Nine.

The Buddha statue sits on a custom-made suspended mahogany shelf under the south window of the workshop.

The shelf is very exquisite, looking at the past from afar, it looks like a platform built by singing, and at a glance, you can see that Lao Li has put a lot of thought into it. Compared with this shelf, the Buddha statue is much simpler, the wood is white with a little yellow, the wood grain is rough, the line carving is simple, it belongs to the kind of open-air shop pù in the city god temple pù common furnishings, and even the workmanship is worse than those.

I don't know if it's because the craftsmanship is so poor, the appearance of the Buddha statue also looks a little strange, a bit like Guanyin, but the hairstyle is a little similar to Rulai, the face with strong female characteristics has two beards, and the figure is very beautiful, but the six arms on the shoulders more or less break this beauty.

In the past, I had only seen a Buddha statue carved with three heads and six arms, but this Buddha statue only had six arms and no three heads.

Each hand holds an object, some like a sword, some like a hook, and some don't look like anything.

And the pedestal under the foot is even more bizarre.

Usually the foot of the Buddha statue is always a lotus platform, and the things under the feet of this Buddha statue, although at first glance it looks very similar to the lotus, but if you look closely, the pieces are actually the tip of the knife, and the 'stamen' in the center is a human head at all, ugly like a ghost-like human head.

The Buddha statue stands on the tip of the knife and the human head, what kind of Buddha is this?

"Old man, the monk who handed you this Buddha statue, do you know his Dharma name?" Just as I couldn't take my eyes off the Buddha statue and looked at it, I heard the young man ask Lao Li thoughtfully.

Lao Li shook his head: "When I went to the temple to find someone, the people in the temple also asked so...... But at that time, I was only concerned about talking about Nan Nan, and I actually forgot to ask him the law name, so I ......"

"I remember you just said that when the monk handed over the Buddha statue to you, he asked you to sit east and face west, but at this moment, it looks like he is sitting south facing north?"

"Yes, it was originally placed from east to west, but then I looked up some books, and they all said that it was better to sit south and face north, so I changed it. ”

"It is true that Buddha statues are usually placed facing north or west facing east. But sitting east and facing west has its own set of sayings, old man, you probably don't know. ”

"I've never heard of this, what's that said?"

"The Buddha statue sits in the east and faces the west, and it is the position near the window, which is to let the Buddha statue bask in the morning sun and embrace the sunset in the evening. And the sunlight is fire, and there is the fire of life, so this placement, called the living cremation red lotus, is a very effective thing to ward off evil spirits. ”

"Ah...... So that's it...... So after I changed positions, Nan Nan's crying began to be strict again, is it because of this reason?"

The young man did not answer, but only reached out and took the Buddha statue from the shelf, held it in his hand and turned it around: "In addition, the wood used for this Buddha statue is also quite particular. ”

"What's the matter?" asked Lao Li with a frown.

"This is a locust tree that is more than 300 years old. Acacia wood is yin in nature, and it is very easy to attract yin, so generally no one will use it to make zuò Buddha statues. But this Buddha alone has to be made of this kind of wood. ”

"Why?"

"Because this is the true body of the Demon Conquering Bodhisattva, the evil qi is extremely heavy, and without such a yin wood, no kind of wood can withstand its evil qi, and it will eventually fall apart. Unless you are a little more elegant, use gloomy wood, but the kind of wood made of demon slaying bodhisattvas, you can't afford to worship in a small place like you. ”

"That'...... It seems that the more you listen to it, the more powerful it becomes......" Lao Li listened attentively, and after listening to the words of the young man, he couldn't help but sigh.

"It's really a very powerful thing, so it's a bit too casual to give it to someone who knows a little bit about the Dharma. As he spoke, he glanced at me meaningfully for some reason, and then when I looked back at him in confusion, the conversation changed and said to Lao Li: "So obviously, that monk gave it to you, not simply to help you ward off evil in this place, but also to lure evil into the urn so that it can be subdued." ”

“...... What do you mean?"

"It means ......"

As soon as he said this, the young man suddenly fell silent, because at this time, a scream from Ah Xiuya suddenly came from outside.

Immediately, I saw Ah Xiu rushing in from outside with Nan Nan in her arms.

