Chapter 74
Su Chen knew why middle-aged women and big white rats didn't let the little girl get close to here, for fear that the little girl would become a ghost.
No matter how naive the little girl is, if she sees her corpse being thrown away in the mountain stream, she will inevitably feel resentment, and this resentment gradually increases. When it reaches a certain level, she will become a ghost.
Inside the wooden house!
Su Chen put the oil paper cloth on the ground, then took out an incense burner from the snakeskin bag, placed it at the top, and lit incense and inserted it.
"Su Chen, what are you going to do?"
Everyone kept their questions along the way, but Chen Xin couldn't help it at this moment.
"I'm going to go to the underworld."
"I'm going to find out the origin of this little girl."
Su Chen did not hide it. This was the first step he had to do. Only by determining the little girl's identity and origin could he be sent to the underworld to be reincarnated.
Facing a ghost who doesn't know his name or his birth address, Su Chen has no choice but to the point that the little girl's corpse is still here, and there is a corpse, so he still has the possibility of trying.
"Then how do you look for it?" Chen Xin asked curiously.
"There are people who have roads, and ghosts have their own ways. Of course, we have to ask the ghost officer in the underworld for inquiries."
After hearing this, Yin Bao, who was beside him, was shocked and said, "Mr. Su, are you going to go to the dark side?"
"Do you still know how to go to the dark?" Su Chen was a little surprised.
"There is a mother-in-law in the next town who specializes in interpreting dreams for people. Any family who has been asked to dream by their dead relatives will go to the mother-in-law to ask about it. This mother-in-law will ask the dead. Everyone in the town says that this mother-in-law can go to the underworld, and that the mother-in-law himself said that she can go to the underworld."
Hearing Yinbao's explanation, Su Chen nodded to show that he knew.
Walking Yin is a professional noun, and its meaning is easy to understand. Walking means going, which means going to the underworld.
The underworld is so mysterious that even some top experts in the metaphysics cannot go there, except for one type of people. This type of people has the ability to go to the underworld and is called the Yin people.
People who go to the underworld may not be very capable. In addition to being able to go to the underworld, they are like ordinary people in other aspects. There are many reasons why they can go to the underworld. But in the words of Old Man Tian, the most common reason is that they are related to the household.
The underworld and the living are two worlds where water does not interfere with rivers, but the connection between these two worlds is extremely deep. Some ghosts miss their family, or have some unfulfilled wishes to tell their family members to let them fulfill them on their behalf.
In order to allow these ghosts to stay in the underworld with peace of mind, the underworld made a decision, allowing people from the underworld to go to the underworld, but what kind of people can go to the underworld is determined by the underworld that is responsible for each area.
This is a fat man, just like opening a yin shop, but there are many rules for people who go to yin. First of all, they will never reveal their experience in the underworld. Secondly, these people are not allowed to leave their city in their lifetime, and the approximate range is as big as a county town.
Because Su Chen has been in the underworld for many years, he has seen people who walk in the underworld. In fact, ordinary people who walk in the underworld cannot reach the real underworld at all. They just stay outside the underworld, and then hold their birth date and horoscopes to call the name of the ghost they want to find.
"I won't go to the dark."
Shaking his head, Su Chen gave Yin Bao a negative answer. He was not a man from the underworld, so it was no different from seeking death.
But not going down to the underworld does not mean you can’t see a ghost.
"Burn the paper money in a brazier."
Yinbao's snakeskin bag contains a lot of paper money, and as for the brazier, it is an iron pot taken from the kitchen, Yinli takes the initiative to take on the job.
"Su Chen, what can I do?"
Seeing Yinli burning paper money, Chen Xin also asked. Su Chen looked at her and said, "You go and get four bowls, pour half of water for each bowl, and then place the bowl at four corners of the yard outside. Press a few pieces of paper money at the bottom of the bowl, and press as much as you can, but the amount of paper money under each bowl must be equal."
"No problem, it's covered by me."
Chen Xin patted her chest and promised. Su Chen looked at Yinbao. Yinbao picked up his cell phone and made a call. After a while, he said, "These things are ready. Should they carry them in, or should I get them here?"
"Please go and get it in, it's better not to have too many people in here."
After hearing Su Chen's words, Yin Bao said nothing, turned around and walked out of the yard. In less than a quarter of an hour, he walked back. At this moment, he was full of things in both hands, and a vegetable basket with a half-cooked pig head and some dishes were placed in the whole vegetable basket.
These are the things that ordinary people use to worship their ancestors.
There is a wooden box on the inside of Yinbao's right arm. The wooden box is about two meters long, but it is less than ten centimeters thick.
