Raising Ghosts Records

Chapter 5 Apprenticeship to Goddess Zhang

After returning from herding the cattle, she told Sangu that Goddess Zhang was looking for me and would not be at home for dinner tonight. Sangu smiled and said she knew.

Goddess Zhang has black and white hair, she looks 50 years old when she is not 60 years old.She had an eldest son who was drowned fishing in the Xunjiang River when he was a child, and her daughter just married to Pingnan last year.His husband is a carpenter. He usually comes to make doors, windows, tables and chairs for others, and he is often away for two or three months.

After taking a shower at around six o'clock in the evening, I arrived at Mistress Zhang's house. She was making stuffed tofu in the kitchen. When she saw me coming, she quickly asked me to watch the fire for her.Oil was put in the pot, and Goddess Zhang picked up a handful of tofu and put some stuffing in it. Rolled the tofu several times from left hand to right hand, each tofu stuffed into the pot.

After the stuffed tofu was ready, she went to the bathroom to kill the fish. After being so busy for more than an hour, she cooked a dinner that was only available during the holidays.

Before I picked up the chopsticks, I was drooling, but I didn't read the truth that there is no free lunch in the world, but I don't know what Goddess Zhang will ask me to do.It stands to reason that I am a homeless boy, thanks to Sangu's shelter, otherwise I might end up living in a bridge hole and settle down, so as long as I am sorry for Sangu and sister Xuefei, I can do anything for this table of good food.

After eating a delicious stuffed tofu, Goddess Zhang smiled and asked me if I wanted to drink. I smiled awkwardly and said that I have never drank since I was a child!J.

Goddess Zhang also smiled, picked up a piece of bacon, put it in her mouth, and said to me: "Xiao Li! I also know about your situation. The third sister-in-law also told me that you have no father or mother, neither old nor young. If you don't study, you don't have any skills, you won't be able to marry a wife when you grow up."

Hearing Goddess Zhang say this, I didn't know how to answer her, so I just bowed my head and ate the food.

yes! I'm 14 years old and haven't gone to school. I have no father, no mother, no land, and no family. It can be said that I have nothing. What is my way out in the future?

Goddess Zhang put down her chopsticks and said: "The third sister-in-law will remarry in a month or two, and the concubine will also be taken away. What will you do then? The house and the fields will be returned to the concubine's uncle. His uncle has three of them himself." It is impossible for the daughter and two sons to support you. The third sister-in-law can't take you away, after all, you are not her son and you are so old."

The more Goddess Zhang said, the worse my mood became. Although the food in front of me was delicious, I lost my appetite.

Goddess Zhang went on to say: "Why don't you learn from me! Although you can't make much money, you can't die of hunger if you know one or two things."

I raised my head and said to Goddess Zhang, "Fifth Aunt, just tell me what you want me to do! I'll listen to you."

When Goddess Zhang saw what I said, she put away her smile and asked me seriously if I often encountered unclean things.

"Ah!" I was a little surprised to hear Goddess Zhang asking this suddenly. How did she know that I often encounter strange things!I recalled the strange things I had encountered since I was a child.

After my grandpa and grandma passed away, my uncle hadn’t married yet. He often went to gamble and never came back overnight. I was the only one sleeping in the house.I don't remember what year it was, but as long as my uncle was not at home, there would always be a sound of people walking in water shoes in the middle of the night.The family was poor and poor, and my uncle was reluctant to buy even a pair of slippers. He made it out of wood himself, so there would be no thieves.And there are no such stupid thieves who come here every night without stealing anything.

The footsteps always sounded in the middle of the night, coming down the attic stairs, and then coming to my room, sometimes whispering in my ear, but I couldn't hear clearly.There was no electricity at home, so there were no electric lights, and kerosene lamps were used sparingly. After going to bed, it was pitch black. Every time I could only hide under the covers and dare not move, even though I was sweating from the heat.

I've seen that thing too, once the moon was very bright and shone through the window into the room.In the middle of the night, footsteps came into my room from the hall again. I bravely exposed a finger-sized gap in the quilt. The footsteps came to my bed, and I saw it through the gap.

At that time, I hadn't watched movies or TV, so I couldn't imagine the appearance of those ghosts. I just thought it must be like a human, but what I saw was only a cat-sized black mass lying on the ground.

Very dark, very dark, like a very dark cloud on the ground.

I told Goddess Zhang about this experience, and this experience is only representative, and I have encountered many other strange things.

Goddess Zhang asked me if I wanted to know what was that dark thing that was whispering to me.

"think"!I answered I thought almost without thinking, and asked her, isn't that a ghost?
Goddess Zhang told me that many things cannot be called ghosts, and it is difficult for laymen to explain clearly.

The conversation lasted until 10:30 in the evening, and then she took out a small knife from the room and gave it to me, the same knife that stabbed the banana tree that day, so I somehow became her apprentice.

Of course, the apprentice is just talking about it. After all, I am not acting in TV. I am just learning from her.Goddess Zhang said that I am a person with a fairy bone, and if I am lucky, I will become a great talent, and I will work for a big official in a BJ.If life is not good, it is estimated that it will be difficult to live to be 30 years old.

