Chapter 270: Stone Gate
Yellow-skinned?
Under everyone's curiosity, the old Taoist priest probably talked about his experience.
In the folk of the Northland, there has always been a legend of the Five Immortals.
The five immortals refer to the five animals that accompany people, namely foxes, weasels, hedgehogs, snakes, and rats.
Collectively known as the "fox yellow, white willow gray" five immortals.
And the main thing here is the yellow skin that the old Taoist priest encountered, that is, the weasel skin.
That time, although the old Taoist priest had only just encountered a yellow skin, he was also in danger, and he almost didn't toss there.
It was deep in a snow-capped mountain covered by heavy snow.
That year, a snowstorm broke out, and the heavy snow came early, and the villagers in the mountains did not have enough food, fur and firewood for the winter, so the snow closed the mountains and the snow outside the door was as thick as a foot.
It's called a snowy, freezing cold.
Caught off guard, many villagers were frozen to death at home that night.
The old Taoist priest that year was trapped in a place called Qilitun.
Originally, he traveled to the countryside at the foot of the mountain, planning to stay in the countryside for a while, relying on the old business of fortune-telling and feng shui to determine the yin house, and then continue to go on the road after saving enough money.
As a result, he had just arrived in the township, and before he had yet to settle down, he met a haggard woman in a simple jacket, riding a villager's ox cart, dragging a few half-grown children into the township, and found the old Taoist priest, who wanted to invite the old Taoist priest to enter the mountain to do white things.
It turned out to be the woman's husband, who was accidentally stoned to death by a tree while cutting wood, and half of his head was flattened, so this time he went down the mountain to ask a Taoist priest to do more than enough for his man.
If it is a person who is dying normally, he naturally does not need to invite Taoist priests and monks to do things.
But this man died unexpectedly.
It is necessary for Taoist monks to take care of them and become some mages, so that their relatives can be buried in the earth.
And the reason why the widow found the old Taoist priest was because of the poor family, and when the man left, he not only left a few children, but also left the man's parents, she was a helpless widow, and naturally she couldn't take out much savings in her hands. So I asked the villagers for help and took her to the township, she wanted to go to the township to find out if there were any cheaper rituals, and just happened to bump into the old Taoist priest who was setting up a stall on the side of the road to show people.
The village woman saw that the old Taoist priest looked quite accurate, so she asked the old Taoist priest if he knew how to do white things?
This is to give people white things, it is the old Taoist priest's old business, the old Taoist priest saw that there was business at the door, where did he take the initiative to push the business out of the door, he must have said that he would.
To say that this old Taoist priest traveled the world to the south and north and saw a lot of knowledge, he saw that the village woman in front of him was haggard, with a cheeky nose and sharp cheekbones, a widow dressed plainly, with a sad spirit, it is estimated that the family has just died of a man, and dragged a few children, and he can't get too much living money in his hand, so he didn't ask for too much profit money, so he hurriedly set off into the mountain.
As a result, a few days after entering the mountain, just buried the person, the old Taoist priest was about to go out of the mountain, and he encountered a heavy snow covering the mountain, and the old Taoist priest had to brave the snow again to return to the village.
Fortunately, the village woman also knew how to repay the kindness, and took in the old Taoist priest and let the old Taoist priest live next door to her parents-in-law's house.
Lao Dao naturally can't eat and drink in vain, so he acts as a man's live chopping wood, sweeping the snow and taking it into the mountains to see if he can find some herbs and mushrooms to survive the pine forests in the north in winter, and some mushrooms can grow in winter.
Although this day is hard, hungry and full, but fortunately no one starved to death, plus the old Taoist priest has traveled south and north for so many years, and his ability to survive in the wild is also strong, and he can find a lot of herbs that belong to the tonic in winter. So although I was trapped by the snow storm and couldn't eat enough every day, I didn't get sick or sick.
In fact, with such a big snowstorm, the life of the whole village is not easy.
