Azan nodded, and led the two of us into the inner room, where the assistant took out a rectangular black wooden box from the wooden cabinet and opened it for us to see. Similar to the one in the photo, I asked what kind of creature it was, and Azan was very proud: "I caught it myself more than two years ago!" He told me that there are many fake mountain spirits in Southeast Asia, and there are at least three or four versions in the mouths of black-hearted card dealers, such as female ghosts, wild men, mutated Tai Sui, etc. The real Southeast Asian mountain spirit is actually a creature similar to the "mandrill", and no one knows what family it belongs to, because very few people have seen it alive. When this thing encounters a person, there are only two results, one is to eat the person, and the other is to be caught by someone and starve to death or imprisoned. No one will give them to the government for research purposes, those who dare to go into the mountains are local villagers, they have no culture, let alone consciousness, if they are lucky enough to catch a live mandrill, they will send it to the nearby black-clothed Azan with high mana as soon as possible, which can be exchanged for a lot of money.

"Even if you catch a live mandrill, not all of them can be made into mountain spirits, it must have been someone who has bumped into someone in the mountain and scared people to death, and the human yin spirit will quickly attach itself to the mandrill's body, so that the mandrill can live longer, and its fur color will change from light gray to purple red. Azan's assistant said, "Only this kind of mandrill can be called a spirit body, and after catching it, it binds its limbs with normal threads, and then wraps its mouth and nose around its mouth and nose with a shroud soaked in corpse oil, suffocating it, and constantly blesses it with yin in the process." At this time, the mandrill will enter a state of suspended animation, and it will be very resentful. It was then skinned and exposed to the sun, made into a dried corpse under the scorching sun, and imprisoned with a complete Dharma mantra. The body of the mountain spirit shrinks every month, but the teeth and toenails of the limbs are still growing, at least a few months, or more than several years, until the body shrinks to less than 40 centimeters, and that's it. ”

These words made my tongue stick out of my tongue, and Kaohsiung smiled: "Boy, not every card dealer knows this knowledge, you are lucky." "I said that it is not easy to bless a mountain spirit, and it will take a few years.

Azan shook his head: "It's not a matter of waiting for a few years, but of blessings for a few years." It took two years for this mountain spirit to shrink to this size, and during those two years, I had to bless five days a month, for a total of four months. "I couldn't speak, thinking to myself about this hard work and scarcity, it's really not expensive to sell 150,000 yuan.

"It's very easy to do the initiation ceremony, all you need is a mantra and a blood supply. I asked how the blood would be supplied, and he said that at midnight, the blood from the middle finger of the devotee's left hand should be dropped into the eye socket of the mountain spirit, and the mantra should be recited three times at the same time. If the initiation is successful, the worshipper will have a fever for several days, and he will be cured naturally without seeking medical attention. After that, the taboo is more complicated, you have to supply blood once a month, and you can't let the mountain spirit be seen or touched by anyone other than the worshipper, not your own father, mother, wife and children. As long as the devotee dies, his descendants can continue to be enshrined with the same initiation ceremony until the death of the third generation.

I thought about it for a while: "If I break the taboo, what will be the consequences if I am seen by others?" Azan shook his head, saying that he had been practicing the Fa for nearly twenty years, but in fact, he had only blessed this mountain spirit, and these taboos were all told by his master, in short, he tried not to destroy them. I was suddenly a little scared, and subconsciously stepped back, not daring to look at the mountain spirit again. Kaohsiung laughed and said that you have no blood supply and no entry, what are you afraid of. With Kaohsiung as a guarantee, I handed over the deposit of 250,000 baht to Azan for auction, and he agreed to let us take the mountain spirit away first.

When I returned to Bangkok from Chiang Mai, Kaohsiung took me directly to the airport, found the airline flight attendant who often flew to Guangzhou, and asked her to bring the goods back. It may be that the goods have been brought frequently recently, and the flight attendant asked for an extra 1,000 baht each time, so I quickly agreed and handed over the mountain spirit to her. Then I booked a ticket and returned to Guangzhou from Bangkok first, and asked the guy at the airport cargo station to help call a courier company to ship the goods to Shenyang without inspection.

When I arrived in Shenyang, the goods had not yet arrived, so I called Lao Qin and asked him to wait for two days. Lao Qin said happily: "No problem, it's not bad for these two days, it seems that I am about to be transferred, no one dares to look down on me, I can still make a fortune, and I can afford to raise children, maybe I will be born smarter than me and be a leader!" Hearing him say this, I didn't feel ridiculous, but a little unspeakably sad.

Two days later, I retrieved the package, I opened it first, it was not damaged, and immediately bought the earliest train ticket of the day, and rushed to Fushun non-stop. It was only seven o'clock in the morning when I arrived in Fushun, Lao Qin was waiting early at the exit of the station, it was Sunday, and I saw a white sea lion bread parked next to him, which should be the unit. Lao Qin is quite tall, but very thin, with a long face, after getting in the car, he asked me, "Is this a mountain spirit in this backpack?" I said of course, Lao Qin rubbed his hands excitedly and asked if he could open it to see.

"Can't you see it when you get to your house?" I said, Lao Qin nodded again and again, started the car and set off from the train station, all the way back to his house. This is an ordinary old residential community, his family lives on the seventh floor of the top floor, when he enters the house, he sees that the furnishings are simple, but also very messy, the old pattern of the two-bedroom house, there is no standard living room, only in the corridor with a dining table and a few chairs, a few beer crates in the corner. There was an old lady in the kitchen who was making breakfast, and Lao Qin introduced it as his mother-in-law. The old lady looked at me and didn't say much, and there seemed to be anger in her eyes.

When I entered the south bedroom, I saw that Lao Qin's wife was still sleeping on the bed, so I said that it was not very convenient, so I should go outside and wait. Lao Qin waved his hand: "No, she sleeps very dead, and she won't wake up when there is thunder, unless there is an earthquake." With that, he closed the bedroom door and sat on the edge of the bed, so I sat down in the chair at the table. While unpacking the package, I asked in a low voice that you used to live with your mother-in-law, why hadn't you heard of it before.

Lao Qin said: "This is not my family, it is my father-in-law's family, didn't I make an excuse a few days ago that I wanted to treat the fetus, and lent out the 150,000 yuan in his hand? I had to mortgage my single room to a real estate agency first, borrowed 50,000 yuan, and we lived here. ”

"Huh?" I was surprised, "Then how is your father-in-law now?" Lao Qin said indifferently that in the hospital, it's okay, there are relatives in her family to take care of it, don't care. I never expected that in just a few days, this kind of thing would happen, no wonder Lao Qin's mother-in-law looked at me with that kind of eyes.