Chapter 18: Chen Mian's Embarrassment and Social Death
Requiem.
Folklore has three souls and seven spirits, is the natal spirit of people, people's soul is usually attached to the human body, when people are accidentally frightened, their souls will be separated from the body, it is difficult to return, resulting in malaise, trance, and even bedridden, this is the "soul".
The hearts of the deceased have obsessions and do not want to be calm after death, causing supernatural events and even corpses, which is called "frightening", which is the so-called haunting.
Whenever this happens, there are two ways to deal with it.
The first is to use means beyond ordinary people's cognition to completely expel and eliminate ghosts.
The second is to use requiem to appease these frightened souls, so that they will no longer be demons, so as to achieve the role of saving the country with curves.
And the reason why even ordinary people can use requiem is because requiem is like a collection of real questions, as long as you learn the routines, you can arrange the corresponding formations or props, and the gold content is very low.
However, no matter how low the gold content is, Jiang Kai does not dislike it, no matter what, it is a spell.
I can't really become a half-immortal by then, and when I open my mouth when I do it, I spit out the fragrance, so how unqualified?
Well? It doesn't seem impossible...
In short, Jiang Kai studied the requiem technique with great anticipation, and Chen Mian poured two cups of tea, and after giving Jiang Kai a cup, he just sat next to him and put on reading glasses to watch the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Jiang Kai read each paragraph carefully, sometimes frowning, sometimes smiling, and after a while, he actually understood and wrote it down.
"Uncle Chen, I've finished reading it."
He rubbed his temples and handed the requiem back to Chen Mian.
Chen Mian put down the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in his hand, pulled down his reading glasses, and squinted at Jiang Kai: "What's the use of reading it, what you want is to understand and be able to apply what you have learned." ”
"Understood, Gaga, just such a thin booklet, just those few layout methods, there is nothing difficult."
"Yo." Chen Mian smiled: "Do you know how long it took me to learn thoroughly? ”
Jiang Kai shook his head.
"Three years!" Chen Mian was not annoyed in the face of Jiang Kai's ignorance, and said half-vigilantly and half-reminiscingly: "You only see that the arrangement method and spell are simple, but you don't know, you must control the amount of sacrifice every time, adjust the arrangement according to the severity of the supernatural event, and this also includes the ability to follow the experience and adapt to the situation."
I know that you have successfully dealt with Su Dayong's incident, not to mention it, you must be proud in your heart, this is a good thing, young people must have sharpness and momentum.
But learning a craft can not be sloppy, not every time you can be so lucky, to put it mildly, underestimate those dirty things, you may die and don't know how to die.
You have to think of it as a battlefield, you're a recruit now, and what you're doing now is you're constantly training, training these things into your subconscious, training them into your muscle memory, so that you can keep yourself safe. ”
Chen Mian paused, looked at Jiang Kai seriously, and said earnestly:
"I take a fancy to you and teach you this, I hope that you can rely on these to make a living and protect the safety of one party, and I don't want to see you suffer disasters because of your poor kung fu, if so, it is not only your misfortune, but also my responsibility!
You have to let me safely put the burden of my thirty years into your hands with peace of mind. ”
Suddenly, Jiang Kai's heart suddenly flooded with indescribable complicated feelings, this was the first time in his life that he was valued by others, and it was the first time he felt the weight of the so-called word responsibility.
How many thirty years can there be in life?
And now, there is an old man who is close to the age of six, and he wants to hand over the cause of his half-life struggle to himself.
To say that it is not touched is false.
Jiang Kai also nodded, and solemnly promised: "Uncle Chen, don't worry, I will remember what you said, and I will definitely live up to your expectations." ”
When Chen Mian heard this, he patted Jiang Kai's shoulder with relief: "It's so good, it's okay, even if you can't learn it in a short time, it's okay, I can afford to wait for two or three years, just take advantage of this time, I can also help you get through some relationships, introduce friends from other funeral homes to you, and if I can't help in the future, my old friends who haven't retired may be able to help." ”
"But." Although Jiang Kai was moved, he still smiled awkwardly: "I really learned." ”
Chen Mian's smile froze, and he hesitated for a moment before he asked seriously, "Really?" ”
"Really."
Chen Mian rubbed his chin and thought about it, got up and said, "Then you come with me." ”
Jiang Kai followed Chen Mian to the courtyard with curiosity, and Chen Mian took out some sacrifices and props for performing requiem from a small wooden house in the corner that looked like a thatched house.
There are glutinous rice, candles, incense sticks that I have seen in the funeral home, and there are also things like talismans, blood plasma, animal hooves, and mahogany swords that I have not seen at that time.
"Then you give it a try and set up a requiem array to appease the unjustly killed."
Chen Mian stood aside with his hands behind his back, planning to take the school examination Jiang Kai.
Jiang Kai was not verbose, in front of Chen Mian, according to the main points in his memory, in less than twenty minutes, he really arranged the corresponding requiem array.
Chen Mian was a little surprised, and after going forward to check, he found that there was really no mistake.
But in order to prevent Jiang Kai from memorizing this magic array, he took the test again:
"And then there's for those who have a last wish."
After becoming proficient this time, Jiang Kai's speed was even faster, and it only took ten minutes to complete.
This time, Chen Mian was a little unable to stand, and suddenly doubted the gold content of his original study of requiem.
But Jiang Kai completed several different questions in a row, and Chen Mian was completely stunned.
"It's not... It shouldn't be..."
Jiang Kai was drawing talismans on the ground with blood plasma, and when he heard this, he raised his head and asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?" ”
"Uh, no, you draw yours, leave me alone, I suddenly remembered something that I wasn't very happy about."
"Cheng, you think."
Chen Mian's face became more and more ugly, although he hoped that Jiang Kai would learn it as soon as possible, but he was inexplicably a little unhappy when he really saw Jiang Kai learn it so quickly.
Especially in front of others, I said in a particularly high-profile manner that it took three years to learn this.
If he hadn't said this, he might have felt better.
This kind of emotion is very complicated, like the old man in the family, looking forward to the early growth of his children, but he does not want to see his children not need him too early.
Especially for people who have been strong all their lives, seeing some things that make them feel old is actually a big blow to them, and loneliness is often only in a moment.
After a while, Jiang Kai straightened up: "It's over!" Uncle Chen, take a look. ”
"Uh... There's nothing wrong with that, the spell... Ahem, forget it, the spell is simpler than that, just a few words. ”
Chen Mian felt a little embarrassed inexplicably, and his old face was a little unbearable.
Seeing Chen Mian like this, Jiang Kai also slapped his head and reacted.
I was so negligent, Uncle Chen said that he had practiced for three years, and it only took more than three hours to read books and arrange so many formations, didn't he have the intention to dismantle the platform?
So he immediately adjusted his facial expression, and his face was embarrassed: "Ouch, Uncle Chen, look at my memory, I forgot the spell, I was so confident just now." ”
Chen Mian's brows immediately relaxed, and he comforted with a smile: "It's okay, it's already amazing, much stronger than me at the time, otherwise how can I say that the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves?" ”
"What you say, where is it, you teach it well." Jiang Kai also touted it in a respectful manner.
The sedan chair carries people, nothing more than that.
The small courtyard was suddenly filled with a harmonious atmosphere.
But at this moment, in the originally quiet night, a series of footsteps sounded outside the courtyard, and a sound that followed broke this harmony, and by the way, Chen Mian, who had just relieved the embarrassment, died directly, and wanted to find a crack in the ground immediately.
"Xiao Mianzi, didn't you say that you plan to find someone to take over? Have you found a big injustice? When will you retire and travel with your teacher? ”