Twilight Boundary: Chapter 234 Aunt Zhang

Chapter 234 Agu Zhang

 “Sure enough…”

Hu Ma suddenly understood. No wonder this sister-in-law was called a wandering 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."

The 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 is suffering from aphansia. She needs to be sent back to her hometown. She asked her parents 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’s been checked 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 about the Blood Food Gang, but Cao Xintang will definitely not help or 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 it was to support the spirit. I originally prepared a corpse-suppressing charm because I was worried that the corpse would be unstable on the road in case of thunder and lightning, wild cats or 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."

Hu Ma then understood the purpose of changing the talisman just now. After thinking about it, he hurriedly said: "In this 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, just to avoid 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 mean-spirited…”

　　　…”

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 Auntie 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, and he might not go to Li Wazi for evil matters. If something serious happened, he would go to the city to find Yang Gong, and for money and food. Report the matter to Master Xu Xiang and ask them to write it down one by one.

 When he could think of nothing else, he and the housekeeper Zhou, the driver hired to drive the carriage, the 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 with it, and finally hired these two guys when hiring a handlebar.

 They are also accustomed to traveling far. They are diligent, discerning, and knowledgeable than the men in the village. 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 no horse. This was also their idea.

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

 So I’d better keep walking as much as possible on this journey. If I’m really in a hurry, if I have enough money, I can go shopping.

I 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.

Comparatively speaking, it’s probably about the same amount.

 In one afternoon, we had traveled dozens of miles. It was almost dusk, so 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 in the cart when she was asked, and refusing to put her baggage in 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 supporting spirits, so it is not good to stay in an inn. We have to follow the rules of supporting spirits."

“You should not live in a place with living people when you are supporting a spirit on his way, because the dead 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 why I came out this time was to steal my teacher, so I would ask more questions, but as long as I asked them clearly, I would understand them, and I would not interfere.

But Butler Zhou, who had been deeply grateful to Hu Ma earlier, now also obeys his words, put away his arrogance, and refuses to go into the town to stay in an inn, and only stays by Xiang Yatou's side.

The first day we came out, it didn’t seem very good for our hosts to stay in the wilderness and to stay in an inn by ourselves, and they didn’t go to the handlebars either.

Together with Hu Ma and others, they parked the donkey cart at the foot of a deserted **** 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 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 balcony, then burned incense again, facing the field, praying in a low voice, but saw that the incense burned very 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.

At this scene, Hu Ma was surprised, and the surrounding stewards, handlebars, and other 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 get to a place with people, first put up a few sticks of incense to pay respect. This will feed your enemies and make you live peacefully at 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 when the smoke was wisps of smoke, Hu Ma saw a flower in front of her eyes. Suddenly she saw a headless kid suddenly appearing in front of Aunt Zhang, slowly moving toward her body. , stretched out two pale little hands.

 “Is there a big one coming?”

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

But before he decided whether to stab it out, Aunt Zhang said: "Where is your head? Why did you lose it again? Go and pick it up quickly."

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

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

The kid put the paper 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.

Turning around, he saw Hu Ma and Housekeeper 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: "It's just a paper man's head, so it's hard to see where it will go..."

“…The key point is that you little angel has no brain, how can you talk?”

 (End of this chapter)