Chapter Twenty-Nine: Setting Up the Formation to Summon
As soon as it was dark, Chili coaxed the child to sleep, so he also went to the yard to help. Mr. Peng and Huzi cleared a clearing of land in front of the courtyard, set up an offering table brought from the Sun Temple, and arranged the small farmhouse courtyard into a small altar.
The table was two feet wide and four feet long, with old pine boards and wedges of mahogany, square and unadorned. A yellow cloth was spread on the table, and a yin and yang double fish was painted on the cloth. Looking up, there is an incense burner in the center of the table, and there is a red candle on the left and right of the incense burner. To the left of Mr. Peng, there is a shallow dish containing white rice; On the right-hand side is also a saucer, which contains incense ashes from the Land Temple. Further to the right, there is a two-fist tall soul bell. There is a bamboo tube next to the soul bell, and dozens of pillars of incense are inserted in the bamboo tube. Behind the incense burner is a gossip mirror, on which is pressed a copper coin sword. Each big coin of the string of swords is printed with "Qianlong Tongbao" on the front and "Taiping of the World" on the back, which can be regarded as some years of ancient money.
Big money is a good thing. fortune tellers use large sums of money; Catch ghosts and subjugate demons with a lot of money; It takes a lot of money to build a house and press the beams; Even under the rice tank, there must be a lot of money. For what? The so-called money is more than 10,000 hands, and the copper plate circulating in the world may not be touched by many people, and the popularity and yang energy contaminated are the strongest. Generally speaking, the more ancient money yang qi is heavier, the better the effect of casting spells to drive away evil spirits, and the "Qin half tael" of the first emperor must be stronger than the copper plates in circulation today.
But there is one thing, this large amount of money has to be kept in the hands of people to this day. If it is said that it has been lost for many years, even if the sword coins of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period are dug up, they will not be used. There are even those who have been buried with them, and they have not seen the light of day for many years, and they have been contaminated with the smell of corpses, which can never be used for practice.
The night was dark, and Wang Laoshi and Huzi carried out the board with the corpse from the firewood room. Although it is covered with felt cloth, it can be seen that it is a human figure. The thought of being a living person a few days ago, and now becoming like this, Chili's tears poured down.
Forcibly choked up, Chili took two steps forward, said a blessing to Mr. Peng, and said: "Mr. Peng, my family was blinded by the evil things on the mountain, and now it seems that he is not alive, if he dies and still lives in peace, I feel awkward and panicked." Please, Mr. Peng, you must save the soul of my man, I ...... I'm kowtowing to you! ”
Just as he was about to kneel, Mr. Peng stretched out his hand and grabbed Chili's body. Mr. Peng said: "I don't dare to say big things about eliminating harm for the people, since it was your uncle who asked me to come here, I agreed, and I should do my best." ”
Chili wiped her tears, took two steps and leaned on the fence, and sighed: "This one who killed a thousand knives just left, leaving us orphans and widows, how can we live......" Chili cried, her eyes fixed on the felt cloth, and she couldn't move. Liu Laohan clicked the cigarette pouch pot, squatted beside the chili pepper, and comforted him with a match.
Mr. Peng shook his head and ignored it, and went into the firewood room to change clothes.
Mr. Peng did not wear his black python robe this time, but wore a "flower dress" with a yellow background, embroidered with stars, sun and moon, and pagoda and unicorn below.
Huayi, also known as "class clothes", is a kind of Taoist robe and legal clothes. This robe is on the placket, calf-length, wide robe and large sleeves, and it is passed on to the fairy rhyme. Whether it is a Jiao ritual or an ordinary ritual, it is in line with the rules to wear floral clothes.
But in fact, it stands to reason that Mr. Peng shaved his head with braids and should not wear this dress anymore. Because Taoist priests belong to "outsiders", and their clothing follows the dress etiquette system that began with the Yellow Emperor, so Taoist priests can wear Han clothes and "not move with the vulgar".
Mr. Peng wore this dress, saying that it was a violation of Taoist rules. Although Mr. Peng is a disciple of Taoism, but he has shaved his head, he should be regarded as a lay disciple, and he is not qualified to wear Dharma robes and Taoist robes. If you say it seriously, it will be a violation of the royal law of the Qing Dynasty! The "Great Qing Law" clearly stipulates that it is necessary to "shave your hair and make it easy to wear", the French clothes are Hanfu, and ordinary women can wear Hanfu, and men must wear full clothes.
Mr. Peng changed his clothes and walked out of the firewood room, and his eyelids jumped when he saw his eyelids, but he didn't say anything.
"The hour has come," Mr. Peng looked up at the sky and said, "Huzi, palm lamp." ”
Huzi listened, picked out a white lantern, and placed it on the head of Orion's corpse. Mr. Peng stood in front of the offering table, closed his eyes slightly and muttered for a while, reached out and took out the fire fold, lit the candles on both sides of the incense burner, took out a handful of incense from the bamboo tube, lit it on the candle, and inserted it in the incense burner.
