The Great Wei Music Bureau

Chapter 207 Undertaker

Last time, we talked about how Li Yi completely tamed Zhang Hongchen. Although the price was high, he certainly didn't suffer any loss. Well, it's hard to say. Anyway, Zhang Hongchen was convinced. So how will the next story develop? Let's read on.

Li Yi opened the window and panted, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and then said: "It would be nice to have a cigarette at this time, what a pity."

Zhang Hongchen lazily lay on the bed, the blush on her body still not fading. She looked at Li Yi from the window and groaned, "I'm afraid I really can't leave now. Go get me a glass of water."

Li Yi turned around, picked up his clothes from the floor and threw them on the bed, saying seriously, "Get dressed, we have to get down to business! Are you going to ignore Guanghan Tower? If we don't leave now, it will be dark again!"

Afterwards, Li Yi took Zhang Hongchen, whose legs were weak, to find the county governor He Changzhi. He certainly couldn't meet the county governor by himself, but fortunately he had a half-acquaintance in Linjiang City. Who was it? Zhen Dexiu! He was not only the second most eloquent person in Nanliang, but also the most knowledgeable scholar in Linjiang County. On the other hand, Zhen Dexiu was the one with the most weight among the disciples of Zhu Xue who served in the court.

Li Yi first used the Zhuxue wooden tablet given to him by Ding Yuancai to find Zhen Dexiu, and then told him about his plan to unite the three religions of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism to destroy the Shura Palace. Zhen Dexiu agreed deeply. So under his introduction, Li Yi and Zhang Hongchen met He Changzhi.

He Changzhi was half a disciple of Zhu Xi, and was also a good friend of Zhen Dexiu. It was Zhen Dexiu's suggestion to seal off Guanghan Tower, and He Changzhi led the team personally. When Li Yi told him about the situation of the second prince, He Changzhi also agreed with Li Yi's plan to gather the remaining troops of Shura Palace to besiege the tomb of Li Lao Yu Wang, and promised to cooperate fully.

Of course, He Changzhi agreed not only because Li Yi's plan was feasible, but mainly because of the relationship between Zhu Zi and Zhen Dexiu. So the matter of Guanghan Tower was solved smoothly, and Li Yi and Zhang Hongchen began to work on gathering the remaining members of Shura Palace.

Because they had discussed specific matters with He Changzhi and Zhen Dexiu, it was already evening when they came out of the government office. They ate something casually and walked towards the courtyard.

Li Yi looked at Zhang Hongchen with an excited face and felt a little scared. He thought: Damn, is this what it means to be unsatisfied? No, there is no such thing as a spoiled field, only a cow that is exhausted to death!

Thinking of this, Li Yi turned around and looked at Zhang Hongchen who was following him in small steps, and asked, "Before you said that the people of Youlingtang are traveling all over the place and it is difficult for them to gather in one place, but Xu Li said that you can always assign tasks to the most suitable subordinates. I want to know how you do it?"

Zhang Hongchen replied, "I rely on one person to mobilize my men, the funeral lady. The skill she practices is called the Mysterious Nether Curse, which allows souls to move freely through water veins, and even wander between the underworld. Even if they are thousands of miles apart, they can arrive in an instant. I use her to pass on messages and assign tasks."

Li Yi asked in confusion: "Wandering between Yin and Yang? Soul travel? That's interesting. Since this undertaker is so capable, let her get to work!"

Zhang Hongchen shook his head and said, "It's not that easy to get this old woman to obey you. She will ask for corresponding compensation according to your request, and the price is very high."

Li Yi frowned and said, "Isn't she your subordinate? Why do you want a reward?"

Zhang Hongchen shook his head and said, "The funeral mother is a ruthless character. She is not in the four halls, and she doesn't even give face to Luo Yan. What's more, as the hall master, I have to follow her rules when I ask her to do something."

"Oh? So awesome? Then take me to meet this ruthless man. Hey, if we meet, will she be scared away by my righteousness?"

Zhang Hongchen chuckled and said, "Scared away? Humph, just don't be scared by her! You may not believe what I say, but many people in Confucianism and Taoism have asked her for help! The Taoist Di Sect knew of her existence but left it alone."

