Chapter 94: Midnight Sea Sacrifice, Yin and Yang
Although Yanjun is near the sea, few people come to this area of Houhai.
The back sea is lined with fishing boats, and since the area has not been developed into a scenic area, locals rarely go there except for the nearby fishing villages near the sea.
Even if there are foreign tourists, most of them go to experience the fishing family, after all, there is really no scenery in that area.
What's more, it's already four o'clock in the morning, and there are no people in the Houhai area, so Li Guowei is puzzled, what kind of medicine is sold in Feng Yun's gourd?
Feng Yun's officers and soldiers arrived only after the five arrived, and Feng Yun had been waiting here for a long time.
"Immediately formed a defensive line in this area, and everyone turned their backs to the back sea.
No one shall enter, neither shall you turn away when you hear any sound. ”
The reason why Li Guowei was able to get the news was because Feng Yun mobilized a lot of officers and soldiers.
Hearing this, the officers and men nodded one after another, and then began to divide their positions step by step to form a defensive line.
Although they had been informed that there was a mission tonight, no one could figure out what was going on.
Especially this Houhai is a place where birds don't, and it is really unbelievable to come here at four o'clock in the morning.
Fortunately, the fat man and others put the coffin by the sea, and the officers and soldiers couldn't see it, otherwise they would definitely be even more puzzled.
The area around Houhai is mostly a fishing village, which is far away from the city and has not been developed for the time being.
This can be said to be the most real appearance of Yanjun in the early years, since ancient times, Yanjun has been born by the sea, and most of them are this kind of fishing village life.
After the soldiers formed a defensive line, Feng Yun came to the fat man and the others.
Obviously, Feng Yun knew the doubts in the hearts of the fat man and the others, so he roughly said what he was going to do next.
The sea festival is not unfamiliar to people who live near the sea, and it has been such a custom since ancient times.
On certain days, the people of the seaside would hold a ritual to worship the dragon king, and in the early years, they were influenced by witchcraft and even had the bad habit of contributing to boys and girls.
However, most of the rituals to worship the dragon king take place in the north of Dayan, and the south of Dayan is generally offered to Mazu to pray for good weather and safe sailing in the coming year.
But the sea sacrifice that Feng Yun is going to carry out is not a sacrifice to the Dragon King, nor is it a sacrifice to Mazu.
Instead, he wanted to use the ceremony of the sea sacrifice to pay tribute to the Great Song soldiers who had died in battle, so as to eliminate Zhao Hu's obsession.
After figuring out what happened to Zhao Husheng, Feng Yun also understood why the zombies were transported to the polling bureau, but strange things on the construction site continued.
What really haunts is the obsession in the hearts of zombies, which is also the difference between demons and demons.
The demon cultivator is Neidan, and the demon cultivator is a thought.
Most of those who can become demons are created and have spirits and gods.
For example, flowers and trees, birds, beasts, fish and insects.
But most of the people who can become demons are godless and spiritless things, and they become demons only by not destroying their thoughts.
Therefore, unlike demons, the stronger the demon's obsession, the stronger its power, and the greater the impact it can have on its surroundings.
And this zombie is a kind of corpse demon, so if you want to properly solve this matter, you must start from the root, that is, eliminate the obsession in Zhao Hu's heart.
Under Feng Yun's narration, several people finally understood what he wanted to do.
Since Zhao Xue was not a member of the polling bureau, Feng Yun could only let her watch from a distance, and could not actually intervene in the ceremony.
But even so, Zhao Xue still looked at Feng Yun and the others curiously.
I saw that they kept taking out paper figures from the car, covering them with white cloths, one left and one right, and putting them on both sides.
Then the fat man found a tattered table from nearby and temporarily spread a yellow cloth as a platform.
Incense burners, cinnabar, brushes, yellow paper, and other conventional items were all placed on the Dharma platform by the fat man one by one.
And the pair of paper figures are placed on the left and right of the Dharma platform, which looks like two guards.
Zhao Xue could only see what Feng Yun was talking to the three fat men, and the three of them nodded very seriously in agreement.
