Chapter 36: The Kiln God

And I listened to the voice behind me, which seemed to be far away, but close at hand, as if the thing was behind you.

I didn't dare to turn back, so I had to bite the bullet and move forward.

The foreman of the contractor and Kaohsiung, the eyes in their mouths never stopped one after another.

After moving away from the entrance of the brick kiln, the voice behind him began to slowly weaken, and after returning to the board room, Kaohsiung and the foreman were already in a cold sweat.

I also breathed a sigh of relief and poured the kerosene into the porcelain bowl.

Everything is ready to go.

There are only a few things that can be used here, and it is impossible to raise an altar to summon souls, and now all I can use is the local method that has been handed down. In the busy farming season, the labor force at home goes to work in the field, and the children stay at home and are not at ease, so many adults take their children to the fields.

When children are tired, it is very common to sleep in the ground.

But there will inevitably be some accidents in this way, and the lonely ghosts in the wilderness will find a way to take away their souls when they see sleeping children.

After many children returned from the field, they began to have a high fever that did not go away, and the hospital did not run away, and their condition did not improve.

Therefore, many elderly people in the family will let the parents of the children hold the gong, knock from the house to go to the place where the child is sleeping, and keep the child's name in their mouths.

The next morning, the kids would be jumping up and down.

That's the only way I can use it now.

I asked everyone present, but everything that could make a sound, to stand at the door with it, knocking and shouting Lao Zhao's name.

Whether this method works or not depends on whether Lao Zhao's soul can come back.

Outside the prefabricated house, the sound of crackling sounded, followed by the sound of shouting, fortunately this is the wild, if it is in a place where there are people, it may be regarded as a fool.

Lao Zhao was lying on the ground, and I was left alone in the room.

I lit the kerosene lamp, and at first the flames burned strongly, but gradually they began to extinguish.

I guarded the wick with my hand so that the wind would not blow it and blow it out.

The black smoke from the burning of kerosene is high in the sky, and nothing has changed.

The whole process lasted about half an hour, and a gust of wind blew in from outside the door, almost blowing out the kerosene lamp.

Immediately afterwards, the black smoke from the kerosene lamp began to disperse, and the copper coin worn on the red rope originally sank in the basin, and at this moment it floated directly on the water.

It's back.

Call.

When the wind blows, the kerosene lamp goes out, and the copper coins floating on the water sink to the bottom again.

Ahem!

Lao Zhao coughed lightly a few times, opened his eyes, I asked the people outside the door to stop, they rushed in, and after seeing Lao Zhao wake up, they all felt a little incredible.

Just when everyone saw Lao Zhao wake up and felt magical, there was a faint cry of children outside the door, faintly, far and near.

I stood in the doorway, looked around, and couldn't see anything except black and black.

But I knew that the sound must have come from the brick kiln, and everyone heard the crying, but no one dared to say it.

The entire board room became silent.

"Jiang Chen, how to solve this situation?" Kaohsiung asked me.

I've had some guesses about it, but I really don't know if it's as I think.

"It's not clear yet, wait until tomorrow at noon, I'll go down and take a look."

That night, the big guys didn't sleep well, and the sound of the little child crying came, near and far, and several times I heard the voice that seemed to be outside the door.

I don't go out to see, no one dares to go out with the door open, even the convenience is solved indoors.

It was almost dawn that the sound of the children crying gradually disappeared.

This situation is to go to work, and these workers are also frightened, so they simply let them rest directly and obey my assignment.

These people are good at their work, but they really can't deal with these things like ghosts, and I don't expect them to do anything, so let them go to the nearest funeral goods store and buy something they can use.

The sun rises on the third pole, I brought some copper coins, and the ghost pestle of the seal to the mouth of the brick kiln, just in case, I asked Kaohsiung to wait for me in the board room.

When I went down to the brick kiln, a yin aura began to surround my body.

Then, there was endless black smoke, and I used a bright flashlight to illuminate the way, and it turned out that everywhere I went was darkness, and the dust on the ground was already several inches thick.

As Kaohsiung said, there are many children's footprints on the ground.

The deeper you go, the more footprints there are on the ground, and there are undoubtedly footprints of children outside the column.

I'm also wondering how these children's footprints can be so many.

After walking for twenty minutes, I still didn't find anything, and the brick kiln behind me became a bright spot.

The scale of this brick kiln is completely beyond my imagination, and the space inside is more than the size of two football fields.

I went deeper, but I still didn't find anything, but at the end of the brick kiln, I found an archway, but it was sealed with bricks.

I looked at the small footprints on the ground, all of them came out of them, and in curiosity, I wasted a lot of effort to remove the bricks. Xiaotao Chinese

Compared with the space of the brick kiln outside, the space inside is much smaller, and the size is about the same as that of the prefabricated house.

