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For those families who don't have mirrors, my great-grandfather told them to pour some thick ink into the basin, and after pouring it, don't touch the basin again, so that the ink will naturally settle to the bottom of the water, so that it can be used instead of mirrors.

Why did my great-grandfather want the villagers to do this, because he thought that those little ghosts might not just cry and cry tonight, and they would probably come to Sanwangzhuang tonight to mess around and seal the windows with chicken blood strips. As for putting a basin at the door and a mirror in the basin, this is a bit of a joke.

In our words, it is a method of countering yin with yin. Ghosts are very strange, they may be because of people in life, and they still maintain some human habits after death, such as going home and entering the house, they generally go through the door like people, if the door can't get through, they will jump out of the window, if the window can't jump in again, they will mess around in the yard, or cry or scream, and even smash things in the yard and so on.

After the window is sealed by the chicken blood strip, they can only go through the door, at this time, they will find a basin of water at the door, because the water in the basin is brought up after the second watch in the night, the yin qi contained in it is very heavy, which is very attractive to ghosts.

In our place, we don't dare to drink the well water that comes up after the second watch, because it contains yin qi, and after drinking it, it will cause diarrhea and fever, and it will be difficult to say.

Because the water in the basin contains yin qi, it can arouse the great interest of ghosts, especially the new ghosts that children have become, and there are some childlike meanings, they will probe to look into the basin, at this time, because the basin has a mirror (the same as the basin poured ink, but the mirror effect is not good), can produce reflections, and when these little ghosts probe to see, they will see that the mirror is empty, in their subconscious, they can be imaged in the water or in the mirror, that is, They think they can see themselves in the mirror, but when they see nothing in the mirror, they are frightened and run away.

In my family, my great-grandfather used this method, and my grandmother said that this method of anti-ghost is very effective, but I have never tried it so far, and I have reservations about this method.

Straight to the point. When my great-grandfather came home, it was already dark, and he hurried to prepare a bloody strip to seal the window, and then found the bronze mirror that my great-grandmother had married.

When I write this, some picky friends will definitely say that the whole village has prepared chicken blood strips, so how many chickens must be killed. This, in fact, the population of Sanwangzhuang was not very large at that time, and there were less than 100 households in the whole village, as long as a few chickens were killed and dried up, it was enough for the whole village. Also, my great-grandfather's chicken blood strips have been prepared for a long time, after all, our family is doing this, wicker, chicken blood, there is no shortage of these things at home.

Straight to the point. When my great-grandfather took the bronze mirror in his hand, he was stunned, and he thought of my great-grandmother and my grandfather, and thought to himself, when this matter passed, he would open the seal and bring them back.

At this time, all the villagers of Sanwangzhuang were busy, the village chief found a few crowing roosters from several villagers' houses, slaughtered them on the street, and the other villagers all surrounded, each carrying a white coarse cloth in his hand, waiting to be dipped in chicken blood.

At this time, my great-grandfather, having prepared what should be prepared, took an axe from home and put it in his waist, and went out to the bank of the river.

When he came to the riverbank, he looked at a row of willow trees on the riverbank, and by this time the color had darkened, and each willow tree looked like a shadow, fangs and claws, and felt strange and scary.

My grandfather came to a large willow tree, looked at it, took the axe in his hand, pulled the belt of his trousers, and climbed up with the trunk in his arms.

After standing firmly on the tree, he looked at a dense branch the thickness of a calf, grabbed the branch next to him with one hand, picked up the axe with the other, and whirred for a dozen strokes, and the branch snapped off the tree.

My great-grandfather sighed a few times in the tree, climbed down from the tree and carried the branch back to the village.

At this time, on the main road in the center of the village, there were still several villagers waiting in line to dip the chicken blood, and the village chief was also there.

My great-grandfather put the willow branch on the side of the road, called the village chief aside, and told him to find six women in the village who were born in the shade, of any age, but who had had to have children, and each of whom had to bring a pair of scissors.

The village chief nodded, and didn't ask my great-grandfather why, so he went straight to it.

After about half an hour's effort, six women, all with children, ranged in age from twenty to forty.

At this time, it was completely dark, and the village chief asked people to get a few torches to illuminate the road, and many people in the village stood on the side of the road and watched curiously.

My great-grandfather had just taken advantage of the village chief's time to find someone to go home, and brought a few pieces of white paper, a bowl of paste, and a small bundle of hemp rope from home.

