Chapter 254: White Sorcery (text)
As I spoke to the girl, I was greeted by a crowd of people into a wooden house in the middle of the village.
The wooden house is extremely clean, but the furniture is extremely poor.
Just a wooden table, seven wooden chairs, a TV, and then a wall calendar on the wall.
After entering, the baby's parents whispered several words in front of me, and I couldn't tell what they said even based on the shape of their mouths, so both sides were deadlocked.
When the girl saw this, she stepped forward and said, "Abba and Grandma told you to sit down." ”
I nodded and thanked me, found a chair and sat down, and the girl's grandmother went to another room. The baby was given to the girl's father.
The girl's father sat next to me with the baby in his arms, smiling and telling me something I didn't understand.
The girl translated: "My Abba asked you what your name was, and asked where you are from!" ”
"Ye Hai!" I told him my name, and then I told them my birthplace.
After the girl conveyed my meaning, his father said a few more words, and the girl conveyed to me, "My father asked why you came here?" ”
I thought for a moment and said, "I'm here to explore." ”
Because of the communication barrier, I didn't talk to the girl's father for too long, and spent more time talking to the girl.
"My brother's name is Ano Jiu, my name is Ana, and I'm studying outside." The girl said with joy on her face, but when it came to reading, her face sank and she said, "It's just that I won't read it after reading it this year." ”
"Why?" I asked.
Ana glanced at her father, and then said to me with some worry on her face: "We people here, the man is going to get married before the age of eighteen, and the woman is going to get married around the age of sixteen, I am seventeen years old this year, and my father asked me to get married." ”
I was stunned when I heard this, even if Snakehead Village is backward, it has not been married so early in recent years, but I didn't expect this place to be even more backward than Snakehead Village.
But I'm just a passer-by here, and I can't change their deep-rooted customs, and I don't need to change them.
Seeing that Ana was not very happy to talk about it, I didn't say anything more, but took the baby from the man's hand.
As soon as I took him, the baby grinned and giggled, and there was a strange movement in my sword.
Ana and her father looked at me strangely when they saw the baby laughing again, and Ana said, "My brother rarely laughs, but today you hugged him twice, and he laughed twice, and he likes you very much." ”
"Maybe." I replied casually.
The real reason for this baby's laughter is probably the immortal sword on my back.
I don't know why, but when he held the baby, he was extremely quiet, staring at me, and his heart was full of joy.
By noon, most of the village had gone outside Ana's house.
I was a little puzzled, and Ana said: "Many people want to witness the recognition of the godfather, and when the lunch is eaten in a while, the blind master will come to hold the recognition ceremony." ”
"Blind Master?"
Ana looked around, lowered her voice and said, "Actually, it's a blind fortune teller." ”
I was relieved, and when I sat down until about eleven o'clock in the afternoon, Ana asked me to get up and go out with her, and her parents walked out of the house with the baby in their arms.
When I went out, the villagers outside looked me up and down, left and right, and I was extremely awkward.
Ana's father smiled when he saw the crowd, and then he said something I didn't understand at all.
Ana explained: "The more people come, the better my brother's blessing, my father is very happy." ”
After Ana's father finished speaking, the villagers took action, and after a while, various altars, incense altars, incense, copper bells and other things were arranged.
I look at it and feel a little familiar, isn't this the instrument of the Taoist practice?
"Roar ......" the villager suddenly roared, startling me, and then I saw an old man over 80 years old walking out of the village with someone in his arms.
Because he was too old, I couldn't tell if he was a man or a woman, so I asked Ana on the side.
Ana said: "He is a blind teacher, a man, usually people in our village are sick, or they have to ask the blind master to come and see when they are repairing houses." ”
I nodded, the blind master is probably equivalent to our duangong there.
The blind master was helped to the front of the altar, and when he found the brass bell, he began to shake, and his feet kept changing.
The others didn't react, but I was stunned, and what the blind master stepped on turned out to be Maoshan's 'Bai Dougang'.
