Welfare Officer

Huang Tian jumped out of the pot with a pop, and saw that there was no trace of breath in the bubbling soup, only a faint aroma that was refreshing.

Huang Tian had already condensed his divine body, with all the internal organs, divine blood and divinity. He was the so-called "double cultivation of life and life" among the immortals. As a born divine, his whole body was filled with natural materials and earthly treasures.

Just the bath water depends on which farmland it is poured into. Not to mention, if the field is planted with radishes, the medicinal properties of radish will be the same as ginseng. If the field is planted with shallots, the shallots will mutate into green onions.

Seeing such a scene, the female monks, fairies, and ghosts were stunned for a moment, and then smiled slightly. However, after smelling the aroma of meat, they had a bad feeling in their hearts, and then they began to scream: "Huang Tian No! My baby! How can I live without you!"

While Cao Chenghuang was hiding in the dark, Judge Lu and others secretly laughed: Little Huangtian, Little Huangtian, how many surprises do you have that I don't know about?

The screaming just started here, and it was like the scene at that time. People outside had no idea what the screaming was for, and they thought it was a murder.

The moment brought an atmosphere of terror, causing many children in the city to be frightened and start crying.

Huang Tian hid in the gurgling pot and was about to enjoy the peace. However, after a moment, he was fished out with a colander by the chef of Chuxianlou, who was competing in the ring next door. Seeing that Huang Tian was fine, he showed a smile: "Naughty! "

Huang Tian: Okay, I don’t need to add oil when cooking.

Just as the crying started here, a black cloud and mist floated in, covering the stars and moon, making them dim for a while.

Even many female cultivators felt a little blind, and Cheng Huang tried his best to open his eyes, but it was so dark that even ghosts and gods like him could not see clearly.

Among the thousands of cries, the crowd only listened to the cries that seemed to be getting closer and closer.

"coming!"

The Pomegranate Goddess took out a quilt. This quilt was a magic weapon given by the Empress Dowager, named Wanying Dou.

Its shape is that of a five-cornered square quilt wrapped around a newborn baby. It is a Shinto magic weapon refined from the breath of blessings contained in the quilt wrapped around newborn babies in thousands of households.

In the endless darkness, everyone felt a long-awaited hunger in their stomachs, and they felt like they were alone in a foot of snow outside the city at night.

In such an atmosphere, the female nuns and ghosts who have experienced poor days fall into childhood memories. However, the more they recall, the more miserable they become.

For a moment, the sky was slightly dimmed, and the darkness disappeared, but a stream of black snow began to fall. Each snowflake was the condensed despair of the human heart, the coldness of the body, and hunger. Death, resentment, and longing were all intertwined.

In this way, a group of ghost nuns who were trapped in memories were contaminated by the black snow, gradually froze, and fell into a nightmare.

Nightmares are not necessarily ghosts and monsters, they may also be the reality of life.

A weak female voice, weak but very firm, repeated mechanically, affirming over and over again: "You must live well. Mom has not left. Mom will turn into a big bird. When you look up at the sky, If a bird passes by, it’s me coming back to see you.”

"The Great Merciful and Great Compassionate Holy Mother, bless my daughter to grow up safely! The Great Merciful and Great Compassionate Holy Mother! The Great Merciful and Great Compassionate Holy Mother..."

I saw a big bird hovering in the sky. She was wearing blood-red clothes and had black wings. Her eyes were weeping and she was whining.

But this big bird had an illusory figure, as if it were an hallucination that appeared before someone's eyes when he was about to die.

Misty, with a faint light, like the warmth of feathers in the cold, a faint sadness and a faint expectation.

Mom came to pick me up.

Come pick me up!

happy!

"Little cabbage, the ground is yellow, I am three or two years old, my mother is gone... My father married my stepmother, and after three and a half years, I gave birth to a younger brother who is better than me... My younger brother eats noodles , I drank the soup, picked up the bowl, and burst into tears, dear mother..."

After seeing such a big bird, some ghost boys popped up everywhere. There were many such ghost boys at the Huangtian Temple before. They played, ate incense and offerings, and when tired of playing, they hid in the cracks of rocks and trees. Resting in the shadow of the cave...

"One, two, three...eight, nine!"

After counting carefully, there were exactly nine ghost boys, all girls, and nine ghost mothers, all nine sons, but this one was nine daughters.

The nine ghost girls held hands and formed a circle, crying and recounting their tragic experiences over and over again.

