The Chronicles of Longevity on Liaozhai Road

Yang Heng thanked Mr. Wang who had entertained him, and then followed Steward Liu to go out.

Along the way, Steward Liu didn't say much, but just led Yang Heng forward with a dull head.

Yang Heng originally wanted to ask about the situation of the deceased, but seeing that Steward Liu didn't seem to want to say more, he had no choice but to shut up.

Soon, they came to a large courtyard with three entrances.

At this time, the front of the yard was already covered by white sails.

Yang Heng looked at this situation a little surprised, because in Yang Heng's understanding, a concubine died in ancient times, but it was only in a remote small courtyard, and it was enough to perform a ritual ceremony once, which is not like the whole courtyard is now white .

Butler Liu just greeted the servants guarding the door at the door, and brought Yang Heng to the main hall.

I saw that this place has been arranged as a mourning hall, with a coffin in the middle and an altar in front of the coffin.

There are all kinds of tributes on the altar, and the cigarettes are lingering. It seems that it has not stopped.

Before the action, there was a little maid kneeling there, burning paper non-stop.

Arriving here, Steward Liu cupped his hands to Yang Heng and said, "Master Dao, due to the rush of time, my master has no time to invite other great virtues. So this time, only Dao Master presides over the ceremony."

Yang Heng's heart is already jumping, but he still pretends to be confident on the surface.

"Don't worry, the benefactor, the poor Taoist priest has done rituals many times, and I can leave everything to the poor Taoist priest."

"What does the priest need?"

"Prepare an altar, put fresh fruits on it, and then prepare some ingot candles and tiles. Pindao will cast a spell tonight."

"Okay, the Taoist priest sit here for a while and read the scriptures for the deceased, and I will go to prepare."

Yang Heng nodded and came. At the lower end of the altar, there was a futon sitting cross-legged on it, muttering something.

Seeing Yang Heng's appearance, Steward Liu finally nodded in relief and left the mourning hall.

At this time, Yang Heng was muttering words there on the surface, but he was actually squinting his eyes and observing Steward Liu. He was relieved to see that he left with satisfaction.

To say that Yang Heng has just been a Taoist priest for a few days, it is simply embarrassing for him to ask him to read some scriptures.

He has read the Taoist "Saving People" several times, but with Yang Heng's brain, there is no way to write down such a thick book, and now he can only put on an act, his mouth is moving, and he doesn't know. what to think.

Besides, Steward Liu left the mourning hall, and instead of preparing something for Yang Heng to perform the ritual at night, he went to the backyard.

Butler Liu entered the back hall, and bowed respectfully to an old man sitting there.

"My lord, the Taoist priest has been invited, and he said that he can perform rituals tonight."

It seems that the person sitting at the top is Wang Dashan, a well-known man in this village.

This Wang Dashan nodded his head after listening to the steward's words, and then sighed: "I hope Qiaoyun will stop making trouble this time, otherwise, this day will really be impossible."

When Mr. Wang Dashan said these words, Butler Liu below felt a gust of wind blowing nearby, which made him tremble all over.

Others don't know the inside story, but Housekeeper Liu knows about the death of my concubine Qiaoyun.

It turned out that this little concubine, Qiaoyun, didn't just die yesterday, but had been dead for five or six days, and tonight happened to be that Qiaoyun's first seven.

What's more, the death of Aunt Qiaoyun was really terrible.

Therefore, the maids and servants in the house these days often heard crying from the backyard, making people panic.

Because of this, this Wang Dashan had no choice but to invite a Taoist priest to save the dead soul for Qiao Yun, hoping to let the soul of the dead die rest in peace.

Chapter 005 Legal Affairs

Besides, Yang Heng, who was in front of the mourning hall, was chanting scriptures for the deceased on the surface, but in fact, what he was thinking about now was how he traveled through time.

At that time, he was in the Sanqing Hall, but he just took a stone ring, and he suffered retribution immediately.

Now that I think about it, is my time travel related to the stone ring worn by the original Tianzun?

Thinking of this, Yang Heng immediately searched for the stone ring that he took off.

Since Yang Heng woke up, he had already forgotten about the stone ring, and now he has searched all over his body, but there is no trace of the ring at that time.

This made Yang Heng very uneasy. Without the stone ring, would he want to stay in this unfamiliar world for the rest of his life?

When Yang Heng was full of frustration, he couldn't help but clenched his hands tightly.

