Chapter 4: The Woman in Black
There is a saying that if you don't know how to draw a talisman, you will make ghosts and gods laugh; If you know how to draw a talisman, you will be shocked by the ghosts and gods.
It can be seen that the same symbol, drawn by different people, may have a world of difference.
Since I was seven years old, I have been forced by Ding Butu to practice drawing talismans every day, and there are hundreds of all kinds of talismans drawn, not to mention thousands, but practice is practice after all, and when it comes to actual combat, I am still a little nervous.
Generally speaking, there are only two tools for drawing symbols - yellow paper and cinnabar.
In Ding Butu's words, yellow symbolizes the qi of the fairy, and it can also be said to be the righteousness between heaven and earth.
As for cinnabar, in Taoism's own understanding of the world, cinnabar is formed by pure yang spirit, and drawing talismans with cinnabar can increase the power of the talisman and ward off evil spirits.
But this time it's a little special, because the talisman I drew is a yin talisman, and it's a charm that summons a ghost, so of course cinnabar can't be used.
Huang Dan was curious, and said that you don't need cinnabar, so what do you use to paint?
I said, "With blood, with your blood."
Yes? Huang Dan's eyes straightened, and he said, Why do you want to use her blood?
I explained to her that for any talisman to be born, there must be a carrier - the difference is that there is only one carrier of the yang talisman, that is, yellow paper, the paper is in the gods, and the paper destroys the gods.
As for the Yin Symbol, there are two carriers.
Yellow paper is one of them, and the other is the person who uses the yin symbol.
To put it simply, the gods summoned by the Yang Talisman will always only exist in the rune paper, and for the user, it is a tool, and there is basically no danger.
The Yin Charm is to first summon the Yin Soul to the Yellow Paper, and then let the evil Yin Soul on the Yellow Paper reach a contract with the user, so that the user can become its second carrier.
Huang Dan swallowed his saliva and said, "I seem to understand...... Is it true that if I use the Yin Talisman, I will be entangled by that "thing"?
I nodded and said it would be understandable.
"Will it hurt me?" Huang Dan was a little worried.
I can't say for sure, some people use the yin charm and can always be safe, and some people are unlucky when they use it.
Let's just say that the couple surnamed Zhao, because the man had an affair when his wife was pregnant, angered Yin Ling, and caused his wife to have a miscarriage, and then died as miserable as possible.
In a word, please yin, there are risks and you need to be cautious.
I asked Huang Dan to think about it clearly, in fact, if you ask for marriage, Yang Fu can also be, as long as you are sincere, sooner or later you will be able to get what you want.
Huang Dan asked me, sooner or later? How long is sooner or later?
I say fast is a few months, slow a few years.
Huang Dan frowned when she heard this, and said no, it's been too long, her male god painter is a foreigner, and she came to the town just to find inspiration, and she will stay for two months at most.
After thinking about it, Huang Dan still decided to take a risk and use the Yin Talisman.
Now that she has made up her mind, I naturally won't persuade her more, and even subconsciously - I also hope that she can ask for Yin Fu.
Why?
Because the yin charm is valuable, please have one, and the minimum is also starting at 5,000.
Unlike Yang Fu, the price ranges from tens to hundreds, which also leads to some fortune telling stalls outside, so they dare to claim to be able to draw Yang Fu.
Anyway, the yang charm has been effective for a long time, and if it doesn't work by then, the other party will either run away a long time ago, or quibble, saying that you are not sincere.
As for the yin symbol, it is as short as a few days, and a long one can see the effect in a few months, so it is still expensive.
Subconsciously I hope that Huang Dan will invite Yin Fu, it's not that I'm greedy, but I really need money now.
For my sister not to be taken away by the bald head, and for my broken dignity......
"Ding Mian, can you start?"
Huang Dan saw me in a daze, and couldn't help urging.
I came back to my senses and said yes.
Since Huang Dan is asking for marriage or urgency, there is a yin charm that must meet her requirements.
This yin charm is called "privet", and it is the soul of a chaste daughter in ancient times.
I first took out a sterilized knife, drew a small hole on Huang Dan's hand, dropped a few drops in a specific small container, then dipped it with a brush, then took out a talisman and began to draw.
Generally speaking, the Yang Talisman is drawn slowly, unhurriedly, and in a gradual cycle, while the Yin Talisman is drawn with a dragon and snake and is indignant—simply put, when drawing, try to think about something unhappy.
This also leads to the fact that people with pure hearts can't draw yin talismans, but people like me who have dark psychology and are full of resentment can show their skills here.
However, although the two types of runes are different, one thing is the same.
That's sincerity.
Sincerity is spiritual, heaven and earth are moved; Faith is clear, and the magic power is boundless, it all depends on whether you have the mentality of integrity.
Whether it is a good god or an evil god, if the heart is not sincere, everything is in vain.
Therefore, before drawing the talismans, I usually recite the three mantras of meditation, meditation, and meditation.
When everything was ready, I drew the talisman and recited the incantation of the "privet talisman" over and over again.
Invite different evil gods, the spells are also different, I still don't understand, since Ding Butu didn't let me do the business of Yin Talismans, why did he force me to recite those cumbersome soul mantras all day long?
Halfway through the painting, a gloomy wind blew through the door, the chandelier on the ceiling flickered, and the windows creaked open in the wind.
