Chapter 4: Woe to Three Generations
So he was busy calling the old king's head. He said he wanted to invite him to drink, and immediately rushed home and burned a lot of paper money and maidservant paper zhang to the ox-head, horse-face, black-and-white invincible, begging them to be accommodating to allow the old king to stay a few more hours. As the saying goes, money makes the devil work. After receiving Mr. Liu's yin ticket and woman, and the profession of Mr. Yin Yang is also a special profession linked with them. They also turn a blind eye. Anyway, a ghost pawn is just a few hours late back to the netherworld and no ghosts pay attention to it.
To ask the ghost how to drink wine, ancient times there are secret techniques recorded. Stirring with the negative wood can be done. Willow tree belongs to the five ghosts, so Mr. Liu used willow branches to soak the wine and the old king's head to drink, wine over thirty years, Mr. Liu began to set the old king's head of the mouth, the old king's head is not able to beat the wine. The old king's head was not able to drink. He told the old king's head the date of his death in passing.
It turns out that Mr. Liu due to divulge too many heavenly chances and commit the fate of the lack of so after two years is the period of the deadline. But Mr. Liu is a very smart person, he understands that fate can be changed, so he hastened to pour wine to the old king, asking himself whether he can still live a few more years. He knew that the old king's mouth is not a gatekeeper when he drank too much, and sure enough, the old king told him that if he never ate again from now on, he could live for three more years minus this life depreciation. That is, there are still five years to live.
Hearing this, Mr. Liu was overjoyed, knowing that this was a life he had picked up for nothing! He quickly thanked the old king and poured wine for him. The willow tree is very Yin, so one person and one ghost are both very drunk. After sending Old Wang away, the sea of Mr. Liu had also been drunk for nearly two days. But he is still sober, just in the way of yin wine hurt body so can not move. Can only just lie down, good in Liu's wife heart good, let my grandfather directly pull him to Zhu Jia Kan, or else there is a big problem. Because last night, Mr. Liu put into the whole body of the energy to be able to give the word of blessing to my grandfather. If it had been later, my grandpa and grandma would have been killed.
My grandfather's heart mixed feelings, on the one hand is to thank my brother on the life, on the other hand is to know my brother only five years to live after the heart is not a taste.
Mr. Liu waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, it's all destiny. Waiting for a full meal will help you break this robbery.
My grandfather said excitedly: "But how can I let my brother do this life-reducing things ah!"
Mr. Liu downed a glass of wine and said with a smile, "As the saying goes, there is a destiny in the underworld. Besides, I, Liu Shuqing, have been learning Taoism since I was a child, and I don't dare to say that I have the mentality of universalizing all beings, but I am also open and honest. I have never done a thing that is not good, just life when there is this hijacking. Older brother do not have to care, if I do not care about our own brother's matter, even if I can live another five years, I will only live in self-blame."
My grandpa and grandma were moved to tears after hearing Mr. Liu's words, they really didn't know what to say, they could only keep pouring wine and dishes to Mr. Liu.
After a meal, Mr. Liu did not procrastinate, directly let my grandfather to take him to see the day to death of the beard threw the body of the place. My grandfather led Mr. Liu to the back of the mountain, the back of the mountain here is called "a knife cut". Originally not too high, I heard that there was an earthquake in the past, the mountain was shaken into two, half of the mountain fell, but the other half is intact. So look at the mountain, as if it was cut in half with a knife. Due to the snowfall the day before yesterday, the snow on the mountain was already knee-deep, and it was extremely difficult to walk. I came to the place where the body was thrown. My grandfather found something wrong. Because how is it possible to throw two days has not been wild wolves and wild dogs to eat it?
Mr. Liu signaled my grandfather to calm down first, the two of them went up to clear the snow next to the corpse, just this effort, Mr. Liu found the clues, he found that the corpse's stomach is very turtle, it is reasonable to say that the stomach of the person who was scalded to death by the food are bulging. He pulled the clothes of the corpse, and immediately his face was as blue as iron.
Only to see that the corpse's stomach had long been hollowed out, a one-foot long weasel curled up and lying inside, its stomach bulging out, its head holding the corpse's esophagus in its death grip. It formed an extremely bizarre picture.
When my grandfather saw this picture, he was so scared that he couldn't scream, and he only felt that his back was full of cold sweat. Mr. Liu was busy counting with his fingers, and the reason for this was known in general. He put the corpse's clothes back on and then told my grandfather, "This is a big problem.
Hear Mr. Liu said this after my grandfather was nervous, busy asking what is going on, Mr. Liu hate said: "As they say, in a chaotic world there will be demons. This animal is this mountain has become the climate of the yellow skins. But the generation of foxes and rats is difficult to personification of the art, foxes to wear human skulls to worship the moon, yellow skins are drilling people in the abdomen to manipulate their walk. This body may be this neighborhood beard, was the scourge of death after becoming a puppet of this beast. It may be the relationship between the snow, it went down the mountain to look for food. I can't think of being killed by you, the yellow skins are extremely vindictive, what you couple see is the yellow skins crying, good thing you find me to find in time, otherwise see the yellow skins crying people within three days must die!"
My grandfather's mind was now full of uneasiness and fear, but he knew that Mr. Liu would save them, so he was busy saying aloud, "Big brother, then you see ------ what can be done about this?"
