When I came back, I asked Qin Yiheng what it meant, and he explained it to me.
This biscuit is actually a so-called tribute. Whether it is a god or a deceased spirit, even a monster that many places like to enshrine, there will be corresponding tributes. On a larger scale, live sacrifices have been common since ancient times. On a small scale, basic cakes and fruits are indispensable. It is rumored that after some efficacious gods enjoyed the tribute (usually the tribute is still intact, but people are used to understanding it this way, put the tribute on the altar to make a show, and you can take it away and eat it the next day), people eat those The tribute enjoyed by the efficacious gods, or prolong life, or save people from illness, or seek wealth for children, anyway, there will be endless benefits. Of course, this is just a rumor, and he has not verified it himself. But after eating the biscuits offered to the ghosts, at least I didn't get any benefits, but suffered a lot of crimes. I have personally verified this. I asked him, why am I making such a fuss
Qin Yiheng explained that this kind of tribute offered to ghosts generally has three results. One is that the taste is relatively sweet. This kind of sweetness is not fully reflected on the taste buds. It is mainly a feeling, just like saying that a kiss is sweeter. This kind of sweet tribute is the most dangerous, because it is said that this kind of sweet tribute is because the thing that eats it is an evil thing that absorbs yang. Women who eat it will have menstrual disorders and miscarriage; men who eat it will cause nocturnal emission and lethargy. If you continue to live near this evil thing, you will be easily invaded.
The second kind is more bitter, which also does not simply refer to the bitter taste, but this kind is good, because this thing that has been enjoyed will indeed help you, at least it will not harm you. This kind of tribute, even if it is not beneficial to the body, is basically harmless. It is said that after worshiping the gods, the tribute, whether it is fruit or pastry, will feel tasteless like chewing wax, or the taste will become weaker.
And the third kind is more sour to eat. This kind of tribute has been tasted by things with resentment. This kind of resentment is not that of a ghost, but a kind of resentment, because ghosts will not accept offerings. This kind of tribute will have a sour feeling in the taste, and it is usually harmless to the human body, at most it will cause stomach upset.
After listening to Qin Yiheng's explanation, I probably understood what he meant. I really want to lose my temper. Since he knows this kind of experiment best, he should do it himself, which made me go to the toilet for a long time.
Although I don't think there is much factual basis for the reasons he said, but after thinking about it, it still makes sense. Things that have been left overnight will inevitably deteriorate in a humid environment. It is normal to have diarrhea after eating, but now things are clear, what should we do next
He said that the things in it were very pitiful and he didn't want to harm anyone. If he is a little bit reluctant to use the methods used to deal with Li Gui, we should find a way to let him choose to leave.
To put it bluntly, our previous method of exorcising ghosts was quite arbitrary, but today, if we want to invite it to go by itself, and let something that has been nostalgic for so many years go by itself, this net is too wide. But there is no way, Qin Yiheng said that I can only obey orders, who made me not know how to do it.
I had a brief discussion with him and decided to start with how this person died. Listening to the old man's story about the past, I think this thing is probably the ancestor of their family, so the person who tied the bell needs to be untied. We can only ask their family members.
This investigation is quite cumbersome. We pretended to be curious and asked several surviving elderly people in their families. Although we all knew that the house was haunted, we couldn't tell anything about it. We asked the old man who showed us the house again. The old man scratched his head and thought for a long time, and he could only say that this person should have been an official in the court before.
Such clues are clueless, and Qin Yiheng and I stayed for another two days, and we already had the idea of going back home. Qin Yiheng said, if it really doesn't work, we still have another way to try.
I asked him what he did, but he actually looked at me with bright eyes for a long time.
When I saw his gaze, I couldn't help but shivered, he must have been stabbed at me. If I ask carefully, I really guessed it, and this time seems to worry me more than ever before.
Although Qin Yiheng still said it lightly, but I have learned the lesson several times, and I really can't believe him anymore. What's more, his bad idea this time was to get that thing on me.
Qin Yiheng has been persuading me, saying that this matter can only be digested and resolved by us internally. If people from their family are used, it will not be the case. I thought about it again and again, and he also promised again and again, saying that there would be no problem.
