On the evening of the seventh day, as usual, I made offerings, lit incense, recited the mantra, and then sat aside to wait.
Uncle Ma has always been with me, saying he was afraid that I would be in danger. I said, Uncle Ma, in fact you are the biggest danger. If you hadn't asked me to recruit the Five Ghosts, where would I have been in danger? A table full of food on this day is such a waste.
Uncle Ma said, didn't you let you eat the roasted chicken and pig's trotters in the end?
I said what you said as if you hadn't eaten it, and besides, I don't eat pig's trotters at all.
Uncle Ma said you should stop talking nonsense and be good at attracting ghosts!
In fact, I really don’t eat pig’s trotters, not only pig’s trotters, but also chicken feet. I rarely eat any chicken or duck heads, including pig’s head meat.
I always feel that when I eat these parts that symbolize life, I will be reminded of what the animal looked like when it was alive, and I will feel compassion and be unable to eat it.
For this reason, Uncle Ma often scolded me. He said that you are just pretending to be compassionate. If you don’t eat chicken feet, you eat chicken thighs, but not pig trotters. You eat big elbows. If you don’t eat duck heads, you eat spicy duck necks.
After all, how much difference can there be?
I said that's different. When you kiss an older girl, you don't kiss her neck either!
Uncle Ma sneered and said disdainfully: "Who said you can't kiss your neck when you kiss on the mouth?"
Well……
I couldn't help but be speechless. Uncle Ma was indeed... an experienced driver...
I originally wanted to find a few words to retort, but before I could think of any good words, I suddenly felt that the temperature in the room had dropped a bit.
Faintly, there seemed to be a cold wind whistling through the clothes.
I held my breath and then looked at Uncle Ma.
The corners of Uncle Ma's mouth turned up slightly, then he nodded to me and whispered something.
"Attention, it's coming!"
"How did you know you were here? Didn't you ask for this before?"
"Nonsense, I haven't invited you. My father has. I've seen it with my own eyes. Is there any problem?"
As Uncle Ma said this, he signaled me not to speak, then pulled me to the side and put some distance away from the table.
At this time, the whirlwinds coming from outside the house had stopped, and a few gray shadows vaguely appeared.
If you look carefully at these shadows, they still have some human shapes, but they are more like clouds of mist, and the shapes are changing.
My heart started to beat faster, thinking to myself, could this be the legendary Five Ghosts?
But according to Uncle Ma's theory, this thing is not actually a ghost, but a spiritual creature transformed by luck. Because it has a virtual shape and is Yin, it is called the Five Ghosts.
From a practical point of view, these five ghosts are actually very powerful. The real five ghosts refined by folk ghosts are also very effective, but they are evil and not righteous. They are prone to backlash after use, but the side effects of these five ghosts will be They are much smaller. The five ghosts that Taoists often say bring wealth actually refer to them.
There is also a method of using the changes in the Feng Shui Bureau to bring wealth to the Five Ghosts. In fact, there is no such thing as the Five Ghosts, and it is different from the Five Ghosts at this time.
I didn't have much practical experience to speculate on this. I saw that after the five ghosts appeared, they first walked around the ashes of money and paper on the ground, then got on the table and began to enjoy the offerings.
At this time, Uncle Ma quietly took out a charm from his pocket, handed it to me, and motioned for me to go to the table and incinerate it.
When I saw this talisman, it was for ghosts.
In other words, I can basically use this talisman to keep these ghosts and let them be used by me.
Of course, this is theoretical, and it’s not certain whether it will work in practice.
I hesitated, looked at Uncle Ma, and asked with my eyes: Do you really want to do this?
Because strictly speaking, we are not doing the Five Ghosts to bring money, but we are just trying to see if we can attract the Five Ghosts.
According to Uncle Ma, after the five ghosts have enjoyed the offerings and see that there is nothing to do, they will naturally leave.
But now that Uncle Ma came out with a ghost charm, he obviously wanted to collect them.
