Everyone in the polling bureau was watching with cold eyes. Except for Gao Liang and several directors under him, few people could understand why the two presidents of the Religious Committee were so nervous about a soul. Taking this opportunity, I
He came close to Monk Xiao and lowered his voice and asked: "Old Xiao, what kind of ghost is this? Being a ghost with a shadow is considered a leader, right?" At this time, Wu Rendi had already slowly walked away from the gate of hell.
When he came down, when he passed by me, he said two words first: "Refining ghosts." When he said these two words, Wu Rendi seemed to be speaking to the air. After finishing speaking, he ignored me and went straight to the tent.
Go. I heard him mention these two words to Min Tianyuan just now, but now he said them without any beginning or end. I looked at his back and wanted to ask him: "Are you talking to me?"
Another effect of the two words "Director Wu" is that the people nearby, including Gao Liang, looked at me slightly in surprise. Fatty Sun came over to look at me and said a little sourly: "Lazi, no
I said, when did your relationship become so good?" I ignored him and continued to say to Monk Xiao: "Old Xiao, what did Director Wu mean by refining ghosts just now?"
Monk Xiao, who had been staring at Wu Rendi's back, became anxious when I asked him about it, so he turned around and told me about the origin of ghost refining. Ghost refining is a special ghost-controlling technique, which is different from the general five ghost techniques.
Legend has it that when this kind of magic reaches its peak, the soul it controls can escape from the two realms of yin and yang, and can mix the two characteristics of humans and ghosts without avoiding the three lights. At that time, even the Daluo Jinxian will be taboo about the three points. Fortunately, now we can see
Come to think of it, Min Tianyuan's ghost refining has not yet reached this level. However, this kind of ghost control technique has almost disappeared in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and the information about ghost refining has completely disappeared during the Religious Committee period. If not
Today, Min Tianyuan has missed the mark. No one would have thought that there is still a lineage of ghost control skills and a descendant of Min Tianyuan.
There is also a unique characteristic of ghost refining. The soul of the refining ghost must be a blood relative of the caster. The closer the blood is, the better the effect will be. This is also the reason why the refining ghost is almost extinct. After hearing this, I finally understand why.
Min Tianyuan cares so much about this soul.
When Monk Xiao introduced me to the practice of ghost refining, Wu Rendi had already entered the tent where Min Tianyuan and Hao Zhengyi were. Seeing Director Wu arrive, the faces of both Min Tianyuan and Hao Zhengyi became ugly. Min Tianyuan
It also blocked the soul intentionally or unintentionally. The tent was too far away and I couldn't hear what the three of them were saying. I just saw Wu Rendi seemed to say a few words, and Hao Zhengyi listened expressionlessly. Intentionally or unintentionally,
He glanced at Min Tianyuan. At that time, Min Tianyuan was like a wood carving and clay sculpture, standing motionless on the ground. Finally, Wu Rendi became impatient, raised his face and said something to Min Tianyuan. At this time, Min Tianyuan seemed like
His whole body trembled like an electric shock. Wu Rendi walked behind Min Tianyuan in a few steps, grabbed the soul, and stuffed it into Min Tianyuan's body.
After placing the soul, Wu Rendi turned around and left the tent without saying a word, followed closely by Min Tianyuan and Hao Zhengyi. It was not until he reached the gate of hell that Director Wu stopped, and Hao Zhengyi and Min Tianyuan also arrived behind him.
Wu Rendi said: "The last one, let it out!" Min Tianyuan hesitated, and finally Director Wu took action himself and made an amazing move, pulling the soul out of Min Tianyuan's body. Before he could wait,
The soul reacted, threw it in along the ghost gate, and then closed the ghost gate. Then Wu Rendi took out a small porcelain bottle from his pocket. He opened the porcelain bottle and poured a few drops of the red liquid inside at the ghost gate.
On the top, these few drops of red liquid spontaneously ignited in mid-air, turning into small fireballs and burning the Gate of Hell. No one knew what kind of fire it was. In just a few minutes, the entire Gate of Hell was burned into a pile of coke.
This time the mission of sending souls to the Gate of Hell was over. After the Gate of Hell was reduced to ashes, Hao Zhengyi supported the former president of the Religious Committee and left the scene. If it weren’t for Chairman Hao’s support, Min Tianyuan would have died on the spot.
He collapsed on the ground. His second brother had never seen Min Tianyuan like this after entering the ghost gate. Even if he is a ghost, he is just a soul. I don't understand why he had such a big reaction.
After the two presidents Hao and Min left, Gao Liang took Director Wu and murmured together for a long time. Taking advantage of this opportunity, I approached Monk Xiao and asked him: "Old Xiao, the gate of hell is burned like this."
"What will we do with these dead ghosts around us in the future?" "You are kind-hearted." Monk Xiao smiled and continued, "This ghost gate was opened privately by the polling bureau to smuggle souls. In terms of it, it is regarded as smuggling. The smuggling passage is too conspicuous.
