The sky was gloomy and sultry, the sun was blocked by dark clouds, and the birds in the distance migrated to other mountains. There were no small animals around the Kou family's ancestral tomb. It was lifeless, and even animals were unwilling to stay here. Five meters in front of the Kou family's ancestral tomb, there was an altar, and in front of the altar was a Taoist yellow flag used for worship and tomb repair.
At this time, a member of the Kou family ran over with a panicked look, holding a flag and saying, "Uncle, the flag is broken."
The elders of the Kou family were shocked. Father Kou staggered, and Kou Xuanling supported him from behind. Father Kou was the second child in the Kou family, and the young man who was looking after the flag was his nephew. Father Kou took the flag and asked, "Broken?"
The Kou family's younger generation said, "I was watching over the flag, and when I turned around, I heard the sound of the flag breaking. I looked back and saw that the flag was indeed broken."
Taoist flags are usually placed on the altar as a tool for casting spells and giving orders, and they have the function of exploring the way. When the celestial master is performing a ritual, if the flag breaks or suddenly falls down, it means that the gods are telling him not to continue, otherwise disaster will come. For example, repairing or relocating a grave is a big deal, and a flag is needed. If the flag breaks or collapses, the grave cannot be relocated or repaired.
After Mr. Kou discussed with other elders of the Kou family in a low voice for a few words, he said to Kou Xuanling: "Let's go up the mountain and see the water outlet."
So the group went up the mountain, and Chen Yang and Lu Xiuzhi followed. Lu Xiuzhi followed closely behind Kou Xuanling, and the Kou family hardly noticed him. Even if they looked at him, they quickly looked away, as if Lu Xiuzhi was no different from the stones and trees in the mountains. They walked up the mountain and looked at the Feng Shui of Bijia Mountain from the water mouth of the mountain.
The appearance of a mountain is likened to a dragon, stretching out and crawling on the ground. Soil is the mother of qi, and qi is likened to veins. The qi hidden in the mountains is called dragon veins. Dragon is yang, water is yin, and when yin and yang intersect, dragon and water follow each other, which is a good place. Therefore, dragon, water and qi are inseparable. The fortune of a Feng Shui treasure land depends on dragon, sand and water. Among them, sand is soil, which is a metaphor for qi.
Among the three, the water mouth is the most important, which is the entrance and exit of water flow. There is a Feng Shui formula in "Feng Shui Treasure Land": The sky gate is open, and the ground door is closed. The sky gate is the entrance of water flow, which should be wide. The ground door is the exit of water flow, which should be closed. Water is the source of wealth, so a wide entrance brings in a lot of wealth, and a closed exit collects wealth. If the water mouth is judged to be ominous, it will bring disaster to the house and the descendants of the person buried in this Feng Shui treasure land.
Chen Yang and his companions climbed up the mountain along a path and passed by a pool of water. The pool was bottomless and surrounded by dense forests. But if you look closely, you will find that the water is full of broken dead branches, almost filling the bottom of the pool, making the pool lifeless.
Father Kou frowned when he saw this: "What's going on? This pond is so lifeless, it's not even living water? Xuanling, go check the water quality."
Kou Xuanling responded and went to check the water quality. Chen Yang and Lu Xiuzhi happened to be standing very close to the pool. When Kou Xuanling found that he had to go around the bushes on the shore and lean his body to barely scoop up the water, Lu Xiuzhi offered to hold his wrist so that he could use it to check the water quality.
Kou Xuanling agreed, so Lu Xiuzhi held his wrist and stood on the shore. Kou Xuanling put one foot on the shore and the other foot carefully stepped on the protruding stones in the water to get closer to the water surface. He found that the water surface was very clean when he stood on the shore. But when he looked closer, he found that the water was turbid and the bottom of the water was so dark that it made people feel uneasy.
Kou Xuanling reached out his hand to scoop up some water, and found something sticky in his hand. When he pulled it out, he found a thin layer of transparent stain on his hand. Suddenly, he saw a long black object suddenly jump out of the water. He was startled and heard Chen Yang shout, "Be careful."
