Chapter 9: The Legend of Ghost Hunting

As soon as Linlang heard that she couldn't go out of the city, that is, she didn't have to go to the school, so she was so happy that she immediately threw her schoolbag into the house. ran to the Jirentang Pharmacy, stood at the door of the pharmacy, and shouted to Mu Qing to go to the city gate to see the water.

Mu Qing ran out of the house, followed by Mu Qing's mother. While sorting out Mu Qing's clothes, he said, "The girl's family is more stable, like a crazy boy." Don't be playful and go home early. ”

Mu Qing agreed, and led Linlang straight to the city gate. There was a water in the distance, the muddy water was almost about to enter the city, the water was only three or five meters away from the city gate, if the rain fell a little more, a little longer, the consequences were really unimaginable.

There were people gathered at the water's edge, and Linlang didn't dare to move forward because he fell into the water once, so he only stood at a distance and looked. A few adults took off their coats, jumped into the water, bent down and touched in the water, and after a while, they found a carp jumping alive, and someone hurriedly handed the jar over, and it only took an hour, and the harvest was very rich.

A guy from Mu Qing's family also caught a few fish, and gave one to Linlang, she found a straw twisted into a rope, put the fish on, and thought about whether to let her mother braise it or steam it when she went home? Just as she was thinking, someone suddenly screamed, and the crowd was chaotic, as if something big had happened. Linlang became curious and ran to the water's edge, where someone pointed to the water and shouted, "There is a snake in the water." ”

Everyone looked into the water and gasped. I saw that in the water, there was a blue-green flower snake with a thick bowl, several meters long, twisted and coiled several times, with a long letter in its mouth and round eyes. Linlang couldn't help but shudder, with dense goosebumps all over her body, and the timid person had already screamed and ran away. A few bold young men found a wrist-thick log and poked it into the water. The snake was still coiling there, and no matter how hard everyone hurried, the snake did not move. Later, the young men used several wooden sticks to jointly get the snake out of the water. It was proposed to be killed, because it would be bad in case of biting someone. Some people also said that the serpent is a spiritual creature, and it cannot be beaten, but it will be punished by heaven. Some unbelievers didn't care whether they were spiritual or not, and they found a shovel and were about to cut it, and in the crowd of onlookers, they suddenly remembered a calm and heavy voice: "Stop." ”

The big guy looked in the direction where the voice came from, and the man was wearing a cyan robe, holding a whisk in his right hand and resting it on the crook of his left arm. The gray hair is tied into a bun, and the fairy wind is bone-like. There were many people who greeted him and called him the true Taoist.

Linlang glanced at him carefully, wasn't this the Taoist priest who said that she was born differently in the inn that day?

I didn't expect him to be so famous in Luoyang City, and many people knew his name. Linlang and Mu Qing didn't know much about this Taoist priest, so they pulled an uncle on the side and asked a few simple questions. I asked some wonderful stories.

This starts with Zhang Keyi, the ancestor of the Quanzhen Taoist, and legend has it that in the early years of Zhang Keyi, he was guided by a master and learned some skills to see feng shui and measure good fortune and evil. There is a wealthy businessman in the county, named Lu Zhenqing, whose family has been in business for generations and has a lot of wealth. One year, Lu Zhenqing and his buddies went out to run errands, and suddenly encountered heavy rain on the way, and took shelter from the rain in a broken temple in the countryside, and met a woman in the temple, the woman was wearing a water-blue pomegranate skirt, and the white hosta pulled up a high bun, with a concave and convex figure, graceful and graceful, skin like condensation, and eye waves, like a fairy in the heavenly palace.

The woman claimed that her mother was seriously ill and wanted to go to the city to seek medicine for her mother, but she lost her money halfway and suddenly encountered heavy rain, so she could only hide in this dilapidated temple temporarily. As he spoke, he burst into tears, and his slender fingers pulled out a silk handkerchief from his waist, gently wiped his tears, and bowed his head shyly and whispered that he was rude. Lu Zhenqing saw that the woman was really pitiful, so he was moved by compassion and instructed the man to give the woman some money, and the woman was grateful to Dade and gave the silk handkerchief to Lu Zhenqing.

