Chapter 3 My grandmother left me books and talismans
I turned my eyes to look in the direction of Mimi's finger, and I only saw the big trees, and I didn't see any 'big sister'!
"Mimi, what big sister?" I said confusedly.
Mimi blinked her big eyes: "Just now I saw a big sister squatting over there with no clothes on, as if she was also crying." She must have been as lost as Mimi. Big brother, can you help her too? โ
A big sister with no clothes on?
"Hello? Is anyone there? When I saw that Mimi was so sure, I shouted.
No response.
"No one!" I looked around, but I didn't see the big sister Mimi was talking about, "Mimi, what does that big sister look like?" โ
"That big sister is so pitiful, she doesn't have any clothes to wear, her hair is long, and she covers her face."
I searched around, but I still didn't see anyone else.
"No one! Mimi, are you mistaken? โ
Mimi lowered her head and stopped talking.
"Maybe it's the staff of the funeral home!" I took Ramimi's hand, "Let's go back first!" Your mom can't find you, it's time to hurry! โ
Although I explained myself like this, somehow I was a little uneasy in my heart.
Returning to the front area with Mimi, Mimi's family was in a hurry, and when she saw me coming back with Mimi, Mimi's mother blamed herself, saying that she was negligent and caused Mimi to go missing, and she naturally thanked me a lot.
I was in a heavy mood and had no intention of talking to them, so I casually exchanged a few polite words and went back to my grandmother.
When my grandmother's body was cremated, we returned to the village with the ashes.
According to our custom, the first seven days of my grandmother need to be guarded by the eldest grandson. Both uncles gave birth to daughters, and as my grandson, my grandmother loved me so much, so I completed the task of keeping a wake at night.
I couldn't sleep at night, and I was able to support it for the first few nights, but after a few nights in a row, I was a little overwhelmed. But thinking about my grandmother's kindness to me, I kept gritting my teeth and persevering. On the last night of the first seven, I finally couldn't hold on anymore. In the second half of the night, I sat in front of the mourning hall, drowsy.
I didn't want to sleep, but my eyelids kept fighting, and both eyes were half-open and half-closed.
Half-asleep, I felt as if something was around me, and a cool feeling enveloped my body.
I knew something wasn't right, but I was so sleepy that I couldn't keep my eyes open no matter how hard I tried. My limbs became numb and heavy, and an inexplicable sense of fear rose from my heart, and I wanted to scream, but I couldn't make a sound.
I felt my heart beating faster and faster, and it was getting harder to breathe!
"Am I dying? I can't help it..."A wave of realization rose in my heart, and my consciousness began to drift.
"Oooh-"
Just then, a familiar rooster crowing came to my ears. Suddenly, the pressure around the body lightened, and the breathing became normal.
The darkest part of the day has passed, and dawn is coming.
It's almost dawn!
I was relieved, I couldn't hold it anymore, and finally fell asleep.
By the time I opened my eyes again, it was already noon.
I slept for a full day and night, and woke up feeling sore, not at all satisfied with the rest of my sleep.
My mother told me that although I fell asleep during the wake for my grandmother, my uncle didn't blame me because they knew I was tired when they saw me sleeping for so long.
I knew that if it weren't for the last night's mutation, I would have barely been able to make it through.
I can't help but feel creepy when I think back to that eerie feeling that night.
In words, it feels like... I was given something to get on it!
"Xiao Shen?" Mom's call brought me back from my contemplation.
Looking at my mother's concerned face, I shook my head and drove the clutter out of my mind.
I once knocked on my mother's side to the problem of the 'three yin' physique, but my mother didn't know anything, and it seems that my grandmother didn't tell her about it. I didn't tell my mom what happened the night before because I didn't want her to worry.
"Mom, it's time for me to go back to school." I digressed from the subject.
It's been a week since I took a leave of absence to go home, and my grandmother's funeral has come to an end, so it's time to go back to the provincial capital.
My mother packed my things for me, and I got on the bus back to the provincial capital that afternoon.
And when I was about to go out, standing in front of my grandmother's house, looking at this old house where I had lived for many years, every grass, tree, beam and tile was so familiar, but when I thought that my grandmother was no longer there, and this place could never go back to the past, my heart was a little blocked.
I sighed in my heart, took out my phone, and took a panoramic photo of the old house.
I didn't know at the time how much trouble my unintentional move would bring to me and completely change my future.
It was already evening when I returned to the police academy, and when I came back, Xiao Xu, Da Fei, and Xiao Hei, who were in the same dormitory, knew that my grandmother had passed away, and they all asked me how I was.
Xiao Xu and I are in the same dormitory, and they usually train in a group, and in the past two years, the relationship between the four of us is extraordinarily iron.
