Chapter Twenty-Four: War Cats and Ghosts
Lao Zhang said sharply: "It's late." ”
Saying that, Lao Zhang began to change, the originally handsome face grew fine hair, and the face shape also changed, slowly, into a cat face.
With a more poignant cat meow, Lao Zhang slowly spoke: "This child's birthday is the same as the birth date of the cat ghost god I raised, for so many years, I have not been able to fully grasp the cat ghost god, and recently there are even signs of backlash, only by absorbing the child's soul, I can completely master the cat ghost god, not from its backlash." ”
As he spoke, Lao Zhang pounced on us.
Master's face was grim, and asked me and Brother Wei to step back, and Brother Wei and I immediately took seven or eight steps back with interest, wanting to see how Master fought against Lao Zhang, who had "transformed".
When I saw this stance, I immediately shouted, "Boss, get him." ”
Brother Wei also cheered: "This bad coward, the ball is dead, old Ang, you don't have to give me face......"
Then, with a "boom" sound, the master was beaten out of the West House by Lao Zhang, and smashed me and Brother Wei to the ground as if he was bowling.
Looking at the master again, his face was very bad, and he could hardly see the blood, while Lao Zhang jumped from the door of the West House and landed beside us vigorously, baring his teeth.
"Master, if you have any big moves, don't be afraid of hurting me and Brother Wei, it's important to save your life now, when I read books and TV and are generally abused as dogs, when the master will transform into a big move, don't hide it at this time." I pulled Master and said hurriedly.
The master looked at me with disdain and said, "My master is the master who teaches you to read antiques, not the master who has the kung fu of pressing the bottom of the box in the sect. ”
Although the Master said this, he slowly stood up, chanted "Gollum Dorje Dorao" in his mouth, and raised the large Pupa pestle with his right hand, and in an instant, I felt that Master's aura was extremely powerful, mysterious, and majestic, just like the feeling when he was in the Potala Palace facing a room of gods and Buddha protectors, Master's not tall body became incomparably majestic at that moment, that temperament, that feeling, was simply the incarnation of Guru Rinpoche's Eight Transformations - Wrathful Vajra!
Lao Zhang was frightened by the master's momentum, and there were a few low cat meows, but he did not attack, and the master glanced in the direction of Lao Zhang's house, and then quickly returned to normal, turning into a familiar image to me, and the hand holding the Puba pestle also hung down.
Seeing this, Lao Zhang chattered and smiled: "What about scaring Dad?" ”
As he spoke, he raised his hand to make a grasping gesture, and he had to press it on the master's head.
At this time, Lao Zhang's five-finger nails are very long and sharp, and I estimate that if I catch it now, the master will basically explain.
endured the pain and thought about it, but there was another loud noise, Lao Zhang's door was kicked away, and the two-meter-high solid wood door panel hit Lao Zhang's body, Lao Zhang screamed, was knocked a few meters away, got up and stared at the door.
A person came in outside the door, it was the sloppy yogi he had seen on the Octagon Street, and in the next second, the yogi was already standing in front of Lao Zhang, chanting repeatedly: "Hum Mani Mi Coax, Hum Mani Mi Coax, Hum Mani Mi Coax ......"
It's not quite accurate to say that it is chanting, I didn't see his mouth move, but I could hear the sound of the six-character mantra.
It didn't take long for Lao Zhang to slump to the ground, and there was a black kitten squatting next to him.
The yogi beckoned, and the kitten jumped into the yogi's hand, and the yogi rubbed the kitten with his fingers, and said: "There is a good skin, no enterprising, greedy for pleasure all day long, there is no good and evil in the arts, but people are divided into good and evil." ”
"This art of offering cats, ghosts and gods, originally to save people from dying, is the art of living people's lives, but the borrowed food and property, must be returned on time, you blindly ask for it and never return it, cats, ghosts and gods will eat back on you, everything can not get rid of karma, your karma has arrived, if you can accumulate virtue and do good deeds for the rest of your life, talk about atonement, you can cultivate good results."
"If you continue to walk the side door, the reward of this world will come. I think what kind of person the Ajia Living Buddha of Natar Temple is, but he accepted you, an unsuccessful disciple. "The yogi said a lot, and his mouth still didn't move, but we could all hear it.
Lao Zhang was stunned, and after a long time, he put his hands together, and then performed the five-body salute to the ground, and said piously: "What the master taught is that the younger generation was obsessed with ghosts in the early years, and now after the master's order, Daigo recreated, and the rest of his life must be dedicated to doing good to the Buddha." ”
As he spoke, Lao Zhang took out the dzi from his pocket and returned it to the master, recited a few more incantations to the air, and said to Brother Wei that the child's soul had gone back and would be fine soon, and then apologized to the rest of us.
Then, Lao Zhang kept staring at me, and I was a little hairy, but with that great yogi, I was not too afraid, Lao Zhang suddenly spoke: "Young man, I used to be obsessed with things outside my body, but now I am lonely, you have to cherish, cherish ......"
Lao Zhang's words obviously meant something else, and I whispered: "Brother Zhang, do you know Qu Zhen, do you want me to cherish Qu Zhen?" ”
I stared at Lao Zhang, he stopped talking, looked at the yogi next to him, and I noticed that the yogi seemed to tremble when I mentioned Qu Zhen.
Brother Wei dragged me: "Take care of the ball again, Xiaoshuai, don't talk." ”
Master tugged at my sleeve and motioned for me to leave. Again, I met someone who probably knew Qu Zhen, but wouldn't tell me anything.
