Chapter 2 Chapter 2 The Station on Matou Mountain

In the kitchen of grandma's house, the family looked at the exhausted Taoist priest and asked how he was doing. Wen Bin looked at the expectant family in front of him, shook his head and said, "I'm afraid there will be trouble today." When grandma heard what he said, she knelt down with a plop, and then the third aunt and uncle also knelt down, and grandma cried and begged Wen Bin: "Master Daoist, back then we had eyes that didn't recognize the true God, so we drove away your master." , you must not blame us, you must save my daughter. The doctor has already announced that the family is preparing for the funeral, and we have no other choice. Right now, we can only count on you to save her. Our Xu family has been beaten for a lifetime The coffin has never shorted people for timber, never overcharged people, and when they meet poor people who can't afford it, even sending a thin-skinned coffin to them is considered a lot of evil, why is life so hard!"

Wen Bin quickly pulled up his grandma, and said, "Sister-in-law, I understand the family teacher's matter very well. He behaves very strangely, let alone you, sometimes I can't understand it, so I don't blame you. It's just your daughter's birth date." It's the reversal of yin and yang. This year, there was a catastrophe. In addition, when the little girl passed the reservoir that night, the five elements were short of water, so she happened to be met by the little ghost. According to my calculations, it should be the fifteenth day of this month. God, today is already fourteen, and now the little ghost is still in the room, but I temporarily tied the girl's soul with a fairy rope, and sealed the exit of the house with a talisman, I reckon the little ghost is still waiting It's about stealing souls."

Grandma was terrified when she heard that the little ghost was haunted. She had heard about it from some old people before, but it happened to her daughter now. It was a lie to say that she was not afraid, so she boldly asked Wen Bin: How many brats?" Wen Bin stretched out two fingers: "Two, one male and one female, are transformed by two children." As soon as the words came out, the grandfather's family had some clues. In the early years, two children touched the snails in the reservoir, accidentally fell into the reservoir and drowned. The children went to play in the reservoir again, and it was not until the reservoir was renovated that my cousin took me there to play.

Wen Bin went on to say: "Those two children died in vain, so I have been trying to pull the two backs. Maybe something will happen in your village on the 30th day of this month, and it will be a boy." Grandma asked if there was any way? Wen Bin said: "There is a way, but..." Grandma thought he wanted some money, so she immediately took out some "Great Unity" cards at home and handed them to Wen Bin. But Wen Bin waved his hand: "Sister-in-law, go and prepare two kinds of colored paper, red and green, and then get some food." Grandma's house does have this colored paper, and my third aunt usually likes paper-cutting, so after a while, red and green paper is available, covering a table.

Wen Bin said to the third aunt: "Take the scissors and cut out two sets of clothes, one for red and one for green. It's the size that a child would wear. It can be whatever you want, as long as it looks like clothes." Aunt San was timid, but she had a pair of skillful hands. After a while, she cut out two sets of small clothes and handed them to Wen Bin.Wen Bin took the paper clothes, put them in a bamboo plaque, and told his grandmother to prepare six dishes, three meat and three vegetables, plus two glasses of wine, two empty bowls, and two pairs of chopsticks on the bowls. Put it in the plaque.

When everything was ready, half an hour later, Wen Bin put these things at the gate of grandma's house, and then lit three sticks of incense and two candles again. When the incense was finished burning, there was a rooster crowing from the chicken coop. Wen Bin yelled that he was not good, and immediately rushed into the aunt's room, bit his middle finger, tapped it directly on the center of the aunt's eyebrows, and asked grandpa to Get the biggest rooster out of the coop. Grandpa didn't dare to be negligent, so he quickly brought the big reed rooster. Wen Bin took the rooster, let out the blood with a knife, sprinkled it around the aunt's bed, then exited the room, and walked to the place in front of the door where the downed rice was placed. Before the case, he closed his eyes and shouted, "Hey!"

