11. Raising the yin coffin
After the initial success, I returned to the barber shop satisfied, only to see that the shop was brightly lit and the business was very good, and Uncle Liao went out to be absent from the scene, I felt tired, and fell asleep after sitting on the sofa for a while.
I was awakened by a scream, and when I opened my eyes, I found myself kneeling in the center of the store, holding a headless chicken corpse high above my head in my left hand and a blood-stained towel in my right hand.
I couldn't remember bringing the dead chicken back, but I saw that the floor in front of me was covered with big "Hua Biaogui" blood characters, some written horizontally, some vertically, and some diagonally, but there was no doubt that the handwriting came from my hand.
Several cleaning clerks stood in front of me with frightened faces, looking helpless.
It happened that Uncle Liao returned to the store at this time, he glanced at the blood words on the ground and smiled: "Everyone is frightened, the skewers have been sleepwalking since they were children, it's not a big deal, I'll get it clean, let's get off work." ”
The clerk put down the cleaning tools and left in a hurry, I was just about to speak, Uncle Liao made a silent gesture, and then he took out a cigarette from my pocket, he never smoked and lit one in his mouth, and then he used his index finger and middle finger to hold the cigarette vertically, blocking in front of me, the smoke became a straight line, compared to the rise, he said slowly: "Skewers, I ask a question and you answer, you must tell the truth, but don't speak in a way like being shocked and yelling, do you understand?" ”
Uncle Liao said extremely solemnly, I knew that something big had happened, and my heart jumped and said, "I understand." ”
"Did you kill chickens and drink blood at night?"
"Yes."
Don't be too blunt about the places you go, just reveal them. ”
"Municipal Park."
Uncle Liao nodded thoughtfully and said, "Skewers, you have hit an evil spirit, and you are still a big evil." ”
I can't help but feel surprised, in my imagination, the person who hits the evil has a very strong reaction, so that ordinary people can see at a glance that he is attached to the evil spirit, but I act as usual, and my body is not the slightest abnormal.
Uncle Liao said: "It's also strange that I didn't make it clear to you that I cut off the head of a chicken in a damp place at night and drank chicken blood, this is originally a kind of ghost trick, the ghost was invited by you, do you know what Hua Biaogui means?" ”
I shook my head, and Uncle Liao said, "Hua Biaogui is the name of the ghost ancestor, and what you met this time is a terrible ghost." As he said this, the smoke like a thin line suddenly shook and twisted upward.
I secretly gasped, my hairs standing on end, and I couldn't help but snort.
Uncle Liao sighed and said, "You are really bold and reckless, how can you take it for granted that you are doing exercises and practicing the Fa." ”
"Uncle Liao, will I be in danger?"
He thought for a while and sighed: "I don't have the ability to Zhenhua Biaogui, so I can only ask it to leave, but it must be during the day, I will try my best to keep you safe this night, and we will find a way when it is dawn." ”
Hearing Uncle Liao's meaning, he was not sure that he could get "Hua Biaogui", I couldn't help but regret in my heart, I really couldn't do it quickly, but I also understood an important truth: the more anxious you are, the easier it is to mess things up.
Uncle Liao brought a bucket of rice water, poured me all over my body, steamed a pot of glutinous rice, sprinkled a handful of incense ash in front of me, and then lit three sticks of incense and inserted it on the rice.
(Many novels write that people use glutinous rice to exorcise ghosts, which is not right, glutinous rice can only be used to pull out corpse poison, but the incense burned for ghosts cannot be lit in the tribute stove, but can only be inserted into steamed glutinous rice balls.) )
After doing all this, Uncle Liao sat cross-legged opposite me and closed his eyes motionless, and I clearly saw two strange phenomena, one is that the three sticks of incense burn very quickly on the right branch, and secondly, although the weather is hot, the rice water on my body is frozen, but I don't feel cold at all, and the white gas spewed out between breaths is getting richer and stronger.
Then I found that my hands were getting whiter and whiter, I didn't know what the state of my face was, and I was about to turn my head to look, Uncle Liao stretched out his hand to stop my eyes and said: "Don't act rashly, the more empty your heart is, the more powerful the possessed ghost will control you, just don't know anything, but don't fall asleep." "Sitting in a hurry, I pulled out my wet phone and played with Snake.
