Chapter 1174: Catching Ghosts

"Looking for someone?" Yi Zimei asked, "I know everyone in Dongpingzhou, who are you looking for?"

"I'm looking for you, Uncle Feng." Su Yi said with a smile.

"Looking for me?" Uncle Feng frowned and looked at Su Yi, "But I don't recognize you at all."

Su Yi smiled, put his palms together with his five fingers, palms facing down and fingertips touching each other, forming a "person" shape, then turned his right palm up, bent his five fingers and held them together with his left hand, making the shape of Bagua, then turned again, held his left wrist with his right hand, raised his left thumb, and finally turned his palms again, held his left thumb with his right hand, and then wrapped his right fist with his left palm, making the Bagua Ziwu seal.

Uncle Feng's face changed when he saw Su Yi's set of movements.

This is the secret code used by Maoshan disciples when they meet each other. Only disciples who have received the true teachings of Maoshan will know it. This young man's identity is beyond doubt when he makes this move. He must be the descendant of the Maoshan lineage.

I just don't know which branch he belongs to.

Although he was sure of Su Yi's identity, Uncle Feng was not surprised, but rather felt a strong sense of vigilance.

In the last days of the Dharma, sorcerers declined. Some people could endure loneliness and barely make a living, using sorcery as a sideline, but more people were unwilling to decline, so they took a different path and went to the evil way.

Uncle Feng had seen many Maoshan disciples fall into evil ways and endangered the people in the past few decades, so he almost subconsciously rejected Su Yi's arrival.

He was thinking about things with a gloomy face, and he didn't realize that Sanpo behind him also ran out with a basin of water, and poured it into the burning brazier without saying a word.

Su Yi could have stopped it, but he just watched coldly.

"Hey!" Uncle Feng came back to his senses and exclaimed, but it was too late.

But the ashes in the brazier that were extinguished suddenly flew around like a whirlwind, and the extinguished paper money flew around above the brazier, condensing but not dispersing, which looked particularly weird.

Although the old woman's eyesight was blurry, she could still see the scene clearly. She was so frightened that she turned pale and pointed to the front and shouted tremblingly: "Ghost, ghost..."

"Don't be afraid, the third woman!" Uncle Feng didn't care to think too much at this time, and hurriedly shouted: "Alian, take incense, candles, paper money, water, wine, rice bowls! Quick!"

Immediately, a crisp voice came from behind the courtyard door: "Oh!"

It seems that this uncle knows his niece quite well and knows that his niece must be hiding behind the door and eavesdropping.

"Third woman, kneel down!" Uncle Feng helped the third woman kneel down slowly.

Su Yi hid to the side because he was standing behind the brazier. If he didn't leave, it would be as if Uncle Feng was kneeling to him, which was impolite.

"Ghosts are more realistic than people. Why should Uncle Feng be polite to them?" Su Yi said with a smile.

The whirlwind was naturally created by the dead ghost son of the third woman. The incense was extinguished, and its benefits were suddenly cut off, so it would naturally get angry. When ghosts are angry at living people, they will have a strong resentment. Ghosts below the fierce ghosts will generally stir up a whirlwind about one person high.

Many old people often teach children to avoid whirlwinds on the road. This is the reason. As the saying goes, "Gods whirl above, ghosts whirl below, three sickles cut off the legs." This means that after being swept into the whirlwind, you should spit and use your palm knife to make three fake cuts. It is considered a threat to ghosts. You are not easy to mess with. Under normal circumstances, ghosts will choose to stay out of the water and stay away from you.

Whirlwinds on sunny days are naturally fine, but if you catch up with cloudy days or at night, you should avoid whirlwinds if you can.

This is probably a ghost who has a nameless anger and resentment and is venting it wantonly.

Generally speaking, there is a reason for injustice, and ghosts will not necessarily implicate innocent people. There is a certain probability that nothing will happen when people are caught in a whirlwind.

But there is also a chance that something bad will happen, which is the ghost's nameless anger on you.

Just like Su Yi said, ghosts are not humane and do not know how to compromise. They are the most realistic, or the most direct.

If a ghost is angry, will it be useful for you to kneel down and beg for mercy?

It's useless. Doing so will only encourage its arrogance.

Either you immediately promise to burn paper money for it, or immediately threaten it to get out. Money or force are the most effective methods.

That's why Su Yi said this to Uncle Feng.

But Uncle Feng obviously has his own ideas. He said expressionlessly: "The more courtesy, the less blame. The same is true for ghosts. This matter is originally the fault of people. The right and wrong are so obvious. Shouldn't we apologize to it?"

"Uncle Feng, do you think ghosts are reasonable?" Su Yi laughed.

"Ghosts don't talk, I do!" Uncle Feng said.

As he spoke, A Lian had brought a lot of things and placed them next to Uncle Feng.

