Chapter 15 Look at the Practices of Others
A gray-haired but sturdy old man stood in front of the table and hung his head to tidy up, he was still wearing civilian clothes. But on the side of the stage, there was a folded yellow robe and a hat, and the style of the hat was more like the hat worn by the old Taoist priests in the hall.
In addition to the old man, there were five or six people around who were sitting or standing, or helping the old man with his things.
This old man Mu Yunjun is very familiar, because when he was a child, he often went to his house to drink with her father. Once she climbed a tree to pick longan and fell, and it was the old man who helped her bandage the herbs she picked for several months.
Looking at the time, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening. But it will take more than an hour to start.
Mu Yunjun stared at the side of the main house of the house, and a bloody chill kept coming out of the side room.
She turned around and said to Xiao Yue, "There is still more than an hour, let's play a few games!" ”
So the three of them sat on Satsuki's bed, took their mobile phones and started playing games. At eleven o'clock, Xiaoyue's mother came and knocked on the door to remind them to go to bed early and get up early tomorrow to work!
Satsuki drove her brother to his room, then turned off the lights and stood guard at the window to watch the movement behind her.
Behind Uncle Glasses, there was a sound of talking from time to time, and the people in their family were also waiting.
By the time it was almost twelve o'clock, Satsuki was sleepy. I saw the white-haired grandfather get up from the chair next to him and walk to the middle of the platform, he first picked up the yellow robe on the platform and put it on his body. After getting dressed neatly, I put on my hat before turning around with my back to the table. Then he shook a few directions outside, and then turned back and faced the door of the main house across the platform.
The white-haired old man was now like a Taoist leader, and began to mutter words that he didn't understand for a while, and his hands began to move on the table for a while. After a series of seemingly regular actions such as Sammi, writing talismans, burning talismans, etc., he cautiously picked up the copper coin sword on the table and began to circle around the table slowly.
He didn't spin in a circle, but read one or two sentences in his mouth, and swung left and right from time to time with the copper coin sword. The pace of the foot is also like a calculation, after stepping on the first step and stopping for two seconds, the back foot will move forward again.
For these doorways, Mu Yunjun doesn't understand. But when she heard the babble from the mouth of the white-haired old man, she felt a faint irritability in her heart. She could have suppressed it now, if only a few years ago. I guess I can't suppress it, and I may lose my mind and do something strange after listening to it for a long time.
So when she used to see others open altars and do business, she avoided staying away. It wasn't until the past two years that I gradually accepted it.
There was also a reaction to the black map on her back, and a coolness that was even colder than usual spread from the skin on Mu Yunjun's back to her.
Although Mu Yunjun couldn't see the old man's doorway, she could see other things.
And in Xiaoyue's eyes, she is a complete layman. In her eyes, she just thinks that the white-haired old man's behavior is fresh and fun. It's like watching a play!
The closer the time is to the early hours of the morning, the more cloudy the night becomes. And there is a moon tonight, although it is not round. But as long as there was moonlight, she could see the cool spirit wafting in the moonlight. Commonly known as moonshine essence.
But she didn't need this essence herself, instead this moonshine essence would lower her body temperature. Intensify the restlessness in her spirit! So when there is moonlight, she hides in the shadows. Especially when you are extremely hungry, you can't touch these moonshines.
As the old man walked more and more laps and the time approached, he stopped when there were two minutes left and it was almost midnight. Walked to the middle of the stage and inserted the copper coin sword into the rice bowl. Then he grabbed a handful of rice from the rice bowl with his hand and sprinkled it on the incense burner in front of him, and then picked up the wooden yinyangfish on the table, knelt down on one knee and began to throw the yinyangfish while chanting the words.
The people around him watched him quietly and didn't dare to move, only knowing that the white-haired old man seemed to be asking rice now. But they couldn't understand what the old man asked......
Only Mu Yunjun clearly heard the white-haired old man ask a question before throwing the yin and yang fish. And it was asked three times before being lightly thrown to the ground, and the answer was determined by watching the swing of the yin and yang fish falling.
Mu Yunjun heard the first question asked by the white-haired old man, and he asked it in the local dialect here: "Who is here?" ”
Although it is in the local dialect, there is a kind of charm of chewing words in it.
And when he threw the yin and yang fish, Mu Yunjun felt a wisp of air emanating from the top of his head, and then quickly jumped into the main house and disappeared.
Then before the yin-yang fish he threw hit the ground, a bloody breath jumped out of the room, flashed into the yin-yang fish, and fell to the ground.
From Mu Yunjun's side, she couldn't see the expression on the white-haired old man's face, but she could sense the other party's meaning from the bloody breath that burst out of the room.
The other party refused to answer!
And there was a kind of mania in the bloody breath.
Don't know what it's manic!
But Mu Yunjun knew that if this white-haired grandfather didn't have some real skills tonight, he wouldn't be able to deal with this guy.
The white-haired old man stared at the posture of the yin-yang fish on the ground silently for a while, and then reached out to pick it up. I repeated the question just now, but there was a stern tone in my voice, and I also asked it three times before throwing the yin and yang fish.
However, the result is still the same.
Seeing that the things inside refuse to answer their own questions, and the other party refuses to communicate, that is to say, it is not possible to deal with it in the usual way of 'persuasion'. Now you can only force the other party out.
He stood up and put the yin-yang fish in his hand on the table. Then he took out a yellow incense stick as thick as an adult's tail finger and lit it, and inserted it into the incense burner. Then he pulled out the copper coin sword inserted in the rice bowl, held the sword in one hand, and pinched a yellow talisman in the other, then took a step back and began to dance in slow motion.
At the same time, as he danced, he read a large paragraph of words in his mouth. The tone of his voice as he read this passage was high and low, but it was all serious and cold.
After dancing a few movements as if singing, he suddenly pointed the copper coin sword in his hand into the main room, and then the talisman in his other hand lit on the incense candle, burned it and threw it into a bowl of water on the table. Half of the rune paper should have been left in the water, but miraculously it was all burned. Only the ashes that fell into the bowl of water were talisman ashes.
The white-haired old man grabbed it casually, picked up an orange branch and leaf that had been prepared on the table, stuck it into the water bowl, and then suddenly raised his body and shook it in the direction of the main house. After shaking it, he poked the copper coin sword into the water.
After the copper coin sword was stained with the rune water, he held the sword in one hand, picked up the rune water in the bowl with the other, and then drank it all in one gulp.