Chapter 30: Fraudulent Corpses
Entering the Stonehenge, Liu Gen followed the drawn route and traveled half the way smoothly. I can't help but secretly rejoice in my heart, it seems that although the formation is exquisite, it is nothing more than this when you see it thoroughly. I'd like to see what secrets are behind this area.
As soon as he passed through the central area, Liu Gen vaguely heard a cry of "woo" behind him, and when he turned around, the cry quietly disappeared. Could it be auditory hallucinations? Liu Gen has dealt with dead people for most of his life, and has disposed of thousands of corpses under his hands, and the word "afraid" is negligible to Liu Gen. The only time I was "afraid" was only the 75-year-old lady of the Zhang family who cheated the corpse.
Just after the Spring Festival in 75, the son of the Zhang family in this village came to invite Liu Gen, saying that his mother was a little sick and wanted to see if he wanted Zhang Luo to handle the funeral. When Liu Gen came to Zhang's house, Mrs. Zhang only had air out but no air in, her mouth was half open and she was exhaling and exhaling.
"Mr. Liu, how long can my mother survive?" The son of the Zhang family opened his mouth and asked Liu Gen.
Zhang Dazui is his nickname, and no one has ever called him by his real name, so that everyone doesn't know what his scientific name is called, and "Zhang Dazui" has become his only identification. There are two sources of this nickname, one is that he has a very naggy mouth, and anyone who speaks can catch up with stubble; The second is that his mouth is very large. As the old saying goes, his mouth eats all directions, although he is nagging, but he is a natural warm-hearted, and he will help anyone when they have something, so he is not annoying.
Liu Gen glanced at Mrs. Zhang's throat, pressed the veins again, and then replied: "I will be immortal in two hours."
Hearing what his uncle said, he hurriedly dressed the old man in old clothes, and then carried him to the plank of the hall. The family hurriedly prepared funeral supplies such as the funeral shed.
Why is Liu Gen so sure that Mrs. Zhang will breathe in two hours? It turns out that if the Adam's apple moves upward when a person is seriously ill, it will not be more than two hours away from the throat. In order to confirm, Liu Gen took another pulse, and the pulse had dispersed. Besides, I saw that the wrinkles on the old man's face had been stretched. These are all important signs that a person is about to breathe.
The Zhang family carried the old man to the wooden plank, and within 2 hours, Mrs. Zhang made a "grunt" sound in her throat and left the world.
Liu Gen instructed everyone to carry Mrs. Zhang into the coffin in the courtyard, pay tribute, light lanterns, and burn paper money. In the evening, the three sons and two sons-in-law of the Zhang family stayed behind to keep the spirit, while Liu Gen prepared the spirit flags for the next day's spirit, the money to buy the road, and the road guides, the famous hall, and the heavenly canopy charms in the hall. In the 70s, there was no funeral industry at all, unlike now you can buy everything. At that time, all the black products involved had to be made by hand. To be able to cut the spirit flag beautifully, to have the real craftsmanship passed down from the ancestors, every outstanding Mr. Yin and Yang can be called a folk art paper-cutting master. And now the funeral flags sold in funeral stores are ultra-simplified commodities and have nothing to do with art at all.
The spirit flag, also known as the soul flag, is an ancient custom, and its role is to guide the soul to follow the ** march. The ancients believed that after death, the soul did not necessarily want to leave, but wandered in a familiar place, and people could not reach the underworld to be reincarnated. Therefore, there are strange people who design and make a soul-attracting spirit flag, and use it to control the soul of the dead, so that the soul is buried in the grave with **, and then smoothly reaches the heavenly realm or the underworld.
Liu Gen was alone in the west room of the hall, and the other people who left the vigil were in the east room, because the old man was old, the rural saying was called "joy and mourning", everyone did not have much sadness, and everyone took turns to go out to keep the vigil in the courtyard, while playing poker.
At ten o'clock in the middle of the night, Liu Gen had just written the name of the deceased and put it in the corner of the table so that the ink could be dried. Suddenly I felt a cool breeze on the back of my neck. Liu Gen was relatively agile, his body sank with the trend, and then he slid to the side, and the person was already two meters away. I was about to look back to see what was going on, but my neck was caught by something cold. Liu Gen was shocked, something moved so fast, and he reacted so quickly that it was still pasted.
