Chapter 38 Chapter Five: The Pulsatilla Raises Ghosts in the Deep Mountains

West Village is ten miles away from Tofupo West District. "Excuse me, have you ever seen a strange old man with gray beard and hair?" I kept asking for information about the old man along the way. Passers-by shook their heads and did not know. In a village five miles away from West Village, we were shocked by the clues provided by a mountain dweller. "Last night, when I came home from other places, when I passed by a mountain depression, I met a shadow digging the ground in the graveyard. I hid in the dark and observed for a while, and found that what he was digging was the new son of Hu Laoliu in our village. Grave. Mr. Hu's three-year-old son suffered from smallpox a few days ago and died, so he dug a pit in the back mountain and buried him."

"Have you seen the other person's appearance clearly?" "It's an old man with white hair and a goatee. I wondered at the time, why is this old man digging up other children's graves? I have a good relationship with Hu Laoliu, so I coughed. The old man disappeared when he heard the sound." It must be that strange old man!But why did he dig graves at night to find the dead bodies of newly deceased children?After thinking about it, I was very confused and couldn't figure it out. "Could it be raising a soul boy?" I suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

Raising spirit children is a technique of raising ghosts and controlling spirits. Most Taoist priests of the Maoshan School are proficient in this kind of mysterious technique. Through spells, ghosts are made to do things for the supporters.As for raising ghosts, raising ghost cubs is generally the top grade, that is, raising spirit children.That is to support children who died shortly after birth, the younger the better. Because those infant spirits who have not been reincarnated have not been involved in the world, their acquired psyche is relatively less affected by the world, and at the same time they have a strong hatred for the world, and their energy is quite large, stronger than ordinary ghosts.He is unwilling to return to the ghost way, and for a relatively long period of time, he wanders in the two worlds of yang and underworld.If it is guided by someone and can enjoy flesh and blood, it is very easy to be used by others.Because of his serious heart, if he offends him, the user's family will be destroyed.So users are very careful.

To make offerings to the soul boy, it is necessary to find a suitable dead child in advance.For raising ghosts, different schools and schools have different methods. Generally speaking, there are four different methods. One is the method of ecstasy.A mage who wants to raise ghosts will first find out where a virgin boy or girl died, and at the same time try to get their birth date.After the body is buried, the mage will sneak to the child's grave in the dead of night, burn incense, perform ecstasy, and then insert a section of cane cut from a tree in advance on the grave to make it grow naturally.

When the vines grow luxuriantly, the magician will set up the altar again, attach the soul of the child in the tomb to the vines, and then recite incantations and burn amulets.After that, he had to cut off a short section of cane from the grave with a knife while reciting the mantra, and then carve it into a small puppet about one and a half inches high, and paint the boy's facial features with ink and cinnabar. When you're done, store the puppet in an urn.However, before performing this kind of seduction technique, most mages will successively seduce two souls, one male and one female, and store them in the same earth urn.The purpose of doing this is to prevent the playful ghosts from fleeing due to loneliness.

Most of the time, ghosts sleep day and night.When the owner has a life, he will first blow on the bottle, chant a spell, wake up the ghosts, and then order them to do things.Unless the master breaks his promise and promises the ghost many times and fails to do it, otherwise, he will obey his orders and never bargain. The second is the head drop technique.The mage would first go to the forest to cut a suitable piece of wood, then carve a small coffin with a knife, and finally go to find the graves of virgins or virgins, or even babies or unborn virgins.After finding it, the mage will dig open the tomb, take out the corpse, let it sit up, and then burn the chin of the corpse with a kind of candle extracted from human body fat until the corpse is burned to pieces, exposing the fat layer, and then let the fat The layer is heated and dissolved into corpse oil, which is stored in a small coffin prepared in advance.Immediately after that, the mantra will be covered and recited back and forth for forty-nine days, and the soul will be able to obey orders and be sent to act.

The third is the soul-moving technique.Although this kind of magic originated from Maoshan, it was unanimously recognized as a sorcery, and it was extremely sinister. A mage who was proficient in raising ghosts would not easily use it.The retribution of those who cast this kind of spell is extremely tragic, such as losing their sons and grandchildren, or delaying future generations, or the caster is pitiful in his later years, etc. After seeing the target, this kind of mage will plant the original vegetables first, and after drawing and incinerating the symbols every day, water the original vegetables with talisman water.In this way, when the baby melons are ripe, the mage will also cut off the yuancai with a knife, and then burn the talismans.In this way, the baby's soul can be stolen and transferred to the object that the mage wants it to possess.

