Chapter 39: The Jade Bracelet

Early the next morning, the master took me to Qingtan Town.

We arrived on the street of Qingtan Town, because of the last exorcism, most of the people on the street knew us, and led the master into the house, but the master refused, so he talked to the people in the town.

The people in the town said: Four days ago, there was indeed a car that hit the guardrail and rushed into the reservoir, when someone saw it, they went to rescue, there were two people in the car, one died on the spot, the other was also seriously injured, sent to the county central hospital to rescue, I don't know if it was rescued. Later, a family member came to deal with the aftermath, saying that these two people were sisters, the one who died was the elder sister, and the one who rescued the younger sister was the younger sister.

As soon as I heard it, was it really guessed by the master, that woman no one lied, but why was she in the reservoir?

The master then took me to the county seat by ferry.

It was my first time on a boat, and the reservoir was beautiful and the water was bottomless. It's just that the ferry is louder and I'm a little seasick again.

When he arrived at the county seat, the master inquired all the way and went to the central hospital.

Fortunately, we were all dressed in ordinary clothes, and we didn't wear any gowns or anything, so no one cared, and when we found out the ward number of the rescued woman, we went up the stairs.

The master asked, "Your mind is spinning fast, what reason do we have to come to see her?" ”

I thought for a moment and said, "You just said that we are fish farmers in the reservoir, and the car entered our fish pond and scared the fish stupid." Come and ask for compensation. ”

The master glared at me and said, "It's not serious." ”

The master and I came to the ward, hesitated, the master still knocked on the door, and after a few minutes, a middle-aged man with glasses opened the door, looked at us strangely, and asked, "Who are you?" ”

The master smiled dryly and said, "We are fish farmers in the reservoir. ”

"What is the fish farmer looking for me? My family is not in the fish business. ”

The master paused, but still said, "I'll tell you the truth, we are Taoist priests on the other side of the reservoir, and we received a call from your daughter." ”

The middle-aged man looked at us, looked back again, and said, "You guys are insane, my daughter has been in a coma for a few days, what are you calling you?" ”

As he spoke, he was about to close the door, but the master hurriedly blocked it and said, "We are really Taoist priests, we really received a call from your daughter, you said that your daughter was in a coma, I suspect that your daughter is out of her body, and her soul is trapped in the reservoir." ”

The more the middle-aged man listened, the more angry he became, and said: "At first, he said that he was a fish farmer, and now he is a Taoist priest, I think eighty percent of you know about our family, thinking that we will go to the doctor in a hurry and pretend to be a Taoist priest to cheat us out of money." ”

As he spoke, he pushed the master out and closed the door.

The master still didn't give up, and was about to knock on the door, I thought to myself: Why are we in a hurry about other people's affairs, and he doesn't believe you.

Just as he was thinking, the door was opened again.

The one who opened the door was a middle-aged woman, with two deep tear stains on her cheeks, and it seemed that she had been crying a lot these days.

The woman led us in, a separate room, with a man lying on a bed in the middle, with gauze wrapped around his head and oxygen stuck in his nose.

The middle-aged woman moved two chairs for us to sit on, sat respectfully next to us, and said to us, "Two Taoist leaders, what you said is true?" The master nodded, and the middle-aged man sitting on the edge of the hospital bed wanted to speak, but the middle-aged woman glared at him, and finally swallowed the words back.

The middle-aged woman looked into my eyes and asked, "Little Taoist, what you said is true?" Didn't lie to us? ”

I nodded, and the middle-aged woman gently wiped her eyes and asked, "What did my daughter say?" As soon as she finished speaking, the tears in her eyes kept rolling down, and the middle-aged man walked over and patted her on the shoulder.

