The amulet that Lao Qiao gave to Big Eye was broken and then glued on, and blood oozes out of the spliced part, making the originally luminous Buddha statue even more weird.
When Old Qiao left, under the command of Big Eye, he and I carried the coffee table in the office to the consecration room set up in the store.
The consecration room is a room dedicated to ghosts and gods.
The enshrinement room in the store is on the second floor, and it enshrines Zhang Ling, the ancestor of Taoism. Outsiders are usually not allowed in the worship room, only the first day of the new year and the fifteenth big eye will go in and worship. I only went in a few times when I first set up the consecration room.
The room is not big, only a dozen square meters, and the layout is very simple. There is no extra furnishings with white walls and white ceilings. Under the east wall is a red wooden table on which is enshrined a statue of Zhang Ling, a celestial master more than forty centimeters high.
On both sides of the statue of the heavenly master is a poem: on the left is written: Liujia Lingfei drives tigers and leopards; on the right is written: Wuxinzhen preserved Qilin. In front of the Tianshi statue is a ceramic incense burner filled with incense ashes, and three plates for placing tributes.
Big Eye took out a football-sized sealing censer from under the cabinet. The sealing censer is also called an incense burner. It is often seen in teahouses in addition to temples.
Big Eye opened the lid of the sealing incense burner, put the old Qiao’s "small hoe" amulet in, then poured the incense ashes from the ceramic incense burner in half to cover the amulet, and said: "The incense ashes dedicated to the statue of the heavenly master are positive. And spirituality can get rid of evil spirits and effectively resolve the grievances of evil spirits."
It is very common to use incense ash to drive away evil spirits, because the masculine of incense ash can increase the yang energy in a certain place and then turn into the five elements of earth. It can also use fire ash to drive away evil spirits. Sprinkle ashes at night and check for evil objects during the day. Wait.
Put the sealing incense burner on the coffee table, take out the incense pan and light it, put it in the sealing incense burner.
Smelling the fragrance, I frowned involuntarily and asked, "What material is the pan incense made of?"
The reason for asking this is because there are many kinds of incense. The most common one is bamboo incense, which is the most common and common one, used to burn incense at home or in temples and worship Buddha. Incense types are divided into taste and materials, including agarwood, sandalwood, and perfume; in terms of shape and purpose, they can be divided into bamboo incense, pan incense, lying incense, incense cone, smokeless incense, etc. Fragrant wood used
Powders include: agarwood, xunlu, white sandalwood, green wood, cloves and so on.
The pan incense placed in the sealing incense burner is also called ring incense, which is all made of incense powder. Due to the different lighting time, it is divided into 2 hours, 4 hours, 12 hours, 24 hours, one week and other specifications. In ancient times, people who chant, practice, and cultivate the body are the first choice; because the burning of the incense is hygienic, convenient, accurate in time, and not easy to burn incense. It is scattered back, so the pan incense is an ideal choice for fresh indoor air, sterilization and odor removal in modern home life.
But at this time, the smell of the incense in the incense burner has a peculiar smell, not like the smell of incense powder.
Big Eye said: "The main ingredient is agarwood, which also contains ginkgo and gourd. Ginkgo trees bloom at night and are usually invisible to people, so they have hidden mysterious power. Adding to the incense is equivalent to the effect of a sign. The gourd has many seeds. In Feng Shui, gourd is a plant that can drive away evil spirits. Adding these two plants to the incense can suppress evil spirits."
"When did you prepare this fragrance?"
Big-eyed and said complacently: "It has always been there. Before, I added different accessories to the incense we used to drive away evil spirits and ghosts, but you don't know it."
I can't help but slap my tongue secretly. I can't think that exorcising evil spirits and controlling ghosts is so targeted even when burning incense.
Put the sealing censer on the coffee table, put a red-letter yellow paper charm on the censer with Big Eyes, and light three sticks of incense in the censer in front of Zhang Tianshi. He said, "The time to pan incense is 12 hours a stick. Give it to Tianshi Zhang. The incense is one stick per hour, and both sticks can’t be extinguished. It will be considered complete after 168 hours, which is seven days. The two of us take turns to watch the incense, and there can be no mistakes in the middle. Once an error occurs, it will not only be old If Joe's life is not guaranteed, we will be angered by the evil spirits in the amulet."
"Can I just burn incense?"
Big eyes saw my worry and said, "Don’t underestimate burning incense. Now the sealed incense burner is equivalent to the alchemy furnace of Taishang Laojun. The mixture of the ash and the pan incense is the real fire of the three flavors. I put the town ghost symbol on it. Trapped the evil spirit in the incense burner, the evil spirit will be like a frog in hot water, slowly boiled, slowly burned, after seven days, it will be completely gone."
"What's the use of burning incense for Tianshi Zhang?"
"Of course it’s Master Zhang
The Manifestation of Saint stared at the evil spirit, no matter how powerful the evil spirit was, he would not dare to be a demon under the eyes of Heavenly Master Zhang. Have you heard of haunted people in that temple? Therefore, the incense must not be broken. "
Seeing what the big eyes said, I was busy paying respect to Zhang Tianshi. The incense is changed every 12 hours to nothing. The incense given to Zhang Tianshi takes an hour to change but it is quite boring. It is equivalent to changing the incense 168 times in seven days.
However, as long as it can make up for the guilt of old Joe, it is also worth it. After all, I already have a lot of guilt for Zhang Ling's disappearance. If something happens to Old Qiao, I will be burdened with the guilt of two people at once, and I will probably feel uneasy in this life.
Finally, I discussed with Big Eye and decided that Big Eye mainly focuses on the day and I am mainly responsible for staring at night. The first two days are basically nothing. In the morning, when I watched Big Eye and came to the store, I would go home and sleep. When the store closed, I was going to the store Change your eyes. In the evening, I chatted with Guo Miao and Niu Pengpeng, played card games, and when they went to bed, I played games on my mobile phone in the office, and exchanged incense between the offerings when the time came.
Niu Pengpeng and Guo Miao were very interested in our behavior. Dayan and I explained that they were praying for the god of wealth and blessing the business in the store. They stopped questioning.
I originally thought that seven days would pass so smoothly, but on the third day, I started to feel a little discomfort. Every time I changed the incense, I would go to the consecration room a few minutes in advance, watching the incense burned and then changing, but I was waiting. A few minutes after the incense burned out, there were thousands of flies buzzing in my ears.
But as soon as you come out of the consecration room, the discomfort immediately disappears.
At first I thought it was the evil spirit in the sealing censer, but I didn't take it seriously. But on the fourth day, it became more serious. When I entered the consecration room, not only my ears buzzed, but my brain hurt like being struck by a hammer.
When Big Eye came to the store the next day, I asked him if he had tinnitus and headache when changing the fragrance, Big Eye said no. I hurriedly recounted my symptoms.
Big Eye checked me over, and then said puzzledly: "No problem, are you too nervous? Or are you allergic to my special fragrance and smell? Or I will come for the remaining two days."
There are still forty-eight hours in two days, and it is unrealistic to have big eyes staring at it. I said, "Forget it, I'm sticking to it. It shouldn't be a big problem."
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