The soul is back! Don’t ask for more from the East.
The man is a thousand years old, but his soul is only a few.
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Soul-calling originated very early in China, and can be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty. In ancient China, there was no concept of predecessors or future generations, nor the concepts of heaven and hell, only the concepts of immortal souls and gods and ghosts. The ancient Chinese city of Youdu,
The nature of hell is different. Youdu refers to the world of underground space, while hell is a place where souls are judged, punished and reincarnated.
It was only later that Buddhism was introduced to China, and the idea of the hell and heavenly palaces, which are concrete projections of reality, gradually spread.
In ancient Chinese philosophy and worldview, it is believed that people are born with a soul, and that the soul does not perish after death, but exists independently from the body. As for its destination, everyone has different opinions. In addition, not only humans have souls, but other natural objects also have souls, such as
Mountains have mountain gods, water has water gods, and everything in the world is like this. Polytheism is a characteristic of primitive religions, but it does not have very good cohesion. Therefore, most of the religions that became popular in the world are dominated by a single ruler. They believe that there is a single ruler in the world.
God, there is and is only one.
Let’s not mention the above religious matters for now, let’s talk about recalling the earthly soul for Duoduo.
It has been a year or two since Duoduo died. The heavenly soul has dissipated completely. The human soul is warmed in the locust wood tablet on my chest. Only the earth soul is wandering in the world. I don’t know how to explain what the earth soul is.
It is a memory, a kind of knowledge, and an important symbol of Duoduo's existence in the world. With it, Duoduo can avoid the wind washing on the first and fifteenth day of every lunar month, without resorting to external force.
You can practice self-cultivation, gain peace, and practice for a long time. You can even speak the truth and walk under the sun without fear, just like a land god.
Of course, these all require opportunities.
The recall of the earth soul is simple and simple, as long as the earth soul and the current spirit body are mixed together during her life sacrifice or on the night of July 15th. However, it is complex, but it is actually complicated. Just prepare
There are more than 40 kinds of ingredients, including ten-year-old resurrected herbs, Poria cocos, Goldenrod, Corydalis, coptis, Changshan, gallbladder, motherwort, aconitum, Chuanxiong, angelica and other ten kinds of Chinese medicinal herbs, fish gall, seahorse,
Centipede legs, amber, cantharides, coriander, earth gall, mole crickets, indica rice and other sundries, cinnabar, alum, mercury and other minerals, as well as one of Duo Duo’s baby teeth...
These things need to be carefully selected. I need to cook them according to proportion, time and heat until finally, they are refined into a pill of nine-turn rejuvenation pill.
After the refining was successful, on the night of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, I had to open an altar near her former home and perform the ritual to summon spirits.
I never thought that I, a guy who failed in chemistry when I was studying, would one day get involved in the alchemy business. Fortunately, I have a method, so I can only bite the bullet because the iron pot is unstable and can easily mix with the medicine inside.
Changes occurred, so I went out to buy a large stainless steel pot. I stayed at my third uncle's house for food and accommodation. I first boiled several large pots of water and let it cool. Then, according to the order of the method, I put the medicines in one by one, and used cold water to cook them.
Boiling water, first use strong fire to boil. In a large pot, I add water and cover it with no more than a finger of medicinal materials. After boiling, simmer for three days without interruption, and add various materials one by one. On the fourth day, I transfer it several times and just dig it.
The ten-year-old resurrecting grass that came out was chopped into pieces, and Duoduo's baby teeth were ground into powder and put into a pot together with various minerals to cook.
This lasted three more days.
In these days, Duoduo has been accompanying me. Maybe it’s too hot in the kitchen and she doesn’t seem to like this place, but she is good and often helps me wipe my sweat and beat my back when I have nothing to do. I have nothing to do.
One was reading and the other was playing with her. Time flew by. My third uncle’s neighbor had a local dog. It barked wildly since I moved in and was very annoying. One night Duoduo ran out to scare it.
Since then, the dog has never barked again. When I went out during the day, it would not dare to come over from a distance, but would wag its tail at me.
I cooked it for eight days in total. A lot of the residue in the pot was absorbed by the medicine. I fished it out and added others. On the night of the eighth day, after I cleaned up all the residue, I got a large piece that looked like fermented flour.
The black paste was very sticky, semi-solid, and weighed more than two kilograms. I took it out, washed out the pot, then added sesame seeds to stir-fry the pot, and then put the black paste into the pot and stir-fried. This is also strange, just now
After stir-frying for half an hour, the big lump turned out to be as big as a fist, and the aroma was fragrant. I stopped adding firewood to the stove, waited for it to cool down a little, then took it to my hands, dipped them in sesame oil and kept rubbing them.
Keep kneading and rounding, and finally you will get a black ball as big as your fist. After cooling, it becomes hard.
This is the so-called Nine Turns Resurrection Pill.
On the day when the elixir was completed, there was no lightning or thunder, and there was a strange phenomenon in the sky. When I was holding this fist-sized resurrecting elixir in a daze, someone knocked on the door. It was a child from my neighbor's house. He asked his uncle what he was doing at home and what happened.
Is it so fragrant? He had runny nose and a look of longing on his face. I said it was roasted sesame seeds and he wanted them. Of course I didn’t dare to give him the mercury-containing sesame seeds. Fortunately, there was some chocolate in the house, which fooled him away. I
I closed the door and looked carefully at this thing that looked like the size of a tennis ball. It was dark and I didn't feel confident at all. It was like taking the college entrance examination and always feeling empty inside.
This emotion makes me very uneasy. You know I failed the college entrance examination, and now I am failing again. Is there something fishy?
