Less than a day after arriving in Wutai Mountain, He Jianfei was about to leave. Although he was a little reluctant to leave, he had to quickly pack his luggage and prepare to go down the mountain. Tian Yinzhen caught a bit of wind and cold on the way to Mount Wutai and had a severe headache. Although she strongly requested to go with her, He Jianfei insisted not to do so. The next day, he set foot on the road to the station alone.
Aqiang's home is in Xi'an, an ancient capital with too many imperial legends, but it is a headache for He Jianfei. The richer the cultural heritage of a place, the more spiritual energy can be absorbed by the souls of injustice, and the harder it is to conquer them. After getting off the train, Mr. Li had been waiting for him on the platform for several hours. Looking at his gray hair dancing messily in the cold wind, He Jianfei understood how urgent he was to solve the mystery of his best friend's death. "I've been waiting for you for a long time. You're finally here." Old Man Li's face looked slightly haggard, but his eyes were still bright. He Jianfei shook hands with him for a while and said with a smile: "You don't think that just by visiting Aqiang's house, you can uncover the mystery of the ghost's path?" Old Man Li said in shock: "Why not?" He Jianfei said He was startled, then laughed loudly and said: "Yes, why not? It will definitely happen!" Two alumni, nearly fifty years apart in age, both wanted to pursue the mystery of the ghost's path, and met in the snowy Xi'an. The most precious gesture was made, indicating that the covenant relationship between the two people was officially reached. However, no one expected that this handshake would create an unexpected fate. When Mr. Li recalled it many years later, he also lamented the magic of nature.
Uncle Li led He Jianfei to a large and gorgeous hotel. He Jianfei looked at the luxuriously decorated hall and said in surprise: "It turns out that Aqiang's family actually runs a hotel. I didn't know he was so rich? Will Dong Ou die? Is it related to his family's wealth?" Old Man Li smiled and said: "Don't make random guesses. Who said this is Aqiang's family? His family is in a remote rural area, far away from the city center. We will go slowly tomorrow." He Jianfei said: "The matter is so urgent now. If we take a quick step, we might be able to gain a chance to win. We'd better rush there day and night." Old Man Li shook his hand and said: "The house is right there, where can I fly to? I During this trip to Xi'an, I also got some news about Aqiang, and I want to discuss it with you." The smart He Jianfei immediately realized that the secret discussion arranged in the hotel room was not a trivial matter, so he immediately followed Li without saying a word. The old man came to the room.
"It's about Aqiang's magic." Old Man Li made two cups of tea, sipped the tea and spoke. He Jianfei was horrified: "Have you found his master?" Mr. Li hesitated and then said: "These days, not only have I been in contact with Aqiang's cousin, but I have also visited three neighbors who lived next door to Aqiang. I found two A very strange thing. First, Aqiang's relatives and neighbors almost didn't know that Aqiang knew magic. Even a few close friends at that time, only I vaguely knew that he knew a little fortune-telling. I remember Once I asked him to help me calculate my marriage, but he refused. I asked him where he learned the magic from, and he immediately changed his expression and walked away. I felt bored at the time and thought that his master might ask for confidentiality, so Just give up. If you hadn't told me about the three-flower body protection technique, I really wouldn't have known that Aqiang had such powerful magic power. In short, there is only one conclusion. Aqiang seems to be quite taboo about the source of his magic."
Hearing this, He Jianfei's head buzzed and suddenly went blank. Because of the harassment from the female ghost, he had actually ignored this very obvious key issue. He Jianfei is also considered to be very talented, and he has been taught by the greatest master in the magic world. He can only practice ordinary magic. Given Aqiang's age, it is absolutely impossible for him to learn the three-flower body protection technique! Unless he started practicing in his previous life. This means that there are important secrets hidden in Aqiang's magic!
