Twilight Boundary

"really……"

Hu Ma suddenly understood. No wonder this sister-in-law was called a big ghost. Her eyesight was extraordinary. She could see it without opening the coffin.

I originally wanted to hire a ghost walker to take care of me on the road, pretending to be a supporter, so there was no harm in telling her the truth. Plus, she saw it, so she smiled and said: "My sister-in-law saw it, so she is willing to do it." Can you help me?"

"You are a good guy."

Aunt Zhang boldly glanced at Hu Ma and said, "I know about Qing Yi's trouble before. The folks in the village say you are a good person. Of course I have to help you if something happens to you."

"You are a mixed-blood food gang again. You guys have been exposed to a lot of things, so it's not surprising what you do."

"But, I still have to ask... You put a living person in a coffin and carried the person away by holding the spirit. Isn't this to harm people?"

"..."

"Reputation is indeed important..."

Hearing this, Hu Ma couldn't help but sigh, and said sincerely, "Of course not."

"To be honest, the girl in the coffin suffered from amnesia. She needed to be sent back to her hometown and her parents were asked to help with the treatment. Because she was worried that there would be trouble on the road, she went back with a spirit support."

"Let her sleep in the coffin, so there's no need to worry. She has been inspected by Cao Xin Tang's commander, and nothing will happen to her in more than a month."

"..."

"That's good. It's hard to tell the Blood Food Gang, but Cao Xintang will definitely not help harm others."

Aunt Zhang's eyes widened as she listened to Hu Ma's explanation. Then she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I heard that it was to support the spirit. I originally prepared a corpse suppressing charm. This was because I was worried that the corpse would be unstable on the road and encountered thunder and lightning, wild cats and the like. The body was raised."

"But since the person sleeping inside is a living person, I changed it to an evil spirit talisman to avoid attracting evil spirits and disturbing people's peace."

"..."

"Very good."

Only then did Hu Ma understand the purpose of changing the talisman just now. After thinking about it, she hurriedly said: "In that case, can we put another layer of corpse-suppressing talisman on top of the evil-repelling talisman?"

"This is to avoid being noticed by discerning people in the world and causing trouble!"

"..."

Aunt Zhang was startled when she heard this, turned her head and glanced at Hu Ma, and said, "Okay, okay."

"That's right, you guys from the Blood Food Gang are so thoughtful..."

"..."

Hu Ma was a little speechless. It seemed that the Blood Food Gang did not have a very good reputation in the eyes of some people...

This aunt looks honest and kind, and she also has opinions about the Blood Food Gang. If she hadn't had a good reputation when she was troubled by Tsing Yi, she might not be able to hire someone like her to come and help her.

"Then let's eat first!"

Hu Ma smiled and said, "It's not too late to prepare after dinner. Is there anything else I need to bring back?"

"No la!"

Aunt Zhang tightened the baggage on her back and said, "I brought these few things with me. Father Zhao told me that we will set off today."

"This shows that you are really willing to help yourself."

Hu Ma also breathed a sigh of relief. When he invited her over, he took a seat and brought out the white bread that was rarely steamed in Zhuangzi. He steamed four drawers, ate one drawer, took two more drawers, and left one. Serve it to the guys in the village.

Hu Ma had warned Zhou Datong and others earlier, and now that they were about to set off, it was natural that they had to give him another warning. Zhou Datong would make the decision for small matters by himself. He might not go to Li Wazi for evil matters. If something big happened, he would go to the city to find Yang Gong. For money and food. Report the matter to Master Xu Xiang and ask them to write it down one by one.

After thinking about it all, he and the housekeeper Zhou, the hired driver, two errand boys, Agu Zhang and others thanked Old Man Zhao and pulled the coffin out of Zhuangzi.

Logically speaking, there are all assistants in Zhuangzi, so it is convenient for Hu Ma to ask two to follow him and save money. But firstly, when he leaves, things in Zhuangzi also need to be taken care of by manpower. Secondly, it is a long way to go, and all kinds of things Also many.

So Hu Ma also struggled a lot, and finally hired these two guys when hiring Handlebar Style.

They are also accustomed to traveling far away. They are diligent, discerning and knowledgeable than the men in Zhuangzi. Taking them with them can save them a lot of worry on the road.

Of course, at first, the handlebar type and the two guys were a little reluctant when they saw that the job was to transport coffins back to their hometown. However, Hu Ma suddenly tripled the market price, but they all became active and followed this trip. Once you go there, you can have a good year when you come back.

But this time, they only used the donkey to pull the coffin, but not the horse. This was also their idea.

It stands to reason that with the friendship between Hu Ma and Xu Xiangzhu, it would be okay to take two horses from the village and ride them out, but when traveling in the world, the horses themselves are valuable and can easily cause trouble.

So on this journey, I'd better keep walking as much as I can. If something really urgent comes up, I can go shopping if I have enough money.

We left Zhuangzi at noon and headed north.

