Chapter XXVI. Secret Room Knot (plus more, thank you @Edward Xylem for the crown)
While Hu Zongren went to the toilet, I continued to chat with Mr. Liu's wife for a while. From her words, I felt that her daughter's symptoms were similar to those of most ghosts, and the biggest difference was that she had her own request, which was to go home. So when Hu Zongren came out of the toilet after going to the toilet, I said to Mr. Liu, I hope he can take us to see his daughter now.
Mr. Liu took us to the end of the second floor, and near the window outside the room, there were two middle-aged women who were chatting. When they knew that Hu Zongren and I were here to get rid of ghosts, they also made a way for us. Mr. Liu twisted open the door of his daughter's room, and the light was not turned on in the room, but there was a window. The windows are covered with white gauze curtains, so the room is not bright, but it is still clearly distinguishable. Mr. Liu whispered to me in my ear that I didn't dare to turn on the light, and his daughter would be angry as soon as the light was turned on.
Following the direction pointed by Mr. Liu, I saw a large bed, and on the edge of the bed on the side of the big bed far away from us, there was a girl sitting with her back to us. The girl has long hair, and her hair grows to the size of a vest. Judging from the back, perhaps because of the relationship between wearing cool pajamas, it looks like the girl's figure is very slim. And looking at the photos before, the girl is indeed beautiful, and if such a girl is a ghost, it is really a worthless thing. So I touched Hu Zongren and whispered to him, you recite some of your Yaoshan mantras in your heart, and then go around to the front of this girl lightly to see if she can notice you.
Hu Zongren answered, he first walked around to the bed, pretending that nothing was wrong, with his hands in his trouser pockets, and then his eyes slanted at the girl on the edge of the bed, and then walked over with a hanging child. From my point of view, Hu Zongren had already walked to the front of the girl, and he should have chanted a mantra in his mouth, but the girl was still motionless. I couldn't see the girl's expression, so I could only guess that she was expressionless at the time. So I gestured to Hu Zongren, which means that you chant the mantra a little louder, so loud that she can hear it. Hu Zongren understood, nodded at me, and the voice of the mantra became louder, so loud that even I could hear it standing on the other side of the room.
And at this moment, the girl who had been sitting quietly on the bed suddenly shuddered, and she began to shrug her shoulders as if a cat had suddenly become vigilant. Hu Zongren was startled by her sudden movement, he subconsciously took a few steps back, held his hand against the wall, and then looked at me. I said to Hu Zongren, you keep reading and see what she can do further. This time my voice was a little louder, and if the girl hadn't been ghosted, she could have heard what I was saying.
So Hu Zongren continued to read, and his voice was much louder than before, and at this time, the girl who was shrugging her shoulders and had a strange posture suddenly jumped up from the bed and threw herself towards Hu Zongren. Seeing this, I hurriedly ran over and grabbed the girl who was screaming on Hu Zongren's body, her strength was very strong, and it took me a lot of effort to tear her hand away from Hu Zongren, and at the same time, I saw this girl's expression for the first time.
The girl's expression is very hideous, the two eyebrows and the bridge of the nose have been tightly entangled, there are a lot of bloodshot eyes, there are deep dark circles under the eyes, and the lips are white.
I finally arrested the girl, Mr. Liu saw this scene, and also came to help, he and I pressed the girl to the bed, Hu Zongren coughed a few times and struggled to stand up. I began to bring my mouth to the girl's ear and whispered a reassuring incantation. This is what my master taught me in my early years, and he said that when she encounters some ghost with a lot of anger in her heart, if it can relax a lot because of one of our pacifying spells, it means that her obsession is not unsolvable. Fortunately, although I pressed her my hand, she soon quieted down because of the chanting of the mantra, and her reaction to the struggle became weaker and weaker.
Mr. Liu saw that his daughter rolled her eyes, maybe he felt that rolling her eyes was almost the same as dying, he asked me anxiously, what was going on, how could this be, I said to him, don't worry, she hasn't had a good rest for so long, she just fell asleep. I saw that Mr. Liu looked a little incredulous, so he said, okay, it can't be regarded as sleeping, it's more like fainting.
I removed my hand from the girl and asked Mr. Liu to cover her with the quilt, so I turned my head and said to Hu Zongren, have you seen the girl's eyes? He said he saw it, and this one must be a bit fierce this time, but I think we can still clean it up. The reason why I asked Hu Zongren if he saw her eyes was because I noticed that when I pulled her up, the girl's eyes, especially the part that should have been black with pupils, were foggy. It looks like an elderly cataract, with an egg white-like layer covering the eyes. This shows that the reason why this girl was caught by a ghost was not because of her physique, but because she had seen the ghost on her upper body with her own eyes, and she may have been possessed before she had time to react.
