In the Qing Dynasty, there was a town at the foot of Woniu Mountain, which was called Woniu Town. Woniu Town is surrounded by mountains in the north, water in the east, and a thoroughfare in the south.

There is a family living in the east of Woniu Town, the head of the household is called Hu Dabao, with the old mother Yang, the daughter-in-law Liu Yuhuan and the seven-year-old son Puppy below. There are three earthen kiln houses and seven acres of thin fields at home, and the family of four is harmonious and beautiful, and life can go on.

Who knows that there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, Woniu Town has suffered a great drought within a radius of 500 miles that has not been encountered in a century, the red sun is scorching, not an inch of grass grows, and there is no harvest in autumn, and the government not only does not give relief, but forces rent and arrest Ding, and nearly half of the people in the town go out to flee the famine.

Seeing that there was not much food left in the family, Dabao discussed with his mother and daughter-in-law to join the army and eat military rations, which could not only reduce some harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, but also earn a few taels of silver to send back to support the family. The mother and daughter-in-law Yuhuan saw that they had no way to do anything and had no way out, so they had to agree. Who knew that Dabao had gone and there was no news.

In the spring of the following year, Yang was anxious for Si'er, coupled with hunger and cold, and he couldn't afford to fall ill, and it didn't take long for him to return to the West. Yuhuan saw that her mother-in-law was dead, and there was no money, no food and no one at home, so she was really powerless, so she had to seal the doors and windows of the west kiln where her mother-in-law lived with broken bricks with tears, and put it inside, waiting for her husband to return.

After a few more months, the hunger and cold became more and more severe, and the family could not find a grain of rice, and the bark of the grass roots and trees in the field had already been dug up and stripped away. Yuhuan planned to take the puppy out to escape the famine and beg, but at this time, the unfortunate mother and son contracted the plague, and within a few days, they went to Huangquan with each other. Several well-meaning people in the town sealed the doors and windows of the east kiln where Yuhuan's mother and son lived, blocked the courtyard door of the Hu family with gravel, and made it a tomb for the three ancestors and grandchildren of the Yang family.

After more than a year, the drought eased, and people who fled the famine in Woniu Town returned to their hometowns one after another to rebuild their homes.

I don't know from which day, the pigs, sheep, chickens and rabbits in the town's pens are often lost, and they can't find even a trace of them when they look around. People thought that they were being eaten by wolves at night, so they organized a group of young and bold descendants to secretly monitor at night, waiting to catch wild wolves.

That night, a few descendants who were hiding in the shadows found three people coming from outside the town, and when they got closer, they saw clearly by the moonlight that it was two women with scattered hair and a boy tearing a dead baby, eating as they went, and frightened the souls of several descendants. If you look closely, these three people are the three ancestors and grandsons of the Yang family who have been dead for a long time. The old people in the town listened to the accounts of the later generations, and knew that the three ancestors and grandchildren of the Yang family committed "tomb work" after their deaths and became "tomb ghosts".

The door hurts people, if it is delayed for a while, the tomb living ghost cultivates successfully, and it is too late to escape, so every family helps the old and the young to flee one after another.

In just a few days, the people in the surrounding villages fled for dozens of miles.

Besides, the three tomb ghosts of the ancestors and grandsons of the Yang family have been cultivating for a long time, and they dare to go out to forage for food in broad daylight, but there is no one in the town, and they have to rely on digging up the dead bodies in the grave to survive.

One day, the old ghost Yang pinched his fingers, danced with joy, and shouted: "Great joy! Exultation! My son Dabao is coming back. "Busy asking the daughter-in-law and grandson to tear apart the doors and windows of the kiln house and the courtyard door, clean the courtyard of the house, and wait for the return of the treasure.

Why is that old ghost so ecstatic about the return of Dabao? This is not because of the deep love between mother and son, but because the living ghosts in the tomb like to eat the flesh of their relatives the most.

Hu Dabao left home to join the army, and it was ten years in a flash. Now that he is a little chief, he took a leave of absence from his boss, rode a jade horse, and went home to pick up his mother and wife and children to share the joy of family, which can also be regarded as "returning home".

Dabao stayed overnight on the road, rushed for half a month, and got closer and closer to Woniu Town, only to see that the road was desolate and cold, and when he entered Woniu Town, he didn't see anyone.

Da Baosi was very affectionate, and he didn't care about it, so he walked to his door and got off the horse, and couldn't wait to shout "Mother". At this time, I saw my mother, wife and children running out of the door, and before I could agree, I hugged Dabao and cried loudly. Dabao couldn't help but feel sad and cried together.

After crying for a while, Yang collected his tears and said: "Son, now that my family is reunited, I should be happy, I shouldn't cry anymore, hurry up and enter the house." ”

Dabao collected tears and pulled the horse into the hospital. Strangely, but seeing that the horse was kicking and barking, no matter how much he pulled it, he could not lead it into the courtyard, so he had to tie the horse to the tree in front of the door, and followed his mother, wife and children into the house.

Dabao didn't sit down when he entered the house and asked his mother, "How have you come over the years?" Why is there no one in the town? ”

Yang said: "Since you left, for several years in the morning, there was no harvest in the fields, and the people in the town have escaped. My mother and son are afraid that you will not be able to get together when you come back, besides, how can the old and the young go far? I had to scrape grass roots and peel the bark of trees to get by, and finally I hope that you will come back today. Then he began to cry again.

At this time, Dabao suddenly saw that the tears in his mother's eyes were not tears, but red blood, so he wanted to ask, only to see his wife Yuhuan and his son Puppy also bleeding blood in their eyes. ”

Unexpectedly, Yang said: "You rest, I'll go." ”

Dabao thought to himself: This horse has followed me for many years and is very tame, why is he so irritable today? My son's puppy was eight years old when I left home, and he hasn't complained for more than a decade? Mother and wife

The Son is quick to move, like a man who has been afflicted for a long time? Why did the people in the town flee to the old and the young, but only the old mother, wife and children survived? The more I thought about it, the more strange I felt, so I said, "This horse."

