Chapter 7: The Return of the Soul

The night is getting thicker and thicker, and occasionally a slight breeze wafts from among the trees, blowing on us, faintly cool, and with the faint fragrance of flowers.

With my eyes closed, I silently recited the meditation decision left by my master in my heart, but my heart could not be calmed down. The hustle and bustle of the world, although it can't contaminate my firm Taoist heart, but I still like to be in Laoshan, that quiet and natural life, no worries and no desires, the master said: Entering the WTO is also practice, I hope to understand all this as soon as possible, and then return to Laoshan.

The garden was surprisingly quiet, Wang Jinhuai sat on the chair but looked around, the chair under the buttocks, also leaned towards me little by little, I knew he was afraid, the moonlight was also blocked by a few clouds that passed occasionally, except for the two lanterns in the corridor, there was no other light source, the huge garden seemed a little dark and dull, because the hour had not come, the candles could not be lit, I looked up at the sky, the North Star had moved overhead, I knew that the time had come, stand up. When Wang Jinhuai saw me standing up, he immediately stood up and said, "Dao Chief, has the time come?" I said, "It's here, let's start, let's go and bring up the two ash jars below, you follow me don't be afraid, the dead are afraid of the living, and those with righteous hearts will not invade evil." After saying that, I lit the seven candles, and Wang Jinhuai followed me to the ancient tomb.

All the way down, moving the door panel blocking the tomb, I jumped down, came to the edge of the sarcophagus, first moved out the ash altar with the word Wang written on it, and handed it to Wang Jinhuai outside, "Mr. Wang, pay attention, don't get the small stone tablet on the altar down." "I didn't forget to remind Wang Jinhuai, for fear that he would be afraid, and then get rid of the stone plaque on it, and he would be busy tonight, and then I moved Zhao Ji's jar out, Wang Jinhuai Then, I jumped out of the ancient tomb and asked Wang Jinhuai to carry Wang's columbarium in front, and I carried Zhao Ji's in the back. We carefully carried the columbarium out of the pond, and came to the middle of the seven-star array of my cloth, I put Zhao Ji's columbarium on the paper figure with the word Zhao Ji written on it, and took Wang's columbarium and put it on top of another paper figure. After all this, let Wang Jinhuai wait on the side of the cloister.

I came to the incense table, lit three sticks of incense and inserted them into the incense burner, pulled out the peach wood sword on my back, took out the soul seal in the backpack, and two black paper talismans, held the sword in my right hand, held the seal in my left hand, and began to chant incantations.

Reading and reading, my right hand shook, the tip of the sword flashed, glued up a talisman on the table, the sword pointed to the two ashes altar in the Seven Star Array, "tearing" sound, the rune paper actually catched, and then the second rune, after the two rune paper was burned, I took the inky black paper, struggled to draw a charm, and then threw it towards Zhao Ji's ashes altar, only to see the black paper rune, as if being attracted by a magnet, floating on the small stone tablet above the ashes altar.

The urn shook violently, as if it was pulled back and forth by two people, no matter how it shook it was not falling, I saw this, and took the black paper again, quickly drew the talisman, and threw it towards the urn, just like last time, the paper talisman flew to Zhao Ji's ash altar, and the jar shook even more. After a few moments, the jar finally fell crooked on top of the paper figure, and the small stone tablet covering the jar also rolled out, only to see a few black bones spilled out of the jar, which was particularly oozing under the light of the candle shaking. I stopped chanting the incantation and stared at the crooked jar of ashes, as if nothing had happened, still as quiet. I learned this spell from my master, but it was the first time I applied it, so I made a mistake in that link, and why didn't I respond.

At first I thought it was blown by the wind, but to see that there was no wind, but seeing that the paper man was moving more and more, it came out of the ash altar in a few clicks, Shi Shiran stood up, paused, and walked towards me.

