Hu Zongren and I are both people who burn incense on weekdays, and our respective homes must also worship the gods according to the regulations, because we are still in office, unless we are away from home for a long time, otherwise, we must burn incense every day. And Hu Zongren and I both need to use the incense ashes we have enshrined as a means to fight ghosts to varying degrees, and we know a lot about ashes. Usually the paper is burned during the sacrifice, and the paper will quickly burn out because of its original softness and flammability, but even if the open flame is extinguished, there is still a dark fire. The so-called dark fires are those flames that you can't see, which is why when there is no flame, the pile of money and paper will still smoke. Any burning, whether it is burning incense and candles or burning money paper, is divided into three stages, the first stage is to see the flame, the second stage is to smoke, and when the smoke is rising, the ashes of the burned money paper are black. In the third stage, the black paper ash will be burned again, so that it will become gray-white, which is what Hu Zongren and I have seen so far.

And the paper ash that eventually burns out is very soft and even weightless. The moisture in the air will seep into it, causing the dampness of the paper ash, so the freshly burned paper ash will fly around under the action of external force, while the overnight ash has a certain viscosity. This is why Hu Zongren and I immediately judged it when we saw the paper ashes in the brazier. There are actually a lot of incense sticks in it, it doesn't look like it was burned all at once, and in the corners, there are some money paper that has not been burned, Hu Zongren picked it up and looked at it, and then told me that this is yellow straw paper, and it is also the most common money paper used to burn in Sichuan and Chongqing. There are two types of burnt paper, one is the coarse yellow straw paper with holes in the top to look like strings of coins, which is usually used to burn dead people. The other is very similar to the yellow rune paper we often use, the color is bright yellow, relatively smooth, but also very soft, often a whole sheet, and then folded into a rectangle. This is burned to bodhisattvas or gods. If, according to Mr. Yang, the Fujian employee who burned paper in this supermarket burned paper because of customs, it was obvious that he had chosen the wrong object. In other words, probably from the first day he started burning paper, he failed to invite the gods to pave the way for wealth, but invited some surrounding ghosts to join in the fun.

Hu Zongren said with a smile, this guy who burned the paper didn't even figure out who he was worshipping, and he didn't have an accident until now for so long, which is really lucky. I also smiled and said, but it's not, you said that there must be a lot of old residents around here, and there are more elderly people in the old residents, plus there is a hospital nearby, and people die every day, Mr. Yang, the ghost of the old woman they met, Bacheng is around. Hu Zongren threw away the money paper, and then said to me, you hit the compass and see what reaction is around here. So I took out my compass and started down the staircase from the first floor to the second floor, and as before, the passage was full of energy. It's just that the higher you go, the weaker it becomes, because after all, there are still people working on it, and the yang and yin qi have a certain countervailing effect on each other. And the closer I get to the brazier, the stronger it becomes, and it gradually weakens as I go down, which means that these ghosts are aimed at this brazier, they gather around the brazier, and the appearance of ghosts is completely certain that it is because after burning money paper this time, it has attracted ghosts from all walks of life.

However, I still haven't found the ghosts that are currently staying here, so Hu Zongren said, since I am here, I want to take them away, so let's also burn paper and worship it, I hope those good friends can be gentle with us later. I smiled and said to Hu Zongren, it turns out that you are still afraid of being rough, aren't you just a rough person? Didn't you stay with Fu Yunni because she was rougher than you? Hu Zongren laughed, while laughing, he took out the incense candle money paper from his bag, he is a Taoist priest, these things are more commonly used than me, although I also prepare them on my body, but the number of times I use them is relatively small. Hu Zongren burns incense is not an ordinary burning method, but has the meaning of summoning spirits and inviting gods, others burn incense and talk about blessings and blessings, etc., but Hu Zongren is chanting incantations, Taoist incantations are strange, and most of them are composed of classical Chinese, so when we learn these incantations, we often memorize them, and then gradually understand them in actual combat, and slowly gain experience. By the year I met Hu Zongren, we had been able to know very clearly whether our incantation had been in a case or not, and whether or not it had summoned the ghost we wanted to summon.

After Hu Zongren finished reciting the mantra, he kneaded and scattered the money paper in his hand to form the shape of a fan, he lit a corner, and tried to let the flame ignite the rest of the money paper, his middle finger was on the top, the index finger and ring finger were below, and the money paper was between the middle finger and the index finger and ring finger, so at this moment, even if he didn't use his thumb to grasp it, the money paper was fixed on Hu Zongren's hand. This is a gesture of the Yaoshan sect to pat the seal, slap the charm, and burn the paper, because for Hu Zongren himself, whether the thumb is stretched out or rolled in, the meaning it represents is different from the posture of the spell caster. I won't go into detail about the reason, in short, when the money paper in Hu Zongren's hand was about to burn his fingers, he easily opened a few fingers, so that the money paper was scattered freely, and all the money paper would gather into the brazier at the same time as it fell. Just after the last one fell in, the flames that were still burning suddenly felt a gust of wind blowing.

