Episode 153: Opening the altar
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People who love to read can always not resist the temptation of good books, but they read too deeply, once they sink into it and lose themselves, they will inevitably ignore the people and things around them, Wang Erlang is like this, he is dedicated to studying hard behind closed doors, and he specializes in several volumes of sage classics given to him by Huangfu Minghua day and night, so that he ignores his family.
About half a month ago, his mother took his sister to the Fuyun Temple in the east of Yuncheng to pray for his seriously ill father, the Fuyun Temple is a Buddhist temple, different from the Kunlun Annex, because it is built in the city, the transportation is convenient, and most of the people like to go there to pray for blessings, and the incense is very vigorous.
In the past, Wang Erlang would always accompany his mother and sister to escort him along the way, but this time he was fascinated by reading and ignored everything.
The news came back, and before Wang Erlang could fully wake up from his addiction, there was another urgent report in the compartment, and his father, who was seriously ill in bed, also received the news.
In one day, the family was ruined, Wang Erlang was extremely sad, he went crazy, looking for the whereabouts of his mother and sister, but there was never any clue, and his father's body could not be left at home for too long, even if Wang Yi and others helped to bury his father, but the missing mother and sister were always missing.
Day after day, Wang Erlang did not hesitate to scatter his family wealth to find his missing mother and sister, but the result made him more and more desperate day by day. Today, his family business is gone, his relatives are gone, and he is left to live alone in this world, like a lonely ghost and rootless duckweed.
Sadness, despair, self-blame, and decadence In just over half a month, Wang Erlang is no longer the hot-blooded young man who stood up for his friends, and he no longer has the heart to study to chase fame and fortune.
"Hey!" Hearing what happened to Wang Erlang in the past few months, Jiang Chen couldn't help but sigh in his mouth, and then, he hurriedly stretched out his hands and helped Wang Erlang up, but he reprimanded in his mouth: "Second Prince Wang, you are so confused!"
"Yes, I'm confused. Wang Erlang laughed at himself, with tears in the corners of his eyes, crying and laughing, and said madly: "If I wasn't confused, how could I ruin my family for a few books of unknown history, what you said is that I am too confused!"
"Fart!" Jiang Chen slapped him, knocked him to the ground, and scolded: "I mean you, since you have encountered a difficulty that cannot be solved, why don't you want to find someone to help, I see that you helped your friend Liu Xun before when he came to ask me for help, wasn't he very capable? Why did you get confused when it came to your own head!"
"I" Wang Erlang took a slap, and then listened to Jiang Chen's scolding words, the whole person immediately became much more sober, his face and eyes were full of self-blame and regret, he raised his hands, opened the bow left and right, slapped himself more than a dozen times, "poof", and knelt in front of Jiang Chen: "Zhiqiu Dao Chief, please teach me!"
"Don't worry, you and I have a relationship, your family has suffered, I don't know it's okay, now that I know, I will definitely help you. Jiang Chen hurriedly helped him up again, and said in a deep voice: "You go and get some of your mother's and sister's commonly used clothes, and then go get a live rooster, take a drop of blood from your heart, at dusk, the sun and the moon alternate, I will open the altar to find out the whereabouts of your mother and sister for you." ”
"This" Wang Erlang asked with a little unconfidence: "Zhiqiu Daoist, can this work?"
"Whether it will work or not, I will know after trying it. Jiang Chen replied in a deep voice: "If you came to look for me in the morning, I would be very sure, but now I am only seven or eight points, after all, if your mother and sister have encountered an accident, it is my practice of opening the altar, and what I find can only be their bones." ”
"Mother, sister!" Wang Erlang blamed himself, tears in his eyes, dripping continuously.
"What are you crying about!" Jiang Chen rebuked angrily: "It's useless to be a scholar, didn't I tell you what to do now?" Go and prepare things, the sooner you prepare, the sooner I can open the altar, the sooner I find the whereabouts of your mother and sister, and they will be safer." ”
"Yes, yes, I'll go, I'll go" Wang Erlang had no master for a while, and when he heard Jiang Chen's words, he hurriedly responded.
