Brother Zhang said that it was a thin-necked porcelain bottle as high as the palm of your hand. It was made of white porcelain with patterns. In the center of the bottle, there were four handles carved with dragons. It looked like it was used for something. The handles were not water cups, but just for looking at. It was exquisite and well-preserved, so I brought it back.
At this time, the old lady said, go look for it in the garbage by the firewood pile at the back. If you can find any, bring it to the little master to see. I said no, I'll go look for it with you. So the old lady continued to sit on the threshold rubbing rushes, and I followed Brother Zhang around to the back of the house. He started rummaging through the garbage pile next to the woodpile.
The garbage dump didn't smell bad, nor was it big. It was just some broken debris, ordinary domestic garbage, leftovers, etc. Brother Zhang and the others dumped them directly into the farmland as fertilizer. So soon, we found the broken porcelain bottle in the pile of garbage. I picked up as many pieces as possible and slowly tried to piece them together. The further I went, the more surprised I was. At the same time, I finally understood why this family suddenly encountered the "Heavenly Evil".
This is a vase-like bottle, very similar to the one held by Guanyin Bodhisattva. The difference is that the thin part of the bottle and the belly part are welded with four dragon carvings, with the dragon head facing up and the dragon tail facing down. It looks like a bottle with four handles that can be grasped by hand. There are blue patterns on the white porcelain bottle, and the content of the pattern is wavy water. If the bottle hadn't been broken, it would have looked like four dragons leaping out of the water. The mouth of the bottle is sealed and blocked with a layer of paraffin, and the seams have been polished. In other words, if viewed alone, the bottle has no mouth. In fact, he opened his mouth again, but was blocked.
This is well proven because the bottle is broken and there is space inside. So I said to Brother Zhang, Brother, do you know what the bottle you took home and planned to sell for money was used for? He shook his head blankly and said he didn't know. I said, this is the soul bottle buried with the dead.
In ancient times, many high-status people would place nine bottles in their coffins when they were buried, containing three souls and six souls of the deceased. Maybe you have to ask, isn't there three souls and seven souls? Why are there only six souls here? In metaphysics, the soul is considered separate. When a person dies, he becomes a ghost. Ghosts are purely composed of souls. Therefore, the soul must leave sooner or later. The soul must also leave, but the place where it goes is different from the soul. . The remaining soul is within the body itself. The bottles with three souls and six souls around them are called soul bottles. There are nine in total. Many soul bottles in many places will have nine dragons carved on them. Each of the nine bottles represents the protection of the nine dragons. The reason why the bottle is sealed is to seal the soul. I bet that the bottle in front of me should have had a seal similar to a charm when it was buried with it. It's just that it may gradually become corrupted over time.
I asked Brother Zhang, as you just said, this bottle is placed on your mother's bedside cabinet, right? He said yes, put it together with the pendulum clock. My mother likes this bottle. I secretly thought that this was also caused by ignorance. It took a long time because the old lady accidentally broke the soul bottle. After breaking out of the shell, the soul or soul inside quickly gathered the resentment and hostility around it and turned into a "heavenly evil". And this This guy who has been hungry for hundreds of years, buried deep in the earth, the first thing he does after he takes form is to eat crazily. In this way, mother and son become its food.
I told Brother Zhang my opinion. He looked a little anxious and kept pacing and stamping his feet. I told him that it was actually not that difficult. As long as you put a door god on the door of your home and I would purify the house for you, you would be fine. This kind of ghost survives instinctively. Although it is very harmful, it is not difficult to deal with. If you get something of unknown origin from outside in the future, it is best to purify it before placing it at home. Especially those things made by ground rats are the easiest to get stained by these things.
The so-called "ground mouse" is the name given to tomb robbers in Sichuan. It is a very unscrupulous profession.
Perhaps because I spoke so easily, Brother Zhang gradually felt more relieved. So I planned to collect the dregs of the soul bottles on the ground into a pile and use them later when I perform purification rituals. I looked at the sky and saw that it was almost noon. Maybe I could still have a meal at this family's house if I just hung around. In this way, we will return to the village with Captain Li in the afternoon, and we should be there in the evening.
There are a lot of pieces, and it’s not enough for me to carry alone. So I asked Brother Zhang to help me take it. He walked in front and I followed behind. We were originally at the back of the house, which meant that if we wanted to go around to the front of the house, we would have to pass through at least two walls and corners. Just at the second corner, you can reach the door of the main room by turning around. At this time, I heard a crashing sound. I knew that sound was the sound of the porcelain pieces in Brother Zhang's hand falling to the ground. I was about to blame him for being so careless and not walking properly when I suddenly heard his anxious shouting.
