Chapter 50: Asking the Soul

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My great-grandfather then instructed Guo Er, it is best to put these things back in the general's tomb as they are, this general is not easy to provoke, if you don't do it, Guo Er will end up like an old Taoist master and apprentice. When Guo Er heard this, he was so frightened that his face was like ashes, and he immediately promised to put it back as soon as it got dark.

On the way back to Zhao Laosan's house, my great-grandfather couldn't figure out where Zhao Laosan's soul fell, and finally he wondered if he would release the general's ghost from the small bottle, and asked it if it knew, but it was too risky to do so, and he couldn't do it without perfect preparation and full certainty.

After returning to Zhao Laosan's house, Granny Zhao, mother and daughter, surrounded them, and my great-grandfather shook his head again with a look of shame.

Seeing this, Granny Zhao showed despair in her eyes, although she was enduring it, my great-grandfather could see it. My great-grandfather felt uncomfortable at this time, and felt that he was about to lose his face to enter other people's homes.

Finally, my great-grandfather gritted his teeth, grinned, let go of the general's ghost and ask!

Then my great-grandfather instructed Granny Zhao and her daughter to prepare a few things, the two most important of which were a man and a literate person. When Granny Zhao heard this, she said that she was literate herself, saying that her father was a showman, who had taught private school all his life, and was a very enlightened person, and taught her to read and write since she was a child. When my great-grandfather heard this, he had a good feeling, and people who knew how to read and could read didn't have to look for it outside. As for the man, Granny Zhao said that she could call her eldest son and second son over.

Granny Zhao's two daughters went to prepare the things that my great-grandfather wanted, but in fact, there was nothing, that is, burning paper, incense ash, cinnabar, scissors, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, etc. Granny Zhao went to the house of her two sons and called them over.

When it was time for lunch, the two daughters had prepared everything my great-grandfather wanted. As for Granny Zhao, she also came back from her two sons' houses, but she couldn't call one of her sons.

Granny Zhao cried and said that the eldest was still at his father-in-law's house and did not come back, and the second child said that he would not come with her anything, saying that there would be no third brother in the future, and there would be no her mother.

My great-grandfather was very angry when he heard this, but outsiders couldn't take care of this kind of housework, so he had to suggest Granny Zhao to find Guo Er to try. Granny Zhao went, and it didn't take much effort for Guo Er to follow Granny Zhao.

After that, my great-grandfather told a few of them what he thought, and when Guo Er heard it, he was a little scared, and stumbled and excused himself that he was going to put things back at night. My great-grandfather hurriedly said to him, it's not too late to put things a day late, and now finding San'er's soul is the most important thing, if San'er's soul can't be found, he will become a fool for the rest of his life, and you Guo Er will have no friends. Guo Er heard my great-grandfather say this, hesitated for a while, and finally nodded fiercely as if he had made up his mind and agreed.

I didn't say anything for a day, and in the evening, I just played the second watch, Zhao Laosan's house, and the hall.

At this time, there was a large wooden basin full of water in the hall, and my great-grandfather signaled Granny Zhao's two daughters to avoid it, and asked Guo Er to take off his shoes and socks and stand barefoot in the wooden basin.

At this time, the season was already late autumn and early winter, the weather was getting cooler, and the water was quite cold. My great-grandfather told him that he didn't know it was cold for a while.

Afterwards, my great-grandfather put the prepared cinnabar incense ash together, and sprinkled it in a circle about a foot away from the wooden basin. Although Guo Er was not good at speaking, he was quite curious, so he asked my great-grandfather what he was doing with this. My great-grandfather told him that he should put the general's ghost in a basin of water and sprinkle cinnabar incense ash to prevent the general's ghost from escaping.

After sprinkling cinnabar incense ash, my great-grandfather put more than a dozen scissors, the tips of which were flushed into the basin, the tail of which was facing outward, and placed them in a circle around the wooden basin. The scissors were also found in advance, and Granny Zhao's two daughters ran all morning to find them borrowed from many households.

Sprinkle cinnabar incense ash and put scissors, which is a small formation of sleepy ghosts, but this small formation has a very domineering name, called "knife mountain and sea of fire", if a friend feels that the home is not clean, and always feels that there are things in and out, you can use cinnabar to mix incense ash and sprinkle it at the door, and the wood and grass ash in the stove can also be, and then put a pair of scissors on top of the cinnabar incense ash, so that those dirty things can't come in.

After doing all this, my great-grandfather took out the small bottle containing the general's ghost from his body, walked to the wooden basin, opened the lid of the bottle, and quickly inserted the mouth of the bottle into the basin, and then raised his hand to "pop" the bottom of the bottle three times, and shouted, "Come out." ”

After shouting, he waited for a while, and after feeling the general's ghost come out of the bottle, he took the bottle out of the water, wiped it clean and put it back on his body.

At this time, the water in the tub moved strangely, that kind of slight, irregular fluctuations, as if there was a fish swimming rapidly in the basin.

