In northern China, there is a saying called the soul.

Soul calling is usually used on young children. It is said that when a person is young, the union between the soul and the body is not yet tightly combined, and if the soul is frightened at this time, the soul will leave the body, and children who have lost their soul usually show malaise and loss of appetite. In severe cases, coma may occur.

The symptoms of the husband are typical of soul loss.

The husband's eyelids were blue, his eyeballs were unusually black, and the whites of his eyes were bloodshot, apparently after being suddenly frightened, he had some symptoms of eye bleeding. But when Xing Ruyi took a closer look at his pupils, he found some strange places. It doesn't seem like he was scared out of his soul, but it was like his soul was lured away by something.

"Has anything strange happened in my sister-in-law's house recently?" Xing Ruyi said, and opened the eyes of the husband's son to take a look, and found that the father and son were both suffering from the same disease, but the son's condition was slightly milder than that of the father. Withdrawing his hand, Xing Ruyi looked at the woman: "Or maybe there is something in my sister-in-law's house that shouldn't have appeared?" ”

The woman shook her head: "I wonder what the strange things that the torture treasurer said and what should not have been there in the first place?" ”

"Shall I ask in a different way? What happened before you fell into a coma? ”

"The child's father is a watchman, and he goes out in the evening and can't come back until the fifth watch. When I came back, most of my children and I were still asleep. In the early hours of this morning, when I was half asleep and half awake, I heard some noise in my house, and I thought it was a thief. When I opened my eyes, I saw that the things that the child and his father had beaten were all on the table, but the child and his father were lying on the ground. I didn't know when it happened, so I quietly got up, approached the child's father, and asked softly. Who knows, he ...... He fainted.

When I saw that the child's father had fainted, I quickly woke up the child and sent him out to find a doctor. I was also so anxious that I forgot for a while, it was just after the fifth watch, and most of the doctors who saw the doctor had not yet gotten up, so how could anyone sit in the pharmacy.

Pity my child, and stupidly, when I sent him out, I didn't even wear a cotton coat to protect against the cold. When he came back, it was already dawn, and he was shivering from the cold, and it didn't take long for him to become like this when he got under the covers. ”

The woman said, wiping away her tears.

"It's all my fault! Do you say that there is a mother like me in the world? A good child was stunned and made me sick. Torture shopkeeper, I heard others say that you are a living bodhisattva who can see patients and save people, I beg you, you must help me save them. Our small family is not rich in the first place, and it all refers to this child's father who lives better, and there is only one child. If something happens to them, how can I live? ”

Although Xing Ruyi is a woman, she is also afraid to face this kind of crying and crying between women. She looked at the woman and frowned slightly: "Sister-in-law, don't worry, even if it's for Ah Niu's sake, I will do my best." It's just that although I can see this disease, whether it can be cured or not depends on whether you are willing to do your best, sister-in-law. ”

"Me?" The woman's eyes widened: "Is the treasurer joking with me?" I am just an ordinary woman, who can neither see nor administer medicine, and I do not know how to treat the child's father and child's disease. But the shopkeeper said that whether the doctor is good or not depends on whether I try my best or not. This one is my father-in-law, and the other is the root of my disease, if I can heal myself, what should I ask the shopkeeper to do? ”

"Sister-in-law misunderstood."

"Did I misunderstand?"

"It's a misunderstanding." Xing Ruyi pointed at her husband, and then pointed to her husband's son, who was also lying on the bed: "Your father-in-law and his son are suffering from soul loss, and I have a decoction here that is just right, but whether this soul can be called back depends on your ability, sister-in-law." ”

The woman looked down and thought for a moment, then asked softly, "Then how can I get this lost soul back?" ”

"First of all, the soul call must be carried out at night, and the person being called must stay at home, and the whole process must be completed before dawn, that is, before the rooster crows, otherwise the soul loser's life is in danger.

Tonight, I can set up a soul-calling circle in your house, but you need to find a few more young people to come over and prepare seven-inch bamboo sticks, cinnabar, mercury, realgar, magpie nest grass, seven-inch willow branches, and other utensils. These seven-inch willow branches are the most useful with leaves, but it is already winter at this time, so just look for those that are still green in color and softer in paper. If it is so hard that it breaks during use, the entire soul-calling process is considered a failure. ”

"Don't worry, the shopkeeper can do these things. Now that my uncle and little nephew are sick, my aunt may not be able to separate. In addition to what the shopkeeper just said, what else does Ah Niu have to prepare? ”

"Just get the ones I just said ready. But this preparation is secondary, the most important thing is to do something else. Xing Ruyi asked the woman to find a pen and paper, and simply drew a topographical map of Yunjiaji on the paper, pointed to three of them and said: "Sister-in-law and Ah Niu are both people from Yunjiaji, and they should be no strangers to these three places." These are the three main entrances to and from Yunjiaji, and they are also the entrances and exits for pedestrians in normal times. Light three sticks of incense on each of these three entrances and exits, and when the incense burns to the length of the fingernail of the little finger, it needs to be replaced, and the original one should be extinguished in time after replacement. The three sticks of incense should be burned for three days and three nights, and the incense cannot be interrupted. It's easy to say, but it's hard to do. ”

"In this cold winter, it's uncomfortable to sit in the room just by sitting in the room, how to keep incense at night?" The woman said softly, glancing at Ah Niu out of the corner of her eye.

