Chapter 3: Ghost Talk
It was none other than Jiang Meiyue who turned back.
She wore a night-walking outfit that blended in with the night. If you don't pay attention, you can't really see that someone is at the door, and if I had been impulsive just now, she would have been knocked down by me.
But it's so late, what is she doing when she opens the door?
Looking at her dress, it seems that she is going to go out, and she also carries a small backpack on her back. It seemed to contain a piece of wood, and something else. The texture is quite heavy.
I thought about it and simply followed her.
Jiang Meiyue went all the way to the right, climbed the hill and went straight to the right, and after twenty minutes, she came to a reservoir.
The reservoir is located at the foot of the mountain in our village for fish farming. Because the water source comes from both the mountains and the underground, it rarely dries up throughout the year, so it is very deep.
Two days ago, a schoolboy was drowned inside.
It is said that he saw fish in the reservoir and wanted to catch them. I haven't found a chance to get rid of the surveillance of adults.,When school was out of school, I ran to the front unexpectedly.,When the adults caught up.,The child was already a floating corpse in the reservoir.。
Every year the reservoir drowns people, and the people in the village say that the water ghosts are looking for a substitute.
Jiang Meiyue came here in the middle of the night, isn't she afraid?
Thinking about it, I simply hid behind a large willow tree. Take a look at what Jiang Meiyue is doing, Jiang Meiyue didn't notice that I was following her, and chose a water caliber to go straight over.
The position of the willow tree is exactly in the same line as Jiang Meiyue's position, and she can see clearly from the side of what she is doing.
Jiang Meiyue glanced around, and seemed a little scared when facing the dark reservoir alone. But he quickly calmed down, and with a little shaky hand, he took something out of his back basket.
When I saw it, it was the piece of wood she was carrying.
The wood appears to be willow, with some text carved on it, and a photograph. The middle of the wood was hollow, and a bloodshot bone was stuck in it. She put the wood on the ground and took out some red threads. He wrapped one end of the red thread around the wood and tied it a few times, and threw it into the water.
The willow wood is soft and floats on the surface of the water after being thrown down.
Jiang Meiyue squatted down and lit a wick that had been prepared in the bones. In this way, a small piece of wood with a faint blue flame floated and sank on the water.
As soon as I saw it, I knew what Jiang Meiyue was going to do.
The red line is called the corpse rope.
As the name suggests, it is wrapped around the coffin of the dead. The dead are carried with a rope when they are buried, and the rope is thrown at the cemetery along with the wreath after the dead are buried. Pick it up, dye it with cinnabar, and bless it in front of the altar for eighty-one days.
The corpse rope can wrap around corpses, and it can also wrap ghosts.
As mentioned earlier, the elementary school students who just drowned in the reservoir a few days ago are only in the first grade. But at the age of six or seven, it is a period when a child is ignorant of all things in the world.
The book says that although the little ghosts refined at this age are not the most resentful, they are obedient and easy to control. Because it can communicate, it seems to understand everything, it doesn't have an overly strong self-concept, and it's easy to control.
And what Jiang Meiyue wants to do is called Liu Linglang.
Liu Linglang, that is, a kind of little ghost.
The reason for this is that in ancient times, the medical conditions were not good. Women are not only at high risk for giving birth, but also for their children. Many children die at birth.
A child who dies just after birth is equivalent to never being in the world.
The ancients thought it was unlucky, so they threw the child away.
There are trees that are thrown under the yin tree, such as locust trees, willow trees, mulberry trees, etc. After some coincidence, it became a very spiritual thing, and the ancients couldn't ask for it.
It is said that this kind of thing can not only report news, but also attract wealth.
Another method of making Liu Linglang in the Xuanmen is to use willow wood to gather souls in the water of newly drowned children, and then take it home to make offerings for 7749 days, catalyze it with a secret method, and Liu Linglang is ready.
As for why it is called Liu Linglang, there is another saying: among the five kinds of yin wood - Huai willow, mulberry, bamboo and elm, Huai is half a ghost and the most evil. Sangyin is the same as Sang, the most unlucky. The bamboo is straight in the middle and easy to hide ghosts. There is only a willow tree, which has a soft temperament and the heaviest yin energy. In the process of making Liu Linglang in the Xuanmen, it is usually carved with willow wood for it to live in. And the stillborn under the tree, only the willow tree produces the most imps and the most spirituality.
Liu Linglang gathers wealth to defend himself, whoever wants to have a Liu Linglang in the Xuanmen is like Ma Yun's father has an Alibaba - that is called the door of wealth. Don't say that you will benefit yourself. In the Xuanmen, there are also cattle thieves, and thieves have face.
