First Chapter 19 Lost Soul
More than a month passed, and I followed Qin Yiheng's instructions to bask in the sun every day, and I got a lot darker in the end. In fact, Yuan Zhen had contacted me during this period. Although I was very interested, I didn't dare to leave rashly. Because Qin Yiheng told me that I should keep my eyes quiet for a few days after seeing those things with my own eyes. The so-called quiet eyes means that you should try not to look at red things for a period of time, because red has the ability to ward off evil spirits. After looking at them, your luck will be offset by your righteousness. This is a bit like not being able to use fire to bake after being frostbitten. However, this is the same as many of the truths Qin Yiheng said. I didn't know whether it was true or not, so I would rather believe it than not. However, because of quiet eyes, I developed the habit of wearing sunglasses. Later, when I went out with Qin Yiheng, at first glance, I was even more unfathomable.
Such a carefree life is wonderful, but stagnant life will make people more and more bored. Coincidentally, Yuan Zhen contacted me again at this time, saying that a family wanted to sell their house. However, from his description, this house did not seem to be a haunted house, because the people living in it were still alive.
I was a little disappointed after hearing his story, but I still wanted to go and take a look, because the price Yuan Zhen quoted to us was also quite profitable. Moreover, I thought that maybe what happened to their family was just some trivial matters, and there was no need for the magic method at all. In this way, I might have picked up a big bargain. I talked to Qin Yiheng about it. He didn't agree at first, saying that our current fortune was very low and we might lose money if we did business. We should be patient and be careful not to get involved in any bloody disasters. But he couldn't resist my soft and hard persuasion, and finally he decided to go and take a look.
The house is not far from our city. It takes only three hours to drive there by highway. Besides, I think I drive pretty fast. If we drive there by ourselves, we can save a lot of time on taxis and walking. So we just drove there. Yuan Zhen happened to be in this city. It was lunch time when we arrived there. We invited Yuan Zhen to have a meal. During the meal, he talked about the house.
Yuan Zhen said that this family has lived here for several years. The male owner is a middle school teacher and the female owner opened a small supermarket in their community. The two have a daughter who is about sixteen or seventeen years old. The family of three lives a pretty happy life.
Because the male owner is a teacher, he has winter and summer vacations every year. In addition, he likes to travel, so he basically travels by himself every year, or the family of three reports to a travel agency to go to some domestic tourist attractions. The strange thing happened after a summer vacation trip for the family of three. At that time, they went to an undeveloped Although it has not been developed, it is also because there is not much artificial carving and pollution, the scenery is very pleasant, and the family had a lot of fun. Before going up the mountain, the male owner specially bought a big watermelon from the local area and brought it up the mountain and put it in the river, wanting to wait for the watermelon to cool down before eating. But when they came back after playing around, they found that the watermelon in the river was gone. Because it was not certain whether there were still locals or other tourists on the mountain at that time, the family was disappointed, but there was nothing they could do. They could only secretly curse the watermelon thief a few times, and finally went down the mountain in a huff. Later, on the way back from the end of the trip, their daughter yelled that she was very sleepy and said she wanted to sleep for a while. Anyway, the journey was long, so the two adults simply took a nap. Unexpectedly, after returning home, their daughter was still very sleepy and still complaining about being sleepy. The couple thought it was due to the long journey and the physical exertion from the outing, so they did not take it seriously.
But after that, it was difficult for the daughter to wake up again. She basically slept for several days. The two adults began to get scared and rushed to the hospital. However, all the tests were completely normal. Finally, they had no choice but to find a local expert to take a look. The expert said that they must have provoked something on the mountain. Now their daughter was possessed, and they had to go back to the place where they played to worship. The couple did so, bought a lot of tribute fruits and vegetables, and returned to the mountain. They knelt down and kowtowed and begged for mercy for a long time, but there was no effect, so they had no choice but to return. Through connections, they found many people to take a look, and they all said that it was because of disrespect for the things on the mountain, but they could not come up with a feasible solution. Later, the couple accidentally heard from Yuan Zhen that we had been buying haunted houses. They thought we were also some experts, so they hoped that we would come to take a look. They also knew that we were real estate investors and would definitely not come in vain. They gritted their teeth and gave us a price much lower than the market price. As long as we cured their daughter, they would sell the house to us.
After listening to Yuan Zhen’s story about the house, I was still a little hesitant. Although I had taken advantage of someone’s misfortune before, this was the first time I had done it so blatantly.
But since we were already here, we might as well go and take a look. If we couldn't bear the condemnation of our conscience, we could just pay a symbolic fee and go back. After dinner, we went straight to the couple's house.
