ghost craftsman

Chapter 11
Just after saying this, the senior brother's face suddenly changed, he gave me a fierce look, and cursed: "Crow's mouth, what are you talking about, that Wei Dezhen's man and her children are already sleeping in the coffin, how could the candle be extinguished? Hurry up and incite yourself with three big mouths to apologize."

While talking, the senior brother quickly picked up the paper clothes and put them in the coffin, and quickly put the lid on the coffin. The elders have a lot and don't care about children.

I really didn't understand the meaning of my brother's words, but I didn't dare to reject his meaning, I hurriedly bowed to the coffin, and gently fanned my three big mouths.

As soon as I finished fanning, my brother came over with a sullen face, grabbed my arm and pulled me into the main room. I asked him why, but he gave me a glare, which meant to tell me not to speak.

As soon as I entered the main room, my senior brother pulled me to the front of the coffin, raised his hand and slapped my face three times loudly. His palm was so strong that it made me dizzy, as if being slapped on my face by a steel plate generally.

"Kneel down!" The senior brother said in a particularly strong tone.

I covered my burning cheeks, my legs softened, and I knelt down. I didn't dare to ask the reason, but I heard my senior brother sternly say: "Kowtow!"

I said a word, kowtowed my head three times reluctantly, and was about to get up, the senior brother grabbed my shoulder and said sharply: "Wait until the candle burns out, then get up again."

I became more and more confused, and I kept muttering in my heart, I didn't do anything wrong, I just asked, what should I do if the candle goes out?

The senior brother probably saw my doubts, so he didn’t say anything, but picked up a small piece of sawdust and wrote a line on the muddy ground. He took a look, and he wrote that the candles under the coffin represent the eyes of the deceased. , once it goes out, it means that the deceased will be blind in his next life.

Looking at this word, I immediately understood that I was just cursing the deceased to be blind in his next life.Knowing the truth, I wanted to slap myself a few times, and quickly bowed to the coffin again.

Who would have thought that just as I bowed to my side, the candle suddenly shook a few times, and it seemed to be going out vaguely, so I was so frightened that I hurriedly called my senior brother.

The senior brother also noticed that situation, his face became extremely serious, and he said in a deep voice to the coffin: "My junior brother is just getting started, and there are many things I don't understand, I hope you will always look at the face of the patriarch and give me some help." Divide the thin noodles, and he will burn three catties of yellow paper every day to make up for the mistake of losing words today."

As soon as the voice fell, the candle went out without warning, and it went out so wickedly, as if someone had blown it out beside the candle.

As the candle was extinguished, I only felt a heavy head, and then, I smelled a strong rancid smell, like the smell of dead fish and cats, it was disgusting.

"Okay..." I muttered, before I could say the bad words, my head was buzzing, as if someone hit the back of my head with a hammer, and my body fell straight to the ground in a daze, limbs I kept twitching, and wanted to call for help, but found that my throat seemed to be pinched by hands, and I couldn't make a sound at all.

This scene frightened my senior brother's face to change drastically. He hugged me in his arms, pinched me hard, and said in a deep voice: "You are always a senior, why bother with a child, as the so-called child's words are not taboo, his words should be taken seriously." Not true."

At this moment, that Wei Dezhen ran over in a hurry, and when she saw me lying in the arms of the senior brother, she asked the senior brother what was wrong. The senior brother didn't answer her question, but asked her why she came here. She tremblingly said, "She Just now at home, the mosquito net on the bed shook inexplicably, and said that he saw an adult sleeping on the bed with six children in a trance.

Hearing this, the senior brother must have thought of something, stood up, and cursed at Wei Dezhen, "You motherfucker, you said that you can't beat that kind of coffin, but now you beat that kind of coffin, strange things will happen, if my senior brother There is a good or bad, how do you want me to explain to the master."

When Wei Dezhen heard this, she was also scared. She squeaked for a long time, but didn't say a word. Finally, under the sharp eyes of her senior, she choked out a sentence, "I... I thought that kind of coffin would only be folded. How could you know that you would harm your junior brother if you lost my blessing."

The senior didn't pay attention to him any more, and I was about to leave when I picked up my back. Wei Dezhen grabbed my senior and asked me where I was going. The senior's expression became tense, and he took out a piece of nanmu from his pocket and handed it to Wei Dezhen, saying, "That kind of coffin has already been made." I have come out, and I have done the Buddhist rituals for you, because of my past affection, I will give you this piece of nanmu for self-defense, and I can’t help you with the rest, just ask yourself.”

After saying this, the senior brother went out without looking back, and Wei Dezhen called out from behind, "Master Wang, you haven't got your tools yet."

The senior brother gave up and didn’t say a word. He hurried back to the coffin shop in the town with me on his back. .

Anyone who has lived in the countryside knows that there are usually graves on all mountain roads, but the brother didn’t seem to be afraid at all, he just broke off a cypress branch and hung it behind his neck, as if he was afraid that I would meet a ghost or something, so he stuffed it into my hand Two cypress branches, while driving, said in their mouths, "the patriarch is on the top, the disciple is on the bottom, and there are two people who are on the road in the middle. I hope the patriarch will bless you."

Just like that, the senior brother was chanting words while hurrying on his back.

I didn't encounter anything along the way, and at that time, although my consciousness was extremely weak on the back of my senior brother, I could clearly feel what was behind me, especially the hands on my neck seemed to be pinched more and more tightly. My whole face turned pale.

When we returned to the coffin shop, it was already three o'clock in the middle of the night, and my whole face was already turning green. When the brother saw the situation, he didn't hesitate at all, and immediately put me flat under the coffin, and put the patriarch I placed the statue of the god next to me, and finally found some cylinders of willow wood to place around.

Speaking of the cylindrical willows, they look like stumps with a diameter of about [-] centimeters. Some strange runes are carved on the surface of the stumps. Those runes are crimson and twisted, and ordinary laymen must see I don't understand, I only found out later that this kind of rune is a kind of "Ji Wen" (ji) unique to ghost craftsmen, and it is complementary to ghost craftsman's craftsman Li language.

Generally, when a ghost craftsman uses Gongshili language with the blessing of Jiwen, it can achieve twice the effect of success. However, there is a disadvantage of Gongshili language and Jiwen. It is not passed down through text records, but in the form of Passed down by word of mouth. .

Due to the long history, when it was handed down orally, it was restricted by the limited comprehension of the person who taught it. Many essences were gradually forgotten from generation to generation, and passed down to the present. one.

The engineer's language is better, after all, it's some incantations, and it's not too difficult to memorize them.Jiwen is different. It is a rune itself, but it needs to be passed down orally.

Just like my senior brother, he is quite proficient in Gongshili language, but he has not yet reached the entry level in the use of Jiwen. Even the Jiwen he placed next to me was given to him by the master, otherwise, With his ability, it is absolutely impossible to draw such urgent texts.

After setting up those willow tree stumps, Senior Brother walked up to me, stretched out his hand to touch my forehead, opened my eyes and looked at him, his expression was fixed, and finally he stopped his eyes on the black nail of my right index finger, as if he was thinking about something Finally, I found two chopsticks that I usually use for eating to clamp my right index finger, and tied the chopsticks with a rubber band so that the two chopsticks tightly clamped my index finger.

(End of this chapter)