The ghost girl looked very excited, her soul was shaking. I was really afraid that if she got excited, her soul would fly away again.
"Okay, girl, don't get excited. We really don't know your brother, and we just came here by accident." My master Zhang Chu said softly.
But the female ghost ignored us. Her soul moved and turned into a ghost aura, which sank into the red oil umbrella. The red oil umbrella was immediately folded up and flew away, disappearing in the middle of the stone houses.
"Master, the female ghost flew away!"
I exclaimed in shock, and was about to rush forward to catch the ghost.
But my master Zhang Chu reached out and grabbed me, saying, "Tianyi, wait a minute, that female ghost has no ill intentions towards us, don't catch her yet."
I stopped and didn't chase.
My master Zhang Chu waved his hand at me and said, "Let's go to the stone house over there. Let's find the source of the corpse first."
As he spoke, my master Zhang Chu walked in front with his nose pinched, and I followed behind him.
The female ghost actually entered the red oil umbrella. This reminded me of the portrait of a woman from the Republic of China period on my body. The female ghost from the Republic of China was trapped in the portrait. Could it be that the female ghost in red was trapped in the red oil umbrella
I do know a few things about red oil umbrellas. But I learned about them from a forum when I was bored. It is said that the ancient method of making umbrellas is divided into 86 steps, but nowadays, those processes have been simplified to 72.
Why were fourteen steps omitted
There are also some secrets contained in it.
It is said that the fourteen steps of making a red oil umbrella are called "entering the spirit", and the red oil umbrella that enters the spirit can drive away ghosts, ward off evil spirits, and eliminate disasters. A netizen named "Tiger Going Up the Mountain" in the forum said that she had seen a red oil umbrella. The red oil umbrella was very simple and there was a small hole in the secret position under the handle.
The small hole contained a peach pit. Tiger Going Up the Mountain said that the peach pit was a red date pit that had been soaked in the blood of the heart. There were also many runes engraved on it.
She also said that the red oil umbrella she saw was not a red oil umbrella that could ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters, but a red oil umbrella that could harm people.
Later, I learned that the red oil umbrella in ancient times became special after adding the fourteen secret processes. It was divided into "spiritual umbrella" and "evil umbrella". The spiritual umbrella, as the name suggests, can be regarded as a magic weapon that can achieve the effect of exorcising ghosts and evil spirits.
But that "evil umbrella" can harm people.
Thinking of this, I feel that the red oil umbrella where the female ghost is hiding might really be an "evil umbrella", otherwise why would she hide in it.
At this time, I followed my master Zhang Chu to a stone house. There was no door in the house, so we walked in. There was a bed in the room, also made of stone, but the surface was very smooth, and there was a layer of flocculent material on it.
There was a lot of dust on the flocs.
“Ahem!”
The dust was choking and I coughed twice.
My master and I walked around the stone house and saw nothing except a rusty harpoon hanging on the wall.
"Let's go and have a look at the other stone houses."
My master said hello and walked out of the stone room first.
I covered my mouth and nose and quickly walked out of the stone house.
After that, we visited more than a dozen stone houses, but we did not find any valuable clues, let alone the bodies. However, from the simple furnishings in those stone houses, I can see that these stone houses should be
It was left behind by people from the Republic of China period.
The most striking feature is that I saw traditional Chinese characters on the stone of a stone house. It read: Japanese invaders invaded, and I left home for five years.
Although it is just eight short words, it seems to have drawn a picture in front of my eyes. It should be during the Sino-Japanese War, when the Japanese invaded a village. In order to avoid the disaster, the local people moved their families to this cave. Later, they lived here and made a living by fishing... ...
Soon, my master and I arrived at the place where the female ghost had just appeared.
Looking at the huge pile of stones, I was amazed. When I looked at it from a distance, I thought the pile of stones was not that tall, but now that I am closer, I am more shocked.
"Master, do you know why this pile of stones is piled here?" I asked in confusion.
My master Zhang Chu walked around the pile of stones and looked at them carefully.
After a moment, he shook his head and said, "I don't know why the stones are piled here. But I think it should be something like a totem, a symbol."
"I just walked around the pile of rocks and didn't smell any stench of corpses, which means there shouldn't be a human corpse under the rocks."
"Yeah!" I nodded.
Then my master said, "Let's go and continue looking. See where the bodies are."
I thought about it and reminded my master, "Master, there is an underground river over there, which flows right next to these stone houses. The body was in the river, which means the river may be very close to where the body was stored. I think we should look for it along the underground river."