While running, he rubbed Nan Nan's back vigorously, because Nan Nan's whole body trembled violently. The two little arms hugged Ah Xiu's neck desperately, their eyes were closed, and they lay on her shoulders and cried: "Red head, red head, red head wants to bite feet and feet!"

screamed three times in a row, and there was a gurgling sound in his throat, as if he was going to hold his breath again at any moment.

Seeing this, Lao Li hurriedly rushed over.

Stretched out her hand and was about to hug her, but she suddenly turned around and stared at Lao Li with wide eyes, and opened her mouth wide and screamed: "Murderer! murderer! murderer! murderer ......"

Straight to Lao Li was so frightened that his whole body trembled and he sat on the ground, Ah Xiu was also so frightened that he had no idea at all, and looked at the child's father for help, expecting him to come over to help, but seeing that Xiao Li Liushen was standing motionless in place, she could only put her hands on Nan Nan's arms, and she couldn't hold it, and she couldn't let it go.

Seeing that the child's face was red with screams, and the green tendons on her forehead and neck bulged, I hurried to her.

I wanted to try to hold her away from Ah Xiu, because I felt that if she continued like this, she would not scare her family to death, and she would use her two arms to strangle Ah Xiu's neck. Unexpectedly, as soon as I ran to the side of the Underworld, suddenly he reached out and put a hard hand on my shoulder, and dragged me back a few steps.

Before I could come back to my senses, I saw him pull a hair from my head and quickly wrap it around the Buddha statue in his hand.

Wrapped around the arm holding the sword, it circled three or four times, and then walked to Nan Nan and crouched down, wrapping the rest of her hair around the little fingertip of her left hand.

"Go open the front door. Then he pointed at Xiao Li without looking back.

Seeing that he was still standing in a daze, he raised his voice and shouted again: "Go, open the rolling shutter door in the middle!"

Xiao Li jumped in shock, and then he woke up like a dream.

At the urging of his father and wife, he hurriedly grabbed the key and rushed to the roller shutter door, and after some messy fumbling and poking, he finally opened the huge roller shutter door again.

In the afternoon, the sun rushed into the house like a flowing fire, and when the room became bright and hot, I heard the sound of the Buddha statue in the hand of the young man, and the hand holding the sword broke from the wrist.

didn't wait for the landing, he was picked up by the young man, his fingers were reversed, and he used the tip of the sword to cut Nan Nan's little finger open.

The pain made Nan Nan scream even more bitterly.

Seeing this, Ah Xiu was so anxious that he opened his mouth wide and wanted to tell him to stop, but his neck was hugged by his daughter, and it was difficult to say a complete sentence, so he reached out and punched him with a fist.

There is a saying that rabbits are in a hurry to bite, let alone seeing their daughter being injured.

But the young man must have his reasons for doing this, and people fight the living dead, and it is always people who are unlucky. So I immediately grabbed her by the shoulders to stop her from striking the stone with the egg, but before I could use much force, I heard her gasp and stop the crazy movement in my hand.

Following her gaze, she saw that the Buddha statue in the hand of the young man snapped with a crisp sound after touching the blood flowing from Nan Nan's wound, and it was actually divided into three and shattered.

Immediately after, something flew out of the fragments of the Buddha statue.

Gray, fluttering, like butterflies, blown by the wind, leisurely flew in the direction of the gate.

But he didn't fly far, and he was raised by the young man, and he turned back against the wind. All of them flew into his palm, and he closed it and rubbed it gently, as a puff of green smoke rose from the palm of his hand, he quickly put his hand on Nan Nan's injured little finger, held it together, and overlapped his fingers, and then with a little force, he saw the smoke hovering in the air with a snort, and then went straight into the fingers of the screaming child.

It's complicated, but it's just a blink of an eye.

Therefore, Nan Nan was caught off guard and sneezed three times.

Then there was a sudden silence.

After snorting and gasping for breath, the girl fell softly on top of Ah Xiu, grabbed her shoulder and looked at the people around her in a daze. Then he pointed to the young man, the little girl who had escaped death and hugged her mother, who was like ashes, and giggled: "Uncle is full of bones." ”