, there’s nothing unusual about burning it.”
After a few words, Monk Xiao was called away by Gao Liang. They took most of the people to investigate the situation in advance, leaving Xiong Wanyi to take me and Fatty Sun, Ximen Lian and seven or eight investigators to clean up.
At the scene, Fatty Sun and I were arranged to clean up the ashes left by burning paper. Before I could pick up the shovel, I heard someone shouting: "Report to the government and let me go!" This voice sounded familiar to me, so I looked up.
Look, it was the mallet of the three nephews. To be precise, the Thief attached to him had already reached my side. When I saw him coming, I didn’t react for a moment: “You, shouldn’t you have entered the hell gate?
"
"He can't leave." Xiong Wanyi looked at Bangchui helplessly and said, "I don't know if he is unlucky or lucky. The soul of Bangchui is born with flaws. He was frightened on the train before. Bangchui's own soul is driving.
When the gate of hell was about to pass, he actually left his soul. Everyone was busy looking at Wu Rendi and Min Tianyuan. No one noticed that Bangchui's soul followed the flow into the gate of ghost. By the time it was discovered, the gate of ghost had been burned to ashes.
"
After I understood the whole story, there was still something I couldn't figure out. I glanced at Bangchui, who was smiling next to me, and I said to Xiong Wanyi: "Bangchui's soul is gone, and others don't know it. Can it know?" Xiong Wanyi hated it.
He glared at Bangchui hatefully and said: "Is it willing to say it? In this situation, taking over the body is like catching a substitute. This thief is freed from the ghost of a dead man. As long as it survives until next year's Ghost Festival, it will be able to
They have entered reincarnation again in the underworld. Even if those souls including Bangchui enter the underworld, they may not be able to be reborn within three or two years. How can they be as lucky as this thief." Xiong Wanyi is responsible for guarding the three nephews and uncles.
Just to prevent this kind of incident from happening, the rice is now irreversible, and I don’t know how to deal with it when I return to the polling bureau. Thinking of this, Xiong Wanyi felt so angry that he raised his leg and kicked Bangchui on the butt.
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Bang Chui didn't dodge, and accepted the kick with a smile on his face. Xiong Wanyi felt that he was still angry, so he wanted to kick it a few more times. Fatty Sun, who came over, grabbed him and said, "Young thing, it's almost done.
I'm not talking about you, why are you arguing with a brat?" It seems that he heard the conversation between Xiong Wanyi and me just now. Fatty Sun gave the shovel in his hand to the mallet, pointing to the ashes of burned paper not far away and said
: "Don't make the old bear angry, go and clear out all the money scum over there."
Bangchui was eager to get away, so he hurriedly took the shovel and ran away. Fatty Sun bared his teeth at Xiong Wanyi, took out a cigarette and shared one with each other, lit the fire and took a puff of the cigarette. I said to Xiong Wanyi: "Bangchui is still there.
, Where are the remaining two men? They’re not leaving, right?” Xiong Wanyi blew out a smoke ring, looked at Bangchui’s back and said, “Do you think everyone is like him? That old guy and the two idiots have the same body.
When the soul saw that the gate of hell was open, it took off its physical body and entered the gate of hell, leaving only this stick to block me."
After hearing what Xiong Wanyi said, Fatty Sun smiled and said, "I'm not telling you, bear stuff, Boss Gao didn't tell me what to do with this mallet?" As soon as Fatty Sun finished speaking, the mallet player was struggling to clean up the paper dust not far away.
He slowed down his work and pretended to tilt his head to listen to Xiong Wanyi's answer.
Xiong Wanyi's current expression was as if he had eaten bitter gourd raw, with a frown and all the features gathered together. Xiong Wanyi and I are considered acquaintances, but I have never seen him with such an expression before. He smiled bitterly and said: "Our Director Qiu
He almost scolded me just now. Director Gao can't take care of this now, but he stopped talking and said that he would see how to deal with this mallet after he goes back."
After clearing away the ashes of the burning paper and the gate of hell, dismantling a few tents and cleaning up all traces of the past, we investigators took a bus left by Gao Liang with sticks and returned to the Bureau of Investigation. There was no rest for the previous day and night.
, the investigators in the car were all extremely sleepy. Not long after the car started, most of them were already half-reclining and half asleep. When I was about to take a nap, I heard Fatty Sun’s voice in the front seat:
"Master, please tell me something. What did Director Wu, Min Tianyuan, and Hao Zhengyi say in the tent?" After listening to his words, most of my sleepiness disappeared in an instant, and I asked Fatty Sun.
The topic is also very interesting.
Ximen Lian sat next to Fatty Sun and said helplessly: "Great Sage, you think too highly of me. How can I know what they are saying? If you have anything, can't you ask Consultant Xiao?" Fatty Sun chuckled.
, said: "Monk Xiao? He may know. Senior officials, I am not telling you, except for the three parties involved at the scene, you are the only one in the entire polling bureau who knows what they said."