Because the baby will cunningly die after being captured, this kind of spell is called insidious. The fourth is bone chasing.This kind of magic is to pry out the coffin of the child who died young, then open the belly and take out the ribs.If it is a virgin, take the fourth bone from the right, and if it is a boy, take the third bone from the left. After getting the bones, the mage can recite the incantation and do the magic, and he can also collect the soul of the ghost for his own use. I have never seen the Taoism of raising a soul boy, but I have only heard it mentioned by the master.

He once told me such a story: During the Song Dynasty, there was a general in Chenzhou Prefecture. He had a son who was deeply loved by the general's father since he was a child.Unfortunately, the son died of illness. The general was very sad. When he was sad, he put part of his son's ashes into a small bottle and took it with him.Originally it was just for commemorative purposes, but it is strange to say that whenever he goes out with this little taru, he will be able to come back victorious, and every time he encounters an accident, it will be like someone assisting him, and he will definitely save the day.So the practice spread and many people followed suit.

Raising soul boys is a kind of warlock raising ghosts.In ancient times, Taoist priests often practiced in the deep mountains and old forests for a long time, and collected some lonely ghosts with certain energy to report the information of the two worlds of the yang and the underworld, and provide them with convenience in daily life.But in later generations, it has transformed into a means of livelihood for some people, from Tao to witch. The manipulator seems to be visible in the recent series of strange incidents in the area around Tofu Slope.Thinking of this, I feel more and more that there are ghosts here.