"Uncle, I've brought them all!" A Lian said crisply.

"Stand aside first!" Uncle Feng began to sort out the things she brought, without looking back.

A Lian looked up at the swirling paper money and stuck out her tongue, but she didn't look scared at all. Obviously, under the influence of her uncle, she had become accustomed to these supernatural things.

Uncle Feng quickly used three chopsticks to quickly build a tripod on the ground, and then put the rice bowl on it.

The rice bowl is obviously used to insert incense. The reason why it is not placed directly on the ground, but to be put up with a rack, is actually the meaning of "burning high incense".

Burning incense is a sacrifice, but burning high incense is generally when expressing respect, gratitude, and apology. The incense burner of high incense cannot touch the ground, so there is usually an incense table when praying to Buddha or the incense burner has three legs to support it.

If the incense burner in a Taoist temple is just an ash basin and is placed on the ground, you can just turn around and leave when you see it. This kind of Taoist temple is either a fake that defrauds people of money, or it deceives people by offering incense to the dead. Bad seed.

Especially in temples or Taoist temples where tablets for the dead are enshrined, you must pay careful attention when burning incense. Whether the incense burner has legs or not, or whether it is placed on the incense table. If not, then you are burning the wrong incense. You are burning it for gods, but you are burning it for ghosts. This is not a good thing and is very unlucky.

After Uncle Feng placed the rice bowls, he quickly lit candles and stuck them on the ground on both sides.

The wax is red wax with long pointed bamboo sticks specially used for sacrifices. This kind of wax does not touch the ground. The bamboo sticks below can be inserted directly into the soil.

After lighting the wax, Uncle Feng quickly folded a paper figure with yellow paper, then lit three incense sticks by candlelight, then wrapped the incense tail around a strand of the third wife's hair and pulled it out, and finally passed the incense tail through the paper figure. In this way, the third wife’s hair is burned by the incense and stuck to the paper man’s head, making it look like the paper man has hair.

Uncle Feng put the incense on the incense burner, leaned the paper figure against the incense burner to make it stand, and then immediately arranged the three wine glasses in the shape of a "pin" and poured wine into the wine glasses stacked on top.

The reason why it is arranged like this is the same as the reason for burning high incense.

The wine overflowed from the glass and soon flowed to the feet of the paper figure, seeping through the yellow paper.

Uncle Feng continued to pour wine with his right hand, while he was making secrets with his left hand, muttering words in his mouth. A magical thing happened. The paper man twisted and knelt down with his knees bent.

"Third Wife, sincerely kowtow and admit your mistake!" Uncle Feng said in a deep voice.

The third wife hurriedly did as she was told.

The strange thing is that as the third wife kowtows, the paper man also bows forward together with the third wife, as if it has the same consciousness as the third wife.

After three prayers, the whirlwind on the brazier immediately slowly fell down.

boom!

The third wife's hair suddenly caught fire, and the entire paper figure burned with it.

At the same time, the paper money that had been extinguished in the brazier also ignited and burned again.

Uncle Feng's expression softened upon seeing this, and he said to Third Po, "Okay, Third Po, it has accepted your apology, and it's okay. Alian, help Third Po up."

After watching the whole process, Su Yi was amazed.

He could tell that Uncle Feng was using incense and candle Yang Qi to bribe the ghost, and at the same time, he showed his hand and calmed the ghost, so he used kindness and power to calm the ghost.

Yang Qi is the strand of hair of the third wife. For the third wife, the loss of Yang Qi will make her feel weak for the next two days at most, but it will not be a serious problem.

The reason is very simple, but the technique revealed by Uncle Feng made Su Yi's eyes light up and his heart was slightly disturbed.

This is not a complicated or powerful spell, it is just a very simple sun-taking technique and paper-tying technique.

But even such a small spell needs to be passed down. There are tricks in how to do it and how to cast it.

Seeing the big from the small, Uncle Feng can even grasp such a trivial magic at his fingertips. This shows that the Maoshan inheritance system he has obtained must be much more complete than Su Yi.

Until now, Su Yi could only draw talismans and recite incantations. As for rituals, spells, and even ritual tools, he knew nothing about them.

This is also the reason why Su Yi came to see Uncle Feng. He also came to learn from his master.

"Ah Feng, is it really okay? Does it really not blame me?" The third wife asked in a trembling voice, very worried.

Alian helped her up and comforted her: "Third wife, if uncle says it's okay, then it will definitely be okay. Don't worry."

Uncle Feng's eyes fell on Su Yi again, and he said calmly: "Although ghosts are unreasonable, people have to distinguish between right and wrong. Just because it is a ghost, you cannot bully it knowing that it has done something wrong. This is against the law. The purpose of our lives is to cultivate Taoism.”