There is a theorem circulating in our industry, whether it is Buddhism, Taoism or witchcraft, and even more sects scattered among the people and dealing with ghosts, we all know the Tao, and we must not look at ghosts. The ultimate purpose of ghosts influencing the living is possession. Whether intentionally or not, this principle remains the same. Because when you look at it, it is very likely that you will be "ghost-changed", that is, you can borrow your eyes to see things, until you can borrow your hands and feet to do your own thing, that is, you have been put on the body. And the white thing in the girl's eyes can be said to be ironclad evidence that she was changed by a ghost, because the white thing belongs to the body of this ghost.
I asked Hu Zongren, what do you think should be done now? Hu Zongren's way of treating ghosts is different, I use the method of scaring to scare the ghosts out, but it also depends on the situation, some stubborn ones, they will ignore me at all. And Hu Zongren's Taoism is to directly exorcise ghosts, not only the girl has to cooperate with Hu Zongren in this process, but she will also suffer a lot of pain because of this, plus Hu Zongren and I promised Granny Huang to send this ghost home, so we can't use this extreme way.
After thinking for a while, Hu Zongren said to me, Otherwise, while she is asleep now, you can check the house first to see if the ghost is in her body or outside at the moment. If it's still in the body, put this room in a circle, and try to force the ghost out of the body. Hearing Hu Zongren say this, I began to look around at the environment in this house. There is a disc-shaped ceiling lamp on the ceiling, with a white lampshade. The place where Hu Zongren was pounced on before was a window behind him. I walked up to the window and tried to calculate the angle, and found that if the light was turned on, I could see the ceiling light directly through the refraction of the window glass at the head of the bed. Next to the window is a door, Mr. Liu told me that outside this door is the living balcony of my daughter's room, and the air conditioning case and sundries are also placed inside. Directly opposite the foot of the bed is a solid wood writing desk, which is quite long, with a back-mounted television on the wall, and an olive-shaped mirror that can be rotated. In other words, if I lay flat on the bed, I would be able to see the ceiling light on the ceiling by adjusting the angle of the mirror. The girl's bed is floor-to-ceiling, which means that people can't go directly under the bed, which means that when I turn on the lights in the house, the only thing in the room that can't be directly illuminated by the lights is under the desk, except for the living balcony.
Thinking of this, I suddenly felt that this could be done, but there would still be some risks, and although we had appeased the ghost at the moment, no one could guarantee how to catch it without damaging it, and whether it would be willing to be captured. So I said to Hu Zongren, you can help draw some talismans now, just the thunder talisman, but don't be particularly vigorous, I don't want you to split it all at once. Hu Zongren asked me, is it the kind that can be used with a little electricity? I said yes. How many did he ask me for? I pointed my finger back and forth to the room a few times, and after doing the math, I said 7 is about the same.
After speaking, I looked at the time, the time was quite early, there were still more than 2 hours before it got dark, and the method I came up with, although it may not be possible to do it only when it is dark, but it is true that the effect will be better when it is dark. Before that, I started to prepare, I said to Mr. Liu, please exit the room and wait, because I will try to force out the ghost in your daughter's body later. Mr. Liu nodded and stood outside the door. Hu Zongren and I didn't close the door, but deliberately let Mr. Liu see what we were doing.
I took out the grave soil from my bag, closed the door of the living balcony, and then scattered the grave soil evenly in the crack of the door, which was kind of blocking the way to escape to the living balcony. Then I opened the curtains, and on the two windows, I drew a dress. Then I stepped on the stool, removed the lampshade of the ceiling lamp, used a black pen to draw a compress on the inside of the lampshade, and adjusted the mirror on the table so that the light could shine through the mirror directly to the position of the pillow on the current bed. This is so that after a moment when the lights are turned on, the light can cover the entire room, except under the desk.
By the time I was all ready, Hu Zongren's talisman was almost finished. The consumption of Taoist talismans is large, so if you see a lot of monthly sales of enlightenment blessing charms in an e-commerce company, please remember that few Taoist priests can amuse you in such batches. Then I asked Mr. Liu for scotch tape, spread all the red ropes on the ground, and pulled red lines horizontally and vertically in several opposite corners of the room. It's not a single array, but it's all over the bed, which means that if you look down at the bed from the position of the lamp, you can see that the red lines divide the whole room into many small parts.
This time, the red rope I chose was used as a spirit binding, and it was much more powerful than what I did on a daily basis. I asked Hu Zongren to paste the talisman on these threads, and there was one on each thread. At the end, I took out the last rope and tied it to the handle of the living balcony door, and the other end stretched out to the position where Mr. Liu was currently standing, outside the door.
I asked Mr. Liu to take a bowl, hung it halfway in the air but did not fall, and put it on a stool under the desk. Then ask Hu Zongren to open his gossip bag and lay it flat at the mouth of the bowl. After I had all the work done in the house, the last step was to sprinkle the grave at the door, just like the door of the living balcony, so that the room would be a completely confined space for the ghosts.
The next thing to do is to wait quietly for dark.