Chapter 74: Night Visit to Xiadian Village
Throughout the afternoon, I drew a lot of talismans, bought white wine, roast chicken, incense, candles, and gold ingots, and also bought a lot of necessary tools on the street. The three of us set off in a mighty manner. In fact, my main purpose of visiting Xiadian Village at night was to find the female corpse. It was awakened during the day. Although it was reburied with soil and the Five Ghosts Seal was tied with a red rope, it was still okay during the day, but it was hard to predict at night. So I had to get it done tonight.
I knew they would definitely come, so I didn't dare to tell the truth, but I couldn't stop them from coming, because I couldn't do it alone, I had to have help. And they were both indispensable, Lin Yuxi knew a little bit of magic, and although Xiaopang didn't know anything, he was a man after all, so it was just right for them to be together, so I could feel at ease.
On the way there, we couldn't say anything in front of the taxi driver. Lin Yuxi just told me that she contacted a friend in the afternoon to help find out where Chen Dahong was. I've let this go. Life and death are determined by fate. Even if we catch Chen Dahong, we may not get what we want. Although it's hard to live for only four years, if you think about it, if these four years are meaningful, it's better than decades of mediocrity.
It’s not about quantity of days, but about fulfilling them. Just take what happened during this period of time, I feel that it is the most fulfilling time in my life.
When we got to the outside of Xiadian Village, we paid the taxi and asked it to go back because we didn't know when we would be back and it might be a sleepless night, so we couldn't let the taxi wait here all night. We picked up our bags and walked along the path outside the village, first arriving at the cornfield outside the Lu family's ancestral tomb.
The three of them squatted down like thieves and listened in the dark for a while. It was quiet all around. After confirming that there was no one, they turned on the flashlight and went into the ground. They came to several uneven graves. Under the light, each grave exuded a thick and strange atmosphere, which made people's backs cold. In fact, even if you don't know that the old man in the grave is a zongzi, entering the graveyard in the middle of the night is definitely terrifying.
I walked around the ancestral tomb and saw nothing unusual except for the offerings left by Mr. Lu. So I said to them, "You two wait here. I'll go to the hill behind the tomb to see if I can find a way to suppress the two evil corpses at the same time. If anything happens at the tomb, call me immediately."
As he spoke, he took out a masonry cone, glutinous rice, a red string, a corpse-suppressing charm, and other things, and used the red string to tie a five-ghost seal on the masonry cone. He told them that if there was any movement, one of them should first stick the masonry cone on the grave, then sprinkle glutinous rice and stick the corpse-suppressing charm, and the other should call me.
Xiaopang looked a little scared, with a bitter face, but seeing that Lin Yuxi didn't say anything, how could he, a grown man, have the nerve to say that he was scared?
I bent down and grabbed a handful of soil from the grave. When I was about to leave the cornfield, Lin Yuxi pulled me back and asked, "Are you going to the mountain to deal with the female corpse?"
Since she had guessed it, she might not believe me even if I lied, so I kept my mouth shut and didn't answer. She bit her lip for a moment and then said, "Be careful!"
I nodded, walked quickly out of the cornfield, walked to the path leading to the back mountain, took out the compass, and searched for the ground vein between the cemetery and the mountain. This ground vein is not the environment in geography, but a special term in Feng Shui. In the cemetery, it is also called the "yin vein", which cannot be seen by the naked eye and can only be determined with a compass. If you don't have this thing on hand, you can use a relatively spiritual kitten to do it.
After walking a few dozen meters, the seabed needle began to move. This vein has a strong evil spirit and will produce a strong magnetic field, so it is easy to find. So I plunged into the cornfield again, followed the direction of the needle, and walked through the cornfield for hundreds of corns. Finally, I stepped on this Yin vein. The needle was spinning back and forth like a lamb with epilepsy.
I roughly estimated the distance, then walked a few hundred meters along the Yin Vein. I was basically sure that this was the center of the Yin Vein, so I stopped. I stepped on a few corn stalks around, pulled out a masonry awl, and first inserted it into the Yin Vein. Then I took out a paper man that I had folded with yellow paper in advance, tied it with a red rope, and tied it to the masonry awl. I placed the paper man three feet away from the Yin Vein. I grabbed the soil from the grave and sprinkled it on the paper man. I opened the bottle of white wine, took a sip in my mouth, and sprayed it towards the masonry awl and the paper man.
After waiting for a few minutes, I took a flashlight to take a closer look. The red rope and the paper man had turned black. I nodded with satisfaction. This was a method of branching and intercepting the flow. I opened a hole in the Yin vein, first led the Yin Qi connecting the female corpse and the old man to the paper man, and then the Yin vein could be cut off. Since the paper man still had some Yin Qi of the old man, it would temporarily confuse the female corpse. When the Yin vein was cut off, as long as it did not move, there would be no problem with the old man. Once this vein was successfully cut off, it would be equivalent to breaking the knot between the female corpse and the old man.
I gulped down two gulps of white wine, feeling refreshed. I took out a small folding shovel and dug a one-foot-deep pit behind the mason's cone. I took out a green brick with words engraved on it from my bag. There were only three words: "Broken pulse, command!" These three words were drawn with cinnabar, and they were as red as blood under the light, very eye-catching. I buried the green brick in the pit, bulldozed the soil to fill it up, and then burned incense, candles, and gold ingots. This was the critical moment. I stared at the paper man connected to the mason's cone with wide eyes.
My nerves were tense when my phone suddenly vibrated. I had set it to vibrate, fearing that the ringing sound would travel far in the middle of the night and disturb passers-by. I was startled and quickly picked up the phone.
"Are you... okay?" It was Lin Yuxi. She was asking about my safety, which immediately put my heart at ease.
"I'm fine, don't call me if you have nothing to do." I hung up , but at this moment, I heard a faint sound of crackling around me. The sound was very short and then disappeared. I turned around and shone the flashlight around, but I couldn't see anything through the gaps between the dense corn stalks. I thought that I might be too nervous and had auditory hallucinations.
So I turned back to look at the situation after the meridians were cut off. The three incense sticks were half burned, and the paper man became darker, as if it was coated with a layer of ink. I could still vaguely see a layer of black air wrapped around it. I clenched my fists and thought that the meridians were successfully cut off. I immediately packed up my things, quickly walked out of the cornfield, and walked down the mountain along the path.
I looked back and saw no movement, and confirmed that no one was following me, so I climbed up the hill. When I reached the foot of the mountain, I looked back at the endless cornfield, but I didn't see any lights at the cemetery. I felt something was wrong. With their courage, how could they dare to guard the grave without turning on the lights?
But there was not much time left. If we didn't act immediately, the female corpse might realize that the old man was missing and might come back to life. He took out a small shovel and dug open the cave in no time.
