Chapter 3 The Ominous Coffin-Bearer
It was getting late at this time, and the nobles from the town kept coming forward to talk to Zhang Xuan and Mu Piaoxing.
Most of these people came to invite the two to have dinner and stay overnight at their house.
Zhenlingsi is famous in the town. If the people from Zhenlingsi stay in the mansion for one night, they will give them some silver to ask for a talisman of peace. The spirit evil spirits and sneaks dare not cause trouble.
Shangshui Town is located in a remote and sparsely populated area. It is a rare opportunity to meet people from Zhenlingsi. Even if Zhang Xuanmu is just a ninth-rank corpse protection officer, these people are all rushing to invite them.
However, these benefits obviously have nothing to do with Ding Xiao.
At this moment, a middle-aged man walked out of the crowd, wearing a blue-bottomed official uniform.
When Zhang and Mu looked at the official uniforms on this person, they already knew the identity of this person.
According to the records of Zhenlingsi, this person's name is Li Shang, and he is the head of Shangshui Town.
The three-star spiritual disciple is one level higher than Zhang Mu and the other two. The spiritual appearance is the second-level beast spirit type, the phoenix-tail blue feather bird!
Zhang Xuan and Mu Piaoxing clasped their fists and said, "The ninth-rank corpse protection officer of the Zhenlingsi Corpse Department has met Lord Li. Zhenlingsi sent coffins to borrow the road. I have troubled you, please forgive me."
Li Shang smiled slightly and bowed his fists, "You are polite, Zhenling Sibao protects one side of peace, how can you disturb me?"
"I see it's getting late, and you're all the way. Why don't you rest in my house tonight? I'll do the best of my landlords."
Zhang and Mu looked at each other. Since the head of the town came forward in person, it was hard for them to refuse.
What's more, judging by Li Shang's attentive appearance, he probably also fell in love with the peace talisman of Zhenlingsi. At that time, he would not be more stingy than others.
Seeing that the two of them did not refuse, Li Shang looked at Ding Xiao not far away, and looked embarrassed, "The spirit evil has been raging these years, and this coffin needs to be placed carefully."
Zhang Xuan immediately said, "Don't worry, Lord Li, Junior Brother Mu and I have set up the spirit-suppressing talisman. We just need to find a remote place and place the coffin."
Li Shang nodded, gave a few instructions to his servants, and then took Zhang Mu and the others away in person.
Soon, a servant from the Li family stood five or six meters in front of Ding Xiao with a food box, and said to Ding Xiao, "Little brother, come with me."
Li Shang did not invite him, and Ding Xiao was not surprised, after all, he was a coffin carrying man.
The person carrying the coffin will not leave his body, so it is inconvenient to visit the door, so he needs to settle outside the town.
The servants of Li's mansion called him "little brother", which was already considered friendly. In the past, others would probably only call him "Hey, the coffin carrying man".
"Thank you." Ding Xiao said, and followed the man out of the town.
The servant led the way in front and secretly looked at the coffin behind Ding Xiao from time to time.
After walking for a while, the man couldn't help asking, "Little brother, I heard that the spirit evil has been making a lot of trouble in the past few years, and there are frequent occurrences of fierceness. Even your Lingshi Zhenshi has a headache. Isn't it true?"
Ding Xiao looked at the servant and said, "I am just a coffin carrying man and don't understand this."
Ding Xiao didn't want to say much, but the other party was still asking, "Fifteen years ago, Luofeng City was slaughtered overnight. Some people said that the city was covered with black fog that night. In the morning of the next day, the corpses in the city were piled up like mountains..."
"More than 200,000 people in the city, none of them survived!"
"A city was slaughtered overnight. What kind of ferocious evil spirit is that!"
"Since that night, such things have happened repeatedly! The situation of the Eye Soul borrowing corpses to cause evil is out of control. It is even said that the ten corpses and nine evil spirits are really scary."
Ding Xiao was slightly stunned.
Fifteen years ago... Luofeng City...
Ding Xiao read about this in "Records of the Corpse", but he only knew about it. After all, it is not the turn of the Corpse to intervene at this level.
