Chapter 4 Midyear Taboo
Don't wander outside in the middle of the night like a nobody, especially when you hear someone calling your name behind you. - Sixth woman
To be honest, I learn the Six Po Tao and Qi every day, my body is indeed a lot better, I rarely get sick, even if I get sick, it is a small illness such as a cold, I often don't need to take medicine, and the pain will disappear after about two or three days, which shows that this method has been learned more or less and still has some effect.
Of course, during this period, I not only learned magic with the six women, but I also had to recite Buddhist sutras every day, including: "Lengyan Mantra", "Jizo Sutra", "Maha Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra", "Amitabha Sutra".
To tell the truth, these scriptures do have the effect of eliminating disasters and removing demons, especially the "Lengyan Mantra", of course, at the beginning I was also very repulsed by these dense scriptures, and even sometimes I fell asleep when I read it, every time the sixth woman saw it, I would wake me up with a wooden fish qi, and I would innocently rub my sleepy eyes and say that I just drank with that Zhou Gong, and did not do other bad things, and the six women did not criticize but rolled her eyes angrily and asked me to continue chanting.
Of course, these are not the things that I am most interested in, I have to listen to the sixth woman talk about her previous stories and the things that should be paid attention to on certain occasions and at certain times, among which she said about the days that should be paid attention to during the Midyear Festival.
The Midyear Festival is also known as the Ghost Festival, and it is also known as the Seventh and a Half Months. Legend has it that on this day, when the ghost gate is opened, all the ghosts will be released from the underworld, and the people will generally carry out activities to worship the ghosts.
Fortunately, my birthday was not in the middle of July but in the beginning of July, otherwise it would have been all crying and mourning, and those who didn't know would have thought it was my sacrifice day.
Among them, about the Midyear Festival, the most taboo is to talk about gods and ghosts, nonsense; The second is to avoid wandering outside in the middle of the night and not returning to the house, especially in the mountains and forests, comrades who go to the new grave must watch the road carefully, and beware of encountering road interceptors; If a comrade who returns late at night hears someone calling your name behind you, you don't pay attention to it, don't look back, just stride forward with your head up, and if you feel cold behind you, you can push your forehead three times with your palm, so that you can raise your three-flame true fire, so that the ghosts dare not approach you easily.
Of course, these are all told to me by the sixth woman, because she has suffered losses before, and she doesn't want me to suffer such losses again.
At that time, the sixth woman was only twenty-two and three, and it was a good time for youth, but the mid-year festival at the end of the year was out of business, and she hurried home in the middle of the night.
Passing by a cemetery in front of me, I was frightened, and my legs and feet were weak, and I didn't know when there was more of this cemetery on the side of the road, and later I realized that I was blinded by a ghost, and most of the things I saw were visionary.
"Usually passing by...... I didn't see any grave in this place when I passed by, why did I ...... today" The sixth woman stomped her feet, and her voice was much louder, which was considered to give herself courage, but she only had a whistling yin wind to answer her.
The sixth woman shrunk her neck, wrapped her clothes tighter, and quickened her pace.
"Little girl, little girl......" There was an old and old shout behind him, as if he was calling out to the six women who were hurrying in front.
"Someone!" The sixth woman was happy in her heart, she was suffering from one person being afraid of hardship, if there were many people, regardless of whether this person was always weak or not, it was better than being scared and trembling alone, and then looked at the rear with joy.
Behind is an old aunt, with white hair and less black, a pair of dead fish eyes embedded in the already yellowed eye sockets, her face is a little pale, she walks with a limp, and her steps are faltering, but when she walks, she always feels that she is fast, and even has some illusions of floating.
"Grandma...... You ...... "The sixth woman has always understood etiquette and rules, and when she saw that her legs and feet were inconvenient, she hurriedly went over to help."
"Little girl, you are so good, others avoid my old woman when they see me." The old aunt's dead fish eyes suddenly turned in circles in the eye sockets.
"Auntie, you ...... Your eyes ......" The sixth woman was so frightened that her whole body swayed, shaking as if she had been soaked in snow water in the great cold.
"You're cold, look at the sweat on your face, I'll wipe it for you." Zombie-like stiff outstretched right hand.
"Your Hand !!" It was a withered yellow hand, and half of the flesh on the hand seemed to have been dug up by someone, and the deep white bones were exposed in the pits, which was shocking to look at.
"This, this was caused by a car accident back then, don't worry. My leg was also caused by a car accident. ”
"You...... It's not easy for you. "The sixth woman is still too naïve and kind.
"yes. But now that driver has been taking care of me for the rest of my life, which makes my life not too difficult. ”
"That driver has been taking care of you?"
"yes, he's been taking care of me since the day I got into a car accident, and it's been almost thirty years now."
"It's been almost thirty years! Every day after work, he ......"
"After work? Do dead people use it to go to work?! The right hand suddenly exerted force, and grabbed the left hand of the sixth woman.
"You...... You...... You let go of me......" The sixth woman finally knew that most of the people talking to her were not living people.
"You are much more sensible than him, you can go home and take care of me!"
"Take care of you X !!" The sixth woman listened to her family and said that swearing words can weaken the yin energy of the ghost and strengthen her yang energy.
I don't know where the strength comes from, maybe it's the explosion of potential in the body, maybe it's the strong factor of the desire to survive, so that the sixth woman pushed the old ghost away, turned around and ran, and in the process of running, I only heard the yin wind behind me mixed with nonsense like the little girl, you wait for me.
Later, I learned that I couldn't run when I encountered this kind of thing, the more I ran dirty things, the more I chased, and I only needed to raise my head and recite Amitabha Buddha to be safe, but at that time, the six women were not the six women, how could they know these things.
The day after returning home, the six women had a severe cold and a high fever, and the high fever did not go away, and the barefoot doctors all shook their heads.
My great-grandfather had no choice but to seek medical treatment from place to place, until one day he heard that there was a crazy Taoist priest who was best at treating strange diseases; So he visited in person, sent fish, meat and wine, and the crazy Taoist priest did not refuse, and asked the two disciples to carry the six women into the stove room.
It was also the first time that the sixth woman saw Li Jushi and Li Jushi's junior brother Ma Daochang.
At that time, Li Jushi was still a stunned young man, and he was very curious about what he saw, but suddenly he saw a girl, still a young and beautiful girl, and his heart suddenly itched and itched, so he was beaten three times by the crazy Taoist priest with a rattan stick, and walked away with a red face and embarrassment.
The mad Taoist priest burped and said that the evil obstacle was not bad, and he did not forcibly drag the six women.
My great-grandfather asked what it meant, and the Taoist priest burped again, and his voice was much higher: "You haven't been forcibly dragged into the underworld!!
So he turned water and burned the talisman, and sprayed two sips of liquor on the face of the sixth woman, saying that the liquor he had contained could ward off evil spirits, no wonder the sixth woman often complained that the crazy Taoist priest was really crazy.
After half a day, the six women had a fever, no longer sick, and saw that the crazy Taoist priest was quite a bit of his own age, and wanted to worship him as a teacher, but although he looked crazy, he understood it very well in his heart, and said loudly: The rules of this door, accept men and not women!
After the six women left angrily, worshiped the spirit woman as a teacher, and learned magic.