Chapter 144

Chapter 144

Exorcism Shaman (1)

Tremble tremble tremble.

How much the hands trembled.

Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva couldn’t even drink water properly and flowed line by line.

Even roughly catching at least more than half flowed.

Yet Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva couldn’t come to senses easily.

For a long time silently alternately glaring only at my two four pillars.

‘Why like that?’

[Leave it. Because thoughts many the state of mind seems complicated.]

The underworld messenger rolled on the silk cushion and replied indifferently.

Absurd.

‘What matter of the state of mind becoming complicated while looking into others’ four pillars?’

Anyway others’ matter.

‘If a shaman what seen all day is others’ four pillars, why so fussing?’

[Because double destiny.]

Looking into Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva said only heard the double destiny by word for generations.

‘A matter to be amazed so much?’

[If bored waiting eat snacks. So the mouth not bored.]

What the underworld messenger pointed was the snacks put on the small table.

A bit of cut fruit, three kinds of rice cakes, nicely shaped flower confectionery even colorful candy okchundang offered on the ancestral rite table.

The underworld messenger quietly got up and sat in front of the grandly set ancestral rite table beside the small table.

‘Eh? You ate that just now?’

[Why so surprised?]

‘Seems first time seeing the appearance of you picking and eating something.’

[Then can’t receive even the set ancestral rite table.]

The underworld messenger picked gold chopsticks and put mountain enemy in the mouth with a whoosh.

The appearance of chewing and eating sturdily quite unfamiliar.

[There is something called gosure.]

If gosure a folk belief of first detaching a bit and throwing before eating food.

A superstition of sharing food even to non-human targets, didn’t know the underworld messenger could receive and eat that.

‘Hmm, was hungry because I didn’t take care of meals until now?’

[Who sees as a hungry ghost. Am I a rank that starves to death because can’t eat this world’s sacrificial rice?]

‘For that eating too well?’

[······This house food good.]

The underworld messenger stopped eating and pointed at the brazier.

[If sitting blankly with nothing to do burn paper money there.]

‘Why burn that inside the room? Ash flies.’

[Underworld money.]

The underworld messenger attached thumb and index finger roundly and grinned.

[Since came up to here anyway, have to take care of sincerity with pockets thick.]

‘Saying will receive and eat bribes?’

[Consider offering.]

What offering.

‘Whether bribe or gift or offering. If there is coming there is going the world’s principle. Not going to receive and eat and wipe the mouth clean and run.’

[Ahem.]

‘What inner intention?’

[······Nothing to know.]

The sound of no inner intention not saying?

Somehow rolling eyes suspiciously.

My eyes narrowed automatically.

‘What is the requested?’

[Heaven’s secret leak.]

‘If hard to answer always heaven’s secret leak.’

[Real.]

‘At the point of receiving a request worth discussing heaven’s secret leak from a shaman already ruined?’

[······This house food good.]

The underworld messenger began to eat pretending not to know munch munch.

Heard even a dog not touched when eating.

Tsk, let it.

‘Anyway whether this world or underworld public officials all so. If bribe die blinking.’

[Chet, then see your parents’ register empty mouth?]

No, suddenly coming in so hook?

Then the words change.

I stood up with a whoosh and rolled up the sleeves.

‘Fiercely, in one shot, cleanly burn. See 5 minutes.’

[Say words that make sense. Paper money full five boxes.]

The underworld messenger snorted.

[Even five shamans sat around amicably and burned yet couldn’t burn half a box. With what method you?]

‘Saw me taking out sounds I can’t even take responsibility?’

I grinned.

‘A matter parents at stake, have to process certainly. To go after seeing with my eyes all paper money burned seems time insufficient.’

[What intending to do?]

‘Where is gasoline? If none even kerosene regrettably.’

[Who looks for oil saying burning paper money! A matter of burning the house?]

The underworld messenger shouted with a screech.

Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva who was blankly losing soul looking into my four pillars raised the head surprised.

“Bu, burning the house? Why suddenly looking for oil?”

Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva trembled with eyes earthquake in the pupils.

“As expected heavenly punishment. Today here all burn and die suddenly······.”

“Not such.”

I quickly waved a hand.

“I not such clumsy skill. Set fire once or twice.”