At this time, my great-grandfather asked those who watched the excitement to stand farther away, and then gave each of the six women a blank piece of paper, that is, the kind of white straw paper used to paste the windows, and asked each of them to use the white paper to make a soul-attracting flag.

The soul-attracting pan, as we all know, is to let the ghost attach to it, but it cannot be stained with yang energy, otherwise the ghost will not be attached to it, and it is also for this reason that the woman born in the yin period makes the soul-attracting flag. Women born in the yin period have heavy yin energy, and the soul-attracting flags made have little yang energy, and ghosts generally do not repel them. At this time, if I give my great-grandfather a big man to touch it, this soul-attracting banner will be scrapped.

There are many styles of folk soul-attracting flags in our folk, there are flags, flower flags, door flags, noisy flags, etc., our soul-attracting pan here is cylindrical, called the tube flag, the production method is very simple, first roll the white paper into a cylinder, paste it well, and then use the white paper strip to cut out a row of paper ears that are half a foot long, stick the paper ears at one end of the paper tube, and then use hemp rope to wear the other end of the paper tube, and finally use the sorghum stem wrapped in white paper to pick up the hemp rope. Of course, I'm talking about the most humble kind of banners, and we ordinary people don't make such simple soul-attracting flags anymore.

My great-grandfather asked a few women to make it at this time, which is what I said about the most humble soul-attracting pan, mainly because the time was too hasty, and there was no time to pay attention to it, so it was just like that.

After the banners were ready, my great-grandfather had each of these women pluck out a long hair from their heads and tie it to the hemp rope of the banner, and finally, the women tied the banner to a willow branch with a hemp rope. When you tie it, you can do it casually, you don't pay attention to it, you can tie it tightly.

Tie the hair on the soul-attracting flag, mainly because these are child ghosts, and the biggest feature of child ghosts is "mother-lover", so that women who have given birth to children tie their hair on the soul-attracting flag, it is easier for those child ghosts to obey.

After doing this, the rest was left to my great-grandfather, who told the village chief to remove the torches and let the onlookers disperse, and told them not to make a noise about anything they heard or saw at night, let alone go out.

After the villagers dispersed, my great-grandfather went home again, brought a few things from home, and then carried the willow branches to the row of willow trees on the bank of the river, put the willow branches on his shoulders aside, sat down against a willow tree, took out the cigarette pouch of the master Wang Shoudao from his waist, smoked in the light and dark, and waited.

Perhaps because of the perennial shift, my great-grandfather has a strong sense of time, even if he doesn't use auxiliary items such as hourglasses and incense, he can pinch the hour without leaving ten, and the people call this "pinching the mind".

When it was dark for the second watch, my great-grandfather went home, took out a wooden basin from home, and came to the well at the head of the village.

At this time, there were quite a few villagers fetching water at the well, and these people were all interested, although they didn't have my great-grandfather to give them a watch today, they also kept an eye on the time. In ancient times, people generally looked at the sky, the stars and the moon, or pinched their minds, and they could calculate the time about the same.

Writing this, some people may raise objections, saying, if the night is cloudy, there are no stars and moons, what do you think? This, similar to this kind of specifically provocative question, I hope you don't ask it again in the future, you ask me, who do I ask? For example, a friend above asked, why was only one person possessed after six jars were broken? This is a reasonable question, which, as far as I suppose, can only be one possibility, and that is that the jars were not broken by the arrestees, but by the possessed. What about this, I've already revised it, sometimes, that is, a moment of negligence, will miss some insignificant details, which is unavoidable, because this story is inherently incomplete, I reluctantly synthesize them together, there will inevitably be mistakes, I hope you friends don't hold on.

To get back to the point, at this time, the villagers who fetched water saw my great-grandfather coming, and they came up to ask long and short questions, they were mainly afraid, hoping that my great-grandfather could give them a reassurance, my great-grandfather of course understood the thoughts of these villagers, smiled and comforted them a few words, and the villagers were relieved.

After fetching water from the well, my great-grandfather came home and put the basin at the door of the house, and took out the bronze mirror and put it in the basin.

When I talk about this, some friends may wonder, aren't you catching ghosts, do you still use to guard against ghosts? How to say this, we catch ghosts and people are also people, and sometimes we will catch the way if we are not careful, just like the sayings we have here, those who drown are those who can drown, and those who are bitten by snakes are all snake catchers.

After taking care of the affairs of the house, my great-grandfather went back to the row of willow trees on the bank of the river, smoked again, and waited for the hour