Chapter 19: Lost Soul
After more than a month, I went to bask in the sun every day according to Qin Yiheng's instructions, and it was a lot darker after the worst. During this time, Yuan Zhen actually contacted me, and although I was very interested, I didn't dare to move rashly. Because Qin Yiheng told me that when I saw those things with my own eyes, I should be quiet for a few days. The so-called quiet eyes refers to trying not to look at red things for a period of time, because red has the ability to ward off evil spirits, and after seeing it, it will offset your luck because of righteousness, which is a bit of a frostbite after not being able to roast with fire. However, this is the same as many truths that Qin Yiheng said, I don't know whether the Tao is true or false, so I would rather believe it than believe it. However, because of my quiet eyes, I got into the habit of wearing sunglasses. Later, I went out with Qin Yiheng, and at first glance, I was even more unfathomable.
Such a carefree life is beautiful, but the stagnation of life can also make people more and more boring. Coincidentally, at this moment, Yuan Zhen contacted me again, saying that there was a family's house to sell. However, listening to his description, this house does not seem to be a murderous house, because the people who live in it are still alive.
I was a little disappointed to listen to his account, but I still wanted to take a look, because the price that Yuan Zhen reported to us was quite profitable, and besides, I thought, maybe the things they encountered in their family were completely trivial, and they didn't need the method of magic at all, so maybe I picked up a big bargain. I talked to Qin Yiheng for a while, and he didn't agree at first, saying that our fortune is very low now, and I am afraid that we will lose money in business, so it is better to be less safe and impatient, and be careful not to get any more bloody disasters. But he couldn't stand me, and finally he decided to go and see it first.
This house is not far from the city where we are, if you take the highway, it is only a little more than three hours by car, and I think I am still driving quite fast, and if I go by car, I save a lot of time in taking a taxi and walking, so we simply drove directly to the road. Yuan Zhen happened to be in this city, and when he arrived there, it was lunch time, so we invited Yuan Zhen to have a meal, and during the banquet, he probably talked about the house.
Yuan Zhen said that the family has lived here for several years, the male owner is a middle school teacher, the female owner has opened a small supermarket in her own community, the two of them have a sixteen or seventeen-year-old daughter, and the life of the family of three is quite happy.
Because the male owner is a teacher, there is a winter and summer vacation period every year, and he himself likes to travel, so he basically travels on his own every holiday, or a three-person newspaper travel agency to go to some domestic tourist attractions. The strange thing happened after a summer vacation trip for the family of three. At that time, they went to an undeveloped mountain in the Northeast Forest Farm, although it has not been developed, but because there is not much artificial carving and pollution, the scenery is very pleasant, and the family has a lot of fun. When he was about to go up the mountain, the man specially bought a big watermelon from the local area and brought it up the mountain, put it in the river, and wanted to wait for the watermelon to cool before eating. But when they came back from a round of play, they found that the watermelons in the river were gone. Because it was not certain whether there were any locals or other tourists on the mountain at that time, although the family was disappointed, they had no choice but to curse a few words to the person who stole the watermelon, and finally went down the mountain in a huff. Later, on the way back from the tour, their daughter yelled that she was very sleepy, saying that she wanted to sleep for a while, anyway, the road was far away, and the two adults simply slept for a while. Unexpectedly, when they got home, their daughter was still very sleepy and still yelling and sleepy, and the couple thought it was a tiring ride and horses, and it took a lot of physical strength to play, so they didn't take it seriously.
But after that, it was difficult for my daughter to wake up again, and she basically slept for several days. The two adults began to be scared at this time, and hurriedly sent them to the hospital, but the examinations were completely normal, and they found a local knowledgeable person to see them. Knowledgeable people say that they must have caused something in the mountains, and now that the girl has been put on the body, they must go back to the place where they played to worship. The couple did so, bought a lot of tribute melons and fruits and returned to the mountain, knelt on the ground and kowtowed and begged for mercy for a long time, but to no avail, and had no choice but to return again. I found a lot of people through the relationship, and the result was that it was because of disrespect for things on the mountain, but they couldn't come up with a feasible solution. Later, the two couples inadvertently heard the news that the two of us had been buying the murderous house through Yuan Zhen, thinking that we were also a little virtuous, so they wanted us to come and have a look, and knew that we were investors in the house speculation, and we would definitely not come in vain, so they gritted their teeth and gave a price much lower than the market price, as long as we cured their daughter, they would sell the house to us.
After listening to Yuan Zhen's talk about the house, I still had a little hesitation in my heart, although I had done such a thing of taking advantage of people's danger before, but it was really the first time that it was so blatant.
But people have already arrived here, so let's go and see, if I really can't stand the condemnation of conscience, it's a big deal to charge a symbolic fee and go back. After dinner, we went straight to the couple's house.
