As soon as Zhang Qiaosheng finished speaking, I heard a shuddering sound coming from the room. I lowered my head and couldn't help but be startled.
It turned out that where I had broken the bowl earlier, there were many unkempt people squatting there grabbing rice to eat. To be precise, they were a group of ghosts.
There were men and women, all of them as skinny as firewood. Their hands and feet were skinny, but their bellies were huge.
I saw a skinny old woman grabbing a handful of rice from the ground and putting it into her mouth as hard as she could, but soon she spit it out again. The old woman stuck out her long tongue and fanned it with her hands, like
It was like being burned by rice. After a while, a piercing scream came out of his mouth, "咿咿咿嗿忴", which was very scary.
I think this must be the legendary starving ghost. I heard that after they die, they will become skinny and boneless due to being unable to eat for a long time.
This kind of ghost was greedy during life and retained its original shape after death, with a particularly big belly. It wanted to eat, but couldn't.
Because he was starving to death, he could not swallow food normally. As soon as the food was brought to his mouth, it would become extremely hot, even burning like a flame.
It is said that this kind of ghost can only eat when the mage opens the flame mouth.
That's what I was thinking.
Suddenly, I saw the starving man turn his face and stare at me with hateful eyes. The old woman walked towards me with a sinister smile on her mouth.
"It's over! I was discovered by a ghost."
I secretly screamed something bad. I turned around and ran towards Zhang Qiaosheng: "Master, save me!"
Zhang Qiaosheng glanced at me impatiently and replied: "Wait until I get rid of this damn woman."
After saying that, he took a talisman in his hand and thrust it towards the body of the dead woman who gave birth to the child before, and cursed: "Get out of here!"
The dead woman screamed "Ah" unwillingly, stood up, held up her skirt in one hand, and ran out in embarrassment holding a bloody placenta in her other hand.
The direction she ran away from was exactly the line that Zhang Qiaosheng opened earlier.
However, as soon as her body reached the line of death, a starving ghost in ragged clothes grabbed her clothes.
It was a starving ghost who was only seven or eight years old. He stretched out his skinny hands and grabbed at the dead woman's body, as if he was trying to snatch the bloody fetus in her hand.
The dead woman tried her best to slap the starving ghost with her hands, but soon a skinny old man came over, and the old man also tried to pull out the blood bag in the woman's hand like crazy.
The dead woman let out a piercing scream and ran away desperately, quickly disappearing through the opening of the ghost gate.
I withdrew my gaze and looked into the house, and couldn't help but be startled.
I saw starving ghosts in every corner of the house, all looking at me with their eyes wide open.
"Boy, come here quickly!" Zhang Qiaosheng waved to me, pointed under the bed and said: "Hurry, boy, you hide under the bed first. Wait for me to draw a few talisman, and then you come out. By the way,
Please tell me your birthday and birth date. Write it down on paper and don't say it out loud."
While Zhang Qiaosheng was talking, he handed me a cigarette case and took a pen from the bedside.
I wrote my birth date on the cigarette box, handed it to Zhang Qiaosheng, and immediately got under the bed.
The moment I got under the bed, I suddenly felt a huge force pulling me from behind.
I turned around and saw a pair of hands like dry firewood grabbing my clothes.
I poked my head out and took a look, and I was scared to death. This hand was exactly that of the old woman who was glaring at me earlier, and now she was smiling at me!
"Master, my clothes were grabbed. What should I do?" I shouted to Zhang Qiaosheng.
Zhang Qiaosheng ignored me. I saw him writing something attentively on the table with a very thin brush. I thought he was probably drawing a talisman!
I was so anxious that I thought it was over.
If this damn old lady drags me out, she will definitely eat me.
Just when I was extremely anxious, I heard Lian Xiaoru shout loudly: "Qiao Yang, what are you doing?"
"Sister, it's not like you can't see that I am now entangled with an old woman." I replied with a wry smile, really hoping that this girl could come over and save me.
"Why can't I see it?" Lian Xiaoru replied.
"You can't see it, that's because the flames on your body are high. This kid committed an evil crime and was entangled by a female ghost. The yang energy on his body is extremely low. Okay, as long as you are fine, don't
Adding to the chaos."
Lian Xiaoru had no choice but to stop. After a while, she heard her shout excitedly: "Hey! Qiao Yang, are you really haunted by a ghost?"
This stupid woman is still saying this at this time. I don't have the time to pay attention to her.
"If so, take off your shoes and hit it, and it will let go of you." Lian Xiaoru shouted to me.
After listening to this girl's words, I didn't care whether it was any use or not, so I stretched out my hand to touch my feet, took off my shoes, and slapped the old lady's hand away.
"Crack!"