Then he took out a treasured sword and a big seal from the gossip Qiankun bag on his body, the sword body was green and faintly exuded a cold air, the shape was somewhat simple and elegant, and the connection between the sword body and the hilt was completely natural. On one side, the hilt of the sword is a diagram of eight trigrams; the big seal is cast in bronze, about the size of an adult's palm, engraved on it: Dao Sutra Master Treasure! The Taoist priest held the sword in his right hand and the seal in his left hand, and began to chant incantations, like an old gentleman descending to earth. While chanting, suddenly his right hand trembled, the sword light flashed, he picked up a talisman on the table, and pointed the sword at the aunt on the bed, With a sound of "hissing", the talisman paper caught, and then the second talisman. After the two talisman papers were burned, Wen Bin took out a piece of ink-black paper and drew a talisman with great effort. Take out the big seal, press it towards the black talisman, and stick it in the aunt's room, this time it is the eight-way talisman, next to the eight-way talisman that was pasted before, and then close the door and come out.

Wen Bin told grandma and grandpa to take their two children to the side of the reservoir, put the paper clothes and vegetable bowls they had just prepared on the side of the reservoir, and come back after dawn, and keep quiet, don’t look in the direction of home, and Ask the little uncle to bring the little black dog over to him. Grandma and grandpa took the third aunt and uncle, and went to the reservoir with a bamboo plaque. The two-mile walk that day was extremely long. On the road, grandpa walked in front with the plaque. In the back, I went to the dam of the reservoir according to Wen Bin's instructions, turned my back to the direction of home, lit incense candles, set up the dishes, hid in the small dilapidated pumping room of the reservoir, and waited until dawn.

After dawn, the grandma's family rushed home. When they got to the door, the door was open. Grandma strode in. Seeing Wen Bin collapsed outside the door of the aunt and passed out, the grandfather hurried in to see the aunt. My aunt was lying on the bed, sound asleep, nothing unusual, the two of them glanced at each other, and went to help Wen Bin to rest in their room, at this time Wen Bin woke up, very weak, and said to the grandmother: "It's all right now. , let her rest well." Wen Bin slept almost until the next night and woke up at the same time as my aunt. When she woke up, she said she was hungry. Grandma made egg noodles for her. This time, she ate deliciously.

Wen Bin also got up for dinner. During dinner, grandma asked what happened last night. Wen Bin said: "The two little ghosts heard the rooster crowing. It must be dawn, and they are going to steal their souls." He glanced around. The two things he had - the big seal and the sword, gave a wry smile, "If it weren't for these two things, I'm afraid they would have succeeded, but they have left for the time being." After dinner, grandma respectfully served tea to Wen Bin, and then took out a bundle of "Great Unity" and handed it to Wen Bin. There used to be a superstitious activity in the countryside, and it was good to invite a god or a fairy or something. Wrap a red envelope, besides, it seems that my aunt is really no big deal now, so it is also appropriate to give a red envelope.

