Chapter Seventy-Eight. Case 13: Lonely grave ghosts
All this means that this girl is most likely not because of ghosts. Because if the ghost is on the body, even if there is only a trace of it, it will be revealed, and no matter how smart the ghost possessed by her is, it will never be smart enough to hide all the traces. Now it was difficult, and I saw that the girl was not a ghost, so I had nothing to worry about, so I stood up. Stretched out her hand and rolled the girl's eyelids, sure enough, her eyes were level, and even after I opened the eyelids, her eyes also looked at me, but unlike normal people, her pupils were a little dilated and a little dilated, which is more dangerous, because generally speaking, if the pupils are dilated for no reason, then people have entered the most backward stage. And since her eyes will actively and selectively look at me when I open my eyelids, this shows that the girl's consciousness is actually still clear, but her body is already very weak, uncontrollable, and unable to break free.
I'm starting to realize the urgency of the matter, and I guess we can't wait for that dun to arrive, so we have to do some contingency measures. So I gave you an analysis of the situation, although I knew that Aunt Deng and the girl's aunt might not understand what I was saying. After hearing this, Hu Zongren thought about it and said to Aunt Deng, Auntie, please take us to your husband's grave. When he went downstairs, Hu Zongren rummaged through his bag, then took out a stack of paper money, and took advantage of his walking skills to break up the money paper and turn it into one by one.
Aunt Deng's husband's grave is at the back of the house and walks along the Tiankan path, about 10 minutes away. Hu Zongren stood in front of the grave and calculated the direction, then shook his head and said to me, I am afraid that someone in this family knew feng shui before, and the place where he lived and was buried were all places with good feng shui, how could such a place be haunted, I really don't understand. After finishing speaking, Hu Zongren squatted down, cleaned up the weeds and leaves in front of the grave, made a clean land, and piled up the money paper like a hill, so that it could be burned in one fire later.
After piling it up, Hu Zongren took out the incense candles and helped light them. Hu Zongren and I have nothing to do with the people in this tomb, in other words, we burn incense and paper, which is actually not justified. People may not be able to receive the things that are burned, but he must know that we have burned them, which is like someone burning paper at the door of your house, even if you don't know each other, you know what is going on. After Hu Zongren lit the candles, he inserted them in the soil at both ends of the tombstone, and then took out a large handful of incense, about ten of them, and after burning them, he shook them a few times to extinguish the open flame, and only when the open flame was extinguished could smoke come out. Hu Zongren gestured a few times in front of the grave with a large handful of incense in a posture as if he was holding a sword, and his mouth was full of words while gesturing. Because Hu Zongren is standing to complete the ceremony, so there is no respect or disrespect, the Taoist attitude is relatively hard, and the treatment of ghosts is often above and below, which is also the reason why most of the charms are written with the word "edict", what is the order, I say you do it is called the order.
After reciting a mantra, Hu Zongren stretched out his left hand and spread it flat, holding the incense in his right hand, and patted his left hand with the middle section of the incense, so that the part of the incense ashes burned on the top fell down, leaving a bright tongue of fire, and then Hu Zongren said to me, when I light the fire, you can look at your compass, and tell me if something comes, and I will judge according to the direction of the flame. I said yes, so I took out the compass and held it in my hand.
As a Taoist, Hu Zongren's methods can be regarded as a lot of streamlining, but the order of the ceremony must not be messed up. Taoism, as one of the most typical and oldest local religions in China, in its early days, most of the methods and techniques were based on summarizing practice, which caused many cases when they followed the procedure to complete the process of a practice, and they would know whether the Tao was successful or not, but they could not know what made the Dharma successful. For example, it's like a 100-meter sprint, and the 99.9 meters in front of you are all prepared for the last 0.01 meters of the line, during which even if you don't run the 99.9 meters in front of you, but jump or even climb over, as long as the key step is right, then the effect of the ritual will be achieved. Therefore, usually there is a large paragraph of Taoist mantras, and the real effect may only be a short sentence. There is no disrespect in saying this, since it is an integral part of culture, since it has been left behind, there must be a reason for it.
