Chapter 9 Memories
The huge Yongleguan is located near a bamboo forest outside the suburbs. I heard that it was built in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and has a history of thousands of years.
It’s a pity that the original building was completely destroyed in the cultural movement decades ago, and it underwent another reconstruction, and its momentum was no longer the same as before.
The entire Taoist temple was deserted, there was no fireworks in the incense burner outside the main hall, and there was no sign of a cultivator outside the hall in front of the hall.
When Zhang Songqing and others came to the door, the prison was taking a few Taoist priests to have dinner in the kitchen.
At this time, Zhang Songqing muttered in his heart, and he didn't know whether the legendary master was reliable.
The prison is an old master. Although he is close to age, he is still energetic and has a square face that is very righteous.
After hearing Zhang Songqing say this, he was not vague. He immediately put down his chopsticks and put on a yellow Taoist robe, and called on two Taoist boys to carry magic weapons. The group rushed back to the village in turmoil.
What happened last night was like. Now, except for the parents of those children, other villagers dare not approach the back mountain at all.
Under the leadership of Zhang Songqing and others, the old Taoist priest took his apprentice to the ruined temple first.
Although it was winter, at noon, everyone wearing a big thick jacket and climbing the mountain was sweating a lot. But as soon as they approached the ruined temple, everyone started to shivering.
It was particularly cold near the temple. The walls around the walls had already fallen, revealing the blue-gray stone walls inside. Many dense weeds grew from the cracks on the bricks on the ground, and thick dead leaves covered the ground, creaking when stepped on them.
The door was not locked, but was just a false cover. When the wind blew, the door frames clattered and swung back and forth, and the entire building revealed a strange chill.
The old Taoist took three incense sticks from his disciples, muttering words, and crossed the threshold slowly.
As soon as they entered the door, everyone felt a sinister cold wind blowing towards them. The temple was empty, and there was no terrifying statue of the god described by the children in the center of the hall.
The old Taoist held an incense and candle and walked around the hall for a while. He soon found a pair of strange footprints on the stone slab near the threshold: the big thumb of the right foot of these feet was on the rightmost side, and the left thumb was on the leftmost side, which was completely opposite to ordinary people.
The strange footprints extended all the way to Tallinn. The old Taoist followed and found He Weican's lost coat accidentally.
The clothes were covered alone on a shabby stone tower, with many bloody handprints printed on the surface. These handprints were like the footprints on the ground, mirroring the body structure of a normal person, and looked particularly cunning.
Seeing this, the Taoist priest frowned and blurted out "Not good".
The old Taoist said that there is a saying in Feng Shui that "five no burials": Five mountains do not gather, and living or burying are considered a very bad form.
These five types of mountains are: Tongshan, Duanshan, Shishan, Duanshan and Kushanshan.
Among them, the stone mountains are the place where caves are formed. They should not be dangerous, the rocks are rugged, the strange rocks are suddenly angry, and the land is full of bad anger. There is also an ancient saying: If you do not bury rough and stubborn stones, you do not bury the gods in front of the temple, you do not bury the mountain hills, you do not bury the sadness of Feng Shui.
But the Tallinn in front of me actually violated all these taboos.
Everyone was stunned when they heard this. Unlike those witchcraft warlocks, the Taoist priests invited by Zhang Songqing this time were obviously really capable.
He revealed the mystery behind the Talin at a glance, and asked Zhang Songqing why he didn't repair the ancient temple and asked someone to do it here to save the dead souls; instead, he chose to block the forbidden area and cover up the bell.
Worried that something happened to her child, several parents were anxious and looked down upon, and insisted that Zhang Songqing explain it clearly.
Zhang Songqing hesitated for a long time, and saw that he could not hide it, so he had no choice but to tell what happened more than 40 years ago.
The former old village chief had long passed away. In their era, the ideological liberation movement was in full swing.
Adhering to the purpose of sweeping away all monsters and demons, all temples and Taoist temples would be destroyed and demolished. Even their suppression of the abandoned temples was assigned by their superiors.
Except for the Shengquan Village located in the deep mountains and forests, in the context of that era, no one dared to engage in these superstitious activities even if they knew that there was a problem with the abandoned temple and the Talin. Seeing that the village was killed one after another, the old village chief had no choice but to come up with this bad plan.
After hearing this, the old Taoist priest shook his head repeatedly, probably remembering some past events, and after sighing, he stopped pursuing the responsibility.
Speaking of the statue of the god originally worshipped in the abandoned temple, the old Taoist explained that the compassionate Guanyin Bodhisattva was responsible for servitude in the human world, while the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, who made great vows, servitude in the underworld. The reason why the village in the past built that temple to worship Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, the head of the ghost immortal, was to save the resentment in the pagoda forest.
