I opened up Taoism in ancient times

"Pray for rain and find a mass grave?" Liu Yichi asked.

"To burn the Hanba." Li Su said.

Xiang Sheng had just sent away the woman who was begging for rain, and stepped forward and said, "Their village has already invited Lord Dragon, but it didn't work. Now the only way left is to burn the Hanba."

"Ah——" Liu Yichi just remembered that he had heard his father Liu Tongzhi say that the rituals of praying for rain in the old days were similar to dancing, sweeping pits, and carrying the Dragon King to visit the village. Burning Hanba, also called drought bone pile.

Hanba is a zombie, and a zombie was a human being.

In other words, if you want to find Hanba, you have to dig a grave.

Digging people's graves and disturbing the cleanliness of the ancestors are indiscriminate behaviors. Liu Yichi never thought that there would be people paying Taoists to do such things.

"What are you thinking?" Seeing Liu Yichi's thoughtful look, Li Su asked.

"It's not easy to dig graves..."

"Grave? What is a tomb?" Xiang Sheng asked, with a somewhat ignorant expression on his face, "Ah, a tomb, what an old saying."

"Huh? What do you mean?" Liu Yichi asked.

Xiangsheng stroked his chin, and said slowly, "Since the Taoists lived and thrived on this land 300 years ago, there have been no graves."

"Shouldn't that person be buried in peace after his death?" Liu Yichi continued to ask.

"Is it safe to be buried in the ground?" Li Su looked at Liu Yichi, "It is not safe to be buried in the ground. People who are buried in the ground after death will become zombies, and then develop into dry demons. Zombies and dry demons cannibalize human flesh and blood, disturbing the world. If someone dares to dig into the earth and build a grave after death, Taoists will punish him."

"What if that person dies? The corpses are piled there?"

"Human? Then who is the score? If it is a mortal, most of them will be cremated after death, and some choose bird burial or water burial. If it is a Taoist, it will be classified as a 'Taoist burial'. After the Taoist who became a Taoist passed away, his body will not melt , enshrined by the family; the bodies of some low-level Taoists will turn into energy that nourishes all things within one to ten years after death, and finally disappear." Li Su said word by word.

"Then we all have to be buried by Taoists after we die? Where are Taoists buried?"

"The major families have Taoist burials from major families. Taoist burials are extremely rich in energy. Later generations practice here, and the speed of practice will also be accelerated. Taoist burials are related to the future reproduction of a family. The entrance is not only secret, but also by high-ranking Taoists. Guard. Finding out where someone else’s family is buried is not as simple as knocking on the door in the middle of the night and being thrown a stinky talisman.” Li Su joked about Liu Yichi as he spoke.

Hearing the smelly talisman, Liu Yichi trembled all over, showing a disgusted and aggrieved expression.Well, now I know another taboo, you can't ask where the Taoist is buried.

"As for the Taoist burial in whose family we die, it's hard to say. Taoists without a family are all sweets. When we are about to die, there are corpse hunters from several families guarding them. Whoever snatches them , just go to someone’s Taoist burial, a dead Taoist is an energy supplement.” Li Su’s light voice said something that made people shiver.

Liu Yichi showed an embarrassed smile, "Corpse hunter? Who are you more wicked than each other?" Thinking about it this way, he actually felt that it was reasonable to pick up a mass grave.Sure enough, the bottom line of morality cannot be compared, and it is meaningless to compare who has a lower limit.

"It is indeed more wicked than anyone else. Therefore, the job of praying for rain will not be accepted by a slightly passable Taoist temple." Li Su commented.

Right now, the three members of Tianyiguan were all stabbed.

Liu Yichi made a gesture of drawing his sword, and said: "It's important to make money, in order to make money to live, why can't you just pray for rain!"

Li Su raised the corners of his lips and smiled perfunctorily, "It's good that you can think about it that way.

While it was still early, in order to make money, Liu Yichi and Li Su went out to find mass graves.Since mortals will become zombies after death, for those who have relatives, someone will take care of the funeral after death.Only a person with no relatives will be thrown into a mass grave after death.