And it was this action that restored hope to Yang Heng's depressed mood.

It turned out that Yang Heng discovered that at some point a stone ring had been worn on his left ring finger.

There is no way to describe the joy in Yang Heng's heart when he found that the ring was not lost, because with this ring, he returned to the hope of modern society.

Although he has been severely beaten by modern society, he is not willing to let him leave modern society and stay in this ancient world forever.

Yang Heng squinted his eyes and glanced at No. [-] Middle School, and found that there was no one else in the mourning hall except for a little maid who was burning paper money non-stop.

Then he carefully looked at the ring finger of his left hand.

I saw that there was a stone ring on the ring finger now.

But the strange thing is that this ring looks the same as before, but it is a bit empty.

It seems that this ring is not an entity, but a phantom.

Seeing this strange scene, Yang Heng couldn't help reaching out to touch it.This time Yang Heng immediately felt different. Although he could still touch the stone ring, he felt that what he touched was a mass of gas, not like a stone like before.

Yang Heng was taken aback when he saw this scene, what's going on?Why did the ring that was originally a solid body now become a phantom?

Yang Heng is in a panic now, for this ring, he knows it is a treasure, otherwise he can't take him across the world.

But how to use this baby, and is it useless after one use?This question troubled Yang Heng very much.

But now I don't have time to think about these things, so I'll earn this money for the time being, otherwise, I'm afraid I'll starve to death before returning to the modern society.

Just like that, Yang Heng kept pretending absent-mindedly.

It wasn't until it was dark that Steward Liu came back and led Yang Heng to a fairly clean house outside, where he prepared some vegetarian meals for him.

After Yang Heng had dinner, Butler Liu brought Yang Heng to the front courtyard again.

I saw that there was already an offering table, with all kinds of fresh fruits, candles, and paper money on it.

Butler Liu said to Yang Heng: "Master Daoist, do you think there is any shortage?"

How does Yang Heng understand this?However, in order to show his professionalism, he still stepped forward to look at it casually, and then said to Butler Liu, "That's right, everything is here."

"I don't know, when will the Taoist leader open the altar?"

Yang Heng looked up at the weather, probably estimated that it was already past seven o'clock, and it should be about the same.

"You can start now. You put the spirit card and ingot of the deceased in the center of the ground, and then ask the relatives of the deceased to watch the ceremony."

Butler Liu was a little embarrassed after hearing this, "Master Dao, my master is too sad, I'm afraid he won't be able to come to watch the ceremony, I don't know if it will affect the ceremony."

How does Yang Heng know if it will be affected?The reason why he was able to grit his teeth and come here to practice rituals was because he was forced to read a few books when he was in the Sanqing Temple, among which were various ritual rituals to save the dead.

Most of the ceremonies are too complicated, and Yang Heng can't remember them at all. The only one he remembers is one of the simplest rituals of salvation - breaking hell.

Although this ritual is very simple, but from the introduction, the power of this ritual is very powerful.

There are evildoers in life, and they will fall into hell after death.And breaking the hell is used to "build meritorious deeds", that is, to break the darkness on the other side with the power of divine light and mana, so that the dead will suddenly wake up, let go of their obsessions, and thus transcend the fairy world and no longer suffer from hell.

Yang Heng still pretended to be very professional and said: "No problem. It would be great if the family members come. They can send the dead for the last time. It's okay if they don't come."

When Yang Heng said this, he pretended to be very proficient and said: "With my magic power, even if I don't have my family to send me off, I can still send this undead to the other shore."

Butler Liu nodded in satisfaction when he heard this.

"It's getting late for a long time, let's prepare now."

The reason why Butler Liu pressed so hard was because it was just getting dark and there was nothing to do, but when it got dark, the dying Aunt Qiaoyun might come out to make trouble again.

Yang Heng was a little puzzled by Butler Liu's urging, so there's no need to be so anxious, I just had a meal, so let me digest it anyway.

But these are all Yang Heng's thoughts, he didn't say it out of his mouth.After all, it was someone else who paid for it, and when to do something, it all depends on the master.

But it's too early to finish, and if I finish this ceremony earlier, I might be able to rest for a night.

So Yang Heng could only nod his head.

When Butler Liu saw it, Yang Heng nodded, and immediately asked: "The Taoist priest, what do you think is the arrangement?"

Yang Heng felt a little uneasy now. After all, it was his first time doing something, so he reviewed the contents of the book he read a few days ago, and then said: "Put the spirit card of the deceased in the middle of the mourning hall." , and then put ingots around it, and put eight tiles outside the ingots. I will deal with other things.”

