Qingtang Village has no other strengths, but this "Longevity Pavilion" is one of the most famous monuments in Qingtang Village. Legend has it that Peng Zu caught the little ghost here, defeated the judge, and angered the king of Hades.

When Peng Zu was sixty-six years old, the judge sent two imps to arrest him. When the little ghost arrived in Qingtang Village, he rushed into Peng Zu's earthen house and saw no one. At this time, there was a sudden sound of boxing behind the house, and I saw a shirtless boy practicing a set of tiger boxing in the snow.

The little ghost trembled, stepped forward and asked, "Little sir, there is a Peng Zu here, do you know?" ”

The young man replied, "It's me!" ”

The little ghost asked, "Is it your grandfather?" ”

The young man hurriedly corrected, "No, it's me." ”

The two imps couldn't help but take three steps back, hit the boy up and down, and said, "Do you know that you are sixty-six years old? ”

The young man said: "Sixty-six years old, what is it - I fight grass and you martial arts every day, farming and laboring, self-cultivation, and youth, even the king of Hades has nothing to do with me!" ”

The little ghost thought that he was Peng Zu, so his face changed suddenly, and he shouted: "Peng Zu, we are on the order of the King of Hades to come and take you!" ”

Peng Zu smiled when he heard this: "Live to sixty-six, King Yama, please eat meat." However, I was born to like to eat vegetables, and I bothered the two to report back to the king of Hades, saying that I Peng Zu was rude and couldn't go. ”

The little ghost was so angry that he foamed at the mouth, and shouted: "Hugh is talking nonsense, look at me with an iron rope!" ”

With a crisp sound, the little ghost lassoed Peng Zu with an iron cable. Peng Zu didn't move, and said with a smile, "Do you want to tie up the Great Bodhisattva with the rotten grass rope?" After speaking, he puffed up his strength and roared violently, only to hear a "click", and all the iron cables were broken, smashing on the heads of the little ghosts, beating them with blue noses and swollen eyes, and they had to flee back to the underworld.

The two little ghosts didn't dare to return this matter to the King of the Pavilion, and in this way, Peng Zu lived to be two hundred and fifty years old.

This year, the king of Hades flipped through the "Book of Life and Death" and found that Peng Zu had not been arrested in the underworld, so he couldn't help but be furious, so he called the judge to investigate. The judge knew that he was derelict in his duties, so he had to beg the king of Hades and say, "The king is angry, and the lower officials will arrest Peng Zu immediately!" ”

That night, the judge took Niu Tou Ma Mian and quietly sneaked to Qingtang Village and entered Peng Zu's bedroom. When he raised the candle and looked at it, he saw that Peng Zu was still a young and strong young man with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes. The judge couldn't help but be secretly surprised, and hurriedly said to Niu Tou and Ma Mian: "Peng Zu, he sleeps like a bow, the Crouching Tiger is loose, and his strength is infinite, the three of us are by no means his opponents, it is better to put the bag in his purple sand teapot to 'hook the soul away', and tell him to come to Yin Cao in less than three days!" ”

After the bull head and horse noodles were concocted in the same way, they quietly slipped away. The sky was bright, Peng Zu got up, drank a few sips of tea, and went to the back mountain to dig bamboo shoots. After a while, I felt dizzy and feverish. He knew how to heal, and knew that he had eaten poison, so he picked five pieces of detoxifying Senecio leaves and chewed them in his mouth, and after returning home, he took the antidote pill "Huisheng Dan" developed by himself. After two days, the body temperature was normal, and after three days, all the symptoms disappeared and the body fully recovered.

Peng Zu felt that the cause of this illness was strange, and it was speculated that it might be the conspiracy of the evil ghosts in the underworld, so in order to prevent the evil ghosts from coming to entangle, on the evening of the third day, he took white rice and tea leaves in his mouth and lay in a pit more than three feet deep for three hours.

Sure enough, the treacherous and cunning judge came quietly. He thought that Peng Zu had been poisoned to death after drinking tea, and he had entered the priesthood with white rice tea in his mouth. He laughed, opened the "Book of Life and Death", and with a wave of the red pen under the Lin'an Pengzu column, he ticked off the name.

Time flies, and another 500 years have passed.

