Chapter 29 The Hotel
Chen Hui asked me at this time, "Can you see what these are for?" ”
I nodded, "This should be a temporary sacrificial altar, and Qiang Shun and I are sacrificial offerings." ”
"That's right." Chen Hui asked again: "When you two were at home, did you offend anyone?" ”
As soon as I heard Chen Hui's words, I knew that he was no stranger to this altar, and he should also know these ways in the altar, and when he asked us, he was speculating about the people who wanted to harm us, and he should know more about the two of us, and it may be someone from our area.
I shook my head at the same time as Qiang Shun, we were still students when we were at home, and we were at school and home all day long, who could we offend, I occasionally went out with my grandmother to do something for others, but that didn't offend anyone, and I never met this kind of person who understands witchcraft.
Chen Hui sighed inexplicably and said, "If the person who opened the altar is not from you, then there is only one possibility......
"What is possible?" I asked.
Chen Hui glanced at me, didn't say anything more, and waved his hand, "You take all these things on the ground, go back first." ”
I wanted to ask again, but looking at Chen Hui's appearance, I wouldn't say anything even if I asked, so I pulled up all the candle flags on the ground with Qiang Shun and followed Chen Hui out of the reeds.
Back to the place where we slept, Chen Hui didn't know where to find some dead branches, and after lighting them, we threw the straw man, the black flag, the candles, including the red cloth silk on our wrists, into the fire, and Qiang Shun and I also took the opportunity to stand in front of the fire and roast the clothes on our bodies, and when we came out of the house, we wore such clothes, and there was no one to replace.
After the fire was burned, Chen Hui asked us to throw the ashes into the river with their hands, Qiang Shun didn't understand why he did this, and when he threw the ashes into the river, he asked me in a low voice, and I explained to him that if you want to break this kind of witchcraft, the most effective way is to let the people who are sacrificed burn those sacrificial objects with their own hands, especially the straw man with his name written on it, and the red cloth silk that Chen Hui gave us before, now it seems that it is not an object to ward off evil at all, it should be tied to the neck of the straw man to bind the soul, That is, to tie up the soul of the sacrificed, so that it is easier to control the sacrificed person, otherwise we would not go to the river uncontrollably, Chen Hui asked us to tie the red cloth silk on our wrists, which is equivalent to returning the soul to us.
After explaining to Qiang Shun, Qiang Shun nodded stupidly, and I don't know if he understood.
In fact, this seemingly simple witchcraft altar is not so simple, in addition to the black flag candle red cloth Ayako, there are two most important objects in the altar, the black flag and the candle, which only play an auxiliary role in the altar, and the other two objects are the most critical, but now it seems that those two important objects have been taken away by the person who placed the altar, if those two objects are still there, they can curse the person who placed the altar in turn.
After such a toss, no one was in the mood to sleep anymore, and Qiang Shun and I only dried a small part of our clothes on the fire, and we were still shivering with cold, but none of us were in a panic at this time, and the panic before was all because of the prayer sent to someone, and the prayer was sent to the white boat. At this point, one might ask, what is a prayer? The nature of the prayer is like a letter, which belongs to a kind of covenant through the yin, and I can only say this about this, and it would be taboo to go on to say more.
The three of them sat side by side by the river, looking at the dark river, no one spoke, I don't know what Chen Hui was thinking at this time, I had a few questions in my heart at this time, so I asked Chen Hui, "Dao Chief, what do you say...... Who set the altar there, and why did he want to harm me and Qiangshun? ”
Chen Hui shook his head, his face becoming ugly.
I asked, "How do you know, haven't you been asleep all the time?" ”
Chen Hui glanced at me, didn't answer directly, paused for a while, and then said: "Someone told me in my sleep, that person said that you have a disaster, let me get up and walk a hundred steps to the west, the disaster can be solved, and has been telling me, no matter what you see, don't care, just go west, finally, the man pushed me on the shoulder, I woke up......"
When Chen Hui said this, I couldn't help but ask, "Who is that person?" ”
Chen Hui shook his head, and then said: "After I woke up, I saw that the two of you were walking towards the river, and there was a white thing on the surface of the river, I couldn't see it clearly, I called you twice, and you didn't agree, remembering what the man said to me in the dream, I hurried to the west, and finally, I saw the altar just now in the reed forest." ”
"Didn't you see the man who placed the altar?"
Chen Hui shook his head again, looking like he wanted to say something, I felt as if he knew something and didn't want to tell us.
When the day was about to dawn, I came up with Qiang Shun's sleepiness, and sat there with my head planted, Chen Hui said to the two of us, "You go to sleep, I'll show you." ”
As soon as he said this, we both fell asleep on the floor. I don't know how long I slept, until I felt hungry in my stomach, and then I woke up.
When I opened my eyes, I saw that the sun had already risen, and the sun was shining hot, and the clothes on my body were dry.
Sit up on the ground and look around, Qiang Shun is lying next to me, not waking up, Chen Hui is gone, his burden is gone, between me and Qiang Shun, there is still a big bag of buns.
