Of course, I saw nothing...
However, Master Cao picked up a pole leaning against the corner, cursed and walked towards the door.
"I'm sorry to you, sir! You're so brave. You actually came to my coffin shop to find someone. If I don't give you a good beating today, you won't know who is the boss of this street."
Seeing him like this, I silently gave him a thumbs up.
So domineering!
I also walked towards the door. At this time, through the reflection of the Bagua mirror placed on the door, I saw a woman in white clothes standing in front of the door. Her long hair spread down to her waist, completely covering her face.
It is invisible to the naked eye and can only be seen in the mirror above the door.
Obviously, she is a female ghost.
Master Cao waved the pole in his hand and hit the female ghost.
It immediately floated away into the distance. Master Cao chased it and hit it several times, hitting a stick.
I heard a faint scream in my ears.
Pooh!
Master Cao spat. Standing on the street, with one hand on his hip and the other holding a pole, he was still cursing: "Look at you, you're such a pitiful wandering ghost. You haven't done many bad things. Just forget it today. Don't blame me for those who bump into my house again." You're welcome."
I don’t know why, but the appearance of the female ghost just now reminds me a bit of the time when my master deliberately made himself crazy.
Don't tell me, except that the clothes she wears are made up of various colors and fabrics, the overall look is quite similar!
So I laughed a little.
Master Cao, who was walking back this way, was shocked on the spot.
"Xiao Wu, you are not afraid of being bumped into by a stranger, but you are still smiling? You are worthy of being Qin Xiangu's apprentice."
Crasher is another dialect word for sneaky.
As for the Lusui, they are actually ghosts wandering near the crossroads.
I knew he had misunderstood, so I quickly waved my hand and said it was because he had thought of other things, and then asked what was going on with this female ghost? From what Master Cao meant, it seemed like he knew him.
He sighed and said something like that.
It turns out that this female ghost is actually a daughter-in-law who married from out of town.
I live in a row of houses facing the street not far from the intersection. I have a relatively gentle personality and usually have good relations with my neighbors.
As a result, I went out to buy groceries more than a year ago and was accidentally hit and killed by a drunk driver while crossing the road.
Of course the driver was sentenced and paid compensation.
Her husband's family also moved away from the town, and they don't know where they went.
This female ghost probably felt aggrieved. She was kind in life, but ended up with a violent death. So the soul of the dead has been lingering at the crossroads and turned into a ghost.
But because he has never done any harm to anyone, he is usually considered honest. Master Cao thought she was pitiful, so he didn't pay much attention to the matter.
After all, he is just a coffin bearer and auspicious artist, and saving the souls of the dead is not a particularly professional thing. It is too troublesome!
"Today it is probably because of your feathers that it is too attractive to it. So I want to follow you and suck in your yang energy while you are asleep. When I am free tomorrow night, I will go and save it. Tired. Just be a little tired.”
Master Cao talked nonchalantly and entered the coffin shop with me.
Let me go back to the house to rest first, and then at twelve o'clock in the evening, I will go to a family's house outside the town to help carry the coffin for the burial. I also bought the coffin from him, which is considered a one-stop service...
I don’t know, am I lucky or bad?
This is my first day here, and I have to help carry the coffin.
Although he said that I didn’t really need to put in too much effort, I just wanted to learn a little bit to open my eyes and become familiar with the process.
Deng Deng walked upstairs, passed a bunch of various paper figures and horses, and arrived at my room.
Open the door and take a look.
really!
The room that was still as dirty as a garbage dump in the morning is now clean and tidy, and even the single bed against the east wall is well made.
"Master Cao didn't clean it himself, right?"
I'm very curious.
After walking around the house a few times, it was so clean that there wasn't even a trace of dust.
call!
I lay directly on my back on the bed, holding my head in my hands and looking at the white mosquito net above my head.
This will be my room for the next three years!
I must have been a little tired during the day, so I fell asleep in bed. While half asleep and half awake, I heard vague sounds around me, rustling, like something moving.
If I were somewhere else, I might be a little scared. But this is Master Cao’s coffin shop!
Masters all said that he was a powerful coffin bearer and paper maker.
I just saw how tough he is with carrying a pole to chase down female ghosts. There can't be evil spirits coming in here, right?
So I feel more at ease.
When I woke up and looked at the time, it was almost eleven o'clock in the evening.
Master Cao said that he would start carrying the coffin at twelve o'clock, so considering the time, he should be setting off soon. So I was planning to go downstairs and wait in the shop on the first floor.
Come out of the room and pass by the place where Yin paper products are placed on the second floor. I found that the positions of several paper figures seemed different from those seen during the day!
"Huh? I remember that the boy paper figurine was in the middle, but why has it moved to the left now? And the paper figurine that looks like a little girl is placed differently."
Curiosity made me look closer.
The light was dim and I got very close.
Then I discovered that the palms and sleeves of the paper figures here were a little dirty, as if they were contaminated with a lot of dust.
"What did Master Cao do? These paper figures were fine during the day, but now they are stained...wait a minute!"
A surprising thought suddenly flashed through my mind.
Could it be that these paper figures helped me clean the room?
As soon as I thought about it, a picture popped up in my mind: In a dark room at night, several paper figures were cleaning the room. Mopping the floor, dusting, making the bed... During this process, some dust gets on the body and becomes dirty.
My back feels chilly!
Although this was Master Cao's method, he definitely had no ill intentions toward me and even helped clean up the room. But when I think about it, it still feels a bit scary.
More importantly, when I was treated to a treat by an old ghost two or three months ago, I was carried over by a paper figure enshrined as a ghostly object in front of the grave, so I was a little scared of this thing...
But I still tried my best to smile and clasped my hands together, and thanked the paper figures in front of me: "It should be the room you helped me clean, right? Thank you very much, thank you for your hard work."
With that said, I turned around and prepared to go downstairs.
I don’t know if it’s an illusion or what happened. The moment he turned around, with the dim light in the room, he seemed to see the expression changes on the faces of several paper figures, and there seemed to be smiles on the corners of their mouths.
…
When we arrived at the coffin shop, Master Cao was sitting at the door smoking.
It's the kind of dry tobacco with a pot spout, which tastes very pungent and is filled with smoke.
Seeing me coming downstairs, he smiled and said, "You're quite on time. You didn't ask me to go upstairs to wake you up."
"That's right, we can't miss the point. Otherwise, master will definitely scold me when I go back. By the way, Master Cao, did the paper man clean the room for me? Is this the method of the Yin Paper Technique?"
Yo!
He knocked the cigarette rod against the door: "Xiao Wu is good, isn't he? You can see it! Indeed, this is a way of making paper figures. I spent a lot of effort to make those paper figures. . Ordinary ones won’t work either.”
I see……
I nodded, thinking that this Yin Paper technique is indeed magical.
If you can learn how to do it, wouldn’t it be nice to have a few more paper figures as free labor in the future to help you with work and housework?
After a while, several people came to the door of the coffin shop.
They were all middle-aged, muscular men, wearing straw sandals, shorts, and linen vests. There were thick hemp ropes wrapped around their waists, and everyone carried a pole on their shoulders.
It looks like he exudes a fierce aura. Surrounded Master Cao.
My heart suddenly skipped a beat.
"Are you here to cause trouble? Master Cao, although his Xuanmen skills are very powerful, is of little use facing a few strong living people."
I huddled next to a coffin. If it was really troublesome, I would run out the back door and call the police at the police station in the center of town.
But what I didn't expect was...