Liu Gen's head couldn't move, but he saw a cuff in the corner of his eyes, his heart immediately jumped violently, and cold sweat oozed from his forehead, it turned out to be the shroud that Mrs. Zhang was wearing just now!
"Fraudulent corpse" Liu Gen exclaimed, but the words were stunned and stuck under the neck, Mrs. Zhang's dry hand had already increased its strength at this time, Liu Gen suddenly felt a sharp pain in his throat, and he couldn't breathe, and it was too late to call someone to save him at this time.
In a hurry, Liu Gen grabbed the yellow paper charm used to play "disaster" on the table, slapped it back, and it happened to be on Mrs. Zhang's face. I heard a strange stiff cry behind me "......" and then a pain in the shoulder came, the hand on the neck was released, Liu Gen stumbled and confiscated his foot, fell to the ground, and quickly took advantage of the momentum to climb forward two meters, and when he looked back, he found that Mrs. Liu's eyes were turned up, there was blood in her mouth, and her hand was still stretched forward, and she did not chase after her.
Liu Gen touched his shoulder and dipped his hand in blood, and it seemed that he was bitten by it.
Fraudulent corpse, Liu Gen is still the first time since his debut, his father has told this before, Liu Gen has listened to the story, what kind of corpse, the dead can still arrest people, it's just sensational. I didn't expect to really let myself meet this time.
Just when Liu Gen was stunned, Mrs. Liu seemed to be charged again, and her movements rushed towards him stiffly but quickly. Behind Liu Gen is a corner, and there is no place to retreat. blamed himself for not believing his father's words, and for not studying the way to deal with the special situation of "fraudulent corpse". There is a saying that "often walk by the river, how can there be no wet shoes", and the probability of almost zero is still spread.
Liu Gen had just learned Mrs. Zhang's strength, if he was caught by it again, would he still be lucky to escape? Died in the hands of an old lady, his reputation in this life, no, wouldn't his reputation be ruined in half a lifetime! Life and death are small, but reputation is big, how can I touch the "Liu's Feng Shui" that has been passed down for thousands of years? Thinking of this, Liu Gen's fear was replaced by shame.
By the way, just now I casually made it let go of an unrelated rune paper, so the things on this piece of paper must have restraint on it. Although Liu Gen is proficient in talismans, he doesn't think that the "talisman" has any magical powers, he believes that the reason why the talisman works is that the formula of the talisman has medicinal value, and the symbols painted on it can have the effect of changing the state of the magnetic field. As for the ancient book handed down from the family, it said that talismans can control ghosts and subdue demons, attract wealth and turn evil, he does not agree with it. However, according to the above method, it has been tried and tested, and Liu Gen has been thinking about using the concept of "science" to explain.
That rune paper is used to fight "disaster", could it be that Mrs. Liu's bad breath didn't spit out Lisuo, and left a part of her body, so this talisman played a role?
殃, the same as 歺, means the bones that remain after removing the meat. It is mostly related to death and calamity. Here's the dictionary's explanation. In fact, it is a crucial word in the minds of the Chinese.
There are many people who know the concept of "disaster", but it is very vague. Some people say that it is the last breath that a person exhales when he dies, and it is poisonous. Some people say that disaster is the three souls and seven souls after death. There are several other theories, all of which sound a little plausible, but they are all mixed up.
The book at Liu Gen's house clearly introduces "disaster". When a person is about to die, the human body cells lose oxygen supply, and the qi that dominates the body begins to disperse, and these bad substances that were previously integrated with the body begin to decompose out, forming a large gas in the body, and the gas oppresses the five internal organs to discharge various body fluids and feces and urine, so when people are about to die, most of them will sweat all over the body, incontinence, and snot and saliva will flow out more than once. This is what Buddhism calls the "four major decompositions."
In general, the monks of the monasteries, as well as those who are charitable and generous, are better off when they die, and they do not even become incontinent, because there is no resentment in the body.
