Chapter 4 Exorcism

The hundred-year-old grandmother thought that the state of Aunt Yinxin at that  time was that she stepped on evil, or fell into evil. To put it more bluntly, she encountered a ghost and was possessed by a ghost. People here have long been accustomed to this kind of stepping on evil. This kind of thing often happens to children under the age of seven. Usually, the deceased family members are too fond of their children and grandchildren, and go home from time to time to see. Sometimes when they see the cute next generation, they can't help but touch or take a pat. People in that world probably don't know how much trouble their touch or pat will bring to people in this world. A child who has been touched or tapped cannot stand the intrusion of this “yin qi”, and will suffer from a serious illness, or a high fever, or delirium, or a coma, or the coma is accompanied by delirium. There is another situation that is more serious, that is, people in the family contacted something which is forbidden to do so or offend the family gods, and these family gods are usually deceased family members. The family gods are uneasy and sometimes take anger on the family. In this case, it is not called "exorcism", but "settlement". Stepping on evil is just a general term. Only in the process of exorcism will the cause be found out. Since he stepped on the evil, the ritual to exorcise the evil will naturally fall on the hundred-year-old grandma. The people in that place called this ritual as "exorcism", which means to drive away evil spirits. The family can only ask the hundred-year-old grandma to banish it.

The ritual of expelling evil is actually relatively simple. First, burn some loess-made paper on the bedside of the patient, bring half a bowl of water, and three chopsticks. Dip the chopsticks in the water and circle it around the patient's head three times, and then start asking who is the ghost of a deceased person. The reason why the family invited Hundred-year-old grandma to carry out the ritual is because the hundred-year-old grandma is very old. Once the ghost is found, the hundred-year-old grandma can solemnly reprimand and warn the ghost to stop acting recklessly. If a younger person came to do the ritual of exorcising evil spirits, then he could only plead, asking the ghosts not to disturb them again. The hundred-year-old grandmother called out the nicknames of the deceased elderly people in the family one by one, while trying to erect the three chopsticks in the bowl. Only when the deceased person's name was called, the chopsticks just stood upright in the bowl and did not fall down, that is to say, the main culprit who caused the trouble has been found. After a scolding or an appeal, the exorcist would hit the standing chopsticks with a handful of whole grains, and then follow the first intersection in the direction where the chopsticks fell, burn loess-made paper to send the ghosts away.

But the ritual that night was quite troublesome. The hundred-year-old grandma almost called out all the names of the deceased members of the family, but the three chopsticks still could not stand up. It was obvious that this was not a ghost in the family, so grandma Centenario called out the names of other people. Those were all deceased people in the village or neighbors, but the strange thing was that the three chopsticks in grandma centenarian's hand in any case refused to stand up. When people were at a loss, there was a chirping sound like a bird but not a bird outside the house. The sound was sometimes on the left side of the house, sometimes flying to the right side of the house, sometimes in front, and sometimes behind. At this moment, it was almost midnight, and the people present couldn't help but get goosebumps all over their bodies. The terrifying voice was still calling erratically, back and forth, left and right. Everyone in the room looked at each other, not knowing what to do, and all turned their attention to the hundred-year-old grandma.

After listening quietly for a while, the hundred-year-old grandmother finally let out a strange laugh, and then said, "It turns out that you are the wicked obstacle who wasted half of my time in vain.” After speaking, he sat on the Taishi chair behind him and let out a long sigh, as if there was a sense of relief. The demeanor of the hundred-year-old grandma made the people in the room feel perplexed and alarmed just like that the twelve-feet-high monk could not touch his head and could not figure out what was going on. After the hundred-year-old grandma saw the expressions of everyone in the house, she immediately understood what was going on. She waved and said to everyone, "It's okay, it's okay, it's the fox fairy." The first two sentences are all right, which just made the anxious people in the house feel a little relaxed, but the latter five words suddenly raised people's hearts to their throats, and someone was drinking it in their mouths, the water almost spewed out again.

At this moment, the hundred-year-old grandmother picked up the teacup on the table and sipped it like a normal person. She took a sip of tea, smack her lips, and seemed to taste the taste of tea carefully, Mom Xizi, this tea is a little cold, please change cups. Before handing the teacup to Xizi's mother, she took another sip, then waved and said, Xizi, go to the windowsill outside and bring in the medicine.

Medicine, medicine on the windowsill outside? Where did the medicine come from? Xizi looked at the hundred-year-old grandma with a little doubt, not knowing what to do for a while. The fox fairy just sent it, and left it on the windowsill outside, and brought it to your wife to serve it. At this time, Xizi's mother handed the newly prepared tea to the hundred-year-old grandma, and motioned her son to go quickly with her eyes. It didn't take much time for Xizi to bring in a package from the windowsill outside. It was a pack of pills wrapped in yellow loess-made paper, and there were a lot of them. When Xizi opened the package of medicine, everyone in the room was stunned, and the pills wrapped in the yellow loess-made paper bag turned black and shiny. It exudes a tangy aroma, a compound fragrance of borneol and musk, which rushes into the nose and diffuses into every corner of the room, immediately sweeping away people's sleepiness, and after tossing for a long time, everyone is already a little drowsy. The spirit of the people suddenly increased sharply, and there was no sleepiness at all. And the whole house is also immersed in a rich aroma.

Xizi's mother hurriedly took the medicine pill for the sleeping Yinxin according to the instructions of the hundred-year-old grandmother. After about half a cup of tea, Yinxin finally rubbed her eyes and sat up from the bed. Yinxin, who woke up, looked at the room full of people and the centenarian grandmother sitting on the Taishi chair in the room, with a blank look on her face and at a loss, she didn't understand why the room was crowded with so many people, almost her aunts and sisters-in-law, all the brothers and sisters came. Everyone looked at the Yinxin sitting on the bed, and saw that she seemed to be a different person, with bright peach blossoms on her face, not like a patient at all who had just recovered from a serious illness.

The hundred-year-old grandmother sat on that old fashioned wooden chair, Taishiyi, squinting her eyes and looking at Yinxin, with a mysterious expression on her face. The corners of her slightly shriveled mouth were slightly upturned, revealing a creepy smile. Yinxin was a little embarrassed by her, she didn't know what to say for a while, she just lowered her head slowly, twisted her braid around her fingers and twisted it back and forth. At this moment, the hundred-year-old grandmother asked a question, and everyone in the room seemed to fall into a cloud, only Yinxin lowered her head lower.