Chapter 144: The Old Sow Who Freezes to Death
Although Wang Fang's ghost possessed He Shujun, He Shujun did not feel uncomfortable. Wang Fang's main purpose is to use He Shujun as a carrier, to be able to go out with him to "work" and earn energy for the Yin Devouring King, so he didn't absorb He Shujun's yang energy, otherwise he would have fallen on the road and no one would bring Wang Fang back.
He Shujun returned to Magpie Village, found Hongdao Master, and asked him to help exorcise ghosts. In addition to He Shujun, there were other people in the village who had encountered a similar situation. Some young men went out to work and were fired by their bosses for no reason. Some people are doing business outside, and their business suddenly plummets, and their fortune seems to have been taken away by someone. Some people were originally mild-tempered, but recently they have been angry for no reason, they are very angry, and they have to beat people, and they have made a lot of trouble at home, and they have become full of "negative energy" makers.
When Master Hong heard what happened to these people, he calculated that it was the Yin Devouring King who was causing chaos with the help of the hexagram and the technique of turning into water. The methods used by the Yin Devouring King are very hidden, and all kinds of family disputes, business and fortune ups and downs are staged in society every day, and no one can imagine that something else will be calculating them, so they have to consider themselves unlucky. Hong Daoist wanted to use the paddling technique to find out the hiding place of the Yin Devouring King, but the Yin Devouring King's mana was so strong that Hong Daoist couldn't find out.
Mao Bowu from Maojiagou in Calamus Township came to Hongdaoshi's house in a panic, saying that his wife Xie Juying suddenly fell ill at home, talking nonsense, afraid of light and cold, and covered the bed with five or six quilts and shivered with cold. This Mao Bowu is the second son of Mao Guolong Jiang Cuizhi and his wife in Maojiagou, Calamus Township, and he also has an elder brother named Mao Bowen and a younger brother named Mao Bobin. As mentioned earlier, Jiang Cuizhi was the woman who sold He Xin to the Zhou family in Magpie Village, and was cleaned up by Huang Lan, a female ghost who saw uneven roads, and died of a violent illness.
Xie Juying was married back from Yunnan by Mao Bowu. At that time, those in Maojiagou who were not good at marrying local daughters-in-law generally went to Yunnan to find wives. When Xie Juying first came to Maojiagou, she took the children in the village to find some special stones on the slope to eat. At that time, the children were very young, and they thought that the stones were sugar, so they ate them with her. In the current world, there are many weirdos, some of whom specialize in eating stones and glass. Xie Juying only ate that kind of stone occasionally, and she was not completely addicted.
In addition to the stones, the children of the village followed her to eat other strange things, and the bees were their meal. On the trees, you can often see a lot of wild bee nests, but they should not be a hornet's nest, they can't afford to mess with them. Xie Juying told them to use a long bamboo pole to stick firewood and grass on it, sprinkle some kerosene, and then stand in the distance and light firewood and grass to burn wild honeycombs. The adult wild bees flew away naturally, and the pupae and larvae were burned to death. The wild honeycombs were removed, and the grids were neatly arranged like sunflower flower discs, and they used their fingers to pick out the charred and yellowed young bees, along with their intestines and droppings, and ate them together. Later, when the children in the village grew up, when they ate wontons, there were usually small shrimp floating in the soup, and they also ate whole corpses with stomach intestines and feces.
When Xie Juying first came to Maojiagou, she thought their village was poor, so she secretly escaped several times, and was arrested each time. Mao Bowu had a short temper, and after recovering Xie Juying, he locked her in the house and beat her violently. As for how he was beaten, it was not clear to the people, and there were no visible wounds on his face. Xie Juying said that it was the body that was beaten, and outsiders could not see it. After Xie Juying was beaten once, the villagers went to see her and saw that her chest and thighs were covered with blood.
