The crowd of onlookers made way for a passage, and the old woman slowly turned her head and looked at Russell who was approaching step by step.
There was a long silence, and finally he said, "Who are you?"
"A passerby."
The old woman chuckled and shook her head slowly. After a long time, she slowly said another word.
"You are not an ordinary person, you are a very powerful person, very powerful, very powerful."
Russell ignored her, slowly walked up to the woman, pointed a finger at the woman's head, and the woman fell asleep instantly.
Seeing that Russell ignored her, the old woman muttered to herself again, "I have seen too much and known too much in my life, so my eyes are blind."
"I am blind in my eyes, but not in my heart. Haven't you noticed that since you spoke, there has been no one talking around us, and even the breathing has been very even."
Hmm? Interesting.
Russell looked at the old woman with a little surprise. On the back of his right hand, a lotus was slowly spinning.
Just as the old woman said, everyone on the shore fell into his illusion and fell asleep while standing.
He slowly raised his hand and twisted his fingers towards the old woman, who immediately felt something was wrong.
He turned his head somewhat uncomfortably, looking at everything in front of him in confusion, then looked at his hands and then at the sky he hadn't seen for a long time.
She actually saw it again!
This sky! This light!
"I can't cure your blindness. It's your fault for talking nonsense. This is only temporary."
Russell walked to the side and took out the bamboo stick that had been prepared long ago from the old housekeeper Li. "Tell me, what do you know?"
He could tell at a glance that this woman, like her child, had lost her two souls and three spirits at the same time, which immediately overturned his previous guess.
This was not caused by falling into the water, that was caused before.
The old woman was still in disbelief and touched her face with her hand, as if to prove that she was not dreaming.
After a while, she calmed down, "It should be the day before yesterday. They seemed to have seen something and were frightened, and their souls flew away."
Russell raised his eyebrows at this, and the old woman herself was a little bit unbelieving.
There is a rule in the countryside that it is not allowed to scare young children, because young children have weak minds and souls. Once they are frightened, their souls leave their bodies and they can easily become demented.
In serious cases, it's like a dead person breathing in bed.
But this usually happens to children. It usually doesn't happen to adults, but such strange things happen.
The old woman stuck her walking stick on the ground, looking helpless. She turned her head and signaled to the people around her. They beat drums and gongs and arranged to lock the dragon, but it was all in vain.
"This is not a simple loss of soul. It should be that the soul is trapped somewhere. There is no way to teach it back with such a simple method."
Simple method
The old woman was speechless, "You little kid, you have a very loud tone."
If you don't summon the souls in this way, where will you find the souls everywhere in the sky
But the next moment, the old woman couldn't help but open her mouth wide, and saw Russell bending the bamboo stick with his hands, and taking out a piece of paper from somewhere and putting it on it.
In no time, a paper lantern appeared.
An absurd idea came into the old woman's mind. She looked at Russell in disbelief and stammered, "You, you know how to find souls with Kongming lanterns?"
If a living person loses something and you don't want to find them, you have to use their birth date and hair, which can be done with ordinary Taoist magic.
But if the soul is lost, a Taoist priest will need to perform a ritual and seek help from the ancestors to track it down.
In addition to this method, there is also a legendary Feng Shui secret technique - the Kongming lantern soul-seeking technique.
cocoa…
Russell looked at the excited old woman in confusion, "Isn't this a very simple spell?"
Old woman: …
She took a deep breath suddenly, letting out the depression in her heart.
The Kongming lantern has existed for a long, long time and is a very remarkable thing.
It has many uses, and the most widely used one is that people release it during festivals to pray to God.
But that is not the real use. It requires someone with magical powers to engrave a person's birth date on the Kongming lantern, then light it and carry the Kongming lantern high into the sky.
The lantern went up to the sky, and the birth data engraved inside burned slowly and turned into ashes, dispelling suffering, sins and disasters.
This is all for ordinary people. For those who practice Taoism, there is another use, which is to communicate with heaven.
This is a well-known story, and the soul-seeking technique of Kongming lanterns is just a small application of it.
A Kongming lantern, asking about the road of life and death, slowly ascends to the sky, leaving the soul nowhere to hide thousands of miles away.
But this secret technique was lost five hundred years ago. How could it still exist in this world
The old woman was stunned, and under Russell's urging, she slowly told the birth dates of the mother and son.
She is an old lady in this village. Countless people come to her for fortune-telling. But is her prediction accurate
Just look at her eyes.
She was the one who presided over the soul summoning today, so she naturally knew the birth dates of the mother and child.
Soon, the old witch began to doubt her life. She saw the little baby Russell in front of her write his birth date on a piece of paper and put it into a Kongming lantern.
Then he flicked his fingers lightly, and the Kongming lantern suddenly lit up. He chanted some magic spell, and in an instant, the Kongming lantern floated up and flew towards a certain place against the wind.
