Chapter 35. Case 6: The imp enters the house
I don't know if it's a delusion on my part, because I seem to be aware that when Ms. Du said this, her tone and expression were full of repulsion. It's no wonder that whoever let this little kid torture people for many days, whether it is intentional or unintentional, what should not be left must not be left, for more than ten years, even if I have more emotions in my heart struggling, I will not lose this principle.
Hu Zongren saw that Ms. Du had confirmed, so he asked us to stand behind him, because no matter how old the ghost was, they didn't like others to stand behind it, so we faced the direction of Hu Zongren's squatting, and still cooperated with Hu Zongren with a "please" gesture, and Hu Zongren grabbed a small handful of about twenty or thirty grains of rice from the pile of rice grains on the ground, put it in his mouth, and then chewed it. He muttered to himself as he chewed, well, it seems to be Hubei rice, this rice is not delicious.
I kicked him in the ass, and he turned his head to glare at me, and I glared at him, meaning you don't get nervous and get down to business. Hu Zongren reluctantly turned his head, knelt down on one knee, first lit three incense sticks with the flame of the candle on the rice pile, then made three strokes, and then inserted the incense on the rice pile, and then his hands were in the shape of tiger claws, his left hand was on the top, the palm of the hand was facing down, and the right hand was on the palm of the lower hand up, and after the hands were clasped and held with each other, he stretched out the index finger and middle finger of both hands, and then hooked the little finger of the other hand with his thumb. Afterwards, Hu Zongren told me that this was a secret hand decision in their Yaoshan Dao Method, and the direction of the index finger and middle finger was on both sides of his side, which meant left and right protectors, representing left and right. And the thumb clasping the little finger is to say that the end is connected, and the first one means up and down, so that the effect of the incantation is added, so that Hu Zongren is in a central area, Hu Zongren told me, this central area is also a gray area, knowing the world and the world, and seeing yin and yang. Humans and ghosts originally belonged to two worldly realms that should not overlap, and since they were interconnected, one of them entered this gray area, which is what we often call "media".
And the medium here is obviously the pile of rice on the ground that means something. Hu Zongren was chanting the mantra with rice in his mouth, according to his words, during the time when he repeated the mantra eighteen times, he could actually use two minds, that is, during this time, we may seem to be staying in place and chirping in his mouth, but in fact he was taking advantage of this time to communicate with the ghosts, I mean, in his head or in his heart.
I haven't been able to learn such a cool method yet, after all, this is not to be passed on. However, Hu Zongren also told me that this method is not suitable for all ghosts, such as suicide, not voluntary departure, strong resistance, heavy resentment, this kind of hostility between us and us from the beginning, they will not cooperate obediently.
Hu Zongren's kneeling was nearly half an hour. It was almost one o'clock at noon and I was still hungry, which made me a little unhappy, but I was really embarrassed to ask Ms. Du what she wanted to eat, and it was probably her daughter's work on weekdays. After Hu Zongren finished reciting the mantra, exhaled a breath, and then spurted out the rice in his mouth as if spurting blood, he slowly stood up, rubbed his knees, which were probably already kneeling, and then bowed three times towards the rice pile, and then turned around and walked to us.
Because of my hard mouth, I didn't want to ask Hu Zongren what the hell are you asking, so I just turned my head and told Ms. Du that he had finished it, and the implication was that I wanted Ms. Du to ask. Hu Zongren leaned against the wall and lit a cigarette, and then said to us, I have asked clearly, this little ghost is not coming for you, but you appeared around him by coincidence, and he approached you. Ms. Du asked, why do you want to be close to me, and I am not the only one who lives here on this floor!
Hu Zongren didn't answer her first, but spit out a cigarette and deliberately sprayed it in my face. I was enraged by his sudden and frivolous movements, and was about to stop him and ask him to be more respectful, when he suddenly said to Ms. Du, this child, this year is the third year of death, and the reason why he has been going in and out of your house is not to harm you and your daughter, but because he likes your mother and daughter.
Although I guessed a little, I still pretended to be surprised when Hu Zongren said this. Hu Zongren said that the only way this child may have played games before his death was to shout voice-activated lights in the corridor, which is why he will also play this game when his daughter plays this game. And your daughter is a little younger than when the child died, and there are a lot of toys in the house, and these players are players that he has never seen before, let alone played. The supernatural reaction that occurs in your daughter's bed is that sometimes he will sneak into your daughter's room and play with your daughter.
