From Jiu Shu's world

Chapter 7 Proceeding ([-])

Seven days later, it was the day of the wedding. In fact, the seventh day was not a completely auspicious day, it could only be said to be more appropriate.But according to the souls of Xiuniang and Ren Nian'en, I'm afraid they can't last longer, so they simply set it after these seven days.

Fortunately, Uncle Jiu called Shugu to help. Looking at these phoenix crowns, silver bracelets and gold chains, they are exquisitely made. I don’t know if it’s because Aunt Li and Ren Fa paid a lot of money or because they were moved by the story of Xiuniang and Ren Nianen. These paper ornaments were folded out, and patterns were drawn on them. There were faint spiritual fluctuations in the patterns, which were painted with spiritual power, making it difficult to distinguish the real from the fake.

Anyway, in Henry Zhang’s view, the concubine is probably envious of the love between Xiuniang and Ren Nianen. In the past week, she has been pestering Uncle Jiu with all kinds of clever tricks. Aunt Shu, this made Uncle Jiu wait until the day of the wedding to send Aunt Shu back.On the contrary, Qiusheng and Wencai were severely trained by Uncle Jiu, and the paper figurines, paper horses and the sedan chair were handed over to Qiu Sheng and the others.

Uncle Jiu looked at the weather, turned around and asked, "Ah Xuan, how are your preparations going?"

Henry Zhang nodded: "Bathing with five spices, singing Huang Ting quietly, bathing and fasting for three days, I'm almost ready. It's up to tonight."

Uncle Jiu nodded. He saw Zhang Xuanzhai’s three-day fasting. Although he belonged to the lineage of witchcraft, he was still an orthodox Taoist school after all. He took the way of using Gu to train Qi, but the basic skills of meditation and chanting were all qualified. .

Even so, there was still a trace of hesitation in Uncle Jiu's eyes. Although it is not difficult to ask for a heavenly marriage, it depends on God's will and people's hearts, and the risk is not small, so he took out a black and cold token and handed it to Henry Zhang Said: "If things can't be done, then use this. A heavenly marriage is not possible. There are some people below to take care of this bright marriage. This is also worthy of their fateful mandarin ducks."

"Yin card? Uncle, which patriarch's token is this? Isn't it just an open marriage, and the patriarch's official card is used? I'm afraid I will be blamed by the patriarch."

Henry Zhang showed a wry smile, the token was full of cold air, and it was not a mortal thing at first glance, coupled with the tone of Uncle Nine, even if Henry Zhang had never seen it, he could guess which official Maoshan Patriarch served below certificates such as cards.

Uncle Jiu snorted angrily: "Do you still know how to be afraid? The first time I opened an altar, I acted as a psychic, married in the open, and asked for a marriage in heaven. I also prepared the five internal organs of the sparrow boy. You must be entertaining ghosts. Hmph, You have thought about the style of this Ming wedding, but you don’t know what kind of guests are here, if you can’t hold back, you will feel better.”

Uncle Jiu is an old Jianghu, who doesn't know the correct way of attracting ghosts, and the partial way?This sparrow's five internal organs feast for ghosts can already be regarded as a decent ghost feast.Those who open the door to run restaurants, business is not good, so they thought of a way to turn feng shui, doing Yangren's business during the day, and hanging an empty bowl at the door to welcome guests at night.A stick of incense, a pair of chopsticks, and a bowl of sparrow's five internal organs. When the sky is about to dawn, I take down the empty bowl at the door and hang up a broom to invite guests out.This kind of shop is called open day and night, and the wandering ghosts are entertained, so there will be no such ghosts blocking the way of making money, and the business will naturally be good.It's just that it's not the right path after all, it can't last long, entertaining little ghosts, and it's hard to get a good end if you don't know good and evil.

Henry Zhang said with a sneer: "Isn't there a master uncle here? You are the top banknote printing class in the underworld, who dares not open your eyes to provoke you."

"Hmph, get ready, it's getting late."

Henry Zhang watched Uncle Jiu turn and leave, and weighed the Yin card in his hand, knowing that Uncle Jiu was caring about himself.It's just that, uncle, don't you go away in a proud and happy way, haven't you told me which master's token this is?If it is used tonight, and the master is invited, and the name is not known, it will really be cold.

He teased Uncle Jiu a little bit in his heart, then put away the negative cards, and didn't ask which master's negative cards it was, anyway, he was confident that he could suppress that group of ghost guests.

It was not early, Henry Zhang changed the Chinese tunic suit he often wore, and put on a plain green cloth robe. This green cloth robe didn’t look new, but it was a bit old, but it was very neat. The two wide cuffs were embroidered with Yin-yang fish, behind the Taoist robe is a Yin-Yang gossip diagram, wearing the Taoist robe shows Henry Zhang's slender figure, showing a bit of handsomeness.

Henry Zhang put on the magic crown, arranged his clothes, put three pillars of high incense on the patriarch, and went out of the room.At this time, the sky outside the door was already dark, except for a bright moon hanging high like a jade plate, there were only insects singing one after another around.The yard was full of all kinds of people and horses.Those individuals with white faces and red clothes, with empty eyes, turned out to be lifelike paper figurines upon closer inspection, but the smiles on their faces under the moonlight were indescribably weird.

These are of course the paper figurines and paper horses that will be used to welcome the bride tonight. As for why they still stop at Uncle Jiu at this hour, it is naturally not because they have not sent them yet. Not fooling people?Henry Zhang wants to let them go by themselves.