Knocking on the door of the house, it seems that the couple has been waiting for a long time, very enthusiastic, serving tea, handing cigarettes, peeling fruits, I didn't answer, first followed Qin Yiheng to the bedroom to see their daughter.
The little girl was still awake at this time, and when she saw someone coming in, she only reluctantly moved her eyes. Qin Yiheng stepped forward, took a brief look, and turned around and asked me to go to their kitchen to get a kitchen knife and a cutting board. He took out a few pieces of dead twigs from his bag, chopped them up with a knife, wrapped them in red paper and pressed them on the girl's heavenly spirit cover, and then told us to come out of the back room and discuss measures in the living room.
Qin Yiheng said that the current situation is not good, but it is indeed the same as what those people have seen before, and the girl's soul has lost a lot inexplicably.
I was still confused when I heard it, and I couldn't understand what he meant by losing a lot.
Qin Yiheng explained, and it can be regarded as an analysis of the little girl's current situation for the couple. The so-called Three Souls and Seven Spirits, presumably many people often hear about it, but few people really understand what the Three Souls and Seven Spirits are. Taoism says that there are three souls, one is the heavenly soul, the second is the earth soul, and the third is the life soul. There are seven spirits, one is the sky, two are the wisdom, three are the qi, four are the force, five are the center, six are the essence, and the seven are the Ying.
Among them, the soul, to put it simply, is similar to the brain of a life, while the soul can be compared to our nervous system, and these two things together govern our body and cooperate with each other. In this theory, only the soul of the three souls will remain in the human body. To put it bluntly, if both the heavenly soul and the earth soul can also be attributed to the human body, it is the so-called enlightenment and immortality. In myths and legends, those monsters who have cultivated for thousands of years but have not attained enlightenment are basically just opening the soul of the earth.
It is based on this concept that in many places, children in many places will have the custom of hanging a small lock around their necks, in fact, it is to lock the soul and prevent it from slipping away. Because in early childhood, the soul of the human body is not stable, and it is easy to detach from the body for various reasons. This is actually very easy to solve, if the situation is not serious, find a loved one to call a few times, and it will be easy to find the body. In layman's terms, the soul at this time is easy to disassemble, so it is relatively easy to install. And after people become adults or grow up, the soul tends to be stable, but it is not unshakable, not to mention things like being hooked, you can get a glimpse of it in our proverbs, for example, I was scared and lost my soul.
When Qin Yiheng said this, he tapped the top of his brain with his hand, and signaled, When we went in just now, in order to prevent the little girl's body from being taken advantage of by things, I deliberately chopped up the jujube wood with lightning and wrapped it in red paper to seal the little girl's spiritual door. This jujube wood that has been struck by lightning not only has the effect of warding off evil spirits and cultivating righteousness, but also blends with dew drops and paints it on the left hand after crushing, and can also have the effect of seeking children. The reason why I did this is because the passage through which the soul enters and exits the human body is the Heavenly Spirit Gai. Those who use evil magic to take people's souls for their own use are also working on the victim's heavenly spirit cover. This theory has been developing with our culture for thousands of years, and we can see it even in the mythological novel "Journey to the West". The golden hoop is locked on Sun Wukong's forehead, which is actually locking Sun Wukong's soul and making it impossible for him to escape, so even if Sun Wukong is out of his body, he will still carry a golden hoop on the top of his head, to put it bluntly, no matter how far he runs, the dog chain has always been tied around his neck, it is nothing more than a long line.
Qin Yiheng's big list of metaphysical knowledge didn't sound obscure, and the couple obviously understood the seriousness of the situation, their eyes were red, and they kept begging us to save their daughter.
Qin Yiheng said that this is not impossible, but it will be more cumbersome when it is implemented, but as long as there is patience, I believe that their daughters can recover.
When the couple heard Qin Yiheng say that they were saved, they hurriedly thanked them and knelt down. I also felt very sad when I looked at it, so I asked Qin Yiheng what the situation of that little girl is now.
Qin Yiheng said that now it seems that only the three souls and seven spirits have lost a lot, but he can't tell whether he was hooked by something or ran away by himself for some reason. According to their previous experience on the mountain, he personally preferred that her soul was taken away by something, but it was really tricky in this way, because, first of all, he didn't know what kind of thing the other party was; Secondly, they also went to worship religiously, but it didn't work, which shows that that thing is not broad-minded, and it must be a difficult character to deal with.
Before she could finish speaking, the girl's mother began to cry in fright. Qin Yiheng was also a little helpless when he saw this, so he comforted again, this situation actually happened from time to time when the urbanization process was not so rapid in the past, and even in some remote areas now, there are often some animals on human bodies, so don't be too pessimistic now, solving the problem is the key.
