Chapter 41: The Man Who Recited the Sutra (text)
After hearing this, I glanced at Meng Changqing, and saw that Meng Changqing didn't say anything, and I didn't say anything, no matter who I was, I had to be wary of anyone.
Shen Fu didn't want to talk too much to us, and didn't discuss this topic deeply.
On the way back, we met the villagers who rushed over, and when they saw us, they hurriedly asked Shen Fu what he was screaming just now, and they all heard that their scalps were numb in the village, and they were afraid that Shen Fu would have something to do.
Shen Fu told the villagers what happened just now, and after hearing this, the villagers first strongly thanked Meng Changqing and Shen Fu for their kindness, and then looked at Meng Changqing and sighed, saying that there were often people here in the past, and there was nothing to do here, and they came here to destroy for a while and left.
The villagers said this, Shen Fu and Meng Changqing were happy, and they didn't say anything, rural people like to compare powerful or admired people to heavenly soldiers and generals.
After returning to the village, the villagers welcomed them into the village chief's house, and chatted with Meng Changqing and Shen Fu, I ran back to the sleeping room by myself, and when I saw that they were all asleep, I took out the brush in my grandfather's black box and drew it to the air.
I was tired of painting for a while, and when I saw that Meng Changqing hadn't come back yet, I went to Xiaoxiao and secretly took out the book "Walking Horses in the Water" under her pillow and looked at it.
The book is not thick, only about sixty or seventy pages, and it is a manuscript, not a printed one.
The book is divided into five volumes, namely Dragon, Cave, Sand, Water, and Xiang, and the title page introduces some things related to Feng Shui.
I turned page by page, not sparing a word, reading a sentence and meditating for a while to understand the meaning.
The next day, when the rooster crowed, I didn't see them come back, and after watching it all night, my eyes were full of soreness and pain, so I put the book back under Xiaoxiao's pillow, ran out and stretched for a while, and then went to find Meng Changqing and them.
Meng Changqing and the others chatted late with the villagers in the village chief's house last night and didn't come back, so they went straight to sleep in the bunk.
When I went, he and Shen Fu were preparing glutinous rice, yellow flags and other things, saying that they were going to the ancient temple at noon to find the person who was reciting the scriptures.
After the preparation, Meng Changqing asked Shen Fu which sect he belonged to, but Shen Fu did not hide this question, saying that he was from the Maoshan Sect.
Zhengyi practice is different from other factions, Zhengyi Taoist priests do not need to become monks, they can practice at home on their own, alcohol and meat are not taboo, and they only need to cultivate their minds.
Shen replied to Meng Changqing, saying that he had completed his studies while cultivating the Tao, and had been in the Tao for five or six years, and he was still a layman.
Meng Changqing said that it was good to study more, and then he also reported to his family, saying that he was from the Pure Ming Dao Yuzhen School.
When he worshiped Meng Changqing as a teacher, he introduced to me the current distribution of Taoism, which is divided into five branches, according to the number of disciples and the peak of incense, the Quanzhen Dao far surpasses other factions, and then it is the Zhengyi, then the True Dao, then the Taiyi, and finally the turn of the Jingming Dao.
Jingming Dao has been in decline for nearly a hundred years, and until now, only the Yuzhen faction is left under the door. As for the factions under the Zhengyi faction, there are still many factions, and the Maoshan Sect is the largest faction under the Zhengyi faction.
After breakfast, Meng Changqing and the two of them went around the valley, trying to find a clue, and it was only at nine o'clock that the two of them returned to the village with a bundle of peach trees on their backs.
When we arrived at the village, we put their respective burdens on the peach trees on their backs, and then went to the ancient temple.
The villagers knew that they were going to find the thing that was being recited, and they were surprised, so they all followed, and I was naturally one of them.
The weasel's body was still in the corner, and it was already crawling with mosquitoes in the first night, and the villagers dragged it out and buried it when they saw it.
Meng Changqing: As soon as they entered, the courtyard was filled with yellow flags and peach stakes. After that, the corners of the walls were lit with sandalwood, and for a while, white smoke lingered in this ancient temple, which made it easy for people to have the illusion of being mistakenly in the clouds.
After the sandalwood had been burned, they each took a compass and searched for it in this temple, and walked around, and they all stopped outside the outermost house on the left, the same room that the weasel had run into yesterday.
We waited outside, Meng Changqing and the others went in first, and after going in for a while, they came out to ask the villagers to find hoes, and they both changed into Taoist robes here.
Shen Fu changed into a yellow robe, and Meng Changqing was still his purple robe.
Shen Fu was stunned for a moment after seeing Meng Changqing's clothes, and then respectfully called out to Uncle Shi, Meng Changqing also responded, and after the villagers brought the hoes, they beckoned the villagers to enter the house.
The house is similar to the house where Meng Changqing lives in Anshunguan, but this house is dirty and messy.
There is a three-clear picture hanging on the inside of this room, and below is an altar, the incense altar is inserted with a few half-burned incense, and there is a bunch of relatively fresh fruits next to the sandalwood, I guess most of them are the second grandmother who came here to worship not long ago.
