Chapter 14: The Ancestors
When I came back, I asked Qin Yiheng what he meant, and he explained to me.
This cookie is actually the so-called tribute, whether it is a god or a deceased spiritual position, even if it is a monster that many places like to worship, there will be a corresponding tribute. On a larger scale, living sacrifices have been common since ancient times, and on a smaller scale, basic cakes and fruits are essential. It is rumored that after some gods have enjoyed the tribute (usually the tribute is still intact, but people are used to understanding it this way, putting the tribute on the offering table to make a show, and the next day they can take it away and eat it themselves), people eat the tribute enjoyed by those god gods, or prolong life, or drive away the sick and save people, or ask for children to get wealth, anyway, there will be endless benefits. Of course, this is just a rumor, and he has not personally verified it. But after eating the biscuit offered to the demons, at least I did not get any benefit, but suffered a lot of sin, which I have personally verified. I asked him, what is my intention to toss me like this?
Qin Yiheng explained that this kind of tribute to ghosts generally has three results. One is that the taste is sweeter, which is not fully reflected in the taste buds, but is mainly a feeling, just like saying that a kiss is sweeter. This sweeter tribute is the most dangerous, because it is said that this sweet tribute is because the thing that has enjoyed it is an evil thing that absorbs yang, and women will have menstrual disorders and miscarriages if they eat it; Men who eat it will lose sperm and languish; If you continue to live near this evil thing, you will be easily invaded.
The second is more bitter, and it also does not simply refer to the bitterness of the taste, but this kind of thing is good, because this thing that has enjoyed it will indeed help you, at least it will not harm you. This kind of tribute, even if it is not beneficial to the body, is basically harmless. It is said that after worshipping the gods, whether it is fruit or sweets, you will feel tasteless as chewing wax, or you can feel that the taste has become lighter.
And the third type is that it tastes sour. This kind of tribute has been tasted by something with resentment, and this kind of resentment is not the resentment of the ghost, but a kind of resentment, because the ghost will not accept the offering. This kind of tribute will have a sour taste when eaten, and it is usually harmless to the human body, at most it will cause stomach upset.
After listening to Qin Yiheng's explanation, I probably understood what he meant. I really want to lose my temper, since he knows this kind of test best, he should do it himself, and he ran to the toilet for a long time.
Although I don't think there is much factual basis for the truths he said, but when you think about it, it still barely makes sense. Something that has been put overnight will inevitably deteriorate in a humid environment, and it is normal to have diarrhea after eating, but now that things are clear, what should we do next?
He said that it was pitiful, and he didn't want to hurt anyone. If he can't do the same tricks he did against the ghosts, we'll find a way to get him out of the way.
Our previous way of exorcising ghosts was quite arbitrary and arrogant to put it bluntly, but today if you want to ask it to go by itself, and let a thing that has been nostalgic for so many years go by itself, this net will inevitably be too wide. But there is no way, Qin Yiheng said that I can only obey orders, who made me not know how to do it.
I had a brief discussion with him and decided to start with how the man died. Listening to the old man's story of the past, I think this thing is most likely the ancestor of their family, so the bell must be tied to the bell, and we can only ask their family.
This investigation is still quite tedious, we pretended to be curious, and asked a few old people in their family who are still alive, although they all know that the house is haunted, but they can't say a single thing about it. We asked the old man who showed us the house. The old man scratched his head and thought for a long time, and he could only say that this person should have been an official in the court before.
There is no clue for such a clue, Qin Yiheng and I stayed for another two days, and we already had the idea of going home. Qin Yiheng said, it's really not possible, we still have a way to give it a try.
I asked him what he could do, and he looked at me for a long time.
When I saw his gaze, I couldn't help but shudder, he must have stabbed me. I guessed it, and this time it seemed to worry me more than any before.
Although Qin Yiheng still said it lightly, I have been taught several times, and I really don't dare to believe him anymore. What's more, his bad idea this time was to get that thing on me.
Qin Yiheng has been persuading me, saying that this matter can only be digested and solved internally, and if we use people from their family, it will not be like that. I thought about it again and again, and he promised again and again, saying that he would guarantee that it would be no problem.
