Ghost Blowing Lamp II

Chapter 12

Beside the root of the tree that was knocked down by a man and bear, there is a half stone statue buried in the soil, which has a rare tiger head and animal face, a beast head and a human body, with a helmet on the head, and holds a stone ax decorated with human heads in both hands. The appearance is very ferocious. When Yanzi saw the stone statues with tiger heads and human bodies, he immediately thought of an ancient legend in the mountain, and he didn't care about cleaning up the bear skin. He said to us in surprise: "It seems to be the stone statues of mountain ghosts. This forest is probably the ghost yamen in the mountains, let's run away."

The legend of "ghost yamen" has been circulating for many years in the dense forest at the westernmost end of Daxing'an Mountains. It is said that it is a secret entrance of the Yan Luo Temple in Yangjian. There are hunters who get lost in the mountains. Once they enter the "ghost yamen" by mistake, they will not know it. Walking into the nether world, becoming a lonely ghost, and never returning to the world of mortals, but in the past hundred years, few people have been able to see it again.

The biggest feature of the "ghost yamen" is that there is a tiger-headed mountain ghost guarding the door. Of course, no one can verify the origin of the legend in this mountain. It is just entering the "ghost yamen" The ghost story of going to the Temple of Yama makes people feel frightened from the bottom of their hearts. In addition, hunters are born with awe of mountains, so Yanzi panicked and just wanted to urge us to leave as soon as possible.

Fatty and I have both heard the legend, and I also know that it is not appropriate to stay in a place where things go wrong, but I am not intimidated by a stone statue with a tiger's head and a human body. I casually comforted Yanzi, what "ghost yamen"?They are all legacy of feudal society, how can we be afraid of them?But I was thinking at the same time in my heart, I must first sort out the situation in front of me before making any plans.

The bear cave was originally a semi-enclosed natural cave under a dead tree. It was only because when the man and the bear were chasing and attacking people just now, they uprooted a red pine tree that was in the way. The red pine happened to grow near the bear cave. The Tila belt collapsed the underground soil, only to reveal a stone beast half submerged in the soil. As for the nonsense about the "ghost yamen" of the ghost guards on the Tiger Head Mountain, I don't believe it at all. In my opinion, this warrior with the tiger head and human body The stone figurines are most likely the statues used to guard the tombs in front of the ancient tombs, but at that time I was not familiar with the five elements of Fengshui and the layout of the mausoleum, so I didn't dare to assert it. I was just curious. Now that I found these strange shapes If you don't take the opportunity to explore all these strange things, what's the point?
I persuaded Yanzi not to rush back to the forest farm, but to go over there to find out where the "Ghost Yamen" is, and look at the direction where the tiger-head stone figurines are placed. If there are temples and tombs in the mountains, they should be in the "Huangpizi" On the other side of the tomb, the ancient magnetic bowls and golden beans emptied out by Huangpizi may have all been obtained from the so-called "ghost yamen". If we can find those treasures, we will do our best to support the world revolution. enormous contributions.

Swallow stomped his feet and said, "Don't talk about it, I didn't guard the forest farm, and I went out to hunt bears with you in secret. I have already made a mistake. I will inevitably be criticized by the old party secretary when I go back. I have to rectify it. If something else comes out, how can I explain to the old branch secretary?"

Fatty was thinking about the gold, so he also helped me talk about Yanzi. The two of us said to Yanzi: "Sister Yanzi, don't be so afraid of the old secretary? And we are not making any mistakes. We are now supporting the world revolution. Although it is our job to guard the forest farm, don't forget that the highest instruction is not to suppress the revolution with production. In the face of the torrent of revolutionary struggle , the work has to be thrown aside, and the party secretary’s words are not easy to use. He likes to do whatever he wants, why are you hesitating? Don’t forget that this is the final struggle. You must strike while the iron is hot to succeed, and the red flag will be planted later. It’s been all over the world, and there’s no rush for anything.”