At this moment, a strange thing happened in the village.
A family of villagers salvaged a body from the river.
That corpse is evil.
It floated down the ice surface of the river.
On that day, several villagers were digging holes in the ice on the frozen glacier and netting fish to eat.
As a result, the corpse, facing up on its back, stuck to the river ice, floated down the river until a villager named Zhuangzi made a hole in the ice.
That is, from that day on.
In the house of this villager called Zhuangzi, the smell of minced meat began to waft out every day.
A family of four, Zhuangzi, pregnant mother-in-law, and parents, eat every day with a mouth full of oil, full of red light, others are hungry out of clear water and soup, only the Zhuangzi family in the whole village is not only not hungry and thin, but also fat.
So gossip began to spread in the village.
said that this strong man had just picked up a corpse from under the glacier not long ago, and the smell of meat began to come out of the house every day, saying that the meat that this strong man's family ate was not other meat, but the corpse of that corpse.
Zhuangzi had just buried people during the day, and at night he was crazy with hunger, so he turned his head and took them home to cook.
In the face of the gossip in the village, the Zhuangzi family did not come forward to explain, the door was closed every day, rarely went out, every day the stove started, there was the aroma of minced meat, and the family of four ate every day with oily faces.
But the oddities don't stop there.
It stands to reason that with four mouths, such a way to eat every day, this meat should have been eaten a long time ago, but Zhuangzi's family still has meat to eat every day with four mouths.
Later, rumors spread to the village woman's house where the old Taoist priest was staying, saying that the body of the man in her family was dug out and eaten by the Zhuangzi family.
Even jackals, tigers and leopards don't eat the same kind of meat, and even if they are hungry, they won't eat the same kind of meat, because it's easy to lose their hearts and go crazy.
When Jin An heard this, he nodded approvingly.
Cannibalism is indeed crazy about gains and losses, and it has another name called the navel virus.
That's how mad cow disease came about.
Beef cattle eat too much feed that is broken with the same kind of internal organs and bones, although the nutrition is improved, but it also sows the bane, and is prone to mad cow disease, that is, the virus.
Of course.
People in this world don't have the concept of a virus yet.
But it has long been proven that people who eat human flesh will become crazy.
In the tomb, the group walked while listening to the old Taoist priest continue to speak.
After hearing the gossip, the village woman hurriedly rushed to open the coffin in front of her husband's grave.
However, the bones are normal.
There is no sign that the grave soil has been touched.
It's just that the body that Zhuangzi was buried after picking it up under the ice river is gone.
Although the body of the village woman's husband is still there, the body picked up by Zhuangzi is gone, which further confirms the villagers' initial conjecture, saying that Zhuangzi's family ate people.
When encountering such an evil thing, where are the villagers willing to sit still, they are afraid that this Zhuangzi's family will become addicted to cannibalism, and the corpse will eventually be eaten one day, and who can guarantee that Zhuangzi will not go crazy and eat his fellow villagers? On the same day, everyone rushed to Zhuangzi's house, smashed the door, and turned over the cabinets, but they were stunned to find the human flesh, bones, and corpses they imagined.
The villagers, who were still angry, were in a dilemma.
At this time, the mother-in-law of Zhuangzi screamed bitterly, it turned out that the villagers came to her house and smashed it, and the adults were frightened, and the fetal gas moved, and the child in the belly was born prematurely.
As a result, on that day, the strong mother-in-law had a difficult birth and died on the bed, bleeding, and the ground was bleeding, that is, on that day, the midwife fainted to death, because the strong mother-in-law gave birth to not a baby, but a weasel skin!
That night, Zhuangzi's family blew up the pot, the mother-in-law died in childbirth, her eyes were wide open, she didn't blink to death, she was pregnant in August but gave birth to a weasel skin, Zhuangzi was so scared that he was scared and urinated, and he hurriedly found the old Taoist priest that night, kneeling down and begging the old Taoist priest to help, save him, save his parents.