I thought about it, but gritted my teeth and agreed. I'm actually still in it for the money, and I'm really out of it.
When he saw that I relented, he took me to make some preparations: first dig a small pit outside the door of the side room, and then erect a flat pole inside, fortunately the master's family has one, otherwise this kind of thing is really difficult to find. Finally, he tied a small clasp on my middle finger with a black thread, and tied the other end of the thread to the flat pole, telling me that I would lose consciousness for a while, but if I felt the thread on my middle finger move, I should try to wake up. Although he will be fine next to him, he has to remind me in advance, to put it bluntly, it is like asking you to sign an operation notice before surgery.
I sat on that old bed and said to myself, "Fuck, why didn't you say it earlier, but now that I'm on a thief ship, I'm going to have to be slaughtered." Qin Yiheng walked around the room, tapped a few points with his feet on the ground, and then closed the door of the side room. The darkness came in at once, and he lit a piece of white wax, and put it on the spot he had spotted at the last point, and then shoved a handful of chicken feathers into my hand, and told me that the first moment I woke up, I threw the chicken feathers out the door, and threw them as far away as possible.
At this time, I began to get nervous, all kinds of fears jumped to my heart, and I was afraid that if I moved, I would tear off the black lines on my fingers, so I could only wait so strongly. After a while, I don't know if it is a psychological effect, and I really feel chills all over my body, and I can't stop shivering. All of a sudden, I felt something on my back. I didn't know what was behind the tunnel, and I lost consciousness in an instant.
To be honest, I've never slept so well in my life. I've imagined countless possibilities to guess what it's like to be topped. As a result, when Qin Yiheng suddenly woke me up with a loud shout, I found that I didn't feel anything about this process, and I didn't have any memory at all.
When I first woke up, my consciousness was still very blurry, my body was very tired, and I really wanted to continue sleeping.
But Qin Yiheng was next to me and hurriedly reminded me to throw the chicken feathers out of the curd. I hurriedly got up, and I couldn't care about the elegance anymore, so I slammed the door open, and threw all the chicken feathers out of the coffin. To my surprise, the chicken feathers did not move forward, but instantly flew up with a hula and flew everywhere.
After that, things are less absurd. Qin Yiheng put away his things and went back to explain the process to me. According to him, the person who came up to me was very elegant, and he seemed to speak very well-mannered, but he seemed to be very pitiful and always cried. I said, how come I woke up with a wet face.
I asked him what those previous steps meant. Qin Yiheng said that the middle finger is the heaviest position of a person's yang energy, and tying the middle finger is nothing more than an insurance policy for this person. If this thing is so strong that it really occupies my body, then this knot can help me retain the last bit of yang energy, so that I can still be saved. In fact, it can ward off evil spirits and fight ghosts, maybe modern urban people don't know about this, and now the development of society has led to this traditional tool is little known. According to the older generation, the level of medical care in the rural areas was very limited at that time, and because of the vast area and sparse population, the popularity was not heavy, so there were often incidents of corpse fraud. The zombies scratched and bitten when they saw people, and they were so powerful that no one could stop them, and they could only knock down the zombies by slapping them with a flat pole. Standing on the ground seems to be crumbling, but if there is a person who is ghostly and wants to break or push down the flat pole standing on the ground, the pole will suddenly become as stable as Mount Tai and as solid as a rock. Tie the black line on my middle finger to it, which is equivalent to finding the most solid force to hold me down. Although these things seem absurd and bizarre to say, there are indeed always things that challenge our common sense in this world.
As for the white wax, Qin Yiheng said that he just used the simplest way to point a few star positions in the room, and put the white wax in the position of Kui Xing, also to protect my yang energy. And the handful of chicken feathers that I threw away at the end of the day was the one that made me throw away bad luck. Although the things that have been on my body are not evil, but the people who have been on my body will have a minor illness at least and a year of bad luck at worst, so he asked me to throw away the bad luck the moment I woke up, which can alleviate the wear and tear caused by being on my body. As soon as he said this, I remembered the chicken feathers, and at the end of the day, it was indeed flying around against common sense. When I talked to him, he nodded, saying that basically the bad luck would be gone, but I was afraid that I would have to have a headache and brain fever, and it would be over after treatment.
