Chapter 2: The Conjuring
I hurried up the stairs, and Lin Mei was helping my mother out of the barn, covered in a lot of dust and cobwebs. Master's house is a very large old mansion, he is the only one who lives, there are many places to hide, and the barn is full of miscellaneous items, which can be used to hide.
My mother covered her chest with her hands, her face was very pale, and there was a little blue in the paleness, so I hurriedly went over and helped her: "Mom, how are you?" ”
"It's okay, I'm fine......"
My mom forced a smile, she had a very serious heart condition, but no matter how sick she was, she said she was fine, what she should do on weekdays, so I didn't know how serious her condition was or how much pain she suffered. Like my Master, her generation has endured a lot of hardships and hardships, and she no longer regards tolerable pain as pain, and she knows that the hardships of life do not add a burden to their children.
"What the hell happened, who killed your master!" My mom started crying.
I looked at Lin Mei, she stopped talking, and glanced at my mother, obviously inconvenient to say in front of my mother. So I helped my mother down first, poured her a glass of warm water, and then called Lin Mei alone.
Before I could speak, Lin Mei said first, after she knew that the master had an accident, she immediately went to the master's house and then called me. After calling me, she also considered that she couldn't go to other people's houses, she originally wanted to hide in the empty coffin in the Crested Palace, and she was afraid that it would frighten my mother, so she decided to hide in Master's house, the enemy had already left, and she should not come back in a short time. When she went to my house to pick up my mother, my mother happened to come to Master's house as well, and the two met on the road, and at that time Master's card friends went to find someone else, so no one saw them enter Master's house.
I secretly called it lucky, when Master's card friend arrived at Master's house, the enemy had just left, he was familiar with the road and took a shortcut, and arrived at my house before the enemy, Lin Mei and my mother heard the bad news and hurried to Master's house, just avoiding the enemy who was one step late.
"When I came to Master's house, I met a group of people......" Lin Mei looked at me with some hesitation, not daring to say any further.
I shook her hand: "It's okay now, don't be afraid." Who do you see? ”
Lin Mei's hands began to tremble, and her face showed a look of horror and anger: "I, I don't dare to know if I saw it wrong." ”
"You say!"
"I ...... I was on the way, and I saw someone coming from a long distance, and I avoided it because I felt that my eyes were raw, and I saw five people dressed in black, and one of them was a woman, and it looked like, like a ......"
I was chilling and my hands were shaking because I could guess who she was talking about! If outsiders can accurately find Master's house and my house, someone must be leading the way, and this woman who led the way mistakenly thought that the Kun Hexagram Jade Talisman was still in the Master's hands, so she went to the Master's house first, and there was only one woman who knew that the Kun Hexagram Jade Talisman was in the Master's hands - Chen Xing!
Sure enough, Lin Mei spit out two words with difficulty: "Chen Xing!" ”
My heart tingled, my head was buzzing, and there was only one voice in my heart: she wanted this? She weishenme wants to do this...... I rejected her, she can come to take revenge on me, and I admit that I am dismantled, weishenme wants to kill the master? Master is very supportive of her and wants me to marry her, so how can she poison Master?
If I had agreed to marry Chen Xing, all this would not have happened, it was my disobedience to heaven and fate that led to such a result, and it was I who killed Master! I was so remorseful and resentful that there was a fire burning in my chest, and I could barely breathe in my chest.
But what is providence and fate, and is the fact that cannot be changed called providence? Is it still fate that has been changed through hard work? How can one take control of one's own destiny? I'm really lost.
Lin Mei cried and asked, "She, how can she be like this, why is she so vicious?" ”
I don't know, in fact I don't know her very well, and once a woman is emotionally frustrated, she can do crazy things, but she was very wrong to kill Master!
Xiaoxue suddenly said in my heart: "Childe, you don't have to blame yourself too much, the source of this catastrophe is that piece of jade, that piece of jade was obtained by you when you went to Genting Mountain, and you went to Genting Mountain but it was arranged by the master, this is actually a kind of cause and effect ......"
"Shut up!" I yelled angrily.
"I won't shut up, I would have said that she was not a good person a long time ago, if you were willing to believe me sooner and get her rid of her sooner, this would not have happened."
I was genuinely furious: "If you hadn't put her in my bed back then, would you have been in so much trouble?" ”
Xiaoxue stopped talking, in fact, I knew that she had good intentions, she hoped that I wouldn't blame myself too much, I was angry with my body, the person who loved me the most might not be her, the person who knew me best was definitely her. She immediately understood what I thought of, so I didn't have to daoqian to her.
I asked Lin Mei: "Is Lu Chengshan among those people?" ”
Lin Mei shook her head: "I didn't see it, those people were all dressed in black and covered their faces, but I heard a person claiming to be a 'poor Dao', who should be a Taoist priest." ”
Lin Mei didn't recognize Lu Chengshan, it didn't mean that Lu Chengshan wasn't among them, at least these people were sent by Lu Chengshan. According to my speculation, after Chen Xing left, he was unwilling, so he asked Principal Chen about Lu Chengshan's contact information, and told Lu Chengshan that the fox spirit in my body was not dead, and I hoped that Lu Chengshan would come to get rid of the demon. Lu Chengshan suspected that I had taken the jade talisman and the treasure map, so he must have asked Chen Xing, and it happened that Chen Xing had seen the jade talisman in my master's hand, so Lu Chengshan asked her to lead the way......