How do I know this, I'm just afraid that I will have nothing, have nowhere to go, and fear that I will starve to death in the future.

As Goddess Zhang's apprentice, Sangu seldom asked me to work.Because she was about to remarry, she didn't plant anything in the field, just waiting for the two pigs to grow fat quickly so that they could be sold for a little more money.Agui Guitou and the others also study, and I have no chance to play with them.

Although I have become the apprentice of Goddess Zhang, there is nothing to learn. She just asked me to memorize some taboos and so on, and I usually follow her around.The first thing to do with her is to pick up bones, that is, to pick up human bones from the coffin into the tank.

In fact, this is also very simple. It is nothing more than picking a suitable day, opening the coffin with an umbrella, not speaking during the bone picking process, and not placing the bones randomly, and putting them into the tank according to a certain stacking method.That bone picking was only 20 yuan in red envelopes, and the purchasing power is equivalent to 150 yuan now!At that time, when we did this in the countryside, most of them received red envelopes, and they gave as much as they wanted.This is not a stingy thing, we won’t say if there is less, but next time something happens, it will be difficult to invite people, so the money in the red envelope is generally not very small.

Apart from not being able to do things for the dead, Goddess Zhang basically does everything.Looking at Fengshui, picking dates, fortune-telling, sending ghosts, and fulfilling wishes... Of course, what she does most is sending ghosts, which is her main business.

As for how Goddess Zhang became a Goddess, she actually didn't know herself.According to her, when she was young, she went to the mountains to cut firewood and came back very tired. She went to bed and slept for five days. After waking up, her mind was up and down. .A sorceress from Jintian came to see her and said that Youxian had taken a fancy to her and hoped to borrow her to help her practice.Witch Zhang disagreed at first, and she became a witch only after his son drowned in Xijiang, and she has never been insane since then.

Goddess Zhang is usually just an ordinary peasant woman who knows a little bit of taboos and things.Usually there are people at home who come to read the horoscope, choose the date, and fulfill the wish, but when it comes to sending ghosts, it is necessary for the immortal to come and possess the body.

I worship Goddess Zhang as an apprentice, which is actually the fairy's choice, that is to say, it has taken a fancy to me.It should be said that my real master is this immortal, and Goddess Zhang is just the "spokesperson" of the immortal in the world.After all, the immortal is a spirit body, and he must rely on the body of Goddess Zhang to do things.

The fairy mentioned here is just a respectful title, who knows if it is a god or a ghost, or just an animal becoming a spirit.The dagger was a gift from the immortal, and it was dug out from the mountain by the witch Zhang who possessed it before. I will talk about it in detail later.

I once asked Goddess Zhang why I could see the plantain ghost, but not your fairy.Goddess Zhang told me that this cannot be forced, and the immortal will naturally see it when he wants me to see it.

One morning at the end of September, as soon as I finished putting incense on the altar, I saw a man and a woman walking in the door.The man is in his early twenties and the woman is in her early forties. It looks like they should be mother and child.

When the woman saw me, she asked my sister-in-law if she was at home.I told her that Goddess Zhang hasn't woken up yet!
The woman came into the living room and sat down, and asked me to put away the presents I brought. I took them into the room and took a peek. They were all dried fruits, pork, and lychees. After putting them away, I came out to pour tea, and then I saw Mistress Zhang get up and walk out of the room.

The woman immediately stood up when she saw Goddess Zhang, only to hear her say to Goddess Zhang: "Third sister, something happened to Xiao Fu's bastard, Ah Cai told me to come and see you!"

When Goddess Zhang heard this, she quickly asked her to sit down and talk slowly about what happened.

I moved a stool for Goddess Zhang, and she sat next to the woman and listened to her without washing or brushing her teeth.

It turned out that the woman belonged to Goddess Zhang's family and the daughter-in-law of one of her cousins.The young man who came together was the woman's eldest son, and the woman said Xiao Fu was the youngest son, who was 13 years old this year.

This little rich man and his friends in the village often go fishing in small rivers and big rivers. Yesterday they went fishing in the Xunjiang River and saw a big red carp in the water.

That carp is so big!It was as big as a fat pig.The three of them stared dumbfounded. They had never seen such a big carp. If they caught it, it would last for at least ten days and a half months!But the Xunjiang is so big, is it so easy to catch?
Just as the three of them were discussing how to catch this big fish by the river, the carp swam back to the shore on its own initiative, which made them very happy.At this time, the carp was only one meter away from the shore, and the water was less than thigh deep. The three of them took off their pants and went into the water and slowly approached the big carp.Seeing that he was about to catch it, Xiao Fu even touched the scales of the fish, but the carp was very smart, and he swam to the deep water for a while.And all the while, every time they were close to a catch, the fish swam a little distance.In the end, the water was up to their necks. At this time, a partner said to go back quickly, because there was something wrong with the fish.

(End of this chapter)