Chapter 300: Catching Water Ghosts at Night
When he came to Ming Jun's house, Ming Jun was lying on the bed in the outer room, because the weather was hot, there was a straw mat on the bed, and Ming Jun was only wearing a big trousers. Ming Jun's mother was sitting on the edge of the bed, I didn't see Ming Jun's two brothers, it was already late at night, and they probably slept in the room.
After grandma entered the house, Mingjun's mother stood up from the side of the bed, and came over a few steps to say something to my grandma, but grandma waved her hand at her and said, "Don't be afraid, it's okay." With that, Grandma walked straight towards Ming Jun on the bed.
I followed my grandmother to the bed with Ming Jun and his father, I looked at Ming Jun's two feet and neck, Ming Jun's left foot and neck were fine, and I saw that there were five finger prints on his right foot and neck, the size of the finger prints was about the same as that of my brother's age, and the five finger prints were all black and blue, and they were all blue under the light, which was much more scary than the finger prints on my feet and necks in the past.
Grandma turned her head to me and said, "See, this water ghost is about to become a climate, fortunately, you have a lot of yang energy, it doesn't dare to approach the two of you, if it was replaced by another child, it would have been dragged into the water a long time ago." ”
Ming Jun and his father asked next to him: "Auntie, is there a way for Ming Jun to cure this?"
Grandma turned her head to look at him and said, "Of course there is a cure, you go and get half a basin of cold water, and then mix it with half a basin of hot water, mix it into warm water and bring it over." ”
Ming Jun's father listened to it and shouted to Ming Jun's mother: "Did you hear it, don't you hurry up and get water." ”
Ming Jun's mother hurriedly sighed, and panicked like a maid to fetch water.
Then my grandmother said to me, "Go home to my house and get some wormwood leaves, and a bundle of incense." ”
I answered and went home.
The things that my grandmother used were kept in a cabinet in her back room. When my grandmother and my grandfather got married, my grandfather asked a carpenter to make it for her, and made a total of two, one with clothes, and one with all kinds of walking utensils, I opened the cabinet with open walking utensils and took out some wormwood leaves from it and returned to the Ming army's house.
Ming Jun's mother had already mixed the warm water with a basin at this time, and put it on a high stool next to the bed, Ming Jun was still unconscious at this time, and he belonged to the yin qi of the water ghost at this time.
Chong Shen did not specifically say in the past, this is different from the nature of the upper body, the upper body is directly attached to the body, Chong is equal to, equal, for example, the water ghost is like a virus carrier, the virus it carries is the "Yin Qi", after catching the Ming Army, the "virus" was transmitted to the Ming Army, what we have to do is to beat these "viruses" on the Ming Army out of his body.
When I returned to Ming Jun's house, my grandmother was holding a needle to pierce Ming Jun's ear and eyebrows, this is mainly bloodletting, according to the priority, the place of the puncture is not the same, we call this "deflating yin". Ming Jun's this is a bit serious, otherwise grandma wouldn't prick his brow, squeeze it twice after pricking the blood, squeeze out more blood, and when he hits the yin qi out for a while, let the yin qi in the body have a place to go out.
Grandma took the wormwood leaves and put the water in, struck a match and roasted the needle before, wiped it clean and called me to him, and it was time for me to donate blood for free, and pricked a needle in my finger, pinched my finger and dripped three drops of finger blood in the basin.
The book says briefly. After the wormwood leaves were soaked, grandma began to wash the fingerprints of Ming Jun, the process was the same as when I dealt with the ghost scratching feet, after washing, I pasted the fingerprints on the wormwood leaves, and began to smoke with incense, smoked for a while, and the originally unconscious Ming Jun hummed in his mouth, looking very painful. I knew he must have felt hot at this time, and it was the same when my grandmother smoked it for me in the past.
Seeing this, the grandmother hurriedly took the incense away and handed it to the Ming Jun next to his father, and then wrapped the wormwood leaves on the Ming Jun's feet and neck with a piece of yellow paper, and asked Ming Jun's mother to find a white cloth, and wrapped the Ming Jun's feet and neck a few times with the white cloth, and finally tied it with hemp rope, and explained to the Ming Jun's parents, when the Ming Army burned down, when the white cloth was untied, the white cloth, yellow paper, red head rope, and the wormwood leaves inside, burned at the edge of the pit at twelve o'clock that night, and the ashes were thrown into the water.
