Chapter 12: Mandrills
Recently, I have given several people the Six Spirit Fire Talismans, so that they can just in case.
And, by coincidence, after giving, it happens to happen every time, just in case.
This time was no exception.
I know how to sleep in bed, and every time I change the bed, I can't sleep in the first half of the night.
Since I can't sleep, I swipe my phone and read Gu Mingyi's novels.
Before I knew it, Gu Mingyi's novel had already been read by me.
Exiting from the client, I looked at the same time.
Exactly twelve forty-five,
Three minutes of the sub-hour,
The time of day when the yin energy is at its heaviest.
A loud "bang" came from the nerd's room.
I jumped out of bed, grabbed a coat, and rushed over.
The nerd's parents also got up, panicked, and ran to the nerd's room.
Push open the door,
I saw a stool fall to the ground, and the nerd was picking it up.
The nerdy dad asked him what was going on.
The nerd said that he got up at night and accidentally knocked over a stool.
The nerd dad looked at him, didn't speak, and left.
His mother nagged him a few more times and left.
And I,
Looking at the ashes on the ground in the nerd's room,
Know that things are not that simple.
However, the sound insulation of the nerd's house is very bad, and I can't ask him directly, for fear that his parents will hear it.
Back in bed, I sent the nerd a WeChat message and asked him what was going on.
He said that he woke up in the middle of the night from freezing, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he found that he couldn't move, and he was pressed into bed by a ghost again.
But
This time, it wasn't the female ghost who was pressing on him,
It's a monkey.
The monkey was not big, and his height was up to his knees.
But
This monkey was blood-red all over, and there was a heavy smell of blood on his body, as if he had just been fished out of the pool of blood.
The monkey sleeps on his side on the nerd's chest, slightly bent legs, and enjoys it, like a baby lying on his father's chest.
For a moment,
The nerd said,
He seems to have lost his mind,
I think that's pretty good.
I want to stretch out my hand,
Go and hug the little monkey in your arms.
At this time,
The monkey woke up.
It sat up.
The nerd quickly closed his eyes.
He didn't want it to find out that he was awake.
But he didn't dare to close it completely, for fear that it would kill him.
The nerd's eyes, narrowed into a slit, peeked at the monkey.
Monkey
Sitting on his chest,
grinning,
Showing long fangs,
At him,
Laugh!
Slowly,
The monkey was no longer content to just smile at him.
It stretched out its hand,
Little by little
Reach out to him.
It looked like it was going to choke him by the neck.
The nerd was a little panicked.
At this moment, the six spirit fire talismans, "bang", exploded.
The monkey was frightened and jumped out of the window.
That's when the nerd discovered something.
This monkey is no ordinary monkey.
It has only one leg,
And
Its feet are heels facing forward and toes facing backwards.
It's weird!
After reading the description of the nerd, I put my phone aside.
The whole thing seemed to be a little more than I expected.
The monkey that the nerd saw was actually a mandrill.
Mandrills, in literary works or classics, often appear.
There is an article in "Liao Zhai" dedicated to mandrills.
But many of these depictions are not very accurate.
The most accurate is undoubtedly the record in the Eastern Jin Dynasty Gaogong Ge Hong's "Hug Puzi" - shaped like a child, with one foot backwards, and a prisoner at night.
The appearance of the monkey that the nerd saw fits this description very well.
Mandrills are the embodiment of evil spirits in the mountains.
As for who is this evil ghost?
Why do you come looking for nerds?
Is it a coincidence, or is there another reason?
I don't know all this.
I asked the nerd, and he didn't know it himself.
The night finally passed, and the mandrill didn't come to look for the nerd again.
Early in the morning, I had breakfast with the nerd and went to Tianzhu Mountain.
On the way, I kept staring at the compass.
Tianzhu Mountain is not isolated, it is only a part of a large mountain range.
This large mountain range, rolling and undulating, is very imposing.
