The New Year is approaching, and logically speaking, this is not the time to burn incense at all.
Not the fifteenth day, nor the first day of junior high school.
and……
The three sticks of incense standing upright don't seem to be worshiping, but rather seeming to calm people's fears.
Nangong Baiye stood up and walked towards the alleyway pretending to be careless. He saw the white-haired old woman mumbling words and placing the burning Buddhist incense in her hand on the snowdrift under the corner.
"Ming, Ming..."
Sure enough, he was trying to calm his nerves. Is there something dirty nearby?
Nangong Baiye looked around and didn't notice anything strange, but the compass on his wrist kept whirring.
Nangong Baiye narrowed his eyes slightly and held the willow leaf in one hand. He glanced at it and saw that everything around him had not changed much. Except for the wandering souls wandering in the crowd, there were no resentful spirits.
There was indeed dirt here.
However, obviously that thing has gone...
"Auntie." Nangong Baiye approached the old woman with a smile: "What are you doing?"
The old woman glanced at her, her eyes strange and searching.
Nangong Baiye said: "I am not talented. I once studied some Buddhism in Qingcheng Mountain. Looking at this arrangement, what happened to my family?"
Hearing this, the old woman sneered: "He's here to swindle money again. What kind of place is Qingcheng Mountain? You are a young woman who has neither a monk's robe nor a tonsure. How can you get the Dharma? I think you are bullying me."
I am an old woman who doesn’t know anything, so I just want to cheat money. Let me tell you, I’m different from others and I won’t fall for your tricks!”
Nangong Baiye smiled and did not refute her words. He just lowered his eyes and scanned the three sticks of Buddhist incense on the snow: "Burning incense, one short and two long, is peace and joy."
Two short and one long is a great evil. The most taboo thing for us when worshiping Buddha is this kind of incense. It will not calm the fright, but will be eaten by ghosts. In my opinion, my grandson will not be so easy this time."
"You..." The old woman looked hesitant and looked at her sideways: "How do you know that I am trying to appease my grandson?"
Nangong Baiye glanced at the iron beads on the ground, and then thought about the old woman's previous name, and had already judged that the other party was a five or six-year-old boy.
However, she did not say it directly. Instead, she curved her thin lips, exuding an evil aura: "I have Buddha Dharma to protect me. I can calculate it with just a few fingers."
"Master!" The old woman knelt on the ground with a clang: "You must save my grandson, I really have no choice!"
Nangong Baiye quickly stretched out his hand to hold the old woman's arm: "Auntie, don't be like this, get up quickly and tell me what's going on?"
"A few days ago, some of their children came out to play hide-and-seek. I called him to go home for dinner. After calling several times, he didn't come back. So I put the steamed buns on the table and ignored the firewood. I quickly went out to look for them. Let's go.
When I arrived at the entrance of the alley, I found Ming'er standing there alone. The children around him had gone back long ago. He didn't know what he was doing. I walked closer and shouted twice, but he didn't look back, as if he hadn't.
When he heard me calling him, he put his arms on the wall and started counting. I was surprised. There was no one around here. Why was he still playing games? I was confused at first, so I walked closer.
A few steps later, I suddenly realized something was wrong! There were clearly only two people at the entrance of the alley, Ming and I, but...but...there were actually the shadows of three people on the wall next to me!" said the old woman.
As she spoke, she looked toward the entrance of the alley, her old face full of horror, as if she could feel the deep terror even now, and with trembling fingers like ancient trees, she took out a knife from her arms.
Huang Fu: "I knew this was a collision with those people below, so I went to Nangong Garden to ask for a ghost exorcism charm."
Nangong Baiye looked at the yellow talisman and frowned slightly: "Ghost-expelling talisman?"
"Master is also a student of Buddhism. You should know that Nangongyuan's talisman is very difficult to obtain. I spent a lot of money and tried countless connections to get this ghost-expelling talisman.
Thanks to Huang Fu, the family was finally stable for one day, but the next day, Ming'er became the same as before!"
Nangong Baiye took the yellow talisman and held it in his hand casually, his eyes flashed. It seemed that most of the people in the capital regarded the people of Nangong Yuan as gods...
No matter what the other person says is right or wrong.
will be regarded as truth.
No wonder even the emperor would not touch Nangong Yuan easily, and would use marriage to stabilize Nangong Yuan's people.
Is this the difference?
The difference between her and Nangong Yuan??
However, her favorite thing to do is to break this gap!
That innate sense of superiority, that sense of contempt for treating human life like grass, is really disgusting, isn't it?
Nangong Baiye put away the yellow talisman, swallowed what he said before, and asked with a smile: "What did he look like before? What did he look like before?"
"As soon as midnight arrives, Ming'er will go out to the alley, singing some children's songs, as if he is playing hide-and-seek with others. I can't stop him no matter what, so I can only follow him out, but I didn't expect that shadow
It's still there! It, it was attached to the bottom of Ming'er's heel, with his hand stretched out, as if he wanted to drag Ming'er away. I gritted my teeth and used all my strength to drag Ming'er back home. Ming'er was like
It was like he was possessed by an evil spirit. He kept singing children's songs that I didn't understand, and insisted on going to the alley. If his mother and I hadn't tied him up with a rope, he would have..." At this point,
The old woman paused and rubbed her red eyes with her fingers: "The next day, he ran to play with other children like a normal person, but that... that shadow was always there! It was like...
It seemed like it was stuck to his body. I tried my best to persuade him, but he wouldn't leave. I had no choice but to go to Nangongyuan to ask for the talisman, but Nangongyuan's talisman was readily available wherever I wanted. Fortunately, the fourth lady of Nangongyuan was compassionate.
He is good-looking and kind-hearted, so he told me this method: burn three sticks of incense every evening at dusk, and after twenty-four days, you can drive away evil spirits."
Nangong Baiye just listened quietly, with a smile overflowing from the corner of his mouth: "Then what else do you have to worry about?"
"Although this method is good, it only lasts twenty-four days! Even if I can survive it as an old woman, my grandson can't." The old woman said with a painful expression: "My grandson's leg gets darker every day.
It gets darker every day, but he didn’t tell me, and I knew it was being strangled by a ghost! If I didn’t go out tomorrow at midnight, that thing would be hanging at the door of my house, knocking on the door with a clanging sound, so that the neighbors could hear it.
I didn't dare to open the door for fear that it would come in, so I only looked out through the window. There was nothing outside, only a dark shadow in the bare yard..."