Raising Ghosts Records

Chapter 55 The Tree That Rains

The full name of Xiangxi is XXTJZMZ Zhizhou. Strictly speaking, it also includes 28 counties in Huaihua, Tongren and other cities.The territory is full of ravines, dense streams and rivers, undulating peaks, and continuous caves. There are more than 10 counties bordering Hubei, Chongqing, Guizhou, and Guangxi provinces. Before liberation, they were all weakly governed areas.Because of the mountainous terrain and traffic congestion, even in the 90s, the economy and culture were still very backward.

Our first stop was Yongzhou. The old bus was driving on the road, and there was billowing dust everywhere outside the car windows. Although the road was cement, it turned into a dirt road shortly after leaving the county.Since I didn't sleep well last night, I fell asleep within half an hour after getting on the bus. When I woke up again, it was Ye Feiji who woke me up, saying that I was at Yongzhou Station.

We set off at Daoxian Station at 09:30 in the morning, and arrived at Yongzhou Station at 02:30 in the afternoon. With this snail’s speed and the transfer, it would take at least two days to get to Xiangxi.After discussing with Ye Feiji, we chartered a minivan that knows the way, because it is too slow to take a passenger car, and we have to make so many turns.

In fact, I am not in a hurry. The one who is in a hurry is the skeleton of the third uncle, because it is usually best to bury a person within three days after death, and absolutely no more than seven days.I still want to find his family, so I can stop as long as I can, and it will be an hour faster, which is why I chartered a car.

The car was swaying, and I was in a daze along the way. Although I didn't fall asleep, I didn't wake up. I arrived in Jishou, Xiangxi at 01:30 in the middle of the night.The driver brother said that he was too tired and asked to leave tomorrow morning. He was afraid of problems due to fatigue driving and late at night.After I asked the locals, I learned that Huayuan County was less than 20 kilometers away. When I went to Huangyao for medical treatment, I walked alone in the middle of the night. Now I have a car and four people.My opinion is that it is better to drive another hour to Huayuan and then rest. The driver brother is not willing to say anything, so I finally added [-] yuan.No matter how tired you are, it takes only an hour for the tens of kilometers, so how can you delay another night?

The vehicle was driving on the mountain road, and the road was not easy to walk, but the driver brother drove a little fast. Although we hoped to arrive soon, we were afraid of accidents, but the driver brother said it was okay, and we would arrive in half an hour at most.

Although the destination was approaching, an accident happened. I suddenly found that the driver brother was dozing off. He was driving!Called him to stop quickly.The driver brother stopped immediately, got out of the car and washed his face in the ditch on the side of the road, and suddenly told me that he seemed to be going the wrong way.

I wiped off my sweat and asked him where he was driving, but the driver said he didn't know, but he didn't think he had been this way before.So we went back again, and finally came across a car. After asking the driver, we found out that we were going to Longtan.Fortunately, the driver in Longtan told us that Longtan is only 20 kilometers away from Yezhuping, and if we know the way, we will arrive in about half an hour.

Afraid of going the wrong way again, we finally chose to wait for dawn in the car, asked the way early the next morning, and soon arrived at Yezhuping.We temporarily rented a room in the town, and put two beds in one room for safety. I slept on one, Ye Feiji and Xiao Jianqi slept on the other.

Yezhuping is a small town with six villages. It is now under the jurisdiction of Baojing County, but it is closer to Huayuan County. The third uncle said it was Yezhuping in Huayuan County, which should have happened in the 20s.

The third uncle’s name was Zhou Yaping, and his younger brother’s name was Zhou Ya’an. The next day we looked for Zhou Ya’an in various villages and villages in Yezhuping. We always asked some elderly people, but they all said they didn’t know each other.

Finally, we found it. The person we just asked was the son of old man Zhou Ya’an, but we found out that Zhou Ya’an had passed away five years ago.But it doesn't matter, if you can't find his younger brother, you just need to find the third uncle's old family, it's all the same anyway.

Zhou Ya'an's son is Zhou Yuanying. He asked us how we knew his father and why we were looking for him.We asked if he had heard from his father that he had an uncle who disappeared in other places when he was young and never returned home for decades.

Zhou Yuanying was stunned for a while, and then suddenly said that he had mentioned it, but it is estimated that the war years are dead!His father often mentioned it when he was a child, but he didn't mention it later.

Now that I confirmed that he was indeed third uncle's relative, I told him the whole story, but Zhou Yuanying's reaction after hearing it surprised me.

When I said to bring back the bones of my third uncle, Zhou Yuanying's face immediately darkened, saying that he had been missing for decades, why did he come back after he died, and that his family was so poor that he couldn't get rid of it, how could he have the money to bury him.Although he is an uncle, he has never met him before, and he doesn't want to deal with this matter, so let me deal with it casually, throw it wherever I like, just don't look for him.After he finished speaking, he left without looking back, leaving us standing there dumbfounded.

