Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Xie Lingya sat behind the table, immersed in writing the word “blessing”. Every time he finished writing a piece, someone would take it from front of him. They couldn’t wait to dry it, so they took it and dried it while walking. Of course, they didn’t forget to say one sentence: “Thank you, Taoist priest.”
Xie Lingya was not a Taoist priest, but he couldn’t care about that much at this time.
On the night of the New Year’s Eve puja on the 30th day of Baoyang Temple, he would write the word “blessing” and send it to the believers. Originally it was not planned to be a big event, it was just for celebration, but when other believers who did not attend learned about it the next day, they also wanted to get the word “blessing” written by the Taoist priest.
Except for Xie Lingya, Zhang Daoting was not very good at calligraphy. Liu Bohe and Hou Xuzhong were older and could do it. However, Zhang Daoting originally had to receive believers, and Hou Xuzhong also had to interpret signs, so Xie Lingya and Liu Bohe sat in the backyard and set up two tables to write blessings for those who wanted it.
Unexpectedly, the people were so enthusiastic that they quickly formed a queue. At first, they were just queuing inside the temple, from the backyard to the front yard. Later, for no reason, many more people came. He didn’t know if they came after hearing the news or just watching passers-by who came to join in the fun, just like on the 30th night.
Although some were not believers, this was a relationship, and Xie Lingya and Liu Bohe still wrote it down. It was later that Zhang Daoting told them that the team had already reached Dawn Square.
Passers-by who didn’t know the situation were wondering, was this another attempt to grab salt?
They heard that it was a word for blessing, and some people didn’t want to wait in the long queue but wanted to watch what the good word was. However, there was no room for people in Baoyang Temple. And it was only then that some people discovered that the appearance of Baoyang Temple had changed a little.
Some time ago, the newsagent store at the door was removed and the door was widened. After the expansion, the gate of Baoyang Temple had become several meters wide. It was designed by the descendant of “Lu Banshu”. He personally found the wood, bricks and stones. It was thus full of ancient charm, and then the old plaque had also been hung with a history of hundreds of years. The current Baoyang Temple’s gate could inspire people to visit and even take photos.
At this time, the door was open, and there were so many people inside. People were queuing up to receive blessings, offer incense, and drink tea. People from outside could not squeeze in at all.
Just like that, there was someone holding a bucket at the door: “Can you let me go in and get some water? It’s almost time!”
– This person has been hanging around the door for ten minutes, but he couldn’t squeeze in. He was thinking of getting water now. The time was limited, so he was afraid that his trip would be in vain.
Such a lively scene attracted people in the building next to it to take a video from above and send it to their circle of friends: The view of Baoyang during the Chinese New Year was comparable to that of a train station…
The video was widely reposted, which surprised the people of Qiyang. While everyone was surprised, they also felt a sense of wanting to participate: so many people wanted it, so it must be a good thing, right?
So the next day, more people came to receive the blessing words.
Xie Lingya and Liu Bohe’s hands were almost cramped even after they joined hands. There was no other way, so Hou Xuzhong threw down interpreting the signs and took turns to replace them.
It was under such circumstances that Liu Yunyun and her husband squeezed all the way from the gate to Zhang Daoting and were led by Zhang Daoting to Xie Lingya in the backyard.
People in line couldn’t help but say: “Wow, Taoist priest, are you bringing someone to jump in the queue?”
Zhang Daoting said quickly: “No, no, it’s something else.”
He whispered to Xie Lingya; “This Ms. Yun seems to have known your uncle, something happened at home.”
Upon hearing this, Xie Lingya put down his pen and asked them to come to his room to talk.
As soon as Xie Lingya left, the people in line stretched their necks. This handsome guy looked like he wouldn’t be back for a while. They turned their attention to Zhang Daoting again: “Little Taoist Master, you can write it.”
Zhang Daoting sweated: “Well, I don’t know how.”
The crowd: “It’s okay, just write!”
