The wooden door leading to the backyard was next to me, and as soon as I reached out, I opened it, and in an instant a breeze blew through the narrow aisle in front of the door.

As far as the eye could see, a few rays of sunlight were shining through a few holes in the roof, so that the unlit aisles were much brighter.

Zhang Mi and Zhuge came to the door and glanced into the aisle a few times.

The waist said: "Okay, don't look at it, since you are doing business, you have to go in, and besides, are you two Taoist priests still scared on this sunny day." ”

Zhuge replied: "This is not called fear, this is called caution, although it is said that under normal circumstances, ghosts will not be encountered during the day, but the ghosts who are more resentful may not be able to say, listening to Xiaoxian's words, I think that the ghosts in this shroud shop are not very powerful, but everything has a case, isn't it?" ”

Zhang Mi also responded: "If we really find it for a while, if we really want to confront it, we will get a big deal compared to the night." ”

"You'd better find it! Don't forget to greet it a few times, I'll have to let it taste what I suffered that day. ”

With that, a few of us walked into the more than 20-meter-long corridor one after the other.

After walking down the aisle for about ten seconds, we made a small turn to the left, and we came to the courtyard at the back.

The courtyard behind the shroud shop is not too big, nor too small, and there are four rooms facing north and south, but they are all old spired houses from the seventies and eighties, and there is an old wooden door with peeling red paint that opens outwards to the west.

The rooms in this courtyard were stocked with all sorts of paper goods and white cloths.

The old wooden door with peeling red paint is also not opened often, and it will only be opened once when the goods are incoming and shipping.

As for the wine jars placed against the wall in the courtyard, those sealed with cement, I don't know very well, I was there when I came to the shroud shop, and Uncle Nine didn't tell me much.

Zhang Mi kept his head down, his eyes staring at the soul chasing disk in his hand, but the pointer of the gecko with a green body and a red tail did not move from beginning to end.

Waist and Zhuge sat in the shade of the steps in front of the backyard house and smoked, Zhang Mi put down the soul chasing disk in his hand, escaped from the compass in his arms and looked at it again.

Zhuge pointed to the wine jars and said to me, "All of these dozen jars are rotten eggs? ”

I shook my head and said, "I don't know. ”

"I don't know what! Didn't Uncle Nine say it, the jar is full of eggs. As for the one you smashed open, why is it a rotten egg? I think so, maybe it's a stink to shoot! Not to mention so many eggs. Waist said.

Zhuge then asked: "Why do you want to pickle so many salted eggs, it seems that you eat them every day, and you have to eat them for a year and a half, don't you get tired of eating eggs every day?" ”

I said, "You're wrong, I've been here for more than a year, and I haven't eaten once, and I haven't seen Uncle Nine eat it." ”

Zhuge said: "Isn't that strange? Pickled so many eggs would rather stink than eat! Could it be that your ninth uncle is a 'stinknose fetish'? ”

Waist said: "Stink-fetish, Uncle Nine is not, have you ever seen Uncle Nine, Uncle Nine is particularly concerned about his image, he smears oil on his head every day when he doesn't go out, do you know Maori Kogoro?" Our ninth uncle is like that. ”

"It's not a stinknose fetish, pickled so many eggs and still don't give people to eat, is it for ghosts?" Zhuge took a puff of his cigarette and said.

I saw Zhang Mi standing in a place in the courtyard for more than ten seconds without moving, so I said to my waist and Zhuge them: "Did Zhang Mi find something, let's go over and take a look!" ”

Waist stepped on the cigarette butt and followed me.

We came to Zhang Mi and said, "How is it, have you found anything?" ”

Before Zhang Mi could speak, his waist interjected: "Didn't you see the pointer on the compass?" There must be a problem. ”

After listening to my waist, I noticed the compass in Zhang Mi's hand, and there was indeed a problem with the pointer in the middle of the compass.

The hand rotates very strangely on the compass, it turns clockwise for a while, counterclockwise for a while, stops for a while, and turns very fast for a while.

Zhang Mi frowned, and took out the soul chasing disc with his other hand.

Put the soul chaser disk and compass together and observe them side by side.

But the soul chasing disk still didn't respond at all as if it had failed, and the compass was as if it had just been fully charged, and the pointer kept spinning, and it couldn't stop at all.

"What's going on?" I asked.

Waist said: "Do you still need to ask, it's not his thing, something is wrong, it's a ghost around here!" ”

Zhuge immediately said: "The magnetic field around the compass is so chaotic, it seems that the things here are not simple!" However, the location is still uncertain, as if it is shielded, can it be said that it hides itself? ”

"That's right, it's hidden!" Zhang Mi said coldly.

"I can't find where it is, so what should I do?" I say.

Zhang Mi continued: "I can't find it during the day, but I didn't say that I can't find it at night. Zhang Mi put away the soul chasing disk and compass, and said coldly: "Go home for dinner, wait for dark." ”

"Go home for dinner! What have you thought of? Hurry up and tell me about it, and I'll help you analyze it. Waist said.

