Chapter Thirty-Eight: Ghosts and Corpses in the Water

After the Master had memorized the names and eight characters, he then said to the families of the deceased, "You first buy six zhang of white cloth together, and then each family prepares a rooster, cigarette paper offerings, and reed mats and other things, and also find people who carry the dead bodies, because these corpses from Lao Niutan are spiritual, even if I finish it, it is not necessarily, there is nothing, so you have to bury it that night, as the saying goes, you will be buried in the soil for peace, and after you are buried, there will be nothing left, you must remember." ”

Those people said that they remembered, and then the master asked me to call the steward, and the master gave money to those people for the lime that he asked the steward to get yesterday, and the person who pushed the lime and the steward said that they didn't want any money, saying that the master was thinking about everyone, and if the master was asked to pay for it again, it would make people laugh. In the end, the master had no choice, so he bought wine and food, and everyone sat in the willow grove for a meal, and my father whispered to me during the meal that since I worshipped the master, the people in the village respected him very much. After eating, the master asked us to go back to get things, the master and his old man changed into a hundred Nafu demon clothes, with the seven-star demon sword, and then let us take the magic weapon, to Lao Niutan, just wait for the dark, the sky is not dark yet, those who see the excitement will come slowly.

Some good people brought pine wood to make torches, and then I saw that Mr. Two also staggered over, and since we learned the Tao from the master, we have not gone to study. But although I don't study private school with Mr. II now, but as the saying goes, one day is a teacher and a father is life, so we hurriedly ran over and respectfully gave Mr. Two a salute, Mr. Two nodded and said: "Okay, good, I know more etiquette than when I was in a private school, Zhang Daochang is a talented person, and the three of you should study hard." ”

We quickly said that we knew, and then we helped the master to arrange the altar, the master said that this exorcism is extremely important, not sloppy at all, so the magic weapons are brought, first put the altar cloth on the table, and then put the candlestick on the table, cinnabar pens, yellow paper, after everything is arranged, someone will light a fire in the old cow pond, after the fire is blazing, those people will light the torch, in fact, pine contains pine oil, so such a torch, no special treatment, as long as it is lit, it can be lit for a long time, After the coarse pine wood is lit, the whole old cow pond is lit up, and the firelight is printed on the pond water, and there is a colorful feeling.

The master's face was solemn, he walked on the altar, and wrote the charm on the yellow paper, after the yellow paper talisman was written, the master slowly danced the sword, and read in his mouth: "Heavenly Thunder Order, Land Mine Order, Five Thunder Originally Auxiliary Stars." Five thunders and five thunders, step by step, I am wearing gold armor, wearing a purple gold helmet, five thunders together, five thunders are powerful, every day opens, every earth is cracked, those who follow me live, those who oppose me die, the six stars of the South Dipper, the seven stars of the Big Dipper, I am in a hurry like a law. Listen to the soul in the pool, I was ordered by the old king of heaven to behead the water monkey, you have avenged the wrongs, now listen to me will hold up the sunken corpse, float to the water, so that you can enter the earth for peace, and enjoy the worship of future generations. ”

After finishing speaking, he used his seven-star demon sword, picked up a yellow paper talisman, lit it on the lampstand, and said that Taishang Laojun was as anxious as the law, after the edict, the talisman swirled and drilled into the water, everyone looked nervously at the movement in the water, in fact, everyone was half-convinced that these sunken corpses could float up, and the new people who fell into the water could bring the corpses back from the water with the clothes and pillows of the deceased before their death, but these corpses had fallen into the water for many years.

After waiting for a meal, the pool is still the same as it was, and the big guys are all talking about it, and at this time there is no hope that the corpse will float up by itself, I listen to it in my ears, and I am anxious in my heart, in my heart the master is a god-like person, and what he says has never been allowed, is it not allowed to say it this time?

