Chapter 1: The Aftermath of the Ringing Horse
Preface:
Hello friends, my name is Liu Huanghe, a little behind in my 70s, my ancestral home is by the Yellow River, and I now live at the foot of Taihang Mountain.
In 2014, I wrote my first book, "The Last Ghost Hunter", which tells the story of the four generations of my ancestors and my own experience of exorcism, my ancestors are: my great-grandfather, my grandfather (that is, my great-grandfather), my grandmother, and my father, I am the fifth generation of folk exorcism.
In 2016, I wrote my second book, "The Past of the Last 2 Dao Chiefs", which tells the story of my four-year wandering experience with an old Taoist leader.
Originally, I wrote these books for the purpose of publishing books for future generations to see, and I also wanted to cut off this craft of ours and use these books to pass on to the next generation, but there are really few good fortunes in our business, that is, the line involving yin and yang, including me!
This year, that is, in the spring of 2018, my first book "The Last Ghost Hunter" is about to be published, and my wish is about to be completed, but it fell short, the country's policy suddenly tightened, and the book was characterized as "feudal superstition".
"The Last 2 Long Past", I was taken by a director last year, and it was also this year, in the spring of 2018, I met with the director twice and signed a contract to adapt the movie, and later, the script was almost adapted, but ...... Who would have thought that just two months ago, the director suddenly died of a cerebral infarction, and the screenwriter in charge of adapting the script sent me all the photos from the director's funeral. For me, this is undoubtedly a thunderbolt from the sky, I can only smile bitterly at the sky, Liu Huanghe, Liu Huanghe, you are unlucky, you ...... The last generation 2 was forced to run aground.
If you want to say that you don't feel uncomfortable, that's false, and after thinking about it, I think maybe God doesn't want me to stop writing. Right now, the wish has not been fulfilled, a pole back to before the liberation, I can only continue to write the last generation 3, I believe, as long as I insist, God will always have the day to open his eyes, there will always be a day when the haze dissipates, the day when the clouds open and the sun rises!!
As for the last generation 3, I want to write about the life of my grandfather, that is, the legendary life of the second generation of exorcists in our family.
My grandfather, named Liu Niandao, was born in the sixth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, that is, in 1867 AD. Taiye since he was a child, he was very smart, practiced martial arts, was admitted to Xiucai at the age of twelve, and at the age of eighteen with a good martial arts, he killed a vicious water monster in the Yellow River, and the people at that time did not know what this water monster in the river was, they all said that it was the Dragon King, and my grandfather was called "Dragon Slayer", and soon became famous on both sides of the Yellow River. His subsequent experience is even more tortuous and bizarre, it can be said that my grandfather is a collection of literature, martial arts, and Xuanmen, and his life is a wonderful legend.
End of the preface.
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In the thirteenth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, that is, in 1887, my grandfather was twenty years old.
In an inn in Shandong, my grandfather got acquainted with Xiao Laodao and Xiao Laodao's two apprentices, Xiao Chujiu and Xiao Shiyi.
Xiao Laodao, whose real name is Xiao Benxuan, is forty-five or sixteen years old, dressed as a Taoist priest, dressed in a light cyan robe, with a handful of broken dust in his hand, a thin face, exposed cheekbones, and a light and fluttering walk, as if he has no weight; The eldest apprentice, Xiao Chujiu, is three or four years older than my grandfather, tall and bear-backed, and is said to be the descendant of a certain general of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom; The little apprentice Xiao Shiyi, thirteen or fourteen years old, skinny, is a little mute who can't speak, but he has an ability that others don't have, he was born with a pair of yin and yang eyes, can see God during the day, and can see ghosts at night.
At that time, at the invitation of Xiao Laodao, my grandfather took the little ghost monkey and joined Xiao Laodao and their tomb robbery ranks, in Xiao Laodao's own words, with the addition of "Dragon Slayer", their master and apprentice are really like a tiger with wings, and taking the wealth in the tomb of the "same official" is like exploring the bag and taking things!
Tongguan is a place name, adjacent to Xianyang in the south, Yan'an in the north, at that time it was Tongguan County, under the jurisdiction of Xi'an Prefecture, and later because of the homonym with "Tongguan", it was renamed Tongchuan, which is now Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province.
According to Xiao Laodao, there is a Song Dynasty tomb on the "Three Stone Mountain" of Tongguan, which has never been stolen, and there are a lot of valuable "riches" in the tomb.
However, the words are easy, but the tomb is not so easy to rob, otherwise Xiao Lao Dao's master and apprentice would not have pulled my grandfather up.
A group of four people, plus a little ghost monkey with a hat on his head, dressed in children's clothes, and walking upright on two legs. The little ghost monkey is a real monkey, and the folk call this kind of monkey "ghost baboon", and its face is very vicious, and people think that it is a demon that comes out of hell when they see it.
Late one night a few months ago, the parents of the little ghost monkey were mistakenly killed by my grandfather as zombies, and the little ghost monkey followed my grandfather many times in order to avenge his parents, and took the opportunity to sneak attack. Later, my grandfather subdued him with baked cakes, and the little ghost monkey let go of his hatred and formed a deep relationship with my grandfather.