Zhuge took a puff of his cigarette, threw the cigarette butt in his hand and said: "In this case, there is no other way than 'conjuring spirits', let's go!" Go home for dinner, wait for dark, and there will be a good show waiting for us in the evening! ”……

After coming out of the shroud shop, we drove to the farmer's market, bought some things for the evening, and bought a few light bulbs and some wires to put in the backyard and aisle to light up at night.

After that, we went to a noodle restaurant near the shroud shop to have a bite to eat, and then we went back to the shroud shop and waited for it to get dark.

We first connected all the lights in the yard, and then cleaned up the desks in the store, and then turned the desks into offering tables, on which were placed incense burners, candles, and tribute bowls...... And so on. A chair was also placed in the middle of the room.

Zhang Mi took out all the contents of his guitar case, not to mention any bronze mirrors, gluttonous beast pattern bells, ink fountains, and long and short wooden swords.

Among them, what caught our eyes was the yellow robe he wore on his body.

Speaking of this kind of scene, I've only seen it a few times in movies, but today I watched it, and I was really not used to it, and suddenly it was as if I had become an actor in a movie.

At first, I always felt that Zhang Mi, as a Taoist priest, still had some shortcomings, but I just couldn't think of it, and then I suddenly realized that what was missing was this Taoist robe, so I really put the Taoist label on my head when I looked at Zhang Mi.

Seeing Zhang Mi wearing this Taoist robe and carrying the long sword behind him, suddenly his image in my heart immediately became taller, and to put it bluntly, the sense of security doubled.

When he saw Zhang Mi's outfit, he said, "Oops! I can't see it, our little brother is changing shotguns today! The clothes are good, borrow me to wear them one day, and I will take you to Yunnan to cross the bridge rice noodles! ”

Zhang Mi just smiled slightly, and then he began to assign us equipment, he gave Zhuge a 'gossip mirror', a dozen 'yellow talismans', and a willow wood 'dagger' of 20 centimeters carved from willow wood.

I kept a long sword, a bronze dagger, a copper coin sword, a few yellow talismans, a compass and the soul chasing disk.

I was given a bottle of 'sleeping pills', a few 'yellow charms' and a 'nylon rope'.

My face turned green immediately, and I shouted at Zhang Mi: "Sleeping pills, how to use them?" Are you going to tell me to crack the devil's mouth and feed it sleeping pills? ”

Waist also spoke for me: "That's it! I have at least a rope here to tie up a ghost, why are you giving my family Xian'er 'sleeping pills'! It's a fart! ”

Zhang Mi moved his mouth: "I'm also for Xiaoxian's good." ”

Zhuge explained: "Don't worry, you two, listen to me first, Zhang Mi is also doing this for everyone's safety, 'conjuring spirits' is not a simple thing, if you don't prepare well, if you attract evil ghosts, we won't be able to eat and walk around." ”

Zhuge walked to the sofa and sat down, "First of all, 'Spiritualism' needs bait, I discussed it with Zhang Mi and felt that for the sake of Xiaoxian's safety, Xiaoxian is more suitable as bait, Xiaoxian can take sleeping pills and sleep quietly." The waist is strong and strong, and he can help us, and Zhang Mi and I can do the rest. ”……

Knowing their intentions, I gradually calmed down, and I agreed to be a bait to lure the ghosts to appear, but not to take sleeping pills.

Soon it was getting dark, and I asked Zhang Mi when he could start, and he said after 10 o'clock.

Since I'm using it as bait, I'm still a little scared in my heart, after all, I'm the closest to the ghost, and I still have white jade in my body that can suck yin qi, so I don't know what will happen when the time comes?

I wanted to tell them about Bai Yu, but I didn't, because I always had that 'talisman' on me.

I smoked a dozen cigarettes on and off, and finally made it to ten o'clock.

Zhang Mi's 'Conjuring' has only one thing in common with the 'Conjuring' I know, that is, they both have a chair!

The conjuring that I know is nothing more than what I saw in the movie, a person sits in front of the offering table, stretches out his middle finger, ties a red rope, and puts a trap on the incense in the incense burner at the other end, and the mage begins to summon spirits, if you find that it is not to cut the red rope directly, there is no danger at all.

But Zhang Mi's conjuring was really exciting, he asked his waist to tie me to a chair with a rope, and the two ends of the rope were hung with 'gluttonous beast pattern bells'. Zhuge said that if something gets on my body, it won't be able to run away if there is a rope tied to it.

Zhang Mi opened my eyes to me and my waist again, and Zhang Mi also drew a 'cinnabar talisman' on the back of my waist's neck, which I saw myself, but I don't know what this talisman is for.

Zhuge stood behind me, I sat in front of the altar of the offering table, Zhang Mi was facing me with a long sword in his hand, and his waist was hiding to the side.

And so the 'Conjuring' began.