Chapter 24: The Altar of Ashes
Not long after the corpse binding rope appeared, the Heavenly Master Peachwood Sword was encountered by us again, and the so-called Nine Great Magic Weapons of Taoism don't seem to be very precious.
Zhang Nifeng is also quite helpless about this, according to him, although these nine magic weapons are rare, but the records in history are not uncommon, but such a succession of this life is really a bit abnormal, I don't know whether it is a blessing or a curse.
I didn't bother to listen to what they were saying, so I asked Brother Gao, "Brother Gao, what happened to the sixth brother and the fake Taoist priest in the end." ”
Brother Gao saw that I was straight, laughed, and told me that he didn't know how the sixth died very well, after all, he was not at the scene at the time, and the fake Taoist priest was probably played by the sixth brother, although he slept in the graveyard for a night, but after all, he didn't hurt his life, and everyone didn't take it seriously.
Zhang Nifeng suddenly thought of something, frowned and asked if the rich merchant was still in the village.
Brother Gao said that he was also suspicious of the rich businessman's ghost at first, and suspected that he had taken the peach wood sword in the archway, but when he went to the village committee to look for someone, he found that the person had already left in a car.
The three of us chatted in the courtyard all afternoon, at first they talked about my body, and then I listened to the two of them discuss some Feng Shui metaphysics with a blank look on my face.
They chatted very quickly, and in a blink of an eye it was dark, I felt bored and got up and wanted to go out for a walk, I just moved, and suddenly there was a bell sound in my ears, I looked at Zhang Nifeng and Brother Gao on the side, and found that the two of them were still discussing hotly.
I thought I was hallucinating, so I patted my head and continued to walk out of the courtyard.
Bell ......
I had barely taken a step when the bell rang again, and it was so clear that I had heard it wrong!
"Did you hear the bells?" I turned to the two of them and asked.
Big Brother Gao shook his head and said he didn't hear it.
Zhang Nifeng touched the backpack in his arms and said to me, "My bell didn't ring, did you hear it wrong?" After speaking, he continued to chat with Big Brother Gao.
If the first time I was hallucinating, the second time I was sure that I had not heard it wrong, and then I tried to take another step towards the courtyard, and sure enough, the bell rang again!
As soon as I left, it rang! As soon as I stop, it stops! I subconsciously looked down at the birthmark on my left ankle.
Could it be it? Is it communicating with me? It felt like the bell was a reminder to me, but what was it trying to remind me?
I quickly pulled up Zhang Nifeng and asked him not to chat for now, and help me see what was going on first.
He and Big Brother Gao hated to see each other late, and the two of them chatted hotly, and I couldn't help but feel a little impatient when I interrupted him, but after listening to me finish talking about the bell, he was also at a loss.
He lay on the ground and rolled up my trouser legs, then put his ear close to my left ankle and told me to take a few steps, and as soon as I was gone, the strange bell rang again, but he still didn't hear anything.
It seems that this bell is only heard by me, I walked around the yard and found that as long as I don't walk towards the courtyard gate, the bell will not appear.
Is there something at the gate of the courtyard? Zhang Nifeng and Big Brother Gao were bold and bold, and they didn't ask anything else, and rushed out of the courtyard door to check.
But there was nothing outside the courtyard, let alone a person, and he didn't even see a passing bird, Zhang Nifeng also used the Taoist method to open the eye of heaven just in case, but it turned out that there was not even a lonely ghost outside the courtyard.
"Although my yard is not a feng shui treasure, it is definitely not something that can be done by casual cats and dogs, brother, you can rest assured." Big Brother Gao said to Zhang Nifeng with a smile.
Zhang Nifeng nodded, he knew that I wouldn't joke with him with such a thing, so he asked me if I had ever felt anything unusual.
I closed my eyes and calmed down to feel it for a while, and found that I didn't feel anything, just rolled up my trouser legs, and the autumn breeze was a little chilly.
He patted me on the head and told me not to talk so much nonsense, I said in my heart that the autumn in the north is so cold, dare not you walk around the yard with your bare legs and drink the wind.
Although I thought so in my heart, I still said honestly: "What the hell is going on, this has never happened before." ”
Big Brother Gao thought about it for a long time, and opened his mouth to say: "Could it be that there is something in my yard, your magical birthmark is reminding you to find it." ”
I thought about it, there is really such a possibility, if this bell is to remind me that there is danger, then it should have sounded when I met the blue jade ghost before, why wait until now to work.
As soon as the three of us discussed, we all felt that this reason was more reliable, and immediately began to study what was in this yard that Sanqingling wanted me to find.
The courtyard of Big Brother Gao's house is less than a hundred square meters, and the three of us circled around the yard without finding anything special.
