The stabbing pain in my ear canal made my vision go black. I felt dizzy and on the verge of falling.
Huang Po quickly reached out to support me. "Chen Zi, are you okay?"
"Pain! It hurts! I'm dying of pain!" My only reaction was to cover my right ear and keep shouting in pain.
"Chen Zi, don't move around. Let me take a look at it." As Huang Po said, he pulled my right hand away from my right ear.
Strangely enough, after Huang Po pulled my hand away, my ear suddenly got better.
"Huang Po, how did you do it?" I was very confused.
"I didn't do anything. I just wanted to pull your hand away to see if there was a bug in your ear, and you suddenly got better." Huang Po looked innocent.
I looked at the tall Buddha statue of Dashan Temple in the distance and then at the bright sun high in the sky. I had a general guess in my mind.
Several times, I saw a ghost lying on my back in the mirror, and a bloody tongue was wrapped around my right ear and had drilled into my ear canal.
There was no doubt that this bloody tongue was controlled by those evil things.
The moment I saw the Buddha statue just now, my ear became extremely painful. I felt something drilling into my ear.
It should be that the bloody tongue saw the Buddha statue that was being offered incense and began to struggle, or it wanted to directly drill into my head to avoid the Buddha statue in the temple.
As for the pain disappearing after Huang Po pulled my hand away, it should be that when Huang Po pulled my hand away, the sunlight directly shone into my ear, which either eliminated the struggling bloody tongue or severely injured it.
I heard from my grandfather that in Taoist temples and Buddhist temples with prosperous incense, there would always be the power of incense wishes. Even if there were no highly - accomplished masters sitting in them, they still had the effect of expelling evil spirits.
As for the sun, it is the most yang thing in this world. As long as it is an evil and yin thing, when it is directly exposed to the sun, it will either vanish into thin air or be severely weakened in strength.
So in folk legends, ghosts only come out at night. If they hear the rooster crowing and dawn breaking, they will leave in a hurry because if they wait until the sun comes out, the ghosts may be burned to ashes.
In folk feng shui, lighting and ventilation are also particularly valued. A house that never sees the sun all year round is definitely not suitable for people to live in. If people live in it for a long time, they will get sick.
Coming back to my senses, I looked at the huge Buddha statue in the courtyard of Dashan Temple and suddenly felt relieved: It was really right to come to Dashan Temple this time. The strange things I encountered would definitely be solved.
Thinking of this, I pulled Huang Po and was about to walk towards Dashan Temple, but Huang Po shook his head and refused. "Chen Zi, you go. I'll just smoke outside."
Seeing Huang Po's dejected expression, I suddenly remembered Huang Po's background and could only nod. "Okay, I'll go in alone."
Huang Po's family situation was special. His grades in high school were not bad. It was a bit of a stretch for him to get into a key university, but getting into an ordinary undergraduate college was no problem for him.
But in his senior year of high school, he suddenly dropped out of school. He didn't even bother to pick up his textbooks and bedding left at school and simply dropped out. No one knew the reason at that time.
Later, after the college entrance examination ended, our class teacher told us at the teacher-appreciation banquet that Huang Po's family was in business and quite superstitious. That winter vacation, they had a car accident on the way to offer incense. His parents passed away on the spot.
When the accident happened, Huang Po was also in the car, but he wasn't seriously injured.
However, with no adults left in the family, as a teenager who suffered such a great blow, he naturally had no heart for school and dropped out to go home.
Since then, Huang Po kept his distance from Taoist temples and Buddhist monasteries and never went inside.
I figured he was harboring some resentment deep down. He thought his parents went to offer incense so devoutly but still met with great misfortune. It was normal for him to be resentful.
Remembering all this, I felt even more grateful to Huang Po. It was Huang Po who suggested coming to Dashan Temple to burn incense and worship the Buddha. To help me, he was even willing to touch the most painful part of his heart.
I entered Dashan Temple and devoutly worshipped each Buddha statue. While worshipping, I also paid attention to the changes in my right ear.
There was no more pain in my right ear, nor any other changes.
When worshipping, I was careful. I deliberately stayed in the Diamond Hall where the Dharma Protector Vajras were enshrined for a while longer.
According to folk legends, the Buddha and Bodhisattvas are compassionate and bless people with peace and safety, while the Dharma Protector Vajras are specifically for eliminating evil spirits and upholding the Dharma.
The Dharma Protector Vajras have a fiery temper and can't stand even the slightest bit of impropriety, especially evil spirits. So when one is haunted by evil spirits, it's better to worship the Dharma Protector Vajras.
Of course, I heard this from an old employee at the funeral parlor when he was boasting. Anyway, it was just to seek peace of mind. It didn't hurt to worship a bit more.
After worshipping all the places in Dashan Temple, I went back to the main hall and found the guest monk in charge of reception to ask about the enlightened monk.
As soon as the guest monk heard that I was troubled by evil spirits, he immediately took me to meet an old monk with kind eyes and white beard and eyebrows.
After carefully examining my situation, the old monk said that I was no longer in serious trouble and gave me a folded yellow paper talisman.
This yellow - paper talisman didn't come cheap. It set me back eight thousand yuan. But compared to my life, this little money was nothing.
Money could be earned again. The funeral parlor paid well and I could earn it back soon. But if I lost my life, then I'd lose everything.
I carefully put the yellow paper talisman close to my body. Immediately, I felt extremely relaxed. Finally, I didn't have to worry about the ghost lying on my back and the bloody tongue in my ear.
When I came out of Dashan Temple, I saw Huang Po squatting under a tree smoking. After inviting him to a vegetarian meal at a nearby restaurant, we planned to take the bus back.
The buses at Dashan Temple didn't come every few minutes like other routes. They only came once an hour.
When we came out after the meal, the previous bus had just left. Huang Po and I had no choice but to sit on the chairs in the pavilion and wait for the next one.
I hadn't slept for a whole day and night. Before, I had just been holding on with a tense nerve. Now that the crisis was over, the string in my mind also relaxed.
I fell into a daze and soon fell asleep on the chair.
Probably because I had encountered so many nightmares in a row, as soon as I fell asleep, I suddenly woke up.
When I realized that I hadn't been dragged to the banquet hall after falling asleep earlier, the last tense nerve in my heart finally relaxed. I deliberately found a comfortable position and reclined on the chair to fall asleep.
I don't know how much time had passed when I suddenly heard someone calling my name in my ear: "Chen Feng, wake up! Wake up for me!"
I forced my eyes open and glanced at the person shouting at me. I was so shocked that I jumped up from the chair immediately.
Standing in front of me calling my name, who else could it be but Jiang Lixin?
This eerie and evil female corpse was back again!