Part-Time Taoist Priest

Ning Wanlai didn't know why Xie Lingya suddenly looked indifferent, he thought Xie Lingya's face would be more dignified, "Uh, Teacher Xie, so you think...?"

"I think it's a coincidence that I also have a little friendship with the Ghost King." Xie Lingya said in a low-key manner, "What do you think, should you go to the ghost's parents first?"

Ning Wanlai was pleasantly surprised. He didn't expect that what he was most worried about was not a big problem with Mr. Xie. Mr. Xie is so powerful that he even had a little friendship with the ghost king, and it was a coincidence that there were four ghost kings. I know Dongfang Ghost King, but I don't know if Sun Qingxiang has a deep friendship.

He hurriedly said, "Yes, I have already asked for the address."

"Then go find it." Xie Lingya said.

Ghost marriage is also called yin marriage. When unmarried men and women die in the early years, the family will arrange ghost marriage and bury both parties together, so that they will not be alone underground.

In addition, in the old days, women were buried in the ancestral graves of their husbands, and their own ancestral graves were not allowed to be buried when they died unmarried. Parents couldn't bear to have their children buried alone, so they found a relative.

In fact, even in ancient times, this custom was criticized, and it was believed that ghost marriage "not only violates the national ban, but also disturbs human relations."

The bad habit of ghost marriage is rare now, but it is not unheard of, especially in the more remote countryside.When Xie Lingya was a child, he heard from his uncle that someone was going to marry a child who had died of illness, so he asked where he could sell ingots that he had folded and read scriptures.

This is not bad, but in some places, bad habits have revived, and there is a tendency to intensify. Some people will steal bones, buy corpses, and sell them to match Yin relatives.In severe cases, there have also been criminal acts of mutilating innocent people without bodies.

Moreover, Sun Qingxiang's situation is different from others, and his thinking is even more different.

The female ghost he wanted to marry her son was named Chen Man, and her parents were ordinary workers. After Chen Man's daughter passed away a few years ago, the family who lost her only child was too sad. Chen's mother originally wanted to have another child by herself, but her health did not allow her to do so. Adopted one.

After Xie Lingya discussed with Ning Wanlai, he took Ning Wanlai to Chen Man's parents' house first, so he didn't have to bother Shi Changxuan to go this time.

Chen Man's parents lived in the old city, and the two took the bus to the community. Because it was an old community and the security was not strict, they went straight in.

Downstairs of Chen Man's parents, I saw an aunt carrying boxes down from the car. Xie Lingya looked at it and asked, "Auntie, do you want to help?"

"Thank you, my things are not heavy." The woman gave Xie Lingya a very friendly smile, and she picked up a cardboard box in one hand and walked downstairs to the door.

When passing by Xie Lingya's side, Xie Lingya lowered his eyes and saw that her half-opened box was full of gold and paper ingots.

Xie Lingya had a flash of inspiration at that time, and said to Ning Wanlai: "This can't be Chen Man's mother?"

Ning Wanlai didn't look at Auntie's face carefully, and couldn't remember if she resembled Chen Man, but she also said, "It's possible, unless it happens that the neighbors in the same building are doing white things."

They followed the woman up to the fifth floor, and when they saw her stop, it turned out that she was at Chen Man's house.

Chen's mother opened the door and saw the two young men stopped behind her, she was puzzled.Many houses in this neighborhood have been rented out, and she didn't care when she saw them coming up, she thought they were new tenants, why did they stop at his door.

"Excuse me, are you Chen Man's mother?" Ning Wanlai asked.

Mother Chen looked strange, "...I am, are you?"

She never knew these two people, and it has been several years since Chen Man passed away. Could it be that there are friends from before he was alive, and he only found them at this time?

"Is it convenient to go in and chat? I'm Chen Man's friend." Ning Wanlai said, seeing that Chen's mother looked a little distrustful, and said, "I want to discuss something about her with you."

Chen's mother originally thought that the two boys were handsome and wanted to help downstairs, so they shouldn't look like liars, but when Ning Wanlai said this, she immediately felt like a scam, her face darkened, and she reached out to close the door, "Why don't you Find out clearly, my daughter passed away a few years ago, what else do you want to discuss!"

As soon as Xie Lingya arrived at the door, he said, "Of course it's to discuss her marriage!"

Chen's mother paused, and said suspiciously: "Did Mr. Sun ask you to come?"

They only told a few of their relatives that they were going to marry Chen Man, because when they held a ghost wedding, they had to be the honored guest to send them off for a drink.

"I told you, I'm Chen Man's friend." Ning Wanlai emphasized again.

