Chapter 28: The Conjuring
"Jingle bell, jingle bell" I picked up the three clear bells in the suitcase and shook them, the sound of the three clear bells was very crisp, and it sounded peaceful.
"Stinky boy, these three clear bells are not just for random fun," Master snatched the three clear bells from my hand and said.
"What is this?" I asked the master about a token carved from mahogany, with a portrait of a character engraved on the front and the emperor's order engraved on the reverse.
"This is a token carved from lightning strike mahogany, with a curved top and a straight line at the bottom? Strips, take the meaning of the heaven and the round place, this token is also used for practical purposes, but it is used very little" Master patiently introduced to me, and then he explained to me the role of the compass, the Bagua Mirror and the rest of the Taoist magic weapons, one by one, and I was also confused, after all, this is the first time I have come into contact with these things.
After about half an hour, the old man Zhang rushed back on his bicycle, and a pair of boys and girls were tied to the back seat of his bicycle.
"Liu Shou, you go over and help bring the pair of boys and girls over, be careful, don't break it," the master pointed to the boy and girl in the back seat of the old man and instructed me.
"I see" I now feel like Master's servant, obeying his command unconditionally, I untied the ropes of the pair of boys and girls tied to the back seat of the old man's car and sent them to my Master.
I took a serious look at the two paper figures, the boy was wearing green clothes and green pants, and the word "golden boy" was written on his chest. The virgin was dressed in pink and pants, and the word "jade girl" was written on her chest.
The master dipped the brush in cinnabar and pointed at the eyes of the boy and girl, and he babbled while reading, "Open the eyes of heaven, I will open the eyes of heaven for you."
"Liu Shou, you put these two boys and girls next to the big vat," the master instructed me as he pushed the boys and girls with good eyes to me.
"Oh" I took the pair of boys and girls and walked cautiously towards the vat, the closer I got to the vat, the more I couldn't bear to look at it, there was a groan of pain from the vat, I put the boy and girl in my hand next to the vat and ran to the master's side.
"Two Taoist leaders, when I came back, I bought some cakes and pickles, you two can make do with a bite, my wife is not at home, and I can't cook," said Old Man Zhang to me and Master.
"I'm not hungry, Liu Shou, do you want to eat some," Master asked, turning his head and looking at me with a smile.
"I'm not hungry either," I said, shaking my head, the disgusting scene I just remembered vividly, and I still have the appetite to eat.
"Mr. Zhang, it's better for you to eat by yourself, we're not hungry," the master turned to Old Man Zhang and said.
"Alas, I don't want to eat either" Old man Zhang also has no appetite.
"It's almost six o'clock now, and I'm going to open the altar on time at eight o'clock, and I need a table now," Master said to Old Man Zhang.
"In our house, I'll go and carry it for you" What the master said, Old Man Zhang did it, through the incident where the master opened his eyes to heaven just now, he knew in his heart that the master was not a simple person, he trotted into the room and moved a square table in front of the master.
"I also need a big rooster with a red crown, a bowl of rice, a three-foot red cloth, a pair of white candles, and a bundle of incense," Master continued.
"Except for white candles and incense, I have the rest in my house," Old Man Zhang said this, and jumped into their chicken coop to catch a big red-crowned rooster for Master, and then he went back to the house, pulled a three-foot red cloth, and put a bowl full of rice out and put it on the square table in front of Master.
"Dao Chief, I'll go to a nearby town and buy white candles and incense, you wait a little longer, I'll be back soon," Old Man Zhang said this and rode away on his bicycle again.
"You take the things off the table first, and then spread this square cloth on it," Master said, taking out a yellow square cloth from his satchel and handing it to me.
"Well," I took the things on the table to the ground as Master said, and then spread the yellow square cloth he handed me on the square table, and in the center of this square cloth was a Bagua diagram, and the four corners of the square cloth were embroidered with gold threads: the green dragon, the white tiger, the red bird, and the four divine beasts of Xuanwu.
When I finished laying out the square cloth, Master put the bowl of rice that Old Man Zhang gave him in the center, and then he put the peachwood sword and the three clear bells on the left and right sides of the bowl of rice.
After about half an hour, Old Man Zhang rushed back on a bicycle sweating profusely, "Dao Chief, I bought everything you wanted" Old Man Zhang handed a pair of white candles and a bundle of incense to my master.
"Do you have a candlestick at home?" the master asked, taking the white candle and incense in the old man's hand.
"Yes, I'll give you the candlestick dedicated to my ancestors first," Old Man Zhang ran into the house after saying this.
