After a while, the master took his cousin and came to the rice field, and the fog had begun to disperse.

I asked the master, "Master, what happened just now?" How I felt like I was about to fall asleep. ”

The master said, "That's a female ghost sucking your yang energy." ”

I asked the master again, "Is the female ghost gone?" ”

The master said, "The female ghost has not yet disappeared, and it is estimated that she is hiding in the cave again." ”

Uncle Cousin asked, "Then Daoist Chen, do you want to go into the cave and completely eradicate that female ghost." ”

The master shook his head and said, "That cave is the nest of the female ghost, and I don't know what object she will attach to when I go in, and there is really no sun, although the female ghost was injured by the bronze sword, but you see that she dares to move in broad daylight, and the Tao is very deep." I'm in a hurry, you really don't know how capable she is. ”

Uncle Cousin asked, "Then she will come out and do this in the future?" ”

The master said: "She is now injured by the sword, she should also have some scruples about the outside world, it is estimated that she will not come out again for at least a few decades, and at night we will seal the entrance of the cave with cement, and then draw a soul charm on it." As long as no one digs it up, she can't get out. ”

After a while, the fog had lifted, the sun was shining in, and the owls were gone, and the locust trees were still locust trees, and there were no more hanging branches.

Then we heard the voice of someone talking, and after a while, we saw the little cousin, who was carrying something on his back, and leading the people to come.

When my cousin saw them, he asked, "Why did you come?" ”

The little cousin defended: "Actually, we have been here for a while, but I clearly remember the previous road, but I couldn't find it alive or dead, and I just found out just now." ”

Everyone looked at the master with his bare back, my cousin and I were disgraced, and the three of them were still sleeping on the ground in the rice field, surrounded by burning paper and blood, and hurriedly asked what was going on. Uncle Cousin gave a rough explanation, and asked people to go up the mountain to help the master find the prickly herb to heal his wounds.

The person who came brought steamed buns, pickles and water, and handed them to the three of us to eat, and after eating, my cousin asked the master to lie down on the rice field to rest, and he went to the edge of the cave to instruct people to seal the hole with cement.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, the entrance of the cave was sealed, the master got up, and I followed him to the front of the entrance, and he checked it and said that it was very tightly sealed. Then he asked those who helped to deliver the things to go back, and asked me to go back with them, but I did not agree, and the master thought that the main danger had passed, so he did not force it.

After the gang sent them away, they left more than a dozen people who were in the same genus, plus me and the master and my cousin's little cousin, a total of sixteen people, the master first drew a big soul-calming talisman with a sword on the cement, and then asked people to put a pair of boys and girls paper figures at the entrance of the cave, and made the shape of two swords with burning paper, with cloud and thunder patterns painted on them, and then tied the sword behind the paper figure, and the ground was covered with burning paper, and burned together.

The master explained, just let the two little boys look at the female ghost.

By this time it was already evening, and the wind began to pick up in the mountains. The master asked everyone to eat some steamed buns to make dinner first, and to prepare for the conjuring spirit in the evening.

If it goes well, we should be able to leave here at seven or eight o'clock in the evening, and if it doesn't, it will probably take one night.

The master said, "I hope the ghosts in this village don't make trouble." ”

After my cousin finished eating, he took people up the mountain to collect firewood, and now it was almost autumn, and it would be very cold at night on the mountain.

The master asked the three people to put their heads facing north, and then placed three ever-bright lanterns at the feet of the three people, and the little cousin was about to reach the birthday of the two outsiders.

The master said that the eight characters of the birthday are like the ID card of a person in the underworld, and this must be used to summon the spirit, otherwise it may not be the person who is recruited, and the master wrote the eight characters of the three people on three pieces of red paper, and then rolled them up and burned them into the ever-bright lamp at his feet. After that, people made a cylinder of white paper and covered it with an ever-bright lamp to prevent it from being blown out by the mountain wind.

At this time, Uncle Cousin and the others also came back, and made a fire on the side of the rice field, and the master told everyone to go to the side to roast it, and now they waited for the sky to completely darken and began to summon spirits.

When my cousin went up the mountain, he had already told the newcomer about today.

Everyone is curious, why do these female ghosts like little Taoists.

The master looked at me and said with a smile: "It's not that I like the little Taoist, but because he is young and has good yang energy." ”

Uncle Cousin smiled: "It seems that ghosts also pick fat and thin, like good ones." ”

The master said: "In fact, in the final analysis, ghosts are just ghosts after death, similar to human temperament, most of them are afraid of the weak and the hard. So you see, the more those who don't look energetic, the more likely they are to meet ghosts. ”

I hurriedly argued, "I'm very energetic. ”

The master smiled: "You are still a child, don't you see that people are also bullying the small, and when you become an adult, ghosts will not dare to approach you." ”

Everyone asked the master to tell the ghost story they encountered, and the master waved his hand and said, "Don't talk about ghosts at night, people are naturally a little afraid of those invisible things, maybe you were very bold, after listening to the ghost story, you are naturally timid, and it is difficult not to be afraid at that time." And the more people think about it, the more scared they become. ”

I said, "Brother Bold is not afraid of stability. ”

Most of the people are from the surrounding villages, and they have basically seen Wang Daring and heard about him, and the little cousin smiled: "Wang Daring estimates that even if it is a ghost, he dares to marry home." ”

When the crowd heard this, they laughed.

