Mantra

Chapter 38

I thought back to the burnt pot of things I saw just now, and sorted out the information contained in it.

Afterwards, I told Hongye: "That brazier should be a 'Ulan Basin'. The so-called Yin Yin Banquet is actually a person who bumped into an evil spirit who was holding a 'Ullambana Tribute'."

Hongye frowned suspiciously and said, "It's the Yulan Basin? But isn't that the magic weapon used by the Buddhists to save the dead and accumulate merit? What's the danger? Every July [-]th, the temple still holds the Yulan Basin ( Harmony) will."

I nodded slightly, and at the same time corrected her: "This Yulan basin sounds good as a 'dharma implement', but it is actually a 'food bowl', but the rice in this bowl is not for people to eat, but for people who are hungry. Ghosts eat."

"Ah?!" Hongye was stunned when she heard that, she said with lingering fear, "You mean, that thing is a ghost's food bowl? Then Brother Hou, didn't he... smashed the ghost's job?!"

I chuckled and told him that it was never that simple. It was hard to find a person on this highway, so how could such a magic weapon suddenly appear?And isn't the person who puts the magic instrument afraid of being hit by a car?What can you do if you recruit "ghosts"?Do you maintain traffic?

As Xian Hongye said, this Yulan basin was originally a Buddhist instrument, and it was blessed by eminent monks in Buddhism. It is said that it can save hungry ghosts, support ancestors, increase mana, and accumulate virtue. In short, in those religions In the mouth of the personage, there is a majestic and glittering existence.

However, if we remove all these dazzling auras, we will be surprised to find that this Obon is actually just a food bowl dedicated to hungry ghosts.

I don't know if there are hungry ghosts in this world, but it is certain that this thing is not good, the most irregular, and it is also a dark and unlucky existence.

According to folk superstitions, if people with no "daoism" use it and randomly put food in it, not only will they not become ghosts, but they will also attract dirty things and harm themselves.

Such a dangerous "magic weapon", to put it bluntly, is like a double-edged sword!If you play well, the whole family will be saved, but if you don't play well, the whole family will suffer.

Also because the Yulan Basin is too dangerous, the folks only hold the "Ulan Basin Fair" in the middle of July every year, relying on the power of the temple's eminent monks to bless the "Three Treasures" and lead the collective strength of the monks to save the dead and pray for blessings and increase merit. .

One of the reasons why everyone does this is because they think that the process of saving the Obon is very dangerous and even vicious. It is not possible to attain enlightenment unless there are great virtues and great abilities. Moreover, if there are more monks, the average risk will become smaller. There are many people, there is great power", probably this is the reason.

When I said this, I changed the subject and told everyone that because the "side effect" of "recruiting ghosts" in the Yulan Basin was too great, some folk "masters" carried out "reverse thinking".

They "creatively" turned a magic weapon to save the undead into a tool for "finding a replacement for the dead" for the undead.It is specially used to kill people on roads, riversides, and even homesteads for profit.

In short, they turned the Yulan basin into a veritable, smoky "basin for recruiting ghosts" and "basin for death".

And what Wang Hou met just now was such a pot-eater who bewitches ghosts.

When she said this, Hongye looked very hurried and uncomfortable, with a cold expression on her face.

To be honest, I didn't say this to scare anyone or cause trouble for anyone. I must be in the car too. Saying these unlucky words will not do me any good.

That's the way it is.Believe it or not, at least according to my judgment, we are probably on the right track.

At this time, Hongye asked me again: "Why do you have to burn rice and butter in the Obon basin?"

I didn't answer her immediately, but instead asked Hongye: "I'm curious, if you didn't see it, how did you know that the pot was burning pine nuts?"

Hong Ye replied, "It's not difficult. When Brother Hou came back, he had the unique smell of pine nut shells on his body, and there was also a smell of butter. I used to eat Western food, and I was more sensitive to this smell... In short, Don't underestimate women."

"Your sense of smell... is really powerful." I admired and explained the reason to her:
Pine nuts is a homonym of "songzi". Burning pine nuts in a basin means "calling and sending away sons".

As for the butter mixed with pine nuts...it is a must for any "yin feast", "ghost food" or "coffin head feast".

"Why must there be butter for Yin Yan?" Hong Ye was puzzled.

I shook my head and told her, "It's not just butter, but any meat product from cows. Because people in the past believed that cows were psychic creatures, and it was unlucky to eat their meat."

I further explained that the reason why the ancients thought this way is that among the six animals, the cow exerts the most energy, and works in the fields every day, absorbing the earth's energy for a long time, so it should be the animal with the heaviest yin energy.

There are many records and applications of this kind of yin qi unique to cattle in history. Some Taoist schools even use ox tears to open "yin eyes" and see ghosts.What is borrowed is the unique yin energy of the cow.

Maybe because of this, they even have a place in the underworld.Finally, with the passage of time, the bull god in the underworld gradually changed into the image of a ghost with a bull's head and a horse face.

In short, cattle are a very negative "ingredient". In the past, ordinary people seldom ate this stuff.

We gather all these information, and we can guess the meaning of the method of burning the cow products with yin and pine nuts (songzi) together.

In the back of my head, the chain of questions added up to only one explanation...the woman who had been staring at us from where we had an accident.