On the other hand, the parents of the little ghost monkey were actually raised by Xiao Laodao, and they were two spiritual objects domesticated by Xiao Laodao with the secret method of Qimen. (For details, see "The Last Ghost Hunter")
The four people and one beast left the inn, rode on the horses prepared by Xiao Laodao, quickly whipped the horses, and went straight to Tongguan County, Xi'an Prefecture.
Two days later, a group of people entered the ground of Heze, my grandfather immediately cheered up one hundred and twenty points, and told Xiao Lao Dao three masters and apprentices, come here to be extra careful, he offended a group of ringing horses here a few days ago, although several of the leaders of this group of ringing horses have been eliminated by themselves, but they also have a sister named Shan Xue'er, who hates himself to the core, if he is found by this group of ringing horses, there will inevitably be a vicious fight.
As he was talking, suddenly, a fast horse caught up from behind a few people, and there was a string of horses' hooves, and before he could look back, the fast horse raised a cloud of smoke and dust, and galloped past my grandfather.
Seeing this, my grandfather hurriedly picked up his horse whip and whipped the white horse under the seat twice, and the white horse was in pain, and spread his hooves and chased after the fast horse in front.
Xiao Laodao didn't understand what was going on, so he hurriedly shouted at my grandfather with a sharp voice: "Brother Liu, what's wrong?" "My grandfather didn't have time to pay attention to him at this time, so he quickly whipped his horse, and after a while, he caught up with the fast horse in front.
The two horses were on the road side by side, and for a time they raised two long lines of smoke, and the man on the fast horse glanced at my grandfather, and suddenly showed a look of fear, and picked up the whip to smoke the horse under the seat, saying that it was too late, and my grandfather also picked up the horsewhip, and he did not want to whip his mount, but he pulled the man's horse whip with his backhand.
Before the man could react, the man instantly exerted his strength, and the whip was behind him, and the man suddenly screamed, and even the whip fell heavily from the horse's back with the whip, and my grandfather pulled out a whip again, and whipped it on the fast horse under the man's seat, and the horse neighed, and frightened forward, leaving the man in place.
My grandfather immediately withdrew his whip, grabbed the reins and turned over and dismounted, and the little ghost monkey and my grandfather rode on the same horse, and then jumped down, and a man and a beast came to the man.
The man fell not lightly, his whole face was disgraced, and he struggled to get up from the ground, but the master raised his foot and stepped on his back, and with a slight force on his leg, he stepped the man back to the ground, and the man immediately lay on the ground, unable to move.
The grandfather asked coldly: "Say, what do you want to do when you run so fast?" ”
The man looked pained, looked at my grandfather in horror, and said to him: "Uncle spare his life, uncle spare his life......"
The grandfather's face changed suddenly, and he shouted: "Who is your uncle!" With the afterburner under his feet, the man suddenly screamed "ah", and my grandfather asked coldly: "Do you want to rush back to the cottage and report to Shan Xue'er?" ”
At this time, Xiao Laodao took Xiao Chujiu and Xiao Shiyi to catch up from behind, Xiao Laodao saw this and asked my grandfather: "Brother Liu, what's the matter, it's so decent, why are you embarrassed to be a passerby?" ”
My grandfather glanced at Xiao Laodao: "Brother Xiao, this is not an ordinary passerby, this is a 'black head' of that gang of ringing horses." ”
"Black head" is the jargon on the rivers and lakes, that is, spies, who specialize in inquiring about news and stepping on plates, it is obvious that this "black head" recognized my grandfather, and hurried back to the cottage to ventilate the news, but was also recognized by my grandfather.
Xiao Lao Dao has been running north and south of the river for many years, and naturally knows these jargon on the rivers and lakes, and when he heard my grandfather say that he was a "black head", he no longer said anything, strangled the horses under the seat, and watched coldly. After all, Xiao Laodao and my grandfather have just met, and they don't know each other, and he also wants to see what kind of character the rumored "Dragon Slayer" is.
My grandfather stepped on the man again, and the person suddenly screamed in pain, and my grandfather followed and asked sharply: "Say, is Shan Xue'er looking for me everywhere to take revenge?" ”
The man looked at my grandfather, nodded painfully, and said, "Since my uncle escaped...... No, no, since Liu Daxia, you left the cottage, Miss Shan has passed down the word and said that it is...... Whoever can take the head of Liu Niandao, a negative man, will marry whoever she wants, and respect him as the big boss of 'a scoop of water'...... Now, many cottages have heard that many people in our area want to take your life and marry Miss Shan......"
The "a scoop of water" in this person's mouth is the name of the cottage at that time, many Xiangma cottages have names, in addition to "a scoop of water" in this area of Heze, there are also "stepping on the sky", "turning in the sand", "Jiao in the water", etc., are some bandits who kill people and steal goods, block the road and rob. It is precisely because of the rampant banditry that the people in Heze, Shandong Province were forced to practice martial arts, which made the hometown of martial arts later.
In the book "The Last Ghost Hunter", I wrote about part of my grandfather's experience, and I have already written it, so I won't repeat it here, if you have friends who don't understand, you can read "The Last Ghost Hunter" first, and after reading that book, it will be easier to understand this book.