What are you waiting for? Wait for the cock to crow before dawn. Before the cock crows, the ghosts return to the underworld, and after the cock crows, ghost messengers like the Night Tour will also go back. Otherwise, the gates of the underworld will be closed at dawn, and you can't go back. The Day Tour will come out at this time, but there will be a time difference between the shift change and the Night Tour. I want to use this gap to call Xiaoxue out to ask about the situation.
After the cock crowed, I could see through the crack in the shop door that it was getting light outside. So I took out the plastic bottle and called Xiaoxue out. She looked very weak, and it was natural that she had been washed by the magic water, which almost washed away her soul. I took the Qi-nourishing and body-replenishing powder from the shelf and asked her to take some, and she looked much better immediately.
Shen Bing looked at us in astonishment and said, "So she's hiding behind you. Isn't she afraid of falling out with Master Qi and Master Ba?"
"Master Seven and Master Eight should have guessed that I had hidden it. As long as this matter is not exposed, we will not fall out." I said confidently.
Xiaoxue sat on the chair, took a few deep breaths, gave me a grateful smile and said, "You are as loyal as your great grandfather. You two have saved me countless times. A few words of gratitude are not enough to repay your kindness. So, I won't say those polite words."
I smiled back, thinking to myself, forget about any affection between you and Grandpa Taizu, but just because you're his junior sister, I, as his grandson, have to risk my life to help you.
Shen Bing laughed and said, "It doesn't matter. Our Xi Feng never asks for anything in return for his kindness."
When the girl saw her boyfriend being respected, her tone immediately changed and she said he was "our family".
I touched my nose and asked, "Why did you lose your mind after you were murdered?"
Xiaoxue frowned deeply, staring at the burning charcoal, and after a long time she spoke: "Maybe there are ghosts in the underworld who want me to die, so I can't even be a ghost. After killing me, they used the resentment of hundreds of corpses to stimulate the resentment suppressed in my heart, and then I lost my nature. Thinking about it now, I regret it very much. I shouldn't kill people for no reason, but the sin has been committed, and it's too late to regret it." As she spoke, she closed her eyes, with a look of remorse on her face.
I nodded. "I guessed from the beginning that you must have been tricked, so I tried to stop you from killing people. But I was entangled by the underworld snake, and I couldn't use the magic water to wash away the evil spirit in you in time."
After hearing this, Xiaoxue suddenly opened her eyes and said, "The Dark Snake? Then it must be Leopard Tail's doing. Actually, I have a grudge against this guy. I once killed one of his favorite ferocious crocodiles in Death Valley."
No wonder Xiaoxue and the big guys in the underworld have deep grudges against each other. Her great-grandfather and ancestors were exiled to the Woshi ruins, but they still took the opportunity to find ways to get rid of her.
Fighting against the sky, fighting against the earth, fighting against people, the fun is endless. Chairman Mao taught us this sentence is true, but when we really fight, it is not endless fun, it is endless trouble. The ones who really can't be provoked are the sinister and fierce gods in the underworld, especially the guys in the ten ghost generals. Except for the seventh and eighth masters, almost none of them are good guys. Fortunately, the ghost king was suppressed early, otherwise the world would have been in chaos long ago.
Speaking of Leopard Tail, he is the worst of the ten ghost generals, even worse than Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced. How can a vicious demon like Diaoke and Sangmen be a good thing? He is in charge of the spirits of animals, and his own sinister nature causes these animal spirits to become extremely perverse and violent.
The pets he kept were either ferocious crocodiles or dark snakes. Why couldn't he keep a docile rabbit or a kitten? Judging from the pets he kept, he was a scum with evil intentions.
I sighed and said, "If Leopard Tail gets involved, it's not hard to explain why the banknote turned into ghost money. I think the fortune teller hired by the Zhu family might be a day traveler."
Xiaoxue didn't know about the money turning into ghost money yet, so she asked why. I told her about it, and Xiaoxue shook her head and said, "Riyou dare not break the rules and do evil in the human world without permission. He can only patrol, record what he sees and hears during the day, and then return to the underworld to present it to the chief executive for review. This Yin-Yang master is definitely not Riyou, nor can he be a ghost messenger from the underworld. I think it might be the 'Nanshan Yin-Yang Man' who did it!"
"The hermaphrodite from Nanshan?" I was stunned. I had never heard of such a person.
Xiaoxue raised her head with a thoughtful look on her face. After a moment, she said, "Have you heard of the White Bone Cave in Nanshan?"
Shen Bing and I looked at each other and nodded at the same time. Not only have I heard of it, I've even been there.
Xiaoxue went on to say, "I don't need to go into detail about the so-called Nanshan. There is a strange profession living in Nanshan, which is similar to the ghost story inheritors, that is, the Yin-Yang people who look at feng shui."
She stopped talking here, but Shen Bing and I were even more confused. What does it mean to look at yin and yang and feng shui? I don't like being kept in suspense. Just say what you have to say. Why do you hide the other half and make it uncomfortable for others to hear
Xiaoxue seemed to be recalling something from the past, staring at the charcoal fire in a daze. I was so anxious waiting, and after the day was completely bright, the day tour would come to the world of the living, and Xiaoxue had to return to the ghost-collecting bottle. So I coughed twice to wake her up from her deep thought.
She frowned as she talked about this profession, which was also passed down from ancestors, but the inheritance was not as strict as that of ghosts, and outsiders could be accepted as disciples. However, the selection of talents for this profession was much stricter than that of ghosts. Because after becoming a master, one must travel between the Yin and Yang realms, the Yang energy cannot be too strong, and the Yin energy cannot be too strong. The successor must achieve a balance of Yin and Yang in the body, and not be hurt at all when entering and leaving the Yin and Yang realms.
This kind of person is specialized in looking at Feng Shui for ghosts in the underworld. It sounds absurd to me. What kind of Feng Shui does the underworld need? After death, the grave is either already chosen or it is a Yin house with Feng Shui. Xiaoxue said that after a person dies, paper horses and paper houses are burned there. With the approval of the land management department, it can only be built after looking at Feng Shui. The Chief Executive does not allow ghost masters in the underworld. For example, our ancestors can only stay in seclusion and cannot help ghosts solve problems everywhere. If there is any problem, go to the ghost shop in Shangcheng Town. And to repair and build houses in the underworld, you need the help of a special profession in the world, "Nanshan Yin and Yang people"!
Nanshan Yin-Yang people are specially approved by the Chief Executive to enter and leave the underworld at will. Their profession is very mysterious. Only a few ghost messengers know their true identities. Even my great-grandfather didn't know that there are such people living in the world. But the ghost messengers who know the inside story will keep their mouths shut and will never reveal it to avoid being punished by the Chief Executive.
After Xiaoxue was killed by Zhang Hanxue, she was called by the Chief Executive for questioning. As a result, she accidentally ran into this hermaphrodite coming out of the Chief Executive's residence. She asked the ghost officer what was going on with this person who was neither human nor ghost. The ghost officer next to the Chief Executive, who had received benefits from her, secretly told her the truth and told her not to tell anyone casually. The dark and thin appearance I described was very similar to the hermaphrodite she had seen, so she concluded that the person who went to Fuxing Pavilion to buy the consecrated jade was the Nanshan hermaphrodite.
By this time, it was already daybreak, so I quickly asked Xiaoxue to return to the ghost collecting bottle. Looking at the sunlight that came through the crack in the door, I thought to myself, I didn't expect that there are so many strange things in the world. In addition to our Xi's ghost shop, there are actually people who practice yin and yang and look at feng shui. Damn it, maybe there are other more alternative supernatural professions in the world, but we just don't know about them.