Chapter 199: Curing the Root of the Disease
But this time to see him, although I still remember this person Wang Dezi, but his face is no longer outside the round, replaced by two sides because too thin, and high raised forehead bone, face wrinkles deep enough to pinch dead flies, the whole person looks very gaunt, raw than the same age people aged ten years.
Wang Dezi welcomed up, wearing, or patched clothes, has long been washed white, but it does not look worn but still quite neat.
He saw Li Xianzheng three people came, the bitter face finally had a change, as if in despair in a crack saw the light of hope in general, grinning up.
Only to see him curtly smile, from his pocket carefully pulled out a pack of cigarettes, and gently open, pull out a smoke, as if it is afraid of a cigarette wire will fall to the ground, the whole action is extremely serious, like a woman from the brocade box to take out the precious jewelry in general.
Li Xianzheng deliberately look at the packet of cigarettes, it looks like a small half has been smoked, but the white part of the smoke shell has been a little yellow, it can be seen that this packet of cigarettes has been bought for how long a period of time.
Seeing how Wang Dezi was so concentrated, Li Xianzheng seemed to be able to imagine the situation when he put the vegetables on the oil can and fumigated them.
"You guys are finally here, but I was in a hurry." Wang Dezi then said, then carefully handed the cigarette to Li Xianzheng who was walking ahead.
Li Xianzheng bowed his hand and said, "No, no need to be so polite."
Wang Dezi seems to have expected him to say this, and quickly put the cigarette back into the cigarette case carefully, the whole action in one go, seems to be "practiced" a lot.
Li Xianzheng watched Wang Dezi this set of coherent language action, see him still so stingy stingy, can not help but feel a little funny.
"My daughter-in-law has told you all about the situation, right?" While walking, Wang Dezi said.
"It's all been said, we also want to go and see what's going on?" Li Xianzheng replied.
A few people were walking through the village entrance when suddenly a middle-aged man came slowly from the front.
When Wang Dezi saw that person, he stopped in his tracks, smiled an almost brilliant smile, slightly bent over, and shouted, "Village Chief, what wind blew you here?"
Seeing Wang Dezi, the man casually waved his hand and said, "What else can there be? This is not, I heard that you invited a Feng Shui master, or your own relatives, so I came to take a look."
After saying that, there turned his eyes to look at Li Xianzheng's three people, first his eyes swept around on them, and finally stopped on Li Xianzheng, and said, "You are Xianzheng, right?"
"How do you also recognize me?"
"Why don't I know you!" The middle-aged man laughed and said, "You may not recognize me, but I know you, and I know your father! Your grandfather and wife look really like each other, simply carved out of the same mold."
"You still know my father?" When did he have so many acquaintances, this couldn't also be which of his relatives that he doesn't remember, right? Li Xianzheng was sweating profusely.
"Haha, of course I know your father, we are still good buddies! I and your father is in the dinner is recognized, but that time you have gone to the army, have not seen me, but I can always hear your father mentioned you!" That middle-aged man patted Li Xianzheng's shoulder, said smilingly.
Li Xianzheng understood, since he had gone to the army for so many years, after adding the fact that he had been discharged from the army and was considered mentally ill by the outside world, he didn't know much about his family's situation.
Wang Dezi opened his mouth at this time, "Village chief, first let first Zheng to my home to see it, aside from you later in the catch up, into it?"
"What time is it now? It's already dark, people have been traveling all day, and they haven't even had a drink of water, and you're letting others do the work?" When the village chief heard this, he said with a bit of displeasure.
Don't think he doesn't know what Wang Dezi this guy is playing a small plan, not just don't want to let let in the home overnight, tomorrow morning and have to come out to eat to entertain the guests? Wang Dezi this person is really getting meaner and meaner.
"You see what you said …… I am not just ……" Wang Dezi saw his own small mind was seen through, some embarrassed.
