When I got home, I told my grandmother about my meeting with Master Zhang, and my grandmother nodded after listening to it, and said: "Listen to what you say, this Master Zhang is not bad, but it's too bad time for you to go, another day, you go to their house again, see if there is anything to help, and help send the child's soul, it's pitiful." ”

I nodded, and then I asked, "Grandma, who did you say Master Zhang's master would be, he said that his master still knows you." ”

When I said that, my grandmother was stunned, her eyes staring at one place for a moment, as if she was thinking about something.

After a pause, I couldn't help but ask again, grandma came back to her senses, grandma looked at me and said: "Two years before the Cultural Revolution, there was a sister, who could be more than ten years younger than me, someone she called 'four girls', she was a feng shui watcher, I remember that she came to our house once, that time I happened to have something, and the two of us didn't say a few words, this Master Zhang's master, maybe it's this 'four girls'." ”

When I heard about the Cultural Revolution, how many years had passed, it was still two years before the Cultural Revolution, when the 60-year famine had just passed, and my grandmother was not yet 50 years old at that time, in her forties, and if the fourth girl was more than ten years younger than my grandmother, it would only be in her thirties.

However, why does the name "Four Girls" sound so familiar? I thought about it in my head, and after a while, I remembered. During the Cultural Revolution, my father and Uncle Sihe went to Beijing to settle accounts with the Red Guards who beat my grandmother, and later met an old woman named "Four Girls", but these Four Girls didn't know how to read feng shui and were a yin walker.

I asked my grandmother again, "Grandma, when my father and I went to Beijing, didn't they also meet a girl named Si Girl, these two people can't be the same person, right?" ”

Grandma waved her hand slowly, "How can it be a person, the fourth girl your father met, who was in her sixties at that time, was still from Hebei, the four girls I met, I don't know if there were thirty years old that year, it was our local, the two of them would not be the same person at all, the third grandmother, the fourth girl, the sixth aunt, the ninth aunt, this is all a title." ”

I nodded, then looked at my grandmother, and asked, "Grandma, everyone calls you Bai Xiangu, are you one level higher than them?" ”

Grandma smiled and waved her hand, but did not speak.

The next day, that is, on the third day, Qiang Shun and I came to Master Zhang's house again, and on this day Master Zhang's grandson was funeral.

At that time, Master Zhang's grandson was about three or four years old, according to the old rules of the past, after the child died, it was not overnight at home, and it was thrown away on the same day of death, and it was not good for the family after the night, especially children under the age of seven.

In the past, they were poor, and there were many children in the family, and there was nothing particular about it, as soon as the child died, the father changed the child into new clothes, and then tied the neck with a red cloth, and tied the neck for fear that the child's soul would go home.

But now, there are fewer children in the family, parents are pampered, after the child dies, also get a small coffin, the old people die generally stop at home for five days to be buried, and the child can also be stopped at home for three days, however, the child can not enter the ancestral grave, this is unchanged for ten thousand years. Of course, I'm talking about the customs of our area, other places, different regions, different funeral cultures, and I can't generalize about them.

Master Zhang is in our industry, and he also pays attention to some old rules in the past, following the thoughts of his son and daughter-in-law, so that the child's body is left at home for three days, but he does not go out of the funeral during the day and is buried after eight o'clock in the evening.

He personally found the child's grave, but the family could not follow him during the funeral, so he found some outsiders to carry the coffin and bury the child, this was for fear that the child's soul would not be sensible, and then run back with the family.

At that time, I was in charge of carrying the coffin with three other people, and Qiang Shun was holding some things for the child with a woman.

Qiang Shun is holding a soul-attracting chicken, a rooster, red, at this time, this rooster is also called a soul-sending chicken, not to the home, but to that place. Generally, people who die unnaturally, especially those who die outside, their souls are very confused, and they can't tell the way to the underworld, especially when they encounter a crossroads, they either return to the place where they died and continue to wander, or they keep wandering at the crossroads, at this time, they need a soul-attracting chicken to lead the way for him, after the coffin is buried in the soil, after the sacrifice is completed, the soul-attracting chicken is released, and the farther the chicken runs, the better. If it is said that this soul-attracting chicken ran home, it means that the deceased has a last wish, and now many ghosts who stay in the Yang world are generally on the road or in the field of abnormal death, the reason why they stay in the Yang world is because their family does not understand the rules, did not do a good job of preparation before the burial, the person is buried, but the soul is not sent away, fluttering, who meets who is unlucky.

Qiang Shun was holding the soul-attracting chicken, and the other woman was carrying two bags of ingots and burning paper.

A few people came to the cemetery, the grave had been laid, and after the children were buried, I asked them to leave.

I burned the paper for the child at the grave, gave it away, and finally, released the soul-attracting chicken, as soon as I let go of the soul-attracting chicken, the chicken immediately flapped its wings and ran away, I sighed in my heart.

If the soul-attracting chicken does not return home within three days, it means that the child's soul is not nostalgic for this world.

Later, the child's soul did not go home, and Master Zhang's eldest daughter-in-law was pregnant again, but unfortunately, ectopic pregnancy, directly miscarried, and later conceived a child, the child was very smooth, one year older than my son, and it was safe.

Returning to Master Zhang's house from the cemetery, Master Zhang had already prepared a table of dishes for us, five auspicious dollars per person, which was a must. He sat down with his brother and drank with us.

At this time, perhaps because the child has been buried in the ground, the sad atmosphere in their family has been reduced, and Master Zhang's face has improved a little.

During the meal and drink, Master Zhang kept asking me about my grandmother's situation, the situation at home, and some things about my ancestors, and I respectfully answered them one by one.

After he finished asking me, I asked him a few questions. I remember the first question I asked him at that time was, when he was in the house on National Highway 107, how did he see that there was a problem with the hotel next to him.

