Ghost Blowing Lamp II

Chapter 17: Cutting Tomb Bricks (Part [-])
I told Fatty and Swallow that only things can be hidden in the kang in this cellar. In addition, I seem to remember seeing similar records in "Sixteen Characters of Yin and Yang Fengshui Secret Art". According to the theory of "house", the yin house is a cemetery, which is prepared for the dead, while the yang house is the residence of the living. The method of "gathering spirits and houses" in Fengshui, also known as the technique of "eight house mirrors", is completely symmetrical on both sides. In the underground cellar, it is very likely that someone has cast the talisman of yin and yang mirror, which is similar to the technique of "wearing victory" used by carpenters in ancient times. "It's heart-wrenching, but I just flipped through the remnant book and never read it carefully. I just think that under such circumstances, this cellar should be destroyed casually, so that no one will get caught again. .

I don't believe that Huang Daxian has any treasure chests, but I guess that because people seek good luck and avoid evil, and dare not provoke Huang Daxian, some people hide some valuables in the basement of the temple in the name of immortality. , this kind of thing is not surprising, and that box is probably related to the golden vein in "Tuanshanzi" in ancient times. If we can find this thing, then we have made a great contribution, and we can enlist in the army. maybe.

"A red star is worn on the head, and the revolutionary red flag hangs on both sides." Wearing a military uniform is not only me and Fatty, but also the biggest dream of our generation. There might be an interlayer in the heated kang, and suddenly he regained his energy, pulled himself together, and took a long-handled ax to smash the brick wall of the heated kang.

The soil partition wall under the cellar is built by "dry building". The kangs on both sides are connected with this wall. It collapsed, and the kangs on both sides were empty, but they also sunk down to reveal the dark flue. A puff of black smoke came out from it, mixed with the pungent stench and dust, and we had to step back a few steps. Wait until the dust is gone before going over and working together to move the knocked bricks away.

The fat man hurriedly walked ahead, he held up the oil lamp and leaned over to have a look: "Yo! There is really something in here." Then he stretched out a hand to feel inside and pulled out a pile of black things, waiting to see Seeing what he pulled out, the swallow screamed in fright. Before I could see what was under the fire kang, I was startled by the swallow first. Looking at it under the dim light, it turned out to be a headless male corpse. The fat man ripped it out from the chimney under the kang. The headless corpse had long been rotten, and even the ancient silk robe it was wearing was rotten. The lower half of the body is still in the kang.

Seeing that he pulled out a headless mummy, the fat man spat out in anger and cursed bad luck, but he still didn't give up. He used the ax as a hammer, smashed and knocked again and again, and the kang on the left side of the cellar was crushed. It was completely smashed, and another headless mummy was buried under the kang, but judging from the clothes, this mummy was a woman.

I was wondering how this heated kang became the joint burial coffin for the husband and wife. The fat man opened the bricks inside and made a big fuss to show me the things placed on the cavity of the mummy. There are two well-preserved human heads, a man and a woman, with disheveled hair, but they have been buried in the kang for an unknown number of years. Although the skin of the head has been embalmed, it has collapsed and shrunk, and its color is as dull as wax. .

I dared to look at the two heads, and found that the inside of the head was hollowed out. There was no skull and flesh at all, but was stretched with copper wires to support it, just like a human skin bag in a puppet show. There is a dead yellow skin in each of the heads. The three of us were shocked and disgusted when we saw it. I heard that Huang Daxian could appear in the form of a human figure with a bone of immortality when he was enshrined in the mountain before. Could it be that the human form Is it the blind trick used by Huang Pizi to get into the dead man's cavity?
Swallow said that this time it was a big disaster, and it disturbed Huang Daxian's bones, and he was afraid that his life would be shortened.I comforted her by telling her that you must not believe these things. These are all done by the temple priests in the temple to cheat the incense money, pretending to be gods and ghosts to fool the ignorant people. There used to be similar things in our hometown. They claimed that the White Snake Empress appeared to administer medicine, but in fact she was looking for a snake charmer to deceive the common people by exorcising snakes. There is another thing. I heard that there was a rat fairy temple in Yandang Mountain before liberation. The reason is that there are mountain people I caught a big mouse, because it was surprisingly big, so I didn't kill it at the time, but caught it for everyone to watch, but the local magic stick pretended to be a ghost, and took the opportunity to talk about the big mouse, insisting that it was a mouse fairy, It was here to help the mountain people to solve their problems, and then cheated many good men and women of incense money. Later, the big mouse that was offered by the god died. It puts on a human skin to let it ascend to heaven after death and walk more decently, so it finds an unowned corpse in a random graveyard, peels off the human skin and pretends it to the mouse fairy, the more uncivilized those civilizations in the deep mountains and old forests Where there is such a strange and bizarre custom, it is estimated that the yellow skin in the dead head is similar, and they are all props used by the gods to cheat money. We can't afford to worry about these four old things.

Yanzi was dubious about what I said. She is from the mountains. Although she was born after liberation, she didn't believe in these crooked ways, but she still had some considerations in her heart, and she was hollowed out to pretend to be The head of Huang Pizi's dead body was terrified, and she couldn't stay any longer, so I had to let her wait outside the stone gate of the Daxian Temple temporarily, and the fat man and I demolished the other half of the kang and went up to meet her immediately.

After sending her away, I told the fat man that the "Huang Daxian" is really buried under the "Huang Pizi Grave", so the legend about Huang Daxian having a treasure box is probably true, and finding it is to help the world revolution.So the two of us did not rest, and started to dismantle the other half of the kang.

But things didn’t go as smoothly as we imagined. When the heated kang was demolished, there were only some broken porcelain bowls inside. There was no box containing gold veins and gold. There were only some rice-sized gold scattered on the ground. The heated kang was near the base of the wall. A big hole was also made, and the outside of the hole had collapsed and was tightly blocked.

Seeing this, the fat man and I immediately understood everything, and sat down on the ground. It's over, the four men in black who were hanged were indeed accomplices. Everyone went and never came back. Knowing that there was a talisman below, they resorted to the trick of "copying the back road" to dig a tunnel from the mountain into the cellar, and dug away the mountain god's box. Comrades, the work was wasted.

(End of this chapter)