I accompanied Master to watch the ceremony, and I saw that the yellow mounted paper was burned weakly, and the flames were blue, as if they would die at any time.

Master looked around with his feet on his feet, then said to me with a frown, "Liu Zi's soul is gone. ”

What does that mean? Master explained to me, "I was a little strange on the day Liu Zi died, and I can only be sure today that Liu Zi's soul is trapped somewhere. ”

I thought about it carefully and couldn't help but ask, "Could it be that someone arrested me?" "Although I don't have any definite evidence, I know that there has always been a master hidden by my side, who raised powerful ghosts, destroyed the spell of doom, rescued the female ghost from Wang Duo, and even went to the village committee to save me that night.

I don't know his intentions, but I always felt that his intentions were not ordinary.

The master sighed: "I don't know about this. ”

The day after Liu's burial, the police station officially closed the case. Although Liu Erpang has not yet been found, except for the mobile phone at the scene of the crime, there is no evidence to prove that Liu Zi's death has anything to do with Liu Erpang, and even more, according to the available evidence, the police cannot prove that Liu Zi died of homicide.

On the day the police closed the case, they also lifted the blockade of the old locust tree. When Liu Tiangen came to my house to invite Master, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his old man's mind, and he whispered to me with some surprise on his face: "I may know where Liu Zi's soul is trapped!" ”

When our master and apprentice hurried to the foot of the old locust tree, the people of the village were already waiting there.

This time, my master didn't rush to burn the tree. He first circled around the old locust tree, and then asked people to put incense cases under the locust tree. My master asked Xu Xiangniu about Liu Zi's birthday, and then asked me to prepare all the yellow charms, chicken blood, brushes, cinnabar, and copper bells.

When everything was ready, the master drew eight yellow talismans with a pen, and then pasted them on the locust tree according to certain rules. He took a sip of chicken blood, spurted it out with a "poof", and then rang the bell, chanting the song aloud in his mouth.

Master sings not in Mandarin, but in a southern dialect, but fortunately, I worked in an electronics factory in the south for a few years, so I can understand fifty or sixty percent.

The general meaning of the song is to summon spirits, but the master repeated it several times, but there was no response at all.

Liu Zi's soul is not in this tree? The master wiped the chicken blood from the corner of his mouth in a dull mood, frowned and was stunned for a while, and then waved his hand to let the locust tree be burned.

Looking at Master's time to rest, I asked him, "Master, were you recruiting Liu Zi's soul just now?" ”

Master nodded: "This locust tree can gather yin, and it is also specially used for collecting yin qi in the general's tomb." Therefore, after Liu Zi died, once his soul left his body, he would immediately be absorbed into the tree. But there is no one in this locust tree. Could it be ......"

Master's face was a little ugly, he groaned for a long time, finally smashed a fist into the palm of his other hand, and said angrily, "It would be bad if that was the case." ”

I hurriedly asked him what had happened. He said: "There is an invisible channel between Zihuai and the mother locust, just like a river, and the yin qi absorbed by the Zihuai is continuously transported to the mother locust through these invisible channels, I don't know what kind of magic circle there is in the general's tomb, which can convert the yin qi transported from the outside world into nutrients and nourish the general's body." It stands to reason that if we burn the mother locust and the rest of the locust trees, the pipe for transporting yin qi between the locust trees will be broken, so Liu Zi's soul should be stranded in this locust tree, but why can't I recruit it just now? ”

I thought for a while and said, "Master, what are you looking for Liu Zi's soul?" ”、

Master said, "I want to find out the cause of his death. I always felt that his death was not simple. The absence of traces of homicide at the scene does not necessarily mean that it was actually a suicide. It couldn't be easier for a cultivator to get a ghost to cover his eyes and let him hang himself willingly. Now that we find out the cause of Liu Zi's death, we may be able to track down the ghost keeper who has been lurking beside us! ”

I nodded: "So what now?" ”

Master said, "There is one last way. You go to Xu Xiangniu to ask for a piece of clothes that Liu Zi worn, tonight at twelve o'clock, our master and apprentice will do another spiritualist ritual, if you can't find Liu Zi again, I really can't help it. ”

Liu himself was Liu Tiangen's dog leg in front of him, he charged for Liu Tiangen like a mad dog, often Liu Tiangen asked him to bite whoever he wanted, and he did everything that his master couldn't do and was inconvenient to do. Because of this, he has done a lot of evil and offended many people. Almost no one in the village looked down on him, most of them were polite on their faces, and scolded their mother as soon as they turned around.

I'm no exception. I don't have much to say to his mother-in-law. So, how could I ask Xu Xiangniu for clothes?

But fortunately, after Liu Zi died, his clothes were thrown into the garbage by Xu Xiangniu. I just have to wait until it gets dark and go to the garbage heap to find one.

I was already a thief, so I naturally didn't dare to pick up the big ones, so I found a pair of blue autumn pants that were most commonly worn by rural old men and stuffed them into my pocket and brought them back.

At half past eleven in the evening, Master and I found an intersection where no one was there and put up an incense case. Master shook his hand and clicked on Lan Qiu's pants, and asked me to shake the white banner and recite Liu Zi's name and birth date over and over again, while he danced and rang the bell while singing the song of conjuring spirits.

In the middle of the night, there was no one on the road, and our master and apprentice had a rattle bell and a flag, and the cold wind swept the white flower banner, making a burst of "puff puff" sound.

If someone sees it, that person is probably not scared to death or crazy.

The master jumped up and down for half an hour, tired and sweaty, but he didn't react at all, he gasped and said with some confusion: "It shouldn't be, even if you can't attract a soul, you should have a reaction!" ”

I scratched my head: "Is there something wrong with the link?" ”

The master thought for a moment, pointed to the autumn pants that had long been turned into ashes and said, "Are you sure this is Liu Zi's autumn pants?" ”

I said, "Then can it be fake?" I picked it up from a pile of clothes thrown out by Xu Xiangniu. ”

Master smiled coldly and said, "Snort", "Go pick up another one." Pick up the kind you've seen him wear. These pants are definitely not his. ”

What the is this. "If these autumn pants weren't his, how could they be thrown out with Liu Zi's clothes? There's no other man in his family! ”

After all, Master was well-informed, and glared at me and laughed twice: "What's so hard to guess here. It's not his, it's definitely another man's. Maybe someone is in a hurry one day, forgets to wear it, or wears it wrong. After all, such autumn pants are all over the street. ”

I immediately understood, and said with some meaning, "Master, then who do you say this is?" ”

Master said, "I don't know whose it is." But being so tossed by us, the owner of this autumn pants must be seriously ill. ”