The old Taoist priest did not refuse Zhuangzi's request for help, saying that it was okay to save people, but Zhuangzi must tell him all the truth truthfully, and he must not hide it, otherwise he will not be able to help in this matter.
The reason why the old Taoist priest was willing to help Zhuangzi was because when Zhuangzi came to beg him, he could see at a glance that this Zhuangzi did not look like he had eaten human flesh at all.
People who have eaten human flesh will have black teeth and trembling hands and feet.
The signs are clear.
But Zhuangzi does not have these characteristics.
When Zhuangzi saw that the old Taoist priest was willing to save him, he immediately grabbed the last straw like a man in the water, and naturally he was desperate to survive and catch it, so he told the truth in 1510.
At the beginning of the snow disaster, just a few days after the heavy snow closed the mountain, Zhuangzi began to go into the mountains to find food, because the mother-in-law was pregnant, and both adults and children needed nutrition, so he took on the responsibility of being a husband and a man, and went deep into the snow mountains to find food.
That.
He went deep into the snowy mountains, and in order to chase a rabbit, he accidentally found a snowy mountain village buried by heavy snow.
It was an abandoned village.
It was also the first time that Zhuangzi had seen this snow village.
I've never seen it before.
It seems that it was this snow disaster that led to the emergence of the snow village.
At that time, the strong man only thought that he was here, and he didn't want to give up all his efforts, and he wanted to nourish his mother-in-law and the child in his belly immediately after catching the rabbit, so he stepped into this strange snow village alone.
In order to embolden himself, he even deceived himself, saying that there was no village here before, and now there is a snow village, it may be that he remembered the wrong direction and followed the hare in the snowy mountains to run in another direction.
In this way, Zhuangzi gave himself the courage to enter the snow village alone.
But there was nothing in the snow village.
No one.
No animals.
There is not even a trace of animal droppings that hide from the snow here.
There are no animal paw prints on the snow.
The entire snow village is clean, only his own footprints behind him
Zhuangzi went from room to room, and each room was empty, until, in a room, he found a painting.
On the painting, there is no painting of people, only a bare temple, which is a snow-capped mountain temple.
As a result, when he returned home that day, Zhuangzi dreamed that he came to a snow-capped mountain temple, and there was a great immortal living in the snow-capped mountain temple.
The great immortal said that Zhuangzi would salvage a corpse tomorrow, and the corpse was her physical body in the yang world, although she was in the immortal class, but after the death of the yang body, she could not enter the earth for peace, she could not report to the immortal world, and could not really rank in the immortal class, so she wanted to beg Da Zhuang to salvage the corpse and bury it in the village, which was a merit, and she would bear good fruits, and she would not worry about eating and drinking in this life.
Zhuangzi will be skeptical.
As a result, the next day, he really recovered a corpse, that is, in the early morning of the second day after the burial, Zhuangzi got up early in the morning and opened the door to see a hare hanging outside the door.
Zhuangzi was ecstatic, he really thought that he was doing kindness and touching the heavenly immortals, and set up an immortal card for the immortal at home, burning incense and praying for blessings.
Actually, he didn't know.
It's okay if he doesn't set up the immortal card.
This stand is tantamount to planting the root of the curse, inviting the wild god to enter the house, and killing his mother-in-law and unborn child.
Just when a family of four feasted on a full meal after the snow disaster, that night, the great immortal once again gave a dream to Zhuangzi, saying that Zhuangzi ate the food she sent, and she stayed in the body of the yang, lying in the cold underground, no one worshipped, hoping that Zhuangzi could sweep her grave and talk to her.
Zhuangzi, who had tasted the sweetness once, quickly agreed this time.
As a result, in the early morning of the second day after the worship, a pheasant hung again outside the door and window of Zhuangzi's house, and Zhuangzi, who was still excited and ecstatic at that time, did not know that he had invited the wild god into the house, and a catastrophe was coming.
