The most annoying thing in my life is being stared at like this when I'm concentrating on something.

It's like when I was taking an exam, I knew how to do some questions, but the invigilator didn't know if he had taken a fancy to me or what's wrong, so he just stood next to me, staring at me and doing the questions, so that I was not in the mood to do the questions I would have known.

In fact, what I can't understand the most is that most people have similar experiences or feelings, but when others are doing things, they always like to stare at others.

I was so uncomfortable with the two of them that I waved my hand at them: "You guys are busy with yours, don't keep looking at me at the door." ”

Lao Hu gave me an awkward smile, and then went into the west bedroom. Li Huaishan didn't seem to hear what I was saying, and stood stupidly in place.

I raised my chin at him, "What are you supposed to do, what are you going to do?" ”

Li Huaishan: "I have nothing to do." ”

I sighed and said, "Then find something to do, and don't stay here." ”

Li Huaishan shrugged his shoulders and muttered, "Then I'll go out for a walk." He quickly went out the door.

When he was gone, I ran back to my bedroom and took out the yellow cloth, the incense burner, the copper bowl, all the gossip money, and a handful of wrapped incense from my suitcase.

To put out a five-bucket rice array, bathing and changing clothes is only the first step, after that, you have to set up the altar and sacrifice to the sky and the earth.

The spells and formations that can be handed down in the old family's family usually do not need to go through particularly complicated rituals when they are cast or arranged, only this five-bucket rice array passed down from Dao Ancestor Zhang Daoling is a special case.

The so-called altar is actually to spread a yellow cloth on the table, place an incense burner in the center of the table, and light incense.

When the incense burns halfway, then put the four gossip coins in the four directions of the incense burner, and the four gossip coins correspond to the four positive directions of due north, south, east and west.

I have heard the third master say before that before the establishment of the Wudoumi Sect, most sects had to offer livestock and meat to the ancestors and gods when they opened the altar. It's just that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, years of famine and war caused the people of Kyushu to save one out of ten, and the productivity of the people was greatly reduced, and almost every household had no surplus wealth, let alone use livestock for cultivated land as offerings.

Probably in order to adapt to the times, the Wudou Rice Sect at that time changed the rules set by the ancestors, replacing livestock and meat with rice, and the more than 20 gods that needed to be worshiped before casting the spell were also simplified into the sky and the earth.

Facing the window, grab a handful of new rice and sprinkle it on the roof, even if it is sacrificed to the sky, pinch a pinch of old rice and sprinkle it on the ground, even if you have worshiped the thick soil.

The whole ritual is indeed very simple to say, but when the rice grains are sprinkled, the mind needs to reach the state of "selflessness" without any distractions, but whenever there is even the slightest distraction, the altar must be removed, the bathing and changing clothes should be re-done, and the things that have just been done must be done again.

I think that at the beginning, in order to achieve this so-called "selfless" state, I suffered a lot under the hands of the third master.

After setting up the altar and worshipping the heavens and the earth, I tied the yang thread, wrapped the thread into a circle, and tied it to the bottom of the five copper bowls, and then sprinkled a small pinch of aged rice into each of the five copper bowls.

The ancients set up the array, usually to fill the five bowls with old rice, but from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the present, the old family has saved less and less old rice, to our generation, in many links can only come. When the third master arranged the five buckets of rice array, sometimes he would even use a metal cup the size of a bottle cap to replace the copper bowl.

When each bowl was filled with a similar amount of aged rice, I picked up the four gossip coins on the table, plus the one I usually wear on my wrist, the five gossip coins, and put them into the five bowls. After that, I condensed a mouthful of mental power in the dantian and injected this mental power into the five copper bowls equally.

When everything was ready, I immediately set my head and arranged the five bowls in a straight line in the direction of east and west.

It is indeed not difficult to arrange the five-bucket rice array, but if you want to form a formation, in addition to injecting the evil qi that has been passed down from generation to generation into the copper bowl together with the mental power, the state of mind must always be maintained in the realm of "selflessness".

Five bowls into a row, straight to the east, I put out the five buckets of rice array in the "one" formation, before I should have mentioned when introducing the five bucket rice array, the main role of the word array is to suppress ghosts.

In the past, the five buckets of rice arrays were arranged, and to put it bluntly, it was all hand training, and today is the first time I have used it to suppress ghosts, and my heart is really a little unsteady.

After all, the formation is different from the technique I usually use, the spell is cast, and it can be effective immediately, after the formation is arranged, you feel that the formation is completed, but after the next half of the day there is nothing, you will begin to wonder if you have failed.

When the third master passed me on the five-bucket rice array, he said that when the formation was in effect, there would be a vision on the copper bowl, and no one could say for sure what kind of vision there would be, and it was impossible to say when the vision would appear, it could be five minutes, it could be an hour, a day, or a month.

I sat in the living room, staring at the five copper bowls, anxiously waiting.

