Chapter 2: The Murder House (2)
There was an old carpenter in our village whose nephew was renovating a room, and because he had heard that he could do the "Lu Ban Technique", he did not ask him to do the work, but asked two young carpenters to do the work.
One day, when the carpenter was working, the old uncle went upstairs to look around and went back. The carpenter didn't care. After the house was finished, the nephew moved in. Soon after, the nephew went out on business. When his wife sleeps in the room at night, as long as the light is turned off, she sees a big butterfly fluttering in front of the bed, and there is nothing when the light is on.
What to do? She had to call her husband!
Hubby came back and sure enough, it was like this. Couldn't figure it out! Someone suggested they go somewhere to ask God. It was said that there was a newly established god in our neighboring village at that time, and it was very spiritual. They took the suggestion and went to ask. The God there told them that there is something on the ceiling of your house. You dig down a certain board and there is a confetti butterfly on it, take it down and you will be fine.
The young couple went home, dug down the board as they had asked the god when they invited him, and there was indeed a paper butterfly on the beam. After taking it down, they asked the two carpenters. The carpenters swore that they had not done such a thing. The couple then asked them who had been there. They recalled that your old uncle had been here, but he only went in to take a look and then left.
The young couple immediately went to question the old uncle. The old uncle denied it at first, saying that there was no such thing. The young nephew then scolded, who is how so and so
The old uncle thought, "You dare to curse in front of me? I'll get you again. So, the bystanders only saw his `one` read` novel`. The old uncle's lips moved, and then his young nephew fell to the ground foaming at the mouth. His nephew's wife then rushed to ask the man who asked the god what to do. The other party answered her: grab a handful of incense, burn it up, kneel down in the world, one sentence of the Emperor's heaven and one sentence of his old uncle's name, and keep calling, and he will be fine.
The nephew's wife did so, and it was true!
Now the old uncle was in bad luck! By his young nephew's wife scolded "all over the body", the child is fine, the old uncle's skills also failed on the spot, no longer useful.
Afterwards, our village and other neighboring villages, where the old carpenter was invited to build houses, all replaced beams, a total of more than one hundred and ninety!
This story is well-founded, although the story of the carpenter in my understanding of long gone, but after all, it is the story of the village, so I am convinced.
Although I am not superstitious about ghosts and gods, I am very convinced of the Lu Ban technique, because I have learned from the old people since I was a child that in ancient times, carpenters represented the highest skill among the three religions and nine streams of people, because in the old days, building houses was mainly a wooden structure, therefore, carpenters in ancient times were in fact the architects, a combination of artists and engineers. Back then, carpenters, like Confucianists who preached everywhere, traveled in all directions to solicit work. This kind of work is not like today's civilian laborers, at the lowest level of society.
Carpenters in ancient times was a very respected profession, the general owner of the house will build a good wine and good food to treat the master carpenter, for fear of poor service, carpenters in the beams on the bad, so that the house structural instability, into a murderous house.
At that time, there was also a legend that carpenters often traveled alone in all directions, just in case, have skills to protect themselves, the most magical of which is the "Book of Lu Ban".
The Lu Ban Book is not about building houses, but a book of magic spells! It is divided into two books, the first book is mainly about positive spells and curing diseases, while the second book is mainly about evil spells and harming people.
The secret Lu Ban Book is said to speak of the contents of the Heaven and Earth, and there are many spells, and this system of Lu Ban's method has always been strictly prohibited! It is rumored that people who learn Lu Ban Shu must occupy the characters of "poor", "abortive", "orphan", "disabled", etc. So it is also called "lack of one". This is why it is also called the "lack of a door". Because of this, the world regarded Lu Ban's method as the "absolute method", and people were afraid of it!
Therefore, when the master builds a house, he does not dare to neglect the carpenter, because the carpenter in the new age does not need to jeopardize the stability of the house from the structural point of view, he only needs to draw a spell when he puts on the beams, and set the year and the month, and then the people living in the house will definitely be affected by the disaster, as the spell says. Thus, the carpenter was reduced from a noble architect to a charlatan, and everyone was afraid.
However, I also heard the old people say, learning this Lu Ban method is also extremely unfavorable to themselves, because the Lu Ban method is "absolute method".
