My years as a fortune teller

The room where the body was washed was in a small room opposite, and as soon as the door was opened, an unusually unpleasant smell came to the nostrils.Apart from senior Dong Qi, there was also the shop owner and another person I didn't know in the room.The corpse of old man He Qingshui lay naked on a wooden bed in the middle of the room.

Senior Dong Qi nodded at us, and Master Xuanhe and I walked to his side.He looked around and said softly: "Let's start. Fourth brother, light candles and incense in the four corners of the room." The fourth child responded and walked out.

It turned out that the person I didn't know was called the fourth child.He lit a handful of incense and put three sticks of incense in the prepared bowl every time he reached a corner.Then light two candles on both sides, read a few words silently, and walk to the next corner.

After all these were done, Senior Dong Qi said: "Fourth, stick seven sticks of incense at the door, and you can hold the rest to guide the way later." I bought seven incense sticks.Then silently holding the incense, stood at the door and looked at us.

Senior Dong Qi sighed, and said softly: "Lao Liu, come and scrub your body later, let this little brother carry water. Let's start now, so as not to be difficult after a while. "

As soon as I heard it, I hurriedly picked up a black washbasin on the ground, which was already filled with water.Senior Dong Qi held a branch with leaves and pulled me to the head of He Qingshui's corpse.

He asked for three sticks of incense from the fourth child, and inserted them into a small bowl above his head.Dip some water with a branch, and sprinkle it lightly on the head and face of the corpse.Then he said in his mouth: "Clear water enters the head, and the soul returns!" Lao Liu hurriedly wiped the face of old man He Qingshui with a towel dipped in water.

Elder Dong Qi dipped some water with a branch and touched the body of the corpse.He said in his mouth: "Enter the body with clear water, let go of the burden!" After reading, Lao Liu hurriedly wiped his upper body with a towel.After going back and forth three times in this way, it is considered to be completely washed.

But each wash is different, but the water is sprinkled on the same part.In fact, at the end, it is washed according to the division of the seven orifices and the four limbs.When a person is alive, various organs appear in the body.

After putting down the basin, I walked out of this room first, the smell inside was too bad.If I hadn't had a few incense sticks, if I hadn't been able to concentrate, I would have vomited a lot earlier.And I have been carrying this basin, and my arms are almost cramping from exhaustion.

While shaking my arms, I was ventilating in the yard of the house. Uncle Xuan He came over and patted me and said softly: "How is it, how do you feel? Tell me. It seems that you have a good concentration, and you can still persevere." Up to now. I can't do it anymore, I'm getting old!" He said and took out two balls of cotton from his nostrils.

"I'm dizzy!" I looked at Master Xuanhe and shouted, "I'm not mistaken, you actually have cotton stuffed in your nose. Why didn't you tell me in advance, and get me some too. The smell in it almost killed me I."

Uncle Xuanhe frowned, and said to me: "Didn't you see the cotton balls I put on the table for you? Little fat man, this is really not bad for me, I put it away for you, You didn't see it."

"I don't have it?" I looked at Master Xuanhe and said, "Forget it and skip it, but you have to tell me why they put incense in the corner. They also put incense in the doorway. What are these things?" mean?"

Uncle Xuanhe said to me: "Every place is particular about it. Some places here think that the ghosts come out of the corner. So lighting incense there is also a sign of awe. As for the incense at the door, it is based on the introduction of the Big Dipper. The meaning of the Lord's death."

Although I don't quite understand, I still nodded, I know that Beidou is the master.There are some detailed records in many Taoist classics.But why I say getting started, I don't quite understand.

Just as he was talking, senior Dong Qi also came out, looked at us and said, "You two have worked hard just now, let's go, let's wash up and go to the front to rest. When the yang energy is at its peak, we will go up to the mountain of corpses together."

Uncle Xuanhe and I agreed, and went to wash up together.Then I changed into clean clothes.I originally wanted to sit down and rest, but because there are a few corpse hunters there.In the end we chose to rest in Dong Qi's old man's house.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, I gently asked: "Why did the old man wash the corpse? Is there something special about it? I see that you washed it three times, and each time the place was the same, but the words in your mouth were very different. Why?"

Senior Dong Qi smiled and said to me: "After a person dies, there are some resentments that cannot be let go. So washing with amulet water is to wash away these resentments. Of course, there is also the dust that came along the way. Wash off."

"Okay!" I said in a low voice, "I really understand everything now, and it's just to give myself some comfort. In fact, it's just a process." After speaking, I looked at senior Dong Qi.

"Hehe!" He smiled and said, "You can put it this way. In short, every place has its own specialties. For example, in the Central Plains, it's a principle for people to tidy up and put on clean new clothes after death."

At this time, the owner brought up a rich meal, and we chatted while eating.After eating, senior Dong Qi took a black cloth bag and put it on the ugly baby's face.This time, except for the hands, everything else is covered.

Senior Dong Qi said softly: "This is mainly because he is afraid that when he goes up to the mountain of corpses, the yin and corpse qi will enter his body. At noon, the yang qi in our body is the strongest, which can completely resist these. But his body The yin energy is getting weaker and weaker."

I nodded, and followed him out of the back door of the courtyard.This society has prepared a blindfolded donkey cart with a red coffin on it.The driver was none other than the fourth brother who lit the incense just now.

