Chapter 36: Standing Chopsticks
At that time, I was racking my brain to think of the stories of gods and ghosts that I had heard when I was a child, but most of these stories were already fuzzy in my mind, and as I thought back to the confrontation with the possessed Guan Ming, I suddenly had a flash of light when I was using my chopsticks to clip his fingers. There!
I remembered a story my grandfather had told me about how in the old days, if someone in the family was suffering from 'hysteria', some old people would fill a large bowl with water and put a chopstick down in the bowl, and then repeatedly recite that if there was something unclean in the house, the chopstick would stand upright in the water. It's very spooky.
In fact, you should not underestimate this small chopsticks, the ancestors left us something, are valuable heritage. This chopsticks in fact also hidden a lot of mystery. Igua to explain the people to eat: two chopsticks, two numbers of innate trigrams for the Dui. Dui, for the mouth, for eating. Chopsticks shape straight long, for the Xun Gua. Xun, for wood, into. Combined together, they are chopsticks for eating. What is the entrance? It is the head of the chopstick. The head of the chopsticks is round, which is Qian Gua, and Qian is heaven. Isn't it "heaven" to eat in this way? This is where the saying, "Food is the God of the people" comes from.
And many of the folk secret method will often use chopsticks, like I just said that the big bowl standing chopsticks, I heard that there are standing eggs, late I read in the newspaper in fact, this is a trick, but whether it is really a trick, depending on how you think, in fact, there are people in the world who have real skills, but still the majority of liars only. About this aspect of the matter, I will have a description afterward, now the first temporary not to talk about.
I remembered in my mind this method of standing chopsticks, although I do not know the specific method, but know a general should be enough. This folkloric earth trick should be an art of reaching some kind of spiritual perception by using a bowl, chopsticks, and water, the three things that make up the deed. With my current cultivation level, it shouldn't be too hard to get it if I want to.
Just know when you're coming, that's all. I'll spell out three days and nights without sleep to stop you. A less than perfect plan gradually appeared in my head.
After at least having hope, I no longer hesitated and began to draw talismans with all my heart, and the talismans I drew were naturally my old three. 'Ding Xie Ju Qing Body Protecting Talisman' and 'A Wu Yu Qing Breaking Fury Talisman'. Because according to my current strength, these talismans are already the most powerful talismans I can draw. I didn't draw the 'A Zi Wenqing God Slowing Talisman' this time, because I couldn't even see it with that thing. So it's useless even if I drew it, so I might as well draw more talismans with offensive power.
When I went back to the hotel for lunch, Guan Ming woke up, I saw him in the dining room, his face was pale, and he had thick black circles under his eyes. He looked like one of those people in TV dramas who smoked a lot of cigarettes. He staggered to the seat next to me and asked me, "Brother Fei, why did I sleep in your house?"
It seems that being possessed by that kind of dirty thing is really harmful to the body, so I told him, "You slept in the woolen flute last night and had to be in the same blanket with me, don't you remember?"
He shook his head in confusion and said to me with a smile, "I don't know, I seem to have caught a cold, I have no energy."
I said in my heart: you an unlucky child, if it is not buddy, perhaps you have now gone to find Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui to take a picture to go, now feel no energy has been the great fortune.
After dinner, the afternoon to continue sketching, I am trying my best to draw a few more charms. Why am I the only one whose life is so miserable? I can't even get a break on my vacation.
I was not stopping, muttering to myself, but my hands were still not idle. I can say that my skills have really grown, and I can draw effective talismans with just a brush dipped in ink.
At around 6pm, as the sun was waning, I finished the last stroke. Not bad, in the face of a great enemy, the work efficiency is still very high, a total of eleven talismans were drawn in one day, which is considered to have broken the previous record. I packed up my things and prepared to go back to the hotel. Holding this small dozen of talismans, the confidence in my heart increased by one more point.