At this time, a man came out of the house, "What's wrong? Who is it?"

"They said they were Manman's friends, and wanted to discuss Manman's marriage." Mother Chen said, still in shock, but seeing her husband at home, she was not so nervous.

Father Chen looked at them, but didn't think too much about what they could do in broad daylight, "Then come in and talk about it."

Chen's mother had no choice but to let them in, but did not close the door.

Xie Lingya saw that there were some paper houses, computers, etc. in their home. According to the custom, these should be sent by the man.

There was another seven or eight-year-old child who was sleeping on the sofa. He must have been adopted later. Mother Chen carried the child into the room before coming out.

"Are you Manman's former friends?" Father Chen asked.

"It's a friend, but it wasn't made during my lifetime." Ning Wanlai said, he was a little nervous, after all, this was the first time he had done such a thing.

Chen's father and Chen's mother were speechless, thinking that Ning Wanlai was talking nonsense.

"He can see things that ordinary people can't see," Xie Lingya explained beside him, "so he met the two daughters because Chen Man told him that he would be forced to have a yin marriage."

Xie Lingya's word "forced" made Chen's father and mother no longer suspicious of them, and said very unashamedly: "Manman passed away, and I feel so lonely...Mr. Sun said this...we also did it for Manman is good."

"It's said that the two of you don't believe in ghosts and gods at all, and you haven't even done supernatural powers. How can you do this kind of thing because you think about the loneliness of the child?" Even if the lights are off, you can leave it alone, and you can make some money if you do it.”

It was Chen Man who told Ning Wanlai that they were not superstitious. At this moment, his expression changed, "What nonsense are you talking about!"

Father Chen originally let them in to chat, but now he couldn't sit still and stood up to chase them away.

"You know in your heart that what I said is true or false. Chen Man told me that you don't believe it at all. You just took someone else's money to get out." Ning Wanlai said, "Even if she dies, you can't use her marriage for profit without authorization." Bar!"

Xie Lingya pressed Ning Wanlai and said, "Both of you, you probably didn't believe in ghosts before, so Sun Qingxiang didn't take much effort to get you to agree. We came here to explain that Chen Man does exist in another form." , and she is very unwilling to marry Sun Qingxiang's son. Can you think about it and suspend the marriage? We believe that you have been in love for more than 20 years, and you shouldn't have the heart to make her suffer so much after death. If necessary, I can try to make you When you see Chen Man, ask her personally."

Chen's father and Chen's mother's faces were burning, Xie Lingya's words were more tactful than Ning Wanlai's, but the meaning was still the same.They were afraid that what Xie Lingya said was true, and they wanted to know if Chen Man still had thoughts, and they were unwilling.

That's right, when Sun Qingxiang approached them at first, they thought it was ridiculous and refused.But Sun Qingxiang mentioned that he was willing to give a gift money, which is also a lot of money for them.There is still a child at home, and I thought about having a ghost marriage, which might not have any effect, so I finally agreed.

To the few relatives and friends, they all said that they had changed their minds and were still afraid of their daughter being lonely, but it was really embarrassing to be told by Ning Wanlai that no matter whether there were ghosts in the world or not.

Seeing their expressions, Xie Lingya seemed to be loose, so he whispered to Ning Wanlai a few times.His spiritual eyes could not be opened to others, so he used Ning Wanlai's body to summon Chen Man.

Ning Wanlai is impermanent, so he is very suitable for inviting ghosts. Although he has never done it before, Xie Lingya taught him the method in advance, and he did it step by step.

Ning Wanlai lit three sticks of incense, put seven grains of glutinous rice in his mouth, chanted a mantra, and pointed out the place where Chen Man was buried, and then passed out suddenly, his whole body was stiff and cold.

Chen's father and Chen's mother were actually in a state of hesitation. Seeing Ning Wanlai passing by, as if dead, they were so frightened that they wanted to call an ambulance.

"It's okay, wait." Xie Lingya said, and just a few seconds after he finished speaking, "Ning Wanlai" slowly woke up.

"Ning Wanlai" turned over and pinched the fingers of his left hand on his right hand a few times.

Just such a small gesture stunned Chen's father and Chen's mother.Chen Man had tenosynovitis before his death, and his hands often hurt, so he rubbed his hands when he had nothing to do.

"Ning Wanlai" is almost exactly the same as Chen Man in terms of movement and demeanor!

At this time, "Ning Wanlai" saw them and called out with a complicated expression: "Dad, Mom."

Chen's father and Chen's mother were a little afraid to agree, "You, are you really Manman?"

