The morning light was dim, and the lingering darkness of night still hung in the sky, but the city gate of Guobei County had already opened.
According to convention, city gates everywhere are opened at Chen hour, which is around eight or nine o'clock in the morning. At that time, the sun is already shining. People outside the city are bringing goods and preparing to enter the city for trade. There is a bustling scene outside the city gate. .
Guobei County, on the other hand, opens its doors at Mao hour, and the city gates are opened as soon as the sun comes out.
There is no other way.
Because of the unique ecology of Guobei County where humans and ghosts live together, every household has a habit of putting yellow symbols on the doors and windows before the sun goes down, and then closing the doors and windows tightly.
The time during the day when they can safely move around is closely tied to the sun, and people in Guobei County have developed different living habits.
All life in Guobei County is closely tied to sunrise and sunset. It begins slowly after sunrise and stops abruptly after sunset.
After all, the occupation with the highest mortality rate in Guobei County is the night watchman.
Before daylight, merchants and people entering the city came to the shed one after another to wait to enter the city.
They are either carrying goods or carrying poles and preparing to go into the city to work, but they all have a clear characteristic, that is, they keep their mouths tightly closed.
The common conversations of businessmen and the daily talk of common people are all missing here. Everyone is watching quietly with dark eyes and white eyes, almost indifferent.
Suche counted the doornails on the city gate. The brass doornails were already rusty, like yellow teeth on the dark mouth of the city gate.
Third Young Master Su felt that Guobei County was not lifeless, but just a little lifeless.
The big ghost Taigong Chong stood in the shed wearing his black robe, and he remained silent. When the observing eyes saw the black feathers on his hat, they seemed to be stung by something, and they immediately turned their eyes. Move away.
They stayed like this until the city gate slowly opened, and the people waiting in the shed began to enter the city one after another as if they were completely invisible to Taigong Chong.
It's interesting to say that both the gatekeepers and the people entering and leaving the city turned a blind eye to the big ghost Taigong Chong, who was dressed in black, as if they hadn't seen him at all.
This made Su Che suspect for a moment that this bald man was some kind of illusion wizard, and the blindness was so blinding that Master Su, who had a keen spiritual sense, could not detect it.
But when I was about to cross the city gate, I still asked a child to break his gong.
A little boy with a thick head and a thick head, who looked to be about five or six years old, followed an old lady into the city with a basket. He pointed at Taigong Chong's hat and followed the old lady.
"Grandma, run, there's a black bird ghost here."
Then the old lady quickly covered her mouth with her wrinkled and chapped withered hands.
The child's eyes were wandering around, and his small chest was rising and falling. The old lady looked at Grandpa Chong with fear and numbness in her eyes, and Su Che even saw a little bit of envy in it.
The people walking around immediately quickened their pace, and ice seemed to condense in the surrounding air.
Taigong smiled, nodded to the gatekeeper, and then led Suche and Lu Bai into the city through the city gate.
Not long after, the cry of a child and waves of whispers came from behind.
Suche smiled, and the boy cried very painfully. It seemed that the grandmother was really educating the child with her heart.
Ghosts in the Yin and Yang Realm have a bad reputation.
"Blackbird ghost?"
Suche was a little curious as to where this title came from.
"The ghosts in the world all have a feather from the three-eyed ghost crow stuck in their hats, so the people around them call the ghosts the blackbird ghost."
Taigongchong smiled: "In recent years, my lord has not been too strict in controlling the world. The ghosts often do mischief, and their reputation is not good. When I first entered the Yin and Yang Realm, the ghosts actually had a bad reputation. not bad."
"When did you enter the Yin and Yang Realm?"
"That was more than three hundred years ago. I was a young military attache in the former dynasty. When Daliang was in power, I led troops to fight with Liang Jun and lost my life. At that time, the Lord was searching for lonely souls and wild ghosts on the battlefield. I entered the realm of yin and yang."
"Three hundred years, that's a long life."
Su Che sincerely praised him. As a ghost, Taigong Chong's ability to survive for so many years is somewhat legendary.
People have life and death.
Lifespan is the number of years a person can live happily.
After death, a person transforms into a ghost, and the time he or she remains as a ghost is called Mingshou.
Su Che read in "Xuanzhongji" that there are generally two views on so-called ghosts in the spiritual world.
One school of thought believes that ghosts are transformed into human souls. The so-called lingering ghost spirit can also be regarded as a continuing form of life.
The other school believes that ghosts have little to do with original living people, just like people and their shadows. When a person dies and turns into a ghost, an irreversible change has occurred in itself. Therefore, there is a saying in Buddhism: "Once the human body is lost, it will never be recovered."
No matter which school of thought is right or wrong, one core argument here is that becoming a ghost after death is a very unstable state compared to being a human being.
Mainly manifested in two aspects, one is that one has a short lifespan, and the other is that spirituality is hard to find.
The life span of ghosts can be long or short. Most people can only live for more than a month after death. There are always words in the scriptures such as "In seven or seven days, life and death are difficult to know", which means that this period of time the ghost body can last. short.
However, the ghost body can also be practiced. By channeling the moonlight and swallowing incense, the ghostly life can also gradually increase.
This is why lonely ghosts are the most miserable because there is no one to offer sacrifices to them, so they often cannot live longer.
For all sentient beings in this world, ghosts are a real and vicious curse.
As a former military minister of the dynasty, Taigong Chong was able to be led to the Yin-Yang Realm by the Yin-Yang Dharma King after he died in battle, and he survived for more than three hundred years. This luck and practice are indeed worthy of praise.
In addition to the difficulty of longevity, another important factor is the so-called difficulty of finding spiritual enlightenment.
When a person is alive, as long as he is willing to make progress, whether through reading or observing his surroundings, his mind will always grow little by little.
From a young age, I was ignorant, and then practiced to be transparent, and finally matured. Just like a sapling, although it grows slowly, it will eventually bear fruit over time.
For ghosts, it's the exact opposite process. Once they die, the biggest problem is the irreversible decline of their intelligence.
Sometimes, the life of the underworld may not be over yet, but the spirit has been lost and eventually turned into a ghost.
As a lonely soul who died in battle, Taigong Chong has lived for more than three hundred years, and his spirit has not died.
Su Che felt that on the one hand, this showed that the Taigong had something extraordinary about his ghost, and it also showed that the opening of the Yin-Yang Realm by the Yin-Yang Dharma King was not a good thing for the people of Guobei County.
But for a group of ghost cultivators, it is indeed a pure land, providing more possibilities.
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