Chapter 332: The Hidden Past

"Oh, why is it so cold?" Stepping into the courtyard, a wave of yin qi suddenly came to his face, and this yin wind made Zimeng couldn't help but tremble fiercely, this nervous guy, I couldn't help but glare at him fiercely.

Zimeng didn't dare to say more when he saw that I was angry, and soon a few of us entered the dilapidated tiled house, which is not very big, it should be said that it is less than 100 square meters.

As soon as you enter the door, there are several shabby stools and chairs placed in a mess, and there is a portrait hanging in the middle, this portrait is very strange, it is not the holy picture of Guanyin hung by ordinary families, nor is it the portrait of Maitreya Buddha, it is a bearded man holding an ancient sword and a hideous portrait.

Under that portrait is an incense case, there is an incense burner and three bowls of white rice, and three cups of white wine, but the strange thing is that there is no incense on the incense burner, but there are three incense sticks in each bowl of white rice, "Hehe, I want to take her away, I want to take her away, so that there is none of you left, let you have no left, hehe." ”

I went to this sound again, I felt something bad in my heart, as soon as I entered the room, I heard this hehe, when I was staring at the hanging painting, this hehe appeared again, the sound was strange and faint, so that I felt uncomfortable.

In an instant, I wanted to reach out and pull out the ancient sword behind my back, but I looked up and meowed at the portrait in front of me, and I knew at a glance that this bearded man was the most famous immortal Taoist judge among the Taoist immortals.

Listen to it is a Taoist judge, not a pen-holding judge in the underworld, and some people may not know about the Taoist judge here, but he has a very awesome name is Zhong Kui.

That's right, he is the Zhong Kui Heavenly Master who is afraid of the ghosts, Zhong Kui is a native of Zhongnan Village, Zhongnan Town, Zhongzhou County, Zhongzhou County, in the middle section of the Qinling Mountains in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, in ancient times, there is a legend of Zhong Kui catching ghosts, and it is said that Zhong Kui was originally a person from the underworld, and his duty is to come to the world to catch ghosts in order to maintain the balance of yin and yang.

There is also a legend that Zhong Kui was just a jinshi, because when he was taking the top prize list at that time, because his appearance was too vicious, although he was admitted to the top score, the chief examiner of the imperial court at that time did not hire him, and he also recorded the name of others in the top exam questions, Zhong Kui crashed to death on the steps of the palace in a fit of anger.

Later, Zhong Kui's soul entered the underworld, because he was born with a vicious aura, and after his death, he entered the underworld because the vicious aura was too heavy and he was not at peace in the underworld.

The judge saw that Zhong Kui was born with five evils, what is the five evils is that he is born more fierce than ghosts, not only his facial features but also his own qi is fierce into evil ghosts, and he is a person who is born to restrain ghosts.

After thinking twice, the judge accepted him under his command to educate him, and later Zhong Kui repented in the underworld, and wanted to atone for his evil in the world after his death.

Since then, he has become a professional ghost catcher, and then because of the teachings by Taoism into the immortal system, because his background is the underworld, he is under the command of the judge, he joined the Taoist immortal system after calling himself the Taoist judge, the main function is to catch ghosts, this is the Taoist judge holding the sword, because of the legend of the private judge holding the pen.

However, among the messy wild histories that I know, there is a legend that best fits the origin of Zhong Kui, which tells that during the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the emperor Tang Xuanzong suddenly fell seriously ill after a tour, and he was not cured by many methods, and the ministers were very anxious.

Emperor Tang Xuanzong was even more famous doctors in the world could not cure him, this strange disease made him very anxious, at that time Emperor Tang Xuanzong was only in the prime of life, very worried about his body, afraid that he would die one day.

However, one night, Tang Xuanzong suddenly dreamed that a little ghost in red clothes had stolen his treasure, and the emperor angrily reprimanded the little ghost. At this time, a big ghost wearing a broken hat suddenly appeared, caught the little ghost and ate it in his stomach, the emperor asked him who he was, and the big ghost replied: The minister is Zhong Kui, a monk of Zhongnan Mountain.

Later, Tang Xuanzong woke up from his dream and recovered from his illness, which made Tang Xuanzong respect this Zhong Kui even more, so he ordered Wu Daozi, the most famous painter at that time, to paint the image of Zhong Kui in his dream.

Wu Daozi is a contemporary masterpiece and is respected by later generations as a painting saint, because Tang Xuanzong himself is a fanatical Taoist believer, under his admiration, Wu Daozi insisted on painting an inexplicable need of Zhong Kui to paint vividly, this matter is also passed on to the hundreds, and since then Zhong Kui's status as a god of ghost hunting has gradually been established.

So I personally think that among these legends, this legend is the most in line with the legend of Zhong Kui's ghost catching celestial master, and to be honest, I don't really believe that Zhong Kui really existed more than a thousand years ago.

But because of the peerless painting skills of the saint Wu Daozi at that time, Zhong Kui was painted very expressively, and Wu Daozi was not allowed to paint because of Tang Xuanzong's non-Zhao, which made Wu Daozi desolate in his later years.

After Wu Daozi was able to escape from the palace due to the Anshi Rebellion, he hid in the countryside in his later years, and painted a picture of Guanyin for some villagers and planned this life, this Zhong Kui was also the picture that Wu Daozi painted for the villagers.

