Chapter 44: Fake Crying and Mourning
At this time, although I didn't quite understand what Zhang Yuan meant, I could hear the anxiety in his voice.
So I didn't dare to slack off, and I shouted one, two, three, with the abbot. It is more appropriate to tie the body of Wu with paper, or call it a corpse, and lift it high and put it behind the statue of the Great Sage.
The fragrance of the three pillars in front of the statue of the Great Sage is endless all year round, and now the paper is sitting cross-legged behind the statue of the Great Sage, as if he is also worshipping him.
After doing all this, I took out the paper figure double, snapped it, and slapped it on the bed.
I pinched the stand-in of Paper Zha Wu for two days, and it was already soaked with sweat and became dirty. The abbot and I cried at this paper figure, and I thought it was a little funny.
However, at this time, the matter is urgent, and we really can't care about laughing, and the two of us are sad and sad, and try to make a crying and mourning appearance.
And the abbot was even more desperate, he actually took out a roll of yellow paper from the meditation room, and burned it while crying, which was really a trick.
I was crying without tears. Suddenly, I heard the door of the Dasheng Temple clang.
It's like someone pushed them away. I turned my head to look back. But Zhang Yuan's urgent voice came: "Don't look, cry quickly." "
I knew that something had happened, and I didn't dare to slack off. Kneeling beside the bed with the abbot, I called Old Man Wu: "Third uncle." The abbot called him: "Second uncle." The two of us took one bite at a time: "You died so miserably." "
I was crying when I suddenly felt a chill pass through the back of my heart, and then pass over me, all the way to the bed.
I was shocked: "The ghost from the coffin shop is really chasing after me?" "
Under Zhang Yuan's persecution, I also learned how to perceive yin and yang for a while. It's just that it hasn't come in handy.
Today, at this time, I suddenly became aware of it. This burst of yin qi contains two people. They passed from behind me and the abbot, and then stood straight by the bed.
Immediately afterward, I saw the stand-in that had been attached to the bed suddenly stand upright. As if struggling, the paper figure stood up and sat down again. Sit down and stand up again.
Suddenly, some red dots appeared on the paper figure, and then, these red dots became more and more, gradually intertwined into pieces, and dyed its entire body red. It looks like a bloody man.
I stared at the bloody man with both eyes, my heart stirring, and my mind was chaotic. Even forgot to cry.
At this time, the abbot, who was lying on the side of the bed, dragged me and began to cry loudly.
I came back to my senses, and followed his rhythm with the buzzing of the indiscriminate number, although my mouth was crying, but my eyes were always on the paper figure.
Finally, as if the paper figure had finally exhausted its strength, it let out a soft sound. The blood all over its body exploded from its body with a thud, forming a cloud of blood mist around it.
I immediately smelled a smell of blood and quickly held my breath.
The blood mist drifted down and fell on the bed, on me and the abbot. Then, the paper figure flew up lightly, fluttering, and flew out of the door. It's like there's a hand holding it out of thin air.
The paper figure flew out of the coffin, and the cold feeling disappeared. It was as if I had gone through a big battle, and I went limp and collapsed to the ground.
And the abbot next to him was still wiping his eyes and tears.
I couldn't help but admire: "Abbot, you are good, you can cry tears if you fake crying." "
The abbot trembled and said, "Frightened, scared to cry." "
At this time, Zhang Yuan, who was staying in the corner, sighed, and also felt like he had been amnestied: "Fortunately, fortunately, he didn't take care of me." If these two take a close look around the Great Holy Temple, your master will be taken away. "
I asked Master, "What shall we do?" "
Zhang Yuan sighed: "Lift Old Man Wu out first and see if his body is still there." "
I wondered in my heart, what could he do if Wu was clearly hiding behind the Great Holy Temple?
The abbot and I climbed up to the altar and looked behind the Great Holy Temple, and couldn't help but sigh. Paper Zha Wu has simply turned into a blood gourd. The whole body was covered in blood, and I couldn't see it clearly.
The abbot and I moved the paper down with all hands and feet, and then asked Zhang Yuan, "What's going on?" "
Zhang Yuan said: "Although the paper man is a stand-in for Old Man Wu, after all, it is inextricably linked to his physical body. Now that the paper man has been crippled by those two ghosts, his body is naturally injured a lot. Now let's hide the two ghosts. But they soon find out that the paper figures they brought back are fake. So, you two should be quick with your hands and feet, and hurry up and collect the other souls of Old Man Wu. "
At this time, I remembered that the paper Zawu had divided the soul into forty-nine paths, and attached it to the paper figure and floated out.
Zhang Yuan instructed me: "Xu You, you go to Old Man Wu to look for it, he must have something to collect souls." "
I touched it around the paper and found a compass. This compass is a bit strange, the pointer is not pointing to the south, but a little to the west.
