Chapter 4: The Door of Death
It's off the beaten track, with only a small road outside leading to the big road in the distance. All traces in the yard were covered by yesterday's snow, including the pit where the bell was buried, which was also half buried by the snow.
The tripod was still there, the pulleys were hanging above, and the chains hung down, shaking slightly. I frowned, thinking about the things I was born with before, and I couldn't believe that these were all done by dead people...
Master found a branch and carefully scraped the snow off the clock, and I saw the whole picture of it, it was rusty, but it was not broken, but it was quite complete.
I squatted down, put my hand into the bell with Master, and touched the sticky and greasy thing again, and it didn't freeze on such a cold day.
Master put it on the end of his nose and sniffed it, his brows furrowed slightly, and he didn't dare to ask if he didn't say a word.
"Leng'er, let's clear the snow out of that pit." After a moment, Master said.
Master took out two small shovels from his large bag and handed them to me, and the two of them jumped into the snow pit and dug up.
The snow was very hard from the cold, and although Master's shovel was sharp, it was still a little difficult to dig up. With every shovel we dig, we threw the snow out. As I dug deeper and deeper, occasionally looking up, I could only see the gloomy sky above, as if I wanted to press it down, and just like that, I finally dug into the ice, and the shovel couldn't dig it down.
"Master, why is there ice under here?"
In this small and tight environment, even the sound of breathing sounded very heavy, and I felt like my voice was like thunder.
"If I'm right, this should be connected to the river to the south, because it's so cold that the water freezes into ice." Master said.
I had a feeling of initiation, but I didn't understand how to connect with the river. There was a large hole in the middle of the ice, where the bell had been located, and it had been blocked by snow. Some people may ask, since there is so much snow in the pit, isn't the snow in the yard very thick? The yard was in tatters, and the wind was blowing on all sides, and the snow fell on the ground, and when it was blown by the wind, it would rush to the low-lying places.
As Master and I pulled out the snow from the ice cave, a black stone pillar was revealed, with four edges, as if it had been nailed there, and we pushed it with our hands, but it didn't move. There was something carved around the stone pillar. The master touched it with his hand and suddenly said, "Oops!"
Then, while pinching his fingers and calculating something, the master looked up at the sky from time to time. Although I was extremely curious, I didn't dare to ask, or even to speak.
After a while, Master stood up with a 'hula' and startled me.
Master looked at his watch, "Leng'er, which hospital is Boss Wang's son in the city?" ”
I scratched my head and thought about it, and told Master.
"Where is his daughter-in-law's maiden home?"
"This... I don't know..."
"Forget it, I'll find it myself." With that, Master walked up.
"What's wrong, Master?" I asked hurriedly.
"Fortunately, they came in time, their lives are coming to an end, Boss Wang's wife and son will not survive tonight, and they must be brought to this mansion before the time of the child." Master said, "I don't have time to explain to you right now, Leng'er, you stay here and wait for me, if I don't come back in the afternoon, if you go out to buy food, bring my bag, which is full of Dharma weapons, and if you use them at night, throw them in this courtyard and don't miss anything..."
Master walked for a while before I woke up from the chaos. I learned from the master, and I also went to touch the stone pillar in the ice cave, and I could vaguely make out that the stone pillar was engraved with words like Rigan, but the font was very strange, and I could only recognize one character 'Geng', and the others could not be recognized. I thought to myself, my skills are still too far behind Master.
The sky was getting cloudier and overcast, and the cold wind continued to pour into the yard one after another. I couldn't stand it, so I had to go to the warehouse where I stayed the night before to escape the cold. There was a lot of wood scattered around the corner of the warehouse, and I lit a fire to warm my frozen feet for a while.
Master went and didn't come back until the afternoon, and at about three o'clock, I couldn't stand the hunger and decided to buy food. When I came out of the warehouse, I suddenly remembered Master's instructions and turned around and went back to take out the big bag.
The sky was covered with layers of lead clouds, and the cold wind was blowing, causing the trees by the roadside to sway, and I felt shivers in my bones, wrapped myself in a cotton jacket, and staggered towards a nearby town.
Once in town, I wandered around and found a small restaurant and ordered a fried cake and a hot soup. After a burst of gobbling and swallowing, the cold and hunger disappeared.
Seeing that it was not yet five o'clock and it was still early, I lit a cigarette and chatted with the owner of the restaurant while smoking. After chatting and chatting, we finally talked about the old house.
The boss said that the house had been abandoned for many years, and he used to go there with his friends when he was a child. The houses were weathered by rain and wind all year round, and some of them were about to collapse, and a few years ago, a child was smashed by a falling brick and became an idiot, and no one went again.
"What is that house for, you ask?" The boss asked.
"Huh?" I was stunned, "It's nothing, I just passed by there, just ask." ”
"Oh, I thought you wanted to buy it, but the house was said to have been bought by a brick kiln owner..."
