At that time, I didn't bother to ask more, but later I heard from my grandmother that I realized that this is also an old man.

It is said that when he was young, the fifth master was also a little Taibao who was rampant in Huangjiagouzi, and he took people to fight with my grandfather, and the more he fought, the more he had the right appetite, and the two of them became righteous, and they were considered to be a disaster to the township together.

When she had unloaded her things, the girl came out of the back room, and her grandmother asked her if she needed anything, and she hurried to buy it, and the girl shook her head, and then asked me to help pick up the white cloth and begin to spread it in the yard.

A piece of cloth was ten zhang, more than 30 meters, opened and spread most of the yard, and after the laying was done, the girl took out two pairs of scissors from the back room, handed them to my grandmother and me, and asked us to cut the cloth and cut it into strips of rags.

It is a big project to cut more than 30 meters of white cloth into strips of cloth, so the fifth master also pulled out the knife pinned to the waist to help, and when we cut the strips, we heard the girl say: "Now the things are ready, but there is something I have to ask you for a favor." ”

The grandmother hurriedly said yes, and the fifth master also patted his chest and said: "Sanshan and I are like brothers, his grandson is my grandson, if you have something, I will help if I can help!" ”

The girl nodded, and said: "Sister Huang also said yesterday, that thing grinds your grandson very much, but in fact, just grinding him, it will not kill him in a short time, but when you came to see the incense yesterday, Sister Huang thought simply, but it angered the other party, and now that thing has to be your grandson's life, if you hadn't taken away my lamp last night, plus Sister Huang saved her life, I'm afraid something would have happened......"

"So, what then?" Grandmother asked in a panic.

The girl waved her hand and said, "Don't be afraid, the other party will come to ask for his life tonight, since he has already torn his face, it is better to meet him than to hide." I stayed and played with him tonight, but no one was present except the victim. The night before I will arrange for you to do one thing, after you are done, you will come back and keep vigil for me outside the door, don't let anyone approach, no matter what movement you hear in the yard the night after, you can't look at it, you can't come in, otherwise you have to ......do something."

Grandmother and Fifth Master nodded yes again and again, and then Grandmother asked timidly, "Then when can we come in?" ”

The girl replied, "After the rooster crows, success or failure depends on this night, if even I can't clean up that thing, you can collect the corpses for both of us......"

When she heard this, her grandmother's face turned white with fright, but the girl did not think so, so she picked up a handful of rags and said, "After cutting the strips of cloth in a while, you will take them to the cemetery in the northwest, and stuff them into the grave bag one by one, and then come back as soon as you are done......

After listening to her explanation, the grandmother and the fifth master nodded again, and the girl let us continue to cut the strips of cloth.

Soon after, someone entered the yard, starting with a man in his thirties, carrying a large water tank on his shoulder, followed by an eight or nine-year-old child, as soon as the two entered the door, the fifth master stood up and introduced that this was his son and grandson, who were helping to deliver the water tank.

According to the girl's instructions, the water tank was placed in the middle of the yard, and then the girl asked me to pour water into the tank, and I hid to the side to go to the fire demon to write, and when I poured the water tank full of water, the girl's words were almost written, and the strips of cloth on the grandmother's side had been cut full of baskets, and the girl saw that it was enough, so that the third master and grandmother stopped, and let them set off to the cemetery with the strips of cloth, and the third master let his children and grandchildren follow to help.

Before the four of them set off, the girl wrote four talismans, put a few soybeans on each talisman and wrapped them, and stuffed them into the pockets of the four people, and then let them go.

Before leaving, my grandmother looked at me reluctantly, thanked the girl for her kindness, and then asked, "Girl, you are the great benefactor of our family, but we don't know your name yet." ”

The girl smiled slightly and replied, "My surname is Bai, spotless Bai, and my single name is a Wei character." ”

After my grandmother and her party left, Bai Wei plugged in the courtyard door and began to get busy in the courtyard again, first unscrewing a bottle of wine and pouring it into the tank full of water, then began to pour soybeans into the tank, and then asked me to take off my clothes and sit in the water tank.

