7. White life
I didn't expect that there was a mistake on the night of Uncle Liao's wake, and the candles couldn't be lit, so Aunt Ma told me in private: "String baby, the yin qi of the ground is too heavy, you'd better not watch here." ”
I felt in my heart that Aunt Ma was a liar, and it was impossible to take her words seriously, so I politely declined.
In the evening, when everyone was gone, and I was left alone, the candles were lit.
Although I feel a little hairy in my heart, but after all, guarding Uncle Liao's corpse, even if he really makes a corpse, I am not afraid, so I have the courage to sit at the door, read "Fengmen Thaumaturgy" by the candlelight in the house, and when I open the first page, I know that this is the book I read when I was a child, and the Taoist priest shaved the head of the ghost is the story of Luo Zhenren shaving the head of Yongzheng.
After that, it introduces some rules in the shaving line, spring language (jargon), and then there is the thaumaturgy in the wind gate, which includes gambling, hunting, stealing, cheating, fortune telling, warding off evil spirits, inviting gods, sending gods, acupuncture and other strange techniques on the rivers and lakes.
Finally, there is the method of shaving the head, that is, the method of punishment.
Seeing this, I knew that the punishment was good, the head shaver in the "fishy road" was also responsible for killing the head in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and when he encountered a Han person who was unwilling to shave his head, he chopped his head and sank it in the wooden barrel of washing his hair on the wooden pier, the most terrible thing was the "steel knife cloth" used to sharpen the razor, and there were ten words on the back of it in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which was "don't keep your head and don't keep your hair, don't keep your head if you keep your hair", so the steel knife cloth is also a magic weapon to drive away evil spirits.
The more I looked, the more I felt that the way of shaving my head was profound, and I was about to study it carefully, when suddenly there was a cry of an owl outside the dark house, followed by a heart-rending cry of a baby in the night, at first I didn't care, but the cry gradually became strange, as if something was blocking the sound of the baby's mouth.
This anomaly caught my attention, could it be that someone was trying to kill a newborn baby? As soon as I had this thought, the candle flame in the room began to shake strangely, and I did not dare to slack off, so I picked up the razor and hurried in the direction from which the sound came.
At this time, my sensory system was extremely acute, and I followed the sound and soon found the place where the cry came from, it was a family named Li Dongming, the door of his house was open, the house was dark and there was no light, but the sound of the child's crying had become weak.
I quietly entered the room only to see Li Dongming and his wife sitting on the sofa sleeping snoring, seven-year-old son lying on the table asleep, and the door of the inner room slightly opened, I went up to plan a surprise attack, who knew that as soon as I pushed the door open, I felt a yin wind blowing in my face, and I was almost frozen into an ice lump.
The moonlight spilled into the back room, the room was not big, only the baby with purple lips, if I was a step late, the consequences would be unimaginable, the baby's limbs twitched, and she couldn't even cry, I picked her up and patted her back, and after a while she cried out with a "wow".
It's okay to ventilate, I wiped a handful of cold sweat on my forehead, and as soon as I calmed down, I saw three head melon seeds silently sticking to the door, almost scaring me out of urine, but soon I saw through the moonlight that it was Li Dongming's family of three, but the strange thing was that the three of them were bloodless, and they stood with their heads tilted against the wall with their eyes closed, like puppets being manipulated.
I hurriedly found him, turned on the door, and took out "Fengmen Thaumaturgy" to find the "evil spirit" chapter.
Time is limited, it is impossible to learn complex spells, only to learn simple and effective, the second record is: the human body, the middle finger of the yang energy is the most, after the bite is broken, write a "retreat" word in the palm of the hand with blood, for those who are not strong and evil will have a miraculous effect.
This is not complicated at all, I hold the psychology of trying to do it according to the law, just wrote the word "retreat" on the palm of the hand and saw the three of them fall to the ground together, the snow-white complexion quickly returned to normal, I didn't expect this recipe to be really spiritual, thinking of this I was relieved to stuff the book into my arms.
But when I think about it, I still feel wrong, because the moment I pushed the door open, I seemed to see a pair of pale yellow shoes next to the bed, but with the wind blowing out, the shoes blinked and disappeared.
