Volume 1, Ghost Town of the Bone Forest_Chapter 17, The Master in the Alley
I was really fucking frightened at the time, the starlings above my head kept screaming, and his voice was very clear, they all said that birds are psychic, and they can see gods and ghosts, and today can be regarded as meeting me!
"Don't be afraid, I have told Master Han about your situation, and he said that it is not a big problem."
The fat man saw that I was a little frightened, and hurriedly offered words of comfort.
I nodded, and walked into the inner hall with a nervous feeling.
When I arrived at the inner hall, I looked up and saw a large offering table, covered with thick incense ash, the whole offering table was about a meter wide in all directions, and there was a wooden bar in front of the offering table, and there were a few nails erected on it, and I don't know what it was used for. On both sides of the inner hall hung two picture scrolls, both of which were Danqing's works, and on them were painted two men with majestic faces, but I didn't know who they were at that time.
And in front of the offering platform for the statue of the three Qing gods, this I still know, the Chinese Taoist three Qing are Yuqing Yuan Shi Tianzun, Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun, Taiqing Daode Tianzun.
Next to the inner hall sat an old man, dressed in a blue canvas coat and green cloth shoes for the troops, with flat white hair, smoking a cigarette, and looking to be sixty or seventy years old.
"Master Han, my friend is here, you can take a look."
The fat man stepped forward to say hello very politely, Master Han nodded and looked back at me, I glanced at him, and somehow felt that the other party didn't seem to be looking at me.
It's a subtle feeling, and it's clear that I'm making eye contact with him, but he's as if he's seeing someone else through my eyes.
"Gua Wazi, I'm in trouble."
Master Han's accent felt a little Sichuanese, and I hurriedly nodded and said, "Master help, I seem to be entangled by a passerby." ”
"I can even see the birds I have at home!"
He shook his head, then reached out and took out two red candles from the box next to him, then stuck them in the nails I had seen earlier, and lit them.
"Kowtow to Master Zu first."
He waved his hand, I nodded hurriedly, ran forward in three steps and two steps, took a bundle of incense from the box, lit it, bowed to the statue of Sanqing, and then inserted the incense in the ashes.
"Sit down."
Master Han patted the bench beside him, and I nodded and sat down. I don't know why, when I sit next to the master, I feel uncomfortable, and that feeling is like my body is tied up with a rope, and I can't get rid of it no matter what, and it's uncomfortable.
"You dreamed of those two ghosts, why did they bully you?"
Master Han lit a cigarette and asked casually without looking at me, but staring at the incense I lit.
I told the original story of what happened before, but I heard Master Han shake his head and say, "Wronged relatives, look at the incense you burned, it's intermittent, it's not good." ”
Hearing this, I became more and more nervous, and hurriedly asked, "Is there a way to get rid of these two passers-by?" ”
Master Han didn't answer, smoked a cigarette and kept looking at the incense, and was silent for a while before he said, "I have a lot of resentment, and I don't want to leave." ”
After speaking, he stood up, took some yellow paper from the cabinet behind him and burned it in the copper basin, I stared at the copper basin, but saw that the yellow paper burned very fast, and the burning speed was extremely amazing. It gave me the feeling that someone was deliberately snatching the yellow paper.
"It's a lot of guts. After receiving the money, he left. ”
Master Han shook his head, took out another stack of yellow paper and burned it in a copper basin, this time the speed did not decrease at all. Suddenly there was a starling's cry outside the hall: "Come out, come out......"
I don't know what came out, but I saw a gust of wind blow in, blowing out the candles lit on the table in an instant, and the light bulbs above my head also became bright and dim, and the atmosphere around me became a little weird and gloomy, and I felt a chill in my heart, and couldn't help but silently recite a few "Amitabha Buddha", but when I thought that this was in front of Sanqing, I hurriedly changed the "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable".
