"By the way, child, you'd better keep silent about the fairy spirit that night, and think about it yourself. Speaking of which, although most people don't believe it, it is inevitable that there will be extraneous branches. ”

"I still know this truth. By the way, Xu Lao, that night you also mentioned the matter of the Northern Emperor's clone, could it be that the land prince and Guanyin Master also came as doppelgangers? And what about the Taizu in-laws of Sanhe Village that you said, are they spirits, souls, or spirits?"

"It seems that if you don't answer those doubts in your heart today, you won't be able to calm down at all. Let's talk to you about it again. In fact, you can divide the fairy spirits you saw that night into soul bodies, spirit bodies, and fairy bodies. The immortal body is a higher form of existence of the spirit body and the soul body, the spirit body is condensed by absorbing the essence of heaven and earth, and of course, people's belief and willingness can also create a spirit body. ”

"Guanyin Dashi, the Great God of the Northern Emperor and the Lord of the Land belong to the immortal body, and the ones that night are all immortal clones?

"Yes, kid, you're smart enough to think it all so quickly. The soul body is actually divided into the living soul and the soul, the living soul is naturally the soul of the living thing, and the soul is the dead soul. Generally speaking, neither the living soul nor the soul can be exposed to the daily environment for a long time, especially during the day. After all, water that is not contained in a container is easily contaminated by evaporation. Of course, some powerful souls are a different story. ”

"Kid, I'm afraid you don't know that in this world, mortals are the biggest source of pollution for fairy bodies. That's why in so many records, it is mentioned that immortals and mortals must not fall in love, and humans, ghosts, and monsters cannot be combined. It's not a legend, it's a real rule. Therefore, whether it is a soul body, a spirit body, or even an immortal body, under normal circumstances, it is not willing or even stipulated that it cannot directly contact the mortal body. This is also the reason why in such an emergency that night, the night wandering god only blows the wind to warn, and cannot directly wake up the embankment keeper. ”

"Then why are there so many wild fox spirits in the countryside?"

"Is there a lot of trouble? It's just a strange incident, and it's just a rumor. People are all blood-driven, and what we usually call the spirit and spirit are also among them. Alone. The vitality is a little more abundant, and it is easy to get rid of the gods, and it is so easy to make trouble there. Unless the real vitality is weakened and the body is in a rage, it will be haunted by a hundred ghosts. Of course, the so-called ghosts are haunted, and ghosts are on the body, most of the time they are nothing more than wandering souls, looking for new containers. Of course, there are also grievances that have not been settled in life, and they repay their grievances. But basically they do it by creating illusions and confusing people's minds and consciousness. The soul cannot live without a body, the spirit cannot find a place of sustenance, and the time of existence is only seven days, and the short is only an instant. ”

"Isn't there anyone in charge of the ghosts?" Ling Lang suddenly asked.

"Tube? Of course someone is in charge. Soul body, spirit body, and immortal body, they all have to follow certain rules. Demons and monsters naturally can't be lawless. But the world is so big, there are so many disturbances every day, and the sun can't shine in places, so sometimes, avoid being negligent. This is also why when the founding of the Chinese State was founded, Taizu said that after the founding of the country, it is not allowed to become a fine, first, to reduce chaos, and secondly, to preserve the vitality of the country. At their level, characters naturally follow their words and actions in every move, so are there fewer and fewer stories of spirits and disasters and demons harming people that you can hear?"

Come to think of it, really, I remember when I was a child, my home village was a place full of ghosts, ghosts, demons and spirits.

A slightly eerie bamboo forest, there will be old women holding ghost lamps walking back and forth crying at night. In the past, there was a bride in red clothes, red shoes and red umbrellas on the edge of the village water, who used to wash and carry water, waiting quietly in the morning to tease the first person to come to the border. There are water ghosts dragging people in the pond under the temple, and there are few naughty children every year. As soon as the old locust tree has a demon bird calling, there will be dead people in the village. On the zigzag ridge road, there is a small white bungalow in the middle of the ridge, and there are always people who see people smoking and drinking tea inside, but who wants to take a closer look, there is nothing.

In addition, every August 15 in the town, every village will hold a ceremony to invite "Sister Yue", using bamboo strips to tie a legless dummy, the dummy hands are clasped together, and then in the middle position, hang a key or tie a chopstick. New clothes were put on the outside, cotton bandanas were wrapped, and all kinds of offerings were placed on the square table - three cups of wine, a pot of tea, one grapefruit, two catties of moon cakes, a few sweet potatoes, taro melons and fruits, and some rice.

If the rice is the new rice of the year, the wine should be new wine that has not been opened. On either side of the dummy were unmarried boys and girls who had taken a bath, and it was a woman who sang the rituals, and an old woman who had become a grandmother. Men can't come, and young people can't come.

When everything is ready, the villagers will form a circle, except for the direction of the moon. The old woman said, "Sister Yue, Aunt Yue, the fifteenth day of August is at the right time." If you come, you can come, why don't you come to the end of the bridge to make moss. Aunt Yue, Aunt Yue ......", such a chanting spirit song has to be sung in the local dialect to be effective, someone has tried Chinese, and some other languages are useless.

Legend has it that Sister Yue has seven sisters and sisters, and after Sister Yue is invited down, people will ask what the rank is, and the dummy will bow, and then the keychain will be smashed on the table, ringing four times or whatever. You can also ask her how she got down, if she hung the key, she would have to give the answer options, and if she was tied with chopsticks, she would draw clouds or horses on the dustpan with rice. You can ask a lot of questions, and Sister Yue answers them by nodding or writing with chopsticks, such as age, lifespan, family size, marriage, how many children there are, and so on.

All these legends and stories from village to village are too many to count.