We can talk about going online, but Yanzi is speechless. She was confused when she heard it, so she decided to do whatever she wanted, so we immediately started, leaving the bear skin and bear meat aside for the time being. , only wrapped in bear paws and bear gall with him, the fat man suddenly remembered, where is the wooden cage where "Huang Xiangu" was kept?Just now the man-bear fell from the tree and broke a large piece of red pine, which hit the grass nest where we were staying. At that time, we were only concerned with dodging and escaping. We threw the wooden cage in the chaos. I still don’t remember it now. up.Although the yellow skin is small, it still has two ounces of meat, not to mention the smooth skin of "Huang Xiangu", let alone ten catties of fruit candy, it is a bit reluctant to throw it away so easily.

Looking around the broken red pine, he found that the wooden cage had been smashed to pieces by the pine branches, and the cage was empty.

I remember that "Huang Xiangu"'s hind legs were firmly bound by wires. Even if the cage was broken, it would not be able to break free from the wires. At most, it used its two front paws to climb out and escape. Relying on the strength of its hind legs, it can't escape too far. Thinking of it, I hurriedly looked up and looked around. In addition to the messy footprints when we fought with the man-bear on the snow, there was indeed a rough mark that was pulled away, "Huang Xiangu "It must have escaped along here. Following this trail, I saw a furry thing crawling desperately beside the stone figurine with a tiger head and a human body. It was the "Huang Xiangu" who escaped from the squirrel cage. .

Seeing that it didn't run away, we regained our energy immediately, and chased after it like a gust of wind. We saw "Huang Xiangu" was struggling to crawl towards Huangpizi's grave with its two front paws. It sensed someone chasing from behind. , then went into a hole next to the stone figurines and disappeared.

We chased it and saw that there was a tunnel under the feet of the figurines of Hutou Mountain Ghost. The water and soil changed over time, and it had been covered by soil and pine branches. Grumbling, she couldn't see clearly, "Huang Xiangu" just fled into this small gap.

The fat man kicked the mud wall next to the hole with his feet angrily, and within a few kicks, the soil on the tunnel wall collapsed, and a big hole was exposed in the pit left by the root stem of the old tree. A dark wind came out from inside, blowing the face coolly, it seemed that the air in it was smooth, and there must be another outlet at the far end.

Even the fat man didn't expect the earthen wall to be so unbearable, so I quickly stopped him. It seems that the deep hole at the entrance of the hole is not a tunnel, but a working passage dug between the mud and rocks. It is not strong and may collapse at any time. I don't know where it leads, so I quickly found some pine branches and lit a few torches to light it up, and went into the black hole behind the cave to investigate.

The hole is very narrow, and it is possible to move forward by crawling and crawling, but we are reluctant to wear out our sleeves, so we can only poke the torch in front of it obliquely, then squat down and move forward a little bit, shine the light of the fire, and find the hole There are still traces of excavation with sharp tools on the inner walls. I am leading the way, the fat man is holding a long-handled mountain axe, and the swallow is holding another torch and dragging behind the shotgun pad.

We don't know where this tidal, cold and swishing hole leads, and we are very puzzled. My grandfather was a Fengshui master, because he knew the secrets of dragon hunting back then. He was quite famous in the province and made many friends. There are many yin and yang feng shui masters among them, and there are also tomb robbers engaged in "inverted fighting" for a living. From him, I learned that the most powerful tomb robber is "Mojin Xiaowei", who can look outside the Yamagata. The so-called "directly pounding the Yellow Dragon" means digging a secret and precise tunnel, bypassing the copper wall and iron coffin, and going straight from the golden well to the tomb with the secret artifacts. Maybe we can drill now. This underground cave is a treasure-robbing tunnel dug by tomb robbers.

But I quickly denied this possibility by myself. The mud hole is narrow and short, starting from the foot of the tiger-headed stone figurine, and reaching the end after a row of more than ten meters. An old bluestone gate buried in the soil seems to have cornices and bucket arches on it, but only a part of the stone gate was dug out of the hole, so it was impossible to distinguish it carefully for a while.The stone gate is divided into two, half-opened and half-closed, and there is a big gap left in the middle. There is a stone pillar facing each other on both sides. The stone building in the cave used to exist on the ground, and it has been eroded by natural factors such as wind, rain, and sun all year round to become what it is now.