"I asked my family to cook these dishes, and we made them according to our past worship of our ancestors."
Su Chen was very satisfied with pig heads, chickens, ducks, geese, and several dishes. At this moment, Yin Li finished cooking the paper money and cleaned up an Eight Immortals table in the house. Yin Bao placed these sacrifices on the table.
"This wooden box was bought from the Old Man Liu's store. I told him about your request from Mr. Su, and he gave me this wooden box."
Su Chen took the wooden box and opened it. There was a paper man inside, a lifelike paper man. If it were someone else, he would probably be shocked the moment he opened it.
Seeing this paper man, Su Chen asked curiously: "Uncle San, how much has Master Liu charged you?"
"A paper man is not worth much." Yin Bao waved his hand and replied without caring.
"Uncle San, please tell me the truth."
Su Chen didn't believe that this paper man was not worth much. What he wanted was a paper man who could carry the ghosts. This kind of paper man was not easy to make. First of all, I won't talk about the skills of paper man, and even the materials were not easy to make.
The normal process of papermaking is to first extract the materials, then peel off the bark, soak it in water, wait until the materials are softened, then steam it, and then rinse it after the steaming, so that the impurities are reduced. After several processes, finally place the material in a stone mortar and mash it, then pour it into the paper trough and put it in water, wait until the fibers completely float on the water to form pulp, and finally filter it into the pulp with a thin bamboo curtain to remove a thin layer of paper film and dry it.
However, this kind of paper still has impurities and cannot carry the Yin spirit. To carry the Yin spirit, the first thing is the material must be locust wood, and it must be more than a hundred years old. Secondly, the purity must be very high. If a hundred pieces of paper can be extracted, only one piece can be extracted.
In addition, this paper cannot be dried in the sun, it can only be dried by the natural wind.
Based on Su Chen's understanding of Liu Shanxi, how could such a laborious paper man not charge money? It is estimated that not only charge money, but also ask for a price is not low.
"That old man Liu took me eight thousand yuan." Yin Bao scratched his head and said embarrassedly.
To be honest, when he first knew the price, he was really surprised. Is a paper man so expensive?
If Mr. Su hadn't specified that he would buy it there, he would rather run farther back to the town to buy it.
“This price…”
Su Chen didn't know what to say. Liu Shanxi was really greedy enough. The cost of paper money was about one or two hundred, and with his skills, it was considered a normal price within three thousand, and this eight thousand was obviously a scammer.
It is estimated that Liu Shanxi also guessed something from his previous question, and knew that he might be in urgent need of it, so he was confident that he would quote this high price.
"I'll give this money to you then."
"Mr. Su doesn't need to be so serious. It's the same for me to do good deeds."
In Yinbao's opinion, although the eight thousand yuan is quite distressing, if he can use this to bring close his relationship with Mr. Su, then the money will be worth it. He spent even 30,000 yuan, would he still care about the eight thousand yuan?
“That’s different.”
Su Chen shook his head, but he didn't insist anymore at this time. After putting the offerings in place, he placed the paper man on the left position.
Strangely, this paper man was a light and thin piece, but he could stand there without falling.
After doing some, Su Chen looked at the sky. The sun was already setting, and the time was almost done.
"You'd better go to the study next door."
Su Chen pointed to the entrance of the study room beside him. It would be better not to have too many outsiders present for the next thing.
This time Chen Xin didn't say anything, and obediently followed Yinli and Yinbao into the study.
Su Chen was a little surprised that Chen Xin was so obedient, but what he didn't know was that the reason why Chen Xin was so obedient was because she saw Yinli also went in. Anyway, her main purpose of following Su Chen was to prevent Su Chen from being hooked up by this woman.
In the entire hall of the room, Su Chen and the Big White Rat are now left, and of course the little girl's soul.
"No matter what you see or hear, don't talk, just sit quietly, and the same goes for you."
Su Chen said this to the little girl and the big white rat. The little girl nodded well and said she knew it. The big white rat was a little reluctant, but after Su Chen stared at him, he still pointed its little head.
Seeing that the big white rat agreed, Su Chen took a bowl and poured the ashes of paper money burned from the iron basin into the bowl, then walked towards the door, pouring the ashes of paper on the ground, winding and winding to the entrance of the yard.
When he arrived at the gate of the yard, the paper ash in the bowl was almost over. Su Chen directly placed the bowl at the door, but this time it was turned upside down on the ground.
At the same time, Su Chen put his hands behind his back and said loudly: "The gods among the great emperors in the four directions have been divided into four directions. The master prepares wine to welcome guests, and hopes that the four gods will invite guests."
Chapter completed!