Chapter 6: Chongqing I'm Coming (3)

Mr. Guan lit a cigarette and threw one to me, Brother Tao and the tiger, I just lit it but found the swallow glaring angrily, so I quickly extinguished the cigarette, and Brother Tao and the tiger were embarrassed to snuff out the cigarette. Mr. Guan continued to puff in the smoke as if he didn't see it.

"If you want to talk about this, it was all a lifetime ago, and Yanzi's grandfather was also his grandfather's father. He used to be a landowner in the countryside, and one night after reading a book, he heard a wheezing sound in a house. Yanzi's grandfather thought that there was a thief in the house, so he called the housekeeper and a few servants to catch the thief, but after kicking the door open, he found that it was a servant who was cheating with his concubine. He suddenly felt that he had no face, and in a fit of rage, he had the two of them hang on a tree in the yard, strip naked, beat them for two days and two nights, and then expelled them from the house together. Two days and two nights of whipping a man is almost unbearable, let alone a woman. Within a few days, the concubine died, and when she was dying, she resentfully said that she would let the female dependents born to their family die in twenty years. But the heavens did not wish that their family would always be male, until the appearance of the swallow, so the resentment that had accumulated for a long time began to take revenge. Teacher Guan was still smoking, and he also took out a small silver wine jug and drank it slowly.

"I'm rubbing, I'm secretly stealing a man, how dare you do this? You can't kill her? Brother Tao said in an atmospheric manner. Mr. Guan glanced at Brother Tao and asked me, "Do you want to know if we can let her go away or trap her?" I nodded, and he continued: "She is not a ghost, just a grudge, even if it is a ghost, we onmyoji can only trap her for a period of time, and cannot eliminate the ghost, only when we have to do so will we seriously injure the ghost, but it is a crisis that can not be used, it is usually forbidden to use, you ghost seekers do not have the rules of master and apprentice, you can accept apprentices or learn from each other as brothers." And our onmyoji is different, each region has its own methods and methods, and some have different sects, but after the founding of New China, the sects gradually decreased, and we are generally divided by regions, and each region represents a different way of catching ghosts. In fact, it is nothing more than the difference in the props used and the beliefs referenced, and the scientific principles are all similar. "I suddenly felt like laughing, and although I was sad about the swallow, a ghost-hunting onmyoji talked about scientific truths, and I felt ridiculous when I thought about it.

He saw my situation, glared at me, and continued: "Resentment is more difficult to trap than a ghost, because resentment is more qualitative and formless, and people often have the theory that it is wrong to have a resentment and then become a wronged soul, in fact, a wronged soul wanders for a long time, and then she still remembers something after her death, and then she will form a grudge. So I tried to fight her, but I wasn't good at it, so I'm sorry for the ghost seekers. As he spoke, he rolled up his sleeves, and there were four large holes in them, the kind of blood that had just solidified.

I took his arm and looked at it and said, "That thing hurt you?" He nodded. I said, "First, I'm not a ghost seeker, and second, is there any other way to crack it?" He crossed my first hint that I was not a ghost seeker and withdrew my raised arm and said, "I counted that you would ask like this, yes, there is a way, but it is very long, I am afraid that there will be no time..." Mr. Guan closed his eyes and paused, saying: "At that time, the resentment made me unable to see the appearance of her soul at all, all I could see was that the woman had a black mole under her left eye, which means that this is the most obvious sign of her life, what you can do is to find a female ghost with a tear mole under her left eye, and then persuade it to let it attach to the swallow, if you find it, contact me, and I have a way to get the soul out of the swallow's body after attaching it." But there is a problem that the swallow's yang energy is too strong, and if the ghost is attached, it can't come down, and the soul will basically be scattered, if it is successfully possessed, whether the soul is scattered or successfully separated, it will take away that resentment together. ”

"Then help us find one of these ghosts, please Mr. Guan." I say. Mr. Guan smiled and pointed at me and said, "I'm going to look for ghosts?" You're the ghost seeker. Because only you can find it faster, and by the way, there is something to be handed over to you. As he spoke, he took out a box and handed it to me and Swallow.

