what the hell is

"To be precise, it's a talisman." Li Yang wasn't too surprised, and his tone was flat.

"What's written on it?" I swallowed and asked.

A doll full of pins, with black jade and yellow talismans hidden in its belly, these things are terrifying no matter how they look.To be honest, this is where Li Yang is. If I were alone, I wouldn't dare to take another look.

He pointed to the top character on the talisman and read: "This is the edict." Then he pointed to the word below: "Order."

I pointed to the third word: "Ghost?"

"No, this is Kui." He said, "Look, there is a 'Doo' hidden here."

The characters below are even more difficult to distinguish. Even Li Yang couldn't pronounce them. Many strokes were glued together, and it seemed that many characters were written together, which seemed specious.

"These words have some meaning." He pointed it out to me.

These characters are written at the bottom of the talisman. The characters are as small as a fly's head. What is commendable is that each character is clearly visible and neatly written.

I read it slowly: "Foul and evil, Li..."

Li Yang burst out laughing: "Old Liu, you really should supplement your knowledge of Chinese culture. First of all, ancient poems are not read in this way, they are read from right to left and from top to bottom. In addition, this traditional Chinese character Don't read Li, but read 'chen', the dust of dust. The eight characters at the top should be read like this: the world is endless, and the evil spirit is dirty."

I smiled awkwardly: "What does that mean?"

"I don't know." Li Yang shook his head and frowned, "It's kind of evil." He opened the drawer and took out a magnifying glass.

Damn, this kid has quite a complete set of equipment.

I stood behind him, not daring to breathe. I read the following poems word by word through a magnifying glass, and slowly read: "A man with a dog's head and a bow is in his hand, and a black horse with white hooves is as fast as the wind. When a white lotus meets water, flowers and dust fall, The ghosts follow me into the underground palace..."

Ghosts follow me into the underground palace? !My hairs stand on end.

There are four more sentences below, which may be blurred by water.Li Yang pouted his chin, staring at the first four lines of the poem very engrossed.I didn't dare to disturb his thoughts, so I asked after a long time: "Can you see what these four sentences mean?"

"I don't quite understand it, so I can roughly make a guess."

"Tell me."

He didn't answer me, but got up and went to the bookshelf, carefully looking for some books one by one.

"Well...here it is." He took one out of the bookshelf, flipped to a page, and handed it to me.

I glanced at him hesitantly and took the book.This is an ancient book that is yellow with time, and the paper is a little torn. I hold it in my hand carefully, for fear that the pages will fall apart with a little force.

On the page that was opened, there was an ancient painting drawn in black and white, and the subject of the painting was a person.The lines in the painting are very simple, but the description is vivid and lifelike.

The person in the painting is half-human and half-beast to be precise. It has goat's hooves, a sharp fork in its hand, and is covered in animal skin. The most frightening thing is that its neck is not a human head, but a long An unusually ferocious dog face, especially the pair of dog eyes, outlined by Dan Qing, with a light touch, the eyes that see through the world's cruelty are extremely vivid.

"This is?" I was completely shocked and speechless by such an ancient painting.

"This is the ghost messenger in the underworld described in the Taoist classics." Li Yang said.

"Ghost?"

"It's a bit like a bull's head and horse face, with black and white impermanence. In Western mythology, there are also guard dogs at the gate of hell. The origin and system of each myth about hell are different, so the images of ghosts are also different."

"Look, old Liu, the first sentence is about a dog with a head and a man holding a bow..." He said, "Could it be about ghosts in the underworld?"

"What about the second sentence?" I asked.

"...A black horse with white hooves is as fast as the wind." He scratched his head: "Could it be a description of the process of souls going to hell and the underworld after death. The King of Hades will let you die on the third watch, and no one dares to stay until the fifth watch. The process of death Like a fast horse with a whip, a stream of green smoke."

"Okay." I admitted it was a bit far-fetched: "What about the third sentence? The white lotus meets the water and the dust falls."

"Old Liu, you know that there was a very evil organization in our country in ancient times, which was related to Bailian..."

I waved my hand: "Don't say it, it's a no-nonsense thing." We looked at each other and smiled.

This organization related to Bailian is the same as the case I told Brother Peng about the child hanged upside down the day before yesterday.

"What about the fourth sentence?"

"That's easier to understand." Li Yang held the talisman and pondered: "Old Liu, the main issue now is not to discuss the use of these talisman jade tablets, but where Lin Xia got these things from."

yes.I scratched my head, this voodoo doll is really too mysterious and weird, the things hidden in it are beyond the reach of ordinary people, unless there is an expert to help.

Li Yang suddenly looked straight at me. I was taken aback by him, and I stretched out my hand to shake in front of his eyes.

He recovered from his contemplation: "Old Liu, we must visit Lin Xia's residence."

I quickly waved my hand: "You can pull it down. We don't have a key. Ask Sister Liu for it, but she can't give it to me. How do you get in? Besides, there are some clues there, don't talk nonsense."

"I have a way to go in quietly. If you don't want to go, I won't force you."

