Eight coffins
"Qingyi, this flying machine can no longer be used to measure the ghost magnetic waves in Liwan Square, why don't I call Zu Ming and ask him to borrow something like that?" Uncle Guang said.
"Can you get it? I heard that there is chaos in J City right now, and their team leaders are all big. Shen Qingyi asked.
"Even if I try, without that thing, it is estimated that it is difficult to measure how powerful the electromagnetic field of Lihua Plaza is, and I don't know the strength of that ghost." Uncle Guang touched his beard and said, "Regarding the matter of the eight coffins, I will have to work hard for you to make a trip, I have already called the Taoist leader of the Five Immortals Temple, and he may be able to provide some clues." ”
"Uncle Guang, what is 'that thing'?" Xia Xunfei asked.
Uncle Guang smiled mysteriously and said, "You'll know when you successfully borrow it, you can accompany Qingyi to the Five Immortals to watch it first." ”
"I'll go too! I'll go too! Xiao Dian hurriedly pulled Shen Qingyi.
"No, Xiaodi, you have to stay, I want to record your brain waves and see if there is anything I can do to help you pay attention to ghosts, or directly get you rid of the supernatural constitution." Uncle Guang said.
"Ah...... That's it......" Xiao looked at Shen Qingyi reluctantly, "Okay......"
The Five Immortals Temple is a small Taoist temple built in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, and is now hidden in a corner of the downtown of H City, which can be said to be hidden in the city. The inside of the Taoist temple is very quiet, and there are few tourists, compared to the traffic outside the door, the temple is as comfortable as isolating from the world. The green bamboo in the Taoist garden makes a "rustling" sound in the wind, and because of the typhoon, the ground and the ancient stone monument are covered with bamboo leaves. In the backyard of the "tourist stop" sat three people.
An old Taoist priest wearing glasses and looking to be over seventy years old sat on a half-dry and half-wet stone bench in the courtyard, in front of the stone bench was a stone table, and a pot of fragrant tea was cut on it. ”
"Daochang Wu, I can't guarantee whether I can solve the problem, but what I hope most at the moment is to find out what is the trouble, some people say it's the eight coffins, and some people say it's the monster who suppressed it." Shen Qingyi said.
"I saw the ghost of the woman in red with my own eyes...... Dao Chief, do you have anything you can defend yourself from? Xia Xunfei asked timidly.
"Hahaha, Officer Xia, you don't have to be so afraid, think about it, has that female ghost ever hurt you?" Wu Daochang stroked his beard and laughed.
"It's not ......," Xia Xunfei blushed a little.
"That's right, she just happened to let you see it, and she didn't hurt you, compared to the criminals who trafficked in people, stole organs, and robbed for money, the ghost is not so terrifying, isn't it?"
"This ......" Xia Xunfei was speechless.
"Captain Shen, as for the eight coffins, I have only discovered a clue in the ancient books of the Taoist temple in recent years. This matter has to start from the last years of the Qing Dynasty......"
Between about 1870 and 1880, a large family in H City took a daughter-in-law from another place, which was originally a festive event, but the family did marry a red tent outside the door and a white flag in the courtyard. It turned out that the family's son died before they got married, and instead of canceling the marriage, the family tricked the girl's daughter into holding a secret marriage for their son. When the girl came to see it, of course she didn't want to, so she immediately quarreled with her relatives to go back. The man of the big family pretended to reassure them and said that he would send them away the next day, but in fact secretly contacted the local officials and accused them of stealing the family's money the next morning, and the person who sent them was taken to prison, and the poor girl was pressed and worshipped with the rooster. After that, he was caught in the mourning hall and locked up with the corpse of the first ** for a whole day, and was not released until the body was buried. After being released, the girl became insane, and died a few days later, saying that she was scared to death by a ghost. When she died, she was still wearing a bright red wedding dress, and she had a lot of resentment before she died, so her ghost often appeared in the courtyard after her death. The man looked for a lot of masters at that time, and one of them pointed out that this place could no longer be inhabited, and that if he wanted to subdue the ghosts, he had to bury the girl's body in the courtyard, and then bury the bodies of the eight evil people in the eight directions of the gossip in a vertical way, and suppress the ghosts by violent methods, and these eight coffins were like eight nails that nailed the ghosts to the depths of the earth. However, this formation will make it impossible for the ghost to transcend, and once it is released in the future, its resentment will only become more serious. The man was originally very annoyed by the "in-laws" who came to the door to seek revenge from time to time, and now when he heard the method of killing two birds with one stone, he simply moved the whole family, hired someone to bulldoze the house, and then spent money to buy the corpses of eight death row prisoners to suppress the girl underneath.
"The female ghost in red I saw is this girl who was scared to death?" Xia Xunfei asked.
"If you're right, it should be. The construction of Liwan Plaza released her that year. I didn't expect that after so many years, she still has a grievance. Wu Daochang sighed.
"Not only did she not go away, but she also killed many innocent people." Shen Qingyi said with a blushing face, "You should tell her that the person who killed her has already died, and tell her to go to reincarnation with peace of mind." ”
"How do you tell her? Burn a letter to her? Xia Xunfei asked.
Shen Qingyi angrily turned at Xia Xunfei and said, "If burning paper could be effective, your ancestors would have made a fortune down there!" ”
"Hehe, if there is a tablet or a corpse of this ghost, maybe we can do a fast for her, and try to see if we can overtake the girl's soul. But after so much time has passed, the tablet must not be found, as for the bones...... I don't think the property of Radisson Plaza will agree to us digging a big hole in their square, right? Besides, we don't even know where the bones are in the square. Wu Daochang said.
