After putting down my luggage, I pestered my cousin to learn how to search for souls.

"You'd better rest first, if you're too tired, you won't be able to learn. Go lie down for a while, and I'll teach you tomorrow. Now I'm going to go out, don't bother me. ”

After returning from Takayama Temple, my cousin didn't have that much patience.

I could see that he wasn't in the right mood, so I didn't pester him anymore to learn to search for souls.

After my cousin went out, only Dong Jing and I were left in the house.

I couldn't sleep on the couch, tossing and turning.

Until the second half of the night, my cousin did not return.

Dong Jing didn't seem to be able to sleep either, she tiptoed to the kitchen alone, I guess she didn't dare to make a loud noise when she thought I was asleep.

"Are you making something to eat?" I yelled from the couch.

Dong Jing, who was in the kitchen, paused, and looked back at me: "I want to make the next noodles, can you eat them?" ”

"Eat."

I started packing up my things when I entered the house, and I took a shower and washed my clothes, and I didn't eat for a day.

Even though I have something in my heart, I can't eat it.

But no matter how important it is to say that the body is important, first eat and drink enough.

At first, we were quite quiet during the meal, and I always felt that Dong Jing had something to say to me.

"Is there something wrong with you?" Let me start with my question.

I haven't known her for a long time, but we know her well, at least that's what I think.

If we are friends, we don't have to hide what we say.

She put down her chopsticks and looked at me.

Seeing that her appearance was more serious, I also put down my chopsticks, and the two of us looked at each other for a long time, but she didn't speak.

"Wen Jie ......"

She whispered my name, and I nodded for her to continue.

"Have you ever wondered how your grandmother died?"

Hearing her say that, my mind suddenly buzzed.

How did my grandma die?

Isn't it old and dead?

It's normal for me to have this question, because what she said made me feel that my grandmother's death was not simple.

But my grandmother is also getting older, and I didn't take care of her during my years of college.

So when I got my aunt calling me and saying that my grandmother had passed away, the assumption was that I thought she was dying of old age.

"What do you mean by that?"

I carefully analyzed Dongjing's words, but I really couldn't understand it, so I asked.

She shook her head, picked up her chopsticks and began to eat noodles.

I knew she wasn't trying to tell me, she was thinking about the words.

So I didn't bother her.

"How long have you been out of your hometown?" Dong Jing asked suddenly.

I counted the time: "It's almost a year." ”

"Let's go back to my hometown when I have time."

She didn't talk at the beginning or end, so naturally I didn't take what she said seriously.

There's been so much going on lately that I don't even have the heart to go back to my hometown.

Besides, when people go back to their hometowns, they all return to their hometowns, but I am nothing now, and I will only fall into the hands of others when I go back.

In addition, the people in the village like to play right and wrong, and when the time comes, the old lady who doesn't know whose family will tell her sister-in-law that Wen Jie is not good outside, and there is no place to live when he comes back.

To be honest, I'm also a face-saving person, so I'm still unwilling to go back like this.

"Wait until you're free, haven't you been busy lately?"

I smiled and said perfunctorily.

Dong Jing didn't say anything more, just quietly ate noodles.

The sky began to let go of the fish belly white, and the cousin has not returned.

"Either you squint a little longer, my uncle also said, if you are too tired, you will not be able to learn." Dong Jing cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks on the table and motioned for me to lie down for a while.

It's okay for me to be idle, I'll just think nonsense, and I might as well lie down.

My body was so tired that I fell asleep while lying down.

My cousin's opening woke me up, and I quickly sat up and looked at him.

He was holding a lot of things in his hands, and one of them was a red plastic bag that stood out.

"Come over and help."

My cousin looked at me, and I quickly jumped up from the couch.

He handed me everything he had, and he went to move a small wooden table that was useless and placed it in the living room, and then I saw him take out a yellow cloth from a black plastic bag and spread it on the small wooden table.

"This is a simple altar, and we will need to be here later. But this little wooden table has never been done before, so I have to help it open first. ”

It turns out that this wooden table is made of willow wood, and this thing is very evil.

I hadn't seen this little table before today, and I don't know if I hadn't noticed it or if it existed before.

"Where did the table come from?" I looked at my cousin suspiciously.

"I moved back yesterday when you were cleaning up your room. This is a willow table, which is more evil, and it is just right to search for souls. My cousin disagreed.

Of course, my attention was not entirely on the table, and I needed my cousin to teach me how to search for souls.

"We're going to start doing it now, and you're going to see what I do."

My cousin's expression became serious, and I reached out and patted my face, which cheered me up.

Since this table is not our family, and it has never been used as a spiritual table, my cousin has to help it first, which is one of the things I need to learn.

Because later, when I need to do it, I may not do it on the altar that I use it often.

I saw my cousin holding a bowl of water and putting it on the altar.

He took out a small golden tripod from the treasure bag, and inserted five incense sticks on it.

Why five incense sticks?

I looked at him a little puzzled, but he was doing it, and I couldn't speak.

He lit the incense and inserted it into the golden tripod, and began to chant words in his mouth.

Strange to say, this box usually burns out when it burns out.

But the five sticks of incense were extinguished halfway through the burning.

This is a big no-no for us.

If you give incense to the ancestors, and suddenly half of it is extinguished, it means that the incense must have offended the ancestors before his death.

If the same situation is encountered in the ordinary worship of incense, it means that the person who made the incense is disrespectful to the person who made the incense.

The cousin stood in front of Xiao Jinding and carefully observed the five incense sticks, and it didn't take long for him to hook the corners of his lips.

Is this a good thing?

I'm a little confused.

"Wen Jie, come and see, the length of four or five incense sticks burned out is one long and four short, which means that this table can be used for us to practice."

I frowned, puzzled.

The cousin explained: "The willow tree is different from other trees, it has its own ideas, and we must ask for its consent before we can do anything on it, otherwise it will easily cause unnecessary trouble, such as attracting filthy atmosphere." ”

He reached out and patted me on the back: "Come on boy, get ready to do it!" ”