This bad breath will eventually come out of the mouth, the color will turn green, and after it comes out, it will maintain its own state for several days, and no matter what living thing touches it, it will appear undesirable, people will be sick, animals will go crazy, and plants will wither. In severe cases, it can be fatal.
Therefore, Mr. Izuguro will tell the people around him to avoid it. Calculate the direction of the person according to the hour of death, and then use a charm to scatter this bad breath. How do you know where it has gone?
There is a mantra: dead man; A has been in the kang Yi Geng gate, propylene is still stored on the beam, Ding Ren must know that it falls on the kang, and Wu Xin is still stored in the parking place. Dead Daughter; Yin window Mao Men Chen is on the wall, Si is in the Yanggou Wuwei Liang, Shen You stove on the Hai Kang, Zichou Erchen falls into the hall.
For example, if the deceased is a man, and the time of breath is in the Jiayin of the day, then look at the Tiangan Jia, which falls on the kang. That's why it's going to be on the kang. And if the deceased is a woman, she will look directly at the earthly branches, not the heavenly stems, for example, the time when a woman breathes is 3~5 o'clock in the morning, that is, when Yin, then her bad luck will fall on the window.
Before Mr. Izuro is killed, the location of the disaster must not be touched.
So if there was no one around when the deceased died, how can you determine when he died? You can't ask a forensic doctor to do an appraisal, it's not realistic, and it's not necessary.
In fact, there are many ways to distinguish, such as when the hand is broken: the man looks at the left hand, the woman looks at the right hand, and the mantra says: the meridian Mao You pinch the middle finger, and Yin Shen Sihai palm is straight; Chouweichen clenched his fists and looked at it carefully. According to this mantra, there is basically no deviation, and if you grasp it, you can cross-verify it in combination with other methods.
There is also a misunderstanding about suffering, that is, the three souls and seven spirits of people are also called "disasters". And the return of the soul seven days after death is called "return to disaster". This is all a conceptual confusion left over from human history.
The three souls and seven spirits of a person are the vitality of a person and the source of his thoughts and wisdom. When a person dies, the body goes through the four major decompositions of earth, fire, water, and wind, and it takes at least 12 hours for the soul to completely leave.
After the soul leaves, it wanders for a few days, and it has to return to the place of death once in life, but it is not always 7 days to return to the soul, but according to the time of death, it is decided which day to return the soul. The calculation is as follows: that is, the daily stem branch on the day of death is equal to what number of the stem branches of the congenital number is equal to what is the number of days of recovery. For example, the day of a person's death is the ninth day of the meridian of Jiazi, and the addition of Jiazi is 18 days of return to the day, and this is used to push the deceased to be drunk and dreaming of death in the 18th day before death, eating irregularly, taking a large bite and a small bite, as if he could not eat enough. Innate number method:
A has nine meridians, and B is ugly and not eight;
Bing Xin Yin Shen 7, Ding Ren Mao You 6;
Wu Hui Chen is five, and Jihai is four numbers.
There is a saying here: after the dead person is captured by the ghost on the day, the little ghost will go to the deceased's house to have a look, and if he sees that the lord's house has no hospitality, the deceased will be punished. Therefore, in ancient times, great importance was attached to the day of retribution.
In fact, this soul should not be called "disaster", because people regard the soul as an unlucky thing, and apply the concept of "disaster".
Liu Gen thought about it, that mouth disaster would not have such a great ability to drive the body, and there was also a possibility, that is, one or several spirits failed to come out in time, and combined with the "bad qi" that did not spit out, so they started to follow. Otherwise, the fighting charm will definitely be able to disperse the residual qi at once. But for the "spirit", this talisman is useless, in other words, the composition and lines of the talisman are not aimed at the spirit.
The reason why the corpse has this phenomenon must be affected by some kind of magnetic field and an electromagnetic reaction occurs.
"These unfilial descendants" Liu Gen scolded in his heart: "They must have taken care of playing poker, neglected to take care of the coffin, and were hit by cats and dogs."
Liu Gen was thinking nonsense, but Mrs. Liu didn't think about it, and rushed straight to the living thing with a magnetic field, and the living thing in this room was only Liu Gen himself...... Nine, twelve, fourteen?