The morning light was faint, and the night still lingered in the sky, but Guobei County's city gate had already opened.
According to convention, city gates in various places are opened at Chen hour, that is, at eight or nine o'clock in the morning. At that time, the sun is already shining. People outside the city are bringing goods and preparing to enter the city for trade. There is a bustling scene outside the city gate.
But Guobei County opens the door at Mao hour, and the city gate opens just after the sun comes out.
There is no other way.
Because of the unique ecology of Guobei County, where humans and ghosts live together, every household has a habit of sticking Yellow Talisman on the doors and windows before the sun goes down, and then closing the doors and windows tightly.
The time during the day when you can safely move around is closely tied to the sun, and people in Guobei County have formed different living habits.
Guobei County All life is closely tied to sunrise and sunset. It unfolds slowly after sunrise and stops abruptly after sunset.
After all, the occupation with the highest mortality rate in Guobei County is the night watchman.
Before daylight, merchants and people entering the city came to the shed one after another to wait to enter the city.
They are either carrying goods or carrying poles and preparing to go into the city to work, but they all have a clear characteristic, that is, they keep their mouths tightly shut.
The common conversations of businessmen and the daily chatter of common people are all missing here. Everyone is watching quietly with dark eyes and white eyes, almost indifferent.
Su Che Counted the doornails on the city gate. The brass doornails were already rusty, like yellow teeth on the black city gate.
Third Young Master Su feels that this Guobei County is not lifeless, but just a little lifeless.
The big ghost Tai Gongchong stood in the shed wearing his black robe and remained silent. When the observing eyes saw the black feathers on his hat, they seemed to be stung by something and immediately looked away.
They stayed like this until the city gate slowly opened, and the people waiting in the shed began to enter the city one after another as if they were completely invisible to Tai Gongchong.
It is interesting to say that both the gatekeepers and the common people entering and leaving the city turned a blind eye to the big ghost Tai Gongchong dressed in black, as if they had not seen it at all.
This made Su Che suspect for a moment that this bald man was some kind of magic wizard, and the blindness was so blind that Third Young Master Su, who had a keen spiritual sense, could not detect it.
But when I was about to cross the city gate, I still asked a child to break his gong.
A little boy with a thick head and a thick head, who looked to be about five or six years old, followed an old lady into the city with a basket. He pointed at Tai Gongchong's hat and followed the old lady.
"Mother-in-law, run quickly, here is Black Bird Ghost."
Then the old lady quickly covered her mouth with her wrinkled and chapped withered hands.
The child's eyes were wandering around, and his small chest was rising and falling. The old lady looked at Tai Gongchong with fear and numbness in her eyes. Su Che even saw a little envy in it.
The people walking around immediately quickened their pace, and ice seemed to condense in the surrounding air.
Tai Gongchong smiled, nodded to the gatekeeper, and then passed through the city gate and led Su Che and Lu Bai into the city.
Not long after, the cry of a child and waves of whispers came from behind.
Su Che smiled at the corner of his mouth, and the boy cried very painfully. I think that the grandmother was really educating the child with her heart.
Yin-Yang Realm ghosts have a bad reputation.
"Black Bird Ghost?"
Su Che is a little curious as to where this name came from.
"The ghosts in the world all have a feather of Three-Eyed Ghost Crow stuck in their hats, so the people around them call the ghosts Black Bird Ghost."
Tai Gongchong smiled, "In recent years, the master has not been too strict in the management of the community. The ghosts often do mischief, and their reputation is not good. When I first joined Yin-Yang Realm, the reputation of the ghosts was actually pretty good."
"When did you enter this Yin-Yang Realm?"
"That was more than three hundred years ago. I was a young military attache in the previous dynasty. During the Great Liang Longxing period, I led troops to fight against the Liang Army and lost my life. At that time, the Lord was searching for ghosts on the battlefield, so I joined the Yin-Yang Realm."
"Three hundred years, that's a long life."
Su Che sincerely praised him. As a ghost, Tai Gongchong is somewhat legendary for being able to survive for so many years.
People have life and longevity, Ghost Lifespan.
Lifespan is the number of years a person can live happily.
After death, a person transforms into a ghost, and the time he or she remains as a ghost is called Ghost Lifespan.
Su Che read in "Records of the Hidden Within" that there are generally two views on so-called ghosts in the spiritual world.
One school of thought believes that ghosts are transformed into human souls, and the so-called lingering ghost spirit can also be regarded as a continuing form of life.
The other school believes that ghosts have little to do with original living people. They are just like the shadows of people and people. When a person dies and turns into a ghost, an irreversible change has already occurred. Therefore, Buddhist School has a saying, "Once the human body is lost, it will be irreversible."
No matter which school of thought is right or wrong, one of the core arguments here is that becoming a ghost after death is a very unstable state compared to being a human being.
Mainly in two aspects, one is that Ghost Lifespan is not long and the other is that Numinous Awareness is hard to find.
The life span of a ghost can be long or short. Most people's Ghost Lifespan can only last for more than a month after death. There are always words in the scriptures such as "It is difficult to know Life and Death in seven or seven days", which means that the ghost body lasts for a short time.
However, the ghost body can also be cultivated. By guiding Moonlight Essence and swallowing incense, Ghost Lifespan can also gradually grow.
Therefore, the most miserable thing about lonely ghosts is this, because there is no one to sacrifice them, and they often cannot grow Ghost Lifespan.
For the sentient beings in this world, lonely ghosts are really a kind of real evil Curse.
As a former military minister of the dynasty, Tai Gongchong was able to be led by Yin-Yang Dharma King into the Yin-Yang Realm after his death in battle, and survived for more than three hundred years. This luck and practice are indeed worthy of praise.
In addition to the difficulty of Ghost Lifespan, another important factor is the so-called difficulty of finding Numinous Awareness.
When a person is alive, as long as he is willing to make progress, whether through reading or observing his surroundings, his mind will always grow little by little.
From a young age, I was ignorant, and then became enlightened, and finally matured. Just like a sapling, although it grows slowly, it will eventually bear fruit over time.
For ghosts, it is the exact opposite process. Once they die, the biggest problem is the irreversible decline of their intelligence.
Sometimes Ghost Lifespan may not have reached its end yet, but Numinous Awareness has already lost its energy and eventually turned into a ghost.
As the lonely soul of Tai Gongchong who died in battle, Ghost Lifespan has survived for more than three hundred years, and Numinous Awareness has not left.
Su Che feels that this shows that Tai Gongchong must be extraordinary, and it also shows that Yin-Yang Dharma King's opening of the Yin-Yang Realm is not a good thing for Guobei County people.
But for all Ghost Cultivator, it is indeed one Pure Land, providing more possibilities.
I apologize to all readers, I had a fever a few days ago, because it is very difficult to live alone now, and I am a criminal with a criminal record...
The good news is that I don't have to worry about it anymore today, so I apologize to everyone on National Day with a minimum of three updates every day, and there will be one more update today.
Thanks Xie Da family.
(fake news: The operation was successful and I am now a beautiful girl)