One day, the king of Hades and the judge were playing chess in front of the Yama Palace, when suddenly a Yufang Yaksha ran to report in a panic: "Peng Zu is not dead yet, and he is seven hundred and fifty years old. Moreover, he practiced medicine everywhere and taught the way of self-cultivation, and most of the local people lived longer. ”

When Hades heard the news, he overturned the chessboard and scolded the judge for his incompetence.

The next day, the king of Hades personally went out and turned into a wandering man with gray temples, and brought a stilted boy who had become a little ghost, and swaggered into Peng Zu's house.

When Peng Zu saw that a doctor was coming, he made tea to greet the guests. Hades took advantage of the tea to look at Peng Zu carefully and couldn't help but be surprised. I saw Peng Zu with a red face, a straight chest and a straight waist, steady steps, and full of teeth.

Hades secretly thought that it would not be easy for him to die immediately! It's better to use the excuse to him off to death. So, pretending to be very polite, he asked, "Mr. Peng, I heard that you have deep medical skills and are rejuvenated." Today, I have a child who unfortunately broke his foot bone, and I have come to ask you for treatment. ”

Peng Zu happily agreed: "Okay! ”

After speaking, he stretched his ten fingers and stroked the child's wounds. When the wound was hot to the touch, he suddenly pulled and pushed the injured leg, and the leg bone was connected. He took out three "elder-bones" from the medicine bottle and told the boy to swallow it, and after a while, the boy stood up.

Seeing this, Hades gently blew a breath of cold air on Tong'er. The boy's legs went limp, and he fell to the ground. Hades took the opportunity to scold, "Well, your practice of medicine is fake, and your harm is real, I will smash your signboard!" As he spoke, he waved his cane and smashed the tables, chairs, benches, rice bowls and medicine bottles in Peng Zu's house.

Peng Zu looked at it, the murderous old man in front of him, there was no trace of human wisdom in his eyes, and he expected that the king of Hades wanted to kill him under the pretext of anger. He was calm and calm, he didn't mind, and told the old man with a smile a story about the king of the underworld who was slapped obediently by the sycophants of the world, so angry that the king of Hades' eyes almost bleed, and suddenly felt that his hands were cold and his feet trembled.

Hades thought, I can't be angry with him, but he wants to be angry with me! If I am angry to death and flee back to hell, I will not be able to become the king of Hades, and it is important to keep the throne. Hurriedly picked up the imp and hurriedly slipped away.

Peng Zu later left home, went to various places, traveled to the famous mountains and rivers, the local people in order to commemorate him, in the place where he lived, built a pavilion, called "Longevity Pavilion", the ruins are still there.

Qingtang Village is a small projectile place in Yangzhou City, before the Republic of China, here is populated, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, but it is said that in the Republic of China for three years without a drop of rain, the people here walked, fled, and the rest did not go and died almost, so before this Qingtang Village was the village as its name, and now Qingtang Village is the fish pond of the clearing field, or the village is as its name.

The older generation said that the three years of drought were due to the feng shui in the village, so there was a drought, but after all, this is just superstition and cannot be counted.

In the middle of spring, the first rain, the first peach. When covering the peach Fanghua, there is rain, the river valley is icy, the crowd is lewd, the waves are prosperous, the grass is tender and the sand is short, and the ice is light and the rain is sold. The spring water is green, through the bottom like a deep pool, like an abyss, and the trees are also planted far away, making the space seem empty. The remote lights are as bright as persimmons, and the tired prize is too dense.

The grass grows and the warbler flies, the willows blow the embankment, the spring smoke is drunk, the empty green smoke is cloudy, and all the most beautiful scenes that spring should have gather here.

This year is a day when some achievements have been made in the reform and opening up, but the village has not yet opened to the outside world, and all sources of news are very closed, and what happened three days ago in the outside world may have been reported here for several months.

The village has just died because of the death of many old people one after another, and the spring is bright, and the village is like a cold winter, shrouded in layers of clouds.

"Ergouzi, hurry up and clean up and kowtow to your grandfather, grandpa is going to go to the ground."

Ergouzi just took off his crotch pants, it was the age when he wiped his nose with full sleeves, and he was not very clear about the concept of human death, and saw a big coffin in the middle hall, with white silk hanging everywhere, and his father and mother were in a hurry, so he had to kneel down "duang duang duang" and kowtow three times.

The people who played suona over there were waiting for the last few sounds, and finally saw that the little one had finished kowtowing, and Qi Qi began to pull his throat and start to send the funeral.