I saw Ms. Du shiver, as if she thought of a ghost playing with her daughter, what a terrible thing for a mother. And Hu Zongren went on to say, don't be so afraid, your daughter is not afraid, what are you afraid of? Ms. Du was stunned for a moment and asked Hu Zongren what he meant by this. Hu Zongren said, your daughter has known the existence of this little brother from the beginning, and the two of them are very good friends, your daughter just didn't know that this little brother has been dead for a long time, they play games together, share toys together, you, as a mother, haven't you noticed that your daughter has anything wrong with her speech and behavior? Ms. Du was reminded by Hu Zongren like this, and suddenly came to her senses, she trembled slightly with fright and said that when there were no strange things before, there were several times when she and her daughter had dinner together, I asked her, Sisi, do you think the kindergarten is fun? Sisi always said that it was fun, and she had a good big brother who always took care of her and played games with her. Another time she saw her daughter sitting alone in the living room playing with toys, talking to herself, and she didn't take it seriously, just before the strange thing happened, her daughter was naughty and criticized her, and then Sisi was very aggrieved and ran to the door and banged on the security door, crying while slapping and saying that she was going to play with her brother.
When she said this, Ms. Du actually slapped herself, saying that her daughter knew that there was a difference between this person and a ghost, and I should have paid attention to these phenomena a long time ago, I am really a careless mother! I kept my eyes on her, planning that if she slapped herself again, I would stop her. She suddenly pulled Hu Zongren's arm and said, Master Hu, please, you must save my daughter.
I was a little depressed, obviously all the clues were patched together, Hu Zongren just happened to come at this time and picked up a ready-made. Why don't you ask him to ask me? Hu Zongren took Ms. Du's hand away and said, Help? How do you want me to save it? People didn't hurt you, how can you save your life?
Hu Zongren continued, do you know what the Tao is for, there are only a few places in your house that have traces of this little ghost's activities? Your own room is clean and there is no problem at all, and if it really hurts you, your room must be full of energy. But every time it comes to your room, it stops, and doesn't go any further. This is also a place that we have been troubled by before, which is a bit different from the activity pattern of many ghosts, especially those who have become in a wandering state. It's not so much that it doesn't want to enter Ms. Du's room, but that it seems to feel that it shouldn't enter, as for why it would be like this, only Hu Zongren knows the answer at this moment.
Hu Zongren said to me, you just told me that you also found traces of it on the sofa in this living room, right? I said yes. Hu Zongren turned his head to Ms. Du and said, do you know the Tao? It's been in and out of your house for a long time before you even know it's there. Do you have a habit of knitting yarn on the couch every night after your daughter goes to bed, watching TV? Ms. Du was stunned for a moment and said, how did you know the Tao? Hu Zongren continued, you often lose track of time, and because you are tired during the day, you fall asleep on the sofa many times, right? Ms. Du said yes, this situation has happened many times, and each time she always wakes up at two or three o'clock in the middle of the night, and then finds that the TV has not been turned off, and she sleeps on the sofa again, so she gets up and goes back to her room to continue sleeping. Hu Zongren asked Ms. Du, is it two or three o'clock at night? Do you remember the first time you saw that little ghost with your own eyes?
I also thought back to what Ms. Du said before, when she opened the door and hit it with a broom that night, it was because the little ghost was shouting outside the door, and that time was two or three o'clock at night. Hu Zongren went on to say that if you fall asleep on the sofa, this little ghost will always come in, run to you, fall asleep in your arms, and then wake you up in the middle of the night. I couldn't help but ask Hu Zongren, why would it do this? Hu Zongren looked at me and said, because it felt that Ms. Du's arms were very warm, and it envied Sisi for having such a mother who asked for warmth, but it was not jealous, and it never planned to compete for a mother from Sisi, but waited every day for Ms. Du to quietly come and lean on the sofa if she accidentally fell asleep, and deceive herself to feel it. And before two or three o'clock that night you heard a rapid shouting outside the door, and it was not that it was scaring you, but that it was only a way to get you to sleep, although it was not a good way, and you would certainly not be able to sleep, but it did not know what to do.
Ms. Du was said by Hu Zongren in a fog, she asked in a daze, feel the warmth of her mother? What about the child's own mother? Hu Zongren threw away the cigarette butt, although he threw it directly on the floor of Ms. Du's house very rudely. Then he said to Ms. Du, do you have a hammer at home? Lend me a use. Ms. Du didn't know what he was going to do, so she went to get the hammer, which was put with the scissors she had given me earlier.
Hu Zongren took the hammer and said to us, "Come with me."