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My great-grandfather continued: "Let's not talk about this for now, but I am worried about it, the third child of your family came across something in the tomb when he was robbing the tomb, and he may have accomplices in the tomb, and after that thing got on your son's body, he fought with his accomplices, and your son probably injured or killed those accomplices, so he got a bloody dress and went home." ”

When Granny Zhao heard this, her face changed suddenly, and she hurriedly asked my great-grandfather, "Mr. Liu, is this ...... How can this be done? ”

My great-grandfather thought for a moment and said, "Don't worry about it for now, let's bring back your youngest son Mile Soul first." ”

At this time, the youngest daughter on the side interjected, "What's the matter with my eldest brother?" Did he dig a grave too? ”

Granny Zhao's youngest daughter's words stopped my great-grandfather. My great-grandfather thought about it again and suggested that he show Granny Zhao's eldest son again, and Granny Zhao was already a little confused at this time, so she nodded in agreement.

Then, Granny Zhao trembled and accompanied my great-grandfather to her eldest son's house.

Granny Zhao's eldest son's home is not far from Granny Zhao's old house, in the north of the village.

At this time, Granny Zhao's eldest daughter was taking care of her eldest son, and the eldest son's daughter-in-law ran back to her parents' house overnight with the child because she was afraid.

Listening to my grandmother talk about this, I shook my head and said, they are really choked by this big family.

After my great-grandfather showed his eldest son, he found that Granny Zhao's two sons were in exactly the same situation.

My great-grandfather thought it was strange, if you want to say that Granny Zhao's youngest son bumped into something in the tomb, then what happened to her eldest son? Did you go to rob the grave too? It seems unlikely.

My great-grandfather pondered, it seems, only after recovering their souls, I can ask them personally, but not necessarily they can still remember, because the people who put on the ghosts can rarely remember what they have done after the ghosts.

After the old family returned to the house of Granny Zhao's youngest son, my great-grandfather began to work on the matter of conjuring the spirits of her two sons.

Summoning spirits, as mentioned earlier, Wang Shoudao mentioned when he helped Dong Youcai's son summon souls, which can be roughly divided into three situations: first, recruiting living souls, second, summoning dead souls, and third, summoning lonely souls. Wang Shoudao's move was the "dead soul", that is, the soul of the dead. My great-grandfather is recruiting "living souls" this time, that is, people are not dead, and the soul is gone, that is, as mentioned earlier, the soul has been lost.

There are many ways to summon souls for children, commonly known as "shouting souls". Generally, on top of a big broom, tie the child's clothes with hemp rope, and then take advantage of the middle of the night to a crossroads where no one is around, shout a few names of the soulless children at the crossroads, and then drag the broom upside down to go home, and you can't turn back on the road, continue to shout while walking, come back, come back. When I arrived at the door of the house, someone was waiting in the house, and the person who mopped the broom asked outside the door, "Is so-and-so back?" The people in the house hurriedly replied, "I'm back!"

When the mopping man heard the answer of the people in the house, he quickly took off the clothes from the broom, and the broom stood at the door, and took the clothes into the house. When you enter the house, put your clothes over the child. Of course, at this time, the child who lost his soul must be asleep, or he will not be able to work. At this point, the process of shouting the soul is complete.

This kind of folk method of shouting souls is almost tried and tested, and there are also those who directly take a piece of clothing to the intersection and shout, and the method is basically the same. There is a prerequisite here, you must make sure that the child is really lost his soul, if it is just a common cold and fever, it is useless for you to shout hoarse.

How to determine that the child has lost his soul, this seems to be a bit off-topic if he continues to talk about it, but let's talk about it, the most common loss of soul is: the child is sick, repeated, long-term entanglement, the older one mutters nonsense in the middle of the night, the younger one has been drowsy, or sleeps and does not wake up, loses appetite, looks listless when he wakes up, calls his name and responds slowly, appears weak limbs, and after seeing his relatives at home, his eyes are blurred, his face is dazed, as if he does not know them. All of the above can determine that the child has lost his soul.

Straight to the point. At this time, my great-grandfather wanted to recruit the living soul, which was similar to the method of "shouting souls" for children, and it was also the third watch in the middle of the night to a crossroads, shouting the name of the soul-losing person loudly, and after shouting a few times, he did not look back and went home, but in addition to taking the soul-losing person's clothes, he also had to bring a soul-attracting lamp, which required two people to complete.

What is a soul-attracting lamp, to put it bluntly, it is an oil lamp. If a relative dies at home, the everlasting lamp placed next to the coffin head in the funeral shed is the soul-attracting lamp.

