Hundred Ghosts

It's really nothing wrong with him.

He Huai looked out of the tent, and Xiao Cai was timidly peeking in on the tent. He Huai suddenly had a reason, and waved to him, "Come on, come here."

Xiaocai ran over with the book in his arms and handed it to him. General He, who was illiterate, turned a few pages and found that there were many words that he did not recognize, so he closed the book.

"These are all theories and are useless."

"But the master said that these are all to be memorized."

"It's good to recite it...then you can recite it yourself." He Huai's face was full of kindness.

"Some characters I don't know, I want to ask you."

He Huai rubbed his chin, "Say it, what word?"

Xiaocai turned to the fold of the book, pointed to the word "聻" on it and said, "When a man dies, he becomes a ghost, and when a ghost dies...how do you pronounce this word?"

Under the scorching gazes of his subordinates, He Wenjie murmured for a long time, carefully guessing, "Er?"

"Yes, is it..." Xiaocai believed it.

"It should be, there will be nothing wrong." He Huai felt a little proud of being able to fool him.

A room full of illiterates didn't think there was anything wrong, and applauded the literate general.

At night, Lin Zi, who had slept all day, finally woke up. After eating, he suddenly thought of Xiaocai's homework today, so he lit a candle and asked Xiaocai to sit over, "Did you study your homework today?"

"Learned." Xiaocai was full of confidence.

"Then recite this passage."

"... People die as ghosts, ghosts die as ears..."

Lin Zi interrupted him, "Why did the ghost die?"

"Ear."

Lin Zi asked him to open his hand, stretched out his hand and slapped him, "Wrong, read it, don't guess if you don't know, ask others."

Lin Zi didn't feel any pain from the beating, but Xiaocai sat with his arms folded and his back facing him, as if he had been greatly wronged.

"What's the matter?" Lin Zi felt that his reaction was quite interesting, and poked his lower back, "What's the matter? You're so angry? Did you say something wrong?"

Xiaocai's face was bulging with anger, "I obviously asked someone else, and they said I should study 'Er'."

"Who did you ask?"

"General He."

"..."

Lin Zi was silent for a while and then said earnestly, "You can just ask me if you have any questions in the future, don't ask him, he might not know as well as you."

The next day, Xiaocai recited loudly in He Huai's tent, "When a man dies, he becomes a ghost, and when a ghost dies, he becomes a ghost..."

The word "聻" is heavy and clear.

He Huai: "..."

After a few days of leisurely life, it rained after a long time. It rained so hard that the water flooded up. A patrol team accidentally stepped on the muddy pond, and more than a dozen people fell into it. Wuyi survived.

He Huai was shocked when he heard this, but it was too late, so he had to order the other soldiers to stay in the tent obediently and never go out again.

Two days later, the weather gradually cleared up again. Taking advantage of the night, He Huai came to the vicinity of the quagmire, stretched down the roots of the tree, fished out more than a dozen corpses and placed them by the river.

Even if buried, it shouldn't be in this sad place.

The next day, the soldiers who came to fetch water found more than a dozen corpses. After washing them with water on the spot, they called several soldiers to carry them away together.

More than a dozen corpses were placed in the empty camp that had been emptied of firewood. They were brothers who fought together. It was a pity that they left early. When the corpses were moved back, many people cried. They heard that Lin Zi was a Taoist priest, so they fought Qian asked Lin Zi to sing condolences for what they did.

"Daoist, can you see these things?"

It's not the first time he has taken on this kind of job, but even though he is used to seeing life and death, he still feels a little sad.

"Leave this to the poor, let's get down to business first, and then talk about the reward after everything is done."

The ever-burning lamp, the soul-repressing bell, the burning paper when the bell rang, the fire in the cornucopia for the deceased was still alive, and the master, brothers and sisters were not there, so he had to do everything. Wait until midnight and take them to look for the hometown set up during the day to burn the things of the dead.

Wangxiangtai is the last stop of the soul.

Looking at the hometown on the lookout platform, I saw the tears of my relatives.

Although there are no relatives, seeing so many comrades-in-arms must make the soul feel better.

After finishing the Wangxiang Terrace, the body had to be buried before dawn the next day.

Lin Zi shouldn't care about things like digging pits and burying corpses. After a day of exhaustion, he fell asleep with his head stuck to the pillow.

He didn't wake up until noon. When he opened his eyes, he vaguely saw someone sitting beside his bed.

It's He Huai.

He sat up with his arms propped up. He had been busy all day yesterday without eating, and now his eyes were a little dark. He raised his head and called out softly in the direction of He Huai, "General?"

He sang a day's mourning, his voice was a little hoarse, and He Huaixin was drunk when he heard the general.

He scratched his head, and put a bulging purse into Linzi's hand, "Thank you so much yesterday, those guys were trying to get me to send it to you, but they still have to keep their money." Parents save to marry a daughter-in-law... This is all my savings, I am a general, I have more money, and I don’t need to marry a daughter-in-law, will you accept mine?"

