Chapter 12: The Public Center Compound, Formation Setting Up
The art of death-pursuing was to be performed in the public middle school compound of the Chen Village.
Chen Hongde fetched cinnabar clay and wrote down the deceased's birthdate and eight characters on the clay dolls, and the blood-red handwriting was shocking to see.
Zeng Zi'e brought two talismans and ran with us to the public middle school compound.
On the way out, Chen Hansheng also whispered to Chen Hongde will be handed over to Zeng Zi'e clay dolls, and then go elsewhere to get a few things.
After Chen Hongde fetched, I realized, that is two paper dolls, no, can not be regarded as dolls, should be a monster.
One is a human ox head, one is a human horse face, looks hideous.
Chen Hongde saw that I was terrified, so he wanted to terrorize me more and more, holding this paper tied monster and running to me, smiling grimly, screaming strangely, "Hey ...... little thing, look! This is the bull head and horse face from hell, the ten ghost kings, specializing in hooking souls and demanding life! Ow!"
That cow head, horse face although it is made of paper, but do them people obviously exquisite craftsmanship, the two paper monsters do extremely realistic, especially the eyes, painted blood red blood red, Chen Hongde a close, I was scared "wow wow" screaming, good at Zeng Zi e can not stand to see, up to kick Chen Hongde a few feet, Chen Hongde only peace down.
Chen Hansheng and Chen Hongde put the ox head, horse face on one side, let him go to bring some fire tools over, and then instructed him to say: "Listen to me later, I let you light them, you light them."
"Center! Leave it to me, no problem!" Chen Hongde was excited.
The so-called Gongzhong compound was actually a sliver of houses specially built in the Chen Family Village for the reception of guests.
When we went there, there were still some stewards of the Chen Family Village in the courtyard, who met Chen Hansheng respectfully, called him patriarch, and didn't ask us what we were doing, but just stood on the side, not getting in the way, but coming up to help immediately when they were needed to do something.
In the middle of the compound has a large area of open space, open space before, the left, the right were standing three humanoid stone statues, are ancient people look, the first current description of the majestic, long beard, eyes in the eyes seem to be different from the ordinary people, I saw the stone seat above the engraved with a few dignified and solemn words: "ancestor Chen Yishan Gong".
The second stone statue on the left seems to be a monk, bald, wearing hemp clothes, stone seat is also engraved above the words, but "the first teacher hemp Taoist", the third stone statue on the right is a Taoist priest, long beard tied bun, wearing a robe, stone seat above the words is "the first teacher Chen Tuan Laozu". The inscription on the stone seat is "Master Chen Tuan Laozu".
I later learned that Chen Yishan is the ancestor of the family of hemp Chen, but also the world's first hemp divine face, he studied the celestial beings, bringing together all the great masters of the metaphysical arts of the past and the present, wrote a strange book, that is, the "Yi Shan Gong Record", which opens the family of hemp Chen led the Chinese folk phrenology more than 1,000 years of the abuse of the goblet, and his teacher is the old man Chen Tuan, Chen Tuan old man is a Taoist monk, but it is the Chen Yishan's uncle, hemp Taoist, on the other hand, was Chen Tuan Laozu's master.
Three stone statues surrounded by an open space, is made of colored stones in a variety of patterns, but also later slowly understand what those patterns, among them is a black and white "Tai Chi diagram", before and after the respective "heavenly square and circle diagram, "Bagua Changes Figure", "Hetu", "Luoshu", etc., are Chen Tuan Laozu and Chen Yishan mutual research and the Taoist Chihtu, was the Xuanmen art world as a guideline, circulated for more than a thousand years and They have been passed down for more than a thousand years and continue to be studied and researched.
Zeng Zi'e set up five flagstaffs and colorful buildings among the three stone statues in the Gongzhong compound, which were white, green, black, red and yellow, and floated in the west, east, north, south and center.
Chen Hansheng in the center of the yellow flags and streamers placed under a long case, the long case is among the Yi Shan Gong's tablets, tablets under a incense burner, incense burner burning eight yellow incense, smoke curls, the aroma filled, stood by the side of Zeng Zi'e, Chen Hongde are dignified, not only did not say a word, and even the mouth of the atmosphere did not dare to come out.
I have seen Zeng Zi'e a few times, has always been a more serious look, Chen Hongde has always been cheeky, debauchery, but here is a change in the former face, so I secretly surprised.
