Chapter 1324: Soul Calling (5)
After all, only this statement can be explained.
But are there really ghosts in the world? Will the resentful woman really linger for more than a hundred years, still lingering, knowing that she is possessed by someone who is eligible? However, there are still many doubts.
"In your story, doesn't it say that your sister was working on the outskirts of Tuxue Town, and she was mentally abnormal because she spilled wild urine on the way home? What does this have to do with Miss Yang? I frowned, clearing the clues.
"That's the way it is, but ...... Oops, I'm completely messed up. Su Qin held her head, what happened tonight was completely beyond her imagination and cognition.
I was about to ask some questions, but suddenly I heard a few piercing gongs and drums in the main courtyard of the courtyard again, and I suddenly felt a stirring.
"If you have something to say, wait a minute, the soul calling ceremony is about to take the most critical step!" I pulled her and hurried towards the courtyard.
At midnight, a light rain began to fall. The older female relatives of the Su family gathered in a circle in the courtyard, and three women in their eighties, under the guidance of the Taoist priest, sat next to the pregnant woman who was lying down.
"It's my cousin lying down, it's weird, I've seen the soul calling ritual several times, and this one is the weirdest. Why is it called Sister Su Qing's soul, but let my cousin lie down?" Su Qin was a little puzzled.
"Because this soul calling ritual is not simple. Pregnant women have always represented a complex two-sided symbol in ancient China. On the one hand, I feel that it is a little ominous for a pregnant woman to enter the house, and she will suck away her luck. On the one hand, Taoists also believe that pregnant women have innate energy, so in many sacrifices, pregnant women will be used as stand-ins and cast spells. I explained on the side: "This time, Su Qing's missing figure is gone, so I need a medium." Your pregnant cousin is the best medium. ”
While speaking, the Taoist priest took out Su Qing's long hair that I brought, and the elder of the Su family held a bowl with red-skinned eggs in it. One of the Taoist priests picked up the red-skinned egg, and then wrapped it around Su Qing's hair, and finally wrapped it around, turning it into a cross. The Taoist priest lifted his hair with his hand, and the egg was hung by the hair, which looked firm.
"What are they doing now?" Su Qin asked.
"This is a kind of divination, a scientific point of view, that is, ask the good fortune and the evil before the ritual to see the success rate." I pouted.
Su Qing's mother had prepared a large stove in the yard a long time ago, and it was temporarily built with bricks. The stove was stuffed with combustibles, and after seeing the Taoist priest nodding, she hurriedly lit a fire. The firelight illuminates the surroundings and rushes into the sky with a cloud of smoke. After the charcoal fire burned to the red, and the flames rose more than half a meter high, the Taoist priest threw the red-skinned eggs into the fire.
Then the old man was instructed to circle around the pregnant woman, and they continued to hold a peachwood sword and a gossip mirror in their hands, and beat gongs and drums to dance the great gods.
I looked at my watch and it was already 12:45 a.m. The pregnant woman in the middle of the circle, that is, Su Qin's cousin, closed her eyes and fell asleep. A pregnant woman is willing to be tossed like this, it seems that she has a good relationship with Su Qing. Or rather, the relationship between the Su family is quite united. At least Su Qin's parents died, and after her sister disappeared, she was also taken care of. Except for the occasional sadness, there is no such sadness as the loss of a family member.
Time passed little by little, knowing a little bit of the whole thing, the moon quietly climbed behind the curtain of the sky. The Taoist priests stopped, and one of them poked the peachwood sword into the still burning fire, and with a light pick, he picked out the red-skinned egg.
Everyone gasped.
I saw that the egg, which should have been burned beyond recognition, was still intact and entangled. Even the hair, which will be carbonized when exposed to high temperatures, has not broken, and there is not even a trace of melting. It is still well entangled on the surface of the egg, but from the twisted air near the egg, it can be seen that the egg is definitely hot.
The Taoist priests did not cheat, but why did the hair and eggs not survive in the flames of hundreds of degrees? Even I couldn't figure it out.
"What's the deal with that egg, and the hair?" Su Qin blinked, his head a little confused.
"Don't ask me, there are some things that even I can't figure out." I spread my hands: "There are indeed some secret techniques among the people, perhaps using some mysterious chemical to protect the things in the fire from damage. This is a common trick used by witchcraft and sorcery. Perhaps the scene in front of me was also dealt with by the same means. ”
The Taoist priest placed the egg taken out of the fire on the left ear of the pregnant woman and tied Su Qing's long hair on her right hand. Su Qin sneaked over and stole the remaining strand of hair from the egg. She looked at me smugly and threw herself into the fire. But when the hair touched the top of the flames, it had not had time to fall, and had already turned to ashes.
She stared at the disappearing hair in amazement, and then turned to look at me again: "No, if the hair has been treated, then the ones I stole should also be burned." But now it's obviously over as soon as it burns. ”
"That's why it's called a secret technique, we can easily figure it out, and they'll live in vain." I'm Nunu mouth. Suddenly, I saw that the faces of the two Taoist priests seemed to be a little ugly, as if they didn't understand why the hair and eggs could be fished out of the fire.
After recalling for a moment, I suddenly remembered that this special soul-calling ritual was indeed to wrap an egg in the hair and throw it into the fire. The egg is intact because of the special structure on the surface of the eggshell. And the hair should be burned. Thinking of this, I shuddered. But I was a little apprehensive in my heart, and I always felt that something big would happen tonight.
The two Taoist priests were trembling with their hands. Laboriously wrapped the pregnant woman's hand, and then looked at the egg in a daze. After half an hour, the hair was cut with scissors and the red-skinned eggs were broken. The eggs are fully cooked and the yolks have an attractive golden brown color. A fragrant fragrance spread in all directions, and within a few seconds, it entered the nostrils of the people around him, and before anyone could be intoxicated, the taste had changed.
The aromatic and rotten egg flavors alternated and it took only three seconds. The smell of rotting emanated from the eggs and permeated the surroundings, and the smelly man kept fanning the nearby air with his hands.
Su Qing's father waved his hand and asked sullenly: "What's going on, who took a rotten egg to do something?" ”
I silently leaned over, looked at it a few times, and then quickly backed away. There is absolutely no problem with the eggs, the yolk and egg whites are normal in color. But how did that rotting smell of corpses come from? There will always be a reason for something.
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