"That'...... We can only wait for her to show up on her own? Who knows when she'll show up? She's not a taxi, so she comes running as soon as she waves. Xia Xunfei said with a frown.
"This ...... Uncle Guang may have a way, but we have to see if we can borrow something like that......" Shen Qingyi seemed to think of something, "Xia Xunfei, we should go back, don't disturb Wu Daochang for so long." ”
"Hehe, don't bother, you are welcome to come often, the exchange between the police and the people will help social harmony." Wu Daochang squinted and touched his beard.
"Thank you, Daochang Wu, Daoist Wu, I want to ask you something more......" Xia Xunfei approached Daochang Wu and asked in a low voice, "That female ghost really won't hurt me?" Should I bring some jade Buddha medals or something? ”
"Hahaha, Captain Xia...... I don't do bad things in my life, and I'm not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night. Wu Daochang was amused by Xia Xunfei and laughed.
Shen Qingyi stood at the door of the backyard with a gloomy face, and called in a low voice: "Xia Xunfei-"
"It's coming! Here it comes! Xia Xunfei immediately trotted over like a puppy who heard the owner's call.
This is the third day that Shen Qingyi decided to investigate the case, and on this day, she dragged Xia Xunfei to the orthopedic ward of the city hospital.
"Hey, hey, hey, first sister, don't pull me so hard." Xia Xunfei was being pulled forward by Shen Qingyi, "You occasionally find a muscle guy to go out with you, he is much more powerful than me." Xia Xunfei doesn't like the hospital, the smell of disinfectant water here makes him feel uncomfortable.
"Shut up! The muscular guy has more important things to do, and ...... You're the vice-captain! Shen Qingyi especially emphasized the word "vice captain".
Shen Qingyi pulled a little nurse and asked for Li Jianjun's bed number, strode to the door and knocked on the door. Li Jianjun was lying on the bed with bandages all over his body at this time, looking half-dead. Probably because he had a little money in business, he lived in a single room with a TV and a refrigerator.
"Hello, are you Mr. Li Jianjun?" Shen Qing asked politely with a smile.
"Yes...... Who are you? Li Jianjun half-opened his eyes and swept them.
"We are reporters from the Urban Science and Technology Development Network, and we want to come and interview you."
What the? Reporter? Why do you have to disguise yourself when you ask a question? Xia Xunfei looked at Shen Qingyi in surprise, but he didn't say it.
"Oh, just sit ......" Li Jianjun looked very cold.
"Thank you, we'd like to interview you for details about the day you fell off the building." Shen Qingyi still asked with a smile.
"What else is there to say? Reporters have been here for several waves, photos have been taken, and the police have issued notices, all like that. You won't believe me anyway. ”
"No, Mr. Lee, we're going to believe you, because our site is dedicated to explaining incredible questions from a scientific point of view, so we'd love to know what happened to you that day." Shen Qingyi said sincerely.
"Uh...... Really believe me? Okay......" Li Jianjun thought about it for a while, and finally decided to say what happened that day.
That afternoon, the square invited artists to hold activities, so it also attracted a large number of people to pour into the shops, and Li Jianjun has not stopped receiving guests since noon. Just saw off a guest, and when he wanted to take a break, he looked up and found that the foggy layer of the gossip mirror on the door frame seemed to be a little black. The person who opened the shop here said that if the gossip mirror is black, it should be replaced with a new one as soon as possible, because the blackened gossip mirror has no effect on warding off evil spirits. So Li Jianjun took off the gossip mirror and prepared to wipe it and hang it up, he didn't want to spend another sum of money to buy a new one, anyway, it would be the same if it was polished. Just as he was wiping it, there were customers in the store again. So he hurriedly put away the gossip mirror and got up to greet the guests, but he didn't expect this greeting to stop, and three or four guests came one after another. Li Jianjun made a lot of money, and he forgot about the gossip mirror when he was happy. After seeing off the guests, he sat down to take a sip of tea, and at that moment, a female voice seemed to come from outside the door, softly calling his name. He stood up and felt dizzy, and then the female voice told him to go out with a plastic stool, and she was outside. Li Jianjun kept walking to the crowd next to the guardrail with a stool, and the female voice kept talking to him, telling him to stand on the stool, saying that she was waiting for him below. Li Jianjun stood on the stool and took a big step towards the outside of the guardrail, and then fell off the atrium.
"I was in a fog, but I knew what I was doing, but my body was out of control, and I just watched myself fall." Li Jianjun said.
"So the reason you think the reason you fell down was because you didn't hang the gossip mirror?" Shen Qingyi asked.
"Absolutely! Because there is no gossip mirror to ward off evil spirits, I was tricked. Fortunately, I had a jade Buddha hanging on my body at that time, otherwise I would have lost my life now! Li Jianjun pointed to the jade pendant on his chest with his only movable left hand.
"Do you remember what that voice was like?" Shen Qingyi asked.
"Hmm...... It must have been a young woman's voice, very soft and faint, but I could hear it clearly, as if it was coming from outside into my head rather than in my ears. Li Jianjun tried to recall.
"Was there anything special or strange happening before and after you heard the sound?"
"I think about it...... I remember before the incident, there seemed to be a problem with the lighting in my shop, the light pipe flashed a few times, and the computer restarted for no reason, I don't know if the voltage was not enough. ”
Shen Qing saw that he had almost asked a question, so he asked a few more irrelevant topics, and then pulled Xia Xunfei away.