Li Yi was surprised and asked, "Isn't she an evil cultivator? People from Confucianism and Taoism ask her for help? The Earth Sect doesn't care about her?"

Zhang Hongchen nodded and replied, "She is so evil that she can't be any more evil. There has never been anyone more evil than her in the entire Shura Palace. Come on, I will take you to find her, but you have to promise me one thing."

Li Yi said nervously: "Well, I'm a little tired today, how about tomorrow?"

Zhang Hongchen rolled his eyes at him and replied, "What are you thinking! I want you to promise me that when you get there, don't worry about anything you see, otherwise the old woman will definitely get angry. It's not that she's afraid of you taking action. Although she's not very strong, you can't kill her, but she can make you restless until you go crazy."

Hearing this, Li Yi became even more curious and just wanted to meet this evil cultivator as soon as possible. Skipping the journey, it was already late at night, Zhang Hongchen brought Li Yi to the intersection of Qiantang, Fuchun and Puyang rivers. There was an isolated island in the Fuchun River called Sanjiangsha, and there was only one person living on the island, the corpse.

Li Yi stood at the ferry and looked at Sanjiangsha and asked in confusion: "There is no one else on the island. Did they move away on their own, or were they scared away by the undertaker?"

Zhang Hongchen chuckled and said, "Who would dare to live with a undertaker? She would either scare them to death or torture them to death."

Li Yi asked, "Um, does the funeral mother look scary? Is this her name, or is it because she works in the funeral business?"

Zhang Hongchen replied, "The funeral lady's surname is Feng, and no one knows her name. The title of funeral lady is indeed related to her job. Burial is only a small part of it, and she is the only one who can do her job. As for her appearance, I don't think she is scary. She is a little ugly, after all, she is so old."

Li Yi asked, "How old are you? One or two hundred years old?"

Zhang Hongchen shook his head and said, "No one knows how long she has lived, but she has been here since the pre-Qin period, so the villagers around her think she is a monster and won't look for her unless they have something to do."

Li Yi touched his chin and said, "Okay, then how do we get over there? I'll carry you over there."

Zhang Hongchen waved his hand and said, "No need, she must know I'm here, the ferry will be here soon."

"Ferry? Where is the ferry at this late hour? Didn't you say that she lives alone on the island...?" Before Li Yi could finish his words, a round bamboo raft actually floated in front of the two of them.

Zhang Hongchen smiled and said, "What did I say? Let's go." Zhang Hongchen jumped onto the round raft and saw that Li Yi was a little confused, so he asked, "What's wrong?"

Li Yi waved his hand and said, "No, I feel like I've seen this round bamboo raft somewhere before. But this is obviously not a raft from the Central Plains. I can't have seen it before." Li Yi wondered in his heart: Have I seen it on the Internet? I have seen a lotus leaf-shaped boat, but I have never seen a bamboo raft like this! What's going on?

Zhang Hongchen asked impatiently, "Are you going to come up or not? Are you going to see the undertaker?"

Li Yi put aside his doubts and took a step forward. However, the moment his feet touched the bamboo raft, it suddenly caught fire and turned into ashes in an instant!

The two of them fell into the water naturally. Li Yi hugged Zhang Hongchen in the water, and then swung out the measuring ruler, which first turned into a pole to bring them out of the water, and then turned into a boat, floating on the river.

The two men had just landed on the boat and hadn't yet stood firmly when a strange strong wind blew up on the Fuchun River. The originally calm river water became turbulent. If the boat they were standing on was not transformed by the measuring ruler, it would have been overturned by the wind and waves!

Li Yi asked: "What's going on? Did I offend the undertaker in some way? I haven't even seen her!"

Zhang Hongchen replied: "How would I know? The undertaker's temper is unpredictable. Who knows what she's up to?"

Li Yi squatted on the violently shaking boat, holding the edge of the boat. He looked at the person who seemed to be standing on the island, and shouted loudly: "Senior Feng Po, I have no grudges against you in the past or in the present, why are you making trouble for me? Besides, you don't know Zhang Tangzhu yet, I came here to accompany her! Even if there is any grudge, can we talk it out in person?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the figure on the shore disappeared, and the river surface returned to calm. After crossing the river and landing, Li Yi took back the measuring ruler.

