From Jiu Shu's world

Even so, there was still a trace of hesitation in Uncle Jiu's eyes. Although it is not difficult to ask for a heavenly marriage, it depends on God's will and people's hearts, and the risk is not small, so he took out a black and cold token and handed it to Henry Zhang Said: "If things can't be done, then use this. A heavenly marriage is not possible. There are some people below to take care of this bright marriage. This is also worthy of their fateful mandarin ducks."

"Yin card? Uncle, which patriarch's token is this? Isn't it just an open marriage, and the patriarch's official card is used? I'm afraid I will be blamed by the patriarch."

Henry Zhang showed a wry smile, the token was full of cold air, and it was not a mortal thing at first glance, coupled with the tone of Uncle Nine, even if Henry Zhang had never seen it, he could guess which official Maoshan Patriarch served below certificates such as cards.

Uncle Jiu snorted angrily: "Do you still know how to be afraid? The first time I opened an altar, I acted as a psychic, married in the open, and asked for a marriage in heaven. I also prepared the five internal organs of the sparrow boy. You must be entertaining ghosts. Hmph, You have thought about the style of this Ming wedding, but you don’t know what kind of guests are here, if you can’t hold back, you will feel better.”

Uncle Jiu is an old Jianghu, who doesn't know the correct way of attracting ghosts, and the partial way?This sparrow's five internal organs feast for ghosts can already be regarded as a decent ghost feast.Those who open the door to run restaurants, business is not good, so they thought of a way to turn feng shui, doing Yangren's business during the day, and hanging an empty bowl at the door to welcome guests at night.A stick of incense, a pair of chopsticks, and a bowl of sparrow's five internal organs. When the sky is about to dawn, I take down the empty bowl at the door and hang up a broom to invite guests out.This kind of shop is called open day and night, and the wandering ghosts are entertained, so there will be no such ghosts blocking the way of making money, and the business will naturally be good.It's just that it's not the right path after all, it can't last long, entertaining little ghosts, and it's hard to get a good end if you don't know good and evil.

Henry Zhang said with a sneer: "Isn't there a master uncle here? You are the top banknote printing class in the underworld, who dares not open your eyes to provoke you."

"Hmph, get ready, it's getting late."

Henry Zhang watched Uncle Jiu turn and leave, and weighed the Yin card in his hand, knowing that Uncle Jiu was caring about himself.It's just that, uncle, don't you go away in a proud and happy way, haven't you told me which master's token this is?If it is used tonight, and the master is invited, and the name is not known, it will really be cold.

He teased Uncle Jiu a little bit in his heart, then put away the negative cards, and didn't ask which master's negative cards it was, anyway, he was confident that he could suppress that group of ghost guests.

It was not early, Henry Zhang changed the Chinese tunic suit he often wore, and put on a plain green cloth robe. This green cloth robe didn’t look new, but it was a bit old, but it was very neat. The two wide cuffs were embroidered with Yin-yang fish, behind the Taoist robe is a Yin-Yang gossip diagram, wearing the Taoist robe shows Henry Zhang's slender figure, showing a bit of handsomeness.

Henry Zhang put on the magic crown, arranged his clothes, put three pillars of high incense on the patriarch, and went out of the room.At this time, the sky outside the door was already dark, except for a bright moon hanging high like a jade plate, there were only insects singing one after another around.The yard was full of all kinds of people and horses.Those individuals with white faces and red clothes, with empty eyes, turned out to be lifelike paper figurines upon closer inspection, but the smiles on their faces under the moonlight were indescribably weird.

These are of course the paper figurines and paper horses that will be used to welcome the bride tonight. As for why they still stop at Uncle Jiu at this hour, it is naturally not because they have not sent them yet. Not fooling people?Henry Zhang wants to let them go by themselves.

Uncle Jiu and Qiu Sheng on the other side were also ready and neatly dressed. After all, although they were not married in Yang, they naturally couldn't attend other people's weddings casually.Henry Zhang was even more sharp-eyed, and he saw at a glance that although Uncle Jiu was not wearing a robe, he was also wearing a Taoist robe that people in the Taoist sect wore every day.Henry Zhang faintly felt that under the loose Taoist robe of Master Uncle, there might be a lot of eating guys hidden.He really is Uncle Jiu with a knife mouth and a bean curd heart.

Seeing Henry Zhang coming out in a Taoist robe, Uncle Nine did not ask him how he was preparing, but shrank his eyes, and then asked with some emotion and nostalgia: Is this Brother Zhang Heng's Taoist robe?

"Uncle Four Eyes passed by my place with guests a few years ago and brought them to me."

Uncle Jiu nodded with a little sigh: "Yeah, he was the one who played well with Senior Brother Zhang at the beginning, and worked with Senior Brother Zhang on those Gu medicines every day. I'm afraid he was the only one who put away Senior Brother Zhang's Taoist robe." , but it’s also good, this can be regarded as you have inherited your father’s mantle.”

Henry Zhang nodded with a smile, and stopped answering. It is only the most natural thing for the son to inherit his father’s business and inherit his father’s mantle.On the other hand, Qiu Sheng was confused and couldn't help asking: "Master, is the cassock left by his father to the younger brother? Why is it different from yours?"

