the last priest

This is the weather in July and August, even if a piece of fresh pork is left at home for two days, it will stink, but inside the wooden box is a completely different scene:

The face of a little girl in a flowered dress was slightly purple from the cold, and there were still white frost on her eyebrows and eyelashes. The wooden box was full of clear water, and a thin layer of ice floated on top of the clear water.The girl's body was soaked in the ice water, just like when she was just picked up from the deep well, with two palms and five fingers stretched open, she shouted to the people outside: "Help me, save me !"

Cha Wenbin flirted with Zhuo Xiong, and he immediately stretched his hand into the coffin to take the girl out knowingly, but the girl's father heard the sound of water, turned around uncontrollably, and happened to see him The girl looks wet.Poor parents all over the world, whose heart is not made of meat?He couldn't bear it anymore, crying and threw himself at the daughter in Zhuo Xiong's arms, but Cha Wenbin held him tightly and said: "Brother, don't go, bear with it!"

When they came with them, they brought a mat, Zhuo Xiong used the mat to roll up the girl's body, then tied the outside with hemp rope a few times, and tied the two ends of the mat tightly to prepare for going down the mountain.

When piercing his head, Zhuo Xiong inadvertently glanced inside, his face twitched suddenly.

Cha Wenbin was comforting the girl's father. Seeing Zhuo Xiong's abnormal reaction, he asked, "Is it all right? If it's all right, I'll go down the mountain earlier."

Zhuo Xiong was stunned for a moment, then immediately returned to his original color, quickly tied up his mouth and put the girl's body on his shoulders and said: "Okay, okay."

A group of people are going back quickly, and there are more important things waiting to be done at home.Zhuo Xiong walked at the back with the girl on his back, and Cha Wenbin and the child's father walked at the front. Zhuo Xiong only felt that his shoulders were getting heavier and heavier along the way.A six-year-old girl weighed no more than forty catties, but Zhuo Xiong felt that the weight was no less than a hundred catties on his shoulders.

When walking halfway, Zhuo Xiong stopped and changed his shoulder. He only felt that his palms were wet, and that cold feeling was like resisting a big piece of ice.I have followed Cha Wenbin for a long time, and he also knows a little bit. When Zhuo Xiong stopped, he patted the mat lightly, and said to the child's head in an inaudible voice: "Don't be afraid, uncle is bringing You went home."

Immediately, Zhuo Xiong felt that his shoulders were much lighter, and there was no accident on the way to the girl's house.After he put the child in the coffin prepared for her, Cha Wenbin called him to the side and asked, "What happened just now?"

Zhuo Xiong saw that there was no one around, and whispered: "When I stabbed the child just now, I saw that the child's eyes were open, and the resistance was getting heavier and heavier on the shoulders. I told her something nice and let me carry it back. , isn't this kid a bit evil?"

Zha Wenbin smiled and said: "If it's not evil, would I be able to make such a big commotion? Fortunately, it's not too late, otherwise his son will definitely follow her on the day of returning to the soul. Go ahead and grab an incense ash and wash your hands carefully , the skin on the palm of the hand is easy to crack in winter when the corpse is touched too much."

Zhuo Xiong immediately grabbed a handful of ashes in Zha Wenbin's censer and muttered while rubbing: "Chao Zi is not here, all this shit is on me."

"However, this time I have a little new discovery, maybe it will really be useful to Chaozi and the others." Cha Wenbin's ears are very bright, and Zhuo Xiong's complaints this time still can't escape.

As soon as he heard that Chaozi had a chance to wake up, Zhuo Xiong immediately cheered up: "Really?"

"I'm not sure, but we can try it when we go back." As he spoke, he called the pig butchers to get to work.

A big fire was born in the yard. The fire was divided into two groups with the four large benches in front, and two coffins were set up respectively. The little girl was placed in one of the coffins, but Cha Wenbin put more in the little girl's arms. One thing: that unfinished clay doll.

The entire courtyard was covered with talismans, the soul-calling banners were floating all over the courtyard, three incense sticks were burning unhurriedly, and the tributes were piled high on top of each other.A big white-feathered rooster with five colored ropes tied to its feet walked all over the yard. A pair of big lanterns made of white paper hung outside the gate of the yard. With a long hemp rope.

The two pig butchers each took a basket of paper money and started burning from the entrance of the village, and burned a pile of paper money every seven steps or so on both sides of the road.The fire continued from the entrance of the village to the outside of the yard, and the original pair of thresholds under the door were temporarily pried off.This threshold can also be regarded as a special landscape in Chinese Feng Shui. Its original function is to block the bad things from outside, and at the same time prevent the family's wealth and luck from flowing out.Now that the threshold has been removed, it is clear that something needs to be put in, because the pile of ingots and paper money in the yard is almost forming a hill.

