Chapter 12: The Helper
In Taoist records, the five ghosts are the plague gods, and they are also known as the five plagues.
These five ghosts are the five wrestlers, above the heavenly court are the five ghosts, and in the mortal world they are the five plague gods.
The five ghosts are: Spring plague Zhang Yuanbo, summer plague Liu Yuanda, autumn plague Zhao Gongming, winter plague Zhong Shigui, and the general manager of Zhongwen Shiye.
One holds a ladle and a wooden jar, one holds a leather bag and a sword, one holds a paper fan, one holds a giant hammer, and one carries a kettle.
The search for the five ghosts, as the name suggests, is to borrow the power of the five ghosts to find the traces of people, ghosts, demons, and evil spirits.
I've only heard this trick from my father, and I've never seen him use it, so we can open our eyes today?
"Xiao Song, go and bring the incense candles." Dad stood up and walked to the wooden table, turned his head and greeted Lao Song, "Take the one under the bed, the golden candle and the golden incense, don't take anything else." ”
Lao Song heard his father call him, nodded and turned around and walked out of the room, and walked in with a handful of incense candles a few minutes later.
Dad took the incense candle, took out two candles and a stick of incense from it, and inserted them into the incense burner on the wooden table, and the five paper figures were neatly placed in front of the incense burner.
These golden incense candles are not ordinary things, they are all handmade by my father himself, the candles are engraved with Taoist scriptures for the gods, and the incense is made of peach wood powder mixed with gold dust.
"Today's disciples encounter difficulties, I hope to ask Master Zu for their blessing." Dad respectfully bent down to the incense burner and bowed, clasped his hands together and began to chatter.
"The sky is vast, the earth is vast, please invite the five ghost yin soldiers to the altar."
"Yuan Bo holds the medicine spoon, Yuan Da holds the sword, Gongming holds the paper fan, Shigui holds the giant hammer, only Wenye carries the kettle, and the five ghosts step on the yin wind to the mortal world."
"The evil spirits and ghosts are gone, and the disciples are looking for difficult things, so I only ask the five ghosts to give me the law, and find the spirits in the world."
"The five ghosts invited are in the underworld, the patriarch sent an order to the altar, the mantra jade spell Yin soldiers moved, the five ghosts entered the mortal to show the mighty spirit, the five ghosts and yin gods invited with me, come with me, the disciples worshiped three times in front of the altar, only asked the five ghosts to come to the altar, and the divine soldiers were as anxious as the law!"
A low incantation sounded in the room, and with each incantation, the yin qi in the room added an extra layer.
By the time Dad finished reciting the incantation, the yin qi in the room had reached an unbelievable level, like the thick smoke of a fire, filling the room.
In less than a moment, the room was already covered by a pale green yin qi, and the people standing next to him couldn't see clearly.
Xiao Budian lay motionless on my shoulder, his eyes widening at everything in front of him, as if he was thinking about how the yin qi here could be so strong.
Suddenly, the chuckle of several people came from the place where the wooden table was located, and the sound seemed to be far and near, one moment as if they were whispering in the distance, and the next time as if whispering in our ears.
"Welcome to the Five Ghosts." Dad smiled and saluted the wooden table.
As soon as Dad's words fell, the surrounding yin qi suddenly gathered towards the wooden table, just like vacuuming, and the situation in the room was clearly reflected in our eyes for a while.
Five men in black tunics stood behind the wooden table, looking at us with a smirk.
The men looked very kind on their faces. There is no ferocity of the legendary five ghosts, and his eyes are extremely gentle, just like looking at his own juniors.
"Welcome to the Five Ghosts." We bent down and saluted.
In fact, I'm very curious, why are these old-timers dressed so fashionably? It's not a tunic or a shroud, these should all be wearing ancient costumes!?
Later, I learned that people are progressing with the times, and so are ghosts and gods, and now even the Yama kings below are wearing suits and ties, not to mention these yin gods?
The five ghosts smiled faintly and nodded slightly at us: "Disciples, what are you asking us to come up for today?" The technique of tracing the five ghosts, does it mean that we want to find ghosts and monsters? ”
Dad walked to the side of the six-finger bed, pulled up the clothes on his body, exposed the wound of the six-finger, and said to the five ghosts in a deep voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, today's disciples from the north came to the south to harm people, and my son's friend was also seriously injured by that person. Today, the man ran away, and the disciple really didn't know how to find him, so he asked the immortal family to help the disciple find the man. ”
"Oh yes! I didn't expect the north to be so arrogant now!? After listening to what his father said, Zhong Shigui, who was holding a giant hammer, was furious, his face sank suddenly, and he shouted as if he wanted to breathe fire in his tiger eyes: "If you really deceive me, no one can succeed in Taoism!?" ”
Shi Wenye, who was carrying a kettle, was much calmer, without scolding or anger, but he could feel the cold air slowly overflowing from his eyes, and Shi Wenye, the head of the five ghosts, was also angry.
"Shigui, don't be angry, let's go and meet that disciple today." Shi Wenye smiled coldly, the aura emanating from his body became colder and colder, and when the fat man felt this breath, his body began to tremble uncontrollably.
"The five ghosts are originally looking for ghosts and monsters, let's set a precedent today, it's okay to meet them, can you easily let them go when you come to the south?"
Zhao Gongming smiled lightly, walked to the side of the six-finger bed with a paper fan in his hand, and touched the wound of the six-finger with his hand.
"My lord, don't touch it like that! Dead people! The fat man was shocked when he saw this scene, and he raised his foot and was about to run over to stop Zhao Gongming.
Dad stretched out his hand and grabbed the fat man tightly, shook his head with a smile and said, "This is the fairy family helping the six fingers to see the injury, what are you doing in the past." ”
"There's a snake demon smell on it." Zhao Gongming stood up, sat on the bed and gently fanned the wound of the six fingers with a fan: "In the mouth of the north, the snake demon is the fairy of the Liu family, right?" We'll slaughter that thing in a moment, and we'll take the snake gall back and give it to the little guy to eat. ”
The wind from the fan was very strange, like a layer of mist, and a faint milky white mist covered the wound of the six fingers, and the six fingers' face was much better.
"Okay, okay, our old bones haven't moved for a long time, let's go and see how powerful the immortal family in the north is today" Zhao Gongming jumped off the bed, beckoned to us and walked out of the door: "Let's go together, the junior disciples should also take a good look, how is our immortal family in the south compared to the immortal family in the north." ”
We all secretly breathed a sigh of relief in our hearts, and it seemed that these big brothers had agreed to come down and help.
A few of us took a deep look at the six fingers, turned around and walked out after the five ghosts.
"Nine Yin? Why are you here? "I was going to open the door for these big brothers, and Zhao Gongming's voice full of doubts came out, could it be that the five ghosts also know Xiao Xiaodian?
Xiao Budian tilted his head to look at them, shook his head, and fell asleep on my shoulder.
"It looks like it can't remember us, it's normal that it can't remember after all this time." As the chief manager, Shi Wenye was originally a quiet person, but at this time he laughed: "I still remember clearly the little guy who stole my wine that day!" ”