Zhang Yuan instructed me: "You and the abbot, the two of you, follow the compass, and before dawn, you must find the remaining paper figures." Those paper figurines are very simple, as soon as the morning dawns, the yang energy is steaming, and his soul must not be able to stand it. "
The abbot and I agreed, and hurried out of the Great Holy Temple with the compass.
I looked down at the pointer while the abbot helped me look at the road. The two of us walked fast. After rushing in the night for a while, I saw a paper figure lying on the riverbank.
The abbot carefully put away the paper figure and carried it in his arms.
This night, we walked almost all around the temple. Luckily, the paper figurines aren't far away, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to find them all before dawn.
By the time the abbot and I found the last paper figure, it was already dawn. I hurriedly handed him the paper figure and said, "Take it quickly." "
At this time, I suddenly noticed that the abbot's face was pale, and his lips were purple.
I was startled and quickly asked, "What's wrong with you?" "
The abbot shook his head innocently: "What's wrong with me?" Nothing, huh? "
Then, he shoved the paper figure into his arms and waved at me: "Let's go back quickly." I didn't sleep all night. You two are really my calamity. "
I followed him suspiciously, and said as I walked, "Abbot, I see that your face is a little wrong, are you uncomfortable?" "
The abbot turned around slowly: "What's wrong?" "
After saying this, he suddenly rolled his eyes and fainted on the ground.
I was startled and quickly squatted down, shaking and shouting. However, the abbot always lay limply on the ground, motionless.
I probed his nose, he was still breathing, and I touched his heartbeat, which was normal.
Fortunately, it is not far from the Dasheng Temple, so I carried the abbot on my back and walked towards the Dasheng Temple.
The abbot was very fat and had a hard time carrying it. At the end of the day, he was simply hanging on me and being dragged by me.
As soon as I entered the temple gate, I shouted one after another: "Master, something happened, the abbot fainted for unknown reasons, and he couldn't wake up no matter how he screamed." "
I put the abbot in the main hall. Zhang Yuan said lightly: "He's just an ordinary person, he can't stand Old Man Wu's soul." It's okay, just take out the paper figure and let him rest for a while. "
I dug it in the abbot's arms, took out the paper figures, and put them on the ground.
Zhang Yuan couldn't move, and the abbot was unconscious, and for a while, I didn't know what to do.
That's when I saw the paper figures move. As if the wind was blowing on them, slowly, they circled around the paper.
I looked back outside, and the sky was slowly getting brighter, and the night was slowly fading.
Zhang Yuan suddenly said: "It's too late, Xu You, burn the paper figure." "
I said yes, and without thinking too much, I picked up the candle and burned it to the paper figures.
Unexpectedly, the flame of the paper figure suddenly rose more than a meter high. I was there for a moment. It's just a palm-sized piece of paper, how can there be such a big flame?
While I was in a daze, the paper figures burned at a very fast speed.
I stood too close, and the tongue of fire licked at me, but I didn't feel any pain, instead, faintly, I saw a figure inside the fire.
I took two steps back, and saw that the flames were yellow on the outside and white on the inside, and the wick inside seemed to be a black shadow. Then the black shadow slowly walked out and walked onto the paper Za Wu.
The moment the black shadow walked up to the paper Zha Wu, the paper figure went out with a bang. Casually, Paper Zha Wu screamed in pain: "It hurts me to death." "
I looked up and saw that I had woken up. His face was covered in blood, but I could tell that he was weak now, and older than he had been last night.
Zhang Yuan asked, "Old man Wu, how is it?" "
Paper Zha Wu said angrily: "How is it? What do you say? I almost lost my life there. surnamed Zhang, Lao Tzu was miserable by you. "
I muttered in my heart, "My master is simply seeing who harms whom." "
I thought that Zhang Yuan would at least have to apologize pretendedly. However, Zhang Yuan actually said: "I'm not asking how you are, I'm asking how the coffin shop is." "
Paper Zha Wu was stunned for a moment, and then scolded angrily. Ignoring Zhang Yuan, he got up with difficulty, found a basin of water, and cleaned himself.
When I looked at it again after the paper was cleaned, I couldn't help but sigh: "He is really a lot haggard." His hair was half black and half hundred, but now it is all white. "
After the paper was cleaned up, his body was crooked and he lay on the futon.
Zhang Yuan asked again: "How is the coffin shop?" How is my daughter? "
Paper Zha Wu sighed: "Your daughter is going to have an accident." "
Zhang Yuan's voice suddenly became nervous: "What is going to happen?" "
"I was found when I was leaving. So, overheard something. In a few months, it's the Midyear Festival, and they're going to take your daughter to the underworld at that time. Later, their voices became quieter and quieter, and I couldn't help but lean over to listen, and as a result, I alarmed them and was chased all the way. A wisp of remnants was scattered. "