The incident of falling into the water is not a trivial matter for the people in the village, Cha Wenbin originally intended to slowly fade out of people's sight, but he had no choice but to go out of the mountain again.

Two of the three children are cousins, and the children who die young, especially those who die in this way, are not murderous, but they are also troublesome. Children's playful nature dooms them to remain after death, maybe they are looking for a companion when they are looking for a child in a certain family in the village, in fact, they have no intention of harming others, but this unintentional act will ask for someone else's name.

Because about half a month has passed since the incident, the children who fell into the water have also been taken away by their families for burial. Generally, the death of a child will not be done in vain, usually because his family quietly digs a pit and buries it, because since ancient times, there has been no reason for white-haired people to send black-haired people.

Three newly-erected dirt bags stood on the opposite side of the village halfway up the mountainside, and perhaps in another ten years, all that was left would be weed.

Cha Wenbin knew about that school, and the people in the village came from there, and the feng shui in that place was really not very good, as Hetu said.

The river is a half-moon in the middle of the river, which is also known as a killing pond in feng shui. The crescent moon is like a knife, and the waterhole is the place where the head falls, and it doesn't hurt if it doesn't have the stone bridge and the willow trees.

The stone arch bridge connects the path leading to the school, and the bridge is yin, and as the saying goes, people walk during the day and ghosts pass by at night. Therefore, the older generation will often tell those who enjoy the cool on the bridge in the summer that they must not go home after 12 o'clock. There is no particularly good place in the village to have a tryst, and in the second half of the summer there are often young couples falling in love on the bridge, but if they make a private decision for life on the bridge, most of them will have some disasters in the future.

Especially some old bridges, it is very easy to have accidents, the bridge can not get sunlight all year round, and affected by the current, so the bottom of the bridge is very cold, plus the estuary is mostly the windward side, so these places are the favorite of dirty things.

If the willow strip is broken off, it can have the effect of driving away ghosts, and some jumping gods often use the wicker to whip those who seem to be possessed, but the willow tree itself is extremely yin. Most of the willow trees are planted by the river, the water belongs to the yin, the willow trees born in the shade are naturally inevitably stained with yin, the willow forests are all in pieces in the past, those places seem to be picturesque during the day, but at night you want to stay in it, eighty percent will meet things you don't want to encounter.

The older the willow tree, the more powerful it becomes, those willow trees with crooked necks and mutilated bodies, the bark is cracked, and the roots are intertwined, and if the willow branches praised by the poet are removed, it will not have any beauty, so the willow forest is also called the gathering of shade.

I don't know which dynasty and generation planted the willow forest next to the school, and a person died in the forest a long time ago, and that person was more than ten years older than Cha Wenbin.

The willow tree is easily hollowed out, and the largest willow tree in this forest can be hugged by two people, and once there was a man in the village who had a problem with his head and climbed into one of the tree holes to sleep in winter, but when the family found him, it was already after the snow had melted, and he froze to death as if he had been in a refrigerator.

When Hetu was in school, he felt that the feng shui of this place was not good, and he also told Cha Wenbin after he went back. But Cha Wenbin explained to him that it was just right to set up a school here. Feng Shui believes that the school is a symbol of righteousness, and the sound of students reading aloud is the most positive representative, which can overwhelm everything, and it is no longer suitable to suppress this kind of Feng Shui crookedness, but I didn't expect that something went wrong after all.

No one dared to sit on the old stone arch bridge, and the weather had begun to cool down in late October, and Cha Wenbin was entrusted to prepare for a ritual ceremony. Early in the morning, the parents of the children who fell into the water came to Cha's house with various gifts, hoping that this Taoist master, who had not been out of the mountain for a long time, could overtake the dead children.

Cha Wenbin continued to go beyond the norm, and did something that these parents couldn't accept very much, that is, to dig up the corpses of these children who had been buried in the soil for only half a month. This matter was opposed by almost all parents, but Cha Wenbin said that if you don't want to dig, then he won't do it.

Although Cha Wenbin's name is resounding for thousands of miles, not to mention his deeds in the village, even in the provincial capital, in order to settle things as soon as possible, people have to do homework for the parents, but the parents really can't figure out the reason why Cha Wenbin did this.