We ended up with a box, which was beautifully made of golden silk nanmu with a complex Bagua diagram carved on it, a Buddhist swastika, and a bunch of palindromes. I took one look and said, "Mr. Guan, the box is very beautiful, but what do you believe?" It's too miscellaneous, you point to the same letter, okay? Mr. Guan waved his hand at me disdainfully and said, "Open it and tell you, our Onmyoji is not a sect, what works and what we use, I even use black dog blood, what do you say I believe?" I'll just trust myself, just look at the contents of the box and talk nonsense. ”

I opened the box, and there were two wrenches, one black and one white, on the yellow satin. Mr. Guan said: "Old ghost, since you don't want me to call you a ghost seeker, then I will follow them to call the old ghost, you bring the black one, the swallow you bring the white one, the male left and the female right." Old man Zang will tell you the origin and purpose of this pair of wrenches and how to use them, you two don't lose them and take them with you, there are only five or six pairs of such wrenches in the world. ”

I asked suspiciously, "Why did you remember to give me this, is it related to swallows?" Mr. Guan shook his head and said: "That's not it, I don't know what the specific use is, and I haven't figured it out, but I calculated that you have to find me sooner or later, I have to go on vacation, and when the time comes, it will be very troublesome to find me, so I will give you both in advance, and I can rest assured that I will not change my life." ”

"Taishan stone, Taishan stone dare to be, I wipe it?" The tiger shouted. I ignored the tiger and continued to look at the wrench in my hand and the swallow and then asked: "This is the lower grade of the lower grade, but it is the Nanyang Dushan jade of the four major jades, and the solid color ink jade is rare in the Dushan jade, but the fineness is too poor, that is, the scraps, let me buy it is a matter of five yuan." However, the wrench of the swallow is the top grade of the top grade, and the jade of the mutton fat jade is very valuable, and the price should be expensive. You see, there is still rice seepage, it's a pity that it's a piece of ancient jade made into a wrench, but it's too expensive, and we deserve it. But there's a question about why there are some things in it that I can't see, and I feel so strange, whether this is destroying their value. I watched Mr. Guan wait for his answer, and he was stunned and laughed: "Value, this is a priceless treasure, I never want to sell it at all." The reason why priceless treasures are priceless may be that the price is inestimable and worthless, which are all priceless. You can see that the material is really not easy, it seems to be quite erudite, the old man Zang has accepted a good heir, and the impurities in it will test your master. Don't come and ask me, as for me to give it to you? There is nothing precious or not valuable, but it is just a tool for things outside the body, and I borrowed it from others. Lend it to you now, and if someone else lends it to you one day, you have to agree to it, as long as they are onmyoji or ghost seekers. "Actually, I learned the knowledge of jade from Xiang Dong and Professor Liu, Professor Liu is the professor who appeared in the bloodthirsty ancient jade (see chapter 25 for details), but I didn't expect to be blinded today.

"I'm not Mr. Zang's apprentice, although I like to hunt for ghosts, but I can't do it too much for my selfish thoughts." I say. Mr. Guan said: "The child can be taught, but it seems that the old man Zang has not told you, only the onmyoji must have no distracting thoughts, the more distracting thoughts the ghost seeker is, the easier it is to encounter ghosts and the like, but when looking for ghosts, the heart is like water, but it doesn't matter if you don't want to, after all, ghost seekers are born and generally self-taught, your master is like this, don't say it wrong to me, it's your Mr. Zang." Okay, I paid you for the room for two days, you raise it for two more days, remember to take medicine, I'll go on vacation first and wait until I find the female ghost with a tear mole to call me, good luck to you. With that, Mr. Guan turned and walked towards the door.

I hurriedly called out to him: "Mr. Guan, thank you, but can you help me calculate one more hexagram, whether we will succeed." Mr. Guan didn't look back, just replied to me while walking with his back to him: "I don't know, I can't calculate it, even if I can, I can't be sure, because this is fate, life can't be calculated, and the old fate will be invalidated from the moment it is calculated, and the new fate pattern will be rearranged." Take care, ghost seekers. ”

This time I didn't refute him, just quietly watched him leave, what kind of experience awaits us in the future, I don't know what our fate will be. But whatever fate is, come on, I'll wait.

After returning from Chongqing, I went with Yanzi to find Mr. Zang, who was very happy to see that I was safe and sound, and specially set a table from the Palace Hotel. This was the only time I went to that hotel, and I learned that there was such an expensive meal in Zhengzhou. Mr. Zang asked me to call some of my friends, but this time he still didn't ask me to call my military friends who were in the service.

