Chapter 4 The practice of opening the altar

Several people returned to the Zhou family compound, and at this time, the body of Old Man Zhou was also changed into a clean shroud. After everything was ready, Shi Yijian sat in the center of the altar, glanced at the fat man with his eyes, and the fat man immediately understood, took two steps forward and said loudly: "Tonight is the day of the first seven souls of Old Man Zhou, all pregnant women, those who are sick, those under the age of seventeen, and those over the age of sixty-five are all avoided one by one. With that, the crowd slowly moved, and several people had already left the courtyard.

Seeing that he was almost gone, the fat man began to shout loudly again: "Tonight, it is an auspicious day for Master Shi to spend the soul of the old man Zhou in his practice, and he invited the filial son and grandson of the Zhou family to face the mourning hall and kneel down and kowtow three times." Then, he got a cardboard box out of nowhere, put it on the place where everyone knelt and knocked, and continued to speak: "This Hades is so difficult to see little ghosts, the dots on Huangquan Road are naturally indispensable, as the so-called money can make ghosts grind, and it is easy to do things with people's money, this ideal must be understood by everyone." Although it is our duty to surpass the soul, it also consumes a lot of vitality. In order to let Master Shi do his best and work hard, and also to let Old Man Zhou go all the way, this filial piety depends on the hands of the bosses to make a fortune. ”

After listening to the subtext that the fat man was no different from the Ming robbery, Shi Yijian felt ashamed, but to his surprise, everyone in the Zhou family enthusiastically donated generously, for fear of suffering less. Looking at this box full of money, Shi Yijian couldn't help but feel refreshed, he cleared his throat, selected the best tribute incense from the suitcase, and shouted hard: "I am famous and upright, holding three incense to respect the dead, stepping on the seven stars of yin and yang, and opening the altar according to the practice." Haste as a law! ”

After that, Shi Yijian stomped his feet, and the three incense sticks suddenly spontaneously combusted without fire, and he bowed to the mourning hall behind him and inserted it on the rice ball. Then, he waved his pen on the spot, a death charm, and a soul attraction charm. Although the effect of Shi Yijian's copying on the spot was unsatisfactory, and he was not as handy as he was when he meditated, in order to let the audience see it really, and in order to better promote his signboard, he had to wronged the old man Zhou in the coffin.

Shi Yijian gently dried the drawn soul-attracting talisman, carefully handed it to the fat man, and whispered a few words in his ear. The fat man took the rune paper, nodded, and trotted away. Seeing that the fat man had already walked away, Shi Yijian picked up a small peachwood sword, and kept dancing and jumping, swinging the sword and stabbing in the air for a while, and then making circles on the spot, and from time to time reciting a few nonsense words that even he couldn't understand.

There's no way, these days, the layman looks at the excitement, the insider looks at the doorway, and if you don't do enough superficial work, people still think you are a charlatan. After swaying like this for more than ten minutes, Shi Yijian was also tired enough, when he saw that the rich children in front of him were already kneeling with sore backs and knees, and his expressions were painful, he was also amused in his heart, and he felt that it was time to kick the door.

Collecting the sword and stopping, Shi Yijian wiped his sweat, and after gasping slightly, he lifted the peachwood sword again, stabbed it on the death talisman, and recited the death mantra with a refreshing heart: "The Taishang edict decrees that all the four lives of the lonely soul and ghost of Chaoru will be favored; The headed, the super-headless, the spear, the sword, the knife, the dive, the rope; Bright death, secret death, unjust resignation, creditor wronged, begging for life; Kneel in front of the stage, gossip shines, stands on the hurdle, and transcends the other side; For men and women, they bear their own responsibilities for the rich and the poor, and you recruit yourself. After speaking, he picked up the talisman paper, pinched the flames, and hit the rune paper, and the rune paper instantly flew into the night sky and burned. Seeing this, Shi Yijian slashed his peachwood sword in the air and read aloud: "Rescue and other people are in a hurry and are in a hurry." ”

Shi Yijian, who was in charge of the transcendence ceremony for the first time, walked through the process hand in hand, and it was already early in the morning. Just wait for tomorrow morning, as soon as the firecrackers are set off and the suona is blown, the coffin can be carried and buried. Shi Yijian walked out of the altar, dispersed the crowd, and looked at Zhou Ziyang, who was already tired and dozing off when he was standing. He persuaded: "Brother Yang, you have to treat the funeral in person tomorrow morning, don't go over later, the business is important." ”

Zhou Ziyang nodded, he was just a momentary brain fever before, who would talk about it, after all, he was already exhausted after staying up all night for several nights in a row. He looked at Shi Yijian, the fat man and the two villagers accompanying him, all the way away, disappeared into the dark country road, Zhou Ziyang, who had never smoked, picked up a cigarette on the table in the courtyard, lit it and inhaled it in a big gulp, the smoke choked his lungs, and coughed so much that his tears came out. At this time, Zhou Ziyang felt better, he looked up at the night sky, took a deep breath of air, swallowed all the resentment and self-blame into his stomach, and then threw away the cigarette butt, took a step, knelt in front of the mourning hall, added some paper money for the old father on the brazier, and then leaned against the coffin and snored unconsciously. The wife on the side saw that her sleeping husband still had some tears in his eyes, and she couldn't help but feel sour, and quietly put on a dress for him to resist the chill blowing in the night.