I knocked on the door of the house. It seemed that the couple had been waiting for a long time. They were very enthusiastic, serving tea, passing cigarettes and peeling fruits. I didn't take any of the offers and followed Qin Yiheng to the bedroom to see their daughter first.
The little girl was still awake at this time, and when she saw someone coming in, she barely moved her eyes. Qin Yiheng walked up, took a quick look, and turned back to ask me to go to their kitchen to get a kitchen knife and a chopping board. He took out a few dead branches from his bag, chopped them up with a knife, wrapped them in red paper, and pressed them on the girl's head, then asked us to come out of the inner room and discuss countermeasures in the living room.
Qin Yiheng said that the current situation was not good, but it was indeed the same as what those people had seen before, a lot of girls' souls were lost inexplicably.
I was still confused after hearing this, and didn't understand what he meant by losing a lot.
Qin Yiheng explained it, and analyzed the little girl's current situation for the couple. The so-called three souls and seven spirits must have been heard by many people, but few people really understand what the three souls and seven spirits are. Taoism says that there are three souls, one is the heavenly soul, the second is the earthly soul, and the third is the life soul. There are seven spirits, the first is the heavenly soul, the second is the spiritual wisdom, the third is the qi, the fourth is the force, the fifth is the central soul, the sixth is the essence, and the seventh is the hero.
In this, the soul, to put it simply, is similar to the brain of a life, and the spirit can be likened to our nervous system. These two things control our body together and cooperate with each other. In this theory, only the life soul among the three souls will stay in the human body forever. To put it bluntly, if the heavenly soul and the earthly soul can also return to the human body, it is the so-called enlightenment and immortality. Those monsters in myths and legends who have practiced for thousands of years but have not achieved enlightenment are basically just opening the earthly soul.
It is based on this concept that in many places, children have the custom of hanging a small padlock around their necks. In fact, it is to lock the soul and prevent it from escaping. Because in childhood, the soul of the human body is not stable and it is easy to leave the body for various reasons. This is actually easy to solve. If the situation is not serious, find a close relative to call a few times, and naturally find it back in the body easily. In popular terms, the soul at this time is easy to disassemble, so it is also easier to install. When people become adults or grow up, the soul tends to be stable, but it is not unshakable. Let alone the occurrence of things like being haunted, we can get a glimpse of it simply from our common sayings, for example, I was scared and lost my soul.
Qin Yiheng said this, tapped his head with his hand, and said, "When we went in just now, in order to prevent the little girl's body from being taken advantage of by things, I specially chopped up the jujube wood struck by lightning and wrapped it with red paper to seal the little girl's spirit door. This jujube wood struck by lightning not only has the effect of warding off evil spirits and building righteousness, but also has the effect of praying for children after being crushed and mixed with dewdrops and applied to the left hand. The reason why I did this is that the passage for souls to enter and exit the human body is the top of the head. Those who use evil arts to take people's souls for their own use also work hard on the top of the victim's head. This theory has been developing with our culture for thousands of years, and we can see it even in the mythological novel "Journey to the West". The golden hoop is locked on Sun Wukong's forehead, which actually locks Sun Wukong's soul and prevents it from escaping. Therefore, even when Sun Wukong's soul is out of his body, he will still have the golden hoop on his head. To put it bluntly, no matter how far he runs, the dog chain is always tied to his neck, and it is nothing more than a longer line. "
The string of metaphysical knowledge that Qin Yiheng talked about did not sound obscure or difficult to understand. The couple obviously understood the seriousness of the situation. Their eyes turned red and they kept begging us to save their daughter.
Qin Yiheng said: "It's not that there is no solution, it's just that it will be more complicated to implement. But as long as you have patience, I believe their daughter will recover."
When the couple heard Qin Yiheng say that the little girl could be saved, they thanked him profusely and almost knelt down. I felt very sad watching this, so I asked Qin Yiheng what the little girl's condition was like.
Qin Yiheng said, "Now it seems that only three souls and seven spirits are missing, but it is unclear whether they were taken away by something or ran away for some reason. According to their previous experience in the mountains, he personally tends to believe that her soul was taken away by something, but this is really tricky, because, first of all, we don't know what the other party is; secondly, they also worshiped devoutly, but there was no effect, which shows that the thing is not broad-minded and must be a difficult character to deal with."
Before she finished speaking, the girl's mother started to cry out of fear. Qin Yiheng felt helpless when he saw this, so he comforted her: "This kind of situation happened from time to time before the urbanization process was not so rapid. Even in some remote areas now, animals often possess people. So don't be too pessimistic now. Solving the problem is the key."
