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Chapter 7 Lighting the Sky Lantern

Bang!

My heart trembled.

The temperature around instantly dropped sharply and the air became solemn.

I could clearly feel something was slowly approaching us.

Looking down at the ground, one footprint after another appeared on the glutinous rice ground.

The candlelight on both sides began to sway wildly, and the dark blue light was particularly vague.

My teeth couldn't help but make a giggle, and my throat moved with difficulty: "She is here...she is here..."

Chen Xiucai shouted in a deep voice, raised his hand and threw out a stack of yellow paper: "Show up!"

The yellow paper flew in the air, but it did not float around, but was spinning not far ahead, as if it was flying around an invisible thing.

Immediately afterwards, all the yellow paper burned at the same time in an instant, and a sharp roar came from the center of the flying yellow paper.

I widened my eyes and saw a figure gradually appearing in the middle of the yellow paper.

This...is this Fang Cuicui's ghost?

The figure was graceful, wearing a red wedding dress, and her long black hair was flying around in the air.

The red veil flew high with the wind, revealing her pale and colorless face. She looked around in a daze in the middle of the flying yellow paper.

"Let's light up the fragrance!" Chen Xiucai said to me.

I said oh, tried several times before I could barely ignite the fragrance.

Chen Xiucai took three incense threads, but inserted the three incense sticks into the incense burner. His eyes burst into light and shouted "Du!", picked up the peach wood villain on the table, and smashed it straight towards Fang Cuicui's ghost.

But seeing the light flashed away, Fang Cuicui's ghost was instantly sucked into the body of the peach wood little man, leaving only a "Ah!" exclaim. The surface of the peach wood little man was covered with a thick layer of black air, and rolling around on the ground.

Chen Xiucai grabbed a pinch of incense ash with his left hand, gently wiped it on the corpse-driven whip, jumped out, and swung the corpse-driven whip, just like a gyro, whipping the peach wood villain three times in a row. The peach wood villain immediately came down honestly and stopped rolling.

Chen Xiucai let out a sigh and asked me to pick up the peach wood villain.

At first I was a little afraid, but I knew that the peach wood villain contained Fang Cuicui's ghost.

Chen Xiucai scolded me: "What are you afraid of? Will it bite you?"

I smiled embarrassedly, picked up the peach wood villain, and felt a coldness that was soaking in people's hands.

Chen Xiucai asked me to go to Wang Laobi's house first, take the peach wood villa, and inform Wang Laobi to come and take his wife's body away.

I carefully put the peach wood villain in my pocket and then ran to the Wang family.

Wang Laobi cried and took his stupid son to the mountain temple, leaving me alone in the yard.

I looked at the black painted coffin in the middle of the yard, and felt a little scared. I sat far away from the coffin, afraid that Fang Cuicui would crawl out of the coffin again.

After waiting for about half an hour, Wang Laobi returned with his wife's body on his back, followed by Chen Xiucai.

Chen Xiucai pushed open the lid of the coffin and asked me to take out the peach wood villain, pinch the cheek of the female corpse, and put the peach wood villain in the mouth of the female corpse.

I was surprised to see a thick black gas emerged from the little peach wood man's body and penetrated into the seven orifices of the female corpse.

"The soul returns to the body, seal it!"

Chen Xiucai shouted lightly, quickly closed the lid of the coffin and patted the surface of the lid with his palm. The pattern left on the lid with chicken blood seemed to have a strange light, flashing in a flash.

After doing all this, Chen Xiucai seemed a little tired. He asked me to help Wang Laobi, dug a hole in the backyard, and buried the old woman's body overnight.

The Wang family really had no money to buy a coffin, so they dismantled a wooden bed, made a simple coffin with the bed board, and buried the old woman.

Chen Xiucai asked Wang Laobi to kill a chicken, and sprinkled it around the old woman's grave with chicken blood. Finally, he cut off the chicken's head and buried it half in the sand, revealing half of it.

"In seven days, all your wife's resentment will be drawn to the chicken's head. At that time, you can dig out the chicken's head and burn it with fire!" Chen Xiucai and Wang Laobi ordered, and Wang Laobi nodded repeatedly.

Wang Laobi asked Chen Xiucai worriedly what to do about Fang Cuicui's body. Chen Xiucai was angry with Wang Laobi's actions and ignored Wang Laobi, but pulled me aside and pressed my shoulder and said, "Jiuyizi, you can do this! Fang Cuicui's hometown is in Niujia Village on the next mountain. Within seven days, send her body back to her hometown for burial!"