Ming Jun's parents thanked my grandmother again and again, and when my grandmother waved her hand, they were all from the neighborhood to thank her.
After dealing with the affairs of the Ming army, my grandmother took me home, at this time, it was already more than one o'clock in the morning, and it was the first time that I saw the hand of the grandfather clock pointing to one point at night.
My grandmother asked me, "Yellow River, are you sleepy?"
I shook my head.
The grandmother said, "If you are not sleepy, go to the pit with your grandmother." ”
"What" I immediately turned my face bitter when I heard this, and said, "Grandma, it's too late, I can't see anything outside in the dark, let's go see it tomorrow during the day." ”
Grandma said: "There are many people during the day, and the yang energy is also heavy, so it's just right to go at this time, and if you catch it now, it won't hurt people tomorrow." Grandma said and walked into the back room. After a pause, my grandmother came out of the back room, carrying her bag on her shoulders, and without saying a word, she pulled me out again.
Soon, we came to the edge of the pit, and my grandmother asked me, "Where is the place where the Ming army fell into the water?"
"There." I pointed to her.
It was a shallow water area that could be more than three meters wide, and it was there that the Ming army swam and slid into the deep water, or it can be said that it was for the water ghosts to grab their feet and necks and drag them into the deep water.
The shallow water area is on the south side of the pit, and further south is the railway embankment, we are standing on the embankment on the north side of the pit, there is a large semicircle moon in the sky, the moonlight is reflected in the water brightly, and the sight is not bad.
Grandma looked over there, didn't say anything, and pulled me across the small bridge next to me.
When she came to the shore of the shallow water to the south, my grandmother took out a mirror from her baggage, which was an ordinary glass round mirror, which could be as big as the mouth of a sea bowl, and there was a light wire shelf behind it, which could support the mirror and stand diagonally on the table.
Both sides of our pit bank are slope-shaped, the closer to the water surface, the lower it is, but the angle of inclination is not so serious, and it is impossible for a person to fall into the water because of the inclination when walking on the shore.
Grandma found a place with a steep slope on the bank, put the mirror facing the river, and stood on the slope, and on both sides of the mirror asked me to find two stones to resist to keep the mirror from turning over, and then Grandma took out three white candles from the bag, all of them were new wax, and had not yet lit them, and told me to bury them side by side in front of the right side of the mirror, note this, the candle was not placed in front of the mirror, but on the side of the front, and the candle was buried in the soil two-thirds, and only one-third was exposed outside.
After doing this, my grandmother told me to stay away, I was quite reluctant, but I couldn't help it, who told me to have a heavy yang energy. It's just, where am I hiding, I've just heard my grandmother talk about water ghosts, I really haven't seen it, since I dragged it to my grandmother in the middle of the night, I have to see it.
I looked around, and the best sight was on the railway slope, and I could also go to the embankment on the north side, but the distance on the embankment on the north side was a little far, so I climbed up the railway slope and sat on the side of the railway slope, and by the moonlight I was condescending, and I had an unobstructed view of the water surface of the whole area.
When my grandmother saw that I had escaped, she touched my body, apparently finding a box of matches, and went to the candles and lit them, and after lighting them, she found some more pieces of earth and piled them up in front of the candles, and kept the candles close to the side of the pit tightly, that is, to prevent the light of the candles from entering the water. At this time, the candlelight reflected by the mirror is faintly shining on the water surface like a halo, because of the moonlight, the candlelight reflected by the mirror is pale red, and it looks very strange on the water surface, plus the surrounding is quiet, and it is late at night, and the whole atmosphere makes people feel eerie.
At this time, Grandma took out another one from her baggage, probably a wooden figure. Because the distance is a bit far, I can't see it very clearly, there seems to be a thin rope tied to the wooden figure, and I feel that the rope is black.
