Chapter 6: The Fox and the White Porcelain Vase
Hearing this, I scratched my head in embarrassment.
Uncle Liu looked at his watch and whispered
"It's already 9 o'clock in the night, and there are still two hours left, if that's right, the yellow-clothed Pizi family should be at the end of the day."
Here I would like to explain that the so-called hour, the ancients divided the day into 12 hours: Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai.
Each hour corresponds to the present 2 hours, and the first hour is the sub-hour, which is also different from the present in the ancients, starting at 23 o'clock and lasting until 1 o'clock.
The last hour that Uncle Liu said was actually half past ten to eleven o'clock at night.
At this time, there is no sunlight, everything rests, a lot of unclean things appear, and the yin energy reaches its peak.
For those filthy things, we will choose this moment to meet.
We stood guard on the hillside next to a main road, hiding in the grass.
Uncle Liu said that he had observed the terrain before, and if they came, it would be a necessary route.
It's okay to wait, and the victory asked Uncle Liu,
"Uncle, you asked Mr. Lin to prepare these things, glutinous rice, red paper, white candles, I have seen it on some TV series that subdue demons and eliminate demons, but what is the use of this white porcelain bottle? Is it to smash the fox? Isn't that brick better? β
I'm dizzy, victory is really simple-minded.
I saw Uncle Liu smiling and preaching to us,
It turns out that foxes can be taken away by porcelain bottles.
In Pu Songling's "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", there is a section about a fox in a bottle.
It's about the daughter-in-law of the Shi family in Wancun, who was entangled by a fox spirit, and the family was very worried, but they couldn't get rid of it.
There was a bottle behind the woman's door, and every time she heard that the woman's father-in-law was coming, the fox spirit hid it in the bottle.
And when the woman saw it many times, she kept it in her heart, and she did not say anything. Once, when the fox got into the bottle again, the woman hurriedly plugged the mouth of the bottle with cotton wool and put the bottle in the pot to boil.
When the bottle was hot, the fox shouted inside the bottle: "It's too hot, don't mess around!" But the woman did not answer, but continued to cook. The fox spirit shouted more urgently in the bottle, and after a long time, he couldn't hear any movement. When the woman pulled the stopper, there was only a pile of hair and a few drops of blood.
The two of us understood little by little, and we were listening with relish, when I saw that Uncle Liu suddenly stopped talking, made a shushing gesture, and pointed to the faint road ahead.
I looked in the direction of Uncle Lin's finger, and saw a faint red light flashing at the end of the road.
Slowly, the sound of babbling sounded in my ears again, as if I was singing, but I couldn't hear what I was singing.
"It's coming!"
Victory muttered in a low voice, and Master waved his hand to signal us to be quiet.
The lights and voices got closer, and we got nervous.
It was only when I reached a distance of about 50 meters that I could see clearly by the moonlight.
The babbling sound was made by eight paper-faced people, their faces were miserable white, but their clothes, lips, and faces were red and oozing.
They walked at the front of the line, some played suona, some played drums, and some sang.
I took a closer look, and these paper people made up the same beating team in the morgue a few days ago.
It seems that this fox in yellow made a trick to let these paper people find and retrieve the soul of his granddaughter.
I saw that they all landed on the ground with their forefeet, and walked forward with a light trembling tremble.
And at the back are four paper figures, carrying a red sedan chair.
"In the sedan chair, it should be the soul of the yellow-clothed grandson." Uncle Liu whispered.
As the team got closer, I could clearly feel the victory next to me shaking involuntarily, and the tremor was getting bigger and bigger.
I looked at him, didn't think much about it, and pinched him hard, trying to make this guy calm and calm, don't be so unproductive.
But who knew that the victory itself was in tension, and I was startled by this pinch, and I screamed out with an "ah".
The paper sedan chairs all stopped, obviously hearing the shouts of victory, and wriggling their bodies in search.
I was secretly saying "no" to myself.
I saw that the master shouted loudly and rushed out, I didn't dare to delay, and I caught up with the master with the victory.
I saw Uncle Liu say that it was too late and that it was fast, he grabbed a handful of glutinous rice from his chest, and threw it at the paper man, only to see that where the paper man stuck the glutinous rice, a green flame appeared, and after a while, the paper man was burned to ashes.
Only the red sedan chair remained, appearing alone in this wilderness.
"Hehehe~~~Hehehe~~~"
Suddenly, there was a sneer in the sedan chair, and the scalp of the person who laughed in the night was numb.
At this moment, a layer of fog slowly rose around us with bursts of sneering.
The fog is getting thicker and thicker, and at first I can vaguely see the things around me, but after a while, I can only see myself, not even Uncle Liu and Shengli.
"Uncle Liu?" "Victory?"
I shouted nervously.
But there was no response.
Suddenly, not far in front of me, a figure appeared, looming.
"Is it Uncle Liu?"
