Chapter 19: The Road to the Yellow Springs
Fatty and old Hu heard me say this, finally a big sigh of relief. Who said it is not, in this night, encountered so many evil things, any other person will not be able to stand, a God tendon has not been relaxed.
The three of us have an indescribable ease in our hearts, so we walked quickly towards the platform, hoping that we can sit on the bus back to the city.
Because it was already getting light, there was an early roadside road crew and it was right over the station platform, I don't know what they were burning early in the morning, the strong stench we could smell from a dozen meters away.
When I came to the station platform, I walked towards the road crew. Ask them where this is, not far from the nearest county?
Seeing a passerby asking him, the road officer pointed to the road sign across the road and said, "This is Yellow Springs Road, almost twenty kilometers from the county seat!"
Upon hearing this, the three of us were startled, Yellow Springs Road? Damn it, we've been wandering around all night, is it possible that we've been wandering around on the Yellow Springs Road? Could it be that the three of us hung up a long time ago? Three people stared wide-eyed, a moment of words can not say out.
And at this time that road officer seems to see our panic, so laughed: "young man you are outsiders, right, you can rest assured, this is not the underworld of the Yellow Springs Road, because in front of a very famous spring, the name of the Yellow Springs, so this road is also called the Yellow Springs Road."
Hearing this, we were reassured that it was just the same name. It seems to be that yesterday's 'a' this 'read' novel '. Yesterday night, we bumped into too many evils, so the tendons of the gods are still in a tense state.
"Shit, which melon child to take this name ah, yellow spring is nothing, but this road can be called yellow spring road? This still let people dare to drive to this through," the fat man muttered in a bad mood.
The road officer said: "Young man is right, this road really should not be called this name. With this name, the road has become evil, and there have been many traffic accidents."
We nodded, people on taboo things, actions and language generally say to try to avoid, is called taboo. Generally go out on a long trip, we have to listen to good words, also known as pleasing auspicious also known as pleasing the head or pleasing the mouth, this is the "colorful customs". This national highway in front of us is good, directly named Huangquan Road, which is indeed a folk taboo, invariably will attract some dark negative impact. If some people with low luck drive this road, there is a real possibility of unfavorable things happen, all the way to the real Yellow Springs Road to go.
Folk taboos and colorful customs, strange and strange, over time into a custom, the formation of a fairly solid group consciousness. For example, New Year's festivals or other festive days, people are taboo to say "death" word, if a person is dead, not to say dead, but to say that someone "old".
Folk still have the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar does not sweep the custom, that is, taboo sweeping. It is said that this day sweeping, will sweep out the family's treasure, unlucky. This is the people seeking wealth mood of a kind of support. In fact, this custom was first seen in the "Book of Searching for God", the book said that in ancient times, a merchant crossed the Lake Qingcao, met the gods, the gods asked him what he wanted, the merchant said but to seek as desired. The spirit allowed, called out Ruyi, turned out to be a servant girl. The merchant took her home and soon his family became rich. When the merchant saw that his servant girl was not sweeping the floor, he became angry and scolded her and even beat her. Ruyi was beaten, very reluctant, in a fit of anger into the broom. After that, the merchant's family swept the floor diligently, but the family became poorer and poorer. This is why people say that sweeping is not as good as having Ruyi without sweeping. But not sweeping every day is not good enough. The first day of the first month is the first of the year, people believe that this day can foretell the year's good and bad luck, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is not sweeping according to this. This is originally a legend, and later became a common custom.
In the folk around there are some taboos, such as usually wear straw shoes into other people's homes, is considered taboo. Because in the old days, the family dead or parents with filial piety for the funeral only when wearing straw shoes; hall in the pavement, door when the bed is also taboo, because the old hall in the pavement is for the dead to move the body with the door is used to lift the dead. Eating taboo chopsticks inserted in the middle of the rice, because that is for the dead. Clothes and pants broken taboo wear on the body nails, said, wearing a patch, the death does not change, the main worry about nails when accidentally piercing the body. In the casino book to be considered taboo, because the book and lose the same sound, and of course the gambler is not willing to lose.
All of these things show how much people care about taboos, because they are considered unlucky. (In fact, there are many more, because I'm afraid of everyone idle me long-winded, so I will not say more).
I took a look at the opposite side of the road signs written with the words "Yellow Springs Road", helplessly smiled bitterly, if not as soon as possible to change the name, this road will be unlucky.
But this change the name of the road thing, we a small people can not change, we have not been so big can help, the so-called heart but not enough power, may be so.
I said thank you to the road officials, and was ready to leave, but I still casually asked them: "What are you burning ah, the whole is also a little pungent."
Which know the road officer back: "Yesterday there was a car accident here, a car of people are dead, alas! This is not, we came early in the morning to these dead people left on the roadside clothes to burn, so as not to let the passers-by look scary."
Fatty and I and the others immediately froze, thinking, could it be that the ghost car we rode in earlier was here to pick up those people who were involved in the car accident yesterday?
Obviously, all three of us thought together. The road officer probably thought we were just scared over the car accident, so he said, "Why isn't it quite scary? The people who died in the accident yesterday had their clothes scattered all over the platform, and no one dared to come here to wait for the bus. Alas, this road has really gotten a bad name."
