shepherd

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When we saw the skull, to be honest, the mental impact it brought to me and my junior brother was not as big as when we saw the toes and the heart before. We were a little numb, as if the last one should be a skull.However, this also completely confirms all my speculations about the sacrificial objects and their orientations of the "Four Deaths and One Life". Obviously, the southeast, northwest, and one southeast correspond to the five important sacrifices for all summoning gods. The interpretation of the location of Houtian gossip corresponds to five kinds of animals and five limbs of a certain deceased. Although it is not clear who the deceased is, it must be related to Manager Wang.

The younger brother clasped the eye sockets of the skull with his hands, and turned it over. As expected, inside the skull, the last voodoo bag was nailed. The hair was shaken out.

"That's it?" The younger brother stretched his head to look at the bag, but there was nothing in it, "It can't be, it can't be all in the river."

"Probably not, the mouth of the bag is tied tightly." I looked at the bag, and looked at the skull up and down, left and right. There was nothing else. Could it be because the hexagram Zhen corresponds to a dragon, and the dragon Doesn't exist in reality, so no?

"This shows that dragons don't exist." I concluded with a dry smile.

"Dragon doesn't exist, so did you believe in the God of Mu 20 days ago?" my junior asked me back.

"As the saying goes, if the water is not deep, there will be a dragon, so it has something to do with this river?" I looked at the river surface, there was no wind, the water surface was motionless, dead branches and leaves were floating on it, and there was still oily gleam. What do you think of this? A stagnant river can't be revived. If there is a dragon living below it, it must be a very bad dragon.

The younger brother gestured to the size:

"There are still stones, and I haven't seen any stones with paintings. Why am I such a big stone?"

In the first four bags, there will be a corresponding animal, a runestone with a part of a cow drawn, a piece of human tissue and a ball of hair. In the last bag, although the skull is not in the bag due to its size, it is also the same as the bag. It was discovered together, and there is also hair, but there are no animals and stones. Could it be that the first four stones have already outlined the cow's head, body, limbs and tail, and have already drawn them all, so the bag on the east side does not need any more runestones. Yes, but if this is the case, it would be a bit too childish.

When the ancients did things, especially when it came to geomantic omens, the sacrificial ceremonies must be interlocking and strive for perfection. There will never be a lack of weight or two in one place, which will appear out of place and destroy the overall symmetrical beauty.

"What about the skull?" Junior brother asked me suddenly, "This thing can't be burnt, but it can be burnt to a crisp and smashed."

"Let's do this, burn these two things first, it's better than nothing, it's still wet, let's dry it first." After a while of busy work, we put the crushed skull fragments into the bag and threw them back Before throwing it into the river, the junior brother pulled a fishing line and tied it to the bag, tied a stone at the other end and hid it in a bush. Said the younger brother is still very witty.

The number jumped to four zeros, and it is now the fourteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. This night, my brother and I didn’t sleep well. I don’t know if it’s an illusion. When we were yawning and going to the cowshed to feed the cows, I felt that the atmosphere in the entire cattle farm became very depressing. Zhang Yi and the others still went about their business as usual, but there was a hint of paradox. Everything in the entire cattle farm was still running on the right track. It won't happen, but in my eyes, there seems to be something in front of my eyes, but I can't grasp it. It's very uncomfortable.

In the afternoon, Manager Wang came to the factory in his car, took a lot of ingredients from the car, hurriedly went into the kitchen to cook, and even came to the room to ask us to go down for dinner tonight, and said he would show us something.My junior and I agreed with smiles on our faces.

Manager Wang went downstairs to cook, and the younger brother turned around and asked me:

"Hongmen Banquet, do you want to eat it or not?"

"Eat, but don't sleep after eating." "Understood."

My junior brother and I made up our minds that we have to eat food, otherwise it will be too suspicious, and it is absolutely impossible to go to bed at night after eating. It will be July [-]th after midnight tonight, and Manager Wang will definitely mess up. In case he puts something in the meal and falls asleep, he summons the God of Faun outside. If the God of Mu in the dream keeps us from waking up, all our efforts will be in vain, and Manager Wang will definitely discover the ceremony he has worked so hard to prepare It was destroyed by someone. At that time, he can think of who did it with his toes. Come to the room and send us to the sky one by one, and throw us into the stagnant river. In the coming year, three skulls will hold a meeting underwater.

