My teacher cooked a big pot of pork stewed with Chinese cabbage, which is the most popular food in the countryside, especially in a big pot. We each ate a big bowl and felt very satisfied. To be honest, as a country boy, I still think this is the only thing that can fill me up. The delicacies from the mountains and seas in the restaurant are a luxury. When have you ever burped after eating those things, unless you drank too much beer.
Zhao Chengshi was happy to see that we all enjoyed the meal. He sat down and continued to tell us the secrets of Guilong Tower and pipes.
Lao Liang's pipe is a treasure his father got from the north. In shamanic rituals, tobacco is a very important thing to save people's souls. Shamanism is also called witchcraft, but ancient officials did not like to use these two words, so the religious term "witchcraft" has been used. Shaman culture originated from northern ethnic groups. Of course, when it comes to tobacco used in witchcraft rituals, the north is more authentic. It is not surprising that Lao Liang, a native of Xiangxi, smokes Yabuli tobacco.
The treasures passed down in Xiangxi witchcraft did not originate from Xiangxi, but also came from the north. Speaking of its origin, it has to do with the Twelve-story Ghost Dragon Tower. The Ghost Dragon Tower is a unique and strange Feng Shui technique in witchcraft, which is similar to the Taoist Five Ghosts Bringing Wealth, but this Feng Shui technique is much more powerful than the Five Ghosts Bringing Wealth. It requires twelve "shaman witch gods" to live in the tower to cultivate demons, so that the twelve-story Ghost Dragon Tower will have great luck and change the fortune of descendants.
In witchcraft, the so-called witch gods are the spirits of the ancestors. If your family wants to do this, they must gather the spirits of the ancestors twelve generations ago and move them into the Ghost Dragon Tower. This is a very difficult Feng Shui arrangement to accomplish, and only people like Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan, and the modern Gao family have the financial resources to do it.
In fact, in the thousands of years of shamanic history, only three ghost dragon towers were built. The first one was built during the Shang Dynasty. As for who built it, there is no need to verify it. The second one was built by the Li Tang family. This tower is still located in the Yinshan Mountain near Taiyuan. The third one is the one in the old house of the Gao family. It was also built by a wizard who met the ancestors of the Gao family when they fled from famine in the Northeast. The wizard also gave them a pipe. After the end of World War II, the Gao family moved back to Longlou Town.
In fact, the town was not originally called this name, but when the Gao family came back, they had benefited from the Guilong Tower and donated money to build roads and schools, which made them very prestigious in the hearts of the locals. The old man of the Gao family was named Gao Longlou, so the town was renamed after him.
But after ten years of turmoil, in those days, if you wanted to hold a sacrifice, it was impossible. You would be immediately accused of being a demon and paraded through the streets! So sacrifices had to be done secretly, and sacrifices to the Ghost Dragon Tower had to be made openly in the courtyard on the first and fifteenth day of every month, facing the heaven and earth. Later, I thought, I got it. When the wizard gave them the pipe, he said that if something unexpected happened and they couldn't hold a public sacrifice, they could just smoke a pack of cigarettes with this pipe on the first and fifteenth day of every month.
That was a miniature sacrificial object made by the wizard specifically for the Ghost Dragon Tower! However, this pipe not only has the function of sacrificing, but also has the miraculous effect of restraining these big guys in the Ghost Tower. If you keep a dog, you are afraid of being bitten by the dog. If you keep a ghost, you are afraid of being eaten by the ghost. If you don't guard against it, these ghost big guys will all become terrible demons. What if they rebel? So in this pipe, there is a way to restrain them.