The old woman slowly opened her mouth and stared at the scene with wide eyes.
Suddenly, her eyes went dark and she could not see anything.
"Just wait here. I'll go look for it in the front."
Russell's voice came from a distance, and the old woman suddenly realized that she was still blind and could only see clearly because she was close to the little boy.
The old woman slammed the ground with her cane, and the stick hit a young man next to her accurately, waking him up instantly.
The young man suddenly woke up, looked around in confusion, and scratched his head, "Grandma, what's wrong? Why am I here?"
"Why are you talking so much nonsense? Just carry me back quickly. Something big is about to happen."
The old woman was very hurried, but she was also excited in her heart, because she was seeing a Feng Shui master in person, and even if she learned a little bit, it would be very meaningful.
The young man said "oh" and carried the old woman on his back. At this moment, he noticed the people standing quietly on the shore. When the cold wind blew, he felt a chill in his heart.
"Grandma, why are they all silent?"
"It will be fine in a moment."
"Grandma, these people are silent, how did you know I was there?"
The young man looked surprised. His grandmother had been blind for a long time, and the stick just happened to hit him. It was strange.
The old woman sneered, "Among so many people, you are the only one who snores the loudest when sleeping. Aren't you ashamed?"
young people:…
"Follow the Kongming lantern, and I'll tell you about marriage later."
As soon as these words were spoken, the young man, who had been a little depressed, suddenly smiled and was full of energy.
"Okay!"
…
Russell followed the Kongming lantern and unexpectedly came to a village. It was very quiet inside and no one could be seen during the day.
Outside the village there are fields and roads, as well as the sounds of dogs barking and chickens crowing. It is full of the atmosphere of human habitation. It does not seem like an absurd village at all.
Where are the people
He suddenly thought of the group of people on the shore. Could this be their village
The Kongming lantern continued to move forward, and after a few steps, it stopped in a desolate place.
The above two words made Russell stand still.
Charity cemetery.
Russell: …
"Master, when did you make your family business so big and prosperous?"
Russell walked into the charity cemetery with a teasing look. He was very familiar with the place as the layout of these places was similar.
Soon, he saw rows of dead bodies lying there, and next to them, on a broken bed, a man was sleeping soundly, not noticing Russell's arrival at all.
Russell walked closer, looked at the man's clothes, and instantly realized who he was.
It turned out to be a local specialty of western Hunan - the Xiangxi corpse driver.
The ancients believed in being buried in peace. Master Simu worked in this business part-time, traveling all over the country in search of materials for refining corpses.
But in terms of formality, Xiangxi is better and has more rules.
People in Xiangxi not only drive away corpses, but also souls. The three souls and seven spirits of the dead body are sealed in the local area for the purpose of reincarnation.
Russell didn’t know why there was such a tradition before, but it was his uncle Jiu who told him about it later.
After death, people will stay in the underworld for a long time to earn good karma, wash away their sins, and plan a good future for their next life.
The underworld is similar to the human world. After all, ghosts are transformed from humans, and they also value sticking together and having relationships.
Returning to one's roots is not only a habit, but also a way for one to see one's relatives after death, to have someone to take care of them and to have a thought for them.
When people are in a foreign place, they can take a boat or a car and travel long distances. When ghosts are in a foreign place, do you think there is such a thing in the underworld
A panting sound was heard, followed by heavy footsteps. Russell asked directly without turning his head.
"When did this corpse chaser come?"
"The night before yesterday."
The old woman answered, she was old and shrewd, and she immediately figured out the connection, "You mean, the mother and son were frightened out of their wits by this corpse driver?"
Although it seems a little unbelievable, it is also the most reasonable explanation.
After all, she was a woman who had never seen the world. If she suddenly saw a group of jumping corpses in the middle of the night, anyone would be scared to death if they were not mentally prepared.
Russell put his fingers together and tapped directly on the forehead of the dead body, "Soul capture!"
As he hooked his finger, two souls appeared from the corpse, one male and one female, which was extremely strange.
"wrong!"
Russell frowned and looked carefully at the other dead bodies, but did not see the child's.
At this time, the corpse driver slowly woke up. He did not have the courage of Wencai. If he was careless for a day, he would just wait to become a zombie.
"Don't touch this corpse!"
"Are there any other dead bodies?"
Russell didn't explain, but asked directly. If it was really as he thought, things would be troublesome.
The corpse driver looked depressed, "Of course it's buried. I drove the corpse here from outside, so I must send the body back."
He didn't know what was going on at this time, and was still trying to persuade her, "Get out quickly, it's unlucky to get involved in this."
"broken!"
The old woman interjected, "This is troublesome."
When a dead body buries itself in the ground, the soul will naturally enter the underworld. It is almost impossible for the soul to come out again!
Russell was relieved. It was actually the easiest to deal with the ground service, after all, his master ran a bank.
rich!