"With a light on the lamp, I hope that the lonely soul will return home. Orion Tian Zhuang of Sun Mountain Village, Changtu Prefecture, offended the immortal driver today, and has paid for it with his life. The so-called people die and the lights go out, and the grievances are clear, I hope that the immortal family above will raise their noble hands, let their souls go home, and enter the reincarnation as soon as possible! ”
After Mr. Peng finished speaking, he grabbed a little rice and threw it according to the flame of the candle, and the rice grains that flew through the candle flame instantly turned into numerical sparks, spiraled upward, and hung over the corpse. Mr. Peng grabbed the copper coin sword with one hand, grabbed the soul bell, and struck the bell with the copper coin sword when he said a word.
"With a sound, please lead the way, don't fall into the maze; Two sounds, please protect the Dharma of Liujia and don't mess with outsiders; Three sounds, please take shelter in the year and be free from terror; Four sounds, please take care of the month, do not call it subdue; Five sounds, please take care of it on duty, don't be confused; Six sounds, please take care of it on time, and do not fall into the netherworld; Seven sounds, please return home, see the corpse mourned! ”
Mr. Peng knocked on these seven sounds, but in fact, he invited a total of sixteen immortals from Liuding, Liujia, and Four-Value Gongcao to take care of Orion's soul. There is a record in the "Continuation of the General Examination of Literature": "Ding Mao and other six dings, and the yin god and jade girl are also." Jiazi and other six Jia, Yang God Yu Nan also. "Liuding is six female immortals, Liujia is six male immortals, and they are Taoist protectors who can "travel wind and thunder and control ghosts and gods". The four values of Gong Cao are Li Bing, the god of the year, Huang Chengyi, the god of the moon, Zhou Deng, the god of the day, and Liu Hong, the god of time.
As soon as the seven soul-calming bells rang, the sparks hanging over the corpse were extinguished one after another, and they all turned into ashes and fell. The flame of the candle gradually turned blue, and the light on the face was terrible. The wind is gradually picking up in the courtyard. On the night of early summer, the gloomy wind blew goosebumps straight up on people's bodies. Seeing this, everyone in the courtyard slowed down their breathing.
"It's coming!" Huzi snorted, took a step forward, grabbed the incense ash invited by the land temple on the table and sprinkled it on the white paper lantern, Mr. Peng also held the gossip mirror to take a photo, but saw that the incense ash outlined a person's figure in mid-air. After a while, the eyebrows and eyes were clearly visible.
Chili exclaimed, covered her mouth, and her voice trembled slightly: "Dang...... Boss! ”
The ghost smiled slightly, obviously a burly man, but he showed a charming posture, and the man's voice revealed a feminine tone: "Do you see clearly?" Who's the man in your house! ”
"You're not human!" Huzi exclaimed, "You're a fox...... Wrong! You're a ghost! ”
"Xiaodao has such sharp eyes!" The ghost sighed, "You can call me Hu Chuanwen." ”
Mr. Peng frowned and said, "We invited a newly dead ghost, Orion Tian Zhuang of Sun Mountain Village, Changtu Prefecture, but it was you who came." ”
Hu Chuanwen smiled faintly: "The two Taoist masters are really too polite, they want to ask me to do such a big ceremony, which has alarmed the six Ding Liujia and the four value gongcao." You burn a piece of paper here, and I'll leave right away, and I won't be able to delay half a bag of cigarettes. You invited Tian Orion, yes, I said I was Hu Seventeen, and I didn't say that I wasn't Tian Zhuang! ”
This didn't sound like much to others, but Huzi and Mr. Peng immediately had a layer of white sweat on their bodies!
Huzi was still pondering why this ghost was obviously in the form of a person, but it had the breath of a fox. Such a "thing" Huzi had never seen before. This one gets it all! A dead fox who opened his spiritual wisdom and became a Taoist walked borrowed the yang energy of a living person to practice a "fox ghost"!
Kitsune, as the name suggests, is the ghost of a fox. The ordinary fox is not yet enlightened, and is as dead as burning autumn grass, leaving only a rotten body, like burnt grass ashes. But if you have enlightened your spiritual wisdom and practiced well, it is not so simple. If you die of old age, it is not enough to do the Tao, you can't have any complaints, you can only accept your fate, and when you die, your soul will dissipate; If something goes wrong in cultivation and dies, it is because he is not proficient in learning and is eager for quick success, and his soul will not be able to stay. There is only one thing – death – that is different from the other ways of dying. If the dead fox fairy is not detained by someone or scattered, he can always leave a mutilated beast soul in the world.
Beast souls should not have intelligence, and in fact, beasts should not have intelligence. Cultivating immortals is a matter of changing one's life against the sky, and if you become spiritual, it should be regarded as a violation of heaven! But since he has become an earth immortal, there are always some people who are unwilling to accept their fate and want to continue to practice, what should they do? Turn around and cultivate the method of Qingfeng, and be a ghost immortal! Ghosts and immortals are not so easy to be, otherwise where would there be so many lonely souls and wild ghosts, let alone a beast with an incomplete soul.
Then there is only one way, find an evil monk who is still in the world, drain the yang energy from a person's body, arrest the soul of the bitter master, shatter the soul of the soul, and let the beast soul enter the master. In this way, the beast ghost fairy is become! But in this way, the bitter master can be regarded as dead that he can no longer die, and his soul is scattered.
And now standing in the yard, this one is a fox ghost!