The villager went on to say that he was the first person in the village to have seen a female ghost in black robe so close. He ran home and stayed there all night with the door closed. He still couldn’t figure out whether he had really encountered a ghost or was hallucinating. .
I didn't dare to tell anyone else about this, not even my own wife. But in the following days, people in the village encountered such things one after another. Although the ways of encountering them were different, they were all near the woods, so the incident spread in the village. I Only then did I realize that it was not because I was crazy that I dared to say this.
The master asked again, then I heard that nothing like this has ever happened before. It has happened since the construction team that repaired the central primary school came, right? The villagers nodded and said yes. Everyone in the village said that the construction team set off explosives to scare away the wild beasts in the mountains. The female ghost in black robe was bitten to death by the wild beasts. After the wild beasts left, it came out again. The master asked him, has anyone who looked like the female ghost you saw died in the village before?
The villager thought for a while and said that the village is so big and every household knows each other. If there is a family with someone like this, he will definitely remember it, but there is no such woman in his memory. Master probably felt that he couldn't get any more answers by continuing to ask, so he comforted the villagers and took me away from his house.
Master told me that it seems that these strange things are related to the construction team that came to repair the school, but I don’t understand why. Could it be that the excavation and construction ruined the feng shui of this place? From the oral accounts of these villagers, it can be distinguished that this is indeed a ghost and not a supernatural phenomenon.
But if it is a ghost, then it must be dead first. In other words, either a person has died here. This person is a woman, tall, who loved black hooded robes during his lifetime, or was wearing this when he died. The clothes were buried; or the construction team brought in some strange things from outside when they came here, but the possibility is quite low. If this was a troublemaker, the construction team would have been turned upside down long ago. ?
I didn't say anything. In fact, this was what bothered me. It didn't make sense at all. Master thought for a while and said to me, you are young and fast, you should quickly go to Mr. Liu’s house and ask where the construction team is. So I ran over quickly. This village is very small. From the beginning to the end of the village, it only takes seven or eight minutes at my running speed. After arriving at Mr. Liu's house, I conveyed Master's problem, but Mr. Liu told me that the construction team had completed the construction half a month ago and left. At the other end of the village, the old house was rebuilt. After leaving the school, you keep walking in the direction of leaving the village. You see a steeple house with a national flag on it. That is the Central Primary School.
After thanking Mr. Liu, I quickly ran back to Master. I knew that Master’s next step would be to visit the place where I stayed with the construction team. Regardless of whether the two were related or not, Master was No clue will be missed.
Master took me to the central primary school, and I discovered that it was a small Western building. I am from the city, so I knew that the building must have been a church before it was converted into a primary school.
It still looks like it's quite a few years old, but the construction team just left and it's not yet time to register for school, so it looks deserted. Master took me to the school. There was a woman who looked like a villager cleaning the playground. It was called a playground, but it was actually a leveled earth dam.
The master walked up to say hello, and then said to her, hello, eldest sister, I am a friend invited by Mr. Liu. I would like to come and know something about you. Are you from this village? The eldest sister smiled honestly and nodded, saying that she was the daughter-in-law of so-and-so in the village. The primary school in the village was about to start school. Not only the children from her own village were coming to school, but also the children from neighboring villages were coming, so they had to clean it up in advance. That's why I'm busy now.
The master probably thought that the other party was a woman, so he didn't have the nerve to get straight to the point. The second uncle asked in a roundabout way, Mr. Liu also asked me to come and see how this place is like. Sister, you have been here for a long time, what is there? Is there anything that is not perfect yet?
The eldest sister said, it’s nothing, everything is fine, and the classroom is beautiful. She will send some rubber balls over in two days so that the children can play with them after class. Master asked, I saw that the house was renovated from a former foreign church. What had been changed? The eldest sister said that the former prayer hall was partitioned off and made into several classrooms and an office. There was no water or electricity here before. A while ago, a construction team came to demolish some of the side houses that were about to collapse. The cellar was also blown up and turned into a septic tank. This foreigner's house is strong and it took a lot of effort.
My master and I looked at each other. This was probably what the villagers were talking about earlier about the blasting by the construction team. But the eldest sister suddenly said, although the current reconstruction is OK in large scale, some places are still not good enough. For example, the terrain nearby is open, and whenever the wind blows, the windows of the whole building will be blown. Also, the electric light seems not to be connected well. It can be seen during the day without turning on the light. At night, it is on and off, and sometimes it just goes off. However, when I take out the electric light to check, it is fine.