Zhang Hongchen wrung the water out of his clothes and said, "Is this the measuring ruler? I didn't expect you to use it so skillfully." A warm breeze blew, and Zhang Hongchen's clothes dried.

Li Yi looked at Zhang Hongchen in bewilderment and said, "Hey, no, how did I offend her? I didn't do anything! This is too much!"

Zhang Hongchen was also puzzled, but he had no clue, so he said casually: "Since you are here, why not ask the undertaker? Maybe you offended her in your previous life."

Li Yi scratched his head and said, "Last life? That's a bit exaggerated. How can I remember the things in my previous life? Forget it, I'll find out when I see him later."

The two walked along the path to the island and came to a creepy forest. As they walked through the forest, they could hear the sound of a woman crying, desperate wails, creepy ghost cries and all kinds of terrifying sounds from time to time...

Li Yi had a similar experience before, which was the trick used by the transvestite when fighting He Huan. Li Yi used the Buddhist Dharma, and Buddha's light emanated from his body, and those terrifying voices disappeared instantly. Zhang Hongchen asked in confusion: "Why are you using the Buddhist Dharma for no reason?"

Well, Li Yi immediately realized that those ghost calls were directed at him again, and muttered in his heart: How big a grudge must this old monster have to target me like this! It's really a ghost!

After passing through the strange forest, the two saw a ruin that had been burned by a fire. It looked like the fire had just been extinguished, but they had not seen any fire or smoke before that.

Li Yi reached out and touched the charred land, which was still warm. He looked at the charred wood that was still emitting green smoke and asked, "Is it like this when you came here before?"

Zhang Hongchen nodded and said, "Yes, it has always been like this here, but the soil is not hot."

After passing through the ruins, we finally saw the undertaker's house. It was called a house, but it looked more like a big coffin! There were no windows. If we removed the door and added the word "葬", it would really be a big coffin. The two came to the door, and the door opened automatically. When they stepped inside, they saw a shocking scene.

An old woman with wrinkles on her face was threading a needle in front of a candlelight. At her feet was a real coffin, and inside the coffin lay a woman in a dress. The woman's eyes and mouth were sewn shut, and her hands and feet were nailed to the coffin. Blood was still pouring out of her wounds. Although the woman could not make any sound or move, she was still struggling.

Zhang Hongchen immediately reached out to hold Li Yi, fearing that he would "meddle in other people's business"! Li Yi looked at everything in front of him, exhaled a breath of turbid air, and slowly raised his hands.

Zhang Hongchen stopped him and said, "Li Yi! You promised me that you would not care about anything! Do you still want the funeral mother to help you? Do you still want to do what you want to do?"

Li Yi made a seal with his hands and the soul-sealing shackles on Zhang Hongchen's hands and feet appeared. He used the measuring ruler to transform into iron nails and pierced through the shackles to tie Zhang Hongchen in place. Then he stepped forward, put his hands together, concentrated on the Buddhist Dharma, and kept chanting the six-character mantra!

But under Li Yi's feet, a six-petal lotus seal appeared, with the six-syllable mantra in Sanskrit on the petals. The seal rotated and expanded until it covered the entire room. When Li Yi chanted "Om Mani Padme Hum" for the sixth time, he stretched out his left hand and pointed at the undertaker and shouted, "All appearances are false. If you see that all appearances are not appearances, you will see the Tathagata. Break!"

With a loud bang, Buddha's light burst out, and the surrounding objects were torn apart one by one like pieces of paper by the strong wind transformed by the Buddha's light. The coffin and the woman inside disappeared; the house that looked like a coffin disappeared; and even the burning ruins around it disappeared along with it.

Zhang Hongchen looked at the surrounding scene in surprise. She, Li Yi and the funeral mother stood in an open space, surrounded by graves, and all the graves were facing the center. All the tombstones had the same name "Feng Mengyao" written on them! Zhang Hongchen was still tied to the spot. She shouted: "Feng Mengyao, he is a stubborn person, don't argue with him..."

Before she finished her words, Li Yi put his hands together again and chanted the six-syllable mantra, and shouted "Po". The Buddha's light burst out again, and the surrounding scene changed again. The tombs disappeared and turned into bodhi trees.