Taboos in the Underworld: Starting from being paid a lot of money to beg for a child

I also turned off the flashlight and quietly looked at the figures in the middle of the cemetery.

There are four fires in total, and there are two people with the same division of labor beside each fire.

One squatted on the ground and kept burning paper money, while the other held an unknown branch and turned his back to the fire in circles.

The branch in his hand kept waving up and down.

He was mumbling something, but because he was too far away, he didn't know what he was mumbling.

While I was still observing, Tiedan who was following us bypassed me and started walking slowly that way.

I reached out and grabbed Tiedan and pulled it back.

Then it shook its head and pointed at the people burning paper in the middle of the cemetery, with a very longing expression on its face.

Yadan also walked up slowly, took Tiedan's hand and said inarticulately:

"do not go......"

"What's going on?" I asked my senior sister out of habit.

The senior sister frowned and said:

"Those people are very strange. Judging from Tiedan's reaction, they must be summoning spirits!"

I instantly understood that Tiedan was not a brat and would be attracted to those things.

But Yadan is a brat and will not be interested in things like paper money.

As a ghost-eating ghost, Tiedan couldn't help but want to go that way, which showed that these people were really summoning spirits.

I drew a soul-stabilizing hand spell on Tiedan's forehead with my hand to prevent it from being attracted further, and asked in a strange voice:

"What do they want to do by attracting the souls around them?"

The senior sister shook her head and said:

"I don't know, let's see."

I nodded, hunched over and pulled my senior sister into hiding in a small bush, and began to observe these people carefully.

There are nine people in total, distributed in groups of two and two in the cemetery.

Four fires made of paper money.

If this cemetery is divided into four equal parts of the same size according to the field grid, then each fire will be exactly in the middle of the four equal parts.

Each fire has one person adding to it and another person circling it.

In the center of the cemetery, there was a man in a yellow robe standing on what looked like a coffin.

He held a large soul-calling flag in his hand and muttered something.

"Junior brother, why don't we go over and ask?" Senior sister said suddenly.

I shook my head and said:

"No, let's see what they are going to do first."

After about ten minutes, the man in robes in the middle shouted curses louder and louder.

One by one, the ghosts slowly emerged from the tombs. A rough count showed that there were about twenty or thirty of them.

After the ghosts came out, they slowly gathered towards the nearest fire.

For some reason, Tiedan became excited again after seeing those ghosts.

If I hadn't been holding its hand, it would have run away.

After the ghosts gathered in front of the fire, the few people who were circling with their backs to the fire also stopped and stood motionless.

The person who had been putting yellow paper money into the fire also stopped what he was doing.

For a moment, those people were stunned as if their acupoints had been tapped!

The ghosts passed by the fire one by one in an orderly manner, then bent down by the fire and grabbed it with their hands.

According to my estimation, they were grabbing the burned paper money. After grabbing it, they lined up and gathered towards the person in the middle who was wearing a Taoist robe and holding a soul-calling flag.

The man in the middle shouted the mantra over and over again.

We heard it more and more clearly, but we didn't understand what the spell meant.

The ghosts from four directions slowly gathered towards him, and then neatly divided into four rows and stood in front of him, as if they were gathering in the army.

Unlike the gathering of soldiers, all the ghosts lowered their heads.

"I'm going, why does it sound like the ghost king is coming?"

The senior sister sighed: "Is this arrogance suitable for welcoming King Yama?"

"Probably not. You'll know after reading it."

I stared at the center of the cemetery intently, for fear of missing something.

After all the ghosts were lined up and standing, the man waved the soul-calling flag three times, then pushed it back, and the mantra in his mouth stopped at this moment.

He grabbed a mahogany sword at his feet, raised his head and drew it suddenly towards the sky, shouting:

"All living beings have many grievances. The grievances are deep and difficult to resolve. The grievances are formed in one life, and the retribution will not stop in the three lives. I am now passing on the wonderful method. Those who reincarnate will leave by themselves, and those who have no way will stay alone. Those in the coffin ask for reincarnation for humanity, and the grievances can be resolved one by one. Knot, hurry up like a law!"

"What kind of spell is this?" Senior Sister asked aloud while staring closely.

I said casually:

"It's a bit like the curse of grievances, but not quite. Those who reincarnate will leave by themselves, and those who have no way will stay. The meaning is obvious."

