Chapter 7 Incense is the most taboo, two short and one long

The night of trembling and tossing and turning finally passed.

In the early morning, Master Mao opened the courtyard gate, a blood-red sunlight shot in front of him, and the distant morning glow brought up pieces of blood-colored clouds hanging in the sky, and the sky was blood-red. Is it really a special day?

When the blood cloud is in the sky, you will see the blood light.

Zhao Banxian stood at the door and saw the red sun outside the courtyard gate, and his heart was even more uneasy.

Master Mao and Zhao Banxian didn't say anything, and they hope that if they don't say it, it won't happen.

After breakfast, Master Mao and Zhao Banxian carried a large wooden box on their backs. Aiguo and Guan Long led four big black dogs, carrying two large bags of coffin nails and fire and thunder bombs to follow. Twelve and Guan Hu were holding the big chicken coop, and there were nine paper figures tied above the big chicken coop, and a lot of thick hemp rope was carried on their backs. Up the hill.

Along the way, everyone had mixed feelings, and no one spoke. Sometimes Aiguo wants to joke with Twelve to ease the atmosphere, and when he sees the grim faces of Master Mao and Zhao Banxian, he can only forget it.

The six people with heavy hearts finally came to the platform outside the ancient cave.

Master Mao took out eight wooden squares from a box, and took out the paper money and paper talisman contained in the box and put it next to it, as well as a black carved wooden box with talisman paper pasted on all sides. Master Mao pulled out a bolt in the big wooden box, the wooden box fell down on all sides, and quickly turned into a wooden board, and Master Mao spliced the wooden bolt under the wooden board to form a solid tabletop.

The four of them were a little surprised in their hearts, this box is really convenient, and they will make such a box in the future.

I saw Master Mao connect the two wooden squares together, and they became four table legs. Put the table top, buckle the latch, and a sturdy table is fine. Then he put the paper money, the paper talismans, and the black wooden box with four pieces of talisman paper under the table.

Patriotic Guan Long and they came over to see this table at this time, it was really convenient, and they all praised it. Only Master Mao slowly walked to the entrance of the cave and went in to take a look.

Zhao Banxian took out a large yellow tablecloth and put it on the wooden table, and there was a big Tai Chi Bagua diagram in the center of the table. A large tablecloth fell from all sides, covering the paper money and wooden boxes underneath the table.

On the tablecloth that fell in front of the wooden table, there were four strong and powerful characters written by Master Mao himself----Heaven and Earth are righteous.

Zhao Banxian saw that they were standing and watching, so he called them to help, and used a bamboo pole placed on the wooden platform to erect a big banner behind the Dharma table, on which there was a huge painting of the Nine Heavens Xuannu Thunderbolt Five Thunder Mantra.

Then he opened the big wooden box on Zhao Banxian's back, took out the incense burner, candlestick, and wine cup from it, and put them on it one by one.

Usually the altar is used to open a piece of knife meat, this time, Master Mao used three livestock, the whole pig, the whole cow and the whole sheep are inconvenient to carry, so the pig's head, the cow's head and the sheep's head are used.

Master Mao changed out of his short clothes and put on a yellow robe, with a big gossip diagram on the crown on his head. The robes worn on the body are composed of gossip symbols and charms. This one is well dressed, with thick black eyebrows across the eyes, which is very majestic.

Before the big war, Master Mao led everyone to make a ceremony to worship the sky, vowing to do the right thing for heaven and eliminate demons and protect the common people. Everyone followed the three kneels and nine bows together.

Then Master Mao took out the long black knife from the box. As soon as the red cloth wrapped in the long knife was removed, everyone seemed to feel a cold wind blowing, giving birth to a slight chill. The chickens in the cage scrambled to the other side, and all the chickens huddled together and wanted to fly out of the cage. Even when covered with a black cloth, these chickens could still feel the murderous aura coming from the knife. Yes, the murderous aura, the people present, the dogs, the chickens all felt it.

Master Mao wiped the knife and placed it on a knife holder on the Dharma table. He bowed twice to the sword.

The four of them were immersed in the murderous aura of this ancient black long knife, and even if the knife was placed on the altar, they still felt the slightest chill coming from the long knife. At this time, the patriotic four had the opportunity to take a serious look at this long knife full of legends.

The long black knife was about sixty centimeters long and ten centimeters wide. Generally, the name of the knife will be engraved on the knife, and the name of the casting person will also be engraved, or a pattern will be engraved. There was nothing on the knife. It's a big black and long knife, and only the black simplicity conveys an ancient message.

Master Mao came to the soil filled in by the villagers outside the entrance of the cave and inserted three round sticks with one pointed end and one thick end. Patriotic they didn't know what to do, so they always wanted to help and gathered around, looking at the three round sticks with some patterns carved on them. Aiguo got closer to see it, and it turned out to be densely engraved charms.

