Chapter 44 Riding a Tiger is Difficult

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My grandfather raised his head and glanced at Xiao Laodao, and then said: "Listen to my father, after the female corpse is dissolved, in addition to burying the yang position and burying the red coffin, it is also necessary to put a town stone on the top plate of the coffin, and the town stone needs to be exposed to the scorching sun for seven days, and then write 'Heavenly Master Chopping Evil' with cinnabar, and bury it with the coffin." ”

Xiao Laodao heard my grandfather say this, looked around the stone coffin, and said suspiciously: "But when we opened the coffin, we didn't see any town stones." ”

My grandfather said, "Maybe the customs here are different from those in the Central Plains. ”

A few people left the main burial chamber and smashed the door of the ear chamber open, and when everyone walked into the ear chamber, they were all stunned, especially Xiao Laodao, whose face changed.

I saw that there was no object of the deceased in the ear room at all, the whole child is like an ancestral hall, which is for more than a dozen Taoist patriarchs, Xuannu, Sanqing, Zhenwu, old mother, etc., all of them are painted pottery statues that are one foot high, and they are arranged in a row in turn on the altar, in front of each pottery statue, there is also a copper incense burner, and there are some old ashes in the incense burner.

Xiao Laodao walked closer, looked at the pottery statue and incense burner one by one, the more he looked at his face, the more wrong his face became, and finally, Xiao Laodao Zhengse instructed Xiao Shiyi and Xiao Chujiu, "You quickly put the objects taken out of the coffin, put them back in their original form, and then cover the coffin board, and burn incense and kowtow to the people in the coffin." ”

My grandfather was stunned when he heard this, and he didn't understand what was wrong with Xiao Laodao, why did he change one hundred and eighty degrees. Xiao Chujiu and Xiao Shiyi didn't say a word, took the objects and left quickly.

At this time, Xiao Laodao didn't pay attention to my grandfather, and took out a large bundle of incense from his baggage, and incense and kowtow to each pottery statue one by one, as if he suddenly found out that he wanted to repent to the gods.

Seeing this, my grandfather became more and more puzzled, but seeing that Xiao Laodao looked pious and had no distractions, he was embarrassed to interrupt him, and stood next to him for a while. ”

Xiao Laodao said to my grandfather with a solemn face: "Brother, although we do this business, although we can't see the light, but we also have a way of stealing, we also have rules, there are four don't dig three don't take, don't dig the tomb of loyalty, don't dig the tomb of Confucianism, don't dig the tomb of Buddhism, don't dig the tomb of good filial piety; Do not take jade bronze mirrors, do not take tombstones and tombstones, and do not take swords and sharp weapons. ”

Speaking, Xiao Laodao looked at the many pottery statues, "Although the owner of this tomb was not a Taoist during his lifetime, he was a Taoist person, and the ear room was full of Taoist ancestors, and there was no thing used in his life. ”

When my grandfather heard Xiao Laodao say this, he seemed to understand a little, it turned out that there were so many rules for tomb robbing, and he nodded lightly. At this time, Xiao Chujiu and Xiao Shiyi returned to the ear room, Xiao Laodao glanced at the two of them and asked, "Are they all placed?" ”

Xiao Chujiu replied humbly: "The master was released, the coffin board was covered, and we also burned incense and kowtowed." ”

"That's good." Xiao Laodao immediately waved his hand at everyone, "Let's not dig this tomb, leave immediately!" ”

Several people hurriedly packed up their burdens, but when they were packing up their burdens, the short sword on Xiao Shiyi's body fell out of his arms, and my grandfather turned his head to look at the short sword, and the question in his heart suddenly came.

After packing up the baggage, Xiao Laodao hurriedly left with the three of them along the tomb road, at this time, my grandfather walked side by side with him, and couldn't help but lower his voice and asked him: "Brother Xiao, I want to ask you something, don't care, I just don't understand." ”

Xiao Laodao turned his head and glanced at my grandfather, with a calm expression, "If there is anything that my brother doesn't understand, just ask." ”

My grandfather said: "Brother Xiao just said, don't dig out the four and don't take the three, don't dig the tomb of Buddhism, don't take the sword and sharp weapon, then ...... Eleven's Evil Warding Short Sword ......"

