Chapter 22: White Cloth
In the night, the hall was full of white cloth and elegiac couplets.
More than twenty coffins, placed there, looked a little weird.
Some of the villagers have already gone home.
Relatives and relatives, a small part of them stayed behind to keep the spirit.
Of course, there are also some villagers who are not afraid of big things when they see the excitement, waiting to see how the ritual of conjuring spirits will be carried out.
Naturally, the children could not stay, and the timid women naturally left, and most of the men who remained were in the prime of life.
The village chief organized about seven or eight people, holding the banner of the spirit in their hands, and followed behind Jia Daochang.
Jia Daochang held a copper bell in his hand, shook it slightly, and made a jingling sound, melodious, ethereal and tactful in the long night.
Two children, one holding a spirit tablet in his hand, engraved with the name and birth date of the deceased.
Seeing Fang Xuan standing aside and watching, but he didn't make any moves, Daoist Jia couldn't help frowning slightly, stepped forward, and said, "Daoist Fang, the conjuring ceremony is about to start, don't you prepare something?" ”
Fang Xuan smiled and said, "My method of sending soul summoning is simple, you can ask someone to fetch a lantern for me, and you can ...... it."
"Just the lantern?" Jia Daochang was slightly stunned, as if he was a little surprised.
Fang Xuan nodded and said, "You summon spirits, aren't you going to inspect the place where the deceased's crime occurred?" It stands to reason...... I will take a paper lantern and paste it with a charm, and go out to inspect it, and if I see the soul of the deceased, he will definitely come back with me......"
"Oh?" Seeing Fang Xuan's understatement and his affirmative appearance, Daoist Jia was a little unconvinced in his heart.
Your conjuring is so simple, doesn't it seem that our conjuring is complicated?
In this way, my Jia Daochang's ability is not as good as yours?
Thinking of this, although Daoist Jia was a little unhappy in his heart, he didn't show it, and said, "In that case, I'll ask Dao Tong to give a list to Daoist Fang...... When you enter the mountain later, you can do things on your own. ”
"Okay." Fang Xuan nodded.
"Take a list, take a lantern!" Jia Daochang looked at Daotong and shouted.
Dao Tong hurriedly took a lantern made of white paper and a list of the dead, stepped forward, and handed it to Fang Xuan.
Jia Daochang didn't pay attention to it at the moment, the dust in his hand was raised, the copper bell shook, and he shouted: "Let's go." ”
After that, he took the lead and walked ahead.
The people behind hurriedly followed, and the team looked mighty and imposing.
When the villagers saw it, they gave a thumbs up one by one.
Ah Hai and Liu Laosan accompanied Fang Xuan.
A group of people, out of the village, went straight to the mountains and forests.
That night, the bodies of these twenty or so people were found in the same area, not too far apart, so the villagers concluded that these dead people were either besieged by wild beasts on the way home together, or they had collided with demons.
At night, the humidity in the mountains was heavy, and after walking for about half an hour, the clothes were already stained with dew.
The village chief and Jia Daochang walked ahead, and after a short time, they came to the place where the deceased was found.
"Wandering souls, where to stay, three souls coming, spirit coming, soul returning......"
Jia Dao chanted aloud, the mantra was melodious, as if floating in the mountains and forests, and the night seemed to become more gloomy and gray.
The villagers who followed behind only felt as if there was an inexplicable cold wind, constantly blowing on the back of their necks, and they felt cold.
All of a sudden, many people shuddered.
Jia Daochang shook the copper bell in his hand.
The bell rang quickly......
The whole mountain forest, the hollow valley is quiet.
Call......
Suddenly, in the mountains and forests, it seemed that a demonic wind suddenly blew, and it came straight towards this end with a "whoosh".
"Oops...... Be careful......"
Everyone exclaimed in surprise, and they were all so frightened that they hurriedly retreated.
Jia Daochang's face froze, and he shouted: "Ready!" ”
"Yes."
At this moment, the two Dao Tong also seemed to suddenly become serious, their faces were shocked, and they blocked the spirit card they were holding in their hands.
Before the village chief could react, he only saw Jia Daochang beside him, suddenly dancing with his hands and feet, reciting strange scriptures in his mouth, jumping and jumping towards the place where the demon wind was blowing in front of him.
Bell bell bell ......
The sound of the brass bell, passing through the forest, echoed in everyone's ears.
The villagers, who were originally panicked, seemed to have calmed down a little when they heard the sound of the copper bell.
"Don't be afraid...... It's just a conjuring, and there is Jia Daochang in the ...... It's going to be fine......"
One shouted.
"That's right...... With Jia Dao here, let's not be afraid......"
In the crowd, many people spoke in agreement.
The momentum of the crowd suddenly increased a lot.
Ah Hai looked at Fang Xuan on the side, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Daoist Fang Dao? ”
Fang Xuan took a deep breath, but his gaze was looking in the direction of the other end of the mountain forest, slowed down, and said, "Ignore them first, let's go here...... I feel the breath of a ghost......"
With that, he raised his feet and walked towards the mountains and forests.
"This ......" Liu Laosan was slightly stunned, not knowing what to do.
A group of people entered the mountain, and now Fang Xuan was going in the opposite direction, which was a little unbelievable.
Ah Hai trusted Fang Xuan, patted Liu Laosan on the shoulder, and said, "Lao Liu, keep up." ”
The two immediately hurriedly followed.
The three of them only walked for a quarter of an hour, and faintly, only to see a dark green figure appear under an ancient tree not far ahead.
"Ah Biao? It's Ah Biao......"
Liu Laosan was startled, and immediately shouted.
At this moment, Fang Xuan and Ah Hai naturally saw the faint green figure as well.
This man's name was Ah Biao, and he was one of the more than 20 villagers who died.
Ah Biao's wandering spirit, at this moment, his eyes were dull, as if he was delirious, and he was in a trance, constantly floating under the ancient tree.
Liu Laosan and Ah Hai, when they were on the black dirt road, they had already seen a lot of wandering spirits, and now that they see it again, they naturally have no fear in their hearts.
He ...... What's he doing? Ah Hai frowned and asked.
Fang Xuan's face was grim, and he said: "Not long after he died, the soul did not produce its own independent consciousness, under normal circumstances, after death, people will be in a state of confusion at the beginning, and the ancient trees in the mountains and forests are generally very yin, he just relied on his instinct to find a place full of yin qi and attach to it." ”
"I see...... Strange, how can we see geists? Liu Laosan looked surprised.
It stands to reason that unless some people are born with yin and yang eyes, otherwise...... It's almost impossible to see a geist, especially a geist like this who has just died and is in a state of confusion.