"Mother! Mother! What's wrong with you, mother!"
It seemed that something was wrong with the old lady, so I was a little anxious. I quickly turned the corner and saw the old lady with her legs straightened and holding a rush in her hand, but her body was leaning against the threshold. On the door frame, his head was leaning against the door, and there were big beads of sweat on his forehead. The old woman's eyes were half closed. Through the gaps in her eyes, I could see her eyes rolled up. Her mouth was slightly open, and her lips felt a little weak. She seemed to be saying something, but the amplitude was very small. You can't tell if you look closely. The old lady's whole head was shaking slightly from left to right.
There was still some white saliva hanging from the corners of the old woman's mouth, and she looked as if she had had a stroke. I was shocked at the time, so I quickly put down the soul bottle fragments in my hand and ran to the old lady's side.
Brother Zhang shook the old lady for a long time, but the old lady still showed no sign of waking up, so she looked at me anxiously. I stretched out my hand to support the upper body of the old woman and let her head lie on the crook of my left arm. I stretched out the index finger and thumb of my right hand and spread them as wide as possible. The thumb held the middle of the old woman's body and the index finger held the old woman. between the eyebrows. These two acupuncture points can actually bring people back to consciousness. While kneading, I muttered in my mouth:
"Burn money and burn the rivers, lakes and seas. A glimmer of light will illuminate the sky. The soul-collecting master will descend the golden steps. Immortal soldiers will descend from the clouds. Hurry like a law! Hurry like a law! Hurry like a law!"
This mantra is one of the sections of the "Golden Body-Breaking Divine Mantra". I recite it simply because it is relatively short, making it easier to recite it in a short time. People usually don't have a deep understanding of ghosts that haunt innocent people, so this spell is relatively simple, but it uses "urgent as a law" repeated three times. It is used to emphasize the tone and let the ghost who hears this curse know its determination to drive it away.
At the same time, every time I recited "Emergency is like a law", I stretched out my hand to slightly lift the grandma's chin and asked her to make a "tapping" motion.
This is a very useful technique for dealing with situations where the cause is unknown but the person is fascinated. Human hearing often works from the outside in. That is to say, when you speak in my ear, the sound needs to travel through the air and the ear canal before it can be heard by me.
"Tooth tapping" is different. It can transmit the sound of tooth collision directly to the brain from the inside. Teeth are also the most sensitive type of sound transmission in bones. Under the stimulation of the mantra and the tapping action, as long as the soul is still in the body and is fascinated in the original state, it will be easy to wake up.
Sure enough, after tapping her teeth three times, the old lady woke up and turned around, looking at me with somewhat sluggish eyes. Since she fell in my arms, I also hoped that she would understand that I was saving her and not have any other thoughts.
She looked at me confused, and then asked me, what happened to me just now? Before I had time to answer him, Brother Zhang rushed to say, Mom, you just fainted. Fortunately, this little master saved you. I asked the old lady, how did you faint just now, and how much can you remember now?
The old lady pondered for a while and said that she didn't remember much about the details, but she was rubbing the rushes carefully, and suddenly her vision went dark, and then many, many people appeared in front of her, just like before. No matter how much I opened my eyes, there was nothing I could do. Then, I heard three sounds, my body suddenly relaxed, and I woke up.
Calculating the time, it actually took only seven or eight minutes for Brother Zhang and I to go around the back of the house. In other words, it was very possible that the old lady encountered this situation as soon as we left. This also means that this "heavenly evil" violated the old lady after seeing us leave. Could it be that Brother Zhang and I inspired this guy again when we were playing with the soul bottle? Because before today, whether they were grandma or Brother Zhang, they would only meet each other at night when they were sleeping. Why did they meet at this time when their yang energy was strong at noon.
There is no need to use the water method at this moment. I already know the ins and outs of the matter. Originally, I planned to settle the matter quickly. At this moment, it seems that this "heavenly evil" not only did not hide because of my arrival, but also some It means provocation in person.
So I snorted in my heart, put down my bag, took out the bell and incense, and started to summon my soldiers and horses. Only this time, my soldiers and horses are no longer to help me find the root cause, but to help me get rid of this ghost!
