8. Talismans
The moon was obscured by the incoming black clouds, peeking only from behind the thick clouds, a dull and bleak shimmer.
The cell was already cramped and confined and dimly lit. The clouds obscured the moon, and it was even darker, and even the light of the torches seemed to be much dimmer.
In the past few days, Tao Hui has figured out some of the rules in the prison.
For example, the torches in the prison are constantly being held all year round, and there are always soldiers in Tsing Yi who come to replace them at a fixed time, and the torches seem to be made of special materials, which is unusual!
From the initial burning to the burning out, the torch is about half a day, and there is still a period of time before the next Tsing Yi soldier replaces the torch.
The peach coat emblem has been able to pass, the concentration of night, the daytime sunshine, and the law of torch replacement, it is easy to judge the approximate time of staying in this place.
The reason for this is probably that he was adopted by his master at a young age, and he has lived in seclusion in the mountains since he was a child, and has never had a playmate. There is only a stone bell engraved on a boulder that is ugly and ugly at twelve o'clock, accompanied by growing up.
Spring, summer, autumn and winter, cold, rain and snow, her childhood play was to stand in front of the huge stone clock and observe carefully!
It seems that it has been nearly two days since I came to this strange place.
In the prison, there are only two porcelain altars and a straw mat. The large one is used for convenience, and the small one stores some slightly turbid and fishy water. When the water first came out, it had a cold earthly atmosphere, as if it came from some underground well. On the straw mat, there were some mottled purple-black stains, which seemed to be dried blood. Although she has been here for a few days, she has never used a straw mat.
In the past two days, except for the soldiers in Tsing Yi who threw in a few dry and hard steamed buns on time, they stood at the door and put a cart into a large vat, opened the small hole under the wooden door of the cell, and scooped a few small ladles of water into the small basin in the door of the cell. After the dawn, there were even more old and rickety porters, who collected some feces, urine and feces in the large porcelain altar from the small hole in the lock of the prison door.
During this period, she also saw several soldiers in Tsing Yi, one carrying a lantern, and two soldiers carrying an unknown object wrapped in a straw mat while cursing endlessly, walking past the door of her prison. Judging by the stiffness of the limbs, judging by the stiffness of the wrapped straw mat and the sudden fall of the human foot, it seems to be a corpse that has been dead for a long time!
On the top of each prison, there are carved unknown monsters, similar to tigers and leopards, but they are very different, according to the old man on the other side, Master Liu, this unknown monster is called "Raccoon Monster". It is one of the ancient beasts in some ancient rumors of Daqi, because the prison is too angry, the black prison director will draw the image of the fierce on the prison door, so as to deter some evil things.
Facing the dim light of the fire, the peach coat emblem looked at the man who had collapsed on the ground.
"No, no, don't..."
The middle-aged man was still clenching his teeth, his face was pale, his forehead was blue, and he was talking nonsense.
The sleeve on the right side of the peach coat seems to be missing half.
That half sleeve covered the middle-aged man's forehead!
This is what she just tore off her clothes, dipped it in the basin of ice water, and covered the forehead of the Zhongnan man.
in this environment.
Call the heavens, but the heavens should not, call the earth, and the earth will not answer!
There is only so much that the peach coat emblem can do, whether it is life or death can only depend on the luck of middle-aged men.
She got up and touched the middle-aged man's forehead, which was still hot and hot.
The situation seems to be not too good!
"What can I do about this!?" Tao Hui frowned slightly, racking her brains, thinking hard, and suddenly her eyes lit up.
The peach coat emblem suddenly groped under the small cell.
The sound of the squirting sounded, and it was only after a half-ring that she stopped looking.
She took what she had in her hand and looked at it carefully, it was a torch burned out, and there was a charcoal stick left.
Tao Hui remembered the master's teachings to her for 18 years, chanting scriptures and practicing martial arts in the morning bell and dusk, and studying the music and rhythm in her spare time, although she was adopted by the master who was born in the barren mountains since she was a child. But those strange powers, gods, demons, immortals, and Buddhas, she has always thought that they are pure fiction! And now in this strange world, even the divine skills and body methods in martial arts books can come true, which simply subverts and refreshes her understanding, let's not take a dead horse as a live horse doctor, she said secretly:
"Try it. ”
Tearing off the sleeve on the left again, the white casual sportswear suddenly turned into short sleeves, but fortunately there was a pullover inside, but it looked a little weird, quite the original world's killer gothic style. But fortunately, he didn't show his arms, and he was able to maintain his body temperature in this cold cave.
Again, get up and walk to the somewhat cloudy basin to wash your hands, then wipe the water stains on your pants.
With a stab, she tore the left sleeve into two strips of cloth!
The peach coat emblem held the strip of cloth and fell into deep thought.
In my mind, a strange-shaped font flashed in my mind, using cinnabar as ink and painting on yellow paper.
Recalling carefully, the contents of those talismans suddenly came to mind.
This talisman is called: 'Exorcism Talisman.' That is: to drive away bad luck and calm the mind.
It is said to be an ancient book left by more than ten generations of teachers: one of the 'Thirty-six Fu Dafa'.
She looked up and looked around, holding a charcoal stick and smiling wryly.