When I wanted to ask what that thing told him, Qin Yiheng sold a pass, saying that everything would be revealed tomorrow. If this matter is solved, we may be able to make a lot of money in such a big house. I was so tired that I didn't have the energy to make money, so I simply went back to my room and lay down to sleep.
Nothing was said all night. When I got up the next day, it was already dawn, and my body was still too tired, so I got up and found that Qin Yiheng was no longer there, so I cleaned up and went out. I think Qin Yiheng must be in that side room now, and when he got there, he found that this big family was basically clubbed around, and Qin Yiheng was talking to a few strong laborers in this family.
He made a brief arrangement, and several strong men began to pick up sledgehammers and smash one of the walls of this side room. I was dumbfounded, the house looked like it was in disrepair, but I didn't expect it to be very solid. It took a few big men as strong as cattle to smash this wall open for a long time. Qin Yiheng kept staring at the side, smashed it for a while, shouted to stop, and ran to the root of the smashed wall to find something, and after a while, he actually took a shaft out.
I'm standing at the back of the line, so I can't really see it, it's probably a painting. When I looked closer, I realized that it was not a painting, but a fabric. I looked at it twice more and felt familiar, but I still didn't think what it was, and I asked him to find out that it was actually a holy decree. This is really a fantasy, and there has always been a holy decree hidden inside the wall of their house. Although the words written on it are very neat, I can't see what it means because I read too little of the book.
Qin Yiheng gave me a brief explanation, which probably meant that this person in their family could be ordered to return to Beijing and be reinstated.
After speaking, Qin Yiheng then explained to everyone:
The ancestor of their family committed something in the court and was demoted to three levels. What exactly is it, it may have something to do with the literary prison at that time. Then this person was still more arrogant, so he directly applied to the emperor to return to his hometown. The emperor was also kind and rewarded him with this house. Presumably this person still has a certain amount of talent, and after going home for two years, the emperor can still remember him, and wants to call him back to Beijing to be an official, but unfortunately he has died of illness at home at this time. This person was originally unwilling, so he was reluctant to be reincarnated, but this time it was good, as soon as the holy decree arrived, he felt even more wronged, so he kept making trouble at home. The family was also scared when they saw this, and the holy decree did not dare to burn it, so they had no choice but to build it into the wall of this side house. In this way, he followed him to the side room, and washed his face with tears in front of the wall all day long. However, Yin and Yang are separated, he definitely has no hope of returning to the dynasty to be an official, and now that the holy decree has been taken out, as long as it is burned and his resentment is appeased, this matter will be over.
When I heard that the holy decree was going to be burned, I was distressed! It is said that this thing is very valuable, but their family agreed that they could burn it, but they also burned some paper money, hoping to take a photo as a souvenir or something. Qin Yiheng said that it didn't matter, so he handed over the holy decree to the old man and let them deal with it themselves.
This trip was not in vain, although the experience was not difficult, but at least there was a beginning and an end, the most important thing is that after helping their family, the price of the house will definitely be able to be pressed down. When the big family finished the matter of the holy decree, I directly pulled the old man to talk about the price. The old man is really real, and he really discounted the price. I made a rough calculation, if this house was bought at his price, the profit would be quite huge, so I directly drew up a contract with the old man at that time and signed it.
After staying for another day and a half, and almost completing the transfer procedures, Qin Yiheng and I were ready to triumph. The family still wanted to keep us for dinner, so they refused to succeed. On the way back, I was very happy, but when I got on the train, I started to have a fever, took a few pills temporarily, and went directly to the hospital to get a drip after getting off the train. Qin Yiheng said that this is the sequelae of being, and it is good to recuperate for a few days. I took advantage of this time to rest for a while. It stands to reason that I've already let the chicken feathers fly for a while, and the bad luck should have dissipated, maybe I thought too much, and a house just after this one did make me unlucky.
However, in Qin Yiheng's words, that is, there should be such an incident in my life, so that the two of us inadvertently revealed a shocking secret.