At this time, Master Mao used a red rope to wrap a triangle around the three round sticks. Then he placed the compass on a triangular red rope, not next to the stick.

Master Mao was very curious when he saw Aiguo, so he explained to Aiguo that this is called not touching the sky, not touching the ground, and not being popular in the middle. to avoid the interference of some ghosts and gods. After the compass is placed, people's hands cannot touch it, so as not to affect people's judgment due to cause and effect.

In this way, he found all directions, and Master Mao asked twelve chicken coops to be placed in the southwest, saying that the southwest was a ghost gate, and not letting these evil ghosts run around, and still covered the chicken coop with the black cloth, and placed a paper round lantern ten steps behind the chicken coop, and a talisman was pasted on the lantern.

Master Mao took out another pair of wooden sticks, and the wooden sticks were wrapped with red strings.

Master Mao called majestically with a wooden stick in his hand, "Array", Zhao Banxian took the red rope and began to circle around the edge of the platform from the entrance of the cave, and the red rope opened a hole at the entrance of the cave and made the shape of a pocket.

Master Mao and Zhao Banxian lit thirty-six lamps in thirty-six directions around the red rope, and invited a star monarch for each lamp. Master Mao and Zhao Banxian had words in their mouths and bowed to each lamp. And a long stick of incense was inserted behind each lamp, and one pillar of incense was three, and there were one hundred and eight incense sticks here. The 36 lamps represent the 28 constellations and the eight directions, collectively known as the 36 Nakshatras, and each pillar of incense is connected by a red rope to form a 36 Nakshatra lantern array. Stone blocks were used to form a simple windbreak wall around each lamp, and some were covered with small lanterns or glass covers. Then tell Zhao Banxian that the incense of this lamp array cannot be extinguished, and when there is still a third of the incense stick left, another pillar of incense will be inserted next to it. Light the incense and wrap it around the red rope before inserting it.

It took a while to get this light array done. instructed Zhao Banxian again, and Master Mao returned to the altar.

Looking at it, Master Mao was shocked, the three big incense sticks inserted in the incense burner, I don't know when the incense on the far right went out, and the other two incense sticks continued to burn, and these three incense sticks formed two short and one long. Master Mao's face became darker and darker, the main incense in the incense burner was to worship heaven and earth and worship ghosts and gods, and it was of great significance for this incense to be extinguished.

Aiguo saw it next to him and asked Master Mao what it meant when the incense went out

"People are most afraid of three long and two short, and incense is the most taboo of two short and one long." He sighed as he spoke.

Master Mao stopped talking and re-lit a pillar of incense, bowed and inserted it on the incense burner.

Zhao Banxian's face was not very good, a little dark, and he came over with Master Mao to draw the banner of the charm and hang it on the bamboo pole, and the bamboo pole was firmly inserted in front of the thirty-six oil lamps, a total of thirty-six flags. After the thirty-six flags were inserted, the breeze blew the flags, which was quite imposing, and the spirits of the four of them Aiguo and Guan Long couldn't help but lift up.

Master Mao asked Guan Hu to lead the four big black dogs, cut off the head of a black dog with a knife, poured the black dog's blood into the basin, and the other three black dogs turned their heads and ran wildly when they saw it. Guan Hu didn't pay attention, and the three black dogs pulled Guan Hu to the ground, broke free from the rope, and ran down the mountain.

Master Mao was still carrying the black dog's body in bloodletting, and some blood was splashed on the robe, Master Mao's heart was cold, and he didn't take off the robe to kill the dog. For a while, I had to be cautious.

The dog ran three times, and he couldn't catch it back. "Patriotic, dog blood is not enough, only put more of your blood" Patriotic nodded, Master Mao changed a knife and slashed it from the palm of his patriotic right hand. Aiguo almost didn't call out, and forcibly held back.

The knife cut not shallowly, the blood kept flowing into the basin, and after half a cigarette, Aiguo was already obviously weak in his limbs and a little dizzy. Master Mao saw that Aiguo's face was pale, and he reached out and poked a few acupoints on his patriotic arm. Aiguo took out the handkerchief that Xiujuan gave him again, and Master Mao took the handkerchief and bandaged Aiguo's wound.

Back to the altar, Master Mao saw that the incense was still burning strongly, and felt a little relieved, and then used a brush to dip a little red paint and gold dust on the blank yellow paper to draw two talismans, which were burned on the blood basin, and the paper ashes fell directly into the blood basin.

Master Mao took the two long bundles of hemp rope and soaked them in the blood basin. After all the hemp rope turned red, he took it out and drained it, and then he and Aiguo wrapped the hemp rope around the bamboo poles on each side of the flag, and circled it back and forth twice.

After wrapping around, the two washed their hands in the bucket, Master Mao changed into a clean robe, and when he looked up, he saw the pillar of incense that had just been inserted in the incense burner on the Dharma table, and the one on the far right was extinguished again.

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