Strange Tale

The owner of the coffin shop is surnamed Wu, and his family is in the north of the city.

When the store clerk arrived with Si Ren, the Wu family was crying, saying that Mrs. Wu's child hadn't been born, and both mothers had died.

Si Ren didn't have time to say anything more, and rushed to the delivery room directly after pushing away the crowd.Someone stepped forward to stop him, and the guy who led the way quickly explained the whole story to Boss Wu.Everyone quieted down, Boss Wu nodded, and Si Ren was allowed to enter.The moment the door closed, many people could hear him muttering: "Mudashuriye pardons Sigara..."

After a while, people in the yard heard a strange bird cry, and then the baby cried, and Mrs. Wu also made a faint call.

Si Ren was squatting in the back kitchen of Wu's house, holding a large bowl of rice, and feasting on a bowl of vegetables and tofu.Boss Wu ran in, wiping his sweat and smiling happily.

"Oh! Engong, look, my whole family is too busy to take care of the head and tail, and I didn't say to treat you well..."

When he saw Si Ren's dish, his expression immediately changed, "What are you eating?! I can't just ask them to cook for you first! Who are these bastards..."

Seeing that Boss Wu was about to lose his temper, Si Ren quickly stood up and held him back, "Don't! It's... I asked you to make... tofu and vegetables."

Si Bing's mouth was full of rice, and he swallowed the food twice and wiped his mouth with his sleeve, "If you feel sorry, just bring me a chicken when I leave later."

"Huh? Chicken?"

"Well, chicken."

"Uh...Okay. Let alone one, a hundred will do."

"No, I have no place to put a hundred of them."

Boss Wu watched as Si Ren finished his meal, hesitating as if he had something to say.

"You want to ask how I saved your wife and child?" Si Ren guessed his thoughts and asked for him.

Boss Wu nodded.

Si Ren smiled, "You won't believe me if I tell you."

"I believe."

Si Ren thought for a while, "Have you heard of the flying bird?"

Boss Wu shook his head.

"The Flying Bird has the head of a fox. It has four animal feet and wings. It can fly while giving birth. It can cure women's dystocia. I summoned the Flying Bird to save your wife."

Boss Wu opened his mouth when he heard that.

Si Ren added, "Ordinary people can't see it, only someone like me can do it."

"Oh──" Boss Wu showed a suddenly enlightened expression, "Then... what did you read when you rushed into the labor court... what is 'Ye' and 'Gara'?"

"Dharani mantra."

"Dharani? Buddhist scriptures?"

"Well, it's actually a spell, a spell that helps women with difficult labor give birth to a child."

"But don't you say that you are a fortune teller? Aren't most fortune tellers are Taoists?"

"Haha, it's fine if you can save people. What do you care about monks, Taoists, and Buddhist methods?"

After thinking about it, Boss Wu couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "Oh, it's true that people can't be judged by appearances! I didn't expect Mr. Si to be so powerful at such a young age. I really admire him."

Si Ren waved his hand, "You don't need to admire it, I still have a piece of advice, I wonder if Boss Wu will listen to it?"

"Sir, please speak."

"Don't open the coffin shop again."

"Huh? Why?"

"Well...the place where the shop is located is a very dangerous place. Your shop is too small to hold you back."

Boss Wu raised his head, "Mr. Si is a living god!"

"how to say?"

"I bought that store on a whim. After reopening, I also heard that it was haunted. But it was not easy to sell it in a short time, so I wanted to try to run it. As a result, people in my family began to fall ill one after another. Today After listening to Mr., I finally understood. But..." Boss Wu showed a embarrassed look.

"what happened?"

"I'm afraid it will be very difficult to resell the shop. The place where the coffin shop has been opened is not good for other things. What should I do? A good shop can't just be left there."

"Well, that's it." Si Ren paused for a moment, "Why don't you rent it to me?"

"Huh? Rent?"

"Well, rent."

"Sir, aren't you afraid?"

"Huh? Have you heard that fortune tellers are afraid of ghosts?"

"That's true. Well, I'll rent it to you."

"Uh..." Seeing that Boss Wu agreed, Si Ren was rather embarrassed, "I can't pay you the rent now."

Boss Wu quickly waved his hand, "It's okay, sir is my benefactor, even if I don't pay the rent, I'm willing to use the place for him."

