In the kitchen of my grandmother's house, the whole family looked at the exhausted Taoist priest and asked how things were going.
Wenbin Zha looked at the eyes of the family, which full of expectations, shook his head said: "Things may be hard to resolve today."
When grandma heard this, she knelt down with a splash. Then the third aunt and little uncle also knelt down, grandma cried and begged Wenbin: "Taoist priest, we did not know the true God nine years ago and drove out your master, please do not blame us, please save my daughter. The doctor has already announced to prepare for the funeral, we have no other way, at the moment can only count on you to save her. My family has been making coffins all the life, and has never given anyone less than a piece of wood, or received more money, even if we meet poor people who can't afford a coffin, we will send them a thin leather coffin. We have gained a lot of moral integrity in mind. Why should we have such a hard life?"
Wenbin hurriedly picked up grandmother and said, "My sister, I understand your difficulty very well. My master is quite strange in his behaviour, even sometimes I can't understand his behaviour and thoughts. So I can't blame you guys for this. But your daughter's birthday and horoscope is a reversal of Yin and Yang. For her, the year often was a disaster, and because the little girl was short of water, that night, as she passed by the reservoir, the little ghost caught her. According to my calculations, she will pass away on the fifteenth of this month, and today is the fourteenth, and the ghost is still in the room. I only temporarily trapped the spirit with a fairy rope and sealed the entrance of the house with charm. However, if I am not wrong, the ghost is still waiting to snatch this soul."
Grandma was horrified before she heard from some old people about soul snatching, but this has now happened to her little daughter, then grandmother emboldened asked Wenbin: "are there a few little ghosts? How many of them?"
Wenbin extended two fingers: "Two, a boy and a girl."
As soon as he said this, my grandfather and his family had an idea. In the early years, two children accidentally fell into the reservoir and drowned. Later, adults in the village would not allow their children to play in the lake again until the pool was renovated that my cousin took me there to play.
Wenbin then said: "The two children died unjustly, so they want to pull another two back, perhaps the thirtieth of this month there will be another similar situation happen, but a boy this time. "
Grandma asked if there was any method.
Wenbin said: "There is a method, but... "
Grandma thought he wanted some money, immediately took out a stack of cash, handed to the Wenbin.
But Wenbin waved his hand: "My sister, please prepare the red and green paper, and then get some food. "
There are many colour papers in the grandmother's house, as the third aunt likes paper-cutting. In a little while, red and green documents were placed on the table.
Wenbin said to the third aunt: "please use scissors, cut two sets of clothes in children' size. Two games in red and two games in green, and in any style as long as it is clothes-like. "
Although the third aunt is timid, she has a pair of skilful hands, not a while, two sets of small clothes were cut out and handed to Wenbin. Wenbin took paper clothes, and then put on a bamboo basket. And asked grandma to make six dishes, there must be three meat and three vegetable dishes, also two glasses of wine, two empty bowls, two pairs of chopsticks, all placed in the bamboo basket.
When all this was ready, it was already half an hour later, Wenbin placed all these on the front door of grandmother's house and then again lit three sticks of incense and two candles.
When the incense burns out, the chicken nest suddenly spread out a chicken call, Wenbin shouted "No", immediately rushed into the little aunt's room. He bit off his middle finger, directly pointed in the middle of little aunt's eyebrows, and asked Grandpa to catch the biggest cock in the chicken nest.
Grandpa hurriedly carried the big rooster, Wenbin took the rooster and let out its blood with a knife. He spread it around the little aunt's bed scattered a circle, and then went out of the room, walked to the door where the half-rare rice was placed, let out a big shout with eyes closed, "Tallyho! "
He took out a sword, and a big seal from Qiankun bag, the body of the sword is green-blue with a cold, the shape is a bit simple and elegant, the body and the hilt of the sword connected into one side, the handle is a Bagua Picture; The big seal was made of bronze, about the size of a man's palm, the seal was engraved with: ——Daojingshibao.
The Taoist priest, holding the sword on his right hand and the seal on his left hand, began to recite the mantra as if an old prince had come down from the earth. As he read the chant, his right hand suddenly trembled, the sword flashed, and he stuck a piece of symbol paper on the table then pointed the sword at little aunt on the bed, suddenly, the symbol paper burnt. After two symbol papers were burned, Wenbin took out a piece of black paper and struggled to draw another symbol. This was the first time he used the big seal where he pressed it against the Black symbol paper and stuck it in little aunt's room, this time it was the eight symbols again, next to the eights that had been posted before. After all, he closed the door and came out.
Wenbin asked grandma and grandpa to take the two children to the reservoir side, put just prepared paper clothes and vegetable bowls on the reservoir side, wait until dawn to come back, and don't make a sound, don't look at the direction of the home, and asked little uncle to bring his little black dog to him.
Grandma and grandpa took third aunt and little uncle and went to the reservoir with a bamboo basket. The two-mile walk that day was unusually long. Grandpa took the bucket and walked in front, grandma took third aunt and little uncle and walked at the back. According to Wenbin's command, they arrived at the reservoir, back to the direction of home, Lit Incense, placed bowl and chopsticks, hiding in the old small pumping room of the pool until dawn.
After dawn, they rushed home. When they arrived home, the front door is open, grandma took a big step in and saw Wenbin has fallen outside the little aunt's room. Grandpa quickly went in to see little aunt.
The little aunt was lying in bed asleep, grandparents looked at each other, then went to pick up Wenbin to his room for rest. When Wenbin woke up, said to grandma weakly: "everything went well, let Xiu has a good rest."
Wenbin almost slept to the next night, and little aunt woke up at the same time, little aunt woke up said she was hungry, grandma cooked egg noodles, this time little aunt ate a lot.
Wenbin also got up for dinner, when eating dinner, grandma asked what happened last night, Wenbin said: "The two little ghosts heard the rooster crow, it is estimated that it is going to dawn, ready to start fighting for the soul. " He said, at the same time he took a look at the two things ——the big seal and sword, a wry smile: "If these two things were not here, they would have already snatched the soul. Now, it seems, they are gone for the time being. "
After dinner, my grandmother respectfully served Tea for Wenbin, and then handed a stack of money to Wenbin. The countryside in the past engaged in superstition, when supernatural beings helped them with something, they get a wrapped red envelope. Also, my little aunt seems to be back to normal now, so it makes sense to give Wenbin a red jacket, too.
Wenbin Zha smiled and refused: "sister, I do not work for money, I cannot accept this red envelop. Help everyone is my duty of being a Taoist Priest; also, your little sister has a good affinity with me. The money must not be accepted if my grandmaster knows, will even blame me. "
However, my grandmother was unwilling to do so. The patron saved her daughter's life but did not accept any money. My grandmother did not know how to pay him back.
Wenbin Zha drank a cup of tea, "the child is all right, I'm afraid I will be in trouble tonight, I can't go back alone tonight. The ghost was trying to kill your little daughter, but I hurt her. Tonight it's a full moon, she is so angry will get her revenge on me. If my master were alive, it would not be difficult for him to kill them, but I am afraid I would have to ask my older brother to help me."
Grandpa quickly stood up and said, "If there is anything you need, it's my pleasure. "
Wenbin patted the head of the little black dog on the side: "I bet these two ghosts will rob me on the way, brother, please help to find me three people who normally kill pigs. I need them to accompany me home, as long as I get home, these two (ghost) can't do anything to me."
Note: People who kill pigs, they see blood all the year-round, they full of an evil spirit, the general ghost will not find trouble, Wenbin Zha requires three people to accompany home, can be seen this time the two ghosts really is not simple.