Chen Yang had felt that there was something wrong with the pond earlier, so he paid special attention to the water surface. When he saw the black snake suddenly jump out of the pond and attack Kou Xuanling's eyes, he gave a warning and quickly broke the branch to pin the black snake to the tree.
Lu Xiuzhi reacted very quickly and pulled Kou Xuanling back into his arms. The black snake and the branch brushed past Kou Xuanling's cheek. Kou Xuanling thanked Chen Yang and Lu Xiuzhi in a moment of shock, and then left Lu Xiuzhi's arms very freely.
Chen Yang glanced at Lu Xiuzhi and found that Lu Xiuzhi's expression changed drastically when Kou Xuanling was in danger, and his speed of attack was also very fast. Moreover, when Kou Xuanling, who was known as a straight man, was hugged around the waist, he did not feel uncomfortable at all, and seemed to be used to it.
Either Lao Kou was too straightforward and didn't notice anything was wrong. Or the "brotherhood" was too deep, Lao Kou directly skipped the previous cumbersome steps and entered the intimate contact stage.
Chen Yang imitated his master's rhythmic tapping with his index finger, retracted his gaze, and fell on the water. The water surface was still calm, and the dangerous scene just now was just an illusion. But the calmer it was, the more dangerous it was.
Chen Yang turned around and said to Father Kou: "Mr. Kou, I suspect there are still dirty things under the pool. Why don't you try to use the Five Thunder Talisman to blast them out?"
Kou's father pondered, and Kou Xuanling said to him, "Dad, the water is very dirty, it's stagnant." Kou's father was slightly shocked. The upstream and downstream of the pool are connected to the water outlet, which is a living mountain spring, so the pool should have living water. Now it has become stagnant water, which is a big problem.
Father Kou agreed to Chen Yang's proposal. Chen Yang walked a short distance forward and used the Five Thunder Spirit Talisman near the entrance of the pond. A low roar exploded the pond, splashing water everywhere. Many fish were blown to the shore, turning their bellies upside down and jumping a few times. Because the river water was blown up, there was an iron-black object at the bottom of the river. Although it was soon submerged by the river water, everyone present had already seen the appearance of that object.
It was a river-guarding beast with its front legs standing up and its hind legs squatting, with a dragon head, a dragon body and dragon claws. Its body was full of holes caused by corrosion, and many black snakes were wriggling in the holes. It looked so horrifying that everyone could see it without getting goose bumps.
Kou Xuanling: "Why is there a river-controlling beast at the entrance of the pond?"
The river beasts were usually placed in the middle of rivers that often flooded. For example, the Bijiashan Pond, which never had floods, did not need river beasts at all. Moreover, the river beast was full of holes, and many evil black snakes were curled up in the holes.
The mythical beasts of the river originated from Li Bing's flood control in the Qin and Han dynasties, who used mythical beasts to suppress water spirits. The mythical beasts of the river appeared in different forms in different periods, some in the form of stone rhinoceros, some in the form of iron bulls, and the rare dragon son. The river-suppressing beasts are also regarded as the mythical beasts of the river because they like water.
Just burying the river beast in a pond that won't flood will block the flow of living water, turning the pond into a dead pond. Moreover, the river beast in the pond looks so scary, it must have been moved from some dirty place.
Chen Yang: "The river-suppressing beast was supposed to have been buried in a place with heavy yin energy. After being corroded, it became the nest of those evil black snakes. Someone moved the river-suppressing beast to Bijia Mountain and threw it into a pond to block the running water. The pond is close to the dragon's mouth, and blocking the pond is equivalent to blocking the dragon's mouth. The water cannot flow down and will become stagnant water."
When they first came up from the mountain, they saw clean and clear running water, but in two days, the running water at the foot of the mountain will become stagnant water. Father Kou nodded: "It seems that someone wants to mess with our Kou family, and they chose such a sinister method."
