Chapter 5: Please Yinji
The next morning, I opened my eyes, it was already 12 o'clock, I don't know why I slept for so long, I was tired, and when I thought of what I saw last night, I immediately ran to the window and looked down.
In the yard below the unit building, the garbage cans are neatly arranged, the ground is very clean, and it seems that nothing has happened at all.
"Is it a dream?" I muttered that I wanted to go to work, but as soon as I thought of what my blind mother-in-law had told me not to go anywhere for a few days, I called and asked for a week's off.
However, the strange thing is that after 3 days in a row, no strange things have happened around me, and the ghost in the cemetery did not come to me, nor did Wu Xiaoli and Li Nan come to me.
I was having dinner when the phone rang, an unfamiliar number.
"Boy, hurry up, my wife and I decided to save you."
It was the little old man, and I immediately put down my chopsticks.
"Okay, I'll come right over."
"But that's the cost!"
"It's easy to say anything."
I went straight out, this will, I just hope that I can return to my original life as soon as possible, and I don't want to have anything to do with these things.
On the fortune-telling street, it is still very lively, I really envy these people, obviously they have not seen anything evil, but they are happy to come here, willing to be cheated of money, I may have thought so before, but now, I just want to be saved, even if the family is bankrupt.
Walked into the shop of the blind woman and the little old man, the two sat on the table, drinking tea, and the strange thing was that on the table, there was a copper basin, which was full of water, and in the middle of the copper basin, there was a copper coin.
I sat down.
"Boy, listen up, in the past few days, I have discussed with my wife for a long time, and there is only one way to save you."
I nodded earnestly.
"Alas, young man, you were destined to bring seven evils, and when you were born, you came to the ghost gate."
I walked over tremblingly, and the blind woman stretched out her hand, holding a pin in her hand, and a red rope was tied to the end of the needle, and on the rope, a paper figure was tied, and some red words were written on it that I could not read.
"Hand out."
I held out a hand, and then the blind woman grabbed the middle finger of my right hand and stabbed it with a pin, grinning, though I didn't know what she was going to do, and the blood dripped into the basin on the table.
The little old man walked to the door and pulled down the roller shutter door, and the light in the room suddenly became dim red, and the Sanqing enshrined on the shrine looked a little gloomy.
"Old man, light the three-star lamp."
After a while, the little old man came over with a lamp that looked a little strange, like a tree branch, and the three places where the flames were lit were different in height.
Suddenly, at the moment when the little old man put down the three-star lamp, the blind woman began to mumble and recount, she let go of my hand, and threw the pin in her hand into the basin, and the needle seemed to be alive, and did not sink to the bottom of the water, but kept spinning in the middle of the water.
I was a little stunned, and at this time, I saw that the blood I had just dripped into the basin did not melt with the water, but became more and more bright red, like thick red ink, hovering and hovering near the needle.
"People have three souls and seven spirits, three souls, fetal light, cool spirit, ghost, spirit, corpse dog, Fu Ya, finch yin, swallowing thief, non-poisonous, defilthy, stinky lungs, and young man, you are the fetal light of the three souls, as soon as you are born, you are possessed by dead things, and the seven spirits, because of the conflict with the seven evils, there are seven killings in life, the wife and I have never seen such numerology in my life."
"Mother-in-law, what should I do?"
Then the blind woman raised her head and opened her eyes, and I was so frightened that I took a few steps back, and her eyeballs, which were white, looked a little frightened.
"Young man, you will go back later, do what I say, whether you can be saved, it depends on your creation, you can take this spiritual needle."
I carefully took the pin out of the water and put it in my pocket.
"Young man, I'll come to see you tomorrow morning, and if you die, I'll help you out."
The little old man tapped me on the shoulder, and I gave him a resentful look.
After leaving the fortune-telling street, I quickly rushed to the vegetable market, according to the blind woman, the only thing that could save me was to ask Yin Si, the so-called ghost, need chicken, duck, fish, cattle and sheep, these five kinds of meat.
I went directly to some supermarkets, bought cooked food, big bags and small packets, some heavy, followed by I went to buy eggs, a total of 81, after buying things, I quickly returned home, took out the steamer, got the eggs in, set the timer, I went out again.
Next to buy incense paper and small stone mill, according to the little old man said, paper money can buy as much as you want, fortunately outside our unit community, there is a fragrant paper shop, I bought a whole 10 boxes of paper money, regardless of the strange eyes of others, a box of people from the incense paper shop to help get back.
As soon as it passes 12 o'clock tonight, tomorrow will be the first seven days of Wu Xiaoli and Li Nan, the so-called soul night, according to what the blind woman said, if I can survive tomorrow, these seven killings will be regarded as a catastrophe in the past.
In the evening, I ate some things casually, put a folding writing desk, placed it in the position of the east, just the position of my window, and arranged a hall, an incense burner, with 7 incense sticks inserted in it, the blind woman said, as soon as it was 12 o'clock, it was lit immediately, and the soil in the incense burner was given to me by the blind woman.
As soon as I opened my small pocket, there was a strange smell wafting out, I don't know what it was, it was a little sour, but it was a little salty.
I offered eggs and five kinds of meat, and then, as the blind woman said, I hung a pin tied to the paper figure on the ceiling with a thin string, facing the hall.
Finally, I set up the small stone mill on a chair, lifted it to a place about a meter from the window, and I sat down at the front of the hall and began to take out boxes of paper money.
After preparing all this, it was already dark, I didn't turn on the lights, in the house, the light was a little dim, the blind woman said, ghosts are afraid of bright lights, so don't turn on the lights.
It's 11:20 now, and there are still 40 minutes left, I don't know what the meaning of what I'm doing, and I may have thought that I didn't have a mental problem, but now, I just hope that after 12 tonight, I can spend tomorrow in peace.
Time passed minute by minute, the back of my palms and hands were sweaty, and the alarm clock on the table flashed red, as if urging life, and the numbers on it were beating uneasily.
I looked at the stone mill, I don't know what the blind woman said, whether it is true or false, when I was in elementary school, I heard a saying, money can make ghosts grind.
The blind woman said that most ghosts have a bad habit, when they see the mill, they can't help but push a few times, and after 12 o'clock, I will kneel in front of the hall religiously and burn paper, once the stone mill turns up, I will slowly burn the paper, and I want to solve the ghost that haunts me, and so on the next morning, if Yin Si accepts my money and agrees to do things for me, then the matter is over.
But if halfway through, when the rooster crows, that is, at 4 a.m., before, the stone mill stops, it means that the transaction fails, and then you can only resign yourself to fate.
At 12 o'clock, I hurriedly stood up, walked over, lit the seven incense sticks, and began to kneel in front of the brazier, silently thinking in my heart, Lord Yinsi, please help.
I took the money and began to burn it slowly, and the light of the fire in the brazier made the surroundings a little brighter, and I felt a little better.
I kept burning the banknotes, staring at the stone mill from time to time, half an hour passed, I felt my feet a little numb, but the stone mill still did not turn up, and my heart began to be a little anxious.
At that moment, the door to my room creaked open, and I closed my eyes, pleading quickly in my heart, and the chill made me shiver.
I opened my eyes slightly, and the light of the fire was beating uneasily, and the ashes in the brazier were blown to the ground.
A cold laugh sounded behind me, and I felt something behind me, and stood behind me, and I kept burning the money.
As if I saw hope, the window opened, and the stone mill slowly turned.