When the rain stopped, everyone went their separate ways. Originally, everything was fine, but it didn't come to pass, but a few days after Lu Zhenqing went home, he suddenly became bedridden, and after looking at a few Langzhong, he didn't know the crux of the problem, and he took a lot of medicine, but it didn't work at all. One night, after Lu Zhenqing finished taking the medicine, he lay on the bed and was half asleep, and he saw the woman he met in the broken temple that day. Still dressed in an aqua blue dress, but with her hair scattered, she sat on the edge of his bed and smiled at him. The smile was cold and strange, his face and lips were not bloody, white as a piece of paper, his eyes were wide open, and his eyeballs almost fell out of his sockets. Cold fingers touched Lu Zhenqing's cheeks, and to his neck, Lu Zhenqing's body gave birth to a chill, thinking that he had met a ghost. Just thinking about it, the female ghost suddenly retracted her fingers, tightly pinched Lu Zhenqing's neck, her long nails pierced into the flesh, Lu Zhenqing was sweating profusely in pain, and she couldn't make a sound when she wanted to speak, only scratching and kicking her hands and feet on the bed. When Lu Zhenqing thought he was going to return to the west, the female ghost suddenly let go, Lu Zhenqing gasped, lay on the bed and coughed violently, and then raised his head, the female ghost was gone.

Lu Zhenqing was lying on the bed, with only half a life left. He was so frightened that he called a few strong men with all his might, and stood by his bedside, and spent the night in peace.

On the second day, Lu Zhenqing instructed the housekeeper to go to the city to find a mage to exorcise ghosts. As soon as the housekeeper went out, he met Zhang Keyi, although Zhang Keyi used to look at feng shui for others, in fact, it is also a common thing to subdue demons and catch ghosts.

As soon as Zhang Ke saw the housekeeper's hurried expression, there was fear and anxiety between his eyebrows, so he stopped him and asked, "This gentleman, have you touched anything unclean at home?" ”

When the housekeeper heard this, he was shocked, and hurriedly said: "Mr. is so powerful, the master of the family is haunted by a female ghost, and he has been bedridden for many days, and he is about to return to the west to see the king of Hades." I don't know if Mr. may have lowered this thing, if Mr. solves this catastrophe, he will definitely thank him heavily. ”

Zhang Keyi followed the housekeeper to the Lu Mansion and walked around the house. Then went to Lu Zhenqing's bedroom, Lu Zhenqing saw that the housekeeper had invited a ghost exorcist, and wanted to get up from the bed, but his body was extremely weak and he had no strength at all.

Zhang Ke saw Lu Zhenqing lying on the bed with a soft body, Yin Tang was black, his eyes were bruised, he exhaled heavy air in his nose, and his throat was whining. Zhang Ke pinched his fingers and squinted his eyes, calculated for a while, suddenly opened his eyes, and exclaimed: "You have met a powerful ghost who has been cultivating for a hundred years, specializing in absorbing men's yang energy for a living, and when you suck up the yang energy, when you are about to die, you dig out your heart and liver to eat, so as to improve your cultivation and protect your body from rotting or rotting." ”

Lu Zhenqing was shocked and hurriedly said: "If the master can get rid of this powerful ghost, Lu will thank him with half of his family property." ”

Zhang Keyi waved his hand and said: "It is Zhang's duty to subdue demons and eliminate ghosts, not for Mr.'s family property, rest assured, Zhang will definitely relieve Mr.'s worries." ”

Everything was arranged by Zhang Keyi, and everyone in the house was instructed to obey Zhang Keyi's orders. Zhang Keyi took out some charms from the baggage he carried, burned them into ashes in a bowl, took the urine and mud of 18 children's children, and drew a few large circles like gossip pictures in the middle of the yard with a brush dipped in mud and ashes, each circle was interlocked, and then found a strong man who was pure and yang, held a rooster, put a knife on the rooster's neck, sprinkled the rooster's blood around the circle, and pasted spiritual talismans in each room. Everything is ready, just wait for the female ghost to come to the door.

At night, when the moon is full, Zhang Keyi explained that if there is any noise, he can't go out. Zhang Keyi held the peachwood sword and quietly hid behind the eaves of the corridor, and the courtyard was as silent as death.

