The Huai Shui God's Cave

Chapter 3

Yang Xiaoxie is an atheist, so naturally he doesn't believe what the girl said.In the evening, we gathered in my duty room to eat instant noodles and discussed how to write the girl's confession materials, and we all felt very headache.

Yang Xiaoxie said: "Wu You, do you believe that there are ghosts in the world? Why do these girls and that witness say they saw ghosts? Anyway, I don't believe it!"

I thought for a while and said, "We are police officers, so we are naturally atheists. Naturally, theories about ghosts and gods cannot be used as written materials. This will only make the people panic!"

Yang Xiaoxie said: "Why, you don't really believe in ghosts, do you? If the leader finds out about such a ridiculous discussion, you will definitely be criticized!"

I smiled and said, "Student Xiaoxie, there are many absurd things in the world. No one can explain them yet. Everything is possible. As a public security officer with a sharp mind, we must imagine all the impossible things as possible, That's called professionalism."

Yang Xiaoxie said: "Then you teach me how to write materials, write that they all saw ghosts, how do you explain to the raped victim, was he raped by a ghost? This will be a sensational news in the world!"

We discussed it for a while, but there was no result. We could only be relatively speechless, and smiled helplessly at the other party.

3. Fortune teller

The blood-red gnat was sent to a professional organization, but they couldn't find out what deadly germ it was carrying. A professor named Han Zhenguo recognized it as a kind of Gu insect, which was one of the most commonly used organs in the tombs of princes and princes before the Han Dynasty. species, and based on this, it is determined that there must be a large ancient tomb where the Gu worm was found.The Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics will send an investigation team to Chucheng for on-the-spot investigation.Regarding the situation of the ancient tomb, the leader told us to find out clearly before the expedition team came.According to the last words of the tomb thief Chen Daudao, the person most likely to know the situation is Yuan Xiazi, a blind fortune teller from Jitou Mountain.

I said to Yang Xiaoxie: "It's really evil. There are parasites carrying deadly viruses in an ancient tomb. Could it be that ancient people knew how to do bacterial experiments?"

Yang Xiaoxie said: "I read some tomb scriptures and burial scriptures on the Internet yesterday. During the Warring States Period, tomb owners often wrapped some insect eggs with a special material and put them in the tomb passages and organs. When the mechanism is opened, the worm eggs will grow into adults in the wind and penetrate into human flesh."

I said: "Whoever has not been bitten by insects will not die!"

Yang Xiaoxie said: "Wu You, don't you believe it. Didn't the curse of the Egyptian Pharaoh's Pyramid pass through centuries? Anyone who dares to enter the Pharaoh's tomb, whether it is a tomb robber, an adventurer or a scientific researcher, will eventually die one by one." The spell was fulfilled—either killed instantly, or died of a strange disease and a painful death shortly afterwards. This is the real thing."

Yang Xiaoxie, like me, is a young and vigorous person who tends to be curious about all kinds of weird things, so he asked me to go find Yuan Xiazi with me.

Jitou Mountain is a branch of Xianling Mountain, in the southeast of Liuzhuang.The two of us drove to Jitou Mountain, and I told him a story about my grandpa while driving.This is a real matter, and it has a lot to do with Yuan Xiazi.

When my grandfather died, he was very young, less than 50 years old. At that time, I was not born yet.His stories are weird, and I've heard them from my grandma, my father, and my aunt.

My hometown is in a village not far from Jitou Mountain. Both my grandfather and father are Chinese medicine practitioners, which were originally passed down from generation to generation.My grandfather and father are both rural doctors. In my generation, it was originally intended to continue to pass on. From the age of five, I have to memorize Chinese medicine books such as "Compendium of Materia Medica" and "Qian Jin Yao Fang" for an hour every day.I am very tired of memorizing medical books, but I am very interested in those martial arts novels and gangster movies, and I am determined to be a policeman.

Just because my grandfather passed away in a strange way, my family felt that Chinese medicine is not a panacea.After memorizing Chinese medicine books for a few years, I became rebellious and began to read novels secretly. I wanted to be a hero and a policeman to eliminate violence and bring peace to the people.They had no choice but to let it go, and they stopped stopping me from becoming a policeman.

In Jitou Mountain, Yuan Xiazi is a legend.Fortune-telling has a long history in China. From the ancient "Zhouyi Bagua" to today's blind fortune-telling, many things are the accumulated experience of the predecessors, and many of the sayings in it can find reasonable scientific explanations.There are also some things that have been handed down to this day, but science still cannot explain them clearly.

Everyone hopes to spy on the secrets, seek good luck and avoid bad luck, and find a shortcut to good luck.The technique of fortune-telling is abstruse and esoteric, and many of them cheat money in the name of fortune-telling, but there are also some folk numerology masters who are proficient in "Book of Changes" and various geomantic omens, and they can often solve some strange things that cannot be explained by modern science.Yuan Xiazi seems to belong to this type of person.

Jitou Mountain has lush vegetation, pleasant scenery, many strange people and strange things, and many customs and legends.

