Chapter 12 Choosing a Name
I was deeply attracted by this book, this is like a magnificent history, recording the fusion of each generation of hosts and grandfathers, "Ghost Gate Eight Characters" is not compiled by one person, but countless hosts together to write notes and insights, even the first generation of "Ghost Gate Eight Characters" founder - the Northern Song Dynasty powerful host, is also a collection of a lot of information from the previous generation of hosts.
As early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the old bones flowed into the hands of the Han people, and there must have been many hosts during this period, and even in the hands of the Miao people in the early days, it may have been passed down from generation to generation in the form of hosts.
The Northern Song Dynasty Da Neng wrote down his speculation on the origin of the old man's bones in "Eight Characters of the Ghost Gate", and pasted a lot of evidence he found. The sad thing is that although Chinese culture has a long history, the cultural fault line is also very strong, and he has experienced many cultural catastrophes before him, so that many cultures have disappeared from history.
If it weren't for the great foresight who handed down these in the form of books, I am afraid that it would be even more difficult for the host of the future generations to move forward.
He wrote in the book, the history of the old bones is very likely to be beyond the scope of everyone's prediction, because according to him, he once found a record of the old bones in the tomb of a county guard at the end of Qin, although it is not explicitly said to be the old bones, but it is very similar, and the origin is actually from the Sanmiao tribe that fought with Dayu.
In ancient mythology, after the three Miao belonged to Jiuli, Chiyou was defeated, Jiuli fell apart, part of the Li people retreated to the Jianghan River Basin to establish the Sanmiao tribe, and Huandou, Gonggong, and Kun together called the "four sins", the era of the five emperors, Yao defeated the three Miao, and exiled to the mountain danger area, and then Dayu conquered the three Miao, the two sides carried out a campaign that lasted for more than two months, defeated the Miao Division, and the Sanmiao tribe also disappeared from the time.
"Ghost Gate Eight Characters" recorded that there was a holy relic in the three seedlings at that time, which described the holy relic attached to the human body, and the diagram of the unicorn appeared on the chest, and the tribal wizard would incarnate into the god of war who was infinitely powerful and invasible whenever he used the holy relic, which had made Dayu suffer enough.
The information found by the great power of the Song Dynasty did not say that this was the old man's bone, but there were many similarities, and the old man's bone was indeed passed down from the hands of the Miao people, so the two were connected together, and it was determined that the holy object in the Sanmiao tribe was the old man's bone.
It's a pity that he didn't find any useful information in addition, not long after he wrote this, the old bones were completely devoured, resulting in his inability to continue the investigation, and the host behind him also investigated all the way in this direction, but most of the Miao people didn't know the existence of the old bones, after all, it had been too long, and the cultural fault phenomenon was also serious, and the origin of the old bones had never been completely determined.
The whole book gave me a great shock, it was like opening up a different world, it was weird and mysterious, it made people yearn, and my dull life for 28 years was also flooded with huge waves.
Seriously, before I got this book, the old bones didn't attract me at all, although the old man Xia probably told me about the history of the old bones and the connection between the host and the old bones, I still only have fear, as the old man Xia himself said, the old bones are a curse, and I can't wait to send it out immediately.
After watching "Eight Characters of the Ghost Gate", I was afraid of it, but I was also full of interest. It's like a beautiful woman with a fatal temptation, knowing that she will be hurt by her, but she has to be attracted to her.
"Ghost Gate Eight Characters" is a lot of host's notes, each host's feelings for the old bones are different, especially to figure out their mood when they wrote at the time, it's really interesting, and I also saw in the host's notes that they are as excited as me, yearning, afraid of the old bones, and I haven't had the frustration and despair at this time.
People have a fluke mentality, and the hosts in front are no exception, when they first took over the old bones, they all thought that they could reveal the secret of the old bones, just like every singer who was at a low point imagined a song that became popular, until the back was eaten by the bone spirit and became heavier and heavier, their mood also became heavy and helpless.
It's false to say that I'm not afraid, now I can't imagine what the bone spirit's backlash is, it's an unknown and ethereal scene, for me, the biggest problem at the moment is the arrival of the Bai family.
My teeth still chatter when I think of what I encountered today, if the Bai family comes to be more powerful, what should I do? Old man Xia said that I and the old man bones have just fused, and if I want to forcibly strip them, I will die, I definitely can't give them the old bones to them at this time, but in the face of the powerful Bai family (an ancient bridge ghost trick scared me enough, who knows if they have a more evil ghost raising technique), I have no background, no strength, and the only thing I can rely on is Old Man Xia.
