Chapter XVII. Zip tie
Seeing this scene, Mr. and Mrs. Li were stunned, and what followed was a kind of uneasiness and fear. Mr. Li grabbed my hand and said to me, "Little master, please save my daughter, as long as she gets better, I am willing to believe in Buddhism for the rest of my life."
I scolded in my heart, I'm a Taoist family, you told me that believing in Buddhism has an egg? But I still didn't show it, I just said that I would do my best.
Mr. Li's lover asked anxiously, what is the little master going to do now? I told her that I had just made a hexagram in the palm of my hand, although it was not auspicious, but it was not particularly dangerous, and the child would pass a pass on the day of the autumn equinox, which was originally passed by a person like me without intervention, all by the child's own tenacity.
Mr. Li's lover's voice trembled and said, what does it mean to die? I told her that that was the worst possibility, and it couldn't be worse, but even if you can't die, you may become crazy, and then you and your wife will have to serve for the rest of your life, and life is better than death.
I didn't lie to them, but in the current situation, I have to tell them some of the worst plans, and if I can't handle this matter, and it's the life of a little girl, I'll have a step down.
In my opinion, this matter needs to be carried out in several steps, the little girl's symptoms have been going on for several months, and the most important thing now is not to think about how to remove the root cause, but to protect the little girl herself first, so that her condition does not continue to deteriorate. Only under this premise can I have time to find the root cause of the matter. To keep the child, I can only rely on soldiers and horses. But before that, I went to the little girl's bed and put a red dot on the center of her forehead with cinnabar.
Cinnabar, in a way, is something that can scare ghosts. I heard Master say that the cinnabar that ghosts see in their eyes is shining with golden light, and that kind of light is very dazzling to ghosts, so that they can retreat from difficulties and not get close. That's why many families will put a small red dot in the middle of their forehead when dressing their children, they think it is a long-standing habit and don't know why, when in fact this move was originally to ward off evil spirits for children, but it has been forgotten for many years.
After clicking on the cinnabar ink, I gently held the little girl's hand, and while writing the golden light seal on her palm, I rubbed it in the air with my palm on her palm, and muttered:
"Heaven and Earth Xuanzong Ten Thousand Qi Root Extensive Cultivation Billions of Tribulations Prove My Divine Power, the Three Realms and the Outer Realms Only the Dao Exclusive Body has a golden light covering my body, I can't see it, I can't hear it, I don't hear it, I encompass the heaven and the earth, and I nurture the masses, and the Ten Thousand Gods Dynasty ritual service makes the thunder, ghosts, demons, and monsters die, and there is a thunderbolt and thunder god in it, and the five qi are soaring, and the golden light is fast! Haste as a law! ”
This golden light mantra must be memorized at the beginning of the introduction, and its purpose is to invite the gods and real people on the table, and the meaning of protecting the subject's body from being violated by evil things is a means to protect children, of course, there are many such spells, but I remember this one more familiarly.
Then he grabbed the child's other hand and concocted it in the same way, but this time it was a soothing seal, and it was also a soothing mantra:
"The world's divine soldiers, the essence of gossip, the god general, sit down and comfort me, listen to the curse quickly, everything is psychic, nothing is reported, no order must be violated, I am as anxious as the law!"
This is easier to understand, Lao Jun is one of the three Qings, can command the soldiers and horses of the Three Realms, the function of the tranquilization mantra is to make people's minds calm and unaffected, the trouble is that this mantra needs to be recited three times, which is relatively troublesome. In this way, the Golden Light Divine Charm and the Tranquilizer Charm were cast together, and the little girl was protected both inside and out, and I had plenty of time to investigate the cause.
Next, it's time for me to let the soldiers and horses out of the altar. Since I learned the art of soldiers and horses with my master, I have made a little progress so far, but I can still only control the rampant soldiers, which is the lowest type. But when facing this matter at Mr. Li's house, I asked the soldiers and horses to divide into two ways, all the way to protect people, all the way to investigate, the little girl was already very safe under the protection of the two spells, and the soldiers and horses all the way were even more foolproof, and when I lit three incense sticks in my hand and asked the soldiers and horses to guide the way, the incense was wafting, and directly brought me into the little girl's room again, and wandered by the closet with the door closed, meaning that there was an answer in the wardrobe, or the next clue.
Although I had long expected that the problem was something in the wardrobe, Mr. Lee, who had been in the Circle Light Technique at first, confirmed that he thought it was the belt he had used in his early years in the army. So I asked Mr. and Mrs. Li to open the door of the closet, and pound out everything inside, and put it on the ground one by one, which must be done before my three sticks of incense are burned out, so that I can judge which one is wrong according to the trend of the incense.
