Chapter 15: Lan Xiaoru
Uncle Hong suddenly rushed in from the entrance of the cave, looked at me kneeling on the ground, looked at the mural statue again, and asked me what happened, and I quickly told what had just happened. Uncle Hong looked very happy after hearing this, I was stunned again, and hurriedly asked Uncle Hong what was going on, Uncle Hong said: "This is Master Zu's approval of you, and he personally passed on a mantra to you, you recite it to me first." "I immediately recited the mantra just now, and even the tone was the same.
After listening to it, Uncle Hong told me that he was not familiar with this mantra, and he had seen it from a manuscript before, but due to the age, many paragraphs of words were blurred, and Uncle Hong did not recognize all the Miao characters, so he did not learn it. As for the use of this mantra, Uncle Hong said that it is probably used to drive away evil spirits and imprison, and the magic power is very strong, so it consumes a lot of mana, and I don't need it now.
I asked Uncle Hong why the voice in my head came from the mural statue, but Uncle Hong remained mysterious, and said that he would tell me later, now is not the time. I got up and took up my horse again, and said that I had just kicked about two hundred times, and that I had stopped because of the curse, and that I was going to kick again. Uncle Hong seemed to be in a good mood, and said forget it this time, I didn't have the strength to carry me back to the village after kicking and bleeding.
However, there were big blisters on the soles of my forefeet, and it was uncomfortable to walk, and finally Uncle Hong carried me back to the village slowly. On the way I asked, "How do you know something is wrong?" "Uncle Hong said that he could feel it after a long time of cultivation, and as soon as he returned home, he felt a powerful mana coming from the direction of the cave before the stool was hot, and this mana seemed familiar, so he immediately ran back to the cave.
"Actually, as long as someone casts a spell, if there are people nearby who are cultivating the same method, they can feel it." Uncle Hong said, "It's like there is a yin spirit nearby, and you can feel it naturally." If the mana is so strong, even people who practice different methods will be able to cast spells. I nodded in understanding.
Uncle Hong told me that it is naturally a good thing that I got the mantra passed on by my grandfather this time, but it also cost me a lot of mana, and I want to rest well, plus Uncle Hong himself has to practice, so I should not come back recently, it is the right thing to go to school and study, and I don't need to come back to him to learn spells if my grades are not good, I quickly said that I will study hard.
The next morning, I followed Uncle Xingguo back to the county seat, and my uncle seemed to have to stay in Heishizhai Village for a while, saying that he had something to discuss with Uncle Hong. A week later, Uncle Xingguo was going to pick up my uncle and asked me if I wanted to go back with me, I thought to myself that Uncle Hong told me not to go back recently, and the bubbles on the soles of my feet were not good yet, so if I kicked a few hundred times, it was estimated that I would have to be supported to go to school, so I refused.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye it's time to get to the end. I'm afraid that my grades will not be good, and Uncle Hong won't teach me spells, so I studied very hard during this time, and at the same time, I didn't dare to put down those spells, and I had to memorize them several times a day to rest assured. I am happy when the final grades are sent out, and I have always been at the bottom of the grades, and this final exam is still ranked in the top ten in the class, which is a big improvement for me.
The school has already closed for winter vacation, but there is still half a month before the Chinese New Year, so like most of my classmates, I chose to work in the county to earn some pocket money.
I was very lucky, I got a job in the small shop where my uncle worked before, and the work content was not difficult, that is, wearing Miao family clothes and pretending to be Miao, selling some handicrafts with Miao cultural characteristics, from nine o'clock in the morning to seven o'clock in the evening, giving twenty yuan a day and taking care of a meal, which was considered a "high-tech occupation" at that time, and my classmates were quite envious of me when they knew it.
The owner of this small shop is surnamed Lan, about 50 years old, and he has his shops at the entrance of several scenic spots in the county, but he chose this place with the most customer traffic, which he used to open his own shop and do business, and the other shops were rented out, so his income was quite considerable. During the day, only me and another guy who has been working here for a long time are on duty, and at 7 o'clock the boss personally came to take over, but there were fewer guests at night, so Boss Lan took over and just watched TV and closed the shop after a while.
In the evening of this day, the guy said that he had something to do and left first, and I continued to be on duty here until the boss came, but it was already eight o'clock and I didn't see the shadow of Boss Lan, which was a bit abnormal. I don't care, I don't have much to do after work anyway, but Boss Lan has always been very punctual, and he treats his guys well and is easy to talk to, I'm a little worried about whether something happened to him.
I lay on the counter and looked left and right, and found that Boss Lan had finally come over, but he was limping when he walked. After he approached, I saw that he also had a few scars on his face, as if he was scratched by the claws of some animal, I hurriedly asked Boss Lan if there was an accident, but Boss Lan just apologized to me, saying that something happened at home and it was delayed. He gave me an extra 5 yuan and said that it would be overtime pay, I think the boss deliberately didn't say it, and I didn't want to ask, so I had to thank him and leave.