"Whoa—"

"Daddy—"

"Daddy!!!"

The suona sounded in the sky, the paper money was flying, and the young man who carried the coffin just took the shelf up, and was about to send the corpse to the ground, when suddenly the coffin lid flew away with a "clang", and the deceased, who was originally wearing a shroud, had a blue face and red eyes, and actually sat up from the coffin.

"Hell!!"

"Fraud, Corpse, !!"

"Ah!!!h

The zombie's straight body twisted its neck. For a while, they fled all over the field, hiding, and were so frightened that they couldn't form an army.

A person with the most courage in his mouth contains cinnabar, holding a spirit rune, he wants to make a corpse first, and use this rune paper to paste a piece on the head of the living corpse, but the zombie is infinitely powerful, fearless, and snatches the rune paper to tear it to pieces, the person is horrified, and before turning around to escape, he sprays out the cinnabar in his mouth, but the living corpse only dodges to the left, and the cinnabar is fierce, it is not stained at all.

This really scared everyone to pee their pants, not to mention anything to defeat the enemy, it would be good to be able to save his life.

The bold middle-aged man trembled as he fled, "Go and invite that junior who is hiding in the village office, maybe there is still a chance of life!! ”

In fact, he has more than twenty this year, but he looks young, like eighteen or nineteen, and he is not from this village, he just came a year ago, and he said that he was looking for someone, but he looked around the village but did not find that person, so he was even more determined to stay here, saying that he would not leave if he couldn't find it.

Because he has a white face and can read and write, he has no place to go for the time being, so he stays in the village office to help the village chief sort out documents and the like, eat and live for free, although the salary is not high, but everyone in the village knows that such a stranger has come.

Why would everyone be looking for this stranger at this critical juncture?

Because a year ago, when Li Gengai first arrived and went around the village to find someone but couldn't find it, he once sighed at the villager who led the way next to him, "You have a problem with feng shui here." ”

The villagers were reluctant to be brought to lead the way, but they were angry, and they were poured oil like this, and they were suddenly unhappy, "You are so unreasonable, the feng shui of our village is not good to do your bird business, and it is not that it is not impossible, it is a big line, you don't see the beautiful mountains and rivers here, our ancestors are buried all over the mountains, bless us to be promoted and rich, they are all good points, how many feng shui gentlemen have come before, there is no one who does not boast, you have a little white face, can you see what?" ”

Li Gai smiled, but he was not angry, "It was indeed good before, if it wasn't as I expected, a few decades ago, there should have been a drought here." ”

As soon as the connoisseur makes a move, he will know if there is one.

As soon as the word "drought" was spoken, the villager immediately changed his face, why?

In the past, this "drought fish" was handed down by the old people in the village, everyone only took it as a joke, no one took it seriously, but even if it was a joke, it was also a joke in the village, how could this stranger know?

Seeing that the villager's face changed, Li Reform continued, "Although this drought is fierce, but it was subdued by the masters, there will be no major events in hundreds of years, this Qingtang Village Feng Shui was originally very good, the mountains are fertile, towering and beautiful, the momentum is strong, not to be chased, the shape is heavy, the mountains and rivers are watered and bubbling, such as the pearl and jade rolling, the gas is permeated, and then the green trees are covered, the branches cover each other, it can be described as a place of great luck with thousands of weather, upright and towering, and those who are buried in the treasure cave of this place can produce Wenqu Xing in later generations. ”

When the villagers heard this, their hearts were even more like fifteen buckets of water - seven up and eight down: what this kid said was the same as what the feng shui master who passed by a few years ago said?

Li Reform suddenly changed his words, "But, if I expected, a few years ago, there was a flash flood and rainstorm, and the landslide made the originally rich and beautiful mountain towering flames, with no assistance on all sides, the mountain is tilted, and the internal body is broken without a plane, and the tail is obliquely swinging, the wall is reversed, the sand protection is disordered, and the good and evil are turned around, and it is long gone." ”

The villager scratched his head, a little confused at the moment, "Then according to what you say, now this is a place of great evil, so why is there nothing at all, I see that this is full of mountains, and the scenery is no different from before——"

"It's hard to draw the skin and bones of the tiger, you don't know the face of the person, you don't know the heart, the same is true for the good hole, you can't see anything famous just by looking at the surface, and I ask you, has the number of animals on the mountain decreased significantly in recent years?"

