Chapter 40: The Evil Spirit (I)

Recently in my hometown, good food, drink and fun, very comfortable, the day before yesterday to see the master, the master said to wash the hands of the golden basin. I haven't seen each other for a long time, the master and apprentice have talked for a long time, and they have drunk a lot, and yesterday I wanted to accompany the master for another day, but the master said that he wanted to live, and he didn't remember the last time he worked with the master, and he missed the days when he worked with the master. I offered to go with the master, but he refused, for no other reason than because I had already left the school, and if I still worked with the master after leaving the school, the first would be to rob the master of his job, and the second would be to say that he was not good at learning and art. Therefore, it stands to reason that Master will not allow me to go with him. So I went down the mountain and walked home, and when I passed by a budding rice field, my mind was pulled back to when I was young, when I was still very young, was it the first year of high school or the third year of junior high school? I don't remember exactly, but that incident was absolutely dangerous, and Master took me to deal with it, and I was a little scared when I thought about it, and I thought that if I had encountered such a thing now, I wouldn't have dealt with it.

This incident happened on a bud valley land, and the owner of this bud valley is surnamed Xiao (hereinafter referred to as Uncle Xiao), who is in his forties. is an honest farmer, his family is not good, and then he has cultivated a son who is very unfilial and very troublesome, and as a result, he is close to the four walls of the family. He also has an older brother who is in a similar situation to him.

The bud valley is leaning against the shade of a mountain, there is a small open space in the place where the ground borders the mountain, there are two graves on the clearing, one is a new grave and the other is an old grave, the owner of the old grave is Uncle Xiao's mother, who has been dead for almost ten years, and the new grave is Uncle Xiao's father, who died recently, and was buried for about three months. There is a custom in our side that after the death of the elderly, the eldest son needs to provide food for three months to half a year (the specific time of the meal is given by Mr. Yin and Yang), that is, before each meal, he needs to take out several bowls of rice and put them on the four sides of the table, with vegetables in the middle. Then use chopsticks to put a section on the rice bowl, the other end is on the vegetable bowl, but also ask the incense to burn the paper, call the newly deceased elders to eat, after burning the paper, generally only need to wait one to three minutes, and after they have eaten, people can eat on the table, and can not take the rice they have eaten directly to eat, need to pour the rice they have eaten back into the rice pot, stir and re-load, before eating. After three months to half a year's meal, you should start abstaining from eating, and you need to ask a Taoist priest to do things, and the time is generally three to five days. It is to invite the Taoist priest to come to the house to beat and chant the scriptures, and abstaining from food is a relatively common ritual, and if everything is done according to the custom, there will basically be no mistakes. But Uncle Xiao's father's abstinence from eating this time had a problem, and it was a very serious problem.

When quitting food, it was the season when the bud valley was ripe, and Uncle Xiao planted a lot of bud grain at home, and when he quit eating, he only needed the Taoist priest to do it at home, and he didn't need to guard it at home, so on the first day of quitting food, Uncle Xiao left his daughter-in-law to cook for the Taoist priests at home, and he went to the bud valley next to his father's grave to harvest the bud valley. The bud grain is loaded with a basket, which is the kind of round carrying tool made of bamboo. Picked up with a flat pole. Harvesting the grain is not very complicated, you only need to break off the bud grain one by one from the pole and put it in the basket and pick it back. Coincidentally, when he broke the bud valley all the way to the area around his father's grave, it happened to be another stone, so he was ready to pick up this stone bud valley and send it back first, when he picked it up, just took two steps, and suddenly his shoulders sank, and a stone of corn that was originally only a hundred catties seemed to suddenly become extremely heavy, and he didn't bear the pressure suddenly, and the ankle of his right foot was directly crushed and fractured, and it was a very serious kind, logically speaking, as a farmer, he should be able to deal with this kind of thing very well, But he was inexplicably crushed and fractured his ankle. In this way, let alone pick the corn back. Even if you walk back empty-handed, it's a little difficult. The right foot can't move at all, and if it moves, it hurts.

At that time, Uncle Xiao couldn't figure out why Yishibud Valley was suddenly so heavy, and there was no mobile phone at that time, and their bud valley was far away from his house, so he waited until the afternoon to eat. His wife saw that he hadn't come back yet, so she asked the Taoist priests to eat first, and she went to the bud rice field alone to find him, and when she arrived, she saw Uncle Xiao's situation and was in a hurry, thinking that she should be sent to the hospital quickly, but she was a woman's house, and she couldn't even pick up the bud valley, let alone get Uncle Xiao back together, so she returned home and called two strong Taoist priests to help. Those Taoist priests are all villagers, and they can be regarded as warm-hearted. And today's ritual is almost done, so I promised to help carry Uncle Xiao back.

The two Taoist priests were also doing farm work, so after they arrived, one of them picked up the stone bud valley and the other picked up Uncle Xiao and was about to go back, but before he took two steps, the Taoist priest who picked the bud valley suddenly shouted. The stone bud valley came down directly from the shoulder and fell to the ground, and the Taoist priest who picked the bud valley also covered his right shoulder and sat on the ground in pain, with beads of sweat the size of beans rising out. Obviously, because the bud suddenly aggravated, the unloading force was not timely, resulting in a serious dislocation of the shoulder. And just when the Taoist priest who was carrying Uncle Xiao on his back was about to look back to see what was going on, Uncle Xiao on his back also seemed to suddenly become very heavy, as if someone suddenly jumped up and directly pressed him to the ground. But fortunately, the Taoist priest who carried Uncle Xiao was not injured. He just fell on the ridge of the field, and his calf rubbed against the stone and wore off a little bit of skin. It's not a big deal.