However, Liu Linglang is something that is hard to find.
The really awesome Liu Linglang must be self-sufficient. You also need to be nourished by good medicinal qi around you. For example, there is a Ganoderma lucidum growing under the willow tree or something. And the child's eight characters should be all yin in four columns.
According to what the book says, Jiang Meiyue fished in the water, and what she made was just a little more powerful than an ordinary ghost, not the best.
However, Jiang Meiyue is really bold.
As a child, I peeked into the eyes of a crow that she had swallowed alive - it was said that she could see ghosts and gain a pair of permanent yin and yang eyes. I don't know if it's true. If it really works, according to her character, she would have screamed in fright, and she hasn't heard Jiang Meiyue say that she has seen anything.
Now here again, what are you doing Liu Linglang?
Little sister, isn't it good to live well? I have to come out and find some surprise and get it right. What are the dangers of raising ghosts? Learn about the consequences of blindly summoning ghosts?
I looked down and decided to go up and stop her.
Before I could look up, there was a "bang" at the water's edge, as if someone had thrown a big stone into it. Zhu Bajie threw stones to measure the depth of the Tongtian River, saying that the higher the splash, the deeper the water, and the thicker the sound in the splash, the deeper the water. As soon as I heard the sound of the splash, I didn't even look up and estimated in my heart that something close to more than 100 catties had fallen into the water.
As soon as he looked up, Jiang Meiyue was gone.
The willow tree with the red thread was still floating on the water. Because there were ripples of something falling, the willow tree was shaken out far away, sinking and floating on the water.
Obviously, Jiang Meiyue fell.
Holy!
Without saying a word, he took off his shirt and shoes, and plunged headlong. The water in the reservoir is really cold and biting, but fortunately, I have been playing in the water with my cousin's gang of bastards since I was a child, and I can swim in any position, and the water is not bad.
But from time to time, something hangs on my feet, which reminds me of the legend of the water ghost pulling the foot.
The schoolboy had just drowned, and it was time to find a stand-in.
Quick!
Lest she encounter unclean things for a while, Jiang Meiyue won't be able to hold it for a long time, she won't know how to water.
Holding his breath and plunging into the water, he looked for a large circle near where Jiang Meiyue fell, but he didn't see a single hair. I saw a lot of mossy snails at the bottom of the water.
I wanted to go up, but when I thought of the story: my girlfriend jumped into the river, and my boyfriend jumped down to look for it, but I got entangled in the water weeds and didn't find my feet. Later, my girlfriend drowned, and my boyfriend revisited his hometown many years later, but I heard that there were no aquatic plants in this river, and there were no fish when the water was clear, because there were no aquatic plants, so there were no fish. The boyfriend realized that it was his girlfriend's hair that was wrapped around his feet that day.
When I think of that story, I remember that something was hanging on my feet just now.
Could it be that it is also Jiang Meiyue's hair.
For the sake of prudence, I looked around again. After still not finding it, I gritted my teeth, held my breath on the surface of the water, pierced a deeper fierce son, and sank to the place where I was hanging on my feet just now.
It was dark down there, and nothing could be seen.
I touched it with my hands, and there were things all around me, soft and soft like kelp. There are some fine grasses, which are similar to kelp to the touch, and after touching them for a long time, even the fish were touched by Lao Tzu, but they didn't touch Jiang Meiyue.
It's better to hurry back and call grandpa to come.
As soon as you kick your feet, you have to float to the surface.
Suddenly, a pair of hands, one left and one right, grabbed both of my ankles. I thought it was Jiang Meiyue, and I wanted to go back and compare blind sign language with her, and tell her to let go and I will take her up.
But the hand pulled me down with a fierce force.
Not to mention, that pull was like pulling something out of my body.
I choked on a few mouthfuls of water, and at the same time made me realize, and the hand holding my ankle was surprisingly strong. It must not be Jiang Meiyue's. A person who doesn't know how to have water at all can't fall into the water for so long, and it is impossible to have so much strength.
, did you really run into a water ghost pulling your feet?
The hands clamped so tightly that I couldn't move. At that time, I was like a fish on a cutting board, holding and breathing, and I couldn't break free.
wanted to bite the tip of his tongue and reward it with a mouthful of true yang blood, but he didn't wait for me to exert his strength. It had pulled me deeper, and I felt a severe lack of oxygen in my brain, and as soon as my eyes went dark, I didn't know anything.
Before I passed out, I thought I could finally see my mother.