"No, no, what's the matter? If Boss Wu doesn't collect the rent, I won't rent it. How about this, you give me a few months, and as soon as I save enough money, I will send you the rent immediately."

Boss Wu smiled all over his face, very sincerely, "Sir, whatever you want."

……

"It's just rained all night, why did Yancheng's demonic aura dissipate? Isn't it going to be more difficult for us in the future? The money given by Long Jiu can't last for too long. What should we do? Xiao Lin."

Si Ren thought about it seriously, for a moment he forgot that Qilin was not by his side.He asked such a question to himself, and found no one answered, so he remembered that it was already halfway through the morning, and it was really time to look for it.

After closing the shop door and turning around, Si Ren saw a yellow-haired black-robed figure running past the opposite church from a distance.

"Si—Si—" the man shouted as he ran, waving at Si Ren.

"Father Martin?" Si Ren raised his hand to cast a shade and narrowed his eyes for a closer look: it really was him.

This blue sky and big sun is really uncomfortable.Si Ren stood at the door and waited for the chubby Father Martin to come to him.

"Si! No...it's not good."

"what happened?"

The priest pulled up the blade and pushed open the closed door, "Go in and talk."

"Where's Xiao Lin?"

Si Ren usually lied to his neighbors that Qilin was his younger brother, so people living nearby often saw the two of them "brothers" going in and out together.After entering the room, Father Martin didn't see Qilin, so he asked casually.

"I don't know where I went crazy..."

"Crazy?"

"Oh, I just went to play. I just wanted to go to your place to ask." Si Ban took out a chair and shook the empty kettle again, "What do you want to drink?"

Father Martin wiped his sweat and waved his hands again, "I won't drink anything, so listen to me first."

Seeing the panic-stricken look on the face of the priest who always spoke in a slow and steady manner, Si Ren thought that something serious must have happened, so he put down the kettle and stood with him.

Father Martin lowered his voice, "Many new graves have been dug in the Beishan cemetery."

"what?!"

"The new general attacked the city a few days ago, and many of the soldiers defending the city were seriously injured and sent to me. Some of them failed to be revived, and their bodies were not claimed by their families. The weather was getting hotter and hotter, so I asked for help. It was buried temporarily. At that time, the time was tight and the burial was shallow. It rained heavily last night, so I went to see if any of them had been washed out this morning. I saw that there were only pits left on the ground, and the corpses were gone!"

Si Ren's scalp went numb, "Are you reading that right?"

The priest shook his head and was very sure, "No, I dug a hole with a shovel on purpose, and there was nothing."

"Have you looked around there? Are there any suspicious traces?"

"That's why I came to you."

"What do you mean?"

"Well...there are footprints all around those pits."

"Oh? What kind of footprints?"

"Footprints going out from the edge of the pit. All in one direction."

"Are there all pit sides?"

The priest nodded.

"Nowhere else?"

"No."

Si Ren frowned and thought for a while, "In what direction?"

"East."

"Wait a moment." Si Ren turned and entered the room.

"What is this?" Father Martin saw Si Ren take out a wooden box.

Si Ren put the wooden box on the table, "Compass."

"This is the compass?" Father Martin felt the novelty, and he opened his eyes and took a closer look.

"You know?"

"heard about it."

"Do you know what it's for?"

"Uh..." Father Martin blinked his blue eyes, "What's that called...Feng Shui, right?"

Si Ren smiled and didn't answer, but picked up the compass with both hands and moved the inner disc with his thumb while closing his eyes and moving his lips and began to mutter something silently.When he finished reading and opened his eyes, the inner plate and Tianchi on the plate could already rotate without external force.

Father Martin was dumbfounded, and Si Ren put away the compass, "Okay. Let's go, first take me to the place where people are buried."

The author has something to say: Feisheng: A legendary bird with a fox head and fleshy wings, and four legs like a beast.It can fly while giving birth, and the child will fly with the female bird when it is born.If a person has dystocia, it can use its claws to press between the chest and abdomen.Test immediately.Source, Song, Li Shi's "Continued Natural History".

The Buddha said that women are giving birth to Dharani mantra: a kind of birth-promoting mantra used by Buddhists, the content is a transliteration of a large section of Sanskrit.