Chapter 20: The Yin Deed
During the Republican period, most of the communication between ordinary people was in spoken language, rather than in the seemingly complex classical Chinese.
Only when it is necessary to write an article or an invitation, etc., will it be written in classical Chinese, that is, in written language.
This letter written in the Sui script seems to me to be written half-heartedly, and there are spoken and written Chinese in the book, although the spoken language is mixed with the written language, but I can barely understand it.
What shocked me was not the content of the letter, but the last payment, Yi Qingshan.
My name is Yi Lin.
The old man's name is Yi Guiyuan.
And the old man's father's name is Yi Qingshan!
The lotus hat with the slanting sun, the green mountains are far away, the old man loves to recite this poem every New Year's holiday, and his eyes are red every time he talks about it.
At the time, I didn't understand what this poem represented in the eyes of the old man, but now
"The old man always kept silent about the old lady's affairs, but he didn't expect the old lady to die at the hands of Yuan Shikai." I muttered to myself, gave the fare to the driver, opened the door and got out of the car.
It is now 2007, and the fourth year of the Republic of China is 1915, with a gap of 92 years.
If you look at it according to the content of the book, combined with the age of the old man at the end of his life, the old man at that time should be in his early sevens.
He was seven years old when he was kidnapped by Yuan Shikai, and after ninety-two years, he was ninety-nine years old when he died, which was just the right number.
But if the old lady died at the hands of Yuan Shikai, then who taught the old man all his skills?!
Could it be that the old lady is not dead? snatched his wife and children back from Yuan Shikai?
It doesn't make sense, if it is really snatched back, then the old lady should also return safely, and the old man doesn't need to keep his mouth shut about the old lady.
But if you don't get it back, how did the old man return to Xiangxi?
The more I think about this, the more headache I get
When I returned to the wreath shop, I walked into the back room with the letter, looked at the black-and-white photographs on the offering table, and took the incense stick next to me and inserted it into the incense burner.
"Old man, how did your father die?" I lit a cigarette and smoked it, and put it next to the old man's photo, scratching my head: "You don't know that I'm curious, you have left a lot of secrets here, you can also give me a dream and solve a mystery." ”
When the cigarette burned out, I folded the letter and pressed it under the old man's photo.
This thing was written by the old lady, and it belongs to the cultural heritage of the Yi family, and it must be well protected.
Besides, the people who care about this thing are people in the industry, and they should not be underestimated, and if I accidentally lose this letter, the old man can really crawl out of the picture and strangle me.
I lit another stick of incense, knelt respectfully in front of the offering table, and looked at the grinning god of joy, and I bowed deeply.
"Master Zu is on top."
"Luo Dahai and Wang Xue are all ghosts who have died unjustly, and the disciples are unwilling to send them into the underworld to suffer, so I hope that the ancestor will be merciful and give two copies of the Yin Deed."
After chattering, I put the rune paper that sealed Luo Dahai on the table, and put the glass bottle that sealed Wang Xue on it.
After thinking for a while, I turned around and walked out of the back room, took two pieces of yellow paper about a foot square in the store, and then returned to the back room, filled a porcelain bowl with some cinnabar, dipped it with a brush, and wrote crookedly on the paper.
Yin deed, commonly known as partial hand deed, the origin of this thing is a long time ago, and after listening to this story, you will definitely think that it is very unreliable, but what seems to be unreliable is reality.
According to the record of "Xiangmi", there was a Taoist priest during the Song Dynasty, whose real name was no longer elegant, and the Taoist name was Xuanxinzi.
This Taoist priest belongs to the Maoshan branch, and there is nothing special about the skills he has learned, but he has just studied a set of ways to exorcise ghosts and serve gods.
Yin Qi is one of his masterpieces.
Deed paper, with yellow paper as the base, cinnabar as the ink, written in the Sui script, first write the writer's birthday and name, and then write the name of the evil ghost.
The last line of the pen says that the writer needs the help of the evil ghost, and after the matter is completed, the writer must redress the grievances of the evil ghost and help him be reincarnated.
This is similar to Maoshan to exorcise ghosts, but there are differences.
The so-called exorcism of ghosts in Maoshan and some branches of Taoism is to use the ghost as a tool, which belongs to the trick of blasphemy and ghosts, and in the long run, it will incur heavenly punishment.
The Yin Deed can be different.
"Ghosts can't cross, there will be grievances, redress their grievances, and let ghosts and gods help themselves." This is Xuan Xinzi's description of the Yin Deed, but few people know the latter sentence, which is also what the old man told me.
"If it is done, it will help the ghost to redress his grievances, and if he loses his trust, he will be punished by God."
Perhaps because not many people know the second half of the Dao, it directly led to the emergence of many untrustworthy Taoist priests and warlocks in history.
Speaking of which, it is also blamed on their bad luck, knowing that the first half of the sentence but not the second half of the fatal sentence of the road, they were all punished by God, and basically none of them got a good death.
The most famous is a Taoist priest of the Qing Wei sect in the Qing Dynasty, who has written hundreds of Yin deeds in the past ten years, but after the ghost helped him, he didn't help any ghosts.
When he was forty years old, on his birthday, it rained heavily, and with a bang, a huge thunder collapsed the Taoist temple.
And this Taoist priest was directly split into ashes by that thunder, and it is absolutely impossible to go down and reincarnate.
From ancient times to the present, people who are killed by lightning are all scattered, and no one can be reincarnated, he still wants to be reincarnated?
Thinking of this, I smiled and was about to continue writing the Yin Deed, but the action suddenly froze.
That's right! Out of one's wits!!
Wang Xue seems to have been killed by lightning, doesn't the poem at the elevator entrance of the Moutai Building mean that she was struck by lightning?