Moreover, the place where they fell was no more than seven steps away in front of Uncle Xiao's father's grave.

Uncle Xiao has lived in the countryside for so long, and the two Taoist priests have been doing rituals for several years, so it is easy to think of what is going on at this time. This weird thing except for his dead father. Who else will there be? He quickly struggled to crawl to his father's grave and knelt down. began to kowtow, and the two Taoist priests knew that something was wrong, and they needed to find a Taoist priest who dealt with the ghost thing. They also knelt down together, and sent Master Xiao's wife to hurry to find Mr. Yin and Yang. And I asked him to find a person, and that person was my master.

Afternoon dinner on our side is usually three o'clock. So it was still early enough for her to guess what was going on. He went crazy and ran up the mountain. I happened to be on the mountain at the time, and I was a stunned young man. And at that time, Master went out to take care of the vegetables in the vegetable garden, and after she found me, she was very anxious and asked Master X if he was there? I asked her what she was looking for my master, and she said, "My house is haunted and very fierce, and now several people have been injured, please help your master."

When I heard this, I became anxious, and ran to the vegetable garden, and she ran with her. I didn't have a lot of things to do at that time, so a large part of it was excited to hear such things, and only a small part was anxious about the subject. Pretty bad mentality.

After finding the master, Uncle Xiao's wife hurriedly told the master about the matter, a little incoherent, I didn't even understand what was going on, but the master understood, he left his head and ran to the temple, packed his bag, and followed Uncle Xiao's wife down the mountain quickly.

When he came to the bud valley, he saw a stone bud lying on the ground. Uncle Xiao and the two Taoist priests were on their knees, and they didn't dare to raise their heads. And it was the hottest time in the afternoon, even though they were on the shady side of the mountain, they could still see sweat soaking their clothes and clinging to their skin. The bean-sized beads of sweat rained down and his face was pale, which should be caused by severe dehydration. The master asked Uncle Xiao's wife to go back and get some well water. Then I said hello to the three people who were kneeling on the ground, telling them not to kneel, not to stand up, and to sit down and rest first.

When the two Taoist priests saw the master coming, they breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, and then began to sit up and said, "Trouble, senior. Silence. Uncle Xiao also knew the master, and after saying hello, he told the matter from beginning to end. It was so detailed that even I could hear it clearly. Just as I was thinking about what Master would do. Uncle Xiao's wife is here. After feeding them with water. Master asked Uncle Xiao's wife, "Do you have a rooster at home?"

Uncle Xiao's wife said that there is, but now that she is outside, it is not easy to catch. Master said to me, you and this lady go to catch the rooster, by the way, bring a bucket of glutinous rice, and then go to the butcher to get a pig-killing knife. If he's at home, call him along by the way.

I nodded, and Master continued: "There is such a big movement in broad daylight. I'm afraid there are great grievances and resentments. And it was such a big reaction on the first day of quitting. There must have been something wrong when it was buried, it was fine to be serving food before, but now that it has stopped serving, it has begun to vent its dissatisfaction. I'll find a way to trap it first, and you go back and call the barefoot doctor to come and look at your injuries.

Master looked very serious when he said this, and obviously he wasn't too sure, but the matter couldn't be delayed. Because their injuries are so red and swollen, if they don't deal with them in time, I'm afraid that they will fall into some incurable root cause...

There are four people in their scientific ritual team, one went back, and one was waiting for news at Uncle Xiao's house. So we went back to catch the big and prepare the glutinous rice when it was time. He called another Taoist priest with him. It's a pity that the Zhang butcher is not at home. After taking the pig-killing knife from his house, he returned to the budding rice field.

Master once told me that the spirits who come out to make people during the day are very fierce, or they can't withstand the yang energy and high temperature of the daytime sun. He also warned me that the Tao is not to a certain extent, and not to contact those spirits that appear during the day. So it's not a little strange to me that the things Master used this time are more different.

When he returned to the bud rice field, Master had already circled the new grave mountain with an ink fountain line. Just left a gap in the place of the tombstone. Apparently to lure the soul in. Then he gave them a few more and one for each of them. Taught a hand duel, with a hand duel pinching the charm in the hand. They held each other up and prepared to walk home to the barefoot doctor for treatment. And the place where the Master is standing is on top of the grave. Forcefully change all kinds of hands and spells. Attempting to forcibly lure the soul into the grave.

Just as they stood up and prepared to leave the place. Suddenly heard a plop, and Uncle Xiao fell to the ground again. His wife, who was holding him, also fell to the ground. When the master saw this, he quickly ran over and told them not to move. Then he took the pig-killing knife from my hand. Then take out the big from the basket. After reciting a spell and pinching his hands, he directly wiped the rooster's neck with a pig-killing knife. Chicken blood began to spurt out. I came across the bowl I brought to drink from the well. That's half a bowl.

I poured half a bowl into another bowl, clicked it on everyone's seal with chicken blood, and grabbed a few handfuls of glutinous rice and put it into the bowl with half a bowl of chicken blood. Draw circles with your hands and chant incantations. After reading it for a few minutes, he grabbed the glutinous rice mixed with chicken blood and sprinkled it on several people. When you're done, pull out a charm. He put chicken blood on the tip of the pig-killing knife and handed it to me, and said, "Take the knife and stand behind them." Dancing up and down. Give them the aftermath of the break. Then let a few of them continue walking.<