Chapter 17: Soul Attraction
As soon as we returned to our residence in Manhe, Meimei's parents came to the door and told me that the Bai family had sent them a very considerable amount of money today. At the same time, Meimei also apologized to them in front of all the teachers and students in the school. The school also reimbursed them for the cost.
I nodded and asked them to collect the money, and I will choose a day in the next two days to help Meimei reincarnate with them.
The two of them were naturally very grateful to me, and they also gave me a big red envelope, which I directly refused, how could I accept their money.
After Meimei's parents left, Man He looked at me and said, "Taiping, I think it's very fast to make money in your business, or I'll follow you." ”
Hearing him say this, I couldn't help but smile bitterly, "I don't have this life, no matter how much money I have, I have to give it away." ”
When Manhe asked me why, I told him that this was my life, and that money was like a cloud to me.
The Bai family found a good place for Bai Tingting, and came over to ask me if I could. I looked at the place they chose, it was a very small nunnery, in the middle of a mountain. I nodded, Bai Tingting would suffer a lot in such a place, and she could be regarded as being punished.
When the matter was done, I chose a cloudy day and notified Cheng Yuanzhi. At ten o'clock in the evening, we arrived at Meimei's house.
Meimeijia is also a rented house, with the same layout as the house where Manhe lives, with a small courtyard and two rooms.
This kind of ritual usually requires the soul of the deceased to be summoned first, and the beautiful soul was put in a bottle by me, which saved some trouble.
Cheng Yuanzhi put an incense burner on the ground, then lit three long incense sticks, held the long incense with both hands and said, "Disciple of the Cheng family in Lingnan, Cheng Yuanzhi worships the Yellow Sky and the Thick Earth......."
After worshipping, Cheng Yuanzhi inserted the long incense into the incense burner, and he took out the yellow chicken prepared in advance, and tied a red rope to the yellow chicken's leg.
I know that this is a soul-attracting chicken, and that a person's soul may be in trouble when it leaves the body and goes to the underworld. As long as this soul-attracting chicken is there, it can lure the soul back.
I said to Meimei's parents, "After a while, I will release Meimei's soul, and you don't cry when you see her, so that she can go to the underworld in peace, and then return to you." ”
Meimei's parents nodded again and again, saying that they would not cry.
Soon when the time came, I let my beautiful soul out. Copper coins were prepared for Meimei's parents in advance, and they saw their daughter's appearance through the square hole of the copper coin, and the two of them almost collapsed.
I can see that the two of them are trying their best not to let themselves cry, and I also sighed in my heart, which parent will not feel uncomfortable when they see their children like this, and at this moment their hearts must be like a knife cutting.
"Mom, Dad." Meimei threw herself at the two of them with her hands outstretched, but it passed through their bodies.
The two of them couldn't control it anymore, and tears were falling down, but they still covered their mouths to prevent themselves from crying.
Cheng Zhiyuan came to Meimei, stretched out his index finger and pressed Meimei's forehead, and a vague mark suddenly appeared on Meimei's forehead.
Then he took Meimei's hand in one hand and the soul-attracting chicken in the other, and said in his mouth, "The ghost door on Huangquan Road is open, and the soul of the dead enters reincarnation." ”
His voice fell, his body tilted suddenly, the whole person fainted, and the ghost chicken in his hand also flew out of the gate with a rub.
I knew it was time for me to get to work, and though I couldn't go to Hades now, I could open the way for him from there. At the same time, I also need to give Cheng Yuanzhi the protector, if his body is seized by other ghosts during the time he is away from the soul, there is no way for him to come back.
While chanting a mantra in his mouth, he threw paper money into the paper basin. There was a faint green light from the paper basin, and Meimei's parents were so frightened that they didn't dare to come out.
Soon, there was a gust of wind around me, and I knew that it had attracted a lot of ghosts.
"The money has been sent to you, if you dare to make trouble, don't blame me for being unkind." I said with a cold face.
I'm also saluting before I soldiers.
The ghosts took the money, and when they were honest, they all left.
After about an hour, Cheng Yuanzhi's soul has not returned, and I can't help but feel a little anxious. If Cheng Yuanzhi goes well, he should be able to come back in half an hour.
It's been an hour now, and he hasn't come back yet, so he's in trouble. At this time, I have no other way, I can solve the above things, but I can't do anything about the bottom things.
I remember reading in the book of the Taoist Scripture Pavilion that relatives can call back the lost soul.
Meimei is now with Cheng Yuanzhi, maybe Meimei's parents can call their daughter's soul back. Now there is no other way but Sima to be a live horse doctor.
"Hurry up and find some beautiful clothes, and then find a gong, or find an iron basin without a gong." I said to Meimei's parents.
Meimei's parents hurriedly went into the house to look for clothes and gongs.
Soon, they took out a few beautiful clothes, and there was no gong at home, so they came out with an iron basin. Although the effect of the iron basin is not as good as that of the gong, it is better than nothing.
"You light Meimei's clothes, wait a while, I'll knock it, you shout Meimei, go home." I said to Meimei's parents.
Meimei's parents hurriedly lit Meimei's clothes, I glanced at the gate of the courtyard, and prayed in my heart that Meimei had better have a trace of memory of her past life, otherwise it would be really troublesome this time.
