Chapter XXXVIII. Coffin lid
As I wrote, I moved my lips and recited aloud:
"The green cloud cover on the head, the three points of gold on the left, the car moves the dragon and turns, the knife cuts the goblin, the thunderclap is heard, and the scare is not stopped, I am as anxious as the law of the Taishang Laojun." There are a total of 28 paintings, representing 28 nights.
This is an introductory technique that Master taught me a few years ago when I learned Gangbu and hand dueling with Master, and then just started to learn talismans.
The so-called "obscurity" is one of the most important parts of the Daomen. Drawing talismans, writing spells, if you don't pour "obscurity" into it, then the talisman or spell has little effect, or even a piece of waste paper. Since ancient times, when mentioning a big man or an emperor, he avoided calling him by his first name, because he wanted to "avoid it", and in the use of spell charms, he usually represented the gods and stars that the charm respected.
And what I write in the palm of my hand at the moment is called Ziwei Wei, which is composed of three parts: upper, middle and lower, the upper is the rain, the middle is the water, and the lower is the ear. In the theory of Taoism, the gods, the living, and the dead are three states, which are composed of purple and micro-obscurities, although the head is "rain" but the upper part of the "cloud", representing the heavenly officials and immortals, and the middle and lower parts are combined into one word, which is called "聻", and the pronunciation is the same as the "see" of seeing.
Master once told me that people die as ghosts, and ghosts die as deaf. People will be afraid of ghosts, and ghosts will be afraid of deafness. Most of the Taoist ghosts are gods and ghosts, called Yunjun ghosts, representing the two worlds of yin and yang, and the users in the middle are us. This purple micro is widely used, in addition to self-defense, it even has the effect of driving away evil spirits and repelling evil.
However, the master told me about Ziwei in a small talk later, he told Ziwei in the folk communication, the role is the same but the interpretation is different, the folk masters believe that this is a life and death order, can make all demons and monsters discouraged, the ancients are not very literate, so often with homophones or similar words instead, Ziwei is dismantled as "Yu Yier", which is "Yu Zhuer", that is, "I kill you" meaning.
All in all, it is a thing that can scare all yin and evil, and it is accompanied by strong aggression, and in many places, it is used very widely, it can be said that any Taoist who can draw talismans and spells has the highest frequency of use in his life, that is, this simple Ziwei Xuan.
Holding incense in my left hand and incense in my right hand, it was like holding a shield in one hand and a sword in the other. I stepped on the threshold of the hall and jumped into the house at once. The bottle of vinegar that had been placed on the coffin had smashed to the ground, which meant that it had just been touched by something, and it also proved that the frequency of ghost activity here was very high.
I began to examine the flour I had sprinkled on the inside of the threshold, and there were some thin footprints on the otherwise uniform surface, some of them were shoeed, some were barefoot, and some of them looked like triangular footprints. These are the footprints of ghosts, and they are all the front half of the paws.
When most people talk about ghosts, they will always use the word "light and fluttering" to describe them, which is not unreasonable, because they themselves are very light, and they form a human appearance through the gathering of energy, and this appearance is only directly visible to the victim, such as the child of the third family, he can see the specific ghost clearly, but the third child only sees a black mist. Because they are light, they always walk with their forefeet on the ground. In fact, it cannot be said that they are walking, but that their consciousness is deliberately imitating the action of "walking" before their death.
Apparently, they moved around after I set up the house inside and out. In the process, they will definitely come to the door to eat the incense I put outside the door.
In this way, I can easily collect their footprints. Distinguishing from the size and shape of the footprints, I concluded that there were four ghosts in this room. Two of them did not wear shoes, a pair of big feet and a pair of small feet, from which it can be judged that it should be a man and a woman, and there may be no direct relationship between the two ghosts, but most of them were poor families during their lifetimes, so that they did not even wear shoes when they died. The other one who wears shoes, judging from the fine lines, should be a pair of cloth shoes. After the liberation, there were fewer and fewer people wearing cloth shoes, even in rural areas, judging by the size of the soles of the feet, it should be a man. The rest of the triangle is easier to distinguish, the old society's bad habit of tying the soles of women's feet, so that many women's feet are deformed, the so-called "three-inch golden lotus" refers to this. However, since these feet are tied, it first means that this is a woman, and it is a woman with a certain family background, and the daughter of an ordinary small family is not qualified to bind her feet.