When I went to work the next day, I saw Boss Lan sitting in the store with a sad face, so I asked him why he came, and he said that the guy had something to do at home and asked for leave, so he had to come to the day shift himself. I glanced at the shop and noticed that Boss Lan had several more bruises on his arm, so I asked him how they came from.
Boss Lan looked around for a moment, then pulled me to sit next to him, sighed and said, "Alas! These injuries were caused by my precious daughter! I exclaimed, "Huh? The daughter dares to do something with Lao Tzu, it's too unfilial, right? Boss Lan hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No! My daughter didn't know how to do it, she had an epilepsy called it! "I hurriedly asked Boss Lan what was going on, and after listening to Boss Lan's narration, I roughly knew what happened.
Boss Lan has only one daughter, named Lan Xiaoru, who just went to college at the age of 18 this year, and took advantage of the winter vacation to go to Guizhou for a while before the New Year, so he asked a few classmates to go to Guizhou to play around, but as soon as he came back after playing, he became chattering, sometimes making a lot of noise at night, and speaking authentic Sichuan dialect, sometimes smirking at a place where no one was, and laughing for hours.
The most frightening thing is that one night Boss Lan was in a hurry to go to the toilet, but when he got out of bed, he found Lan Xiaoru lying on the ground staring at him in a weird posture, calling her unresponsive, but the next day people went back to the room by themselves and asked her if she remembered anything. This is not the strangest thing, the strangest thing is that since my daughter came back from traveling, she has not eaten a mouthful of food, and she is getting thinner and thinner. One day, Boss Lan secretly observed his daughter and found that she was grabbing insects on the ground and sending them to her mouth, which frightened Boss Lan and his family, so he dragged Lan Xiaoru to the hospital for examination, but the doctor at the county hospital said that he couldn't see anything wrong and had to go to a big hospital in the province.
Boss Lan's wife took her daughter to the provincial hospital to have a look, and the doctor came to the conclusion that Lan Xiaoru suffered from intermittent mental disorders and epilepsy, and was prone to visual and auditory hallucinations, which could cause harm to herself and others, and that the disease was difficult to treat and required compulsory treatment methods such as electrotherapy. As soon as Boss Lan and his wife heard that their daughter was mentally ill and had to be tied to an electric chair, they immediately quit, and Boss Lan told his wife to bring her back quickly, they could only tie her daughter to the bed and force feed her every day, but basically she vomited. Yesterday, when I was feeding, I accidentally let Lan Xiaoru break free, and attacked Boss Lan, and it took a lot of effort to tie her back to the bed.
I thought it was strange when I heard it, and said, "This person is so good, how can he come back from a round of play like this?" Boss Lan also said that he didn't know, no one in the family had ever had this disease, it was really a sin.
While Boss Lan was talking to me, I vaguely felt a trace of yin on Boss Lan's body, so I asked Boss Lan: "Could it be that you have hit an evil spirit or something?" Have you ever asked someone to see it? "Boss Lan said that he had suspected it before, they invited a Taoist priest from other places to see, not to mention that they spent a lot of money, and the Dharma for a few days had no effect at all, and his daughter was still so noisy.
I hurriedly told Boss Lan that my master is the Miao family witch doctor in Heishizhai Village, and the people in several surrounding villages know him, and whoever has an evil spirit is looking for my master to cure it, but the master has been cultivating recently, and he may not have time, and if he is really mentally ill, I am afraid that the witch doctor will not be able to cure him. Boss Lan thought about it and asked me if I could cure it, I hurriedly said: "If it's really an evil spirit, I can feel it at most, but I'm not sure if I can cure me, and I haven't been a master yet, and the master stipulates that I can't cast spells privately, so I still have to ask my master." ”
Boss Lan hesitated, and said let me go and see it first, if his daughter really hit the evil spirit, she must personally go to Heishizhai Village with a generous gift to invite my master, if she can be cured, she will be rewarded heavily. I smiled and said, "My master is not one of those charlatans, he never charges anyone money to exorcise evil spirits and cure diseases, at most he will take you some eggs or fruits or something." Boss Lan was very happy to hear this, and said that sure enough, the masters regarded money as dung, and then Boss Lan wanted to take me to his house.
I hurriedly sat him down and said, "It's not a hurry at this time and a half, usually the night is the time when the yin qi is strong, and I'm afraid I won't be able to see anything during the day, and it's not too late to go back after work at night." Boss Lan sat down hesitantly, but he couldn't give up all day, constantly looking at his watch, and seemed to be looking forward to getting off work soon.
Just after six o'clock in the afternoon, Boss Lan said that there are not many tourists today, so he simply closed the shop early, I thought that he was also in a hurry to treat his baby daughter, and it was really torturous for him to continue to sit here, so he hurriedly helped pack up his things and prepare for closing. Boss Lan's house is in the east of the county, and it takes half an hour to walk from this scenic spot, but seeing that Boss Lan is lame but walking fast, I think this is the so-called "poor world parents", if my mother is alive, she should be so nervous if I have an accident.