Raising Ghosts Records

Chapter 62 The Inexplicably Disappearing Snake Meat
The world is so big, every river and every mountain has something to occupy or garrison. A snake that has become a spirit can be regarded as a bit of Taoism. It is also possible to occupy a piece of land and become a land lord after death.One is that there is no other monster that is more powerful than it in the local area, and the other is that all animals and plants with spirituality in that place obey it.

If the original Tongtong had continued to stay in the Xunjiang River, after 80 or [-] years, he would be able to dominate one of the waters, collect many water ghosts, fish spirits and crab monsters in the water, and become a so-called river god.Of course, this god is just a title, just like the dog immortal is also called an immortal, but in fact it is a dog ghost.Who knows if the old woman is talking about the Lord of the Earth, a demon or a ghost? Calling him a god or a fairy is just a name of reverence.

After the old lady disappeared, I walked onto this single-plank bridge, wanting to visit this dream world, but as soon as I reached the middle of the bridge, the single-plank bridge broke, and I also staggered and woke up from my sleep.

At this time, it was more than six o'clock in the morning at most, and I fell asleep for more than an hour. Ye Feiji, Xiao Jianzaki, and my uncle still cared about sleeping.Although I only slept for more than an hour, I didn't feel sleepy after waking up. I opened the door and went outside to breathe the fresh air in the morning.

There is nowhere to go if I want to walk around, because there is dew everywhere on the grass, and my trouser legs will be soaked after walking around.In addition, I felt hungry, so I went back to the house, lifted the cover of the table to eat a piece of leftover snake meat from last night, but found that the plate was empty, and the leftover snake meat from last night was gone.I clearly remember that there was still a lot left last night, because only me and my uncle Ye Feiji ate it, why is there no one now? Could it be that Ye Feiji ate it secretly in the middle of the night, that is also impossible.

There was no place to walk outside, and there was nothing to eat in the house, so I lay down and slept again, and Ye Feiji didn't get up until eight o'clock.My cousin got up too. He smoked a cigarette under the mosquito net and got up to brush his teeth and wash his face. I climbed onto Ye Feiji's bed and continued to sleep. Xiao Jianzaki was still awake, and his little hand was on my neck. That feels so blissful.

Just when I was about to fall asleep, Ye Feiji's uncle's frightening voice suddenly came from outside the door, I only heard him yelling, but I don't know what to say.Ye Feiji ran out to have a look, and when he returned to the house, he looked at me with a terrified expression, and said that the cured snake meat was gone.

I immediately jumped out of bed and ran out of the door to look. I didn’t pay attention to it just now, but now I realized that all the cured snake meat hanging on the bamboo poles at the door were gone.Uncle just rummaged around in front of and behind the house, trying to find traces of snake meat disappearing. He probably thought it was eaten and stolen by monkeys and weasels.But I felt inexplicable fear, because the leftover snake meat on the table was gone.If it was really something to eat, then why didn't we find out, combined with the old lady's advice in the dream last night, it really made it hard for me to think about animals.

If any monster came in, Ye Feiji's Gou Daxian and Tongtong should be the first to find it, but they didn't find anything.The leftover snake meat on the table disappeared, and even the hangings on the door disappeared. Could it be that the old woman said in the dream that the Land Lord avenged his descendants.

Although it is a land lord, who knows if it is a ghost or a demon. If I still have my bronze knife, I will not be afraid, but now I have no self-defense, and there are Ye Feiji and Xiaojianzaki by my side. What about protecting them?
Uncle Ye Feiji came back from the back of the house looking for it with a puzzled expression on his face. It was obvious that he didn't find any trace. I went into the room and opened the cover of the table to show him.Now he stopped talking, but had a solemn expression on his face, as if he was thinking about something, or remembering something.

Suddenly he asked me where I threw the few bugs I caught last night, and I said I didn't throw them away, and put them back in the bottle.The uncle dug out the bottle again, and the black beetles were all in it, so the disappearance of the snake meat should have nothing to do with the bugs.

The disappearing snake meat seemed to be a headless injustice, and it disappeared without leaving any traces. After thinking about it, I still told my uncle Ye Feiji about the dream.

Uncle Biao spit on the ground after hearing this, and said that it was a disaster, and I asked him if the two snakes were really descendants of the so-called Land Lord?

Uncle Biao kept sighing and told me another story.

According to legend, during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, a young woman from the local area went to the mountains to cut firewood, but unexpectedly encountered a big snake in a mountain nest.The big snake was so human, it happened to be in estrus, so it dragged the woman into the grass and forced to have sex with her.The woman fainted from fright, and there was no sign of the big snake when she woke up. She ran home immediately but dared not tell anyone.A month later, the woman felt sick to her stomach, but she sought medical advice everywhere but could not give a reasonable explanation.Five months later, the woman laid an egg in her bed one night.She recalled what happened in the mountain five months ago, and she gave birth to an egg, so she was very scared, so she secretly threw the egg she had laid into the mountain.

The woman never told anyone about this, and she married and had children until her old age.When she was 80 years old, on the night when she was seriously ill and was about to die, a snake as thick as a bucket crawled outside her house.