The so-called "extinct method" refers to the method of extinction, that is, the practice of this method, as long as the practice is completed, will certainly be extinct, regardless of the practice before or after you have no offspring. Even if you have had many children, none of them will survive. Because of this, the title page of the next volume of the Book of Lu Ban has the words, "Whoever reads this book will have no offspring, and whoever does not will have no offspring! The title page of the next volume of the Book of Luban often has the words "Those who read this book will be cut off from their children and grandchildren if they do not do it! In our area, no one dares to read the Book of Lu Ban indiscriminately.
It is because of the practice of this law is no descendant, so this kind of people in our place is called "a world of people", meaning no ancestor, no descendant, a single person. In fact, it is easy to understand that the Luban method has been abolished. My village elders have said: "magic Tao Gong, stealing and transportation of heaven's opportunity, for heaven's evil, the habit of people in the way!" Meaning, magic and so on, is to observe the opportunity of heaven and earth, knowledge of the roots of nature, against the heavens, the heavens will condemn it. Therefore, those who learn spells are always detrimental. Either the end of the future, or the end of life, or the end of wealth, or the end of wealth, to name a few. In layman's terms, since you have stolen the opportunity of heaven and earth, then you have to pay the price. This is the reason why most jianghu magicians are blind, deaf, dumb and camel.
Whether it is true or not, in short, this kind of people in my heart is really not good.
Think of all these things, I had to shake my head and laugh bitterly, this is really a false alarm, think of that craftsman is also really hateful, these two days really scared me half to death. I thought it was really haunted, but it turned out to be mostly this damned mudman. So I took out the clay figure, and slammed it out of the window as if to relieve my hatred, and smashed it to smithereens.
When I closed the window, I felt more at ease, and straightened my hair in the mirror. But just then, suddenly, I realized that the door had been opened at some point
I remember very clearly, because of fear, so once inside the house, the door closed to death, so who in the end was it that opened the door?
At that moment, I combed my hair hand stopped, because I saw in the mirror in addition to myself, but also saw another "person"!
She, wearing a white dress, hair is very long, covering the face, revealing a pair of red eyes are standing behind me, a pair of long nails, shriveled as a withered branch of the general hand on my shoulders, and came from the hollow and ethereal voice: "If you do not throw away that clay Bodhisattva, I really can not enter the door of this room. "
This time I was really scared enough, hard hit a jolt, the comb fell directly to the ground!
Is it really see ghosts? Because of the influence of the two days before the suspicious ghost, so the brain directly jumped out of such an intuition.
I hastily wiped a handful of eyes, this time is no longer a hallucination, because it is no longer disappeared in the twinkling of an eye, but is slowly floating over from behind me!
Yes, it was definitely floating, and I could see it really well. Because in the mirror can not see her feet, or rather she did not have feet, the lower half of her body is so transparent floating in the air, and also to me cold cold smile!
"Ghost ah" from the stunned reaction, and then I screamed out in fear!
I dare not look back at her, not to mention the cold and frightening appearance of her floating in the air, alone the words she said, like ice general straight through my body, from the head to the bottom of the feet cold!
In my heart, I could not have understood better, I did bump into something dirty. I also regret that I shouldn't have thrown away the clay Bodhisattva that looks like a vicious God, that clay Bodhisattva which is harmful to the evil things ah, clearly is used to suppress the evil spirits with the town!
Perhaps my scream was very sudden, or perhaps too loud, in short, the female ghost paused for a moment. I seized the opportunity to turn around and run away behind her.
But I'm a human being, but she's a ghost, I was just about to rush towards the door, only to see a white shadow flash, she floated to my front and blocked the door! In my ears again came her chilling cold laughter: "Want to run, not so easy, Jie Jie".
I shivered and screamed in fear again, then turned my voice to see an exit and jumped out!
But people just jumped out of the room, my whole body is scared silly, a heart completely cold, because I panic in a hurry to find the exit is a window, and also fucking is the window of the fifth floor!
From the fifth floor of nearly twenty meters high jump, do not have to think I know this time is difficult to escape death. At once the sadness welled up, I was only twenty years old, there are too many things have not done, I can not think of today but so unexplained death, can not help but heart sadness welled up!