Xie Juying has almost no say at home, and is basically at the mercy of Mao Bowu. If he is slightly dissatisfied, he will vent. Once, during the busy farming season, Mao Bowu asked a few people to help with the work. Xie Juying's fried dishes, Mao Bowu felt that the dishes were a little salty, so he asked everyone: "Is today's dish salty?" Some honestly said, "It's a little salty." Some people knew Mao Bowu's temper and were afraid of being angry with Xie Juying, so they said: "Where is it salty!" Fit and fit! If you work hard, you have to eat salty. Mao Bowu followed Xie Juying to the kitchen to scoop the soup and gave her a few slaps.
Xie Juying later gave birth to a son, and her status in the family gradually increased, and Mao Bowu stopped beating her. Xie Juying and Mao Bowen's wife also often quarrel over some trivial matters, such as your family borrowed rice and borrowed noodles and did not pay it back, last time my family bought pork and asked you to eat it, but this time your family stewed chicken but hid and ate it quietly. It is difficult to tell who is right and who is wrong in these trivial matters, and sometimes they go to the old man together to comment. Mao Guolong was a taciturn person, and he couldn't explain these quarrels clearly, so he had to smoke dry tobacco silently when they quarreled, and sometimes he couldn't listen to it or couldn't help it, so he yelled at them a few words.
When Xie Juying is stimulated, the problem of eating stones will recur. When someone is stimulated, he eats and drinks violently; When someone is stimulated, they shout. Xie Juying was stimulated and wanted to eat stones. At noon that day, Xie Juying and her sister-in-law quarreled again, and they were angry. After lunch, Xie Juying went to cut the red vines in the red vine field on the slope and came back to feed the pigs. Cutting and cutting, she wanted to eat the stones, so she went to the rocks by the soil to look for them. She was going to eat a smooth, yellowish stone, with an unknown name. If a petrologist were there, you could ask them: Is this sandstone? Conglomerate? Carbonate rocks? Limestone? Dolomite? Sedimentary rock? Igneous rocks? Metamorphic rock? Granite?
Xie Juying found a few delicate-shaped stones and put them in her purse, and ate a small piece when she was addicted. After cutting a large amount of red rattan and returning home, Xie Juying cut the red rattan into very short truncations and loaded two baskets to feed the pigs. Xie Juying did not use feed for the pigs, and the pigs ate pure natural food, although they grew very slowly, but the meat quality was very good.
After feeding the pigs, Xie Juying went to wash her hands, just touched the cold water, felt cold and biting, suddenly became ill, babbling nonsense, and shivering all over her body. Mao Bowen hurriedly went to the barefoot doctor in the village, and the doctor diagnosed it and thought that it was not like the symptoms of a pendulum, like an evil spirit. The barefoot doctor couldn't find the cause of the disease, prescribed some conventional medicines, and asked Mao Bowu to ask Hong Daoshi to take a look.
The hapless people in the village are asking the floodmaster to help them transport them. Master Hong said to them, "Your symptoms are not obvious, those demons are not really trying to harm you, they just intercepted some of your luck, and there is no big problem. I'm going to see Xie Juying, she's very sick. ”
"Please help us drive away the bad luck on our bodies, we have to go out to work to earn money, we can't stay in our hometown all the time!" Said those who came to ask for help.
"I will show you a few methods, and you will be able to exorcise evil spirits yourself. The first is that you can wear jade to drive away evil spirits, and there are those that are sold in the township, and you can also buy them in the county seat. Second, before you go to bed at night, turn your broom upside down against the corner of the wall and sleep until dawn. Thirdly, this is an emergency method, if you encounter something unclean, you can bite your middle finger and splash it with blood. Fourth, you can hang a bell statue at home and pray often. Zhong Kui is the king of ghosts, and he likes to catch ghosts and drink the most, and ghosts and evil spirits dare not provoke you. Fifth, you can find some ancient coins with square holes, no matter how big or small, and hang them around your neck with a red thread. Ancient money has passed through the hands of 10,000 people, and it can collect the yang energy of all people to resist the ghosts of the underworld. Sixth, you fill a bowl with clean water, and put a slipknot of red silk thread around the edge of the bowl, and place it under the table or under the bed, so that the demons will not dare to approach you. "As the saying goes, it is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish. Master Hong taught them these experiences, so that they could help themselves in the future and not have to come to him every time.
