ghost craftsman

Chapter 10
Hearing what my brother said, I didn't dare to ask any more questions, so I had to stand at the door.The brother probably was afraid that I would get sleepy, so he stuffed a pack of cigarettes for me when he entered the door, and he carried a big rooster, three catties of yellow paper, a pair of red wax, and several colorful paper clothes.

Speaking of the paper clothes, there is a story worth mentioning here. When the three of us were eating, the senior brother suddenly made a request to Wei Dezhen, saying that Wei Dezhen should find black, red, green, blue, purple, orange, and yellow clothes. They asked Wei Dezhen to cut these colored papers into clothes. Among them, the black colored papers were cut into the clothes of adults, and the remaining six colors were cut into clothes of children.

To say that Wei Dezhen's hands are also very dexterous, he found some colored paper in less than a moment, and cut the colored paper into clothes according to the brother's advice, and the brother wrote some words on the back of the paper clothes. I wanted to see what he wrote, but my brother didn't show it to me.

However, I heard my senior brother ask Wei Dezhen a few questions, mostly asking Wei Dezhen's man's date of birth, and the time of death of several children who died in her womb.

Therefore, I reckoned that the birthdays of those people should be written on the back of those paper clothes.

Soon, the senior brother carried those things into the main room. What I couldn't understand was that the senior brother had just entered the main room, but he didn't go straight forward, but stopped for a while in front of the coffin, muttering a few words softly, Finally, he picked up the paper clothes and thought for a while, then waved the paper clothes in front of the coffin, and finally put the paper clothes away.

After finishing all this, the senior brother sighed deeply, shook his head, and continued to move forward.

At that time, I didn't quite understand what Senior Brother meant, but I realized later that there was a reason why Senior Brother did this. Generally, when a coffin is finished, those lonely ghosts nearby must be thinking about it.After all, the reason why lonely ghosts are called lonely ghosts is that, to put it bluntly, they have no place to live, and generally newly laid coffins are unowned before they can do anything.

This kind of unowned thing is a sweet pastry in the eyes of the ghosts. The brother stopped in front of the coffin, seemingly doing nothing, but he was there to persuade the ghosts to leave. He took the paper clothes to those The lonely ghosts promised, which meant that when the coffins were ready, they would burn some clothes to save them from suffering from hunger and cold.

Of course, this approach is derived from the traditional virtues of China, courtesy first and soldiers later, senior brother was lucky that time, he sent away the ghosts in the coffin with just a little favor, if the ghosts in the coffin were unwilling to leave If you want doves to occupy the magpie's nest, you can only invite the patriarch Lu Ban to play.

And inviting the patriarch Lu Ban to appear on the stage is a deterrent. As we all know, Lu Ban is the patriarch of the carpenter line, but anyone who can be called the patriarch, his statue can occupy some immortal energy through special craftsmanship, and can calm lonely souls Ghost, once paired with the carpenter's spell, its power is great, and it can beat those lonely and wild ghosts to death.

However, the heavens have the virtue of good life, such things as the disappearance of souls, both Taoists and Buddhists are extremely reluctant to do this, because this kind of killing is too serious, it damages Yin virtue, and it is easy to break one's own cycle of reincarnation.Therefore, we ghost craftsmen are not willing to do this, unless it is absolutely necessary.

After stopping in front of the coffin for a while, the senior brother put the things in his hands on his feet, and he began to close his eyes to rest his mind. It was also very strange to say that the rooster was jumping happily on the ground, but the senior brother closed his eyes. For a moment, the rooster seemed to be threatened by something, and immediately fell silent, crawling under the feet of the senior brother, motionless.

The senior brother closed his eyes for about thirty seconds. Suddenly, he opened his eyes suddenly. At this moment, his whole body seemed to become another person. First he glanced at me meaningfully, then bowed three times towards the altar of the main room, and finally turned around and knelt down towards the door of the main room.

I was at the door at the time, and I was so scared that I quickly shrank to the edge of the door and looked at the senior brother secretly. I found that the senior brother was kneeling on the ground, very pious, with the back of his hands on the ground, palms facing upwards, speaking plausibly, saying : "Disciple Wang Qingshan first kowtowed to the patriarch for the grace of passing on the art, secondly kowtowed the patriarch for the grace of protection, and three kowtowed the patriarch for giving me the magic to shake all evils."

After reading these words, the brother stood up slowly, and bowed to the east three times before straightening up.

Brother’s actions are actually well-founded. Logically speaking, he should worship the patriarch first, but China has always paid respects to worshiping the gods before getting started. Therefore, the brother first bowed to the altar in the main room, but before worshiping When the patriarch was the master, he used kneeling and bowing. The importance of etiquette can be seen at a glance.

When the brother got up, he held a kitchen knife in his right hand and a rooster in his left hand and bowed three times towards the altar, the door of the main room, and the front of the coffin. , the rooster seemed to be unconscious, allowing the brother's kitchen knife to wipe its neck.

After the chicken blood came out, the brother first dripped three drops of chicken blood into the coffin, then walked around the hall with the rooster in hand, sprinkled the chicken blood on every corner of the hall while walking, and finally walked out of the hall, Sprinkle chicken blood on the steps in front of the main room.

I wanted to follow, but was stopped by a look from my senior brother, so I had no choice but to continue standing at the door and watch my senior brother walk into the main room.

But see, after entering the main room, the senior brother took the rooster in his hand and circled the coffin for a few times. Suddenly, he began to read words. The words he read were esoteric and extremely irregular four-character phrases. At the same time, the brother's expression was very solemn, and he stood beside the coffin like an old monk in meditation.

After reading for nearly 10 minutes, the senior brother stopped, and I don’t know if it’s because I’m confused or what’s going on. The moment I stopped, I vaguely felt that the coffin seemed to have changed. What exactly changed? But I can't tell why. If I really want to say it, I can only say that there seems to be an invisible wall of air around the coffin, giving people a mysterious and mysterious feeling.

However, the senior brother did not stop, but threw the rooster in his hand into the coffin, and heard three clucking cock crows, and the rooster suddenly lost its breath.

Seemingly satisfied, the senior brother lifted the rooster out of the coffin, then burned some yellow paper in front of the coffin, the altar and outside the main room, and lit a pair of red candles under the coffin.

Seeing this, I let out a sigh of relief. Although I didn't understand what I read at that time, I felt that the senior brother was very powerful, so I prepared to enter the main room. After all, I had done everything that should be done, so I should be fine. How did I know that the senior brother was in the main room Taking a deep breath, he muttered, "The fact that the pair of red waxes have not been extinguished within an hour means that this ritual can be done."

I didn't understand anything at the time, so I subconsciously asked, "What if it turns off?"

(End of this chapter)