unlucky ghost

It was a sunny day in midsummer, the scarlet sun was scorching for a day, and the atmosphere of the earth was scorching.

Tanxi walked forward on tiptoe, feeling that her ankle was about to be roasted.

Turning out of a small road, there is a flat road leading directly to the city gate.

As soon as he entered the city, Tanxi couldn't stop smacking his lips.

One hundred and eighty years have passed, and the mulberry field has not turned into a sea, but the sea has turned into a mulberry field.

The prosperity and splendor in Yangshili are even more prosperous, and Tanxi is surprised to see everything for a while.

In the evening, the street market is full of lanterns, like stars in the sky.

On the blue brick road, the traffic is like flowing water and the horses are like a dragon. The red walls and green tiles on both sides of the road are hidden high and low. There are row upon row of carved buildings and beautiful buildings.

Stop and stare at Tanxi, the market stretches endlessly, becoming more and more prosperous as it goes forward.

A small trader by the roadside grinned and hawked to passers-by, a string of crystal bells in his hand swayed very crisply and melodiously.

Tanxi moved towards the small stall, looking curiously at it.

Just watching, a few young women separated from the bustling crowd and came up to the stall with their children.

Tanxi walked away resentfully, but her eyes were glued to several young women in thin clothes and gorgeous skirts.

Tanxi pursed her lips and swallowed saliva. This rich man was wearing really cool clothes, with delicate skin and beautiful hairpin hair like clouds. Just looking at it made Tanxi feel refreshed and salivating.One hundred and eighty years ago, how could there be such a rare scene in the market for people to see, women smiled without showing their teeth, and their clothes must cover their bodies, but any place that should not be exposed is either to be reviled and disgusted behind, or called People point to the spine and say they are skittish.

Tanxi was watching in a daze, and he didn't stop on his feet. Two people walked straight towards him, their bodies piercing through Tanxi barely blocked his sight.

Tan Xi was watching with enthusiasm, and shouted: "Hey, you..."

After the master and servant passed by, all the beauties with fragrant temples had long since disappeared.

Tanxi shook her head, but she heard a man in a Chinese dress in front of her asking without turning her head, "How is it?"

The servant at the back walked around him nodding and bowing, tucked the corners of his lapel for him, and straightened his waist, then stood respectfully to one side and said: "Master, everything is neat."

But the man said angrily: "Stupid thing, what I'm asking is how about this dress?"

The servant hurriedly said with a smile on his face: "Young master is fair-skinned, this dark green gown complements his appearance the most, the young one only thinks it looks like a jade tree facing the wind, there is no one in Suicheng that is more beautiful than your master. "

The man in Chinese clothes ironed the ink painting fan with mountains and rivers, and the emerald pink and golden threads were so glamorous, he closed the fan again with a laugh, knocked the boy on the forehead, and said, "Slick tongue." After all, he smiled and left.

Tanxi wondered, how can men in Yangshili compare their looks so much for a mere hundred years?

Later, the weather became hotter and hotter, the sun was fumigated, and it hadn't rained for a long time. In the busy city hidden by the high walls, a gust of wind would vaporize people.

Tanxi hid in the shade of a tree, not relieving the heat at all, so he simply left the downtown area, wandered to the east of the city, and found a wine cellar of a rich family. Had some easy days.

It's just that he hid until Xia Quqiulai.

Tanxi was greedy for wine, and got drunk several times when he smelled the aroma of wine. By the time he remembered the business, the heat outside had already subsided, and the city was already paved with golden leaves.

It was a cloudy and cold day, and Tanxi saw that it was a good day for traveling, so he went out of the wine cellar for a stroll.

This city of Sui changed its appearance a long time ago. A ten-zhang pagoda temple was erected next to the city wall in the east of the city. Every auspicious day, men, women, old and young in the city would go to burn incense and pray with their families. It was very lively.

When Tanxi passed by that temple, he also went in to worship, and the big-bellied Maitreya Buddha in the high hall smiled very amiably.

On the south side of the Buddha statue, a young monk sat on a half-worn tuft of cattail. He was only in his early twenties, wearing a dusty shirt, holding a dust whisk in his hand, with his eyes slightly closed, muttering something.

Tan Xi knelt on the tuanpu and bowed three times, but when he got up, he saw the monk opened his eyes and nodded slightly at him.

Tanxi was stunned that the man could see him.Just as he was thinking to himself, the monk closed his eyes again, and a few wisps of green smoke wafted from the incense burner at his feet.

When Tanxi came out of the temple, she rolled her sleeves and dangled by the embankment.

The breeze was blowing, the yellow leaves rolled all over the ground, and there were crisp sounds under the feet.

Withered weeds grew wildly on the embankment, and big green and yellow grasshoppers fled around underfoot.

Tanxi lay in the dry grass, and there was an indescribable ease and joy in the chirping of insects and birds. It rolled down the slope of the embankment, surrounded by the fragrance of grass and earth.

After rolling enough, I got up and went to the downtown again, I really didn't want to be a lonely ghost.

At dusk, half of the bright red sun peeked out from the thick clouds in the sky, dyeing Tanxi red all over.

