Ghost Blowing Lamp II

Chapter 37
This underground passage occupied by countless wild rats is connected to a cave like an underground hall. There are many huge stones buried in the ground of the hall, and there are many passages with the same structure around it. I never thought that on the stone wall of this cave, It is actually engraved with the statue of the "Huang Xiangu" in Huangpizi Temple.

The picture carved behind the stone wall has already been noticed when we discovered the stone wall-like natural emerald stone screen, but these engravings are old, and the stone wall is peeled off and blurred. If you don’t wipe off the dust with your sleeve It's hard to tell.

At this time, I was standing in front of the stone wall, and by the dim light, I noticed the strange and evil face of the weasel at a glance. This portrait of a yellow-skinned woman with a head, when others saw it, they immediately felt troubled and haunted. .Unexpectedly, I almost dropped the cigarette in my hand on the ground. I quickly pinched the end of the cigarette with my fingers, put it on my mouth and took a deep puff to calm down my surprised mood a little.

Inferior shredded tobacco is mixed with dead leaves, and the smoke that comes out after taking a puff is like a chimney that smokes when the stove is lit. Ding Sitian next to me choked and coughed. She waved her hand to drive away the smoke: "Why don't you Can't you smoke less? You have developed a smoking addiction at such a young age, and it will be difficult to borrow in the future." I think Ding Sitian has all the advantages in her body, and the only small disadvantage is that she can't tolerate other people smoking. Smoking with the fat man, she always talked about Comrade Lenin quitting smoking. Comrade Lenin lived in poverty when he was young, and he was also addicted to smoking. Once Lenin's mother said to him: "Dear Vladimir Miyrich, you Can't you smoke less?" As expected of a great man's mother, what she said was different, didn't she just say can you stop smoking?But can you smoke a little less?What a great philosophic statement this is, gentle and kind, but also obedient to others, worthy of being a woman among women. Comrade Lenin never smoked a cigarette again after his mother said it so earnestly.

At this time Ding Sitian mentioned this matter again, and persuaded me to follow the great man as an example and let me quit smoking, but my mind was all on looking at the portrait of "Huang Xiangu", and I didn't pay much attention to her words at all. Staring at the carvings on the stone wall, she answered Ding Sitian with half self-deprecating and half coping: "Well...isn't it just quitting smoking? I think quitting smoking is actually not difficult at all. I have quit more than 100 times in the past six months... ..."

Ding Sitian saw that I was absent-minded in answering, but was concentrating on looking at the stone wall, so she followed my gaze and looked over. The carved patterns on the stone screen were extremely complicated, and the evil image of Huang Xiangu only occupied one corner. When she saw the hideous weasel face clearly, she was also taken aback, covered her mouth with her hand, and almost cried out.

The weasel-faced woman in the painting has a very strange appearance and behavior, as if she is muttering words and performing some kind of sorcery. In front of her is a large box with ancient mottled patterns. The mouth of the box is half-opened and half-closed. In the middle, lay a woman straight and straight. The woman was wearing a mask and a gorgeous scale dress. Looking at her lying down, she was extremely stiff, as if she was a carefully dressed corpse.

Below the female corpse and the "Huang Xiangu", there is an unknown long-feathered bird that looks like a chicken or a pheasant, and it is flying upwards with a vague human figure. I have seen many mysterious folk customs preserved at the lowest level of the folk. I saw this strange bird, and found that its shape is very similar to the "soul-inducing chicken" in the folklore of Daxing'an Mountains.

Legend has it that after death, a person turns into a ghost. Ghosts return to Ye, their essence returns to heaven, their flesh returns to earth, their blood returns to water, their pulses return to lakes, their sounds return to thunder, their movements return to wind, their eyes return to the sun and moon, their bones return to wood, and their tendons return to Return to the mountain, teeth to stone, ointment to dew, hair to grass, breath to the dead and return to the nether world.

People live by having a breath, once the breath stops and dies, the breath will immediately fall into the vastness of the earth. In this concept and custom, if someone dies in the family, a rooster must be slaughtered immediately, and the rooster will be used as a gift. The blood is smeared on the corpse. According to legend, the soul of the rooster can carry the soul of the dead to make the soul ascend, so as to avoid falling into reincarnation and suffering disaster. In the village where I jumped in the queue, there are dancers, that is, dancers who dance shamans, and there are dancers for the dead. The sorceresses and divine men who are "soul-attracting chickens" were punished during the movement. I was only able to find out about their crimes when they confessed their crimes during the criticism meeting.

At this time, the fat man saw that Ding Sitian and I were watching endlessly, so he came over to join in the fun. The three of us saw the bizarre and absurd content on this natural emerald stone screen. What is recorded on the natural emerald stone screen is that "Huang Xiangu" casts a magic spell, using a method similar to "soul-inducing chicken" or "paper-tie bird". In some caves in the mountainous area, you can also see The similar ancient divine bird totem is commonly known as the Dayu Sending the Dead Bird by the local people. This divine bird can only pull the undead, and rescue the dead female corpse wearing a mask from the underworld, intending to revive it. The inseparable box of "Xiangu" is probably the source of her evil methods.

This is completely different from my previous guess. It seems that this "Hundred Eyes Cave" surrounded by countless bizarre legends is definitely not the place where the tomb robbers "Ni'erhui" hide their treasures. The box was transported to the depths of the grassland, could it be that it was to call back the soul of a dead ghost who had been dead for thousands of years?

When I think of this, I can't help but feel a sudden shock in my heart, and I am more and more curious, seeing how old this natural green stone screen is, I think that the female corpse wearing a mask must be an ancient person, who is she?Where are you now? After the bandits from the "Ni'er Club" came here, what happened?Is it related to the legend about the disappearance of people and animals near Baiyan Cave?And... Various thoughts kept coming and going in my mind, but the more I thought about it, the more I lost my mind.

The fat man slapped his thigh abruptly: "I said Lao Hu, I suddenly remembered something. What do you think these buried stones look like? The more I look at them, the more they look familiar. Have we met somewhere before?"

My attention was all focused on the box of "Huang Xiangu", and I was guessing what rare things were contained in that box, but I was interrupted by the fat man's words in the middle of my thinking, and I took a look at the stones buried in the ground After a few glances, I suddenly remembered that in the homes of many people in the deep mountains of Daxinganling, all the old houses have round rocks in the corners of the houses, some are half buried with soil, and some are simply placed directly in the house. In the mountains, I didn't understand the practice of putting stones in the house, and felt that it was completely meaningless. Later, I got acquainted with the mountain people in the village, and after many inquiries, I learned that these stones were left before liberation. In the early years, people used this method to avoid evil and exorcise ghosts. It is mentioned in ancient books: "Buried stones in four corners, there are no ghosts in the house." These stones are used to suppress ghosts. There are many legends about this. The people who lived in the barren mountains gradually formed this custom for the sake of safety. As for when it started, it is impossible to verify now.

(End of this chapter)