Hu Ma took out two maps and compared them to judge the route. Of these two maps, one was drawn by the mule and horse dealer for him, and the other was drawn by the dart dealer. One of the two maps was a trader, and the other was a dart dealer. The route The emphasis is different, but generally similar.

By comparison, it's probably about the same amount.

In one afternoon, we had walked dozens of miles. As dusk approached, we had to find a place to stay.

At this time, Aunt Zhang, who had just silently carried her own baggage along the way and followed the donkey cart, refusing to sit on the donkey cart even when asked to sit on it, or put the baggage on the cart, had a different opinion.

According to Hu Ma's plan, he could find an inn to stay in a town a few miles away, but Agu Zhang said: "We are from Fuling, so staying in an inn is not a good idea. We have to follow the rules of Fuling."

"When a spirit is on his way, he should not live in a place with living people, because dead people can easily attract diseases and evil spirits, and the living people will also dislike them."

"So when we, who support the souls, go on the road, we all have our own way of staying. There is a righteous village where we live, and there is a cadaver shop where we live. We can usually stay overnight in ancestral halls and temples. If there is none, we make do in the wilderness. For one night, if you just drag the coffin into the inn, you will be looked down upon."

"..."

Hearing this, Hu Ma was curious: "Wouldn't it be easier to attract evil spirits if you live in the wild with a corpse?"

Aunt Zhang said: "Just follow the rules!"

Hu Ma nodded and immediately listened to her arrangement.

The reason I came out this time was to steal my teacher, so I would ask more questions, but I would only ask and understand clearly, but I would not interfere.

As for Housekeeper Zhou, who had already been deeply grateful to Hu Ma earlier, he now obeyed his words and put away his arrogance. He refused to go into the town and stay in an inn, and only stayed by Xiang Yatou's side.

On the first day out, it didn’t seem very good for my host to stay in the wilderness and to stay in an inn by myself, and they didn’t go to the handle bar.

Together with Hu Ma and others, we parked the donkey cart at the foot of a deserted slope outside the town and prepared to camp out.

When Hu Ma and the old housekeeper were preparing to boil water for cooking, Auntie Zhang picked up some dry firewood, inserted them around the coffin, and left a hole. She specially placed a thick firewood branch there. as a threshold.

Hu Ma vaguely remembered that the second master had also done this in order to carve out a small balcony in the wilderness to avoid attracting rude evil spirits.

He patiently watched Aunt Zhang lay the pavilion one by one and set up the Yangzhai. Then he burned incense again, faced the field, and prayed in a low voice. He saw that the incense burned quickly, and gusts of cold wind swept the incense. The fire above blew a puff of smoke.

Agu Zhang knelt down in the smoke and bowed several times to the field.

Vaguely, Hu Ma felt like she saw some vague shadows floating around, and they came to the incense one after another, squatting or kneeling, and sucked it greedily.

Hu Ma was surprised to see this scene, and the surrounding housekeeper Zhou, Handlebar Shih, and the guys were also startled.

It's scary enough to live in the wilderness with a coffin at this late night. Why did Agu Zhang burn incense first and attract so many lonely ghosts?

They didn't dare to breathe out, and kept watching. When these lonely ghosts were full, they slowly floated away and retreated into the night. When the surroundings became quieter, they asked in a low voice.

"We live in the wild. Although we can build a balcony, it still takes up other people's space..."

Aunt Zhang said: "When you arrive at a place where people live, first offer a few sticks of incense to pay respect. This will feed your enemies and give them a peaceful night."

Everyone seemed to understand but did not dare to interrupt.

Turning her head to look at the row of incense, she saw that it was about to burn out and the smoke was wisps. Hu Ma saw a flower in front of her eyes. Suddenly she saw a headless kid suddenly appearing in front of Aunt Zhang. Slowly, he moved toward her body. , stretched out two pale little hands.

"Is there a great one coming?"

Hu Ma was suddenly startled and took out the mahogany sword with a "swish" sound.

But before he could decide whether to stab it out, Aunt Zhang said, "Where's your head? Why did you lose it again? Go pick it up quickly."

The headless little ghost calmly retracted the two pale little hands it stretched out, and disappeared in a gust of cold wind. After a while, it came back with a paper head in its hand.

Aunt Zhang looked at it and said, "Put it on!"

The kid then put the paper man's head on his neck, with two dabs of bright blush on his pale face, and a scary smile on his outlined lips.

"This is what makes it look good..."

Aunt Zhang praised it, took out a bunch of incense, lit it, and stuck it on the ground so that it could be smelled there.

Turning around, he saw Hu Ma and Butler Zhou with strange expressions, so he explained sheepishly: "This is the little angel I raised. He was killed by bandits during his lifetime and has been looking for his head. "

"I was afraid that it would scare people, so I made him a paper head, but the paper head was too heavy for it and it was often lost..."

"..."

"I see……"

Hu Ma thought secretly: "But it's hard to see where it's going with a paper head..."

"...The key point is that you little angel has no brain, how can you talk?"