I laughed and said, "Do you think I look like such a rich man?" Okay, it's not too early, I'm leaving..."
I was just about to get up after settling the bill, when the door of the restaurant opened suddenly, and the cold wind poured in. A young man hurriedly went to close the door, and suddenly, when he heard the 'bang', the statue of Guanyin on a sacred urn against the wall of the shop fell down.
The boss was startled, and hurriedly rushed over to pick up the statue of Guanyin, and after inspection, it was not broken, and he carefully wiped it with a cloth, and kept chanting Amitabha.
The cold wind caused the temperature in the restaurant to plummet, and the light bulb on it shook for a long time before stopping.
"Xiaodong." The boss shouted to the guy, "There will be no business tonight, you bring those washed dishes, and we will stew the hot pot when we close the door." ”
"Okay."
As soon as he heard the stewed hot pot, the young man agreed very happily.
The boss turned around, saw that I was still standing in a daze, and said: "The weather this year is very strange, it snowed so early, and it has only rained twice in a few days." It was unlucky for the Guanyin statue to fall just now, and it will be closed tonight, alas, business is difficult to do..."
I also think that the gust of wind just now is weird, Guanyin is like a thing in the town, and it is really unlucky to fall down. I thought to myself, could it be that we inadvertently bumped into something when we were just talking? …
Sure enough, as soon as I came out of the restaurant, I felt that something was wrong. I've experienced a lot of things that are unimaginable to ordinary people, and it's not once or twice that I've been dealing with unclean things. At that time, I was told that I was being targeted by something.
In winter, it gets dark very quickly, and it is only five o'clock, and the night begins. If it weren't for the snow all over the mountains, I couldn't see my fingers, and the biting cold wind was roaring.
I pretended to be on the road as if nothing had happened, humming a little song while quietly reaching into my bag, feeling a token for exorcism, and secretly holding it in my hand.
As soon as I left town, the feeling intensified. I looked around out of the corner of my eye, but I didn't see anything.
I hid the token in my sleeve and with an 'oops,' I pretended to have tripped and twisted my foot. When I lowered my head to rub my feet, I looked behind me through the gap between my legs, but all I could see was snow on the road.
When I got up and walked forward, everything became wrong. I suddenly felt unfamiliar with the road in front of me, and as I walked further, the scenery on both sides of the road changed, first a broken brick wall appeared on my right, and then a stout old tree appeared on my left.
As I walked, I suddenly saw myself standing in the middle of nowhere, looking around and not seeing a single building.
Master taught me before that if I was targeted by a ghost in the wild and got lost, I would bite my finger and put the blood on the Yin Hall, and the vision created by the ghost in front of me would disappear immediately.
I tried it, but it didn't work, and I couldn't help but panic, and cold sweat oozed from the tip of my nose. The thing that 'followed' me all the way never appeared, and the invisible 'thing' would be even more terrifying.
In my panic, I felt something fall on the ground with a 'bang', it was the bag, which had been broken. Large and small magic weapons and all kinds of Qimen utensils rolled to the ground.
I had an idea, and it suddenly occurred to me that there was a solution to the way to get lost in the Qimen technique that Master taught me, but I had never used it, so I don't know if it worked.
It's not complicated to say, as long as you find out where the 'birth gate' of the current predicament is, you can get out.
For example, I am like being trapped in the middle of a large nine-square grid at the moment, and there are eight squares in front of and behind me, and there are eight doors in them, which are, the door of rest, the door of life, the door of injury, the door of Du, the door of view, the door of death, the door of shock, and the door of opening. There is only one way out, that is, the birth gate, and only by finding out which grid it is in can I get out. If I walk around and stumble into the door of death or injury, I will bury myself...
I looked at the date and time on my phone, December 3, 2oo4, the 22nd day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, 7:15 p.m., the solar term is light snow in the yuan.
If you start with Qimen, you should press the eight rounds of Yin Run. I played a game on the ground, and I saw that the birth gate fell in the Ninth Palace, which is directly south of me. However, the world in front of me was so confused that I couldn't tell where the south was...
It doesn't matter, as long as I can find anything geographically that can represent the nine stars or the eight gods, and I can know the direction by looking at the stars or the gods in their palaces.
I looked around, and suddenly there was a winding path twenty or thirty meters away from me. With the mentality of taking a gamble, I slowly walked towards that road. Finally made it safe to get on that road.
The road that is often trampled on is very strong, and the magnetic field is stronger than in other places, I measured it with a compass, and then used a shovel to insert it on the road a few times, and I felt a burst of ecstasy in my heart, this is a real road, not an illusion.
In Qimen Feng Shui, a winding road like this represents the 'Teng Snake' in the Eight Gods. The game I started just now shows that 'Teng Snake' is on the verge of death, and it is in the first palace, which is the north of my starting position. If I follow this path, I will definitely die!
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