Chapter 63. The cat cried on the grave
This bite came suddenly, although Granny Yang herself was already an old man with sparse teeth, the power of the human bite was huge no matter how old or young. In severe pain, I could only let go of the hand that was holding her ankle. At this time, she also jumped forward at once, and disappeared into the night.
At this moment, I realized that the place where I fell to the ground was in front of the three graves in the vegetable field of Granny Yang's house. It was very dark, and I could only tell from the outline that the three bumps in front of me were graves, so I quickly took out my flashlight and looked around, ignoring the sharp pain in my hands. I knew she certainly hadn't gone far, she must have been nearby.
A few seconds later, the sound of a cat meowing came from behind the grave, so frightened that I quickly pointed the beam of the flashlight in the direction where the sound came from, at this time, a head with a cloak came out from behind the grave, that is Granny Yang, presumably just after biting me, she hid behind the grave, and at this moment her expression looked a little hideous, baring her teeth, and there was blood on the side of her mouth when she bit me just now. Her eyebrows were gathered together because of her expression, and when the light of my flashlight hit her face, her eyes began to reflect. It's like an angry cat, ready to attack me again and tear me to pieces.
Even though I was very scared at the moment, I also knew that if I turned and fled, she would definitely catch up, and then I would be more passive in the back. I was dragged out of the house just now, and I was bitten, largely because it all happened so suddenly, I was caught off guard, and probably because I saw my embarrassment, this old cat attached to Granny Yang, will continue to provoke me at this moment.
When I thought of this, my heart calmed down a little, so I stood up on my knees, and found that my feet were already starting to tremble in the night wind. The palm of the left hand is stretched out, because the palm of the palm is purple and slightly obscure. With his right hand, he took out my hexagonal seal, took a deep breath, and walked towards Granny Yang who was lying on the grave.
Granny Yang grew her mouth and let out a "snort!" I know it's the cat's angry voice, but I can't care about it anymore, because every second of delay may cause something else to happen. Ziwei and the Hexagonal Seal, if any of them hit Granny Yang's body, I am sure that I will beat the cat attached to her, but it will also hurt Granny Yang. Fortunately, cats are just animal spirits after all, although they can dodge and resist, they don't know how to do tricks after all, otherwise when it controls Granny Yang's body, it won't still act as a cat.
When I was about a meter away from Granny Yang, she suddenly kicked her legs on the grave and pounced on me, I had expected her to do this, so I turned slightly sideways and let her pounce in the air. Because it was a vegetable field, the soil on the ground was relatively soft, so this fall didn't throw Granny Yang on it, but gave me a chance to subdue her.
So when she landed, I grabbed the back of Granny Yang's neck with my left hand, and I didn't use the action of beating, but took advantage of the situation to press the purple of my left hand on the back of Granny Yang's neck a little harder. I saw that her hands and feet began to kick wildly, but she couldn't move on the ground. If I didn't have Ziwei in my palm at this moment, I don't think I would be able to suppress this possessed power. At this time, I pressed the hexagonal seal on the top of Granny Yang's head at the position of the Baihui acupoint, and with a little force, I began to rotate clockwise on the top of my head at a constant speed, while reciting in my mouth:
"Ding Chou prolongs my life, Ding Hai detains my soul. Ding You controls me, but Ding Wei has a disaster for me. Ding Si is in danger of me, and Ding Mao is in danger of me. Jiazi protects my body, and Jiazi protects my form. Jiashen solidifies my life, and Jiawu guards my soul. Jiachen town is my spirit, and Jiayin educates me true. Haste as a law! ”
This mantra is called the Liuding Rokko Mantra, which is a mantra that protects the body and refreshes the mind. This spell does not have any harmful effect on the ghost itself, at most it can only bluff and scare, but it can make this person who is haunted by the ghost gather his own spirit and not be crowded by other possessions. Plus it's a cat, and I don't even think that even if I recite the mantra to exorcise evil spirits, it won't necessarily be able to be driven away, after all, it won't understand. Therefore, this mantra of Liuding and Liujia was recited by me to the soul in Granny Yang's body. As long as the spirit of the soul is concentrated under the urging of the incantation, it will naturally be able to make the other souls occupying the body have no way out.
This trick was very effective, and two or three seconds after the incantation was recited, Granny Yang's body, which was originally struggling desperately, suddenly stood still. It's as if you're asleep alone. I knew that this meant that the old cat's ghost had left Granny Yang's body, so I let go of my grip on Granny Yang's neck, stood up, and looked everywhere for the black shadow of the cat I had seen at first, when the strange cat meow came again from the direction of the grave behind me.
The reason why it's weird is not just because the sound has been seen several times before, but because when I turn my head to look, I only hear it, but I don't see it. I leaned sideways and slowly approached, and found that the sound came from the direction of the grave of Granny Yang's wife, and when I got closer, I found that the cat's meow was a little muddy, as if talking in the quilt, and I listened carefully, only to realize that the sound came from the grave.