Uncle Li looked at He Jianfei and continued: "I thought of this doubt and immediately came to Aqiang's home in Xi'an without stopping. Fortunately, I visited two more people who lived in the same village as Aqiang. From their I learned another shocking thing from his mouth." He Jianfei waited for a long time, and seeing that Old Man Li had not yet spoken, he said strangely: "What's the matter? Go on." Old Man Li muttered: "This... I'm afraid to tell it. I'll scare you to death. I've already been scared once." He Jianfei smiled and scolded: "Don't be too pretentious. If you want to tell me, you'll be worried about this and that. Tell me quickly!" Old Man Li said: "When A Qiang was little... not Likes to play with other people, he often digs...in old graves."
"What?!" He Jianfei couldn't believe his ears, "You... repeat it again."
Old Man Li repeated it word for word.
"You said A Qiang likes to dig graves?" He Jianfei's heart was already in a mess. "You didn't want to tell me that A Qiang's magic power was dug out, right?" Old Man Li said, "I fought specially for this matter. I called his cousin and she didn’t know, but she said that Aqiang’s house is a bit weird and the feng shui is not good. Does this mean that the child has some kind of schizophrenia?” After saying this, Old Man Li’s face looked quite strange. With an angry look on his face, He Jianfei knew that his brother was being said to be a psychopath. He felt unhappy and said with a smile: "Old women always like to come up with random gossips. Let's stop guessing and go to A Qiang's house tomorrow. Maybe there will be an answer." The two rested without mentioning it.
Early the next morning, the two took a car to Xinghua Village, Aqiang's village. Old man Li got out of the car. He looked around the endless farmland scenery in high spirits, and said to He Jianfei behind him in a loud voice: "I once heard Aqiang say that the wine brewed in their village is very famous, so he named it Xing." Huacun. The scenery here is very nice and the air is very fresh." He Jianfei finally pulled the big bag containing various magic weapons out of the car. Seeing that Old Man Li was extremely excited, he also looked around. The thick film covered the green The wheat seedlings are covered below, and when the cold wind blows, they make a "clatter" sound. In the distance, a child is riding on the back of a cow and watching the sheep grazing. Several muddy field paths are winding and extending out of sight. In the distance, as he was watching, Old Man Li suddenly pointed with his hand: "Look, that's A Qiang's house." He Jianfei quickly turned around. Surrounded by many small bungalows, the typical courtyard building looked like Particularly outstanding. With the spacious yard, the lush old trees in the middle, the yellowed roof bricks and the moss-covered tiles, Aqiang's home must have been bustling with people and warmth, right? Nowadays, it is deserted, most of the doors are closed, not a single person is seen, only a few birds stop and chirp under the trees intermittently. He Jianfei took out the magic compass from his schoolbag, pointed it at Aqiang's house and began to observe the movement of the pointer. Uncle Li knew that He Jianfei was testing the feng shui of Aqiang's house, so he remained silent and just watched with interest. He Jianfei observed attentively for a long time, shook his head, took out the cow's tears and wiped his eyes, looked at it for a long time, and then washed it off with water. Old Man Li couldn't wait to ask: "How is it? What's wrong?" He Jianfei said in confusion: "Although his house is not a place where red birds and yellow dragons lie across it, it won't be much worse. The main fire in the west is a place where people are prosperous. Look, it's an auspicious place. Anyway, I don't see anything bad. By the way, where are those ancient tombs?" Old Man Li said: "It's just behind the hill. There are not only tombs there, but also many old ones. There were small temples before the founding of the People's Republic of China. I don't know what kind of small gods they were dedicated to. I once went in and looked at one of the ones with red letters on the wall. The green-faced fangs on it didn't look like gods, but more like monsters." He Jianfei said: "The more this happens, the more... There may be an expert hiding in the world. Without further ado, let’s get there quickly.”
Sure enough, in the light white mist, you can vaguely see the ruins of broken walls and many dilapidated abandoned temples, some of which are so small that they cannot be called temples at all, and can only be called ancestral halls at best. There are leftover broken bricks and tiles everywhere, and occasionally some walls that have not been completely destroyed are swaying, showing the world the green and yellow mottled mud roads on their bodies. The crow stood on it and made an ominous cry of "wow wah wah". Two or three small grasses poked their heads out tenaciously from the cracks in the next door, swaying gently in the wind. Occasionally, a few bricks would fall down, raising a cloud of dust.
