Please call me Huanxian

Chapter 70 It’s convenient to call the soul back to the sun
I took the bamboo box with me and rode a carriage fifteen miles west to Guguan Village.

The young man's name is Gu Xinghe. He has studied in a private school for two years. He speaks very clearly. Regardless of the time, he just stays with him in silence and never talks too much. He lets the invited Taoist priest enter the green brick courtyard and greets the disciples. The lady who came out of the kitchen on the east side quickly cooked sesame beans, ginger salt soup and tea to entertain the guests.

Liu Xianfeng flew up and sent a message: "Sir, there is a ghost in this yard."

She had spent several months living with the ghost of Hu Sanniang in Hongliu Village, and was very familiar with the cold ghost aura.

Xu Yuanchang looked at the small yard, cleaned it up and tidy, and replied via voice transmission: "Grandma Ai is a goddess who has passed the yin. She often deals with ghosts. Being contaminated by ghosts is nothing."

The Yin energy coming from the bedroom on the right was very obvious to his eyes.

"Don't be too busy being polite, take me to see the patient first."

Xu Yuanchang walked into the main room, glanced at the shrine and said.

The entire house and yard were extremely quiet, with a faint scent of incense cultivated all year round. There were no children playing around, not even chickens, ducks, or dogs.

Gu Xinghe hurriedly stepped forward and pushed open the bedroom door on the right. The light inside was dim, and the dark window linen was drawn.

Lying on the brown wooden bed was an old woman with a peaceful expression. Except for her pale face, she seemed motionless in sleep.

Xu Yuanchang stretched out his hand to take a pulse. In front of him, Granny Ai was still alive and her breath was weak. There was only a shell left in her body, and her soul left her body and was nowhere to be found.

Liu Xianfeng sent a message and asked: "Will her soul really fall into the netherworld and never come back?"

She was curious about how the souls of living people found their way to the underworld.

You can also go to the underworld to find ghosts and ask questions.

Amazing.

Xu Yuanchang did not answer, but said to Gu Xinghe who was standing aside: "Take me to the shrine where Grandma Ai worships. You don't have to go in."

People who have passed through the underworld must worship ghosts and gods. Regardless of the size of the shrine, they must always offer incense and worship.

It is a folk Shinto rule.

Gu Xing and Busy walked to the opposite side and opened a narrow wooden door. The windows inside were high and opened very small.

The heavy black cloth was pulled back, making the inside of the shrine as dark as night, cold and chilly.
Xu Yuanchang waved his hand to stop Gu Xinghe from getting a lamp to light up, and asked him to wait outside for a while.

He walked into the small shrine and immediately saw the Sangu God in the small shrine on the north wall. There was a thick cloth mat used for kneeling and worshiping all year round on the ground. After careful inspection, there was no hidden ghost.

He quickly walked out of the shrine, closed the wooden door, and asked Gu Xinghe outside.

"This time, your Majesty is helping someone to ask questions. Did the person in the master's family pass away more than four or seven days ago?"

Gu Xinghe said with a look of surprise on his face, "Yes, it was just after April 7th. My mother originally declined. The master also offered me a generous reward, so my mother wanted to give it a try... Sigh."

It is not easy for a living person to make money from a dead person.

Xu Yuanchang suddenly asked: "How old is your child?"

Gu Xinghe was stunned for a moment, and said a little embarrassedly: "I have no heirs yet."

Xu Yuanchang didn't ask any more questions, walked to the main room, took down the bamboo box behind him, and said: "After dark, I will burn incense and invite the ghosts and gods to inquire about the situation. If you cannot bring back your soul, you can quickly invite someone else tomorrow morning. There is no room for delay.”

This was also the first time he encountered such a thing.

Gu Xinghe said with a smile in a low voice: "I'm sorry to trouble you, Taoist Priest. I don't know...how to reward Taoist Priest?"

"There are rules in the industry. If you can bring back your soul safely, you will know how to pay the reward. It doesn't matter how much, it depends on your heart. If things don't work out, Xu will not take any money and will return overnight."

Xu Yuanchang said calmly.

Gu Xinghe breathed a sigh of relief. He first asked a Taoist priest from a nearby village to save the person, but was declined.

The Taoist priest recommended the famous Taoist Xu, but said that Taoist Xu's fees were unusual.

You must see the patient before performing the procedure. You can ask Taoist Master Xu about his remuneration. If you can't afford it, just send him back with a meal of good wine and food and kind words.

After greeting Taoist Xu to sit down, he quickly went to the kitchen to serve tea, assigned his wife to take down a piece of bacon, and borrowed some eggs from a neighbor for dinner. He was busy going to the village to buy chicken, fish, pork, wine and other items.

Their family has been unable to raise poultry and livestock for several years.

Xu Yuanchang drank fragrant sesame and bean soup tea and explained the rules of Yin people to the curious baby.

On the road of spiritual practice, you should see all kinds of new things, which should be regarded as broadening your knowledge and experience.

"People who have passed through the underworld are divided into two categories. One is the soul-retractor. They do not need to go to the underworld in person. Instead, they use the worshiped Sangu God to burn incense to summon the ghosts within four or seven days of the death to ask questions. But it is not always successful. .