Ye Feiji and I traveled four to five hundred kilometers, and we got such a result. The third uncle wanted to return to his roots, but his nephew didn't want to care about this matter.When Ye Feiji learned that the vat I was carrying along the way was the third uncle's bones, he finally knew the purpose of my visit to Xiangxi this time, and said that after returning, he was slowly talking about her spiritual loss.

My idea when I came here was to find the third uncle's family, and then hand over the remains to his brother, and that's it.But I was still a little too naive. The so-called poor is troublesome and no one asks, and rich has distant relatives in the mountains. If I brought back a pile of money, Zhou Yuanying would probably kneel down to greet him, but unfortunately what I brought back was a pile of bones.

Zhou Yuanying doesn't want to be buried, so I can't just throw it in the ditch!That's definitely not possible.I asked Ye Feiji to take Xiao Jianqi back to the temporarily rented house in the town first, and I bought a hoe, a knife, a bunch of firecrackers, some candle paper money from the local villagers, and I carried the hoe and the bones alone. Cylinder walked up the mountain.

The hills near the village here are all owned by the owner, and the graves cannot be buried on other people’s hills. I can only go a little farther to Wuzhu Mountain to bury them.After turning over five or six hills, I found a place that felt good and started digging a hole. After half an hour of digging, I buried the ossuary in it.After burying it with soil and filling it up, burn incense and paper money, and light firecrackers. This is the funeral of the third uncle, simple and simple.

As soon as the firecrackers finished, Tongtong's voice sounded in my ears. She asked me to walk down the ditch in the mountains. She seemed to feel something familiar.I threw the hoe into the grass, took a knife and cut a road all the way, and walked down to a small valley for half an hour.The small valley here is similar to the one on the Pingtian Mountain in Guigang, but it is much larger and consists of five mountains, so it is called a valley instead of a col.

There is a big tree in the middle of this small valley, an unknown big tree, but it is bigger than the old pagoda tree in Guigang.

Tongtong asked me to have a look under the big tree. I cut a stick and slapped it all the way. When I got to the bottom of the big tree, I found that it was raining under the tree.It's sunny outside and it's sunny, but it's raining under the tree, which is too weird!I walked around the big tree a few times and found nothing strange, but the trunk was full of bumps bulging with fists.

I picked up a broken branch from the ground and saw that it was similar to bamboo, but it was hollow.After picking off a leaf, I found a small hole the size of a pinhole at the root of the leaf stem. I was smart and immediately began to analyze why the tree rained.

This tree is so big and hollow, the hole in the trunk is probably as big as an oil barrel, and the roots grow directly on a mountain spring.The spring water could not be sprayed from the ground, and all of it poured into the tree hole, and every time the tree dropped a leaf, a small hole would be exposed where the leaf stem fell off, and the water spurted out from this small hole.If the leaves of this tree drop a lot, and water flows out of every hole, it becomes a raining tree, which is simply magical.

I asked Tongtong what familiar things she felt here, and Tongtong said that there was nothing there, but it felt a bit similar to the big tree covered with vines last time.There is an ancient well under the root of the old pagoda tree last time!Is there an ancient well under the tree roots in this valley now?

I didn't stay under the tree for a long time. After returning to the rented house in the town, Ye Feiji was fast asleep. As soon as I came back, she jumped up and said that she wanted to calculate mental damage expenses with me.I asked her what mental loss she had, but she couldn't tell. She just said that not only did I put the bone in her house overnight, but she actually accompanied a dead person's bone all the way, which caused her to be so scared that she had nightmares again and again.

I asked Xiao Jian Qi if he was afraid, Xiao Jian Qi smiled and shook his head, I contemptuously told Ye Feiji that Xiao Jian Qi was not afraid when he was only four years old, but you are still afraid when you are 19 years old.

Ye Feiji insisted that I pay mental damage, 100 yuan is enough, if you really don't want to, ten yuan is fine, even five yuan is fine.I didn't care about her getting nervous, it's rare to come to Xiangxi, why don't you play around after the work is done, so I said that I would invite her to play around tomorrow.

Of course Ye Feiji couldn't wish for it, he still has fun without spending money, and he still has a salary of 30 yuan a day, how could she let go of such a cheap thing.

In the evening I took out the book that my third uncle gave me, and asked Ye Feiji what the words on the cover were called, and Ye Feiji told me it was called "Witchcraft".

Ye Feiji flipped through it for a while, told me that it was a manuscript and looked very old, and asked me where I stole the antique.I asked her to read the previous introduction and tell me what it was about. After reading it, Ye Feiji said that the first part was about inviting spirits, exorcising ghosts, controlling spirits, raising ghosts, raising demons, raising corpses, making Gu, etc. , there are many more behind, but just listening to her read out these few already gave me a headache.

I asked her to check if there was anything about expelling corpses. Ye Feiji checked for a while and said yes, and then read it to me.It turns out that exorcising corpses is a kind of spirit control technique. Asking spirits to attach the corpses of the dead is similar to fraudulent corpses. Of course, this is just a brief introduction, and the detailed method is complicated!Ye Feiji closed the book and threw it to me, asking me to increase her salary, and then she taught me how to read, and the increased salary was considered as tuition fee.

(End of this chapter)