the last priest

Grandma recalled that the crazy Taoist once mentioned a place: Wulipu, Anxian County, so she hurriedly dismantled her grandfather and rode a bicycle to go there, asking people all the way, and finally found out about the place in a small town, and when they arrived at Wuli It was already dark in the shop, so when I saw anyone, I asked if there was a Taoist priest here. After several inquiries, I finally got some clues: an elderly man pointed out to my grandfather that there is a small village to the west of Wulipu, but it is very remote. After passing a chestnut grove, there is a cemetery below. After passing the cemetery, we walked another five miles. It was said that there was a Taoist priest there, but I don't know his name. 【&】

Grandpa thanked the old man, took advantage of the moonlight, dared to walk at night, and passed the chestnut forest. He didn't know if it was a green piece of fireflies or ghost fire. I got up and didn't bother to check, gritted my teeth and rushed forward. When I arrived at the small village, I was already sweating profusely. I sat at the entrance of the village and checked, and I could see even the bones. Grandpa loves this little daughter very much. , I was also in a hurry, so I squatted on the side of the road and burst into tears.

While grandpa was crying, a young man with thick eyebrows, big eyes, high nose bridge, and a white robe came out of a dilapidated thatched house at the entrance of the village. He caught up with him and asked grandpa what was going on.

Grandpa is also really impatient, so he poured beans into a bamboo tube with a stranger and talked about the matter,

After listening to the grandfather's narration, the young man said, big brother, don't worry, you first follow me into the house and talk slowly, I will bandage you, and then lead the grandfather into the house. After entering, this inconspicuous room In the thatched hut, there are Taoist Sanqing on the wall: Yuqing Yuanshi Tianzun, Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun, Taiqing Daode Tianzun.

The man made a cup of tea for grandpa, motioned for grandpa to sit down, took off the bottom of his trousers, and saw that there was a big opening, even his trousers were torn, and the cloth was soaked in blood. , and then wrapped it with a white cloth, it temporarily stopped the bleeding, but it was not enough to cause a flustered pain.

After bandaging, I got up and made a cup of tea for my grandfather. It looked ordinary, and it was strange for my grandfather to drink a sip of tea. Gradually, I calmed down my uneasy heart, and the wound gradually stopped hurting. After some narration and the whole story, I asked the man if he knew there was an old Taoist priest here.

Unexpectedly, the man actually said: "If I guessed correctly, you should be looking for my master, but unfortunately he passed away three years ago, since the master told you to come to him before his death, then if the elder brother believes me, I will take care of you." Go over and have a look, can you see it?"

When Grandpa heard that someone died, there was no other way to do it. He could only treat the dead horse as a living horse doctor, and nodded repeatedly, afraid that this person would not be found later.

The man asked his aunt's birth date, took out a compass and pinched his fingers to calculate, and said to the grandfather: "If there is no accident, your little daughter may not live until the fifteenth day of this month. My teacher died nine years ago." I warned you before, but I didn’t expect you not only didn’t believe it, but also... hey”

As soon as the grandfather heard it, he knelt down to the man and cried bitterly: "None of us thought of that crazy Taoist priest back then, oh no, what the Taoist priest said is true. Here, look, what should we do?"

Everything may be predestined, the man said to himself while supporting his grandfather: "Forget it, just wait a moment."

But after a while, the man came out from the side room, dressed in a Taoist robe with gold and silver threads, a gossip hat, white gossip shoes, and a gossip Qiankun bag on his back, and said to Grandpa: "You take me to your house, the sooner the better

, if you can go now, start right away.”

Grandpa saw that the man was dressed as a Taoist priest, and knew that he had met someone who knew how to do it, so he got up quickly, and the two of them rushed back to grandma's house overnight, but they didn't know that his leg was troubled by his rush, and he could walk a little bit from then on. lame.

We should say that Wai Gong was a good laborer in the village at the time, but at the moment his legs and feet were injured, and the Taoist spoke eagerly, so he could only grit his teeth and insist. This man was Cha Wenbin who later formed an indissoluble bond with our family. Zha Wenbin, who was born in [-], has a son and a daughter. They are twins. They live a poor rural life, working at sunrise and resting at sunset.

