Early the next morning, Yun Sheng put the cat and luggage in a bamboo box, took the peanuts from the dustpan under the window, bowed to the vegetable garden to the end, and then resigned. He remembered the old woman's advice in his heart, and stopped stopping and rushed all the way to home.

Yunsheng has been wandering for ten years and has nothing to do. He doesn't know how to explain to his parents when he goes home. When he gets near his home, he sees a steady stream of carriages and horses, and everyone is carrying gifts to his house.

Yun Sheng was surprised and saw that his house was decorated with lights and joyful, his parents were full of red faces, thanking the neighbors, saying polite words such as "A dog is not talented, he will occasionally win a small prize." After hearing that his son returned, his father went out to greet him in person. Only then did Yun Sheng realize that his poems were appreciated by experts, and he resounded in the literary world as a rookie overnight, gloriously glorious in the family and honoring his ancestors.

Yunsheng's mother, Xiang, felt sorry for her son's hard journey and wanted to make snacks for him. Yunsheng remembered that there was a handful of peanuts in the box, but when he took them out, they were some shell coins.

Yun Sheng knew that these were all given by the purple rat, so he knelt down and bowed to the direction he came.

It was night, the moon shining brightly, and the vegetable fields in front of the house were as cheerful as before.

The purple mouse holds his grandson, the red mouse. The wound behind the red mouse's neck has healed, leaving only a pair of domestic cat teeth marks. The horse rock mouse said: "Yunsheng studied hard for decades, but no one cared about it, so he had no food and clothing. This time he became famous, he will be smooth sailing and devoted himself to poetry and prose."

Zishi smiled and said, "You are very wrong to say this. Any literati who thinks he is noble and can endure hardships in order to achieve great things, but in fact he wants nothing more than the word "fame and fortune". First, he wants more people to be praised and have face; second, he wants every word to be worth money and has a lot of money. These two things are done, and very few people can still work hard. Yun Sheng's path to poetry and prose is actually at the end."

Zi Moe stroked the teeth marks on the back of his grandson's neck and said, "Otherwise, how can he avenge him for instigating a cat to hurt my grandson?"

In the following years, Yun Sheng bought a lot of land and was addicted to fame and fortune. He married several young and beautiful women, gave birth to a group of children, and regarded himself as a successful person. As expected, no new works were published.

Later, when the Black King passed by Yunsheng's house, he heard that this man regarded himself as a "successful person", he looted the Yun family, and even his grandson Yungui was killed because he went to stop him.

Yun Sheng was old and was empty-headed, and lived until he died of illness by relying on land.

After Yun Sheng died, Master Qi asked someone to call him and said that Yun Sheng's son Yun Ren wanted to get a ghost marriage for his tragic son Yungui.

Originally, Master Qi didn't need to come forward for such a small matter, but he was rich and wanted to show off. He had to come to the scene to save the situation. Master Qi was not a big man, but was only a little famous in the Yin-Yang business. The master only had one word: Please!

Master Qi is also half a vulgar. He dares not regard himself as a noble person. Why not be able to get along with money? Then why not just go there?

Speaking of ghost marriage, also known as Yin marriage, it has been a long history and has existed since it has its own burial.

In the early years, there was a saying in many places among the people that if a person dies early without marriage, his life will be incomplete and he cannot enter the ancestral grave. His grave can only be alone. So he wants to get a slight marriage for him so that the grave will be in pairs. Otherwise, the deceased will not disperse and will be bad for the family.

The Yin marriage is like this. For example, if a son of a certain family dies unexpectedly, he usually finds a woman who has died recently. The age difference between the two cannot be too large. Then the two families discuss to betroth the woman to the man, let the two of them get together in the underworld, and then move the woman's body to be buried with the man. The ceremony in this process is Yin marriage.

Their yin marriage is like this: a girl is critically ill and can't survive, so many strangers come to buy the corpse, and the price is higher, and then they look forward to the girl returning to the corpse quickly so that she can bring the corpse back to get a pair.

Among them, people who have yin marriages range from fourteen to seventy or eighty. There is even a family who has an yin marriage to their own three-year-old baby who died unexpectedly just to meet the local custom of yin marriage.

Master Qi went to the west of the mountain and talked about this with the groom. The groom was a middle-aged man. He sighed and told Master Qi that some people were difficult to get married, and it was even more difficult to get married when they died. "It is difficult to get a woman." If a woman with good age, culture, etc. died in an accident, the buyer could form a row of people, and many of them were given hundreds of coins.

Master Qi shook his head, why bother? In the early years, there were many poor people. If a single man died and there was no suitable woman to have an yin marriage, he would usually use incense as his body, with shell coins as his heart, and be a villain. Then the Yin Yang or a special Yin matchmaker presided over the ceremony to complete the Yin marriage. Wouldn't it be better?

After arriving there, Master Qi asked about the process of the Yin marriage in detail. After all, there are many different rituals in each place.

The neighbor of the mourner told Master Qi that the man died of illness, at the age of fifteen, and his family had money, so he asked if there was an accident in the surrounding area. A man happened to say that his sister drowned and asked for fifty silver coins. The girl was only sixteen and looked good, so she didn't have to worry about not being able to find her next family. The man decided to go straight to the place and just waited to pick up the body and come to bury her together.

