Holy Bone

Chapter 245 The Old Taoist and the Yellow Skin

Huang Pizi's trouble?
Under everyone's curious questioning, the old Taoist probably talked about his experience.

In the folk of the Northland, there have always been legends about the Five Immortals.

These five immortals refer to five kinds of animals that accompany people, namely foxes, weasels, hedgehogs, snakes, and mice.

Collectively known as the "fox yellow white willow gray" five immortals.

And the main thing to talk about here is the mischief caused by the yellow skin that the old Taoist encountered, that is, the weasel skin.

That time, even though the old Taoist only came across a piece of yellow leather, it was so dangerous that he almost didn't bother there.

It was in the depths of a snow-capped mountain covered with heavy snow.

A snow disaster broke out that year. The heavy snow came early, and the villagers in the mountain had not stored enough grain, fur and firewood for the winter, so the mountain was blocked by heavy snow, and the snow outside the door was as deep as a foot.

That is called a snowy, freezing cold.

Unprepared, many villagers froze to death at home that night.

The old Taoist priest at that time was trapped in a place called Qilitun.

Originally, he traveled to the countryside at the foot of the mountain, and planned to stay in the countryside for a while, relying on his old business of fortune-telling, feng shui analyses, and private houses, and then continue on the road after saving enough money.

As a result, he had just arrived in the village, and before he settled down, he met a haggard woman in a simple jacket, who was sitting in a bullock cart from a fellow villager, dragging a few half-grown children into the village, found an old Taoist priest, and wanted to invite the old Taoist priest to go to the mountain to do White matter.

It turned out that the woman's husband was accidentally crushed to death by a tree while logging, so this time I went down the mountain and wanted to invite a Taoist priest to perform rituals for my man.

If it is a person who is dying normally, naturally there is no need to invite Taoist priests and monks to do things.

But this man died accidentally.

Taoist monks need to take care of it and do some rituals so that relatives can be buried in peace.

The reason why the widow found the old Taoist priest was because her family was poor. When the man left, not only did he leave behind a few children, but also the man's parents. How much savings.So she asked her fellow villager for help and took her to the village. She wanted to go to the village to find out if there were any cheaper rituals. When she first entered the village, she bumped into an old wandering Taoist priest who was setting up a roadside stall to show people.

The village woman saw that the old Taoist was quite accurate, so she asked the old Taoist if he knew how to do trivial things?
It is the old profession of old Taoist priests to do funeral rituals for people. When old Taoist priests see a business coming to their door, there is no reason to take the initiative to push the business out of the door. They must say that they will.

To say that this old Taoist priest has traveled all over the world, traveled all over the world, and has seen a lot. He saw the village woman in front of him with a haggard complexion, a bony nose and sharp cheekbones. She looked like a widow. She was dressed plainly and looked sad. She probably died in the family. The man, with a few children in tow, didn't have much living money in his hands, and in order to do good deeds, he didn't ask for too much money, so he hurried into the mountain.

As a result, within a few days of entering the mountain, just as the man was buried, the old Taoist priest was about to leave the mountain when the mountain was covered by heavy snow, and the old Taoist priest had to go back to the village in the snow again.

Fortunately, the village woman knew how to repay her kindness, and took in the old Taoist priest, letting him live next to her parents-in-law's house.

Naturally, the old man can't eat and drink for free, so he acts as a man's job, chopping firewood, sweeping snow, and going into the mountains to see if he can find some herbs and mushrooms to survive the winter. There are many pine forests in the north, and winter can grow longer Head mushrooms.

Although these days were poor and full of hunger and food, fortunately no one died of starvation. In addition, the old Taoist priests have traveled all over the world for so many years, and they are also very capable of surviving in the wild. They can find many herbs that are nourishing in winter .So although I was trapped by the snowstorm and couldn't get enough to eat every day, I didn't get sick or suffer.

In fact, with such a big snow disaster, the life of the whole village is not easy.

Just at this time, a strange thing happened in the village.

A family of villagers salvaged a corpse from the river.

That corpse is wicked.

It floated under the ice of the river.

That day, several villagers dug holes in the ice to catch fish on the frozen river.

