Chapter 6: A Sweeper
I immediately threw myself on my mother's body and began to cry, when the Taoist priest in the yellow robe came over, and saw that the Taoist priest was about fifty years old, with a thin body, a wrinkled face, long and white eyebrows, and a mustache.
He walked up to me, threw a smile at me, and said, "Xiao Luo, long time no see." "I know this Taoist priest, he is none other than my master, a Taoist man, seeing that the master is now a lot of age and still doing this kind of dead work, I feel very sad, I am really worried that he will be harmed by evil things one day.
I let go of my mother, and then knelt on the ground with one fist at the old Taoist priest, and shouted, "Master!" The old Taoist priest smiled and helped me up, saying, "Xiao Luo, a few years have passed, and I miss you very much as a teacher." ”
I wiped my tears and said with a wry smile: "Disciple too, I don't know if the master has been in good health over the years!" Lao Dao didn't speak, just sighed, and then asked me to follow my parents to the back of the crowd and put on a white filial piety cloth to bow down, and after saying this, he also gave my father a look.
My dad seemed to understand what the master meant, so he pulled me to the back of the crowd and came to a bench with a thick stack of white handkerchiefs on the bench.
At that moment, I picked up a white handkerchief from the bench and simply made a hat shape and put it on my head, then took a stick of incense from the table and followed my dad to the back of the crowd and bowed.
After a long time of kneeling and prostrating, the relatives handed the incense to my master, but when it was my turn to be the last one, the master stopped me and told me to go with him to a place, and he put all the incense into the incense burner, and then told me to go with him.
Not long after we walked, we came to a field, the field was overgrown with weeds, I asked the master what he was doing here, but he ignored me, but mysteriously took out a spiritual talisman from his pocket and placed it on the ground, pinched his fingers and pointed on it, and said something in his mouth.
After about a few minutes, the master stopped what he was doing, stood up and said to me, "Xiao Luo, this is a place where yin gathers, and there are ghosts wandering all year round. ”
After listening to the master tell him the reason for my grandmother's death, I told him about the strange dream I had last night, and the master's face changed greatly after listening to it, his brows were tightly locked, and he kept walking back and forth, muttering, "It's not good, it's not good." ”
I saw that the master looked very anxious, so I asked, "What's the matter, master, is there something bad going to happen?" ”
Lao Dao looked at me and said, "Xiao Luo, there may be something tonight, you can come to my house to pick up things then, remember!" When I saw the master's serious appearance, I knew that this matter must be not small, so I nodded immediately to show that I understood.
After that, Lao Dao was walking around again, his eyes kept looking around, but I didn't know what he was looking at, it was daytime, and even if there was a ghost, it would not be possible to come out.
I watched him wander around for a while, and when I finally stopped, I walked up to him and asked, "Master, what are you always looking at?" As if he hadn't heard what I said, he saw something unintelligible in his mouth.
In my impression, the behavior of this old Taoist priest has always made me unpredictable, although it has been a few years, but it is still the same, maybe this is what makes him unique.
I saw him chattering, so I interrupted his thoughts, he was startled at first, and then said, "Xiao Luo, do you remember the Taoism I taught you?" I nodded, "Yes." ”
"Okay, just remember!" Lao Dao smiled with satisfaction, and then the two of us returned to Grandma's funeral place and began another round of kneeling. Time passed minute by minute, and soon it was evening, and my mother cooked and called the gentlemen who beat the gongs and drums to eat.
At the dinner table, I saw that my parents had been frowning, presumably because of my grandmother's affairs and was not in the mood to eat, so as a son, I could only comfort them as much as possible.
With the old way shouted, "Here we go!" "We got together again, each put on his own white handkerchief and knelt on the ground, at first everything was normal, but after a while, I actually saw my grandmother's soul come out of the coffin, she floated behind every filial son, I don't know what she was doing.
After about a few minutes, I saw that Brother Shunzi, who was fine before, suddenly leaned and fell to the ground, his face was pale, and his body was cold, and the men, women and children next to him all stood up and walked forward when they saw this.
Seeing this, the old Taoist priest also walked over, the crowd made way for him, I strode towards the old Tao, and said, "Master, I ..... just now" As soon as he was halfway through the words, he stretched out his hand to signal not to let me continue, and the old Taoist walked to Brother Shunzi, squatted down and looked.
"Oh no, this is a ghost blowing out the lamp, Xiao Luo, hurry up and get the sand" Lao Dao instructed me, I feel like I am back to the time when I traveled with him a few years ago, catching ghosts and driving away evil spirits, and I was inexplicably a little excited.
I took the sand and brush from the yellow cloth bag of the old way, and the old man skillfully reached out and picked up the brush and mixed it in the sand, and then wrote the word "edict" on the forehead of Brother Shunzi.
Then, he patted his fingers on the cover of Brother Shunzi's heavenly spirit, and read: "Raise a fire and return to the yang, open the flame and lamp, dispel the yin and evil, and rekindle the yang fire!" "Taishang Laojun is as anxious as a law, edict.
After reading, Lao Dao stood up violently and picked up a mahogany board from the table, his fingers kept gesturing on it, and he still chanted words in his mouth.
After the old way cast a spell, Brother Shunzi really improved, his eyes opened, here I will explain, this Brother Shunzi is my distant cousin, but he doesn't have much contact, so I don't know him well.
My mother saw that Brother Shunzi woke up, so she hurriedly walked forward and asked him if he was okay, and Brother Shunzi looked demented, and the old Tao said that this is normal, and it will be fine for two days off.
Then, Lao Dao gave me a look, and I understood what he meant, it was nothing more than asking me to go out with him, and we came outside, the moonlight was very bright, and Lao Dao said to me: "Xiao Luo! Your grandmother's ghost doesn't want to leave, and I can't beat him away, so it's better for you to talk to him. ”
After that, Lao Dao waved his sleeves, and my grandmother's ghost rolled out of his sleeve, "! "Dare to love what he did just now, not only saved Brother Shunzi, but also caught my grandmother's ghost into his Qiankun sleeve, which is too awesome.
I saw my grandmother again, tears flowed out unconsciously, I asked my grandmother why she did this, grandma stood up and hugged me, I was ready to hug it, but then Lao Tao shouted, "Don't hug!" I looked at Lao Dao and asked, "Why can't you hug it?" ”
Lao Dao said, don't ask so much, if you have anything else you want to say, tell your grandmother as soon as possible, and the ghost will come to detain the soul later.