"Daoist, what else do you need?" asked the old man as he put the pair of candlesticks on the table, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and asked the master.
"Everything is ready, and there is still an hour and a half to do," Master said, glancing at the watch on his wrist, and the three of us sat silently on the stool and stared at the white porcelain and blue and white vat.
Around seven o'clock in the evening, my phone rang, and I took out the phone and looked at it to see that it was You Zhipei calling.
"What's wrong, fourth," I asked, slashing the phone away.
"Second brother, where are you?" You Zhipei asked on the other end of the phone.
"I've got something to do outside, tell me something, I'm still busy here."
"Ang, it's nothing, I saw that you didn't come back at seven o'clock, and I was a little worried, so I called and asked, then will you come back tonight?" Listening to You Zhipei's words, I felt a special warmth in my heart.
"I'll be back when I'm done," I replied.
"Okay, I'll leave the door for you with the third brother" Zeng Lu hung up the phone after saying this.
"Master, what time can we finish tonight," I put the phone in my pocket and asked my master.
"I don't know," Master said to me, shaking his head, and when I heard those three words, I didn't ask any more.
I sat on a stool and watched the novel "I was a Taoist priest in the Republic of China", which tells the story of a Taoist priest named Zhang Dagou who followed his master to subdue demons and eliminate demons, I thought that the ghosts and gods in the novel were all made up by the author, but what I didn't expect was that these things were real, and I was also involved in them, and now my identity is also a Taoist priest, which is really a bit funny.
"Wow, wow, wow~~" Stay until about half past seven in the evening, a flock of crows flew into the white porcelain blue and white vat, the courtyard wall of the old man's house, and the roof are full of black crows, looking at these crows I get goosebumps all over my body.
As the minutes passed, and there were still five minutes left to eight o'clock in the evening, the master got up from the stool, he put the white candle on the candlestick and placed it on the left and right sides of the front of the square table, and then he used one end of the three-foot red cloth to wrap the white wax on the left three times, and then he used the other end of the three-foot red cloth to wrap the white candle on the right three times, and the master used the three-foot red cloth to connect the two candles together, and I stood aside and looked at my master with a blank face, not knowing what he was going to do.
The master took out a piece of yellow rune paper from his pocket and sandwiched it between the index finger and middle finger of his right hand, his right hand shook slightly, only to see that the rune paper burned with a "whew", the master used the flame of the rune paper to light the two candles first, and then the master took out three sticks of incense and lit them with the flame of the candle and placed them in front of the white porcelain blue and white vat.
After everything was ready, the master returned to the square table, held the sword in his right hand, held the bell in his right hand, and began to chant "Wandering souls, where to stay, the three souls descend early, and the seven spirits are coming......." When the master finished reciting the spell, he put the three clear bells in his hand on the table first, and then took out the big rooster that Old Man Zhang had caught before from under the table, he wiped the peach wood sword in his hand against the neck of the big rooster, and then the master put the peach wood sword in his hand on the table, and grabbed the rooster tightly with one hand, Holding the neck of the chicken with the other hand, the blood of the chicken that flowed out of it dripped into the bowl full of rice, and after a while, the bowl of rice was all stained with chicken blood.
The master threw the big rooster in his hand to the ground, then grabbed two handfuls of rice stained with chicken blood and threw them at the two white candles.
When the rice dyed with chicken blood touched the two white candles, the flames of the two white candles rose more than half a meter high, and then the master grabbed a handful of rice and threw it on the body of the boy and girl not far away, only to see the boy and girl leaning on the white porcelain blue and white vat suddenly stood up, I saw that two white lights floated out of the white porcelain blue and white vat attached to the boy and girl's body, and at the same time the courtyard of the old man Zhang's house blew a gust of wind, I couldn't help but shiver.
"Woo, woo, woo~~~" The sound of the boy's and girl's mouth crying wolf howled, it sounded very infiltrating, and I looked at this scene in front of me in disbelief.
"Don't cry, what's your name?" the master asked, pulling his face, to the boy and girl.
"My surname is Liu, my name is Liu Dazhuang," Tong Nan opened his mouth and introduced his name first.
"My surname is Zhang, my name is Zhang Kaifeng" The virgin also spoke, and hearing these two paper figures talking, I felt that all this was simply too weird.
"Why did you two become human beings, did you do evil in your lifetime to become like this?" the Master then asked.
"We have never done anything evil in our lives," the virgin said to the master aggrievedly.
"Then why was it made into a human body and put into a vat," the master asked again.
"Let's say it, here's the thing," the boy named Liu Dazhuang opened his mouth and recounted to the master.