As a result, the corpse was stuck to the river ice on its back and drifted downstream until it reached the ice hole made by a villager named Zhuangzi.

That is, from that day on.

From the home of this villager named Zhuangzi, the smell of minced meat began to waft out every day.

A family of four, a strong son, a pregnant woman, an old father, and an old mother eat so much food every day that their mouths are full of oil and their faces are flushed. Others are starving, and the only family in the village is not hungry and thin. Instead, they grow fat.

So rumors began to spread in the village.

It is said that the Zhuangzi just picked up a corpse from under the glacier not long ago, and the smell of meat began to spread from the house every day, saying that the meat eaten by the Zhuangzi’s family was not other meat, but was cut from that corpse Dead flesh.

It was Zhuang Zi who had just buried the man during the day, and was so hungry at night that he turned around and dug out the man and took him home for cooking.

Facing the rumors and rumors in the village, Zhuangzi's family did not come forward to explain. The door is closed every day, and they rarely go out.

But the oddities don't stop there.

Logically speaking, with four mouths, such a way of eating every day, the meat should have been eaten long ago, but Zhuangzi's family with four mouths still has meat to eat every day.

Later, rumors spread to the village woman's house where the old Taoist was staying, saying that Zhuangzi's family dug up the body of her man and ate it.

This person will be insane when he eats people. Even jackals, tigers and leopards don't eat the same kind of meat, even if they are hungry, they will not eat the same kind of meat, because it is easy to lose their minds.Zhuangzi's family must be addicted to cannibalism. The whole family went crazy. After eating the corpses picked up in the river, they ate corpses in the village instead.

Hearing this, Jin An nodded in agreement.

Cannibalism is indeed insane, and it is also called the Wan virus.

And that's how mad cow disease came about.

Beef cattle eat too much feed that is crushed with similar internal organs and bones. Although the nutrition has improved, it has also planted a curse.

Of course.

People in this world do not yet have the concept of viruses.

But it has long been proven that people can become lunatics if they eat human flesh.

In the tomb, a group of people walked while listening to the old Taoist continue to talk.

After hearing the rumors, the village woman rushed to her husband's grave to open the coffin.

However, the bones were normal.

There is no sign that the soil on the grave has been touched.

However, the corpse that Zhuangzi buried under the glacier after digging it up was gone.

Although the body of the village woman's husband was still there, the body picked up by Zhuangzi was gone, which further confirmed the villagers' initial guess that Zhuangzi's family had eaten him.

Encountering such an evil thing, how can the villagers sit still? They are afraid that Zhuangzi's family will become addicted to cannibalism, and one day they will finish eating the corpses. Who can guarantee that Zhuangzi will go crazy and eat his fellow villagers?On the same day, everyone rushed to Zhuangzi's house, smashed the door, ransacked the box, but couldn't find the human flesh, bones, or corpses they imagined.

The villagers, who were still angry at first, are now in a dilemma.

At this moment, Zhuangzi's mother-in-law screamed in pain. It turned out that the villagers came to her house and beat her up.

As a result, on that day, the Zhuangzi mother-in-law had dystocia and hemorrhage, and died on the bed, with blood flowing all over the floor, that was the day.The midwife fainted from fright, because the strong woman gave birth not to a baby, but a weasel skin!
That night, Zhuangzi’s family had an explosion, and the mother-in-law died of bleeding in the house, her eyes were wide open, and she died in peace. She was eight months pregnant but gave birth to a weasel skin. Even the parents were so angry that they fell into a coma. That night, I hurriedly found the old Taoist priest, and begged the old Taoist priest for help, to save him and his parents.

The old Taoist had heard about Zhuangzi’s family for a long time. The old Taoist did not refuse Zhuangzi’s call for help. He said that it is okay to save people, but Zhuangzi must tell him all the truth and must not hide anything, otherwise he will not be able to help in this matter. busy.

The reason why the old Taoist was willing to help Zhuangzi was because when Zhuangzi came to beg him, he could tell at a glance that Zhuangzi didn't look like he had eaten human flesh at all.

Because anyone who has eaten human flesh will have blackened teeth and uncontrollable shaking of hands and feet.