He Jianfei said in surprise: "The atmosphere here is indeed a bit unusual, but it is too strange to build so many temples in this place. There is no room for two masters in one day, and one temple cannot accommodate two gods. In such a small piece of open space, more than a dozen temples have been erected. No matter how ignorant you are, you can't be this ignorant, right?" Old Man Li interjected: "Perhaps people at that time were forced to make a living and had no money to buy land, so they put these temples of gods together." He Jianfei shook his head and said: "Xi'an is the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties and has a very deep cultural origin. Even the poor would not do this. Besides, if you want to worship, why not worship Tathagata instead of respecting the Three Pure Ones, but make some small gods. In my opinion, this open space can be used to build a medium-sized building Wouldn't a large-scale temple be better?" Old Man Li finally figured out the deeper meaning of He Jianfei's words: "You mean, these are deliberately made like this?" He Jianfei frowned and said, "It's hard to say. It's still early anyway, Let’s look at each room one by one.”
They chose the nearest small temple and entered. The door of this temple is in dilapidated condition, with only half of the wooden door decayed by moths and fragments hanging sparsely on the frame. He Jianfei touched it lightly with his hand, and it suddenly collapsed. A large spider web covered the way into the temple, but there was no spider on it. He Jianfei couldn't help but feel strange when he saw that some of the webs were still brand new. Looking down, he found a few shriveled spider corpses on the ground. He Jianfei picked up the corpses and pinched them with his hands: "It seems like the blood was drained by something? Could it be..." Just as his face darkened as he thought about it, Old Man Li's voice came from the hall: "This one is actually much kinder." He Jianfei heard this. Yan walked into the hall and saw Old Man Li looking up at the statue: "Although this statue is also carved with fangs, it is not as ferocious and terrifying as the one I saw before." He Jianfei looked at it carefully and shouted: "It's really strange! This statue is dressed in earthly colors, and even the official belt is carved lifelike. Why is it carved to look like a devil?" Old Man Li couldn't figure it out, and said, "Maybe it's in this area. People worship evil gods, right?" He Jianfei sighed and said: "There are many famous evil gods in the divine world, but I can't recognize this one. I'm afraid he's not a righteous god." Old Man Li asked: "Then what's the difference between this and Aqiang? What does his death have to do with it?" He Jianfei said: "We haven't figured it out yet, but this area is indeed unusual. Something must have happened before the founding of the People's Republic of China. Besides, Senior Aqiang's home is very close to here, so it may be difficult for Senior Aqiang. Makes a lot of impact.”
They walked through several temples in a row, but they were all the same. In addition to the different colors of their clothes, some are kitchen officials and some are mountain gods, but they all look fierce with angry brows and eyes. Like a ghost in hell. He Jianfei found spider corpses one after another and was very confused, but he just didn't say it out loud.
Walking around and taking a look, He Jianfei saw all these dozen small temples without realizing it. Seeing that Old Man Li was tired, He Jianfei stopped to rest on a stone. Suddenly he remembered something and said with a smile: "By the way, Old Man Li, I've never seen the temple you mentioned with the words on the wall. Where is it?" Old Man Li then remembered it and wondered: "That's impossible. I've obviously been in it and I can see it clearly. ..." He Jianfei clapped his hands and said: "Then you must have gone far and left this open space, so we can't find it." Old man Li shook his head and said: "It's not possible. There is only such a small open space on the left and right. When I saw that terrifying statue, I was so frightened that I ran out to the village. Why are you still in the mood to go further?" He Jianfei said disapprovingly: "There's no need to be nervous. It's almost dark now. Let's go first. Go stay in the village for one night and ask the villagers who know about it. It won’t be too late to come back tomorrow and check it out in detail. Since there is that scarlet letter, it shouldn’t be difficult to find out.”