"Well." Chen Man's attitude towards her parents was a bit awkward, saying that it must be impossible for her to have no complaints in her heart, but she calmed down for a while and said, "When I was young, our family lived in an old house, and my mother took me to the neighbor's grandma's house. When I was a guest, the door of her house was loose. When I tried hard, I fell out of the whole body and got a gash on my chin. At that time, my mother laughed. Later, I found out that my face was covered with blood. The neighbor’s grandmother took the wound Post it."

No one knew about this matter. Chen Man still had a thin scar on his chin. When she told the details, the muscles on Chen's mother's face trembled.

Even if he married Chen Man as a yin relative, his parents didn't really believe that people would turn into ghosts after death, until then Chen Man fell into Ning Wanlai's body.

From the details unknown to outsiders, to the speed and rhythm of speaking, it was clearly their daughter.

When Chen's father and mother's three views were subverted, he couldn't help feeling guilty, and Chen's mother cried: "Manman, Mom is sorry for you."

Chen Man's expression was still a little cold, she had been crying for too long, and she couldn't cry at this time, so she just ordered: "Mom, I really don't want to marry Sun Qingxiang's son, I know that I am dead, and there is no real money to rely on." .But if you can remember the friendship of more than 20 years, please let me go, I will be really grateful."

After finishing speaking, the three sticks of incense almost burned to the end, Ning Wanlai fell back, and Chen Man left.

When Ning Wanlai regained consciousness, he saw that Chen's mother was crying, and Chen's father was also covering his face with one hand, looking very guilty.Chen Man's words made them feel so uncomfortable, they wished they could pay back the deposit now.Although they were obsessed with money for a while, the couple still had feelings for their daughter after all.

Ning Wanlai could also hear them talking just now, and asked now, "Do you believe it now?"

Chen's mother whispered, "Old Chen, we still..."

"No more, no more." Father Chen said with a painful expression on his face, "I won't marry you anymore. I'll return everything."

Xie Lingya asked: "Did he just send these paper bundles?"

Mother Chen said, "There are still a few pieces of paper." She dug it out from the drawer and showed it to Xie Lingya, "It seems to be a marriage certificate."

Those were a few handwritten ghost marriage documents, all written with a brush. Xie Lingya opened one of the documents, and saw the names of both parties, witnesses and other information written on it, as well as a few lines:

You died young and slept alone in Spring Palace.If you are not married, you will die alone.The two surnames are the same as Xu, and they are married in the dark.When choosing Buliang, the ceremony is auspicious.

The specific date of the auspicious time is also written on the back, and the two parties were buried together.

There are also documents such as tomb sacrifices and tributes to ghosts and gods, all of which are written in classical Chinese. They should be written by Sun Qingxiang.

"The marriage certificate has already been issued?" Xie Lingya looked serious, "Fortunately, the marriage certificate hasn't been burned yet, so we need to cancel it quickly. This is only the last step of re-burial. In the past, your daughter was half a ghost of the Sun family."

"It should be fine. I'll call Mr. Sun now." Father Chen took out the phone.

Xie Lingya didn't look like they knew about Sun Qingxiang's real occupation, and he didn't say anything about Chen's father wanting to call.

After Chen's father made a phone call, he expressed his apology to Sun Qingxiang, and wanted to dissolve the engagement, and he would return all the things and money.They probably asked why, Father Chen and Xie Lingya looked at each other and said, "...my daughter gave me a dream, she, she has someone she likes."

Then, not knowing what Sun Qingxiang said, Father Chen took the phone away.

"How to say?" Ning Wanlai asked.

Father Chen's expression was not very good-looking, "It's dead." After a while, he said again, "...Let us keep it for ourselves."

"This..." Mother Chen felt uncomfortable. Although it's not good for them to backtrack, this curse is quite vicious.

However, Xie Lingya was interested, and Sun Qingxiang had a grudge, "Convert these into RMB and put them back into his account together with the previous deposit. It is better to pay more than to be in short supply."

He took out three more amulets, "One for each family member, wear them on your body, and don't take them off except for taking a bath."

Chen's father and Chen's mother didn't understand why, Xie Lingya said: "Sun Qingxiang himself is also proficient in Fengshui spells, I'm afraid that he will take revenge on you with a grudge. But it's okay, my talisman is very effective."

Father Chen took a look at the talisman, and there were three small characters on the rubber on the outside: Baoyang Temple.

"It turns out that you are people who hold the view of the sun." Father Chen recalled that he had heard of this place before, and someone told him that the talismans in this place were very powerful, but he didn't believe it, and it was a little safer now. feel.