Uncle Ma winked at me and made another gesture, which meant that if you don't take it, you won't take it. Now that it's here, it's all ours!
At this time, the five ghosts were enjoying the offerings on the altar table. Seeing that I had no intention of moving, Uncle Ma rolled his eyes at me, then tiptoed over with the talisman.
His posture is quite similar to how I used to hold a cage to catch a bird when I was a kid.
Actually, it's not that I don't want to take it. It's certainly a good thing to take the Five Lucky Ghosts, but no one knows what this thing will look like after taking it. Judging from what Uncle Ma means, he probably doesn't know either.
The reason why he wants to take in the Five Ghosts is that he thinks he has an advantage and doesn't want to take advantage of the bastard. How can he let go of the delicacies that are brought to his mouth?
Uncle Ma was naturally familiar with collecting ghosts. He walked over quietly, suddenly made a hand gesture, muttered something in a low voice, and then circled the talisman several times on the altar table.
At this moment, the five ghosts seemed to be suddenly frightened, moved instantly, and fled in several different directions at the same time.
But Uncle Ma was holding the sword tightly in his hand, chanting a curse in his mouth, and the talisman in his hand was clattering automatically without wind!
As soon as the five ghosts escaped one meter away, they seemed to be pulled by an invisible force at the same time, and several phantoms flew into the talisman.
Uncle Ma looked proud, and immediately took the talisman to the statue of Laojun, placed the talisman on the table, and bowed: "Today, I invite the five wealth-attracting ghosts. Laojun will bless me. The five ghosts will appear and help me continue to make good money." , your wish will come true, five ghosts are sitting here, wealth is coming from all directions, and it is as urgent as the law!"
At the end of the sentence, Uncle Ma made a sword gesture with his hand and pointed at the talisman.
Miraculously, the talisman actually moved and flew up lightly.
In fact, it was said that it was flying, but it was less than three centimeters away from the table, and then fell down.
But even so, it was already an eye-opener for me.
Then, Uncle Ma quickly folded up the talisman, wrapped it in red cloth, pinched it tightly, and then gestured to me in a showy way.
"Silly boy, I asked you to accept it, but if you don't accept it, it will come back to me."
"That doesn't matter. Whoever follows the other, what's mine is yours, and what's yours is mine. I've always been rude."
"Go, go, go, whoever collects the five ghosts is at his mercy. If you want it, go and collect it yourself."
Uncle Ma happily put the red cloth bag into his arms, and then bowed to the statue of Laojun with a proud look on his face.
Now I have serious doubts. Uncle Ma said he wanted to test me, but in fact he just wanted to take the opportunity to recruit the Five Ghosts to help him.
But I felt a little uneasy, so I asked, "Is this appropriate? You have collected the five ghosts from the five directions. What should you do when others want to invite you?"
Uncle Ma laughed loudly and said: "Silly boy, these are not the only five ghosts from the five directions. Didn't I tell you that these are things transformed by luck? There are many in the world, and I have collected these five. It won’t always be of use to me. I’ll have to let it go in three years at most, otherwise there will be backlash.”
I suddenly realized that looking at Uncle Ma's Five Lucky Ghosts, I felt a little regretful.
"Dear Master, do you think we can collect five more? This time it will be yours and next time it will be mine?"
Uncle Ma looked at me with disdain: "You want it? Haha, I'm sorry, you can't just invite the Five Ghosts anytime and anywhere. The Five Ghosts this time are actually invited by you, so I'm sorry. Before we leave them, neither of us can afford any more invitations."
I was dumbfounded and asked again: "What should I do? Why don't you lend me these five precious fortune-seeking ghosts?"
Uncle Ma rolled his eyes again: "It doesn't matter whether you have ghosts or not, but you only need one life. But since you successfully invited the five ghosts, it shows that you have potential. I will give you the winning talisman for every bet and the five ghosts." I’ll teach you the whole process of attracting wealth!”