"Hey" Seeing him hurry away, Jiang Chen couldn't help but sigh again, he never thought that it was only a few months, and there was such an accident in Wang Erlang's family, and at that moment, he also hurriedly began to prepare: there were no apprentices on the long table, yellow cloth, rune paper, cinnabar, magic ink, incense candles, wooden swords, and Taoist robes, and the red queen and Xiaoyu could not show up to help for the time being.
Because he was concerned about the safety of his mother and sister, Wang Erlang went and came back quickly, bringing a live chicken, as well as a bracelet from his mother and a hairpin from his sister, and asked in a loud voice: "How to take out the essence and blood in my heart, and please tell the head of the Autumn Dao?"
"Don't worry!" Jiang Chen suppressed the anxious Wang Erlang, looked at the many good men and women around him who gathered out of curiosity, frowned slightly, and then raised his voice: "Everyone, there is a Dharma thing to do in today's view, and please leave by yourself after the incense, don't linger too much, so as not to cause bad luck to yourself!"
Hearing this, the surrounding visitors couldn't help but change their faces, the reason why they came all the way to the mountain Taoist temple to worship God, naturally they are very trusting people, for luck, fortune and fortune are very important, now I hear that there will be bad luck, one by one, where do you dare to do more stay, have turned around and retreated, even, some of the visitors have not even been incense, they left in a hurry.
After a short time, the people in the courtyard had dispersed, Jiang Chen calculated the best time to open the altar, beckoned Wang Erlang to arrange the altar, and went to a quiet room in the side hall to bathe and change clothes.
For Taoist monks, the practice of opening the altar is a very solemn thing, and many times, the person who practices it even needs to fast and bathe for three to seven days in advance, but now that things have happened suddenly, Jiang Chen can still take care of these things, and change three days to three hours, which has streamlined a lot of processes.
After bathing, Jiang Chen changed into an apricot yellow robe, took a whisk and stepped out of the quiet room, in the courtyard, Wang Erlang had already arranged the altar according to the instructions, the long table was covered with yellow cloth, the flags were erected around it, there was an incense burner on the table, the furnace was full of cinnabar, and there were three coarse yellow incense sticks in the compartment, and in front of the stove were listed items such as French ink, rune paper, brushes, wooden swords, compasses and porcelain bowls filled with clear water.
"Zhiqiu Dao is long. Seeing Jiang Chen come out, Wang Erlang hurriedly greeted him.
"Hmm. He replied lightly, and Jiang Chen then instructed in his mouth: "Later, I will open the altar, no matter what vision you see during this period, you must not make the slightest sound, let alone act rashly, otherwise the method will fail, and it will be difficult to find your mother and sister in the same way." ”
"Yes!" At this moment, Wang Erlang was like a drowning man grasping the last straw, how dare he have the slightest objection to Jiang Chen's words, and he quickly nodded in response.
Jiang Chen stepped forward, and before he came to the altar, he swept away the dust, and suddenly three large incense sticks lit together, wisps of smoke rose, obviously it was just a little, but in the blink of an eye, it turned into three regular smoke dragons, circling and flying, blocking the entire courtyard, leaving only the void on the top clear.
Above the sky, the sunset has not set, and the bright moon has risen, which is the vision of the sun and the moon in the same sky, but I saw that the sun and the moon converged, like water blending, forming a magnificent seven-colored light, surging and mighty, rolled into a pillar of light like a solid quality, and suddenly fell from the sky, enveloping the entire altar.
"The heavens and the earth are turning, the universe is translocated, the gods of the heavens, listen to my orders!"
Reciting strange spells, Jiang Chen stepped on Tiangang, walked the gossip strange position, walked around the altar, and then suddenly lifted the pen and dipped it in ink, and at the same time, a piece of rune paper on the table jumped up, hanging in the air, and as he walked the dragon and snake with the pen, a mysterious rune was suddenly formed, and with the pen fell for a moment, blooming with strange light! )