Chapter Forty-Six: Soul Warming Ghost Jade
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The kind of pulse that my great-grandfather put at this time and the kind of pulse that Chinese medicine used are completely different things, according to us people, Chinese medicine puts it as the "yang vein", and we put it as the "yin vein", which is not very easy to explain.
Let's put it this way, Chinese medicine treats real diseases, and we treat virtual diseases. The real disease takes the yang vein, and the virtual disease takes the yin vein, although the pulse is also on the wrist, but the results are different.
There are some things I can only say here, after all, I am writing about our family's experience, not teaching an apprenticeship.
At this time, the symptoms of Zhao Dashan's upper body were gone, and his soul was not lost, but he was rushed by yin qi, and it took a while to wake up.
After taking his hand off Boss Zhao's wrist, my great-grandfather was completely relieved, stood up from the ground, looked up at the sky, pinched his thoughts, and basically it was already the second watch, that is, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening.
My great-grandfather thought about it and carried Boss Zhao back. At this moment, there was a faint voice from the other side of the grassy slope, and the voice was very soft. When I was young, there was a bright light, like the light of a torch, which my great-grandfather thought was strange.
In ancient times, when it came to night, it was not as good as now, in the past, thieves and robbers, killing people and goods, all kinds of people, especially in this kind of barren mountains and mountains. My great-grandfather was just a ghost catcher, not a knight, and he hurriedly hid in a pile of grass.
After a while, the light became brighter and brighter, and two people appeared on the top of the grassy slope, seven or eight meters away from my great-grandfather's place, and my great-grandfather saw the two people clearly by the light of the torch.
Both of them were dressed in short shirts, as if they were from rough work, and at this time the clothes were full of loess foam rubbed out, as if they had just crawled out of a hole in the earth, and the man holding the torch in it looked a little familiar to my great-grandfather.
After being stunned for a moment, my great-grandfather remembered.
Just at noon, Zhao Laosan's family came to a middle-aged man who was about the same age as Zhao Laosan, saying that he came to visit Zhao Laosan. After the man left, Granny Zhao told my great-grandfather that this person was the only friend of her third son, from the same village, and my great-grandfather didn't care about it at that time.
The other person was carrying a small bag, about the size of a pillow, and the burden was bulging.
The two of them were sneaky at this time, and they didn't seem so calm. They didn't find my great-grandfather in the grass nest, nor did they see Zhao Boss who was unconscious at the bottom of the slope, so they quickly went down the grass slope in the other direction and got into the cornfield.
After the two of them walked away, my great-grandfather stood up from the grass nest, stunned and thought for a moment, and then he glanced at Boss Zhao, who was unconscious on the ground.
Boss Zhao was possessed by the general's ghost and came here with a kitchen knife, and now there are two sneaky guys, covered in loess, and carrying a bulging burden in his hand, what does this mean? I'm afraid this is not a coincidence, it can only say a little.
After making sure that Boss Zhao was okay, my great-grandfather walked up the grassy slope, and then followed the direction where the two guys appeared just now, and went down to the other end of the grassy slope.
At the middle and lower part of the other end of the grassy slope, my great-grandfather found a well-sized earthen hole, which was an oblique hole, and I felt that the angle of this oblique hole was just straight into the interior of this grassy slope, because my great-grandfather had no torches, so he couldn't see the situation in the hole, but he only felt that it was black, and there seemed to be a rotten smell wafting out of it.
At this time, my great-grandfather had already dared to conclude that the two guys just now were two tomb robbers, this big grass slope was a large tomb, and the boss of the Zhao family was possessed by the general's ghost, I am afraid that he wanted to come here to settle accounts with these two guys, and the one buried in this tomb was probably the general.
However, these two tomb robbers are really not professional, the tomb robbers are still lit with torches, it is too blatant, and there is the soul of this general, why don't you go to the body of these two tomb robbers, you have to go to the near and far, and go to the body of the boss of the Zhao family?
My great-grandfather was just a ghost catcher, and he didn't bother to ask about these tomb robberies and illegal things, and he shouldn't care about them.
My great-grandfather returned to the other side of the grassy slope, carried Boss Zhao on his back, and returned to the village along the same road.
After all, my great-grandfather was already fifty years old, and he would definitely not be able to bear the burden of carrying a dead and living person, and on the way back to the village, my great-grandfather stopped five or six times before and after. When the second watch was about to pass, that is, now, when it was nearly eleven o'clock, he finally returned to Zhao Laosan's house with Zhao Laosan on his back.
At this time, Granny Zhao had already woken up, wiping her tears and sobbing, and her two daughters were comforting her with a word.
When my great-grandfather carried Boss Zhao into the door, the mother and daughter were surprised and delighted, and helped my great-grandfather carry Boss Zhao to Granny Zhao's bed. Subsequently, my great-grandfather briefly told me what had happened and comforted Granny Zhao a few words.
Originally, they planned to summon Zhao Laosan's soul today, but after such a toss, my great-grandfather was exhausted, and now it seems that they can only wait until tomorrow.
While my great-grandfather was sitting on a chair in the living room drinking tea and panting, Granny Zhao came out of her bedroom with a flat tile-like thing in her hand, which was slightly bigger and thinner than mahjong tiles.
