Chapter 47: Rituals
Pudding and I heard Granny Zhuang's shout, so we hurriedly put away the leisure and elegance of appreciating cultural relics, and walked over with hastened steps. We walked to the side of the jade coffin in the middle, and at this moment, Granny Zhuang had already laid out the Tianluo Great Array.
On the outermost layer, Granny Zhuang used seventy-seven forty-nine red candles to form a circle. When Pudding and I saw this scene, we immediately looked at each other, and our hearts trembled. Because the flame of the candle was green!
On the middle floor, Granny Zhuang made twelve statues of evil gods made of peach wood and arranged them in a circle. The faces of these statues are lifelike, jealous and hateful, or three-headed, or six-armed, holding various swords, forks, swords, halberds, and majestic and solemn.
On the innermost floor, Granny Zhuang used a stand to erect four ink portraits, which are located at the four corners of the east, west, north and south. I don't know who the twelve evil gods are, but the divine beasts painted in these four portraits can be seen at a glance as the green dragon, the white tiger, the vermilion bird, and the Xuanwu.
Under the light of forty-nine candles, the "human skin puppet" lying in the translucent white jade coffin in the middle of the coffin appeared in front of all of us. It's so quiet and peaceful, without the slightest hint of murder. But we all know that it is such a quiet puppet, as long as we open the jade coffin, it can instantly kill the female ghost on Lao Lu's body!
At this time, Lao Lu suddenly fell to the ground with a pop, curled up in pain, and a few of us wanted to hurry over to have a look, but Granny Zhuang stopped us and sneered: "Don't worry, this is the same as when pigs are killed in the countryside, a pig feels that he is going to be killed, and he will try his best to resist and struggle desperately." ”
I was stunned: "You mean that the female ghost on Lao Lu's body feels that we are going to get rid of her?" ”
Granny Zhuang nodded: "That's right! So she started to get agitated. ”
I shouted at Lao Lu: "Commander, can you withstand it?" ”
Lao Lu replied with difficulty: "It's okay, it's okay!" This female ghost seems to want to escape from me, I can still control it for the time being, you are going to hold an exorcism ceremony, don't worry about me, I'm fine! ”
Lao Lu's forehead swelled up with a bulge for a while, and then it was concave with a large piece, which looked very scary. Seeing this scene, Pudding grabbed my arm tightly in horror and whispered to me: "Mo Laosan, I have always heard you say that there are ghosts, but I have never seen a real ghost, and when that ghost comes out, don't leave me alone, I'm a little scared." ”
I comforted her: "Don't be afraid, we have a lot of masters here, don't say it's a terrible ghost, even if it's his mother Maradona who jumps out in a while, I'll knock him down with all the time!" ”
According to Granny Zhuang's instructions, when she helps Lao Lu exorcise ghosts in a while, Han Benchu and I will be responsible for carrying the lid of the coffin, and Pudding will be responsible for maintaining the flame of the candle. After the division of labor of several of us was clear, we no longer delayed, and each came to the responsible post to prepare to exorcise ghosts!
Han Benchu and I stood on the side, our fingers tightly grasping the gap between the coffin and the lid, just waiting for the female ghost to come out, and then I would bring her a hard meal. Lao Lu sat next to the jade coffin, looking extremely painful. But now at this stall, he has a pain in his intestines, and he has to endure it.
Holding a peachwood sword in her hand, with a white ribbon tied around her forehead, and silently chanting some incantation in her mouth that none of us could understand, she walked around the circle formed by the red candle three times, and then returned to Lao Lu's side. Then, Granny Zhuang took out a small porcelain jar from the cloth bag, the lid of the porcelain jar had not yet been opened, and several of us had already smelled a foul smell.
As we all know, ghosts are very afraid of smells. So why do people say that garlic can ward off evil spirits, it is not unreasonable. It's just garlic, that's the business of us amateurs. For Granny Zhuang, a top onmyoji with a professional qualification license, when it comes to garlic, she is naturally disdainful, garlic is just an adjunct for them, and the stinky thing in her small porcelain jar is first dried with the carrion of ninety-nine-eighty-one poisonous insects, and then mixed with ninety-nine-eighty-one rotten plant rhizomes. This thing is not comparable to garlic, this is a demon exorcism!
Granny Zhuang slowly put her old hand into the small porcelain jar, and under the intently gaze of all of us, she gently grabbed a handful of stinky things from it, revealing an extremely cold light in her eyes, and then suddenly waved her hand, sprinkling the stinky thing on Lao Lu's body like snowflakes!
After doing all this, Granny Zhuang took three steps back, raised her head, and yelled at me and Han Benchu: "Ready, as soon as the female ghost comes out, the coffin will be opened immediately!" Don't make any mistakes, or you can imagine what the consequences will be! ”
Han Benchu and I nodded, the nervous cold sweat had soaked the whole body, and the eyes were staring at Lao Lu, and the atmosphere did not dare to make a sound. Pudding, who was guarding the candle, covered his mouth in horror, and his eyes were bigger than a bull's eye. At this time, Lao Lu suddenly spurted out a mouthful of blood, kneeling on the ground and wailing in pain.
The beads of sweat on Granny Zhuang's face fell to the ground in large pieces, and she anxiously shouted to Lao Lu: "Old Lu, you must hold on!" This female ghost is even more uncomfortable than you now! ”
Lao Lu and the female ghost seem to be engaged in a tragic tug-of-war, if you are at the scene, you can understand how frightened a few of us onlookers are when they see this scene in front of us at this moment. I was closest to Lao Lu, and I could clearly see a woman's face squirming under Lao Lu's skin, and Lao Lu's bursts of miserable wails had scared Han Benchu and Pudding into crying. Granny Zhuang had never told us that there would be such a terrible scene when a female ghost went out of her body, and I thought it would come out as if it was like squeezing a pimple, who the would have thought that it wasn't like that at all.
Just when we were terrified, we saw that the skin of Lao Lu's left brain suddenly swelled, and a human head squirmed violently under the skin and flesh of Lao Lu's left brain. I was shocked by this scene, because in a trance, there was a familiar picture that overlapped in my mind very much with this scene, yes, how can this look so similar to the conjoined baby in my Tang Dynasty portrait?
No
Not like,
It's exactly the same!
Same position, same picture.
Is this just a coincidence?
Just when I was distracted, a female ghost suddenly came out of Lao Lu's left head, she had no pupils, and there were clumps of black plasma in her mouth, and I was almost suffocated by the terrifying appearance! It's just the first time I've seen a real ghost.
Granny Zhuang shouted at us, "Quick, open the coffin!" ”
I heard Granny Zhuang's shout, without saying a word, I suddenly lifted the lid of the coffin up, the jade coffin made of Hetian white jade was not very heavy, I lifted it up, but I suddenly found that Han Benchu on the other end did not move at all, but was stunned!
I yelled angrily, "You lift! ”
Han Benchu looked at me and trembled in horror: "This is not right, take a closer look, how is this female ghost exactly the same as the pigtailed aunt in the portrait?" ”
When I saw it, I was completely stunned.
, really!