When we arrived at the downstairs of Master Situ's house, Hu Zongren and I carried the coffin up. On the way, we met some residents entering and exiting the unit building. They probably saw that we were holding a box covered with red cloth.
Knowing what it was, he looked at us a few more times. As soon as we entered the house, Master Situ asked us to put the coffin down at the door, and then helped him change the position of the coffee table in the center of the living room.
, the seat in the middle of the living room is vacant.
Master Situ has limited legs and feet, so most of the time he takes command and Master Tiesongzi does the work for him. I don’t know why, but Master Tiesongzi was quite calm when he was with us, like an elder, but when we saw him
Master Situ immediately began to look a little frail and coquettish. When Master Situ asked him to do this or that, he would always laugh and curse, but he was always busy.
Soon Situ set up a rice array in the center of the living room. The shape of the rice array was a spider, and a white candle as thick as a wrist was lit on the top of the spider's eight legs. An incense burner was placed in front of the spider's head and plugged in.
For incense, there are three small bowls placed in front of the incense burner. The middle bowl is filled with rice, the left side is some pickles, and the right side is some small oranges, which can also be regarded as a fruit plate. Under each bowl are pressed papyrus money and charms.
, this means that you are offering food to the ghost in the coffin. Although you cannot eliminate the hostility, you can at least control it from causing mischief in this place.
Situ asked us to carry the coffin over and place it in the center of the rice array in the direction of the spider's body. The rice array is a commonly used formation method among Taoists. Not only Taoists, but I also use it occasionally.
Yes, but the formations I make are usually practical and often not very pretty. Situ explained to me the meaning of this formation. Spiders are neither insects nor animals with bones, and spiders themselves are
It has a certain aggressiveness, and spiders can build webs and are born to be hunters. The eight candles represent the scope of this meter array, so that the mutilated ghost in the coffin can be trapped by the web and unable to escape. Taoist
There are many different shapes of rice arrays with very different effects. It can be regarded as a profound Taoist culture of array formation, but it just takes a little time.
After placing the coffin, we lit candles and incense, and burned paper money before the meal, which means that I have settled you down, so you have to show your face and not make any mistakes. Then we sat around on the big sofa of Situ's house and
Except for the coffin on the ground, all the things found before were taken out and placed one by one on the ground in front of them.
This sofa is very familiar to Hu Zongren and Fu Yunni. Hu Zongren and I lived in Situ's house for a long time. Every time Situ made new progress, he would sit on this sofa and talk to us.
Explain and convince us to believe. Situ first opened the one in Hongya Cave earlier. We have seen everything inside, but until now, except for the eyeball, we still don’t know what the porcelain wine cup is.
Situ picked up the red cloth and asked me to smell it. I smelled it and it smelled like earth. He said this was the mud seal. He didn't expect that in this day and age, people would still use this trick.
It works so well, I haven't seen mud marks in years.
Then Situ took out the similar small medicine bag we found in the crack of the fortress beside Dongshuimen Cave that day. He glanced at the red small bag. Master Tiesongzi told him that we had checked this before and there must be something inside.
You can't keep the rice. So Situ said to me, get your rope out, make a formation here, make a few more turns, and don't be reluctant to let go of your rope. So I did what Master Situ said, and inside
There were a total of 5 circles inside and outside, but there was no way, it had to be an odd number. Then he found a piece of transparent soap from the kitchen, cut off a corner, and then brought a bowl of water and asked me to use soap as a pen and water as a pen.
Mo drew a Wu family Fu on the ground. I asked Situ, why should I draw it? Can't you also draw it? Because the usage of Fu in many situations is almost the same as the Taoist well character. Situ ignored me.
, just said to me, if you want to paint, you can paint, there is so much nonsense.
So I could only dip my hands in soap and water and start painting. As soon as I painted the first stroke, I understood what Situ meant. First of all, the whole thing was aimed at Hu Zongren. Logically speaking, except for himself, anyone else’s participation could
It counts as nosy. In our industry, the punishment for nosy is very severe, because it is like the cause and effect of others becomes your own cause and effect after you interfere with it. This is why we do things no matter what.
There must be some amount of money coming in and out, unless it goes wrong, you can get nothing. Especially for me, I can't stay out of Hu Zongren's incident this time. After all, people have called me to find me.
I didn't think about leaving his business alone. And there was a reason why Situ used soap and water to apply it. If the soap is in a dry environment, it will just feel greasy to the touch, but with a little water, it can be used.