Although Qin Yiheng's words were comforting, they were indeed reasonable. I remember when I was very young, my grandmother told me a true story that happened in their village. A local woman once went into the mountains. Because she was in a hurry, she went to the toilet under a tree. This is actually a taboo, because you might spray excrement on the head of something you can't see. The woman was possessed by the devil because of this. After returning home, she lost all her humanity and bit whoever she saw. Seeing that there was really no way, the family tied her up with a rope and put her on the bed, and then found a person who was quite knowledgeable in the surrounding area to see. Seeing this, the man asserted that she was possessed by a fairy, but there was no direct way. He could only use evil spirits to drive her away, but it didn't work. Later, it was a butcher nearby who saw this and shouted and asked the woman who she was. Unexpectedly, the fairy was really frightened by the butcher's evil spirit and obediently reported an address called Wutong Mountain Boots Cave. Seeing this, the knowledgeable people immediately led the whole village to search, and finally found a pair of weasels in a big sycamore tree hole in the mountain. The most amazing thing is that the weasels may also be greedy for comfort, and they don’t know where to get a cowhide boot to sleep on. Everyone hurriedly killed the weasels, and when they went back, they found that the woman had indeed returned to normal. Although this is just a story passed down by word of mouth, I don’t know whether it is true or not, but if it is according to what Qin Yiheng said, it must have some truth.
Now the situation has been sorted out, and it depends on how Qin Yiheng will handle it. I looked at him and asked him about it. Seeing this, he leaned over to my ear and told me that if it was really such a fairy, it would not be difficult to deal with. The most troublesome thing now is that the thing is so powerful that it can directly lead the soul away, which is a big problem. It's like if your computer is infected, you can just use a better antivirus software to remove it, but if your computer loses hardware for no reason, it is simply unimaginable.
After listening to his analysis, I felt a little heavy. It turned out that what he said just now was still optimistic. But now I really want to help this couple. I am also an only child, so I can better understand the importance of only children to their parents. Seeing that this couple is really pitiful, Qin Yiheng also seemed to be moved with sympathy. After thinking about it, he decided to try the usual method first, which is what the people call "calling the soul".
This method of calling back the soul is very cumbersome and very labor-intensive. First, during several fixed time periods, namely the hours of Zi, Chou, Yin and Mao, all lights in the house should be turned off, and only an oil lamp should be lit to guide the soul. Then, the person should open the window, stand in front of it, and call the girl's name continuously facing the four directions of due south, due north, due east and due west. Finally, a piece of yellow paper with the girl's birth date written on it should be lit and fed to the girl.
In addition, during the four time periods of Chen, Si, Wu and Wei during the day, they must kowtow and offer sacrifices in the four directions of northeast, southeast, southwest and northwest, which is to ask all gods and ghosts to make way for the girl's soul. After feeding the girl the yellow paper ash with her birth date written on it, the girl's name cannot be called at night for seven days, because the girl's soul is not yet stable. If a passing ghost hears it, he can use the same method to draw out the girl's soul again.
We also followed this procedure step by step. Although I, as an outsider, did not need to participate, I felt very tired just watching them do these things. And the most abnormal thing was that the whole procedure did not work after the first time. Qin Yiheng said that it might be because the soul was lost too far, so he repeated it again. This time there was indeed a very obvious effect. After the little girl drank the yellow paper ash with her birth date written on it at night, she actually sat up by herself. At first, it seemed that because she had not moved for a long time, her body movements were not very controlled. After a short period of adaptation, she was able to walk on the ground.
The couple was very touched and kept thanking us. They probably said all the good things they knew in their lives. The male owner wanted to draw up a contract and sell the house to me according to the original promise. To be honest, I was also very happy. I thought I was doing a good deed and the money was fine. I made it clear that I didn't want to make money. But the male owner was very firm, and I was determined to refuse. Several people were polite for a long time because of this.
However, just when everyone thought that everything was going well and they were exchanging pleasantries, Qin Yiheng gently tugged at the corner of my clothes. I thought he had changed his mind and wanted to take over the house, so I turned persuade him. But when I looked at him, he kept winking at me. I followed his eyes and found that he was referring to the little girl. The little girl was sitting on the edge of the bed at this time, quite quietly, and I didn't see anything unusual. I tilted my head and used my eyes to ask Qin Yiheng what he meant. He pulled me to his side and whispered to me that we had to be careful, because it seemed that the soul we called back was not the little girl's soul.