Before Hu Zongren lit the fire, I looked at the compass carefully, there was a small fluctuation, I guess it was because I lit incense and candles and knocked on the tomb door just now, but I can't be sure that it was Aunt Deng's husband who caused this slight fluctuation in the tomb. But with such a faint agility, if it could make that girl become the virtuous she is now, I really don't believe it. I nodded to Hu Zongren and said that I was ready, Hu Zongren put the handful of incense in his hand together, let the tongues of fire close to each other, and then squatted down, puffed up his cheeks and blew hard towards the tongue of fire, and the open flame on the incense burned again. Hu Zongren took the incense in his hand as a torch, and set the pile of money and paper that had been piled up before from the bottom to ignite the fire, because it was dismantled in advance, and the pile was very fluffy, the yellow straw paper itself was also on fire when it saw it, and soon the flames were high, and after Hu Zongren lit the fire, he put the incense in front of the fire, and then took two steps back, pinched the fingers in his hand, and pointed to the fire and chanted. Just when the fire was halfway through, the flames suddenly changed from strong to weak, and then from weak to strong, and the flames began to go against the direction of the wind.
So I lowered my head and looked at the compass carefully, the compass began to rotate very irregularly, the agility was not small, and I was surprised to find that there was now more than one ghost around the fire because of Hu Zongren's incantation. I never thought of this, because Hu Zongren's rituals were made for Aunt Deng's deceased husband, so even if there are ghosts, it should be Aunt Deng's deceased husband, but at this moment, there are several more, and there are no other graves around except this one grave, so where did these ghosts come from, lonely souls and wild ghosts? If it is a lonely ghost and a wild ghost, how can it be so strong, does it mean that at the beginning, the weak and peaceful reaction on the compass was the ghost of Aunt Deng's deceased husband?
After the money paper was burned, only a puff of smoke came out of the ash heap, until this time, the strange agility still did not dissipate, Hu Zongren and I took a few steps back from the perspective of self-protection, Hu Zongren even put his hand on the gossip bag on his waist, and watched the direction of the smoke in the ash heap with vigilant eyes. I pulled Aunt Deng behind me to avoid accidents. Hu Zongren and I remained vigilant until the smoke cleared and the flames went out. I looked at the compass again, and the agility was still there, but it was much weaker, but I was sure that it was not because they were gone, but because I was far away from Hu Zongren. So I turned my head and asked Aunt Deng, after you buried your husband, did anything else happen about this tomb? For example, if it rains, it will be washed away, or what insects like earthworms have grown in the grave? I'm not asking for no reason, because these two possibilities will cause the yin energy of the owner in the tomb to be consumed, and if the tomb has a gap or collapses due to water flow or other reasons, the originally sealed tomb will be breathable, so that the yin qi will be dissipated to a trivial matter, and it is easy for the souls of the dead inside to escape. Earthworms and other animals are born with loose soil, and loose soil is also prone to cause problems such as flooding.
Aunt Deng said, this has not been, the tomb has always been good, that is, when the tomb was first repaired, there were a lot of weeds and shrubs around, and after a long time, they all died, and I don't know what the road is for. If I had to say anything strange, I saw a ghost fire in his grave the year after his death. Ghost fire is not unusual, it belongs to the human body after the decay and degradation of the surrounding environment, the calcium in the bones is lost after the phosphorus is emitted, and after the phosphorus and the surrounding water come into contact, it will burn, turning into a small fire ball floating in the air. The vegetation around the grave is dead, which doesn't seem to make sense, because common sense says that instead of dying, it should become more and more lush. At this time, Hu Zongren said to me, you go to the front and explore again to see if those things are still there.
So I walked forward slowly, only to find that those spirits were gradually disappearing, the reason why it was gradual, because the speed of dissipation was very slow, Hu Zongren and I and any of the ghosts here were not related, but how they walked still had a feeling of reluctance. I don't have anything to do with Hu Zongren, you can come over. Hu Zongren and Aunt Deng came over, and I began to check around the tomb, and soon the reaction on the compass returned to the original state, with a faint agility, so at this time I was sure that this weak reaction was Aunt Deng's deceased husband.
I reached out and touched the soil on the grave, it was all dry, there is no way to use such soil as grave soil, there is no harm, the overall feeling, this tomb owner seems to have been squeezed dry by someone, not only will it not harm others, but even self-preservation is a problem. And the cause of all this, if I'm not mistaken, is likely to be those ghosts that appeared inexplicably before, but should not have appeared.
Hu Zongren squatted on the ground, carefully examining everything around him, and then he stood up as if he suddenly thought of something, but his eyes were still staring at the ground, and he asked Aunt Deng, how long before your daughter got married and worshiped her father? Aunt Deng said that it had been almost two weeks. Hu Zongren also said, I found the money paper exchange that was burned at that time in front of the grave, as well as the incense candles and sticks that were inserted at the beginning, but why was there no paper of the firecrackers that were blown up?
Aunt Deng said that a few years ago, someone set off firecrackers when worshipping on the mountain, and burned the mountain, and later it was banned by the forest police.
Hu Zongren patted his thigh and said, I know what happened to your daughter, she met the second son.