……

Chen Man's parents asked them to stay for lunch. This was thanks to the fact that Ning Wanlai met Chen Man when he was impermanent. Not seriously.

But before the banquet, Father Chen called again and said in a panic, "The people in the cemetery told me that the sprawling urn is missing!"

Because it was planned to be relocated and buried with Sun Qingxiang's son, Chen's father had already contacted the cemetery and wanted to relocate.But just now I called to inform Buqian, and they told him that the tomb had been opened and the urn was going to be taken out, but now the urn was missing.

How long has it been since Sun Qingxiang was notified that this matter has nothing to do with him, and no one believes it.

Xie Lingya thought that he would retaliate against Chen Man's parents, or Chen Man himself, but he didn't expect to dig the grave directly. He still wanted to marry Chen Man back.It's just that this time I plan to be strong.

"Damn it! Call him!" Ning Wanlai was furious.

"It's useless." Xie Lingya said calmly, "It's okay. I'll bring Chen Man's soul back to Baoyang Temple first. Even if he succeeds in the ceremony, he won't be able to detain Chen Man's soul. Then, we'll go get Chen Man ashes."

Sun Qingxiang probably didn't expect that someone was pointing behind him, Xie Lingya brought Chen Man to Baoyang Temple, and Wang Lingguan, no one could take Chen Man away from here.

Seeing Xie Lingya's confident appearance, Chen's father and Chen's mother felt relieved and entrusted the matter to him.

Xie Lingya took those papers away, on which it was written that the venue of the "ghost marriage" was in the cemetery where the joint burial was originally scheduled, and the time was at night.It is difficult to find Sun Qingxiang, but it is easy to wait here.

Xie Lingya was going to the cemetery to find Sun Qingxiang, and made an appointment with Shi Changxuan.Originally, he didn't want to take Ning Wanlai with him. He just became impermanent and didn't know much about anything, but Ning Wanlai wanted to scold Sun Qingxiang, so Xie Lingya stuffed him with a few more talismans.

The three of them took a taxi to the cemetery at night, but because there were security guards at the gate, they jumped over the wall to get in.

The cemetery was built on the hillside. Xie Lingya used the moonlight to find Sun Qingxiang's son's cemetery in the dark. Shi Changxuan was also helping, and Ning Wanlai's legs were weak.Wandering around the cemetery at night, I really feel guilty.

"I always said you don't come, you are afraid when you come, otherwise you will sit here and wait for us?" Xie Lingya said.

"I don't, I don't!" Ning Wanlai turned pale, how dare he, it's okay to follow Xie Lingya, sitting here alone is really going to die.

Xie Lingya was speechless and continued to search.

They found it not long after. The tombstone was laid flat on the ground, waiting to be buried. It was obvious, and it also showed that Sun Qingxiang was coming here tonight.

"Let's go, let's hide up there." Xie Lingya led the two of them to the top, hid behind the other tomb, leaned against the wall of the tomb, and sat on the ground.

Seeing the tombstones all around, Ning Wanlai shivered, "Mr. Xie, don't you feel a little cold?"

Xie Lingya: "I told you it's a bit cold at night."

"..." In fact, Ning Wanlai felt that it was strangely cold, the cemetery was too cloudy, but Xie Lingya brought up the weather very honestly.

Ning Wanlai really regretted it in his heart at this time. Why did he come so enthusiastically and demanded at that time? He was quite timid at first, but Sun Qingxiang was really angry.

Ning Wanlai thought about it, and put his head on Xie Lingya's shoulder.

As soon as he put it on, Daoist Shi looked over coldly, and he was shocked. He was about to ask if something was wrong, when he heard a thin voice near his ears in the silence.

"You're on top of me."

"I—" Ning Wanlai jumped up, covered in cold sweat, and covered his mouth with his hands, afraid that he would cry out.

The voice was thin and cold, and it rang in his ears. Ning Wanlai burst into tears, and kept bowing to the tomb in front of him: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

Xie Lingya was startled by him, turned over to the side, and fell into Shi Changxuan's arms.If it wasn't for Shi Changxuan, he would have rushed to the street. At this time, the black line said: "You scared me to death."

With a crying voice, Ning Wanlai pointed to the tomb in front of him and said, "...Woo, he said I held him down."

"You are relying on a retaining wall, how could it be possible to crush someone's tomb." Xie Lingya pointed to the little wooden figure on his shoulder, "That's what it said."

Ning Wanlai: "..."

