In the Xia, Shang and Western Zhou dynasties, in fact, there were still many people who were proficient in witchcraft Gu art, most of these people were incognito, and the Gu art they mastered also became the secret art of their own family or their own sect, which explains why many long-lived people are recorded in the history books.

When it comes to longevity, I have to mention one person, and that is Peng Zu, who lived for 800 years.

When it comes to Peng Zu, Old Uncle Huang seems to have an end, and he drinks half a cup of two pots in one gulp.

He first told us a legend about Peng Zu:

Originally, Peng Zu only had a 60-year lifespan, but why did he live to be more than 800 years old before he died? It is said that he did not rely on any immortality, but on a friend who was an errand boy.

When Peng Zu was 59 years old, he met a friend named Yang San. Yang San is a yin difference, that is, a small official who can connect the two worlds of yin and yang. When the king of Yama and the judge want to take people, they first tick the names on the "Book of Life and Death", and then send two imps to find the yin who lives in the yang world. The yin cha led the little ghost to catch the damned people, and Yang San was the one who specialized in this kind of errand.

Yang San and Peng Zu are very good and often drink and chat together. Once after getting drunk, Yang San told Peng Zu everything. At first, Peng Zu didn't believe it, but after a long time, he found that within a radius of ten miles, every time before someone died, Yang San would not wake up, and once he woke up, he immediately knew who was dead, and it was foolproof.

One day they were drinking together again, and Peng Zu asked Yang San: "Since you are yincha, and the two of us are friends who cut off our heads and necks, can't you help inquire about my yang shou?" Yang San was already almost drunk, and as soon as Peng Zu's words fell, he patted his chest and said, "It's a trivial matter, wait for the next time the little ghost fairy comes again, just ask!" ”

Three days later, there were going to be dead people in the village again, two little ghosts one with the "Book of Life and Death", one with a life-seeking card to find Yang San to lead the way, Yang San wanted to go through the "Book of Life and Death" to find Peng Zu's name and look at it, and he was surprised, it turned out that Peng Zu only had a 60-year Yang life, and he should die in mid-July next year.

After Yang San finished being a bad immortal, he immediately went to Peng Zu to explain the details. After hearing this, Peng Zu said, "Oops! ”

As soon as he sounded, he fainted, and Yang San finally woke him up, and comforted him: "Your business is my business, and the next time they come again, I will definitely beg them to find a way to break it."

But when the time comes, you need to prepare a table of wine and food, and prepare more paper money ....... ”

Peng Zu said very gratefully: "On that day, I will definitely do it!" A few days later, the two imps really came, Yang San immediately put the wine and food prepared by Peng Zu away, and shouted to drink and touch glasses with the two little ghosts, in the middle of the night, the two little ghosts were already drunk and lightheaded, Peng Zu hurriedly burned the paper money according to Yang San's explanation in advance. The two drunken imps saw in a haze that someone was giving them money, so they happily asked, "Brother Yang, do you know who is so generous?" ”

Yang San said: "It's not a secret, this person's name is Peng Zu, and he is a friend of the foolish brother's yang world. The two little ghosts looked at each other when they heard this, and there was a saying: I can hide from the first day of junior high school, but I can't hide from the fifteenth, and I think this matter is not easy to do.

"Can you change his Yangshou, or tear off his name and throw it away?" Yang San saw that they had a difficult look on their faces, so he asked tentatively.

"The pen of the yang world can't change the documents of the underworld, so it's too risky to steal the judge's pen to change it. Tear off his name, and the traces on the Book of Life and Death can't be removed.

If the king of Yama and the judge find out and ask for questioning, none of us can afford to be guilty! The two little ghosts rummaged through the "Book of Life and Death" as they spoke, and with a "horn", they broke the paper twist of the "Book of Life and Death".

