Chapter 2: The Tower of Silence and the Prayer Wheel
In the dimly lit little house, my parents' wishful thinking crackled.
My mother said to my father, "When I get the 20,000 yuan from the young man who found the corpse, I can also bring back the body that lost money." That girl has been wrapped in a red cloth by me, and the three souls and seven spirits will definitely not be able to escape. When the time comes, I'll make a good thing out of her soul. ”
"What's the fun?"
My dad asked, "Isn't it what you often talk about?" What do you say that girl was also killed by you, keep her soul at home, not afraid of being afraid? ”
"Afraid of what?"
My mother said that before she left the cabinet, she secretly learned a lot of secret techniques at my grandfather's house.
One of them is called the Daughter Sacrifice.
It is an ancient feng shui used to change the fortune of the family: in ancient times, daughters were cheap, and some families killed their daughters when they were born. But death is death anyway, so it's better to let her start to play.
The function is to put a feng shui array on the foundation of the house and bury the daughter's body in it.
He also used secret methods to ingest the girl's three souls: fetal light, cool spirit, and ghost.
The three souls are in the three clear positions, corresponding to the three clears: Yuqing, Taiqing, and Shangqing.
Then use secret methods to ingest the girl's seven spirits: corpse dog, Fu Ya, Bird Yin, swallowing thief, non-poisonous, filthy, stinky lungs. The seven spirits correspond to the seven stars of the Big Dipper: Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianheng, Yuheng, Kaiguang, and Shake Light.
The body is trapped by the soul of the Sanqing Beidou Formation, showing a pattern of accepting qi.
This pattern can put the impending bad luck, misfortune, disaster, and misfortune in a family on the girl in battle. The three souls and seven spirits of this daughter have blocked all the disasters for the family, and the family must have been safe and sound, but the soul of the dead baby in the battle has been tormented.
But that's not what they're thinking about.
For them: to be born a woman is original sin.
My dad couldn't stop clapping his hands when he heard this, saying that after he brought the dead girl back and set up this array, they wouldn't have to suffer from poverty anymore.
When the time comes, I will have a son and move to a big city to live.
Later, my dad asked again: "But isn't this girl too sorry for doing this?" ”
My mother gritted her teeth and said hatefully: "This dead girl, when I gave birth to her, I suffered so much, I didn't give birth to her and strangled her to death, and let her live a few more years, she repaid us." ”
It turned out that my mother had a hard life all her life and had never bumped into a ghost.
She dared to walk at night on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, and the ghosts around her avoided her. It can be seen how hard her life is. A woman's life must be soft, and she can live well in her life.
Life is hard, destined to suffer.
My mom didn't think so, and she was always proud that she had never bumped into a ghost until the day she gave birth to me.
Somehow, when she was in a trance of pain, she saw ghosts coming from all directions, all pointing around her and saying something.
Those bull-headed and horse-faced, green-faced, white-faced, and even bloody things on her face really scared her a lot.
Later, my master, that is, Lao Qian, said that because I was a Yuan Yin life, a girl born in the Yin year and the moon and the Yin Dynasty, the four pillars were all yin, not to mention the canopy, so even my mother was affected.
My mom secretly learned fortune telling, so she naturally knows it.
So I've always been "holding a grudge" against me, thinking that I ruined her "British name" that she had never seen a ghost in her life, and that ghosts had to take a detour when they saw her.
When they said these words, Lao Qian and I were right at our doorstep.
Lao Qian said to bring me back and ask my parents for clarification.
When my father saw me, he thought that I had drowned, and I had turned into a ghost so soon and came back to look for them, and he rushed into the hall under the cypress coffin and shivered: "It's none of my business, it's all your mother's idea, if you want to find her." ”
My mother was bold and had learned some half-baked Taoism.
She could see that I was not a ghost, and her eyes were surprised that I was not dead, she obviously burned the rune paper and called the water ghost to come and pull my feet, and I was tied with my hands tied, so it stands to reason that there is no chance of survival.
I glanced at the money string behind me again, and immediately understood that I had been rescued.
Qian Chuanzi's sharp Ruifeng eyes had already swept on her face: "Okay, good, as the saying goes, tiger poison does not eat children." But there are hundreds of people and thousands of kinds in this world, and the eight parts of the heavenly dragon are like all beings. It's really anyone, even his own daughter. ”
My mother didn't bother to reason with him, so she only snorted coldly: "What do you want?" ”
"Not good,"
Qian Chuanzi said: "I'm just here to tell you, contemptible people have traveled all over the world over the years, and they have also bought a lot of novelties. When you were talking in the room just now, I happened to have a tape recorder in my bag. ”
My mother's eyes narrowed dangerously.
Qian Chuanzi didn't see it, and continued to say to himself: "In my opinion, you don't want this kid, right?" ”
My mother can see the momentum of the money skewers, even if she says she wants the child back now, the money skewers will not give it. Qian Chuanzi can also see my mother's momentum, even if she wants to get the child back, this child will not live long under her.
So on the way here, he told me that he would accept me as an apprentice in the future and inherit his mantle.
When my mother saw that Qian Chuanzi looked like she was bound to win, and he had a recording of her crime in his hand, she could only grit her teeth and say, "Yes!" Adopt if you want. ”
"That's a good feeling."