So my junior brother and I sat and waited for the meal to be served. During the meal, it was bustling with excitement, and the cups were mixed. After the meal was cleaned up, I specifically said something to my junior brother:

"The data will be measured tomorrow morning, and I will go to bed early tonight."The two went back to the room, and each had a cup of coffee. Tonight might be the final decisive battle. It's up to people to make things happen, and everything can only be played by ear.My junior and I were very nervous, and we kept smoking cigarettes one after another.Sure enough, at about ten o'clock in the middle of the night, after the entire Fuyuan Cattle Industry factory fell into silence, Manager Wang led a few people into the breeding area. My junior brother and I watched clearly from upstairs, but unexpectedly, In addition to Zhang Yi and Zhao Cong we saw before, Lao Zhou and Dapeng also followed behind.

"If you want to suffer, five people, what should we do?" The younger brother gasped, his fists were hard to beat with four hands, let alone the two of us had to face a strong five-member team.

"I can't fight recklessly, keep waiting, don't act rashly, all those movies of yours are in vain? When the ceremony is held, these demons and goblins are often the most vulnerable time." Junior brother nodded: "What you said is very true." It’s now.” “The house is full of gold and jade.” “It’s upright.” “Are you sick?” “I want to relieve my tension.”

There is no way, my junior brother and I can only continue to wait in the house. Through the window of our room, we can only see the back of the veterinary pharmacy and the big warehouse at most. Walking on the main road, turning a corner, they were no longer visible. "It seems that they are planning to make the last vote, and they will not hide from the surveillance." The younger brother said.

"It's meaningless to hide, and the movement will definitely not be small."

For the rest of the time, my junior brother and I had no choice but to continue to wait. The night was getting darker and darker. At this time, it was already July [-]th, and it was past two o'clock in the morning. During the long wait, I asked my junior brother if I could hold on. Don't worry, Junior Brother reassures me. With his experience of staying up all night in Internet cafes all year round, this is not considered staying up late. Waiting always makes people anxious. Suddenly, there was a majestic moo, which lifted our spirits up all of a sudden. It's time to do it!

"Go to the warehouse!" "Let's go!" My junior and I immediately packed up and set off to the No. 1 warehouse. When the junior looked at the map, I found that the center of the entire Fuyuan cattle industry was located at the No. 1 warehouse next to the No. 2 warehouse. The one in the open air.We sneaked in from Warehouse No. 1, so we shouldn't be noticed immediately.

Sure enough, on the way my junior brother and I went to Warehouse No. 1, we could vaguely hear what they were singing in Warehouse No. 2. Junior brother and I looked at each other, and I signaled that we should get closer. Can hide outside the warehouse where you can see inside.The distance is getting closer and closer, and we are becoming more and more careful. Finally, we stopped and temporarily hid behind a bush at the door of No. 1 warehouse. , but couldn't hear what they were saying.

At this time, the younger brother stretched out a finger tremblingly and pointed at the opposite cowshed. I looked in the direction he pointed. Under the dim moonlight, I could barely see the place near us in the cowshed. Seeing that all the cows are kneeling, with their heads facing the direction of No. 2 warehouse, this is not the normal state of the cows when they are resting or ruminating, but it seems to be showing obedience, just like in the cartoon "The Lion King". Beasts kneel and bow down to their kings. This should be the behavior of cattle after drinking the water in the factory. In other words, the cattle in the entire Fuyuan cattle industry have now become part of this ceremony. Participants, if Manager Wang is the leader of Mushen Gang, then Zhao Cong and the other four are Dharma protectors, and all the others have become followers.I thought to myself that it's a good thing we didn't sleep tonight, otherwise, at this moment, my junior brother and I would probably unconsciously kneel and worship to this side in the room, just like these cows.

Suddenly the ears were cleared, and the singing stopped suddenly. For a moment, my junior brother and I thought we had been discovered, and listened carefully to the movement in the No. 2 warehouse with our breath held. "Let's start." Manager Wang's voice came, followed by a series of things I couldn't understand. The younger brother lowered his voice and told me that it was the dialect here, but there were many local dialects mixed in, not just as simple as the dialect.I asked my younger brother if he could understand a little bit, and he said that he could only understand a small part, that is, offering something.

