So I asked the child's mother where there was a water source nearby, as long as it was clean water. The child's mother said that about 50 meters west from here, there is a mountain bag with spring water flowing out. So I dropped my bag, took my bowl and went to fetch water. Yes, before I summon the Troopers, I need to do a Water Bowl Round Light Technique so that I have a rough idea of what I should be dealing with this time.

Soon I picked up the water and returned to Captain Li and the child's mother. Because the child gradually lost consciousness after he got into the gap between the bamboos on his own. So I chose the place to do the water method, in front of those big bamboos. After burning the charm, it was thrown into the water, and soon the paper ash appeared, taking on a spiral. Maybe it's because of the paper ash itself, the spiral, it looks a lot like the shell of a snail that I caught when I was a child. I took the picture in the bowl and asked the child's mother to see it, and asked him to think about whether he had found anything similar around the time before and after the winter solstice.

The child's mother looked at it for a long time, but she always shook her head and said, it shouldn't be. I have never been a careless person, and if I had, I should have an impression.

So things got to this point, and once again they were temporarily stuck. After asking to confirm whether the child's soul is here or still in the body, I began to throw rice and ask rice, and the content of my question is probably that if Zhang Heping's soul is still here at the moment, it will sink four and float three, and if it is still in his own body, it will sink three and float four. I was relieved that the child's soul was still in his body, because it would have been much easier for me to expel the other ghosts in his body and let him recover on his own.

It's just that when I asked this, I asked one more question, whether the ghost attached to Zhang Heping's body at the moment was here to repay the favor or take revenge. It's not that I don't know the answer, but I need to confirm it myself, and if it's revenge, there must be a reason. If there is no reason to possess me indiscriminately, I will not spare it.

The answer that Mi Li told me in the water bowl was, as I expected, to take revenge.

Normally, the revenge of ghosts is mostly directly related to the victim. For example, Tian Xiaofang's previous time, although Tian Xiaofang was not the one who directly killed the landlord, the landlord's death was caused by her in the first place. So she became the only one to take revenge. And Zhang Heping is only an 8-year-old child, what can he do to get a ghost to take revenge on him? When I think of this, I can't help but imagine another possibility in my heart, could it be that before or after Zhang Heping, the parents had other children but couldn't stay? If this is the case, this child may also feel that why his parents want his brother and brother, but they don't want me, and he is resentful. But what didn't fit that idea was the kind of aggression he had towards me at the beginning of Zhang Heping's house. As the saying goes, there is a debtor and a debtor, even if I come to hinder it, I will not hate it to this extent.

After I couldn't figure it out, I didn't have a way to do it. Based on the information I have so far, I already have a prediction that there may be a fierce battle ahead. So I summoned the soldiers and horses, lit the incense of the soldiers and horses, held the incense in one hand and rattled the bell in the other, starting from the place where Zhang Heping got into the bamboo, intending to look for some ghost clues related to this incident.

When we came, we were probably coming from the southeast. And at this moment, the guidance of the soldiers and horses went straight to the southwest. That's an area we don't even check. Occasionally, the wind blows in the bamboo forest, so you must pay special attention to the judgment of smoke. After walking to the southwest for about ten minutes, maybe another ten minutes, the bamboo forest will come out, and it is at this time that I saw a pile of dirty clothes on the ground.

When the child's mother saw it, she immediately stepped forward to pick it up and said to me excitedly that this was the dress that their family Zhang Heping wore when he went out that day. I counted it, underwear and jackets, pants, shoes and socks, and there was a small bamboo basket and a small scimitar on the ground. There is no doubt that these things were all things that Zhang Heping carried with him at that time. It was in this place that he took off his clothes. I picked up the basket and looked at it, but there was nothing but some bamboo. The little scimitar, the child's mother said, is the knife that Zhang Heping uses to cut pigweed on weekdays.

After taking an inventory, I found that there was no other thing missing, and all the things on Zhang Heping's body were left here after he went out that day. So I picked up those things and stuffed them into the bamboo basket, and I thought that this was the end of the investigation of the Terracotta Fragrance, and I was worried about the use of letting me find this pile of clothes, but the Terracotta Fragrance suddenly continued to float towards the southwest.