We sat in a very luxurious private room, began to eat and drink, Teacher Zang stroked his beard and squinted at me and said, "I made a divination last night, although the result is unknown, but you have a lot of opportunities in the future, maybe you can save the swallow, good luck." I was overjoyed to hear this, and I raised my cup and drank it all and said, "Hurry up and teach me something, so that I can quickly find ghosts." I heard you say this just now, it seems that I am looking for a female ghost with tears and moles to have a show, I can't wait, but I have to hurry, otherwise the opportunity will not be lost and will not come again. ”

Teacher Zang was stunned for a moment and said, "Teach you?" What to teach you? I said, "What's the trick to finding ghosts?" ”

"Don't talk nonsense, most ghost seekers rely on fate, luck and luck. Whatever can teach you is self-taught. Don't just talk to the two of us, tell your friends what is going on, tell us about your experience this time, maybe they can help you. I nodded and began to talk about my experience of going to Chongqing. Everyone shouted along with my story, was silent for a while, and then asked questions. After more than 20 minutes, I finished my experience, and Mr. Zang said, "That's how I learned the specific details, and I only calculated the approximate results." It turns out that the details are so tortuous and dangerous, I wouldn't have asked you to go if I knew it was like this. But Onmyoji is an Onmyoji who is one step higher than me and can calculate what will happen in the future, come, let me see your wrench. Yanzi and I raised our hands to let Mr. Zang look at it, and he looked at it a few times and made a sudden realization, and said, "It turns out that the hexagram is about this one thing, I almost misunderstood." He looked at us and looked at him with inquiring eyes and said, "The secret of heaven must not be revealed, it is not the old man who sells Guanzi, but you also heard what Mr. Guan said, and the fate of what he said has changed, you can't say it, you can't say it." ”

I suddenly remembered what Mr. Zang said just now that Daji still has life and energy, so I asked: "Elder Zang, what you just said about Daji, is it that we can almost succeed." I think it's still you tall, and Mr. Guan can't even count it. What else is life and anger? Teacher Zang slapped me and said, "You kid went to Chongqing to learn to pat me on the back, I don't have this ability, I just calculated that you will find a female ghost with tear moles, as for whether that thing is willing to help you I don't know, I can only count very superficial things, at most it is a fragment." Now I think about the wrench that Mr. Guan gave you, and I probably know what's going on, and there will be a thing about the mirror in half a month, and then you can find me. Teacher Zang raised a glass to signal everyone, everyone drank together, even Wang Xiao, who was not good at drinking, reluctantly drank a glass, since she fell in love with Jiu'er, often the dragon saw the beginning and the end, Jinan and Zhengzhou rushed around, and today it happened that she went back to Zhengzhou, so she was pulled over by Lin Xiaoman.

Teacher Zang continued: "As for life and qi, I can tell everyone here, there is no harm in remembering this, although you can't learn very deeply, but a little observation in your future life will also be of great help to you to see people and things." In fact, everything in the world is inseparable from three points, life, luck, and qi. What is fate? Life is a person's fate, this is very easy to understand, fate dictates that you just do no matter how hard you work is useless, fate should make you poor You work hard every day is useless, fate should make you rich and make money at home, but often some people do not accept fate, this is to change life, people who can change life are either lucky, or angry. In fact, most people don't know their fate, so they do their best to obey the fate of God, but they change their lives. Some people know that they start to give up on themselves too early, or they are arrogant and change their lives, but in the opposite direction. "In other words, fate will not only get better but also worse, right?" Wang Xiao asked. Teacher Zang nodded and said, "Yes, everything has two sides, fate is no exception, for fate luck and qi are his changing factors, and vice versa." Speaking of luck is what people call luck, to see whether a person is lucky or not, in fact, it also depends on his own cultivation and skills to decide, no matter how good the opportunity is in the hands of people who are not capable, they can only miss it in vain, and then they can only sigh that it is too unfortunate. Teacher Zang looked meaningfully at these friends who were doing it.

"Now I'm going to talk about luck, the so-called luck, it's actually a big event, an event that is enough to change your fate. For example, unpredictable natural disasters and man-made disasters do not belong to your fate in many cases, but your fate may be changed because someone else's fate has overwhelmed you. But it's not necessarily all bad, such as the tiger, the tiger has a good life, and if you play with him more, you may become rich. Some people are also rich and noble, but they can really suppress the wealth of others, that is, the kind that gets poorer and poorer the more you play with him. You don't have to be afraid of the tiger, he's not. Okay, okay, don't patronize me, the old man, and eat quickly. Teacher Zang waved his hand and asked everyone to hurry up and eat.

"That's... What is that gas? Brother Tao couldn't help but ask. Teacher Zang squinted at Brother Tao and said, "Didn't you say eating?" I still don't talk about it, it's better not to talk about the tongue that qi is too difficult to understand. After saying that, he kept silent, and whispered to me that I would go to his house in the evening and come alone.

After the dinner, everyone went back to their respective homes, I turned around and sent Yanzi home one night, so I turned around and took a taxi to Mr. Zang's house on Jingqi Road.