Volume 1 Chapter 15 Boy's Eyebrows
Under the chairmanship of Liu's father, Liu's children and outside relatives came out one after another. There were about ten people, ranging from young people in their twenties to children of six or seven years old.
I saw that Liu Zian was not among the ten or so people, so I went over to hold Liu Zining's hand and asked curiously, "Sister Ning, your brother is not one of them?"
Liu Zining blushed, spit at me and said, "You are just a kid, you always think about messy things!" Then he asked me, "Why don't you go?"
I said I'm not a virgin, why should I go?
Liu Zining was so frightened that his face turned pale, but when he heard what I said, he couldn't help laughing: "You little kid, how could you not be a virgin? Do you know what it means to be a virgin?"
I said of course I knew, but I had helped Lin Wenjing with her before, and that required mouth-to-mouth sex. Although this was done under duress, it was not considered a perfect virgin, and of course I was no longer a virgin.
Liu Zining said "Pah" and said that this could not be counted. I was curious and asked her what it means to be a virgin. Liu Zining blushed and pinched my arm: "You little rascal, you don't think about the good!" I jumped up in pain.
In just a moment, the dead-faced man had ordered people to prick the middle fingers of all the boys and pour the dripping blood into a cup.
Liu Zining was puzzled: "What are you doing?"
I said, "It's used to ward off evil spirits."
Liu Zining glanced at me and said, "You know this too." I said, "Of course, this thing is very famous in our industry, it's called "boy's eyebrow."
Liu Zining was even more puzzled, saying that this was clearly human blood, so how could it be called a boy's eyebrow? I actually don't understand why it is called this. At first glance, this name does make people mistake it for a boy's eyebrow.
The boy's eyebrow is actually the blood squeezed out from the middle finger of a boy. In our industry, we believe that the boy's eyebrow is pure yang, and the effects of red saltpeter and cinnabar are incomparable to the boy's eyebrow. This is the truth that my third uncle taught me since I was a child. But later I learned that the name of the boy's eyebrow did not originally come from our industry, but from Taoism. The fire mixed with the boy's eyebrow is called Yang fire in Taoism, which is the best way to "burn Yin".
Since this dead face knows Tong Zimei, even if he is not in the same profession as us, he should have some connection with Taoism. According to Uncle San's observation, he said that this person is most likely a sorcerer.
I'm not sure what a "sorcerer" is, but I think it's similar to a Taoist priest, someone who knows some magic. I've suffered a lot from this person in the haunted house before, and I still don't understand what the secret is.
As he was talking, the dead man took out a leather bag, untied the bag, and poured the coins into the plate. There was a rustling sound, and it turned out to be a bag of ancient copper coins.
Liu Zining asked me in a low voice what the copper coin said. I said, "The money has passed through thousands of hands, so the ancient copper coin has a strong yang energy."
Liu Zining seemed to understand, and said "oh". At this time, I focused all my attention on the dead face. I saw him sift the copper coins on the plate, then pick up one with his index finger and thumb and throw it into the cup filled with Tong Zimei.
After soaking for about three breaths, he took out the copper coin with chopsticks and put it on another plate. The copper coin was stained with the boy's eyebrow, bright red and dazzling.
Liu Zining asked me what I was doing, it looked a bit weird. I was a little stunned. This kind of ancient copper coin with boy's eyebrows is called "Tongmei", which is more masculine than simple boy's eyebrows. This is what my third uncle taught me since I was a child. I thought only people in our industry knew this, but I didn't expect this person to know it too.
Only after thirty-six blood-stained ancient bronze coins were soaked out did the Dead Face have Tong Zimei moved aside. Then he left the hall and paced in the yard, observing the surrounding terrain, calculating with his fingers, and occasionally looking up at the sky.
My heart was pounding, and I felt an indescribable strangeness. Dead Face returned to the hall, asked the boys to come out, took the ancient copper coins , and buried them in the places he designated.
I carefully identified the locations where the copper coins were buried.
"Yunken Pass... Zichen Pass... Yes, Shangyang Pass..." The more I looked at it, the more shocked I was. This was clearly what we call the Seven Passes in our industry. The so-called Seven Passes actually refers to the seven key points in a place, which correspond to the Big Dipper in the sky.
The human eye cannot see the Seven Gates. To put it simply, the Seven Gates are similar to the acupuncture points on the human body, except that they represent the acupuncture points of the earth veins. If you master the Seven Gates, you can clearly grasp the flow direction of the vital energy in this place.
Generally speaking, most animals have the innate instinct to sense the key points of the earth veins. In the countryside, if you observe carefully, you will find that all the neighboring mouse holes, rabbit holes, etc. are dug in the same direction. Even if the hole entrance is not in the same direction, as long as you dig a few times deeper, you will find that the inside will eventually go in the same direction. In fact, that is the direction of the earth vein's vital energy flow.