Hongye's guess was right, she was keenly aware that the woman should have tampered with the brazier, but I didn't pay enough attention to it.

"Oh! I understand." Hong Ye suddenly realized: "The principle of this Yin Banquet is very similar to the Taoist's 'disgusting method', which is to use specific ingredients to attract specific dead ghosts, but it is done in the Yin Banquet. In the middle of the process, the process is artificially interrupted. In this way, the ghost will haunt the person who interrupted the process. It is the so-called dead ghost.”

To be honest, I admire her reasoning ability.

It stands to reason that so far, everyone's opinions are very clear. Although Hongye and I have directly pointed out the reason for Wang Hou's "evil spirit", I suggest that everyone change the transportation just to be on the safe side, because it is very likely that among us Someone has been possessed by a "dead ghost".

Later, I simply said directly: "Since this is the case, I don't think everyone should rely on this broken car. Go out and find a taxi to go to my squad leader's house. Although it is not convenient, it is much safer."

Moreover, Wang Hou's car is really broken, I have long wanted to change to a "mount".

Otherwise, before arriving in Lunan, I would probably be shocked to death by this broken car, so why not talk about unraveling the white-eating Gu.

But at this moment, we only got hit, and an unbelievers came out, Ah Si, who hadn't spoken for a long time, asked me a series of questions again.

To be honest, I admire this dwarf kid.

Because next, he, a dwarf of the new era, unexpectedly couldn't respond to my question for a while, let alone refute it.

Ah Si questioned me and said, there are no ghosts in this world!Even if there is, it is in people's hearts.And I only saw one basin, how could I deduce so many.When he was begging for food before, he had seen people burning paper on the side of the road, and he often ate the offerings after burning the paper, but nothing happened...

In the end, Ah Si made a conclusive "suggestion" to me, asking me to learn more about law and business, and not to engage in these gods and ghosts all the time, which is not conducive to integrating into this era.

What he said left me completely speechless.For a long time, I didn't even feel embarrassed to refute anything.For sure, these words are full of "positive energy!" Even if it is not touching, I still admire his courage of the ignorant.

But just when I was a little speechless, Hongye suddenly rescued me and said:
"Si! Maybe there are really no ghosts in this world, but even normal people will go crazy when they encounter this kind of brazier, because in this kind of 'food' prepared for ghosts, there may still be ghosts. put something else..."

Ah Si and I were curious at the same time: "What?"

Hongye didn't answer me directly, but asked us instead: "What if I can't summon the ghost? Or what if the ghost's 'mana' is not enough? Or, the person who advises others to find a substitute for the dead ghost doesn't understand the way at all. , what should I do if I just want to earn black-hearted money?"

We shook our heads, naturally we didn't know.

At this time, Hongye asked herself and answered: "So, these two things alone are not enough. Those 'folk masters' also added another thing in it. With that thing, you have to die even if you don't die. If you don’t hit the evil, you have to hit the evil.”

"What the hell?"

When she said this, Hongye's face fluctuated with lingering fear, and then squeezed out three words from between her teeth: "It is probably a (harmony) hallucination agent!"

"Hallucinogens? People have absorbed the smoke of hallucinogens, isn't it..." I suddenly realized.

Hongye nodded, and glanced at the whimpering Wang Hou in the rearview mirror.

Everything came to light.

I concluded with great regret: "That is to say, these 'warlocks' who use the Yulan basin to find ghosts are not so much able to summon souls as they can use medicine. Anyway, people are dead, and they can't be found. I also I heard that in rural areas, some 'underground religions' pretend to be ghosts, often use hallucinogens and drugs to kill people and abet crimes."

Hongye and I were silent at the same time.Faintly, I seemed to see a sad mother who couldn't sleep after her son died on the highway. Her maternal love was quickly taken advantage of by a charlatan who only knew how to cheat money. Dead ghosts cannot be reincarnated, they can only escape and ascend to heaven after finding a substitute.

And this sorcerer would always say that he just happened to know such a "Yin Banquet" recipe for finding a replacement for the dead ghost.

The mother who was eager to let her son escape did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy the method to let her son escape.But in fact, she didn't know that all of this was fake. It wasn't his son who really made Wang Hou fall into evil, but the hallucinogen mixed among the pine nuts.

Spend money... just buy peace of mind.

When I was thinking wildly, Hongye suddenly asked me: "Old Tian, ​​why do you know these messy things? I remember that you are not a monk or priest, but... a cook, right?"

I was taken aback for a moment, and instead of directly telling her my origin with these "yin foods", I replied indirectly to Hongye, "This butter pine nut is also a dish! It's just... it's for the dead."

Just as Hongye and I talked softly, our car finally drove into the high-speed service station.

When we arrived at the service station, we got out of the van as if avoiding the plague. Everyone was full of discomfort with this car, let alone sitting in it on the road.

After getting out of the broken van, I suddenly felt a sense of relief.The stagnant air in his chest before dissipated too much.

I turned around and patted Wang Hou's broken face, and solemnly waved to the thing: "Farewell! Leighton Stuart! Farewell! My youth is like passing away..."

While I was talking, I suddenly felt a pair of unwilling eyes flash past in the rearview mirror of the van.

(End of this chapter)