Seeing that everything had been arranged, the fat man took down another cloth bag from the car.
The cloth bag was opened, revealing several masks inside.
These masks are green-faced and fanged, and they are ugly-looking.
"What's this?"
The fat man looked at the mask in front of him with some disgust, but he didn't know that it was also an important part of the ceremony.
Wearing a mask and dressing up as a yaksha means that during the ritual, the gods and ghosts are kept away and not disturbed.
In almost all folk ceremonies, this ugly Yaksha mask can be seen.
In people's hearts, the Yaksha is not auspicious, but it can scare away evil spirits from all directions during the ritual, thus ensuring the smooth progress of the ritual.
As Feng Yun lit three sticks of incense to worship in all directions, and then inserted the three sticks of incense into the incense burner, the ceremony began.
The fat man, Yan Qilin and Ma Ling'er respectively put on masks, put on white clothes like mourning clothes, and stood behind Feng Yun.
This scene really looks a little weird in the dark night, and the starry light of the three incense sticks looms in the darkness.
Feng Yun held a handful of yellow paper in his hand, lit it, circled around the two paper figures twice, then looked at the fat man, and said in a strange tone:
"Coffin ......"
The fat man wore a Rakshasa mask, walked Tiangang to the front of the coffin, and then opened the coffin lid, grabbed the charm between his fingers and gently lifted it up, and the zombie stood up from the coffin in a daze.
Feng Yun held the brush in possession of cinnabar in his hand, and walked in front of the zombie while chanting a strange tone.
"A little cinnabar burns between the eyebrows, and the five elements of yin and yang are connected together."
"Two points of cinnabar burn my heart, and the bell calls for ghosts!"
Feng Yun said as he pointed cinnabar on the center of the zombie's eyebrows and heart, and then he ripped off the corpse suppression talisman attached to the zombie's head.
In an instant, the green light in the zombie's eyes flooded, and then he wanted to attack the sealed cloud in front of him without any sense.
Seeing this, the fat man was about to step forward, but found that Feng Yun was obviously prepared.
I saw Feng Yun pull out the middle incense from the incense burner and insert it into the zombie's mouth accurately.
Suddenly, the zombie was stunned as if he had lost his mind.
Feng Yun's sword finger caught this incense and gently dragged it forward, and the zombie actually followed Feng Yun's side very cooperatively.
The fat man looked at this scene in surprise, they didn't know that the technique of sealing clouds was called 'lock spirit' in the Xiangcheng area in ancient times.
It is to use incense to lock the resentment in the corpse, so as to achieve the effect of temporary control.
Under the leadership of Feng Yun, the zombie soon came to the front of the Dharma platform, facing the seaside, motionless.
Then Feng Yun returned to the Dharma platform, looked at Yan Qilin next to him and nodded.
Yan Qilin comprehended, quickly lit the two white candles in his hand, and placed them on the Dharma platform, one left and one right.
Feng Yun picked up a grain of rice from the bowl next to him with his index and middle fingers, and then quickly swiped the flames on the candle after standing on the cinnabar.
Zhao Xue's eyes widened in surprise, only to see that in Feng Yun's hand, the white rice was actually attached to the flames.
From a distance, it looked as if Feng Yun had just picked up a wisp of fire from a candle.
With a flick of Feng Yun's wrist, this wisp of flame quickly fell into the iron basin, and in an instant, the yellow paper in the iron basin was ignited one after another.
Under the light of the fire, Feng Yun's face appeared to be clearly defined.
Half of the cheeks are illuminated by the firelight, and the other half is hidden in the darkness, giving people a sense of both good and evil.
Soon, Feng Yun put on a strange black robe, and there was no floral decoration on the sleeves of the wide robe.
In this pitch-black environment, Feng Yun seemed to merge with the surroundings, and only the hands were faintly visible.
As the minutes and seconds passed, at the moment when the pointer pointed to twelve o'clock, Feng Yun shouted in a yin and yang tone that was difficult to distinguish between male and female:
"The auspicious time has come, the sacrifice begins!"
Just as Feng Yun's voice fell, a nameless yin wind blew in his face.
