Chapter 20: The Lost Soul
The girl's grandmother walked back and shouted, "Has Xiaoxiao come back?" I replied, "I'm back." "We kept walking, shouting all the time. Every time I passed through an intersection, I took my grandmother to turn left three times and then right three times before I could pass.
Of course, I told my grandmother beforehand.
When we entered the gate of the complex, we had already greeted the security guard beforehand, and we passed smoothly, but the security guard was still a little scared. We turned around seven times on the left and right at the gate, and then I took out another handful of yellow paper, and burned it in the direction of the funeral, still chanting the mantra "The big soul is on the body, the small soul is on the body, and the big and small soul is on the body", still forty-nine times.
There is a small bridge inside the community, which is the only way for us, and we can cross the bridge by burning paper again and turning around in a circle.
When I finally came to the door of the villa, I put the bricks I had prepared in advance in front of the door, and the sieve in my grandmother's hand was placed on the bricks. In front of the sieve, I turned left and right seven times, burned a handful of yellow paper, and my grandmother stood under the porch and shouted to the sky: "Xiaoxiao is back, Xiaoxiao is back." He shouted forty-seven times before he brought the sieve into the villa and brought it to the girl.
The girl hadn't fallen asleep yet, and I picked up the red dates that I had rubbed on the ground, and the surface of these three dates was covered with thick dust. Zhang Chengshan hurriedly said: "Three red dates, take a bite of each." ”
Lei Pengju and his wife couldn't help frowning when they looked at such dirty red dates. Zhang Chengshan's words, they had to listen, the girl was only two years old, although her teeth were straight, but the red dates were shriveled and hard, and it was not easy to bite. They coaxed the girl to bite each red date, leaving a row of tooth marks. Place the remaining dates back into a sieve.
Zhang Chengshan hurriedly took out the clothes in the sieve, handed them to the girl's grandmother, and said, "Hurry up and change into this set of clothes." ”
The girl's grandmother took the clothes and quickly changed them for the girl, and the red cloth sewn on the clothes hung on the girl's chest.
Zhang Chengshan grabbed the red cloth in the sieve and wrapped the three bitten red dates. He carefully cut off the red cloth on the girl's clothes and wrapped another layer around the red dates.
Zhang Chengshan handed over the three red dates wrapped in two layers of red cloth to me, and I used a compass to survey the direction in the girl's room, put the three red dates under the bed, and then found the bricks in front of the door to put the sieve and pressed them on the three red dates.
When we finally got everything going smoothly, Zhang Chengshan took a long breath and said, "The child has a good night's rest tonight, and he will recover tomorrow." ”
Lei Pengju and his wife finally showed joy on their faces and thanked him again and again. The child's grandmother is very old, and the toss just now has made her physically exhausted, and Zhang Chengshan also told her grandmother to rest earlier.
In this way, we went back with peace of mind. This method of "finding the soul" has never been missed, and we have seen it for all to see.
After a night of tossing, Zhang Chengshan and I were haggard, and when we went back, we fell asleep.
The next morning, as soon as I came to the shop, I heard that Lei Pengju had called, saying that my daughter slept peacefully last night, did not cry or make trouble, and after waking up in the morning, she was also energetic and had a great appetite. Lei Pengju himself also said that he would personally come to the door to thank him.
Zhang Chengshan replied to Xiao Shanbo with good news, Xiao Shanbo had received Lei Pengju's thanks early and praised the two of us.
Lei Pengju really came to visit in person at noon, brought a lot of gifts, and also sealed a thick red envelope to Mr. Xiao, and prepared two more red envelopes, which were personally handed over to me and Zhang Chengshan.
That night, we had dinner with Mr. Xiao and had just come back to the shop. Lei Pengju's phone came again, and the voice on the other end of the phone was hurried, and he said in a panic: "My daughter has an accident again, she vomited out of her food during the day and at night, and the things she spit out are sticky and black, which is completely different from the vomit of a cold and fever." The daughter was also like a fool, facing the wall motionless for more than ten minutes. ”
After we listened, our faces sank, and we knew that this matter was not simple.
Xiao Shanbo immediately said: "I'll go with you again." With that, he picked up a few words and drove away with us.
When we arrived at Lei Pengju's house, the girl was no longer facing the wall, but sitting on the sofa sluggishly, her eyes empty and lifeless. Although he was also silent and had no spirit before, he could still play with toys alone, but now it is even more serious.
We took a look at the vomit, slimy, black mess, Lei Pengju hurriedly said that his daughter had not eaten black things, so she was very puzzled by the black lump that was spit out.
Xiao Shanbo carefully looked at the whole house, patiently checking the girl's bed and sheets. He also asked the girl's mother to find clothes that the child had worn recently, especially when attending the funeral. Mr. Xiao said: "These clothes can no longer be worn. After speaking, he pointed to the clothes that participated in the funeral and said, "This set of clothes will be thrown away now and thrown to the northeast." ”
The northeast direction is not the direction of the funeral. To the northeast of the community, separated by two intersections, there is a court. The court was extremely yang, and Mr. Xiao explained that he was thrown to the northeast, which should be considered for this reason.
Lei Peng obeyed, so I took the dress out of the house, walked through two traffic lights, and threw it in the trash bin in front of the courthouse.
After I came back, Xiao Shanbo still looked down at the little girl's vomit, and then said solemnly: "Tonight I will recite a 'meditation mantra' to help the child sleep, but there is no cure, tomorrow I will go to see the funeral place, and then make plans." ”