Chapter 36: Exorcism
Because my mind was full of these things, I forgot to ask her what kind of studio she opened. After she finished speaking, she turned around and asked me how I had been doing in the past three years. I said that I just went with the flow and traveled to many places, and this was the city where I had stayed the longest. I didn't have any special skills, so I made a living by fortune-telling. I didn't expect to meet you here, so we are destined to be together. I kept silent about looking for her. What's the point of talking about this?
I just finished talking and when we got to the alley, Lin Yuxi rushed to pay the taxi fare. After entering the alley, she happily said that Su Chengda would treat us to seafood tonight to celebrate the reunion of old friends after three years. I shook my head and said that I didn't like to eat with rich people. Besides, I might have to catch the baby spirit tonight, so I wouldn't have time.
Lin Yuxi deliberately pulled behind Xiao Pang, leaned on my shoulder and asked in a low voice: "I said, do you like me?"
This girl is clever and eccentric, and often does things unexpectedly, but I couldn't ask this to her face, which caught me off guard for a moment, and my heart was pounding. Then I calmed down, thinking that you already have a boyfriend, and asking this question is obviously to make fun of me. So I snorted and said, "Su Chengda treats you like a treasure, but my taste is not that low."
"Asshole!" Lin Yuxi was so angry that she bit my ear. "Even if you don't like me, you don't have to belittle me like that, right?"
I covered my ears in pain and said with a grin, "That's the truth. I don't lie."
Xiao Pang turned around and said with a smile, "You two are really enemies. You just kept quiet for a while and now you're fighting again."
Lin Yuxi rolled her eyes at him and said, "I'll pinch your head." She pouted and walked forward.
She walked to the door and unlocked it. We entered the room and saw that the wooden statue was still on the table, but the color had changed. It was still the original wood color yesterday, but today it was faintly red. The room was dark and it looked strange. Lin Yuxi reached out to take it, and I quickly held her hand, indicating that she could not touch it directly.
I walked to the wall and turned on the light. The room was bright, but it was still shrouded in a haze, and the light looked very turbid. I walked back to the table and looked at the wooden figure carefully. The workmanship was very fine. If it was painted with oil paint, it would be no different from a real baby. The little kid's pair of eyes had only whites and no black, which made people look very ferocious, especially when the little mouth was open, and there were two sharp teeth on the upper and lower parts.
Lin Yuxi looked at me in surprise and said, "When I came here yesterday, it didn't look like this. My mouth wasn't open. How did it become like this?"
Xiao Pang looked at the wood carving, then at me. He didn't dare to say anything. I frowned and said, "Because it has too much resentment and wants to kill Xiao Jing, but you have stopped it again and again, so it became very angry. From this situation, it can almost be concluded that this is a fierce ghost!"
Hearing this, Xiao Pang shuddered with fear, and the stall he had tucked under his armpits fell to the ground. This sound startled Lin Yuxi again, and she couldn't help but hold my arm.
"Hey, little fatty, what are you afraid of? You look big and strong, but why are you as timid as a mouse?" Lin Yuxi scolded him angrily.
While picking up things, the little fat boy retorted, "It's a bit rough, but not big, so I'm also timid." There was a hint of vulgarity in his words, so I quickly coughed twice and told this kid to stop talking nonsense.
Lin Yuxi didn't hear it, let go of my arm, turned around and said tremblingly: "You said this is an infant spirit. This is the first time I have heard of this term. Here, it is called a child god. It costs a lot of money to invite it home."
I suddenly had an idea and asked her, "Who raised the child god? Can you just buy it casually?"
Lin Yuxi shook her head: "It's not random, it depends on whether this person is suitable for worship. This is a business run by a Yin-Yang master in the western suburbs. According to him, each child god must be worshipped and opened before it can have spiritual energy and help people attract wealth and make their wishes come true. Many people, under my introduction, went to him to ask for the child god, and it was very effective. How come this one turned into an infant spirit?"
