Cultivating the Tao: Beginning with Meditation and Liver Experience

Chapter 36 Yizhuang in the city, please god incense!

Most of the people in the ghost market are warlocks.

Those who only practice the Dharma, but not the Tao, generally engage in some work of fishing for Yinmen and other sects.

Five disadvantages and three deficiencies, not a good end!
It's not that they don't want to practice orthodox Taoism, but that the real way is hard to find.

In this world where class has long been solidified to the extreme, it is as difficult for a low-level person to obtain an orthodox practice method as it is for a little beggar to marry a Dagan princess.

think about it.

Prior to this, even Xu Yan, who had the title of Prince of the Dingyuan Houfu, had no way of obtaining an orthodox practice, and it was extremely difficult.

Not to mention these people in the ghost market who can't help themselves and have been engaged in the bottom-level work of fishing for vulvas.

Even from another angle.

If the orthodox practice and the true method were so easy to obtain, there would not be so many demon cultivators and evil cultivators in this world.

How many of them are willing to practice the devilish arts and evil methods that harm others and themselves if they can walk the righteous way?
The person Xu Yan was looking for in Jiuyuan Ghost City was a sorcerer who scooped up Yinmen.

There is a saying: "The executioner's knife, the eyes of the foreman, the craftsmanship of the paper maker, the needle and thread of the second cobbler, who only make money from the dead, whoever sees it will be unlucky!"

These four professions are the representative professions of fishing for Yinmen.

In addition, there are those who drive corpses, guard graves, sell shrouds, make coffins, retrieve corpses, etc., but all occupations related to corpses can be classified as Yinmen.

Tianjing City, West District of Outer Nine City.

In front of a Yizhuang.

Many people think that the ancient Yizhuang is the place where coffins and corpses are stored.

In fact, this statement is wrong.

Yizhuang is a product of agricultural society. Among a large clan, some are poor and some are rich. The rich spend money to set up Yizhuang. Yizhuang includes schools, public land, ancestral halls and other facilities to provide relief. People living in poverty, so it is named "Yizhuang".

This "righteousness", to put it bluntly, means benevolence and righteousness.

It's just that with the change of social structure, the content of Yizhuang is gradually narrowing. In modern times, it is almost only ancestral halls. In the city, there is another very special place called Yizhuang. Purpose: to store coffins.

Of course, the Yizhuang of the Dagan Dynasty still maintains the original situation of the Yizhuang. It is a charity place, and storing coffins is only one of the many uses of the Yizhuang.

For example, the Dingyuanhou Mansion established the Xu Clan's Yizhuang in Tianjing City, and provided subsidies and subsidies to the clan members through the Yizhuang. Those Xu clan members who have already lived in poverty can receive a certain amount of rations, Cloth, wedding and funeral expenses, etc.

Even if life is really difficult, you can still spend the night in Yizhuang, with low interest rates, or even interest-free loans and so on.

In addition, there are family schools, martial arts halls, ancestral halls, etc. in Yizhuang, which are important places to maintain family inheritance, not just to store coffins and the like.

In addition to the righteous villages opened by the big families themselves, there is also a kind of righteous village, which is opened for the imperial court.

The yizhuang established by the imperial court will naturally not distribute welfare and money to their own clansmen like those yizhuang opened by big families. Its main function is to deposit coffins and store unclaimed corpses!

Occasionally, when the emperor amnesties the world, or some kind of large-scale festival, the imperial court provides disaster relief, etc., the local government will also distribute rice porridge and rice grains to ordinary people in Yizhuang.

But generally speaking, Yizhuang is still a place for charity, nothing more than Xiaoren and Daren.

The Yizhuang in front of Xu Yan has no name, only a plaque of "Tianjing Yizhuang 39", which means that the Yizhuang in front of him is not a Yizhuang of a certain clan, but an official Yizhuang established by the imperial court, and the personnel in the Yizhuang , are all compiled.

Since it is the official Yizhuang of the imperial court, it is easy to say.

Xu Yan directly waved the badge of the captain of the Yuqian Division in front of the steward of Yizhuang, and the other party immediately became two points shorter, bowed his body and said, "Little man Wang Hai, I have seen the lord, I don't know what orders the lord has to come here ?”

Wang Hai called himself a villain because the manager of Yizhuang was just a petty official in the Tianjing City government, not an official. At this time, facing Xu Yan, who had an official status, he naturally couldn't call himself a "lower official", but could only call himself a "little official". people"!
This is the privilege of the ancient class!

"If I remember correctly, there should be a mortician named Youba in your Yizhuang No. 39. Where is he now?"

Xu Yan spoke lightly, but his eyes were on the two rows of huts in the corner of Yizhuang.

There is the corpse sewing shop in Yizhuang. If the ghost market man Youba he is looking for is in Yizhuang at this time, if there is no accident, it should be in the corpse sewing shop.

In this world of immortals and demons where Taoism is manifested and ghosts and gods are everywhere, the affairs of the deceased are still very important.

In many cases, even if the corpse is chopped into pieces, the corpse will be stitched up by a mortician before being buried or cremated.

the reason is simple.

Because if you are not afraid of ten thousand, you are afraid of the eventuality. If the spirit of the deceased is too strong and turns into a ghost after death, seeing his body being torn apart and left unattended, resentment will inevitably arise, and it is easy to turn into a ghost or a demon.

Therefore, in order to appease the dead and reduce the birth of evil spirits and monsters, both the imperial court and ordinary people pay great attention to what is behind the dead.

For this reason, the imperial court also deliberately incorporated the seamstress into the imperial court establishment, just like the gangster and the executioner.

"Returning to my lord, there is indeed a famous mortician named You Ba in Yizhuang, who is the No. [-] cadaver in Yizhuang. I don't know if he is the person my lord is looking for." The manager of Yizhuang replied cautiously.

"No. [-]?" Xu Yan nodded when he heard these four words, "It should be, you go and invite someone here, and just say that the official has something to ask him for help."

These days, being a mortician is a dangerous profession.

Even in Tianjing City, with the suppression of dragon energy, it is still very dangerous.

Na Youba must have a certain ability to be the number one mortician in Yizhuang.

Coupled with the same name and surname, it is obvious that he is from the Jiuyuan Ghost City in the memory of his predecessor.

"My lord, please wait a moment, the villain will invite Master You here."

After the manager of Yizhuang finished speaking, he hurriedly withdrew and invited Youba, the mortician, to go.

After about half a cup of tea time!

The steward of Yizhuang led a hunchbacked old man in gray cloth clothes with a faint smell of corpses and decay, and reported: "My lord, Master You is here."

"The villain has met the nobleman, but I don't know what the nobleman's order is for the villain?" You Ba saw Xu Yan, a glint flashed in his eyes, then he quickly closed his eyes, lowered his head, respectfully, and endured Try not to let the tears flow out of your eyes.

interesting!
When Xu Yan saw You Ba's actions, he just smiled and didn't say anything. He waved to the manager of Yizhuang and said, "It's none of your business here, you go down first!"

"Little man obeys!"

The manager of Yizhuang left without looking back, not wanting to know why Xu Yan came here.

Wait until the manager of Yizhuang leaves.

Xu Yancai turned his head to look at You Ba, and said calmly, "I want a few incense sticks to go to Jiuyuan Ghost City, please make an offer!"

(End of this chapter)