Ning Wanlai's eyes were almost protruding, and if the wooden man spoke, his mother was no better than the owner of the tomb, and it was terrifying! !

Xie Lingya also said: "Didn't I tell you earlier, I am a wooden man who can talk like a belly fairy."

Ning Wanlai: "..."

He was about to say something, but Xie Lingya's expression turned serious, "Squat down, here we come."

Ning Wanlai quickly squatted down, but he didn't dare to get close to Xie Lingya anymore - if you kill him in the future, he won't get any closer!

Xie Lingya slowly got up from Shi Changxuan's arms, just now Liu Lingtong reminded him, now he stared down and looked, sure enough, a group of five or six people came up the mountain not long after.

They must be different from Xie Lingya, they walked in through the main entrance and still held a lot of things in their hands.

The last step of a ghost marriage is to come to the cemetery where the burial is done together, prepare fruit wine, small streamers and other things, and hold the ceremony.In the hands of those people, there are still two chairs.

Xie Lingya had heard Ning Wanlai recount Sun Qingxiang's description, and now he recognized that he was the leader of the middle-aged man. He saw them standing in front of them, placing the sacrifices, seats and streamers, and the urns were also placed on the two chairs.

Sun Qingxiang nodded, "Let's begin."

A woman next to her took out a handful of documents and began to read. She should be the ghost matchmaker in this ghost marriage.Now it is necessary to read the inscription, and invite both men and women to come and sit down.The two small flags are inserted behind the seats. During the ceremony, if the husband and wife meet each other and are very satisfied, the small flags will flutter.

The ghost matchmaker was reading the memorial essay, but Sun Qingxiang stopped expressionlessly, looked around, "No, why didn't Chen Man come?"

The ghost matchmaker hesitated and said, "No way, I didn't miss a single word."

Sun Qingxiang frowned, "Wait a minute, let me figure out why Chen Man didn't come."

"Forget it, Chen Man won't come." Xie Lingya stood up from behind and said slowly.

In the darkness, Xie Lingya startled everyone except Sun Qingxiang, "Who are you?"

"Ah, I'm numb..." Xie Lingya muttered, but fortunately Shi Changxuan stood up and helped him, and he said, "We are entrusted by Chen Man to crack down on your immoral behavior of forcibly marrying a female ghost."

Sun Qingxiang sneered, "What are you?"

Ning Wanlai also got up and scolded: "You are not a thing, scum, don't you know that Chen Man doesn't want to marry your son? Tell you, I am a servant for the underworld, I, I will sue you!"

"It's fine if my son is willing." Sun Qingxiang said calmly, "Don't blame me for not giving you a chance, just leave now, otherwise, even if you are impermanent, it will be useless."

He could tell immediately that Ning Wanlai was an impermanent person.But so what, he didn't pay attention to these young people.Not to mention the impermanence of life, even if it is a real mistake, it can't control the yin relative he made.

Ning Wanlai glanced at Xie Lingya, only to see that Xie Lingya nodded to him affirmatively, and tried his best to be as confident as possible: "Stop talking nonsense, leave the urn, and get out."

Sun Qingxiang glanced up at him, sneered a few times, he didn't want to miss the auspicious time, and he was not in the mood to entangle with the younger generation, he took out a tablet made of fire paper, and lit it up, "Life is impermanent, then let's see what happens in life." Ghost King."

The flame engulfed the fire card in an instant, and it was extremely eye-catching in the dark. When Sun Qingxiang tossed it, the fire card turned to ashes before it hit the ground, and floated in a circle to the east with the wind.

The cemetery suddenly became overcast, and Ning Wanlai couldn't help shaking, "...Mr. Xie, you should discuss it with the ghost king later!"

Xie Lingya nodded: "I will try my best."

……

The plants in the cemetery were rustling, and a gust of wind rolled in from the east, falling to the ground and forming a huge black shadow. The cold aura exuding from the whole body made the people present feel like they were in hell.

"This king is drinking, why bother me?" Ghost King said coldly.

Sun Qingxiang clasped his hands together and said, "Gou Zi is getting married in the dark today, please invite the ghost king to have a drink. By the way, talk to Sheng Wuchang and tell him to leave my family's business alone."

Sun Qingxiang's brows were full of color, and he enjoyed the pleasure of shocking everyone at this moment. As a result, Ning Wanlai, who was standing above him, became more and more uneasy.

As soon as the ghost king turned around, his red eyes looked back, "Which one doesn't—"

He was only halfway through when his eyes fell on Shi Changxuan, and then on Xie Lingya who was next to him.

The ghost king said quickly: "Excuse me, excuse me."