A017: Secret Record of Stone Letters

Hou Yidun asked even more quietly: "What's wrong? Can't believe me? Or is there something unspeakable? Tell your story!"

Wu Xiaowu thought to himself: "This is what you want to listen to." Then he turned to look out the window, trying to pretend to be in a memory. Hou Yidun came over again and tilted his head to look at his face, with a serious and caring attitude.

"Monkey, Uncle Tang is actually my senior brother!" Wu Xiaowu tried his best to keep his tone mysterious and calm.

Hou Yidun scratched his head and smiled: "What senior brother?

"No kidding! I mean it," Wu Xiaowu squeezed out a trace of anger, looked at the sides of the obvious no one else, and asked him very playfully, "Do you know what my grandfather does?"

Hou Yidun raised his chin and motioned for him to continue, and Wu Xiaowu continued: "Actually, my grandfather is a native master, and he fights backwards. ”

"What master, what fight?" Obviously, Hou Yidun had never heard these two words.

Wu Xiaowu thought to himself: "Dizzy, miscalculated, I haven't even read a tomb robbery novel on this thing?" ”

Although Hou Yidun is from the Department of Fine Arts, his amateur reading is either Chen Danqing, Mu Xin, or Wang Xiaobo, Wang Anyi, etc., and he never reads thriller and horror novels and film and television dramas.

"Tomb robbing? I know that there seems to be a novel, what is it called...... "Ghost Lantern Notes" or what? There is a classmate in high school who is reading, there are several copies, and it seems that the words on the waist cover are tomb robbers. In fact, his classmate bought two sets of the same book at the time.

Wu Xiaowu couldn't help laughing, "Yes, "Ghost Lantern Notes", written by Tang Jiatu, this author is awesome, the word silkworm, the number three less." Hey, that's not the point, after my parents had an accident, didn't I go with my aunt, you know. My grandfather and ancestors were upside down, he also did it when he was young, and when my father was a teenager, he became a monk and went to the Tao. ”

Hou Yidun stopped eating potato chips and drinking drinks, his eyes lit up, and he showed a strong interest in Wu Xiaowu's story. "Daoist, amazing! And then?"

"I never saw him, and my grandmother never went to see him. The year before last, he suddenly called my aunt and asked her to take me to meet him, but god, he never contacted his family, and he even had my aunt's number, and he knew that I had lived with my aunt. Then we took a train for a day, took a taxi to the bottom of the mountain, climbed for more than two hours, and found a small Taoist temple.

Maybe it's because of his cultivation, he looks like he's in his fifties, and he feels similar to Uncle Tang, but he has more immortal bones than Uncle Tang. After all, it's a grandson, and it's very cordial when we meet. My aunt and I lived in two rooms in the Taoist temple, anyway, there were birds singing and flowers there, and the feeling of Quanzhenjiao on TV was very cool!

On the first day, my grandfather took us shopping, chatted about some family matters, and he explained a lot to my aunt, basically which aspects of the future will be good and avoid evil, quite godly, it is estimated that it is cultivated to a certain level, and can predict the future life of people. The next day he told me to go alone to his little room. There are more than 20 Taoist priests there, and my grandfather is the boss there. ”

"It's amazing! Bodhi Ancestor and Sun Monkey are instantly visual! And then?" Hou Yidun urged him to say quickly.

Wu Xiaowu's eyes were dark, "That night, my grandfather said that when he was young, he went down to an ancient tomb, anyway, it was from Confucius's time, and it was too early. There are many organs in the tomb, my grandfather and his father, who is my grandfather, took him to crack the many mechanisms, and when they opened the coffin in the main tomb, they found that there was no body in it, only a lot of burial goods and a stone letter!

They wrapped the stone letter and a bunch of gold, silver, and jewels that they could carry, and when they went back, they opened the stone letter, and guess what it was? There was nothing! It is said that this kind of stone letter is usually a Buddha bone relic, which is almost all kinds of crystals, teeth, bones, and so on that were burned out after Shakyamuni Buddha attained Nirvana, oh, hair or something. ”

Hou Yidun nodded wildly, "Mmmm! I know this, relics! Then your grandfather steals ...... Did the relics in the stone letter taken out by other tomb robbers take it away?"

"No, no, although there is nothing in the stone letter, there are some words engraved on the inner wall of the stone letter, and there is a picture. My grandfather said that the route and layout of the dungeon in that image, according to the text, it seems that there is a big secret hidden in the dungeon that can benefit sentient beings. But those words were too old and ambiguous rhythms, and they finally chose eight places to find the underground palace.

After many years, my grandfather passed away halfway through, leaving my grandfather and his younger brother to continue to fulfill my grandfather's last wish. Finally, in a mountain, they found the underground palace, which turned out to be another ancient tomb that was too old to be toothless. After they entered, they found the so-called 'big secret' on many stone carvings in the tomb, and they also expanded it. ”

"What is the big secret? Then these two tombs should be from the same period, why put the hint in one tomb and the secret in the other?" Hou Yidun had fully believed his story.

"I asked, too, but my grandfather didn't know. But that secret is scary, you know the disguise, right?"

Hou Yidun nodded, "I know, the face changer, the human skin mask or something." ”

"What is recorded on those rubbings is similar to the transfiguration technique, but it is not a face-changing technique, but an ancient secret technique that can change the soul of a living person! My grandfather named it Soul Change! That is, if a person lives well, you can use Soul Change to change the soul of the other party! I listened to it at the time, and I thought that my grandfather was confused, but he showed me the stone letter, so big, so high. ”

Wu Xiaowu gestured carefully in his hand, giving full play to the strengths of the Chinese students, and almost believed himself.

"There are really pictures and words in that stone letter, but my grandfather said that it was just the opposite, what looked like a picture was actually a word, and what looked like a word was a picture of the underground palace! There were also a lot of hints and the like, and I couldn't understand it, but the real hammer was right in front of me, so I'm sure what my grandfather said was true.

Then I asked, later my grandfather and his younger brother, did they cultivate this soul-changing technique? My grandfather said that his younger brother felt that this thing was against the way of heaven, even in ancient times, it should have been a side door evil art, and the family was already doing something to fight for gold, and he could no longer cultivate this thing that hurt heaven and reason;

But my grandfather felt that people's hearts were unpredictable, and if they could transform the souls of destined people, it would be equivalent to benefiting the common people! How else to say that it was my grandfather, who was bold, he left my grandmother and a pair of children, decisively became a monk, went directly to the mountain where the stone carvings were found, found a broken Taoist temple, and never went down the mountain again. Three years later, he actually cultivated!"