Chapter 60: Before the Priest
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After beheading the "Red Lian Ghost", my great-grandfather looked back at the woman on the ground, and saw that the woman's tears came out at this time, her head was tilted and her mouth was open, her expression was dull, and the whole person seemed to be immobilized as if she had been immobilized and looked at my great-grandfather motionlessly, and she was almost stupid.
At this time, my great-grandfather noticed that the whirlwind around the woman had not receded, and the flying snowflakes were still whirling around her.
My great-grandfather frowned, this whirlwind was obviously not made by the "Red Practicing Ghost" just now, there should be other resentful spirits here, but my great-grandfather couldn't understand why these unclean things couldn't get along with this woman on the ground?
According to my great-grandfather's judgment at this time, this whirlwind should be condensed by the ghost's resentment, it is the same as the "red practice ghost" just now, the previous man's peach wood sword was burned for it, but this whirlwind is not enough, it has not yet taken shape, if it takes time, when it becomes a shape, it is also a "red practice ghost", or even several "red practice ghosts".
At the moment, these things may be the souls of those people who were burned to death by fire before in the Liang Mansion, and it can be said that the ghosts are not gone, but a whirlwind like this kind of resentment condensation is much easier to deal with than the "Red Lian Ghost".
My great-grandfather grabbed another handful of snow from the ground, put it in his mouth and chewed it, then sprayed it on the Shoufang sword, and gently slashed the whirlwind with a single sword.
This time, there was no scream, and there was no black water on the ground, so the sword of the void so easily immediately made the wind and snow around the woman's body stop and disappear.
The man who came with the woman before should not be weak in Taoism, maybe because he has little experience in exorcism and doesn't know how to deal with this kind of "red practice ghost", if he is also like my great-grandfather, he sprays snow on his peachwood sword, it is estimated that he can easily resolve this crisis.
Another point, as I said before, when our family exorcises evil spirits and catches ghosts, we generally send ghosts, and do not advocate scattering ghosts, which will damage our own yin virtue, but in some cases, like this situation that my great-grandfather is encountering now, at a critical juncture, you simply don't have the time and space to discuss with these ghosts, and in order to save people, you have to break them up.
In this world, there are several kinds of ghosts that are very difficult to "send", and the "send" I say at this time can also be understood as "excess". "Red practice ghosts" are one of them, this kind of ghost is extremely resentful, almost completely lost his mind, and is generally either collected with a walking device, or directly dispersed.
At this time, the woman was already soft on the ground like mud, and the whole person looked muddy and languishing, which was caused by the interference of the yin qi just now, and it would be fine after a while.
The snow was still falling, and the snow on the ground was already deeper than the feet and necks, and the whole world seemed desolate and silent.
At this time, my great-grandfather was carrying the Shoufang sword to protect the woman, and his eyes were constantly scanning and guarding around. In this way, after the kung fu of being able to have a stick of incense, seeing that there was no movement around, and the woman's complexion was much better, my great-grandfather said to the woman: "Big sister, the yin is heavy here, according to me, not only these dirty things, there may be other miles, it is not suitable to stay for a long time, hurry up and go." ”
When the woman heard my great-grandfather say this, she sat up from the ground weakly, raised her eyes and looked at my great-grandfather, her lips moved, and she slowly shook her head, and said in a daze: "I don't go, I can't go, tomorrow will be the priest of the stove, if I don't bring my daughter's soul back today, my daughter will never be able to return home, and when the stove is sacrificed, I can't 'sacrifice' my daughter outside......"
My great-grandfather was shocked when he heard this, and suddenly remembered the first two sentences of Jin Sanye's hexagrams: "The day before the sacrificial stove official, the third watch complained about his mother from the southeast. "Today is the twenty-second day of the lunar month, and tomorrow will be the priest of the stove.
The sacrificial stove official, that is, the twenty-third day of the lunar month, is what we often call the small year, but we generally don't say "small year" here, we all say "sacrificial stove official". We still have a few Chinese New Year proverbs here: twenty-three sacrifice stove officials, twenty-four sweep the house, and twenty-five grind tofu......
The priest of the stove is the king of the stove who sacrifices to the family. Legend has it that the Lord of the Stove was originally a star in the sky, but because he made a mistake, he was demoted to the world for the Jade Emperor and became the "East Chef" in the world.
King Stove will sit in the middle of the people's kitchen stove every day, watch how people live and behave, and will record all the good and bad things people do, and when it comes to the twenty-third day of the lunar month, King Stove will return to the heavenly court and report to the Jade Emperor the good and evil situation of each family, and then wait until the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve, King Stove will return to the world, and according to the will of the Jade Emperor, punish those who have done bad things.
Some people's dumplings wrapped at night in the Chinese New Year's Eve, and when they get up the next day, that is, at the beginning of the new year, they come to see that there are a lot less, or the dumplings have been gnawed by animals such as rats, which is mostly the punishment of the stove king's family and makes them unhappy on the first day of the new year.
