"But, I don't know how to divination, and you haven't taught me anything, haven't you?" I said hurriedly.
"Divination at night is not about divination, but about asking and listening. Stop talking nonsense. I will teach you the art of divination right now!"
When I heard this, I suddenly became excited. This hexagram seal technique can be said to be one of Master's special skills. I always thought that he would not teach me easily, but I didn't expect that he would be so generous today!
The master placed the folding fan in his hand on the wooden table and said seriously:
"Listen up, I'm going to teach you a few formulas now, you have to remember them!"
"The two branches of the sky are in conflict with each other, Mao and You, and there will be no peace in migration throughout life. If Gu Chen is merged with the post horse, he will be wandering in a foreign land with no stability, no official, no seal, and no one to rely on. If he abandons his home and career, he will be killed in the pillar by the God of Death.
If the power is broken, the ghost will be fierce!"
After listening to these formulas, I was very excited, because they not only include the art of fortune-telling, but also the method of identifying people. Although the formulas are concise, they are all-encompassing.
Because I have been doing divination with Master for a long time, I don’t find it difficult to understand. On the contrary, I don’t think it is profound. After only a few minutes, I felt like I had an enlightenment.
Then, I couldn't help but pick up Master's folding fan on the wooden table, and then poured a cup of Dharma water on the fan. The fan surface did not get wet when exposed to water.
I waved my fan and poured the water on the fan gently onto the table. The water gathered on the table and formed a medium-sized circle. Then I took out four more Five-Emperor Coins, and the Five-Emperor Coins fell on the circular water surface.
The surroundings are automatically arranged in four directions.
"Yes, Not Bad…"
The master nodded slightly, showing a rare expression of approval.
But I have no intention of feeling complacent now, because I know that the first guest tonight is coming soon!
At this time, the coffin-carrying old street was completely silent at night. The surrounding funeral houses may have known that we were going to have divination tonight, so they all stopped doing business. The doors were closed, and the whole street was deserted, quiet and dark.
I suddenly felt an inexplicable depression in my heart, just like when I first came here!
At this moment, the water on the table suddenly swayed slightly, and a gust of wind swept across it. I was shocked and hurriedly looked up at the chair opposite, but there was nothing!
"The guests haven't arrived yet?!" I was confused.
"You looked at the wrong place!" Master suddenly said.
I looked at him in surprise, and saw him tapping the table lightly with his hand. I was stunned for a moment, then suddenly thought of something, and then lowered my head and looked at the circular water surface on the table...
I saw a blurry face appearing on the calm water. Although it was blurry, I could strongly feel that this face was full of haze and resentment!
"Grudge?!"
I took a breath of air, and I didn't expect that what came at night was a resentful ghost with such deep grievances. This was completely different from the ordinary dead souls that Master encountered during his divination during the day!
For a moment, I didn't know what to say, but I suddenly thought of what Master reminded me before, that divination at night is not about divination, but about asking and listening.
So I asked:
"What do you want..."
"Death in vain! Injustice...injustice...injustice!" A stiff and gloomy voice came into my ears.
Just five words, but they made me feel uncomfortable all over! I paused for a moment and spoke again,
"How did you die?"
Just after he asked this question, six more faces exactly like his appeared next to the blurry face in the water, a total of seven people. Unexpectedly, this was still a big deal!
"The seven of us were all harmed by evil spirits! We are unwilling to be reincarnated!"
My heart tightened, and I looked up at Master. Master was also frowning at this time. Before I could speak, he spoke first:
"It's a job, leave something behind!"
The so-called leaving something behind means asking the other party to leave key information about them before they died so that we can deal with it!
As soon as he finished speaking, the water surface swayed slightly, and a drop of water splashed up. The master quickly took out the compass to catch the water drop. Then, the pointer on the compass began to rotate rapidly, and finally pointed out a direction.
Without waiting for my reaction, Master grabbed my hand and scratched my fingertips with his nails, and dripped my blood into the compass to merge with the water droplets. Then the drop of mixed liquid seemed to melt and disappeared on the compass.
And the puddle of water on the table slowly disappeared...
"What is going on?" I asked Master in confusion.
Leaving your blood to prove that you accepted this job is like signing a life-and-death contract. If you fail to complete it, it will not only damage your moral character but also shorten your life!
"What?! Lose your life?" I exclaimed.
"What? Are you scared?!" Master glanced at me.
I hesitated for a moment and asked:
"How much more moral virtue can you earn than buying and selling?"
"It takes two hundred years of virtue to say the least." Master replied without thinking.
"It's quite a lot, okay! Let's do it!" I gritted my teeth and said.
When I came out of Yinhuntang, I drove Master's old van and planned to go to that place tonight to visit. As the saying goes, only by knowing oneself and the enemy can one be invincible in every battle!
According to the compass pointer, I drove to a construction site late at night...
"It should be right here."
After getting off the car, I glanced around and found that this was a community under construction. It must have just started construction, because I saw that the foundation had not been laid yet.
And it seems that work has been stopped, because looking at the entire construction site, let alone workers, there is not even a single construction equipment, which is indeed a bit abnormal.
But that's good, at least I don't have to be sneaky.
I walked into the construction site in the dark, one foot deep and one foot shallow. The construction site was piled with cement and steel bars all over the floor, and it was a mess.
But the strange thing is that I walked around the construction site twice and didn't find any problems, nor did I feel the existence of evil spirits...
"Did you come to the wrong place?"
I muttered.
Just when I turned around and wanted to look elsewhere, a burst of women's cries suddenly came from not far away...
This crying sound is very strange, not like a child's harsh cry, nor a woman's cry, but a humming cry, which makes my whole body goosebumps...
I calmed down, bent down, and slowly walked towards the direction where the crying came from.
After walking a few steps, I vaguely saw a woman sitting in the open space of the construction site in front of me...
This woman has her head lowered, her long hair is hanging down, and her face cannot be seen. She is wearing a floral jacket and floral cotton trousers of the past style. Her arms hang naturally on both sides of her body, and her shoulders are swaying gently.
Trembling, obviously crying...
On a midsummer night, she was wearing a cotton jacket and cotton trousers, which must be unclean things.
But I wasn't sure if she was what I was looking for, so I decided to take another look...
After crying for a few minutes, the woman suddenly leaned forward and lay on the ground in a daze. Then her body began to squirm like an earthworm, using no limbs at all, and it looked indescribably weird...
After squirming for a while, she suddenly straightened up again and started to kowtow...