Twilight Boundary

Hu Ma and Erguotou waited patiently in this small courtyard until the evening, without even drinking tea. It was not until it was dark that the coarse cloth maid came out and led them in.

Then he saw that a futon had been placed in the room, and next to it were a basket of gold and silver paper money, four weights, a pile of fresh grapefruit leaves, a basin of cold water, and white talisman paper with strange handwriting written on it, etc.

"Both of you, come and sit down!"

The nanny in the cloth robe had already stood up, and it was only then that she saw that she was as skinny as wood, with her eye sockets sunken deep.

Erguotou looked around and said with a smile: "Mom is tired, just let me, the little brother, go down alone."

"I still have to wait up there to pick him up!"

"..."

The old mama immediately gave Erguotou a sinister look, and without saying much, she confirmed that he was an old Jianghu.

She was unfamiliar with the place, so she came here and asked someone to take her down. She was afraid that she would be left down there and not be able to come back. But if someone was left to watch from above, she would be able to prevent others from doing tricks. However, she had seen so much that she didn’t think anything was wrong. Accident.

Leng Youyou glanced at it and said to Hu Ma: "Then come over and sit down."

Hu Ma nodded and sat down on the futon in front of her. The old woman pushed Hu Ma's shoulder and asked him to sit facing the door.

Then he said to Erguotou: "If you don't go down, just wait outside. I have my own say!"

Erguotou was not worried, he just smiled and went out obediently.

The old mama closed the door, and the oil lamp was behind her. Only a faint light fell on Hu Ma's eyes, and there was only darkness. She heard the old mama walk to her left side and said coldly: "Shi Chen" We’re almost here, why don’t you tell me what you’re going to do next?”

"If you can't get what you ask for, if you are separated by life and death, if you want to see someone you can't bear to see, or if there are still things that have not been explained clearly, or if you have grievances or debts, I can directly help you bring the person up and say a few words. That’s it.”

"..."

Hu Ma actually knew her very well. Hearing this, he just smiled and said, "Don't worry, old man, it's not a debt or a grudge."

"We just have to go down for something. We'll be back soon so we won't bring you any trouble."

"..."

The old woman curled her lips slightly, snorted coldly, and said, "How deep do you plan to go down there?"

Hu Ma thought for a while and said: "At least it is deeper than the gate of hell."

"Then you have to use a ten-pound scale!"

The old grandma snorted and said, "You were brought here by Master Xiao Xia. We have to help you with this, but you must remember that if Uncle Yin Cha sees this kind of thing, you will be in big trouble."

"If something happens to you, I can't run away. If something happens to me, you can't run away either. Therefore, you must obey my orders in every word and deed. Otherwise..."

As she spoke, she suddenly came to Hu Ma and lifted her clothes up. Hu Ma was startled by her movement. She smelled a faint rancid smell in her mouth and nose. She was afraid of being deceived, so she hurriedly closed her door. breath.

However, the maid next to her came over with an oil lamp and shined a light on her body. Only then did she see that her body was covered with bone-deep, rotten and blue sores, covering her lower back one by one.

It was shocking to see, very scary.

"What I have on my body is because I was doing something for someone last time, and Uncle Ghost saw me and came here to beat me."

The old grandma sneered: "This time, do you know how much risk we are taking in doing this?"

Hu Ma breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Thank you for your hard work, mama, but please don't worry, we have prepared the golden Tai Sui to remove poison from your old age, and the brother who is traveling with me, he has an ancestral tradition of digging out corns... …Cure the sores and I will be able to serve you well!”

"Just don't owe me anything!"

The old grandma said nothing else, but put down her clothes and asked the maid to bring the oil lamp back to its place. She grabbed the gold and silver paper money from the basket beside Hu Ma.

Some were in the shape of ingots, and some were cut into copper coins. They evenly sprinkled a circle around Hu Ma. Then he picked up the two weights beside him and tied them to Hu Ma's left and right feet with hemp ropes.

Instructing the maid to bring up the basin of water, she gave Hu Ma an unlit white lantern, tied a black bell around her right wrist that did not ring even when she shook it, and then tied a grapefruit leaf into a He picked up a bunch and said to the flax:

"The money is for you, the lantern is for lighting down there, and the bell is for finding you. You should take both of them with you."

"After the paper money is burned, I will open the door for you. Just move forward and don't look back."

"Whenever the weight stops weighing, stop. If someone calls you on the way, don't look back."

"As soon as you turn around, something will happen."

"After you go down, you have to hurry up. The undercover patrols below will patrol every half an hour. I will let you go down when they pass by. You have to come back when they turn around."

"The method is also simple. Shake the bell and kowtow to it. When my old man gets the message, he will pass the belt down. You can grab the belt and climb up..."

"..."

Hu Ma listened carefully and nodded one by one with a solemn expression.

