Chapter 187: Out of the Horse

The old merchant hurriedly said: "Haven't I never experienced this kind of thing, don't think about it too much." The woman didn't say anything more, and asked the old merchant to find two thick quilts, fold them in half and spread them on the bed, and the old merchant hurriedly did so. The man took out a few pillars of incense and a small copper incense burner from his backpack, placed them on the table diagonally opposite the bed, inserted the three pillars of incense into the incense burner, arranged them neatly, and then took out a small tambourine with a bell ring attached to it. Then he took out a small bamboo tube, stuffed with red cloth at both ends, and a large pair of scissors.

Luo Li and I were dumbfounded, what is this? The man opened the Saibu at both ends of the small bamboo tube, poured out the long paper roll from it, and carefully unfolded it, there was a pattern inside, it turned out to be a portrait of a fairy, the beard was very long, and the face was black, much blacker than Bao Gong, just like a black African, and he still held a whisk in his hand. The man taped the portrait to the wall across the bed with scotch tape and stood in front of the window. The old merchant walked over and closed the window tightly, and then drew the curtains. The woman said, "What is this for? How hot is it?"

"There's no way, I'm afraid that people outside will hear and see it, so I turn on the fan, turn on the fan. The old merchant said and unscrewed the floor fan in the corner of the house, and there was finally some wind in the house. But the man asked him to close it again, saying that it would affect the effect of seeing the incense, so he could only minimize the sound of the lyrics. The room was very hot, the man took the big scissors, and said to the three of us that this is about to begin, the process of getting out of the horse may be relatively long, the three of us have to turn off the mobile phone first, not to move around, let alone speak loudly, just keep calm, we quickly nodded, took out the mobile phone to turn off.

Men and women knelt in front of the statue and bowed three times in a row, repeating it three times in a row, and I knew that this was the legendary three bows and nine bows, which was the heaviest ritual of the Chinese, and could only be used by worshipping kings and gods. The two of them said something while worshipping, only remembering the content of the Big Dipper. Then the woman took off her shoes and went to bed, sitting cross-legged on the quilt, leaning against the center of the wall, with her eyes closed. The man picked up the tambourine in his left hand, first made a gesture, and struck the drum with his right palm a few times, making a crisp "bang" sound.

As soon as he was about to speak, the old merchant hurriedly stood up and interjected: "I said brother, can you be quieter, the neighbors can hear it!" The man was very unhappy, and the woman also opened her eyes and said angrily not to talk nonsense. The man said that he would try his best to let us kill and not speak again, otherwise it would interfere with the upper body of the immortal family, and we would be responsible for all the consequences, and we agreed again.

The man struck the drum three times, this time at a much lower volume, and the man opened his mouth and sang, "Hey-" followed by dozens of more words. Time has passed, and the content of the lyrics has long been unclear, but I only know that it probably means that the disciple has a seven-star rope tied to the immortal horse raised in the sky, and he wants to borrow Guan Gong's Qinglong Yanyue knife to cut these immortal ropes, so that the disciple can ride the immortal horse, treat people, and solve problems.

While singing, the man picked up the scissors, and kept cutting around the woman, the scissors made a rattle sound, his movements were very fast, and the blades were almost close to the woman's body and even face, I was shocked, Luo Li's right hand grabbed my arm tightly, every time the man cut it, Luo Li's hands moved with it, I turned my head and glared at her, meaning can you not be like this, even if I am not afraid, I can be scared by you.

The man took the scissors away, turned back and lit the three sticks of incense with a match, and then stood in the middle of the ground. The woman sitting cross-legged on the bed hung her head and was silent, as if she were asleep. A few minutes later, the three incense sticks burned into two short and one long, and the man said, "Two short and one long are in the center, and the immortal family will definitely be able to help." I remember that the first few lines were "Sunset West Mountain, Sunset West Mountain is dark, every house has a door bolt." The main road is closed to traffic, and the small road is difficult without pedestrians." Later, I remembered that the reason why I felt familiar was because I had watched several rural dramas filmed in the Northeast, which contained plots about song and dance evenings, and some people sang these words on stage, not only familiar with the words, but also with similar tunes.

The lyrics are basically seven words per sentence, at first very slowly, and then the singing is getting faster and faster, I have to say, this man's singing skills are good, although the lyrics are as fast as beads, but the words are very clear, I can hear every word clearly. As he sings, the woman who had hung her head lifts her head and moves, and as the singing continues, the woman's body also sways back and forth, initially with a small amplitude, but gradually with a larger and larger amplitude.

The man sang energetically, rhythmically striking the snare drum with his right hand as he sang, making a thumping sound. And when he sang like a bead, the woman was mad. Luo Li hugged my arm tightly, as if she was scared, and I saw that the old merchant sitting next to me was also nervous, and kept wiping his sweat with a handkerchief.

Suddenly, the woman's body stopped twitching, and the man immediately stopped singing, the woman's hands trembled slightly, and her body trembled, a bit like the state of not being out of danger after an electric shock, her head still hanging down, and she couldn't see her face and expression. Luo Li's hand hurt me, I hurriedly retreated, and motioned her to light it with my eyes, and I didn't know where I got so much strength.

"May I ask this immortal, where are you from?" the man asked.

The woman trembled and said two words, not so much as to say it, but to sing it, and the tune was similar to that when the man sang the lyrics, but it was indistinct, probably too quiet. The man asked the question repeatedly, and the woman answered less clearly than the one she had just said, and I thought she was more inarticulate than the drunken ones.

The man got serious, beat the drum twice, and said the question just now in the form of singing, this time the woman said: "I XXXX Changxian, XXXXX Houshan ......" can finally hear two or three words, but in general still can't spell the whole sentence. But the man didn't seem to care, and continued to ask other questions, such as whether the fairy family worked hard, whether he was thirsty or not, and whether he wanted to take a break. The woman's reply was: "XXXX just drank, XX hurry up XXX......"

The old merchant looked at the woman nervously, tilting his head and pricking up his ears to listen carefully, for fear of missing any keywords. But I could tell from his facial expression that the old merchant basically didn't understand anything. The man also used singing words to ask the fairy family if he knew what was wrong with the old merchant and whether it was related to his wife.

The woman still sang and replied: "His wife XX has grievances, and if he doesn't solve it, it won't be finished...... finally there is a whole sentence that he can understand, and the old merchant straightened his waist, his eyes were open, and he hurriedly looked at the man.

The man asked if the owner of the house had forgotten to burn paper for his wife, or if he had not done enough to make his wife angry. The woman sang and replied: "He returns to X every day, today XX and tomorrow XX ......" The man asked several times, but the answer he got was not very clear. Luo Li and I were a little anxious, and the man asked in a different way.