Huang Dan shuddered, hugged his body with both hands, and asked me if I had turned on the air conditioner, why was it so cold all of a sudden?
Cold?
Eighty percent of the there's dirt coming in!
After all, this is the first time I have drawn Yin Talismans (I used to practice with ink on ordinary paper and don't recite mantras), and in the face of this strange situation, my heart also palpitated, and the hand holding the pen trembled, let alone kept my mind free of distractions.
At this moment, I clearly felt that something cold seemed to be in the air, and it suddenly grabbed my hand......
I ......let out an "ahh
And then
The hand I saw, uncontrollably, automatically drew on the yellow paper......
Damn, what's going on?
My eyes widened and I almost stopped breathing......
I don't know if you have ever played with the pen fairy, it is said that after the summoning is successful, the pen fairy will control your hand to draw a circle on the paper, and the drawing is particularly round.
And now, I'm in a situation like a pen fairy thief.
The difference is that this invisible "thing" is not drawing circles, but symbols......
Ghost Drawing Talismans!
"Ding Mian, are you okay?" Huang Dan looked at me nervously, she didn't know that my hand was no longer mine...
I shook my head with difficulty, squeezing out a reluctant smile, but my forehead was covered with beads of sweat......
I don't know how long later, the force that controlled my wrist suddenly disappeared, and I looked down to see that the talisman on the yellow paper had been completed.
I touched my nose and thought to myself that this Yin Talisman was not drawn by myself, but by a "dirty thing" to help you draw it......
Grandma's, if Ding hadn't told me earlier, he wouldn't have scared my buddies like this.
What a shame!
I coughed dryly twice, handed the yin charm to Huang Dan, and said that the yin charm has been completed, after you go back, buy some retro rouge gouache women's handkerchiefs and the like from the Internet, put them on the dresser, press them with the yin charm, and usually go out, bring the yin charm with you if you can - in addition, don't let other people, especially men, touch your yin charm, understand?
Huang Dan nodded and said that this really works?
I'm not sure in my heart, but I still say categorically: Then do you need to say? Absolutely.
"Okay, sister, I believe you, how much is this yin talisman?" Huang Dan said.
For the Yin Fu, Ding Butu did not give a specific price, only said that the most inferior Yin Fu has to start at least 5,000, I hesitated a little and said, "20,000? ”
I wanted to slap myself when I asked this tone, and I felt that the person who made the offer was not me, but the other party.
To my surprise, Huang Dan didn't hesitate, asked me for Alipay, and directly transferred 20,000 yuan, and said that if she and the painter became successful, she would give me a red envelope at that time.
Looking at the extra five digits in Alipay's balance, my throat was dry and I felt like I was in a dream.
This money is coming too fiercely, right?
If you can pick up a few customers like Huang Dan every day, five million in two months, maybe there is really hope.
When I ate at night, I didn't know if it was because I had drawn the yin charm, I was very hungry, so I ate five bowls of rice in one go, which surprised my sister and mother, and asked me if I hadn't eaten for a day.
After a period of time, I was always worried, for fear that if the Yin Charm didn't work, what would Huang Dan do if he asked me to settle accounts and return the money?
This also indirectly proves that I don't know how to draw yin charms at all, and even if I want to do this kind of business in the future, I can't do it.
Fortunately, since Huang Dan, business has come one after another, and customers have come to me one after another to make yin charms.
Here, I will finish the story of Huang Dan first.
It had been less than a month since I had drawn a yin talisman for Huang Dan, and suddenly one day she came to the store to find me and stuffed me with an invitation.
I opened my mouth wide and said in shock: Sister Dan, are you?
Huang Dan smiled and said: Congratulations to your sister Dan? I'm getting married tomorrow.
"Is that the painter?" I say.
"Nonsense, sister, he won't marry in this life." Huang Dan crossed his waist and laughed.
When I heard this, I was relieved, but I was not surprised by this result.
Just because during this time, I have done a lot of Yin Fu business, and I have also seen a lot of "miracles" happen.
Of course, among these miracles, there are more kinds of eerie tragedies......
The next day, my sister and I attended Huang Dan's wedding to the painter.
The painter wears glasses, has a thin figure, and although his appearance is not handsome, he has a very unique elegant temperament, and he is very impatient to speak, so it is no wonder that Huang Dan is fascinated.
On the stage of the wedding, Huang Dan smiled from ear to ear, her face was full of happiness, and at the instigation of everyone, she and the painter hugged each other and kissed indulgently.
The crowd applauded, whistled, and cheered loudly.
I am also happy for her from the bottom of my heart, and I hope that she can grow old with the painter.
At the end of the wedding ceremony, the bride and groom leave the stage and begin to toast from table to table.
When it was our turn, everyone stood up and raised their glasses.
"Congratulations."
"Happy newlywed, early birth of a noble son."
Just when everyone was clinking glasses with the bride and groom, they only heard a "bang", and the wine glass in my sister's hand suddenly fell to the ground and shattered!
I glanced at her and saw that my sister's face was very pale, not bloody, and her lips were still trembling slightly.
After the bride and groom left, my sister suddenly pulled me and whispered: Xiao Mian, you ...... Did you just see that?
I was stunned and said what did I see?
My sister was anxious and said why can't you all seem to see?
On the back of the bridegroom lay a woman dressed in black......