Cha Wenbin smiled and waved his hands: "Sister-in-law, I don't do things for money. I can't accept your red envelope. A person who cultivates the Tao is to help everyone. This is my job. What's more, the teacher and this child It can be regarded as a predestined relationship, and money matters are absolutely unacceptable, and if the patriarch knows, he will also blame him." How could grandma be willing? This benefactor saved her daughter's life and didn't take any money. I really don't know what to do. Cha Wenbin took a sip of tea, and continued: "But the child is fine. I'm afraid I have something to do tonight. I won't be able to go back alone tonight. The kid was originally the child's life, and I hurt him." Daoxing, tonight is the night of the full moon again, the little ghost has a lot of grievances, I guess he will come to seek revenge on me tonight, if my master is still alive, it will not be difficult to get rid of these two little ghosts, but my skills are limited, until now I need to ask my brother to do me a favor." Grandpa quickly stood up: "If you have something to do, just ask your benefactor, I will definitely do it." Cha Wenbin patted the head of the little black dog next to him: "I expected these two brats to rob me on the road, brother, help me find three pig butchers, and take me home. As long as I get home, These two brats can't do anything to me." The pig butcher, who sees blood all the year round, has a very murderous aura on his body. Ordinary little ghosts don't dare to go to trouble. Cha Wenbin needs three pig butchers to accompany him home. It can be seen that the two little ghosts are really not simple this time. . At that time, almost every village had a pig butcher, so it was not difficult to find three pig butchers. Grandpa called three pig butchers shortly after he went out, and each of them brought a pig butcher with a sharp knife. Grandpa briefly explained the matter to the three pig butchers. All three of them were rough, sloppy, and looked fierce. They took the cigarettes handed by grandpa, drank a few sips of wine, and waited until late at night. At twelve o'clock sharp, I set off from my grandmother's house and sent Cha Wenbin home. Later, I also went to verify these pig butchers. Two of them were still alive. They said that although it was summer that night, they felt that there was a cold wind blowing all the time. Wen Bin didn't allow them to turn their heads or speak, and told them to surround him with sharp knives and keep going. After Wen Bin arrived home, he gave each of them a pack of cigarettes, a bottle of wine, and a talisman. Only then did the three of them go home, and they shut themselves up at home for seven days. The next day, grandparents and aunt went to see him with things, but he closed the door to thank the guests. During Cha Wenbin's retreat, my grandmother took my aunt to the hospital for an examination, and everything turned out to be normal. Even the doctor who announced that my grandmother was going to prepare for his funeral was inconceivable. For seven days in a row, grandma went to Cha's house to wait. On the eighth morning, when Cha Wenbin opened the door, grandma walked in, and asked my aunt to kneel down and kowtow to Cha Wenbin three times to thank the benefactor for saving his life.This Cha Wenbin is also a straightforward person, and once again declined his grandmother's money, and his grandmother wanted to keep the money, so Cha Wenbin had no choice but to say: "Sister-in-law, if you really want to thank me, then your little black Dog, can you give it to me?" Not to mention a dog, but a fat pig, as long as he asks, grandma will send it over without hesitation, so she immediately nodded and agreed, saying that grandpa will send it later. Cha Wenbin said: "It's not that I want to covet my sister-in-law's family, it's just that this dog has yin and yang eyes, and it's a pure black dog. It can recognize ghosts and ghosts. Let it be raised in your family. Sooner or later it will cause trouble. Let it go to me." , can still be of some use, just don’t blame me, sister-in-law.” Later, I heard from my grandma that my uncle had lost his temper and cried at home because of that little black dog, but that dog really became Cha Wenbin’s partner and appeared in another story, of course. That's another story. A few days later, Zha Wenbin came to visit, had lunch at his grandmother's house, went to the homes of the two children who fell into the water, asked where the children were salvaged and buried, and then took the children's parents to the cemetery. At that time, when a child died, he rolled it up with a broken mat, found a small mountain bag, dug a hole and buried it, without leaving any tombstone or the like. On the way there, Cha Wenbin asked the child's family whether they had been to the graveyard again after the child's death. The child's father said that he was afraid of being sad, and he had never been there since the child's death. They only know which mountain to bury, and they don't know anything else.Zha Wenbin held the compass and counted while walking, and the group walked all the way to Matou Mountain. Speaking of Matou Mountain, I also know that it is on a very high mountain directly opposite the gate of my grandmother’s house. It is named Matou Mountain because it looks like a horse, and there is such a protruding mountain in the flat ground. It feels a little weird. When they climbed to the top of the mountain, the sun was almost setting, and they finally found the small earth bag where the two children