Chapter 56. Cash register
Hu Zongren squatted down and went to the pile of shoes on the ground to check, and then he looked up and told me that the heel of the right foot of these shoes seemed to have been stepped on and had wrinkles. I said yes, so what do you think that means? Hu Zongren once stammered, does it mean that this shoe will not sell well in the future?
Before I had time to scream, Li Jia took Hu Zongren's words and said, That's not necessarily, as long as you break it back a little and wipe it with water, you can still sell it, and you can't see it. I felt that it would be humiliating for me to continue to fight these two strange creatures, so I patiently said that it meant that the ghost had only stepped on his right foot.
I've encountered this kind of one-legged ghost before, more than once. But at the moment, whether this is a one-legged ghost or not, I can't tell for the time being. So I asked Li Jia to zoom in on one side of the shelf of his model airplane, turn it on, and aim the camera at an angle of 45 degrees to the whole store, so that we can clearly see the situation in most stores from the screen. Judging from the picture, except for a few of us, there was nothing unusual in the store, so Hu Zongren went to guard the door of the store, holding the thunder talisman and the nine phoenix talisman left to us by Fu Qiang in his hand, these two talismans are quite powerful, if there is a ghost who dares to pounce on Hu Zongren head-on, it must be a soul scattered. I took the compass and looked back and forth in the room, and after walking around, I was surprised to find that in this small boxy store, except for a small area of the cash register, there were no supernatural reactions in any other place, even including the men's leather shoes on the display shelves, there were supernatural reactions densely distributed. I didn't check the ceiling and light bulbs because they were a bit high, but there were paranormal reactions scattered everywhere I could reach the walls, so I think the ceiling and light bulbs were also there.
This is almost the entire storefront of the supernatural reaction, as if to tell me, the traces of this female ghost are all over the most places here, maybe just walk around and take a look, judging from the strength of the supernatural reaction, it is not particularly strong, but it is not weak. And under the shelves on both sides, where the shoes were scattered, I also found some traces of similar paint. From experience, it was dripping blood, and every time I put the compass close to the blood, it turned very hard. The blood stain on the surface was part of the female ghost's body.
Looking at it, there was no supernatural reaction at the cash register, and when I looked up, it was because there was a God of Wealth there. Business people are accustomed to putting things such as toads, ingots, and the God of Wealth on the wealth position in their stores, which means paving the way for the God of Wealth. And Mr. Chen's shop, at first glance, is to find someone to specifically look at the wealth position, although the God of Wealth is the main job is to attract wealth and treasure, but also divided into the God of Literature and Wealth and the God of Martial Wealth. And it is precisely the God of Wealth offered by Mr. Chen's store that is Guan Gong. In addition to attracting wealth, Guan Gong also has the effect of driving away evil in the town, generally speaking, once the statue of Guan Gong is offered in the right position at home or in the store, at least in the area guarded by Guan Gong, there should be no ghosts. Guan Gong is known for his integrity and loyalty all his life, and he is jealous and hateful, and in this small shop, this female ghost did not give Guan Er Ye face, but did not violate the position of Guan Er Ye, it is conceivable that the ability of this ghost is naturally not small.
I asked Hu Zongren to throw me a small piece of candle, and then lit it, and sealed the blood stains on the ground with a drop of wax. The freshly burned wax oil is piping hot and will solidify quickly in the air. And I determined that the blood stains on the ground should belong to the body of this female ghost, otherwise there would not be a relatively strong supernatural reaction. Wax oil is a very effective sealing material, for example, when many Taoist people collect ghosts into the gourd or bottle, in addition to pasting a sealing charm on the outside, they also thickly seal the gourd mouth with wax oil to achieve a foolproof effect. At this moment, I didn't draw talismans, and spells were not my strong point, so I used wax oil to drip on the bloodstains, on the one hand, to properly seal some of the ghosts scattered in this room, and secondly, to use this method to test the female ghost here, to see how hostile it was to my approach.
Sure enough, with every drop of wax oil I dropped, the hands on the compass flicked up as if they had been draped on its skin, and it had reacted to me with the change in its energy. The lights in the room started to flicker on and off, which was a red flag, at least a sign that what I was doing was something it wasn't happy about. Seeing this, Mr. Chen leaned slightly in the direction of Li Jia, who looked intently at the display screen on the remote control in his hand.