I know that Hu Zongren is good at controlling fire, and the Yaoshan Sect's method of soul detection is basically this principle. The flames began to shake violently with the wind, but Hu Zongren and I did not feel a trace of wind. Although this corridor is not completely sealed, but the place where both ends are ventilated, but they are outside the corner, if you say that this corridor is the most unventilated, it must be where we are standing at the moment, I think this is also one of the reasons why the Fujian employee chose to burn paper here. But Hu Zongren did this, but he didn't remind me in advance, when I saw the flames scurrying, I knew that the ghost had invited Hu Zongren.

I scolded Hu Zongren and said, why don't you remind me? Hu Zongren replied to me, you didn't ask me yourself. I didn't bother to continue to struggle with him, so I quickly took out the compass and looked at it, and the compass pointer in my hand began to rotate rapidly, but when it turned to a certain place, it immediately popped back. The way it bounces, like a needle in high speed suddenly hitting something, and the rebound that occurs, is very rare on my compass, so few that I can count the fingers of one hand, and I understand that this kind of rebound indicates that there are other ghosts around me, so the compass doesn't know where to point. And the place where the compass springs back is exactly where I am at the foot at the moment, which means that where I stand, there is a ghost crouching or standing next to me, I can't see it, but it is like me, around the brazier.

When I thought of this, I quickly stepped back to the side, and pulled Hu Zongren over by the way, I felt that my backward jump posture at that time, even in the Olympic arena, could cause an exclamation from the audience and the judges' seats. Hu Zongren was suddenly pulled by me, and he seemed a little staggered. He impatiently shook off his hand and asked me, what are you doing? I said something was coming from where we were standing. After speaking, I brought the compass to Hu Zongren to show him, Hu Zongren looked at it and said, what does it mean to keep playing around like this, my eyes are all around me. I said that on the surface, the pile of money paper you burned just now attracted the ghosts around here, and it also shows that the ghosts around this place will quickly gather because someone burned the paper, that is, in addition to the existence of this phenomenon for a long time, they are almost every day to be fed, just like those stray cats and dogs, if someone feeds them in the same place for many days in a row, then if the person who feeds them does not come on any day, these cats and dogs will still wait in this place.

Hu Zongren nodded and said to me, then if we take away all these ghosts in front of us now, will it mean that we will solve the problem in the fastest way? I said that's the way it works, it's like if you catch an ant, and the ants run away after you smash the nest, it's very difficult for you to catch them all, but if you put some sugar water on the edge of the nest, you can quickly catch them all. Hu Zongren said, then let's try it, if we catch it, we will solve it one by one, and send it on the road one by one.

So I put the compass back in my bag, pulled out another piece of red rope, and pulled out five head-sized coils hanging from the five fingers of my right hand, for I could see from the compass that although there were several ghosts here, I could be sure that there would be no more than five, and if we could locate one of them, it would only be a matter of how and when we could catch the rest. Hu Zongren only needs to sprinkle a handful of incense ashes to make this group of ghosts appear. Hu Zongren also held one edge of the gossip bag in his right hand, making the mouth of the gossip bag as big as possible, and then picked up a handful of incense ashes in his left hand, nodded at me, and then sprinkled a handful of incense ashes.

How to describe it, let's put it this way, I clearly saw the incense ash hovering in mid-air, almost only a few tenths of a second, so I was able to determine the location of the group of ghosts was the location I guessed, when Hu Zongren and I were about to pounce on the blind man to catch a few of the fish and catch a few first, just when I just raised my steps and moved forward, the incense ash actually bounced towards me and Hu Zongren in the opposite direction, which caught me off guard, and accidentally, the incense ash entered my eyes.

I hurriedly stopped, crouched on the ground, and then turned around, trying to turn my back on the ghosts, thinking that the back was better than the front. Then I reached out and rubbed my eyes, and at this moment I heard a muffled snort of Hu Zongren in my ears, followed by a hula sound, from near and far, if I guessed correctly, it was the sound of Hu Zongren rolling down the stairs. When I was about to shout at Hu Zongren, my left rib was pushed by a force, and it didn't hurt, but I lost my center of gravity, and then I felt dizzy and had severe pain in many parts of my body, because I was also pushed down the stairs.

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