Chapter 3: The Soul Board
After a while, we came to a courtyard with an iron gate closed, and the two iron gates in the courtyard were a little rusty, and the green paint on the iron gate had fallen a lot, revealing a yellow rusty iron sheet. The iron door was not locked, and the old lady pushed open the iron door on the left to let us in.
There were three middle-aged men playing chess in the courtyard, and when they saw us coming in, they all came up to us. The tall man who walked in front nodded slightly at Master Mao, and shouted, "Master Mao", walking behind, the two faces also showed a happy smile and greeted respectfully, "Master Mao, Master Shang, come and smoke"
The two people in the back handed Master Shang a macro sound, and also handed me a cigarette, I shook my hand, "I don't smoke, thank you,"
The old lady was a little surprised and asked the tall man, "Do you know each other?"
The tall man said to the old lady, "Hey, this is what I told you."
The old lady was full of joy, "Oh, what a coincidence, good, good ,......" and said a few good words in a row.
The tall man said to Master Mao, "This old woman rents from me, she brought her son to Chongqing to see a doctor this time, the doctor said that her son is neurotic, she said that it is a ghost, I will call her to come to you, the old woman is afraid that I will lie to her." ”
Master Mao smiled and said, "This is fate," turning his head, Master Mao pointed to a dilapidated house in the right corner and asked the old lady,
"That's where your son lives."
I think the dilapidated house is fenced with rotten bricks and covered with a plastic canopy.
The old lady nodded, "I'll call my family to celebrate my birthday," and walked towards the dilapidated house.
Master Mao gave Master Shang a look, and Master Shang went over to stop the old lady and said, "Don't be busy, listen to what my master says first."
Everyone stared at Master Mao to see how Master Mao arranged.
Master Mao pondered for a moment, "Let's build an altar here."
Master Shang said to the tall middle-aged man, "Qiu San, we are going to open an altar in this courtyard, prepare a table for us, and then lock the courtyard door."
The tall man named Qiu San agreed, and then entered the room with a fat man with a beer belly, and came out with a writing desk.
Master Shang told them to pull out all the drawers and get them into the house, and all the contents of the cabinet were empty. He opened the wooden box he carried, took out a yellow cloth with a picture of Tai Chi Bagua and spread it on the table.
When Master Shang was laying out the yellow cloth, I saw a few big characters written on the yellow cloth. I was a little curious, so I went closer to take a look.
This is the first time I've seen Mr. Taoist open the altar.
Walked to the front of the table and saw that a piece of yellow cloth that had fallen from the table had four dragons flying and phoenixes dancing, and four big characters were written vigorously and powerfully
------ the righteousness of heaven and earth.
The yellow cloth is a little dipped in color, and when those words are written, the black ink is soaked to the side, and those words look more quaint. Coupled with these words, I felt a very big and arrogant feeling.
"Master Shang, you wrote this word, it's really good."
Master Shang laughed and said loudly, "I don't know how to write, this is what Master wrote." ”
I admired Master Mao even more when I heard it, and turned my head to look at Master Mao, who was looking at me with a smile, and at this time Master Mao's face was no longer so stern, inviolable and stern.
Suddenly, there was a loud crash behind me, and I turned my head to see that the door panel of the room rented by the old lady was shaking. Something kept banging out inside, and it didn't sound like a bench, it seemed like her son was hitting it with his body.
The old lady was going to rush over again. Master Shang stopped her and asked Qiu San to look at the old lady.
Master Shang took out the incense burner, candlestick, oil lamp, wooden sword, copper bell, yellow paper, and a few bamboo tubes, and placed these things on the wooden table covered with yellow cloth one by one, and took out three wine glasses, as well as a bottle of Luzhou Laojiao.
Fill the three wine glasses with wine, Master Shang took out a yellow cloth roll from the wooden box like a painting scroll, only to see Master Shang holding the thing and letting go of his hand, the painting scroll unfolded turned out to be a banner, too far away, I thought to myself what words were written on the big flag, should it be for the heavens, no, that is the Water Margin.
