Chapter 19: The First Seven Soul Nights
At least I had my mind left when I was completely unable to control my body and could only allow this dark panic to surround me. I tried to calm my mind and try to explain my current situation with reason.
But gradually, I began to lose control of my consciousness, unable to think directionally, and all kinds of thoughts were like a pile of shattered glass bottle fragments mixed together, scattered, far and near......
I seemed to be moving forward, moving in the dark, and this movement did not feel like walking or running, but like a gust of wind pushing me forward, but there was no wind in my ears, it was just pure displacement in a dark vacuum, moving forward at a uniform speed......
Gradually I saw a little light...... Two o'clock, three o'clock, one cluster, two clusters, and then surrounded by countless fluttering, ghostly little points of light, I don't know whether to describe the scene in front of me as beautiful or weird, I tried to find the feeling of my limbs, or look down at my body, but it was still nothing, as if there were only two eyes left...... Maybe I'm one of these countless lights at this time?
"Zang Daozen!"
I heard the voice that had called me again, and I wanted to ask her who she was, but I still couldn't find a way to speak.
That's right! At this time, a flash of inspiration suddenly occurred in my mind: no matter where I am now, in what form I exist, but my brain has not yet departed from the habit of "human body" in time, so I will always want to find limbs or want to make sounds, etc., so if "at present, this form of mine is the only reasonable existence", then I should execute my thinking in this current state, right? - It's like a tree, a drop of water, a stone...... Will they also have the same consciousness as I do now, and also have their own information bands of communication, which are magnetic fields that humans cannot perceive?
I tentatively focused my attention and used my consciousness to ask the woman in the void, "Who are you and where am I?" ”
Without answering, I concentrated my thoughts again, tried to exclude other distracting thoughts in a focused way, and asked again, "Where is this?" Who are you? ”
Sure enough, she received my "band" and replied, "What? You don't know here? Can't you see me? So how did you get here!? ”
I asked her how to answer, I want to know how I got here, why do I ask her.
I continued to reply with my consciousness: "I don't know anything, I can't see anything now, only some bright spots, I can't even see or feel myself, let alone see you." ”
"Hahaha," she laughed, not offensive, but kind. Moreover, I always felt that this voice was so familiar, but I just couldn't remember it for a while, and I can't think about it now, so as not to be distracted and unable to communicate with her.
"Did you meditate before?" Her voice was getting closer and closer to me, as if it was right in front of me.
I tried to open my eyes, but I couldn't see anything, so I could only helplessly reply, "yes, how do you know?" ”
"Well, you're turning 30 in a few days, so it's no wonder you can run in here." She spoke in a relaxed tone, and seemed to know me well, and even knew that my birthday was approaching.
I started to pretend to be confused, trying to get her to tell me the reason: "What do you mean? I do not quite understand. ”
"I'll tell you now, it's better to wait for yourself to understand, and you'll know after your birthday. What a coincidence that we were able to meet here. ”
"Hey! Don't sell it, can it be done? What do you not meet, where is this? Who the are you, don't say Lao Tzu is going to be anxious with you. ”
"Hahaha, I can't even hear my voice...... Oh! Am I getting old? Is there such a big change in sound? Wouldn't you recognize my face when you saw it, huh...... O my youth! ”
She didn't seem to care at all about my irritability, but began to pay attention to her own age—well—it's always a great headache to talk to women about logic in a pinch.
"Okay, hurry up, go back, your time has not come now, you can let you run in is already considered to be highly skilled, hurry back, don't hurt the original spirit." She finally paid attention to my deposit.
"Go back? How to get back? I don't even know how I got here! I continued to look around, trying to see some new clues, but there were countless points of light and a dark nothingness.