I quickly pieced together the clues I had found and began to corroborate what my child had said. The "three-inch golden lotus", if you didn't guess wrong, should be the old woman who grabbed the bruise on his shoulder, the child said that she looked very sad, most people in that era were quite sad, but if she is a lady, there is no reason why no one will continue the incense after death. And the person with the chin hanging should be the barefoot male, this kind of ghost appears in such a state, there are only two possibilities, either he was like this when he died, or he has been dead for too long and forgot what he looks like, so that when he wants to appear in human form, he makes himself a nondescript shape.
As for the ghost with a crooked face, I can't tell the difference based on this clue alone. However, it can still be known that it has also been dead for a long time, and most of it has forgotten its appearance.
These ghosts all have one thing in common: they are all people who have died in the vicinity. I can basically confirm this, most ghosts, with the exception of those with obvious vengeance, are generally unable to stay away from the area where they died, and can only move within a certain range of the vicinity. This is why people often bump into ghosts in one place, and then more and more people bump into ghosts in that place instead of encountering the same ghost in other places.
Most of these earth-bound ghosts are too old, resulting in the loss of even the consciousness of ghosts, and if they lead the way, they may not cooperate obediently. The only thing that drives it to be active is either the unrelieved obsession in the depths of the heart, or the greed for other people's incense.
I walked forward slowly, although the incense in my right hand was just ordinary incense, not terracotta incense, and the smoke could not guide me and lead the way, but the smoke was still very gentle, and any slight stirring around it was enough to cause it to move violently. So to some extent, it still allows me to sense the movement around me, and when to make a purple slash, and in which direction to chop.
I walked slowly to the coffin, and the lid of the coffin, which was still open, was opened like this. But in fact, this is not a good thing, one of the functions of the coffin lid is to isolate life and death, and now that the dead body has such a close connection with the outside world, I am very worried that this old man Wang will go smoothly. But now that I had entered the house, all that remained was to solve the problem of the hauntings here, so that the old man Wang could be lured by the Yin Cha smoothly on the third night, so I reached out and pushed the lid of the coffin open, intending to close it, but found that I could not push it.
I secretly thought to myself, what kind of wood is this, why is it so heavy, so I changed my lean, used my shoulder to push the coffin lid, and it took a lot of effort to push the lid a few inches in the direction of closing, at this time, I encountered obvious resistance, this resistance appeared to be slightly elastic, as if someone was wrestling with me, and we were exerting force at the same time, fighting each other for an inch and a half. I have now determined that this coffin is not opened by man, and the force that opened it is confronting me at this moment.
I'm a person who doesn't want to throw in the towel, at any time, including at this moment. So I began to use my strength to use my shoulders to top, and I always went in a minute and retreated half an inch, at this time, the strength on my shoulders suddenly increased, and the power that confronted me seemed to suddenly erupt at this moment, and I pushed violently, I didn't stand firm all of a sudden, I leaned sideways, my cheekbones hit the ground, and I fell heavily to the ground, and suddenly my eyes were full of stars. Then there was a loud bang, I looked in a daze, and found that the lid of the coffin had been pushed to the ground in the opposite direction, and the coffin was originally on the bricks with all four corners on the ground, which was to facilitate lifting when the coffin was lifted, and because the coffin could not fall to the ground when it was not buried, and the bricks that had been padded at the moment were still crushed, and one corner of the coffin fell to the ground, and the whole coffin was tilted and crumbling.
Hearing the noise in the house, the eldest and second immediately rushed to the door. Seeing that one of the corners of my old father's coffin fell to the ground, and seeing the embarrassed appearance of me lying on the ground on my side, it seemed that I understood something, the second child immediately took a few steps back, and the eldest stammered and asked me, little brother, what is going on? Why is my father's coffin like this?
I clutched my shoulders in pain and stood up, not answering the boss's question, for I really couldn't answer, did I say that I was inferior to others and let that ghost abuse me?
At this time, I saw the body of the old man Wang lying flat in the coffin, and my mind quickly connected all the strange things that had happened from last night to the present, and now I finally understood.