Chapter 24: The Conjuring

I don't know where I got the guts, but the kitchen knife was aimed at my uncle's legs, and I was about to cut it down.

At this time, my grandfather called me outside, "Ah Ling, come out!" ”

"You wait for me!" I reluctantly put away the kitchen knife and kicked my uncle hard before walking out.

My grandfather beckoned to me and said, "Ah Ling, come here, I'll teach you how to tie a straw man." ”

In fact, I would have pierced the straw man a long time ago, and my grandfather was worried that I would kill my uncle impulsively.

"This straw man is used to collect souls, which is different from ordinary straw men."

Grandpa said, quickly tying up a straw man the size of a palm.

In the process of piercing, he stuffed the straw man's belly into a triangular soul gathering talisman.

My heart moved, and I quietly helped my grandfather fold straw men.

Among the three souls and seven souls, the uncle lost one soul and five souls, and he had to stack seven straw men.

My grandfather stuck a wooden stick in each straw figure and tied straw to a wooden stick to make a grass stick.

Like a rock sugar gourd, he stuck the straw man on the grass stick.

I clutched the two Soul Gathering Talismans I had stolen from the straw man, nervous.

My grandfather didn't notice my strangeness, but he said, since I'm here, I'll go with me tonight.

If my uncle wants to get to the city, he has to take a ride to the town first, and there are two roads outside Nangou Village that lead to the town.

One is the main road, which is closer to the funeral shop in the town, and the other is a remote mountain road, and you have to climb a mountain.

It is said that in the era of war and chaos at the end of the Republic of China, not everyone had good luck to settle down.

Many people who have no family or whose families are poor are thrown into mass graves after death, and they are left to be dragged by dogs and wolves, and rats and insects to burrow.

There was a mass grave in that mountain, and the yin qi was so heavy that ordinary people did not dare to approach it.

My grandfather calculated that his uncle's soul might have been lost in the mountains.

In order to avoid bumping into his grandfather, his uncle actually walked on that mountain road, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead.

My nerves were tense all the time, for fear that my grandfather would find out that I had stolen the Soul Gathering Talisman.

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After nightfall, my grandfather took Mu Shan and me to the mass grave, and he gave Mu Shan the task of summoning spirits.

Because Mu Shan's physique is extremely yin, he can quickly bring back his uncle's lost soul.

At the same time, it will also attract lonely souls and wild ghosts, so Mushan may be in danger.

Grandpa didn't expect me to come at first, so he prepared a talisman for Mu Shan.

And now, he asked me to protect Mushan, and if there were lonely souls and wild ghosts to get close, I would beat them away with a peach stick.

My grandfather also gave me a lot of exorcism charms and taught me how to use them.

"Remember, you must put your soul in the straw man." Grandpa explained again and again.

Mu Shan listened very carefully, I didn't say anything, and my grandfather looked at me with a complicated expression.

He didn't say anything, turned around and began to set up the altar, Mu Shan asked me in a low voice, "Cousin, are you afraid?" ”

I didn't want to deal with Mu Shan, and asked lukewarmly, "Is it important?" ”

Mu Shan scratched his head and said honestly, "I'm inexperienced, I'm quite afraid." ”

"Don't go if you're afraid!" I don't have a good airway.

"No, no, no, I have to save my father." Mu Shan hurriedly shook his head.

Although he doesn't like his uncle either, he is kind-hearted and will not let his uncle go.

I can't say anything, wait for my grandfather's altar to be set up, and take the lead in the forest in front of the mass grave.

My grandfather only calculated that my uncle's soul was lost in this mountain, and I didn't know the exact location, so we had to find it ourselves.

Mu Shan held a stick full of grass and wood, and shouted as he walked, "Summoning spirits, all parties have wandering souls to avoid, Mu Qingyuan quickly returns to his soul..............."