However, against the entire Bai family, I don't think Old Man Xia has a chance of winning, and even the previous host, Wei Yanzi, left a message and ran away when he met someone surnamed Bai, which shows the horror of the Bai family.
I was worried, the most afraid is to lead the disaster to the family, when I think of this, I have a grudge against Wei Yanzi again, you say that I was 8 years old when I was hit, why did I dig such a big pit?
It is also written in "Eight Characters of the Ghost Gate" that the old bones cannot be fused with everyone, and they must be Yuan Yin body. What is the Yuan Yin body, born when the yin year is yin and the moon is yin, and at the same time there are requirements for the fetal blood (birthplace), as the saying goes, things must be reversed, people with this physique seem to be extremely soft, difficult to feed, but they are also people with extremely heavy yang energy, only the yuan yin body, can suppress the yin and evil qi of the old bones.
The book is written in a mysterious way, I don't understand this, but my eight characters are soft, I was born less than half a year old I was sick, almost hung up, from the city hospital to the state hospital to the provincial hospital, when there was no choice, I let a barefoot doctor save me with a pair of Chinese medicine.
Since then, I have been a medicine jar, my mother took me to find someone to tell my fortune, wrote a fortune book, and said that I was not good at eight characters, and when I grew up, I lost the medicine jar, but my luck was always unsatisfactory, no matter what I did, it was as if God was against me. There is a saying that life is thinner than paper, and I think I am such a person, no matter how hard I try, there is always a difficult mud under my feet.
At this time, I can accept the old bones, and there are also reasons for this, I am thinking, maybe the old bones are a turning point in my fate, although it is like a curse, the same, it can make me embark on a different path, so that I have a way to have a chance to break free from the suffocating fate.
I hadn't slept all night, the light was shining through the small windows, and it was already dawn. I let out a long yawn, but my heart was full of excitement. I left the Bai family and Li Hao behind for the time being, and was about to get up and go to work, just put on my clothes, and suddenly had the idea to summon the bone spirit from the unicorn diagram in my chest.
The little guy is still like that, ignorant, all that was passed on to me were some instinctive emotions, because the sky was dawning, the little guy was a little afraid, I hurriedly appeased him, and tried the town word trick on "Ghost Gate Eight Characters", wanting to see if there was any change.
There are a total of 16 characters in the town word: transformation and control, strain without stopping, covering my body, and guarding the spirit mirror. I recited it several times in a row, but it didn't help, and I wasn't discouraged.
The book divides the growth of the bone spirit into 8 stages, and I think there is still one shortcoming. My bone spirit has not yet reached the town period, like a newborn baby, no thoughts, consciousness chaos, joy, anger and sorrow are completely in accordance with instinct, "Ghost Gate Bazi" has no superfluous description of this period, I used the town word trick is excited, I didn't think he could react. Moreover, even if it is the town word period, it is not an overnight thing to be proficient in the town word trick.
I looked at the two or three-year-old doll-like bone spirit, as if something touched the softness of my heart, a joy that is difficult to describe churned in my heart, almost can't help it, I stretched out my hand and slowly touched the bone spirit, my fingers trembled slightly, the funny thing is that the bone spirit did not react, but I was so nervous that I was sweating.
Soon, I touched the gray mist on his body, like touching a very thin, extremely soft veil, slightly cold, with a slippery feeling.
My hand did not stop, gradually passing through the gray mist, and when I really came into contact with the bone spirit's body, my whole body was agitated, and I quickly retracted my hand. His body was so cold that it was as if he was standing in front of me with a large block of ice, and I even suspected that if I touched it a little longer, I would get frostbitten.
Thinking of this, I actually felt a feeling of distress, and the bone spirit seemed to realize my fear and distress, and began to transmit grievances to my mind. This made my feelings more complicated, and the eyes that looked at him became softer.
"Otherwise, I'll give you a name." I said.
The bone spirit didn't understand what I meant, he hadn't yet established a concept of a name, but I was in high spirits, wondering what a better name would be. To be honest, I've always disliked the work of choosing names, and I couldn't come up with a suitable name after thinking about it for a long time, as if I had forgotten all the books I had read and the poems I had memorized.
Thinking about it, the figure of a person gradually became clear in my mind, and when I saw that person, I made a decision.
So, I said softly: "From now on, you will be called Xiaojie." ”
Gu Ling naturally doesn't understand, but from time to time, I will pass his name and Xiaojie's thoughts to him, and after a long time, he will always get used to it.