The yellow paper in the iron basin had been burned to ashes at this time, and in this nameless wind, the black paper ashes swirled up, and many of them stuck to the bodies of Yan Qilin and the others.
……
At this moment, a military vehicle stopped in the distance.
Li Guowei, who had just gotten out of the car, immediately heard Feng Yun's strange voice.
Li Guowei looked into the distance with his voice, and could only see the fire lingering in the darkness, as well as Feng Yun and others dressed strangely.
With doubts, Li Guowei quickly walked towards this side, and then saw the officers and soldiers who formed a defensive line.
The moment they saw Li Guowei, the officers and soldiers clasped their fists and saluted, but Li Guowei looked at the officers and soldiers closest to him and asked:
"What is Director Feng doing?"
In this regard, the officers and soldiers quickly shook their heads:
"Chief soldier, Director Feng ordered that no one should turn around. So, we don't know anything......"
Li Guowei frowned and walked sideways past the officers and soldiers.
This is the chief soldier, how can anyone dare to stop it?
Li Guowei walked forward suspiciously, he didn't notice that with a gust of wind blowing, his body was also stained with some yellow paper burnt ash.
Not far from Feng Yun, Li Guowei stopped, and this strange scene made his heart vague.
Since Feng Yun specially transferred officers and soldiers from the military palace, it was to block the scene and prevent others from approaching.
Li Guowei was naturally worried that his rash approach would disturb Feng Yun and them.
Therefore, Li Guowei quickly stopped, but he soon found that there seemed to be an extra person among these people.
Feng Yun, Yan Qilin, Fat Man, Ma Ling'er......
Li Guowei all knew about these four people, but at this time, there were obviously 5 figures in front of him.
The extra figure has been standing there stunned since just now.
If you don't look closely, you won't even notice that it's a figure.
Who is that man?
Li Guowei looked at the black shadow suspiciously, thinking in his heart.
Naturally, he didn't know that this extra figure was the protagonist of this sea festival......
There is one thing Feng Yun did not tell Yan Qilin and the others about, and the sea sacrifice he carried out was actually a little different from what he said.
Since ancient times, there has indeed been a custom of sacrificing the dragon king in the north and Mazu in the south.
However, no matter where the sea festival is held, it is always in the morning, and there is never a time in the evening.
However, Feng Yun specially chose the time of the child, because this sea festival was not an ordinary sea festival from the beginning.
At this time, Feng Yun's tone became more and more weird, and the voice he was singing was also intermittent, some of them could be understood, and some of them didn't even know what Feng Yun was talking about.
Soon, Feng Yun asked the fat man and Yan Qilin to pick up a paper figure by themselves.
The red men and green women, coupled with the two oozing red dots in the eyes, always make people feel an indescribable weirdness.
Looking at the two paper figures in front of them, what several people didn't expect was that Feng Yun actually used a knife to cut his fingertips, and then blurred the two red dots at the original eyes.
After doing all this, Feng Yun hooked his hand again, and Ma Ling'er, who was holding the paper scalper not far away, hurriedly ran over and put the paper scalper in front of Feng Yun.
Feng Yun put the two paper figures on the blind scalper's back, one after the other, and then circled around the scalper three times, turning in circles while chanting words in his mouth:
"Scalpers open the way, paper people greet each other, visitors are guests, and we hereby welcome ......"
When the words fell, Feng Yun's hand had an extra spell at some point.
With a flick of his wrist, the spell was released, and the moment it fell on the scalper, it instantly ignited a flame.
The two paper men and paper scalpers were quickly burned to ashes in the flames, and Yan Qilin and the others looked at each other, not knowing why Feng Yun did this.
However, at this moment, Ma Ling'er suddenly slapped the fat man next to her.
The fat man looked at Ma Ling'er blankly, but found that her eyes were wide at the moment, and her face was full of consternation
This made the fat man quickly follow Ma Ling'er's line of sight, it didn't matter what he saw, and he made the fat man rub his eyes vigorously.
I saw that by Feng Yun's side, it was originally the location of the paper man and the paper scalper, but at this moment, there were several half-virtual and half-real figures.
