Chapter Twenty-Eight: Worship in the Mourning Hall
After the master took back the underworld, he turned around and walked towards Zhang Wen, stretched out his hand and pressed it on Zhang Wen's forehead, only to hear the master slowly read: "Taishang Xingxing, non-stop strain, wisdom and clarity, peace of mind."
After finishing speaking, a pale green light poured from the top of Zhang Wen's head to his whole body, and after a while, Zhang Wen trembled, and the whole person became energetic, and looked at the master suspiciously and said, "I.... What's wrong with me".
The master patted Zhang Wen on the shoulder and said, "It's okay, your mother is too tired just now and needs to rest, you take good care of it."
After speaking, the master also pointed to the woman lying on the ground, Zhang Wen tilted his head and glanced at the woman on the ground, stood up suddenly, rushed to the woman, helped her up, and shouted: "Mom, Mom, what's wrong with you, you speak"!
After Zhang Wen finished speaking, he slowly stretched out his hand between the woman's snort in horror, the master sighed, snapped his fingers, and I stood next to me, and saw an invisible Dao force flying into the woman's body, I turned my head and looked at it again, after a while, Zhang Wen breathed a sigh of relief, and after the master saw it, he said: "Zhang Wen, your mother is fine, it's just that it's been too hard these days, and she needs someone to take good care of it, and she will wake up in a few days, don't worry."
After the master finished speaking, he turned his head to look at Zhang Moyun and said, "Girl, let's go, go to your uncle's place."
Zhang Moyun nodded, and helped her mother back upstairs with Zhang Wen, and then went downstairs to go out with us.
On the way, Zhang Moyun never spoke, on the other hand, I had a lot of questions waiting for the master to answer, I glanced at the master, and said, "Master, are you sure you want to hide it?"
The master nodded, glanced at Zhang Moyun, who was a little distracted next to him, and said softly: "This is called a white lie, you just heard what the little fox said, her mother is not dead, her soul is still there, but I don't know if her mother's soul still has memories after so long, otherwise when the time comes, I am afraid that the whole person will also go crazy, first go to this girl's uncle to see the situation, maybe these two things will be related."
I also glanced at Zhang Moyun, sighed, nodded, and then the three of us stopped talking, and after a while, Zhang Moyun, who was standing next to the master, suddenly stopped, and the master and I were stunned, turned to look at her, only to hear Zhang Moyun speak: "Actually..... Actually, I saw everything just now, although my mother is not good to me, but I still hope that she is safe and okay, uncle, can you save my mother, you will definitely be able to save it."
After Zhang Moyun finished speaking, his eyes gradually turned red, and the master and I were shocked when we heard her say this, only to see the master stretch out his hand to probe Zhang Moyun's back, even I saw the reason, and then the master slowly stretched out his hand back, and said slowly: "I didn't expect that this girl of yours actually has a Dao root, don't worry, I will do my best."
Zhang Moyun lowered his head, didn't speak, and continued to walk forward, behind me, I looked at Zhang Moyun's back in surprise, but the master patted me and continued: "You kid, what do you see, let's go."
I was pulled out of shock by the master, pouted, followed Zhang Moyun's footsteps, after crossing a long dirt road, we finally arrived at Zhang Moyun's uncle's house, in an instant, there were bursts of gongs and drums, and there were many people sitting outside, the master stopped Zhang Moyun who continued to walk forward at this time, and shouted loudly: "Girl, before you go in, shake your feet, and then go to the table to get a stack of yellow paper, worship three congratulations, and burn it after worshipping, this is the number of rites, don't forget."
Zhang Moyun said yes, in the puzzled eyes of everyone next to him, walked into the mourning hall, and I and the master casually found a bench to sit down, I looked at Zhang Moyun in the mourning hall as the master said, picked up a stack of yellow paper from the table, held half of each hand and bowed three times, and then picked up a lighter from the table and burned the yellow paper in the brazier.
Seeing this, I looked at the master puzzled and asked, "Master, what do you mean by congratulations, isn't this a funeral, how can you still congratulate?"
