Beauty Comprehensive 1999

Chapter 28 The red face appears

Speaking of exorcism incense, its origin is actually a substitute for powerful incense.

That is the apotropaic incense.

According to the Jiangzhen Incense Manual, the anti-evil incense has an ancient origin and uses rhinoceros horn, realgar, asarum, pepper, peach wood, willow charcoal, and nepeta oil as its raw materials. After grinding and mixing, it is made into incense pills or incense sticks, and then baked and shaped with a yin fire.

Even though the production may seem simple, the rhinoceros horns in it have been legendary and miraculous objects since ancient times.

"Yiyuan" says: "Don't burn a raw rhinoceros, as the burned rhinoceros has a strange fragrance that can stick to your clothes and belts, and people can communicate with ghosts." It also says: "When I went to Niuzhuji in Wenqiao, Jin Dynasty, I heard the sound of music at the bottom of the water. The water was deep. Unpredictable. Rumor has it that there are many monsters, so I burned rhinoceros horns and illuminated them. After a while, I saw water tribes covered with fire, with strange shapes, or riding carriages and wearing red clothes. That night, the dreamer said: "What do you mean by the Youming Dao Pavilion with you?" "Xianzhao?" Qiao is so evil that he will die soon."

Here are two uses of rhino horns. One is that folklore says that by lighting rhino horn candles, you can meet your dead relatives.

Secondly, ancient people burned rhinoceros horns and used the burning light of rhino horns to illuminate ghosts and gods.

The story of rhinoceros horn has been passed down since then, and "rhinoceros photo" has become a specialized adjective, used to describe a person's unique vision and ability to discern the truth of things.

However, in the view of the Xie family, lighting candles made of powdered rhino horn to communicate with the deceased is a waste of resources and an extremely wasteful practice.

In ancient times, rhinoceros horns were a sacred object worth thousands of gold. In the era after the extinction of rhinoceros in China, they had to rely on trafficking by merchants from the South Asian subcontinent or tribute from foreign vassals. They were usually paid directly to the royal family or collected by the court. For ordinary people, Come and find it?

There are many ways to see ghosts and gods, and the right way is to make the anti-evil incense used to ward off ghosts and gods. The description of this anti-evil incense on his family's incense book is "burn it, and the ghost king of the underworld also needs to retreat. For example, if you prepare it with rhinoceros horn, you can avoid it." "The calamity of the devil" shows its powerful effect.

It’s just that the rhinoceros horn needed in the anti-evil incense has become an extremely precious and rare material in modern times, and rhinos are still protected animals that cannot be bought, sold or killed in civilized society, and it is illegal to buy them. It is a rare material that is difficult for ordinary people to buy even if they have money.

Of course, for another class, as long as they have money, no difficulty is a problem.

It's a pity that Xie Zihao is still far from reaching that class.

Fortunately, there are alternatives to the anti-evil incense. In the early years, rhinoceros horns were rare and spiritual rhinoceros horns were treasures. Therefore, the ancestors of the Xie family used the anti-evil incense as a prototype. After repeated research and experiments based on its formula, they developed two types of incense. Substitutes are called exorcism incense and ghost-fighting incense.

Xie Zihao didn't know if it really had the effect of exorcising demons and ghosts, but according to the records of the clan, even in the age of the end of the Dharma, the two were quite magical. Wearing a pill into the mountains and forests could ward off snakes, insects and beasts.

The functions of exorcism incense and ghost-fighting incense are roughly similar, but one is mainly used to ward off evil spirits, and the other is mainly used to ward off ghosts and ghosts. The two are usually used in combination, although the effect is not as good as that of the evil-fighting incense. No evil can arise within it, and ghosts and gods can ward off changes. However, it is said that it can also artificially create a safe zone of about a hundred steps, allowing ordinary evil spirits, poisonous insects and beasts to retreat.

It's just that the recipe for ghost incense contains several medicinal materials that are native to China, such as cohosh and tiger bones, and that's all. Even if it's not easy to find them in the New World, it's not impossible to find them, but tiger bones are the most troublesome. Hyundai is produced in Southeast Asia and other areas where the legal system is not so strict, so he only made a batch of twelve-pill exorcism incense before.