Butler Liu heard it was very simple, so he said to the servant behind him: "According to the order of the Taoist priest, do it quickly."

Following Steward Liu's order, three or four servants started working together.

It only took half a quarter of an hour, and all the ceremonies were ready.

Seeing that the preparations were ready, the travel steward said to Yang Heng, "Daoist Xitan, can we start?"

Yang Heng stood there and nodded, then walked to the back of the altar in a nervous mood, first picked up a brush, and wrote a text on a piece of yellow paper.

The general meaning is to report to the underworld that a dead soul has been sent by him now, and you should treat him well.

However, Yang Heng seldom used a brush to write. These dozens of characters were crooked and very ugly.

Fortunately, the people in the nearby pass are far away and don't know about this kind of thing, otherwise they will be seen through immediately.

After writing the inscription, Yang Heng thought for a while, and felt that it was not enough to just write. To be on the safe side, he took out the copper seal that his master gave him after he bestowed it on him.

After that, I dipped some ink mud and stamped the commendation at the end.

After all this was done, Yang Heng ordered someone to light up the ingots piled on the ground.

Afterwards, Yang Heng circled around the lighted ingot while chanting sutras.

Said it was chanting scriptures, but in fact Yang Heng didn't even know what he was chanting, he just opened his mouth and pretended.

In fact, when people do things in circles, they have to read the corresponding scriptures at the same time.

But although Yang Heng is a true Taoist priest, he has only been a monk for a few days, and he can't remember those scriptures at all.

Therefore, he can only pretend. As for whether the legal affairs will work or not, he thinks it is just the family members of the deceased asking for psychological comfort.

But as Yang Heng's funeral unfolded, a gust of wind suddenly blew up in the yard, and the shares grew bigger and bigger, and finally formed a small tornado, spinning non-stop in front of the mourning hall.

As the wind grew stronger, the leaves in the yard also made a rattling sound, and the sound became louder and louder, and finally it even looked like a woman crying there.

Steward Liu, who was standing outside watching the ceremony, shivered when he saw this scene.

He knew in his heart that Aunt Qiaoyun was probably using it to make trouble, but today's time came a little earlier.

As for Yang Heng, who was doing things in the field, although he was a little shivered by the wind, he didn't know the situation around him at all. He only thought it was a late wind.

Yang Heng didn't wear much clothes now, and he felt very cold when the wind blew, and he wanted to finish this ceremony quickly so that he could go back to the house to be warm.

So he stopped circling, but picked up a mahogany sword after returning to work, and came to the field again.

I saw this Yang Heng pretending to chant a few spells outside, then came to a tile that had been placed earlier, and poked it directly with the mahogany sword in his hand, piercing the tile.

Originally, the meaning in the ritual is that every time a tile is pierced, the soul of the dead will suffer less in the underworld. When all eight tiles are pierced, the soul can be reincarnated directly without suffering from hell.

But Yang Heng didn't have that ability, after he pierced all eight tiles, the wind in the wind at that time not only didn't decrease, but became more violent.

The indistinct crying sound has now become very clear, as if everyone in the field was crying incessantly in their ears.

At this moment, Butler Liu, who was standing next to him, was already trembling in his legs, and felt a little cool in his crotch.

At this time, Butler Liu felt a little regretful. Originally, Wang Dashan asked him to go to the county town to find a capable Taoist priest to do things.

But Steward Liu was greedy for the reward this time, and after hearing that there was a Taoist priest in Wang Erdan's family, he went over to have a look.

When I saw Yang Heng, I saw that although his clothes were a little dirty, the Taoist robe on his body was made of high-quality fabric.

Coupled with Yang Heng's honest face, it made people feel at ease, so he gritted his teeth and asked Yang Heng to do this ritual.

Now it seems that this Taoist priest is just a silver-like wax spear head.

Don't let anything happen, otherwise, instead of saving the undead, it will make her more vicious, and I'm afraid people like myself will escape with their lives.

And where Yang Heng and everyone else couldn't see, there was a female ghost with disheveled hair, roaring non-stop.

While roaring, the female ghost rushed towards the crowd in the arena.

It's just that just as she approached the crowd on the field, a red light shot out from Yang Heng's arms, blocking her out of the circle.

This made the female ghost unable to approach at all.

Chapter 006 Table Text