Knowing that time was pressing, the couple quickly spread the floor full, and this wardrobe was for the whole family, except for a small number of clothes for the children, more for adults. I saw that it was about the same, so I continued to let the soldiers and horses lead the way. I crouched down, held the incense in one hand, set it up in the middle of so many clothes, and let it flutter freely.
After a few seconds, the original scattered incense began to gather into a thin white line, and then it fell and landed on a plaid tie.
I picked up the tie and looked at Mr. Lee. This tie is obviously his, this is a zip tie, it is specially for those who don't know how to tie ties, just put a set around the neck and then zip it up. Although it is not the shape of the long rope that appeared in the original bowl, if the knot is untied, it is still a long rope.
Mr. Li was very surprised, presumably he, like me, had a preconceived idea that the problem should be with the military belt, but he didn't expect it to be a tie. He stammered to me, "It's... There's a ghost on this tie? I told him that there is no ghost in the tie, but your child is like this because of this tie. Tell me now, where did you get this tie?
Mr. Li's lover said that the tie belonged to her father, who had passed away four years ago, and that after his death, the brothers and sisters in the family had chosen some relics of the old man to keep as a memory. And Mr. Li chose this tie at that time, and he has always kept it as a souvenir and has never worn it.
Hearing her say this, I had a vague guess in my mind. But it was too early to draw conclusions, and over the years I had followed Master, I had gradually learned to use my guesses as an argument to prove them, and these guesses all came from the accumulation of experience. Hearing Mr. Li's lover talk about a deceased family member makes this suspicion much more likely.
Then I said to them, "Do you pray at the right time every year?" Did the old man like you and children when he was alive? Mr. Li said that every year during the Qingming Festival and the Spring Festival, he will definitely go to the tomb to worship, the old man is also knowledgeable, he is happy to see everyone, and the children under his knees are also very filial, and he is still very happy in his old age, so he should still like us. However, the old man had never seen this child, and three months before she was born, the old man had already passed away.
I thought in my heart that if the old man's children are filial and happy in their old age, then he should accept his death more smoothly, which means that within 49 days after death, he should take the initiative to die. This does not correspond to the chronological order in which this little girl was born.
At this time, Mr. Li's lover cried, she said that she was more than six months pregnant, after her father died, she had to hold a three-day funeral, and the old people in the family stopped her, saying that those who were pregnant with a child should not attend the funeral, and her father could not do it, let Mr. Li do his filial piety on his behalf, and the old man would understand. At that time, I didn't want to say anything, after all, it was my father, but I was advised by my mother and mother-in-law together, saying that I must be obedient, in the case of white things, yin is heavy, easy to be happy and mourning, and I pick people who are weak and emotional, you don't think about yourself, but also think about the child in the belly.
I nodded, in fact, what the old man said was right, no matter what stage of pregnancy, it is not good to attend the funeral, at most you can only worship on the spot, you need to leave as soon as possible, the scope of the mourning hall, it is generally taboo for pregnant women to enter, after all, one is dead, one is fast, so two different states, are contradictory to each other. But this situation is often contrary to our Chinese's loyalty and filial piety morality, my father died, and it is really human nature to want to be filial before the spirit.
And the happy ghost in the old man's mouth is indeed one of the fierce ghosts. The so-called happiness mostly refers to marriage, birthday, etc. Funeral represents a funeral. On such occasions, most of them will invite relatives and friends to gather together, and once there are many people, not everyone can know each other. Even if everyone knows each other, they don't know everyone's family. But if someone is wearing black and white plain clothes on the occasion of a happy event, or someone is wearing a flower dress or red dress in the case of a funeral, and this guy happens to be unrecognized, it is very likely that he is a happy ghost, and this kind of ghost will look for the person who is most likely to be affected by the present, and it can be a serious illness or a life.
So I asked Mr. Li's lover, "Then you didn't go in the end, right?" She nodded, saying that she kowtowed in the direction of the mourning hall at home, and also asked Mr. Li to burn incense and worship on her behalf. Later, before I gave birth, I had intermittent dreams for a while, including a dream of my father, but after I woke up, I didn't care.
It occurred to me that dreams during pregnancy, especially dreams of dead people, would be more or less referential, so I asked her, "When your father died, you were more than six months pregnant, and he knew it, right?" Mr. Li's lover said, of course I know, when my father was already sick, I had just conceived a child, so I immediately told my father the news, and wanted to use this to give my father Chong Chongxi, my father was very happy at the time, and it took five or six months to die, and after his death, my mother also said, if your father didn't want to see his little grandson with his own eyes, I'm afraid it wouldn't have been delayed for so long, but I didn't expect it to wait.
At this point, the couple suddenly fell silent and looked at each other. I think they should be in the same place as me.