I'm thinking about it there.
Master Shang over there told Qiu San to find a long stick and said to hang it up, and I walked over to see that there was a huge charm and some strange symbols on it.
After Master Shang set up the altar, he took out a Taoist robe from the box and put it on his body, looking at Master Shang, he felt a little immortal.
I didn't have a place to stand, so I stood behind Master Mao. The fashion master saw me standing there and asked me if I wanted to see something that I couldn't normally see.
"Can I see?" I wondered.
Master Shang looked at Master Mao, and Master Mao nodded. Master Shang opened the large wooden box again, and there were two small black wooden boxes in one-third of the large wooden box. It should be a little more appropriate for a small wooden box, because a small wooden box is about 30 centimeters long, 15 centimeters wide, and about 20 centimeters high. The difference is that one of the black wooden boxes has a delicate carved pattern, which looks antique, and the most mysterious thing is that there is a yellow charm on the lid of the box.
My eyes were completely attracted by this box, and Master Shang took out another black wooden box and placed it on the altar table.
Only then did I see that the carved black wooden box in the large wooden box also had a yellow talisman pasted on the front and next to it, and it seemed that the box might have talisman paper on all sides and up and down. Look at the yellow paper is a little yellow, I don't know how long this charm has been pasted, to open the wooden box it seems that you have to tear off the charm. My whole attention was drawn to the carved wooden box with the charm attached, the black wooden box with a magnetic gravitational pull that drew people to open it.
"Bang", the big wooden box was closed by Master Shang, the gravitational force disappeared instantly, and I returned to normal again.
When I turned around, Master Mao and Master Shang were looking at me. I was a little overwhelmed.
Master Mao sat in the wheelchair and nodded, raised his head at Master Shang and then withdrew it, making a permissive gesture.
Master Shang carefully opened the ordinary black wooden box placed on the altar.
There is a small green jade bottle in the center of the wooden box, and the strange thing is that this small jade bottle is actually hanging in the center of the box.
How so? This surprised me, and I hurriedly leaned over to take a closer look.
After looking closely, I saw clearly that the eight corners of the wooden box were pulling four black ropes from each other, and the green jade bottle was wrapped in the middle of the four black lines. Four black ropes tugged at the jade bottle, causing it to hang in the center of the box.
At this time, Master Shang put his right hand in, gently grabbed the jade bottle, twisted it twice, took out the jade bottle, pulled the cork at the mouth of the bottle, Master Shang poured a drop of transparent liquid from the jade bottle, and said to me on his fingers, "Close your eyes."
I hesitated and closed my eyes.
A dark shadow came, and I instinctively opened my eyes, it turned out that Master Shang was going to apply that thing to my eyes.
"Don't move, keep your eyes closed"
I closed my eyes again.
Master Shang applied the clear liquid from his hand to the eyelids of my eyes.
Suddenly there was a lot of color in front of me, and I don't know what it was.
"Alright, open your eyes"
I opened my eyes.
I tried to keep my eyes open, but nothing changed.
Master Shang looked at me and smiled, and walked to the side.
Black gas.
The old lady's rented hut in front was wrapped in a black gas, and the place at the door was the most black. Is this demonic energy?
I asked Master Shang, "Is this demonic energy?" ”
Master Mao said, "No, it's ghostly." ”
"Ghosts? Is it ghostly?"
"No, the soul of a mortal is a ghost, and the soul of a fairy is a ghost"
This stern-looking Master Mao was so impatient to tell me this, it seems that he is not so terrible.
The old woman's son was still banging on the door from the inside, and the little door was banging.
Master Shang has already set up the altar and hung the flag, and the scene in the whole courtyard is a bit like a scene in a movie, full of mystery and a majestic atmosphere.
Master Mao said to the old lady, "We are going to get rid of the snake spirit from your son, but we will come back after expelling it." ”
The old lady pounced and knelt down for Master Mao, "Master help, master help," and said that she was going to kowtow to Master Mao again.