were buried. When the people of the two families saw their children lying here and suffering, they were overwhelmed with sadness and thoughts, knelt on the ground and cried loudly.Zha Wenbin didn't care about them, he just stepped around the grave to measure it. After a cigarette, Wenbin got a little confidence, and called the two families to stand together, saying that he would dig up the mound. The two families disagreed, of course, and one of the child's father wanted to beat him, cursing: "Where did you come from, a fake Taoist priest, and you still want to dig my child's grave!" Cha Wenbin was not annoyed, and asked them, "Do you know what kind of mountain this is?" Of course everyone knows that this is Matou Mountain! "Matou Mountain? Niutoumamian! Yes, this mountain is a post station in Niutoumamian. The children of your two families happened to be buried on the back of this horse. They left Niutoumamian in the village to make a pair of ghosts. Do not reincarnate! Dig it out, I will do a new ceremony and move it to another place, you don’t want your baby to commit crimes in the ground, do you?” Everyone in the village also knew what happened to my aunt a few days ago. When he said this, the two families became a little scared, thinking that if their baby really turned out to be what he said, it would be too much. peaceful.After discussing for a while, the two men agreed, and the people next to them started digging with hoes. The two children were not buried deep. It didn't take long before they dug up two straw mats. The moment they opened the straw mats, everyone was stunned. The two children had been dead for more than two years. Not only did they not rot, they actually It was still a little lifelike, as if it was asleep, the two families were so scared that they dared not move anymore, you must know that this is June Day, not only is it not rotten, but it also has no smell! Cha Wenbin sighed "Hey": "Unexpectedly, it has become like this, the corpses of these two dolls can no longer be brought into the village, or a plague will be caused sooner or later, and now they can only be burned. Find a new place to bury." Everyone knows that people will rot after death, but the appearance of these two dolls... isn't it haunted?Now that the matter is up to now, this Taoist priest can only make the decision, how can outsiders dare to say more. Cha Wenbin ordered everyone to use dry firewood to build a shelf on the spot.After the firewood shelf was set up, Cha Wenbin ordered the two corpses to be placed on it, and then inserted three incense sticks in front. After taking a look, he lit the fire and began to recite the supernatural mantra, sending the two little ghosts to the underworld check in. After the burning, the ashes were collected, and everyone was led down the mountain. The ashes of the two children were buried beside the reservoir, and a monument was erected. , and then bid farewell and went home. My aunt had a dream that night, in which two children came to say goodbye to her and bowed to her, asking her to thank a Taoist priest.The next day, grandma went to find Zha Wenbin to interpret the dream. Cha Wenbin nodded and said that the two little ghosts should have left, and asked grandma to tell the villagers not to bury the dead on Matou Mountain in the future. Although my aunt is fine, but after such a trouble, she is often in poor health and catches a cold easily, and she didn't get better until she was an adult. After such an incident, Zha Wenbin gradually gained some fame, and many people invited him to perform a funeral, but he never took any money. In any village, there was a child about my age who was frightened and went to find him. He, Zha Wenbin usually burns a talisman and drinks it with water. Of course, he also knows a little Chinese medicine. Sometimes it is not a bewitching but an illness. He will also prescribe some herbal medicine. If it is serious, he recommends going to the hospital. up. At that time, many people went to apprentice and wanted to learn this craft from him, but Cha Wenbin never accepted apprentices, and usually went to work in the fields and went to the mountains to cut firewood like ordinary people. If there was no such thing as my aunt, everyone Didn't even know he was a Taoist priest. As for me seeing him, it was many years later. That year, when I was six years old, something happened. Our village is also in a mountainous area. There is a big temple in our village, which is still built of gray bricks. According to my father, I don’t know which dynasty and generation that temple was built. Our great-grandfather came here when he fled from other places. At that time, there was that temple, but no one managed it at that time. A hundred years later, it looks even more dilapidated. In the 1960s, a large part of this temple was set on fire, and the bricks of the entire temple wall were burnt red. Only the main hall remained unburned. Gradually, some people built houses and so on. Bricks were picked there to build houses, but they didn't know how to do it. The houses built with these temple wall bricks were easy to fall down and killed a family. Later, everyone used the bricks there to build pigsty. Our house also has a brick there. That brick was broken when I was a child. That brick is very heavy. One side is carved with a unicorn, and the other side is bare. According to the current saying, it should be a relief. The brick was picked up by my father when he was playing with it when he was a child. This incident is related to a temple...