Only then did I understand the meaning of Fatty Sun’s words. Ximen Lian could read lips. I recalled that the high-ranking officials were near the tent at that time, and it was not unusual to know what they were saying. After Fatty Sun’s hard-on and exhaustion,
Next, the senior official of Ximen finally gave in to Fatty Sun. He looked around and all the investigators were almost asleep, and then lowered his voice and said: "Director Wu has pinched Min Tianyuan's Achilles' heel, Min Tianyuan's
Lian Gui is his son..."
Ximen Lian's words immediately made me sleepless. Although I knew before that the ghosts must be blood relatives, I was still shocked by the truth. Ximen Lian couldn't tell the specific things. When he "saw" it in Director Wu's mouth
When hearing this news, Hao Zhengyi, who had been silent and had his back turned to him, suddenly turned around and glared at Ximen Lian, as if he had eyes in the back of his head. Ximen Lian, the official, felt as if an electric shock was going on, and his body suddenly became paralyzed, and his mind went numb.
He was dizzy. If Xiong Wanyi hadn't helped him up from behind, Ximen Lian would have sat down on the ground. When he woke up, it was already after the gate of hell had turned into coke.
Fatty Sun was not very satisfied with this answer, but no matter how he asked circumstantial questions about the scene, Ximen Lian couldn't give a new answer. It seemed that he really knew that much. Seeing Fatty Sun, he couldn't even ask
Something else happened, and I half-reclined in my seat, recalling the scene at that time. After a while, I fell asleep unknowingly.
The bus drove all the way, and the ride was painful. Except when the bus entered the gas station to refuel, we were woken up and could get off for a while to move around and defecate. The rest of the time was spent in the bus.
Even lunch was just a makeshift meal of bread and sausages, and we didn’t arrive at the polling bureau until around eight o’clock in the evening. After getting off the bus, Xiong Wanyi took a stick with him to find Qiu Bulao, and the rest of us went straight to the dormitory, but we didn’t
After washing my mind, I took off my clothes and went straight to bed. It was already the next morning when I opened my eyes again.
It's already the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month. Other units may have already paid out year-end bonuses and are preparing to take the New Year's holiday. However, there is no New Year's atmosphere in the polling bureau. Gao Liang has been talking to several people all morning.
The two directors were having a small meeting, and Director Wu naturally did not participate in this meeting. As a digression, Director Hao from our first room did not show up either. I heard that he went to the third underground floor when he came back, and he has not come out for air yet.
signs. Hao Zhengyi gave him a big blow this time, and it seemed like he was going to take it easy.
In a blink of an eye, it was lunch time. Fatty Sun and I arrived at the canteen. Before we had even taken two bites of the food we ordered, we saw Xiong Wanyi entering the canteen and looking around. When he saw Fatty Sun and me, he ran straight over and said, "You two will wait a minute."
Let's eat again. Boss Gao has invited you two to come over immediately." When I heard Director Gao summoned me, I immediately put down my bowl and chopsticks and prepared to get up. Fatty Sun, on the other hand, took two bites of rice, swallowed it and then said to Xiong Wanyi:
"Young thing, why is the boss looking for us? Are you in such a hurry?"
Xiong Wanyi snorted and said: "Fat Sun, do you think Boss Gao will tell me? I was only teased by the boss when I was passing by the director's office. If I had known, I would have taken a detour. By the way, what I just said
I seem to have heard Consultant Xiao's voice in the director's office, and most likely it has nothing to do with him..." When I entered the director's office, I saw Monk Xiao sitting opposite Gao Liang. At this time, he was looking up at me and Sun with a smile.
Fat man.
Seeing Fatty Sun and I arriving, Gao Liang still didn't talk nonsense. He pointed to the sofa in front and said, "Sit down and talk." After we sat down, Director Gao continued, "I have something to leave to you and Xiao.
The consultant went to pay a visit." After that, Monk Xiao explained to Director Gao that Guimenguanqian and Min Tianyuan had negotiated the terms for the exchange of Huang Ran. Now that the Chinese New Year is about to come, the Religious Committee seems to be anxious. This morning, Tianyuan
Just before dawn, Hao Zhengyi suddenly contacted Director Gao. They had been preparing to exchange Huang Ran's things overnight and requested that Huang Ran be exchanged as soon as possible.
The exchange of Huang Ran's items had been agreed upon a long time ago, and Director Gao rarely raised the price temporarily, but in the end it was stuck on the location. The polling bureau and the religious committee did not trust each other. Mainland China is the territory of the polling bureau, and religion
The main force of Venezuela was in Taiwan. Neither side wanted to take risks on the other side's home court. After some debate, the exchange and reception location was finally set in Hong Kong. For the same reason of mutual distrust, personnel from both sides could not hand over directly.
Both the bureau and the Religious Committee found a third-party agent to be responsible for counting and receiving the items exchanged for Huang Ran.