Or, maybe it’s my first time doing it and I’m too concerned about gains and losses?
I couldn't help but comfort myself. On the fourth day of the first lunar month, there were only a few days left. The arrow was on the string and I had to shoot.
I stayed at my third uncle's house for nearly ten days. I lived on instant noodles every day, and my mouth became like a bird. Now that the pill is complete, I don't have to stay any longer. I cleaned up and told Duoduo to go home.
Right? She was very happy, clapping her hands and flying around the room. She is a spirit body with a Yin attribute. She doesn’t like to stay in a hot environment. These days, I spend time in the kitchen every day, and the fat bugs are hibernating again. Without this
The little thing is here and I am busy making elixirs. In fact, she is still quite lonely.
I locked the door and walked more than ten miles back to my home in Dadunzi Town.
The New Year is approaching, and my parents are actually very busy. As soon as I get home, I have to help take care of the business, selling New Year paintings, couplets, firecrackers, and some New Year goods. They don’t ask me what I do every day. My mother knows that I have inherited my grandmother’s legacy.
There are some things that I need to be busy with. I just want to nag me occasionally, so that I can accumulate virtue and do good deeds, and don’t have any desire to fight.
I agreed one by one.
On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, people from all over the village crowded into the town to attend the New Year Fair (also called the New Year Market), which was quite lively. At noon, Lan Xiaodong from Shengtun (the fellow I mentioned before) came to visit my house.
, said that he had also sold out the fast food restaurant in Jiangcheng, and was going to go to Hongshan in the south to open a larger store for business during the New Year. He knew that I was at home and came to ask my opinion. I said yes, the economy there is
The layout was very good and the restaurant was prosperous with many people. It was impossible to afford a restaurant. He was also busy and left after lunch. In the afternoon, a distant relative of my father came over to buy couplets, and my parents kept them for dinner.
This relative is called Lu Yuanshan, and he has a son named Lu Yan, who can be regarded as my cousin.
This cousin works in Jiangcheng, Southern Province. Last time I went to Jiangcheng, I was planning to visit him, but I gave up because I didn’t have a phone call. Lu Yuanshan, I call him Sanbo. He also has a son, who is three years older than me.
He was a very smart man. Last year or the year before last, he participated in labor dispatch to an island country in the South Pacific. He then disappeared and there is still no news about him. It is a pity.
Their family conditions were not very good. During dinner, my mother fried some lettuce and bacon, half a chicken and a pot of pig's trotters. Then she mixed a cold dish with folded ears and took two bottles of green wine from the counter. My third uncle
I actually ate half a pot of pig's trotters in one go, drank too much wine, and hugged my father and cried. I couldn't go back at night, so I let him sleep in the guest room, and Lu Yan slept with me.
I didn't dare to let Duoduo out when there were strangers around, so I chatted with Lu Yan.
He is a person who doesn't like to talk much, but he is very measured in everything he says and does. Talking about his experience of working in Jiangcheng, he said that he went there mainly to find his brother Lu Mo (his brother worked out in Jiangcheng).
Unfortunately, he is overseas, so hard to find, and I don’t know if he will live or die. We chatted for a while, and I think he is a good person, knowledgeable and has a good personality. It would actually be good if I could introduce him to Dongguan Gang to help Agen.
But as soon as I mentioned it, he shook his head and said no, he still wanted to find his brother now so that his parents would not worry about it.
He left the next day, and I didn't see him again for a long time, and I didn't remember him at all. The reason why I mentioned it specifically was because I didn't expect that this cousin, whose family was poor and worked far away in Jiangcheng, would actually become a man in the future.
Growing up to be a man of great influence has touched the minds of many people... The wonder of life lies in the word "unexpected".
Of course, this is a later topic, so let’s not mention it for now.
As the New Year approaches, the New Year atmosphere begins to get lively. I’m often invited by my friends to drink, and the farmer’s home-brewed rice wine costs NT$5.00. I often overturn a table of people, and others call me wine barrel. I stay with my parents whenever I have nothing to do.
I helped out with work. The business was very busy, and I only had a few days of leisure until the Chinese New Year. Even though I went home, Agen and several brothers in Dongguan all called me to say New Year greetings. Boss Gu also called me. The strangest thing is that I even answered the phone.
I got a call from the United States, and it was a girl named Xue Rui. She said she was getting eye treatment in the United States, but she hung up after saying a few words.
Ma Haibo, Yang Yu, Huang Fei and others all called me to wish me New Year greetings and asked me to go to the lower county town for a drink. Dadunzi Town is on a mountain with a high altitude, so it is called the lower county town. Huang Fei recently sent me messages, jokes and jokes when she had nothing to do.
, the parents are short-lived. I could vaguely guess that she had a slight affection for me, and I felt inexplicably expectant and excited.
Of course, I also like the feeling of chatting with beautiful women.
On the morning of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, I took a minibus to the county seat and went to several relatives’ homes, including my brother-in-law’s, to pay New Year greetings. I originally had lunch at my brother-in-law’s house, but my cousin Xiaohua, who had just become a college freshman,
She was very ignorant, looked a little displeased with me, and my aunt was a little cold, so I sat there for a while and then left. Later, I had dinner at the house of a distant aunt of mine who worked as a cook in the kitchen of County No. 1 Middle School.
I don't really care about the situation and the warmth of people. If it weren't for my brother-in-law, I wouldn't bother to care about my aunt and her aunts who are narrow-minded.
After having dinner with Ma Haibo, Yang Yu and Huang Fei in the afternoon, I left early.
They tried their best to persuade me to stay, but I still persisted because I had something I had been waiting for for a long time and needed to do it.
That is, recall the Duoduo soul.
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