"Not on what?" The village chief saw him this pair of stingy search appearance feel impatient, "line, first positive ah, you a few first on my home to live, tomorrow morning ah, and then go to see the feng shui."
See the village chief this arrangement, Wang Dezi was sent a sigh of relief, anyway, he does not have to entertain people, as long as they help look at the feng shui, as for where to live how to live he is not too concerned.
Thus, Li Xianzheng and the others stayed at the village head's house this night.
In the middle of the night, everyone went to bed, the countryside is generally watching the darkness is ready to rest, sleep is relatively early.
About twelve o'clock, Wang Dezi came to beg Li Xianzheng and the others for help.
When Wang Dezi came, everyone went to bed, he was outside, the wooden door slapped the mountain sound, while slapping the door will also be shouting: "first Zheng ah! Quickly come to the rescue of my baby, quickly get up and help me see, my baby committed a demonic barrier!" After a long time, there was a sound in the wooden door.
"What? What's wrong?" The ones who opened the door were the village chief couple who lived downstairs.
"Quickly …… go and let Xianzheng get up and help me, my child has a demonic barrier." Wang Dezi took a step forward and answered with a thick breath.
At this time, Li Xianzheng three people also cloaked clothes from downstairs down.
Seeing Li Xianzheng, Wang Dezi as if he saw a lifesaver, his eyes lit up, rushed over and said, "Quickly …… quickly go to save my family that waifu?"
Li Xianzheng and others are still a little sleepy, listening to him so noisy, only to rub his eyebrows and ask: "In the end what is going on? You first say it clearly."
"My family waifu ah, suddenly committed a demonic obstacle." Wang Dezi still repeated this sentence.
Liu Wan Yan, who was standing at the back, quickly grabbed Wang Dezi's hand and asked, "Uncle, tell me carefully, what happened?"
Wang Dezi looked at the less familiar Liu Wan Yan, some hesitation, looked at Li Xianzheng, see him nodded and said: "Uncle, you quickly say it, my companion knows more than me." H earing Li Xianzheng said so, Wang Dezi also said directly: "My little son ah, playing dinner after the beginning of the daze, who came to talk to also ignore, until ready to rest when we old heard inside the thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump, who came to can not be pulled! "
"Aiyo Hey, you say this can be ready to do yo, we can't stop all stop, and then hit down ah, that little life is gone!" Wang Dezi said here, hand can not help shivering, do not know is anxious or sad.
Just talking, a few people to a half old not new house before. This house looks some years old, but the outer layer is covered with a thin layer of lime, some unorthodox, not new nor shabby look, Li Xianzheng knew at a glance that this must be Wang Dezi's house.
"Wait …… first," Liu Wan Diem stopped, casually stopped the two partners, handed up a small bottle filled with cow tears, said, "first wipe this on."
The two men took it and carefully wiped the liquid in the bottle on the edge of their eyes.
Only then did the three men follow followed Wang Dezi into the house.
As soon as they entered the house, the three people saw Wang Dezi's daughter-in-law, that is, that Aunt Chunhua.
Just see her tightly hold a six or seven years old boy, but the little boy is staring blankly, face to the wall, to the rough wall with their own head hate smashed down, every smash, there is a blood mark left on the forehead, one after another, until the head of the blood dripping, all refused to stop.
Outside the moonlight shines through the window, cold and quiet, in the distance also turned to the hooting of owls, as if singing a mournful song of the dead, hidden in the dirt in the various insects are also raucous with, creating a bizarre and chilling atmosphere.
The boy in the house is like a wind-up rag doll, put his head against the wall, banging straight, heartbroken, hugging his mother crying breathless.
This is Wang Dezi into the house to see the scene, but he also can not do anything, can only be chagrined as ants on the hot pot, can only be in the house in a hurry.
As for the three Liu Wan Diem, what they saw was indeed another scene.
Behind the boy there was the tiny boy, the cool moonlight shone through his face, so that the three people on the sidelines could see clearly.