Yesterday, because of his lack of cultivation, the great immortal couldn't enter his house, so he could only hang the hare meat on the door of his yard.
Hang it directly on the window of his house today.
On the third day, Daxian dreamed again, saying that this time he wanted chicken blood to drip on her grave to nourish her body in the yang world.
Zhuangzi did as he said, and it happened that the pheasant that was slaughtered yesterday had a bowl of chicken blood left without stewing.
Sure enough, the next day, another hare hung on the door and window.
On the fourth day, Daxian asked for dog blood, on the fifth day, live birds were buried in her grave, and on the sixth day, human blood was ......
Although Zhuangzi wondered why Daxian wanted human blood, Zhuangzi at that time was convinced of Daxian's ability, although he had some doubts, he still did it truthfully, and he used his own blood to donate it to Daxian.
However!
Zhuangzi soon realized that things were not so simple.
This great immortal's desire is getting stronger and stronger, and the things he began to ask for became more and more unbearable for him, and it was not difficult at first, but later, he actually began to ask for people's fingers.
Even the live birds could no longer satisfy her desires, and she asked Zhuangzi to find her a baby to bury in the soil of her grave.
Zhuangzi was really frightened this time.
He didn't.
Daxian didn't embarrass Zhuangzi, so he asked for the head of Zhuangzi's old father instead, because Daxian said that Zhuangzi leaked his own affairs to his father, and Daxian's name was not allowed to be blasphemed by ordinary people, and if Zhuangzi blasphemed the gods, he had to pay the due price.
No matter how hard the strong son pleaded, the great immortal just refused to bypass his father.
On the same night, Zhuangzi's mother-in-law had abdominal pain like a twist, almost miscarried, Daxian once again entrusted the dream to Zhuangzi, in the dream to change the previous kindness, this time tearing off the disguise, sharp teeth and sharp teeth to warn Zhuangzi, today is just a small punishment, if you don't sacrifice her father's head to her, the next day Zhuangzi's daughter-in-law will have a corpse and two lives.
This warning made Zhuangzi understand that he was luring the wolf into the house, but it was too late to regret it.
It was impossible for him to kill his father, so he simply didn't do it, took advantage of the dawn to dig out the body of the great immortal, and burned it with a fire.
Zhuangzi thought that by doing this, he would be able to avoid the ghost, and no one in the village would know that he had invited an evil god to the village, and the family of four would be able to stay in the village until the snow disaster was over.
And there is still a lot of meat hoarded at home, which is enough for them to survive this snow disaster year.
In the next few days, as Zhuangzi expected, the great immortal really didn't ask for him again, and it seemed that the nightmare had ended with a fire burning the body.
Until, a villager broke into his house, causing his mother-in-law to give birth prematurely and giving birth to a weasel skin, his parents were overfrightened and fainted to the ground.
But Zhuangzi repented too late at this time, and his family was ruined.
In order not to involve both parents.
He then ran to the old Taoist priest and knelt down to beg the old Taoist priest to save his parents.
......
Smack.
Smack.
In the empty cave, the team of ten people continued to move forward.
Everyone was quiet all the way, quietly listening to the experiences of the old Taoist.
"Snow Village?"
"Weasel skin?"
"It turns out that in the case of hiding the corpse in Snow Village, the Taoist priest who ran to the government to report the case from the deep mountains covered by heavy snow is Daochang Chen?"
This time the general who spoke was the commander.
He looked at the old Taoist priest in surprise.
The surprise on his face was beyond words.
"Daochang Chen, you may not have an impression of me, I also heard about this from a visiting friend...... "Walking and stopping, they have already walked out of the tomb in front of them, and a staircase appeared in front of them, leading to a huge high platform in front of them.
Tick!
Suddenly.
A drop of water sounded softly, making everyone's expressions tense.
"Shhhh
The lieutenant made a silent gesture and looked solemnly at the high platform in front of him.