Hong Daoshi came to Mao Bowu's house, and Xie Juying slept in a room, the doors and windows were all closed, and the room was dark and gloomy. Xie Juying giggled on the bed for a while, and cried wolf for a while. She was covered with several thick quilts, and she was still screaming cold. The women of the village guarded her and brought a few charcoal pockets for her to bake. Hong Daoshi came to the bedside and touched Xie Juying's forehead, it was very cold, and her symptoms were obviously evil.
Hong Daoshi took out a peachwood sword and slashed it a few times in front of Xie Juying's bed, and a yin wind rolled up in the room, mixed with a looming howl, slapping against the window and crackling. Yin Feng scurried around like a headless fly, and finally came to the door of the bedroom and slipped out, Xie Juying's symptoms were significantly alleviated. Then, Hong Daoshi hung the peachwood sword on the wall at the door of Xie Juying's bedroom and hung it for three days, so that the ghosts and demons did not dare to enter the house, but Xie Juying was safe.
This peachwood sword has the function of warding off evil spirits. Legend has it that in ancient times there was a world of ghosts, and there was a mountain in it, and there was a big peach tree on the mountain, and there was a golden rooster on the treetop. Whenever the golden rooster crows in the morning, the ghosts that wander out at night will drive back to the ghost realm. There are two gods standing by the gate of the ghost domain, named Shen Tu and Yu Lei. If the ghost did something unreasonable during the night, Shen Tu and Yu Lei would immediately find out and catch it, tie it up with a rope made of mango reeds, and send it to feed the tiger. Therefore, the ghosts of the world are afraid of the gods and gloom. So the Han people carved their appearance with peach wood and placed it at the door of their house to ward off evil and prevent harm, which is called peach seal. Later, people carved the names of Shen Tu and Yu Lei on the peach wood board, called "Peach Fu", which can also suppress evil and eliminate evil. There is an ancient poem as evidence: "In the sound of firecrackers, the year old is removed, and the east wind sends warmth into Tusu." Thousands of households always exchange the new peach for the old one. It is also recorded in "The Romance of the Gods": Yun Zhongzi contributed to the king with a peachwood sword, and instructed him to hang it in the palace building to suppress the demon.
Mao Bowu saw that his wife Xie Juying's symptoms had basically disappeared, and he was grateful to Hong Daoshi, and the people in the village who watched the excitement kept patting Hong Daoshi's ass. Although Xie Juying got rid of the ghosts and evils, the pigs of Mao Bowu's family suffered. After the yin wind escaped from Xie Juying's bedroom, it came to his pigsty and blew on the sow, who couldn't resist and went crazy.
When Mao Bowu was drinking tea with Hong Daoshi, there was a muffled sound at his pigsty. Mao Bowu was shocked, had an ominous premonition, hurriedly ran over, and saw the sow's front two feet on the stone slab of the pigsty, and the back foot stepped on the pigsty and kicked hard, and the sow jumped out of the pigsty and ran out.
The sow is very important to Mao Bowu, the sow can give cubs, and the cubs can be sold for money, which is a small cash cow for his family. Besides, their family has been feeding this sow for several years, and they already have a deep affection. Mao Bowu hurriedly ran out to chase the sow, and the other men in the yard saw it and also came out to help chase the pig. The sow was scurrying around the fields, and a group of people chased after them and trampled a crop to death. During the march of Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms, his mount was frightened and trampled on the wheat fields of the common people, and Cao Cao wanted to cut his hair instead of cutting off his head to punish himself, which shows the importance of crops to the common people.
In the field, a man grabbed the pig's tail and a pig's ear, and saw that the pig was about to be subdued. The sow roared, broke free from them, and rushed straight to the pool at the entrance of the village. The sow walked in a straight line, and I don't know if it was because her brain didn't turn sharply, so she rushed over and fell into the pool. The sow remained motionless in the pool, as if dead. Mao Bowu inserted a bamboo pole into the pool to test the depth of the water, but the bamboo pole could not be inserted. If you look closely, the water in the pool has frozen, and the sow has been frozen and is dying.