The name of the village glared, "This is really good, those who hunt game, used to eat every day with a big belly and a round waist, and a brain full of fat, but now they have gone to farm, and they can't find anything on the mountain." ”

"Let me ask you again, is there more unexplained illness in the village?"

The name of the village hesitated for a while, stopped talking, and looked at Li Reform with a little surprise, as if he felt that it was always bad to talk too much about the village in front of a foreigner, and finally had to ask cautiously, "A few years ago, there was a flash flood, you look at this mountain, it has almost been cut in half, you can see it, this can't say that there is a problem with feng shui here." ”

Invisibly, the villager's attitude towards Li Reform has turned one hundred and eighty degrees, and he is no longer the fierce and vicious attitude of raising his eyebrows and eyes before, and it seems that he also wants to ask the question.

Li Gengai glanced at the seemingly picturesque lakes and mountains, but in fact, the anger and elf aura of this place had already been absorbed by that thing, and he just sighed, "Something big will happen next, you wait and see." ”

In fact, according to Li Reform's idea, the best thing at this time is, of course, to solve it from the root, but the biggest problem is that to solve the "thing" from the root, the amount of work is too large, and he can't cope with it alone, so he definitely needs the help of these villagers, and he is obviously a foreigner to these villagers.

The people haven't found it yet, but the problems have found a lot.

After that "thing" sucks up the vitality of the village and the blood of the beasts, the next thing is to start messing around, and these lively villagers will definitely suffer in the near future.

However, no one believed this, so Li Gengai chose not to talk about it.

When something goes wrong one after another, they will naturally come to their own.

The villager saw that Li Reform began to talk eloquently, and then he sighed and left without saying a word, it was the second monk who was confused, and returned to the village with hesitation, and told those villagers about it honestly, as Li Gai expected, none of these villagers believed him.

A year passed quickly, and Li Gengai stayed comfortably in the village office, almost forgetting what happened a year ago. And even more strange things happened unexpectedly.

According to his thoughts, the first thing that "thing" sucked was the anger in the village, then the beasts, and then the human life, but I don't know why, after the anger disappeared, he directly skipped the middle link and began to directly ask for human life.

The first ones who died were all old, so everyone thought it was time and didn't pay much attention to it, but even if they were older, the number of deaths was too many.

It started with one per month, then one every week, and then every two or three days.

It is no exaggeration to say that the funeral suona blower has just finished eating at this house and also went out of the funeral, and he can transfer to another family without even touching the ground with his feet.

The people who sell longevity materials in this village make a lot of money, and their mouths are crooked.

The village was originally quiet, but in the past few months, there has been no quiet movement of chickens and dogs, paper money floating everywhere, and even the smell of candles in the air.

On the bright road during the day, the yellow paper and white paper are flying, it looks like the same as Huangquan Road, and some people's black dogs guarding the door are holding their tails, and they don't dare to "Wang" for some reason, even if they are stupid, they know that something happened in the village.

Today is the funeral of the old man of the Zhao family, and the people in the village got together and thought of an idea, and decided to wait for this to be over, and quickly invite a few feng shui gentlemen to take a good look at what was wrong in the village.

On a sunny afternoon, Li Gengai was cooking tea eggs in the village office, holding a stove and fanning it outside, choking on the smoke, he coughed twice, and in the smoke, a villager sweating profusely rushed over.

"No, no, no, no!"

He hurriedly pulled Li Reform's clothes and was about to run, Li Reform looked surprised, "Hey, aren't you the one-"

This is none other than the villager who showed him the way a year ago.

"Hey-don't talk about it, my old lady's coffin hasn't even left the door, and the coffin lid flies, and the corpse is up!!"

Li Reform hurriedly said: "Do you remember the old lady's birthday?" ”

"Remember, I remember that I was born at about twelve o'clock in the evening of the twenty-eighth day of the fourth month of the old calendar."

"Well, today is April 29th, yesterday...... That's it! Okay, you go back first, I'll get ready, I'll be there right away. But when you go back, find twenty young men who are in good health, each with a pole of white wood two feet long, and if the living corpse escapes, hold the living corpse with the pole and not let him move. Remember! Don't let him move, if he catches someone, or if his anger blows into someone's face, he won't live long...... You go back first! ”

When the villagers heard this, how dare they disobey? Hurriedly ran away like the wind.