The master thought for a while, organized the language, and said: "These days, we have been receiving phone calls in the middle of the night, but there is no sound, and then it may be because my little apprentice asked first, your daughter thinks my little apprentice is credible, so she told us, saying that she is now trapped in the reservoir, her sister and many people will not let her go, she feels different from her sister, and she is very scared." Today we went to the reservoir and inquired about your family, so we rushed to the county seat to see that your daughter is now unconscious, so I guess that it is likely that your daughter's soul is trapped in the reservoir. ”

After hearing this, the middle-aged woman choked up and said: "My eldest daughter and youngest daughter are in love with the same man, so they have often quarreled recently, and they have made our old couple upset, and the young people are not easy to say, so they persuaded the two children to go to the mountains to see the scenery and relax, there is no need to stare at a man." I didn't want them to quarrel again on the road, and even suspected that they had done it, so they hit the guardrail and turned into the reservoir. ”

The middle-aged man said angrily: "I told you not to let them go out together, that man is not a thing, after these two children had an accident, they didn't even look at it." ”

The master didn't answer the phone, just watched quietly.

The middle-aged woman continued: "The two of them had a very close relationship when they were young, who knows what kind of madness they got when they met this man, and now that the eldest daughter is dead, I don't know if this younger daughter, what can the Taoist chief do to save it?" ”

The master thought for a while and said, "Can you give me a piece of jade and something like that your little daughter brought with her, as well as her birthday." ”

The middle-aged woman listened, took out a jade bracelet from her arms, and said, "This is what my youngest daughter has been carrying, but fortunately I didn't lose it this time." As he spoke, he was about to hand the bracelet to the master, and as soon as the master stretched out his hand, the middle-aged man hurriedly took it and said, "How can you believe everything, or a teacher, I estimate that these two Taoist priests are cheating money, if my daughter doesn't wake up, they run steadily, if my daughter wakes up, they will run back and knock us again." ”

The master said embarrassedly: "You really misunderstood us, we are really Taoist priests, we really want to save your daughter, otherwise we wouldn't have come here, and we wouldn't have asked you for a penny." ”

The middle-aged woman snatched the jade bracelet from the man and said to him: "This bracelet is only more than 1,000 yuan, whether the money is important or the daughter's life is important." ”

When the man heard this, he was very helpless, waved his hand, and said, "I won't listen to my lover, so you can take it." Be fooled. ”

The master took the jade bracelet and said embarrassedly: "I will definitely return this jade bracelet to you in the future, but I am afraid that it will be broken." ”

The middle-aged man scratched his head angrily, probably thinking that we were liars.

The middle-aged woman was still very respectful, and said respectfully: "If the Taoist can save my daughter, let alone the bracelet, we will give it tens of thousands of yuan." ”

The master waved his hand, and then took me away, and in the afternoon we returned to Qingtan Town, and the master bought some sacrifices, while I ran back to Daoist Bay to get Taoist robes and ritual weapons.

When I returned to Qingtan Town, it was already dark, and when I passed by the mountains, I always felt that there were people behind me, I had tried to sense the aura, but I always couldn't understand it, and I always felt that someone was following me, a little suspicious.

When we arrived at the reservoir, the master hired a small boat in the local area, which we call a small rowing boat locally, which is similar to a canopy boat, but without a roof, and it is relatively small.

The owner of the boat is a big brother surnamed Zhou, in his thirties, the master asked me to call him Brother Zhou, and the master called him Xiao Zhou, he was responsible for helping us row the boat at night, and we were going to the center of the reservoir.

The master bought a lot of pork, burned paper, and made a dozen white lotus flowers out of hemp straw wood and white paper (the bottom is a wooden plank, on which is a hemp straw, and a candle is inserted with a bamboo stick in the middle of the hemp straw, and the flowers and leaves made of white paper are around it, and the soul charm is drawn on it).

The master asked Brother Zhou's birthday, and it should be possible to calculate the eight characters, and he can touch the water at night. Then we were on the shore, burned all the paper we bought, and sacrificed the pork, and the master asked me and him to put on Taoist clothes, and then the three of us kowtowed to the reservoir three times, toasted a glass of wine, and then spilled the wine into the burning paper.

When the burning paper was almost done, the master asked us to move all the sacrificial pork to the alcove in the middle of the boat, put the paper white lotus in the bow of the boat, and put a horse lantern in front of it to illuminate it.

After that, Brother Zhou began to paddle, and the boat began to move slowly towards the center of the reservoir.