Maoshan Taoist priest

Chapter 16 Thousand Souls, Thousand Islands, and Birds (2)
When Liu Tiezui said this, he asked Liu Baodong to pass a glass of water, took a sip and continued, "With a great reward, there must be a brave man. Many people are chasing the money, and even laymen who don't understand anything come to join in the fun. As a result, many people lost their lives because of this. Although this incident caused a lot of uproar and many people paid attention to it, no one dared to go after too many people died.

Until one day a middle-aged man approached Commissioner Huang, the government official in charge of the matter, and said that he could solve the matter.But he must agree to his conditions. The middle-aged man's condition is that first, he must be in charge of this matter and no one can interfere.All the materials for the second project were purchased by him.Everyone within five miles of the third party must be taken away, and the subsequent subsidy and compensation will be paid by the government and cannot be forcibly demolished.Fourth, pay half of the salary first.

The conditions proposed by this person made Commissioner Huang a little embarrassed, and he was hesitating.

The master next to him came up with an idea and said to the officials: "My lord promised him that we can get rid of this matter first, and it is best to let the people above and the common people know. People come to show that adults love the people like a son, become an adult, award awards, fame and fortune, and if you fail, you can use this person to top the bag, and you can also gain a good reputation of loving the people like a son, no matter how you are an adult, you will not suffer." After thinking about it, he added. He said, "It should be up to adults to decide whether it should be or not."

Commissioner Huang had already been urged to the brink of death by Yuan Shikai, and when he heard what the master said, he readily agreed.What commissioner Huang and the master didn't expect was that everything the master said was heard by the middle-aged man.

The next day, Commissioner Huang sent people to door-to-door within a five-mile radius to explain the matter. What these officials didn't expect was that the relocation didn't take much effort. There were very few residents around the theater. They were all shops, and the fire in the theater destroyed a lot of the surrounding shops.Second, this incident has caused people to panic. Those who have conditions have already moved away, and the rest are those who want to leave but have no conditions. The money and food brought by the people sent by the government are enough for these people to live in the future, so they are also happy moved.However, there are also many shop owners who want to make money from the land and are too lazy to leave. They are dragged into the shift room by the police and served with tiger stools and chili water. The next day, they obediently handed over the lease and moved.

The middle-aged man saw that the matter had been completed, so he found someone to start work.The middle-aged man approached Commissioner Huang and said: "Soldiers must be used to build this monument. Soldiers have martial spirits on them. The more veterans have fought, the more evil spirits they have, and they can avoid evil spirits." It’s also possible to use prisoners, the prisoners have evil spirits, and the most vicious people are even more evil, but the effect is worse than that of soldiers.”

Commissioner Huang has no military power, so the army will definitely not be able to move. Prisoners are difficult, but they can still be done. Just send more people to guard them. The day must be tapped three times.

The middle-aged prisoners who were transferred did not let them start work immediately, but let them take a bath with the water boiled with glutinous rice and mugwort. red line.

After finishing these tasks, people got a lot of mugwort to cover all the original places in the theater.Then measure the distance at the symmetrical place of the theater, and ask someone to draw a mark the size of a house.Most of the prisoners were separated and started digging holes around the marked edges according to the drawings, and the dug out waste soil was kept for other purposes.

Three days later, the middle-aged man checked the degree of dryness of the mugwort on the ground, and then set fire to it. Strangely, when the fire went out, everyone came to the ruins again, and the burnt smell in the air disappeared.

The middle-aged man asked people to collect as much dust as possible on the ground.Then I found Commissioner Huang again to borrow seven veterans who had fought in the war, and they had to see blood on the battlefield.Although Commissioner Huang couldn't mobilize the army, he still had the face of borrowing a few veterans, so he asked the middle-aged man to go back and wait.

Soon seven veterans came, and the middle-aged man gave each veteran a water and fire stick.Tell the seven veterans to hit the burnt ground with the black end first, and then hit it again with the red end.Tell the seven veterans to give each of them one yuan after the beating. The veterans saw that there was money to make and beat very carefully.

After everything was completed, the middle-aged man asked these veterans to stand around the ruins, and then distributed tools to the remaining prisoners. They asked these prisoners to dig a seven-meter-deep pit, and asked the seven veterans to use water and fire sticks for every meter dug. Hit the ground seven times at both ends, and carry the waste soil dug out of the pit to the previously marked place.

Two days later, the ruins turned into a deep pit. The middle-aged man asked people to buy a large amount of ingots, paper money, candles and other sacrificial items, and threw them all into the pit and set them on fire.When these sacrificial objects were burning, people around felt a gust of cold wind pouring into the pit. The middle-aged man asked someone to bring mugwort ash and stared at the flames in the pit from the sidelines. A small hole gradually formed in the pit A whirlwind, mixed with flames, flew upwards. The middle-aged man suddenly threw the mugwort ash in his hand into the pit. The whirlwind seemed to sink a lot wrapped in the mugwort ash. After struggling a few times, it was crushed by more mugwort ash. down.