It was also at this time that He Weican's parents knew where the forbidden land in the village was Tallinn.
Lao Dao said that since ancient times, having girls has been regarded as the root of poverty. The bad habit of harming babies has existed in ancient times. In the late Warring States Period, there was a saying among the people that "if a man is born, he will congratulate him, and if a woman is born, he will kill him." The "Zheng family norms" in the Yuan Dynasty stated: "In the world, women are often killed."
The reasons for drowning girls among the people are not only poverty, but also superstitious about "drunk girls to seek men", that is, drowning the first baby girl to facilitate the birth of a baby.
Some parents will use extremely vicious methods to kill their daughters in order to give birth to a fetus. Some boil boiling water and burn their daughters to death; some throw their daughters into feces buckets, and consume their lives in the dirt; some bury their daughters under the road or under the threshold, allowing thousands of people to trample on the bones.
This is done in order to prevent the dead baby girls from being reborn forever and not turning into ghosts and harming people; and to kill them with such vicious methods in order to make the baby girls' "soul" afraid and never come back to reincarnate.
Some people cannot face condemnation from their conscience. In order to have a reasonable solution, over time, the terrifying and cruel place of the "Abandoned Baby Tower" appeared.
Most abandoned baby towers are located in barren mountains, about half a meter high, and the tower body is made of stones and wooden stakes. Several small holes will be left around the tower, similar to the ancient pigeon lofts that raised pigeons.
This name sounds like a strange aura, and there are indeed tens of thousands of undead spirits who have never seen the world in this so-called tower.
Because the main purpose of this tower is to discard newborn baby girls.
After giving birth to a baby girl, parents will throw them into the tower and let the baby girl die. Those parents do this just to relieve their guilt. But in fact, the snakes, rats, insects and ants in the abandoned baby tower often make the children more painful; their crying attracts wild animals in the mountains, and their bodies let them eat them, and their death is terrible.
Evil ghosts can still have resentful people, but those dead babies don’t even know who to hate.
Hearing this, everyone present changed their faces. Where did the children take out the stones from the tower, they were clearly the broken bones of the dead baby!
Fortunately, these little guys are simple-minded and have no malice, and they are just naughty. Because they are too lonely and cannot be reborn, and no one can play with them, so they met He Weican and his group last night and appeared and joined them.
However, the ghost child can scare people at most, so Zhao Gang's children were only frightened and their health was not seriously injured; but He Weican and the other two were different.
The old Taoist priest said that the reason they were unconscious was because they collided with evil spirits in the temple last night.
Ordinary people think that temples are protected by gods, but they do not know that Buddhism is compassionate and saves all sentient beings. Those who go to Buddhism do not pursue them, and do not refuse those who come to the six realms. The mountain spirits and ghosts are also one of the sentient beings in these six realms. Compared with the pagoda forest, the yin energy of the abandoned temple is heavier, and the things that attract them are all the most yin and evil things.
Due to the opposition between yin and yang, only those things from the underworld worship God upside down. According to the description of Zhao Gang and others, the woman's shouting last night was reversed, which was "I want to return the yang."
Among the three children, the situation of sweet potato is the worst. He was robbed of the yang energy by evil spirits and lost the earth soul among the three souls and seven spirits. If he could not get it back, he would be stupid at the least, and would be dead at the worst.
Several parents immediately changed their faces and asked the Taoist priest what to do.
The old Taoist carved his beard and pondered for a moment. First, he ordered the Taoist boy to burn He Weican's coat, and then told Zhang Songqing that he needed to open an altar in the back mountain to attract souls and to save the evil spirits and evil spirits.
After finishing the ritual, the old Taoist instructed several families that the disasters encountered by the children were seven Yin disasters, and the eighth day was the turning point. If they could wake up on the eighth day, the children would be in danger of life, otherwise they would be unable to return to the sky.
The ritual lasted for seven days until the three children woke up.
Afterwards, the old Taoist privately found He Weican's parents and said earnestly that after seeing He Weican's birthday, he found that his horoscope was evil, and he was destined to encounter three evil disasters.
New Year's Eve is another day when the ghost gate is wide open except for the Zhongyuan Festival. On New Year's Eve, the evil spirits that the children encountered in the temple wanted to find a substitute to return to the sun. If He Weican hadn't been clever, I'd probably have explained the sweet potatoes long ago.
It is precisely because of this that He Weican offended the evil spirit and accidentally left clothes with his own breath in the Tallinn. The bloody clothes are enough to prove that he has been remembered by the evil things.
If this continues, if you continue to live in the village, you will inevitably be retaliated. If conditions permit, when He Weican is healthy, you must send him away from Yuhe Village.
Chapter completed!