As for the ceremony, the morning wedding, carry a sedan chair with red flowers hanging on it, two red lanterns in front, and put a tied straw man in the sedan chair. It should have set off from the woman's house, but because the woman's house is too far away, he can only set off from the entrance of the village, and open the way with funeral instruments, all the way to the man's house, and hold a wedding with the man's straw man.

At the funeral in the afternoon, all the red lanterns were replaced with white lanterns. A pair of newlyweds were sent from home to the grave. The woman's coffin followed behind and then buried them. The two straw men were placed in the tomb together and buried them. The Yin marriage was completed.

Another person named Daozhu was in charge of presided over the ceremony, and Daozhu Qi was just here to support the scene.

It turns out that it is a rich family. A silly marriage is like a real marriage, with hundreds of guests coming.

Master Qi quietly watched the red sedan chair carry the straw man into the yard, and then the two straw man worshipped him in front of the mourning hall, with tablets behind him. Master Daoist was reciting a bunch of strange things on the side, and the marriage was over and the banquet began.

Many guests only attended the morning wedding, not the afternoon funeral, and it became much deserted shortly after the banquet.

On the left and right of Shen Shi, the Soul-Induction Banner opened the way, with two tablets behind, two grass men behind, followed by two coffins, and the person who was attending the funeral at the end.

When I arrived at the cemetery, I put the man's coffin in first, and everything was normal. But there was some trouble when I put the woman's coffin. It seemed that there was a force pushing the arranged coffin, and the direction always deviated.

The underworld priest was a little anxious, but he couldn't figure out the details.

"Put the straw man into the tomb." I reminded him.

When the two straw men were put in, the little girl straw men were blown down by a gust of wind, and helped up and then blown down, which was not to be with the boy.

"What's going on?" The master was anxious. The time was about to pass, and so many people were watching.

The underworld priest wiped the sweat from his forehead and quietly approached Master Qi: "How to do it?"

Master Qi whispered in his ear: "The woman's body is not from the right place."

Yes, the woman's body is not from the right place, and the ghost will never enter this tomb, either disagree with this yin marriage, or there is something else inside.

"Can the female family be there?" The underworld priest asked loudly in the center of the scene.

"The girl has only one older brother. His older brother left at noon and said he couldn't bear to see her sister be buried." The host replied.

"The woman's body is not from the right place, and she doesn't agree with this Yin marriage."

"The origin is not right? Disagree? But this... this..." The master also looked puzzled. How could such a ridiculous thing happen when he reached the grave?

"Find a place nearby to bury the woman. As for your kid..." Master Qi walked to the main house, "In fact, Yin marriage is not that particular. Dead people are like strangers. It doesn't matter whether they get married or not. It's just that life is better or not. You often worship your kids with delicious food and drinks, so you don't worry that he will live a bad life there. Moreover, you choose good Feng Shui, do good rituals, and do not do harmful things, and there will be no illness or disaster. It doesn't matter whether you do Yin marriage or not."

The master probably knew that Master Qi was a person with a certain identity in the industry. After hearing his words, he sighed helplessly. At present, he could only listen to Master Qi's situation, otherwise he really didn't know how to do it.

"I'll help you check your family's Feng Shui after you go back." Master Qi added, after all, the main family is a bad family, and it's such a bad thing to encounter in the dark marriage.

"That's all, then... let's do as you said." The host agreed and the funeral continued.

The underworld master found another place nearby to be the cemetery of the woman. Although the couple was not allowed to have the same acupoint, they could be considered as having a companion.

"You'd better report to the official to check the identity of this girl. She hasn't been buried yet." Master Qi kindly reminded the master.

The next day, Master Qi was about to leave and return to Xi'an, and the master's family told him the follow-up.

The girl was from the north of the mountain. After being killed by a man, she transported her body to the west of the mountain for sale. Now the man has been arrested by the officers and soldiers.

According to the man's account, he made a living by stealing and selling fresh corpses. The custom of Yin marriage in many places west of the mountain is very popular, so female corpses are very profitable. Later, he became obsessed with money and began to kill people and sell corpses. So far, he has killed three women, and the corpses have made nearly 200 shell coins.

There are three kinds of corpses in Yin Marriage, fresh corpses: corpses that have just died not long ago; wet corpses: corpses that have died for a while but have not become dry bones; mummy corpses: corpses that have died for many years and only bones are left.

Master Qi couldn't help but ask himself, if he would really let a corpse be fryed to tens of thousands, or even tempting to kill and sell corpses, should he continue to inherit the custom of continuing to kill and sell corpses? Or would this custom be distorted and turned into another demonized thing, then what kind of role should Mr. Yin and Yang be?

According to official statistics, twenty-seven female corpses were stolen in the three years to the west of the mountain, and some even stole corpses from the east of the mountain to the west of the mountain, which was really sad and lamentable.

Is this still the ritual or custom to comfort the dead soul? If so, it might be better to let it gradually disappear into the long river of history.

So after that, Qi Daogua never attended any activities about Yin marriage, and tried to let her friends avoid these jobs. There was no way, he could only do so. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!