What?!

I dug my ears in disbelief. I heard it right. Chen Xiucai asked me to send Fang Cuicui's body home alone?!

"Master, what a joke, I can't drive the corpse!" I waved my hands repeatedly. Without the diamond, I wouldn't dare to take on this porcelain job.

Chen Xiucai raised his eyebrows: "Look at your success! If you ask you to do it, do it. Could it be that you want to disobey your master's order?"

I was so sad that I looked unwilling. On the way, if Fang Cuicui gets another corpse, I can't suppress it!

Chen Xiucai stroked his beard confidently: "Don't worry about this. Since I asked you to do it, I will definitely protect your personal safety. Don't worry, go boldly!"

Don't worry, go boldly?

Why does this sound strange? I feel like I want to send me on the way, and I feel so disgusted.

It was getting dark soon and I rested at the Wang family for a day. In order to make the group good, Wang Laobi stewed us a pot of chicken soup last night, and added some wild mushrooms from the mountain. It tasted very delicious.

Although Niujia Village is located next to the hill, the journey is not short when crossing mountains and ridges.

There is a saying here: If you run to the mountain and run to death, you can see the mountaintop of Niujia Village when you stand on the top of Shuipou Village, but it will probably take a whole day to really get to Niujia Village.

Besides, the corpse driving cannot be carried out during the day. First, the corpse cannot be shy and second, it is because it is afraid of scaring ordinary people, so the corpse driving can only be carried out at night. This means that it takes me a day or two nights to go to Niujia Village.

Chen Xiucai told me that when I was on the road, as long as I saw the inn with black cloth hanging at the door, I could go in and rest. Everyone in the industry knew that the inn with black cloth hanging at the door was the corpse driving inn. Corpse was parked downstairs, and the upstairs could provide rest for the corpse driving people.

The special nature of corpses determines that corpses can only stay in the corpses at night, so I have to stay in the corpses inn during the day and rest in the evening before I can set off on the road.

After explaining these, Chen Xiucai said: "From here to Niujia Village, there is an old-fashioned corpse-driving inn. If you go to report my name, you should give you a discount!"

"Master, don't you pay for travel expenses when traveling on business trips?" I reached in front of Xiucai Chen.

Chen Xiucai glared at the beard: "Put it on yourself first, and then get it back!"

I curled my lips and touched the only one or two hundred yuan left in my pocket. It turned out that I was paying for this trip!

The day passed quickly and it became dark.

Chen Xiucai placed a circle of white candles around the coffin, lit them all, and then pushed open the lid of the coffin.

Chen Xiucai took out a yellow talisman, held the talisman in his left hand, bit the tip of his index finger with his right hand, and quickly drew a strange symbol on the talisman paper. Chen Xiucai said this was called the corpse-fixing talisman.

Chen Xiucai's lips moved slightly, and he said some spells that he couldn't understand. He flipped his wrist and the yellow talismans clamped at his fingertips suddenly burned, turning into small clusters of quietly burning flames.

Chen Xiucai bent down and reached out to press the center of the female corpse's eyebrows. I was surprised to see that the cluster of flames actually sank into the female corpse's eyebrows and disappeared without a trace.

"Master, this is..." I was stunned, as if I was watching magic.

Chen Xiucai took back his arm: "There are three life lamps in a person, one on the eyebrows, and the other two on the left and right shoulders. The one on the eyebrows is called a sky lamp, and the two on the shoulders are the ground lamp and the human lamp. After a person dies, all three lamps will be extinguished. Before driving the corpse on the road, the corpse driver will use spiritual fire to light the sky lamp of the dead body, so that the corpse can be manipulated! So another name for driving the corpse is to light the sky lamp!"

I suddenly realized that no wonder I called the sky lantern to drive the corpse. It turned out that this was the case. I didn't expect that the knowledge in it was so profound.

Chen Xiucai's old-fashioned military backpack is like a universal pocket of a Dingdang cat, with all kinds of treasures inside. After tinkering with it, he took out a brass bell that looked rusty.

"This is the corpse-inducing bell. If you hold it, you can give orders to the dead corpse by just shaking it!" Chen Xiucai handed me the corpse-inducing bell.

So amazing?!

I took the bell suspiciously, held it in my hand and shook it gently, making a crisp clanging sound, and I tried to shout "Get up!"

Oh my God!
Chapter completed!
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