It was indeed sinister. Destroying someone's ancestral graves harms three generations. The Kou family's ancestors within five generations were buried in Bijia Mountain. Once the feng shui of the ancestral graves was destroyed, it would not only harm three generations, but I'm afraid that five generations would suffer misfortunes. What did the Kou family offend to deserve such terrible revenge
Father Kou frowned, and couldn't think of anyone he had an enemy with. Their Heavenly Master was kind to others and did good deeds, but they definitely made more enemies than ordinary people, especially the Heavenly Master family, where big trees attract winds. Doing good deeds and accumulating virtues meant fighting against evil. The Kou family had offended many evil people, and it was not impossible for the other party to come to seek revenge and harm the five generations of the Kou family.
Father Kou waved his hand and said, "Go up and take a look at the water outlet."
When they arrived at the water mouth, they forked a dead fish with its belly turned upside down. The water mouth is the most lively place, and there would never be dead fish. Then a Kou family member explored down and found a group of dead fish. When he came back to report, the elders of the Kou family were furious. They angrily ordered the Kou family members to investigate the enemy, as this feud was irreconcilable. If the enemy was found, he would be killed without mercy.
The group returned to the Kou family. Chen Yang left the small hall because he didn't want to get involved in their family affairs. He ran into Lu Xiuzhi outside the small hall and approached him to chat: "Are you waiting for Kou Xuanling?"
Lu Xiuzhi turned around, his expression indifferent: "Yeah."
Chen Yang: "Kou Xuanling is a very persistent person. He seems to be not sad about anything. In fact, if he sets his mind on a thing or a person, he can persist in practicing sword dance and offering sacrifices on time every day for ten or eight years... What I mean is that Kou Xuanling is very pious and persistent. For example, he used to offer sacrifices to the ancestors on time every day, and every time he traveled far away, he would hang the portrait of the ancestors on his body. You should have seen the portrait of the ancestors on his body, right?"
Lu Xiuzhi smiled: "I saw it, it's very cute."
"Hmm?" Chen Yang raised his eyebrows. Would a grown man praise Lao Kou for being cute
Lu Xiuzhi: "When I first met him, he was a very principled person. He was... very pious, and there are very few people with such a devout faith. I think he is sincere and lovable."
Oh no. Chen Yang was sure that Lu Xiuzhi had fallen for the straight man Lao Kou in their branch, and that he was deeply in love with him. He could actually see the sincerity and loveliness in Lao Kou's habit of worshipping the ancestor as a goddess. This was true love, absolutely true love. However, "Kou Xuanling treated you as a brother, he was a straight man." Universe steel straight level.
Lu Xiuzhi smiled and said, "He may not have a clear understanding of himself."
Does that mean Kou Xuanling is gay but doesn't know it? Or does he think he can easily turn Kou Xuanling into a gay? Before Chen Yang could reply, Kou Xuanling came out of the small hall, put his arm around Lu Xiuzhi's shoulders and said, "Chen Xiaoyang, what are you talking about with Ah Zhi?"
"Azhi?"
"Do you feel it's very intimate? Haha, I think it's very intimate for brothers to call each other nicknames."
Chen Yang was silent. He felt that he needed to reorganize Kou Xuanling. What on earth made him think that calling someone by their nickname was a nickname? If I didn't know, I would have thought he was calling me his wife.
Chen Yang wanted to mock Lu Xiuzhi for his brazenness and give him a warning. But Kou Xuanling sent herself into Lu Xiuzhi's arms, and he couldn't say anything. He felt like an old father, just about to beat up the wild goblin who coveted his silly son, but before he could do anything, the silly son hugged the wild goblin outside and said foolishly: "Dad, I found a daughter-in-law for you."
Chen Yang turned and asked, "What about your family's ancestral grave?"
"My dad and his team decided to move the grave first and then investigate."
"Very good. When will the grave be moved?"
Kou Xuanling said seriously, "Tomorrow. We hope it will be as soon as possible. After all, our ancestors are buried in Bijia Mountain, and moving the graves will be a huge project. The longer it takes, the more time the other party will have to plot."