Although Ding Xiao did not respond, the servant was talking to himself, "Hey, these days, it's getting more and more chaotic. It's not easy to survive, but it's not easy to die peacefully."
It is not easy to survive, and it is not easy to die peacefully... Ding Xiao felt quite the same.
"By the way, some people say that you are the one who walks into the underworld with one foot, so even if the corpse turns into evil, the spirit evil will not attack you. Is that true?"
Ding Xiao shook his head helplessly. This guy is a little curious...
If he doesn't answer one or two questions, he will probably not stop.
Ding Xiao sighed and said, "When we carry the coffin, we are leaning against the bottom of the coffin, and the body faces outward. Even if the soul of Xiang takes advantage of the corpse to cause evil and breaks out of the coffin, the face is still facing outward. Therefore, the chance of the spirit evil attacking the person who carried the coffin first is smaller."
"Actually, there are spiritual talismans present, and there are not many cases where the souls of the planet have corpses to cause evil."
The man nodded as if he suddenly realized, "So that's it..."
What made Ding Xiao miscalculated was that even though he answered a question, the guy didn't seem to have the intention to stop.
Along the way, he never stopped talking and kept saying it.
Some old friends from a family are "backed" and some strange things happen to their graves. Even old friends who have been buried in the past become restless.
"In the past, it was said that the unjust soul would not dissipate and it was easy to cause evil. Now, it seems to have changed."
Ding Xiao didn't answer much, just wanted to get to the point of stay as soon as possible so that he could take a breath and rest for a while, but he just couldn't finish it.
Ding Xiao frowned and suddenly interrupted him, "Do you talk nonstop because you are afraid of me, so you keep talking and giving yourself courage?"
The man suddenly was stunned for a moment and said awkwardly, "This... is to be honest, there is a little bit, but... but I'm even more afraid of the thing you carries..."
Ding Xiao smiled and shook his head, "Don't worry, the spirit-suppressing talisman is still there. I am not half a human and half a ghost, just lead the way quietly."
After that, the man was indeed much more calm.
After leaving the city, they didn't walk much far away, and the two of them came to a dilapidated small temple.
"Little brother, Lord Zhang said it is best to place the coffin in a spiritual place. Although this temple has been abandoned for many years, it was once a temple. You can rest here... That, I won't come in."
"I remember you used these tableware and you need to break them all and then bury them!" The man stood at the door of the ruined temple, put the food at the door, and hurriedly turned around and left.
Ding Xiao has been a coffin carry man for six years and is very clear about the rules of coffin carry man.
The person carrying the coffin is walking on the coffin for a long time. In the eyes of everyone, it is inevitable that the person carrying the coffin is looking at each other differently, and even the tableware they have used needs special treatment.
When he saw the man leaving, he carefully untied the rope of the coffin and placed it in a flat coffin.
After lit the soul-attracting lamp, Ding Xiao turned around and looked at the statue of the god worshipped in the temple.
The statue of the god is incomplete, half of the face is missing, and it is impossible to tell which god is covered with dust.
In the dim light, the smile of the incomplete statue seemed a bit ferocious, and as the fire light jumped, it seemed to be alive.
Looking at the statue of the god, Ding Xiao sighed, "Can you really suppress the spirit evil? If it can, why is the demon evil spirit raging today, and the gods enjoy the incense, but are silent?"
As it turns out, it still depends on the spirit-suppressing talisman!
Ding Xiao glanced at the spirit-suppressing talisman. The spirit-suppressing talisman was slightly shining with golden light at night, and nothing unusual.
"Oh, I'll spend the night here tonight. I'll be much more comfortable if I miss those two guys." Then, Ding Xiao went to the door to get the food box and started eating it in big mouthfuls.
It was late at night and the empty ruined temple was filled with light, and only the sound of Ding Xiao’s bowls and chopsticks hitting him was heard.
Just as Ding Xiao was having a feast, a strange sound came from behind him.
Ding Xiao quickly turned his head and stared at the coffin not far away. Even the chopsticks were hung in the air and forgot to put them down!
Chapter completed!