Ye Pingan was a young Taoist priest who was driven down the mountain to practice by his master.
I was so poor that I took on the job of catching ghosts on my first order from the mountain.
One hundred taels of silver, the employer is the Sun family from the east of the city.
Ye Ping'an went. After exhausting the efforts of nine bulls and two tigers, the ghost was finally tied up with a soul-locking rope, but unlike the other ghosts, she was wearing a red wedding dress.
She looked up at her as if accepting her fate.
That look was quiet. Like the moon shining on broken tiles.
"What's your name?" Ye Pingan asked.
"Yun Poyue."
Ye Pingan was stunned for a moment.
Yun Po Yue - what a good name.
She took the ghost back to Sun's house for business. She passed by the ancestral hall on the way and saw the tablet on the altar table:
The position of the descendant Sunmen Yun.
Ye Pingan suddenly couldn't walk.
She looked back at the quiet female ghost, her voice a little hoarse:
"Who did they assign you to?"
Yun Poyue said nothing, but raised her chin and pointed to the name next to the tablet.
The young master of the Sun family who died in infancy. He was only seven years old when he died.
They asked a seventeen-year-old girl to marry a seven-year-old dead man.
Ye Pingan stood there for a long time.
Then she squatted down and untied the soul-locking rope.
"Go ahead."
Yun Poyue was stunned: "You..."
"The Sun family gave it to you, go and get it back yourself." Ye Ping'an thrust the mahogany sword into the ground, "I'll wait for you here."
That night, the Sun family ancestral hall was in flames. The red wedding dress was burned to ashes, the memorial tablet was shattered on the ground, and the old man of the Sun family knelt on the ground and kowtowed until dawn.
At dawn, Yun Poyue came back. A red dress turned into a faint shadow, standing in the morning light looking at her.
"I took my revenge."
"Yeah."
"It's time for me to go."
As if disappearing
Ye Pingan said nothing. He just stretched out his hand, and there was a string of small copper bells wrapped around his wrist. One of them shook once, making a tiny sound.
"Why are you leaving?" Ye Pingan lowered his head, "You haven't paid back the hundred taels of silver you owe me."
Yun Poyue looked down at the bell and suddenly smiled.
She shrunk her shadow into a line and gently fell into the bell.
The bell shook, and a voice came from inside, muffled and smiling:
"Then you must remember to drink blood for me - interest."
From then on, Ye Pingan had a bunch of bells on his left wrist.
When she encounters a demon, she shakes it, and a red-clothed shadow will float out of it, sit on her shoulder, eat the fruit, and help her take a look at whether the ghost opposite is going to default on her debt again.
Purpose: To catch monsters and catch ghosts