Master's appearance scared me too. I stood aside and didn't dare to speak for a while. I have never seen Master so nervous.
Second Master Qi was obviously aware of the seriousness of the situation and asked stammeringly: "This... what's the point of the thunder striking the locust tree..."
The master sighed and said: "Things that reach the Yin state will cause thunder disasters. The locust tree struck by lightning is the tree of the Yin state. Ma Laoqi was placed in this Yin ghost coffin, and his corpse will naturally transform. Now it is just a fake corpse."
That’s all, after the first seven days, I’m afraid he will come out to harm others.”
As soon as the master finished speaking, Bai Xiaowu, who was standing next to the coffin, was so frightened that he took a few steps back and slumped down to the ground. Mr. Qi also trembled slightly all over. He didn't know whether it was because of fear or because of the coldness in the room.
The wind blew it.
"Then Mo... Taoist Priest Mo, what should we do now?" Second Master Qi asked in a daze.
The master frowned and pondered for a while, then said: "Open the coffin!"
"What? Open...open the coffin!? This...do we need to open the coffin?" When Mr. Qi heard that the coffin was about to be opened, he was startled and even stammered a bit when he spoke.
The master nodded: "Of course I have to open the coffin and take a look. I need to know to what extent he has transformed into a corpse. If he does things randomly without understanding the situation, he may not only be unable to drive away the evil spirit, but may even cause
He gets worse and worse, do you think such a wooden coffin can seal him when the time comes?"
Mr. Qi's face was earth-colored, his eyes were fixed on the coffin placed in the center of the hall, and he did not speak for a long time. After a while, he said incoherently: "Then...then I...no! No! Xiaowu, you...you
Go! Go more... call more people..."
As soon as Bai Xiaowu heard that he was told to call someone, he stood up and ran out. Unexpectedly, he ran so fast that he didn't notice the half-foot-high threshold. He tripped and fell down, chewing mud.
When Second Master Qi saw this, he couldn't help but cursed: "This little bastard was so scared that his uncle lost his soul!"
Looking at Bai Xiaowu's embarrassment, I wanted to laugh but couldn't, because at this moment, I was scared to death, my lips were trembling, and my palms were sweating. Although I have been following the master for so long, after all, I
He is only eight years old, an eight-year-old baby, how can he not be afraid when encountering such a thing?
While Bai Xiaowu went to call for someone to come, Master put on his Taoist robe and asked Master Qi for Ma Laoqi's birth date. He also asked me to take out the compass and place it next to the wooden coffin, and then took it out again.
Although it looks a bit old, it is a bunch of exquisite copper bells.
Master once told me the origin of this copper bell, saying that it was a magic-conquering treasure passed down from his ancestors. It was made from the fragments of the magic-conquering cauldron cast by King Yu to suppress river demons. Its bells can drive away demons and subjugate them.
Demon. I don’t know who King Yu is, and I don’t believe in such a mysterious statement. However, I really like this string of copper bells. According to Master, when he first picked me up, I cried all the time.
It kept going, but every time he shook the copper bells, I immediately stopped crying. From then on, Master hung the string of copper bells around my neck and became my favorite toy. Later, he returned to
I returned to my old career and became an Onmyoji, so I took the copper bell back and used it as a magic weapon. I was sulky for a long time, and finally he calmed me down with a big bowl of pork belly.
After Bai Xiaowu left, he didn't come back for a long time. Second Master Qi kept sitting on the half-foot-high threshold, smoking a long cigarette, and his face became more and more ugly. After half an hour, I was really hungry.
I couldn't help it anymore, so I raised my head and asked Master in a low voice: "Master, when can we eat? I'm so hungry!" Let alone roast chicken, even two white-flour steamed buns would be good.
Before the master could answer, Second Master Qi suddenly stood up, rushed outside the house, and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Xiao Wu, you bastard, why don't you get out of here after I've asked you to ask someone to grind on you for so long?"
Come back! Also, whoever has a young labor force, every one of them will come out! Come all to my old house!"
Second Master Qi's voice was really loud. His roar resounded throughout the valley, but after about ten minutes, twenty or thirty young men gathered outside the old house, all holding hoes in their hands.
, carrying poles and so on, everyone looked nervous, as if they were about to fight with someone.
"You bunch of bastards, you have to yell at me a few times before you come, right? What do you want to do if you still fuck this guy..." Second Master Qi has to give the boys a good lesson.
After all, he was the village chief, so no one dared to talk to him when he was lecturing him. They all lowered their heads. When he had finished speaking, Master interrupted and said, "Second Master Qi, let's open the coffin!"
"Yes, yes! Open the coffin! Come in all of you!" Mr. Qi shouted to everyone.
