the last priest

At that time, almost all the rural production teams had a pig butcher, so it was not difficult to find three pig butchers. Grandpa called three pig butchers back shortly after he went out, and each of them brought a pig butcher sharp knife. ╔y╗

Grandpa simply explained the matter to the three pig butchers. The three of them were all rough, sloppy, and looked fierce. They took the cigarettes handed by grandpa, drank a few sips of wine, and waited until 12 o'clock in the middle of the night , set off from grandma's house, and sent Cha Wenbin home.

Later, I also went to verify these pig killers. Two of them were still alive. They said that although it was summer that night, they felt that there was a cold wind blowing all the time. Cha Wenbin didn't allow them to turn their heads or speak, and asked them to surround him with sharp knives and continue on their way.

When Wen Bin arrived home, he gave each of them another pack of cigarettes, each of them took a bottle of wine and a talisman, and sent the three of them back home, where they shut themselves up for seven days.

The next day, grandparents and aunt went to see him with things, but he closed the door to thank the guests.

During Cha Wenbin's retreat, my grandmother took my aunt to the hospital for an examination, and everything turned out to be normal. Even the doctor who announced that my grandmother was going to prepare for the funeral felt unbelievable.

For seven days in a row, grandma went to Cha's house to wait. On the eighth morning, when Cha Wenbin opened the door, grandma walked in, and asked my aunt to kneel down and kowtow to Cha Wenbin three times to thank the benefactor for saving his life. This Cha Wenbin He is also a straightforward person, and once again declined grandma's money. Grandma wanted to keep the money, so Zha Wenbin had no choice but to say: "Sister-in-law, if you really want to thank me, then can your little black dog Give it to me?"

Not to mention a dog, but a fat pig, as long as he asks, grandma will send it over without hesitation, and immediately nods in agreement, saying that grandpa will send it later.

Cha Wenbin said: "It's not that I want to covet my sister-in-law's family, it's just that this dog has yin and yang eyes, and it's a pure black dog. It can recognize ghosts and ghosts. Let it be raised in your family. Sooner or later it will cause trouble. Let it go to me." , can still be of some use, just don’t blame me, sister-in-law.”

Later, I heard from my grandma that my little uncle had lost his temper and cried at home because of that little black dog, but that dog really became Cha Wenbin's partner and appeared in another story, Of course that's another story.

A few days later, Zha Wenbin came to visit, went to his grandmother's house for lunch, and then went to the homes of the parents of the two children who fell into the water, asked where the children were salvaged and buried, and then took the parents of the children to the cemetery. .

At that time, when a child died, he rolled it up with a broken mat, found a small mountain bag, dug a hole and buried it, without leaving any tombstone or the like.

On the way there, Cha Wenbin asked the family members of the child if they would go to the cemetery again after the death of the child. The father of the child said that he was afraid of being sad, and that he had never been there since his death. Buried, they only know which mountain is buried, and they don't know anything else.Cha Wenbin, holding a compass, walked and counted, and the group went all the way to Matou Mountain.

Speaking of Matou Mountain, I also know that it is on a very high mountain directly opposite the gate of my grandmother’s house. It is named Matou Mountain because it looks like a horse, and it is such a protruding mountain in the flat ground. , it feels a bit weird.

When they climbed to the top of the mountain, the sun was almost setting, and finally found the small earth bag where the two children were buried. It was already overgrown with weeds. If the earth color hadn't been renovated, I really couldn't tell that this was a grave. .

When the people of the two families saw their children lying here suffering, their sad and longing surged up, and they knelt on the ground and cried loudly. After a lot of effort, Wen Bin had a little confidence in his mind and asked the two families to stand together, saying that he would dig up the mound.

The two families disagreed, of course, and one of the child's father wanted to beat him, cursing: "Where did you come from, a fake Taoist priest, and you still want to dig my child's grave!"

Cha Wenbin was not annoyed, and asked them, "Do you know what kind of mountain this is?"

Of course everyone knows that this is Matou Mountain!