He sat down, took out his mobile phone, looked up a number, and dialed it directly.The conversation was very brief, but within one minute, I heard Li Yang say, "Come here, bring your tools."

Who would that be?It's late at night, and he can call him without any trouble.I remembered the experience of lying on the window and peeking at Lin Xia's room. That residence was indeed indescribably gloomy and dead.

We waited patiently for the rest of the time. He was half lying on the bed, and I was sitting on the sofa. Each of us took a book and read it while smoking a cigarette.

These books of his are by no means suitable for passing the time, they are all about metaphysics, even good people can see constipation.I read it for a while, feeling bored, put the book aside, and looked up at the sword hanging on the wall.

"What kind of sword is this?"

He knocked on the soot, got off the bed, took off the red sword, and threw it over.This sword is thin and long, and it looks quite majestic. The tip of the sword pointed straight at me, and I was shocked: "Damn, don't be kidding." I quickly avoided it.

The sword fell on the sofa, limp, and I saw clearly that it was a sword made of wood.

I stretched out my hand and put it in my hand, and pulled a sword flower: "How about it, I feel a bit like a Taoist priest."

Li Yang sat on the bed and said, "This is a mahogany sword used by a Taoist priest. It was given to my father by a wandering master many years ago when he went to the countryside."

"Oh? So good?" I said.

"It's quite interesting to say. At that time, the production team had to select a few people to go up the mountain to do earthwork, and my father was one of them. A total of six of them went to Stone Mountain. It is said that there is no grass to see, and the mountains and plains are full of stones. Their daily tasks It is to break out large and small stones, and every half a month, the youth point will send a carriage to take them away. One day when they were fighting, a man named Fist in their team dug out a strange thing. Everyone gathered around Look, there is a corner of a red quilt exposed between several big rocks. The quilt has been buried for a long time, it has faded badly, and looks very dirty. At that time, winter was about to enter, and it was getting colder every day. At that time, people were educated not to believe in gods and ghosts at all, so they felt that digging out this quilt was at least a tool to keep out the cold."

"And then?" I was fascinated.

"They dug with shovels and pried with skewers, and finally removed the big rocks, revealing the whole quilt. The red quilt was rolled into a barrel shape, with a person wrapped in the middle. All the black hair came out..."

I gasped, "Is it a woman?"

"Hehe, yes. This woman has black hair and is naked. She looks like she was alive, and she is quite beautiful. I don't know when and why she was buried here. Everyone thinks it is bad luck, and they have to dig the hole again. I was buried, but who knew that the fist was obsessed with lust, and went back to the shed with the woman's body in her arms, and told everyone that I had the courage to sleep with my arms around her all night, and I would bury it tomorrow. Everyone is a young man in his twenties, look Such a sexy beauty was also a little tempted, so she didn't say anything. Unexpectedly, the next morning, there were six people in their room, all of them had a fever and a cold, and they had red measles all over their bodies. Taking anti-inflammatory tablets didn't help, All of them were burnt to the point of confusion, and they were about to die silently on the mountain. At this time, a wandering Taoist priest came from nowhere."

"Saved your father and the others?" I said.

"Yes. In those days, Taoist priests and monks were the targets of severe punishment. According to my father, that Taoist priest was dressed in a clean Taoist robe, with his hair in a bun and walking on cloud shoes, holding a dust whisk in his hand. At first glance, he is an expert. Among other things, it is definitely not easy for him to wear this Taoist robe to walk on the red land of the motherland. The Taoist said, my father and the others were poisoned by corpses. He left behind the pills and this mahogany sword. It’s amazing, they hung the mahogany swords in the hut, took those pills, and the fever subsided immediately.”

"Where's the female corpse?" I'm more concerned about this.

"Let that Taoist priest take him away, I don't know where he went."

I sighed: "This Taoist has a strong taste."

Li Yang smiled: "Don't talk nonsense, Taoist priests have the virtue of being good at life, and they will never leave such evil things in the world to harm the world. Maybe they burned them in a way."

I lightly stroked the long sword in my hand: "I didn't expect this thing to have such a legendary origin."

"As soon as I moved in, I felt that there was something wrong here, and there was too much yin, so I hung this sword on the wall to suppress evil." He said.

I thought for a while: "Li Yang, have you ever thought about this possibility? It's only because you hung up your sword to drive away evil spirits that you haven't been able to find the secret of this building for a long time."

"Oh? How do you say it?"

"This building is full of yin, and I think the place where the yin is most abundant is on the top floor and the roof. You hang such a sword, and the yin will go around you. Where else do you go to find it?"

Li Yang touched his chin: "It makes sense." He jumped out of bed, took out a rattan box from under the bed, and locked the mahogany sword into the box.

I couldn't laugh or cry, I was just about to say that I was joking with you just now.At this time, the outside door knocked.

Li Yang looked at his watch: "Almost, very fast. He is here."

"Who?" I asked.

"A person who can let us enter Lin Xia's room quietly." Li Yang smirked.