So, I quickened my pace and rushed to the place where the strange old man haunted West Village. While rushing on the road, my heart was still a little beating. After all, I have never seen this kind of Taoism, and Tian Gudao is not by my side, so I have to rely on myself. "Could that weird old man really raise a soul boy, or provide a lot of wild ghosts and dead bodies?" I kept thinking in my heart along the way. I remember hearing from my master that there are warlocks raising ghosts to make money in Chenzhou Prefecture, Yongshun Prefecture, Guizhou and other deep mountains and old forests.The ghost or soul boy who is about to be raised is sold to others at a high price. Most of the people who buy the soul boy have evil intentions to seek huge profits, or have grievances and cannot avenge them, so they have to ask the soul boy to avenge.Those who get ghost cubs do have the ability to call wind and rain, which is sought after by many people. The master said that the method of raising ghosts in Chenzhou Prefecture is different from that in other places, and their method is also very special and terrifying. The specific method is to first take out a stillborn baby's corpse, and then soak the whole baby's corpse in a special potion for seventy-seven forty-nine days.He holds rituals and recites mantras for him every day, and after forty-nine days, he will shrink to the size of a palm, and then he will be handed over to the donors to take back for offerings.At 12 o'clock every night, the donor must drop blood to support the baby's corpse without interruption, otherwise it will have to start again. After the blood has been dripped for forty-nine days, you can start asking him to do things. In addition, the corpse raiser needs to drop blood to make offerings at twelve o'clock in the evening on the first and fifteenth day of every month, and offer nine sticks of incense each time. Seeing the ghost cub beside me, I suddenly had a strange thought: Could it be that the ghost cub is also a soul boy raised by us?He always saves us from danger when we encounter accidents. When we were thinking wildly, we realized that we had come to a mountain forest. Looking up, a wooden sign at the fork in the road reads "West Village".We followed the road sign into the mountain.There was hardly anyone on the road. The mountains are deep and the trees are dense.Suddenly, the ghost cub grabbed my sleeve and shook it violently, pointing to the mountainside.I looked along the fingers of the ghost cub, and found a familiar figure looming on the mountainside.But I couldn't remember whose back it was. After a while of contemplation, I finally remembered that it was the Taoist priest who performed the lotus seed blossom yesterday.Strange, what is he doing in this deep mountain?Does he live here in seclusion?Or have ulterior motives? I decided to follow him first before making a plan.The ghost cub and the demon followed him quietly.After a while, after crossing a mountain depression, I came to a hidden mountain nest. I saw him looking back, drilling into the thorn bushes, and suddenly disappeared. I thought to myself: This demon will not trick us, will it?Things have come to this point, and I can't take care of so much. Ghost Cub and Yao hurried to the jungle where he disappeared, searched for a while, and finally found a very small hole in the bushes.We entered along the entrance of the cave, and it turned out to be a very big cave. When I entered the cave, I suddenly felt enlightened.The cave can accommodate hundreds of people.What is strange is that there is a statue of Lao Tzu in the cave, and there is a huge alchemy furnace. A whisk is placed on the table in front of the statue of Lao Tzu, but the table is very clean. It seems that there are people active in this cave.After staying in the cave for a while, the cave was lonely and silent. We turned around lightly, and found another hole behind the statue of Lao Tzu. When I probed out to have a look, it turned out to be another scene.Out of the cave gate, a short thatched house stands abruptly on a rare flat place in the mountain nest. I slipped over with the ghost cub and demon, and heard someone talking inside. "Senior brother, please cast a spell. The matter requested by the owner of the oil mill in Xianrenqiao has been completed." I peeped in through the window and found that the one who spoke was the Taoist priest who cast the spell yesterday, and the other was an old man with gray beard and hair, dressed as a Taoist priest, he should be the strange old man I was looking for. It's really hard to find a place to go through iron shoes, and it doesn't take much effort to get it.It's just that they didn't expect that these two Taoist priests were brothers. As for what they said about the owner of the Wangcun Oil Press, after listening for a while, they roughly understood what was going on. It turned out that Xu Xian, the owner of an oil mill in Xianrenqiao, married a young and beautiful woman as his wife, but he didn't want this woman to be frivolous by nature, and she cheated on her soon after they got married.Soon, the matter was learned by the owner of the oil mill. He hated his wife and her lover so much that he just wanted to clean them up.Because I have a head and a reputation in the local area, and I don't want to carry the lawsuit, I had to swallow my breath and keep my expressions. Later, through the help of informants in the rivers and lakes, the Taoist priest who visited the deep mountains of Xicun to raise soul boys can use the power of ghosts to control other people's thoughts, words and deeds, and relieve people's heart diseases. The boss of the oil press promised him a lot of money, and asked Taoist priests to help him settle his worries. One day, his wife and his girlfriend opened a room in a certain inn and never came out again. The waiter from the back shop opened the door and entered.After being sent to the hospital, the doctor found that the heartbeats of the two were normal, but he couldn't separate the two even after trying his best. The adulterer and adulteress hugged each other for two hours amidst the crowd watching and spurning them, but then they separated automatically.After the two woke up, they both committed suicide by jumping off the building under the eyes of everyone. "Brother, this is the reward from the owner of the oil mill, please check it." The Taoist priest who claimed to be a junior took out a leather bag full of silver. The white-haired Taoist priest took the skin bag, took out some silver from it and gave it to the younger brother, and then threw the skin bag on the bed behind him. "This time, we saw that our plan was about to succeed. I didn't expect a few morticians to show up suddenly yesterday, ruining our plan. Brother, I followed your instructions, and last night I looted two children and put them on Tofu Slope In a corner of the mountain. After a while, we will deal with the two children again and send you to raise ghost cubs..." These two monsters are really vicious enough!I can't wait to rush out and kill them immediately.But I wanted to see what the hell they were up to, so I held back for now. It turned out that the recent inexplicable massacres near Tofu Slope were completely caused by these two demons. The white-haired old man manipulated the soul boy to create a terrifying atmosphere, and then his junior brother came forward to cast spells and spread rumors, and then defrauded the mountain people of huge amounts of offerings and incense money to obtain ill-gotten gains. "Tomorrow afternoon, go to the busiest place on the street to spread the word, saying that the missing children were killed by the morticians. Then you warn those villagers, you must quickly soak those morticians in the pig cages, otherwise it will continue A child is