That voice was heart-wrenching and depressing.

These ghost girls are wearing blood-red clothes, but it can be seen that they are not originally red, but dirty plain linen clothes, in tatters.

Maybe it was the tears that washed over and over again, washing them into the current color. The endless tears turned into blood. I wiped my tears and my blood with the corner of my white clothes. My mother told me to be strong...

The ghost girls dispersed from the circle that held hands.

"I'm going to find my mother."

I saw these nine ghost girls running around. When they saw a female nun shrouded in black snow, they asked cautiously: "Are you my mother?"

He wanted to step forward and take her hand, but as soon as he touched it, the ghost girl didn't feel the faint warmth, and couldn't help but feel disappointed.

The more they feel lost, the bigger the black snow becomes.

So I braved the severe cold and boundless darkness, running barefoot over and over again.

Huang Tian was afraid that these female cultivators would be killed, so he quickly jumped out and blended in with these ghost girls, even wearing rags on purpose.

But the divine light on his body began to show slightly, melting the black snow and blocking these sad emotions.

Although Huang Tian didn't know who his father was, at least he had Mother Earth, who benevolently nurtured all things.

"ah!"

A ghost girl discovered Xiao Huangtian and looked him up and down: "Are you a girl or a boy? Why haven't I seen you before?"

"I'm neither a boy nor a girl..."

"Ah! Are you a little eunuch?" The ghost girl showed sympathy: "My brother was sent to the palace to be a little eunuch..."

"Don't you have a mother too? Ah!"

Huang Tian didn't know how to explain it, so he could only nod.

Seeing Huang Tian nod, the ghost girl couldn't help but show a sad expression: "Oh, I shouldn't ask this, but it doesn't matter, let's go find it together!" She directly took Huang Tian's hand and started running with Huang Tian.

However, the ghost girl's hands were extremely cold, and the chill made Huang Tian shiver.

When the illusory woman in red in the sky saw Huang Tian, ​​she shed blood-red tears: "My son, it's so hard to find you for my mother!"

The Pomegranate Goddess, who was hiding in the dark, saw these ghost girls and the ghost mother in red with wings in the sky. She immediately said to the gods beside her: "This is trouble, it's really the ghost mother."

The mother-in-law at the bedside sighed: "How can we have a home if we are born without nourishment?"

"These ghost girls couldn't get their mother's love, so they imagined a mother. In addition to the incident of Xiao Huangtian being kidnapped, they heard so many voices saying, "Mom loves you," that they finally couldn't help but come to find their mother. ."

Cao Chenghuang frowned: "They just want to find the mother, why would they kidnap the child?"

"It might be jealousy, or it might be resentment. Didn't you hear them singing just now? My brother eats noodles, and I drink noodle soup. This is something that is hard to explain...but it is always wrong to harm others, alas, But cats and dogs are older..."

Huang Tian saw the Ghost Mother in the sky and remembered several legends about the Ghost Mother.

The first one is the local ghost mother, which is the so-called Guhuo bird, or summer bird. It is said that a pregnant woman died in the mountains and was transformed into a spirit. She can turn into a woman in red or a big bird, and cries at night. The voice is like an owl.

There are two versions, good and evil.

Evil baby thieves often find homes with crying babies at night, leave bloody paw prints, and kidnap them the next day. However, they have no milk and turn into big birds during the day. They only put the baby in the bird's nest. When the doll dies of thirst and starvation and turns into a mummy, its soul will be swallowed by it and merged into its belly.

After killing nine babies, she will become the Nine Sons Ghost Mother, a very ferocious ghost.

The good ones are raising abandoned babies, collecting the souls of drowned baby girls, collecting dew and nectar, feeding the babies, and waiting to see which family is kind, then delivering the dolls to their doorsteps, so it is also called a child-sending bird. , is a kind of divine bird and beast, which will gradually condense its divinity, and finally completely become the "God of Delivering Children".

There is also a ghost mother in Buddhism, named Heli Emperor Mu, also known as the ghost mother goddess.

It was rumored that the Lord Buddha was teaching Dharma in the city of Rajagaha, and everyone who heard about it went to the city.

A pregnant woman fell down on the road and was bleeding. She kept begging everyone who passed by, but everyone was eager to listen to the Buddha's sermon, so no one helped her.