Therefore, people have to sacrifice the stove on the twenty-third day of the lunar month, in order to please the king of the stove, in addition to kowtowing to the king of the stove, they will also offer a kind of food called "sesame sugar", we call "sesame sugar" here also called "sacrificial stove sugar". This kind of sugar, friends who have eaten it may know best, although it is delicious, but it is very sticky to the teeth, the purpose of offering this sugar, it is said that it is to stick to the mouth of the king of the stove, so that after he reaches the sky, he can only say good things, not bad things. However, this statement is quite contradictory, the mouth is sticky, since you can't say bad things, how can you say good things? Perhaps it can also be understood that if you take other people's hands short, eat other people's mouths short, and eat other people's good things, you will be embarrassed to speak ill of others.
The sacrificial stove is generally before dinner, as soon as the day is dark, the whole family gathers together, and puts the sacrificial stove sugar, melons and fruits on the stove prince in the sound of firecrackers. After lighting candles and incense sticks, from growing to young, kowtow to the king of the stove one by one, after the ceremony, the statue of the king of the stove is taken off from the wall, put it in the brazier to burn, and then bring the brazier to the outside of the house, the whole family looks at the sky reverently, as if watching the king of the stove return to the sky. When I was a child, adults said that they could see the stove king riding the breeze to the sky, but children could not see it, and children could only see it when they grew up. Actually, when I grow up, I can't see anything, if the weather is good, I can see the stars in the sky twinkle and twinkle, I don't know how many times I was deceived like this when I was a child, and now, it's my turn to lie to my son again......
Writing here, maybe some more sincere people will say, since you can't see anything, why do you have to deceive from generation to generation, in fact, this is not a deception, this is to give children a vision, a faith, a sense of awe, no faith and awe of people, the most terrible.
When the sacrificial stove is not at home, it is equivalent to the sacrificial stove to him (her) "sacrifice" outside, a bit of a hidden meaning, whether it is for him (her) himself or for the family, it is very unlucky, so the sacrificial stove official, as soon as it is dark, he is not allowed to go out, the family must gather, if someone has not returned home, it is necessary to delay the time of the sacrificial stove, even if it is a wait. Of course, you can't wait past 12 a.m.
What the woman said at this time is that if she doesn't bring her daughter's soul back tonight, she will "sacrifice" her daughter outside when the sacrifice stove is made, which is actually aimed at the living, and I have never heard that the sacrifice stove can also "sacrifice" the ghost outside, and it is already outside.
At this time, it can only be said that the woman's mind is not normal when she thinks about her daughter, perhaps she was strongly stimulated because of her daughter's death.
My great-grandfather sighed when he heard the woman say this, he really felt sorry for the hearts of his parents in the world, and he didn't know what to say. Later, my great-grandfather thought about it, it would be better to help people to the end, and summon her daughter's soul to "reunite" their mother and daughter.
Maybe it's because my great-grandfather helped the woman out of the siege just now, and the woman has some trust and awe for my great-grandfather, but she still retains a question, speculating about how my great-grandfather could appear here in the middle of the night.
My great-grandfather saw the doubt in the woman's eyes, but he didn't care.
At this time, the woman slowly got up from the ground, and my great-grandfather looked at the woman by the candlelight on the ground, coarse cotton jacket, large-waisted cotton trousers, dressed as a peasant woman, aged about forty years old, and the skin on her face was quite delicate, not like a village girl who worked in the field all the year round, but she was not from a big family.
My great-grandfather told the woman that he knew how to summon the spirits of her daughter.
When the woman heard this, the doubts on her face were a little lighter, and she was grateful to Dade for giving my great-grandfather a New Year's greeting, and said that as long as she summoned her daughter's soul and asked her to give her a few dollars.
My great-grandfather ignored her words, and then asked her if she had brought her daughter's clothes, and the woman hurriedly said that she had brought them. As he spoke, he untied the coarse cotton jacket on his body, and pulled out a small belly pocket from his arms, looking at the size and style, that is, what a teenager wears.
The woman explained that when her daughter was 10 years old, she was mortgaged by her gambler husband and sold to traffickers, and later sold to the Liang Mansion.
My great-grandfather took the belly pocket and looked at it, but he didn't say anything, and gave it back to the woman.
It has been introduced twice before, and the conjuring of spirits is roughly divided into three situations: one is to summon living souls, one is to summon dead souls, and the last is to summon lonely souls.
Summoning the living soul, that is, shouting the soul, summoning the soul of the living; Summoning the soul of the deceased, that is, summoning the soul of the deceased, the premise is that the body and soul of the deceased must be within a hundred miles of one's hometown; The third is to recruit lonely souls, which belong to the spirit of a different place, and after recruiting, the family will take the soul on a long journey and return to their hometown.
At this time, the problem came, my great-grandfather didn't know whether a woman was recruiting a dead soul or a lonely soul, because listening to the woman's accent, it didn't look like a person from this area of Weishi County