"Well...... Well, it's very simple, you will empty your distractions after a while, and you will be completely settled. Just like when you meditated before, whether you can feel your body or not, just sit there and continue to use your consciousness to do luck, and when you have a little bit of physical sensation, just use your consciousness to separate the two hands that have the seal of heaven and earth. …… Well, let's do it first. I hope the next time I meet you, you'll already be able to see me, hehe. Go ahead, I'll bless you on your birthday. ”
As soon as the words fell, I felt as if I was gently pushed back by something, and the sense of displacement in the vacuum appeared again, I felt that I was slowly retreating, and the bright spots were getting fewer and fewer......
As if he felt the rumbling of his stomach and intestines and the sound of blood flowing in his ears again, he quickly concentrated his thoughts and transported his qi to his fingertips, and with a little force, his hands were separated, and he opened his eyes and looked around—it was still my meditation room, the door was closed, and all kinds of furniture were as good as ever, and there was no one else.
I gasped for breath and breathed hard into the summer-scented air, as if I had just woken up from a nightmare and returned to reality.
Is this really a dream? Who is that woman, such a familiar voice, but at this time I can't remember it at all, no wonder, who can think of the voice of the person in the dream, the person in the dream should even have an abstract face. But at least one thing—she was kind to me, not what my dad said.
I continued to sit cross-legged and meditated, thinking that my birthday was not a few days away, and then I would try again what she said about what she said.
I wanted to use meditation to adjust my fatigue, but I didn't want to do it today, but I felt more and more exhausted. Seeing that it was already lunchtime, I left the meditation room and went downstairs to eat.
For the next few days, I was busy scouring the Internet for information about people with special abilities, industry pioneers, and the like, and I thought that if the descendants of the various Shuzu could all have pure divine blood, then they must also have some special strengths.
Although I don't have any special functions myself, I am also well-known in the field of divination and feng shui - not to mention that my business of five elements Buddhist beads is getting better and better, and it is also because of word of mouth that this kind of magic weapon that combines the blessings of Buddhism and Taoism is particularly effective. Bingbing once said that he was going to register a trademark for our store, so that he would not be afraid of profiteers in the future and pirate.
Although there is a lot of information on the Internet, it is a mixture of truth and falsehood, and the official news about the special function that can be found is rare, and most of it is some forum stuffed nonsense, or it is an overwhelming online novel.
There was a piece of news that suddenly caught my attention, the headline was "Strange Disease Suddenly Appeared on the Sino-Burmese Border, 29 People Died in One Night in a Small Cottage", the full text roughly said that these people were hired to a certain jade trading market to help transport a batch of new goods before they died, and it was suspected that the ore contained unknown radioactive substances, and the official had organized experts and famous doctors from all over the country to rush there for investigation and research, and the International Health Organization had also sent a commissioner to visit Yunyun.
Originally, this news had nothing to do with the fact that I was looking for the five elements and eight characters of Pure Yang, but there was a sentence in the content that made me interested - "A total of 30 temporary workers were hired to transport ore this time, and only one survived, and no illness was found after a preliminary medical examination. ”
If it is true that the ore contains a large amount of dangerous substance radiation, then it is a miracle that he can survive, not to mention that this person has also escaped with his whole body, then there are only two explanations: 1. This person did not work at the scene at all, and may have slipped away lazily. 2. This person's body function is different from that of ordinary people, so he can be invulnerable.
Combined with the fact that my father said in advance that "the bloodline of the descendants of pure-blooded gods is different from ordinary people, but ghosts do not invade", so is this person also a purebred bloodline? Of course, purebred bloodline is only a prerequisite, and it is not necessarily a person with pure yang five elements and eight characters, after all, this probability is very small.
But fortunately, there has been a breakthrough, and the relevant information of this news has been copied and printed, and I will rush to Yunnan next week to find this person and make a decision.
It was Wednesday, and at four o'clock in the afternoon we were going to the old loach's house to prepare for his first seven evenings.
By the time I got there, Kraft Candy, TJ, and Dahong were all about ready there. The valve core had to be late because it had to hold an online conference with the French headquarters. According to my previous explanation, Qin Youqing was buying some vegetarian dishes from a nearby restaurant -- because for the first seven nights, it was best to worship the dead without meat.