I asked her, "Are you going to take my stew?" ”

Bai Wei glared at me and replied angrily, "You can do whatever I tell you to do, unless you don't want to live." ”

I had no choice but to do as she said, and as I was undressing, I saw the girl take out nine large plates from the back room, and after arranging them around the water tank, put a chicken in each plate, and then began to sprinkle soybeans on the ground around the water tank.

I asked her again, "You let my grandmother buy twelve chickens, and what about three?" ”

She glared at me again and said, "I ate it myself." ”

When I took off my clothes and sat in the tank, Bai Wei also finished laying nine chickens, and then took a bench and sat next to it and began to eat the other three, which was almost nine o'clock in the evening, mainly because I had wasted too much effort in cutting rags and writing before.

I didn't eat all night, so I asked Bai Wei if I could give me a chicken leg to eat, but she didn't pay attention to my stubble at all, and only said that I should stay in the tank and not move, so I continued to eat my own and ignore me.

When the third grilled chicken was about to be eaten, Bai Wei suddenly sighed and said: "Sister Huang's fairy family also loves to eat chicken, every time I come to her, I specially buy two, and then the two of us will fight for a night with wine, and it seems that there will be no chance in the future......"

Bai Wei suddenly became sad, so I asked, "You are also a horse fairy, right?" ”

"I'm not, I'm from the same sect as Sister Huang, and their sect is a crooked sect in our opinion."

Bai Wei pursed her lips, anyway, she had just eaten and had nothing to do, so she told me about the origin of the horse fairy.

She told me that the horse fairy belongs to the Manchu religion outside the Guanwai, also called the shaman, according to legend, people are born with five hundred years of Taoism, animal immortal cultivation needs Taoism, on the body of the master to take, by the way to help people to see the incense as a reward, and then this kind of thing is more, there is a 'out of the horse immortal' this saying, but in fact, the upper body of the person can only be called 'horse', the master of the body to do things, can be called 'immortal'.

And the legend of these Venerable Masters who are immortals who take the Tao are also good and bad, and the good-hearted ones can help you do some practical things, but if you catch up with the bad-hearted ones, they will encourage people with unrighteous hearts to take risks, or they just grind you for some trivial things and harm you, the name is the Immortal Family, in fact, most of them are things in cultivation, and they reach some kind of agreement with people for the sake of cultivation, and each takes what he needs.

For example, the most common 'Baojia Immortal' in the Northeast is also a saying from shamanism, a kind of animal fairy, it comes to live in your house, and you want it to protect you, then you have to offer it to worship it, don't make it angry, this is not to take what you need.

Bai Wei also said that although shamans are widely spread in the north, they are very unpopular in the eyes of fellow Taoists, because there are not many animal fairy hearts, and there are many evildoers, especially orthodox Taoist Taoists, and shamans are even more bitter enemies and look down on each other, which is mainly because of the different origins of inheritance.

There is a saying that Taoism originated from the human religion, and shamanism originated from the interception of the religion, that is, all the people who cultivate the Tao are the children and grandchildren of the human sect, and all the animal elves are the children and grandchildren of the expounders.

When Bai Wei said these things at that time, it sounded like a fantasy to me, because I didn't understand it at all, but then I slowly experienced more and understood more.

Especially when I went to Liaoning for a while, I found that most people would worship the shamanic Baojia Immortal at home, most of them were pasted on the yellow paper god list, or specially built with wood bricks and tiles to build the 'Xianjia Building' to worship, and then burned incense and kowtowed every day.

I have also made a special trip to visit a lot of horse immortals, they will be the god list on the front gable wall of the living room, on both sides of the couplet, 'in the deep mountains to cultivate the true nature, out of the ancient cave and the four seas famous', horizontal criticism of 'responsiveness', the worship of the god list will write a lot of names, the top must be Tongtian and Jinhua two major masters, the following sect leaders command the fairy names of the people and horses, what 'black mother', 'Chang Tianlong', 'Hu Cuihua', 'Qinghai Daxian' and the like, abound.

Bai Wei was talkative, and talked to me until the middle of the night that night, all kinds of chatting and laughing, but when it was almost twelve o'clock, Bai Wei's face suddenly changed, and then without saying a word, she stood up and ran to the back room......