After hearing what the old man said, I became interested. In fact, don't think about Taoist priests being so magical. Some things are like the police solving crimes. You always have to collect clues from all aspects to find the key to the matter.
The Heavenly Eye is indeed very useful. Not to mention that not all Taoist priests can open the Heavenly Eye. Even if the Heavenly Eye is opened, at most you will see that the aura here is wrong and you will not be able to see the spirit body unless you find the key place.
Only when the celestial eye reaches a higher level can it penetrate numerous obstacles. For example, it can put aside real objects, such as walls, and see the essential aura and energy.
I asked myself that I didn’t have that skill, let alone that this was an office building with several floors. There were no clues. Do I have to search for them one by one? The spirit's mind is still there. If it deliberately avoids me, I will have to work hard.
Therefore, this old man was my first breakthrough. I had to talk to him.
Thinking about it, I took out a pack of cigarettes from my pocket and handed it to the old man. Over the years, my addiction to smoking has become stronger and stronger, and I always have two packs of cigarettes on me. Besides, I have to keep vigil here today, so I especially brought more. One pack, I didn’t expect it to come in handy so quickly.
Unexpectedly, the old man took a firm stand. When I handed over the cigarette, he stuffed it back into my hand without even looking at it. He said, "No reward for no merit. If something is lost in this office building, I will pay for it." No need to blame, just go away, what are you doing here?"
Su Rou is speechless. Do you dare to think of us as thieves who want to steal something
He directly took out his mobile phone and dialed An Yu's number, then after saying a few words, he handed the phone to the old man guarding the door. The old man took the phone with some confusion, probably thinking that thieves these days Can I use my mobile phone too
After all, in 1999, although mobile phones were not considered a luxury item, not everyone could afford them.
I don’t know what An Yu said to the old man over the phone. In short, when he returned the phone to Surou, he was already very respectful, but this is not what I wanted, so I still gave him the cigarette. He met the old man and said: "You're welcome. To be honest, we are here to solve the problem of this office building. So, if you know anything, just tell us. No matter what you know, is it right?" Taixuan, we all believe it.”
The old man hesitated for a while, probably because he cherished this job too much, and finally said: "Then come in and talk, my post in this building is the cleanest, even standing outside is not clean. .”
I felt it carefully and didn't know what it was like outside, but I still followed my words and squeezed into the guard box outside the door together with Surou.
The guard booth was not big, and three grown men were crowded inside, making it very crowded, but no one cared. The old man opened the pack of cigarettes I handed him, lit one, and then said to us: "Don't believe it." My place is clean and there are no diamonds, so how can I get a porcelain job? No one in this ten-mile radius would dare to keep vigil for this building except me."
I took a sip of tea with a smile and asked, "Uncle, what's your last name? Why do you say that you are the only one within ten miles who dares to come to watch the night?"
"My surname is Chang, Chang Shuicheng. I am already sixty this year. If my younger son hadn't been in college and needed money, I wouldn't have wanted to do this job. If most people wanted to do it, they would have been scared to death here. More than ten years ago, this Yiyier is still a village, and I am a native of this village. Why do I dare to come alone to watch the night? That’s because my grandfather used to be a Taoist priest. I know some taboos, and my grandfather also left A little something, this little thing can keep me safe for a night." The old man said slowly.
After hearing this, Su Rou winked at me, meaning that I had met a colleague.
I kept my cool and just asked: "Uncle Chang, is your grandfather a very powerful and famous Taoist priest?"
"I'm not very powerful or famous. I just do some rituals for the villagers. But when my grandfather was young, he met a Taoist priest and taught him some things, so he could deal with ordinary rituals and some small things. That's enough. The Taoist priest also gave my grandfather a statue. I brought it here. This is the key to keeping me safe." Obviously, my pack of cigarettes worked. Old man Chang couldn't even do this. All the past events were told to me.
I stood up, looked around, and then said to Old Man Chang, "Can you show me this statue of yours?"
Statues of gods are generally required to be enshrined. I was surprised that there were no statues of gods at this post, so I asked out of curiosity.
The old man Chang didn't hesitate and pulled a rope from his neck directly. Then, wasn't it a statue of a god hanging on the rope? After getting permission from Old Man Chang, I took the statue in my hand.
In this day and age, there are many people who carry Guanyin and Buddha, but there are very few people who carry Taoist statues. According to Taoism, there are many gods, and their respective fields are also different. If a complete altar is set up, the gods can be arranged in several rows. Ordinary people generally know about Sanqing.
This old man's statue is made of wood. Not surprisingly, he is also the moral deity in the Three Pure Ones, that is, Taishang Laojun. There is nothing special about it, but I can tell at a glance that the personal carving style of this wooden statue is too obvious. , if my judgment is correct, it should have been carved by the Taoist priest whom Grandpa Chang met back then.
If you close your eyes and feel it, you can still feel the energy attached to the statue. It is a gentle personal energy, that is, personal power is attached to it, but it is very, very thin.
To put it bluntly, this is an immortal that has been consecrated by a Taoist. It can also be regarded as a hanging. It is far from the statue that I imagined with a trace of divine will.
After playing with it for a while, I returned the statue to Old Man Chang. Taoist consecration is not easy, but when it comes to warding off evil spirits, it is the most powerful. It seems that Old Man Chang really relies on this statue to stay safe.
A statue of a god has already made me care about it. You must know that the Taoist consecrated object needs to be warmed and maintained for many years, and it cannot be truly consecrated in just one ritual. Once it is consecrated, the spiritual power will definitely be deeply attached to the consecrated object. On the body, if it is not consumed, it will not dissipate for hundreds of years, but this statue of Old Man Chang...
If my guess is correct, the consecration power of this statue was consumed in this office building, but this still needs to be confirmed.
After playing with the old man's statue for a while, I returned the statue to Old Man Chang, and then asked, "Old man, have you ever encountered anything strange before?"
"What can I encounter? I'm not afraid of walking through the cemetery at night with this. The weirdest things in my life are all here." The old man Chang took a puff of cigarette and
Su Rou asked very positively: "Please tell me in detail, you know we are here to solve this problem."
The old man Chang glanced at Surou and I with suspicion, probably thinking that we were too young, but he was not the boss and couldn't control that much. After being silent for a while, he pinched the cigarette butt and said : "If you really want to listen, it doesn't matter if I talk about it. Ordinarily, I shouldn't talk about 'them' here. Usually if I do, I will get entangled. I am willing to take the risk now, relying on the statues of my ancestors... . . .”
The old man Chang was so verbose that he just didn't say anything. How could a person like Su Rou not understand this? He quickly took out 500 yuan from his bag, stuffed it into the old man's hand, and said: "Old man, you can just say it with confidence." Well, take this money and use it as story fee."
After the old man Chang took the money, he stopped being verbose and straight to the point said to Su Rou and me: "There is a ghost in this office building, I'm sure! And it's a powerful ghost. Didn't everyone talk about it during the day?" Is that so? I, the night watchman, have more experience. There are real ghosts, I have encountered them."
When the old man Chang was talking about this, a gust of wind came up for no reason outside, blowing the few trees in the yard with a "whistle" sound. He was a person who had seen how to make crispy pork, so he felt a little uncomfortable when he encountered this. No, he immediately grabbed my arm.
And I stood up immediately, facing out the window, and yelled: "Get out!"
When I shouted, even old man Chang was frightened and shrank his neck, but could I not shout? Although I didn't have my heavenly eyes open at this time, my spiritual sense was very strong, and sometimes I could feel it, or what ordinary people call "seeing" it. I clearly saw a baby lying on the window.