Chapter 53: Faith

Secondly, it is the question raised by Lin Qiaoer.

This is a very critical link, because if it weren't for the letter sent to the newspaper, then we probably wouldn't have intersected with the ghost place of Fengyang in our lives.

Ever since I saw the letter left by Zhang Juming on the stone pillar warning the descendants of the Zhang family, I have some guesses. It is likely that Zhang Juming has some kind of relationship with the ghost school, which can be seen from the photos he took with the school children. The group photo was taken before the accident at the school, but after Zhang Juming left, the school underwent an unknown tragedy, resulting in the village being abandoned. Perhaps it was to find out the truth, or just to stop the bad effects of the Shangli people's evil spells, Zhang Juming used Taoist means to balance the witch spells, but he could not completely solve the problem.

Judging from the content of the letter sent to the newspaper, Zhang Juming was anxious to go to a place at that time, but he was relieved that he could not leave the ghost school, so he attached a group photo of the school to the letter sent to his niece, hoping that the other party could trace the location of the ghost school after seeing the group photo and solve his unsolved problem.

But for some reason, the letter sent out was delivered to the newspaper office thirty years later, leading us to Fengyang. We do not know whether the letter was seen by those who should have received it on the way. However, judging from the current situation, it should not be, because since Zhang Juming sent the photo to Zhang Lingjin, it means that he is quite sure that Zhang Lingjin can solve the hidden dangers left by Fengyang, but now the ghost school is still there, which means that Zhang Lingjin has not been here, and the letter may not have been sent to her at all.

I told me my guess, and the Taoist priest immediately expressed a different opinion: "Although your guess sounds reasonable, it is logically very problematic. ”

"Questions? What's the problem? "Not only me, but all three girls also looked at the Taoist priest and wanted to hear his opinion.

"You think, eighty-four years, what kind of era was that? The most common means of transmitting information is to write letters, but the postal system at that time was not perfect, and it may take a month for a letter to be sent to other provinces, and it may be lost in the mail. Against this backdrop, is it possible to keep a letter that was not received at the time for thirty years before sending it? ”

When he said that, I immediately sighed, "Oh, you mean... The letter had already been signed for at the time, and thirty years later, it was deliberately sent to the newspaper? ”

The Taoist priest didn't answer me, but his expression already told me that he was thinking. I wondered more and more, if that was the case, who had sent the letter to the newspaper. Zhang Lingjin? But why would she do it?

I didn't expect the problem to get more and more chaotic, and I suddenly felt a headache. At this time, the Taoist priest suddenly said: "Speaking of which, I still can't get around that letter, Taoist I remember that you said that the letter was a little strange, and the photos in it were also a little weird, it is better to take it out and take a look at it together, maybe you can find some information that may have been missed by you." ”

The Taoist priest reminded me that I had read the letter twice, the first time was on the night when the car broke down and hit the evil spirit, when I was blinded by ghosts, and some of the things I saw were hallucinations, and I don't know if what I saw at that time would also be an illusion produced by ghosts. As for the second time, when I mentioned the ghost school with Yang Mengqing during the escape, in order to confirm whether the school in Yushugou was the same as the school in the photo, I took out the photo and asked her to compare, and that time I paid more attention to Yang Mengqing's words, so I didn't look carefully.

Thinking about it, I took out a black envelope from my backpack and handed it to the Taoist priest.

At the first glance of the envelope, the Taoist priest's face changed, showing a shocked expression, and my heart moved, asking if there was anything I had discovered. The Taoist priest didn't rush to answer, saying that he would have to wait for him to take a closer look to be sure, listening to this tone, it was obvious that there was a discovery, and I immediately itched, but it was not easy to urge him, so I could only wait for him to finish reading.

The Taoist priest did not rush to read the contents of the letter, but turned over and looked at the envelope carefully several times, and the expression on his face was constantly changing, from the initial surprise to complete shock, and then he saw that he eagerly took out the letter paper and photos, only glanced at it, his body was suddenly shocked, and he said in horror: "I didn't expect it, I didn't expect the legend to be true, the Tianzun of his grandmother, the Taoist master opened his eyes today." ”

"What the hell is going on?" I kicked him and told him to speak.

The shock in the Taoist priest's eyes did not subside, he raised the envelope with white letters on a black background, and said to me, "Do you know what this thing is?" ”

I replied to him, isn't it just an envelope? It's just that it looks a little weird, not like it's for people.

After hearing this, he immediately sneered: "Hmph, you know a fart, but one thing you said is right, this envelope is indeed not used by people." ”

"It's not for people, it's for ghosts?" I thought the Taoist priest was talking nonsense, so I replied casually, but he nodded and said yes, this is what ghosts are for.

The Taoist priest's expression was serious, not like a joke, I suddenly felt a little chill in my spine, and I hurriedly asked him to make it clear in one breath, don't say that and pause.

Probably stimulated by the envelope, he did not sell it again, saying that this was not an ordinary letter, but a letter of the underworld, a means of exchanging information between people and ghosts, in short, this kind of letter is not written to people, but to the underworld.

Seeing that we didn't believe it, he went on to explain, saying that in fact, he had only heard his master talk about it, and the belief in the underworld has been around for a long time, and the legend is that it was created by a group of strange people who know how to communicate with the underworld (that is, the underworld), which can convey the information of the yang people to the underworld through the underworld and send it to the deceased.

In fact, there are some special people in the folk who can use the art of the underworld to invite back the souls of their deceased ancestors, and use their bodies as a medium for the undead to possess, so as to achieve a short-term communication between humans and ghosts. However, there are many constraints on this kind of soul solicitation, not all people can use this way to invite souls, and only some souls that wander in the yang world and have not entered the underworld, and the danger of inviting souls is extremely high, and if you are not careful, you will have to worry about your life.

The letter is different, it can write the message that the yang people want to convey into a special language, and send it to the underworld through a special envelope, and directly convey the message to the undead who have entered the underworld.

Legend has it that the envelope of the letter is made of the juice of the Styx flower and the bark of the Yellow Spring, and only that mysterious group can make it in the world, and no one can understand the language except them.

Because of this, few people have really seen the belief in the underworld, and the master of the Taoist priest is no exception, and the reason why the old Taoist knows the legend of the belief is because he admired the Baqi people when he was young, and searched around for related legends, and later met a corpse chaser in an ancient town in southern Hunan, and learned from his mouth that the boss of the Baqi people is the descendant of the Hexel.

The Taoist priest took out the group photo and asked us with strange eyes: "Don't you feel that something is wrong when you look at this photo?" ”