A few days later, someone knocked on the door early in the morning, and saw that several people came, all of whom were blind.

The master led them into the door, and they didn't bother to drink tea, so they told the master what had happened.

Zhang Wan has a gambler named Zhang Jian, he often likes to go to our family eight masters that shroud shop to play cards, a few days ago I met two outsiders, those two outsiders are not good birds, but also good betting, usually to help the firecracker factory in the next county to send fireworks, often delivered to the eighth master after staying there to play cards until the afternoon, they met Zhang Jian, and heard about the snake demon.

Outsiders say that there are treasures in the animals that are generally spermatological, so Zhang Jian wants to go into the mountain together to see if they can find the hole of the white snake before, maybe there are good things in it. Zhang Jian hit it off, and later inquired with the people in Wangwan, and learned that in the past, Wangwan was the site of tree felling in the steelmaking era of Wangwan, which was a forest farm near Huaishuwan.

It is estimated that no one knows what Huaishuwan used to be called, but I know that there were people living there a hundred years ago, and unfortunately they were all killed by the bandits who entered the mountain, and later there were many locust trees, so it is now called Huaishuwan.

Zhang Jian speculated that in the past, the bandits lived there, and it was likely that there was something hidden, and then they attracted the white snake to go there to settle down. So the three of them went into the mountain together yesterday morning, trying their luck, it stands to reason that the locust tree bay is not a deep mountain and old forest, you can go out of the mountain in more than three hours by walking fast, and the place is not big, at most you can go home in the evening.

The master asked, "Is it possible that he has already returned, but he has not returned home, maybe he will go to gamble again." ”

The people in Zhang Wan said that it was impossible, they had already looked for it last night, and they also asked Li Wan, a village near the mountain, and said that they only saw it go in, but they didn't see anyone coming out. No one dared to enter the mountain at night, so it was speculated that something might have happened, and that place was originally evil, so I hoped that the master would follow him to find it.

After listening to this, the master prepared props, brought Huangmiao paper and red pens, and put them in a small sack. After that, the master came to the statue of the ancestor and asked me to worship the grandfather with him.

After everything was done, the master walked behind the statue of the ancestor and pushed the statue forward, revealing a hidden grid underneath, and a sword was lying inside.

It's just that this sword is not black, but also a little green, the hilt is wrapped in black cloth, how long is a bundle, the blade looks very dull, the sword surface is painted with thundercloud patterns, plus the hilt, almost a meter long. The master explained that this was a bronze sword left by the grandfather, and it was useful.

The master didn't want to take me there, but I thought it was daytime and there should be nothing to be afraid of, so I begged the master to take me too.

The master thought about it, and he promised.

Four people came to Zhang Wan, and the master asked one of them to go back to inquire about the birthdates of outsiders, and there were three people left, one of whom I called my cousin according to the custom, and the other two young people in their twenties and thirties whom I called cousin. So the five of us walked towards Huaishu Bay with burning paper and props.

On the way, I asked the master to carry the sword on my back, and it was not too heavy for me to try, so I asked the master: "Master, is this sword very powerful?" ”

The master smiled: "Amazing, how can the things left by the ancestor not be powerful." ”

"Then why didn't we carry it on our backs last time we went to Wangwan?"

"This sword is powerful, but it generally can't easily leave our Daoist Bay. And evil things, generally don't dare to approach this sword, and if we brought it over last time, the snake demon would not appear at all. ”

At this time, Wang Wan next to him called Zhang Lei's eldest cousin to speak and asked, "Little Taoist, I heard that you are a Taoist priest." ”

"Listen to whom?"

"Now a lot of people say that, saying that you like your daughter's mouth."