The snake didn't hurt anyone after entering the house, but crawled to the woman's bedside, stretched out its long and thin tail, licked the woman's face, and then crawled away.The woman died after the snake crawled away, and a big snake would appear in front of the woman's grave every year on Ching Ming Festival.

After hearing this story, my first reaction was that it was too fake!How can a person lay eggs?And that woman never told anyone about her being raped by a big snake, so how did future generations know about it.

The cousin also shook his head with a smile, saying that they are all stories handed down from the ancestors, who knows if it is true or not!
I don't really believe in the story, but I do believe in the saying that there are snakes that become spirits, such as the blue double-headed snake of Chen Erbing, a ghost breeder in Guiping.In the body of the two-headed little snake, the ghost-raising old man used a secret method to put the resentful soul of a hanged woman into the body. Such a snake can be regarded as a spirit, because it has a spirituality that ordinary snakes do not have.

Such a snake with high spirituality can be called a demon. If it lives long enough, its Taoism will be higher. After death, it is fully capable of occupying a territory and becoming a land lord.

This land lord is different from the one worshiped in our temple. It just uses its own strength to occupy a place, and whoever occupies it is the master of that place.This is similar to the King of the Mountain, and it can also be regarded as those monsters in Journey to the West, who speak with their fists.

Although I don't believe the story Ye Feiji's cousin told, I do believe that what the old lady said in the dream is true, that the land lord may have been transformed by a snake.My guess is that the spirit snake raised by a certain expert in the past has the same nature as the old man who raised ghosts. It was put into the human soul, that is, the human soul snake body.

In the past, there was no shortage of high-level people in Xiangxi, and I don’t know how high they are compared with the old man raising ghosts. Of course, the spirit snake raised by the high-level people is better than the blue double-headed snake raised by the old man raising ghosts.

I was smart and guessed that after the death of the expert, the spirit snake he raised escaped to the deep mountains and wild forests. After hundreds of years of hidden cultivation, although the body of the snake had already died, it was sublimated with the soul of Taoism and occupied a place to continue deep repair.

If it is as I guessed, then all the snakes in the territory it occupies have become its descendants, and the status of the two king cobras is definitely not low.If this is the case, it will not be fun, and it will certainly not let us go so easily.

Thinking about it, the two snakes feel that they are not ordinary snakes at all. King cobras live alone, and it is not the mating season. How could they both live in the tomb together? This is clearly an excuse for cultivation!I didn't expect that we would destroy other people's affairs, even kill them, skin them and eat their meat. Can we just let it go?
To be honest, I'm not really scared by myself, I'm just worried about Ye Feiji and Xiao Jianzaki, and I don't know how this so-called land guild will retaliate against us.How could he leave without catching the crystal fish? Xiao Jianzaki is still young, so he can cure his dumb disease now, otherwise he may miss the best chance of treatment in a few years.

Unknowingly, it was noon, and it started to rain during lunch, and the mountains in front of the house were shrouded in misty clouds.We stayed in the house with nothing to do, Ye Feiji's uncle went back to the room to take a nap, and Ye Feiji and I were bragging and chatting in the room again, and also talked about business.

I want Ye Feiji to take Xiao Jianqi home first, and then take it back after I catch the crystal fish and prepare the medicine.But Ye Feiji said that if she left, I would be half-mute and deaf, because I couldn't speak or understand the local dialect, so I had to give up.Thinking that Ye Feiji also has a Gou Daxian amulet, I don't have to worry too much, Gou Daxian should be able to protect her.

The rain did not stop until night, and I couldn't go out. The dinner was a chicken and some dried mushrooms that I brought, and the other one was killed at noon that day.

I took a bath after dinner, and when I was sleeping, my cousin added a wooden plank to Ye Feiji's bed, and let me sleep with Ye Feiji and Xiao Jianqi.Xiao Jianqi slept in the middle, Ye Feiji slept inside, and I slept the worst outside, with half of my body without a bed board, and I would fall under the bed if I was not careful.

In the middle of the night, Tongtong appeared in my sleep, and said in a hurry that she felt something dangerous was approaching the house, and told me to get up quickly, and then blew a breath of cold air on me.I felt a sharp pain all over my body and woke up. I found myself falling under the bed. I quickly got up and lit the kerosene lamp, which woke up Ye Feiji and my cousin.

I made up a lie, saying that the old lady who had a dream last night told me that the danger was coming, let us get up quickly.Ye Feiji's cousin was sleepy, took a flashlight and took pictures around the room, and finally asked me if I was having a nightmare.

As soon as my uncle finished speaking, there were strange sounds around the house, as if a rope was being dragged on the ground.Our hearts in the room immediately rose to our throats, and no one dared to speak. The sound rang for a long time but nothing came out. My cousin cursed for a while, then went back to the room to take his bamboo piece, and went back to the room. The hall door was opened at once.

The light of the flashlight illuminated the doorway, and we saw at least a thousand snakes, large and small, colorful and colorful crawling on the ground.

(End of this chapter)