I turned around and stared at her and asked, "Tell me the truth, how could you be the one who introduced this kind of business? Did you know that the person was in the business of raising ghosts? It's not only unethical but also prone to accidents."
Lin Yuxi opened her beautiful eyes wide and said in a panic, "How would I know this? I only learned a little bit from Aunt Ting . If I had the ability, I would have been a Yin-Yang master myself. This is very profitable in Xiling."
"Stop beating around the bush and tell me what business you are in." I asked, glaring at her.
Lin Yuxi curled her lips and said, "I opened a Fuling Studio , which specializes in taking on all kinds of supernatural business. I help them introduce Yin-Yang masters to ward off evil spirits and take a commission from them. I also help them contact sellers of funeral objects (funerary objects) dumped from ancient tombs. In short, I do all kinds of business related to the supernatural."
I almost fainted. When she first mentioned the studio, I thought it was some kind of advertising design business. I didn't expect that someone who specializes in the supernatural field could also open a studio. I really admire this girl's business acumen.
Xiaopang interrupted and said, "We have an ancestral jade pendant in our family. It is said that it was dumped from a Han tomb. How about you help me see how much it is worth?"
When Lin Yuxi heard that there was a business, her eyes lit up immediately: "Okay, go and get it for me to see. First of all, I have to make it clear that no matter how much it sells for, I will take a 10% agency fee. If it sells for 10 million, I will take 100..."
I slapped my forehead and thought to myself, what are you doing here? Why are you talking about the baby spirit doing business? So I said angrily, "After I save your lives, we can talk about how much the jade is worth."
Xiaopang was about to run home to get something, but after hearing what I said, he stopped awkwardly. Lin Yuxi smiled sheepishly and said, "I'm used to it. I can't help but take over when I hear there's business. Where were we talking about just now? Oh, right, what's the matter with raising a little ghost?"
I said with a sullen face, "I don't have time to talk to you now. Go get a basin of clean water and see if Xiaojing's house has any incense. I only have a few talismans with me, not this kind of thing."
Lin Yuxi and Xiaopang shook their heads: "You bring the water, I'll find the incense."
In a short while, Xiaopang brought a basin of water, and Lin Yuxi found a bunch of incense in the inner room. I first dipped my hands in the basin and sprinkled it around the wood carving in a circle, and then asked Xiaopang to surround the door with the basin of water. I took three incense sticks from Lin Yuxi's hand and pinched the "Three Purities Jue" with my left hand. This jue is also commonly used in Taoism. The middle finger and ring finger are curled, and the thumb, index finger and little finger are extended, a bit like an orchid finger.
He took out an exorcism talisman, pinched it between his left thumb and index finger, stepped on the Gangbudou, and whispered, "Please the five ghosts and ghost generals, capture the infant's three souls, seven spirits, and twelve spirits and bring them back to the altar to be punished. People, ghosts, urge, command the evil soldiers and generals to go out, chain and bind, make the mind crazy, and feel like it's on fire, and return to the underworld immediately. I, the ancestor of Fengyin Mountain, command you to hurry up!"
The moment the spell was finished, a stream of air surged from the soles of his feet, and the talisman between his fingers suddenly caught fire. It was a magical feeling, whether it was divine power or the power of the earth, I couldn't tell, anyway, the Ghost Talisman Sutra said that it was the power of the gods, so I just took it as it was.
The three incense sticks in his right hand were tilted over the talisman fire, and the three incense sticks were like being dipped in gasoline, and they caught fire. Then he turned his right wrist, picked up the burning yellow talisman, and pressed his left finger seal against the base of the three incense sticks in his right hand. The burning talisman fire shot out like a fire bomb and pounced on the wooden sculpture of the infant spirit.
With a crisp "crack", the wooden sculpture split from head to heel, splashing out a stream of black blood!
Lin Yuxi exclaimed in surprise: "It's done!"
I was startled, and quickly threw the three incense sticks on the ground and stomped them out, and said to them in a hurry: "Not good, get out of the room quickly!"