Guo Er, who was standing barefoot in the wooden basin, was scared at this time, and screamed "ah", and wanted to jump out of the basin, but before he could jump out, the whole person jerked violently, as if he had been electrocuted, and then, he stood upright in the basin like a wooden stick, and in an instant, a layer of gloomy black gas appeared on his face, his eyes were bulging, and he looked at Granny Zhao viciously, and then at my great-grandfather, and opened his mouth to scold without warning.

Guo Er's whole person seemed angry at this time, and he jumped like thunder in the water basin. However, he did not dare to take half a step out of the basin in any case.

As I said earlier, Guo Er is a stammer, but at this time, he is not stumbling at all, his mouth is quite sharp, and his scolding is ugly.

My great-grandfather turned around and took out the Shoufang sword from the objects he brought, and without saying a word, he gently knocked the sword on Guo Er's head with his back, and at this moment, Guo Er immediately became honest and stopped scolding, and stood stiffly in the wooden basin with his eyes closed, and stopped moving.

Shou Fangjian introduced before that the golden silk nan wood was carved into a coffin, buried deep in the ground for ten years, and the evil aura on it was extremely heavy, and the general dirty things avoided when they saw it. My great-grandfather used the Shoufang sword to knock on the head of "Guo Er", and immediately suppressed the ghost of the general.

After my great-grandfather put away the Shoufang sword, he asked "Guo Er", "Are you still scolding?" ”

"Guo Er" closed his eyes and shook his head blankly.

My great-grandfather asked again, "Do you want to listen to me?" ”

"Guo Er" nodded dumbly again.

"Can you write?" My great-grandfather asked again.

Guo Er nodded again.

"In that, I'll ask you now, and you write a ......"

After speaking, my great-grandfather raised the right arm of "Guo Er" to his chest, and stuffed a brush dipped in ink into the hand of "Guo Er", and then my great-grandfather motioned to Granny Zhao next to him to take the white paper, and the two of them grabbed the four corners of the white paper and held it under the brush.

Writing here, some friends may ask, why didn't my great-grandfather talk to "Guo Er" directly, why did he ask him to write? This, how to say, writing is also a kind of spell, that is, the ancient witchcraft "Fu Ping Technique".

Fu Pingshu, friends may sound unfamiliar, say a person who is not unfamiliar to everyone, please pen fairy, this has heard of it. Fu Ping technique is the predecessor of the pen fairy, but the method of "please pen fairy" is by those who do not understand the "Fu Ping technique", according to the cat painting tiger copy out, and the real Fu Ping technique, there is no stability, accuracy, on the contrary, the harm is great, the general pen fairy people basically have no good fruit to eat.

My great-grandfather used the "Fu Ping Technique" at this time, this kind of spell ghost does not lie, asks what to write, and writes the truth.

After letting "Guo Er" hold the pen and tearing the white paper under the pen with Granny Zhao, my great-grandfather asked "Guo Er" directly, "Do you know where Zhao Laosan's soul is now?" ”

Guo Er himself didn't know a single big character, let alone write, but at this time, he unexpectedly wrote two beautiful ancient seal characters on the paper "know".

When my great-grandfather saw those two words, he didn't understand them, and he didn't know many words, not to mention this kind of ancient seal that I don't know what age it is, which is similar to reading a book from heaven. Fortunately, Granny Zhao knew her, so she quickly read it to my great-grandfather.

My great-grandfather nodded, and then asked, "Where is the soul of Zhao Sanli now, can you say no?" ”

Guo Er wrote: "No. ”

My great-grandfather frowned and asked, "Why can't you say that?" ”

"Guo Er" wrote: "Anger is hard to peace"

My great-grandfather asked, "How can you get rid of your anger?" ”

"Soul Burial"

My great-grandfather's brow furrowed even tighter, "Soul burial? In other words, do you want Zhao Lao Sanmi's soul to accompany you in the tomb? ”

"Right"

My great-grandfather thought for a while and said, "This is not a hit, or else, you tell me where Zhao Lao Sanli's soul is, and I will let you go, and we will not enter the river in the future, do you like it?" ”

"Nope"

"And what do you want?"

"One soul for one soul"

"What do you mean by one soul for one soul?" After my great-grandfather asked this sentence, "Guo Er" wrote eight words in one breath, and my great-grandfather looked at the eight words and still didn't know them, and asked Granny Zhao what he wrote. Granny Zhao looked at those eight words, hesitated for a long time, and finally told my great-grandfather that she didn't know either.

Granny Zhao said that she didn't know these words, which was completely beyond my great-grandfather's expectations.

Then Granny Zhao sighed to herself, and said to my great-grandfather with a calm face: "Mr. Liu, it's not early in the day, you are also tired these days, I see, let's call Xiao Er home, don't ask, let's rest early, it's so cold, don't have a good child in the cold water of Xiao Er's station...... Wait for Ming'er, ask the village teacher what these words are......" As she spoke, Granny Zhao tore the white paper, dried the ink, and folded it a few times in her arms.

Granny Zhao's words and actions at this time made my great-grandfather stunned, a little confused by the second monk, he felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say what was wrong, anyway, it was wrong