Chapter 6 Yin and Yang Ribbon Cutting
"What's the matter, who let you in?"
At this time, my fourth uncle ran in with a anxious face, and when he saw the rooster, he seemed to realize something, and asked, "What happened?" ”
I quickly told him what happened, and also told him what happened on the train, and my fourth uncle was even more angry when he heard it, "You, you, let me say what is good about you, your mother won't let you run around, you won't listen, you won't believe it if you don't come up!" ”
"But you are a blessing in disguise this time, this is a spirit chicken, which seals the soul of the rooster, and uses the blood of the rooster for more than ten years every day to nourish his body, and he is sensitive to the perception of ghosts, but he is generally not active during the day, and it must be the breath of the dirty things on your body that alarmed him."
Listening to his statement, I also understood, the so-called rooster crows the soul, is the soul that dies at the moment of the rooster's crow, the rooster spirit at this time is the strongest, the Taoist says "the rooster crows, the rooster crows", the rooster knows that the longevity is near, even if he dies, he has to call again, and his mental psychic can be created.
There is also a way to cut off the head of the rooster when it crows, which can also become the soul of the rooster's crow, but it is not so spiritual.
"Now that you have found out, I will tell you the truth, your fourth uncle and I ostensibly make paper-cutting, but in fact belong to the paper clothing door, and will also cut some spiritual objects and sell them to peers and people in need."
"I used to want you to learn this from me, but your mother said that your body is evil and your yin qi is heavy, so forget it."
Seeing that the matter had been exposed, my fourth uncle also talked about his business.
As soon as I heard his words, I was not calm for a moment, "Don't, fourth uncle, I want to learn, and I will be mixed with you from now on." ”
The recent experience made me realize the importance of having skills, and that having a technology is also important in this society, so I moved my mind.
"It's up to you, you have to agree with your parents."
The fourth uncle can't deny it, in fact, he also wants to pass on the craft to his own family.
Two days later, my parents rushed over from home, and of course they scolded me when they first came, but they also understood my feelings, and they were also worried when they heard the news that I had encountered a ghost.
For this reason, I was also approved to learn paper-cutting from my fourth uncle.
And I really came into contact with this technology to understand its magic, the full name of this craft is Yin and Yang Ribbon Cutting Technique, which evolved from rune paper, and is good at giving paper color spirituality, so as to achieve the effect of seeking good fortune and avoiding misfortune, and the paper is yin and yang.
"Yin and Yang ribbon-cutting, the most important thing in this craft is understanding, followed by dexterity, both to cut well and paint well, as the saying goes, it is difficult to paint the soul of the shape and bones, we decide the success of the work at the moment of coloring, and at the same time the pigment is also exquisite, such as the blood of the rooster with the paper rooster, the blood of the phoenix with the bird and so on."
The fourth uncle in the room was telling me the principle of ribbon-cutting, but I was stunned, "Honghu? ”
"It's so lonely!" The fourth uncle gave me a blank look.
"People often say that the bird's nest knows the ambition of the bird, the bird is a special swan, every thunderstorm will rise up, the wild goose laughs at it does not know whether it is dead or alive, but it does not know that it has the heart of nirvana, so there is a special divine will in the bloodline."
With his explanation, I felt more and more that the craft is different, the materials used are not only special but also in line with the idea of the work, such as the paper ghost to use yin materials, such as the paper made of 100-year-old locust tree pulp, and the color on it is the blood of a black cat, because this thing is psychic and extremely fierce.
However, most of them are only not obvious, and it is even more difficult to walk around with paper bodies like paper roosters.
The Lingcai is usually divided into three levels, the inferior Lingcai has a little spirituality, mostly for self-defense and evil spirits, does not have offensive power, the medium Lingcai can appear at night as a soul, can take care of the home, the superior Lingcai meets the sunshine and the aura does not disperse, it becomes wisdom, and it is already another life.
I studied with my fourth uncle for two months, and I made rapid progress, and I was able to do some ordinary ribbon-cutting independently, and the portrait of Guan Gong I painted was lifelike, which was well received by customers, and even the fourth uncle said that I was in the right industry.
Just when I was full of confidence and was about to learn all about this technique, bad news quietly befell me, and my physical condition began to deteriorate dramatically.
On that day, at the beginning of autumn, the leaves began to wither and yellow, and I seemed to have reached the end of my life, and my grandfather had no news.
"It's over, it's just Liqiu, this kid can't hold on."
"When autumn comes, the yin will come out of the earth and kill all things, which is a harvest for crops, but it is death for life.
The fourth uncle was anxious, but he was helpless, because my physical condition was too special, and it was not a medicine stone to treat.
"You remember, from tonight onwards, you sleep with a big rooster in your arms, and you are not allowed to go out on a regular basis." The fourth uncle told me very seriously, but he didn't tell me the reason.
I was sleeping soundly that night, when suddenly the whole door and window kept shaking, and the whole house was surrounded by countless dark shadows.
The paper rooster in my arms was even more "clucking", staring out the window fiercely, and I wanted to rush out several times and was hugged tightly by me.
"What's going on, what's that out there?"
Subconsciously, I felt that something was wrong, and at this moment my heart began to shake violently, as if something wanted to jump out.
My uncle naturally found out about this situation and ran in anxiously, "Oh no, this thing wants to come out, it doesn't want to die with you." ”
He stared at my chest tightly and shouted, "Demon, you don't want to leave so cheaply, hurry up and go back to me." ”
"Now that the country's fortunes are prosperous, how can you allow evil spirits such as Er to do so."
The fourth uncle said that he took out a string of Quartet Five Emperor coins and hung them around my neck, and in an instant the abnormal movement in my chest stopped, and a faint miserable howl came out of my body, I suddenly became energetic, I never thought that there was a "neighbor" living in my body?
This... Damn!
"Fourth uncle, what the hell is going on, didn't you say that my heart is a stone, why do you still move?" I also sensed that something was wrong at this time, and quickly asked.
Seeing that the matter had come to this, the fourth uncle sighed, "Actually, I didn't lie to you, it was indeed a stone, but it was not an ordinary stone, it was a soul-nourishing stone, and the stone contained the spirit of the fox demon's dead cubs, which was connected to your life and used your body as nourishment." ”
"When it absorbs enough nutrients, it has a chance to resurrect, and at the same time, this soul nourishing stone is also a great supplement for demons and evils, usually you are good enough to have qi and blood, but now the vitality is decaying, and these evil things have felt the opportunity......"
"But don't worry, the demon fox's plan will not succeed, if you want to bargain from the Qin family, you have to tear off at least a few pieces of meat."
"Meaning I'm going to die tonight?"