Beauty Comprehensive 1999

Chapter 28 Red Face Appears
Speaking of exorcism incense, it actually comes from a powerful alternative to incense.

That is the incense to ward off evil spirits.

According to the records of Xiangzhen Xiangpu, evil spirit incense has an ancient origin, and it uses rhinoceros horn, realgar, asarum, pepper, peach wood, willow charcoal, and nepeta oil as materials.After grinding and mixing, it is made into incense balls or incense sticks, which are baked in a dark fire to shape.

Although the production seems to be very simple, the rhino horn has been a legendary mythical thing since ancient times.

"Yiyuan" has a saying: "Rhinoceros can't be burned when they are born. They have a strange fragrance when they burn. If they stick to clothes, people can communicate with ghosts." Unfathomable. Rumor has it that there are many monsters, but they are illuminated by burning rhinoceros horns. After a while, they see aquariums covered in fire, strange shapes, or riding in a carriage wearing red clothes. That night, the dreamer said: "Your Ming Dao Pavilion, what do you mean?" Take a photo?" Qiao hated it so much that he died a few days ago. "

Here are two uses of rhinoceros horns. First, according to folklore, lighting candles with rhinoceros horns can meet dead relatives.

Second, the ancients could see ghosts and gods by burning rhino horns and using the light from the burning rhino horns.

The story of the rhinoceros horn has been handed down since then, and "rhinoceros photo" has become a specialized adjective, used to describe people's unique vision and insight into the truth of things.

However, in the eyes of the Xie family, lighting candles made of rhino horn powder to communicate with the dead is wasteful and extremely wasteful.

In ancient times, rhinoceros horns were valuable fetishes. In the era after the extinction of rhinoceroses in China, they had to be obtained through trafficking by merchants in the South Asian subcontinent or tribute from foreign vassals. Usually, they were directly paid tribute to the royal family or collected by the imperial court. How can ordinary people to find?
There are many ways to meet ghosts and gods. The right way is to make evil spirit incense for ghosts and gods. The description of this evil spirit incense in his family's incense book is "burn it, and the ghost king of the underworld also needs to retreat. It can be avoided if it is prepared like a spirit horn. Heavenly Demon's Calamity", which shows its powerful effect.

It's just that the rhino horns needed in the evil spirit incense are already extremely precious and rare materials in modern times, and rhinos are still not allowed to buy and sell protected animals that are killed in a civilized society.

Of course, for another class, as long as they have money, nothing is difficult.

It's a pity that Xie Zihao is still far from reaching that class.

Fortunately, there is no substitute for evil spirit incense. In the early years, rhino horns were rare, and rhino horns with spirituality were even more precious. Therefore, Xie Jiazu took the evil spirit incense as the prototype, and developed two kinds of incense based on its formula. The substitutes are called exorcism incense and ghost incense.

Xie Zihao doesn't know if it really has the effect of exorcising demons and ghosts, but according to the records of the clan, even in the age of the end of the Dharma, the two are quite miraculous. Wearing a pill into the forest can avoid snakes, insects and beasts.

The functions of exorcism incense and ghost incense are roughly similar, but one is mainly used to exorcise evil spirits and abnormal qi, and the other is mainly used to cure ghosts and spirits. The two are usually used in combination, although the effect is not as good as that of evil spirits. There are no evils in the interior, and ghosts and gods can prevent changes, but it is said that it can also artificially create a safe zone of about a hundred steps, so that ordinary evil spirits, monsters, poisonous insects and beasts can stay away.

It’s just that there are several kinds of special medicinal materials in Central China, such as cohosh and tiger bone, in the formula of the ghost incense, and nothing else. Even if it is not easy to find them in the New World, it is not impossible, but the blind tiger bone is the most troublesome. Modern ones are mostly produced in Southeast Asia and other areas with less strict legal system, so he just made a batch of twelve-pill exorcism incense before.

The main ingredients of exorcism incense are amber, goat horn, realgar, wormwood, perilla, asarum, pepper, ageratum, ginger, purple-skinned garlic, sandalwood, processed according to the secret method, combined with nepeta oil .