I pointed at the paper figure with my sword and shouted, "Who is coming?" ”

The paper man was stunned for a moment, and a voice came out, "Who are you, how can you talk to me, you have suppressed me for so many years, as my Great Song people, you are still a cultivator, you help the people to abuse, cruel people, are you not afraid of God's punishment." ”

As soon as I heard the other party call himself me, I understood, this is really Zhao Ji, but I'm still curious, isn't he Zhao Ji buried in Yonggu Mausoleum? No, I have to ask what the hell is going on, who would trap a soul with such a vicious formation. Thinking of this, I said: "I am Lei Yunzi, a Taoist of the Jinshan Sect of Laoshan Taoism, who are you, how dare you call yourself me." ”

"Who I am, who I am." The paper man said to himself, "Alas" Suddenly the paper man sighed and said, "I am a person who lost his family and country, my name is Zhao Ji, what age is it now." ”

"It's now the fifth year of Ming Longqing in 1568, if you were the emperor of the Song Dynasty, how could you be buried here."

The paper man said faintly: "I have endured the torture here for more than 400 years, and the past is unbearable, can the Taoist tell me about the current affairs after I crossed to the south." ”

"Okay, I'll tell you about it, but you also have to tell me why you're buried here, and who set up such a situation to trap you."

At the moment, I put the Southern Song Dynasty Zhao Gou Dynasty, how Qin Hui was autocratic, how Yue Fei was loyal and righteous but was killed in Fengbo Pavilion, to Lu Xiufu's back to the young lord Huaizong Zhao Yu jumped into the sea and committed suicide, I heard Song Huizong sigh more than once, "I regret that I shouldn't have reused Cai Jing, Wang Hao, Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng, Li Yan, Zhu Fu, and other six thieves." I was addicted to calligraphy and painting, and my life was poor and extravagant, so that traitorous ministers were in charge, and loyal ministers had no place to serve the country. ”

"In fact, the history books commented on Song Huizong and said that during his reign, he pursued a luxurious life excessively with "vain consumption and innumerable", procured "flowers and stones" in the south, collected exotic flowers and stones and transported them to Bianjing Kaifeng Mansion, built a garden palace, believed in Taoism, honored the title of "Emperor Daojun", and appointed corrupt officials and eunuchs to extort and extort violently [3], which provoked civil uprisings in various places. Among them, the problems caused by Cai Jing of the New Party as prime minister and the eunuch Tong Guan as the general are the most serious.

Zhao Ji was overjoyed, regardless of the fact that Song Liao had lived peacefully for a hundred years, and in the second year of Xuanhe (1120), he formed a "maritime alliance" with the Jin State to jointly destroy Liao. In 1122, the Jin army conquered Nanjing, Liao (present-day Beijing). In October of the seventh year of Xuanhe (1125), Jin Taizong sent Ban Bo Ji Lie Wan Yan Xianye, Wan Yan Zongwang, and Yi Room Bo Ji Lie Wan Yan Zonghan to invade the Northern Song Dynasty in two ways. On December 23, 1126 (January 18, 1126) of the seventh year of Xuanhe, when Zhao Ji could not cope, he hurriedly asked the throne of the Son of Heaven to be given to his son Song Qinzong to deal with, and he became the "Emperor Taishang", but after all, he could not save the situation. 》

Some people also say that Song Huizong is one of the most unscrupulous emperors in history, and it can be said that he has accumulated the culmination of the faint kings of the past dynasties: lustful, extravagant, derogatory of loyal ministers, great joy, reprimanding righteous people, and being close to treacherous. So Cai Jing used his thin and clever assets to help his arrogant and extravagant ambition. Believe in nothingness, worship the view of travel, and exhaust the people's strength. Monarchs and ministers are arrogant, neglecting national politics, and doing nonsense every day. It can be said that Song Huizong is nothing except for his achievements in calligraphy and painting.

"This Dao Chief, I'll tell you why I'm here, after I was kidnapped to the north, I was first imprisoned in the Five Kingdoms City. Because I couldn't stand the torture of the Jin people, I cut my clothes into strips several times, knotted them into ropes and prepared to hang the beam to commit suicide, and were hugged down by Qinzong, and then the Jin people moved us to Junzhou, at this time I was very sick, and soon died on the earthen kang, after I died, the Jin people found a few Taoist priests, and I don't know which faction gave the Jin people an idea, and burned my body on a stone pit, and when it was burned to half-burn, I poured water on the fire and threw the body into the pit. If no one knows where my corpse is, and can't find an expert to summon my soul, my soul will be sealed in the bones and never come out, they brought my bones here, and sealed my soul here with this trapped, my soul is infected by the cold air every day, and life is better than death. This is also retribution, thanks to the rescue of the Taoist chief, if it weren't for the Taoist leader today, I don't know how long I would have been tortured. ”