The blind master stepped on the gang step again, then put down the copper bell, and kept pinching his hands.
"Ghost Killing." It was this hand that he pinched.
After the blind teacher finished pinching, he directly aimed his hand at the baby, and the baby immediately closed his eyes.
I frowned, although the ghost duel is not very lethal, but for the baby, it is simply a big killer, this blind master does not know the severity, and he actually pinched this hand duel on the baby.
After the blind master had stunned the baby, he beckoned me to come over, got a piece of yellow paper, and then took my hand, and without saying a word, cut a cut in my middle finger, and then cut a cut in the baby's middle finger, dripping the blood of both of us on the paper.
I thought he was going to do something else with this paper, but I didn't expect him to put it away.
After putting the paper away, he recited some useless things and took a few useless steps, and the ceremony of recognizing his godfather was completed.
And, of course, there's one last item, and that's the toast.
Because Ano Jiu was too young, he was replaced by Ana.
Ana took a bowl of wine, knelt down in front of me and called out to Godfather, I drank the wine and handed the bowl to her, but she frowned at me and said, "Godfather, gift, gift......"
I sighed, completely unaware that I needed to prepare gifts, but when I saw that the onlookers were watching, I had to take out two strings of lightly lit and beautifully decorated 'Five Emperor Coins' from my body, one for Ana and the other for Ah Yejiu.
This was originally made by me for Master and Li Yan, but I didn't expect it to be sent out here, and it hurt terribly.
After Ana's acceptance of the things, she was filled with joy and said, "Thank you, godfather." ”
I'm not much older than her, and it's awkward to hear her call me godfather.
After the godfather ceremony, the blind master took the money and left, and the villagers left immediately, and I went into the house with Ana, and when I entered the house, Ana's mother had already prepared the meal.
I glanced at Ah Yejiu, who was still unconscious, and silently recited the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra a few times, eliminating the influence of the Demon Devil Determination on him.
As soon as Aye Jiu woke up, he cried out, and his father and mother were shocked when they saw it, muttered a few words to me, and then went out with Aye Jiu in his arms.
"What's wrong?" I asked Ana.
Ana said: "In the past, the babies here had to let the blind master pinch the bones, and the blind master saw that the baby would fall asleep, generally speaking, people who woke up late did not live long, but my brother woke up at once, indicating that my brother will live a long life, my Abba and Aunt went to find the blind teacher, which is a great joy." ”
I sighed, the ghost will make the soul unconscious, and waking up early can indeed show that life is hard, but that blind master, there seems to be some problems.
Not to mention anything else, just the fact that he took away the blood from my and Ayejiu's middle fingers is extremely suspicious.
When Ana's parents were gone, I asked Ana, "Is the blind teacher from this village?" ”
She nodded and said, "The blind master is the most respected person we have here, and he has been busy pinching the bones since most of the people in the village were born. He can also exorcise ghosts, ward off evil spirits, summon spirits, remove insects, find objects, summon spirits, and by the way, he also raises a lot of insects. ”
"Bugging?"
"That's right!" Ana was sure again.
Raising insects is generally a witchcraft, and this is the concentration of white witchcraft and black witchcraft, did I accidentally stumble into the life circle of black witchcraft or the descendants of white witchcraft?
"Do you know Gangbu?" I asked Ana if they were descendants of white or black witchcraft, they should know this.
But to my disappointment, Ana shook her head and said, "I don't know, I haven't heard of it, what is Gangbu?" ”
"Just the steps that the blind master stepped on when he did the ritual today."
After hearing this, Ana said disdainfully: "What, don't lie to me, that's Yubu, not Gangbu!" ”
Hearing her say Yu Bu, I was immediately overjoyed, Yu Bu is actually Gangbu, but it has been replaced by such a title in white witchcraft.
Therefore, blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, and he originally admitted that he was a troublesome godson, but he unexpectedly found the location of the descendants of the White Witch Army.