In such a large mountain, there is a high probability that a pond will be formed.
Juyin Pond is a favorite place for ghosts in the mountains.
Last night's mandrill, most likely, was hiding in a pool somewhere in the mountains.
Unfortunately, along the way, the hands of the compass did not deflect drastically.
Everything, all normal.
The nerd and I went to the top of Tianzhu Mountain and stood on the edge of the cliff.
With a slight leap, I jumped onto the pillar.
Looking down from Tianzhu Mountain, the flowers and trees at the foot of the mountain are not as thick as a hair.
At the height of twenty or thirty floors, although I have no fear of heights, I still feel dizzy.
I squatted down, picked up a few weathered gravel from the top of the pillar, took it in my hand, touched it, and looked at the material.
Although this pillar is called a pillar of heaven, it is actually the most ordinary stone pillar, with neither yin nor yang.
I looked again, and the compass in my hand was also normal, pointing steadily to the north and south.
I jumped back and went down a path with the nerd to the foot of the pillar.
I don't know, it's my delusion, although the female ghost jumped from the top of the pillar of heaven eighty years ago, but, until now, I still seem to be able to see her bloodstains.
At the foot of the pillar, there were several stones, on which there was a thin layer of red, brittle, as if it was dried blood.
I think it's very likely that the female ghost has been hiding here all along.
However, when I took out the compass, I still didn't find anything.
I don't believe in evil, so I took a compass and circled around the stone pillar more than a dozen times, but I still didn't find anything.
I opened my eyes and looked around, and everything was normal.
The female ghost, the mandrill, are not here.
The nerd and I can only go back to Tianzhu Village first and think of other ways.
As soon as we returned to his house, we found that the man who had borrowed 10,000 yuan from his house yesterday had come again.
The man seems to be borrowing money from the nerdy dad again.
"Give me a good word! Do you borrow or not! ”
Although this man borrowed money, his attitude was very arrogant.
The nerd dad, with his head down and smoking, did not respond, apparently, was unwilling to lend it to him again.
"Don't borrow? Right?
Good! My Ma Dahe is useless, I can't clean up your surname!
There's always someone to clean it up! “
As he spoke, he took out a broken mobile phone worth two or three hundred yuan from his pocket and wanted to make a call.
The nerd dad panicked, quickly stood up, snatched his phone from his hand, and held it in his hand.
At this time, the nerd's dad also saw me and the nerd.
He didn't speak, took the man's mobile phone, went up to the second floor, and after a while, took a stack of money, came back, threw it to the man, and said at the same time:
"Be a man, you have to have points in your heart, if you go too far, I'll kill you!"
When the man took the money and left, the nerd's father said to the nerd again:
"Don't tell your mom!"
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Because of Ma Dahe, the atmosphere of the nerd's house today is very bad.
The nerd doesn't speak, his dad doesn't talk either, and lunch is dull.
I casually ate a few bites and walked out.
I plan to ask the others in Tianzhu Village about the female ghost.
I, in Tianzhu Village, wandered around, and finally found that it was still a small shop in the village, with the most people.
When I got closer, I found that a group of people, more than a dozen, were playing cards and gambling for money, including Ma Dahe.
Playing cards, except for fighting the landlord, I don't know anything, so I can only stand on the side and watch awkwardly.
But it's also quite interesting to watch.
When you win money and lose money, you can best see a person's character.
Greedy, hot-tempered, cunning......
Before I knew it, an afternoon passed.
It's getting dark, and it's time for them to disperse.
I quickly caught the person who won the most money and was in the best mood and asked him about the female ghost.
As soon as I asked, this group of idle and bored gamblers all stopped and began to tell me about female ghosts.
Ma Dahe didn't seem interested in this topic and wanted to leave, but was pulled by a person on the side.
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Luo Yang Says:
When I uploaded this chapter, it was almost a little bit, I was so sleepy and dizzy.
For my sake,
Readers, can you collect it and give a few flowers.