The young men immediately rushed to the main room. When the master saw this, he hurriedly stepped forward to stop everyone: "Wait a minute! It won't take so many people to open the coffin, and there are some taboo things that I have to say first!"
"Taoist Mo, what are the taboos?" Second Master Qi asked from the side.
The master stroked his goatee and said: "Ma Laoqi's zodiac year is monkey, the month is dog, and the hour is pig. Monkey and tiger are in conflict, dog and dragon are in conflict, and pig and snake are in conflict, so they are tiger and dragon.
, people with snakes need to avoid it, and its five elements belong to metal, metal overcomes wood, and fire overcomes metal, so people with the zodiac sign of fire and wood should also avoid it."
Second Master Qi was stunned for a moment: "There are so many details? Then this has to be correct! How about I just let it go? It's just a coffin anyway. After opening it, they can go out quickly."
"No, this must not be done carelessly. It must be done carefully!" The master's attitude was very firm.
Second Master Qi was a little helpless. The pairing of horoscopes was not something that happened in a short time. He discussed it with his master and decided to have dinner first and ask the boys to write down their birthdays and horoscopes.
Maybe it was because I was too hungry. Although there was no roast chicken as Master mentioned for lunch, I felt that this meal was simply a human delicacy. It was extremely delicious. I just wolfed down three big bowls of rice before I stopped.
, so that after many years, I still miss this meal from time to time. Of course, I may just be missing the master, because this is also the last meal I had with him.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, all the horoscopes were correct, and the master selected six people from among the young men who were most consistent with Ma Laoqi's horoscopes. It just so happened that the extremely timid Bai Xiaowu was one of them.
The faces of the six selected young men all turned pale and looked depressed, as if they were being asked to go to the battlefield, while those who were not selected all looked happy and looked like they were gloating about their misfortune, but they refused.
He left and followed us to the old house, gathered in front of the door and watched the excitement.
There were many people standing in front of the door, and the already not very bright room seemed even darker. The master frowned, turned to everyone and said, "Let's all leave. You and your seventh master don't get along with each other, so don't be fooled."
The evil has arrived."
These words really worked. When the people standing at the door watching the excitement heard that they might be shocked, they dispersed in a hurry after only a moment. Second Master Qi asked worriedly: "Master Mo, I
…Should I also match up with Lao Qi?”
"No, you don't have to open the coffin!" the master replied without looking back.
"But didn't you say that if the eight characters are in conflict, you will be harmed? How about I avoid it first?"
When the master heard this, he turned around and said with a smile: "Haha, I just lied to those boys. They stood at the door and blocked the light! Don't worry, it's okay! Just don't do anything."
Second Master Qi nodded nervously. He was probably still a little worried, so he stood a few feet away.
Master handed me the compass and told me to watch the pointer on the compass later and tell him immediately if there was any abnormal movement.
Then, he affixed a talisman on each of the six young people's backs. These talismans were all made by the master himself. He used cinnabar to draw some inexplicable and strange symbols on the yellow paper, claiming that they could
I really don’t think it’s reliable to exorcise ghosts and evil spirits.
When everything was ready, the master took a deep breath and said, "Open the coffin!"
The six young people looked at each other, and some of them were still muttering something in their mouths, but they didn't dare to come forward. Looking at their pale faces, you could tell that they must be terribly afraid at this moment.
Seeing this, Second Master Qi shouted loudly from behind: "You little bastards! What are you doing? I'm afraid that Master Qi will get up and harm you! Hurry up, open the coffin and let Taoist Mo have a look!"
They didn't dare not listen to what Second Master Qi said, so they cautiously gathered around, each holding a crowbar in his hand, and began to work.
It is easy to seal the coffin, but it is difficult to open the coffin, and it is even more difficult to pull out all the long iron nails that have been completely nailed to the coffin without damaging the coffin.
A group of people worked for a long time, and they were all exhausted and sweating profusely before finally pulling out all the nails. After such busy work, the originally tense atmosphere relaxed a lot, and the young men even occasionally talked to each other.
He was laughing, as if he had completely forgotten that there was a corpse lying in the coffin that might undergo a transformation at any time.
Only the master was frowning all the time. He walked back and forth around the coffin, still mumbling words. When he saw that the nails were pulled out, the master immediately stepped forward, took out three talismans and pasted them on the coffin lid.
, and then said: "Open it!"
The expressions of the young men immediately became nervous again, but they were no longer as scared as before. The six of them held the four corners of the coffin lid and used their strength to lift the coffin lid.
And at the moment when the coffin lid was opened, the compass pointer in my hand suddenly swung, turning counterclockwise more than half a circle. This situation shocked me, and I screamed "ah" and moved my hands.