The sky was getting darker and darker, the fire was burning more and more, and in the thatch next to it, I don't know what insects were, gradually made a noise. I sat next to the master and gathered around the fire with the others. Everyone gossiped together about the surrounding villages.

Now that I think about it, I think it's very beautiful, a group of simple farmers, not for any reward, just because of a kind heart, even if it is night, they are willing to wait silently in this mountain forest.

When it was completely dark, the master stood up, but his back injury made him lie on his back and say to everyone, "We are ready to start now." We are divided into three parts, one part goes to the door of each house in this Huaishuwan to burn paper, remember, you can only bend down to burn, you can't stand, you can't kneel, burn paper almost on a handful of incense and put it at the door. Remember, the door of every house must be burned, no matter how small the door is, but don't go into the house, and don't mind any movement in the house, and don't speak, don't say anything. Li Jin is all responsible for this matter. The other part of the people, wait a minute, I will make a few Kong Ming lanterns, you use the thread to pull, just go from here to the river, shouting the names of these three people back and forth, this Lao Zhang is in charge. Leave two people here to help me. ”

Li Jin is the person from Li Wan on the way we came, and he is very steady, so the master asked him to be responsible, and Lao Zhang refers to my cousin.

After that, everyone divided the team in a noisy manner, and my little cousin and I stayed to accompany the master.

The master uses hemp straw (which is used by the paper tie people, which is very light and dry. It was made into a frame, pasted with white paper on the top, and wax paper on the bottom to make a Kong Ming lantern, and on the white paper was painted with a red pen to attract souls.

Kong Ming lantern was first placed for people to hold, and then let go after a while, it rose like a hot air balloon, and was pulled with cotton thread below, and after a few lights were released, my cousin and they took the string and left. When leaving, the master beckoned them: if there is any movement in the river, don't go over to look, walk on the road, slow down, fast for fear that the lamp will be burned or extinguished by the candle and fall down, if there is a voice when shouting, it will be regarded as not knowing, continue to shout.

Li Jin's group had already begun to burn paper in front of every house, and the master had greeted them and couldn't speak, so they all complied. At that time, people were very simple, and they didn't think about being in the limelight or anything, and the master was still very prestigious in the local area, so everyone believed in him, and everything was fine.

The master took out a copper bell from the prop sack and asked me to wait for it to shake, the master said that the copper bell is crisp, and it has been used to summon spirits since ancient times, and many temples have bells hanging on the side, just to lure the dead over and surpass them.

The master had already put on the tattered robe again, held a handful of incense in his hand, lit it, chanted words in his mouth, and began to summon spirits, I followed the master, took a step, and shook the bell. Circle around three people lying on the ground.

The little cousin stood aside, holding a bowl of water in his hand, and the master told him to feed water if anyone woke up. I and the master are like singing, taking big steps, taking a step and stopping, the master recites a sentence, I shake the bell, and every time I circle to my little cousin, the master dips his fingers into the water in the bowl.

After a few turns, the little cousin suddenly said in horror: "Daoist Chen, I just felt someone throw me in the back with a stone. "At that time, my little cousin was standing on the edge of the rice field, and there was thatch outside, and there could be no one over there.

The master said, "Don't be afraid, it's something that makes trouble, and if it throws it at you again, you will scold, but don't look back." ”

After a while, the little cousin began to scold.

We continued to circle around, and the little cousin suddenly moved, and a stone the size of a fist rolled out of the ground, and the little cousin said with a cry: "You see that he used such a big stone to still me." ”

The master stared at the darkness over there, put the incense in his hand in the direction behind the little cousin, blew it, and the smoke drifted to that side, and the master said, "Don't be ignorant, and if you provoke it again, you will not have good fruit to eat." ”

Then we continued to circle around, and just after walking two laps, the little cousin suddenly rushed in and said that the fourth brother Zhang Jian had woken up. Then he was there to feed him water, and the master said, "Just feed him a few bites, and move him to the edge of the fire." Let him roast the fire. ”

The little cousin moved over, very happy that Zhang Jian woke up, after all, he was a relative, but he wanted to look at Zhang Jian, afraid that he would be confused and not roll into the fire, but he had to stand next to us and take a bowl of water.

So he stood up and shouted to the silent paper-burning man on the other side of the house, "Hey, two people are back." ”

The master said: "There is no need to call someone back, Zhang Jiansoul has just come back, he will not move, and we are standing so close, it's okay." ”

The little cousin nodded, and was about to walk back, when an answer came from the house: "Oh, I'll be right here." ”

The key is that this voice is neither yin nor yang, and there is a little smile at the end, and we have the impression that there is no such voice here.

When the little cousin heard this, something was wrong, and he subconsciously shouted: "It's not calling you." ”

The master whispered, "Oh no, I've messed with something bad." ”