I was holding a flashlight, and I could barely see what it was in.

Facing the arch, there is a set of earthen shrines, in which is placed a six-armed rakshasa with four fangs hideous, fierce and vicious, so not terrifying.

In front of the six-armed rakshasa there was an incense burner, but it had been broken.

On the left and right sides of the niche, there are seven or eight black jars sealed with yellow mud, and it is not clear what is inside.

Just as I was thinking about what it was, I heard the crying of a child from inside the brick kiln outside.

The ghost pestle in my hand opened, and golden runes flickered.

I came out of the small brick kiln, and the cries that were still there disappeared in an instant.

An hour later, with nothing to gain, I came out of the brick kiln, and when I returned to the board house, the people who had gone to buy things came back.

"It's time for the two of you to go to the store and buy some snacks for the kids, as many as you want."

The men did not hesitate and drove away.

"Jiang Chen, what's going on inside?" Kaohsiung asked.

I thought for a moment, and said, "Have you ever heard of the kiln god? ”

Kiln God?

Kaohsiung looked at me with a confused expression, obviously not having heard this word.

The migrant workers standing around were also at a loss.

"What is this?" Kaohsiung opened his mouth with a confused expression.

"What's inside the Land Temple?"

O land.

It is exactly like this, there is land in the land temple, and there is a kiln god in the brick kiln.

"Since it is the kiln god here, it should be regarded as the earth immortal who guards one side, so what does this haunted thing have to do with the kiln god."

"Could it be that the kiln god of this brick kiln is the ghost of some children?" Kaohsiung asked puzzled.

I shook my head.

If we want to talk about this matter, we have to start from ancient times.

The ancient brick kiln or the porcelain kiln that burned porcelain, after the completion of the kiln god need to invite the kiln god to sit down, before the kiln is fired, it is necessary for a pair of boys and girls to sacrifice to the kiln god, so that the things burned out will be perfect.

With the development of the times, from the beginning of the sacrifice of living boys and girls, to the later sacrifice of dead children or infants, it is precisely because the sacrifice of living people is too cruel, so the use of stillbirths is changed.

It's just that the stillbirths that died later are difficult to find, and until now, as long as human blood and paper people are used for sacrifice.

The brick kiln here is a long time ago, and it is not clear how many years ago, but the time for such a perfect brick kiln to be buried in the soil is definitely not short.

With the sacrifice of living boys and girls, such a brick kiln needs to invite the bones of the sacrificer out and bury it when the kiln is closed, otherwise the brick kiln will become very evil.

There are several jars on the left and right sides of the place where the kiln god is enshrined, and if my guess is correct, it must be the bones of those babies.

Now the problem is here, as long as the problem of the kiln god is solved, the remaining problems will be solved.

Listening to me say so much, Kaohsiung also had a look of disbelief.

"In this world, there are really living sacrifices?" Kaohsiung seemed to be asking me, and it was also like asking himself again.

I took a deep breath and didn't answer him the question.

From ancient times to the present, there are still few things about sacrificing living people, but pity those who are sacrificed, what mistakes have they made!

"Now it seems that these problems are not difficult to solve."

"As long as the bones of those sacrificial babies are invited out for thick burial, and the statues of the kiln gods are invited out to be burned with fire, this problem will be solved."

Kaohsiung listened to me and asked me when I was going to do it, I thought about it, it was already afternoon, and it was not suitable to invite the bones of those sacrificers to come out, so I had to wait until tomorrow morning.

Soon, the foreman came back with two sacks of snacks, and before it was dark, I took the two foremen to the entrance of the brick kiln and sprinkled the two sacks of snacks in the brick kiln.

The rest of the time is to wait.

It was only in the evening that the children's cries began again, from far and near, and this time more severely, several cries were outside the door, lingering for a long time.

I didn't bother with it, but sat on the bed to rest.

This night, almost everyone did not sleep, when the door was opened, the scene outside the door startled the person who opened the door, only to see a lot of snacks piled up on the ground outside the door, and there were many small footprints.

"Mr. Jiang, how did these snacks appear here?"

I don't need to ask, to be here, it must have been brought out by those little ghosts.

I picked up a packet of potato chips from the ground, opened it and took a slice and put it in my mouth, the potato chips lost their flavor and chewed like chewing wax.

Throw away the chips, they've been tasted by the imps.

Several foremen present curiously picked up the snacks on the ground, opened them and tasted them, and found that there was no taste.

"Don't eat these snacks, ghosts eat leftovers, eating them is not good for people." I said lightly, looking at the mouth of the brick kiln.