Zhang Daoting didn’t expect that someone would encourage him to write even though he said he couldn’t, “I really don’t know how. Well, I’ll ask Hou Daoting to come on.”
Crowd: “No! It’s you!”
Zhang Daoting: “…”
When Zhang Daoting was being teased, Xie Lingya brought the couple into the room. He closed the door and shook hands with them, “My name is Xie Lingya, do you know my uncle?”
“My name is Liu Yunyun, and this is my husband Huang Bin.” Liu Yunyun introduced him and said with some hesitation, “My grandpa is Zhu Chengmei.”
“Mr. Zhu from Lushan Fa, I heard my uncle mention it,” Xie Lingya said.
He recalled it and had some impressions. He had never seen him with his own eyes, but he had been mentioned in his uncle’s notes. He seemed to be an old mage from the Lushan sect.
The Lushan sect was a folk sect, and the masters were thus all scattered. There were also specific sects there. In the early years, they absorbed Taoism, shamanism, Buddhism and other contents. Among them, the one with the deepest connection with Taoism was later included in the Zhengyi sect.
In addition, many Buddhist rituals were imitated, especially the Zhai Ke, which was basically copied and was jokingly called “the master secretly eats the monk’s meal”.
Wang Yuji and Zhu Chengmei had discussed some spells. The Taoism inherited by Zhu Chengmei included spells such as the Sa Zhenren Curse, which came from the Sazu lineage. However, this Master Zhu Chengmei should have been dead for several years.
Sure enough, Liu Yunyun said: “My grandpa has passed away, and your uncle came to attend the funeral. To be honest, something happened in the family recently, but after my grandpa, no descendants have come into contact with the Lushan method. I just remember that my grandpa praised your uncle’s ability, so I wanted to ask, but…”
She looked apologetic, not knowing that Wang Yuji had passed away, and she felt very sad to mention it during the Chinese New Year.
In the past, Xie Lingya would have been hurt by the situation, but since he found out that his uncle had become a city god, he had gotten better. At this moment, his uncle should be enjoying the incense in the temple.
“Well, my uncle passed away last year. But if you have anything, you can tell me and I’ll give it a try.” Xie Lingya said.
Liu Yunyun felt relieved now. She thought about Xie Lingya’s family background and how his uncle was very good. He should be good too. At first, she was afraid that Xie Lingya might not learn much either, just like her family. These days, not many young people were willing to inherit all this.
Including herself, she had heard her parents advise her grandpa not to play with these things since she was a child. At that time, she also found it very scary and her grandpa was always nagging. But when something like this happened, Liu Yunyun suddenly remembered her grandfather’s words and deeds.
“In this case, let my husband do the talking. In fact, it was mainly because of him.” Liu Yunyun said, pulling her husband.
Liu Yunyun’s husband Huang Bin seemed a little reserved and in a bad mental state. He said: “Yunyun and I had a fight before, and out of anger, Yunyun moved to our other house.”
By on the New Year’s, the couple didn’t want to be talked about by their relatives, so they still went to visit relatives together during the day, but went back to their respective homes at night.
Huang Bin felt a little regretful and expressed his goodwill to Liu Yunyun, but Liu Yunyun ignored him.
But a few nights ago, when Huang Bin was sleeping, he felt someone entering the room and sleeping next to him. Huang Bin slept drowsily, thinking that Liu Yunyun should be back, and felt happy. It seemed that showing goodwill during the day was still useful.
“Yunyun…” Huang Bin shouted at that time, but “Liu Yunyun” didn’t speak, and she was lying far away from him, so he didn’t dare to get close.
Liu Yunyun liked to be coldly violent when she was angry. Huang Bin felt that her anger was not completely gone, so he did not dare to continue talking.
When he woke up the next day, Liu Yunyun was not there – she was working as a nurse in the hospital, and she only had two days off. Huang Bin just thought she had gone to work and didn’t think much about it at all.
At midnight that night, “Liu Yunyun” came back again, climbed into bed silently, but still didn’t speak. Huang Bin felt that she was tired from work, so he didn’t bother her.