With this question in mind, I went to Master's altar and whispered to Master, "Master's corpses haven't moved yet, do you think they won't come out?" ”

The master said, "This ghost is not a simple matter, the ghost is a spirit of nothingness, and the body is heavy in the water, and it takes a lot of effort to come out, so I will use a charm to urge it." ”

After speaking, he picked up the Seven Stars Demon Sword, picked up a charm, put it on the candlestick and lit it, and said, "Taishang Laojun is as anxious as a law. ”

After finishing speaking, the yellow paper charm flew to the old cow pond again, and as soon as the yellow paper charm arrived in the old cow pool, he heard someone shouting: "Look, there is movement in the water." ”

As soon as I heard it, I quickly ran to the edge of the old cow pond, looked into the water, and there was movement in the water, only to see a black thing under the water, like a big fish, turning in a circle and swimming, everyone wanted to get closer, suddenly there was a sound of water, the corpse poked out of the head first, a black hair hung in front of the head, protected the head, just floated on the water, as if looking at us coldly, this scene suddenly appeared in the night, I couldn't help but be surprised, it was too weird, the corpse seemed to be standing straight there. At this time, a timid person beside me shouted: "My mother, the ghost is out, run quickly." ”

This shout, those who are timid and curious, at this time really hate their father and mother for having two legs, they run away, shouting "Run, run, the ghost is out." ”

For a while, in addition to the four of us masters and apprentices, there were only a few brave people left who were not afraid of death, and the master shouted: "No noise, no noise, be careful to scare away the yin people, there is this Taoist master sitting in the battle to ensure that everything is worry-free." ”

After the master said this, those people stopped running, and everyone realized that my master was here, wearing magic clothes, holding magic weapons in his hands, and those ghosts and monsters did not dare to come nonsense, so he was in the distance, stretching his neck to look into the old cow pool, and the master said, "Bring the white cloth you bought and spread it on the ground, so that the deceased can come back with dignity." ”

After saying that, he went to the water's edge and said to the dead body in the water who seemed to be looking: "Leave the waterhole and live in a new house, and it will be auspicious for the dead to come out of the water." This is not a place to stay, the family has prepared a coffin bed. ”

After the master said this, the corpse actually slowly swam towards us, that kind of swimming, it was windless and automatic, as if someone was pushing behind, I wanted to open the eyes of heaven to see, but in the end, I still forgot it, it was dark in the middle of the night, and it was very wrong to see this. The corpse finally approached the shore of the old cow pond, and a few bold old men went to catch it, but this grab slipped out directly, and someone asked the master: "Master Dao, you have seen a lot, tell me what happened to the corpse in this water, it seems to be very slippery, and I can't catch it at all." ”

Master said, "Actually, the things on these corpses are called corpse wax, which is made by changing the fat in the body, and it is precisely because of the protection of these things that the corpses are intact. Then he said to the corpse in the water: "The edict of the Taishang, the lonely soul of Chaoru, the ghost of everything, the four lives are entangled in grace, this is Tianze, don't blame people, hurry up." ”

At this time, the corpse, which had been a little far from the shore, actually floated back again, and everyone carried the corpse to the white cloth, and then someone shouted: "Look, look at another one." ”

I looked into the pool, and sure enough, another one came out of the water. Like a huge black fish, swirling and floating, this is obviously a man, his hair is not too long, or the same as the first one, the corpse wax all over his body, making the corpse very slippery, and the whole face has been blistered and can't see clearly. Everyone carried to the white cloth, the deceased was the greatest, everyone was respectful, no one dared to do disrespectful movements, the surrounding family members of the deceased came from the sound of crying, although some have been dead for some years, but those are their relatives after all, when they see a corpse coming up, they still can't help crying. And those who watched the excitement wanted to come forward, but they were scared, so they could only hide in a distance, stretch their necks, and look at us, and slowly those corpses that sank to the bottom, one by one, floated to the water, a total of fourteen corpses surfaced, and then another corpse surfaced from the water, this corpse was different from the original ones, wearing a kind of leather clothes, the clothes were dry when they came out of the water, and everyone looked at the last corpse in amazement.