The old white ghost said that after the flood receded, the surrounding area of the Nine Dragons Cave has not been peaceful, the white fog locks the river, and the ghosts cry at night. Later, a Taoist priest came here to practice, refining gold and pouring nine dragon heads into the water, which restored peace.

Gradually, a legend spread among the people.

It is said that the flood of that year was the anger of Jiulong, and later these nine evil dragons were suppressed by half of the mountain god of Funiu Mountain, and directly crushed the dragon's head and restrained the flood. After the death of Jiulong, the resentment did not dissipate, and it was the Taoist priest who poured nine dragon heads with gold to complete the dragon corpse, and only then did he overkill all of them.

This happened more than a hundred years ago, and in this hundred years, there was also the idea of the treasure people who came here to fight the golden dragon head. Nothing was found except for the discovery of a mysterious cave underwater, and those who tried to break into the depths of the cave to search for treasure were invariably sunk at the bottom of the river.

In this way, no one dared to go to the Nine Dragon Caves, and the Nine Dragon Caves became a forbidden place for the living in the mouths of the villagers.

"Uncle Bai, listen to your tone, is the legend of Nine Dragons true?" Hearing this, I asked.

"Although this thing sounds a bit fantastical, I can tell you that the matter of the Taoist priest casting the golden dragon head is absolutely true, as for whether there are really nine evil dragons, this matter is unknown." The old white ghost said.

"What evidence do you have?" I asked.

"The existence of the Huiji concept is the evidence."

The white old ghost suddenly mentioned the Huiji concept, which aroused my curiosity even more. Because the legend says that the first generation of the Huiji Temple came from the Heavenly Master's Mansion, and this is obviously impossible.

"Uncle Bai, you don't want to tell me that the legend of Huijiguan is also true, right? Is the first generation of viewers really from the Heavenly Master's Mansion of Longhu Mountain? ”

"Nonsense, who can you have such a big hand to use a gold faucet to settle grievances?"

"Okay, but how did your Bai family get involved with the Nine Dragon Grottoes?" I asked.

"I'm not a corpse digger to make money." The old white ghost took a big sip of wine and said.

I believe what he says, no one will put their whole life into it in order to make money.

Collecting corpses is a taboo business, not introduced by ordinary people, and once you do a corpse digger, you have to endure the loneliness of living in isolation. In the past, when there was not enough to eat, there were still girls who married corpse diggers in order to survive, but no one in modern society wanted to.

If he had changed careers a few years earlier, it would have been possible for the white old ghost to marry a wife and have children to live an ordinary life, and now that he is older, it will be too late to start a family.

But I don't seem to have thought about finding a partner at all, and I really plan to die lonely for the rest of my life.

"I became a corpse digger because I wanted to accumulate merit to wash away the sins of my ancestors, but now I have also figured it out, no matter how hard the descendants of the Bai family try, they can't wash it away. So I didn't even think about inheriting the incense for the Bai family, because I didn't want my children and grandchildren to be born with sin. The tone of the old white ghost was full of sentimentality.

"Uncle Bai, what did your ancestor do wrong?"

"This matter has to start from the Taoist priest of the Heavenly Master's Mansion more than a hundred years ago who came to the local practice and used gold to cast a dragon head to settle grievances."

Next, the white old ghost told me an even more unbelievable story.

After the Taoist priest had finished casting the nine golden dragon heads, he had to find someone with good water qualities and sink them into the water according to his predetermined position.

The Bai family lives along the Yellow River for a living, and the water nature is excellent. The great-ancestor of the white old ghost is even more famous for his white stripes in the waves, and he was recommended by the villagers to undertake this matter, carrying the golden dragon head and throwing them into the water one by one.

To say that the Taoist priest is really a means to the sky, the pre-selected position for each faucet is on the river eye, and the faucet disappears the moment it is put in. The Yellow River is turbid, and I don't know what kind of eyes Shisheng has, and the location is exactly the same.

Later, I learned that this method is called Tianyantong in the Daomen, and the treasure holder is called the golden eye, which can detect the brilliance of the earth and the treasure.

Not only do they have this ability, but the white old ghost also has it.

The white old ghost dared to fish for the corpse because he could see the spirits under the water, and neither the water monkey nor the kappa could escape his eyes.

To get back to the point, after casting eight dragon heads in a row, the great-ancestor of the white old ghost started an evil idea.

