Chapter Ten Breaking Ground
After staring like this in the dark for a full twenty minutes, the damn girl asked me to light a candle and three sticks of incense, and then I made the "Nine Color Lotus Seal" I just learned tonight on my hands, and also made two mantras in my mouth,
I forgot exactly what it was after reading it.
The flickering candlelight flickered on and off, causing the shadows of the trees around me to sway, making me feel the atmosphere was even more strange. Especially when I smelled the incense, I couldn't help but think of the strong smell of incense candles mixed with white wine and burning paper under the funeral shed.
The smell of death makes one’s scalp numb!
Speaking of the funeral shed, in our small county town, this funeral custom still continues to this day. Although cremation of corpses is now advocated, family members still put the ashes in the coffin and hold it in a grand manner according to the funeral customs. In the streets and alleys
In it, there is the shadow of the coffin that I often see. And when I was fifteen years old, my grandfather and grandma passed away one after another. The scene of keeping vigil under the coffin at night is still vivid in my mind. These four candles seemed to let me see the coffin again.
The lantern in front of me, and the chills that made everyone stand on end on the night of returning to the soul.
Wow, in this terrifying atmosphere, I actually relived the feelings under the tomb. It’s totally a mistake.
"Hiss...hiss..."
At this moment, a low and strange sound suddenly came from under the ground covered with red ropes. It sounded like the chirping of an insect or the heavy breathing of a baby. In short, it sounded very scary in the dead forest.
All the hairs on my body stood on end at this moment!
"The glutinous rice wine has taken effect, and the evil spirit is being washed away from the ghost fetus. It feels as uncomfortable as shedding its skin, and it feels like a cold. The breath sounds heavy!" the dead girl said happily.
It turned out that the sound was made by a ghost fetus. I couldn't help but open my eyes wide and my heart was beating. I suddenly remembered something and asked her: "Can Feng Lan be able to swallow this breath and not come out?"
The dead girl sneered: "She can't protect herself now. Do you think those four candles are for lighting? They are called the 'Four Spirits Minghuo', which is the most powerful to suppress evil spirits. And the one with the red rope knot is called 'Death Prisoner'"
The tomb must be sealed, and the tomb is sealed to imprison ghosts. It is absolutely unambiguous. Feng Lan's body is also imprisoned in it. If she doesn't want to take a glutinous rice bath, she can't help it. Even if she has a ghost fetus, she will be peeled off in a while. Let's wait.
, it will probably take more than an hour. By the end of the year, you can start shoveling!"
"What do you mean by shoveling, you want to break the ground?" I said blankly.
"Of course the ground must be broken. How can we destroy them without breaking the ground? These two murderous corpses must be burned to ashes so that they will not harm anyone."
"But you always said that the ground on the coffin cannot be broken..."
"Bullshit, didn't I tell you to fight ghost fetuses at the beginning? Who are you going to fight with if you don't break the ground?"
I was immediately stunned. That’s what she said. Why did it feel like my friend was taken in? This was such a big trap. Why didn’t I react at first? I realized that I had really become an idiot!
"I'm going to fight with crickets..."
When I heard that the ground was going to be broken, I felt countless times more nervous than before. My eyes were as wide as light bulbs, staring at that area. I wasn't in the mood to joke with that damn girl anymore, so I just thought about digging it later.
If something goes wrong, is it going to kill me, or will I kill it?
The damn girl saw that I was silent and didn't provoke me, so she even hummed a ditty. I was puzzled, are you still happy at this time? And the tune you hum is to send me to your comrades, where are you going to send me off? The more I listen, the more I listen.
The more and more annoyed I felt, I couldn't help but say to her: "Stop it, please don't play this song. How do I feel that you are going to send me to hell?"
"Okay, let me play some sad music for you..."
I lay down on the ground. I was not beaten to death by the devil, but was made mad by this damn girl first. I told her in a tearful voice that I should go on sending my comrades off. The damn girl burst out laughing immediately, and stopped laughing.
Then I sent off my comrades, but instead came a song called "Peach Blossoms in Bloom". "I'm here waiting for you to come back, waiting for you to come back." Hey, my brother feels a little better. It doesn't matter if you see the peach blossoms or not, at least there are many words.
What auspiciousness.
But there are also unlucky ones. It is said that there is a joke. The radio station received a letter from a friend in prison requesting a song, and wanted to play a song for his friend who was released from prison. The radio host was very moved, so he broadcast this
The song, the first line of which was "I'm waiting for you to come back..." made countless people laugh.
While I was thinking wildly, the hissing sound suddenly became very dense, which sounded thrilling. And the soil began to tremble, as if a ghost fetus was starting to make a fuss down there. I was afraid that it would crawl out, right?
"Don't be afraid, the little cub is in pain right now. If Feng Lan hadn't been holding him down, it would have crawled out long ago. Stay calm and wait!" Dead Girl said calmly.
I wiped the cold sweat off my head and just relaxed, when suddenly a cold and shrill voice penetrated my ears: "Why did you want to harm us two, why?" Damn, it's Feng Lan!
In an instant, all the hairs on my body stood up again. I looked down at the piece of soil, and my heart began to beat again.
"Don't pay attention to her, she is not as strong as the little brat now, and after a while, she won't even be able to fart." The dead girl comforted me.
After Feng Lan said these words, there was no sound. After a long wait, the ground squirmed more and more violently, and the candles began to sway with the shaking momentum.
The dead girl said: "It's almost time. Let's make mudras first, walk five ghost steps around this place, turn nine times, and recite the mantra nine times."
"What kind of spell? I don't know how!" She didn't teach me this.
"Just read it after me, hurry up!"
So I tied my hand with another "Thunder Seal" that she taught, and walked around the place with unknown steps of the Five Ghosts. I followed the dead girl and said: "Heaven, Emperor of the Earth, please give me the five ghosts' shadow."
When the soldiers arrive in front of the altar, I step on the flying dragon in the sky, and the iron chains and ropes follow me, and the young boy takes the soul..."
After turning nine times and chanting the incantation nine times, the shaking on the ground slowly calmed down, as calm as before, as if nothing had ever happened.
"Well, I found that you are quite suitable for learning Maoshan Taoism. You can understand it with just one point, and you are doing quite well. Get the shovel and start digging. Both of them can't move now, so don't be afraid!" The dead girl praised me and asked me to do it.
Digging.
I picked up the small shovel I brought for gardening and planting flowers. Following the dead girl's instructions, I peeled off a corner of the red rope from under the candle on the east side, flipped it aside, and then aimed at the wine that was still emanating from it.
Shovel away the fragrant soil.
The soil was very soft, but my hands were shaking. I felt an inexplicable fear in my heart, and my hands were full of cold sweat. But with the encouragement of the dead girl, I dug up the soil one shovel after another.
After two feet of depth, the soil turned reddish-brown, as strange as if it had been soaked in blood.
The dead girl saw that my hands were shaking so much, so she cheered me up and said, "Because the ghost fetus has been absorbing essence and blood for a long time, the soil has been contaminated, and it will turn blood red. This is normal, don't be afraid!"
You are not afraid because you are a ghost, but I am a human being. If you can persist until now, your psychological quality is already very strong. I gritted my teeth and thought hard until the last moment. I couldn't let this damn girl laugh at me. I picked up the shovel and continued.
I dug down and dug another foot, and a piece of red cloth was revealed. My heart trembled violently. Could it be that I had dug it up? The red cloth was the clothes Feng Lan wore when she died?
Chapter completed!