Chapter XXIX. Straw man
At that time, it was already more than 9 o'clock in the evening, and Granny Huang went yin during this time period, and according to my observations in the past, it was the highest success rate. I can't tell you what it is. Hu Zongren drew a talisman and associated the ghost in the bag with the talisman, because at that time, he didn't know the birth date of the ghost, and there was no part of her body, so in addition to the talisman, Hu Zongren had to leave his bag, which is equivalent to letting Granny Huang ask the ghost herself. After Granny Huang still asked the hexagram, she went over. Hu Zongren and I haven't eaten for a long time, so I asked Fu Yunni and Sister Cai to guard Granny Huang on the side, after all, she is a handful of years. Hu Zongren and I went outside to find something to eat. When we came back from eating, Granny Huang was also wiping the beads of sweat on her forehead while drinking tea. Fu Yunni pressed Granny Huang's shoulder on the side to relax for her.
Seeing that we were back, Granny Huang beckoned to us and said that this time you are going to go on a long trip. In fact, when the man dictated that it was a foreign accent, I knew in my heart that I guess I had to run this leg. So I asked Granny Huang, where is it? Granny Huang said that it was from Shaanxi.
Granny Huang said that this ghost is a 7-year-old girl who has not been able to walk since she died, and there are two reasons. One is because she was hit and killed while crossing the railway, first of all, she did not die well, then she died unexpectedly, and secondly, she was too young, which is called premature death. A child who dies at an early age is something to cultivate, and in her opinion, this kind of child belongs to the time of reincarnation in the previous life, and is not ready, so it will not grow up. The second reason is more critical. Granny Huang said that because of this little girl, she herself didn't know who her parents were.
I asked Granny Huang what did that mean? Granny Huang said that everyone has parents, but this child has parents but doesn't know who Lu Dao is, that is to say, he is an orphan when he is alive, and he is also a wild ghost after death. This is particularly detrimental to excess. Hu Zongren also interjected, but it's not right, when this little girl was possessed by someone else, the most common thing she said was where her family lived, and she wanted someone to send her home, how could she still be an orphan? Granny Huang said that the child was brought from Shaanxi and lived with a pair of elderly people in Shaanxi. From childhood to adulthood, he has been wandering in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Hubei and other places, and the old man regards this little girl as a tool to cheat money.
I asked Granny Huang, how to cheat money? Granny Huang said, what is the granddaughter is dying, or making up the travel expenses, etc., defrauding dozens or hundreds of yuan every day, this year, I can earn a lot of money, plus I am a foreigner, and I am an old man and a child, even if someone thinks they are liars, they will generally stay away from it and will not deliberately embarrass them. Granny Huang said that the little girl's yin told her that she followed her "grandparents" around the country every year to cheat, but of course she didn't know that her actions were deceiving people. Every year during the Chinese New Year, I followed my grandparents back to their home in Shaanxi, and she said that although her grandparents were not biological, they were still very good to her.
Granny Huang went on to say that at the beginning of this year, her grandparents took her home for the New Year, but because of some trivial things, her grandmother slapped her, which made her very aggrieved, because there was a railway in the village, and there were often some slow trains pulling coal or freight passing through the village, so she climbed the train in the evening of the day she was beaten. It took several hours to hang at the junction of the carriages and carriages before arriving at a small station. She took advantage of the safety officer to check, sneaked down, the night on the railway was dark, she walked along the railway all the way forward, as a child of her age, the train came to avoid this simple truth she still understood, but when the train came, she was cold and hungry, wanted to run but her feet were soft, and the roar of the train and the whistle were too scary, and the little girl was scared at once. The visibility of the train at night is not very high, so by the time I realized that there was a child on the tracks, it was too late to brake urgently. There is no way, this child's life is just gone.
In fact, as a person, I have always been very resistant to the suffering of children, and the most unbearable thing for me is that children suffer. But I also know that everyone's trajectory cannot be completely happy. This little girl is an orphan, which is unfortunate. But she was adopted by two strange old people, and she was lucky not to starve to death and freeze to death. The old man who adopted her made her a tool for his own deception, which is unfortunate, and whenever the New Year comes, he will still take his children home for the New Year, just like a family, which is lucky. But it's still unfortunate that the child ran away from home, picked up the train, and then was hit and killed. When I thought about this, I suddenly realized that I didn't know what to say. If we had met this little girl in the past, maybe Hu Zongren and I would have chosen to send it away in our usual way, out of respect for life, but why did we feel so different about this little girl.