Master Zhang said that he was born with yin and yang eyes, and he could see things that others couldn't see, and he saw that there was a house in the hotel next to him emitting black gas.

When I heard this, I couldn't help but glance at Qiang Shun, and said in my heart, it's okay now, the two yin and yang eyes have touched together.

However, Master Zhang soon said that his yin and yang eyes are no longer good, when his master accepted him as an apprentice, he treated him with yin and yang eyes, and now he is basically invisible, and it is estimated that he can see two or three times in a hundred times, which is no longer a yin and yang eye.

I followed up and asked him, who is your master? Master Zhang said that his master was also very famous in the past, and people called her "Four Girls".

As soon as I heard it, this was the right thing I told my grandmother, and I asked again, how is your master now, how is his health?

Master Zhang smiled bitterly and said, it has long been gone, and during the Cultural Revolution, he criticized the Red Guards and died.

As soon as I heard this, I was speechless. Later, I learned that Master Zhang's craft was not fully learned, and he studied with his master for a few years, but he had not yet become a teacher, and the Cultural Revolution began, when the four girls still had three ancient books, saying that they were handed down from the ancestors, and they were hidden in the mountains for the four girls, but before the four girls took the book to Master Zhang, the four girls were arrested by the Red Guards to criticize the fight, and she was in her early thirties at the time, because she was still a girl who had not been out of the cabinet, those Red Guards forced her to marry, she did not marry, and finally died alive.

After Master Zhang finished speaking, Master Zhang's younger brother next to him continued to speak, saying that their family was a poor peasant back then, just because of his eldest brother, the master and the fourth girl, and their family almost suffered during the Cultural Revolution. (Actually, Master Zhang has three brothers, and it is his second brother who is with us at this time, and they also have a third brother, but I don't want to mention him, I just want to beat him, but I beat him hard, because what, I will piggyback on it in the future.) ）

Then I asked Master Zhang, did you call the two masters, and Master Zhang said that they had already called, and they also agreed to move the stone stele, but he had to go there in person.

Master Zhang's meaning, when he went, he wanted me to go with him, and at the same time, he also wanted to meet the female ghost, he probably wanted to determine if the female ghost could be used as a town house stone.

The book says briefly. Two days later, we haven't started work yet, and we are idle at home with Qiangshun. Master Zhang called, let me go to National Highway 107, I went with Qiang Shun, after getting there, Master Zhang was already there, and the last time the 40-year-old master's house, there was a car parked next to it, apparently the master took Master Zhang over.

After we arrived, the two of us were discussing what Master Zhang meant, asking the master to find someone who carved the stele and carve another stele, and when the second floor was built, the stele would be covered in the southwest corner of the second floor.

The owner didn't understand very much, and asked Master Zhang why the northeast corner he said before why it has become the southwest corner again. Master Zhang explained to him that feng shui rotates, ten years in the east of the river and ten years in the west of the river, the last time I saw it, the northeast corner of the feng shui gas was low, who would have thought, at this time it turned to the southwest corner.

I couldn't help but snicker, people like us can fool laymen like play. After that, Master Zhang said a lot of feng shui terms that even I didn't quite understand, which made the master dizzy, and finally nodded yes and said yes.

After bluffing the master's family, Master Zhang explained to him again, invited the master who carved the stele before, and asked him to deal with the stele in the northeast corner, and he didn't really need to take the stele out of the wall, just get rid of the words on it.

What about this stele, I haven't focused on it before, the stele at this time, the west and south are next to the wall, that is to say, they are all built into the wall, the east and the north are exposed, the east is engraved with the words "Yongzhen Zhai'an", and the north is engraved with a tail up and head down, all of which are depicted with chicken blood mixed with cinnabar.

The dragon's head is facing down, it seems to be called the "inverted dragon deed" in the town stone, the dragon head rushes down, it is to suppress the following piece of evil land, this kind of stone stele must be suspended into the wall, and there is a kind of dragon head facing up, called "Zhenglong deed", which is generally buried in the soil, if anyone's home is not peaceful, feeling that the house is not clean, bury this in the middle of the yard. In the past, many people had a shadow wall in their yards, we called it "shadow house wall" here, when the main house and the yard gate were on a line, there would be a "shadow house wall" in the middle of the yard, which was said to be used to block ghosts and evils, and it was said that it was used to block zombies, saying that zombies would only walk in a straight line, and after entering the courtyard gate, if there was no "shadow house wall" to block, they would jump into the house directly.

This "Zhenglong Deed" is generally buried in front of the wall of the shadow house, and after this thing is buried, the most taboo person steps on it, and has to make a mark and bypass it.

To break this thing, it is also very easy, first hang up the red cinnabar painted on it, and then let the stonemason use a chisel to chisel the handwriting, I can't see what the word is, what about the dragon, start from the dragon's head, chisel a sword upward, the sword body runs from the dragon's head to the dragon's tail, this is called "slaying the dragon", so that the stele does not need to be taken out of the wall to be broken, and then put some offerings, sacrifice the dragon and the stele, and it will be fine, this method will not damage the merit.

Writing here, some people may ask, when you wanted to break the stele, why didn't you use this method, why did you find evil things to break it? This is very simple, the owner of the family agrees, you can use this method in a dignified manner, in the case of the owner's family does not agree, who dares to make such a big move to be blatant?

Of course, don't think of me as a villain who flies and dogs, if I didn't tell Master Zhang at the time, I broke the stele myself, and I will find a way to make up for it, and I won't let the main family suffer losses because of the broken stele.

(Thanks to "pingpinganan" for the 100 yuan red envelope, thanks to "Arhualiu" for the 100 yuan red envelope.) ）