Uncle Jiu and Qiu Sheng on the other side were also ready and neatly dressed. After all, although they were not married in Yang, they naturally couldn't attend other people's weddings casually.Henry Zhang was even more sharp-eyed, and he saw at a glance that although Uncle Jiu was not wearing a robe, he was also wearing a Taoist robe that people in the Taoist sect wore every day.Henry Zhang faintly felt that under the loose Taoist robe of Master Uncle, there might be a lot of eating guys hidden.He really is Uncle Jiu with a knife mouth and a bean curd heart.

Seeing Henry Zhang coming out in a Taoist robe, Uncle Nine did not ask him how he was preparing, but instead shrank his eyes, and then asked with a bit of emotion and nostalgia: "This is Brother Zhang Heng's Taoist robe?" '

"Uncle Four Eyes passed by my place with guests a few years ago and brought them to me."

Uncle Jiu nodded with a little sigh: "Yeah, he was the one who played well with Senior Brother Zhang at the beginning, and worked with Senior Brother Zhang on those Gu medicines every day. I'm afraid he was the only one who put away Senior Brother Zhang's Taoist robe." , but it’s also good, this can be regarded as you have inherited your father’s mantle.”

Henry Zhang nodded with a smile, and stopped answering. It is only the most natural thing for the son to inherit his father’s business and inherit his father’s mantle.On the other hand, Qiu Sheng was confused and couldn't help asking: "Master, is the cassock left by his father to the younger brother? Why is it different from yours?"

Uncle Jiu shook his head. After all, as a disciple of himself, he still hasn't returned to Damao Peak to worship the mountain to study, and he hasn't learned some rules and knowledge. It seems that he has been negligent.Then he explained aloud: "Taoist robes are of different grades. You wear green clothes for Qi training, and yellow robes for God training. Although there is no clear requirement. But generally speaking, disciples in the sect will not mess around. The Tsing Yi that you don’t have to wear when you’re a teacher.”

There is another point that Uncle Jiu didn’t tell Qiu Sheng, that’s why he told Henry Zhang that he had inherited the mantle.It is true that this soapy blue robe is the one used by the disciples who practiced Qi to open the altar, but it is not impossible that Maoshan did not even prepare new robes for the new disciples.

Naturally, there is another way to say the succession of this cassock, that is, to inherit the mantle.There is naturally a saying in Taoism about inheriting the mantle.The master passed on the robes of his youth to his disciples, which means that the disciples will inherit what he has learned, and his lineage will be carried by the disciples.

Although this cassock looks worn out, it has more spiritual power than the uniform issued in the door. After all, it has been nurtured by the masters for many years, with the spiritual power of the masters, it is easier to open the altar and invite the gods to offer sacrifices Communicate spiritual power and ancestors.If there is danger, the seniors will occasionally have a premonition, and it will be easier to protect their disciples.Therefore, the inheritance of vestments is not only a ceremony, but also a kind of recognition and welfare.

It's just a pity that the people in Maoshan fight against good and evil, and fight all their lives. Even they may not have a good death, let alone a vestment, and there are very few people who can pass it on to their disciples, and most of them are destroyed in the battle.Therefore, not many people mentioned this.

Uncle Jiu naturally wouldn't mention these thoughts to Qiu Sheng, and was about to greet Qiu Sheng to prepare to set off, when he heard Qiu Sheng mutter, "I'm also refining and transforming qi, why don't you see Master, why don't you give me a dharma robe?"

Uncle Jiu raised his eyebrows and stared: "I have an old cassock from more than ten years ago, do you want it?"

Qiu Sheng sneered: "It's still... I don't need it, Master, how old is it more than ten years ago?"

Qiu Sheng naturally didn't know what Uncle Jiu meant by that. The two disciples under Uncle Jiu's school had mediocre literary talents, but Qiu Sheng was the only one who escaped, but his qualifications were not bad, so he could only inherit the mantle.But even though Uncle Jiu mentioned it casually and Qiu Sheng didn't know about it, Uncle Jiu became angry when he heard it.

Good boy, I let you inherit the mantle, but you still despise it.Really brave enough, brave enough.

Uncle Jiu slapped Qiu Sheng on the head: "What are you still doing in a daze? Hurry up and get ready, we're leaving."

Henry Zhang naturally didn’t hear the master-student conversation on Uncle Jiu’s side. He walked into the yard and pinched a yellow talisman with two fingers.With a bang, the talisman paper spontaneously ignited, and Henry Zhang shouted: "The white paper is the skin, the bamboo is the bone, the magic talisman is the guide, and the ink is the eye. The good time has come, and I still haven't woken up."

After finishing speaking, he threw the yellow talisman into the ink ground with chicken blood, then opened the gourd on his waist, and suddenly a cloud of black mist flew out into the ink bowl, and he took a closer look at this piece of black mist It turned out to be a hundred black locusts, which were exactly the locusts that Henry Zhang gave Ren Nianen that day.These dozens of locusts flew into the small ink bowl and got their ink all over, and then they started to turn around in the courtyard. After a moment of buzzing, the locusts all found the position of the paper figurine and paper horse, and flew up. With a light touch on the eyes, the empty eye sockets are activated.

With a gust of wind, the locusts flew back to the gourd, and the pale faces of the paper people in the yard became strange, and "hee hee" sounded one after another from far or near, these paper people... came alive.

(End of this chapter)