"Little Devil, you can't have a mental breakdown, right?" Zhang Nifeng began to wonder if the bell I heard was really there.
"No, I feel special, it's so transparent, it's right in my ears." I replied firmly.
When he saw me say this, he stopped talking and went on looking down.
The two of us were burying our heads in searching, and the big brother Gao on the side suddenly slapped his thigh and exclaimed, "Oh mom! I know what it is! With that, he turned and ran into the room.
When we saw him like this, we thought that what we were looking for was in his room, so we both followed his footsteps and wanted to enter the house, but as soon as we walked out two or three steps, we saw the eldest brother running out of the house in a hurry with a big shovel in his hand.
He ran straight to a large water tank in the northwest corner of the courtyard, and with great effort he moved the tank out of its place, and then began to roll up his sleeves and plow the ground with a shovel.
I said to myself, no wonder the three big living people couldn't find it when they turned around, it turned out that they were buried in the ground, but I couldn't imagine what it would be when I broke my head.
Zhang Nifeng and I didn't have tools in our hands and couldn't help much, so we could only watch stupidly as Big Brother Gao was busy alone, the mound of soil that was dug out next to him was getting higher and higher, and the big pit in front of him became deeper and deeper as the mound of soil rose.
After about fifteen minutes of digging, and when the pit was half a meter deep, I heard a crisp sound from the shovel, which was obviously a digging of something.
The two of us hurriedly leaned closer to see, only to see that buried in the deep pit in the corner of the wall was a porcelain jar the size of a watermelon, the porcelain jar was made of ordinary white porcelain, and there was no pattern on the altar, and the mouth of the altar was tightly sealed with a wooden lid.
I whispered to Zhang Nifeng that this wouldn't be a jar of old jar sauerkraut dug up, could it be that my birthmark still knows that I love to eat this bite? When he heard this, he bumped me on the shoulder, telling me not to talk nonsense if I didn't understand, and then told me that northerners don't eat that stuff at all, and then touched his chin and speculated that it was most likely a jar of old wine that Big Brother Gao had secretly kept.
I suddenly had a black line on my face, and I didn't know if he was serious or joking with me.
As he spoke, the elder brother Gao had already taken the white porcelain jar out of the pit, he brushed the soil on the surface of the porcelain altar with his sleeve, and then respectfully placed it on the small tea table in the courtyard.
"This is my grandfather's ashes." Big Brother Gao spit this sentence out of his mouth very calmly.
Zhang Nifeng and I were all shocked, just now I guessed what kind of sauerkraut and old wine, why did it suddenly become ashes, and besides, shouldn't the ashes be enshrined in the ancestral hall, and they have to be placed in the shrine at the very least, why are they buried in the soil.
"Brother Gao, do you mean that I want to find the ashes of your grandfather for this birthmark?" I think it's when I say it myself.
Unexpectedly, Big Brother Gao nodded and replied, "That's right, I'm looking for him." ”
I didn't know why he was so sure, so I asked him why.
He told us that Mr. Liu, the grandfather of the ancestors, had said that he had leaked too many heavenly opportunities in his life, and that it was common to change his life against the sky, and that if he was buried like an ordinary person, he would definitely suffer the curse of heaven after death. Therefore, he left a testament, and ordered his descendants to whip the corpse with wicker immediately after his death, and then cremate with acacia wood, and then decorate the ashes with white porcelain, and then seal them with willow wood without roots, and are not allowed to worship, just bury them in the ground and let them go, and when the opportunity comes, someone will cross him from the suffering of the six realms.
I said in my heart that this is not a joke, one of the three people present is a descendant of Zhang Daoling, and the other is a descendant of Mr. Liu, both of them are so big, why did they choose me to do this work, I don't understand anything.
But when I tried to approach the urn, I suddenly felt the birthmark on my ankle become warm, which obviously means that this is what the birthmark is looking for.
"Brother Gao, I don't know all the doorways you have here, how do you know how to help your ancestor Chaodu, if you want to find him." I pointed to Zhang Nifeng beside me and said to Brother Gao.
Zhang Nifeng said with a serious face: "The wicker whip corpse is to get rid of the yang energy in the body as soon as possible, the locust tree is the wood of extreme yin, and the cremation of the corpse with locust wood will greatly aggravate the ghost qi, the white porcelain can isolate yin and yang, and the willow wood and the rootless water seal can make the yin qi in the altar only enter and exit, so that the corpse should be treated in order to seal all the three souls and seven spirits in the altar, in order to avoid the eye of heaven and not enter the six realms." ”
"Are you saying that Mr. Liu's soul is still in this jar?" I asked him with a look of disbelief, and even the big brother on the side was shocked by what he said.
Zhang Nifeng walked up to Mr. Liu's columbarium and said, "Whether it's true or not, let's try it!" ”