Xiao Lao Dao definitely didn't expect my grandfather to ask this, he was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed, "Yes, this short sword was taken out of an old Taoist tomb!" ”

My grandfather licked his lips, "Then didn't you break two rules at once?" ”

Xiao Laodao straightened his face, and said seriously: "Brother, the rules are set by people, and some rules can be broken, in the future, I will learn a little more from my brother......"

"This ......" As soon as I heard Xiao Laodao's words, my grandfather was suddenly choked speechless, turning his hands into clouds and covering his hands for rain, all depending on his preferences, he has the final say, so what rules are there.

Xiao Laodao saw my grandfather's unnatural appearance, and laughed again, then straightened his face and said, "There are some things in the past, brother, I don't want to mention it again, since my brother asked, let's talk to you briefly." ”

While walking outward, Xiao Laodao said in a heavy tone: "The owner of this short sword to ward off evil spirits is indeed a Taoist priest, but this old guy is not right, more than ten years ago, he colluded with the cult, took children's internal organs for alchemy, killed countless children, and was investigated by the government, and the whole country cleaned up the cult, the old guy was seriously injured in a purge and fled, and then because of his injuries, he knew that his life was short, so he took some property and magic weapons, and hid in a cave, and the old guy sealed the entrance of the cave from the inside and died inside. Speaking of this, Xiao Laodao glanced at my grandfather calmly, "Brother, you said that the tomb of this kind of Taoist priest should be digged?" ”

My grandfather immediately nodded, "It should be dignified, if it is me, I will drag his bones out of the hole, the corpse wilderness!" ”

"Good!" Xiao Laodao smiled, "Brother, remember, the eldest husband should be informal, and the conscience of heaven and earth is greater than the rules; Loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness are more important than rules! ”

My grandfather nodded again, and secretly remembered Xiao Laodao's words in his heart, although he had the reputation of Xiucai, he couldn't say such sensible words.

My grandfather was stunned immediately, and then asked, "Brother Xiao, you said that the cult that digs up children's internal organs for alchemy, but the Qingshui Sect?" ”

This time, Xiao Laodao was stunned for a moment, looked at my grandfather suspiciously, and asked, "Brother, how do you know?" This matter is extremely secretive, and the imperial court has not made any noise about suppressing the cult, and besides, you were only three or four years old at most. ”

My grandfather smiled and said: "My father told me that I was indeed only three years old that year, and there were often children missing on both sides of the Yellow River at that time, and then my father found a missing child, and found a place where the cult was alchemizing, and reported it to the government office, which quickly reported to the imperial court, and the imperial court suppressed the Qingshui cult." ”

After my grandfather finished speaking, Xiao Laodao looked at my grandfather a few more times in amazement, "In the early years, I heard that the person who exposed the cult was a folk righteous person, and it turned out to be Ling Zunna......

"Yes, it's my father."

Xiao Laodao suddenly sighed, "No wonder Brother Liu is so chivalrous, it is really a tiger father without a dog, but ......" Xiao Laodao said, his expression dimmed, "It's a pity that the imperial court is angry with us and other orthodox Taoists because of the cult Taoist, and at the same time of exterminating the cult, it has also swept away a lot of orthodox Taoism such as us, and the Taoist temple where I became a monk has not been spared, my master, and several senior brothers, were all falsely accused of evil ways by the Qing soldiers, and were arrested and beheaded for no reason, I was also vulgar at that time, and later, I followed a digging master, and the first tomb I dug was the tomb of the old Taoist priest! (For more information about the Shimizu Cult, see Last 1)

After speaking, Xiao Lao Dao let out a long sigh, he seemed to remember a lot of sad past, my grandfather didn't dare to ask anything when he saw this.

Soon, several people came to the entrance of the cave, Xiao Laodao was not in a hurry to let everyone leave, because it disturbed the cleanliness of the tomb owner, and he also needed to kowtow to the tomb owner before leaving the tomb to make amends. This is the rule, the rule of Xiao Laodao, only for gentlemen and good people, not for villains and wicked people.