Granny Zhao walked up to my great-grandfather and handed it to my great-grandfather, wanting my great-grandfather to see what it was.
My great-grandfather took it and looked at it, and touched it with his hand, it seemed to be a piece of jade, blood red, in the center of the jade piece, there was a small piece of black and blue, as if it had penetrated from the inside of the jade piece, dark green and black, and when the oil lamp shone, the dark green part was still glowing with a ghostly luster.
My great-grandfather's hands trembled suddenly, and he almost didn't throw the jade piece on the ground.
What is this jade piece? My great-grandfather used to hear Wang Shoudao say that this is called "Soul Warming Jade", which is put in the mouth of the deceased, and it is divided into three colors: white, green and red, and the texture of the jade is not limited. Of course, the identity of a person who can be buried with a piece of jade in his mouth is definitely not ordinary.
Originally, the middle of this jade piece was not black and cyan, and the whole body should be blood red, and some ghosts of the deceased were reluctant to leave, so they would attach to the jade piece, and over time, it would cause this black and cyan color to appear in the center of the jade piece, that is, this is the mark left by the ghost on the jade piece. Whenever there is a jade piece of this color, it can be called "soul warming jade".
My great-grandfather hurriedly asked Granny Zhao, where did this jade piece come from? Granny Zhao said that she had just found it from her eldest son.
When my great-grandfather heard this, he felt strange, this piece of jade was obviously something in the mouth of a dead man, how could it end up on Boss Zhao's body? Could it be that he was also involved in tomb robbing? Didn't he say that when he passed by the grave at night, his legs became weak, and besides, he was possessed by the general's ghost twice, maybe it had something to do with this jade piece.
What the hell is going on? My great-grandfather felt that I was afraid that I would have to wait until Boss Zhao woke up and asked him in person.
Late at night, Granny Zhao's two daughters went to Zhao's house to rest, and Granny Zhao moved a stool to guard her youngest son's bedside, and fell asleep after a while. As for my great-grandfather, he slept on the temporary small bed built for him by Granny Zhao's mother and daughter, and he was quiet and had nothing to do all night.
Before dawn the next day, Granny Zhao's two daughters returned from the old family, busy making breakfast, and woke up my great-grandfather. My great-grandfather got up and stretched, and walked straight to Granny Zhao's room, where Granny Zhao was lying on the bed.
At this time, Boss Zhao was still asleep, breathing evenly, my great-grandfather pulled one of his wrists and cut his pulse again, the pulse was stable, and he was completely fine.
While eating breakfast, Granny Zhao also woke up. I have to say that this old lady's psychological endurance is still quite strong, if it were another old man, and something like this happened in the family, I am afraid it would have collapsed long ago.
Granny Zhao's two sons also woke up one after another around breakfast, and after Boss Zhao woke up, he wondered why he was in the third family.
A large family, including my great-grandfather, gathered around a small round table for breakfast.
After the meal, my great-grandfather brought the "soul-warming jade" to Boss Zhao and asked him where the jade piece came from.
Boss Zhao didn't want to say it at first, but finally couldn't stand the whole family to ask, saying that this jade piece was found from the third child's clothes, that is, the bloody clothes of Zhao Laosan before, when Zhao's mother-in-law asked Zhao Boss to take it outside and burn it, the jade piece fell out of the clothes, and Zhao Boss picked it up and looked at it, and felt that this jade piece was like a good thing, and he didn't squeak and put it in his pocket.
Hearing what Boss Zhao said, my great-grandfather nodded, and speculated that the general's soul had been in the jade piece before, and then it was taken by Zhao Laosan, and the general's soul came out of the jade piece and attached it to Zhao Laosan's body, and then he fought with his accomplices and got bloody. Later, the jade piece came to Zhao Boss's hand again, and the soul in the jade piece was attached to Zhao Boss.
In fact, strictly speaking, they brought it all on their own, and if they didn't dig up the general's grave, where would they have done all this. This is to say, "Heaven is forgivable for iniquity, but man cannot live for iniquity." Zhao Laosan dug graves and created evil, and Zhao Laosan was interested in seeing wealth.
In the morning, Boss Zhao left, saying that he would go to his father-in-law's house to pick up his wife and children back, before leaving, Granny Zhao felt sorry for him, and told him that my great-grandfather took out a chicken blood strip and tied it to his wrist, because at this time Boss Zhao's yang energy was insufficient, and the chicken blood strip was to prevent him from being entangled by something else.
After a day of nothing, in the evening, my great-grandfather once again discussed with Granny Zhao and her two daughters about summoning the spirits of Zhao Laosan.
Late at night, just after the third watch, my great-grandfather was holding a soul-attracting lamp, and Granny Zhao was holding Zhao Laosan's clothes. My great-grandfather relied on yesterday's memory to find the grassy slope, that is, the general's tomb, and next to the cornfield near the general's tomb, he found a small crossroads, and then began to summon the spirits of Zhao Laosan.
At this time, my great-grandfather dared to conclude that Zhao Laosan had something to do in this tomb, and it was right to designate him as a spirit-summoning child at the crossroads near here