Chapter 8: The Water Ghost 8
The abbot patted his bald head: "Just now the two of us ran away, I ran in front for a while, and suddenly I heard something wrong behind me, I looked back and saw that you had gone into the woods by yourself, and you didn't agree even if you were asked." While I was in a hurry, this old lady came, took me out, and went to save you. Xu You, you kid isn't fascinated by ghosts. "
I scratched my head, "Maybe it is." Then I thanked Chen Po again and again and asked her, "Why did you come here?" "
Po Chen sighed: "I dreamed of my son when I went to bed last night, so I asked me to come here and burn some paper for him." He said that the skin on his body grew here, and this path can be regarded as his Huangquan Road. "
After hearing this, I suddenly felt that there was something important in this, but I couldn't remember what it was.
I stood on the side of the road and pondered, and the abbot asked, "We both saw ghosts, and we also saw ghosts hitting the wall, old lady, why are you okay?" "
Chen Po laughed, revealing her only few teeth: "How can a son scare his mother." Besides, I'm so old, and I don't have a few years to live, so what's so scary. "
The abbot nodded and sighed twice.
At this time, a flash of inspiration flashed in my mind, and I suddenly thought of something, and said to Mrs. Chen: "Old lady, you dreamed of your son last night, and he told you to come here to burn paper?" "
Chen Po nodded: "Yes." "
I asked expectantly, "Did he tell you how to solve this copper coin?" "
Chen Po nodded: "Said." "
As soon as I heard these two words, I suddenly felt a surge of enthusiasm in my internal organs, and I couldn't wait to ask, "How to solve it?" "
Chen Po said: "People who get copper coins will rot very quickly after death. All you have to do is find one of those people, smear his corpse oil on the affected area, and get some sleep. "
I heard pantothenic acid in my stomach all the time, frowned and said, "This is disgusting." "
The abbot persuaded me on the side: "Xu You, don't be disgusting at this time, you can wash it if it's dirty, who is going to go when your life is gone?" "
I nodded, "Okay." But where is the key to finding such a corpse? "
Chen Po said: "It just so happens that my son has a copper coin, you come with me, and I will take you to his grave." "
As soon as I heard this, I was immediately moved: "Old lady, you are really a good person, if I can cure the disease, I will provide for you in old age." "
Chen Po sneered: "My son is still planning to provide for me, and it won't be gone by then." "
After saying this, Chen Po took out a match and lit a white paper lantern. It turned out that she had come with a lantern.
Although the abbot is tall and big, he is not very bold, and he touched his bald head: "Can we go again during the day?" The night is weird and scary. "
Chen Po snorted: "Why don't you go back in seven days?" When the grave is dug up during the day, the gas is dispersed, and it is useless. "
The two of us were silent and followed behind Chen Po.
Along the way, I had a faint eye on us, snooping in the dark, but not approaching, following us all the time.
I looked at the abbot, who was pale and apparently felt the same way.
And Chen Po was calm, carrying a lantern, and her mouth was still chattering: "You have to thank our people, the people are simple and refusing to be cremated, otherwise, where do you go to find the body?" "
We reluctantly agreed in the back.
Chen Po took us, more and more remote, we walked for a while, and we were already in the suburbs. After a few minutes, she pointed to a grave bag and said, "Right here, dig." "
The two of us looked at each other: "I didn't bring any tools." "
Chen Po said, "Dig with your hands." "
The abbot and I had no choice but to squat on the ground and dig it up with our hands.
The moon was dark and the wind was high, and the yin wind was howling, and the two of us faced each other with bitter faces, digging other people's graves with our bare hands.
I'm sure this man's ghost is watching us nearby, but maybe he is afraid of the spirit talisman on our body, and he doesn't dare to come over.
The abbot didn't know whether he was bored or scared, and kept talking to Chen Po to distract himself: "Old lady, you are really a living Bodhisattva, you don't sleep at night, and you came to save my friend." "
Chen Po shook her head: "I saved him, I have my own selfishness." "
Then, Chen Po sighed and said faintly: "After the dream last night, I learned that my son was killed by copper coins, and he can't be reincarnated, I plan to dig up his corpse, put it in the temple for worship, chant the scriptures excessively, and let him be reincarnated as soon as possible." "
Chen Po said that she was sad, and she actually choked up.
The abbot and I listened while digging mechanically.
I looked at the abbot next to me and said, "Old lady, this monk is the abbot of the Great Holy Temple, you can put the body in the Great Holy Temple for worship." "
The monk shook his head again and again, glared at me and said, "You kid, you are trying to harm me, I stay with a corpse every day, how can I sleep?" "
Then he laughed and said to Chen Po: "Old lady, I heard that people who have died with copper coins can be reincarnated as long as they find a substitute for the dead ghost, why is it so troublesome, it is to dig up the corpse and make offerings." "
As soon as the abbot said this, I suddenly shuddered in my heart, and I vaguely felt that something was wrong.