In the second half of the night, a layer of black fog suddenly rose in the courtyard, and even the big and bright moon fell into the black fog. Then a gust of wind broke down, rustling the trees in the yard. Zhang Keyi jumped out from behind the eaves of the corridor and shouted: "Demon, don't show your true body soon." ”

A cold laugh sounded in the air, and after a while, the female ghost flew over, her white robe flew up and down in the air, her eyes were no longer eyeballs, only two black hole-like eye sockets remained, with her mouth wide open, revealing fangs about three inches long, and she stretched out her hand and flew towards Zhang Keyi.

Seeing this, Zhang Ke hurriedly took a few steps back, took out the agarwood from his arms, and threw it at the female ghost, the female ghost couldn't dodge, was splashed on the face, white smoke instantly rose on her face, and the skin and flesh began to rot little by little, bleeding blood, very hideous and terrifying. The female ghost covered her face with her hands and screamed, and in anger, she opened her hands and stretched out to Zhang Keyi, only to see Zhang Keyi unhurriedly take out a charm, slap it on the female ghost's face cleanly, and the peachwood sword in her hand stabbed the female ghost in the chest, and ran a few steps to push the female ghost into the gossip circle, the female ghost lay on the ground and couldn't move, only to hear the female ghost's terrible scream, which turned into a puff of green smoke and drifted away.

Zhang Keyi finally felt that he could take a breath, and suddenly heard Lu Zhenqing screaming in the room. Zhang Ke hurriedly kicked open the door of the room, only to see Lu Zhenqing spit out a mouthful of black blood, his face turned black and purple, his eyes were scattered, and his limbs trembled.

Zhang Keyi was puzzled, the soul of this female ghost was clearly not completely dispersed. Zhang Keyi stepped forward and grabbed Lu Zhenqing's hand and asked, "What did the female ghost give you?" ”

Lu Zhenqing shook his hand and pointed under the pillow, Zhang Keyi took out the silk handkerchief from under the pillow and lit it against the candle flame, the handkerchief emitted thick black smoke and turned into ashes, Lu Zhenqing stared at his eyes, kicked his legs, and fainted.

After accepting the female ghost, Lu Zhenqing soon turned red, and his body became healthy. Lu Zhenqing is an honest person, and he has to give half of his family property to Zhang Keyi. Zhang Keyi is not a greedy person, and only accepted two gold bricks. He thought that with his own ability, he couldn't just be a rural feng shui master. So he set up his own door and created this Qingshan Taoist Temple. In this way, he would continue to cultivate the Tao so as not to waste this good skill. Because of his reputation for catching ghosts, the Qingshan Taoist Temple was carried forward step by step. Later, it was passed down from generation to generation, and it was still admired by the world until the head of Quanzhenzi Dao.

Therefore, when the Quanzhen Dao Leader shouted to stop, those people really stopped. The Taoist chief came forward, crouched beside the snake, and said something in his mouth, but he didn't know what it was, and after a while, he said to the serpent, "Let's go, go back to where you should go." ”

All the people stared at the big snake without blinking, and saw that the big snake seemed to understand something, wagging its tail, spitting out letters, looking at the Tao for a while, staggering a few times, crawling into the water, and disappearing in the water after a while. There were many exclamations from the crowd, and then they all applauded.

The Taoist chief stood up, shook off the dust, and said to the young people with a serious expression: "If you encounter this snake again, don't do it, otherwise there will be a great disaster." ”

Several people expressed puzzlement and asked why, the Taoist chief said that this snake is a spiritual snake that protects the safety of the whole city, all these years, the city has been safe and sound, this snake has a lot of merit, so you must not hurt it.

The Taoist chief was about to leave, and suddenly saw Linlang on the side. He walked over slowly, bowed, and said, "Girl, do you remember the poor road?" ”

Linlang hesitated for a moment and replied softly, "Remember." ”

The Taoist chief looked at her carefully again, and said something she didn't understand: "What should come is always coming." ”

"What does the Taoist mean?" Linlang asked puzzled.

The Taoist shook his head, looked into the distance and said, "Don't say, don't say." Girl, remember to be careful. ”

The Taoist chief walked away slowly with his hands behind his back, and the people by the water also dispersed and went home. Although Linlang was surprised by Quanzhen's words, she seemed to think more about the fish in her hand, and continued to think about whether it was steamed or braised in the braised blood.