. Killed, the Wang family committed suicide in order to atone for their sins, 74 members of the family, including more than 30 morticians.Since then, the Xupu Wang family has been completely erased from the history of exorcising corpses. "What should we do now?" Zhang Laosi asked. "Look for it. You must find the God of Joy before dark. Now it is daytime, and the corpse spirit cannot attack. If it gets dark, the consequences will be disastrous." "Yes, what are you waiting for, go find it quickly." Zhang Laosi patted his forehead. "Wait a minute, I felt strange about this from the beginning, are you really sure there is nothing unclean here?" Zhang Laosi pondered for a while, and said, "Really not." "That's strange." Wei Qiuxi said, "Did anyone die unjustly?" Zhang Laosi wryly smiled and said: "That's too much. Over the years, there have been so many wars and so many people have died. Who is not wronged? If they all turned into ghosts, the people in Guanzhuang Town would have been killed by ghosts long ago. " Wei Qiuxi pondered for a while, then suddenly asked: "Who is the last person to stay here?" Zhang Laosi thought for a while, and said: "It's almost forty or fifty years ago. At that time, it seemed that a young man came here, and he also picked up a god of joy. Later..." "What happened later?" Wei Qiuxi asked. "I don't know what happened later, but he was caught by the local security chief, saying that he had committed a crime, and then he was killed by the security chief. When he died, he heard that his eyes were wider than a bull's eyes. Poor ,pitiful!" "Where is the God of Joy?" "It seems to be buried." "Where is it buried?" "It seems to be buried in the six dead and five buried. People here are buried there when they die." "That's it." Wei Qiuxi nodded, and said: "It must be causing trouble, so it's much easier to deal with. According to the time, the corpse should have been decomposed for a long time. It has a soul but no body. Xishen has a body and no body." Soul, once they fit together, then..." "That's it, transforming into a human and resurrecting?" "If you really change into a human being and come back to life, it's a good thing. It's a merit. I'm afraid it's not that simple. Once they fit together, they will become a 'walking corpse', which will cause harm to the world. At that time, we will die a hundred times. atoned for his sin."