When the people on the side heard this, they all laughed, and I quibbled: "Nonsense." I kissed it once, and my master told me to kiss it. ”

Zhang Lei continued: "This thing will be addicted to kissing in the future." The cousin next to him glared back at him and said, "You are really talking nonsense, talking about everything." ”

My cousin asked the master, "Are you really going to stay with him all the time in the future?" ”

The master smiled: "He is a child, he feels fun now, and he will go home when he gets bored in the future." It's too tiring to be a Taoist priest, and I deal with these gods and ghosts every day, and it's hard to marry a daughter-in-law. ”

I hurriedly said, "It's interesting to be a Taoist priest. ”

Zhang Lei answered: "It's interesting, can you kiss it." ”

The cousin glared at him again and said, "You are still laughing at others, look at your two brothers, your father left early, and your two brothers are not angry, one is a good gambler, and the other is almost second-rate." ”

Then Uncle Cousin turned to the master again and asked, "Daoist Chen, Zhang Jian shouldn't be a big deal this time, right?" ”

The master answered: "It's hard to tell." So many people were killed in that locust tree bay before, and then so many locust trees grew, and the word locust originally meant ghost tree, and that place was very evil. ”

After walking for more than an hour, it is Li Wan, which is the nearest village by Huaishu Bay, we asked where we haven't seen anyone out of the mountain, so we drank some water, borrowed a few knives to chop wood, and then the road up the mountain is all sparsely populated paths.

The trail was up the hill along the river next to it, and the road was full of thatch, but fortunately there were traces of cutting of grass and trees on the road, which proved that they should have followed this road yesterday.

After walking along the mountain road for more than two hours, we came to a slightly flat and spacious place, and my cousin said that we were almost there, so we no longer followed the river, but turned into a valley.

After walking for half an hour, I finally saw more than a dozen houses built in the gentle part of the mountain bay. They are all thatched huts, the walls are built of earth like our Taoist Bay, the earth is yellow, it looks very old, and there are many large and small locust trees growing between the houses.

The locust tree originally grew strangely shaped, twisted and twisted, and some branches had been rooted into the earthen wall of the house, and the earthen wall was mostly full of cracks, but there was no grass growing on the ground under the tree, and there was no grass growing on the rice field in front of the house, which was very strange, and the thatch came to the house around, and it seemed that it consciously stopped growing inside. Behind these houses are thatched cliffs.

Fortunately, it is noon, and the sun is shining directly, so it doesn't look so terrifying.

When a few of us came to the rice field, my cousin said that they should go to the surrounding area first, and the master hurriedly beckoned them not to mess indiscriminately, and I stayed with him to burn paper.

The master drew a big circle in the middle of the rice field, and asked me to take a bundle of burning paper and scatter it, and then the master lit it with a match, and recited words around the pile of burning paper, and before I could turn around, the burning paper was actually extinguished.

You must know that the burning paper is very dry and difficult to extinguish, so the master threw the match to me and told me to light it again, and as soon as I wiped the match, it seemed that someone blew it out.

The master said that this is too much resentment, but the dust is to dust, the earth is to the earth, and if you die, you should be reincarnated as a ghost with peace of mind.

Then the master took the bronze sword I was carrying, plunged it into the ground, and instructed me to order it again. At this time, the burning of paper was all on fire.

At this time, Zhang Lei suddenly shouted and found that there was a hole under the cliff behind the house.

The master told me to watch the burning paper, so as not to be blown away by the wind and burn the thatch next to it. So he ran to the cliff behind the house.

The burning of the paper became more and more vigorous, I was roasted badly, so I stood aside, but I saw the ashes next to the burning paper, forming a small whirlpool wind, this ancestor burned the paper when encountered, my grandmother said that it was a dead man picking up money, happy.

At this time I saw a piece of paper that had not been burned out also flew up, flew out of the circle, and floated towards the thatch in the distance, and I hurried after it, and before I reached the thatch, I stopped it with a branch and put it out with my foot.

After a while, the burning paper was about to be burned, and at this time, Zhang Lei's voice suddenly came: "Little Taoist, your master asked you to bring the sword." ”

I was a little worried that as soon as I pulled out the sword, the burning paper would be extinguished, but the master taught me like this, and there should be no problem, so I pulled out the bronze sword, and the burning paper was not extinguished, so I took the sword and went to the cliff.

Zhang Lei walked out head-on, saying that the master told him to take some burning paper to burn at the entrance of the cave, he was just about to take the sword, hesitated and said: "Or you send the sword in, I'll go get the burning paper, why was my hand a little thatched just now, I'll go find some thorn vegetables (herbs for stopping bleeding) to apply the wound." ”

So I took my sword and went into the cave.