Compared with rhino horns and tiger bones, goat horns are undoubtedly easier to find. Although Jinzhou is not a large animal husbandry state, there are plenty of pastures and farms in the territory. It is easy to find a few goat horns.

The rest of the ingredients are also relatively easy to find here in the Federation, not to mention that the west coast is still the base camp of immigrants from the Tang Dynasty, and common medicinal materials such as realgar and asarum are naturally easy to buy.

Seeing the extraordinary effect of the exorcism incense he prepared, Xie Zihao was extremely satisfied with this attempt, and it was not in vain that he spent a lot of thought.I decided to study the contents of Jiangzhen Fragrance Book in my memory after I go back, after all, there are many magical prescriptions in it!
The psychic Elis' eyes moved slightly at this time, seeing that the exorcism tool Xie Zihao took out was so sharp, he finally couldn't help but speak.

"Mr. Xie, can your exorcism incense be sold?"

Xie Zihao pondered for a while when he heard the words, and then said:
"This kind of exorcism incense is rare and difficult to make. I don't have much in my hand, but if you need it, Ms. Ellis, I can sell you a pill for five hundred pounds!"

This is of course the price that Xie Zihao opened his mouth. The cost of all the materials he bought to make this batch of exorcism incense did not exceed one hundred pounds, and the finished product has twelve pills, and there are still many materials that are not used up. One pill sells for five hundred pounds The eagle pound is not to say that it is a huge profit, at least it has hundreds of times the profit.

Of course, the time and energy he spent has not been calculated here.

But for Elis, the price of five hundred eagle pounds was not unacceptable. After all, this pill of exorcism incense was a life-saving treasure at a critical moment.

The old lady agreed without hesitation and sealed the deal.

Melinda, who was watching from the side, was a little surprised. The secret channel was indeed an old-fashioned psychic, and her net worth was rich!

Although it's not that she can't afford the five hundred pounds, the monthly income of ordinary white-collar workers in the Federation is used to buy a small pill, which is a bit of a loss no matter how you look at it!

At this time, Xie Zihao's impression in her eyes had already changed drastically.

Not only can she have the secret method to protect the gods, but she can also make exorcism items such as exorcism incense. In contrast, she, a natural psychic medium who used to be proud in the past, seems to be the most useless one among the three colleagues present.

Xie Zihao didn't know that his performance made the beautiful woman feel inferior. He was still happy that he had earned five hundred pounds, but when he turned his head, he saw a scary red grimace in the dark behind Josh out of the corner of his eye. He showed a funny evil smile on his side, and then disappeared in an instant.

"What am I!"

This scene scared him almost to swear, and his heart beat violently.

It wasn't so scary, but it was too sudden. If it wasn't for his extraordinary inspiration, he would have thought it was his own illusion.

"what happened?"

Seeing him lose his composure, Eliston felt wronged, and immediately asked.

After all, Xie Zihao had seen the plot, so he quickly regained his composure, pointed to the dark corner and explained to his old aunt Elis:

"There was a red-faced monster behind Josh just now, it was smiling at me, and it disappeared in the blink of an eye!"

Melinda was a little puzzled when she heard the words:
"Did you read it wrong?"

She didn't feel any approaching breath of a spirit body. She was sure of this. After discovering her talent when she was a child, she basically didn't miss it in the past ten years.

On the other side, the old psychic Ellis' expression became more serious.

"Perhaps what Xie said is right, Melinda, you don't feel wrong either."

Melinda was even more puzzled.

Then I heard Ellis looking around cautiously, and asked Xie Zihao:
"Thank you, is the monster you saw a humanoid red-faced monster like an oil painting face?"

Xie Zihao deliberately surprised: "That's right! Did you see it?"

After being affirmed by Xie Zihao, Elis spoke:
"A few years ago, I also encountered the same evil existence. Unlike ordinary undead, it is extremely good at hiding itself. The natural perception of our psychics is ineffective in front of it, like a radio with a broken antenna! And this Stuff is very good at playing with people's hearts and discovering the fear in human hearts. I don't think it is an evil spirit or an evil spirit, but a legendary devil?"

"devil?"

"Oh shit..."

Except for Xie Zihao, who had already expected it, everyone present could not help but exclaim.

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