Master's words mean that this is the first time I have really made an order by myself. As of that day, I had been apprenticed for almost 5 years. In the past 5 years, the master has also done his best, and the skills that can be passed on orally have almost been taught by the whole family, but there are some spells that need to be practiced over time, and there are examples that must be assisted by experience, which is the reason why the master has continued to take me to run orders in the past two years.

It was the first time I went to place an order alone, which made me excited for a long time. In fact, what Master said was just a child's frightened incident, and for me, it was not very difficult.

What really excites me is that this time I will be present at the victim's house as a master, not as a junior apprentice as before.

People are always like this, and when they look forward to the arrival of this thing, they always feel that this period of time passes slowly. Three days went by in a flash, but I felt like I had been waiting for a long time.

The night before the third day, I had anticipated all the situations I might encounter and brought every tool with me. When I started to run orders with Master, some very personal things such as compasses, seals, etc., Master specially purchased a set for me, some such as spirit flags, bells, etc., or mixed with Master, most of the time, from the beginning when I helped Master to give me guidance on the side, and even let me make orders alone this time, in fact, I know in my heart that this is also a kind of affirmation of Master for me over the years, because he is sure that I can do this smoothly.

It's a trust that I know I can't live up to.

According to the address mentioned by the master, I found this man named Li Xiaoxi. Knowing that I was coming, he waited at home early, but when he saw me, he was still a little stunned. I think it's because of my age.

I was only 22 years old that year, probably he didn't expect me to be so young, I told him that I was Master Lin's apprentice, and the master asked me to deal with this matter in your family.

Mr. Li was very polite, because the master had long been famous in this industry, so since he was his apprentice, he naturally couldn't find out. And Mr. Li even felt a little happy, I think he probably thought that since the master only sent apprentices to deal with it, it means that this matter will not go anywhere, and it also means that this incident encountered by his family is not a big deal.

Mr. Li's lover poured me a glass of water and sat down to tell me about their family. Mr. Li is a veteran who participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and made meritorious contributions in the war. In 1958, he was the last to evacuate North Korea. Later, after two years of continued service in the army, he was discharged from the army. The army arranged for him to be assigned to the local civil affairs bureau and became a small section chief.

The lover is a worker in the factory, and it is a group of people who have just joined the work when Chairman Mao came to inspect. The couple are decent and diligent people, and the family conditions are relatively good, but because they were not young when they got married, they hurriedly had a child in the first year after marriage, a girl, and now she is four years old, and the couple regards her as the pearl of their palms.

Mr. Li frowned and said, but I don't know why, since the beginning of this year, children have intermittent nightmares, timidity, poor sleep at night and other phenomena, the earliest time the family felt that this is a normal phenomenon of children, and did not pay attention to it, as time became more and more serious, often screaming at night to wake up, and then pointed to the small wardrobe in the house and said afraid! Fear! Originally, most of these conditions appeared at night, but in the past month or so, it has often been like this even during the day, and the child has a fever from time to time, no matter how he takes medicine and injections, the fever always does not subside, but after two days he recovers on his own.

Mr. Li's lover said that the old man in the family believed in Buddhism, and said that it was a child who fascinated things, so he went to the temple to ask for some water, and hung black iron scissors upside down in the room.

This child is still so young, and some of the thoughts in his heart can't be accurately expressed to us adults, crying and crying all day long, we are parents, and our hearts are distressed. Mr. Li added that it was okay to be distressed, but we couldn't find the cause and there was no countermeasure at all, which made us anxious.

Mr. Li's lover was talking about his love to the depths, and he began to cry silently. Although I followed Master in this business, I was soft-hearted, and even though I was young and had never been a parent, I could not fully understand their feelings. My parents left me before I became an adult, so I found this feeling of being part of my family.

I began to look at their house, and almost every door was hung with a pair of small black scissors, the sharp end of the scissors was pointing down, and the handle was wrapped with red thread. This is a folk method, passed down among the common people for a long time, because scissors are sharp, harmful, hanging scissors on the door is to scare those who want to enter the house of demons and monsters, this principle is the same as hanging a mirror at the door, hanging a mahogany sword and so on.

This method cannot be said to be useless, but it depends on the situation, and in most cases it can only alleviate the current situation, and cannot prevent the continuation of this phenomenon from the root.

So I asked Mr. Li, did you invite other people to come and see before I came? The reason why I ask this is also because Master said that there are many masters in the industry, and if we take over something that someone else has already done, we must ask carefully first, so as not to collide with others, which is not respectful to people, and it is easy to make mistakes in chaos.

Mr. Li told me that there was no more, because he was a soldier, and he had never believed in these superstitious things, but we really had no other way to do this, so I asked someone to inquire about your master.

Frankly speaking, in that era, people's thinking changed a lot, and most people were born before liberation and suffered greatly from feudal thinking. So at this moment, Mr. Li bluntly said that our industry is superstitious, but I can't refute it, after all, people are from the military, and it is normal to have doubts in my heart.

So I asked Mr. Li, where is your little girl now? Mr. Li said that he slept in the house, and he also made a fuss all night last night, and he finally fell asleep when it was almost dawn. Mr. Li sighed and said, my lover and I are busy with work, I am a little better every week to be able to have a day off, but the lover's work needs to be rotated with people, sometimes day shift, sometimes night shift, the child was originally two years old when he was sent to the nursery in the lover's factory, this year is also good, but since the onset of the disease, those teachers can't control it at all, so there is no way, I can only let my lover ask for leave from the factory, I also came forward to intercede, this period of time, my lover has been taking care of the child at home.

I asked Mr. Li, did you just say that the child started to have this situation at the beginning of the year? Mr. Li said yes, it started during the Chinese New Year, during that time he often took his children to the street to stand and watch the gongs and drums along the street, dragon and lion dances, and not long after returning home, the children began to appear these phenomena, because of this, the old people in the family said that the children were frightened, and they had to be frightened. I don't understand, my daughter is not even afraid of firecrackers, how can this dragon and lion dance be frightened.

Mr. Li shook his head as he spoke, and he could see that this incident had broken his brain. I would like to tell him that the so-called frightened is not just an obvious shock, but may also be caused by some other trigger. But I'm afraid that if I say it, he'll reveal that I'm superstitious, so I'd better shut up as soon as possible.

I said to Mr. Li, I want to see your daughter first, and then talk about how to deal with it.

Mr. Li and his wife took me to the room, and as soon as I entered the room, I began to breathe hard, trying to smell if there was any strange smell in the room, but there was a slight smell in the room, like the smell of feces and urine.

Seeing that I kept smelling like this, Mr. Li's lover was a little embarrassed and said, I'm sorry little master, when the child cries, sometimes no matter how much coaxing, it's useless, the child is still young, and he often pulls his pants with feces and urine. I shook my hand and said it was all right, I didn't smell it, and I didn't explain much about the rest, because I knew that the little girl had finally fallen asleep, so I didn't turn on the light, so I went to the window and opened the curtain that had been covered by a small slit, so that the light in the room was a little more sufficient, and it would not wake up the child.

The little girl on the bed is covered with a layer of a thick quilt, this season, it is almost summer, lukewarm and very comfortable, this thick quilt is obviously a little unreasonable, so I walked to the little girl, gently lifted her quilt, but found that the little girl clenched her fists, her body curled up, lying on her side, this is a very insecure posture, and the little girl's neck and forehead, with fine beads of sweat, but every one or two seconds, it trembled slightly for a few seconds.

I stretched out my finger and touched the back of the little girl's ear, and suddenly I was shocked.