At this time, Xiao Laodao turned his back to the entrance of the cave, his face was facing the cave, and knelt down respectfully, Xiao Chujiu hurriedly put an incense burner in front of him, lit a candle, Xiao Shiyi hurriedly handed him three incense, Xiao Laodao raised the incense and put it on his brows, and said in his mouth: "The younger generation is ignorant, beg the seniors to be pure, and I hope that the seniors will forgive the mistakes of the younger generations......"

After speaking, he put the three incense sticks on the candle flame and wanted to light them, but he saw that the three incense sticks were only black and smoking, and they could not be lit alive or dead.

Xiao Laodao was stunned, and hurriedly ordered Xiao Chujiu to bring the torch over, Xiao Laodao put the incense on the torch and lit it, as a result, the incense was burned to ashes, but it didn't catch it, it smoked when it was put on the fire, and it was extinguished when it was taken down.

My grandfather also felt strange when he watched from the side, and asked Xiao Shiyi to change three more incense sticks for him, Xiao Shiyi took out three more sticks from his baggage, and Xiao Laodao took them in his hand, but he still couldn't light them!

In the end, Xiao Laodao smiled bitterly, gave up, threw away the residual incense in his hand, and asked in the cave: "Isn't it that the seniors are angry and don't want to let me go?" ”

Xiao Laodao's voice did not fall, just listen to the sound of "swoop", the sound came from the entrance of the cave, everyone turned their heads to look at the entrance of the cave, and saw that the rope tied to the three iron wedges was gone, my grandfather reacted the fastest, and hurriedly walked to the entrance of the cave and looked down, and saw that the rope fell to the bottom of the cliff.

The rope was tied by my grandfather, and my grandfather could take his own head to guarantee that as long as no one untied the rope, the rope would never fall off the iron wedge by itself!

Xiao Laodao hurriedly stood up from the ground, walked to the entrance of the cave and looked down, sighed and said to my grandfather: "It seems that we are in trouble again." ”

Xiao Laodao immediately instructed Xiao Shiyi, "Take a closer look, what is here!" ”

Xiao Shiyi hurriedly looked at everything inside and outside the cave, and finally shook his head, Xiao Chujiu saw this, and said to Xiao Laodao: "Master, I can go down, I'll go down and carry the rope on my back." ”

Xiao Laodao waved his hand, "There is something you don't want us to go down, can you go down?" ”

Xiao Laodao stretched out his hand and snatched the torch from Xiao Shiyi's hand, "Let's go, come back with me and have a look!" ”

Several people took their baggage and quickly returned to the main tomb, but from the entrance of the cave to the main tomb, all the way over, there was no abnormality, and Xiao Shiyi's yin and yang eyes did not find anything.

Passing through the dry door, entering the tomb, and coming to the coffin, Xiao Laodao kowtowed to the coffin, and said New Year's greetings in his mouth. My grandfather can see at this time that Xiao Laodao is a very principled person, treating good and evil clearly, he doesn't want to bully good people at this time, even if it is a corpse, otherwise, drag the corpse out of the coffin, burn it with a fire, and there will be no strange things.

My grandfather cautiously said to Xiao Laodao: "Brother Xiao, since there is nothing in the Qianmen, could it be that there is a problem in the Kunmen?" ”

Xiao Laodao was a little poor in donkey skills, and nodded, "Then let's go to Kunmen and have a look." A few people left the Qianmen and went straight to the Kunmen next to them.

In Kunmen, the layout is the same as that of Qianmen, it is also an ear chamber and a main burial chamber, but the ear chamber in Qianmen is on the right, and Kunmen is on the left, and the two places are symmetrical.

Xiao Shiyi looked at the Kunmen again, still shook his head, Xiao Laodao immediately gritted his teeth, "It seems that we can only open this main tomb and take a look." ”

The same method as before, Xiao Chujiu first smashed it with a hammer, and then several people used a crowbar to pry, and it was just a meal, and the main tomb of Kunmen was also pried open, and I saw that the inside of the tomb was exactly the same as in the main tomb of Qianmen, and there was only one stone coffin, and the two stone coffins were also exactly the same.

Xiao Shiyi looked around the tomb again, but still didn't find anything, Xiao Laodao's brows were twisted into pimples, and he looked at the stone coffin, but he didn't let the stone coffin be pried open, and finally, he waved his hand at everyone, "Let's go, go back to the cave and think of another way." ”