I thought about it, and gritted my teeth and agreed. In fact, I was still doing it for the money, so I really went all out.
Seeing that I readily agreed, he took me to make some preparations: First, he dug a small hole outside the door of the side room, and then erected a pole in it. Fortunately, the host has one, otherwise this kind of thing is really hard to find. . Finally, he tied a small buckle on my middle finger with a black thread, and tied the other end of the thread to the shoulder pole, telling me that I would lose consciousness for a while, but if I felt the thread on my middle finger move, I had to try to wake up come over. Although he will be fine by the side, he has to remind me in advance. To put it bluntly, it is the same as asking you to sign the operation notice before the operation.
Sitting on that old bed, I thought to myself, damn it, why didn't I say it earlier, but now I'm on a thief ship, and I can only be slaughtered. Qin Yiheng walked around the room, tapped a few points with his feet on the ground, and then closed the door of the side room. The darkness flooded in all of a sudden, he lit a piece of white wax, put it on the last point he ordered before, and then stuffed a handful of chicken feathers into my hand, telling me that the first moment I woke up, I put the chicken feathers on the door. Throw it out, the farther the better.
At this time, I started to get nervous, and all kinds of fear rushed straight into my heart, and I was afraid that if I moved, I would tear the black thread on my finger, so I could only wait so hard. After a while, I don't know if it was a psychological effect, but I really felt chills all over my body, and I couldn't stop shivering. Suddenly, I felt something lying on my back. I didn't know what was behind, and I lost consciousness in an instant.
To be honest, I have never slept so soundly in my life. I had imagined countless possibilities before, guessing what it would feel like when I was upper body. As a result, when Qin Yiheng suddenly yelled and slapped me awake, I realized that I didn't feel anything during this process, and I didn't have any memory at all.
The moment I woke up, my consciousness was still vague, my body was very tired, and I really wanted to continue to sleep.
But Qin Yiheng quickly reminded me to throw out the chicken feathers. I got up in a hurry, I didn't care about being elegant, I just smashed open the door, and threw all the chicken feathers out with all my strength. To my surprise, the chicken feathers did not move forward, but flew up in an instant with a huff, flying everywhere.
After that, things were not so absurd. Qin Yiheng put away his things and went back to explain the process to me. According to him, the person on my upper body is quite elegant, and his speech seems to be well-resourced, but he seems to be very pitiful and always cries. I said, how come my face is wet after waking up.
I asked him what the previous steps meant. Qin Yiheng said that the middle finger is the place with the most yang energy in a person, and binding the middle finger is nothing more than an insurance for this person. If this thing is strong enough to really occupy my body, then this knot can help me retain the last bit of yang energy, so that I can still be saved no matter what. The shoulder pole can actually ward off evil spirits and ghosts. Maybe modern urbanites don’t know about it. With the development of society, this traditional tool has become less known. According to the older generation, the level of medical care in rural areas was very limited at that time, and due to the large area and sparse population, the popularity was not high, so corpse fraud incidents often occurred. The deceitful zombies scratch and bite people when they see them, and they are so powerful that no one can stop them. The only way to knock them down is to beat them with a pole. Standing the pole on the ground seems to be precarious, but if someone who is possessed by a ghost wants to break or push down the pole standing on the ground, the pole will suddenly become as stable as a rock. Tying the black thread on my middle finger to it is equivalent to finding the most solid force to hold me back. Although these things feel absurd and bizarre, there will always be things that challenge our common sense in this world.
As for the white wax, Qin Yiheng said that he just ordered a few star positions in the room in the simplest way, and put the white wax in the position of Kuixing, also to protect my yang energy. And the handful of chicken feathers that I threw away in the end was my bad luck. Although the things on my body are not evil, but the person who is upper body will have a minor illness at least, and bad luck for a year at worst, so he asked me to throw out the bad luck the moment I woke up , can alleviate the loss caused by being upper body. As soon as he said that, I thought of the chicken feathers, and in the end it was indeed flying around against common sense. When I mentioned it to him, he also nodded, saying that basically all the bad luck will go away, but I'm afraid I still have a headache, and it will pass after treatment.