The main materials of the exorcism incense are amber, goat horn, realgar, mugwort, perilla, asarum, pepper, patchouli, ginger, purple garlic and sandalwood, which are prepared according to secret methods and combined with Nepeta oil.

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Compared with rhinoceros horns and tiger bones, goat horns are undoubtedly easier to find. Although Jinzhou is not a big animal husbandry state, there are many pastures and farms in the territory. It is easy to get a few goat horns.

The remaining materials are relatively easy to find here in the Federation, not to mention that the West Coast is also the base camp for immigrants from the Tang Dynasty. Common medicinal materials such as realgar and asarum are naturally easy to buy.

Seeing that the exorcism incense he prepared was very effective, Xie Zihao was extremely satisfied with this attempt, and it was not in vain that he spent a lot of thought. He decided that after returning home, he should study the content of the book of incense in his memory. After all,

There are many magical fragrances in it!

The psychic medium Elise's eyes moved slightly at this moment. Seeing how sharp the exorcism tools that Xie Zihao brought out were, she finally couldn't help but speak.

"Mr. Xie, can your exorcism incense be sold?"

Xie Zihao pondered for a moment after hearing this, and then said:

"This kind of exorcism incense is made of rare materials and difficult to make. I don't have many of them, but if you need it, Ms. Elis, I can sell you a pill for only five hundred pounds!"

This is of course Xie Zihao's asking price. All the materials he bought to make this batch of exorcism incense cost no more than one hundred pounds. The finished product contains twelve pills, and there are still many materials that have not been used up. Each pill sells for five hundred pounds.

The Eagle Pound is not just a huge profit, but at least a hundred times the profit.

Of course, this does not include the time and energy he spent.

But for Elis, the price of five hundred eagle pounds is not unacceptable. After all, this pill of exorcism incense can be a life-saving treasure at critical moments.

The old lady agreed without hesitation and sealed the deal.

Melinda, who was watching on the sidelines, was quite surprised. As expected, An Dao was a veteran psychic with a rich net worth!

Although it was not that she couldn't afford the five hundred pounds, it was a bit of a loss to spend the equivalent of a month's income of an ordinary federal white-collar worker on a small fragrant pill!

At this time, Xie Zihao's impression in her eyes had already undergone earth-shaking changes.

She can not only have the secret method of protecting the gods, but also can make exorcism props such as exorcism incense. In comparison, she, a natural medium who was proud of herself in the past, seems to be the most useless one among the three colleagues present.

Xie Zihao didn't know that his performance made the beauty feel inferior. He was still happy that he had earned five hundred pounds. However, when he turned his head, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a terrifying red ghost face in the darkness behind Josh.

He showed a funny evil smile towards himself, and then disappeared instantly.

"What the hell!"

This scene scared him so much that he almost cursed and his heart beat violently.

It wasn't that it was terrifying, but it was so sudden. If he hadn't been so inspired, he would have thought it was his own illusion.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing him lose his composure, Ellison felt something was wrong and immediately asked.

After all, Xie Zihao had seen the plot, so he quickly regained his composure and pointed to the dark corner and explained to old aunt Elise:

"There was a red-faced monster behind Josh just now. It was smiling at me and disappeared in the blink of an eye!"

Melinda was a little puzzled when she heard this and said:

"Did you see it wrong?"

She didn't feel the breath of any spiritual body approaching, which she was sure of. After discovering her talent as a child, she had basically felt the same for more than ten years.

On the other side, the expression of the old psychic Elis became more serious.

"Maybe what Xie said is right, Melinda, you don't feel wrong either."

Melinda was even more puzzled.

Then I heard Elise looking around cautiously and asking Xie Zihao:

"Thank you, is the monster you saw a humanoid red-faced monster that looks like an oil painting?"

Xie Zihao was deliberately surprised and said: "That's right! Have you seen it?"

After receiving Xie Zihao's affirmation, Elise spoke:

"A few years ago, I also encountered the same evil existence. It is different from ordinary undead. It is very good at hiding itself. In front of it, the innate perception of us psychics is like a radio with a broken antenna. It fails! And this

Things are very good at playing with people's hearts and exploring the fears in human hearts. I think it is not an evil spirit or evil spirit, but the legendary devil?"

"devil?"

"Oh shit..."

Everyone present except Xie Zihao, who had expected it, could not help but exclaim.

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