May 12, 1906, Longjiabao Village, Dankou, Hunan. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In a dilapidated thatched hut, a cacophony of human voices could be faintly heard.

"Yuan Renpu, how did you promise me in the first place?" A gray-haired old man questioned.

Opposite him was a middle-aged man with slightly gray temples and crutches, this lame man was Yuan Renpu in the old man's mouth.

When Yuan Renpu heard this, he carefully sent the crying baby in his arms to the arms of an ugly woman, smiled indifferently, took the old man's hand and went straight to Longming Mountain outside the village, walked halfway up the mountain, pointed to an open space and said: "Cousin, my life is about to end, and when I die, bury me here, remember, you can't dress me, you can't use a coffin, within a year, the oath can be fulfilled." ”

The old man was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, and walked away.

The reason why he is so angry has to start with the history of the Yuan family.

During the Qing Dynasty, the Yuan family was a famous big family in ten miles and eight towns, and it is said that when the Yuan family was at its peak, there was a Taoist platform of the four products.

Of course, there are no more than three generations of wealth, this sentence is not unreasonable, by the time of Yuan Renpu's generation, it is not as good as before, except for a seven-grade county, there is no one who is incompetent.

And that Qipinzhi County is the cousin who questioned Yuan Renpu, but that has become a cloud of the past, and now, Yuan County's order has returned to his hometown, an ordinary person.

Seeing that the family was in the middle of the road, and most of the children in the clan were delicious and lazy, the old man came to Yuan Renpu to discuss.

For no other reason, Yuan Renpu is a feng shui gentleman who travels all over the world.

At that time, the theory of feng shui was in full swing, and from the emperors and generals to the common people, they all believed in the art of Qimen and the mysteries of feng shui, which also made the famous feng shui master highly respected.

Indeed, a good feng shui layout can not only keep the family members healthy, but even enter the department for the benefit of future generations.

Originally, I wanted to let Yuan Renpu see if there was something wrong with his feng shui, but he thought that Yuan Renpu was always prevaricating, but this time it was good, so he simply found such an excuse, and the old man seemed that Yuan Renpu was obviously playing perfunctory to him.

But what he didn't expect was that three days later, Yuan Renpu really died.

On the day of Yuan Renpu's funeral, the sky was full of thunder and thunder, so dark that he couldn't see his five fingers, and the old man took four strong men, according to Yuan Renpu's previous explanation, wrapped his body in a mat and buried it in the open space.

Everything was done according to Yuan Renpu's orders, but no one expected that Yuan Renpu in the tomb was wearing a pair of shorts, which his wife couldn't bear to wear for him secretly.

That night, the thunder continued, and the dark night sky seemed to be torn open one by one, as bright as day.

The next day, the peaceful mountain village exploded because a villager who got up early to farm said that something happened to Yuan Renpu's tomb.

The village chief said hello, and the men in the village rushed to Fengming Mountain with shovels and wooden sticks, and Yuan Renpu's cousin was naturally among them.

Everyone looked at it intently and gasped.

I saw that the small mound where Yuan Renpu was buried stood quietly in place as yesterday, looking down the hill towards the mountain, the trees along the way were crooked, and the originally hard hillside was also stiffly arched up a long ridge, just like a ridge arched by a gopher, but it was much bigger. The ridges stretch to the top of the towering peaks, and there is no end in sight.

A straightforward villager blurted out: "Renpu's body, I'm afraid it wasn't taken by the corpse monster, right?" ”

"Don't talk nonsense!" The village chief scolded sharply, but his gray eyebrows were twisted together.

Although the village chief interrupted the man's unintentional words, everyone's faces became extremely solemn.

Relying on the large number of people, the villagers still along the ridge, cautiously exploring the mountain, finally, when they reached the top of the mountain Tianchi, they saw from afar, a half-human and half-demon monster lying on the edge of the pool, the upper body of the monster, has been submerged in the water, and the lower body, less than half a meter from the water surface.

Several young and strong men stabbed the monster with the guy in their hands, and when they saw that it did not react, they looked at each other and dragged the dying monster out of the water.

The monster was born very peculiarly, with scales on its body, its head was born with two horns, and its whole body was as black as charcoal, as if it had been baptized by thunder and lightning, and a pair of shorts had been retreated to his feet.

The appearance of the monster already has the appearance of a five- or six-point dragon.

Only then did the villagers suddenly realize that they dared to love last night's thunder, and they were splitting this monster that was going against the sky.

In the countryside, there is such a saying, all the monsters who want to ascend to the Tao to immortals, have to go through the thunder tribulation, it seems that the guy in front of him just wants to ascend to the immortal, but it did not survive last night's thunder tribulation.

People respect the gods, but those who don't succeed are obviously not listed.

At the signal of the village chief, the villagers separately found branches and firewood, and wanted to light a fire to burn the monster to death.

The old man heard that it was Yuan Renpu's voice, stopped the villagers' movements, and asked, is it Renpu?

The monster nodded, and two lines of tears slipped from the corners of his eyes.

The old man ran over and asked, Renpu, aren't you dead? How did it become like this?

The monster let out a long sigh and said faintly, maybe it was providential.

As he spoke, he whispered a few words in the old man's ear, and whimpered.

Only then did the old man understand that it was those shorts that harmed Yuan Renpu, otherwise, he should have traveled above the Nine Heavens at this time.

It didn't take long for the old man's family to pack up their things and leave the village with Yuan Renpu's wife and children, after all, no one could stand the days when they were verbally spoken of every day.

Later, a villager who went up the mountain to collect medicine said that he had seen Yuan Renpu's cousin in front of the ancient tomb in the deep mountains, and he was accompanied by a young child.

But I knew that what the villager said was true, because the child who followed the old man was my grandfather.