"Can't you overtake them?" The old man asked timidly, his hands shaking.

"Transcendence is like reasoning with others, and it can only be spoken to those who can listen. These imps are too angry. The qi they receive is too great, and ordinary excesses cannot liberate them. Giving them a lot of excess, it's like stabbing it a few times, burning its house, driving it away, and then saying a few words of apology to it, forget it, it won't accept it. "Grandpa didn't say that other little ghosts still have souls, this millet has no good soul, only evil spirits. It is even more impossible to go over it easily.

In fact, my grandfather also asked my grandfather this question, and he didn't want my grandfather to use extreme means to deal with Xiaomi's spirit, and hoped that my grandfather would overtake her. Grandpa replied that a high monk once said in the commentary on the Sutra of Amitayus: "The world's most serious sinful karma. All the sutras and teachings of the Dharma, the sutras and confessions, cannot be exceeded. ”

That night, Grandpa recited the "Dizang Sutra" to Xiaomi, and the lonely ghosts attracted were all ghosts who were willing to accept explanations and hoped to be liberated. Ghosts who are too obsessed will not appear just because they hear the Jizo Sutra.

Grandpa's decision to use the most extreme way to deal with Xiaomi's spirit is also a choice that there is no choice.

"There's no way! There may be other ways to do it, but you don't want to do it. The old man said stubbornly.

Grandpa smiled bitterly: "There is no endless road, yes, there is still a road, but you and I can't finish it." ”

"What way? I'm going to do my best to go! ”

"I once saw a father who drowned his daughter and gave his daughter a prayer of the dead to atone for his sins. He recited the "Jizo Sutra", "Diamond Sutra" and "Amitayus Sutra" for a full forty years, and finally surpassed the obsessed undead. In the past forty years, he has done nothing but three meals a day and normal sleep. He came from a wealthy family, and there were people for him to eat and drink. ”

"Forty years?"

"Yes. This extremely heavy karma would take 40 years of uninterrupted excesses to resolve. For millet with this sinful karma, I think even if I am like that father who keeps reciting sutras. It would take 80 years to get over. ”

"Twice as much?"

Grandpa nodded and said, "Yes, there are many more things that Xiaomi has experienced behind her back than a drowning daughter!" The karma of sin is much heavier! ”

"What did she go through? So that it is so difficult to exceed? The old man asked.

Grandpa shook his head: "It's hard to put into words." ”

"So, even if I overspend it for her from now on, I won't be able to afford to live my life?"

Grandpa sighed, "If I could, I wouldn't have asked you to help me." A person cannot get rid of this karma in his lifetime, especially if you and I have reached this age. ”

The old man was silent.

In the process of chatting with the old man, Grandpa also suspected that the old man was the mysterious person who prevented him from going to Maoling Mountain that night. Now seeing that he can think so much about Xiaomi, Grandpa ruled out this possibility instead.

"You don't have to promise me against your will because you owe my father a favor. One day you have decided to ask someone to bring me a message. I'll stay here again. Daddy said.

The old man was there like a piece of wood, and nothing happened.

"It's late, it's time for you to rest. I'm going back too. Daddy said softly.

The old man remained motionless.

Daddy gently withdrew from the house and closed the door with his hand.

The night is hazy, and the nearby roads are very difficult to see, and this world is like an infinite blind man's pass.

The old man didn't make Daddy wait too long.

Two days later. The old man took the initiative to come to Thrush Village and found his grandfather who was lying on an old bamboo chair basking in the sun. A fluffy mouse lies under an old bamboo chair, dozing off like Grandpa.

"Why are the rats in your house so rampant?" The old man didn't say hello, but said something like this.

The grandfather on the old bamboo chair opened his eyes and saw that it was the old man who made the spirit house. Hurriedly get up to greet him.

The old man waved his hand and said, "You don't have to get up, I'll leave after I finish speaking." I'm here to tell you I've figured it out. When do you need me to go to the blind man and call Millet out, you tell me. ”

Grandpa was stunned for a moment, immediately recovered, and said, "Don't be in a hurry to leave, drink tea and come back." ”

"No need." With that, the old man turned around and left.

At this time, my grandfather walked out, glanced in the direction where the old man had disappeared, and asked my grandfather, "Who was that person just now?" Why don't you sit for a while and leave? ”

Seeing that he had left, Grandpa lay back on the old bamboo chair and replied slowly, "Feng Junjia is from the village." ”

Grandpa said "oh", walked to the old bamboo chair, leaned over and whispered in his father's ear: "Dad, I think someone wants to plot against you." You need to be careful lately and avoid contact with strangers. Grandpa glanced again in the direction in which the old man had disappeared, and was full of suspicion about the old man.

Daddy squinted lazily and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Grandpa stretched out his hand in front of his father's eyes and spread it out, and there was a red and green paper figure in the palm of his hand. Grandpa said, "I found this paper figure in the crack of your window. ”

Grandpa's eyes suddenly widened, and he looked at the paper man in a daze.