It becomes very smooth. Soap and water are a perfect match, just like bristle pen and cinnabar ink, and although it leaves no trace after painting, the effect of the soap after it solidifies is always there and will not be destroyed.
Drawing a dressing gown is a special skill, so I finished it quickly. Situ put the red cloth bag in the middle of the dressing room, and then began to untie the rope. When the rope was opened, the candles around the spider array began to appear.
It looked like it had been blown by the breeze, flickering slightly but showing no sign of extinguishing. We all couldn't help but focus on the rice array. Although we knew that the things in the coffin could not escape from Situ's rice array, we still couldn't help but
It’s human nature to worry. Situ smiled and said, this means that the contents of this bag must also be a broken part of the doll inside, fragments of the ghost.
Fragments of ghosts have always been very vague in our industry. In most cases, what we call fragments generally refers to the traces of ghosts that remain on things that have been touched by ghosts. That is, almost every time I do things by myself
Sometimes, I would use a compass to detect spirits. The traces of ghosts I found on the furniture, bedside or walls were generally speaking fragments of ghosts. And most of the corpses were part of the containers that had been filled with spirits.
, will also appear more or less agile. But at this moment, I understand that what Situ calls the fragments of ghosts refers to a specific part of the soul, such as the eyes in the first wine glass and the feet in the last kit.
In this case, this red cloth bag like a medicine bag should be a hand of the doll in the coffin. Sure enough, when Situ continued to open the cloth bag, in addition to a dirty little hand,
There is also an old-fashioned film roll and a strand of black hair tied with a red rubber band. I have seen this film before. In the early years, when mobile phones did not have camera functions and digital cameras were not popular, most people still
He would buy a point-and-shoot camera and put film on it. The brand of the film started with K, and that year, the company had not yet gone bankrupt. Situ did not reach out to touch the doll's hand or the lock of hair, but
He tried to pick up the film, staring at the flame of the candle while picking it up. Seeing that everything was normal, he asked Hu Zongren to turn on the lights in the room to the brightest, and he also took the film hanging around his neck.
Reading glasses, pulled out the film from the film roll.
The reverse effect of the film makes it a little difficult for those of us to see it, but this film has been exposed, and the photos in it are all of a woman. When I saw this, I couldn't help but think that this woman was probably the one who has been pestering us these days.
That female ghost. But usually the number of pictures in a roll of film is usually 24 or 36. Sometimes if you are lucky, you can steal one or two more. But in this roll of film, I carefully counted the photos with portraits.
The quantity is probably only about a dozen.
Situ asked us, why was this film developed before it was used up? Why do you think it was? None of us said anything. Situ said that generally speaking, people who take pictures will use up the entire roll before developing it, because honest film
There is a sealed and light-tight cover where the film is placed in the machine. If the black part of the film encounters light, it will be easily scrapped. This only means that someone deliberately developed all the photos in the film. But why do this?
Do?
I tentatively answered, is it because the person who develops the film needs the photos in the film? I actually guessed it, because I have no other ideas other than that. Situ said, it's a bit close.
It seems that some people were impatient to develop the photos before they were finished. Look at the last one. Situ pointed at us. In the photo, it is a half-length photo of the woman, taken horizontally, slightly a little bit...
The strange thing is that the woman in the photo is facing the camera, but her neck and face are weirdly twisted to a 45-degree angle behind her, as if she is looking at something in that direction, and her face cannot be seen.
, only one ear and one cheekbone can be seen. Not only that, the photo is a bit blurry. I don’t understand what Situ means. Situ said, if this photo is the last one in the entire roll of film, assuming that the photo
The woman above is the one you met in the shoe store before, which means she is dead. Maybe, this may even be the last photo of her life.
When Situ said this, we gradually understood. Hu Zongren said, do you mean that the family hurriedly developed this roll of film when they were doing a funeral or commemorating this woman, and wanted to select the photos in it?
Situ smiled and nodded, and then said to Hu Zongren, what you have seen includes the female ghost photographed by this little brother from the plane, and the description of the shop owner at the time, that her hands and feet were severed, one of them had no eyeballs, and her mouth was
Is it the look with no tongue and vomiting blood? We all nodded and said yes, including Li Jia, who rarely listened quietly to Situ's words.
Situ suddenly asked, if this photo is the last one, what do you think is the cause of this woman's death state?
It must have been a car accident. Situ said, it looks like we have to find a way to develop the photos.