Uncle Jiu shook his head. After all, as a disciple of himself, he still hasn't returned to Damao Peak to worship the mountain to study, and he hasn't learned some rules and knowledge. It seems that he has been negligent.Then he explained aloud: "Taoist robes are of different grades. You wear green clothes for Qi training, and yellow robes for God training. Although there is no clear requirement. But generally speaking, disciples in the sect will not mess around. The Tsing Yi that you don’t have to wear when you’re a teacher.”

There is another point that Uncle Jiu didn’t tell Qiu Sheng, that’s why he told Henry Zhang that he had inherited the mantle.It is true that this soapy blue robe is the one used by the disciples who practiced Qi to open the altar, but it is not impossible that Maoshan did not even prepare new robes for the new disciples.

Naturally, there is another way to say the succession of this cassock, that is, to inherit the mantle.There is naturally a saying in Taoism about inheriting the mantle.The master passed on the robes of his youth to his disciples, which means that the disciples will inherit what he has learned, and his lineage will be carried by the disciples.

Although this cassock looks worn out, it has more spiritual power than the uniform issued in the door. After all, it has been nurtured by the masters for many years, with the spiritual power of the masters, it is easier to open the altar and invite the gods to offer sacrifices Communicate spiritual power and ancestors.If there is danger, the seniors will occasionally have a premonition, and it will be easier to protect their disciples.Therefore, the inheritance of vestments is not only a ceremony, but also a kind of recognition and welfare.

It's just a pity that the people in Maoshan fight against good and evil, and fight all their lives. Even they may not have a good death, let alone a vestment, and there are very few people who can pass it on to their disciples, and most of them are destroyed in the battle.Therefore, not many people mentioned this.

Uncle Jiu naturally wouldn't mention these thoughts to Qiu Sheng, and was about to greet Qiu Sheng to prepare to set off, when he heard Qiu Sheng mutter, "I'm also refining and transforming qi, why don't you see Master, why don't you give me a dharma robe?"

Uncle Jiu raised his eyebrows and stared: "I have an old cassock from more than ten years ago, do you want it?"

Qiu Sheng sneered: "It's better not to use it, Master, how old is it more than ten years ago?"

Naturally, Qiu Sheng didn't know what Uncle Jiu meant by that. The two disciples under Uncle Jiu's school had mediocre talents, but Qiu Sheng was the only one who escaped, but his qualifications were not bad, so he could only inherit the mantle.But even though Uncle Jiu mentioned it casually and Qiu Sheng didn't know about it, Uncle Jiu became angry when he heard it.

Good boy, I let you inherit the mantle, but you still despise it.Really brave enough, brave enough.

Uncle Jiu slapped Qiu Sheng on the head: "What are you still doing in a daze? Hurry up and get ready, we're leaving."

Henry Zhang naturally didn’t hear the master-student conversation on Uncle Jiu’s side. He walked into the yard and pinched a yellow talisman with two fingers.With a bang, the talisman paper spontaneously ignited, and Henry Zhang shouted: "The white paper is the skin, the bamboo is the bone, the magic talisman is the guide, and the ink is the eye. The good time has come, and I still haven't woken up."

After finishing speaking, he threw the yellow talisman into the ink ground with chicken blood, then opened the gourd on his waist, and suddenly a cloud of black mist flew out into the ink bowl, and he took a closer look at this piece of black mist It turned out to be a hundred black locusts, which were exactly the locusts that Henry Zhang gave Ren Nianen that day.These dozens of locusts flew into the small ink bowl and got their ink all over, and then they started to turn around in the courtyard. After a moment of buzzing, the locusts all found the position of the paper figurine and paper horse, and flew up. With a light touch on the eyes, the empty eye sockets are activated.

With a gust of wind, the locusts flew back to the gourd, and the pale faces of the paper people in the yard became more strange, and "hee hee" sounded one after another from far or near, and these paper people came back to life.

Chapter 8 Proceeding ([-])

"Paper figurines don't draw eyes, paper horses don't raise their manes when they stand on their feet, and people don't listen to laughing horses. If you don't remember the king's request."

This is the jargon among origami people, and it is also the first sentence that every origami master warns his disciples.

The paper figurines do not close their eyes, but when they do, they will become psychic, and there will be those ghosts and ghosts attached to them to cause trouble.

If it was a paper man and a paper horse sold to ordinary people for funerals and ancestor worship in the past, Uncle Jiu and his party would not dare to touch their eyes and raise their manes, for fear of attracting evil spirits and harming others.

But today, Henry Zhang is in charge of the wedding of Xiuniang and Ren Nianen, and he wants to entertain lonely ghosts. Naturally, he might as well use the psychic touch, or let them directly add some popularity to the wedding, or ghost spirit.

"Today there is a man named Ren Nian'en, who was born in March 1889 of the year of Yi Chou and died in December of the year of Xinhai, and a woman named Zhang Xiu, who was born in July 1890 of the year of Gengyin and died in December 1912 of the year of Renzi. Yinqin, entertain the wandering souls from all directions in Renjia Town, those who are interested will welcome the relatives, those who have no intentions will retreat, when the auspicious time comes, let’s set off.”