I knocked on the basin, Meimei's parents over there called Meimei to come back, we were busy for more than ten minutes, and the sweat on my head was dripping down.
Just when I was in a hurry, a rooster crowed. I was overjoyed that the soul-attracting chicken had returned.
With the sound of the rooster, the big yellow chicken ran in from outside. As the big yellow chicken ran in, I saw Cheng Yuanzhi leading the beautiful soul and coming in with the big yellow chicken. Cheng Yuanzhi's soul returned to her body, and Meimei's soul entered her mother's body.
I was also relieved that things were done.
Meimei's parents saw that the big yellow chicken was back, and they also looked at Cheng Yuanzhi. They saw that Cheng Yuanzhi didn't move, and looked at me, "This gentleman will be fine." ”
I told them that things were done. After the soul of a person returns to the body, the soul will be a little unstable, so it cannot move immediately.
When my voice fell, Cheng Yuanzhi opened his eyes and sat up.
"Sir, has my daughter's soul returned, and can he be reincarnated into our family?" Meimei's father asked anxiously.
"Well, it's done." Cheng Yuanzhi's expression was very tired, and he seemed to have gone through a fight.
Some things are inconvenient to ask in front of Meimei's parents, I said to Meimei's parents, "The matter has been done, you should rest early." Well, if you want to have children, you know. ”
Speaking of this, my old face couldn't help but blush, and Meimei's parents were a little embarrassed.
When we came out of Meimei's house, I said to Cheng Yuanzhi, "Mr. Cheng, let's find a place to eat." ”
Cheng Yuanzhi looked tired and consumed a lot of physical energy.
Living here in Manhe these days, I have a good understanding of the surrounding environment. Although this place is a place for the poor, there are many barbecue restaurants outside in the summer, and they will open late.
We found a barbecue restaurant and asked for a private room. I ordered quite a bit of a barbecue and asked for half a case of beer.
Cheng Yuanzhi should have been tired, so he ate more than ten skewers of barbecue and drank two bottles of beer before stopping.
"Mr. Cheng, did you encounter something down there?" Seeing that he slowed down, I poured him a beer and asked.
"It was originally quite smooth, but on the way back, I met a mortal enemy, and I had a fight with him, so I couldn't come back." Cheng Yuan's heart palpitated.
Cheng Yuanzhi said this, without further talking, he changed the topic, "You kid is not very old, he is quite virtuous, and he actually thought of a way to make Meimei's parents cry their souls, this time thanks to you, otherwise I may really not be able to come back." ”
"I don't know where you learned your art?" Cheng Yuanzhi asked.
"The place where I studied art is a wild mountain, and I don't even have a name." I replied directly. When I went down the mountain, Master instructed me not to tell anyone about returning to Longguan. I can only perfunctory him.
Cheng Yuanzhi nodded and didn't say anything more.
We chatted about some interesting things in the circle while eating, of course, most of them were Cheng Yuanzhi talking, I almost didn't know much about this circle.
After eating, the sky outside was slightly bright, and we went straight back to Manhe's house, fell asleep on the bed.
When I woke up the next day, it was already sunrise outside, and Cheng Yuanzhi was still asleep.
Man He wasn't at home, there was food on the table, and he should go to work.
I didn't wake up Cheng Yuanzhi, the old man was tired yesterday.
I ate something alone and had just put away the dishes and chopsticks when there was a knock on the door.
When I opened the door, it turned out to be Zhang Qishan. He asked me how things were going, and I told him everything was done.
Letting Zhang Qishan into the house, he glanced at Cheng Yuanzhi, who was still sleeping, and said with a smile, "Taiping, I didn't introduce you to the wrong person." ”
Looking at Zhang Qishan's appearance, I came here today not just to ask about this, but I didn't say anything else, and directly followed his words and said, "Of course, Mr. Cheng is very capable. ”
"That's good, if only it didn't delay you." Zhang Qishan hesitated for a moment and said, "Taiping, I came here today in addition to this matter, I have one more thing, and what you promised before is not bad." ”
"Of course." Seeing Zhang Qishan bring the topic to the point, I responded with a smile.
"That's good, I know you're a trustworthy man." Zhang Qishan Road.
Looking at him, I didn't speak, I wanted to hear what he wanted me to do him a favor.
Seeing that I didn't speak, he continued to speak, "You should have heard of the stake, right?" ”
When I heard Zhang Qishan mention the stake, my heart moved. This stake is a kind of ancient secret construction method. Under normal circumstances, this method will be used in some places where it is more difficult to construct or is very evil.
For example, when a bridge is being built in a place, piles need to be driven into the water. But sometimes the pile can't be driven. Experienced builders will find someone to dress up as a beggar, and then go to the house to ask for old clothes, and then nail the old clothes to the bridge pile, and the pile can be laid. However, the person who is begged for clothes will either die or become a fool.
There are also some people who will put a big red envelope on the ground when the bridge is being repaired, and whoever picks up the red envelope and spends the money inside, the soul will be recruited to guard the bridge.
There are also legends of stepping on bridges in similar places, and some bridges are well repaired and strong, but it won't take long for the bridge to collapse inexplicably, or there will be frequent accidents. At this time, people need to step on the bridge.
A gentleman with a way would let a man walk on the bridge, and then he would call that person's name below, and if that person answered, his soul would be left behind, so that the bridge would not collapse again.