Top with dry and flustered sparse hair, short and thick eyebrows, as if with a poor quality charcoal pencil roughly scratched up, underneath is the bean-like black hole of the small eyes, the face is as white as a thick white powder, the mouth is indeed the color of vermilion.
The body is covered with a wide red blouse, looks empty, due to too wide, the red coat covered to the knee below, the feet are covered with small red shoes, padded toes, like lying in a coffin of the dead, the appearance is very scary.
Next to the tiny boy was a little girl in a red dress with a little goat's hair. Both children had pointed ears, as if they were bats.
Just see that little boy standing in the back of the big boy, padded toes, one after another, pushing the seven or eight-year-old boy's head, towards the wall, bang bang sound one after another, the force of the surprisingly large, beside the woman holding the head of the boy, how to stop can not be stopped, the little boy also pushed the big boy will be hee hee straight smile.
The side of the goat braid of the little girl to see this situation, the eyes drip in the turning, excited to clap their hands in a side.
The boy who was pushed was staring blankly, as if he didn't feel any pain at all, letting the little boy behind his body push himself, not saying a word, like a puppet doll without a mind, being manipulated.
It turned out that the boy from Wang Dezi's family didn't commit some kind of demonic obstacle to hit the wall by himself, but was pushed to hit the wall by the infant spirit behind him one after another.
Persuading a ghost to fight a ghost
Seeing this, Liu Wan Yan shouted, "Stop!"
The two boys and girls heard the sound, actually really stopped, turned their tiny heads, four dripping black eyes, staring at Liu Wan Yan, as if somewhat surprised that someone could actually see themselves.
Liu Wan Diem stepped forward and said in a loud voice: "Little friend, if you go on like this, this little brother (referring to Wang Dezi's son) won't be able to bear it, and then he won't have a life to live if he bumps into it."
"Oh, dead is dead, we are dead anyway, just come down to play with us." That little boy replied in a milky voice, although it was still a child's voice, it looked a little hollow in the night sky.
"Think about it then, how sad were your parents when you died back then? Your unexpected and untimely death was something they didn't want to see either, and in the same way, if this little brother had been lost, the parents would have been just as sad." Liu Wan Diem patiently and in a low voice explained in full.
The boy lowered his head as if pondering the problem.
Liu Wan Diem saw this situation, and continue to be like an elder, gentle lobbying, "I know that you usually lonely, New Year's Eve festivals, there is no one firecrackers burning paper money burning incense, it is not that your parents do not like you, because they are too sad to lose you, the thought of you are sad, so they do not go to see you. However, if you let go, I will promise you that I will make sure that your parents will visit you often, talk with you, and set firecrackers and burn paper money and incense for you, how about that?"
At this time, the wind rose outside the house, blowing the trees outside the house, slapping the luxuriant branches and leaves to rustle, with the mournful sound of the wind twisting and repelling, the shadows of the trees projected outside the house danced, as if a group of devils, like the voice of a certain wandering heart in the struggle.
The boy hesitated, and the ghastly white cheeks regained some of their gentle curves, not as hideous and terrible as they had been seen only moments before.
"Do you think your parents will care about you if you mess up and hurt people? No, they will only hate you even more, and not want to see you even more." Lau Van Diem sighed and spoke in a voice that was half frank and half gentle.
The boy listened quietly to Diem's reasoning and seemed to hesitate.
At this time, the girl with the goat braid snapped and blurted out, "Liar, you're lying! They don't care about us at all, they simply have a new child and are ignoring us."
When the boy heard this, he raised his head violently again and stared at Liu Wan Yan with two small black eyes to see what he would say.
Liu Wan Diem smiled bitterly and said, "They really aren't like that, think about it, how sad they were when you guys were gone, they also wanted a child to fill the pain of losing you."