The fat man and I both guessed that this is probably an ancient temple. It was buried in the soil under geological action, and even the pine trees on it grew so thick. I don’t know what year and month it was. Is there any reason not to go in and have a look?After going in, if there are any good things, they will come out. If there is nothing, they will brush two slogans on him, and it will be broken by the four olds.

Swallow said that this designation is the "ghost yamen", and behind the gate is probably the hall of hell, let's go back and forth, don't care about what's in it.I said to Swallow: "This cave is so short, and there is no other way out. Huang Xiangu must have got into this stone gate. Let's go in and catch it and come back. If we can't catch it, it will be a waste of work last night, and You can’t change the fruit candy, don’t you want to eat candy?”

Yanzi swallowed her saliva: "Why don't you want to eat candy? In fact, fruit candy is not as delicious as the milk candy brought by the educated youths from the city..." The fat man is anxious to capture "Huang Xiangu", before I can put Yanzi's thoughts to work. When it worked out, I squeezed past us and entered the stone gate first. I was afraid that there would be some unexpected danger inside, and I was worried that the fat man would be left alone, so I called Yanzi to follow in quickly.

The light of the torch became flickering due to our rapid movement. When the light and darkness were combined, I could see that there was no soil behind the door. It was a rather spacious stone hall with stone pillars, stone tables, and clay statues on both sides. It was lying down in disorder, and the corners were covered with thick cobwebs and ashes. It was a mess everywhere, and the light of the torch was very limited. It was impossible to see where the "Huang Xiangu" was hiding for a while. .

Three people came in at the same time, there was a lot of movement, I don't know who picked up some dust, which made us cough uncontrollably, the dust finally settled, and when we looked at each other, we saw that the other party was very disheveled and extremely embarrassed.

When the fat man went through the several-meter-long tunnel just now, his legs and feet were numb from squatting because of the low and narrow cave. A large piece of ashes fell on it, and there happened to be a round wooden pier that looked like a tree stump near the door, so I took off my hat and dusted the wooden pier twice, then sat down on it, and said to me: "I'm going to be a one-man guard against this blockage, even if the little yellow skin can't grow wings and fly, Lao Hu, go search everywhere to see where it is hiding, drive it out and let me flay it alive Its skin, but I think this big house seems to have a back door, it will be troublesome if it wants to go through the back door, the swallow will go to the back door to guard..."

Ever since I entered the weird stone palace, I have been full of curiosity about the various things inside. I had long forgotten about the capture of "Huang Xiangu" and was reminded by the fat man. I was about to find it. , but saw the swallow hurriedly pulled the fat man away from the tree stump, and the swallow said to us: "I told you and you still don't believe it. This is a ghost yamen. Everyone in the mountains knows that you can't sit on the tree stump in the forest, because it is a tiger. God's dining table, mortals are going to invite disaster if they sit, so why do you say that you just sit?"

The fat man raised his foot to stand on the wooden pier and said with a smile: "Now the satellites are all in the sky, the atomic bomb has exploded, and the poor have turned over and been liberated. Who cares about the gods and princes' dining table, it's all the old society's old calendar. Now We laboring people think it is a butt pad, and we think highly of it, and if I want to be happy, I am not allowed to piss on it."

I pushed the fat man away, and joked to him, "Don't be a motherfucker, the working people can't defecate anywhere, and you don't look in the mirror, when did you have a fat head like you in the team of the working people?" Fat thief, you will be exposed just by looking at your stomach, no need to ask, it must be a bad element who has infiltrated our working people."

What puzzled me the most was that I don’t know what this stone palace is for, especially why there is such a tree stump at the door. After taking a photo, I found that this stump-like wooden pier is really bright, with simple patterns on it, and many strange symbols that cannot be understood. The most peculiar thing is that in the middle of the wooden pier, there is a person wearing ancient The human figure in women's clothing, but that human figure has no head, but a face of a weasel. The yellow leather face has a treacherous smile, which is very hateful and indescribably disgusting. That weird expression seems to have an invisible The force field grabs people's hearts, making people feel a coolness in the pores of their whole body at a glance.

(End of this chapter)