The master glanced at me and said: "You don't know this, this is an ancient ceremony, a folk custom that has been handed down from a very early age, this kind of congratulations is not the kind you think, how to say it, it is equivalent to bowing to the deceased, each has its own saying, let's go, it's our turn."
After the master finished speaking, he stood up, I followed the master in confusion and walked in, according to the master's actions, I bowed three congratulations together, and then burned the yellow paper in the brazier, after finishing the work, the master took out three incense sticks from the table, glanced at the side, and made sure that no one was looking at this side, the master turned his hands directly, lit the three incense sticks, and inserted them in the incense burner, I saw the master do this, and I also wanted to draw out three incense sticks, but the master patted me and said: "You don't have to, let's go, go out, Someone else has just arrived, making room for them."
I nodded, put the incense on the table, and walked out with the master, but unbeknownst to everyone, behind the decoration of the mourning hall, there was already an old man wearing small glasses and a tunic staring at us.
I walked out with the master, and saw Zhang Moyun, the little girl, chatting with other people, I didn't bother, and the master found a chair and sat down, the master also grabbed a handful of melon seeds from the table next to him, handed it to me, I waved my hand, signaling that I don't want to, and then the master knocked up the melon seeds by himself, I looked at the crowd of people coming and going around and the sound of gongs and drums coming from the mourning hall, which seemed a little noisy.
The master ate a melon seed, suddenly approached me, and said, "Boy, have you noticed a familiar feeling here?"
I was stunned for a moment, and looked at the master in puzzlement, the master moved a few steps towards me at this time, almost to my ear, and said: "When I was burning incense just now, I felt that there was a not weak spiritual aura here, and this spiritual sense was slightly hostile, but I didn't see this person, it's a little strange, be careful, there may be a peer here."
I listened to the master's words, and looked around suspiciously, but I didn't see that anyone had a sense of spirituality, except for me and the master, Zhang Moyun, the little girl, had Ah, but the master could say this, I was also vigilant, and carefully looked at the crowd around me.
After a while, I suddenly felt two slightly weaker spiritual senses coming from behind us, I and the master turned our heads at the same time, but saw Zhang Moyun and a person who looked to be in his fifties walking towards us, I looked at Zhang Moyun suspiciously, but Zhang Moyun nodded at me, called me and the master to a quieter place, and said: "Uncle, Lin Xuan, this is Uncle Kong, the geographer who handled my uncle's funeral, you can ask him about the specific situation."
I nodded, and made eye contact with the master, but the master shook his head, and it was clear that this Mr. Geo was not the hostile person that the master said he was.
Then, the master turned his head to look at Mr. Geographic, arched his hand and said, "Sir, I also know a thing or two about the general situation, but there is one point that makes me extremely puzzled, can Mr. give me some pointers?"
After the master finished speaking, Mr. Geography on the opposite side suddenly laughed, waved his hand after laughing, and said: "Don't be so polite, I'm just a rough person, there is nothing to point out, if you have any doubts, say it and listen."
The master nodded, and continued: "I have a spiritual sense of the master, and I must know a little bit about Taoism, why did Mr. Tan say that this matter is not easy to solve, and he has to find someone who knows how to come."
The master threw out a question that even I was puzzled about, and after a while, the geography gentleman replied: "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, I do have spiritual awareness, but I haven't studied Taoism, just learned some Qimen Dunjia techniques, although everything seems to be normal now, but at night you will know, I have already asked Zhang Wen this young man to invite someone, so I don't have to worry so much, but, listening to your tone, brother, it seems that you are also a fellow practitioner"?
The master didn't deny it, nodded, and continued: "Already invited someone? Can you tell me where this person came from, the information"?
"Little brother, I can't tell you about this, I have also set foot in your supernatural circle, I am afraid that revealing too much about this person's identity will attract the enemy to chase and kill him, but ......"
The Mr. Geography said this, and paused, and the master was stunned for a moment, and said, "But what"?
"However, I can reveal his name to you, but I don't know if it's true or not." Mr. Geography opened his mouth and said...
The master nodded and said, "Please speak."