Hearing this, Old Hu leisurely turned his head to us and asked, "Did you see any clothes scattered on the platform yesterday night?"
"In addition to the people on the platform yesterday, is there any clothing?" Fatty was also full of shock.
In the end, the two of them looked at me together, I carefully recalled, and felt that it was really as Fatty said, at that time, the entire station platform in addition to waiting for the train people, the ground really did not have any clothes. If there were bloodied and dirty clothes scattered all over the station, it was impossible for us not to see it, after all, these things are very capable of arousing people's disgust.
Unable to help, I shook my head and said, "It seems like that car really came to pick up those who died in the car accident last night."
Old Hu and the two of them winced hard, obviously fearful of last night's events.
I don't care how that road officer is puzzled expression, I said thank you, then hurriedly walked away.
Waiting for half an hour, probably because the time is too early for the reason, there has not been a passing bus, the only one is also running inter-provincial coach, and they simply will not pay attention to our wave.
Just as we waited left and right, a small car suddenly stopped in front of us, the window fell down, a man in his forties poked his head out and asked, "Take a car? Where to?"
We look, the heart is happy not carry on, although in front of us is a hitchhiker "black car", but we have three people, not afraid of what he can put a few brothers. So we immediately went forward back to: "Brother, we want to go to the nearest county, you see how much money?"
Driver man opened to say a hundred, although this price is a bit of a lion's mouth, but we only need to return to the city as soon as possible, so there is no mind and he haggled with the price, directly and simply do a back to the two hundred and fifty wrongdoers, and then hurriedly sat on the man's car.
A car, the three of us straight sleepy, because of the tired day and night, has not rested, plus anyway, the price has long been negotiated, do not have to worry about the general driver in order to make money and intentionally detour, so the three people quickly closed their eyes and dozed off.
In a daze, I had a very strange dream, I dreamed of the late Zhang Zhenren. In the midst of a gray fog, I could only see him wearing the clothes of an ancient errand boy, and his mouth seemed to be shouting my name, but being far away, I couldn't hear it too clearly and distinctly for a while.
So I made a strong step toward him, to the near front, I asked him: "master, you old how to come ah, you are not that what is it, just now I heard you shouting something, is not calling me?"
Zhang Zhenren criticized me, "If I don't shout at you, do I purposely run up to play ah? No interest in things, you net these years to do what went, divine sense is still so weak, shouted you so long froze no reaction."
Divine consciousness, said the Yuan Shen, or the consciousness of the soul. Generally speaking, the higher the magic power of the mage, the stronger the divine sense, can be more than a normal person senses to detect the surrounding dangerous information, and the atmosphere of yin and yang. It is said that the more powerful mages, their spirit can also leave the body, that is, the folk said the spirit out of the body. Its Yuan Shen can travel thousands of miles at night, checking things thousands of miles away, and can go down to the netherworld to enter the house, and do things in the netherworld, which is very good.
And I, even Zhang Zhenren took the initiative to call out to me, I can't even realize it in time, indeed, how bad it has to be, no wonder his old man will scold me.
I was embarrassed and snorted, asked him how he had time to come up, how was it down there, did the hell make things difficult for your old man?
When Zhang Zhenren saw that I was so concerned about him, the anger on his face disappeared in an instant and turned to a face full of relief, he said, "Don't worry, I'm fine down there, Lord Yama didn't give me a hard time for the sake of the Ancestor Master regarding saving you and violating the rules, and he even let me be the Ghost Dispatcher. Just rest assured!"
I nodded my head, if it was true that his old man went down to hell and was still punished by the hell penalty in order to save me last time, then this heart of mine would really not be able to get over it, and I would always be unable to let go of it. I said, "That's good. Master, did you come up to see me on purpose this time?"
However, as soon as I asked this, his face immediately changed back to his previous anger, looking at me with a whole expression of hatred. He said, "You still have the nerve to say that you have met an evil person under your eyes, and you still dare to sleep in peace. If I don't come up to you, should I wait for you to come down to me?"
Upon hearing this, I was startled and asked him who the evil person was.
Zhang Zhenren said, "The driver who drove you is the one who wants to take your life, I wanted to come closer to call you just now, but he sensed it. So I can only call you from afar. Remember, be careful of this person, his ability is not something you can defeat."
At that moment, I was scared lightly, heck, I thought that God saw the three of us tossed a night tired, so specially arranged a black car to drive us back to the city, which thought that there is such a robbery, and also special heck is I can not defeat the character.
At that moment, I asked him what to do.
Zhang Zhenren said he could not help me, because as a government official, can not interfere too much in the affairs of the earth, so everything has to rely on me to solve the problem. But as he was leaving, he said, "There is a saying that a good man should not be forced to do anything beforehand, and sometimes a little loss can turn a great disaster into a great disaster. Remember that!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he disappeared in an instant, and I, too, immediately woke up from my dream with a start. Then, I realized that the car had stopped, and the car was not parked in the middle of the county, but on a piece of deserted grass.
I immediately thought of that strange dream just now, so immediately panicked, and hurriedly looked toward the driver's side, wow, the driver even disappeared!