When they arrived at grandma's house, grandpa explained the origin to grandma, and took Cha Wenbin to aunt's room. The strange thing was that this time, the little black dog of my uncle was very kind when he saw Wen Bin, and hugged him happily. His legs, you know, this dog is usually very fierce to strangers, it is said that even my father was almost bitten by it.

Wen Bin touched the little black dog's head, smiled and went in, and asked the others to stay outside. After a while, Cha Wenbin came out with a heavy expression on his face

Grandma asked nervously, "Master Taoist, how is the situation?"

Zha Wenbin didn't say anything, but asked grandma to prepare a table and put it outside the door. Grandma didn't dare to be negligent, so she quickly moved a small table and put it outside the door

Then Cha Wenbin asked grandma to prepare an upside-down rice (upside-down rice is to fill the bowl with rice, press the stone, and pour it out, so that the rice takes on the shape of a bowl, and then put the rice upside down in the bowl to keep Keep the rice with the bottom of the bowl facing up, and it must be half-baked rice.)

After setting up the case, there was a bowl of down-to-earth rice in the middle, and the man took out three sticks of incense, a stack of talisman papers, a box of cinnabar, and a brush from the Qiankun bag, and asked his grandfather to carry my aunt's bed to face the door. place, and asked grandpa to tie up my aunt with hemp rope.

Besides, the little aunt at that time, since Wen Bin entered, has been moving around, even the grown man, Grandpa, can hardly hold her down. Fang Buddha became as strong as a cow overnight, and after listening to the Taoist priest, he used hemp rope Trapping my aunt, I later learned that this numbness is not only to prevent my aunt from moving, but also to lock the soul, that is, to trap my aunt's soul and prevent her from getting out of her body.

After tying up my aunt, the Taoist took another black stone-like thing and stuffed it into my aunt's mouth, saying that it was to prevent her from biting her tongue and committing suicide later. After finishing all this, the Taoist respectfully put three The incense is lit, and the incense is longer and thicker than the ordinary incense we have seen, and its color is yellowish. It may be the legendary tribute incense. It is strange to say that there is no wind in this room, but the incense that is lit The smoke from the house was composed of three strands into one strand, and then slowly floated into my aunt's room. . . . . .

Then Wen Bin took out an inkstone. My grandfather is a person who loves calligraphy. As soon as he saw the inkstone, he knew that it was not an ordinary inkstone. Parts are red instead of black as normal inkstones.

The Taoist glanced at the little uncle, patted his head, and said to him with a smile: "Little baby, go and pee, put it in a bowl and bring it to me."

Grandma quickly took another large bowl, and led the little uncle out. After a while, the little uncle's urine was brought in. The Taoist poured a little urine into the inkstone, then put the box of cinnabar into the inkstone, and stirred it. Afterwards, I picked up a brush and began to draw talismans on the talisman paper. When drawing the talismans, the pen did not leave the paper, and all of them were connected to the end in one stroke. A total of eight talismans were drawn, and then they were pasted in eight directions in my aunt's room.

Strange to say, when the last talisman was pasted, the aunt on the bed let out a horrified roar, but something was stuffed in her mouth, and she couldn't make out what it was, but her eyes were wide open, and she waved uneasily. Nodding his head, he seems to be very scared, but also seems to be very angry!

Wen Bin didn't even look at the struggling aunt, but walked over quickly, stepping on seven-star steps, drawing a talisman every time he started to walk, and then sticking his fingers, I don't know how to do it, the talisman paper burned After getting up, she began to chant the mantra, and the aunt on the bed began to struggle more and more following Wen Bin's mantra and talisman paper. A nine-year-old girl seemed to be about to break free from the hemp rope that was as thick as a finger. The bed boards were creaking, her face turned from pale to estrus, and she kept making noises: Huh~~huh~~, but she couldn't hear what it was.

After burning a total of seventy-seven and forty-nine talismans, my aunt's struggling strength seemed to be exhausted, and only the loud panting sound remained. Grandma's family was too scared to move, but the expression on Wen Bin's face became more and more serious. He was dignified, and gradually began to sweat. After the last talisman was burned, he was sweating profusely.

The Taoist priest sat on the ground and drank a cup of tea passed by his grandmother. He looked very tired. After sitting for about 3 minutes, he stood up and looked very exhausted. He waved to his grandfather and shouted softly: "In the house Don't keep any more people, all go to the door, I have something to tell you."