This attracted Master's attention. When I was studying at Master's house, he also told me that if a ghost appears, the surrounding things will be more or less affected, such as electric lights, the sound of radios, etc. Even the way the flame on the candle swings, etc. So when the elder sister said that there might be something wrong with the circuit, it seemed to give the master a slightly clearer signal: If there is no fault in the circuit, then there must be something weird.
In this way, the primary school converted from a church and the haunting of the woods in the village seem to fit together in time, which also shows that no matter how big or small, the two are at least somewhat related.
So the master immediately asked the eldest sister whether this place had been empty before it was converted into a primary school, or whether it had other uses. Because at that time, in the early days of liberation, many churches temporarily left due to the war, so it was very likely that this place had been idle before. Sure enough, the eldest sister said, this place has always been empty, there is not even a door.
I heard that it was built during the Qing Dynasty. The elders in the village said that they had never seen any missionaries here and that it had been abandoned for many years. The playground of this school now is the vegetable field opened by the villagers in the past. There is nothing in the house except a bunch of broken things. The cellar has a brick-sealed door and no one has ever pried it open. Don't know what's in it.
I thought to myself, if the people in this church left, there is no reason to seal the cellar alone. Moreover, the cellar was blown open by the construction team, and a series of strange things happened immediately. To a certain extent, the bombed The cellar should be a place worth investigating. Sure enough, the master said to the eldest sister, please take us to the cellar to have a look. The eldest sister said that it had been blown up and refilled, and now only the cellar lid was left. The master said it didn't matter, just take me to see the cellar lid.
So the eldest sister took Master and me to the entrance of the cellar, which seemed to be about half the size of a door. Then she said that you should take your time and take a look, and then continued to work on her own.
After the eldest sister walked away, I asked the master in a low voice, why don't you just ask her about the haunting in the village, so that she can still know what we are here for. Master also lowered his voice and said to me, silly boy, remember, our industry has to be like this sometimes. After you express your intention, many things will be biased in your judgment due to human relationships. This method is very effective in facing those events. Of course it is the most useful for those who have experienced it firsthand, but it is not necessarily true for such a big sister. We were shooting here and there, asking questions from seemingly unrelated places, and we knew the answer in our minds, but this eldest sister didn't know what we were going to do. Precisely because she doesn't understand our true intentions, she will say whatever she knows, and it's all the truth!
I secretly admired him. If Master was not a Taoist priest, he would have made a fortune as a liar. So I asked Master, what should I do now? Although I have found the entrance to the cellar, I know that behind it is the septic tank, which was blown up completely. How can I check it? Even if I know there is a problem here, I can't get in. There is nothing we can do, who would drill into the septic tank without any problem?
The master glared at me and said, you know nothing. You don’t have to go into the deepest part to investigate something, especially now that there is no way to get in. As long as you find something related, you can check it with a bowl of water. Seven or eight points accurate.
Do you remember that I told you before going out that I would start teaching you spells? This is the most basic one, a water method. Don't worry, watch me do it first, and I will teach you when this is over.
I stopped talking and watched attentively. Master took out a porcelain bowl from the bag and asked me to ask the eldest sister for a bowl of water. The eldest sister enthusiastically poured me a full bowl. When I brought it back to Master, But the master poured out half of it. He told me that I don’t need so much, usually it’s enough. Then he lit a pre-drawn talisman, and while burning it, he drew a big circle in the air in front of him, and said it in his mouth. Chanting a mantra.
When the charm was about to be burned out, I threw the charm with the burnt paper ashes in the bowl. The fire went out immediately. There was still a small section about the size of my thumb that was not burned, but most of the ashes melted in. In the water, strange to say, the ash did not muddy the water when it met the water. Instead, it slowly sank to the bottom of the bowl, and then slowly spread out, leaving only a translucent gray-white halo around the edge of the ash. , the master made a finger with his right hand, walked counterclockwise along the edge of the bowl a few times, and then made a flicking motion, as if flicking something on his finger into the bowl. At this time, something even weirder happened. The black spell ash at the bottom of the bowl slowly gathered together and turned into a shape that looked like a standing person.
Seeing my surprised expression, Master felt a little proud. He asked me, do you think the image in this bowl looks like the female ghost in the black robe?