Grandpa said: "This paper figure looks like it matches the spirit house, which is very unlucky, and only the dead need this kind of thing." I think maybe someone who wants to hurt you sneaks into the crack in the window. ”

My grandfather told me that there is a kind of paper man spell in Zhu Youshu, which is to use paper people to murder others, which is somewhat similar to the way of piercing villains. Piercing a villain is the use of a needle to prick a stand-in in order to harm the person who has been spelled. This form of curse has been common throughout the ages, but it is also easy to spot. The paper man spell is relatively secretive, placing the drawn paper figure near the person who is being spelled, making it stained with the breath of the person who is being spelled, and then secretly retrieving it. After retrieving it, a fire burns the paper figure and casts a spell. As a result, the cursed person will feel sick all over his body, and he will not know why.

During that time, my grandfather's body did often feel unwell. However, he knew in his heart that this was not the effect of the paper man spell, but the ghost worship when he was looking for millet.

But my grandfather didn't know, so he thought that paper talent was the source of the scourge.

Grandpa took the paper figure over, looked at it in his hand, and showed a smile.

Grandpa didn't understand and said, "Others want to secretly harm you, and you still laugh?" ”

"It came with me from Feng Junjia's village a few nights ago." Grandpa said, "I didn't expect it to follow me even at this time." ”

Grandpa was confused and asked, "Is this ...... Not a paper mantra? "Stupid fluttering skills.

Dad said, "Of course not. Did I tell you before? The paper man cut by Millet before his death will follow me. ”

"This ...... This is a paper figure cut by Xiaomi? Grandpa was amazed.

"It's her paper-cut figure, so it's more accurate."

Grandpa stared at the slightly brightly colored paper figure with poor workmanship, and said, "Even her paper-cut figure will sneak to your window......

"But that's how I'm going to do to her......" Daddy sighed. Then, Grandpa told his grandfather about his plan and told him not to interfere. "Your heart is too kind, you can't do it when the time comes, if you let Xiaomi run away, Xiaomi's resentment will be even heavier, and it will be even more difficult in the future."

Grandpa was not at ease and said, "It's okay if I don't go, but can you promise me to let the crooked Taoist go?" ”

At that time, crooked Taoist ghost hunting was already famous. But my father often blamed the crooked Taoist priest for being too tough and did not agree with his ghost-catching methods. Although the concepts are different, Grandpa and the crooked Taoist are still polite when they meet. The crooked Taoist priest has always respected his grandfather very much, so although he knows that his grandfather has a lot of complaints about his method of catching ghosts, he is still respectful. The crooked Taoist priest said: "I use tough methods to deal with those ghosts because my strength has not reached the level of Ma Xiucai." Ma Xiucai is already at the ancestral level, and I am not even at the grandmother level, if I don't kill all the ghosts, and those ghosts that are let go will trouble me in turn, and I will be finished. Ma Xiucai killed and released, that is, he was not afraid that the ghosts who offended him would come back to him, so he was gentle in his means. Others spread this to Grandpa, who just smiled.

Grandpa just considered that the crooked Taoist priest's ghost hunting method was different, so he hoped that the crooked Taoist would help his father deal with Xiaomi's spirit. Grandpa is worried that grandpa can't be ruthless, why isn't grandpa worried that grandpa can't be ruthless?

But ghost hunting is like that, since you catch it, you have to succeed. Otherwise, it deepens the resentment of the ghost, but it will let the tiger return to the mountain, which is more than worth the loss, and it is better not to catch it. Especially the simple spirit, it only holds grudges and does not remember gratitude. Some children's spirit is stronger than their soul, and often adults don't remember how good they are to him, and they are angry about what adults don't do for him. The adult said, "You kid put meat on you with chopsticks, you don't remember, but you remember when the chopsticks knocked you!" ”

My grandfather was worried that Xiaomi's spirit only remembered that his father was not good, and after accumulating it, he was even more resentful of his father, and then he was out of control.

Grandpa knows all these things in his heart. So, Grandpa nodded and said, "Okay, then you go and talk to the crooked Taoist, I'm going to go over tonight." ”

"Going tonight? Isn't it too anxious? Grandpa said.

Grandpa said: "It's better to be late than to be early." As long as she is around, Xiaomi is not safe. ”

When the crooked Taoist priest heard his grandfather tell him to go catch millet that night, he also felt very sudden. The facial features on the crooked Taoist's face were already crooked at that time, but they were not as crooked as they were later. His body was also crooked, but his two hands were normal. Later, his fingers were crooked, and it was difficult to pinch the pen, so he often asked his grandfather to help him draw talismans.

The crooked Taoist priest said, "My talisman is not ready yet, I'm afraid it's a bit rushed." Why don't you persuade your father to let him be a day or two late? "Drawing symbols should not only pay attention to the direction, but also pay attention to the day and hour, not just draw those shapes according to the gourd scoop. The crooked priest could not prepare all the talismans he needed in a day.

"If you're going to be a day or two late, he'll go by himself tonight. You don't know his temper. "Grandpa is embarrassed.

"It doesn't seem like there's a choice. Let's do it tonight. The crooked Taoist did not expect that the party would be the most thrilling experience of his life.

Later, when I went to Thrush Village, he used to grin and say to me, "You know what...... Your mom was only your age...... I'm going to hunt ghosts with your father...... That was the first time I've partnered with your grandpa...... We almost couldn't come back...... "By the time I could walk, it was already very difficult for him to pronounce his mouth, and saliva flowed from the lower corners of his mouth as soon as he spoke.