The signs are clear.

But Zhuangzi does not have these characteristics.

When Zhuangzi saw that the old Taoist was willing to save him, he immediately grasped the last straw like a drowning man, and naturally he was desperately trying to survive, so he shook out all the truth.

This matter started half a month ago.

Just after the snow disaster came, and just a few days after the heavy snow closed the mountain, Zhuangzi started to go into the mountain to look for food, because the mother-in-law was pregnant, and both adults and children needed nutrition, so he assumed the responsibility of being a husband and a man, and went deep into the snow-capped mountains. Find food everywhere.

That day.

He went deep into the snow mountain, in order to chase a wild rabbit, he accidentally found a snow mountain village buried by heavy snow.

It was an abandoned village.

Zhuangzi also saw this snow village for the first time.

Never seen it before.

It seems that the snow village appeared only after this snow disaster.

At that time, the Zhuangzi only wanted to chase here, and he could not give up all his efforts. He wanted to nourish his wife and children immediately after catching the hare, so he stepped into this strange snow village alone.

In order to give himself courage, he even deceived himself, saying that there was no village here before, and now there is a snow village. It is possible that he misremembered the location and followed the hare in the snow mountain to the wrong direction.

In this way, Zhuang Zi emboldened himself to enter Snow Village alone.

But there is nothing in Xuecun.

no one.

no animals.

There is not even any feces left by animals hiding in the snow here.

There were no animal paw prints on the snow either.

The whole snow village is clean, only the snow footprints behind him.

Zhuangzi took photos from room to room, and each room was empty, until he found a painting in a room.

In that painting, there are no people, only a bare temple, which is a snow-capped mountain temple.

As a result, when he got home that day, Zhuangzi had a dream. He dreamed that he came to a snow mountain temple, and a great immortal lived in the snow mountain temple.

The great immortal said that Zhuangzi would salvage a corpse tomorrow, and that corpse was her body in the yang world. Although she had completed her merits and virtues and was already in the class of immortals, her body in the yang world would not be able to rest in the earth after death, so she would not be able to go to the fairy world. According to reports, it cannot really be ranked in the fairy class.So I want to ask Zhuangzi, who is destined, to salvage her body and bury it in the village.

Zhuangzi is dubious.

As a result, on the second day, he actually salvaged a corpse, that is, in the early morning of the second day after the burial, Zhuangzi got up early in the morning and opened the door to see a hare hanging outside the door.

Zhuangzi was ecstatic, and he really thought that he was doing kindness to move the great immortal in the sky. After having a full meal with his family, he hurriedly set up a longevity card for the great immortal at home and burned incense to pray for blessings.

Actually he didn't know.

It's good that he doesn't set up a longevity card.

This act is tantamount to planting the root of disaster, inviting wild gods into the house, and later killing his mother-in-law and unborn child.

Just as the family of four feasted on their food, it was rare to have a full meal after the snowstorm. That night, the great fairy once again entrusted Zhuang Zi with a dream, saying that Zhuang Zi ate the food she gave, and her body left in the sun was lying on the ground. It's cold underground, no one worships, I hope Zhuangzi can sweep her grave and talk to her.

Zhuangzi, who had tasted the sweetness once, quickly agreed this time.

As a result, in the early morning of the second day after the worship, Zhuangzi hung a pheasant outside the door and window of Zhuangzi's house again. Zhuangzi, who was still excited and ecstatic at the time, didn't know that he was inviting wild gods into his house, and disaster was imminent.

Yesterday the great immortal could not enter his house because of his lack of cultivation, so he could only hang hare meat on the gate of his house, but today, he can hang pheasants on the windows of his house.

On the third day, Daxian dreamed again, saying that when she died, she didn't have the last bite of food and became a starving ghost, so she wanted to eat a corn cob, so as to fulfill her last wish during her lifetime.

Zhuangzi did as he said, and it happened that there were still some corn cobs left in the cellar.

Sure enough, the next day, there was another hare hanging on the door and window.