This Buddha crosses sentient beings, but never crosses obsessed and unenlightened people, when Shi Yijian appeared in front of the middle-aged man and Zhou Wenqing, it was the best example. Shi Yijian looked at the plastic bag that was still stained with blood at the young man's feet, smiled at the two people who were tied up with five flowers, and handed over the entire Great China from Zhou's family to these villagers, and asked them to go outside to smoke and watch the wind first, leaving only the fat man to fight.

I saw Shi Yijian unscrew the porcelain doll, pour out the small corpses that had already been made into dried meat from inside, tear off some of the remains, and put the rest in. After doing it, Shi Yijian ordered the fat man to cut off some flesh and skin from the two of them, and when the fat man heard it, he became energetic, took out the dagger he had handed over from the middle-aged man before, and kept shaking it back and forth in front of the two of them, saying that he would cut his nose and gouge out his eyes, which scared the two of them. Suddenly, two extremely harsh pig-killing sounds crossed the night sky through the window door, and reached the ears of the villagers who were smoking and laughing outside the door.

Just when everyone was staring at each other and in a dilemma, I saw the fat man rushing out with a dagger that was still bleeding from it. Thinking of this, the villagers instantly felt wind on the soles of their feet, and it was up to them to see who couldn't help but be the first to slip away. But before they could disperse, the fat man began to shout with a cigarette in his mouth: "Eh, brother, who borrows a fire and lights a cigarette." ”

At this time, everyone suddenly realized, and they went up to light the fire for the fat man, and one of the young men said: "Fat brother, what happened to those screams just now, I don't know, I still think you are killing pigs." ”

The fat man took a deep breath at the cigarette holder, and then said, "Don't mention it, it's just angry." After a pause, he saw that everyone was surrounded with curiosity, and said proudly but pretending to be serious: "Don't you know, those two grandsons, I think they even dare to raise little ghosts, they must be very bold in their usual lives, if you change to raise them, do you dare?" As he spoke, he pointed to the villager boy who had just lit the fire for him.

The guy was pointed at by him for no reason, and immediately said, "Don't dare." ”

"Well, it's right if you don't dare." The fat man smiled with satisfaction, so he said in a mysterious way: "I tell you, I want to raise a little ghost at home, in the middle of the night, when the third watch, suddenly, climbed on your bedside, and called Dad with a cry, I will ask you, are you afraid?" With that, he pointed his finger away, and suddenly pointed at another fellow. At this moment, a cool breeze hit, bringing the young leaves on the treetops rustling, the villager only felt a sudden chill in the back of his head, and there seemed to be a faint cry of a baby in his ears, he quickly looked back at the dark surroundings, and his voice trembled a little and said: "I'm afraid, I'm afraid." ”

Seeing this, the fat man smiled: "You don't know, I just cut two knives on the two of them, cut some fat, and these two goods will die of pain and cry for their mother." So, people can't look good, if I am cut, Lao Tzu will immediately pick up his clothes, and if he blinks his eyes, he will be a turtle son. ”

Seeing that the fat man was complacent, the more he blew it, the more outrageous he looked, Shi Yijian, who came out of it, suddenly said: "If you have nothing to do, just draw two lines on you, put some blood and feed the little ghost, anyway, if you are idle, you will be idle." ”

Everyone saw Shi Yijian walk out and gathered around, and the fat man said, "Master Shi, what do you command?" ”

Shi Yijian raised his face and said, "Have you done what I asked you to do?" ”

The fat man snapped his round fat head and suddenly said, "Oh, I almost forgot about the business when I was talking." So he looked at the villagers and said, "Raise your hand if any of you have not done anything between a man or a woman." Seeing these young men drooping their heads one by one, the fat man was a little anxious, and explained: "I asked you to raise your hands, just to let you use a child's urine, nothing else, don't be nervous." ”

The fat man was really a little annoyed when he saw that no one raised his hand, pointed to a villager who seemed to be the youngest, and said loudly: "You, don't rub it off, hurry up and pee." ”

Who knew that this young man actually said, "I'm already that." ”

The young man of the same age next to him immediately asked: "You kid dare to change alone, tell me quickly, time, place, and person." ”

Shi Yijian watched these people pull farther and farther away, and walked to the other side of the wall alone, and when he reappeared, there was already a bottle full of liquid in his hand. The fat man suddenly realized, touched his chin, and said to himself: "I really can't see it, he is not very old, but his thinking is quite conservative, it seems that he really has to teach him to be a man again." As he spoke, he also followed Shi Yijian and slipped in, leaving behind the villagers who were still talking.

The fat man who returned to the house stood aside silently, watching Shi Yijian use the Eight Monsters Bronze Mirror to beat the ghost into the wreckage, and then stirred the remains with the skin and flesh of Zhou Wenqing and the middle-aged man respectively, and then folded the two pieces of dead talisman paper that had been prepared long ago into a triangular talisman, like making dumplings, and put all the meat filling into it. After everything was ready, Shi Yijian put the placenta into the basin, poured in the child's urine, stirred it slightly, threw the triangular talisman paper into it and soaked it completely, and took it out to dry it a little.

Everything is in place, and all they owe to the fat man is to let them eat the meat stuffed triangle. Shi Yijian, who had been tossing all night, was already tired enough, and after a few words of instructions to the fat man, he walked out of the gate, and after chatting with the villagers on duty, he sat on the stone steps, lit a cigarette, and rested for a while.