The so-called talisman, although it was drawn by a Taoist priest. However, when the Taoist priest draws a talisman, he must bathe and change his clothes in advance, burn incense and worship sincerely, and prepare rice wine, fruit tea, incense candles and other things, and then concentrate on clearing distracting thoughts. All in all, it's complicated and complicated, and there are many rules.
Talismans are not something that can be drawn at will!
"Little baby!"
The old man's voice rang out, like a bell.
She was shocked, and the charcoal stick she had just picked up suddenly rolled to the ground!
Peach Jacket was shocked and didn't fix her head, but she was surprised to find that the old man on the other side no longer pretended to be asleep, but stood on the edge of the fence, looking at her directly!
The old man seemed a little suspicious, and asked:
"What are you doing here?"
"Draw a talisman!" the startled peach coat emblem replied angrily, "Old man, please don't disturb me yet!"
"Oh!"
The shrewd Liu Xingrong also found out, and he seemed to have scared the boy. The old face was also red, and he was a little unhappy. Although the actions of the young man in the border prison made him very puzzled, he was used to seeing the wind and waves, but he also obeyed, stroked his beard, and just stared at the movements of the peach coat emblem in a daze, and no longer bothered the young man.
Tao Hui thought about it, and suddenly his expression froze, and he secretly said in his heart:
"I don't know if I can do it?
She suddenly had a solemn face, raised her head and prayed sincerely to the sky, "Master Zu, although this place is very simple, but the situation is compelled, I will forgive you old man!"
After saying a paragraph, the peach coat emblem knocked heavily in the direction of the sunrise.
She got up and found a few pieces of rubble and bricks to build a small table, and gently placed the strips of cloth on the countertop.
Liu Xingrong's eyes in the border prison were even more confused, and he whispered: "This is?"
His mind was full of doubts and surprises, and he was used to seeing strange things in his life, and he couldn't help but feel a little dazed when he saw this situation.
The peach coat emblem suddenly sat upright, concentrating and engrossed again.
Trying to get into the state before the drawing!
I don't know how long it has been.
Her eyes were ethereal, her thoughts were focused, and her hands were slightly forced, and the charcoal suddenly outlined a light gray trace on the inside layer of clean and white cloth!
According to the master, a complete talisman is composed of five elements: 'talisman head', 'main god and Buddha', 'talisman belly', 'talisman feet', and 'talisman gall'.
If the talisman is used as a metaphor for a person, the talisman is like a person's head!
Therefore, the talisman head has a very important position for the talisman.
A layer of white sweat appeared slightly on the forehead of the peach coat emblem, and in the cautious and cautious manner, the charcoal ember on the long rag finally began to appear.
This is: "Rune!"
The peach coat emblem silently recites the mantra of the "Tao Sutra" in his heart, which is an important step in the talisman: "the main god and Buddha", that is, to pray sincerely and pray for the supreme miracle of the ancestor gods.
After reciting the long 'Tao Sutra' silently in his heart, the breathing of the peach coat emblem became more and more rapid, and the white hair and sweat on his forehead became denser.
She used charcoal as a pen again to control her breathing rate, and the charcoal pen was lightly drawn.
The stroke, from time to time, the pen walks the dragon and snake, from time to time the dragon flies and the phoenix dances; from time to time wantonly, from time to time frustration and tactfulness.
The talisman that was originally just a rudimentary outline is gradually taking shape!
The font on the top is smooth and charming.
Not long, "Fu belly", "Fu feet", "Fu gall", in turn, a "exorcism talisman" is just an instant in one go!
The feeling of exhaustion is not only physical, but also mental. She was very strange in her heart, when she was a child, her master had urged her to draw countless of the same talismans, but they were not as tired as they are today!
Liu Xingrong frowned slightly, and the next moment, he saw the young man in the prison opposite, staggering and trying to stand up, trying to cover the talisman drawn by the strip of cloth on the top of the middle-aged man's head!
But the strange thing is that the strip of cloth has not yet been put on the forehead of the middle-aged man, and as soon as he gets close to the man, in the dark, the strip of cloth suddenly spontaneously combusts without fire!
When Liu Xingrong saw this scene, he was a little surprised. He is very familiar with this kind of means, there is a strange stone called "flint" in the mountains of Daqi, as long as a layer of stone powder is scraped off with a knife, sprinkled on the paper when it is used, and the paper will spontaneously combust without fire if it is slightly rubbed.
Could it be that this young master is also a fellow believer, and the water washed the Dragon King Temple, is this a peer?
The peach coat emblem was also stunned, she was very strange in her heart, and after thinking about it, she still couldn't understand why the cloth strip spontaneously combusted without fire.
"Where am I..."The middle-aged man, confused, woke up slowly.
seemed to see the peach coat emblem standing on the side and Liu Xingrong on the other side of the prison bar:
"Excuse me, who are you?"
Liu Xingrong was accustomed to nature and blurted out:
"Old man, Qingzhou Liu Xingrong!"
The middle-aged man was shocked and struggled to get up:
"Are you, Master Liu of Hungry Qingzhou?!"
Liu Xingrong's face turned pale:
"Exactly!"