The sayings and worship customs of the first seven vary from place to place, but according to the principle of our yin and yang Yishu, this day is the day when the soul of the deceased is completely separated from the human body, although cremation is popular nowadays, and the body has long been burned to ashes, but because the soul will not be incinerated by this kind of vulgar fire, it is still stored in the original form of a complete person in a certain dimensional space, this space is not the yang world nor the underworld, but a transition area where all thoughts are gradually extinguished - we commonly call it "Dingsheng Dao".
Except for those who go to hell immediately after death, and go directly to Elysium after death, the general deceased have to go through the process of reincarnation.
From the first seven days, they officially accept the reality that they are dead, and then they begin to slowly forget the causes and conditions of their previous lives, depending on each person's karma, the time of purification is also different, the smaller the karma, the faster the purification, and they have a chance to be reincarnated once every seven days, and the sooner they cast, the better their lives will be in the next life.
Until 7749 days later, if you are not completely purified because your resentment is too heavy and you cannot be reincarnated, you will become a lonely ghost and a wild ghost, and you will eventually be ambushed by the ghosts of hell and taken to the underworld for training.
As for where one can be reincarnated again, whether it is a human being, a beast, an immortal, or a demon, it depends on the cause and effect of good and evil in the person's life. Of course, there are opportunistic ways to get them to go where they want to go, but if this method is too subversive of cause and effect, the warlock himself will suffer retribution, so generally speaking, we will not make it explicit.
Qin Youqing went to a nearby vegetarian restaurant to buy nine dishes and came back, I asked him to put the dishes in front of the photo of the old loach in three rows and three columns, a bowl of rice, a cup of tea, a pair of bamboo chopsticks, a box of cigarettes and a beer, a pair of white candles on both sides, a white porcelain incense burner in the middle, and two pots of flowers on the side of the photo, and the singing machine played in order.
The Buddhist scriptures continue and only provide vegetarian dishes, in fact, they are also increasing the merit and blessing for the old loach, so as to help him reincarnate as soon as possible, but I am inconvenient to say it clearly. Fortunately, they all trusted me and let me command.
I went into the next cabin again and checked that the bed was laid out as I had requested.
A plain futon was already spread out on the bed, a pillow was half-hidden under it, and the end of the quilt was folded up so as not to go out of the wind. The futon was also sprinkled with yellow and white petals, and a pair of slippers were placed inwards on the side of the bed.
It was already six o'clock in the afternoon after the valve core meeting, so I brought some bread and fruit and the like, and had a casual dinner with us.
Seeing that everyone had arrived, I took out a small curtain that I had prepared in advance, dipped my finger in saliva, drew a sigil on it, and hung it on the lintel of the gate.
Da Hong came up and asked why the curtain was so short, and I explained, "This is not a curtain, this is a spirit flag, and I have written a sigil on it, and when the old loach comes, he will be able to recognize the way home." ”
"What...... What the......? Will the old loaches still come? Don't scare me, I have to go to the printing house in the middle of the night to supervise the work! ”
When Da Hong heard my words, he was so frightened that he hurriedly retreated to the side of the other people. The others were no better, and they all stared at me in a daze, seeing what kind of medicine I was selling in my gourd.
I smiled and said, "Look at you guys who don't have any interest, do you understand this ritual?" The rituals of this set of rituals are also passed down from my family, but they are just an ideological thing, just like this table is to put vegetarian dishes for worship, is it really possible to be eaten? A few big men, don't be so nervous, okay? ”
After listening to my words, several people laughed at each other, and Da Hong gave himself down the stairs and said that he was not afraid, but because of the strange things I did in the bar that day, he had a psychological shadow.
Although I have nothing to do, but in fact, I don't have the bottom in my heart, they all say that the first seven is the night of the soul, and I have also helped people do a lot of funeral rituals, and nothing unusual has ever happened. But will it just be the same as in the past?
Or is it a little different because I'm getting closer to 30? Seeing that the clock on the wall of the living room was past 22 o'clock, and in less than an hour, the first seven hours were approaching......