On the first night, Granny Yang was so frightened by the sound of the cat's meow in the grave that I couldn't sit on the ground, and although I was prepared, I was still a little surprised to hear it. Ghosts have the ability to penetrate, but why did this old cat burrow into the grave? Is it to avoid my pursuit? So why do you have to make a noise for me to notice?
According to Master's analysis, the reason why this cat possessed Granny Yang was actually to protect Granny Yang in her own way and prevent Granny Yang from being harmed by other ghosts. The other ghosts here are the owners of the tomb in which it is hiding. I gently put my ear close to the grave so that I could hear the meow of the cat more clearly, and then I realized that the sound of the cat's meow was not only an angry cry, but also a feeling of being in a hurry, but also in a hurry, but unable to do anything.
Could it be that the cat was caught by the owner of the tomb? Want to struggle but can't escape? In order to confirm my thoughts, I hastened to plant and light three incense sticks in front of the grave, not to ask them to help me find the traces, but the only order given to them was to find the cat for me.
If the cat was caught by Granny Yang's wife, then my actions at the moment are tantamount to forcibly breaking down the door and going to someone else's house to arrest someone. The relationship between ordinary souls and soldiers and horses is like the relationship between the army and the common people, in terms of form and rank, they are equal to each other. But in terms of official position, although my soldiers and horses are rampant, they can also suppress less with more and stronger against weak. This cat is not at fault except for the accident of hurting people, and if the ghost is killed, it is not a good thing.
After the order was given to the soldiers, I continued to wait by the grave, and soon the cat's barking stopped. A black mist emerged from the other side of the grave, drifting slowly to my feet and then no longer moving.
It was a sign of submission, and I had not intended to use my horses for fear that the animals would go berserk and hurt my horses. At this moment, I realized that this trick was still simple and crude, and it was more effective.
Since I had no experience in dealing with animal spirits, and there was no way to collect them as soldiers and horses, I could only make a seal on the little wooden figure of Fu Ping, let the old cat's ghost attach to it, and let the master think about it. After everything was over, the four were quiet, and after the soldiers and horses were recovered, the three soldiers and horses lost their meaning. So I squatted on the edge of the grave, silently thanked Granny Yang's wife for her help just now, and then burned some paper money, and carried Granny Yang who was lying in the mud back to the house with a sandbag.
After putting her back on the bed and covering the quilt, it was almost 1 o'clock in the night, and I sat quietly in the hall, which was the same place where Granny Yang sat during the day. While bandaging the wounds on my hands, I thought about the ending of this Granny Yang on the 10th day of the first month. Master once said that our profession is like a doctor, there are always people who can't be saved, and if they can't be saved, then their lives should be like this. If there are too many personal emotions mixed in during this period, it will affect our judgment, and the accuracy of this judgment not only determines how far we can go in this industry, but even determines whether it will become a greater danger because of our emotions when we encounter danger.
I don't remember how long I had been thinking about it, but it was the quietest night in days. Nothing strange happened after that, and I fell asleep against the wall around three o'clock in the morning, overworked.
The next morning, I told Granny Yang that everything had been done, and you had been affected a lot these days, so don't farm, rest at home, and be in a daze. Granny Yang was very happy, and she didn't remember the violent movement last night. I don't want to tell her that since I know that this will be her last days, let's go to the end in peace.
I didn't even eat breakfast, so I packed my things and took them down the mountain. Before leaving, I dismantled the wooden figure that I had been torn by the cat last night and put it back in the pyre.
After descending the mountain, Master saw that my face was depressed, and thought that I had come back without doing anything, but I told him that everything was done, except that I had a lot of paint on my face and hands, and I didn't know what to do with the cat's ghost. Master nodded, he probably knew what I was frustrating, but he couldn't help it, he could only sigh lightly, and then walked away silently.
On the 10th of January, Granny Yang died in her own bed, and I didn't go to pay my respects, but Master and Aunt Xu made preparations in advance, so I let Granny Yang and her husband leave smoothly. When Master returned, she told me that when Granny Yang passed away, the expression on her face seemed to be smiling.
In this life, from nothing to something, and then from existence to nothing, it was originally so simple. After this incident, I spent many days in such a negative mood. Seeing that I was depressed, and that I had been hiding from the limelight in the village for a while, Master said to me, "Otherwise, you should go with me to relax, because I am going to go to the city these days to do something for an old friend."
So I promised Master that there was a lot of chaos in the city at the moment, and I wouldn't be unlucky enough to meet the people who had arrested me in the first place. Just follow the master to let off steam, change your mood and come back.
Three days later, we set out on our way back to the city. Because I still had to come back, and Master was on the side, I only brought some necessary tools with me. I didn't talk much on the way, so Master found a topic to talk to me, and he asked me, don't you want to know where we're going this time? From the perspective of caring for the middle-aged and elderly, I asked cooperatively, where are you going?
Master said, go and save people.