Lin Zi looked up at him, "So you don't have to marry a wife?"

"no, I'm fine!"

If those girls heard his words, it would be terrible, they would cry to death.

Lin Zi opened the purse and poured out a pile of broken silver and several copper coins.

If this is really all his savings, then he, the famous general of the town, is really a little poor.

He Huai blushed, he was just a tree, he had no attachment to money in this world, those silver ingots were not as real to him as a handful of good soil.

In fact, his salary and the property bestowed by the emperor are quite a lot. He used them to help the common people and accumulated good fortune for his family, and there was not much silver left over.

He rummaged through the tents so he found only a few tents, and he didn't know if Lin Zi liked it or not.

"Look, are these enough? If not, I owe it first. When I return to the city during the Chinese New Year, the emperor will give me money and treasures. Then I will give them all to you, okay?"

Lin Zi picked out a copper plate, and put the rest of the broken silver copper plate back, "This one is enough."

What can a copper coin do? Fangducheng can't even buy a sweet potato.

He Huai felt that the purse was hot, so he stuffed it into Lin Zi's arms again, "Take more."

"But I've already taken it."

The patriarch said that the money has to be accepted, but take the money as you please.

The meaning of resignation is that the host can give it freely, and the Taoist priest can also take it freely. This kind of trivial matter is generally not given too little, and the relatives in the underground will not be happy if it is given less. blame.

"Then you keep the rest."

"No."

"If you don't accept it, you have to accept it, there is no negotiation."

"..."

"Okay then, keep it for the general, and return it to the general after he gets married." Lin Zi sighed.

"I gave you this, you don't have to pay it back!" The general, who still had income during the Chinese New Year, didn't care about such a small amount of money.

I have left the words there, if I don't pay back, wouldn't I become his wife...

To guard the grave, you must observe the "March [-]", which is the day with the seventh day of each month. The first seventh day is just one day later.

However, something happened during the "February [-]th". The soldiers who went to guard the grave had an accident when they came back. They passed out on the bed and couldn't wake up after dying. There were some strange sores on their bodies, which looked scary.

The military doctor examined him and found that he was suffering from a strange disease. The military doctor didn't know the details.

Since they were guarding the grave, they might encounter some dirty things, so there was nothing they could do at this time. Lin Zi burned a talisman and flushed them with water. In the afternoon, one of them really woke up, and everyone hurriedly asked what was going on.

The soldier said weakly that he didn't know, so Lin Zi asked him if he had encountered something strange, but he didn't expect it to happen.

In the middle of the night, they saw a kid in blue clothes approaching. They thought it was Xiaocai. After all, he was the only kid in the entire barracks. They called him out in case something happened to him, but turned around and found that he was not Xiaocai.

The child grinned at them, the smile was so creepy that they all got goosebumps, but when they looked at him again, he was nowhere to be seen.

Lin Zi's breath was stagnant, and he bit the tip of his tongue, "Everyone, spread out, those who came here don't go back, stay here."

"What's wrong?" The barracks sensed something was wrong.

"What he said was a malaria ghost. He likes to grin and snicker at people! Anyone who smiles at them will get sick. It's still a serious infectious disease!"

As soon as the words fell, everyone's expressions changed.

Lin Zi comforted them again, "But don't be afraid, the way to deal with the malaria ghost is very simple. This kind of ghost is afraid of people's shouting, and also afraid of the sound of firecrackers. They will disappear when they encounter noisy sounds. As long as it disappears, you Nothing will happen."

Simple is simple, the problem is where to find the malaria ghost, if a group of people meet him like this, if they don't scare it away, wouldn't I be the same as the few people lying on the bed tomorrow?

"Lin Daochang, is what you said believable?"

"Of course it's credible!" Lin Zi nodded seriously, "I am an honest man!"

Well, they can only put all their eggs in one basket. They have all met these people, and they may have been infected with his plague.

They were fine yesterday, but today their skin has become like this, which shows how terrible the disease is, and they fear that they will look like this tomorrow.

Lin Zi wrote down the five items needed on a piece of paper, folded the paper into the shape of a crane, and chanted some incantation, the crane actually flew tremblingly as soon as he blew, and flew all the way to He Huai's tent.

This is a very simple little spell. He Huai almost laughed out loud when he saw the paper crane. That little guy is really serious. If there is anything he can't say to his face, he must use such a cute method...

He unfolded the page, and suddenly couldn't laugh when he saw the contents inside.

What malaria, what disease... how did he get it?

"Come here! Hurry up and go to the nearby towns to buy firecrackers!"

The young general outside the gate looked confused, "General, do you want to add fireworks?"

"What do you add fireworks for?"

"We don't just use firecrackers to get married, we also have to have fireworks. It's so beautiful to set off at night, the general's wife will definitely like it!"

Veins popped up on He Huai's forehead, "I'm not getting married today! Just firecrackers and nothing else!"