"Matou Mountain? Niutoumamian! Yes, this mountain is a post station in Niutoumamian. The children of your two families happened to be buried on the back of this horse. They left Niutoumamian in the village to make a pair of ghosts. Do not reincarnate! Dig it out, I will do a new ceremony and move it to another place, you don’t want your baby to commit crimes in the ground, do you?”

Everyone in the village also knew what happened to my aunt a few days ago, and when he said that, they became a little scared, thinking that if their doll really became what he said, they would really suffer from old sins, and they would all die after death. Uneasy, after discussing for a while, the two men agreed, and the people next to them started digging with hoes.

The two children were not buried deep, and not long after, two straw mats were planed. The moment the straw mats were opened, everyone was stunned. The two children had been dead for more than two years, not only did they not rot, It was still a little lifelike, as if they had fallen asleep, and the two families were so scared that they dared not move anymore. You must know that this is June Day, not only did it not rot, but it also had no smell!

Cha Wenbin sighed "Hey": "Unexpectedly, it has become like this, the corpses of these two dolls can no longer be brought into the village, or a plague will be caused sooner or later, and now they can only be burned. Find a new place to bury." Everyone knows that people will rot after death, but the appearance of these two dolls. . .It's not haunted, what's the matter?Now that things are up to now, this Taoist priest can only make the decision, so how dare he speak more.

He ordered everyone to use dry firewood to build a shelf on the spot, and when the firewood shelf was set up, Zha Wenbin ordered the two corpses to be placed on it, and then inserted three incense sticks in front. After a glance, he lit the fire , began to recite the supernatural mantra, and sent the two little ghosts to report to the underworld.

After the burning, they collected the ashes, led the crowd down the mountain, buried the ashes of the two children beside the reservoir, and erected a monument. It was already dark at this time, and then went to grandma's house for dinner. I said goodbye and went home.

My aunt had a dream that night, dreaming that two children came to say goodbye to her, and bowed to her, asking her to thank a Taoist priest. The next day, grandma asked Cha Wenbin to interpret the dream. Cha Wenbin nodded and said that the two The little ghost should have left, and asked the grandmother to bring a message to warn the villagers not to bury the dead on Matou Mountain in the future.

Although my aunt is fine, but after such a trouble, her health is often not very good, and she catches a cold more easily, and she didn't get better until she was an adult.

After such an incident, Zha Wenbin gradually gained some fame, and many people invited him for a funeral, but he never took any money. The kid in that village who was about my age was frightened and went to find him. He, Zha Wenbin usually burns a talisman and drinks it with water. Of course, he also knows a little Chinese medicine. Sometimes it is not a bewitching but an illness. He will also prescribe some herbal medicine. If it is serious, he recommends going to the hospital. up.

At that time, many people went to apprentice and wanted to learn such a craft from him, but Cha Wenbin never accepted apprentices, and usually went to work in the fields like ordinary people, and went to the mountains to cut firewood. Know that he is a Taoist priest.

As for me meeting him, it was many years later

That year, when I was six years old, something happened. . .

Our village is also in a mountainous area. There is a big temple in our village, which is still made of gray bricks. According to my father, I don’t know which dynasty and generation that temple was built. Our great-grandfather came here when he fled from other places. , there was that temple, but no one managed it at that time, and after 100 years, it looks even more dilapidated.

During the Cultural Revolution, a large part of the temple was set on fire by the Red Guards, and the bricks of the entire temple wall were burnt red. Only the main hall remained unburned. Gradually, later, some people built houses and so on, so they went there I picked bricks to build a house, but I didn't know how to do it. The house built with these temple wall bricks was easy to fall down, and a family was killed. Gradually, everyone used the bricks there to build pigsty.

There is also a brick in our house. That brick was broken when I was a child. That brick is very heavy. One side is carved with a unicorn, and the other side is bare. According to my current thinking, it should be a brick. The embossed bricks were picked up by my father when he was a child, and this matter is related to the temple. . . . .