The light in the room was not good, Master Han smoked but looked very calm, smiled and said, "Hurry up and leave after receiving the money, I will send it to you, if you don't leave, it will be difficult." ”
His words were always incomprehensible, but I could tell that they were not for me. After a while, the situation did not improve at all, and I don't know if it was my auditory hallucinations or the wind outside was too loud, as if there was laughter in my ears again, and the fat man and I were so frightened that we tightened our necks and did not dare to make a sound.
The wind was whistling, the strange laughter continued, and the picture scrolls hanging on both sides suddenly floated in the wind, as if there were invisible silk threads pulling the two paintings.
I heard the laughter in the wind stop as the two paintings floated up, and then suddenly there was a "boom" sound from the wooden door outside the courtyard, as if something had hit the door!
"Hey......"
Master Han finished smoking the cigarette, sighed softly, then turned around and walked to the cabinet next to him, and took out a small box from it, the box was wooden but looked old, and there was a faint ash on it. Master Han took out a pair of scissors from it, which were very small, about the size of half my thumb, with a red thread tied to it.
Master Han raised his hand while holding the scissors, and his mouth seemed to have words, and after a while, the gale suddenly stopped. The scrolls on the walls on both sides also fell back to their original places at this time.
The fat man and I stood back, and I could vaguely see two very vague figures kneeling in front of the altar, but it was too blurry, I rubbed my eyes, and the two figures were out of sight again.
Master Han held two white paper figures in his hands, walked to the side of the copper basin, and said, "Reincarnation." ”
Then I ordered the paper figures, and I saw that the two paper figures fell into the copper basin and stood up strangely!
These two paper figures, one looks like a man and the other looks like a woman. The man should correspond to the child, and the woman should correspond to the old woman.
The two pieces of paper were supposed to burn to ashes soon, but at this time, they seemed to be extinguished, as if two passers-by refused to leave and were struggling.
Master Han's eyes suddenly widened, and he used the scissors to move forward a little, and I seemed to hear two faint wails in my ears. In the blink of an eye, the two pieces of paper in the copper basin burned clean in the flames.
Standing on the side, my body bones suddenly became agitated, and then my head began to sweat for no reason, and my entire vest was wet in ten seconds, and my hair was like taking a shower. But the whole person felt very comfortable, and the shoulders, waist, and everything that seemed to be pressing on me disappeared.
"It's okay!"
Master Han put away the scissors, lit a cigarette, relit the candle, and sat on the bench looking at me with a smile.
The fat man pushed me from behind, and I hurriedly stepped forward and bowed and said, "Thank you, master." ”
As he spoke, he took out a dozen yuan from his pocket, which was all my savings at the time, but Master Han smiled, waved his hand and said, "No need, Gua Wazi, have you ever wondered why you have been getting into trouble with unclean things recently." ”
I was a little surprised when he asked me that. I had never encountered this kind of thing before I went to the Mosuo tribe, and the ghost stories told by the older generation were all for fun. But ever since the Mosuo tribe met a female ghost, bad luck has happened one after another, and all of them have surrounded me. To say that you are not flustered is a lie.
"I think someone might be messing with you behind your back."
At that time, I didn't understand Master Han's words, in fact, even if I did, I couldn't figure it out, I was such a poor boy, I had no money and no looks, and my girlfriend didn't dare to ask for extravagance, who would have nothing to do with me.
"After a while, one of my senior brothers came from Beijing, and when the time comes, let him open an altar to have a look. You don't want the money, you will take the right path in the future, and this thing will be given to you. ”
Master Han took a bell from the cabinet and tied a piece of yellow paper on it, on which were drawn some patterns similar to talismans with cinnabar.
"You put it on your body, and you will keep it. Okay, it's not too early, you two can go back. ”
Actually, Master Han and his brother will help me a lot later, but that's a later story, at that time, I was satisfied with the disaster of two passers-by, holding the bell given by Master Han and leaving with the fat man.
On the bus back, the fat man and I counted it up, and we were going to go to the Hades Garden tomorrow to have a look, and to check whether there were any signs of the existence of earth beasts!