Chapter One Thousand and Three: Treasure Hunting Thaumaturgy
The three of us studied for a long time, but we didn't figure out the reason. When we saw noon, we carried the bed back to our original place. Xiao Ying ran to the kitchen. Although Xiuxiu's family was hard, the white rice was still quite sufficient. In addition, vegetables were grown in the yard, so we didn't have to worry about eating. Xiao Ying cooked the meal, and after we were full, we sat on the stool and napped.
It was past four o'clock in the afternoon, Xiao Lu Dao, Nie Min and Xiuxiu came back with the old lady. The hospital checkup result was that there was no disease and everything was normal. However, the symptoms of coughing, vomiting blood and coma could not be found out. Xiao Lu Dao scolded, "The doctors only know how to treat a small disease of colds and fevers, and the old lady was almost dead, but she couldn't see anything."
I said that the medical conditions in the county are relatively backward, so why not go to the provincial capital again tomorrow. Speaking of this, everyone was silent. We still had important things. Who can put down Dazui Rong and Chen Hanyan and help them see a doctor? Xiuxiu is understanding and said that we are grateful for helping this and don’t have to go to the provincial capital again. The boss’s wife once said that it will definitely not be cured for a few years of illness at most.
Xiao Ludao said generously: "It's better to do this. I'll pay. Xiuxiu, you can ask someone to help you in the village and go to the provincial capital to see your mother. If the money is not enough, call you anytime, I'll send you money."
Xiuxiu shed tears in her eyes and said, "No, really no, thank you for your kindness."
Lao Cao looked at her mother and pondered for a long time and said, "Actually, even if you go to the provincial capital, you may not have any results. Don't go first. I'll think of a way to find out the cause in these few days. If it really doesn't work, it's not too late to go again."
I pulled him aside and whispered, "We don't have that much time..."
Lao Cao lowered his voice and said, "I may not be able to find clues about the boss lady and Dazuirong in the past few days. I must live here temporarily. When I am free at night, we will make a formation to test what will happen underground. I think it is not difficult to find the root cause and cure the old lady's illness."
Xiuxiu is not very stable now, so we are embarrassed to ask her who the other couples of her boyfriend are. After dinner, I asked her who else in the village had a relationship with the boss’s wife and where they all live. Xiuxiu told us one by one, and then looked over one by one, and strangely found that all men who had an affair with the boss’s wife were not at home, and they all left the village the day before yesterday.
It seems that the dead girl has already made all prevention and cannot find any clues about her. We came back with our heads hanging down. Anyway, we are idle at night, so according to what Lao Cao said, set up a formation to test what is underneath. When it comes to the formation used to detect something underground, Taoism is not good at it. These are usually evil techniques created by evil ways.
Especially like tomb robbers, it is said that some craftsmen specially created a "corpse-seeking array" that said it is a formation, but it is not that complicated. They just look at the Feng Shui terrain first, and then sacrifice talismans in the Bagua direction to urge the corpse energy to seep out of the ground, so that the location of the tomb chamber and coffin can be accurately positioned. You must know that the most valuable items in the tomb are placed in the coffin, so after exploring the location of the coffin, the hole will be robbed to the target, which will save a lot of effort.
The evil spirit magic inherited by the Ghost Sect is much more advanced in detecting underground objects than the corpse search array, but it is too laborious and is generally not used. Various fruit offerings are required, and this place must be surrounded by red ropes seven days ago, chanting the mantra and burning the talisman every day, and dropping blood into the ground. After seven days, if there is something below, a faint mark will appear on the ground. If you want to fully understand what it is, it will be even more laborious. It will take seven, seven, four or nine days. You have to chant the mantra and drop blood every day, so as not to let any strangers and animals get close to them, so as not to destroy the ritual.
If it is urgent, and the enemy stares at the side, this spell is completely useless. Even if you have time and chance, who can guarantee that the animal will not come to harass you? Take the mouse as an example. Do you have to worry about it? So such a ritual is basically useless.
However, Lao Cao had a simple way to surround the mouse hole with a red rope. Not only did he not fear that the animals would approach, but he would use the rats below to help investigate. He folded the mouse with yellow paper, then chanted a spell and burned it, scattered most of the paper ash into the hole, and applied the remaining small part on a brush. Spread a piece of yellow paper on the ground, light incense and candles next to it, and chanted a spell to force the mouse to escape deep into the hole, so that what his eyes saw could make the brush draw on the paper.
However, this method is far less accurate than seven days. The appearances drawn may be very different, but they are better than nothing. Xiuxiu heard that she was helping her mother treat her illness, so she let us do whatever she wants. She ran to boil water and poured it on us. Xiao Ying, Nie Min, Xiao Roller and me were stationed in four directions on the bed, pressing the red rope to avoid accidents. Once the red rope breaks or moves, the ritual will be in vain.
Lao Cao stuffed the paper ash into the mouse hole, placed the brush covered with the paper ash on the yellow paper, sat cross-legged on the ground, closed his eyes, pinched his left hand, and chanted the spell lightly with his lips. This posture looked like a Taoist priest's way of doing it.
The little hob muttered, "Can you do it?"
"Shh, my brother is so awesome, why can't it be?" Nie Min gave him a blank look.
As soon as he finished speaking, the brush placed on yellow paper suddenly stood up like he had eaten Viagra. The tip of the pen was facing downwards, swaying slightly in the air, looking very magical.
The little hoist immediately widened his eyes and said, "Old Cao has so many tricks."
I shrewd again, "Stop talking nonsense, the mouse is running down now, don't let it be scared..."
Xiao Ying was curious and asked me: "How do you know that the mouse is running down?"
I blinked to the hanging brush: "Isn't this simple? There is a paper-gray path for the mouse to worship. If the mouse does not move, the brush will not move."
Then they suddenly realized, and Nie Min smiled contemptuously: "If you don't understand such a simple truth, why are you bragging about the way to drive away ghosts and demons..."
"Hey, little girl, I'm just talking nonsense, we are soul corpses, not ghost-driving demons!" The little rolling knife was unhappy.
I was so angry that I said, "Can you two say less?" As soon as I finished this sentence, I suddenly saw the old lady lying on the bed moving, and my buddy was shocked. Although she was put inside the formation when she was doing the ritual, she was also one of the formations. But if she woke up and coughed a few times and spitted blood on the red rope, something might happen.
So he winked with Xiao Ying and Nie Min, asked them to stare at the old lady, and rushed up to help if necessary. Nie Min turned his head to look, his face suddenly changed, and he said to me: "Her face has become so dark, as if there is a ghost attached to her body!"
Chapter completed!