So the two of them got up and left. After walking a few steps, Old Man Li suddenly said: "Oh, I forgot the key on that stone." He Jianfei had to wait for him to go back to get it, but found that Old Man Li's whole body suddenly shook violently, and his voice became Extremely trembling: "Then... that temple... is back..." He Jianfei was shocked when he heard this. When he quickly looked back, he saw a very dilapidated small temple where they had just rested, and as expected, there was that... on the wall of the temple. Block red letter.
Old Man Li was so frightened that his hands and feet went cold: "Obviously... the place where we were sitting just now was empty, there was... nothing, how... how could there be an extra temple out of thin air?" He Jianfei looked at the temple intently, with the red letters shrouded in fog. He couldn't see clearly what it was, but there was a faint ferocity that he had never seen before. In the haze, He Jianfei seemed to feel that someone was waving to him in the temple, and he moved forward step by step involuntarily. At this moment, the relic necklace on his chest suddenly emitted a golden light, shining directly at He Jianfei's temple. He Jianfei was startled, and his color suddenly changed. He said it was too late, but soon, he took out a handful of gravel from his arms with his left hand, scattered it all over the sky to lay out the Seven-Star Big Dipper Formation, grabbed Old Man Li with his right hand and shouted: "Quick! ! Run!!!" The relic necklace suddenly glowed with golden light. He Jianfei knew that the evil energy was dangerous, so he secretly cried out, broke off the beads in his hand, and flicked them into the temple. After such a delay, He Jianfei and Mr. Li finally escaped from the open space.
Old Man Li was out of breath from running, leaned against the wall to catch his breath, and asked: "In that temple... are there gods or demons?"
He Jianfei complained bitterly: "If I hadn't seen the opportunity quickly and cast a spell just now, and we escaped in time, otherwise we would have received an invitation from the King of Hell. It's a pity that my string of Buddhist beads has no control over whether it is a god or not." Monster." Old Bo Li asked curiously: "Since there is something weird in that temple, why do you want to enter but not want to enter, and move around there?" He Jianfei was mourning the string of Buddhist beads and said: "Oh, don't mention it. I I don’t want to go in, but that temple has the ability to attract people’s souls. If it weren’t for the relic necklace, I might have been sucked in by it. By the way, you must have been seduced by it before you knew it last time. 'I walked in." Old Man Li said: "But I didn't die!" This was what He Jianfei couldn't figure out the most. He said after a while: "Let's see about it later." Old Man Li said: "Then what are your plans now?" He Jianfei said: "Since my magic power is not as strong as theirs, I have no choice but to ask my senior brother to come down the mountain overnight. Let's find a house at the foot of the mountain to stay overnight and ask about the situation in this area."
After calling his senior brother, He Jianfei took a shower, walked out of the hall, and saw Old Man Li talking to an elder. He Jianfei smiled secretly and said: "Just right! After the two white-haired men talked, there was less estrangement. If I talk to him, I'm afraid he won't understand me and I won't understand him. I'll just hide aside and listen. ."
I heard Old Man Li ask: "Brother, please tell me in detail, what happened to those ruined temples?" The white-haired man immediately became proud: "You are lucky to have met me. If you met someone else, you would definitely not be able to explain the reason. "Old man Li quickly poured a cup of tea and said, "Please give me some advice." The white-haired man stroked his beard and said, "My grandfather told me these things. He said that a major event happened here in the late Qing Dynasty. Do you know the last years of the Qing Dynasty? At that time, there were revolutionaries running around everywhere. The Qing soldiers arrested people everywhere without interrogating them. They arrested and beheaded those who looked good... "
He Jianfei heard that his boss was impatient. Didn't Uncle Li tell him which university he graduated from? Those who are not familiar with history will not be able to pass the exam! I glanced at Old Man Li again, and he found that what he heard was interesting, so I had to comfort myself. When people get old, they like to pick up old sesame seeds and rotten millet. He Jianfei, He Jianfei, please be patient for a while and just experience your old age in advance.