If someone sees a "ghost" with a pale face sitting on the ground playing a mobile game, I wonder how he will react?
I finally got through this night, Uncle Liao prepared a set of outfits for me, covered me tightly from face to hand, and said, "Take me to the place where I practiced last night." "Then he stepped on a cloth bag and took me out.
When I entered the park, Uncle Liao asked me, "Do you remember where you were last night?" ”
Looking at a dense but almost identical group of river willows, my brain sweat immediately came down, originally came in very casually, and walked in a panic, how can I remember the specific direction, I can only shake my head.
Uncle Liao frowned and said: "If it is evil on the road, it can be driven anywhere, but the ghost who invites the upper body must be in the local area to ask it to leave, otherwise indiscriminate casting will only make it more evil." ”
My brain became a pot of porridge, and at the same time I began to feel the cold in my body gradually increasing, the blood in my body seemed to begin to freeze, and it became more and more difficult to move.
At this moment, I heard an old voice from the woods: "Okay, you take me to play, you take me on a big horse." Judging from the voice, this must be an old man, but listening to the tone of the voice, it is full of "virginity".
Of course, this is not normal, I saw a thin old man coming in a hurry, and said in a low voice: "Neurotic, you are still pretending to be old and not serious at such an old age." ”
Following the sound, I saw a thin old man wearing a dark blue sweatshirt squatting next to a thick willow tree and whispering, I didn't know what to say, he stood up and squeezed out a "bright" smile when he saw us: "I want you to take me to play." Speaking in such a tone at his age gave me goosebumps.
I pointed to the tree and said, "That's it, I was in ...... last night."
Uncle Liao walked up to the old man and said, "Old man, how about exercising here?" ”
He still grinned and said, "You take me out to play." ”
Uncle Liao said, "Okay, let's go." After that, he grabbed the old man's wrist and seemed to be going out, but as soon as he turned around, he took out two chapters of yellow paper talismans from his bag and slapped them on the top of the old man's forehead and the willow tree, and then took out the prepared dansha from the bag, and dipped it on the trunk with a brush to write: The sky is round, the edict is nine chapters, twist the pen in the hand, and all evils will be eliminated. I am as anxious as the law.
When he wrote the last word, he used the pen to put a little heavier on that side, and suddenly there was a gust of wind hanging in the gloomy woods, and the old man's body was shaken, and Uncle Liao took off his forehead rune paper like the wind.
The old man's expression returned to normal, he looked at me warily, and left with the sword he had used to exercise on his back, as if he had no idea of what had happened before.
Uncle Liao took me to the tree, lit a tribute incense group and said: "Mountain friends are not strange, the young man strayed into this place, disturbing the dormancy is really unintentional, today I came to invite the mountain friends to leave, and I will come here to worship on July 15 every year in the future." With that, he stuck the incense in the ground, took out a copper coin sword and pointed it at my throat gently.
My left hand shook uncontrollably, and then there was a faint sound in my ears like a gossamer, far and near, ethereal baby laughter, although it was laughter, but I could hear it full of resentment, it seemed to be a bitter smile, and it seemed to be a miserable laugh, and I heard goosebumps falling to the ground.
Uncle Liao didn't realize it, and still used the copper coin sword against my neck, but the skin on his hand was already gray, and his expression became very painful, while the color of the skin on my hand was gradually returning to normal, and after a while, he withdrew the copper coin sword, pulled out the razor and cut the tip of his index finger, and blood dripped into the mud.
There was a squeak and a scream, and a huge rat came out of the ground, and saw a little dark purple smoke on its fur, and ran towards the river, but before it had taken two steps, it collapsed and its limbs twitched in the mud.
Uncle Liao pulled out the silver needle inserted in my body, slowly walked to another willow tree, leaned against me, and said, "Did you hear any noise just now?" ”
"I feel like I hear babies laughing."
Uncle Liao nodded and gasped, "I thought you had provoked the old tree spirit, but now I can be sure that there is a baby spirit in this forest, and nine times out of ten it is in that willow tree." ”