It took about half an hour for the three members of the Li family to wake up one by one, and when they heard that I had saved the child, they didn't doubt it, and they almost knelt down for me with gratitude.
I said, "Brother Li, aren't you afraid that I will lie to you?" ”
"Impossible brother, the moment you said I fainted, I actually saw a lot of strange things, and I felt that I had been walking in the mountains, and I must have hit an evil spirit." Li Dongming said without hesitation.
When I returned to the mourning hall, the sky was almost bright, and seeing Uncle Liao's peaceful face as if he was asleep, I felt sad and said: "Uncle Liao, that book is really effective, don't worry, I will definitely pass on the good skills, and I won't learn the rest of the leftists in the side door." ”
But I also know that this matter is not over, whether it is the pale yellow shoes or the yin wind, it can only mean that the evil is "safely evacuated", although it did not harm people, but I also did not catch it, so this thing may come out at any time to harm people.
So I took out my book and carefully studied the art of "warding off evil spirits", and found that the situation in one of the articles, "Exorcism of White Life", was very similar to the situation encountered at night, because White Life was an evil that specialized in mutilating newborn babies.
According to the book records, "Bai Ri Shou" is a demon, is a kind of evil law practiced by people, but in the early stage of cultivation, you can only use demon magic at night, and you are still a person during the day, so it is called "Bai Ri Shou", this evil method belongs to a kind of spiritism, and the soul can be attached to small animals at night, waiting for the opportunity to sneak into other people's homes for evil.
In short, this is a very evil method, after fascinating the adults in the family, they will absorb the baby's yang energy to improve their skills.
But it's not difficult to break the demon method, just two things, a bucket of dung and water, and a fishing net that is more than twenty years old.
These two things are not difficult to deal with, but old fishing nets are a rarity in inland villages, so I went to Li Dongming and hoped that he could think of a way.
As soon as he heard that I was "subduing demons and catching monsters", he didn't say anything, but asked me around, and finally found a family who moved from Zhejiang to borrow an old fishing net.
But in the next few days, Bai Rishou seemed to have a premonition of danger, and did not rush out, and the days came to the time of Uncle Liao's funeral, and he had already laid the coffin for himself, and after the funeral, he entered the "public cemetery" in the back mountain according to the rules.
I had done everything I had to do, and in the evening I stepped into the car to go home, but halfway through the road I became more and more frightened, and after thinking about it, I finally chose to get out of the car and sneak back to the village.
If "Bai Rishou" is still there, it will definitely come out to be evil, maybe he was afraid of me a few days ago, but today I am gone.
Sure enough, when I sneaked back to the village in the middle of the night, I heard the cry of a baby faintly coming from the dark night sky.
I took the dung bucket, dug up the dung and rushed to the baby's crying house, but the old fishing net had been returned to Li Dongming when I left the village, so I only had a dung bucket in my hand.
This time I didn't give him the slightest chance, and when I walked into the house, I kicked open the door and didn't even look at it, and just sprinkled the feces into the room.
In the midst of the stench, only a "quack" was heard, and a huge old eagle fell to the ground, covered in dung.
I have never seen such a huge eagle, its wings spread to estimate a meter away, and the yellow shoes are actually the claws of the eagle, I saw it staring at a pair of red eyes and waving its wings towards me, I don't care about the stench, a choke its neck, the eagle pressed to the ground again, it flapped its wings hard, the huge force hit my arms again and again, I was really invincible for a moment of stalemate, it grabbed my left arm, flapped its wings from the house to the outside.
The place is wider and more suitable for its play, completely open its wings in the dark night this old eagle looks like a hell out of death, the old eagle monster screamed, pulled me to flap its wings and flew to the sky, I was really afraid, only to understand that the evil is not just a breath, the evil is invincible is based on the premise of equal strength, and my ability to make the monster appear is a dead end.
Just when I was in despair, a large net suddenly fell from the sky, covering me and the old eagle in it, the fishing net was fishy and smelly, more than the feces on my two bodies, the old eagle suddenly lost his strength, and was wrapped in the net and fell to the ground.