Chapter 218 Daoist Friends "Hit your little head until you are dizzy and your hands are shaking. Beat your little hands until you have sores and sore mouth. Beat your little feet..."
Beside the paint bucket, the old woman who had been hitting the villain with her slippers suddenly silenced and raised her head suddenly.
The firelight illuminated her face alternately, and the old woman stared at Yin Xiu with vicious eyes.
Suddenly, she picked up the slippers and shouted at Yin Xiu: "Go, go quickly!"
Yin Xiu was frightened by her and ran out in a panic, as if she was being urged and driven by something, unable to resist.
As he ran through an alley, a hand reached out from the side and pulled him in.
Yin Xiu took a closer look and saw that the person who caught him was Ma Xiaoyu.
After covering her mouth with her fingers to signal Yin Xiu not to speak, Ma Xiaoyu made sword moves with her fingers, drew a spell in the air, and struck it into Yin Xiu's chest.
In this way, Yin Xiucai felt a little calmer inside, and the original fear dissipated.
Pointing to her heart, signaling Yin Xiu to communicate with her thoughts, Ma Xiaoyu finally "spoke."
"You were hit by that old woman's spell just now, and she almost drove away your three souls and six souls."
Yin Xiu nodded. The old women here were indeed very strange. None of them were easy to mess with. They would accidentally fall into their trap.
"According to what Lan Po said, many people in Tilanqiao will worship lonely ghosts today, so if we go out and walk around, we may encounter the evil ghost disguised as an ordinary ghost."
After Ma Xiaoyu nodded in agreement, the two of them walked out of the alley and onto the street.
Dazzling firelight, paper money and ashes flying into the air. There is a paint bucket in front of every house. The woman burning the paper money squats or stands, looking at the flames expressionlessly.
These paint buckets are surrounded by living souls, who greedily absorb the smoke emanating from the buckets.
"These ghosts are [collecting money], be careful, don't talk to them, it will be bad if you reveal your yang energy."
Lan Po's voice came from above their heads, and Yin Xiu and Ma Xiaoyu immediately understood that she was paying attention to this side.
As soon as she finished speaking, a man wearing a vest and shorts, with exposed limbs that looked like firewood poles, ran over.
Judging from the look on his face, he must be a fellow Taoist who overdosed and died on the roadside.
He nodded and bowed to the two of them, and asked: "You two, I asked many people, but they didn't tell me. How can I get to the underworld?"
Ma Xiaoyu said nothing and pointed to the west.
When a person dies, he "returns to the west", so his soul just keeps going west.
The fellow Taoist thanked him repeatedly, and when he was about to leave, he stopped again and stared at Yin Xiu.
After a long while, the fellow Taoist said: "Brother, you seem to have died not long ago. I smell that you are still a little popular."
Yin Xiu didn't say anything, but pushed him far away, with a ferocious and vicious expression on his face, which scared the Taoist fellow to the point where he screamed and ran away without looking back.
Ma Xiaoyu glanced at him and said, "I didn't expect you to pretend to be a villain. Even ghosts are afraid of you."
Yin Xiu grinned, "Who said I was pretending? I'm very fierce!"
Ma Xiaoyu nodded calmly, "I believe it!"
As the two of them were talking, more and more wandering ghosts appeared on the street. At a crossroads, a few young men and women in strange clothes were squatting.
There were three weak firelights on their shoulders, which were obviously strangers, not ghosts. At this moment, they were looking left and right, tapping the bowl on the ground with a chopstick, looking quite nervous.
Ma Xiaoyu frowned, "What are they playing in the middle of the night?"
"What are you playing for? You are playing with ghosts! Here, look." Looking in the direction pointed by Yin Xiu's finger, Ma Xiaoyu found that behind several young people, the wandering spirits gradually gathered around them. .
"One of the Ten Ways to See Ghosts. They tap on the edge of the bowl to attract the ghosts. They cannot stop on the way, otherwise the ghosts will find them."
"How did you know?" Ma Xiaoyu asked in surprise.
"Uh...it's very popular in our countryside. Everyone has a copy of that book."
Yin Xiu casually excused himself and took Ma Xiaoyu to stand aside, watching what happened.
After a while, the sound and rhythm of banging the bowl gradually slowed down. It was obvious that the hands of these people had begun to get sore and they could no longer hold on.
"If this continues, these people will be discovered by ghosts." Ma Xiaoyu said.
"Well, it's almost time."
Yin Xiu had already seen that around them, there were several ghosts with red aura all over their bodies. They were evil ghosts with great resentment.
As soon as they arrived, the other ghosts couldn't help but hide away. The temperature dropped sharply. A layer of fine goose bumps appeared on the skin of several people, and their scalps couldn't help but feel numb.
Ma Xiaoyu touched Yin Xiu with her elbow, "Are those few going to be disposed of?"
Yin Xiu shook his head, "Our target is the evil ghosts. These are just a little bit fierce, far from being evil. They won't cause any trouble. Don't scare them away."
These people don't care about life and death, they dare to play with anything, and they even play tricks on ghosts. It's good to teach them a lesson, otherwise they may cause some trouble in the future.
The two of them were chatting when the Taoist friend who just asked for directions came up to them again.
Seeing that Yin Xiu was not able to speak, the fellow Taoist stepped aside timidly and said to Ma Xiaoyu, "I'm sorry, miss, I've run into some trouble again."
Ma Xiaoyu couldn't look as ferocious as Yin Xiu, and couldn't keep her face to ask Yin Xiu for help, so she could only nod helplessly and signaled it to speak.
Seeing that a ghost was finally willing to pay attention to him, fellow Taoist couldn't help but smile.
He hurriedly said: "There is a ghost in front of us. It's very vicious. It's blocking the road and won't let us pass. I can't report to the underworld."
After a pause, he rubbed his hands again and said to the two of them: "I knew at a glance that these two are the eldest brother and sister from the local ghosts, otherwise I wouldn't be dressed like the Seducer. They are cool, handsome and clean." Neat and neat, the jade tree faces the wind..."
Before he finished speaking, Ma Xiaoyu stopped him and impatiently motioned to the fellow Taoist to lead the way.
The "man" happily walked quickly ahead, looking back from time to time to see if Ma Xiaoyu and Yin Xiu were following.
Ma Xiaoyu's face was still expressionless, but she whispered: "There seems to be something weird about this guy?"
"I know." Yin Xiu nodded, "Just wait and see what tricks he can come up with."
The two followed him and passed through several alleys before finally stopping in front of an alley.
At the entrance of the alley, I saw a ghost with a red aura standing there, his face full of ferocity and violence.
"it is this?"
Yin Xiu shook his head. It was obvious that the ghost in front of him was not their target.
The fellow Taoist turned his head and gave instructions to the two of them: "Brother, sister, this is the guy."
Yin Xiu smiled and spat out a burst of Yang Qi: "No, your boss should be a more fierce guy."
As soon as his yang energy came out, the fellow Taoist's face suddenly changed. It was hard to tell whether it was fright or joy.
(End of this chapter)