I stood up from the ground and kicked Qiangshun, "Get up and don't sleep, Daochang Chen is gone again." ”
Qiang Shun sat up from the ground in a daze, and said as if he was talking in a dream, "I don't smell a smell of buns." Immediately, he saw the bag next to him and exclaimed, "There really are buns." Reaching out to get it, I immediately bent down and grabbed the bag in my hand one step ahead, "Are you still in the mood to eat, Chen Hui is gone again." ”
Qiang Shun turned his head to look around, winked at me twice and asked, "Where did he go?" ”
I know where to go.
Qiang Shun reached out and grabbed the bag in my hand, I hurriedly retreated, Qiang Shun shouted, "You give me the bag, I see a note inside." ”
I was stunned, looked down into the bag, and there was indeed a note, and when I took out the note, there was a line of words written on it: I have something urgent, you go home by yourself.
There were not only notes in the bag, but also dozens of yuan, Qiang Shun was suddenly unhappy, and shouted: "This old man with a bull's nose, take us out of the house, don't send us back, Huanghe, can we go back by ourselves?" ”
I sat on the ground, took out two buns from the bag and nibbled on them, Qiang Shun suddenly shouted again: "You are still in the mood to eat, the old Taoist priest left us here and left us alone." ”
I tossed the bag to him, "Hurry up, eat well and get on the road, I can almost remember the way home." ”
When Qiang Shun heard what I said, he was happy again, grabbed the buns in the bag and devoured them.
More than a dozen meat buns, after a while for the two of us to eat, both of us have no luggage, stand up from the ground, pat the ass and go, because the road is not familiar, when the sky is dark, I only found the Yellow River Bridge, in fact, at that time I and Qiang Shun had money, plus Chen Hui left dozens of yuan, enough nearly five hundred yuan, if we go to Zhengzhou long-distance bus station to take the car, more than two hours to get home, but at that time small, simple-minded, came with Chen Hui came over, at this time I thought about walking back, I didn't think about the car.
Because my legs are not too convenient, when I crossed the bridge, it was completely dark, and my stomach was gurgling again, and I had eaten so many buns before, and I hadn't eaten for a day.
Qiang Shun said that he was too hungry to walk, so let's find something to eat. At this time, it is already on the north bank of the Yellow River, which belongs to the boundary of our Xinxiang City, there is a big hotel on the bank of the river, the lights at the door are red and willow green, and there is a large parking lot next to it.
The two of them went stupidly, and there was something else at the door of the hotel, we called them standing guards, and stopped the two of us before they entered the door, and asked us, what are you two doing. I replied, "Eat, aren't you a restaurant here?" One of them waved his hand, walked around, and went elsewhere to eat. I said, "We have the money." And the man who stood guard said, "I will not let you in if you have money." It just drove us both away.
Later, we found out that the two of us were almost the same as the one who asked for food, and our clothes were dirty, and we had soaked our clothes in the river water yesterday, and we had slept all night in the sand, not to mention that there was still sand in our hair.
Walk along the road and go north, I don't know how far I went, there was a building in front, there were lights and shadows, it looked like a village or a town store, and when I walked in, I remembered that it seemed to be a town, I forgot, I remembered that the road was quite wide, and there were many restaurants on both sides of the road.
This time, I learned to be obedient with Qiang Shun, and found the most inconspicuous small restaurant to get into, this time I didn't kick the two of us out, the boss was quite enthusiastic, probably because there was no one in the hotel, the boss also moved a chair to sit over, chatted with the two of us, and asked us where we were and what we were doing here.
As soon as the two of us spoke, we could hear that it was not their locals, and the two of us gobbled up while answering the boss's question, "We are from the North Station District, and we came to you to follow people out to do errands, and now we go home." ”
The boss asked, "You two are so young, what can you do for people?" ”
The two of us were really young at that time, and we didn't know how to keep talking, so we said to the boss, "I went out with a Taoist priest to show people evil things, and now we go home." ”
When the boss heard this, he laughed and said to us, "How old are you two to show people evil things?" ”
As I ate, I said, "Our ancestors have shown evil things to people, and I have been learning this from my grandmother since I was a child. As I spoke, I also pointed at Qiang Shun with my chopsticks, "He is born with yin and yang eyes, if there is anything evil in anyone's house, he can see it at a glance." ”
When the boss heard this, he smiled and said, "We really have an evil thing here, do you two dare to go over and take a look, if you can see what it is, I will invite this meal." ”
As soon as I heard this, I quickly said, "My grandmother told me when I was a child, don't mess with those things if you have nothing to do, and the well water will not interfere with the river water." ”
The boss laughed and said, "I know you two are bragging, don't think that no one here knows you, you can brag." ”
I said, "What do you mean by that, don't you believe I'm telling the truth?" ”
The boss said, "If you two dare to go, I'll believe it, I don't think you have the guts, don't scare you." ”
I pulled the last few bites of rice into my mouth and said angrily, "Nothing can scare me when I was a child, just go!" ”