Fierce, kicking and biting, how do you get close? I'll come when I go. ”

Yang was about to wait for his son to be happy, so Fang Hao started to catch, and said, "Go and go back quickly." ”

Seeing this, Dabao hurriedly stepped out of the house, walked quickly to the bottom of the tree, immediately untied the rope, turned over and jumped on the horse's back, clamped his legs hard, and the horse galloped out of the town.

The old ghost was not suspicious at first, but when he heard the sound of horses' hooves, he hurried out the door, leaving only a cloud of dust in front of him, where was the shadow of Dabao? Seeing that the fat in the mouth has run away, why don't you send it

Urgent? Pounding his thighs and howling.

After a while, the dead bodies in the surrounding graves were eaten by them, and the old ghost said to his daughter-in-law: "Dabao will not come back, we can hardly survive here, it is better to forage elsewhere." Yuhuan nodded yes again and again.

On this day, the three tomb ghosts came to a prosperous village and town, and Yang said: "It's good to settle down here." They found the patriarch of the village and said, "My ancestors and grandchildren have not met each other, so they have the right to live in the treasure land temporarily." We can also teach schoolchildren, I wonder if we can be contained? ”

The patriarch said: "There is a shortage of teachers in the village, so it is very good. So he settled down his three grandchildren, and the village raised funds to hire the old ghost to teach the schoolchildren.

As the days went by, the pigs and sheep of the people in the village were often lost at night, and later several children were missing, but no one suspected the three grandchildren and grandchildren.

One day, a Taoist priest with white hair came to the village and said to the villagers: "The black gas in this place is in the air, there must be ghosts and ghosts to haunt you, if you don't eradicate it, it will definitely be a disaster." When the patriarch heard the news, he invited the Taoist priest into his home, sat down to serve tea, and counted the strange things that had happened in the village in the recent days to the Taoist priest.

The Taoist asked, "Are there any outsiders here recently?" ”

The patriarch told the Taoists about the three ancestors and grandchildren of the Yang family who passed through this place and settled here. The Taoist said: "If you don't get rid of these three things as soon as possible, you will have endless troubles." ”

The patriarch begged the Taoist priest to help eliminate the evil spirit, and the Taoist priest hoped that the patriarch would immediately start to build the altar to eliminate the evil spirit at three o'clock in the afternoon tomorrow, and chose a flexible and witty offspring to attract ghosts.

As soon as noon arrived on the second day, a descendant came to the door of the house and shouted, "Bold ghosts, come out quickly and die!" The old ghost Yang was furious when he heard this, and he knew that he was being recognized, so he led his daughter-in-law and grandson to chase him out.

I saw that the latter ran towards the altar like a flying person, and the three living ghosts of the Yang family chased after him closely. chased to the Dharma field, but saw that there were eighteen large vats lined up in the next row of the altar, and the descendants turned around each jar in a circle, and the three living ghosts in the tomb had to kneel down and kowtow three times. It turned out that the eighteen vats were eighteen Arhats in the eyes of the living ghosts in the tomb, and they dared to pass by kneeling down and kowtowing.

I saw that the afterlife finished the eighteen vats, flew and jumped onto the altar, and after a while, the three tomb ghosts also chased under the altar, if it wasn't for the ghost to kneel down and kowtow and delay the work, then the afterlife would have been torn alive.

The tomb ghost chased to the altar, only to see a person with a sword in his hair, muttering a mantra in his mouth, the old ghost Yang relied on his own deep Taoism, before he wanted to jump on the altar, the Taoist man will hold the magic bell in his hand

Thrown, at this time, only to hear a "bang" sound, the three ghosts immediately fell to the ground, the Taoist jumped off the altar, swinging a sword to kill the ghosts one by one. Since then, the area around Woniu Mountain has been restored to tranquility.

Here the two dogs were taken away by a white figure, so frightened that the lock king and he were all scattered, the lock king roared, holding a flashlight and rushed towards the place where the two dogs disappeared, but after the layers of stone pillars, a glimmer of light suddenly broke into the field of vision, and saw a white thing: the thing was covered with white short hair, with a baby-like face, but the strength was infinite, the limbs were like the arms of a human baby, all of them were crawling forward, but the soles of their feet were like jackals, tigers and leopards walking in mountain streams, and their eyes emitted a blood-red ghost. was about to bite the unconscious Ergou's neck, when suddenly the lock king chased after him, the dazzling light approached his eyes, and the thing was startled to "roar-" A loud scream, leaving the two dogs, straight towards the lock king.

"Whoa—"

This gust of wind came extremely quickly, the lock king is old, his legs and feet are not effective, this thing moves quickly, from the first brain to carry the two dogs to go, you can see it, now suddenly rushed, the lock king fell to the ground in fear, and reacted to run with a roll, but how could it be in time?

"Ah!!h

A gust of fishy wind rushed in, seeing that the thing opened its mouth and was about to take a bite on the back of his head and neck, suddenly a pair of Emei thorns flew from the air, and the thing fluttered a ridge, nailed to the stone pillar, and was so shocked that the thing "wooed" and whimpered, split the throat, the blood did not stop, and he swallowed on the spot.

The lock king sensed the movement and straightened up, but saw the single thorn iron king following Li reform, and holding the big dog, limping over, the single thorn iron king stepped forward and pulled the single thorn away, glanced at the swallowed thing, and kicked it away in disgust, that thing can no longer be a threat.