Mr. Liu sighed as if he wanted to speak. In a few moments, he said, "First burn it, later we go back to say."
Mr. Liu pulled the weasel out of the corpse and asked my grandfather to find some pine branches to burn it. Mr. Liu said that the corpse was a bitter man who couldn't wait to rest in peace after his death, and asked my grandpa to bury him in the snow first, and personally choose a grave site for him in the future, which is a virtuous thing. These things are done, the sun will be noon. The two of them went back home.
My grandmother had already prepared a meal at home, and when they came back, she put up the bed table and served the meal. Then she asked my grandfather how things were going. My grandfather looked at Mr. Liu, Mr. Liu drank a mouthful of wine, a long sigh, finally opened his mouth and said: "not good, because the yellow skin scourge of the people, is the scourge of three generations of ah." Said he explained to my grandparents, it turns out that this kind of animal, brutal and ferocious nature, never let go of the encountered weak animals, even if you can't eat, but also must be all the prey bites dead. And become a climate after the retaliation psychology is very strong. Being targeted will not be able to escape. So the meaning of the scourge of three generations is that if you can not revenge this generation, you have a son after the scourge of your son, you have a grandson after the scourge of your grandchildren, due to the back of the mountains of the yellow nymphs in considerable numbers, can not be done at all to kill them off. This three-generation grudge will not end until the blood debt is paid or the fourth generation of your family appears.
My grandma and grandpa's hearts went cold after hearing this, and looking at Mr. Liu's contemplative appearance, how could they still be in the mood to eat. They could only look at Mr. Liu and hope that he would come up with a good solution. After a long time, Mr. Liu slapped his thigh and came up with a solution. He said to my grandparents, "Older brother, there is only one way, just treat the symptoms but not the root cause." When my grandfather heard that there is a way, now which still take into account so much, busy asking him what is the way.
Mr. Liu said, "Originally there are two ways, the first is that every year at the time of the death of the yellow-skinned sacrifice by my practice of supernatural, after ten consecutive years will be able to dissolve this grudge. But you know, brother, I only have five years to live. I'm afraid I can't protect your family after I'm gone. So I can only use the second method, that is, I will negotiate with it at night, and then year after year incense offerings, I will give you a talisman, the talisman can not be dipped in water, worn by the youngest person in your family. You can keep your family safe, but in addition to bathing, you must do the charm does not leave your body. Until the youngest of your grandchildren's generation grows to twenty years of age, you can dissolve this enmity. And later you worship the yellow skin will become your home to protect the immortal, can protect your home grain is not in short supply."
After listening to Mr. Liu, my grandpa and grandma's heart finally dropped to the bottom, to know, there is hope on the line ah. So they thanked Mr. Liu for saving their lives and received the talisman. Listen to my grandmother said, that night Mr. Liu alone with incense and candles and paper and pen out of the door, do not let my grandparents follow. It took about two hours before he came back with a tired face. He told my grandparents, "It's done."
I saw that he first asked my grandfather to find a big wooden board and told my grandmother to prepare the paste. Then he opened the red paper he had brought with him when he went out with both hands, only to see a big line written on it, "The position of Huang San Tai Nan." Mr. Liu dipped the red paper on top of the board, and after applying the first incense, he told my grandpa to find a carpenter to build a shrine tomorrow, and don't forget to offer incense on New Year's holidays.
My grandpa and grandma naturally thanked him profusely, and the next day they set up a table of food and wine to thank Mr. Liu, and then Mr. Liu wanted to leave, so my grandpa borrowed a donkey cart to send Mr. Liu back to Mizishan.
My grandparents have been following Mr. Liu's method since then, and they were safe and sound.
Written here, I believe there are many people will question, this world really have ghosts and gods say? Folklore: If you believe, there is, if you don't believe, there is nothing. In fact, in ancient times, there are many stories about gods and monsters that have been widely circulated, such as the more famous "Search for Gods", "Zi Bu Yan", and the famous "Liao Zhai Zhi Yi". All of these authors expressed their concepts and principles of being a human being to their readers through stories of gods and monsters. So I just want to write out what I have experienced, and we should just take it as a pastime. No need to take it too seriously.
That said, many of my friends will ask if there are really so many gods and monsters in this world. Why are they rare or absent now? This idea actually I have had, one year in the countryside, in a small village in the mill mountain. In the evening, after dinner, I went to the courtyard to listen to the elders gossiping in the cooler. They said that there were many such things in the past and they were very common. There were also quite a few folk with real skills. But after the liberation, it was all about science and superstition, and Chairman Mao once said, "Down with all the evil spirits and snakes!" "Down with the four olds, up with the four news. Thousands of Red Guards raised the "iron broom" to storm the temples, monuments, destroyed statues of gods and Buddhas, pagodas and steles, and smashed everything related to gods and monsters as long as they saw it, think about it, at that time, everyone's mind was crazy, so many ghosts and monsters were smashed up in those days. This shows how powerful the people's power is!
I have to say, this is exactly the ghosts also club people, when the people of this society only in the heart of the worship of the great leader as well as the belief in a better life, can not tolerate any demons and monsters haunted, they naturally have no foothold.