“······!”

“Know. Here hanok so burns well in an instant.”

I know well because set fire to this house in the past.

“Will be specially more careful. If hook the little finger will believe?”

[······.]

No why looking at me with such eyes?

Even so can’t leave as a document uncomfortably.

[Fearlessly set fire to the shaman house?]

‘Old matter. At that time I also couldn’t help it. Nothing visible to the eyes.’

Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva stood up with a whoosh.

“Paper money five boxes! If the shamans take responsibility and burn all will see?”

“In which time?”

“Kids, take out the drum can in the backyard! Sprinkle kerosene plenty on the wood and pour the paper money box!”

Only then I could smile satisfied.

“Now a bit come to senses? Then let’s hear the four pillars interpretation a bit.”

“······.”

Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva moved the mouth like a goldfish then soon smiled faintly.

“Surprised. Not knowing the precious person joked······.”

“Who said joke?”

“······.”

“Even a vending machine vomits as much as money eaten? Offering money look like X?”

“Double destiny has to read weaving the two four pillars. The precious person’s second four pillars not ordinary so hard to open the mouth easily. Seems to know why the precious person’s halo so bright.”

Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva prostrated.

“No matter how receiving offering money if touching wrong a matter of dying suddenly by heaven’s secret leak laid like mines······. Okay if only reporting as much as this humble one can report?”

“Good.”

“While weaving with the second four pillars the first four pillars that was extremely thin completely overturned to the opposite. Heard the words extremes meet?”

Interesting.

“Every connection met only bad connections, every work done receive heaven’s obstruction, a destiny of struggling alone lifelong in betrayal and sowing discord, fraud and knife fights and dying unnaturally changed to the opposite so changed to an auspicious four pillars unparalleled in the world.”

Amazing.

“Every connection woven will call great luck coexisting with precious people, every work done heaven will help. Lifelong in the midst of preciousness and thanks, grace and love pouring will enjoy natural lifespan without residual illness and return to heaven.”

What King Yama promised.

Hearing that again from a capable shaman’s mouth the feeling became strange anew.

“Since the four pillars plastered with gold lifelong no day money dries, will protect the family iron-tight in an iron fortress, a situation of sitting on a money cushion, will grasp the glory of only victory even in blood-bursting secret fights.”

[So!]

The underworld messenger continuously hit the knee with a thud and nodded with a proud expression.

“A destiny of money lightning striking several times a year overflowing with all kinds of glory and windfall luck, will make a name beyond the intended, and overturn the world.”

[Right!]

“The Korean land too narrow to contain a precious person figure.”

[Saw correctly!]

“At a young age will handle the whole world as if gripping rice cake in the hand, the powerful influence to the extent of encompassing the five oceans and six continents, even prominent famous figures of each country will bend the waist in front of the precious person.”

[Well done!]

The underworld messenger seemed to like Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva’s fortune quite.

“The luck of 22 with no path to avoid death like falling over a pit full of blades stuck also changed to the most glorious year in the precious person’s life. No better time than this to connect the connection the precious person hoped.”

“The connection I hoped?”

“Heaven’s bond.”

The coin wallet held dropped to the floor with a thud.

I couldn’t even think of picking up the coin wallet and tightly closed the lips.

‘I hoped to see parents again even after dying, and King Yama decided to send Gang-u as my biological son.’

The strongest connection that can’t be detached even if trying because heaven tied.

That was precisely heaven’s bond.

Connection with parents, connection with spouse, connection with children.

Because only permitted thin connections that received heavenly punishment.

I couldn’t connect heaven’s bond.

“That year will obtain a precious son heaven permitted.”

The meaning of seeing Gang-u as my child?

“Of course spouse luck even woman luck full and overflowing, if extending a hand to the desired woman no connection not fulfilled. That is, the most painful connection cut at 22······.”

“That enough.”

Didn’t want to hear.

A bad connection most miserably trampled in my life that even if dying no courage to connect again.

No matter of facing in this life, absolutely no thought of looking back or finding.

“Want to hear about our parents.”

“Originally destiny flows from above to below, there is the words that the child resembles the parents’ destiny.”

Words heard before.

“But this overturned to the opposite so the precious person’s destiny came to influence the parents’ destiny.”

