Chapter 30: The Tomb Without a Door
I pinched the lit raw rhino incense, this incense was in my hand as it was in Yaochen's hand, the incense thread did not emit it, but formed an eye circle around the three of us.
The bells and drums outside were still ringing, and there was no pause. But after we came down from the Luohan Hall, we found that there were no more tourists in the Guanyin Hall, only a few little nuns.
Out of the Guanyin Hall and look down, I found that there are no tourists in the entire Zhengjue Temple, and the gate under the mountain is closed, and it seems that the mountain gate is closed.
I looked up at the sky, and it should have been just over one hour. Although the Buddhist gate has a saying that it does not eat at noon, the temple that really cultivates will close the mountain gate after noon.
But after all, this Zhengjue Temple is in the scenic area, and there are so many tourists, why did it close so early?
I was pondering it, Qi Mengmeng suddenly frowned and said, "Why is this fragrance and this smell so strange?" ”
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Xingsu immediately nodded, saying that it was quite strange. I didn't pay attention to it, but when they said this, I sniffed it carefully.
Not to mention, the smell is very fragrant, but it is definitely not greasy, this fragrance is not like sandalwood, and all the fragrances I have been exposed to are not like it. Anyway, it doesn't smell bad, it's just weird.
And so on, weird, smelly.
It suddenly occurred to me that I really knew a little bit about this raw rhino incense.
I recalled it for a while, remembering that when I was a child in Shandong, one of the miscellaneous books that my grandmother asked me to memorize was called "Alien Garden".
This book seems to have been written by a person named Liu Jingshu during the Southern Song Dynasty. The content of the book is miscellaneous, and it is written about strange things. Such as the mountains and rivers are supernatural, ancient and modern celebrities, animals and plants, and artifacts of magical changes, auspicious and evil signs, folk worship gods, ghost stories, tomb spirits and dreams, goblin changes, resurrection from the dead, and so on.
Everything in the book is written very briefly, and it is not narrated, just like the sticky notes that we have now recorded casually, as if none of them were more than 100 words.
At that time, this book was also dictated by my grandmother who said that the medicine king Niangniang borrowed her mouth, and later I also looked for a physical book, but I didn't find it. It is estimated that even if there is a book, the gibberish writing will be lost.
There is such a paragraph in it: "Warm water wets my feet, and paper-cutting beckons my soul." The rhino does not dare to burn, it has a strange fragrance when burned, and it is stained with the pocket, and people can communicate with ghosts. On the bank of the Lethe River, you can often rest with you. In the mud, entangled with Jun Fa. There is no expression of the heart, only a wisp of the soul. A furnace is lit, and dry bones give birth to mandalas. ”
The meaning is probably that warm water springs can wash feet, paper-cutting can summon spirits, raw rhinoceros horns cannot be burned, and if burned, a strange fragrance will come out, stain clothes, and you can see ghosts and ghosts. On the banks of the Lethe River, living with you, in the mud, but also entangled with your hair, my mind cannot be expressed, only a wisp of soul. Burn the rhino in the censer, and my dry bones will prevail over the mandala flower.
When I heard this passage at the time, I was also very confused, and I thought to myself, what nonsense is this?
Before I went out, I once pestered Hu Botao and Chang Xiangjiu to argue the truth of what I learned when I was a child. Chang Xiangjiu told me that if the rhino is lit, it can indeed open the eyes and attract the souls of the dead, but it cannot be ignited.
I was pleasantly surprised when I got it, but I had already opened my eyes with locust wood and willow leaves, and there was nowhere to get around with it, so I didn't try it. What I'm most curious about is whether it attracts dead souls in the same way that corpse-scented konjac attracts insects.
But the function of this raw rhino incense that Yaochen gave me is a little different from what I know.
Although I don't know why the sound of bells and drums can suppress evil spirits, even our yang souls. The fact that this incense alone can get us rid of oppression is enough to show that it is not ordinary, not to mention that Yaochen also said that it is very useful to meet evil spirits.
When we came to the mountain gate, the door opened automatically, and we glanced at each other, then looked back at the top of the mountain, and then Qi Mengmeng led the way and ran in the southwest direction.
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"Do you two know raw rhinos?" I asked them both as I ran.
"Yes." Xingxu and Qi Mengmeng actually answered at the same time, and then Qi Mengmeng stopped talking.
Xingsu turned his head sideways and asked me, "What's wrong with the rhino incense?" Is this incense of yours a raw rhino? ”
I asked him speechlessly: "Isn't this the one Yaochen gave me just now, everyone introduced it like that, didn't you hear?" ”
Xingsu smiled bitterly and said, "How can I have the heart to listen to this, I have been sensing the owner of the pendant." Fortunately, before we came out, the man had been under the Zhengjue Temple, and it seemed that the sound of bells and drums could indeed trap him. ”
Isn't this nonsense, Minghui nuns all said that the sound of bells and drums is related to that Bodhisattva, and the invincible Bodhisattva is also a Bodhisattva, and he can't shake a raptor's spirit?