Although Qin Yiheng's words have an element of comfort, they are indeed reasonable. I remember hearing my grandmother tell me a real story that happened in their village when I was very young. A local woman once went into the mountains because she was in a hurry, and it was convenient to go under a tree, which is actually a very taboo thing, because you might spray excrement on the head of something you can't see. This woman fell into the Tao because of this, and when she came home, she had no humanity at all, and she saw who bit whom. The family saw that there was really no way, so they tied her up with a rope and put her on the bed, and then found a person who was quite knowledgeable in ten miles and eight towns to see. When the man saw this, he asserted that he was caught by the fairy ghost, but there was no direct way, so he could only use evil spirits to drive it away, but it didn't work. Later, it was a nearby butcher who shouted when he saw this, and asked the woman where she was sacred, but he didn't expect that the fairy charm was really shocked by the butcher's anger, and obediently reported an address called Wutong Mountain Boot Cave. Seeing this, the knowledgeable people immediately took the whole village to look for it, and finally found a pair of weasels in the hollow of a large plane tree in the mountain. The most surprising thing is that the weasel may also be greedy for comfort, and somewhere did he get a cowhide boot to sleep on. The people hurriedly killed the weasel, and when they went back, they saw that the woman was back to normal. Although this is just a story passed down by word of mouth, and I don't know whether it's true or not, if you follow what Qin Yiheng said, there must be some truth.
Now that things have been roughly sorted out, it depends on how Qin Yiheng operates later. I asked him with my eyes, and when he saw this, he leaned into my ear and told me that if it was really such a fairy ghost, it would not be difficult to do, and the most troublesome thing now was that that thing was so powerful that it directly led the soul away, which was a big trouble. It's like if your computer is poisoned, as long as you use a little better antivirus software to clean it up, it will be solved, but if your computer loses its hardware for no reason, it is simply unimaginable.
Listening to his analysis, my mood was a little heavy, and what he said just now was still estimated in an optimistic direction. But now I really want to help these two children, and I am also an only child, so I can better understand the importance of an only child to parents. Seeing that this couple was really pitiful, Qin Yiheng also seemed to be moved by compassion, thought about it for a while, and decided to try it in the usual way first, which is what the folk call "calling the soul".
This method of calling souls is very cumbersome and very energy-consuming to implement. First of all, in several fixed time periods, such as the sub-hour, the ugly hour, the mid-hour, and the mid-hour, turn off all the lights in the house, and light only one oil lamp to show the way to the soul; Then, open the window, stand in front of the window, and call the little girl's name in the four directions of due south, north, east, and west; After the last, light a piece of yellow paper with the eight characters of the little girl's birthday written on it, and feed the little girl to drink.
In addition, it is necessary to bow and make offerings in the four directions of northeast, southeast, southwest and northwest during the daytime hours of the morning, midday, noon, and noon, which is to implore the gods and ghosts of all walks of life to open up and make way for the soul of the little girl. Until the little girl has been fed and drunk the yellow paper ash with the eight characters of her birth date written on it, she cannot call the little girl's name at night for seven days, because the little girl's soul is not yet stable, and if the passing ghost hears it, he can use the same method to hook the little girl's soul again.
We also followed this step by step, although I didn't need to participate as an outsider, but even so, I felt very tired just watching them do these things, and the most perverted thing is that after the whole step was done for the first time, it didn't work. Qin Yiheng said that it might be because the soul was lost too far, so he repeated it again. This time it really had an obvious effect, and the little girl sat up by herself after drinking the yellow paper ash with the eight characters of her birthday written on it at night. At first, it seemed that because he had not moved for a long time, his body movements were not very controlled, but after a short period of adaptation, he was able to walk on the ground.
The couple was very touched and kept thanking the two of us, probably saying all the good things they had known in their lives. At that time, the man wanted to draft a contract and sell me the house as promised. Frankly speaking, I was also very happy, thinking in my heart that I would do a good deed, and the money or something would be counted. I made it clear that I didn't want to make that money. The man was very firm, and I also refused with determination, and several people were polite for a long time because of this.
However, just when everyone thought that everyone was happy, and you came and went politely to me, Qin Yiheng gently pulled the corner of my clothes next to me. I thought he had changed his mind temporarily, and wanted to take the house down, so I wanted to turn his head and persuade him. Who knew that when Lu Dao looked at him, he kept glaring at me. I looked into his eyes and saw that he was referring to the little girl. The little girl was sitting on the edge of the bed at this time, quite quiet, but she didn't see anything unusual. I tilted my head and asked Qin Yiheng with my eyes what he meant. He pulled me to his side and whispered to me that we had to be careful, it didn't seem to be the spirit of the little girl who had been summoned.