“What meaning is that?”

“The thin destiny that lost parents and no relatives and couldn’t receive parents’ virtue and lonely and sorrowful overturned, the parents will enjoy unparalleled joy and glory thanks to the virtuous child.”

“By any chance thanks to my destiny will our parents who short life also enjoy natural lifespan?”

“Ah, that becomes a bit different story······ keup!”

Suddenly Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva flowed nosebleed with a gush.

She calmly blocked the nose with a cotton cloth handkerchief and said.

“Will see up to here. That matter will share the story separately with the chairman madam. The precious person will have to wait outside for a moment in the meantime, okay?”

“Yes.”

I nodded obediently.

Because knowing Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva did best.

[Let’s go.]

The underworld messenger led the way.

I put both hands together and bowed a belly greeting, then followed behind the underworld messenger without extra words.

* * *

A house with truly complex structure for a hanok.

The corridor arrived after passing the yard and crossing several verandas.

‘Hmm?’

I walked looking only at the floor the whole time because many to think, so as the underworld messenger stopped the steps stopped the feet together and raised the head.

The underworld messenger was staring at one place at the end of the corridor.

A sliding door with large and small various talismans stuck thickly to the extent white window paper not visible.

A feeling like scribbling a warning with red paint ‘absolutely don’t enter here!’

‘Why stopped?’

[I have business here so you go to the separate building first.]

Absurd.

Entered up to this inside for the first time, how do I know where the separate building is.

‘What business?’

[Heaven’s secret leak.]

‘Again, again, again heaven’s secret leak. This quite a habitual offender.’

The meaning of hard to say.

‘By any chance someone dying inside here?’

[While trying to do guardian deity role not even in destiny, put down the messenger work for a moment.]

‘Then why?’

No answer.

Turned the gaze following the place the underworld messenger’s eyes reach.

On a straw rope twisted with straw talismans and shaman bells hung at regular intervals.

[The golden rope is trying to break.]

‘Golden rope? Seems a woman who just gave birth inside that room?’

[If giving birth to a child hang on that house’s main gate. The golden rope hung on the door a bit different.]

What’s different?

[To mark a sacred place, block the approach of unclean people, and defend the invasion of miscellaneous ghosts.]

The underworld messenger left me and walked with big strides.

[Don’t think of following in. Here is a place the exorcism shaman stays, if an unpermitted person carelessly enters the room owner meets misfortune.]

The transparent body disappeared inside piercing the window paper door like smoke.

Leaving only me alone in the corridor.

‘Exorcism shaman?’

Suddenly the conversation between Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva and the underworld messenger floated up.

-Life is darkness, a situation of standing barefoot on a blade. Since the four pillars plastered with gold lifelong living a war-like life with money and knife stabs······. How can pass the death luck of 22.

-There is. A method.

-With an ordinary exorcism shaman no way. Unless the best exorcism shaman of the era bets life and offers ritual and devotes lifelong.

What meaning is this on earth.

First time hearing today that there is something called exorcism shaman.

Because lived turning off interest lifelong what do I have to know about superstition to speak.

‘By any chance can the exorcism shaman even block death?’

The last conversation shared with Inwangsan Fairy Bodhisattva earlier floated up.

-By any chance thanks to my destiny will our parents who short life also enjoy natural lifespan?

-Ah, that becomes a bit different story······ keup!

-That matter will share the story separately with the chairman madam.

Also thought of the business grandmother came looking for this place.

-Worried a lot because of the killing gate opened in the Taeseong family? Will look at the son and daughter-in-law’s four pillars again, consider exorcism.

What on earth is the underworld messenger doing inside there.

Curiosity grew vigorously.

But can’t carelessly enter others’ room without permission either.

Tak.

‘Field of view share.’

The front spun round and the dim room inside scenery revealed.

Incense burners rising here and there in the room, how much talismans overlapped and stuck on the wall.

The talismans stuck as if wallpapering on the door window paper to the extent not even a business card can be put out.

“Heuk······, heueuk······.”

In the middle of the spacious room a small bedding a child would use was spread.

Wheezing breath sound and aching groan swallowed inside.

In the voice sobbing faintly as if breaking pain was deeply permeated.

[Because this messenger visited here you suffered a lot today.]