Meng Changqing said this as if he was joking, but it was not funny at all, and it was very uncomfortable to hear. |.|
"What if you really die?" I asked.
Meng Changqing said with a smile that he lived a long life, and then said that some things that he had offended in the past may have come to him, and he had to avoid us temporarily, otherwise those things would find us if they could not avenge him. Just leave for a while for safety reasons.
I thought about it for a while, and said that both Xiaoxiao and I have low flames and no knowledge of Taoism. If we leave him, it may be even more dangerous.
I made up a reason at random, but Meng Changqing actually hesitated, hesitating for a long time and didn't know how to make a decision.
Seeing him hesitating, I thought there was hope for him to stay, so I made countless messy reasons. I don't know where my eloquence came from at this time. At the end of the day, he just waved his hands and told you to follow.
But he still said that if something happened to him, let us go to the nearby Taoist temple to ask for some money, and then let them send us back to the countryside.
Finding a hotel to rest, Meng Changqing pinched his fingers a few times, then rubbed his temples, and told us not to talk to anyone during this time, so as not to cause unnecessary disasters.
Meng Changqing then used a brass bell to buckle the note with his name on the table, and went to one side to set up the Nine Palaces square. After the arrangement, Meng Changqing got up and said that he would use the method of walking in the dark to find out how long his lifespan was. .
Walking in the yin, as the name suggests, means that a person walks from the yang to the underworld. The process of getting up is the same as that of a person going to the underworld after death.
If you meet a few ghost pawns along the way to complete the task, the soul is likely to be taken to fill up the number, so people without certain skills rarely use this method.
Meng Changqing found a basin in the hotel, lit a fire in the basin, took out a few mahogany sticks from his bag and leaned against the side of the basin, and asked us to print a liter of rice outside and return the rice to the ground. On the confetti ashes in the basin, a few sticks of incense were finally inserted.
After the preparations were ready, Meng Changqing told us to stick a peachwood stick into his right middle finger when the incense was burning out, but not too early, or we would come back without asking clearly, and the trip would be in vain.
I nodded in agreement, and then Meng Changqing sat up in meditation, muttering something, and within five minutes he lost his voice.
Seeing that he hadn't moved, I stared at the sandalwood in the basin, for fear that it would suddenly burn out.
Halfway through the burning of the sandalwood, the copper bell he buckled on the table jingled for a bit. I knew he might be in trouble, but fortunately he returned to normal after just one click.
I waited anxiously for an hour, and the sandalwood was almost burned out. I thought he should have finished asking all the questions, so I picked up a peach stick and poked him on his finger. Meng Changqing then opened his eyes.
We asked him what happened, and Meng Changqing said that his two names were recorded in the book of life and death. The first one had not yet expired, and the second one was killed tonight.
After hearing this, I quickly asked which one was true, and Meng Changqing said that both were true, both of which were his birth date.
When asked what he should do, he said that as long as he knew how he died, it would be easy.
Afterwards, Meng Changqing was not in a hurry, until after eight o'clock in the evening, he said that someone harmed him, either destroying his body to the point where his soul could not live, or leading his soul out of the body and unable to return. way.
Looking at it now, it is likely to be the second type. If when someone else is doing something to his soul, if you follow the past with the technique of fugue, you may be able to know who it is.
Whatever he says, I naturally follow.
There is not much difference between the steps of fugue travel and yin travel, the only difference is that we don't need to use a mahogany stick to poke at the end.
During the process of Meng Changqing's fugue, the brass bell kept shaking and almost fell to the ground several times. Fortunately, I quickly held it down with my hands and feet and everything was safe.
It took a long time this time, and Meng Changqing's face turned pale. We changed the sandalwood in the basin three times, and when we were about to change it for the fourth time, Meng Changqing suddenly opened his eyes.
As soon as he opened his eyes, they were bloodshot and looked extremely haggard.
I put down the sandalwood and went up to ask what was going on, he shook his head to regain his composure, and said, "Fortunately, you were clever and pressed the bell, otherwise you really have to explain today."
"Who is going to kill you?" I asked him.
Meng Changqing glanced at Xiaoxiao, and said mysteriously, "I saw your second grandma."
I was taken aback, thinking how could it be the second grandma, didn't she call Meng Changqing to help her take care of Xiaoxiao? If you want to harm him, at least wait until she picks up Xiaoxiao, do it now, I'm not afraid of her revenge to Xiaoxiao body ah.
Seeing my disbelief, Meng Changqing smiled and said, "Your second grandma should have taken my soul for my life. She is in as much trouble as us now. She is really warm-hearted."
"That means that the second grandma is actually helping you. You thought she was hurting you, which is why you misunderstood. If so, why did you almost explain where it was?"
