Kowloon pull coffin

Chapter 9 Golden Dragon Head
Bai Laogui said that after the flood receded back then, the surrounding area of ​​Jiulong Cave has not been peaceful, with white fog blocking the river, and ghosts crying at night.Later, a Taoist priest came here to practice the ritual, refined gold and poured nine faucets into the water, and then the peace was restored.

Gradually, a legend spread among the people.

It is said that the flood of that year was caused by the nine dragons venting their anger. Later, the nine evil dragons were divided into half of the mountain by the mountain god of Funiu Mountain to suppress them, directly crushing the dragon's head and controlling the flood.After the death of Jiulong, the resentment persisted. It was the Taoist priest who poured gold into nine dragon heads to make up for the dragon corpse, and then they were all rescued.

This happened more than 100 years ago. During these [-] years, some people from Bibao came here to play the idea of ​​the golden dragon head.Nothing was found except a mysterious cave at the bottom of the water, and those who tried to break into the depths of the cave to find treasure all sank to the bottom of the river without exception.

As a result, no one dared to go to Jiulong Cave, and Jiulong Cave became a forbidden place for the living in the villagers' mouth.

"Uncle Bai, from your tone, is the legend of Kowloon true?" I asked after hearing this.

"Although this story sounds a bit far-fetched, I can tell you that the Taoist priest forging the golden dragon head is absolutely true. As for whether there are really nine evil dragons, that's unknown." Bai Laogui said.

"What proof do you have?" I asked.

"The existence of Huiji concept is evidence."

Bai Laogui suddenly mentioned Huiji Temple, which aroused my curiosity even more.Because it is said that the first generation of Huiji Temple's master came from Tianshi Mansion, and this is obviously impossible.

"Uncle Bai, you don't want to tell me that the legend of Huiji Temple is true, do you? The first generation of temple masters really came from Longhushan Tianshi Mansion?"

"Nonsense, do you think that anyone can use gold to cast dragon heads to settle grievances?"

"Okay, but how did your Bai family get involved with Jiulong Cave?" I asked.

"I'm not a corpse hunter for making money." Bai Laogui said after taking a sip of his wine.

I believe what he said, no one would spend their whole life in it just to make money.

Fishing corpses is a taboo business, and it is not introduced by ordinary people. Once you become a corpse hunter, you will suffer the loneliness of living in isolation.In the past, when there was not enough to eat, there were girls who married corpse hunters in order to survive, but no one in modern society is willing.

If he had changed careers a few years earlier, Bai Laogui might still have married a wife and had children and lived a life of ordinary people. Now that he's older, it's too late to start a family.

But from the way I see him, it seems that he has never thought about finding a partner at all, and really intends to be so lonely for the rest of his life.

"As a corpse hunter, I want to accumulate merits to wash away the sins of my ancestors, but now I have figured it out, no matter how hard the descendants of the Bai family try, they can't wash it away. So I never thought about passing on the incense for the Bai family at all. Because I don't want my children and grandchildren to be born with guilt." Bai Laogui's tone was full of sentimentality.

"Uncle Bai, what did your ancestors do wrong?"

"This matter has to start with the Taoist priest from Tianshi's mansion more than 100 years ago who came to the local area to practice the method and used gold to cast dragon heads to calm grievances."

Next, Bai Laogui told me an even more unbelievable story.

After the Taoist priest finished casting the nine golden faucets, he wanted to find a person with good water skills to sink them into the water according to his predetermined position.

The Bai family lived by fishing along the Yellow River for a long time, and the water quality is naturally excellent.The great-grandfather of Bai Laogui is even more famous as the white strip in the waves. He was recommended by the villagers to accept this task, and he carried the golden faucet on his back and threw them into the water one by one.

To say that the Taoist is really capable, the pre-selected position for each dragon head is on the eye of the river, and the dragon head disappears instantly when it is put in.The water of the Yellow River is turbid, and I don't know what kind of eyes the scholars and students have, and the calculated positions are exactly right.

Later I learned that this method is called Tianyantong in Daoism, and people who hold treasures call it golden eyes, which can detect the brilliance of earth energy and treasure energy.

Not only do they have this kind of ability, but so does Bai Laogui.

Bai Laogui dared to pick up the vertical corpse because he could see the ghosts under the water, no matter whether it was a water monkey or a kappa, he could not escape his eyes.