We followed the car and listened to senior Dong Qi say as we walked: "The fourth and sixth sons are orphans. I picked them up at the foot of the mountain. The fourth son is a mute, but he is honest. He often helps children here. Transport the dead body for food. The sixth child has bad lungs, so he probably won’t live for a few years.”

I was walking while listening, and at this moment I saw a white hand bone exposed in the soil in front of me.I pulled Master Xuanhe's hand and showed him the hand bone.Senior Dong Qi also saw it, and said to us with a smile: "There are graves on this mountain, and there are even graves under the graves in some places. Sometimes when a heavy rain comes, all the bones under the ground are exposed."

The mountain is not very steep, but the soil is relatively wet, the soil is black, and there is a rotten smell in the air.And it is strange that we have not seen a single bird or beast since our ascension.

After walking for a whole half a day, I came to the so-called "Cave of the Corpse King".In fact, to put it bluntly, it is an ordinary, but deep cave.We walked in the dark for about ten minutes, and the front suddenly became clear.And there are actually four braziers inside, and a raging flame is burning in the braziers.

Senior Dong Qi said with a smile: "Welcome to the Corpse King Cave, this is where I rest every day and where I receive some distinguished guests. Walking more than ten meters inside is the place where the ancestors and bones of the past generations are enshrined. I'll take the two of you in to have a look later!"

As he said that, he went to unload the coffin on the truck. Uncle Xuanhe also hurried over, and while helping, he said: "Since you are here, you must pay homage to the masters of the past. It can be said that driving corpses is also unique to our Taoists." This item was created with the wisdom and painstaking efforts of the masters of the past dynasties." Old man Dong Qi nodded with a smile.

After lifting the coffin down, take out the corpse from inside.According to the method of expelling corpses, senior Dong Qi called up the corpse of old man He Qingshui.Step by step, he walked slowly towards the cave in the back mountain. It seemed that this was the final destination of old man He Qingshui.

Unexpectedly, there was a neat row of mummy here.After He Qingshui's corpse stood against the wall, Senior Dong Qi quickly pasted a talisman.Then, in front of the old man He Qingshui's body, three sticks of incense were inserted and worshipped.Uncle Xuanhe and I also held incense, stood behind and bowed three times to the row of corpses.

Then senior Dong Qi introduced each patriarch to us roughly, but unexpectedly, there were nearly [-] mummified corpses preserved.This is also a miracle, but if you look closely, you will find that these mummies seem to be terrified when they are dying.

After reading it, we walked towards the hall while listening to Senior Dong say: "The business of exorcising corpses, according to the ancestors, first originated during the period of Grandpa's War." We stopped here, and then said: "Grandpa is now Chi You is often called, we have people called You Gong and Grandpa here."

I nodded and looked at Uncle Xuanhe, and then I heard senior Dong Qi continue: "It is said that after Grandfather's soldiers died in battle, in order to facilitate the return of the corpse, the wizard around him used this method to transport the corpse back to his hometown. From then on, expelling corpses became popular in western Hunan."

Uncle Xuanhe nodded and said: "Yes, that's what I heard too, but these are just legends. But, by the way, old man, how did this jade knife come into your hands. I remember when Grandpa was After beheading, this jade knife was also destroyed by the Yellow Emperor."

Senior Dong Qi motioned for us to sit down, and asked the fourth brother to make tea for us.He said slowly: "Actually, there are two jade knives, one can absorb the soul, and the other can seize the soul. You are all authentic Taoist disciples, and you should know what it is like to lose your soul or lose your soul. Later, the one that could seize the soul was destroyed by the Yellow Emperor, but the one that sucked the soul remained. It was passed down to a great wizard next to the grandfather. He accidentally rescued a person in the mountains. Unexpectedly, after this person was rescued, Not only was he ungrateful, but he also killed the wizard and took away the soul-absorbing jade knife from his body."

After Master Xuanhe listened, he slapped me and said: "Did you hear it? Do you know who this person is!" I nodded, I understood so well!Who else could there be besides the second minister who was executed, that is, the first generation of god-slaying Tianzun after the resurrection.

Senior Dong Qi said with a smile: "It seems that you know about the God-killing Tianzun, but there is one thing you may not know. Later, after the God-killing Tianzun was assassinated by an emperor in the Central Plains, several of his subordinates fell into the Here. You should understand that this place was not under the control of the king. So these people soon spread the way of killing gods all over the land of Xiangxi. The origami killing gods in the land of Xiangxi were also very powerful. With this jade knife , almost ruled here. We are the descendants of grandpa, and we know the power of the jade knife very well. As long as the skin is cut by this jade knife, the soul in the body will be sucked into the jade knife immediately. Become a veritable jade slave , Knife slave. I remember when my master passed down the knife to my master, he once said that once someone who understands the secret spell on the knife gets this knife, he will immediately release thousands of souls inside. These souls are extremely cold. Fear of anything. And there were two unjust souls released that year, and that’s how the Yelang Kingdom you’re talking about perished.”

Hearing this, I stared dumbfounded at Master Xuanhe, never thinking of the legendary Yelang Kingdom that had disappeared.It is because of the wronged soul in this jade knife that it disappeared from the wheel of history.

These!Are these all true?I looked back at Master Xuanhe, only to see that he shook his head lightly.Senior Dong Qi turned around with a smile and fetched something, that is, this thing let us know that what he said is true...