Mr. Geography looked around, and then looked at the gate and no one was eavesdropping, and then he said: "This person's legal name is Daogui, and the outside world calls him a true person, it is rumored that he was born in Longhu Mountain and practiced the tiger qi lineage."
When Mr. Geography said this, he suddenly realized that he had talked too much, and hurriedly closed his mouth, and the master did not ask any more, nodded, and bowed his hand to Mr. Geographic, and then led me out.
I glanced at the master and asked puzzledly, "Master, what is Longhu Mountain."
The master walked next to me, frowned and said: "Longhu Mountain is the second largest sect in the Daomen, there are two branches in the sect, one is the dragon, the other is the tiger, and there are many disciples.
After the master finished speaking, he laughed again, and walked straight to the mourning hall, I sat with the master outside the mourning hall, and I didn't know what to do, after a while, Zhang Moyun walked over to us, sat next to us, and said: "Uncle, Lin Xuan, wait a while and eat, the chef is ready, and I am afraid that there will be changes at night, you are also at ease."
The master didn't refuse, nodded, I also said yes, and Zhang Moyun began to chat without a word, I asked her relatives for a while, and asked her where the spiritual sense Dao root came from, Zhang Moyun didn't hide it, and answered me one by one.
According to herself, she didn't know when she had a spiritual Dao root, as if she was like me, she had it since birth, which made me even more curious, and during this period, I also saw Zhang Moyun and her aunt, that is, her uncle's daughter-in-law.
I saw her aunt, her spirit was a little bad, her face was a little defeated, and her eyes were a little ruddy, as if she hadn't rested for several days, Zhang Moyun said hello to me, and then helped her aunt into the room, as if to comfort her.
I sat next to the master and sighed, but the master patted me gently, I touched the back of my head, turned my head to look at the master in confusion, but the master said: "You kid, what are you sighing, this is the mourning hall, maybe there are many spirits passing by, and part of people's anger will gather in the throat, you sigh, you are not afraid of being hanged."
I touched the back of my head, pursed my lips, and said, "It's not that only when people die can a breath gather in their throats, and how can any spirit pass by in this daylight?"
"You kid knows a fart, that's a movie, you think there won't be spirits passing by during the day, you look where it's what." The chef pointed to the dishes placed by the chef on the table in the distance.
I looked in the direction pointed by the master, I!! I suddenly cursed in my heart, there are really spirits walking through this daylight, I saw an old man in gray clothes lying next to the steaming dish, and there was a very satisfied look on that grimace, I was speechless for a moment, so it must be a starving ghost.
Then the master patted my arm again and said, "No, where are you looking?"
I looked in the direction pointed by the master again, and I saw several yin spirits lying not far from the door of the mourning hall, inhaling the fragrance wafting from the incense burner, and a few yin spirits were still staring at the ashes in the brazier, swallowing their saliva, as if they had seen something that moved their hearts.
I turned my head and said to the master suspiciously: "Master, why do they all look at the brazier with the eyes of a baby, isn't there some paper ash in it?"
The master laughed and said: "You kid, isn't it silly, in your opinion, it's a pot of paper ashes, but in the eyes of these spirits, that's money, what is this money for, this is an indispensable thing if you want to walk sideways in the underworld, you kid remembered it for me, don't forget it again today."
I nodded, and the master continued: "However, it can't go on like this, the spirit body senses the spirit, I noticed that the spirit of the main lord in the coffin has not left, and when the time comes, these spirits outside will echo the spirit of the main lord inside, and there may be a lot of trouble, boy, leave it to you."
I'm confused, what do you mean to leave it to me? I looked at the master with strange eyes, but the master said in disgust: "You kid look at a fart, didn't I teach you, use the exorcism spell, don't tell me that you forgot."
I hurriedly nodded and said, "I haven't forgotten, I haven't forgotten, master, you have a good look."
After speaking, I made a seal on my hand and shouted: "People come to separate heavy paper, ghosts come to separate heavy mountains, a thousand evils can't get in, and ten thousand evils can't break through." After saying that, I moved forward a little, but the exorcism spell did not have any reaction, I looked at the handprint strangely, I did nothing wrong, how could it not be reacted.