Closer to home, after casting eight dragon heads in a row, the great-grandfather of Bai Laogui had an evil idea.

He did not throw the ninth dragon head into the eye of the river according to the position designated by the Taoist priest, but buried it in the mud beside the eye of the river.He planned to dig out secretly after the Taoist priest withdrew the ceremony.

As the old saying goes, gold in prosperous antiques and troubled times.In that turbulent era, gold could even buy human life.

After the Taoist priest finished the ritual and left, the great-grandfather of the Bai family went into the Yellow River at night to dig out the golden dragon head and hid it in his home.He thought that this matter was done flawlessly, but he didn't know that it caused a catastrophe.

On the second day, the Taoist came directly to the door and asked him if he had moved the ninth golden dragon head.

Of course, the great-grandfather of Bai Laogui didn't admit it, and lied to the Taoist priest with his eyes open, saying that the ninth dragon head was thrown into the river eye according to the position he chose.

The Taoist didn't argue with him, but just stared at him all the time.There is no anger in the eyes, but endless sorrow.

The great-grandfather of Bai Laogui's scalp was numb when he saw it, because the Taoist priest seemed to be standing in the yard at random, but he was standing on the land where he privately hid the golden dragon head.

The Taoist did not expose his lies, but asked him to follow him to the place where he practiced the ritual.

When he arrived at the place, the Taoist pointed to the eye of the river where the ninth golden dragon head should have been put into, and said a long story to Bai Laogui's great-grandfather.

"In this place, you only need to put a golden dragon head to resolve the grievances of Nine Dragons. Now because of your selfish desires, my formation has been broken. Now that the river eye is not blocked, I have to use my own life to block it. I am the number one." One, you are the second, from now on, every generation of the Bai family will have someone to block the eye of the river."

After saying this, the Taoist priest began to tidy up his clothes, and handed over the Master Sword, orders, and seals that he carried with him to the accompanying disciples.And his disciple burst into tears, sobbing hard.

Seeing this scene, Bai Laogui's great-grandfather panicked.

He quickly admitted to hiding the golden faucet, and said that he would go home and get it back to block the river eye.

Helpless Taoist said it was too late...

The Taoist jumped down the Yellow River with hatred and never came up again.

"And then?" I asked.

"Later, his accompanying disciple inherited the mantle of a Taoist priest and established Huiji Temple in Funiu Mountain. Later, the unblocked river eye gradually evolved into a bottomless black hole, swallowing countless people who came to hunt for treasure. The treasure-holding man swallowed up countless creatures who inadvertently broke into this place."

It's a compelling story without a doubt, and as such it has no flaws.Evil dragons, Taoist priests, golden dragon heads, sacrifices, greedy human nature, crime and punishment, almost cover all the elements that should be in the story.

But if you listen to it as a real person, it will be really sad.

The great-grandfather of the Bai family was greedy for money, but this kind of crime would not require his descendants to pay for it with their lives.

The key depends on what kind of catastrophe he caused because of this incident, but Bai Laogui didn't say this.

"Uncle Bai, will you block the eye of the river?" I asked after being silent for a while.

"If calculated according to the time set by the Taoist priest, it will be my turn to block the river eye this year, but I will not go."

Having said that, Bai Laogui raised his head and looked at me with burning eyes.I felt uncomfortable being watched by him, and I even felt an indescribable panic in my heart.

Old Bai Gui worked hard to get my idea, and kept persuading me to follow him as a corpse hunter.I used to work in Guangzhou, but my father insisted that I come back because I was bewitched by the old ghost.

And I also heard from my mother that when I was first born, he planned to recognize me as his godson.

All these things were connected, and I came to a terrible conclusion: don't Bai Laogui want me to block the river eye for him?

If this is the case, today I will have to fight him to the death.The sins of the ancestors of the Bai family have nothing to do with me, Xie Lan.

"I didn't block the river eye because my Bai family didn't do anything wrong. The one who really did something wrong was the Taoist priest who came out of the Heavenly Master's Mansion!"

"What did the priest do wrong?"

"I don't know." Bai Laogui said with a wry smile.

"You don't know?" I froze for a moment.

"It was your ghost daughter-in-law who told me that my Bai family did nothing wrong about the Nine Dragon Cave. If you want to know the truth, you can ask her directly when you meet."

(End of this chapter)