In the end, Cha Wenbin only said one sentence: "If you want your children to soak in water for the rest of your life, then don't dig it!" If you don't believe me, open the grave and look at it, and see if the children inside are wet from head to toe. ”

The eventual turning point came when a parent had a dream about his son standing in front of him at night, dripping from the ends of his hair, on his clothes, on his pants, on his shoes, on his face, in short, there was water everywhere he looked, and the water on his clothes could not be wrung dry.

Later, the parent was the first to open the grave, pried open the small coffin and saw that the body of his child had been completely soaked in the coffin liquid, and the body was floating on the water. You know, the cemetery is on the back of a mountain, and there can't be a river here!

When the other two families heard about the situation, they also opened the graves of their respective families, and the situation inside was basically the same, the bodies of the three children were all soaked in water, and it was strange that the bodies of these children did not feel swollen at all, and when they were picked up, they looked like they had just fallen into the river.

The location of the ceremony was chosen on the bridge, because it was a village matter, so there were many people who came to help that day, setting up platforms, setting up sheds, and all kinds of people watching the excitement around the bridge, and almost everyone stood on the balcony and roof of the nearby house.

Hetu was just a spectator that day, this was the first time Cha Wenbin opened the altar in front of him, and he had a lot to learn.

Choosing the place where the children fell into the water, Cha Wenbin asked people to build a raft with bamboo on the water and fix it. On the raft were several plates of cooked wine and meat, and two bowls of upside down rice, with incense sticking to the head, which was considered a tribute to the three children.

There is also another mourning platform on the bridge deck, and there are also wine and meat tributes poured over the rice, and there are more candles, paper money and colored paper. The west side of the bridge had been cleared of the crowd, and in that corner were the clothes of the three children, as well as a few toys and books.

Three small temporary wooden planks were placed on the altar, on which were written the eight characters of the birth dates of the three children, and a large incense burner was placed in front of it, and the incense sticks of the children's relatives were inserted in the middle of it.

In the first half of the night, Cha Wenbin sat on the altar and recited the scriptures, and every time he rang the bell, the children's relatives continued to offer incense. At around twelve o'clock, Chaozi, Zhuoxiong and Dashan began to clear the field.

Most of the people were driven back to their homes, leaving only seven or eight young adults and one village leader, and the children's families were allowed to leave only one man in each family, and only men, and the rest were asked to close their doors. Under the persuasion of Cha Wenbin, the nearest few families also had to go to a relative's house with a quilt to spend the night, and everyone liked to see the excitement, but when they heard that they were going to cause mildew, they all ran faster than rabbits.

Before the start of construction, Dashan brought in wine and food, and invited the people present to eat and drink, these things were brought by the children's relatives, which was also regarded as helping wine. After drinking wine and eating meat, you have to do things for others, and there is no way out, which is also called gall wine, because ordinary people can't do it.

Because this is the place where the yin gathers, the children fall into the water here, and the resentment cannot be dispersed. In a short period of time, at best, it will make a little noise to scare and scare passers-by, and after a long time, it will become a harm, which requires artificially dragging the grievances out of here and leading them to other places, which is different from the general posthumous excess, which is also called "fishing water ghosts"

The unjust souls formed after drowning are generally called "water ghosts", and almost all the people who die in the water commit suicide or die by accident, and the deaths of these people are unwilling, so it is easy to generate unjust souls. If the ghost does not disperse, it will wander in the place where it drowns and become a water ghost.

Then they wait patiently in the water, luring or forcing people to fall into the water and die, to be their own substitutes, and for thousands of years, water spirits have been reincarnated in this way carefree to get rid of the suffering from hell. But finally someone found a way to deceive the water ghosts and lure them to make them get caught like fishing, and everyone called this method "fishing water ghosts".

Hetu has now taken off his clothes, and according to Cha Wenbin's instructions, he has put on a set of clothes made of tung oil paper, which has the advantage of being waterproof. There was a secret compartment in Hetu's clothes, which contained three paper symbols written by Cha Wenbin in advance.

Since it is fishing, there will be bait, and this bait is none other than Cha Wenbin's apprentice: Tong Hetu!