My master Zhang Chu smiled and said, "Tianyi, you have a good brain. Let's go and search upstream along the underground river."
Then my master and I searched along the river bank. Sure enough, within seven or eight minutes, we found the place where the body was stored.
That place was a stone house, very big, but the wall near the underground river had been washed away by the water of the underground river.
Faintly, I saw corpses floating in the dark river, tied with something like hemp rope to prevent them from floating away. There were also some big stones around the corpses to prevent them from floating away.
"Master, how come those corpses were left in the water?" I asked.
My master thought about it and said, "I think it should be a 'water burial' custom. There are so many people in China, 56 ethnic groups, and the customs in different places are also different. Moreover, in the Miao area, the customs are even more varied, and some of them are very different."
"As far as I know, in Miaojiang, there are still some villages that practice the custom of water burial. However, water belongs to Yin, and according to the Taoist ghost hunters, water burial is not allowed. This will easily cause the corpse to metamorphose."
As we were talking, my master and I had already arrived in front of the stone house.
The stench of corpses emanated from the stone room, which was the source of the stench. The bodies of the corpses were swollen and white, and when the flashlight shone over them, I noticed that the maggots inside the corpses were still crawling out, crawling outwards, in large numbers, densely packed.
“Hah!”
My stomach felt sick and I bent over and almost vomited.
My master stood aside and curled his lips and said, "You are such a person, and you are still my disciple, Zhang Chu. It seems that you should return my yellow book to me."
I looked embarrassed and said, "I'm sorry, Master. This is my first time.
I encountered so many corpses, and they were not just bones, but they were already smelling bad. "
My master Zhang Chu didn't respond, but took a step forward and came to the front of the stone house.
But he did not move forward because the entire stone house was submerged in water.
"It seems that these dead people should be the residents of this space. However, from what I have seen, some of them are still very young, how could they die? This is really incredible."
I didn't care about what my master said. What I cared more about was how to destroy these corpses.
Who would have thought that within a few minutes, my master Zhang Chu turned around with a sly smile and said to me, "Tianyi, I'm afraid I have to trouble you?"
I said "Oh" and didn't understand what Zhang Chu meant.
He said, "Tianyi, you see that the master has difficulty walking, so how about this, you take all the corpses out of the stone house. When the time comes, carve a 'fire burning array' of a ghost-catching Taoist priest and burn them."
After hearing this, I was upset. Damn it, it seems that I have been tricked by my cheap master again. I said I wanted to leave, but why did he take me with him? It seems that he had planned it all along and wanted me to move the corpse.
Perhaps seeing my hesitation, Zhang Chu hurriedly said with a smile: "Tianyi, you are a Taoist priest who catches ghosts, and it is your duty to do good deeds. And corpses are the foundation of souls, so they must be destroyed. Only when they are destroyed, their souls who have entered the underworld will be at ease."
"Otherwise, even if they are reincarnated, they will still have concerns."
I knew I couldn't argue with my master, so I could only nod and agree.
Seeing me nod, my master Zhang Chu smiled and said, "This is my disciple. Come on, get to work and get all these corpses out."
At this point, my face had turned bitter, and I felt waves of disgust in my heart.
You know, there are quite a few corpses in that stone house. Judging from visual observation, there are probably hundreds of them.
Hundreds of corpses were soaked in the river water of the stone house, which was like soaking in yellow soup, giving people a weird feeling. Especially those corpses, some of which had hair and heads not yet been eaten by corpse worms, and the exposed side faces were quite scary.
Zhang Chu was fine. He stood aside far away, took out a lighter, and actually started smoking.
All right, I admit defeat! After all, he is the master and I am the apprentice.
But just as I approached the stone house, suddenly, a red figure appeared in front of me.
The figure was holding a red oil umbrella and wearing gray-red clothes. It was the female ghost with the red umbrella.
"What do you want to do? I don't allow you to touch the corpses here!" said the female ghost coldly.
She slightly raised the red oil umbrella in her hand, and I could see her face from such a close distance.
She was a very beautiful woman, about 27 or 28 years old, with a fair face without any makeup. But that kind of whiteness still disgusted me, because it was very similar to the grayish whiteness of the corpses soaking in the river.
The woman had big eyes, slightly prominent cheekbones, and her lips were a little dark red, from something she had eaten or applied. She stared at me with a fierce look in her eyes.
There was a ghostly aura flowing from her body, and it looked like she was going to fight with me.
I subconsciously took two steps back.
"Girl, don't get me wrong. We have no other intentions. We just want to deal with these corpses and let them return to dust as soon as possible."
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