"Liar, you liar, they just don't want us anymore, they just don't want us, you still dare to liar." The girl didn't listen to Liu Wan Diem at all, her complexion was a little crazy and she shouted to herself.
Liu Wan Diem saw that the girl did not listen, and also knew that it did not make sense to her, so he could only take advantage of the girl immersed in anger, and quietly drew out a piece of paper sprinkled with yellow wine from his pocket, and with a brush sound, threw his hand forward and threw it out.
The talisman paper like a stringless arrow, quickly flew to the girl in front, only to see the girl wow life after screaming, violently fell aside, pain wow wow.
The boy on the side is still in hesitation, but saw his companion was injured by the spiritual symbols on the side, turned his face into a bunch of blue weird fire, quickly flew in the direction of Liu Wan Diem.
Liu Wan Yan saw the baby spirit into a ghost fire attack, and took out the spirit symbol a sprinkle, the blue eerie fire as soon as it touched the spirit symbol, and then will be the appearance of a small boy floating in mid-air.
"Quickly hold him down." Liu Wan Yan yelled when he saw the ghost fire turn back into a boy.
As soon as Cheng Kexing and Li Xianzheng, who were on the side, heard this, they hurriedly flew up and pressed the little boy to the ground.
The boy was pressed to the boy, but also kept struggling, surprisingly strong, Cheng Kexing nearly kicked him, fortunately, Li Xianzheng was a soldier, strength than the average person, but spare me this is also a sweat, the two big men are almost unable to press the boy.
Liu Wan Yan just wanted to go up to subdue the boy, only to see that the girl who had just been knocked to the ground had already stood up, howling with a fierce face, and pounced on the boy who was holding down the two men, Thanh Nghia and Li Xianzheng.
Seeing that it was too late to stop them, Liu Wan Yan could only utter a warning, saying, "Be careful."
But it was still a step too late, only to hear a muffled grunt of "ouch", see that the goat braid girl knocked away Li Xianzheng.
Li Xianzheng because of the sudden strong impact, ate pain reflexively trembling shoulders, under the hand can not help but relax a few points of force.
The boy was held down by the dead hand loosened some, so more forcefully struggled up, suddenly, the two men were not careful, actually really by the boy to break free.
The girl saw the boy broke free, and hastened to hold his hand, the two little ghosts hand in hand a stroll, suddenly a cool wind blew, the two ghosts disappeared in unison, out of sight.
Liu Wan Diem was not in a hurry, but just caught up and walked a few steps forward, and then looked at the open wooden door, and then walked back and said, "They have gone."
When the other two heard this, they gave a sigh of relief, and Cheng Kexing, still wiping his sweat, muttered, "Hey, I didn't expect these two brats to be quite difficult!"
Li Xianzheng didn't say anything, but just turned his head as if he remembered something, and looked at the Wang Dezi couple in the room.
Wang Dezi's husband and wife were startled when they saw the blue ghost fire. Now they were sitting paralyzed on the floor, shivering, not even daring to breathe too much, and had long been scared into silence.
The only thing left around was the faint moonlight, the weak and cold Guangxi cast into the house, hitting Wang Dezi couple's face, their faces have long been scared white, at this time, they look more like two ghosts.
Liu Wan Diem saw that they were scared and looked like they were a little slightly stunned.
So he walked over and muttered a few words to Thanh Khe Hsing, and the two of them walked over to the couple separately, and with his right hand, he shook it into the void, then made a small circle, grabbed at the air in the center, and shouted, "Come back!"
With a jolt, Wang Dezi and his wife came back to their senses and climbed up from the ground with a grunt, with some panic still remaining in their eyes.
Li Xianzheng felt a little puzzled after seeing the actions of his companions and wondered what they were doing.
Liu Wan Yan saw Li Xianzheng casting a curious look at himself, as if he knew what he wanted to ask, so he explained, "This husband and wife just lost a spirit in fear, and when Thanh Khe Hsinh and I shouted, we called back the spirit they had lost."