It was an old ox, and the old ox was carrying two children on its back, one in red clothes and the other in green clothes, and his face was flushed, just like the paper man.
Whether it is these two children or the old scalper, they are all looming, and it is precisely because of this that the fat man thinks that he is hallucinating.
"Moo-"
"Giggle~"
But at this moment, the fat man not only heard the cry of the scalper, but even heard the sound of two children laughing.
The sound was particularly permeating in the pitch-black environment.
Li Guowei, who was standing in the distance, also widened his eyes at this moment, and he said to the guards who had been following him in astonishment:
"Did you see a cow and two children?"
The guard said with a blank face:
"Chief soldier, are you talking about the paper stuff before, wasn't it burned by Director Feng, how can there be any scalpers and children?"
Hearing this, Li Guowei suddenly gasped.
Thinking of the scene when he saw Brother Pingtou on Flowing Fire Avenue before, Li Guowei knew that this was not an illusion.
But if it's not an illusion, why can only you see?
Li Guowei, who was in doubt, didn't notice that there were still paper ashes scattered on his shoulders that had been blown by the wind before.
The guards next to him were clean and clean, with nothing.
At this time, under the stunned gaze of everyone, the scalper phantom dragged the two children and walked towards the sea step by step.
In that sea, the scalper was still walking on the ground, although blind, but the two children were obviously pointing out the direction to the scalper, so that the scalper walked forward step by step, and gradually disappeared into the eyes of everyone.
"Director, what was going on just now? The scalpers and children are the paper scalpers and paper people we gave? ”
Facing the fat man's inquiry, Feng Yun nodded lightly:
"You all have yellow paper ashes on your bodies, so you can see yin and yang.
The two children had already ridden the ox to welcome the guests, and they were ready for the most important stage of the ceremony. ”
The fat man and the others suddenly realized, no wonder they suddenly saw such a strange scene.
In fact, in ancient times, there have always been various sayings about yellow paper, such as when burning paper, you need to draw a circle on the ground, and silently recite the name of the deceased, saying that the paper money can only be owned by this person.
But in fact, it was not this saying that circles were drawn on the ground at the beginning, but later evolved by the people themselves.
In fact, the circle on the ground is to imitate King Wen of Zhou to draw the ground as a prison, so as to firmly imprison the power of yin and yang on yellow paper.
In this way, even if you are stained with paper ashes, you will not be blindfolded.
In addition to this statement, the ancient folk have always been more concerned about yellow paper ash.
If you see traces of burning paper on the ground, the elders in the family will always tell the children not to step on them.
Otherwise, you may bring something unclean home and get stuck with it.
Most people's attitude towards these statements is to speak and listen to them.
But what Feng Yun did at this time confirmed all this.
It is worth noting that Zhao Xue, who has been standing in the distance and looking curiously here, is not stained with any paper ash.
But at this time, her face had the same consternation as Fang Cai Fat Man and the others.
Her gaze first fell on Su Yun's side, and then gradually moved towards the sea, which was almost exactly the same route as the scalper took.
Obviously, she could see.
"Jingle bell...... Jingle bell ......"
At this time, Feng Yun picked up the hand bell that had been placed on the table, and it was regularly repeated three times, three times lightly, and there were bursts of bells.
Feng Yun shook as he stepped back, and when the fat man and Yan Qilin saw this, they quickly took out some food and placed it on the Dharma platform.
As the so-called:
The three incense sticks are in the center, and the offerings are lined up on both sides.
Passers-by can taste it and bring the audio to all directions.
"Hoo ......"
At this time, a strong wind suddenly rose on the sea, and gusts of salty and wet wind blew in the face, which once made the fat man and others feel a little unable to open their eyes.
Strange to say, there was obviously a strong wind, but the sea surface slowly condensed white fog, this white fog did not dissipate in the wind, but became thicker and thicker.
"Hee-hee...... Hee-hee......"
In a trance, the sound of children's laughter came again from the thick night, and this sound came from far and near, and it seemed particularly empty in this environment.
But after Feng Yun heard the child's laughter, he nodded with relief and took a long breath.
"Guests have arrived."
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