According to my grandma, one summer, it was the time for transplanting rice seedlings in the countryside. Some children were playing by the field, and suddenly everyone saw a very strange snake, which was colorful and about one meter long. One body branched out in two. He is tall, spitting out a bright red core, and is crawling forward on the water in the field.Everyone screamed.There was a naughty child who picked up a stone and threw it at the snake's head fiercely.After being hit, the snake quickly disappeared on the water.

That night, the child who smashed the snake started to have a high fever and became unconscious. In the middle of the night, he yelled "Help" in his nightmare. The family members called a doctor, and after taking injections and medicines, he still didn't get better.At that time, the country people were quite superstitious. The mother of the child went out to find a gentleman to have a look. Blind Yuan wearing sunglasses.At that time, Yuan Xiazi was on his way, and after being hit, he grabbed the child's mother and said, "Sister-in-law, don't leave, I know your family is in trouble, and I can help you solve it!"

The child's mother was dubious, stopped, and shook her hand in front of his eyes, trying to make sure that he was really blind; worried that he was a liar, she was not going to pay attention to him.But Blind Yuan pestered her and said, "Don't look at me as a blind man. I have opened my eyes. I can see the black mist around your head. This is resentment. Someone in your family must have provoked you." something to deal with."

When the child's mother heard it, she was shocked, and hurriedly invited the blind man to her home and told her about the child's illness.The blind man walked around the child's bed again and said, "That snake is a spiritual creature. If you offend it, your soul will be taken away."

The child's family hurriedly begged blind Yuan for treatment.The blind man nodded, took out a handful of high incense, lit it, and said something to the child, then kept calling the child's name, telling him to "come back", seven times in a row, and chanted some spells.It is said that this is called the soul.

Sure enough, after the blind man's tossing, the child came out to play again the next day alive and kicking.The child's father is the head of the village, and he gave Yuan Xiazi five yuan.Five yuan at that time was more effective than five hundred yuan now.Blind Yuan refused his money and said, "I leaked too many secrets. This is accumulating virtue. I can't collect money. I just don't have a place to live. Can you find me a place to live?"

For the village head, this is too easy.He found Yuan Xiazi two vacant houses next to the elementary school and let him settle down there.

Yuan Xiazi has a copy of "Maixiangfa" left by his ancestors, which is his tool for making a living.He has memorized this book under the guidance of his father since he was a child. Memorizing these things is not enough. When telling fortunes, he also needs to follow the laws of yin and yang, five elements, gossip, ten heavenly stems, twelve earthly branches, and "Book of Changes". The birthday, month, day and hour of the divination seeker are combined and calculated to predict the future.

Every morning, the blind man has to use a walking stick to walk five miles, pass three single-plank bridges, and go to a nearby town to tell fortunes for people to make a living.

At that time, my grandfather was only 36 years old. Once he went to the mountains to collect medicines. At that time, most of the medicines for doctors in rural areas were collected in the mountains by themselves, unlike now there are special cultivation of traditional Chinese medicines.

When my grandfather was collecting herbs, he walked to Xianling Mountain.At that time, the troops had not yet been stationed there, and the area was still desolate.He saw many good medicines for treating bruises, so he squatted down on the ground and dug them up with a small hoe.While digging, he suddenly felt that someone slapped him hard from behind. Stars flashed in his eyes, and he fell to the ground. It took him a while to get up in a daze.After careful inspection, there was no one around.He didn't feel good, so he stumbled and ran back home, and then he was sore all over. Once he couldn't get sick, he couldn't move after two days, and then he fell into a coma.The family rushed him to the hospital, but the doctor couldn't find any symptoms. They did X-rays and tests, but nothing came of it.

Later, the doctor issued a critical illness notice and told the family to go back and prepare for the funeral.When the family was weeping and preparing for the funeral, the blind man came and told them that my grandfather had offended the gods and his soul was taken away for trial. Grandpa called back.

After some discussion, the family members agreed that only dead horses should be used as live horse doctors.

The blind man set up an altar in front of the window in front of his grandfather's bed, put some incense burner offerings on it, and put a bowl of water, took out some yellow paper with spells drawn on it, muttered something, and then burned the yellow paper into the bowl , poured the water mixed with yellow paper ashes into the grandfather; then told the family, let the grandfather lie at home for a month, not to go out, and not to answer anyone who shouted.

At night, Grandpa really woke up, but his spirit was very weak.Everyone thought it was miraculous. Even people who were sentenced to death by the hospital were rescued by the blind man. It was incredible.

Half a month later, the family members went out to work, the children went to school, and grandpa was alone at home. Suddenly, he heard someone calling his name outside the door, and he agreed without thinking, but immediately felt a headache, The child fell to the ground and was unable to move again.

When the family came back, grandpa was lying on the ground, his whole body was cold. He opened his mouth wide and said to grandma, "Someone called me!"The family asked the neighbors, but no one ever called grandpa.So the family invited the blind man again.The blind man sighed and said: "Calling the name is the ghost messenger who came to arrest the soul. This time, only one soul and one soul are left out of the three souls and seven souls." The blind man also said that if the soul is detained again, the yang energy will be greatly damaged. This time he couldn't be saved.

