Chapter 220: Soul Seeking (I)
After walking down the road, you will be greeted by a Taoist temple made of red bricks. The old Taoist looked at the Taoist temple, and a trace of tears flashed in his eyes from time to time.
"Descending the mountain for so many years...... It's back again. ”
When I got closer to this temple, I found that the architectural style of this temple was very similar to the three-foot temple where he lived, but the area was much larger than what I had seen before.
When we walked to the gate of this temple, we found that the gate of this temple was open, and when we stepped in, the older Taoist priest we had seen in the closed gate village came to meet us.
The Taoist priest walked quickly to our side and bowed down in the same way as Cheng Long, while the old Taoist priest gently raised his hand to help him up.
"I haven't seen you for so many years, and the true fate is so big."
"Yes, uncle, twenty years ago, the master once took me to see you, these twenty years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the master has passed away, and when the master is dying, he is most concerned about you, uncle."
The old Taoist priest sighed softly and did not speak again, and the True Origin Taoist led us into the main house. In this main house is enshrined the statue of Sanqing, and under that statue is a futon.
Nine of the futons were clean, while the other looked weathered. The old Taoist priest approached the Sanqing and respectfully offered three sticks of incense, and then we went around the statue and came to the backyard.
In the courtyard of the second entrance, there is a gossip pool, which is filled with water on one side and mud on the other. There are live fish in the water, and the mud is full of lotus leaves and lotus flowers.
There is a pagoda-like sculpture in the water, and on the lotus pond side, there is a budding flower bone growing appropriately on the opposite side of the sculpture. The whole gossip pool is very vivid and full of life.
After walking through the gossip pool, we came to the main house. The room was very empty, and in the middle of the room was a stone bed in the shape of a lotus. This bed is exceptionally large and it is not a problem to accommodate two people on it.
After Cheng Long and I carried Zheng Yong onto the stone bed, we always felt that wisps of white mist had penetrated into Zheng Yong's body. I gently touched the stone bed with my hand, and I realized that it was surprisingly cold, as if a stone had been thrown into the refrigerator and frozen.
"Close the curtains and get ready to go."
"Uncle, you have to ...... during the day"
The old Taoist nodded and said, "It's a big matter of human life sooner rather than later, go and prepare some incense, candles, paper money, and bring a futon." ”
The True Destiny Daoist nodded slightly, and then withdrew from the door to prepare.
And I gently pushed Cheng Long, who was standing beside me, and asked, "Your senior brother's Dao name is True Yuan, what about you?" ”
After saying that, Cheng Long's face suddenly turned red, and he said in a low voice, "I...... I...... Hey, if you care about him, don't ask me. ”
I saw that Cheng Long's face was wrong, so I deliberately asked, "Tell me, I've known you for so long, and I don't know what your Taoist name is?" ”
"I ...... My name is ......."
Cheng Long hadn't spoken yet, but he heard the voice of the True Destiny Daoist outside.
"Brother True Color, go and clean up the master's futon in the side room."
"True color?"
The moment this voice fell, I saw that Lan Yu's eyes and I were all focused on Cheng Long's body. Cheng Long looked at the two of us, and his face suddenly turned red.
"This color is not the kind of color you think, this color is the general name of the five aggregates, and the five aggregates are the colors of the silk aggregates that are conceived and perceived, and these four aggregates are not functioning by the mind, and they have no name and no substance, so they are called colors, and this color is ......."
I really didn't listen to what Cheng Long said, Bai Nian waved his hand and said, "Senior Brother True Color, you better hurry up and find the futon, you are still in a hurry to use it here." ”
Cheng Long sighed softly after hearing this, and ran out.
It didn't take long for the two of them to come back with their things. Cheng Long was holding a goose-yellow futon in his hand, and there was a brass basin on top of the futon, which looked like cinnabar.
The two of them put their things on the side of the bed, but saw that the old Taoist master's hands turned into three clear seals, lit three incense sticks and inserted them between his hands, respectfully bowed to the door three times, and then inserted them in the incense burner.
Then he placed three pieces of yellow paper on the ground, held the pen between his thumbs with both hands, placed it on his chest and silently recited the penmantra. After reading it, his eyes opened slightly, and he threw the paper into the sky, and then silently recited some characters in his mouth.
In the middle of the night, he wiped the tip of the pen with the piece of paper that had fallen on the ground, and then took the pen and dipped it in cinnabar and waved it on the five yellow paper symbols. Soon, five yellow paper talismans appeared in front of us.
After the five paper talismans were drawn, the old Taoist chief glanced at Cheng Long beside him and said, "Child, find three, four, one and twelve incense sticks, and point them at the four corners of this room." ”
Cheng Long hurriedly complied and inserted all those incense sticks around. All of a sudden, the whole room was filled with smoke, and the smell of incense filled my nostrils.
"Don't stand in the way of the door, let them all come and eat smoothly, and don't bother me anymore when they are full."
As soon as I said that, I felt a chill hit me. I opened the Eye of Heaven and saw the black souls of the dead pouring towards our house, and the incense in the room began to run out at a rate visible to the naked eye.
And when all the incense offerings in the four corners were burned out, the old Taoist chief spoke again.
"It's time to get to work, keep watch over the corners of my house, and don't let irrelevant things come near."
With that, the crowd squeezed out of the room, and then stood in a circle around the house. Their backs were pressed against the wall, and they didn't seem to be afraid to face the sun.
"This old Taoist priest has some skills, he can ask a group of ghosts to help, this is definitely not an ordinary person."
I snorted coldly and laughed, "Of course." ”
After the shadow fell silent, the old Taoist priest began to take the cinnabar and began to draw patterns on the stone bed around the man. After ten minutes had passed, the stone bed was covered with crimson cinnabar patterns.
After the drawing was completed, the old Taoist priest took out a thin red rope from his arms, and after tying the rope to the thumb of Zheng Yong's left hand, he sandwiched the other end of the rope between his fingers.
"Light the candles."
Cheng Long and the True Destiny Dao Elder hurriedly stepped forward and lit the candle. The two candles were in front of Zheng Yong's head, and the old Taoist priest held the red rope in one hand and three incense offerings in the other, and after lighting them, they were directly inserted into Zheng Yong's mouth.
In an instant, Zheng Yong's face turned pale. The old Taoist priest looked at the slowly rising green smoke, then picked up a piece of yellow paper on the ground, lit it close to the candle, and then disappeared into thin air at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The old Taoist priest frowned tightly and stared at the incense offering in Zheng Yong's mouth.