Under the long case spread a piece of corn leaves twisted into a futon, Chen Hansheng wearing a dark blue hemp clothes, big back hair combed meticulously, roots are hale and hearty to the back! His eyes put a fine light, hands on the forehead, first toward the three stone statues of the group bowed, and then to the long case enshrined on the tablets bowed deeply, and then the five bodies to the ground, perform a great salute.
My father and mother didn't dare to speak, and I don't know whether they were stunned or frightened, I just watched with curiosity, and was finding it interesting, when Zeng Zi'e suddenly walked up to me, and said to me, "Son, go sit on the futon."
I was stunned, only to see that Chen Hansheng had already gotten up from the futon and stood to the side, eyeing me, waiting in vain, obviously wanting me to go over.
I then walked over and sat my butt down on the futon, then eyed Chen Hansheng, waiting for his next command.
Chen Hansheng just smiled, and before he could say anything, Zeng Zi'e said, "Child, this is not the way to sit, you have to sit in the instep with your eyes closed."
"Closed eyes", I know, is to close the eyes, but "sit in the instep" what does it mean?
I looked at Zeng Zi'e and then at Chen Hansheng, not knowing what to do.
Chen Hansheng laughed at Zeng Zi'e, "He's such a small child, what does he know about sitting on the pedestal? You're still talking to him in the lingo, just tell him how to sit directly, won't you?"
"It's me who has not thought this through." Zeng Zi'e also laughed: "Come on, good boy, grandma tell you how to sit, you face this long case, straighten your body, put your left foot on your right leg, put your right foot on your left leg, both hands stacked on top of each other, this is the instep. Understand, will you?"
"Got it, I can!"
Putting my left foot on my right leg and my right foot on my left leg, what's there not to know, I instantly sat down like that, and looked at the crowd rather smugly.
"Don't move when you're done, and don't talk." Zeng Zi'e instructed.
I was about to say "yes", but Chen Hansheng shook his hand and produced a white paper talisman like a magic trick, and suddenly stuck it on my neck, startling me.
But I didn't move and didn't say anything, because Zeng Zi'e had already explained, and Chen Hansheng was also looking at me with his eyes, and the message revealed in his eyes was to not let me move and to let me sit peacefully.
The talisman on my neck, first a little cool, followed by very cold, coolness from the neck spread to the whole body, as if eating ice, in this still a little hot weather, the feeling is both comfortable, but also make people afraid. Because that coolness, it was eerie coolness, not coolness.
Before I could experience how this coolness, Chen Hansheng spun around, and there was already an extra object in my hand, heavy and still a bit rough.
I did not dare to look down to see, just with the afterglow to aim, this aim, deng time soul!
Because the thing that suddenly appeared in my hand was not something else, it was that clay puppet!
The clay puppet that Zeng Zi'e brought back, the clay puppet made from the ashes and clay of the burned child!
I was scared to death!
Those spiteful eyes appeared in front of me again in an instant.
I couldn't help but shiver all over, but Chen Hansheng was at the side, but he gently touched my head and whispered, "Don't be afraid, there's Grandpa."
His hand was very warm, and when he touched me, the warmth poured straight down from his forehead and instantly spread all over his body, not only diluting the eerie coolness of the white talisman from before, but also calming my fearful heart.
Only then did I stop trembling.
The earth puppet in my hand is sitting in my palm with its back to me, it also has a white talisman affixed to its neck, the talisman is printed with a twisted and weird pattern, making me dizzy from looking at it, just in the middle there are eight words that I can still barely recognize, of course, some of the words are blindly guessed at the pronunciation of these eight words: "Fruit Lodge Bedtime Air Eight Egyptian Terrace Hostile".
These two white talismans, a small one and a large one, should be what Chen Hansheng said from the Maoshan Yizhu Taoist priest.
Maoshan Yizhu, is also a character that I learned later, the three mountain talisman set master, a generation of fortune-telling masters, and the Chen family has a very deep connection.
"Hongde, burn the ox head and horse face!"
I was reading those characters when Chen Hansheng let out a loud shout and added, "Wu Yu, close your eyes and don't open them! Otherwise there will be death!"
I shivered and hurriedly closed my eyes, not daring to open them to death.
The moment I closed my eyes, a wind swept up from the ground, and my ears were filled with the chaotic sound of "whirring" and "rustling", as if something was constantly hitting me in the face.
An eerie cold air slowly approached and wrapped me up!