However, the family believed he had spells and begged.Finally, the blind man sighed and said, "To save him, I must go to the underworld myself."

Later, the blind man did it again, this time it was much more complicated than last time. Not only did he set up an incense case offering in front of his grandfather's bed, but also a statue of the judge of Hades on it. The five emperors' copper coin with a circle on the outside and a square on the inside, first burned incense and prayed, and then sat down cross-legged facing the bed, with eyes slightly closed, and fell into a state of meditation.

The blind man sat for three days and three nights, and his family members waited outside the room to ensure that no one disturbed them, and kept continuing the incense. The blind man warned in advance that the incense would perish, and that neither his grandpa's soul nor himself would come back.

During this time, the blind man seemed to be in shock, with copper coins in his mouth, neither eating nor drinking, and motionless.When he finally woke up, he suddenly opened his eyes and sat up, stretched out his hand and pressed down hard on Grandpa's head, and then he heard my grandpa wake up with an "oops".

Only then did the blind man speak: "Okay, I've got his soul back. It's just that the evil spirit he offended is too powerful, and I can only protect his lifespan for ten years."

When the blind man lifted his feet to leave, his family members discovered that the cloth shoes on his feet had suddenly become tattered.The blind man said that it was worn out on the way.Grandma hurriedly found a pair of new shoes to put on for him, and gave the blind man rice flour as a reward, but the blind man didn't accept it.

Before leaving, the blind man asked: "No matter how much anyone calls, you can't answer, otherwise the method won't work." The family agreed solemnly, and repeatedly asked the grandfather not to answer anyone's name.

After another month of recuperation, my grandfather recovered, but his spirit became very poor, he was a little demented, often fell ill, and had no strength to do farm work.The blind man said that it was because Yang Qi was damaged, so he appeared weaker than normal people.

Ten years later, my grandfather is still in good health and does not usually do physical work. The family members feel that the words of the blind man should not be taken seriously.On the day of my father's wedding, he was happily going to treat guests. When he was crossing the bridge, he accidentally fell and hit a bluestone slab. He died that night.

I was born the year after my grandfather passed away.Although I did not witness this incident with my own eyes, since I was brought up by my grandma, she told me dozens of times every year since I was sensible, and it was confirmed by my father, aunt, and uncle. The real thing in my grandpa.

After I finished telling my story, Yang Xiaoxie didn't speak for a long time. I don't know if he was thinking about the authenticity of this story, or looking for the flaws in my story.Then, he took out a cigarette, handed me one, lit one himself, took a deep puff, and said: "You just heard what your family said, and I still feel very mysterious if you haven't seen it with your own eyes." !"

Yang Xiaoxie added: "I think the behavior of the blind man is to make the uneducated country people feel mysterious. In fact, there is no so-called soul at all. It is all his own psychological feeling. Your grandfather must have been asleep at the time. He slapped him. Go down, with cinnabar in your hand, your grandfather wakes up as soon as he wakes up, and he feels a support in his heart, which is a psychological hint."

"As for his shoes being torn," Yang Xiaoxie continued to retort, "That must have been done beforehand to make you believe it."

When I think about it, I feel that what he said is not unreasonable: Sometimes people are in a bad mood, in a trance, and feel out of their minds.I don't know whether the method of cracking Zizi is a kind of psychological suggestion.

At this time, we have arrived at the foot of Jitou Mountain.There are more than a dozen families at the foot of the mountain, and there is a simple school next to the mountain. There is a very obvious sign inside, which is a red flag erected on the playground in the yard.

When I parked the car at the school gate, I opened the door and said to him: "I saw Yuan Xiazi's method with my own eyes when I was a child. It is really weird, but today is limited, so I will explain it to you another day. Let's go to the school first. Ask blind Yuan where he lives."

There is a canteen in front of the school, and there is a middle-aged woman who is looking at the stall. When she heard that we were looking for Yuan Xiazi, she immediately said, "There is no such person!"

I asked people who lived nearby, and they all said they didn't know.

We were very discouraged and were about to leave when an old lady with white hair came out and said, "Young man, are you looking for blind man Yuan to tell your fortune? He has sealed the hexagrams and harvested mountains for more than 20 years. I don't know if he is still alive."

As soon as I heard this, I hurriedly continued to ask the old lady: "Grandma, do you know where Blind Yuan lives?"

The old lady squinted her eyes and thought for a while, then said: "Go west, there is a pine forest between Jitou Mountain and Xianling Mountain, and Blind Yuan lives on the hillside."

The old lady also said that Blind Yuan has not appeared since more than 20 years ago, and there were still people asking him for fortune-telling everywhere, but the pine forest was difficult to walk, and most people could not find the way up the mountain.Especially at night, it is said that there are ghosts and ghosts, so gradually no one looks for him, and few people know where he lives.

I thanked the old lady, turned the car around with Yang Xiaoxie and drove back.After arriving at the pine forest, he couldn't help but laugh. It turns out that this forest is connected with the Xianling Mountain. Although the mountain is rugged and vertical and horizontal, it is not far away.

(End of this chapter)