Tan Xi was frightened and dusted off his robes, people and horses in the market hurried past, brushing Tan Xi's shoulders, Tan Xi suddenly had an illusion, as if he had never existed, just like a joke in people's mouths, told and laughed , and then disappeared with the wind, occasionally being remembered by others, only to make people laugh and sigh again and again.

Tanxi walked slowly through the market, turned a corner, and suddenly there were fewer pedestrians.

Candle lamps on the lacquered door were lit up, and under the lamps were full of others talking and laughing.

"Good aunt, I should go. If I don't go, it will be too late."

A black mass fell from the sky with a "swish", Tanxi was shaking his head, and was hit on the head before he could dodge, blindfolded.

When Tanxi hurriedly tore it down to look at it, it was a few men's clothes. It was an outer robe wrapped in an inner shirt, which still carried some warmth.

"Oh, grandma, this, this, this... why did you throw away my clothes, what should I do... Oops..." In the upstairs window, a man yelled helplessly, and stepped on the wooden board thump.

The woman began to sob softly, timidly and coquettishly, and the crying man's heart trembled, and he said, "I... I was wrong, I was wrong, I shouldn't have come..."

"Okay, let's go today, and don't come here again." The woman cried, thinking she was extremely wronged.

The wooden boards thumped again, and someone slammed the window shut.

"Hey...what are you talking about...if I leave, are you really willing?"

The sobs subsided into intermittent choked sobs.

"...don't cry anymore, you...crying made me feel like a mess in my heart, I...I'll leave if I don't want to leave, huh?..."

In the window, the shadow of the candle swayed, and the choking sound stopped, and turned into a few continuous crying and laughing.

Tanxi also pursed her lips, although it was annoying for a woman to cry, but the happiness of other people was also happiness, and Tanxi was envious for a while for no reason.

Tanxi folded the clothes, put them on the ground and walked forward.

But it was said that the moon was dark and the wind was high, and the cold air was extremely heavy. Tanxi swayed on the long street until midnight, and all the pedestrians dispersed.

At that time, a large white mist roared in from the place where the wind came from the north, and thousands of ghosts and ghosts rushed past crying and screaming as usual, and diverted like a tide at the fork in the road, not knowing where they would go.

After the group of ghosts passed by, Tanxi found a tree, climbed up it in twos and threes, and stayed overnight without sleep.

In the early morning of the next day, a gray cloud floated from the east, and the blackness was overwhelming.

It was only when the dark cloud approached that Tanxi could see clearly that it was actually a dark mass of old ravens, covering the sky and rushing towards him.

Tanxi couldn't escape in time, so he quickly covered his head with his hands, and there was a mocking hiss in his ears, and his wings slapped on Tanxi's body one by one, and the old raven's feathers scattered all over the ground.

"Tanxi..." Suddenly a voice called out beside Tanxi's ear.

Tanxi raised his head suddenly, and there were old ravens with black feathers all around him, one by one, covering him like a steamer.

When Nahan was in the middle, a crooked figure appeared in front of Tanxi.

The white linen shirt, the long blood red tongue, is that Bai Wuchang.

"Tanxi, can you hear me?"

Tan Xi nodded, and the shadow froze, as if it was about to disperse.

"Do you still recognize me?"

Tanxi nodded to acknowledge that she recognized it, and the shadow said: "It's good to know, last time I left in a hurry and forgot a very important thing, so I came here to let you know."

Tanxi clasped his hands together and said, "My lord, let's talk."

"It's not a big deal, it's just that the time on the road to the underworld is easy to waste. You have endured a hundred years in the forest of the underworld, but in reality it has only been more than ten years in the human world. I think you are still wandering around in the yang world, which is very pitiful, so I remind you. "

Tanxi's heart trembled, her eyes widened, and she stammered, "You...you mean..."

Bai Wuchang nodded, and said again: "Go straight to the south along this road, turn west when there is no road, turn north when you see a tree, turn west after a hundred and eighty steps, cross an alley, it is a main road, go straight Going south, it's...uh... that, Tan Mansion." While speaking, Bai Wuchang had already imagined that road in front of his eyes.

Tanxi froze, a wave of wind and waves roared through her mind, and she forgot to thank her for a moment.

"Stay in this mortal world with peace of mind, repay all the favors that should be repaid, and fulfill all the wishes that should be repaid. When your yang energy dissipates, I will come and lure you back to the underworld. You must never go there again without authorization. I ran away in the underworld, remember, remember..."

After all, Bai Wuchang's shadow faded away, turning into a puff of light smoke and dissipating.

Then the crows started up with a bang, and rose up into the air noisily, turning into a cloud of thick clouds and heading west.

But it turned out that the white ghost was afraid that he would not stay peacefully in the mortal world, so he took a sigh of relief, attached himself to the old raven, and came to ask him a few words.Seemingly well-intentioned, but in fact it is also for my own selfishness, this is a later story.

Let's say that when Tanxi heard the words, his heart turned into a big vat of five flavors, joy, anger, sorrow and fear arose together, twisted into a strand of evil spirit stagnated in his chest and lungs, and he didn't know what to do for a while.