"What Uncle Feng said makes sense." Su Yi nodded, "It's just that ghosts are greedy by nature, and they know how to push the envelope. You have a good idea. You want to use both soft and hard tactics to win over others without fighting. Unfortunately, you are just playing the harp to a cow. It I won’t understand your intentions.”

Uncle Feng may know better about catching ghosts, but Su Yi understands human nature better.

Ghosts are the continuation of humans, and ghost nature and human nature are also similar.

For example, this ghost is the son of the third wife. Judging from the way its soul is solidified, it is obvious that it enjoys incense regularly.

Although the ghost has lost the vitality of being a human being and has lost the distinction between good and evil, it still has its basic nature. This ghost is angry with the third wife just because the third wife extinguished its paper money and made it less able to enjoy the incense. Po is angry.

The anger of a ghost is not like the anger of a human being. There is no thunder or rain. When a ghost is angry, it will definitely release its anger, unless it is calmed down like Uncle Feng did just now.

So if it wasn't Uncle Feng just now, this ghost would definitely be harmful to the third wife. In this case, can this ghost be considered a good ghost?

Can it really calm down its anger by kowtowing to such a ghost and admitting its mistakes?

From Su Yi's point of view, this ghost was just calmed down by Uncle Feng's compensation and his ability. It would never have the concept of accepting an apology.

Uncle Feng wanted to argue with Su Yi a few more words, but he saw the third wife tremblingly picking up a wad of paper money and throwing it into the brazier.

But the ghost's anger was still lingering. Seeing that the third wife still dared to approach, the fire suddenly exploded.

The third wife screamed in fright and ran backwards, but hit a wooden board against the wall.

The wooden board fell downwards, in the exact direction of the brazier!

Su Yi looked at this scene and still did not stop him. He let the wooden board knock over the brazier and let the paper money go out again.

This ghost is already angry, how can he not explode now?

But a whirlwind suddenly rose up and swept towards San Po.

Uncle Feng's eyes condensed, and he picked up the candle on the ground, dodged in front of San Po, and shouted: "Back off!"

But how could the ghost listen to him? He bypassed him and directly rolled San Po up and slammed her against the wall.

"If you don't accept my toast, you will be punished!" Uncle Feng shouted angrily, and poured the remaining half bottle of wine forward, splashing the wine into the whirlwind, causing the whirlwind to stagnate slightly. Uncle Feng took advantage of this opportunity to rush forward and block between San Po and the wall.

Crash!

He smashed the bottle on the wall, pointed the bottle mouth at the wall and inserted it, muttering something in his mouth, and burned the bottle with a candle at the gap.

Whoosh whoosh…

The candle flame seemed to be pulled and sucked into the bottle mouth inserted in the wall. Black smoke came out of the cracks of the bricks of half of the wall. A painful and resentful roar came from the wall. The next moment, Sanpo and Uncle Feng were both bounced back. Uncle Feng caught Sanpo and quickly stuffed her into Alian's arms and said quickly: "Quick, help Sanpo in first!"

As he was speaking, there was a "bang" and the brick wall on the other side suddenly collapsed towards him.

Uncle Feng's eyes condensed, and the burning incense candle in his hand suddenly swung forward. The wax seemed to burn something and made a "sizzling" sound in the air, but the collapsed brick wall was swept by the whirlwind to form a wall behind Uncle Feng, pushing him to the other intact wall, as if to clamp Uncle Feng in the middle and kill him alive.

"How dare the evildoer be so presumptuous!" Su Yi stopped watching and quickly wrote the word "Zhen" on the palm of his hand with his fingertips, using it as the beginning and end of the talisman. He took a step forward and slapped the brick wall behind Uncle Feng.

With this slap, the wall formed by the whirlwind collapsed instantly.

The whirlwind swept towards Su Yi and Uncle Feng again. Su Yi and Uncle Feng snorted coldly and attacked together. The former pinched the seal with his left hand and slapped forward with the blood talisman in his right hand, while the latter rubbed the burning candle in his hand into wax mud and covered his hands with it, grabbing forward.

Bang!

Su Yi slapped the ghost in the air, causing it to scream and fly backwards into the opposite wall. Uncle Feng rushed forward and quickly wrote a big word "Fen" on the wall with his hands covered with burning wax mud.

Then he turned around and shook the yellow cloth that A Lian had used to wrap things just now, and used it to cover the burning big word and stick it to the wall.

The burning wax mud all stuck to the cloth. Uncle Feng quickly wrapped up all the wax mud and tied the cloth into a lump.

The cloth ball kept jumping in Uncle Feng's hand, as if something inside wanted to struggle out.

Uncle Feng pinched his fingers with one hand, bit his tongue, and sprayed a mouthful of saliva mixed with blood on the cloth ball in his hand, and the cloth ball instantly quieted down.

After doing this, Uncle Feng turned around and looked at Su Yi, saying: "The talisman is well drawn, which branch are you from?"