So it was like this, Li Xianzheng suddenly realized.
"This method is called shouting for the soul, and in the olden days it was a Han ritual of calling for the soul." Liu Wan Yan explained to him, adding, "For example, if a child is sick because of fright, family members, usually immediate relatives, parents or grandparents, or the like, will go around the neighborhood shouting his name to call the person's soul back. This is all called shouting for the soul, and in some places it's also called shouting for fright!"
Cheng Kexing also helped to popularize the knowledge to Li Xianzheng on the side: "Sometimes, due to the differences in regional customs, the way of shouting the soul is also different."
"For example, in Guangdong Dongguan side of the people, they there like to in the eaves, bedside or frightened place, burn a few incense and meditation paper, the child clothes in the flame above the back and forth swinging, hand holding a kitchen knife or scissors, clapping on the ground, and then rice grains scattered to the four sides, shouting: 'Eastern rice grain, Western rice grain, Southern rice grain, Northern rice grain, the four great five directions of rice grains. A certain month and a certain day so-and-so (child's name) childhood to return ah! Please give so-and-so his belly and gall bladder back to him.' This is the way to invoke the soul."
"In the Zhujiajiao area of Shanghai, the child's age and month of birth (eight) written on red paper, placed on the stove, a bowl of water on the paper, and lighted incense and candles to kowtow. Then they would take a bucket, cover it with a bag, light a fire and look for the spider at the foot of the community, and shout 'Certain Officials (the oldest one is the eldest official, the second is the second official) come back! Until two or three spiders were found, they were placed in the bucket and held to the child's pillow, shouting as they walked and putting down the mosquito net. A few minutes before the tent can be uncovered."
"There are also the northeast, north China, Nanjing and other places, the family identified its palpitations lost soul. A person holding call the child's name, a person called 'come back!' One calls and the other shouts, traveling to the place. The person holding the clothes and shoes opens and closes them symbolically, then holds them under his armpits and calls out the child's name, while the other person replies, 'Come back! This indicates that the soul has been tied up. By echoing again along the way, the soul is considered to have returned to the body."
"In fact, all of these methods are feasible, sometimes in our profession, different methods can actually make the same effect, these methods are summarized from different experiences passed down by various predecessors. Of course, some of the law effect will be better, some of the effect is general, these are mostly different from person to person just …… " Liu Wan Yan smiled and summarized.
Said so a lot of things, not they want to show off their knowledge, but Li Xianzheng and they are a group, although his physical quality is good, but for this line of work, he is still a newcomer, and these things are as a ghost hunter must know common sense.
Li Xianzheng listened to the things that his two good friends said on one side, while secretly memorizing these things in his heart.
If he wanted to be a real ghost hunter, he had to learn from the beginning, learn seriously, and learn hard, not only for himself, but also for those comrades who had succumbed to death.
On the side of the Wang Dezi couple has long been in the wake of back to God, stand up, do not care about patting the soil on the pants, immediately roared to the side of their own children, a hand picked up the boy who fell to the ground, gently shaking, shouting: "Bao'er …… Bao'er quickly wake up."
Xing perhaps heard the sound of his parents' call, the boy's face is full of blood, looks like the injury is not light, but really opened his eyes, a blank look, did not say a word.
See the boy opened his eyes, the couple's eyes light up, happy sobbing uncontrollably, shouting in a row heartbroken: "Bao'er ah …… Bao'er, you can scare parents yo."
Said the two and hard to embrace the boy in their arms, heart and liver baby a flurry of screaming.
But the boy in their arms is still a stony-eyed look, a blank look at their parents, a word did not say.
Cure the disease must cure the root
Look at Wang Dezi's child seems to be a little afraid of the cold, the body is always slightly trembling, the face is pale, the gaze is also a little dull, the whole person also looks stupid.