Seeing that the wind was suppressed, the middle-aged man asked the seven veterans to shout "Kill", and then threw the Qihe water and fire sticks into the pit, and the fire in the pit was suppressed like this.Then it was continuously filled in with fresh soil.As the first pits got bigger and bigger, more and more soil was brought in, gradually forming a large mound in this place.

The middle-aged man saw that the size of the mound was almost the same, so he stopped moving the soil.People built roads on the mound according to the drawings and planted trees with incense ash mixed with soil. At the place where the size of the house was first measured, a pavilion was built with the earth dug out from the ruins.It happened that 50 meters away from the pit was the moat. In middle age, people dug a canal to divert water, which turned the pit into an artificial small lake.

Seeing that all the projects were basically completed, a mason was called in to carve a stele with white marble, set it up on the mound, and engraved the names of all the victims and those workers who died tragically on the sunny side.

After everything was done, the middle-aged man asked all the patrolmen and some prisoners to leave, and explained that they could not approach before noon, and only left the prisoners digging the ruins 500 meters away from the mound, telling them to come up at dawn.

That night, only the middle-aged man was on the mound. At midnight, everyone heard thunder coming from the direction of the mound, but the sky outside was full of stars, and there was only a cloud of dark clouds above the mound. The strange thing was that This group of dark clouds is not in the air but on top of the stone tablet. The dark clouds seem to be pulled by something and constantly change their shape to escape, and the thunder comes from that dark cloud.In just one stick of incense, the dark cloud was pulled into the stele.

In the early morning of the next day, the prisoners bravely came to the mound, but the middle-aged man had disappeared, but the white marble tablet had turned black.

Someone found two letters and a package under the stele, one of which said: "No grass or tree can be moved rashly, and those who violate it will be punished by heaven." The second letter only had four words: "You wait and flee." At first glance, it was full of Yuan Datou.

Some of the prisoners left by the middle-aged people were imprisoned for injustice, and some were patriots of various parties.After reading the two letters from the middle-aged man, they put down the first one. Everyone bowed to the stele, and each of them distributed some money and fled in all directions.

Those patrolmen who left saw the scene last night, and they passed in the afternoon very obediently.But all I found was a letter on the ground.

Because of this incident, nearly a thousand people died. Later, this place was called the Garden of Thousand Souls, and the stele was called the Thousand Souls Monument. "Liu Tiezui took another sip of water when he said this.

Taking advantage of this time, Chen Shaoxian asked Liu Tiezui, "Who is that middle-aged man, and how did you know such details?"

"It's not that I know the details, but your grandfather told me the details," Liu Tiezui replied.

"My grandfather? What does this have to do with my grandfather." Chen Shaoxian was a little confused.

Liu Tiezui chuckled, "The middle-aged man is your grandfather's uncle, your great uncle."

"Our family has such an awesome person. The old man didn't mention it to me. I lost it." Chen Shaoxian thought excitedly, and suddenly remembered something and said to Liu Tiezui: "By the way, Grandpa Liu, since my grandpa Having told you this, have you ever told me whether any of the people my great-uncle saved became prosperous later on?"

Liu Tiezui rolled his eyes at Chen Shaoxian: "What do you want to do?"

"What else can I do? The kindness of some water should be repaid by the spring, not to mention saving lives, if this is found. Hehehe" Chen Shaoxian smiled wretchedly.

"Then go find it, not to mention I don't know, I just want to tell you that you can find it," Liu Tiezui said with a smile.

"Yes, you can find it at the ends of the earth," Chen Shaoxian said while nodding.

Liu Tiezui said with a smirk: "Then let me ask you something, how old is your grandpa this year?"

"75" Chen Shaoxian said without thinking.

"Oh, 75." Liu Tiezui drew a long voice and continued: "Then do you know how old your grandfather was when this incident happened?" Before Chen Shaoxian could speak, he continued: "It's impossible for you to know , let me tell you, your great-grandfather was that year, and your grandpa didn't know where the cat was."

Chen Shaoxian counted with his fingers, and lowered his head with a dejected expression.The other three laughed when they saw Chen Shaoxian's appearance.

Liu Baodong patted Chen Shaoxian's shoulder while smiling, and said to Liu Tiezui, "Dad, what happens later."

Chen Shaoxian also raised his head and listened curiously.

Liu Tiezui almost smiled, and continued: "Later, Japan launched a war of aggression against China and occupied this place. The descendants of that Qiandao became military officers, and in memory of their father, they changed the Thousand Souls Garden into the Thousand Islands Garden. It continued like this until after liberation. At that time, the Four Olds were broken, and a group of Red Guards were carrying hammers and shovels to push the Thousand Soul Monument. At that time, no one dared to stop it.

There was an accident while pushing the stele, and the Red Guard holding the hammer just picked up the hammer, and the hammer head flew out, and the hammer head just hit the heads of these Red Guards, and they were crushed to death on the spot.

Later, some people did not believe in evil, and as a result, people were killed or people were injured. This stele was not completed. Someone helped to suggest that if the stele could not be pushed, then change the name, and changed the word "dao" to "niao", which is the current Chidori. garden. "

After listening to Liu Tiezui's speech, Chen Shaoxian patted his thigh and said, "Let's go, let's go to Thousand Bird Garden."

(End of this chapter)