But logically speaking, all the people who were struck by lightning were scattered, but Wang Xue did not have a soul, but instead cultivated a real body, what is this
I suddenly remembered the scorching smell I smelled in my hallucination that day, and Wang Xue's burnt skin, could she have been burned to death?!
It seems that only people who are charred will have this appearance, and because she died unjustly, Wang Xue's death is estimated to be strange
I don't know what happened to her death, but I know for sure.
First, she was not killed by lightning, but by unknown causes, most likely burned.
Second, she must have been killed by someone, if she was unintentionally burned to death by fire, then she would definitely not be able to cultivate her true body, and she would be as angry as Luo Dahai.
I shook my head and stopped thinking about it.
In the future, there will be opportunities to deal with these things, and I have written a yin deed, and it is my duty to help Wang Xue settle his grievances after the matter is completed.
Now the matter I have to deal with has nothing to do with Wang Xue and them, and I wrote the Yin Deed just to prevent the grandson who gave me the threatening letter from playing Yin.
Threat letter, Luo Dahai, it's all related.
Maybe the stranger who fought with Luo Dahai for the letter that day was the one who killed Luo Dahai, and the one who threatened me with the letter today.
Killing Luo Dahai was for this letter, and after killing Luo Dahai, he couldn't find this letter, so he hit me with his idea.
wanted me to release Luo Dahai, and then he summoned Luo Dahai's soul and slowly tortured where the letter was.
Look, this wishful thinking is really amazing!
These are all my speculations, but I feel that these speculations are inseparable from the truth.
Let's make it clear first, the ability of our Yi family's five gates is really not weak, but we can't resist some of the inferior people who play yin with us.
In this land of China, there are countless doorways for Yin people.
For example, the five ghosts in Maoshan, the Miao Gu in Guizhou, or the magic of other genres, those things are tricky when I think about them, not to mention that the object of their Yin people is me.
Although I don't know much about the strength of the enemy, it seems to me that be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years.
Isn't the nickname of the Yin Deed called the Deed of Partial Hands?
Now I'm just pulling foreign aid, and let Wang Xue and them help me pull a bias.
With this eldest sister, my security can be said to have improved a lot, and the evil ghosts who have cultivated into a real body over the years are already considered bosses, and if ordinary warlocks want to brush this boss casually, I estimate that they will be light when they hit their heads.
Of course, all this is my idealized scene, as for Wang Xue and whether they can help me, it depends on whether they are willing to draw a bet.
When the pen stopped, I put the brush down, picked up the yellow paper full of siz, looked at it, and nodded secretly.
It's the first time I've used this thing, and I hope the old man won't fool me, or I'll have to bite him to death.
"Master Zu is above, the disciple will invite the Yin guest to come out now, you have to help the disciple watch it, don't let this guest bully me." I smiled and bowed to the god of joy, took the talisman that sealed Luo Dahai in my hand, and without the slightest hesitation, I tore the talisman in half with all my strength.
There is a portrait of the god of joy here, and I really don't worry about Wang Xue and they dare to touch me.
If these two ghosts really dare to touch me, then I really twisted my head off and kicked Luo Dahai and them as a ball.
People are afraid of ghosts, and ghosts are afraid of gods, this is an eternal truth, just like a thief is afraid of the police.
In fact, this is the same as the demons and monsters dare not go to the temple to make trouble, as long as there is a place covered by gods, you borrow a hundred demons and monsters to dare to make trouble.
Some people's homes are haunted, but after offering Buddha statues or hanging Zhong Kui's portraits, those ghosts really disappeared, which is the deterrent power of the gods.
"Hiss!!!"
At this moment, a piercing evil suddenly sounded in the back room, the sound like a fingernail scratching a blackboard, it sounded uncomfortable.
I frowned, picked up the Yin deed with Luo Dahai's name written on it and patted it, opened my mouth slightly, and said what seemed to be a cough and a retching.
"Luo Dahai, do you want to be reincarnated?"
The room was quiet, and there didn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary, but as time went by, the temperature in the room began to plummet within two minutes, and it was more powerful than turning on the air conditioner, and I was shivering from the cold.
After a few minutes, Luo Dahai finally opened his mouth.
"Let him take his life and take his life!!"
The reason why evil ghosts cannot be reincarnated is because they have grievances in their hearts, and only by helping them to settle their grievances can this eliminate the resentment in their hearts, and finally send them to reincarnate on the road.
And that's exactly what I need to do.
"You are by my side to protect me for a while, if someone attacks me, then you can help me get him, and after the matter is done, I will help you redress your grievances." I said this as if tempting people to commit a crime, but Luo Dahai didn't think much about it, and it very well reflected the sentence that the evil ghost had no intention.
In fact, they are not unintentional, but simple.
In their opinion, as long as you promise them, they assume that you will help them, and if you don't help them then, congratulations, a series of deadly fun will come.
"Good to take your life to take your life to !!"
The last three words were directly shouted by Luo Dahai, and the hoarse roar was very unforgettable.
I believe that no matter who it is, as long as they hear Luo Dahai's voice at this time, then they will definitely be able to feel the anger and unwillingness contained in the roar.
"Bang !!"
Before I could come back to my senses, I heard a loud bang, and a blood-red palm print appeared on the Yin Deed.
This shows that Luo Dahai has already drawn a charge, so he sent me.
"Grandson, come quickly, I beg you to kill me." I smiled in my heart, thinking of the threatening letter with no one in my eyes, and the anger in my heart surged up.
Without thinking much more, I put my thumb into the porcelain bowl and dipped it in some cinnabar, and pressed a red fingerprint on the Yin deed in a regular manner.
"Whew!!!"
The happy whistle sounded, and it was done.