"The other is the real way to go through the underworld. It is said that the person worshiping the ghost king needs to have the true ability to inherit. Otherwise, if you go to the underworld, you will be seriously ill when you come back, or you will not be able to come back." Liu Xianfeng blinked, Suddenly he came to his senses and said: "Young Master You means that Granny Ai went to the underworld herself in order to earn huge rewards, and then she could not come back."

Xu Yuanchang nodded and said: "After forty-nine days, the dead souls could not come out of the netherworld, so Grandma Ai took the risk and went down by herself. I can only do my best to obey fate, offer incense and ask ghosts and gods to ask about the situation, and regard it as doing good deeds and accumulating virtue."

It also enriches one’s own spiritual practice experience.

Liu Xianfeng's face was full of admiration: "Sir, you know so much."

Xu Yuanchang smiled and said: "See more, learn more and listen more. If you have a wider knowledge, you will naturally understand more."

He was good at taking advantage of all opportunities. During the three months of studying in Tao Palace, there were eighteen classmates, each with their own specialties and abilities. He was among them, especially what he learned in the last month, which will benefit him throughout his life.

Enjoy a meal prepared by the host with all his heart.

After it gets dark.

After Xu Yuanchang cleans his hands, he arranges the altar table in the yard, places offerings, water and wine, lights white candles, burns four sticks of incense, holds the incense in his hand, and chants a mantra to invite ghosts and gods to appear.

In the world of spiritual practice, it is not a secret to ask ghosts and gods to cast spells. It is recorded in many ancient Shinto books and is divided into many different schools.

But whether it works or not depends on the relationship between people, and the results are different.

He was not sure. This was the first time he tried it. If the ghosts in the nearby area ignored him, he would have no choice but to give up.

It is said that capable monks can recite incantations during the day to make ghosts and gods appear.

After reciting the mantra, I stopped to light the incense, and all that was left was waiting.

If there is no movement after burning the incense stick, you can remove the sacrifice and leave, but you can't force it.

Suddenly, Liu Xianfeng called out via voice transmission: "Here we come, the ghost messenger is here."

Xu Yuanchang also noticed that the atmosphere in the yard was gloomy and different. The temperature dropped a lot. The sacrifices quickly lost their color. The floating incense pointed straight upward, as if being enjoyed by some invisible being. He cupped his fists in the air and saluted.

A wave of vibration reached my ears and turned into a vague voice: "What's the matter?"

Xu Yuanchang asked respectfully: "Excuse me, I would like to ask Grandma Ai how to cross the yin. Now that the soul cannot return to yang, is there any way to accommodate it?"

He said it tactfully.

A blurry black shadow appeared in front of him, his eyes were like a dim will-o'-the-wisp, looking at the Taoist priest who was burning incense to invite ghosts and gods and the little tree charm on his shoulder.

Xiao Shumei was made uncomfortable by the sight. She didn't know whether she should fly to the ground or continue to stay on the young master's shoulder.

You were careless. Next time you will ask the young master for instructions in advance.

The ghost figure could feel the faint aura of the Yuanyin Shrine on the Taoist priest's body, and as the incense floated faintly, he replied:

"Ai Yue'e went to the underworld with a mortal soul without authorization, intending to disturb the underworld. On the way, she was noticed by Ben Cha, and her soul was trapped in the mortal passage as punishment. Since you interceded on her behalf, Ben Cha will spare her a life. If you dare to do it again next time, I will never forgive you lightly."

Xu Yuanchang did not expect that the ghost boss he met was so easy to talk to, so he hurriedly clasped his fists and said, "Thank you for your mercy, sir, but do you need to prepare any special thank you gifts?"

He guessed that if no one tried to intercede, Granny Ai's soul might not be able to return to the sun?
If he encounters a ghost who is hard to talk to, doesn't show face, or doesn't show up at all, he can't do anything. Granny Ai breaks the rules first, and it is the ghost who has the final say on how to punish her.

The vague ghost shook his head: "No need to bother."

Then it disappeared into the night sky without a trace.

The gloom in the yard dissipated and the temperature quickly returned to normal.

Liu Xianfeng patted her chest, peeked around, and said through her voice: "I've gained new knowledge following the young master. I'm so nervous that I don't even dare to look at that ghost."

Xu Yuanchang smiled and said to the closed door of the main hall: "You can open the door now. You go and have a look at your grandma. He should wake up soon. Let's give him some meat porridge later."

It is done by inviting ghosts and gods to do it, and it is taboo that people have too many eyes to make it look bad to mortals.

There is a saying that "when ghosts appear, mortals should avoid them".

Gu Xinghe opened the door and heard his wife's cry from the bedroom: "Mom, you woke up, you scared us."

He was so pleasantly surprised that he apologized to the Taoist priest who came in and hurriedly ran to the bedroom next door.

When I was in the main room, I heard Daochang Xu talking to himself in the courtyard. In just a few words, he completed the spell to summon the soul, and the effect was immediate.

But it was much faster than his own mother's practice of jumping and shaking.

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(End of this chapter)