Master Shang on the side hurriedly helped the old lady up.
"Don't worry, wait until I'm done," Master Mao looked at Qiu San and the three men, and said, "I'm going to force out the ghost attached to her son, but I have to find another body for it to attach to, so that I can subdue it." ”
Qiu San and the three of them looked at Master Mao suspiciously.
Master Mao asked them, "Which of you would like to lend me a body?"
The three of them shook their heads desperately, and the expression was as if Master Mao really wanted their lives.
Qiu San first said, "Forget it, Master Mao, I don't dare"
"I don't dare," the beer belly shook its head and turned to the side.
Another man wore black-rimmed glasses, had a large hemorrhoid on his chin, and a black hair on it, and his small eyes were annoying to look at, and he said loudly, "This one has to work, it will be very moldy after being ghosted" and spoke in an ugly voice, like the sound of a sewing machine without oil.
Seeing that these three people suddenly changed their faces, Master Mao was also stunned, I couldn't get used to the appearance of those three people, and a sentence rushed out, "I'm coming, I'm not afraid"
"You can't, you're born with water and open your eyes"
Oh, congenital water, I always thought it was cow tears, it still looks different from the movie.
What is this innate water, congenital, congenital, is it a child's urine? Thinking of someone else pulling pee? I felt sick in my heart, and I always felt that what Master Shang rubbed for me was child's urine.
When he was upset, Master Mao said to Master Shang, "Shang Yun, come on." Master Shang also looked at Master Mao helplessly.
Master Mao nodded, "It's okay."
Master Shang looked at me and said to me, "Xiaoshuai, take care of my master"
I nodded, but Master Mao said, "No, Xiaoshuai has to press the soul board"
"Let Qiu San do this, he still owes us a favor." Qiu San's shirk just now obviously made Master Shang not very happy, and this sentence seemed to be deliberately said a little loudly.
"Love? Are people so affectionate now, in vain, you have to change with the changes of the times?"
Master Shang stopped talking.
"Open the altar and seal them up"
Master Shang walked to the altar, "Jingle bell~" The copper bell in his left hand shook it and put it on the table. With the sound of "horn", Master Shang clapped his palms together in front of his eyes, and raised his palms to his head. I was curious and immediately walked to the side to look, only to see Master Shang's little finger and ring finger crossed and the two index fingers stretched out in front of the middle finger, clasped the middle finger, and put the thumb on the middle finger to make a handprint.
At this time, Master Shang's expression was solemn, holding the handprint in front of him with both hands, and drawing talismans in the void in front of him with his middle finger from top to bottom.
I was just amazed in my heart, I didn't know what Master Shang was doing, so I watched intently.
After a spell was drawn, Master Shang took out a lighter and lit two big red candles and inserted them in the big incense burner on the wooden table.
The difference is that Master Shang holds the candle with his thumb and middle fingers, and the other fingers are cocked. Of course, after more than ten days, I knew that it was the white crane trick buckled together, and Lao Jun rode the back of a bull upside down. It's just that I was very curious at the time, and later I realized that it was nothing strange.
After the candle was planted, Master Shang grabbed a handful of incense and lit it in his left hand, and pinched a sword trick in his right hand to draw a talisman on that incense. I wanted to ask Master Mao what Master Shang was doing, but when I saw Master Mao closing his eyes and leaning back in the chair and not knowing what he was doing, I didn't want to ask. Continue to watch Master Shang open the altar.
Master Shang clasped the handful of incense in his hand with his left hand, protected the incense with his right hand and raised the incense high in front of the four sides, and bowed to each side, and gave me four pillars of incense, telling me to insert one pillar in each of the four corners of the courtyard, and the pillar was three, which made me cry.
I came back with four pillars of incense, and Master Shang had already inserted the rest of the incense into the incense burner, and prepared a lot of blank rune paper there.
"Qiu San, Qiu San" shouted outside the courtyard.