Dialect plus local dialect is really the most difficult language to understand. Some dialects are even different in every village. For example, in my hometown, of course, the pronunciation of these two words can be pronounced in dialect, but there is still a problem. To put it in a local dialect, it becomes "Hexian". People who don't know it must be confused. It's just an encrypted call.

After listening to Wang Jing’s incomprehensible scriptures for a while, the surrounding wind started to blow, the bushes in front of us began to rustle, the wind blew the branches and swayed, and the direction we looked at was towards the No. 2 warehouse on the side, as if the No. 2 warehouse There is an oversized range hood inside, which is sucking in the air flowing around it at full speed.There was a huge cry of a cow that was close at hand, as if Mount Tai was pressing down on the top. My junior brother and I raised our heads involuntarily. At some point, a huge gray fog formed in the air, with blue-purple lightning, like a giant in a disaster movie. Thundercloud storm.

"Offer the bull's head!" This is Zhang Yi's voice. Although he speaks dialect, I can understand this sentence.As soon as the words fell, a pale golden thread suddenly appeared in the air, sending out from the southeast direction and converging into the gray mist, like the tether of a kite, the color of the gray mist also changed slightly, becoming deeper .

"Offer four legs!" Zhao Cong's voice came, and there was also a golden thread in the south that was pulled into the gray mist by an invisible force.Although there is a touch of humor in the dialect, I can't laugh no matter what.

"Offer the ox tail!" It was Lao Zhou's turn.

"Offer a cow's heart!" Manager Wang's voice.

"Offer the body of the cow!" Finally came Dapeng. Every time they shouted, a golden thread gradually appeared in the air, and each golden thread would make the gray fog in the sky bigger and deeper.

There was another long mooing sound. At this time, the already pitch-black mist began to gradually transform into the appearance of the shepherd in the dream. The huge bull's head and those torch-like eyes were born from the mist, overlooking this side. Water and soil, followed by the body, forelimbs, hind limbs, tail, and the entire body of Mushen appeared. It was exactly the same as the picture Fu Yingxue sent that day, but suddenly there was a sudden change. Except for the golden thread in the east that was still looming in the air, the rest The golden threads in all four directions disappeared, and instead, four streams of dark blue air emerged from the warehouse and merged into the body of God Mu.

"What's going on!" It was Lao Zhou's voice, and his voice sounded a bit sad, "Old Wang, what's going on?"

Manager Wang's voice was a little flustered at the moment: "Impossible, impossible!"

At this time, Niutou in mid-air saw me and my junior brother, and roared at me and my junior brother.

"Who is it, who is outside?" Upon hearing this sentence, my junior brother and I knew we couldn't hide anymore, so we went around the shrub station to the open gate of No. 2 warehouse. Above the head, there is a blue-gray smoke gathering into the semi-substantial body of the God of Faun above.Manager Wang, no, when Wang Mulin saw it was us, the astonishment on his face couldn't be added;

"You should be asleep!"

"We didn't sleep, your ceremony has come to an end. During this time, we found five bags. 'Four deaths live', right? We burned everything in the bags."

"I added salt and refueled." The younger brother added.

Manager Wang was stunned for a short while, then yelled, sharp and ear-piercing, trembling with anger and asked us:

"Burn? All burnt?"

Old Zhou opened his mouth wide, with an expression of disbelief:

"Then, Zhang, Aunt Zhang..."

"Shut up!" Manager Wang yelled back, "You mean you burned everything in the bag?"

"One in the southeast, one in the southeast, one in the north, and one in the north. They were all burned. The corpses inside were done by you, right?"

"There are also pheasants, which poach animals under the second-class national protection." The younger brother added another sentence.

"You said I did it, haha, I did it..." Wang Mulin suddenly slumped at this moment, lowered his head, muttering something, and Lao Zhou also closed his lips tightly, let alone Zhang Yi, Zhao Cong and Zhang Yi. The three of them, Dapeng, seemed to be out of the incident, completely ignorant of what happened.

"Old Wang, stop it." Lao Zhou said, and was about to walk towards Wang Mulin.

"Don't move!" Manager Wang suddenly raised his head with a stern look on his face, "Stand don't move, you will die if you move around before the ceremony is over!" The golden thread is in the air.

"Impossible, the method of summoning is what I told you. In terms of positions, I am Xiumen, Jimen, and Xiao Zhao's position is also Jimen. Dapeng will leave serious sequelae. As for the positions of you and Xiaozhang, If you move, you will die."