Fortunately, the white-haired man was still sober, and soon returned to the point: "... Some Feng Shui master said that our land is the most suitable place for the five evil spirits to gather to suppress the aliens. The county man also believed it, so he ordered it. It was used as a place of execution. That day, there were strong yellow winds, billowing smoke, and heavy mist. Before dawn, officers and soldiers escorted more than 200 people and came over. Let me tell you, there was not a single revolutionary among those 200 people. There were no party members! My grandfather squeezed in the middle of the crowd to watch the fun. I was used to seeing the trick of the white knife coming in and the red knife coming out, so it was nothing strange. When we got to the fifth batch, a madman knelt down among them. His eyes turned white and green, so scary! Although the rope was tied tightly and even blood was drawn out, he was not afraid of the pain and struggled desperately, revealing two rows of eerie and uneven yellow teeth. , shouting to the sky: "I was wronged! ! I am wronged! ! I don't want to die! ! ! I have a mother above me and a wife and children below me! I am not a revolutionary party at all! "The county magistrate was so annoyed that he threw down a token and ordered him to behead him. Just as the white knife was about to go down, the madman shouted again: 'I will not die at the hands of a stupid official like you. Just wait. When I die, I will turn into a fierce ghost and kill anyone I see!' As soon as he finished saying this, he immediately bit his tongue and committed suicide."
"It's also strange that as soon as he died, a strong wind blew up from all around, breaking the flagpole, knocking over the incense burner, and scaring the county magistrate to the point of pissing himself and shouting, 'Go home, go back to home.' What's even more strange is that it hasn't opened yet. More than a hundred people who were beheaded all fell down with a "crash". When Wu Zuo took a look, he saw a pair of tooth marks on each person's neck. Everyone was so frightened that they shouted, "The devil is coming!" and ran for their lives. This man Who can fight against ghosts? Another large area fell down. Fortunately, my grandfather had some insight and fell down in the pile of corpses and pretended to be dead, so he escaped this disaster. Only when the brigade of officers and soldiers arrived did my grandfather dare to get up and tell the truth. . How could that stupid governor believe it? He actually thought my grandfather was a lunatic and kicked him out."
Old Man Li clapped his palms and said, "That's it! Those temples must be dedicated to the victims. And those temples are dedicated to that evil ghost." The white-haired man laughed and said, "You are only half right. It’s not over yet! The governor didn’t believe it, so he reported an accident and rushed back to Beijing. He only suffered from the common people. People died one after another. Every night, hundreds of people could be heard crying. The population of the city was only three. Most of it was lost in a day. My grandfather had no money and was reluctant to part with the old ancestral home, so he had no choice but to endure it. One day, an old Taoist priest came with an apprentice and said that the evil ghosts here are very powerful. They go to the altar to practice magic, with disheveled hair and chanting After paying a lot of trouble, he said that he wanted to build a temple and bury some 'passage snakes', and said that there would be peace only if there were no more grievances here."
Old Man Li asked: "What does the building of the temple have to do with evil ghosts?" Baifa Gong shook his head and said: "Who knows what these Taoist priests are doing? Just follow them." Old Man Li said again: "The Taoist priest just said There must be no more grievances, but this is definitely not possible. In the next fifty or sixty years, China was in chaos, and more people died during the warlord wars than in the late Qing Dynasty." White-haired Gong smiled and said: "My brother is right. Yes, but nothing happened. Last year, we invited several mages to come and see it. They said that the evil ghost had absorbed a lot of resentment and had become a monster. Logically speaking, even the 'Pathway Snake' couldn't suppress it. No one could explain why it was so peaceful. I thought we could live in peace from now on, but more than 20 years later, it started causing trouble again. It often caused ghosts to cry and howl. Fortunately, no one died, but it was also scary. They would gather in groups at night. , and no one dares to go there.”