"Tomorrow... it's really rushed. Have you found a new Feng Shui location?" Moving graves informs the ancestors, so there must be a new address.
Kou Xuanling shook his head: "Bijia Mountain is a rare Feng Shui site. If the Feng Shui had not been destroyed, we would never have thought of moving the graves. My father and uncles' idea is to ask the ancestors to leave the tomb first, and then find a new tomb."
Chen Yang nodded: "Okay. If you need my help, just let me know."
Kou Xuanling smiled: "Thank you."
After saying hello, Chen Yang left and went to the town. The town buildings are full of ancient charm, with ancient houses lined up one after another, and small rivers winding through the doors of every household. Sometimes you can see one or two signs on the street with slogans written on them, which roughly mean to create and develop towns full of ancient charm and vigorously develop distinctive cultural tourism sites.
The town is not big and can be walked around in one day. The town is prosperous and leisurely, warm and peaceful. The sun is on the top of the mountain, about to fall but not falling. The orange sunset covers half of the sky, dyeing the whole town with extremely bright colors. Standing on the main street of the town and looking up, you can see Bijia Mountain behind the town. Bijia Mountain is surrounded by mountains, beautiful and dignified, and the top of the mountain always seems to be shrouded in a layer of beautiful mist.
Suddenly, a group of people came in a hurry. When they passed by Chen Yang, Chen Yang heard them say, "Hurry up and inform the Kou family. He just went into the mountains and died suddenly for no reason. It must be evil. Recently, the gates of hell are wide open, and some evil spirits have come out through the cracks to harm people. Hurry up and inform the Kou family's Taoist priest to see if he can be rescued."
One person in the crowd changed direction and ran towards the Kou family's ancestral home. Chen Yang thought about it, followed the large group and turned into a stone alley. From a distance, he saw a lot of people gathered at the door of a house. When he got closer, he found that there was a mournful cry coming from the house. Chen Yang asked the person beside him: "What happened?"
The man looked at Chen Yang and thought he was a tourist so he was reluctant to talk. Chen Yang immediately said that he was Kou Xuanling's friend. The man was skeptical. An old man next to him looked at Chen Yang carefully and said, "I remember you. You followed Kou Xiaowu into the Kou family yesterday."
"So it was a guest of the Kou family," the man smiled politely upon hearing this, "Someone died inside, a tourist. Our tourism industry is quite developed here, so every household has vacant houses to rent to tourists. This family rented the house to a tourist, and the tourist suddenly died. The tourist's girlfriend is now crying and accusing this family of stealing money and killing her, otherwise how could her boyfriend, who was in good health, suddenly die? But, I heard." He lowered his voice and said mysteriously, "I heard that he didn't listen to advice and insisted on going into the mountains last night. Maybe he ran into something at night and was killed."
Not long after, someone from the Kou family came. It was Kou Xuanling. When Kou Xuanling arrived, the crowd automatically made way for him. Kou Xuanling saw Chen Yang and walked in with him: "I heard them say someone died suddenly?"
"I just heard about it too." Chen Yang replied, and when he stepped through the threshold, he saw a man lying next to the eight-immortal table, with an extremely painful expression and his hands tightly grasping his neck. The frightened owner and the man's girlfriend were also in the room, and she cried and wanted to call the police.
Kou Xuanling first checked the deceased and found that his neck was covered with scratches from his own fingers. Some of the wounds were very deep and a lot of blood had flowed out, and the blood had now coagulated. Chen Yang also squatted down to check: "Is there something in his throat?"
Kou Xuanling shook his head: "I don't know. What kind of thing in the throat can cause a person to die in pain?" He checked the dead man's fingers, and the gaps between his fingers were full of skin and flesh scraps and black blood.
Chen Yang suddenly found a black thread on the skin behind the deceased's ear. Just as he was about to check it carefully, the deceased's girlfriend rushed over to warn them not to touch her boyfriend's body: "You want to destroy the body? Before the police arrive, you are not allowed to touch the body. Otherwise, none of you will be able to escape suspicion."