"Old Zhou, you were like this when you were in school. You didn't look carefully at everything. You should think about it carefully." Then Manager Wang turned to me, "You think so?"

When Lao Zhou was talking, I already understood that there is also a one-to-one correspondence between the Eight Gates and the Eight Diagrams. If Wang Mulin used the arrangement method of the Ming Eight Diagrams, then the western position occupied by Lao Zhou represented the Kan Gua. It is indeed Xiumen, among the eight gates, Kai, Xiu, and Sheng are the three auspicious gates, and the Kan hexagram is Xiumen, which is auspicious, but now Wang Mulin is actually using the dark gossip, so the position where Lao Zhou stands is not Kan but Dui , corresponding to Jingmen, together with Death Gate and East Wound Gate where Dapeng stands are collectively called the Three Fierce Gates, Zhang Yi and Zhao Cong respectively stand at Dumen in the southeast and Jingmen in the south, they are Zhongping, and only Manager Wang I stand in the north, corresponding to the Kan Gua in the Dark Eight Diagrams, and is Xiumen, one of the Jimen.

So I opened my mouth and explained Wang Mulin's arrangement in full. After receiving Wang Mulin's affirmation, Lao Zhou's feet softened and he fell to the ground, asking Wang Mulin why he did this.

"That's right, you gave me the method, old classmate, who knows that there is a dragon in it, have you seen a dragon?" Wang Mulin looked very gloomy at this time, and his face was a little distorted, "I can only try, so I use If I use the dark method, if I fail, I still have a backup, but thanks to the dark method I used, I didn’t expect to be disturbed by these two boys. I’ll tell you now, you think you burned everything right? Is it?" Wang Mulin stared at me and my junior brother viciously, we just felt that we were locked by some evil Shura ghost, very uncomfortable, and our junior brother took a small step back.

"You can't find the dragon, you don't know anything, and you don't understand why I have to go to great lengths to plan to call this thing out, pheasant, you all know that, those who have read books are different, I, I originally also Should be the same as you!

Zhang Yi and the others, I just gave them some money and they were willing to do things for me, no matter what the specifics were, as long as they knew that they would not die if they followed the steps.And you guys can actually figure out this ceremony, I admire you, but it’s useless to say anything now, you’ve burned my last thought, so this thing is useless. After finishing speaking, Wang Mulin looked up at Mu Shen, who only had his head left in the air, and his body had already returned to its original gray fog state while we were talking.

"Now he can't come back, and I don't need to hide it anymore. There is still a head left, which is enough, Lao Zhou, you didn't expect that Mu Shen can also suck people's luck in addition to resurrecting him. Now I'm going to The luck of the four of you is all mine! Hahaha, since I have been so unlucky in the first half of my life, I will live smoothly in the rest of my life! Just treat me as an unlucky ghost for half of my life!"

"No, he's going to suck our luck away. I don't want my teeth to be stuffed with saliva for the rest of my life. Student, think of a way! We can't move, and if we move, we'll die!" Old Zhou pointed at Wang Mulin and rushed at me. Shouting with the younger brother.

While speaking, Wang Mulin picked up the heart of the cow in front of him, and bit it hard, only to see the blood splattered, it could be seen that it must have just been cut. Could it be that they went to slaughter the cow these few hours?I didn't have time to confirm my thoughts, Wang Mulin looked like a madman, swallowing the beef heart in front of him, everyone present stayed in place, only Wang Mulin's big "baji" sound was disgusting.

One side of my body was numb, as if my legs could not support the weight of my body. For some reason, many pictures flashed in my mind. The portraits of gods and ghosts in strange talks, and the scrolls of mountains and rivers in mythology hovered in my mind like a revolving lantern , I suddenly remembered Fu Yingxue, who turned around and said to me during a class break: "Do you know the nine sons of the Dragon?" Music, the second child is in charge of killing, the third child is in charge of the phoenix...the sixth child is sloppy,...the eighth child is negative..."

For a moment, like an electric shock, "Ah, ah, I know! That bastard! Brother, you fished that bastard from the river in the east, and it's still alive! Go and kill it!" I He turned his head and yelled at his junior brother.

I finally understand what this last "life" is, and I finally found this "dragon".