Master was killed, it may be that she was forced to confess to death, or it may be that Chen Xing asked those Taoist priests to do it, she didn't know my master's love and support for her, she wanted to kill the people I respected the most to take revenge on me, and even wanted to kill my mother and Lin Mei! I gritted my teeth, and I couldn't wait to go to Beikeng Village and punch her immediately, this slut!
Lin Mei threw herself into my arms and cried, whimpering: "She...... Did she kill Master because of me? ”
"No, it's none of your business, it's entirely my decision!" I patted her on the back gently, and if I wanted to say that it was wrong, it was also my fault, but I didn't have the right to choose my lover? The two times she came to my bed was not what I had hoped for, and the fact that she came to the door was not something I could have predicted, it was fate that imposed on me.
At this point, I can only endure my grief and arrange Master's funeral first. Master and my relatives and friends rushed to the meeting, and the elders of the Zhou family presided over the meeting, setting up a mourning hall, giving announcements, inviting bands, receiving guests, and so on. Before Master's children came, I wore a linen belt and became a filial son, and did all the rituals that my apprentice and son should do. Master didn't have any savings when he was alive, but fortunately Mr. Lin gave me 30,000 yuan, otherwise I really don't know what to do now.
I didn't object to anything else, but I was resolutely opposed to inviting the emerging "foreign drum corps", the sound was earth-shattering, and the pop music played was chaotic, which was a great disrespect to the deceased, and it would also frighten the souls of the deceased. In the end, I only invited a traditional folk band to play traditional mourning music.
Master has made haode coffins, as long as it is painted, although cremation was implemented at that time, but there are already people who have made coffins are still allowed to be buried, Master has not caught up with the good policy in his life, this time it is considered to catch the last train. But what gives me some headache is that Master didn't find a good tomb for himself during his lifetime, and he never talked to me about this topic, so how easy is it to suddenly find a feng shui treasure? I hesitated and decided to build a grave in a so-so and passable place in the back mountain, and then move there when I found the ideal place.
In the afternoon, Master's daughter and son came back one after another, and the daughter howled a few times before the spirit, and I could not hear any sorrow in the voice; Master's son had a meaty face, a bald head, and a scar on his face, not only did he not shed a single tear, but he also took a cigarette and copied his chest and asked me how much money Master had left behind, and where did the valuable things go......
For the sake of Master's face, I endured everything, Zuihou gave him three thousand yuan, and all of Master's relics were disposed of by me.
I couldn't say goodbye to Master and be separated forever, and when it was nearly midnight that night, I drove out a few of the people who were guarding the spirit, closed the door, and turned out the lights, leaving only a pair of white candles. Then he opened the eye of heaven, lowered the yang energy in his body, held the spirit flag in one hand and the soul bell in the other, and began to cast a spell to summon the master's soul.
The spell of conjuring spirits is somewhat similar to Qu Yuan's poem "Conjuring Spirits", but it is not so long and complex, and the content is more flexible, mainly telling the things that the deceased cares about, so as to attract the soul of the deceased. Before I could say a few words, I saw Master walk in through the door in a gesture of pushing the door.
Master's appearance is the same as before, but his body is weak, his previous sick appearance is gone, and his clothes are very clean and neat, but he feels much more energetic than before his death. I hurriedly knelt down and cried out "Master," but I didn't dare to raise my voice for fear of bumping into him.
"Get up, don't cry."
Master's voice sounded in my head, and I couldn't help but be surprised, because I had followed Master to summon souls to others before, and those with low spiritual sense just stood there stunned, and those with strong spiritual sense could only make some movements to express their meaning, and could not directly communicate with the living. The dead soul is not equal to the spirit body, the ability is very low, and it will even be blown away by a gust of wind, and the ones who can directly affect the living are already evil ghosts and resentful spirits, and they do not belong to the good category.
I hurriedly raised my head, and when I saw that Master's expression was calm, his face was calm, and there was no fierce aura, so I was relieved. The master walked over to the chair he used to sit on and sat down, probably feeling a little uncomfortable, and stood up again: "Get up, I know everything you do in the city, it's good, it's good." ”
I hurriedly stood up and asked in surprise, "Master, how can you talk to me directly?" ”
Master smiled and said: "This time you have made great merits, Mrs. Linshui Chen sent a messenger to save me from the pain of reincarnation, and will lead me to reincarnate in a rich and kind family. ”
"Ah...... "I'm shocked, so there really are immortals, and because I resolved the crisis of the White Pagoda and the Uta I have done a great job?"
The master said, "If there is a disciple like this, what more can the husband ask for?" I'm happy and have no regrets, so don't be sad either. ”
"No, no, Master, I don't want to leave you, I still have a lot of things I haven't learned, there are still a lot of truths I don't understand, I haven't honored you yet......"
"Xuan Ming, when you want to honor your master in your heart, you are already doing your filial piety, and no matter how much you enjoy it in the world, it is too much to lose. As for your studies, you have already surpassed Master, and this is also the most filial piety to Master. ”
I was really reluctant to let Master go, and suddenly a question came to mind: "Master, who killed you?" ”