At this time, Chen Poyin smiled miserably: "Little monk, you are quite smart." "
As soon as I heard this, I immediately reacted and said to my father-in-law, "Run." "
Before the abbot could understand what was going on, suddenly two hands came out of the tomb and grabbed the two of us at once.
I was so scared that my head was going to explode. Hurriedly ducked back. Unexpectedly, those two hands clung to us, and the abbot and I stepped back and dragged the body out of the grave.
Half of a corpse, to be exact. As the old lady said, this kid is rotten. But he hung on the two of us, howling and shouting, and it seemed that he even wanted to climb up.
I was scared and disgusted. Just when I didn't know what to do, I heard a wow. The abbot was already throwing up over there.
The old lady laughed in the night breeze, and her voice floated back and forth in the night: "Son, son, I found you a substitute ghost, you can be reincarnated with peace of mind." Ha Lu Ha woo woo"
The old lady cried and laughed, adding to the atmosphere of countless horrors.
I was holding at the slimy corpse in both arms, and I didn't care about anything at this time. I had to flee backwards step by step.
But the strength of the corpse was very great, I felt that the corpse was slowly spreading up, as if it was going to lie on my body, I struggled hard, but it was useless, and soon, I felt a little bit of loss of strength, and I was a little weak even struggling.
Immediately after that, there was my consciousness. My vision began to blur. It was as if there was a quilt covering me.
I knew that the corpse was lying on my back.
When I was about to die, I suddenly remembered what the monk of the religious class had said in the dormitory: "In our Buddhist Heart Sutra, there is a sentence 'Prajnaparamita', which is a mantra to ward off evil spirits, and you can recite it more when you have nothing to do." "
Thinking of this, I felt like someone who was about to drown and finally grasped a straw.
With all my might, I muttered in a low voice, "Prajnaparamita." When I read this sentence, I felt a warm current flow through my body. A little more strength out of thin air.
I'm so happy that it's working. So as if reciting a scripture, he turned it over and over again, and shouted this sentence dozens of times. The strength is getting louder and louder.
At the end of the day, the corpse let out a wail, so terrible that it almost deafened my ears. Then, he let go and let me go.
I got up from the ground and saw that the abbot was tearing up with Chen Po, and the half of the corpse rushed towards him.
The abbot cried anxiously and called his mother. shouted loudly: "What should I do, Xu You, hurry up and save me." "
I didn't dare to go over when I stood aside, so I hurriedly taught him, "Recite the mantra with me, Prajnaparamita." "
These words are Sanskrit, the syllables are a bit strange, and the abbot is obviously not too literate. I read it a few times, but I never got it right.
Seeing that the half of the body was already lying on his body, it seemed that he was going to get into it along his nose and eyes. The abbot struggled a few times, and finally lost his strength and fell to the ground, and the half of the body quickly covered his body.
At this critical juncture, the abbot suddenly said: "Taishang Laojun, urgent as a law." "
If it weren't for the critical situation, I would definitely laugh, a monk, actually said the words of a Taoist priest.
The two of us were all kinds of incantations and thoughts, and the blind cat touched the dead mouse, and at last, the dead body let out a terrible howl as if it had been burned by fire, and let the abbot go.
For a moment, I smelled a scorching stench. I only felt dizzy and involuntarily took two steps back.
The corpse, as if seriously wounded, abandoned the abbot and quickly fled back to the tomb.
The two of us took advantage of this opportunity, you helped me, I pulled you, and ran wildly. At this time, our courage was almost frightened, and we only hated our father and mother for having two legs.
And behind him, Chen Po's mournful shout could still be heard: "You two little rabbit cubs don't run, the monk can't run to the temple if you run, I know that you live in the Great Holy Temple." Sooner or later I will kill you."
Although we were threatened by Chen Po like this, we still ran in the direction of the Great Holy Temple. First, we are familiar with this road, and second, there are Bodhisattvas in the temple, at least we don't have to worry about the infestation of ghosts.
The two of us fled all the way to the Great Holy Temple, and fell on the main hall one after another, looking at the Buddha statues and guarding the ever-bright lanterns, all of us were so frightened that our whole bodies trembled and we couldn't speak.
We don't have to eat dinner today, we can't eat at all, so we can only huddle together, squat in front of the hall and shiver, trembling for a while, the abbot actually fell asleep and snored. I was the only one left, looking at the candles in the room and the moonlight outside, and the more I thought about it, the more scared I became, and the more I thought about it, the more worried I became.