At about twelve o'clock at night, the light from the pair of white lanterns at the door flickered, and the hemp rope hanging on the door beam also moved twice.The two pig butchers guarding the door suddenly shut the door that was open, and then each pulled out a sharp butcher knife and thrust it into the door. The small pockmarks on the knife were Formed by years of bloodstains, this thing is a predetermined killing blade, and the two of them are more effective than threshold stones as door gods.

There are also two Taishi chairs in the yard, just beside the tribute table.Zha Wenbin also held a lantern in his hand and stood inside the courtyard door. As soon as the door was closed, the evil spirit ding in his hand shook slightly, and then he walked forward slowly with a very special step.This step seems to be very strenuous to walk, the body has to be half squatted, the waist has to be slightly arched back, and the shoulders have to be stretched forward.

Zha Wenbin didn't stop until he walked to the edge of the grand teacher's chair. The child's father had already brewed two cups of new tea and placed them in front of the chair. , and backed out.

Cha Wenbin made a gesture of invitation to the two chairs, and then he saw the two grand master chairs shaking slightly one after another. It seems that the first step of this incident, "please God", is basically completed .

At this time, Cha Wenbin brought a puppet doll, made a hole in the doll's stomach, and stuffed a note with his birthday written on it.After the match, Cha Wenbin took out the scissors used by the midwife and "clicked" on the puppet's belly button and shouted: "Congratulations!"

The child's father took the doll from Cha Wenbin's hand and immediately said to the doll: "Today your father will name you 'Zhu Chenglong', and your sister will be called 'Xiangfeng'. It looks like a dragon and a phoenix." Cha Wenbin taught him to do these things, and his sons and daughters who were born with dragons and phoenixes were indeed named like that. Although he was a puppet, he played the role of a father without any pretentiousness. On the contrary, it makes people feel that what he is holding in his arms is really a baby at this moment.

Zha Wenbin took out the old gentleman's ruler from his arms and tapped the doll three times, saying: "Ten years of cold window!"

Then he brought those farm tools and put them on the ground, put the puppet on the farm tools, and sprinkled a lot of crop seeds on the puppet, and shouted: "Get a family and start a business!"

Finally, he took out the prescription written by the doctor, lit it with a fire and threw it into the bowl of clear water, then poured the bowl of water on the puppet and said: "Birth, old age, sickness and death!"

It only takes about 5 minutes to complete this series of actions, but the four tasks and props simply describe the whole process of a person's life, from birth to death.And the horoscope in this doll's arms belongs to his son, and this is actually to let the horoscope know that he is really dead.

Because his daughter and son share the same horoscope, one of them is gone, but the other one is still alive.The one who has left always thinks that she hasn't left yet, so she will stay in the world, either dragging her brother along with her, or looking for a substitute everywhere.

Although it was Cha Wenbin who performed a slightly clumsy play, it was sung for two people at the same time: the dead little girl would think that her brother was dead, so she could feel at ease. On the road; the other party is the errands in this area. For them, whether this child lives or dies, the name has been crossed out in the life and death book, and they can take it or not.In this way, they can also go back to work: two people who should have died are now dead.

It's easy to fool the little girl, but it's not easy to fool the bad guys. That's why Cha Wenbin prepared gold and silver mountains for them. Money can turn ghosts around. This hard truth works everywhere. of.

Finally, Zha Wenbin tied a small rope around the puppet's neck. He went to the well and threw the puppet in with a "plop". The child's father thought of how his daughter fell into the well and began to cry Crying, but shouting the name of his youngest son.

After picking up the puppet, Cha Wenbin quickly put it into the coffin, but there was another clay doll next to the puppet, which was the unfinished male doll. The neck is completely broken.Cha Wenbin smiled knowingly, and quickly sealed the two coffins with wooden nails at the same time. The nails used to seal the coffins must be wooden, and they must be peach wood, so as to completely seal the remaining resentment inside.

After finishing all this, Zha Wenbin bowed to the two grand master chairs again and said, "Disciple Zha Wenbin, if you have something unfeeling, please ask the two adults to agree." This is called bowing your head when asking for help. Cha Wenbin had no choice but to let go of his figure, and he continued: "The pair of dragon and phoenix men and women have now returned to the underworld, and the eight characters are combined into one. Please go back and report to me." He bowed again, and the child's Father hurriedly kowtowed three times and bowed nine times to the Grand Master's chair. At this time, the courtyard was already full of flames. Zhuo Xiong's brains ignited all those mountains of gold and silver, turned into ashes and floated out of the courtyard along the heat...