I recounted my discovery of this raw rhino and asked him, "How much do you know about raw rhinos?" I thought this thing was meant to attract ghosts, but this was the first time I'd seen it. I see that the yang energy on this incense is so heavy, can ghosts be attracted to this thing? ”
Xingsu frowned, thought for a while, and then said to me, "I've heard of it too, but in my opinion, raw rhino should be just one of the raw materials for this incense, right?" You are going to kill it, didn't Senior Sister Yaochen say that this thing is effective against evil spirits, we will probably encounter it in a while, don't waste it. ”
Xingsu also said so, it seems that the craftsmanship of this incense is indeed extraordinary.
I was about to snuff out the incense when something suddenly occurred to me, I didn't even have a lighter. What if I snuff it out for a while? Besides, other incense sticks have to be used as fire.
"Quickly extinguish it, what are you thinking about?" Xingsu ran and ran, and when he found that the incense was still burning, he immediately urged me to come.
I shook my head helplessly and said, "No, we are all soul bodies, and the lighter is in my body's trouser pocket, how can I ignite it if it is extinguished?" ”
After hearing my words, Xingsu seemed to be choking, and coughed on the spot with a sudden brake.
We ran a lot faster than our bodies, how to say that we could reach about forty miles, he suddenly stopped, and Qi Mengmeng and I hurriedly braked and ran out more than ten meters.
"What's wrong with you two?" Qi Mengmeng's face was depressed, and her tone vaguely expressed impatience.
"Ahem." Xingxu coughed twice, pointed at me and said to Qi Mengmeng with a speechless face: "Sister, you may not believe it, your god-given brother doesn't even know how to use spiritual fire." ”
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Qi Mengmeng was also stunned for a moment after hearing this, glanced at me a little strangely, and then said: "Brother Tianci, you are so high, you will be able to learn it, go quickly, I will teach you when you are done." ”
After saying that, she continued to run forward, and I and Yukisu immediately followed her, at this time the road and I were completely unaware, leaving the scenic spots around the reservoir, after crossing a small mound, all the way to the south.
I had already snuffed out the incense, but Xingsu still hadn't passed the stalk, hehe couldn't stop laughing, and asked me: "God's gift, your Taoism is so high, you can't even use an ordinary spiritual fire?" This thing is not even a spell, and the fake Taoist priests on the rivers and lakes use this trick when they do it. Why don't you learn from them, and with a gentle pinch, the spell will ignite out of thin air, which is quite bluffing. ”
I'm really too lazy to pay attention to him, this thing can't be serious for a few seconds. Before he was bent on tracking the owner of the pendant, he still had a little bit of monk's stability.
Now that the man is under the Zhengjue Temple, he has nothing to do, and he starts talking nonsense again.
After about ten minutes, a place like a park appeared in front of me, and it seemed that it was also part of the scenic spot.
When I got closer, I realized that there was a bluestone carved fence outside, and there were a few path paved with bricks. There are some cypress and poplar trees planted on both sides, which looks similar to the green park in the community.
Qi Mengmeng took the two of us all the way forward, and not long after, a compound surrounded by an iron fence appeared in Qianmin, which looked like it could be flat.
There are three wide stone tablets standing in front of the fence, the stone tablet in the middle reads "Liuding Mountain Ancient Tomb Group", and the one on the right is all in Korean, because this belongs to the Xian ethnic gathering area, it is estimated that it is the translation of the middle stone tablet. I'm not sure though, because there are six characters in the middle, and this one is seven Korean.
The stele on the left is densely engraved with small characters, which are written about the protection regulations of the ancient tombs.
Qi Mengmeng didn't stop, and when I passed by here, I hurriedly glanced twice, knowing that the tomb of Princess Zhenhui should be about to arrive.
When Qi Mengmeng took the two of us around the fence for most of the circle, I looked at the big iron gate in front of me and was a little blindfolded.
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"Beauty, are we out of body, do we still need to walk through the door?" Xingsu asked speechlessly, and I nodded, yes. I thought it was in the wrong direction, but she was looking for a door, and we could get in anywhere on the iron fence just now.
"The dead are respected, and it is disrespectful to come to the mausoleum without leaving the door." Qi Mengmeng said a word, and then led us into the door.
Xingsu and I glanced at each other, and we both saw the wry smile in each other's eyes. Entering the cemetery is a door, and when you enter the tomb for a while, you can still knock on the door and ask Princess Zhenhui if she agrees?
After entering the cemetery, there were many slightly bulging earthen bags in front of me, divided into two parts, left and right, and there must be hundreds of them at a cursory glance. But there are not many tombstones, and they look desolate.
I turned my head to the right and was stunned to see a relatively large grave bag in the middle. There is a stone tablet on the right side of the grave bag, which is not inserted in the ground, but seems to have been moved. It reads "Tomb of Princess Zhenhui" in traditional Chinese characters.
What stunned me and Xing Su the most was that there was an entrance made of stones on the front of this big tomb bag, which was really the entrance, and there was no door, let alone a broken dragon stone or anything.
This means that it has been opened a long time ago, and if there is any entrance to the passage inside, it may not be discovered?
Qi Mengmeng didn't care so much, she started to walk in first, and Xingsu and I could only follow her into the tomb.
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