"I basically know what you're talking about. Xu Fuzi said this with a smile.

"You know, Old Xu......" Ling Lang couldn't help but be shocked.

"Yes, of course I know, have you forgotten that I am the soul envoy of this region. The mountain spirits and ghosts you mentioned, strictly speaking, are under my jurisdiction, or the Yin Si Soul Detention Spirit, I have to deal with them together. ”

"Soul Arrest, Yin Si, Xu Lao, is there really a Hades king?"

"Why not? Guanyin Master and the Northern Emperor have it, and the King of Hades naturally has it. It's just that many of the details are different from the stories you usually see. ”

"There are three kinds of mountain spirits and ghosts, good and evil, and although our soul envoys are synergistic, they also have the role of supervision. ”

"Just like you said, the blind old woman wandered with a lamp, she was a family near the bamboo forest before her death, because her children were unfilial, hungry and cold, sick and no one to serve, and her eyes were not good, when she urinated at night, she fell on the ground and no one cared about it, she froze to death, she couldn't swallow her resentment, and she didn't blink to death, but ordinary people all enshrined the tablets of her grandparents, and they enjoyed incense for a long time, not the new dead soul can compare. In addition, there are land lords, door gods, stove gods, shrine gods, and all kinds of talismans and seals pasted at home, great statues, immortal statues, etc., how can a wandering soul be close, and can only use the nearby bamboo forest as a hostel, lurking during the day, and coming out at night to walk around and resent. Seeing that she was pitiful when she was alive, the gods didn't care about her, but that person's family burned incense and prayed every day, and invited people to do rituals, so Yin Si couldn't pretend not to see it. took her remnant soul and went to the underworld in detention. ”

"The bride in red was married in the village next door more than 30 years ago, on the night of the wedding, she had not had the same room, her husband died of alcohol poisoning because of excessive drinking, and her mother-in-law blamed her for killing her husband, and her mother's family did not want to see her, and then she really couldn't get through, so she wore the red clothes and red shoes she wore when she got married, and held the red umbrella on the wedding day, and took the loquat cream while the mother-in-law's family had not woken up, and arrived at the edge of the village early。 ”

"These are all good spirits, and they have not taken the initiative to harm others, and the one from Ziziling Ridge, who has spent most of his life savings and moved out of the mountains, wanting to build a house next to the road, so that his children and grandchildren can go to school conveniently, but the house has not yet been built, and he went up the mountain to cut down trees once, because the road was slippery, and he rolled all the way down the mountain and fell to his death. So I stayed in the house where no one lived, and I imagined the life scene I wanted. ”

"As for the water ghosts, they are evil spirits, and there must be a difference between good spirits and evil spirits, and evil spirits will be tortured and tortured, and if they can't hold on, their souls will fly away and disappear completely. Good spirits can be reincarnated early, or erase their memories and be reborn, or they can take away and come back. So we have the function of collaborative discernment. Just like the demon bird, it just likes to absorb the dead breath of the dying person, although the cry is terrifying, but it is not directly harmful, when it is caught, so I don't approve of it being classified as an evil spirit, but also because it causes a lot of panic and anxiety among the villagers, and it wanders around, given a level. Yin Si takes it, torture is indispensable, but there will be the blessing of Jizo Bodhisattva, and it will not let his soul fly away, but when he is reincarnated, it is a relatively inferior choice. ”

The amount of information is so large, his head hurts a little, Ling Lang feels that his cognition of the world has been completely refreshed, and what Xu Fuzi said today is novel and shocking.

"Then Old Xu, is the legend of Sister Yue true or false?" Ling Lang finally asked this doubt that had puzzled him since he was a child.

"Did you think it was true or false?" Mr. Xu quipped.

"I thought it was true, but reason and my education told me it was false. But since I was a child, no one has ever been able to explain the strange and unreasonable phenomenon in it. ”

"Of course Sister Yue has, but she is not the Seven Sisters of the Moon in the sky. Most of the time, it is the mountain ghosts and water monsters near the village, and when they see the abundant offerings placed by the villagers, they possess their souls. Of course, there are also passing fairies, who, on a whim, kick away the spirits and run to find some fun by themselves. Originally, it was harmless, but then it was slowly disallowed. Don't you notice, sometimes I have to invite Sister Yue several times, that is, the competition of the spirit fairy, there is no winner or loser, and the time of soul possession is delayed. And the more those who have aura, make the dummy's movements more vivid, but when answering, the answers are often more different, more wrong, and even sometimes awkward, angry and dumping, these are the little fairies passing by. Those honest and honest old men in their seventies and eighties asked their age, and they were honest and honest, they were spirits who knew everything about the villagers thoroughly. ”

"Then why have there been fewer and fewer rituals over the years? The villagers don't like to see it, it's very rare. Ling Lang asked a little puzzled.

"Before the founding of the country, because of the war for many years, Yin Si couldn't manage remote places for a while, so the legends of the mountains and wilderness were not believed. With your hands free, you will naturally clean up. In addition, the state later established a special supernatural event management department, and the constraints on elves and ghosts have also increased every year. So now it is becoming more and more difficult to invite Sister Yue in rural areas, and the above is afraid of causing too many uneasy factors, and many policies are also guiding people to slowly abandon these old rituals. Sister Yue naturally saw it less and less. It won't be long before the last group of old women who still remember the spirit tune will go, and it will probably be fine. ”

"People are called spirits, demons and ghosts, and they are not spirits. Alas, it's just that the age is different, and the means of being treated are naturally different. In today's international form of a country, for the sake of long-term peace and stability, there is no way to restrain the soul and not allow it to become a sperm. ”

"Needless to say, kid, it won't do you much good to know more of these things at once. Let me teach you the basic soul body condensation exercises. ”

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