On the fourth day, the Great Immortal entrusted her with a dream, and this time she asked for chicken blood, saying that it was because her body had been dead for too long, and the underground was too deserted, and she needed some yang energy to nourish her. Zhuangzi asked Zhuangzi to find a bowl of chicken blood and drip it on her grave. Zhuangzi did not doubt Daxian. If so, it just so happened that the pheasant that was slaughtered yesterday still had a bowl of chicken blood that was not stewed.

Dog blood was required on the fifth day, live poultry was buried in her grave on the sixth day, and human blood was required on the seventh day...

Although Zhuang Zi wondered why the Great Immortal needed human blood, Zhuang Zi believed in the Great Immortal's ability at that time. Although he had some doubts, he still did it truthfully and donated his own blood to the Great Immortal.

However, Zhuangzi soon discovered that things were far from that simple.

The immortal's desire became stronger and stronger, and the things he asked for began to become more and more evil, and it became more and more unbearable for him. At the beginning, it was not difficult, but as the desire became stronger step by step, Later, they actually started asking for people's fingers!

Zhuangzi thought that his mother-in-law was going to give birth soon, just when the adults needed meat the most and the children needed milk the most, he tremblingly dug up a grave and dug up a dead man's severed finger. Daxian.

But after a few days, small things like human blood, live poultry, and fingers could no longer satisfy Daxian's desire. This time Daxian asked Zhuangzi to steal a baby for her and bury it in the soil of her grave.

what, baby?Zhuang Zi was really scared this time.

He would definitely not agree to murder and commit a crime.

Daxian didn't make things difficult for Zhuangzi, so he wanted Zhuangzi's old father's head instead, because Daxian said that Zhuangzi had leaked his affairs to his father, and Daxian's name should not be profaned by ordinary people. If Zhuangzi desecrated the gods, he must pay for it There is a price.

No matter how hard Zhuangzi begged, Daxian refused to bypass his father.

That same night, Zhuangzi's mother-in-law was suffering from abdominal pain and almost had a miscarriage. The Daxian entrusted Zhuangzi with a dream again, and in the dream he changed from the previous kindness. Small punishment, if the father's head is not offered to her to eat, the strong son's daughter-in-law will be killed the next day.

The warning this time made Zhuangzi understand that he was leading wolves into the house, but it was too late to regret.

It was impossible for him to commit patricide, so he simply kept on doing nothing, took advantage of the dawn, dug out the corpse of the great immortal, and burned it clean.

Zhuangzi thinks that by doing this, he will be able to hide from anyone. No one in the village will know that he has invited an evil god into the village, and the family of four can continue to stay in the village until the snowstorm is over.

And there is still a lot of meat hoarded at home, saving some food is enough for them to survive this snowstorm year.

In the next few days, as expected by Zhuangzi, the great immortal did not ask him to look for him again. It seemed that the nightmare was over with the burning of the body.

Until, a villager broke into his house, causing his mother-in-law to give birth prematurely and gave birth to a weasel skin. His parents were overwhelmed by fright and passed out.

But it was too late for Zhuangzi to repent at this time, and his family was ruined.

In order not to involve the parents.

Then he ran to the old Taoist priest and begged the old Taoist priest to save his parents.

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pat.

pat.

In the empty cave, the team of ten people continued to move forward. Everyone was quiet all the way, quietly listening to the experiences of the old Taoist priest.

"Snow Village?"

"Weasel skin?"

"It turns out that the Taoist priest who ran to the government to report the case of hiding corpses in Xuecun from the snow-covered mountains was you, Daoist Chen?"

This time it was General Du Wei who spoke.

He looked at the old Taoist priest in surprise.

The surprise on his face was beyond words.

"Chen Daochang, you may not have an impression of me. I also heard about this from a visiting friend, because this case was a very famous and big case back then..." After walking and stopping, they had already walked out of the mountain in front of them. Wall, there is a step in front of you, the steps go up, leading to a huge high platform in front, there is a hazy outline on the high platform, it seems to be a coffin?
Tick ​​tock!

Suddenly.

A drop of water made a soft sound, making everyone's expressions tense.

"Shh, there's movement!"

The captain made a silent movement, and looked solemnly at the high platform in front of him. The sound of water droplets came from the shadow of the coffin on the high platform.
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(End of this chapter)