Grandma wrapped the other end of the rope around her left hand a few times, and with a wave of her right hand, threw the wooden figure into the water, impartially, just into the halo reflected in the mirror.
The water is flowing, and the wooden man must also flow along the water when he floats on it, and the grandmother walked to the left side of the mirror at this time, and pulled the rope tightly to keep the wooden man in the halo.
I watched it all from the slope of the railroad, and finally, like my grandmother, my eyes were fixed on the wooden figures in the water for a moment. Grandma stood on the edge of the pit and pulled the wooden figure motionless, feeling like fishing.
After waiting like this for about twenty minutes, a layer of ripples inexplicably appeared on the originally calm water surface, with the wooden people as the heart, spreading out in a circle, which looked very weird.
Suddenly, a white gadget emerged from the water without warning, and in such a moment, I thought I was dazzled, and then the wooden figure sank down. The white thing was clearly the hand of the water ghost, and now it was grabbing the wooden figure and trying to pull it into the water.
Grandma hurriedly pulled the rope in her hand in the opposite direction at this time, but I saw that grandma didn't seem to use much strength, it was the slight resistance to the force, the wooden man floated out of the water again, and there was a small hand on it for nothing, I can't describe the feeling, if someone else saw this scene, I'm afraid I would have screamed a long time ago.
My grandmother pulled here, and the water ghost also pulled it into the water, but its strength was obviously much worse than my grandmother's, and the water ghost seemed to compromise for a while, but it was reluctant to give up the wooden man, and was pulled to the shore by my grandmother little by little.
I watched all this, and I didn't dare to breathe in the tense atmosphere, and the wooden man was gradually pulled away from the water by my grandmother, and along with the wooden man left the water, there was also an arm, just like a lotus root with a clean skin, and the white was dazzling.
Immediately after, a small white head emerged from the water, and I couldn't see its nose and eyes clearly, but it already made my heart tremble, to be exact, it was the first time I had actually seen a ghost
Grandma at this time wrapped one hand around the rope, slowly, circle by circle to the hand, the body quietly moved back, the right hand, slowly stretched into the burden on the shoulder, carefully pulled out a rope from the inside, this is a soul-binding rope, that is, the rope of the ghost, the coffin board is soaked with water and chicken blood, as long as the live buckle at one end of the rope is put into the neck of the water ghost, the water ghost has no ability.
At this time, the atmosphere was very tense, if my grandmother had a little bit of a bad pool, she would either be attacked by the water ghost, or she would escape back into the water for the water ghost.
At this moment, suddenly, a bright light came from the distance on my right, I turned my head to look, there was a train in the distance, I was worried, the train will not alarm the water ghost, think about it, it shouldn't be, I don't know how many trains run a day on the train track, the water ghost is probably used to the sound of the train at this time.
The train rumbled a little closer, and the water ghost had been pulled by my grandmother more than two meters away from the shore at this time, and I saw the water ghost completely at this time, it was a white child, with arms and legs, looking at the head, the age should be about the same as my brother, a child in the first and second grades. At this time, it held the wooden man tightly with both hands, and its white head was very close to the wooden man, as if it was sniffing the wooden man with its nose, and it seemed that it had not noticed that it had left the water, let alone its grandmother, who was only two or three steps away from it.
Grandma still pulled the wooden figure back step by step, and pulled it a few steps to the shore, and suddenly, she shook the soul rope in her hand, and the rope buckle went towards the water ghost.
I saw it, it was done, and I caught it
But at this moment, the train that had come to the front made a long "woo" sound, which was harsh and unpleasant, and I was startled and quickly covered my ears.
Look at the water ghost again, full of excitement, look up at the train track, at the same time, the grandmother threw out the soul rope brush fell short, fell on the wooden man in the hands of the water ghost, the water ghost saw this, let go of the wooden man and turned around and ran, a few ups and downs ran to the edge of the pit, "poof" into the water
At the end, the following photo was taken in the photo studio when my dad was young, and my dad said that it was taken in the photo studio when he came back from Beijing. They were walking home from Beijing, passing through many towns, some of which were in better condition, where they spent a few days. Grandma said that this photo is very similar to my grandfather, and it is estimated that my grandfather was like this when he was young