That Qiu San shouted at the courtyard gate, "Don't play cards today"
Outside the courtyard gate, there was another shout, "Beat the sprinkle, three are missing one"
Master Mao frowned, opened his eyes and said to Qiu San, "You go to the door to stand guard, don't let people in if we don't come out." ”
Qiu San wanted to see the excitement, so he called the bespectacled man to go out, and he stayed in the courtyard with the beer belly.
I wished that person would get out quickly, and I felt uncomfortable looking at him.
Master Shang pushed Master Mao to the altar, and Master Mao lifted the brush and wrote the symbols on the blank rune paper. I walked to the side to watch, Master Mao's brush was quickly drawing on the rune paper, and I saw that Master Mao's pen was really strong and powerful, and he wrote well. I practiced calligraphy for eight months in elementary school, and my annual summer homework was to write calligraphy calligraphy. Two months in one summer vacation, I wrote for four years in elementary school, and I still wrote calligraphy for eight months, but unfortunately in order to complete my homework, my calligraphy is to color the calligraphy on the notebook and it is completed.
The rune paper written by Master Mao was put aside, and Master Shang stamped it with a seal. After a while, the dozens of talismans were written.
Master Mao picked up the yellow table paper next to him and wrote a charm on it. The rune paper is written with a plain black brush. At this time, Master Mao used a red pen, this kind of yellow table paper is usually burned for Buddhas and Bodhisattvas or ghosts in the temple, representing gold.
Master Shang told me that this table is the meaning of the book, the table. It's ridiculous that some fake gentlemen who set up stalls don't understand, and write it as a framed frame. Thinking about this, I wondered that this was the first time I had ever seen someone write on such a piece of paper. I have a lot of questions in my mind, but now is not the time to ask.
Master Mao wrote a spell and called the old lady and Qiu San and the beer belly to come over. Master Mao said to us, "Now I'm going to make a seal for you, you can take off your shoes."
Then Qiu San went and dragged a bench over, sat on the bench with the beer belly, and took off his shoes. The old lady sat down on a low stool and unwrapped his foot. Master Mao kept looking at me when he saw that I didn't move. "Take your shoes off"
Master Mao, it's not that I don't understand, so I don't dare to take it off.
"Take off the shoes you're wearing," Master Shang thought I didn't understand, and said to me in detail in broken Mandarin.
Okay, you told me to take it off, I slowly took my feet out of the leather shoes, Qiu San and the two people directly covered their noses and shouted stink, I looked at Master Mao, Master Mao's face was also a little embarrassed, Master Mao showed this face, my face was feverish, very uncomfortable.
I didn't know what to do, but the beer belly shouted, "Go and flush your feet, the water pipe over there." ”
I immediately turned my back and ran to the laundry pool at the edge of the yard with my leather shoes in hand. When I took off my socks, I stepped into the pool and rushed. I still feel uncomfortable, I don't know what Master Mao and Master Shang think of me.
Rinse your feet and come over, it's still a little cold to be barefoot in the spring, and the four of us sit side by side on two benches, which is also strange, and the old lady's son no longer bangs on the door.
After Master Shang lit a pillar of incense, he used his right hand to pinch the sword finger and draw a talisman on the incense, and he was still chanting a mantra in his mouth. After reciting the mantra, he directly pointed the burning incense stick at me, and drew a charm in the air half a meter in front of me.
When my eyes were opened, I saw that the volley spell was like a red charcoal that had been burning, so the volley spell was particularly clear. After Master Shang drew the spell, he slapped his hands and made the handprint again, only to see his handprint sent forward. The volley of spells flew straight at me.
Something hit me, and before I could react, the charm was gone.
Then Master Shang drew a spell in the air behind my back. Except for seeing the spell in the air, he didn't feel anything else and didn't react.
Master Shang finished painting me and walked to the old lady to seal the old lady's body, and then the old lady's footcloth was completely untied, and the old lady's toes were all wrapped in the footcloth into a deformity, and the five toes were down under the soles of the feet, and the dorsum of the feet was arched, which surprised me and made me feel a faint pain in my heart. She reminded me of my grandmother.