"It seems that these people are pretty good. They let go of all the ghosts who have the path to reincarnation, leaving some lonely ghosts behind."

The senior sister nodded and said.

Sure enough, after he finished shouting the spell, a dozen of the twenty or thirty ghosts broke away from the team and got into their own graves.

Some friends may ask after seeing this, why are there ghosts in these tombs? Do these people not go to the underworld after death?

In fact, the ghosts in these tomb bags are basically not the souls of the owners of the tomb bags.

This place gathers yin, and the grave bag can allow some wandering souls to find a place to live.

After the owner of the tomb bag goes to the underworld, these wandering souls who have no reincarnation path will enter the tomb bag to avoid the sun during the day.

Just like when we take a bus, if there is no one in this seat, we can sit wherever we want. If there is someone, we will not rush to sit there.

Of course, if the owner of the tomb comes back occasionally, the ghost living in the tomb will have to give up the tomb.

After all the ghosts with reincarnation left, the Taoist jumped down from the coffin, and the other eight people also recovered from their still state and gathered in the middle.

They arrived at the coffin almost at the same time, and together they opened and lifted the pipe cover, and gently placed it on the ground behind.

After placing it, they all took three steps back, keeping the same distance from the coffin as the ghosts.

The Taoist held up his mahogany sword and knocked on the coffin while chanting a curse softly.

This time I couldn't hear clearly what it was.

But what happened next made me understand his intention.

A ghost broke away from the team, walked slowly towards the coffin, and then climbed in.

It only took a few seconds for him to crawl out again.

Then the second one repeated the same action.

The third, the fourth, the fifth, each one.

Those ghosts that crawled in and out again did not leave, as if they had been trained, but slowly returned to the middle of the team.

"What are they doing? Trying on the coffin?"

The senior sister looked at it for a while and asked, somewhat confused:

"Give it to whoever is suitable to sleep with?"

Just when I was about to speak, one of the ghosts had already entered and hadn't come out for almost a minute.

The Taoist quickly took the mahogany sword, drew many sword talismans on the coffin, and then called for others to close the coffin.

"They are looking for a suitable resentful soul without reincarnation, and they have found it."

I said.

The senior sister nodded and said:

"Well, I understand it too. If you find it, leave as soon as possible. These resentful souls have been summoned by them. We can't find the others even if we look for them."

"Yes."

I said I also wanted them to leave quickly.

It's already very late. If they don't leave, we really don't know where to find ghosts to fight Master Chen in a short period of time.

"Teach me how to kill ghosts, and teach me how to make magic..."

When I was still expecting them to leave early, I suddenly heard the Taoist start shouting the ghost-killing curse.

I couldn't care less anymore, so I told my senior sister to put Tiedan Yadan into the wooden sign, got up and rushed out of the bushes.

"Be merciful, senior!"

I shouted and ran towards the center of the cemetery. He was going to kill all these resentful souls. Where could I find more resentful souls?

Seeing me suddenly walking over, several of them were stunned for a moment.

But they didn't move, they just stood there waiting for me.

The Taoist also stopped chanting and looked at me doubtfully.

I quickly walked to the middle of the cemetery and said to the Taoist:

"Senior, you are polite. I have paid homage to you, my junior Liu Dian. Please leave three of these resentful souls to me. I can be of use."

When I walked in, I discovered that the Taoist priest was in his fifties or sixties, with a kind face.

He doesn't look like a treacherous person.

Moreover, he took the initiative to let go of those ghosts who had reincarnation before, which made me like him even more.

The Taoist looked me up and down and said:

"Haha, are you also a Taoist? Which sect do you study under? Who is your master?"

His Mandarin is not standard, with a thick Hong Kong accent.

"Yes, senior, I live in the Taoist temple on the mountainside. My master has become immortal. Please be merciful, senior, and let me take away the three ghosts. I have other uses."

I said respectfully.

Seeing my sincere tone, the Taoist nodded and said:

"I don't have to break up these resentful souls, but you have to tell me what you are going to use them for. If they are used for torture, I will not agree."

"Senior, my master Wu Guang, we want three ghosts this time to punish the evildoers. Please help me, senior."

The senior sister's neither humble nor arrogant voice came from behind, and her tone was firm!

"Wu Guang? Brother Wu! Are you Brother Wu's disciples?"

The Taoist looked surprised, put down the peach wood sword in his hand, and walked quickly in front of us.