What Dead Face just did was, first of all, stargazing.
My uncle taught me this when I was very young. He said that the Big Dipper orbits the North Star once a year, and will shift slightly every day. The displacement of the Big Dipper in the nine days is the limit of what the human eye can see. So in our industry, there is a saying of "Nine-Nine".
Dead Face just used the offset position of the Big Dipper in the sky and referred to the terrain of the Liu family's house to calculate the positions of the seven gates and the direction of the ground veins.
I still haven't mastered this complex surveying method. Uncle San always told me that this is the most basic skill in our industry and asked me to remember it carefully. But I always doubted it. Over the years, I have also come into contact with some colleagues in the same field, but every time I mentioned this, they would laugh and say that we are in the business of collecting corpses, performing rituals, and looking at feng shui. What's the point of knowing that kind of stuff?
I suddenly felt that some of the skills in our family seemed to be very different from those of other peers.
Just as I was in a daze, Liu Zining pushed me and asked me what I was doing. I watched the dead face moving around in the yard, instructing others to set up things. This figure gradually overlapped with the words my third uncle taught me. After a few more glances, I couldn't help but blurt out: "Seven Star Soul Sealing Formation!"
Liu Zining looked at me in surprise: "What is that?"
My mind was in a mess. I turned to look at Uncle San and saw him standing in the crowd with no expression on his face.
The so-called Seven Star Soul Sealing Formation uses thirty-six magic beads, arranged according to the local seven gates and the direction of the earth veins, to form an absolutely dark place that is invisible to the naked eye. Once any evil enters, they will be trapped in it with nowhere to escape.
These are what my third uncle said when he was teaching me the "Seven Star Soul Sealing Formation". I have always thought it was nonsense, and every time my third uncle taught me, I just learned it perfunctorily.
And at this moment, this dead-faced man actually set up this formation.
Liu Zining asked me: "What is this Soul Sealing Formation used for?"
I answered in a daze, "It's sealed." If this soul-sealing formation really works, then the dead face is determined to lure that ghost girl Liu Nan in and trap her to death in the absolute Yin land. But I still don't really believe it, after all, it's too mysterious.
The dead-faced man returned to the hall and found his uncle: "Uncle Feng, we are now friends on the same boat. I'll rely on you for the little girl surnamed Lin."
I snorted, thinking to myself, who is on the same boat with a dead head like you! I was waiting for Uncle San to reject him mercilessly, but I didn't expect that this Feng Lao San actually nodded with a smile: "No problem."
Oh my god! What the hell is going on! I pulled my uncle aside and said seriously, "Feng Laosan, what are you doing? You are betraying your country, don't you know? Have you forgotten who almost killed your nephew?"
Uncle San glanced at me and said, "Who told you to let the person run away! If that devil girl surnamed Liu really makes trouble, no one in our area within dozens of miles will survive! I am not on the same boat with the surname Zhong, so why should I be on the same boat with a bastard like you? Besides, the Liu family just promised to compensate us for all our losses at double the amount." He patted me on the forehead and told me to get out of the way and not bother him. Then he went into the crowd and whispered something to Liu Zian's father.
This money-grubbing bastard has no moral integrity! I was so angry that I ran to the side and sulked. Liu Zining came over and touched me, whispering that she saw her brothers carrying a coffin over, and she didn't know what they were going to do.
I was uneasy, so I casually asked, "Is it for your great-uncle?" But as soon as I said it, I felt something was wrong. Liu Zining's great-uncle had just died, so it was impossible for him to be put in a coffin at this moment. Besides, how could the Liu family know that someone would die and prepare a coffin so early?
At this moment, Liu Zian and a few others came in from outside carrying a black coffin. Everyone in the room stepped back in fear, especially the women and children, who screamed in fear.
At this time, the banquet in the hall had already been cleared away. Uncle San made a gesture and pointed to a place, asking Liu Zian and the others to stop the coffin at this position. Then a few more people came in with a bucket, dipped a brush into the bucket, and began to brush the coffin.
Suddenly, a bloody smell filled the room. A coffin was painted bright red, which was shocking to the eyes.
Liu Zining covered his mouth and almost vomited because of the smell of blood: "What is this?"
I said, "Black dog blood."
Black dog blood is a pure yang substance that can break the yin energy. Uncle San smeared black dog blood on the coffin, which must be used to suppress the corpse. But whose corpse was he suppressing? Was it to suppress the cousin surnamed Cai? But from my observation, although the death of the cousin surnamed Cai was tragic, there should be no risk of his corpse turning into a corpse.