I sensed that something might be wrong, and that our presence was an unhappy thing for this female ghost here. But since I came, I didn't intend to make it happy, so I stopped the action of dripping wax in my hand, put the candle aside but did not extinguish it, I said to Hu Zongren, let's close the door, you can now paste the drawing charm on the door, close the door and catch the ghost, but you can't let it run away. So Hu Zongren and I closed all the doors and windows, and even closed the bathroom door. I began to circle the whole house with red rope, and every time I came around a corner, I tied a dead knot, and the rope made a total of five knots, four in the corners, and the last one at our entrance and exit door, because I needed this knot to connect the rope end to end. Hu Zongren had put talismans on several doors and windows, so that the whole room was completely sealed within the confines of my rope array.
It's not all about it, because after all, I'm just going around in circles. I asked Hu Zongren, do you still have incense ash there? He looked at his bag and said that there were quite a few, and I told him that the female ghost that Mr. Chen said had no tongue and spit blood in her mouth, and she must have died a tragic death, which can't be wrong, but in addition to serious internal injuries, ordinary bleeding is external injuries. Considering that this female ghost may only have one foot, the possibility of trauma is also reasonable, so you see that we force it out, how to force it?
Although I am no longer separated from Hu Zongren, I still hope to consider his opinion more at this moment, because in the final analysis, these things are actually caused by him, and he has no way to stay out of them. Hu Zongren said, then let's use blood too. I nodded, and put both hands in my trouser pockets. Hu Zongren saw that I didn't mean to bleed myself, so he smirked a few times, stretched out his left hand, and pierced his middle finger with an awl. Then he grabbed a handful of incense ashes with his right hand, recessed his palm, and dripped blood into the incense ashes.
Hu Zongren's awl is said to be used to drill bones, because occasionally we will have such a heavy taste as opening a grave. If the owner of the tomb happens to be the ghost we want to clean up, we need to break its bones. The tip of Hu Zongren's awl is the kind of quadrangular shape, a bit like our Phillips screwdriver, but it is sharpened, so this awl is not as simple as a knife to cut a little blood and it will scab on its own. After all, this awl can even pierce the skull.
Hu Zongren said to Li Jia and Mr. Chen while bleeding, I rely on you to know how valuable the blood of our group is, the space in which we live is between people and ghosts, and people like us are equivalent to a medium in these two worlds, which is much more valuable than chicken blood and dog blood! Li Jia said, chicken blood and dog blood can still be eaten, this person's blood is disgusting when he looks at it, who still eats it. Hu Zongren scolded, eat and eat, you know how to eat, do you know how to eat, do you want to be reincarnated by a starving ghost? After scolding, he smiled and said to me, brother, you can call my wife later, let her get me some egg bone broth or something, I want to replenish my blood. I said that you just shed so much blood and shouted to make up for it, that person Fu Yunni bleeds every month, why aren't people as squeamish as you. As soon as I finished saying this, Hu Zongren suddenly shook his head and said yes, why didn't she seem to bleed this month...
As he spoke, Hu Zongren's finger blood had soaked most of the incense ash in the palm of his hand, he looked at it and said that it was almost now, so he put the middle finger of his left hand in his mouth very indecently and sucked it, the picture looked very uncomfortable, especially with Hu Zongren's face, I couldn't help but show a sneering expression. Hu Zongren turned around, sprinkled the incense ash mixed with blood on his hand little by little on the rope that I had already knotted, and just spared it, leaving a lot in the palm of his hand, he pinched it, and then said to me vaguely with his fingers in his mouth, Okay, let's force that ghost out.
I asked Li Jia and Mr. Chen to stand in the corner, in the corner where Li Jia had placed the remote control plane, and when they stood over, I began to continue to drip wax on the blood stains on the ground. With each drop of increase, the reaction is getting stronger and stronger, and the lights are flickering, and I am quite worried about what to do if it will flash down, and it is not too early at this time, although it is dark late in the summer in Chongqing, but it is not enough to close the doors and windows and still see clearly. After I had almost dripped all the blood on the ground, the compass had begun to turn rapidly, indicating that the ghost had been enraged.
So I plucked up my courage, leaned my butt against the table at the cash register, and chanted the incantation aloud. Soon I felt the sound of a gust of wind passing by quickly, and I smelled a foul smell in my nose. Hu Zongren and I stood diagonally on the other side, and the lamp hanging from the ceiling began to shake like the wind, and the iron door began to sound like a wind, but the process did not last long, and it stopped almost after I finished reciting a mantra.
I looked around and looked at the compass in my hand, still spinning wildly, smelling rotten eggs in my nose, but I didn't see anything. At this time, Li Jia suddenly let out an "oh~" sound, and then said to me, it turns out that the female ghost looks like this, which is really different from the movie.
I was taken aback when I heard it, because I knew that he had seen the female ghost from the screen in his hand, and when I was in a hurry, the voice was very loud, so I asked Li Jia loudly, did the female ghost come out? Where is it?
Li Jia said, hahaha, standing right behind you, like a cashier!