Seeing that he obeyed, the old nanny seemed a little satisfied, but her face was dark and gloomy, and she couldn't tell whether he was smiling or not. She ordered the maid to put the chicken coop next to Hu Ma and watch.

The rooster kept its head propped up and waited for about a minute to touch a stick of incense. Suddenly, the rooster seemed to notice something and suddenly raised its head and took a wary look.

The old woman immediately took out the fire fold and burned the paper money next to Hu Ma. She saw the paper money burning in a circle quickly. When it was about to burn out, the maid who was waiting with water next to her poured the basin of cold water towards Hu Ma's face. The top of his head was burned.

"Don't gasp!"

There was a gloomy air coming from top to bottom, and all living people subconsciously wanted to gasp for air, but this grandma warned in a deep voice.

The next moment, Hu Ma felt a slap on the top of her head by a grapefruit leaf, and a voice sounded from behind: "The door to the underworld is open, you are here uninvited, go down!"

As soon as Hu Ma heard this, she immediately rushed forward.

It was dark in front of him, and there was only a ball of black, but in fact, he knew just now that this was the wooden door of the house, but the light of the oil lamp was blocked by him, forming a human-shaped ball of black.

He rushed forward, just in time to hit the wooden door, but unexpectedly, his body passed by, but it was hollow, and he rushed out of the house directly.

Keeping the old nanny's words in mind, he neither looked back nor looked around, but just kept his head down and rushed forward.

There were weights tied to both feet. They were so heavy that they seemed to be falling down and sinking constantly. But the ground was made of dirt and should not have sunk, or if it did, it would make it impossible to walk.

But Hu Ma felt that the more her body sank, the more the ground sank accordingly. She was running on a steep slope that kept stopping, with the sound of wind whistling in her ears, and she suddenly broke into the darkness. .

The sounds of running, the actors chanting, sobbing and crying, the chewing of flesh and blood, and the sound of bones tearing are endless, mixed with the cold wind that passes by the ears, and sometimes penetrates deep into the heart.

From the corner of his eye, he seemed to see weird things crawling up around him from time to time in this darkness, all different and different, like a thousand people competing to speak in his ear at the same time:

"You lost your money, look, look, look..."

"You are willing to leave with such a good wife staying at home?"

"The money has not been spent and the baby has not grown up. How dare you come here?"

"Look back now, look back now. Once you pass the gate of hell, you will become a dead person. You will no longer have a place in the colorful world..."

"..."

This voice seemed to have some kind of subtle, complex, and incomprehensible weirdness, but Hu Ma ignored it and kept walking forward.

The deeper we go, the weights tied to our feet also get deeper and deeper, and we no longer know where we are.

The lantern in his hand was not lit, but it gradually lit up at this moment.

…

…

"Squeak..."

But at the same time, Erguotou, who was sitting in the courtyard enjoying the cool air, saw the closed wooden door suddenly pushed open, and the faint light of the oil lamp inside shone in.

The old woman in a black robe walked out gloomily and extended her palm to Erguotou: "I sent it down. Thirty pounds of gold Tai Sui, bring it!"

"ah?"

Erguotou was obviously surprised: "Didn't you mean twenty pounds of gold Tai Sui, plus our ointment that specializes in treating canker sores?"

"It's not a waste of effort. This sore is a sin. Who told us to break the rules of Yin Chai? It can't be cured."

The old woman said grimly: "The guest can just fold it into golden silk for us."

"Don't be reluctant. The young man looks young. He will definitely be scared when he gets down there. He needs my wife to take care of him. If no one reminds him if he stays there for a while, he will run around in fear down there, but maybe even I will. I can’t find him, such a big man is gone.”

"..."

"ah?"

Erguotou looked even more surprised, with a look of fear on his face: "Then how much money do you need to bring this person up?"

The old grandma said: "I won't make you more money. I'll give you the thirty pounds of gold wire Tai Sui."

"this……"

Erguotou touched his body nervously, then suddenly raised his head, with only a bad smile on his rough face: "Will you give it to me?"

The old grandma was suddenly startled: "Huh?"

Erguotou suddenly sneered, stood up, and said solemnly: "When a Yang person enters the underworld, he doesn't go to the Yin station to report it. He harbors evil intentions and takes the opportunity to blackmail you. Besides, do you think I don't understand? I just gave you the golden silk Tai Sui." , the people you sent down don’t even think about coming up..."

"You, a little seductress, broke all the rules of the Yin and Yang worlds just for the sake of the Golden Thread Tai Sui..."

"What's the crime?"

"..."

With this shout, he seemed to have changed into a different person, so majestic that he frightened the old woman.

Cautiously retreat: "You...who are you?"

"I?"

Erguotou swung his robe, stepped on the stone stool with one foot, put his arms on his thighs, stretched out his hand to twitch his beard, and sneered: "Uncle, I am just going through the ghost way to share the fragrance... The small court official who is asking questions has always hated evil as much as his hatred. I am about to take it. You kind of people!”