The entrance of the cave is more than one meter high, oval, a bit like the sweet potato kiln in our hometown, surrounded by yellow mud, the air inside is very dirty, the passage is not straight, but with a certain arc, I walked a few meters, and saw the bright light of several flashlights inside, one of which shone towards me, and came the voice of the master: "Why did you come in, Zhang Lei?" ”

"He said his hand was scratched, and he went to find a piercing herb to stop the bleeding."

I walked over, there was like a staircase below, and I stumbled and almost fell, but the master hurried over, took the sword, and handed me the flashlight and the incense in my hand, and let me shine on him, it was dark inside, and the ground was wet. There are two people lying next to me, my cousin and the little cousin are holding a flashlight in one hand, and smoke them under the nose of the two people with incense in the other, these two people I glanced at, full of beards, I don't know, it should be the two outsiders, I used the flashlight to shine on the master and walked a few steps, there was a sarcophagus in front, the master walked to the coffin, there was already a handful of incense on the ground in front of the coffin, the master drew a circle on the ground along the coffin with a sword, and then walked back and took the incense, then I noticed that there was a person lying on the ground next to me, and the master squatted down, holding incense in one hand and smoking it under the person's nose, but this person is not Zhang Jian, I have seen it, there is not so much beard.

What about Zhang Jianren?

I couldn't help but shine a flashlight inside, this should be a burial chamber, estimated to be seven meters wide, seven meters long, more than three meters high, in the middle of the tomb is placed the sarcophagus coffin, which is densely painted with our Taoist talismans, is placed on four stone piers, the coffin is opened, there is a lipstick wooden coffin inside, it is well preserved, the lacquer on it has not fallen off, we are now on one side of the coffin, on the other side of the ground there is a sarcophagus lid, which is also full of talismans.

The master told me to follow him, not to look around, I hurriedly pointed the flashlight at him and the people on the ground, and saw that the faces of the people on the ground were bloodless, but on closer inspection, it was not a beard at all, but a dense moss-like thing, fragrant, as if it could evaporate it. I hurriedly walked up to the master and asked, "Master, what is this?" These three people aren't dead, are they? ”

The master said: "It's not dead, this thing on the nose is called coffin ringworm, which was put in the coffin in ancient times in order to prevent tomb robbery." They were probably about to open the coffin before they sucked it. ”

The cousin next to him asked, "Daoist Chen, it's too infiltrating here, let's get the three of them out first." ”

The master said, "Not now, if you go out now, the coffin ringworm is afraid of the sun, and it will hide directly in their lungs, and it will be difficult to get it out when the time comes, and we must smoke them all out here." ”

I asked, "Master, they still have life." Will you know how to hide? ”

"It's smart, but like moths to fire, they love incense. So as soon as the incense is smoked, they come out, even if they are burned. The master replied.

Uncle Cousin smiled: "That's the same as my nephew, who likes to gamble, knowing that he loses more and wins less, but still gambles every day, so he ends up like this now." ”

After smoking for a while, I saw that the things under my nose were gone, and I finally recognized that it was Zhang Jian, and the master asked my cousin and little cousin, and they were all right, so the master asked everyone to help the three of them out. But the sleeping person was very heavy, and one person couldn't help him up at all, so the master said that the two of them should be carried out together. Uncle cousin said that the little Taoist priest has little strength, and the old Taoist priest is also old, so the two of them slowly carried the three of them out, and by the way, see if Zhang Lei burned the paper outside.

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Lei ran in in a hurry and said inside: "Oh, Daoist Chen, my hands are so itchy." ”

The master hurriedly asked, "When I came in just now, didn't I tell everyone not to touch it?" What did you touch? ”

Zhang Lei said: "Actually, before I called you, I came in once, I wasn't greedy at that time, I also wanted to go in to see if there was anything good, I touched the coffin at that time, and I didn't open the coffin, there should be no coffin ringworm, right?" ”

The master asked, "Did you cut your hands with thatch at that time?" ”

"It's scratched."

As he was talking, the coffin next to him made the sound of nails scraping wood.