The ninth dragon head was not thrown into the river eye according to the position designated by the Taoist priest, but was buried in the silt next to the river eye. I was going to wait for the Taoist priest to withdraw the ritual, and then secretly dig it out.

As the old saying goes, the prosperity of antiques and troubled gold. In that era of war and chaos, gold could even buy human lives.

When the Taoist priest finished the ritual and left, the great ancestor of the Bai family entered the Yellow River at night and dug out the golden dragon head and hid it in his home. He thought he was doing this seamlessly, but he didn't know that it caused a catastrophe.

On the second day, the Taoist priest came directly to the door and asked him if he had moved the ninth golden dragon head.

Of course, the great-ancestor of the white old ghost did not admit it, and lied to the Taoist priest with his eyes open that the ninth dragon head was put into the eye of the river according to the position he chose.

The Taoist priest didn't argue with him, but kept staring at him. There was no anger in his eyes, but endless sorrow.

The great-ancestor of the white old ghost was numb by him, because the Taoist priest seemed to be standing in the courtyard at random, but he happened to be standing on the land where he had hidden the golden dragon head.

The Taoist priest did not expose his lies, but asked him to follow him to the place where he had done the work.

When he arrived at the place, the Taoist priest pointed to the river eye that was supposed to be put into the ninth golden dragon head, and said a long word to the great-ancestor of the white old ghost.

"Originally, this place could resolve the grievances of the Nine Dragons by putting a golden dragon head, but now because of your selfish desires, my formation has been broken. Now that the river is not blocked, I have to use my life to block it. I am the first, you are the second, from now on, every generation of the Bai family will have someone to block this river. ”

After saying this, the Taoist priest began to tidy up his clothes and crowns, and handed over all the Zhai Dip Master Sword, Orders, and Dharma Seals that he carried with him to the disciples who accompanied him. And his disciple burst into tears and couldn't stop crying.

Seeing this scene, the great-ancestor of the white old ghost panicked at that time.

Quickly admitted the matter of hiding the golden dragon head, and said that he would go home now and get it back to block the river.

Helplessly, the Taoist priest said that it was too late......

The Taoist priest jumped down the Yellow River with hatred and never floated up again.

"And then?" I asked.

Later, his entourage disciple inherited the mantle of Taoist priesthood and established the Huiji Temple in Funiu Mountain. Later, the unblocked river eye gradually evolved into a bottomless black hole, engulfing countless treasure-holders who came to hunt for treasures, and even more engulfing many creatures who inadvertently broke into it. ”

It's undoubtedly a fascinating story, and there's nothing wrong with it as a story. Evil dragons, Taoist priests, golden dragon heads, sacrifice, greedy humanity, crime and punishment, almost all the elements that should be in the story.

But if you listen to it as a real person, it's really sad.

The great-ancestor of the Bai family was greedy for money, but this kind of sin will not be repaid by his descendants for life and for generations.

The key depends on what kind of catastrophe he has caused because of this, but the white old ghost didn't say this.

"Uncle Bai, will you go to block the river?" I asked after a moment of silence.

"If it is calculated according to the time set by the Taoist priest, it will be my turn to block the river this year, but I will not go."

Speaking of this, the white old ghost raised his head and looked at me with burning eyes. I was so uncomfortable with him that I even had an indescribable panic in my heart.

The old white ghost painstakingly beat me up and kept persuading me to follow him as a corpse digger. I was originally working in Guangzhou, and my father insisted that I come back, but I was also bewitched by the white old ghost.

And I also heard from my mother that when I was just born, he planned to recognize me as his godson.

All these things are connected, and I come to a terrible conclusion: don't you want me to block the river for him, right?

If that's the case, I'm going to have to fight him today. The sins of the ancestors of the Bai family have nothing to do with me, Xie Lan, but it has nothing to do with it.

"I didn't go to block the river because my Bai family didn't do anything wrong, and it was the Taoist priest who came out of the Heavenly Master's Mansion who really did something wrong!"

"What did the Taoist priest do wrong?"

"I don't know." The old white ghost said with a wry smile.

"You don't know?" I paused for a moment.

"It was your ghost daughter-in-law who told me about the Nine Dragons Cave back then, my Bai family didn't do anything wrong, if you want to know the truth, just ask her directly when you meet."