This went on for four or five days without saying a word, until the couple made an appointment via text message to go to a relative’s house.
Before leaving, Huang Bin put Liu Yunyun’s bag in his car and prepared to go back with her.
Liu Yunyun glared at him, took her bag and left angrily. She felt that Huang Bin had gone too far. He didn’t apologize, but he thought she would follow him back.
Huang Bin looked confused, wondering why Liu Yunyun was angry again.
When Huang Bin went to bed at night, half asleep and half awake, he felt that “Liu Yunyun” was back again, lying next to him, yet still far away.
“Honey, are you still angry?” Huang Bin said, “Forget it, it’s been so many days.”
“Liu Yunyun” remained silent.
“I was wrong, I really know I was wrong.” Huang Bin said coquettishly, turned over and reached out to hug “Liu Yunyun”.
As soon as this hand was placed on “Liu Yunyun”, Huang Bin was so frightened that he broke out in white sweat and felt cold from head to toe. Under the warm quilt, “Liu Yunyun”‘s body was cold and soft, not like a human being.
Huang Bin jumped up from the bed at that time, crawled and ran to the living room, opened the door and rushed out, knocking on the neighbor’s door wildly.
Huang Bin’s neighbor was woken up and heard Huang Bin talking incoherently about his wife being impersonated and sleeping in the same bed with him. At first, he thought a thief had entered and wondered if the thief wanted to rob him, but Huang Bin was a man.
But then he heard that he was not a human being and since the neighbor did not believe in evil, he accompanied Huang Bin funnily and said that he must have been asleep and missed his wife too much.
Huang Bin felt that it was definitely not a dream, but he also had some self-doubts. Could it be an illusion? He followed his neighbor in cautiously, and both saw a black shadow jumping out of the window.
Now even the neighbors were frightened. The shape was definitely not human!
Huang Bin, in particular, fainted on the spot.
——He thought about himself and that thing sleeping in the same bed for several days.
Huang Bin was sent to Liu Yunyun’s Hospital. Liu Yunyun just so happened to be on duty. She was stunned when she heard that her husband had been sent there. Their neighbor also came. He was so frightened that he told the medical staff incoherently that he had seen a ghost.
No one took it seriously. However, Liu Yunyun’s face turned pale at that time because her grandfather was a mage from the Lushan sect. She didn’t take it seriously, but she came to take care of him personally. She also went to the Chinese medicine store to get medicinal materials to boil water and calm them down.
The next day, Liu Yunyun asked for leave again and brought Huang Bin to Baoyang Temple.
….
Huang Bin recalled his experience while talking about it. When he thought of that disgusting touch, he got goosebumps all over his body.
After Xie Lingya found out the shape and feel, he called Shi Changxuan and asked him if he knew what it was.
Shi Changxuan told Xie Lingya that this commonly known as bed ghost, also known as husband and wife ghost, usually appears in pairs and attacks those human couples who have a problem with each other. Couples who have a bad relationship are not easy to detect. Over time, they will absorb people’s energy and replace them.
After Xie Lingya asked, he looked at Liu Yunyun, “Didn’t you encounter anything at night?”
Liu Yunyun didn’t understand what he meant, “No, what’s wrong?”
“Such ghosts usually appear in pairs.” Xie Lingya said, “Remember carefully to see if anything strange happened.”
Liu Yunyun thought for a moment, “I’ve been working night shifts with people in the past few days. They are all colleagues. I really didn’t see anything wrong.”
“That’s probably because there’s no chance.” Xie Lingya said, “It’s okay. I’ll go to your house later and catch the ghost.” He glanced at Huang Bin and said, “Mr. Huang, come with me to the Lingguan Hall to burn some incense. Let’s go.”
He took Huang Bin to the Lingguan Hall, where lay people were chanting sutras. Huang Bin offered incense and stood aside to listen to the sutras, and his spirit finally calmed down.
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