To be honest, I was a little surprised. It's not because there are other clues, but because I found out that my soldiers and horses have gone up a new level and know how to look for extra clues. So we continued to follow the smoke, and after about a few minutes, on the edge of a slightly thicker pile of bamboo, the smoke suddenly fell and rushed towards the grass at the base of the bamboo.

I knew that there must be something else in the haystack now, but because it was more tightly covered, I took out a small scimitar from the bamboo basket and used it as a tool to remove the haystack. At this moment, I was taken aback.

In front of me was a big snake about one and a half meters long, covered in gray and black! The snake has been dead for a long time, and because the temperature is relatively low, the body has not yet decomposed. Near the body of the snake, there is also a layer of grayish-white snake skin.

I've always been afraid of snakes since I was a child, not because of their appearance, but because I couldn't accept the feeling of being wet and greasy. When I was a child, I once saw a small snake in the drainage ditch in the back street of White Elephant Street, and since then, I have had an inexplicable rejection of this animal. Every time they spit out the forked snake hyacinth, I can't help but feel creepy.

There is snake skin, which means that the snake must have just shed its skin before it died. Although my level of knowledge is very poor, I know that snakes are animals that shed their skin several times a year as they grow older. That's because I once saw a medicinal herb called "snake molt" in the medicine shop in Molangzhong. That's what Mo Langzhong told me at the time. I turned the snake on the other side with a scimitar, and the strange thing is that the snake is different from people, it is not particularly stiff after death, but the whole body is soft. I looked at him about five inches behind his head, and there was a visible wound. I compared the width of the wound with the scimitar in my hand, and I found that the snake was probably killed by this scimitar.

In this way, things seem to be clear. The dead snake in front of me, I know, it is a water snake, since it is a water snake, it means that there must be a pond not far from here. Although the winter solstice is already considered a cold winter, the temperature in the south has not been so low that it is close to freezing. That is to say, during this period, many slightly larger snakes have not yet entered the hibernation period. The molt of the snake not far from the ground indicates that it died shortly after shedding its skin. At the same time, I also know that after the snake has just shed its skin, it is as if a person has just had a serious illness, and its movement is slow, and its reaction will be much slower. It is probably because of this that he was hacked to death by Zhang Heping.

Zhang Heping killed the snake, I can't judge whether it is good or bad. Maybe it's out of the instinct of self-preservation, whoever sees such a big black snake will be afraid. It's just that Zhang Heping didn't choose to escape, but killed it directly. This knife, no more, no less, was exactly pierced into the snake's seven inches. Now it seems that almost all the clues I found are consistent with the hexagram I gave to my child at the beginning. It was around the winter solstice, in the bamboo forest due north, Zhang Heping killed a black water snake, in the fantasy that the second hemp oil woman saw, Zhang Heping's hands, feet and waist were wrapped and pulled by the rope, it is estimated that the "rope" should be the appearance of a snake, and I saw Zhang Heping's painting at the latest, the content of his painting is also a circle of things, just like the development in the water bowl, but at first I imagined it as a mosquito coil and a snail shell, in fact, it is still referring to this coiled snake.

Things seem to have an answer, but if it is said that he is entangled by the ghost of the snake, then why does Zhang Heping still speak? Are you able to get to know your neighbors and classmates? Why can you still draw by yourself like an ordinary child? If it is possessed by the dead soul of an animal, these actions are absolutely impossible, at most it is to show some of the original attributes of the animal, just like Granny Yang in the mountains behind the village earlier, she was possessed by a cat, and she became the virtue of a cat.

Fortunately, this trip was quite fruitful, although many things are still not understood, but the general direction has been correct, and so many clues have been found. At the moment, it seems that I could have used some means to force the soul of the snake out of the child's body, and then grab it and deal with it, but I always felt that things were not as simple as I imagined. At this moment, the incense of the soldiers and horses has begun to drift freely like normal incense, so I threw the incense on the ground and said to Captain Li and the child's mother after stepping on it. Now let's go down the mountain to the town, find a pharmacy to buy some realgar wine, and see if we can think of another way.

Captain Li asked me, why do you want realgar wine? The serpent is dead. I told him that the body is dead, but the soul is still in your nephew's body. So the two of them knew that all that happened to Zhang Heping, including when he saw his real body in the gossip mirror, he rushed towards me and bit me, because it was a snake.

But what I learned is to catch ghosts and exorcise evil spirits, and deal with one of the five masters, can I really be sure?