After the villager left, Li Gai looked around, brought cinnabar, black donkey hooves and other things to ward off evil, but he came to Zhao's house in a moment.

By this time, the sun had set, and the whole earth had been shrouded in a gray world.

The village was silent, and there was no sound at all.

There was a spiritual banner standing next to the door of the Zhao family, which was blown by the wind, swaying back and forth, and making a loud noise. Under the cover of night, it looks eerie and terrifying. The Zhao family standing in front of the door, and several old people also wore white cloth filial piety belts around their waists, fluttering under the spring breeze.

As soon as the old men and the descendants welcomed Li Gengai into the courtyard, before they could say a word, they heard a roar, and then, more than a dozen young men rushed out of the middle of the courtyard, shouting as they ran, "No, no, the living corpse knocked the door down!! ”

"Run, run as far as you can!!"

People were so frightened that their faces were bloodless, and they ran and hid, for fear of being caught by the living corpses, and they had long forgotten to use poles to hold the living corpses down.

Two young men were lying under the courtyard wall with two poles in their arms, trembling together. However, after the living corpse came out, he did not catch the people, but stood firmly on the door panel, looked at Li Reform on this side, and sneered twice, "Jie Ji-"

…………

His voice was sharp and thin, and it spread far and wide, and in this almost suffocating atmosphere, people felt that their scalps were numb, and every hair seemed to stand on end.

The villagers of the Zhao family, who had asked Li Reform to subdue the demons and eliminate the demons, hurriedly kowtowed, "In the past, the little one had eyes and didn't know Mount Tai, and I hope that Mr. will forgive his sins, but now that he has fallen into such a field, what should he do if he doesn't descend again?" ”

At this time, the living corpse spoke again, "You want to stop me, no way! If you want to survive, it's better to leave as soon as possible! Otherwise, the ...... It's hard to say!! After that, there were a few more screams.

Li Gai also felt that this was a difficult living corpse to deal with at this time, so he quickly took two spirit runes. One in his mouth, one in his hand. Then he took out cinnabar and put it in his mouth. Then, looking back, he saw that the old men and the twenty or so young men were already frightened, and he ignored them, and walked straight to the living corpse standing at the door.

This living corpse was about five feet tall, wearing a cyan longevity coat and robe, pedaling cyan longevity shoes, no hat on its head, and its bare head looked even more miserable and terrible in the gloom.

Just when Li Reform was a few steps away from the living corpse, the living corpse suddenly screamed and pounced on Li Reform, and the attack was extremely fierce. Li Gengai had already taken precautions, and quickly dodged to the side, dodging the two hands of the living corpse.

Seeing that the living corpse didn't catch the other party, he turned around sharply, and wanted to pounce, but just when the living corpse just turned around, Li Reform had already turned behind him, raised his left hand talisman and pasted it on the face of the living corpse.

Li Gai was taken aback when he saw that Fu was grabbed and torn apart by the living corpse, and a slight sweat suddenly oozed from his forehead, and at this moment when he was stunned, the living corpse reached out to his left side of the body and hugged him.

If this cinnabar was sprayed on the face of the living corpse, the living corpse would be finished, but the living corpse seemed to know that he was going to spray cinnabar, and tilted its head back, and the cinnabar flew over the tip of his nose, and the stars were not touched.

Seeing that the living corpse had broken through twice, it became even more rampant. The mouth screamed: "I call you dead, die!" ……”

With the scream, he lifted Li Gai high with both arms, and then, falling heavily to the ground, as soon as he lifted his foot, he rode on Li Gai's body facing the sky, and his two hands were about to choke his throat.

Li Gai hurriedly grabbed the wrist of the living corpse, but the strength of the living corpse seemed to have increased many times, so that his hand could not hold the wrist of the living corpse, and he was still choked by the throat of the living corpse.

It's over, it's over—

Li Reform's head "boomed", there was a blank, he seemed to lose consciousness, several old people and Zhao family villagers standing not far away, at this time had recovered from the stupid state, they were worried about whether Li Reform could subdue the living corpse, and at the same time saw the living corpse choking Li Reform's throat, they all shouted out in unison, "Afterlife, make!! Hard!!! "But I just didn't dare to come forward.

Li Gengai heard others shouting at him to be hard, and his heart moved suddenly, why don't I use a handwritten charm to stop him??

Right!!!

Li Reform had a flash of inspiration and did what he said.