Maoshan Taoist priest

Chapter 15 Thousand Souls, Thousand Islands, and Birds (1)
Chen Shaoxian asked Zheng Ruirui to go back first, and then the three drove to Liu Tiezui's house.Liu Baodong opened the door and the three of them walked into the room. Liu Baodong shouted into the room: "Mom, Xiaohui, we are back."

Hearing Liu Baodong's voice, the old lady and Liu Baodong's daughter-in-law came out of the room, pulled the three of them to ask this and that, and all three said that nothing happened, so the two felt relieved.Liu Baodong said to Grandma Liu: "Mom, we came back to ask my dad something, is my dad up yet?"

"I got up, I just finished breakfast, by the way, have you eaten yet?" Grandma Liu asked.

The three of them looked at each other with strange expressions, and agreed that they had eaten.The old lady nodded and let the three into Liu Tiezui's room.

Liu Tiezui heard the conversation of several people outside on the bed, waited for a while and saw the three people enter the room, looked carefully at Liu Baodong and others, found that they were not injured, and let out a sigh of relief.He smiled at the three of them and said, "How is things going?"

When Liu Baodong and the others saw that Liu Tiezui was able to speak, they were all overjoyed.Liu Baodong asked, "Dad, are you all right?"

"Except for a little difficulty in moving, everything else has basically recovered." Liu Tiezui said with a smile.

The three of them sat by the bed, and Liu Baodong told Liu Tiezui in detail what happened last night.

Liu Tiezui frowned after hearing this and said: "At first when they first found me, I thought these children just went to places they shouldn't be. But after watching Su Jingya, I found that things were much more complicated than I thought. Except for this He Xin, every child who had the accident went to see it, and each of them lost their souls differently, and then went to the place where the accident happened. In order to prevent accidents, I used yin and yang money to block my seven main veins In the end, something happened. But fortunately, after making these preparations, I didn’t lose my mind like those children.”

After listening to Liu Tiezui's words, Chen Shaoxian suddenly remembered something and said to Liu Tiezui, "I happened to find this soul-drawing talisman on Su Jingya's neck that day." Chen Shaoxian handed the talisman to Liu Tiezui.

Liu Tiezui took the talisman and looked at it and said: "It seems that other children will also have it. Use the soul-drawing talisman to get one soul each, and in this fierce place of Thousand Birds Garden, what does the person behind this want to do?"

"By the way, Grandpa Liu, I remember Thousand Birds Garden is just a park, how could it be a dangerous place." Chen Shaoxian asked.

Liu Tiezui replied: "It's a long story to talk about Thousand Birds Garden. It starts from the period of the Beiyang government. At that time, Thousand Birds Garden was a big theater called Qiandao Theater. It was a Japanese named Qiandao. It's open.

The scale of this grand theater was also one of the best in China at that time, claiming to be able to accommodate a thousand people.On the day it was opened and released, there was an endless stream of dignitaries and dignitaries. It can be said that where to go to watch a play was very fashionable and respectable at the time.

One day there was going to be a big play, the pre-publicity was well done and there were many famous actors, so all the seats were packed that night.But that day the theater caught fire, and all the people inside were killed and none escaped.

As a result, many people could hear the wailing from the direction of the theater far away from the fire scene. Later, I heard from the old man that many days after the fire was extinguished, the sky above the theater was still covered with black fog, and people could still hear people crying at night. In the middle of the night, someone knocked on the door of a nearby house asking for water, but when the door was opened, there was nothing but the smell of burnt flesh. Many people were frightened and moved, causing panic.

Later, in order to stabilize the people's hearts, the government at that time asked government officials to build a monument there. It is said that the officials at that time did not take the purpose of building the monument to heart, embezzled a lot of money and cut corners on the project.

Many accidents happened during the construction of the stele. Some workers heard someone calling themselves in the middle of the night, went out and never came back, and found that they hanged on the base of the stele the next day.

Others disappeared and have never been found.The workers were afraid and reported the matter to the foreman in charge of the project, but the foreman colluded with government officials to suppress the matter, saying that the missing workers had sneaked away until the project was almost completed.

The foreman and government officials went to inspect, and when they got to the bottom of the stone tablet, the foreman suddenly went crazy, pinched the official's head with his hands, and knocked the official to death on the stone tablet.The foreman also ran away while everyone was in a daze. On the night of the official's death, the monument was blown down by the wind.

Because of this incident, the Beiyang government not only failed to stabilize the hearts of the people, but made the people even more panicked.The Beiyang government finally paid attention to this matter. First, government officials announced that the incident was the work of the officials and foremen who were killed. Because of the uneven distribution of spoils between the two, the foreman killed his accomplices and absconded in fear of crime.Now the government has decided to arrest the absconding criminals and the government officials who have spoken have rebuilt the monument to commemorate the dead compatriots.

On the day the official spoke, he personally led a team to clean up the ruins and dig the foundation.But no one expected that after digging the foundation of the stele, everyone was shocked by the scene inside. Under the stele were the missing worker and the escaped foreman. Their bodies were still intact except for the head. In addition, other places were torn into shape, and the torn parts were scorched by something.

The official was so frightened that he passed out and went crazy after waking up.So much so that this incident reached Yuan Shikai's ears. At that time, Yuan Shikai was about to proclaim himself emperor and was very afraid of these unknown things, so he ordered the local government to deal with it as soon as possible.

After receiving Yuan Shikai's order, the local government did not dare to neglect and sent special personnel to deal with the matter.The person who sent him looked for famous Feng Shui masters and physiognomy everywhere. In short, as long as they were famous, no matter whether they were monks or old Taoists, there were quite a few people who came. The official said that there is a lot of resentment here, and it can't be solved by superseding or Fengshui.

The local officials were helpless and did not dare to rush, so they could only offer high rewards.

(End of this chapter)