There are not many mass graves, and the mass graves are burned regularly. It is not easy to find a dry man among the mass graves.

Therefore, what Liu Yichi and Li Su are looking for is not the mass burial mound that everyone knows on the surface. In the Dayan Dynasty, the place where mortals who died alone and were not cremated were also called mass burial mounds. .The place where a person's bones are buried can also be called a mass grave.

When a mortal dies, there must be no bones left.Those who did not die according to the rules were mass burials.

"Li Su, why are we getting further and further away?"

"Because we are going to the place where mortals live, and there are only mass graves there." Li Su replied.

"A place where mortals live?" Liu Yichi realized that here, mortals and Taoists did not live in the same area. "Mortals and Taoists, what is the difference between them?"

Li Su looked at Liu Yichi who asked the question and smiled.

"Why, is this a question that cannot be asked?"

Li Su nodded.

"I didn't ask anyone else, I asked you. Li Su, just tell me."

Li Su shook his head, "Find the answer yourself."

They walked for a whole day during the day, but found no trace of mass graves.On the contrary, they received a lot of scrutiny along the way, and the two of them were watched by mortals for a whole day.

When the sun was about to set, Li Su was about to go back.

"Aren't you going to continue searching at night?" Liu Yichi asked curiously.

"The mass grave is just a mass grave. There is no need to risk the night to continue searching. Moreover, searching desperately at night may not be rewarding. The mass grave is not a ghost, it only appears at night."

Liu Yichi accepted Li Su's suggestion, and being so close to Li Su along the way, he found that his heart beat quickened several times.Sometimes it's when Li Su's eyes meet, sometimes when Li Su is smiling, sometimes even when Li Su is in a daze.

There were no rules, but Liu Yichi looked forward to it with trepidation.

He was moved.

"Why are you staring at me all the time?" Li Su glanced over and caught Liu Yichi's gaze.

"I, where do I have it?"

"I'll give you the mirror, you can take a look at your guilty appearance." Li Su took out a mirror from his pouch and handed it to Liu Yichi.

Liu Yichi saw in the mirror that his expression gradually changed from guilty to shy, and finally into surprise with staring eyes and mouth open. "What are you doing with a mirror when you go out?"

"Isn't this going to come in handy?"

Liu Yichi: "..."

Their conversation seemed to be awkward, and the timing seemed wrong, but Liu Yichi heard a voice full of regularity and strength.

Bang bang bang—it was the sound of a beating heart, but the frequency was not right.

Liu Yichi put his hand on his own heart, felt the beating full of vigor and vitality, felt a little incredible, but also a little joyful and delighted.

As long as a person is alive, the heart will always beat.In a person's limited life, the heart is a perpetual motion machine.Sometimes, this perpetual motion machine will change.Its beating becomes slower and lighter when the mind is calm and asleep, and its rhythm is strengthened during joy and excitement.

Life may be sad, peaceful, or joyful. Every moment constitutes a continuous life, but it is when the beating frequency of those hearts is changed that our sense of experience of our own existence will be particularly strong.

Right now, Liu Yichi felt it.He was full of joy, and he was immersed in this emotion.Just immersed in the fact that he likes Li Su, he doesn't think about whether Li Su likes him, doesn't think about how long his love can last, and doesn't think about whether he will have a future with Li Su.

He just feels that he is liking someone.That's all, at least right now, at this moment, that's all.

It turns out that it is such a beautiful thing to feel that you like someone.

The author has something to say: Liu Yichi's current feelings for Li Su are closer to the state of crush, not particularly suitable, but relatively close.

crush

I quite like this word

short, passionate but shy crush

The last time I crushed (not on people, but on coffee hahaha) was probably a cup of hand-brewed coffee and a sun-dried Ethiopian bean in Shanghai Yourong Nai Da Coffee Shop. is particularly wonderful.I tried to restore this distraction, but failed. It can only be attributed to the complexity of coffee beans and people, but this is probably the charm of crush.