Qian Chuanzi took my hand and turned around and left: "Little apprentice, go home with Master." ”
I was young and ignorant at the time, and I didn't say anything to break off the relationship with my parents, and I just felt that I never wanted to go back here again, and I never wanted to see these two so-called parents again.
Walking out, I heard my dad ask her, "Why did you let her go?" ”
My mother was very impatient: "If you go, you will leave, and it is rare for her to lose money." Besides, it's not like you didn't see what you just saw. Tomorrow I told the outside that she was dead, and she was going to die, and our village wouldn't care about her daughter anyway. As soon as she left, she made room for us to have a son. ”
That night, I took Master's hand and walked farther and farther away, never looking back.
Ten years have passed, and now I am sixteen years old, and I am already a cardamom girl.
Master also gave me a name, Xiao Kunning.
Xiao takes the meaning of filial piety, and the word Kunning is taken from the Tao Te Ching: the sky has a clear, the earth has a Ning, and the gods have a spirit. The sky is dry in the gossip, and the earth is kun for virtue.
Master wanted me to be virtuous and peaceful all my life, so he gave me the name Kunning.
My master, Qian Chuanzi, said that he was a Taoist priest, but in fact, he had a Taoist temple on Yunshan. It is said to be a Taoist temple, but in fact it is only three thatched houses.
Master is not only my disciple, but also two brothers and a sister.
But he loves me the most, and often takes me with him when he goes up the mountain to pick herbs, and takes advantage of this kung fu to secretly tell me some secrets of his own sect. He said it was all the stuff he was pressing at the bottom of the box.
The senior brother has followed him for more than ten years, and he has only learned a little fur.
I said, Master, aren't you partial?
But the master squinted at me: "What do you know?" This is called talent, and your brothers and sisters are too stupid to comprehend the essence of it. You are gifted and intelligent, and you are born to be Mr. Yin and Yang. ”
I didn't seem to understand, so I flipped through an ancient book in my hand to the master: "But I don't understand either, I have read this "Xuantian Kanyu Secret Book" more than a dozen times, but I don't understand a little. ”
Master jumped down from the high cliff of Lingzhi: "Feng Shui is three points of theory and seven points of practice, and many things can only be learned by going to actual combat investigations. In the future, if you have the opportunity, Master will take you down the mountain to study. ”
I nodded, but in my heart I felt like a monkey who learned from the ancestor of Bodhi, and I secretly learned all the good things. Master also told me not to show off with my brothers and sisters, and to keep a low profile.
It is precisely for this reason that Senior Sister Lin Shenyan often chatters with the second senior brother, what little apprentice? I think Xiao Kunning is eighty percent of the illegitimate daughter of the master and which woman he gave birth to at the foot of the mountain. The master loves his daughter very much, and he has taught him everything.
When Master and I went back with the herb basket on our backs, it was already evening, and the second senior brother ran out to catch Master's basket and pointed to the thatched hut with the lights on: "We have guests in our house. ”
"Oh?"
Old Qian raised his eyebrows and was quite surprised, glanced at the room or entered: "I don't know which distinguished guest is coming?" ”
According to the rules, the apprentice cannot follow the master after he enters.
I put down the herb basket, and when I came out, I saw Lin Shenyan looking around the two things inserted at the gate, and muttered from time to time: "What is this?" ”
Lin Shenyan is from the Northeast, and she was already ten years old when the master accepted her, so she naturally spoke in the Northeast.
When I looked, there were two things stuck in front of the gate: a pagoda-like shape, rising like bamboo shoots. It's full of skulls, and I don't know if it's real or not. One was a long cylindrical pillar covered with smooth black silk that looked like human hair.
The two things will rotate when they are blown by the wind, and the skulls of the former collide with each other with a loud sound, like a mountain ghost howling forest. The latter made a soft brushing sound, like hair brushing off the paper.
"What is this?"
The senior sister still kept looking around the two things, as if she wanted to know what was in them: "What is the use of this thing that I have never seen before?" ”
"Senior sister."
I shouted to her, ran to her and said, "Master said that we can't touch the things brought by guests. Beware of Master scolding you for a while. ”
Senior sister didn't like me, but when she heard my words, she reminded her to be angry: "I want you to take care of it!" ”
After speaking, he also called the second senior brother, and the two of them squatted in front of the two things together, listening to the sound of the two things being blown by the mountain wind, and the soft long hair-like black silk swept their faces.
As I watched from the sidelines, I couldn't help but wonder if they would let the supple black silk sweep across their faces if they knew what those two things were.
Those two things are actually the silent pagoda and prayer wheel of Tibetan Tantra.
They are all used to collect the things of the dead.
What's going on?
On the Tibetan plateau, there is a sky that Taoism cannot penetrate. Tibetan Buddhism is believed in that place, people do not bury or cremate after death, the body does not return to water or fire, does not enter the rotation of the five elements, and is popular for celestial burial.
That is, the Tibetan monk and the lama presided over and fed the corpses of the dead to the vultures to eat.
Before feeding the body of the dead to the eagle, the lama would peel off the hair of the dead man and the scalp together, and after the corpse was buried, only a skull remained, which the lama would take back.
Return the dead man's skull to the Tower of Silence with hair hanging from the prayer wheel.
When Tantra acts, it uses these two things as magic weapons to kill thousands of demons and demons, and subdue the hatred of sentient beings.