At that time, there were still many people looking for Wu Daozi to draw pictures, and people from all over the country came to him to paint the door god, which finally led to Wu Daozi being found by the secret agents of the imperial court at that time, and finally died of depression, but those blazing paintings have been passed down for thousands of years.

It has been handed down, Zhong Kui also has a charm because of Wu Daozi's pen, in fact, I don't really believe that Zhong Kui has existed, but Zhong Kui's portrait can be a town and I believe in evil, this painting brings together thousands of years of people's inheritance of faith and spiritual beliefs, this picture has a spirituality, there is this picture of the town house like dirty things really dare not enter the house.

Therefore, I am not in a hurry, although the sentence that I will take her away and leave you alone makes me feel very incomprehensible, but looking at the calm faces of these two middle-aged couples, I know that they are not afraid of this voice, and they are still very familiar with the source of this voice, and even say that they know what is going on, so they are not afraid.

"I'm going to take her away, I'm going to take her away, so that none of you are left." After the two middle-aged couples led us into the house, they briefly introduced themselves, and then I learned that these two people were not Li Shuwen's parents, but her uncle and aunt Li Tian and Qin Wenli.

Li Shuwen's father went to Li Shuwen's grandfather because of his daughter's illness, Shuwen's grandfather was the director of the county people's hospital and an old professor, but now he is lecturing in Nanning, the capital.

Li Shuwen's father is worried about Shuwen's situation and wants his father to come back to see what's going on, and second, he is really worried that Shuwen won't survive this catastrophe, and letting the old man come back is also to plan for the worst, so as not to see the last side.

As for Shuwen's mother, she went out to invite the goddess, and the goddess just now was from their own village, and it was Shuwen's uncle who invited her, and just when I was about to tell Uncle Li Shuwen about our intention, the gloomy voice remembered again.

That's what I said just now, but this time it sounds even more poignant, making people feel like their hairs stand on end. At that moment, Twilight Xue couldn't help it, grabbed Qin Wenli's hand and asked, "Uncle and aunt, how is Shuwen, can you let me meet her?" ”

"This, this......"The couple were obviously hesitant, and Twilight's words made them not know how to take it.

"Don't hesitate, if you drag it out any longer, your niece will be saved, don't say that you invite any goddess to come, even if Da Luo Jinxian goes down to earth, she won't be able to do it." At this time, I had already guessed what was pestering Li Shuwen, so I simply spread out the topic and said: "Don't let the younger generations pay off the debts you owe in your previous life, some things have to be repaid after all, and now if you don't let me see her, she won't be saved..."

Before I finished speaking, suddenly, there was a loud "bang", and the door was pushed open, and then a woman in her forties and fifties knelt down in front of me, and a group of us were startled by this sudden encounter, "You get up first, I can't stand it, you kneel." ”

Although I don't know why she did this, I really can't stand her kneeling, after all, she is already my elder at her age, and I asked while helping the middle-aged woman up: "Can you tell me what's going on?" ”

The middle-aged woman didn't get up at first, but then Twilight came over and explained to her what we were here for, and she got up from the ground, and finally I figured out the ins and outs of the whole thing, and the cause and effect of the shackles.

This person who knelt down at me and was pulled up by Twilight Xue was Li Shuwen's mother Yu Fengjiao, who told us a dusty past more than 20 years ago, just more than 20 years ago, when Li Shuwen's mother Yu Fengjiao just met Shuwen's father Li Li.

That year, they fell in love with each other and their feelings warmed up quickly, but Li Li's father was Shuwen's grandfather, Dean Li was very optimistic about Li Li's qualifications, they only graduated from college that year, and the university was already very highly educated back then, but Mr. Li still planned to send Li Li abroad for further study.

In order for him to come back and become famous, it is not for nothing that Old Man Li likes Li Li's qualifications, because this guy's talent is still very outstanding in medicine.

This made Old Man Li even more red-eyed, but helplessly at that time, the two had already developed in private and had a relationship, planning to use this to tie up Old Man Li and make him give up his plan to send Li Li abroad.

But it's a pity that they miscalculated, Mr. Li has already made up his mind, at that time Mr. Li himself was already the director of a department in the provincial hospital, and he was also the next successor of the hospital.

And Li Li, who is studying medicine, can also pull Li Li back from further study, and let his son take over his class so that he has no regrets, but it often backfires, at that time Yufengjiao was already pregnant, Li Li decided to tell the old man Li after thinking about it again.

asked him to give up his plan to go abroad, but the old man was already beaten to death with a stick and couldn't get back, so the old man gritted his teeth and made a decision, that is, to send both of them abroad for further study.

You must know that at that time, sending a person abroad for further study was not affordable for ordinary families, not to mention that Mr. Li also sent two people abroad, but this is not the most important thing.

At that time, visas to go abroad were also conditional, and at that time, because of China's rapid development, the United States was already faintly worried about restricting visas for Chinese students and those who went abroad for further study.

At that time, there happened to be a policy, the person who went abroad on a visa could not be a pregnant woman, at that time, it was strict but the pregnancy test was required, and everyone knew that now the basic pregnancy is more than seven months and there is no special circumstance that can not be used to go to the United States with a visa.

Because once the pregnancy is seven months old, there is a possibility of clinical practice at any time, and a baby born in the United States is equivalent to having permanent residency in the United States, which is the law of the United States.