Henry Zhang snorted, and there was no wind moving around, those hee hees sounded from far to near, and there were faintly a few strange laughter, regardless of gender, saying: "Congratulations, congratulations."

Unmoved by the sound, Henry Zhang strode to the front of this team of paper men and paper horses, and began to lead the way.

In the front, Qiu Sheng and Cai, one standing on the left hand side, grab a handful of paper money from time to time, throwing them into the sky, flying paper money all over the sky, the other one is holding incense candles on the right hand side, every three to five meters. Put a stick of incense on the side of the road.These two people are to honor the lonely ghosts on the road. It is said that the king of Hades is easy to deal with, and the little ghosts are difficult to entangle. Even though Uncle Zhang Xuanjiu is not afraid of these ghosts making trouble, he can't resist their entanglement.Sending out paper money and incense offerings is not only a bribe, but also a festive celebration like a wedding on earth.

It's just that this celebration, in this barren mountains and ridges, where no one is around, is indescribably weird.If someone sees it, I'm afraid they will be sick from fright.

Although Uncle Jiu's Yizhuang is outside the town, it's only three or four miles away from the town, but it's a short journey.The paper man welcome team behind Henry Zhang has already changed a lot.

It's not that there are too many people, nor is it that there are fewer people, but that the paper people are smiling, with smiles on the corners of their mouths, eyebrows flying, and their faces are pale. The smiles are festive and weird. If ordinary people see it, they will shudder .

The smiles of these paper figurines came alive, not the smiles painted on invariably, but a row of smiles at the corners of the mouth, with blush to make you feel shabby. Together, they fell and floated forward, closely following Henry Zhang to any place. home town.

There are many dead souls in troubled times, and no one sacrifices to lonely graves.These lonely and wild ghosts have no personal worship, but now they are enshrined with paper figurines for the sake of burning incense. Those who carry the sedan chair carry the sedan chair, those who lead the horse lead the horse, and those who take the dowry receive the dowry gift. They followed behind in twos and threes.If it's not really sad, I'm afraid there is no other reason.

Henry Zhang sighed in his heart, but he never stopped, and led the team to Renjia Town.On the empty street, there were only the footsteps of Uncle Zhang Xuanjiu and the rustling sound of paper figurines rubbing against each other, making the street even more silent.

Henry Zhang knew that this was the effort of Master Ren, otherwise there would not be even a shifter at night.A group of people went straight to the old house of Ren's family, and they all took place in this old house. After all, Xiuniang is not a local, so naturally it is impossible to go to her house to greet relatives, and they live in the old house of Ren's family, so naturally they will be here together. Finish.

The old house is the same as it was seven days ago, except that there are a pair of white silk and red lanterns wrapped around the door, and a pair of white double happiness above the lanterns, revealing a touch of unusualness.

Henry Zhang turned around, looked at the welcoming team behind him, pinched his hands, and signaled for silence.Then he walked up to the door and knocked on the dark door with a "dong dong dong".

With a "squeak", the door opened.It was Aunt Li who opened the door. She was wearing a black bouwo skirt, her hair was neatly coiled up, and she had a complex look of joy or sadness on her face. She whispered, "Here you are?"

Henry Zhang nodded: "Here we come, but the place of worship is not here, we have to go to their new residence."

The aunt nodded, she understood what she should understand before, but at this last moment, she was a little bit reluctant.She stepped aside and opened the door to reveal the three of Ren Fa standing behind it.

Henry Zhang looked at a man and a woman behind Ren Fa in surprise. He was no stranger to these two people. One was the police captain played by Mr. Zombie Lou Nanguang, and the other was the youthful and beautiful Ren Tingting.Unexpectedly, after talking to Ren Fa and asking his relatives to attend, he also brought Chang Wei, uh, Ah Wei.

The door opened, and Ren Fa and others inside the door finally saw clearly the group of paper figures behind Henry Zhang. Dozens of white-faced and red-cheeked people painted with dead clothes looked straight at you, showing weird smiles.Seeing Ren Fa, A Wei and Ren Tingting felt terrified.

If you look closely, you can still see Awei's trembling legs.He is no more domineering than the one in the plot now, he can see that team of paper men and paper horses now, every turn of the head, every smile, has startled the fear in his heart.

Awei: I am provoking someone. I thought I was going to accompany my cousin to a wedding. Is there still time if I don’t attend?

Although Ren Fa was also afraid, he was a businessman who traveled far and wide after all, so he remained calm on the surface.He moved three or two steps, walked to Uncle Jiu, nodded and said hello, "Uncle Jiu, little master, I'm sorry to trouble you tonight."

Uncle Jiu nodded: "Don't worry, who is this?" Uncle Jiu looked at the young girl behind Master Ren and asked aloud.Awei is the captain of the police force in the town. Although he has no intersection with him, he knows him.It's just that this girl made Uncle Jiu's eyes ache.

Ren Fa laughed, and then said in a low voice: "My daughter, Ren Tingting, has been studying in the provincial capital all year round, and she just came back recently. This time, let her come to attend Nian En's wedding."