missing." "In order to convince those villagers, bring a live monkey with you when you go, hang it on a wooden pole in the street, and say that the live monkey will be attacked by monsters in a short while, its throat will be broken, and its breath will die. And die. At that time, I will bring the soul boy with me, and cast spells secretly at the side to help you..." The two demons were plotting in the house.I gritted my teeth, trying to fight them. However, after thinking about it, even if they are subdued, the villagers may not necessarily believe my statement. As the saying goes, catch a traitor and catch a pair, catch a thief and catch a spoil.Only in this way can we be convincing.I decided to hold back the urge for the time being, and use my tricks to set a trap for these two monsters. I looked into the room, trying to find the soul boy raised by the Taoist priest, but I didn't find it, but saw several small bone coffins the size of a palm neatly placed on the table in the corner of the room. Could it be that there was a soul boy inside? I pulled the ghost cub back and turned around. When I passed the cave, I accidentally discovered a row of sand jars with huge mouths hidden behind the statue of Lao Tzu, there were as many as seven or eight large and small sand jars. "Ghost boy, ghost boy!" Ghost boy demon kept walking around those sand jars, I quickly covered his mouth. Seeing the reaction of the ghost cub, I opened the lid of the sand jar, and was surprised to find that there was a baby soaked in potion! I was quite shocked, and opened the other sand jars one by one, and there were babies in each jar without exception. These babies are of different sizes and ages, and the smallest one is not yet formed, so it is estimated that it is a fetus in the mother's womb.The oldest was only three years old. And on the side of the sand tank, there are several wooden boxes. I opened it and saw that there were some small wooden figures inside, and the little wooden figures had amulets on them. I guess, these are the ghost cubs raised by the demon way.Then he moved the sand jar outside the cave and poured out the baby inside.At the same time, he recited the supernatural mantra.After chanting the supernatural mantra, the souls of these babies will be scattered, and they cannot become soul children or be manipulated by others. At the same time, I took the wooden box together and left the cave. Coming down the mountain, I opened the wooden box, threw the little wooden man into the water, and let it drift away with the stream. Back at the inn on the street, I told Tian Gudao about the situation, and after whispering, Tian Gudao gave a knowing smile. I rushed to the patriarch's house overnight and informed the patriarch of the situation.The patriarch is also considered sensible, and expressed his willingness to cooperate with our actions tomorrow. At noon the next day, we set up our positions at the busiest intersection here.The patriarch also organized many neighbors to watch the excitement. Tian Gudao came forward and said: "The demon will come to spread rumors later. He will definitely say: 'The two children who disappeared last night were killed by the morticians, you must quickly soak those mortalists in the pig cage Otherwise, there will continue to be children missing. Today I brought a live monkey, and now I hang it on a wooden pole in the street. After a while, the live monkey will be attacked by monsters, its throat will be broken, and its breath will die. This is all the work of the morticians', when the Yaodao said this, everyone must keep calm, don't let the Yaodao find out, and ruin our plan..." When everyone heard what Tian Gudao said, they were both surprised and looking forward to it. We retreat in stealth. After a while, the Yaodao really walked towards the lively place with a monkey on his shoulder.After he stood still, he called everyone to come over, and he really spoke those words. The onlookers were silent.There were still a few people in the crowd who couldn't help laughing. The Taoist saw that it had no effect, which was beyond his own surprise. I mixed with Tian Gudao in the crowd and searched around, but there was no sign of the white-haired old man. After searching for a while, he finally found that the white-haired old man was hiding upstairs of a restaurant on the street, taking something out of his arms. "Not good! That old man has started manipulating Lingtong!" I yelled.I asked the patriarch to take a few strong men to follow me to the upstairs of the restaurant to arrest the old Taoist. I saw the white-haired old man holding a small coffin box in his hand, and opened the lid to reveal a puppet with a spell in his mouth. Gui Xiyao jumped forward and knocked down the thing in his hand. "Take him down!" The white-haired old man was tied up before he could react.The coffin box in my hand fell down, and I picked up the puppet. Everyone escorted the old white-haired Taoist to the intersection, and the Taoist priest with the monkey was still instigating, inciting the onlookers to stare at the monkey on the wooden pole... Seeing his senior brother, he was dumbfounded.Onlookers rushed up and tied him again. The two were discouraged and slumped on the ground.Others threw eggs and vegetable leaves at them one after another... I cast a spell on the puppet of the white-haired Taoist priest, then burned it with fire, and told the villagers to go to the cave in the back mountain to rescue the two children. The patriarch had also asked Tian Xiaomei and Wang Erya to be sent over. The two women were very happy to see us. After knowing the reason, they smiled brightly at us. The few of us bid farewell to the patriarch and the villagers, and continued on our way. Looking at the master and servant, I feel that they are indeed a burden.The few things that happened recently, if we don't need to take them into account, it will be much easier for us to deal with them.So, I wanted to drive them away, so as not to tie our hands and feet. I quietly shared my thoughts with Tian Gudao.Tian Gudao had a different look on his face.I could see that he was unwilling. To be honest, driving corpses is definitely the loneliest and boring job in the world.What you face every day is a dead corpse that can't speak. Even if you have a companion to drive the corpse together, because of the rules of this business, you can't laugh and laugh along the way. Currently, with two women as companions, this feeling of loneliness and depression can be diluted to a certain extent. Especially the special smell released by women can make people energetic and happy. Everything has its advantages and disadvantages.Chasing corpses is something that has nothing to do with women, because according to the rules, women are not allowed to engage in the business of chasing corpses.And we drove the corpse with two women as companions. I am afraid that only we have enjoyed this kind of treatment.In the eyes of any sect or mortician, this is an extremely absurd thing. If things go on like this, our newly established "Ming Pai Chasing Corpses" will soon become "Hua Pai Chasing Corpses". Leaving aside this absurdity, women can easily become our burdens at critical moments, especially in unexpected situations, which will increase our worries and restrict us from casting spells. So, I insisted on letting the two women leave.Even though Tian Gudao was very reluctant, he couldn't find a suitable reason. Besides, I am still a senior brother, so I still have to respect it. Hearing that we were going to drive them away, Tian Xiaomei and Wang Erya lost the joy of talents just now, and their faces were unhappy: "Hmph, you are a dead scholar, we are not willing to go with you, who do you think you are? Who cares!" The two women were full of anger, and walked away...