Time passed little by little, I stared at the copper bowl on the ground, and I didn't dare to blink for a moment, until the crazy woman of the old Hu family woke up, and there was no vision on the copper bowl.

The reason why I knew that the madwoman had woken up was because I heard Lao Hu talking to her in the house.

At that time, she seemed to be going out, but Lao Hu kept telling her to wait a little longer, and it would be fine after a while.

Then the madwoman seemed to be in a hurry, and there was a sound of tearing the sheets in the room.

Seeing that it was headless to drag on like this, I sat up straight and shouted at the west bedroom: "Lao Hu, let your wife come out, as long as you don't touch the things I put out." ”

After a while, Lao Hu helped the woman out of the bedroom, he grabbed the woman's arm, and quickly led the woman towards the door, the woman glanced at me twice on the way, but she was obviously not interested in the yellow cloth on the table and the copper bowl on the ground, and then turned her face to the door.

At the moment when Lao Hu stretched out his hand to open the door, a cold wind blew in through the crack in the door, and even the ashes in the incense burner rose a little.

After this, a copper bowl in Dongshou suddenly trembled, and then the aged rice inside seemed to be boiling, and it kept beating.

Lao Hu heard the sound of Chen Mi beating and looked back at me, and I waved my hand at him, signaling him to leave me alone.

Old Hu smiled innocently, and then pulled the crazy woman out of the house.

The door was closed again, but the old rice in the bowl was still beating incessantly, and it took about five or six minutes before it slowly calmed down.

There was a vision in the formation, it stands to reason that this should be enough to show that the ghosts in the village have been suppressed, but I don't know what is going on, looking at the still copper bowl in the copper bowl, my heart has become a little uneasy.

Just as I was pondering whether or not to put away the array, there was a knock on the door.

Along with the knock on the door, there was also the shout of the black fat man: "The old lady's body has been brought back, do you want to go over and have a look?" ”

"You wait for me outside."

I shouted this, quickly got up from the ground, and put away all the household items used for the formation as quickly as I could.

Because I was in a hurry to go out, I didn't have time to change my clothes, and as soon as I opened the door, the fat man smacked his lips at me: "I told the stone a long time ago, you are not an ordinary person, and he still doesn't believe it." You see, the average person doesn't wear such clothes. ”

While the fat man was talking, Liu Shishi stood beside him and stared at me.

The fat man here was still chattering, Li Huaishan had already come out of an alley in the east, and as soon as he appeared, the first thing he said was: "Mrs. Wang's body has been transported back." ”

"I already know." I said this to Li Huaishan, and then asked the fat man and Liu Shishi: "Are the old lady's children back?" ”

The fat man sighed: "The people in the village are worried about this." His son and daughter are far away from Kunming and will not arrive until tomorrow at the earliest. Now the people in the village are arguing about who will wake the spirit of Mrs. Wang tonight, she died too strangely, and now, everyone in the village who has some relatives with her is hiding at home and not coming out, for fear of being called to the vigil. ”

I looked at my phone, it was already half past ten, and there was still the last hour and a half left before noon.

Li Huaishan came to my side and said, "When I came here just now, many people have been talking about Mrs. Wang, and I have listened to it a few times. Listening to the villagers, the hospital seems to have done an autopsy on Mrs. Wang, saying that she died of a heart attack. Well, it seems to mean that, I don't understand the local dialect. ”

The fat man also opened his mouth and agreed: "Yes, it is myocardial infarction." ”

It is estimated that the old lady should also have a myocardial infarction, and most of the people who were caught by the ghost either committed suicide or died of this disease.

I pondered for a moment, and then said to Li Huaishan, "Tonight, let's keep a wake for the old lady. ”

Hearing me say this, Li Huaishan's face suddenly pulled down, and he grinned, but he didn't say anything after all.

I heard the fat man say: "You are not from the village, they are unlikely to let you keep a spiritual watch for Mrs. Wang." ”

The fat man's eyes kept staring at me when he spoke, and I stared at Li Huaishan, Li Huaishan was a little weak by me, and asked me very unpleasantly: "Why do you keep staring at me?" You don't want me to go to her wake alone, do you? I'm just like you, and I'm not from the village. ”

I had to remind him, "Is there a profession dedicated to keeping people's spirits?" ”

Li Huaishan was stunned for a few seconds, and then he understood what I meant, he sighed helplessly, turned his head to Liu Shishi and said, "Did you find the old lady's body?" ”

Liu Shishi nodded: "It's me." I also called an ambulance. But her death has nothing to do with me, besides, I'm also from a foreign country, and I can't keep this spirit. ”

Li Huaishan showed an impatient expression: "I don't need you to guard. Well, tonight we will go to the old lady's wake, and you will come with us later, and if the villagers ask, you will say that we are the vigil you specially invited for the old lady. ”

(End of chapter)