Chen Yang and Kou Xuanling looked at each other. They did not touch the body during the inspection, but since the deceased's girlfriend said so, they really couldn't touch the body again. Chen Yang lowered his eyes to look behind the deceased's ear and found that there was no black thread behind his ear. He frowned. Did he see it wrong
Kou Xuanling stood up and asked: "Call the police?"
The owner of this family pointed at the girlfriend of the deceased and said, "She called the police. Alas, his sudden death really has nothing to do with us. If it weren't for your money and beauty, why would you harm him? There is no hatred or grudge, there is no reason to harm him. Besides, everyone eats the same food, and he was the only one who got into trouble, which means it was not us who put something in the food. Besides, we clearly warned him many times not to go to Tiewei Mountain. Maybe he provoked unclean things there-"
"Did he go into Tiewei Mountain?" Kou Xuanling interrupted the owner of the house.
The householder said, "He went into the mountains. I have advised him many times that there are so many beautiful mountains around, but he refused to climb them and insisted on going to Tiewei Mountain. We were already feeling uneasy standing at the foot of Tiewei Mountain. It is a very ominous mountain, but he insisted on going there, and he wanted to go there at night. What else can you say but that he is possessed by evil spirits?"
Chen Yang didn't know Tiewei Mountain, but he knew that it was a mountain that even local residents didn't dare to go to. After repeated dissuasion, simple tourists should be afraid. Even if they were adventurous and curious, they would not go up the mountain alone in the middle of the night. He asked the deceased's girlfriend: "Why did he go up the mountain in the middle of the night?"
The deceased's girlfriend's eyes flickered. "He always liked adventure, especially those places that sounded very strange. They repeatedly mentioned in front of my boyfriend that we couldn't go to Tiewei Mountain. The more they mentioned it, the more interested my boyfriend became. So, so he went. But what does this have to do with my boyfriend's death? My boyfriend died suddenly after eating the food they prepared in front of me. Even if they didn't kill my boyfriend on purpose, they must have something to do with my boyfriend's death. You are all from the town, right? You favor your own people. I won't believe anything you say. I'm waiting for the police to come now. I only believe the forensic report."
Chen Yang lowered his eyes: "I'm afraid it's not that you like strange places, but there is something in strange places that attracts you to take risks."
The deceased's girlfriend frowned and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? I said I only trust the police—"
"I'm afraid you'll be scared if the police come." Kou Xuanling appeared from behind the deceased's girlfriend, holding their luggage. He dumped out the luggage, which contained items such as an engineer shovel, a paratrooper knife, a gas mask, and a flying tiger claw. "Tomb robbing? Are you going to Tiewei Mountain to rob tombs?"
The deceased's girlfriend's face turned ugly: "No, we are not. Does carrying these things mean we are tomb robbers?"
Kou Xuanling looked at the deceased's girlfriend with a strange look and a serious expression: "How did you know that there is an ancient tomb in Tiewei Mountain?" She immediately refuted that she was not a tomb robber, instead of refuting that there is an ancient tomb in Tiewei Mountain. However, the ancient tomb in Tiewei Mountain is kept secret, and only some people in the Kou family know about it. Even the people in the town don't know about it, so when they heard what Kou Xuanling said, the onlookers were very surprised.
The deceased's girlfriend looked surprised, and she saw that the other townspeople were also surprised. Suddenly she sneered, "You guys didn't keep it a secret, did you? I heard that there are mountains of gold and silver hidden in the ancient tomb of Tiewei Mountain, but your Kou family kept it a secret. Haha, this is the Kou family you trust and respect, who took the treasure of the ancient tomb of Tiewei Mountain for themselves but deceived you into not being able to enter Tiewei Mountain!"
