Hundred Ghosts

There are mines in the nearby mountains. They are miners in the nearby mountains. One of them had a serious illness before, and it took several months to recover. The others all expressed their concern.

The man said that his illness was also very strange. He was not exposed to rain or cold, and his companions who worked with him were fine, but they fell ill when they returned home. So confessed.

The man also said that, in fact, before the start of work that morning, he went to take a urinate alone, and suddenly saw a woman in yellow clothes. He thought it was the wife of the worker who came to deliver the meal, so he greeted her, the woman. Then she turned around and grinned at him. The woman was ugly and her mouth full of yellow teeth was really scary.

He was so frightened that he crawled back to his companion, and after asking, he found out that there was no woman who brought them food. He had a fever that night, and he didn't recover until a few days ago.

Others said that it was not easy, that he might be possessed by an evil spirit, and it was best to find a Taoist priest to take a look.

Coincidentally, Lin Zi, who was wearing Taoist uniform, was sitting next to them.

"Daoist, I just saw you keep aiming at us, did you notice something?"

Lin Zi said bluntly, "I do know a little bit."

"Master, please speak."

Lin Zi looked at the man, "Don't worry, what you saw that day was Father Huang's ghost."

The man was horrified, "Ghost?"

"I said don't be afraid. It is said that Father Huang's ghost haunts the Yellow Banner Star. It is probably a ghost transformed from a constellation. There is no trace of its whereabouts, and there is no way to deal with it. Fortunately, it is rarely seen. It is a kind of luck that you can bump into the activities in the world."

"That's really bad luck..."

"It can appear in the daytime. The clothes on its body are all yellow, and its changes are endless. It may be smoke, or a child, or a woman, or a bird or beast. Its body size can be large or small. It likes women. , to those who don’t like it, you will show your big yellow teeth and laugh, and those who have been laughed at will get sick, ranging from three months to several years, you are lucky.”

"If you're lucky, you won't encounter it..."

"You have to know that it eats three thousand evil ghosts every morning and three hundred evil ghosts at night. Since it came out of here in the morning, there are probably evil ghosts nearby. I heard that this mountain is rich in minerals and has been mined for decades. Casualties are unavoidable in digging the mines, but the people who came to you are hiding it from you. There are so many Fengshui places on the mountain, and it is difficult for the soul to come out. If you raise it, you will become an evil ghost. If you didn’t see Father Huang’s ghost that day, it is very likely You will encounter evil spirits, and there is no record of Father Huang’s killing people, but only making people sick, you have to carefully weigh it, is it good luck?"

He nodded silently.

Others tentatively asked Lin Zi, "But no matter what, Father Huang's ghost is also a ghost. Does the priest have a way to expel it?"

"Yes." Lin Zi narrowed his eyes slightly, "But Father Huang's whereabouts are hard to figure out, and dealing with it is also extremely difficult. I won't do this job without ten thousand taels of silver."

The others bowed their heads to eat and didn't mention it any more.

The mine they worked hard for a month is only a few taels of silver, and 1 taels is like a lion... No, the hippopotamus opened its mouth!

After eating, the two of them led the horse and left the city quickly. The business outside the city was also quite good, mostly small stalls, cheap accessories, straw hats and straw sandals, and various pastries.

It is rare to see that there are glutinous rice cakes in this city. Lin Zi has eaten glutinous rice cakes. The soft white glutinous rice is filled with pink and sweet red bean paste.The mouth is soft, glutinous and sweet, and the elder sister who sells glutinous rice cakes always cuts more for herself than her brothers. Now she is married to him and has a lovely son who sometimes comes to the back of the Taoist temple to steal jujubes to eat.

He Huai looked at his eyes, wrapped his arms around his shoulders and pulled him over, "We can't eat this stuff in the barracks, let's go, let's buy some back and try it, Xiaocai should like it too."

The dealer who sold the cut cakes was dark-skinned and very thin. He didn't look like a good person, but it was wrong to judge people by their appearance. He was very enthusiastic, so he cut a small piece for Lin Zi to taste.

Lin Zi took a bite, how should I put it...not very tasty.The sweetness is too strong, not the sweetness that is naturally brought to the tip of the tongue by high-quality glutinous rice. The red bean paste has not been fried, and the red bean skin is still there.

It's far from what I ate when I was a child. After taking a bite, I no longer have the desire/desire to bite down, so I put the cut cake in my hand into He Huai's mouth, "He Huai, you have a taste too."

He Huai lowered his head and opened his mouth to bite, rolled the glutinous rice cake into his mouth, and accidentally licked Lin Zi's fingertips with the tip of his tongue.

The nails are a bit long, it's time to cut...

He thought of Lin Zi's nails, "Gulu" swallowed the pastry without tasting anything.

"what about the taste?"

So when Lin Zi asked, he could only reply in a daze, "It's okay."

Indeed, it is good enough to have this thing in this place, and we shouldn't expect anything else.

Lin Zi asked the peddler, "How do you sell this?"

The peddler held the knife and said, "Oh, it's just as good as it tastes, how much do you want? Cut it first, and pay after you cut it."

Lin Zi hesitantly gesticulated a piece as big as two slaps, he didn't really want to eat it, Xiaocai and the general could just eat a piece.

