Ye Shaoyang's thoughts were interrupted by a burst of giggles, he jerked violently, sat up, and listened carefully, it was a child's laughter, creaking, it sounded okay, and in the laughter, there was also A woman sobbed softly.
Listening to the baby's cry, Ye Shaoyang always felt that something was wrong, it couldn't be... Ye Shaoyang's belt was not untied, it was on his body, and he took out the yin and yang disk from inside, moved it a few times, and chanted the spell once, the pointer Crashing and spinning, the direction in which it finally stopped was exactly where the child's laughter came from across the wall.
It really is a supernatural event!
Ye Shaoyang held the yin and yang mirror in his hand and was in a daze. He really wanted to know what happened in the house next door, but it was in the middle of the night, and he was a stranger. Of course, it was impossible to ask directly. He was in a daze when he remembered the voice of old man Liu: "Are you a Taoist priest?"
Ye Shaoyang was startled, and turned his head to look, it was old man Liu who opened his eyes, the moonlight slanted on the bed from the window, brighter than the kerosene lamp. Old man Liu looked at the yin-yang plate in Ye Shaoyang's hand by the moonlight. There were various scales related to Tai Chi and gossip on it. Anyone with a little education would know that it was related to Taoism.
"Uh, you're always awake." Ye Shaoyang was a little embarrassed.
"I woke up when I heard the child crying, and I happened to see you holding this thing... The ancestor of our village was a Confucian general. Books, so the men in our village are all literate. I have read some Taoist books before, so when I saw your compass, I guessed that you are a Taoist priest."
"Senior, you just laughed at me." Ye Shaoyang bowed to Old Man Liu with Taoist etiquette, thinking that no wonder he thought that Old Man Liu was eloquent and eloquent before, and his conversation was not like ordinary peasants, so he had read books.
Old man Liu waved his hand and said: "The Taoist books I read are all about alchemy and health preservation, and they are just a taste of it. Brother Ye, you don't have to do that."
Ye Shaoyang put away the yin and yang plate and listened carefully. The joyful baby's laughter came through the wall one after another, and the sobbing sound was always there, interspersed with a man's heavy sigh, which sounded from time to time.
Hearing these kinds of voices, Ye Shaoyang had such a picture in his mind: a family of three, the child was playing happily, the father was sighing, but the mother was sobbing softly...
Such a picture is really a bit weird.
Ye Shaoyang looked at old man Liu, and said, "Please ask me, what... is this all about?"
Old man Liu also looked at him, sighed, and said, "Let me ask you, what did you mean when you took out the compass earlier, did you hear anything wrong?"
"This..." Ye Shaoyang hesitated for a moment, and revealed the truth, "The truth is, I heard that there was a bit of a ghost in the child's laughter, and I'm afraid he might be bewitched."
Old man Liu's eyes lit up, and he said, "You can tell there's something wrong with the laughter just by listening to the sound through the wall?"
Ye Shaoyang nodded, and said: "The laughter of ghosts is definitely different from that of humans. According to Taoist scriptures, the voice of ghosts is invisible. Unless it is under special circumstances, there will be no echo."
Old man Liu was startled when he heard the words, listened carefully for a while, and said, "There seems to be an echo."
"Of course, this is not a simple ghost laugh, but two overlapping voices."
"The two voices overlap..." Old Man Liu looked at him, "What does this mean?"
"Ghost possession, ghosts control the human body, and the sound they make is called Yin echo. If you are not a mage, you can't hear the difference between this kind of sound." Ye Shaoyang put one hand on the wall and said, "Because there is a wall The wall, the sound was a little hard to hear, so I wasn't sure before, I fixed it with a yin and yang mirror, and it really was haunted."
Old man Liu was taken aback when he heard his words, and said a little excitedly, "Are you sure it's haunted?"
Ye Shaoyang said: "Of course, I practice Taoism, how could I hear this wrong."
Old man Liu sighed and said, "You're right, it's haunted."
He opened the bed next to the wall, took out a bundle of mahogany branches wrapped in red thread from below, shook Ye Shaoyang and said: "See, there are not only this, but there are peach wood branches under every window in my house." Zhi, alas, we are also afraid."
Ye Shaoyang frowned and said, "What are you afraid of?"
"What are you afraid of? Of course I'm afraid of ghosts. The next door is haunted, and our old couple are also terrified. What if something sneaks into our house from the next door..."
Ye Shaoyang hurriedly asked: "How do you know it's haunted?"
Old man Liu didn't answer, but asked instead: "Since you see the haunting, is there anything you can do to deal with it?"
Ye Shaoyang wanted to have a piece of cake, but suddenly remembered that he only had 15% of his mana, so he was really not sure, so he thought for a while and said, "You can try."
Old man Liu looked at him, but still shook his head, and said, "Forget it, you're so young..."
The speechlessness in Ye Shaoyang's heart was nothing but that he had been treated like this not once or twice, and he was not in a hurry to distinguish right now, and continued to listen to the voice next door. After about half an hour, the baby's laughter stopped.
Ye Shaoyang asked old man Liu what happened to the house next door.
"Originally, this was a happy event, but I didn't expect it to turn out like this in the end." Old man Liu sighed, and began to talk about the strange things that happened in the next door: the couple who lived next door to him were a couple in their forties. She has no children, not even a daughter. Just at the beginning of this year, the woman finally gave birth to a big fat man. The couple regard it as a treasure and cherish it very much.
Unexpectedly, since last month, the son who was a few months old has been having a fever, and he was groggy every day. The couple were so frightened that they went down the mountain to the county town to seek medical advice. It cost a lot of money, but The child's condition has not improved at all, and he is already sick.
"But this child is also strange. Every day in the middle of the night, all illnesses disappear, as if healed all at once, rolling and playing on the bed, giggling... You heard it just now, so the child's mother grabbed him. At this time, feed the child a little milk, and it has continued to live until now. The couple thought that the child had bumped into someone or committed some evil, and asked several gentlemen in the county to see it, but they couldn't figure out what was going on... "
At this point, old man Liu suddenly thought of something, and said: "Oh, by the way, Daoist Zhang of Yuqing Temple in the county, his son was haunted by some ghosts. As for the origin of the ghosts, he didn't know. Zhang Daochang told them that if There is only one way to keep my son alive, and that is to go thousands of miles away, perhaps to take refuge. But you have to walk from his Taoist temple."
(end of this chapter)