After wolfing down my meal, I have to say that drawing talismans consumes a lot of spiritual energy, so I have to eat enough. Accumulating stamina to prepare for the night. As a result, I ate three large bowls of rice, making the girls at the table look at me blankly, they said that I was a starving ghost. I didn't have time to talk to them with my mouth full of rice and directly ignored them.
After dinner, Liu Mingming let the whole group gathered, said to review the sketching works, in the small playground outside the hotel, everyone will draw today's paintings pounced on the ground, dozens of paintings in the buddy's that 'danqing' extraordinarily eye-catching. It made me feel like I wanted to find a hole in the ground and drill for a while.
Everyone stood in a circle, Liu Mingming began to comment on one by one, wait until my piece of time, Liu Mingming froze, asked who this is, how to put the waste paper here?
I was not happy to hear, although I said I was blindly scratched with a pencil, but you can not say it is a waste of paper ah? I frowned at him and said: "Liu, this is not right, I'm imitating the post-modern idea painter Donatello's style of painting out of the "Sunrise in the East Mirror Lake is comparable to the Songhua River, the bullish map" ah! How about it, is it awesome?"
Liu Mingming is twenty-six years old, and we usually play together, he despised me after a glance, laughing and scolding: "You just brag about it!"
The men and women present were laughing, I also laughed at myself, the heart relaxed a lot, a year and a half after going to college, unknowingly I have slowly integrated into the collective. I was once lost, disheveled, shameless. But I'm alone, I've taken these people around me as my family.
I want to protect my family!
After reviewing everyone's paintings, it was already dark. So Liu Mingming announced that we were dismissed, and each of us went back to our houses to play.
I didn't go back to the house, but went through the dining room to the kitchen, there were still several cooks cleaning up the dishes, I found the cook who helped us make the rabbits, and after handing him a cigarette, I told him I wanted a big bowl and a pair of chopsticks, so I could go back to the house and make instant noodles at night. The cook gave me a big bowl and a pair of chopsticks, which were not worth much.
After I said thank you to him, I walked back to my house. Inside the house, Wang Cheng and Kai were watching TV naked. I moved a stool and watched with them.
The TV is playing "Kangxi Dynasty", really good TV series, watching me want to be the emperor, and then I thought to myself that this is not nonsense. Who does not want to be the emperor?
Around eleven o'clock at night, they are sleepy, let me put the TV a little less sound, and then went to bed. I looked at the two sleeping lewd face. I thought to myself, it's time to get ready.
I turned the lights off and the only light left in the room was from the TV. I unscrewed a bottle of mineral water and poured it into the large bowl, then placed the bowl on top of the small table and picked up another chopstick.
After imagining that the 'qi' in my body had already entered this chopstick, I gently placed it in the bowl. Then I mumbled in my mind: God bless, it must work.
Now all that was left to do was wait, and I began to carefully wait for the arrival of the dirty thing that I didn't know what it was.
I looked at my cell phone, it was already a little after midnight. The night is already very deep, will that thing still appear?
Watching those 'She's good and I'm good' commercials on TV, I couldn't help but get a little sleepy, my upper and lower eyelids fighting. I lit another cigarette, counting from just now to now in order to refresh, have almost smoked a box. Now my throat is a little sore.
To say stay up all night this kind of thing I was the most skillful, if you give me a computer, I can three days and three nights do not sleep, and do not bring to shout sleepy.
But now look at the TV that disgusting ads, and I have not closed my eyes from last night to now, listening to the side of Wang Cheng and Kai's snoring. Sleepiness immediately came in like a tidal wave, one wave after another.
Already is two fifty in the morning, just when my heart celebrated the safety tonight, ready to undress and roll over to sleep, I heard a snap and freeze, my heart suddenly a jolt, immediately turn my head to the table to look.
Only to see that the chopsticks in the big sea bowl full of water, as if eating **** general upright.
(PS: This chapter of the 'standing chopsticks' this earth method, we look at it even if, do not imitate.)