Sister Qie Cake sells a piece of glutinous rice cake for two copper coins, and two pieces are four copper coins. His cooking is so unpalatable, it should be cheaper...

Wrap it in oiled paper and send it to Lin Zi, "50 taels of silver!"

Lin Zi thought he heard it wrong, "Say it again."

"50 taels of silver!"

"..."

50 taels of silver is enough for an ordinary family for half a year, and it is less than ten taels to go out to sing a mourning with my master and brother!

He Huai was also slightly surprised, touched his chin and whispered into Lin Zi's ear, "Why is this person worse than you?"

"I was joking, but he was serious."

50 taels for such a small sliced ​​cake...so much so that he wanted to change his career to sell sliced ​​cakes.

He Huai smiled at the businessman, turned around to lead the horse, but Lin Zi still stayed here, and the businessman began to stare at Lin Zi, "It's a matter of course to pay the bill when you buy things, you can't refuse."

"I think five coins are too expensive, and 50 taels is even more impossible." Lin Zi slapped five copper coins on the table, stretched his legs, and shook his arms, "Can I not buy it?"

"Everything is cut, do you dare not?" The dealer refused to take it, staring at Lin Zi.

"So what? You can't outrun us."

Putting his index finger against his lower eyelid and making a quick grimace, He Huai rode by, lowered his body and clasped his arm to pull him onto the horse.

They went there for two days and one night before returning. The lieutenants stared at the outside of the camp and prepared to arrest people. When they saw He Huai came back, they immediately surrounded him. It was not like welcoming the general, but meeting the enemy.

He Huai had always disliked them, and he kept his smiling face down all the way, without any explanation, and got off the horse and went back to the camp.

The lieutenant's face darkened, "Didn't the last general say that the general was not allowed to go out?"

Lin Zi held back He Huai who was about to speak out, "It was the poor man who asked the general to take the poor man. The poor man needed something, and thanks to the general he was able to prepare everything."

The lieutenant general didn't believe what he said, and said coldly, "It's just a trick."

He Huai sneered and said, "So what if you play tricks? Can you control me?"

"General, the end is for your own good!"

Without talking to him, He Huai took Lin Zi directly back to the main tent, where Xiaocai sat in the main tent to memorize and practice calligraphy.The tent he and Lin Zi lived in was small, with only one candle, and it was difficult to see things. The main tent had many lights and was spacious, and the young general who came here often recognized him and would help him prop up the table.

Seeing Lin Zi came back, Xiaocai showed him the talismans he had drawn. Generally speaking, Xiaocai was very talented in this aspect, and each of the paintings looked good.

Lin Zi took out the newly bought yellow talisman paper, touched the tip of the pen with cinnabar for Xiaocai to try.

In the past, he practiced on ordinary straw paper. Xiaocai was a little nervous when he started to practice for the first time, but he still wrote down strokes seriously without shaking his hands.

Lin Zi took out the talisman he had drawn, and suddenly raised his hand to put it on Xiao Cai's head, Xiao Cai was surprised to find that he couldn't move, even his eyeballs couldn't move.

"I can't move it, right? It's fine if I can't move it. This is the body-fixing talisman, which belongs to the elementary talisman. You drew it well." Lin Ziying smiled and took off the talisman.

Xiaocai was able to move now, took the talisman from the master, turned around and stuck it on He Huai's butt/butt.

He Huai felt his ass/ass being slapped, and fumbled with both hands to peel off the talisman, "You little brat, you still want to play tricks on me with my place."

"The talismans are generally useless after one use. Unless it is a master with profound Taoism, there are still residual spells after use. The ones drawn by my master can be used three times."

"What about Master?"

"Me? Occasionally, super performance can be used twice."

Xiaocai expressed admiration, "Then Master is also very powerful."

Lin Zi sat down, feeling a little nostalgic for the days of the Taoist temple, "When I learned this, the Taoist temple was still very rich, and I used yellow talisman paper to practice this."

"Wow!" Xiaocai stared blankly at the large pile of straw paper he had drawn, "Then Master is going to waste a lot of yellow talisman paper?"

"It's not a waste..."

In fact, the talisman is about injecting qi. After the qi sinks to the dantian, there is only a slight difference between the finished product and the unfinished product. The layman can't see it at all. They also keep the talisman drawn by the disciples.

Sometimes it is necessary to exorcise ghosts for high officials and nobles. If you don’t want ghosts to come in, you need to paste talismans on the house. Generally, one place is enough. In order to make them pay more, the paintings are scrapped or used. Talismans are densely pasted on the side, regardless of whether they are useful or not, anyway, they look spectacular. When paying the bill, they should be tied together according to the price of the talismans, which can be hundreds or even thousands of taels at a time.

Xiaocai: "..."

Isn't this a scam?

He Huai couldn't help laughing, "You Taoists are really good!"

"I'm poor now, so I don't have so much yellow talisman paper for you to use. You can draw first, and if you think you're finished, you can ask me for yellow talisman paper." Lin Zi gave him the book, paper and pen he bought.

"Yes!"

He Huai took out the glutinous rice cake, "Come and try it, it costs 50 taels for such a small piece!"

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