"That's what my aunt said. It would be better if there was sunlight shining in the daytime, but at night, even a strong young man would be a little difficult to survive the night at the entrance of the village. Ah Niu's face showed some urgency: "Besides, the shopkeeper just said that this incense will be burned for three days and three nights without interruption." At these three intersections, six people have to be arranged to take turns to replace them, but the aunt's family is already sparsely populated, so how to find so many people. I wonder if there is any other way for the shopkeeper to do it besides this method?

"There is a way, but the effect may be somewhat reduced."

"What do you mean by discounting?" The woman looked at the punishment in bewilderment.

"Oh, that means it's going to be less effective."

"It's worse than not being able to find someone, and then delaying it. I just don't know, what is the other method you said? Is it difficult to do? ”

"It's hard to say it's hard to do, and it's easy to say it's easy to do. I call this method the Imp Watching Incense. Xing Ruyi smiled secretly, and when she saw the woman's slightly startled look, she pulled the corners of her mouth and said, "In this huge Yun family set, there will always be some elderly and long-lived old people, right?" The sister-in-law prepared some gifts, and asked these old people to cut a few pieces of winter clothes and paper money, and burned them at the intersection, and the paper ashes of the winter clothes fell on the nearby grave, so she circled the grave with a red rope, and then sincerely asked the owner of the tomb to help keep the incense. If the garment does not leave the grave when it burns out, it means that the owner of the tomb has agreed. If you leave, find another one who is willing to help. Remember, these things need to be done as the sun goes down, and when the sun is completely submerged, whether or not you have found these three people who are willing to help, you must stop. ”

"What if you don't find enough three people?" Ah Niu helped the woman ask on the side.

"If you don't find enough, then you can only continue to use living people to keep incense."

"Ah Niu wrote it down." Ah Niu pursed his lips and turned to look at the woman, "Auntie, don't worry, before dark, Ah Niu will definitely help you find these three people who are willing to keep the incense." ”

"In addition to these three incense keepers, there are also a few young and strong young men. These young men are selected as the tiger and dragon, and the rat, sheep and chicken are the secondary. After dark, the sister-in-law and these young men shouted along the route of the old days. ”

"Shout! So how do I shout? ”

"Call your father-in-law's name, or what you used to call your husband and wife. In short, you need to let your husband understand that you are looking for him and taking him home. Oh, by the way, before you go out, you can put on a dress that you wore when you were fair, and stuff a red date in it. Every step you take, you need to shout three times in a row, the sound doesn't have to be too loud, just use what you can hear, so as not to disturb the rest of the people on the Yun family, and then scare those cowardly. ”

"How do we know that we have found the lost souls of our uncle and nephew, or that my uncle and nephew heard us calling them. We can't wander around the city all night so aimlessly, and what if our uncle and little nephew can't wake up after dawn? ”

"Ah Niu, what you just asked is also a question. To be honest, I haven't been a serious helper before, and I've never heard anyone call Soul, but I haven't called it back. However, since you mentioned it, I always have to help think of a way, so that your aunt can rest assured. Xing Ruyi said, digging and digging in the guy he was carrying, digging for a long time, and taking out a mirror. This mirror was given to her by nothing when she was in the arsenal before.

"I have a bronze mirror here, which is a Taoist magic weapon from Zhongnan Mountain. The man who gave me the mirror said, "This treasure can shine on ghosts and gods." I tried this mirror twice before, out of curiosity, and what the Taoist priest said was true. Tonight, I will lend this mirror to you, sister-in-law, who screamed and swept the mirror with her eyes, and if she saw your father-in-law or son, she would call them back. ”

Xing Ruyi said and handed the bronze mirror to the woman.

But the woman's face changed suddenly, and a trace of unconcealed fear appeared in her eyes. She stepped back a little and looked at the bronze mirror in Xing Ruyi's hand: "Since it is such a valuable thing, how can I hold it as a woman." Besides, I must be so nervous at night that I can't even bother to look inside the mirror. ”

(Education 123 Literature Network)