Behind this incense altar is a spiritual seat, on which there is no identity and origin, only a 'Lu Hao's spiritual seat'.
Meng Changqing and the two of them asked the villagers to remove the altar and dig it directly underneath.
I saw him and said, "He may be a Taoist priest here, and when he dies, he is just chanting here, so I have to dig him out, I don't think it's appropriate, I'm walking with you, you're too ruthless." ”
"Although he is unintentional, what if he continues to read here, what if there is another Second Master Huang after a while?"
He said that I was speechless, just waved his hand and said you dig, dig, dig, and then muttered: "You are not virtuous." ”
Meng Changqing gave me a blank look and asked me to squat aside and play in the mud.
After I stepped aside, the villagers continued to dig up the dirt here, and after three or four meters of descent there was nothing to see, and when the villagers were about to give up, someone shouted that they had seen something strange.
Meng Changqing and the others hurriedly went to check, and then continued to dig there, and a vermilion coffin appeared in front of everyone.
The coffin has not yet decayed, it is about two meters long, and the coffin body is covered with runes drawn by cinnabar, which is extremely esoteric and difficult to understand.
Shen Fu looked at the coffin before and after, and then said: "Look at this technique, it seems to be from the hand of the ancestor surnamed Meng of the Maoshan Sect, I think it's strange, let's take a closer look and open the coffin." ”
Meng Changqing nodded in agreement, and then asked Shen Fu about the Daozu surnamed Meng that he said.
After Shen Fu knew that Meng Changqing was a Taoist priest of Jingming Dao, he had no reservations about him, saying that this Taoist ancestor surnamed Meng was the former head of the Maoshan Sect, called Meng Weiye, who left the Maoshan Sect because of a change, and also took away the 'Shangqing Great Cave Seal' of the Maoshan Sect, because the ancestors of the Maoshan Sect told him that Meng Weiye had come here. The purpose of his coming here this time was to find the 'Shangqing Great Cave Seal', and by the way, to inquire about Meng Weiye's news.
Meng Changqing nodded when he heard this, and did not tell him that Meng Weiye was his grandfather's business, but said: "Since it is Maoshan Zhang's handwriting, it means that the things in it are definitely not simple, and it is a good thing to be cautious." ”
After the two of them agreed, they took out a dozen copper coins and pasted them around the coffin, and then chanted a spell to compress the contents of the coffin, and after a few minutes, they checked the copper coins, and they did not change color, so they concluded that the things in the coffin had no negative breath, and only then waited for the arrival of three o'clock in the afternoon.
Yang Qi is the heaviest at noon, even if the things inside are powerful, they will be more or less affected by Yang Qi, and this is also the reason for the decapitation at noon in ancient times.
Before the museum opened, the two of them invited everyone out, and when I was about to go out, I was called in by Meng Changqing, with a smile on his face, saying that I would stay there to see more things, and said that I would go out to try my hand in a few days.
There is a saying in the countryside that the coffin is sealed only three times, which means that the nails that nail the coffin can only be knocked three times and must be knocked down, and if it is not knocked down, it will not be knocked down.
It's the same with the opening of the museum, you have to open the lid in three clicks, and I don't know why, but the tradition left over from the past naturally has its own reason.
Meng Changqing and Shen Fu have a clear division of labor, Shen Fu recited the soul mantra on the side, and Meng Changqing went down to open the museum.
In less than ten minutes, all the dozens of nails on it were pulled out, and Meng Changqing then violently lifted the lid of the coffin.
As soon as he opened it, a stream of yin qi gushed out inside, Meng Changqing's body leaned slightly, and then blocked it in front of him with his big sleeves.
Shen Fu also took a few steps back, and the inside of the house was filled with yin wind in an instant, and even the weeds outside the house were swept up.
The villagers outside were frightened and exclaimed, and then asked if the people inside were okay.
Meng Changqing came out of the pit in three or two steps, and waited until the gushing yin qi dissipated before saying that it was okay to the outsiders.
After the yin qi inside dissipated, Meng Changqing and the others approached to take a look.
There was nothing but the bones of a corpse in a purple robe, and after a second or two, a wisp of white green smoke dissipated into the air.
Seeing this green smoke, Meng Changqing and Shen Fu glanced at each other, and they both sighed badly.
I hurriedly asked what was wrong, Shen Fu turned his head and said to me: "There was a wisp of obsession in this coffin, and the opening of the museum just now was affected by yang energy, and it all dissipated." ”
I heard it and thought it was a good thing, so that there would be no one chanting the scriptures inside, and there would be no need to worry about any more Huang Ergong.
Shen Fu said with a solemn face: "There is still a big article under this coffin, we are mistaken, the runes on this are not sealed by the people inside this coffin, the runes on this coffin and the people inside are only part of the seal, and the real sealed things are still under this coffin." ”
"So what to do?" I asked.
"The obsession inside the runes and the coffin has been destroyed, and the things inside must not be sealed, so now we can only release him and solve him manually."