The soul-attracting lamp is generally made of cotton twisted into a wick, and then put into a porcelain bowl filled with sesame oil or rapeseed oil, the soul-attracting lamp can not be extinguished, and it means that the deceased is uneasy and not good for the family. Nowadays, people have more and more bad ideas, and they all use the kind of solid fuel like white wax in the glass instead of the soul-attracting lamp, the advantage is that it is not afraid of the wind and is not easy to extinguish. The downside is that it's just a bluff. For example, when I go to the grave to burn paper money, I never use the kind of money that is printed on it, and it says "Hades Bank" and the like, which looks similar to the RMB.

Of course, there are friends who know how to do things or friends who do white things in the paper work, incense and candles, and dark money business, seeing the above paragraph, I am here to apologize to you, don't be like me, I am not sensible.

Because Granny Zhao's two sons have lost their souls, they can only recruit one at a time, and my great-grandfather asked Granny Zhao who recruited first.

Granny Zhao thought about it, sighed and said, Let's recruit the boss first, the boss has a daughter-in-law and children, and he is not in his family, my great-grandfather nodded.

That night, after the third watch, Granny Zhao took a piece of her eldest son's clothes, and went with my great-grandfather to the crop field outside the village where the boss was found.

If you can't determine where you lost it, you can only find a crossroads that don't often walk people. As for why you have to go to the crossroads to summon spirits, it is said that this crossroads leads to the four veins of heaven, earth, man, and ghost, and the lost soul can only wander at the crossroads because it has no consciousness, neither up nor down, no person or ghost, which is equivalent to wandering between the four veins of heaven, earth, man, and ghost. This specific explanation is a bit abstract, that is, it can only be understood but not spoken, and you can probably understand what it means.

The boss of the Zhao family, since he found it in the cornfield, his soul must have been lost near the cornfield, at least it is more reliable to summon his soul in this vicinity than to go elsewhere.

At this time, my great-grandfather was holding the soul-attracting lamp in one hand and the lamp-head flame in the other, and there was wind in the open field, and if the flames were not closed, it was likely to be blown out by the wind, and once the soul-attracting lamp was extinguished, at least tonight, he would not be able to summon the soul of the boss.

Granny Zhao, standing in the center of the crossroads at this time, holding the shoulders of her clothes with both hands, shaking her clothes gently, and shouting loudly: "March 18 of the year of Gengyin, when the time comes, Zhao Dashan, Zhao Dashan come back, my mother is here, come back......"

The eldest of the Zhao family, three years younger than my great-grandfather, forty-seven years old, was born in 1830, the tenth year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty, the year of Geng Yin, the eighteenth day of March in the lunar calendar, and the time is between one and three o'clock in the afternoon, as for the "Zhao Dashan" shouted by Zhao's mother-in-law, it is the name of her eldest son.

To call the soul of the adult, you must bring the birth date and the name, otherwise, you may call the lonely soul and wild ghost home.

After Granny Zhao shouted three times in a row, my great-grandfather hurriedly responded, "Come back......"

Then my great-grandfather took the lead, and Granny Zhao followed closely behind, walking briskly towards Mr. Zhao's family, during which I couldn't turn back, and I couldn't see people, cats and dogs on the road. As for why you can't turn back, it is said that the soul is behind the soul shouter, and the soul shouter will scare the soul away as soon as he turns around at this time. You can't see people, cats and dogs on the road, it's the same thing.

The two of them continued to shout while striding towards Old Zhao and the others. Granny Zhao shouted, and my great-grandfather hurriedly responded.

When I arrived at the door of Mr. Zhao's house, the door was tightly closed, my great-grandfather stood on the right side of the door with a lamp, and Granny Zhao stood on the left side of the door with her clothes. The house has long been prepared, and Granny Zhao's eldest daughter hurriedly opened her mouth and replied, "I'm back!"

Then Granny Zhao's eldest daughter opened the door, my great-grandfather went in first, and Granny Zhao followed closely, at this time, Granny Zhao's eldest woman had to quickly avoid it, and she couldn't look behind the two.

After entering the house, the two of them went straight to Boss Zhao's bedroom, my great-grandfather put the soul-attracting lamp at the head of the bed, and Granny Zhao put her clothes on the sleeping Boss Zhao, the soul-attracting lamp could not be blown out at this time, and it must be lit until the next morning.

At this point, the ritual of shouting souls to the boss of the Zhao family is completed.

Early the next morning, the boss of the Zhao family woke up and miraculously returned to normal. My great-grandfather asked him, do you remember what he's been doing these days? The boss of the Zhao family looked dazed and shook his head. This is the same as my great-grandfather had guessed before, and I don't remember anything after I was ghosted.

Granny Zhao wiped her tears and told the boss what happened a few days ago, and after listening to it, cold sweat broke out on her forehead.

My great-grandfather took the opportunity to ask him, "The third child of the Kai family is digging a grave for a ghost, tell me, are you also going to dig the grave?" ”