Chapter 2 Spirits
That night, my grandfather ordered a plate of sandalwood and went out at night, and I wanted to get up and follow, but the smell of sandalwood suddenly became strange, and I only felt dizzy, so I fell asleep on the bed.
I slept until noon the next day.
When I woke up, I found that my grandfather was not at home, and there were boiled sweet potatoes in the bowl on the table.
I don't know where my grandfather has gone, and I can't help but worry.
Grandpa is proficient in feng shui, some Taoism, and martial arts, and it is difficult for three or five people to get close, but my heart is up and down.
After I finished lunch, an old man came from outside the door, I knew this old man, from the next village, surnamed Zhang.
His eyes were red and swollen, as if he had just cried.
As the saying goes, if you don't have anything to do, you can't go to the Three Treasures Palace, and if you come to my house, there's nothing else.
I asked him to sit down in the hall, and after asking him clearly, I learned that his little granddaughter died of a heart attack a few days ago, and the body had been in the ice coffin for a few days.
It just so happened that there was a ready-made one at home, and after negotiating the price, the old man seemed a little entangled, after all, the price of the immortal coffin was indeed very expensive.
But I'm not going to let him haggle for half a cent.
The yang coffin cuts money, and the yin coffin asks for life, I don't want my grandfather to suffer underground after a hundred years.
Seeing my resolute attitude, the old man finally gritted his teeth and decided to buy it, just to give him time to scrape together money.
I have no opinion on this, the coffin can be pulled away, and he will be given a week of grace, not afraid that he will repay the debt, and the monk will not be able to run the temple.
I walked to the place where the coffin was placed, and the old man said that he wanted her granddaughter to live more comfortably, so he would choose a larger immortal coffin for him, and the coffin was red, it should be freshly painted, a new coffin.
The old man was very moved, and said that my good people have good rewards, and his granddaughter's spirit in heaven will also thank me.
I smiled wryly.
If there is a good reward, grandpa will not be disabled.
I didn't speak, and let the old man find someone to come and pull the coffin away.
At nightfall, Grandpa came back from outside, and as soon as he entered the door, he hurried to the place where the coffin was placed.
Immediately after, I heard his excited voice.
"Baby, come out quickly!"
I hurriedly walked up to him, his face was pale, and he pointed to the location of the original immortal coffin and excitedly asked me where the coffin had gone.
I told him what had happened at noon.
When he heard this, his face immediately turned earthy, and he almost sat on the ground.
He muttered to himself, "It's over, it's all over." ”
I was stunned by this sudden scene.
But I suddenly had a bad premonition in my heart and asked, "Grandpa, what's wrong?" ”
The old man's face was pale, and he seemed to forcibly suppress his emotions for a while before he said, "That's not an immortal coffin, it's a corpse coffin!" ”
"Put the corpse in it, and it will turn into powder in less than three days!"
"What? How can the coffin have such a function? ”
The old man looked at me with a solemn look in his eyes, and said in a deep voice, "Do you think it's just a literal meaning, if it's just the corpse." ”
As he spoke, Grandpa took out a few talismans from his hand and put them on the table.
"There is no corpse in the dead, there is nowhere to put the soul, the girl has a great possibility of turning into an evil spirit, unjustly asking for her life, the corpse coffin is only a semi-finished product, there must be a talisman to suppress it, I went out to make a talisman seal, but I didn't expect it to be a step too late."
After hearing this, my mood suddenly fell to the bottom, my fingers couldn't help but tremble, and my mind was full of scenes of female ghosts coming to me to ask for my life.
Seeing this, the old man took the talisman seal, took my hand and walked out.
I wondered, "Grandpa, where are we going?" ”
Grandpa said as he walked, "Where else can I go, go to Zhangjiazhuang to see if the body of the girl has been put in a coffin, maybe it's still too late!" ”
Not long after we walked out of the village, we heard the sound of suona in Zhangjiazhuang in the distance.
"Quick!"
Grandpa immediately quickened his pace.
A few minutes later, we finally arrived at the home of the old man surnamed Zhang.
As soon as he saw the old man surnamed Zhang, his grandfather immediately asked, "Genzheng, is the baby's body in the coffin?" ”
The old man surnamed Zhang's eyes were red, he nodded, and pointed in the direction of the spirit shed, "Over there." ”
Grandpa sighed, and then said calmly, "Genzheng, you go and invite all the people in the spirit shed to come out, and I will go and put some talismans on the coffin, and drive away evil spirits for the baby, and it will be easier to walk on the Huangquan Road." ”
The old man surnamed Zhang was stunned for a moment, but he seemed to know his grandfather's ability.
With tears in my eyes, I thanked him vigorously.
Then he called out all the people in the shed.
My grandfather took me into the mourning booth and put down the white cloth on the outside, so that the outside could not see the scene inside.
"Grandpa."
I whispered.
The old man turned his head to look at me and said, "Don't you think it's good for grandpa to cheat on him?" ”
I nodded.
The old man didn't explain much, and led me forward.
My heart was up and down, and I didn't dare to approach the coffin.
Grandpa stuffed all the talismans into my hands and said, "Don't be afraid, you still have to tie the bell to the bell, you follow what I said, paste the talisman seal." ”
I knew that now was not the time for me to be pretentious, so I took a deep breath and walked behind the offering table.
"Qiankun Xundu, Kan Ligen Zhen."
According to my grandfather's instructions, I pasted all the talismans and seals on all sides of the coffin according to the direction of the eight trigrams.
After doing all this, I quickly walked out and waited for my grandfather's next instructions.
Grandpa patted me on the shoulder and said, "Well done." ”
"You wait for me outside first."
I didn't think much of it and walked out.
About ten minutes later, Grandpa also walked out of it.
But there was not the slightest trace of blood on his face, and his body swayed, as if he would fall to the ground in the next moment.
And there was a clear wound on his wrist, and blood kept dripping.
I hurriedly stepped forward and carried him on my back.
"Grandpa!"
"Let's go, go home first."
He said weakly.
I carried my grandfather on my back, past the crowd of onlookers, and trotted all the way home.
I first helped him stop the bleeding and bandage, and then asked, "Grandpa, what's the problem with your wrist?" ”
The old man took my hand and comforted, "I'm fine, just a few drops of blood on the coffin to calm the spirit, at most it will damage a little Taoism, just rest for the night." ”
"If nothing else, the girl will be buried tomorrow."
"You'd better go and see if anything happens to you."
"Don't worry, we've done everything we can, and the next thing is to resign ourselves to fate."
"Also, if you hear someone talking or knocking on the door at night, don't respond to any sound you hear, remember!"
After saying that, he closed his eyes and rested.
Looking at my grandfather's white and terrifying face, I blamed myself in my heart.