Liu Wan Yan took a closer look at this child and went up to ask: "Uncle, this child of your family doesn t look …… very good …… Is there something wrong with him?"
"Alas, my treasure ah, although unlike those dolls in front did not survive, just started to give birth to the time is also alive and kicking, with the other children in the village is no different. Just ah, do not know ……" said here, Wang Dezi paused, seems to be some do not want to talk about.
"Don't know what?" Cheng Kexing couldn't help but follow up from behind.
"I don't know since when ah! My family Bao'er became not talkative, also not and other village children go out to play, all day just stay home, do not talk or do nothing, nothing to do, this day a long time, the whole person has become a little stupid, to the end ah, never opened his mouth to say miles!" Speaking of bad things, Wang Dezi could not help but sigh again.
"This child is not born like this?" Liu Wan Yan was a bit skeptical and asked again.
"Of course not, this is my child born in October, when I was born, the child did not know how smart!" Wang Dezi daughter-in-law on the side immediately retorted.
"If this is the case ……," Liu Wan Diem surveyed the boy who looked a little dumb, paused, and then said, "I only he is gone soul!"
"What? Gone soul? What does that mean? How can a soul walk by itself?" Wang Dezi heard, seems not quite believe.
This is not his fault, many of the countryside older farmers, both experienced the era of the Cultural Revolution, more or less have some knowledge, but they have not read books, so many people are still in the stage of seemingly understandable.
These people both some superstitious and know what science is about, so for the old people's mouths say the gods and ghosts, many times they both do not fully believe and have to believe.
"Soul walking? Is it the same as what happened to the two of them just now?" Li Xianzheng asked, while at the same time looking at Wang Dezi's couple with his gaze.
"One could say it's the same, but not quite the same?" Liu Wan Yan smiled knowingly, Li Xianzheng this guy would also cite one thing to reflect three things.
"How do you say this?" Li Xianzheng again disguised as a good learning baby, continued to pursue the question.
"This child's soul walking is much more serious than that of these two just now, looking at his situation, this state has lasted for about one to two years this one, according to this reasoning, this child should have started to show signs of soul walking since at least two years ago!" Liu Wan Yan speculated.
"Generally walking souls will happen to small children, some children are born with weak yang qi, easy to be seen by some small ghosts, those small ghosts are also poor, Ben became a ghost, but also died prematurely, no one cares, can not cast the fetus, only lonely everywhere to find fun." Liu Wan Yan said here, also with a trace of pity.
And continued, "So they are lonely to will play some childish pranks, sometimes, a good flat road will people will be tripped for no reason, this is those little ghosts to do pranks."
"In fact, they are also good natured, but sometimes they are too lonely, they will also look for small children of the same age to play. And these little children who play with them play with them in their dreams at first, but after playing like this for a long time, these children will go away with their souls, and once a soul goes away for a long time, it is difficult to come back, and the child who goes away with his soul for a long time will look demented like now."
Listening to Liu Wan Diem explaining in this way, now even the couple of Wang Dezi on one side probably knew what was going on.
"Then, master, is there any salvation for this child of mine who has lost his soul?" Seeing that Liu Wan Diem knew so many things, Wang Dezi changed his name at once and asked a bit cautiously.
Liu Wan Yan nodded his head and said, "It can be saved, but we must find out where the root cause of this child's lost soul is, and, just now, I looked at those two little ghosts, and since they were able to appear in your house, they probably have nothing to do with this!"
See Liu Wan Diem nodded, Wang De Zi relieved, he only had one son left, if something happened to this son, his family would really become extinct!
"I heard that you have a daughter?" Liu Wan Yan remembered that when Wang Dezi's daughter-in-law came to the door, she said that they still had a son and a daughter.
"Yes, there is a big daughter!" Wang Dezi scratched his head, pointed with his finger to the other end, a room near the barn, and said, "Nuo, my big daughter lives in that room!"
To say ah, although Wang Dezi gave birth to seven children in a row ……