Hu Zongren looked at me and made a gesture of smoking. So I threw it to him, and he lit a cigarette and didn't seem to be in a good mood. He asked Granny Huang after taking a few bites, so what this little girl said, this so-and-so road and so-and-so number is actually the address of a Shaanxi village, right? Granny Huang said yes, and that's where the old couple lived. Then Granny Huang said that this little girl had been in some places where she had stayed for a long time, and she was frightened when she heard the whistle of the train many times, and only at this time could she remember that she was dead, but she was unwilling in her heart, and felt that her grandparents would definitely find herself when she died, and she would be sad if she couldn't find herself. is young, although the pair of old men did not do anything good to use her, but in the eyes of the little girl, no matter what, she did not starve to death and froze to death, and it was all thanks to the pair of old men, and she herself had no relatives, although it was very cruel, but the pair of old men were her closest people in this world. Granny Huang said that it wasn't until this little sister met the girl who was taken up this time in Chongqing.
Granny Huang said that at that time, the little girl was the same as before, looking like a street child, but she didn't know what to do, there must have been many people seeing her, but no one could have thought that she had been dead for a long time. But only the daughter of Mr. Liu, who was taken up, came to her side and gave her a pack of jelly and more than a dozen yuan. The little girl said that her sister was very beautiful, and she liked it very much, so she kept looking at her sister, looking at it, and felt that it would be good if I had this sister so beautiful.
When he said this, Hu Zongren nodded and said, I see. No wonder her performance in the girl's body is so obvious, even a layman can tell at a glance that it is a ghost. Granny Huang said yes, she didn't want to hurt anyone, it was just the nature of the child, and when it was late, she wanted to go home. Granny Huang said that fortunately, on the birthday of Guanyin Bodhisattva that day, she noticed the man, otherwise, this little girl will continue to possess others, the longer the time, the more off-road it will become, and when the obsession becomes a dead thought, and when it can't be untied and broken, I'm afraid it will also become a demon, and then it will really be a sin.
Hu Zongren asked, it doesn't make sense to send it back to Shaanxi, it is not her real home. Granny Huang sighed and said, Amitabha, I am like making a body for this little doll, you take her back there to see her grandparents, and then bring it back to me, she died unexpectedly and was young. I had to offer her to the Bodhisattva until the Yin Shou was completed, and then I sent her away. Heaven or earth, ghost or Buddha, it depends on her own creation.
Hu Zongren and I looked at each other, wondering which of the two of us would go on this trip. Hu Zongren and I don't distinguish between you and me, anyone can go, and I can also tell the two old men by the way, the child you picked up was lost, died, and you will still be remembered until death, do you still plan to continue to live by deception like this. At least if it's me, I'll do it. After thinking about it for a while, I decided that I would go by myself, but just as I was about to speak, Hu Zongren suddenly rushed ahead of me and said, "Just let me go."
I changed my mind, I said to Hu Zongren, why don't we be together. He said, don't bother. I went out of Sichuan from Chengdu, and I went back to see my master on the way. In addition, I have some personal matters to do.
Hearing Hu Zongren say this, I was embarrassed to follow and mix it up again. Friends are friends, and the sects are different after all, so I won't even ask. Granny Huang saw that I had no intention of continuing to ask, and she also knew about the relationship between me and Hu Zongren. So she said, so be it, tonight I will tie the straw man myself, and I will spell the doll myself, and make a body, and make a set of clothes. When Xiaohu comes to me tomorrow, you can open the doll's eyes yourself, and then take her to fulfill this most decanted wish.
Granny Huang's so-called "eye opening" is actually temporarily putting the little girl's ghost in the body of the doll covered in mud and grass, and with the help of Hu Zongren's talisman or the power of Granny Huang's spell, it will not escape. To open the eyes, Hu Zongren will draw the eyes himself, and Granny Huang will prick a pinhole in the ear of the grass doll herself, which is to make her "obedient". That night, we dispersed, and when we parted, I said to Hu Zongren, when you see the old couple, remember to ask them to apologize to the children.
Hu Zongren was stunned for a moment, and then quickly understood what I meant, and he said don't worry, I am the best at this kind of thing. I have no doubt about this, although I don't think that the old couple are any evildoers, but I always feel that this child's short life, although it cannot be said to be unfortunate, but the final death is related to their lives. This is not worthy of praise.
About a week later, I was about to forget about it, but suddenly I received a call from Hu Zongren, and his first sentence was that he had bought a new mobile phone and could play Angry Birds! So I congratulated him from the bottom of my heart. The second thing was to tell me that he sent me an MMS message, and I guess I would receive it when I hung up. I said, hello, what MMS are you sending at the end of the end, are you a M pig man? He said that everything that Granny Huang explained was done, and I could see the Tao after looking at the photos.
So I hung up the phone, and soon I received the message. I opened the MMS message with expensive traffic, and it was a photo of two old people kneeling in front of a straw man, crying bitterly.
Very good, little girl, you still have someone who cares about you, so go on the road with peace of mind.