Soon I heard a sound of "Ouch!", and the old lady's hand really let go of me, and she quickly retracted it like an electric shock.
I immediately rolled into bed.
I looked back and saw that old lady's hands were raking around on the edge of the bed, as if she was touching something.
When I saw this, I immediately turned over and got up, and patted the dead old lady's hand.
"Crack!"
The shoes slapped the dead old lady's hand. The strange thing was that the old lady didn't scream. Not only that, she reached out and grabbed my shoes.
She leaned down and looked under the bed, then burst into laughter.
Looking at the disgusting look on this old lady's face, I felt like vomiting.
She lay down, as if she had found something good, put her body on the ground, and slowly crawled towards me. I guess this old lady really treated me like a piece of meat and wanted to eat me alive.
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I was so frightened that I quickly shrank into the bed.
After shrinking for a while, I looked back and saw that the old lady was trying to get under the bed with her big belly like a giant spider, but she couldn't get in. Her belly always got stuck by the edge of the bed.
Now I finally understand why Uncle Zhang wanted me to get under the bed. It turns out that this thing is specially used to deal with starving ghosts!
Come to think of it, a starving man's belly is so big. He wants to crawl in but doesn't obey. He can only do it outside in a hurry.
My hanging heart was reluctantly relieved.
At this moment, Zhang Qiaosheng's voice came to my ears.
"Boy! You can come out in five minutes. I am going to perform a salvation for these hungry ghosts. I will open the flame mouths for them first. Only by opening the flame mouths can these hungry ghosts eat the food we give."
Get up, this is also a thing of great merit. After you come out later, you can lie down on the bed. You can go to bed first. It doesn't matter if you fall asleep. I have already hidden your soul. In this room today,
No ghost can do anything to you. Just rest assured."
Zhang Qiaosheng warned me outside.
"Master, what should I do if I want to get up?" I asked.
"If you want to get up, the first thing you should do is look in the mirror. After looking in the mirror, you can get up. I will throw the mirror to you now."
After saying that, Zhang Qiaosheng threw a mirror at me.
I picked up the mirror and waited quietly.
The dead old lady outside the bed still didn't give up. Five minutes later, I heard the sound of rice being thrown outside.
When the old lady heard the sound of throwing rice, she immediately got up and ran away after a while. I stretched my neck and looked out of the bed, and saw many feet in the room, running in one direction.
There was no threat next to the bed, so I got out from under the bed decisively.
Looking forward, I saw Zhang Qiaosheng wearing a yellow Taoist robe and a high-level hat on his head. He was holding a grapefruit leaf in one hand and a white cup in the other.
I saw him using grapefruit leaves to dip some water in the cup and then sprinkle it everywhere. After a while, he picked up a bowl, grabbed a handful of rice and sprinkled it around the hungry ghosts.
At the same time, he kept chanting incantations and changing his handprints.
"Preach spiritual chapters, cast spells and eat food, and experience all the three paths and five sufferings. All the ten categories and four lives are full, that is, the realm of super-yin, and we will enter the fairyland together..."
As the mantra started to be recited, Zhang Qiaosheng walked back and forth in the room with vigorous and incomprehensible steps.
His eyes were bright and seemed to be closed. At this moment, he really looked like an accomplished person.
This is exactly the opposite of Lian Yusheng. Lian Yusheng looks like a moral person at first glance, but when he is actually asked to do it, he is not like that.
Zhang Qiaosheng did not stop for a moment, walking quickly and chanting mantras. After a while, the clothes on his back became wet.
At this time, the starving ghosts in the room seemed to be full. Some looked around blankly. After a while, they lowered their heads again. Some shed tears on the spot, as if they were repenting for something.
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I was frightened by the scene at that time.
The sound of throwing rice stopped, but the sound of chanting mantras continued.
Zhang Qiaosheng was sweating profusely. He came to the altar, faced the incense burner with a serious face and recited the incantation, motionless like a wooden man stake.
Lian Xiaoru and Lian Yusheng stood there, quietly watching the master in front of them do what they did.
I did the same, just watching quietly.
Suddenly seeing Zhang Qiaosheng, he bowed three times to the incense burner in front of him, and then shouted: "Okay!"
After I finished speaking, I looked around the room. Suddenly, none of those starving ghosts disappeared.
It's so amazing!
"Uncle Zhang, are they all gone?" I asked with a surprised look on my face.
"Well! They are all gone. But that dead woman is back again."
Zhang Qiaosheng pointed to the northeast corner with his hand. I looked towards that corner and saw the dead woman with a big belly again. She was covered in blood, including on her hair and clothes. However, the placenta on her hand was missing.
, probably took it back again!
"He's looking for you!" Zhang Qiaosheng winked at me and said.
I looked carefully and saw that the dead woman was really looking towards me. I was shocked.