I walked over quickly, the fog was so thick that I couldn't see my back clearly, and asked tentatively
"Uncle Liu, is that you? What's going on? What about victory? β
The man turned his face and approached me
It's Manman!
I was surprised and relieved before asking
"How are you? Who told you to come along? Aren't you back in school? β
I said anxiously
"I'm not worried about you, so I'm coming, Uncle Liu and Shengli are in front, let's go"
Then you're going to pull me forward.
"Wait"
I didn't move
"You seem to ...... Can't drive, this more than an hour's drive, how did you get here? β
Manman let go of my hand, turned his head, and smiled at me...... Make a squeaky sound......
"You're not Manman!"
After that, I saw that Manman's facial features and clothes were distorted, the red clothes had transformed into white, and there was a pointed hat out of thin air, and then look at the face.
The old lady who wore linen and wore filial piety in the morgue that day!
I was so frightened that I retreated, only to see that the old woman was still looking at me with her eyes that had no white eyes, and her face was distorted and her mouth grew to an incredible degree, and the corners of her mouth reached the base of her ears, and she pounced on me with her sharp fangs exposed.
I subconsciously used my arm to block it, trying to scream but couldn't scream, as if someone was pinching my throat, and I couldn't get out of breath. I thought to myself, this is over, am I going to die here today, and I can't be eaten by this monster.
"Demon fox Hugh go! Come on! β
It's Uncle Liu!
My neck suddenly returned to normal, and I gasped for breath, it seemed that the fox in yellow had turned into an old lady and came to harm me again, and was seen by Uncle Liu in time.
I saw that in the thick fog, Uncle Liu appeared in front of me with a white wax lamp, took out a pile of red paper from his chest, lit it on the white wax and burned it, and said something in his mouth, scattered it in the air, and the thick fog dissipated.
The old woman saw that the witchcraft was recognized, and she pounced like Uncle Liu, Uncle Liu flew to dodge, and the old woman pounced.
Turning his head around, he giggled a few times, and rushed towards Uncle Liu at a very fast speed.
Uncle Liu was about to reach out to take out the white porcelain vase on his body, but he was still half a step slower, and was thrown to the ground by the old woman.
Two hands pinched Uncle Liu's neck, and the porcelain vase rolled out of Uncle Liu's body and fell aside.
Seeing this, Shengli and I went to help, and we joined hands to break the old woman's hand so that Uncle Liu could breathe.
But the old woman's strength was so great that we were like breaking a pillar of stone, and we couldn't move at all.
Uncle Liu said with difficulty that I should leave it alone, go and pick up the bottle.
In a panic, I hurriedly picked up the porcelain vase, but I didn't know what to do, so I could only ask Uncle Liu in a hurry
"Uncle Liu, how do you get this bottle?"
"Towards his ...... Head ...... The neck is ...... downwards Cover ......"
Before Uncle Liu finished speaking, the old woman obviously found the bottle I was holding, and immediately let go of Uncle Liu and rushed towards me.
Without much thought, I lifted the bottle, and the mouth of the bottle went downward, and it slammed down on the head of the old woman who had become a fox in yellow.
Calm returned to the clearing.
I sat down on the floor, gasping for air.
Uncle Liu walked over quickly, took the bottle from my hand, took out the cork from his pocket, and closed the lid.
I look at Victory, there are blood marks on Victory's arm, presumably he was caught by the fox in yellow just now,
Victory sat on the ground with his injured arm propped up, and like me, he gasped for air.
At this time, Uncle Liu didn't bother to rest, took out the white wax, lit it, and put the bottom of the bottle on the candle to roast.
I saw that the bottom of the bottle was roasted by candles from white to black, and the bottle was accompanied by the screams of the fox in yellow, which was very strange.
But after a while, there was no movement.
The master pulled out the cap of the bottle and poured it out, only to see two white fox furs poured out, which were secretly shiny in the dark night.
"Luminite Fox Skin"
Master said as he handed it to me
"Put it away, this thing is rare, it will be useful in the future."
I carefully picked it up and asked Uncle Liu
"Uncle Liu, is the soul of the granddaughter of the yellow-clothed fox still on the sedan chair? And the workerβ"
"Out of the way"
Master interrupted me
"The yellow-clothed fox has been eliminated here, the granddaughter and the worker's wishes have been broken, and the two of them are only souls, and they will be reincarnated after wandering for a few days."
A stone in my heart fell to the ground, and in the darkness of the night, I saw the victory and smiled with ease.
Early the next morning, Mr. Lin came to thank us early, and Uncle Liu instructed him to make room for the yellow-clothed fox to commemorate her and her granddaughter, so that the construction could start normally.
After hearing this, Mr. Lin thanked him again and again,
Then, we gave Mr. Lin a plan, but Mr. Lin didn't mention any questions, and said again and again
"All Listen to You, All Listen to You"
I breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the bright sunshine outside the window, it was the first time that the plan had gone so smoothly.
Next, I'm going to enjoy a few days of easy time, a good life, I'm here! Hahaha.