Meng Changqing gave me a blank look, patted me on the head, and said angrily, "Where did you come up with so many questions and so many nonsense questions, but you never asked me if I was okay."
"Master, are you okay?" I asked immediately.
Meng Changqing glanced at me and scolded, "Go play in the mud."
Seeing that he could still curse, I smiled and stepped aside.
He then cleaned up the basin before going to bed and rested. He lay on the bed with his head on his head and said that he met two ghosts and monsters when he came back. He stopped by to solve it. Little loss.
Meng Changqing saw the location of the Second Mistress, so we naturally couldn't be idle, so we checked out the room early the next morning and went to inquire about the place.
After bumping in the car for about two hours, the car finally stopped in a small town at the intersection of Chongqing and Hubei.
During the meal after getting off the bus, four young people in their twenties on the seat next to them were discussing an ancient temple here with great interest. They said that there is an ancient temple hidden in the mountains here. , Tomb-sweeping Day, July and a half, and the first day of October, there will be the sound of chanting sutras in the temple. An archaeological team once went in to investigate, but there is no news after entering.
These four young men were originally college students, and they went out for a camping adventure during their holidays. The destination of this trip was the old temple.
After hearing this, Meng Changqing murmured that our destination was also the old temple, let us eat, and he went over to find out the news.
Afterwards, he asked the four young men about the old temple. The four-year-old man didn't know about it, but he heard that people here often said that there was such a magical old temple, and they were archaeologists. It is a professional, so I am interested in going there to prepare for my graduation thesis.
Meng Changqing did not shy away from inviting them to where to go together, and said that he also had a little knowledge of archaeology, so he might be able to provide some help.
They are all of high quality, readily agreed, and came to our table after dinner to talk to me and Xiaoxiao for a while.
Meng Changqing declared to them that we are his son and daughter! And they knew Meng Changqing well, called Meng Changqing the eldest brother, and when they were joking with us, they insisted that we call them uncle, otherwise the seniority would be messed up.
Just kidding, I got acquainted with each other between coming and going. The four of them belonged to the same dormitory. The other three jokingly asked us to call him Fatty Wei, while he himself asked us to call him Uncle Wei.
The next one with half-length hair was Chen Xiaosheng. Because of his feminine look, they all called him Chen Niangniang.
There were two other people, one named Jiang Haijun, a muscular man. The last one is Shen Fu, probably because of the same name as the ancient literati, he is also well-educated, with a scholarly face, one can tell that he is a scholar at a glance.
After they introduced themselves, they naturally asked our names. Meng Changqing said my name is Meng Hai, and Xiaoxiao's name is Meng Xiaoxiao!
He didn't tell these four people that he was a Taoist priest. They were different from the villagers in the countryside and had received higher education. If they pretended to be Taoist priests in front of them, no one would be willing to talk to them.
After the meal, Wei Qing, the fat man, came up to us and asked us when we were going to leave, so that we could take care of us together.
We have plenty of time and we can do it anytime. After a few discussions, we left the town and headed into the forest.
The land of Chongqing and Hubei has long stretches of mountains, but now the road we are going to is a mountain among mountains. We have not stepped into the mountain before we stop and cannot move forward.
There used to be a stone road here, but now it has been blocked by thorn bushes, making it impossible to get off.
"Looking at the growth of the thorns and the size of the pine trees on the road, no one has been here for decades." Wei Qing judged after seeing it.
The elders of them were all careless people, only Shen Fu, who looked like a scholar, was more prepared, and took out a stainless steel knife about 20 centimeters long from his backpack on the road.
I went forward and hacked for about ten minutes before giving up, so that I could only enter the mountain in the year of the monkey.
After discussing for a while, I changed a road, instead of following the track of the previous road, but walked directly through the woods from one side.
When we entered, Meng Changqing reminded us to be careful, there might be some snakes, insects, rats and ants under the leaves.
Everyone responded and continued to move forward. Xiaoxiao and I were sandwiched between them. Naturally, it was the safest, so there was nothing to worry about.
I don't know how long this mountain stretches, and I can't see the bottom at a glance until the afternoon. If it is not guided by the stone road before, it is very likely to get lost in this wilderness.
It was almost night, and we finally saw a flat land surrounded by mountains through the woods on a ridge. There were mountains all around, which looked like a burial pit.
From the top, the trees there are more lush. At first glance, there are all trees, and there are no ancient temples at all.
Chen Xiaosheng looked at it with a telescope for a while, then pointed to the front and said in amazement: "There is a village there." Then he moved the telescope in one direction and said: "I saw the ancient temple."
When the other three heard this, they hurriedly shouted loudly, scaring away all the birds in the jungle.
"Wait..." When they were happy, Chen Xiaosheng stopped them and said, "There seem to be three people hanging on the gate of the ancient temple."