The master spoke: "I don't have any grievances with Lao Zhang, now that the dzi has been returned, Brother Wei's nephew is fine, everything will be fine, let's go." ”
The yogi stared at the master for a while, and then said, "The donor is a good Buddha, hope for yourself, don't take the wrong path." ”
Master folded his hands and did not speak. Brother Wei and I also followed Master's example, clasping our hands together to express our gratitude.
Then I came out of Lao Zhang's house, and when I came out, I glanced at Lao Zhang's house, and the yogi was no longer there, so Lao Zhang got up and swept the yard with a broom, probably to remove the black stone formation.
Master patted me on the shoulder and said, "Little handsome, everything is difficult at the beginning......
I immediately answered: "Then it's hard in the middle." ”
Brother Wei said: "The back is more difficult. ”
Then Brother Wei's mobile phone rang, saying that the child was fine and was about to go home.
It was already more than 12 o'clock in the morning when I returned to the hotel, and I slept very soundly this night, and I didn't hear the cat meow all night.
When I got up the next day, Master bought haggis again and ate it there, and I also got up to eat a meal last night
Too violent, very hungry.
After breakfast, Master and I went to Brother Wei's house to say goodbye, ready to leave, Brother Wei's sister and brother-in-law were grateful to me and Master, I estimate that Brother Wei must have told them what happened in Lao Zhang's house after going back last night, after being polite, I came out with Brother Wei to smoke a cigarette, Brother Wei spoke: "You don't have too many balls, pay attention to safety on the road." ”
Leaving Brother Wei's house, on the way, I asked Master: "Master, what's going on with cats, ghosts and gods, did you already know that there was a problem with the old Zhang family, and you asked Brother Wei about the situation of the old Zhang family on the first day." ”
Master smiled and said, "In the northwest area, the custom of offering cats and ghosts has a long history, and it is difficult to trace it. ”
"At first, people offered cats and ghosts, because the conditions were poor at that time, they were poor, and sometimes, they really couldn't open the pot and couldn't eat, you know, people don't have the strength to work if they don't eat, and they don't eat if they don't work, it's a vicious circle."
"If it goes on forever, some people will definitely starve to death, and the purpose of offering cats and ghosts is to borrow grain from people who have surplus grain at home when the harvest is bad, and when there is a harvest, the borrowed grain must be returned first."
"As for how to borrow and how to repay, don't worry, it's all up to the cats and ghosts, you sleep at night, and there will be food at home the next day."
"But the cat ghost god, it can move rice, it can move flour, it can move oil, but the only thing is the same, it can't move copper coins, it used to be copper coins, now it's paper money, as long as it's money, it can't move."
"Master, how do you raise cats and ghosts?" I asked again.
"This is a secret method, I won't tell you. Check Baidu yourself to see if you can find it. ”
"Master, what kind of means did you use last night, I feel so hanging." I'm serious, I went back to the hotel too late last night, and Master didn't say anything.
"I've been doing this for so many years, and I'm more or less able to do it, let me tell you this, even if that yogi doesn't come, it's a matter of minutes for me to get Lao Zhang." Master Hang'er Lang said locally.
"Then Master, you are hanging like this, why did you let the cat ghost steal the dzi and scratch your neck?"
After hearing this, the master's face turned red before he said, "I don't know like a beast, how can a master of my status a cat in a hotel in the middle of the night?" Even if I win, it will be dishonorable. ”
"Master has a point." I nodded in response.
Master didn't say anything more, but from then on, I felt that Master was definitely not an ordinary person, and if the yogi hadn't shown up that night, maybe he would have been able to get a glimpse of Master's skills.
It stands to reason that the master was so cowardly in the bone rubbing incident at that time, and he should not have suddenly increased his strength in a short period of time, and he had the ability to fight against cats, ghosts, and gods.
But this is all subjective speculation, and it doesn't count.
It wasn't until much later that I figured out that perhaps in the bone rubbing incident, Master had already seen the relationship between Ram and Yeshi, and deliberately guided the bone wiper to Sera Monastery, and then met Yeshi again, and then let Ram know the truth about the incident that year.
Of course, this is also speculation, and Master never said it.
Later, I looked up some ways to raise cats and ghosts on the Internet, and I thought they were all evil, so I didn't study them in depth, and I asked Brother Wei, and Brother Wei just said haha.
There are many ways to raise cats and ghosts, I haven't tried it, to list a few: one is to raise cats directly, and give cats as gods every day, but cats are living creatures and will run around, so after raising them for a long time, if fate arrives, cats will naturally psychic, help people complete a lot of things, at that time cats and ghosts will be cultivated, but I heard that the ability of cats and ghosts raised in this way is average;
The second is to kill the cat, take the cat's head and wrap it in the cloth, and also use the way of offering to the gods, offering it every day, if one day it is found that the food for the cat is reduced, after excluding the reduction of food caused by other reasons, it means that the cat ghost god has been cultivated, so that the cat ghost god has a great ability, but because of the cat's resentment before his death, it is easy to backlash;
There is also a compromise method, which is to find the newly dead cat corpse, to ensure that the cat's death has nothing to do with you, wrap the cat's corpse in a cloth, and make offerings every day until the food is reduced, and the cat ghost and god will be cultivated.
However, it should be noted that once you make offerings to cats and ghosts, you must give them three meals a day before you can eat them yourself, otherwise, you will be eaten by cats and ghosts, and you may directly kill the donor when you get angry.
I am reminded of what the yogi said: There is no good or evil in art, but there is a distinction between good and evil.
Later, I heard Brother Wei say that Lao Zhang became a walking monk, his footsteps were all over Qinghai, preaching Buddhism, teaching people to be kind, and he also changed some small tricks to coax children on weekdays. But I know, it's not a trick.