When I still wanted to ask what that thing had told him, Qin Yiheng made a fool of himself, saying that everything would be revealed tomorrow. If this matter is resolved, we may earn a lot from such a big house. I was so tired that I lost all energy when it came to making money, so I simply went back to the guest room, lay down and fell asleep.
Nothing to say all night. When I got up the next day, it was already dawn, and I was still very tired. When I got up, I found that Qin Yiheng was no longer there, so I packed up and went out. I think Qin Yiheng must be in that side room now, and when he got there, he found that the whole family was basically surrounded by him, and Qin Yiheng was talking to the strong laborers in the family.
He made a simple arrangement, and several strong men started to swing a sledgehammer, smashing a wall of this side room. I was dumbfounded. The house seemed to have been in disrepair for a long time, but unexpectedly it was very strong. It took a long time for several big men who were as strong as cattle to break the wall. Qin Yiheng kept staring at the side, smashed for a while, shouted to stop, and ran to the bottom of the smashed wall to find something. After a while, he actually took out an axe.
I was standing at the back, so I couldn't see it very clearly, it was probably a painting. When I got closer, I realized that it was not a painting, but a fabric. I looked at it twice again, and it seemed familiar, but I still couldn't figure out what it was. I only found out after asking him that it was an imperial decree. This is really a fairy tale, because there has always been an imperial decree hidden in the wall of their house. Although the words written on it are very neat, but I have read too little, and I can't understand what it means.
Qin Yiheng gave me a brief explanation, which probably means that this person in their family can be ordered to return to the capital to resume his post.
After finishing speaking, Qin Yiheng went on to explain to everyone:
The ancestor of their family committed some crimes in the court and was demoted to three ranks. What exactly happened, maybe it had something to do with the literary inquisition at that time. Then this person was still quite arrogant, so he directly applied to the emperor to retire from his old age and return to his hometown. The emperor was kind enough to reward him with this house. Presumably this person still has some talents, after returning home for two years, the emperor still remembered him, and wanted to call him back to Beijing to be an official, but unfortunately at this time he had already died of illness at home. This person was originally unwilling to be reincarnated as a human being, but this time it was good, as soon as the imperial decree came, he felt even more wronged, so he kept making troubles at home. The family members were also afraid when they saw this, and they didn't dare to burn the imperial decree. Later, they had no choice but to build it into the wall of this side house. In this way, he also followed into the side room, crying against the wall all day long. However, Yin and Yang are separated, he must have no hope of returning to the court to become an official, now that the imperial decree has been taken out, as long as it is burned and his grievances are calmed, it will be over.
When I heard that the imperial decree was going to be burned, my heart ached! It is said that this thing is very valuable, but their family members unanimously agreed that it can be burned, but they still need to burn some paper money, hoping to take a photo as a souvenir or something. Qin Yiheng said that it didn't matter, so he handed over the imperial decree to the old man and let them handle it by themselves.
As expected, the trip this time was not in vain. Although the experience was not difficult and dangerous, at least it had a beginning and an end. The most important thing is that after helping their family, the price of the house can definitely be lowered. When the big family finished the imperial decree, I directly dragged the old man to talk about the price. The old man is really real, and he really discounted the price. I made a rough calculation, if this house was bought at his price, the profit would be quite lucrative, so at that time I drew up a contract directly with the old man and signed it.
After staying for another day and a half, almost all the transfer procedures were completed, and Qin Yiheng and I were ready to return triumphantly. This family still wanted to keep us for dinner, so they declined successfully. I was very happy on the way back, but when I got on the train, I started to have a fever. I took a few pills temporarily, and went directly to the hospital for an IV after getting off the train. Qin Yiheng said that this is the sequelae of being raped, and he will be fine after a few days of recuperation. I also took advantage of this time to rest for a while. It stands to reason that I have already let the chicken feathers fly for a while, and the bad luck should have dissipated. Maybe I thought too much, and the house just after this really brought me bad luck.
However, in Qin Yiheng's words, that is to say, it was my fate that the two of us inadvertently discovered a shocking secret.