I asked the old lady, "Don't your feet hurt?" and she looked at me with a little smile on her face, this was the first time she had smiled today. Her wrinkles and smile really look like my grandmother. Suddenly my nose was a little sour.
Master Shang drew a spell for the four people, and then took out the yellow table paper with the spell written on it and lit it on the candle flame. Master Shang actually burned my feet with this burning yellow table paper.
I instinctively shrunk, and Master Shang grabbed my calf, and the fire burned to the soles of my feet, but fortunately, Master Shang just held the talisman paper and kept shaking it back and forth, just like blowing hair in the wind, feeling hot but not hot, until the yellow table paper burned to ashes.
Master Mao said to me right next to me that I could put on my shoes. This is a forgiveness for me. Walked barefoot to the pool and put on shoes and socks.
When I walked over, everyone's sealing ceremony was done.
Master Mao wrote two talismans on white paper with a black brush on the altar and burned them in a water cup for Master Shang to drink. He poured some tea into the cup, and burned two pieces of rune paper in the cup. Then he handed the water cup to the old lady, "After a while, the demon will come out of your son's body, so let him drink it" The old lady nodded.
Master Shang said to the old lady, open the door.
We all followed.
"Xiaoshuai, come here."
I wanted to follow to see the excitement, but I heard Master Mao call me over, so I had to walk in front of Master Mao.
Master Mao looked at me seriously, "I give you a task, can you do it?"
I burst out "yes". When I look back, I want to give me the task to do when we meet for the first time, Master Mao thinks so highly of me, he must do his best. In addition, I don't know what the task is, and I feel a little apprehensive.
Master Mao still looked at me, and it took a long time to take out a yellow cloth bag from the big wooden box, this yellow cloth bag is very familiar to me, those fortune tellers on the street and some converted old ladies love to use. There was also a big lotus flower on the yellow cloth wrap.
Master Mao slowly took out a small cutting board that had not been used for a long time from the yellow cloth bag. This small cutting board must be the size of half a keyboard, why do you say that it is a cutting board, there are countless knife marks on the dry and yellow wooden board. Judging by the color of the cutting board, I don't know how long this cutting board has been used.
Master Mao said to me, "You will be on this altar for a while, and press this soul board hard."
Oh, it's called a soul board, how do I think it's a cutting board, but fortunately I didn't say it, and I felt a little fever on my face.
"This exertion is not about your physical exertion, but about your mental exertion" Master Mao looked at me again and stopped talking.
Mental exertion? I don't understand.
"Master Mao, what is mental exertion?"
"The spirit is the mind, the mind is not to think hard, it is a thing derived from focusing on thinking, you have to focus on thinking, and if you focus on thinking, you will come out like a silk-like thing, that is the mind"
Master Mao looked at me. But I still don't understand, Master Mao, what are you talking about?
"Don't be hard,...... Master Mao said that I still don't understand this, his eyes seem to reveal a little disappointment, and he said to me, "You just focus on it."
For some reason, after seeing Master Mao's eyes, my heart was a little empty. I seem to feel a little sorry for such a majestic old man with inconvenient legs, but I haven't done anything to be sorry for him.
Well, try to do this well, don't use force, think intently, think and think, and suddenly it seems that you are asleep, unconscious, but you are very awake and know everything around you. Over there, Master Shang and Qiu San were holding down an old man with a white beard at the door, and the old lady kept crying next to him.
Thinking about it, his hand unconsciously reached out to hold the soul board. As soon as the hand touched the soul board, suddenly a black gas came out of the soul board, and the entire soul board was wrapped in a beating black gas, and those black gases kept beating, and countless small human heads appeared, these heads kept struggling, opening their mouths, their expressions were painful, and they kept shaking. It was only a matter of a moment, and as soon as Master Mao dragged away the soul board, I came to my senses.
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