Later, she died on the road. When she was dying, she swore an evil oath to make everyone in Rajagaha experience her pain. Because of her resentment, she fell into the realm of hungry ghosts and could not be liberated.

After falling into the realm of hungry ghosts, she turned into a ghost mother goddess and gave birth to five hundred ghosts. She sent them into the city of Wangha every day to steal babies.

The people in the city couldn't bear the disturbance, so they prayed to the Buddha, who arrested one of her children.

The Mother Goddess of the Devil was extremely anxious after not seeing her son return for a long time. She knew that the only one who could catch her son was the World Honored One, so she went to beg the World Honored One to return the Devil to her.

The World Honored One said: "Your children are also children, and other people's children are also children. You are so anxious and sad when one of your five hundred children is lost. What's more, those mothers only have one child. How sad must they be? Aren't they suffering from you? A hundred times a thousand times?”

As a result, the ghost mother gave up her obsession and was transformed into a Buddhist protector god, serving as the protector gods of Buddhism.

This story is a typical "put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha immediately", but it pays more attention to "cause and effect".

Huang Tian felt that this ghost mother was different from Guhuoniao and the ghost mother goddess.

Because this ghost mother is illusory, a mother imagined by the ghost boys.

When the ghost mother saw Huang Tian, ​​she wanted to kidnap Huang Tian, ​​so that she could use the fake to cultivate herself and change from illusion to reality.

The figure of the Pomegranate Goddess appeared directly on the side. She was an image of a solemn woman in red. She showed thousands of rays of light, and the warm Shinto light was revealed, which was the beginning of the revelation of the divinity of the "Mother Goddess".

The mother-in-law at the bedside hummed a lullaby, which also released a sense of peace and tranquility.

But no matter how peaceful it is, the ghost girls are always uneasy. They don't have any sense of security or intimacy. Instead, they look at the goddesses warily.

They wear makeup, their hair is covered with jewelry, and they are not mothers.

The ghost girls were frightened and began to cry. The cries seemed to have the power to spread, and all the dolls in the city began to cry.

The sound of crying lingered in the brain, irritating the ghost mother in the sky, and she became very angry. She no longer looked like a loving mother crying, and saw endless darkness beginning to sweep over her.

Cao Chenghuang finally couldn't help it anymore: "Have you taken this county seriously?"

The Great Seal of the City God integrated the power of the entire City God's spiritual realm and began to seal it like a cage.

All the gods, big and small, and ancestor spirits in the City God Spirit Realm took action one after another, and each person's divine power turned into a silk thread, covering the horizontal longitude and vertical weft, like a fishing net covering it.

These fishing net threads are wrapped around the ghost mother, but it itself is only an illusory existence, a kind of rule and ghost story, based on those ghost virgins. As long as the ghost virgins do not obtain happiness and maternal love, the ghost mother will always exist, and even transcend. Come stronger and stronger.

Huang Tianzheng was running around with the ghost girls, his little hands turned into lumps of ice, but he soon realized that there were more and more of these ghost girls, from nine to eighteen, from eighteen to Thirty-six, thirty-six became seventy-two... In the cry, they reproduced themselves...

The Pomegranate Goddess threw out the Wanying Bag. Several ghost girls were wrapped in this bag, but the warmth of this bag was not enough to influence them.

Without true love and compassion, it will only make them more empty.

The Pomegranate Goddess only had the power of "many children", but not the power of rescuing people. Seeing that the Wanying Bag given by the Lady Sangzi was broken free, with a few small black handprints left on it, she immediately changed her attack.

When Huang Tian saw that they were about to fight, he sent a message: "Aren't you talking about breaking the rules of ghost stories? How can you be so forceful?"

The Pomegranate Goddess was also helpless: "How can I find their mother and give them true and selfless love?"

So he changed his goal and began to awaken the female cultivators who were contaminated by the black snow and separate them from the memory nightmare.

But I saw these female nuns all had tears in their eyes.

Huang Tian saw more and more ghost girls splitting up, and finally they split into hundreds or even thousands. These ghost girls were running around, running into the house, and a moment later, they actually stole a baby.

The City God quickly sent out his men: "Go and arrest these little devils!"

All the ghosts and gods dispersed in a swarm. Fortunately, the city god's spirit realm was sealed, so these ghosts and virgins could not escape.

When the ghost girl who was pulling Huang Tian saw so many people chasing her, she quickly said to Huang Tian: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. Let's find a place to hide! Don't get caught by the bad guys!"