The deceased's girlfriend had lived in the town for a few days and knew the status of the Kou family in the town. She was trying to sow discord between the Kou family and the townspeople, but when she tried her best to sow discord, she found that the townspeople were indifferent. After a while, they whispered to each other and looked at the deceased's girlfriend as if she were a fool.
"It's as if we are all low IQ and can easily instigate success."
"That's right. Anyone with a bit of intelligence can see that Iron Wall Mountain is ominous. Standing at the foot of the mountain makes me nervous. It seems that there is no living creature in the mountain. Even if there are gold, silver and treasures in such a dangerous place, it depends on whether you will be alive to enjoy them."
"Come on, an ancient tomb! Have you ever seen a horror movie? Only a fool would go to such a scary place. It's better to report it to the country, maybe you can get a reward."
"Reporting to the country is the most correct method, because even if you find an ancient tomb, you may not be able to enter it and take away the treasure. Even if you take the treasure, can you sell it? If you use special channels to sell national treasures abroad, you will bring shame to your ancestors."
Chen Yang said to the deceased's girlfriend: "Did you hear that? You called the police anyway, so let them take you away."
The deceased's girlfriend's face turned pale, and she pursed her lips and said angrily: "If I am caught, you can't escape! My boyfriend was killed by you!"
Chen Yang and Kou Xuanling ignored the deceased's girlfriend and waited for the police to arrive. But the police didn't come until it was dark. The owner said, "She called the police in front of us, so they shouldn't have come yet."
Kou Xuanling took the deceased's girlfriend's phone and asked for the unlock code, but found that the police number had not been dialed. The deceased's girlfriend's lips curved sinisterly: "You killed my boyfriend and you still want to be safe? The police are useless, I want to take revenge myself."
Kou Xuanling frowned, not understanding what the deceased's girlfriend meant. Chen Yang gestured to Kou Xuanling to look at the body: "There is something inside the body." Kou Xuanling looked down but saw nothing.
Chen Yang half-knelt down, narrowed his eyes slightly, and locked his sharp gaze directly on the dead man's arm. He suddenly made a move, and quickly pressed down the black strip-shaped object as thick as a blood vessel under the skin of the dead man's arm. The object was pinched but kept moving.
Kou Xuanling's scalp tingled as he looked at it: "What is this?"
Chen Yang: "It's not clear yet, but it seems to be growing." He looked at the deceased's girlfriend, who was staring at the black bar on the deceased's arm with fanatical eyes. "Get rid of the body first."
Kou Xuanling: "Burn it?"
"Hmm." The black strips in the body of the deceased should not have grown yet, so the body can be burned first. Chen Yang didn't care whether it would damage the body. He thought of a possibility in his mind, worrying that the black strips would grow and look for parasites. There are so many people in the town, and we can't gamble with so many people's lives.
The deceased's girlfriend whispered, "It's too late."
Kou Xuanling immediately had the deceased taken outside the square, and lit up branches of lychee trees. After the branches were set on fire, flames shot up into the sky. However, until all the branches of the lychee trees were burned out, the body of the deceased was intact. Someone came forward to check and screamed in shock and fell to the ground. The rest of the people came forward to see and their faces changed drastically, and they ran to the side to vomit.
Chen Yang and Kou Xuanling walked forward and saw that the dead man's skin was stretched up. Under the skin were densely packed black strips, which seemed to cover the dead man's blood vessels and bones, gnawing the dead man into an empty shell. Only a layer of skin was left, tightly wrapping the black strips inside, as if a thorn could pierce it and let the things inside escape.
Kou Xuanling frowned and said, "Park it at the Kou family's ancestral home first."
The author has something to say: Why do you think Lu Xiuzhi is Wu Lingjiu
I won't let that bastard hurt Lao Kou.
Moreover, the Wu Lingjiu was driven to the Guge ruins and surrounded.
When I went up the mountain to look at the water outlet, the scene of Uncle Ying moving the graves and looking at the water outlet came to my mind. I love Uncle Ying's zombie movies. Anyway, when I watch ghost movies, as long as Uncle Ying is there, I am fearless.