I smiled at them and said it was over and it was all right.
Xiao Xu seemed to see my tiredness and said, "Chen Shen is probably very tired these days, let's let him rest early!" I'll talk about that tomorrow. โ
I glanced at Xiao Xu gratefully. Among the four of us, Xiao Xu is the youngest, but he is the most mature and stable one.
This may have something to do with Xiao Xu's upbringing.
He is the eldest son in the family, and there are two younger brothers and two younger sisters below, his father died very early, and his mother has never remarried, pulling four children by himself.
The difficulties of the family made Xiao Xu grow up precocious.
So the three of us were very convinced of him, and let him be the head of the dormitory.
Seeing Xiao Xu speak, Da Fei and Xiao Hei patted me on the shoulder and didn't say anything more.
Lying on the bed in my dorm room, my heart was fluctuating. There's so much going on these days, it's weird. In particular, the wake-up on the night of my grandmother's first seven days made me break out in a cold sweat when I think about it now.
That shouldn't have been my delusion, right?
Before I left, my grandmother said that I was a 'three-yin' physique that was easy to provoke 'evil things', but in the past few years, except for the time when I was six years old, I have never encountered anything unclean.
Now that my grandmother has just died, and without her 'protection', 'they' are starting to find me?
Grandma, grandma! So what should I do?
As a matter of thought, I thought of something - the black wooden box that my grandmother had left me.
The black wooden box was made of Nanmu, and I brought it with me when I returned to the provincial capital.
At the moment, the box is lying quietly on my bed.
I haven't opened it before.
Looking at the wooden box in front of me, I wondered, what would my grandmother leave for me?
There is a lock on the wooden box, but it is not locked. I looked at the other people in the dorm room, and they were all asleep.
It's not that I can't trust them, it's just that there are some things that are better off keeping them from knowing.
I gently snapped the lock, and the box opened.
I turned on my phone's flashlight, and the contents of the box were in full view.
An old book without a cover, and a few red and yellow paper notes.
Other than that, there is nothing else.
Some of the notes were red, some yellow, and they were all painted with strange lines and black letters.
Among the red and yellow paper symbols, there is a green paper symbol, on which a Tai Chi Bagua pattern is drawn, and a few lines of small characters are written with a brush next to the pattern.
On the back of the paper note are written two words - Conjuring!
Is this a spiritualist charm?
I counted five red paper symbols, five yellow paper symbols, and one green paper symbol, for a total of eleven paper symbols.
These... I guess it's all a charm made by my grandmother... Because of those fonts, I can recognize my grandmother's handwriting!
I put the paper aside, and picked up the old book.
Old books don't have coversโand it can't be said that they don't have covers, it's just that the covers are yellow pages with no words or patterns on them, and they look like they don't have a cover.
The old books are old, but they are clean.
Turning the pages of the book, there are some patterns and words inside. I researched it and found out that this book is actually a book of spells. It contains some strange spells, such as a spell called 'Spiritism' on the first page.
On the page, a man is drawn with simple lines, and three pillars of incense are inserted in front of the person. Next to a line of small words note-spiritism: Yinshi, after washing, wear clean clothes in a place where no one is clean, set up an altar facing the east and light three sandalwood sticks and insert them in the rice bowl, kneel on the mat, burn three pieces of yellow paper, kowtow three heads, draw a 'cross' on the ground with the middle finger of the right hand, press the left calf on the cross, press the right leg on the left leg, burn the spirit talisman together, and then close the eyes slightly, the body is Zhouzheng, hold the ball with both hands and put it in the dantian, and silently recite in the heart, "Please ask the three heavenly respects of the three Qing and three realms, Taishang Laojun, the Jade Emperor, and the underworld Yama, May we save all living beings from suffering, heal the sick and come back to life, subdue demons and eliminate evils, avoid evil spirits, pray for the mighty spirit, call a thousand responses, call ten thousand spirits, not call one's own spirit'!
I was dizzy by these lines, especially the strange incantation of the old gentleman.
Look at the meaning of this word, this should be a psychic spell, follow the steps in the book, and you should be able to channel.
I continued to flip through it, and it was full of spells, illustrated and illustrated, teaching people how to cast spells.
What are the 'Five Thunder Spells', 'Six Ding Talisman Techniques', 'Exorcism Spells'...
There are a total of 36 techniques in the book, which are divided into three parts, each with 12 techniques.
The next part is some protective spells, such as the 'Six Ding Talisman Technique'.
The novella is a collection of offensive spells, such as the 'Five Thunder Spell' and the 'Exorcism Spell'.
And the first part...
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