"There's a way!" Yang San touched the scene and said affectionately, "You see, Peng Zu's name happens to be the one outside, if you tear it off and make it into a paper twist, and bind it to the "Book of Life and Death", you don't need to change it, and you don't have to lose it; And his name is still in the Book of Life and Death, so that no one can find his name, and no one will have to bear the blame. ”

The two little ghosts thought to themselves: "There is a way to eat other people's soft mouths, and take other people's hands short, now there is a way to get both, why not be a favor." "Then let's do what Brother Yang does." Seeing that they nodded, Yang San immediately tore off Peng Zu's name, made it into a paper twist, and bound it to the "Book of Life and Death" .......

A few years later, the little ghost in charge of hooking the soul changed, and Yang San also died, and no one knew about it anymore. The king of Hades and the judge couldn't find Peng Zu's name, and Peng Zu didn't have time to die, and from then on, Peng Zu was rejuvenated once in 60 years, so Peng Zu lived to be more than 800 years old, and he didn't look like he was 60 years old.

Peng Zu's life was too long, and there was no woman who could "grow old with him", so he died a total of 49 wives and 54 sons, but he himself was still alive. When Peng Zu was 800 years old, he married his 50th wife, named Wei Lingjing.

Not only is she beautiful, but she is also very clever, and people gave her the nickname "Ghost Spirit". The wedding day; Peng Zu was cautious after drinking, and actually picked up a pen and wrote four sentences on the powder wall outside the door: "Peng Zu lived for eight hundred and eight, begging for a wife and a flower, which one is older than me, I will give his wife to him." ”

On the morning of the third day, as soon as his wife returned to her parents' house and left, a young man with a smooth head came and said, "Peng Zu, I am 120 years older than you, give my wife to me!" ”

"Who are you? The fetal hair hasn't dried yet, so how can it be bigger than me? "There is a saying: good people don't live long, and they plague for a thousand years, and I am a famous scourge in the whole city, of course bigger than you!"

Peng Zu was speechless, so angry that he didn't even eat lunch, so he fell on the bed and sighed. In the afternoon, the ghost spirit came back, and after asking about the cause and effect, he laughed and said, "What is a great thing for me." Go and buy four taels of powder, a dragon head cane, and let me deal with that scourge tomorrow." ”

The next day, the spirits dressed up early in the morning. She sprinkled all the powder on her big hair and eyebrows, and then put the dragon's head on crutches, and she got rid of an old woman with white eyebrows! After breakfast, the scourge came, and after the ghost spirit asked the reason, he pretended to be very angry and said: "The scourge, the scourge you shouldn't be, wait for you for a thousand years and you don't come, I opened the Yellow River in Jiuqu, and I planted it in the moon; I am the matchmaker for the mother-in-law of the scourge, and I am the father of the scourge, and the scourge is now a thousand years old, why did you come to pick up your grandmother ...... today? ”

On the third day, before the spirit could finish speaking, the scourge was already so frightened that he ran away; Peng Zu saw that the ghost spirit saved face for himself and loved her very much. The ghost spirit thinks that her husband is good to her, so she wants to ask her husband for the method of immortality, so that he can grow old with him. At first, Peng Zu refused to say it, but later he was forced by the ghosts and spirits to be unable to do so, so he had to tell the truth.

On the fourth day, the ghost spirit saw that this was the case, and had to resign himself to fate.

Besides, Peng Zu's wife died one after another, and everyone who went to the underworld claimed to be Peng Zu's wife, but the king of Yama and the judge could never find Peng Zu's name in the "Book of Life and Death", let alone how long he was, so he couldn't take him at all.

After another few decades, the elves died. When King Yama saw that she was Peng Zu's wife again, he asked, "How old is your husband, and why can't he find his name in the Book of Life and Death?" The ghost spirit said: "I can't tell the exact age, anyway, I have been married to him for twenty or thirty years, and he has said every year that he has lived to be 880 years old, and I heard that his name has been made into a paper twist for the book of life and death." ”

King Yama ordered the judge to bring the "Book of Life and Death", took out the paper twist and opened it, and sure enough, Peng Zu's birthday was on it, and immediately ordered the little ghost to bring Peng Zu quickly. Peng Zu's surname is Qian Mingkeng, just because his fief has lived in Pengcheng for more than 800 years, so people call him Peng Zu, and they don't know who his surname is.

The two imps went to look for the word "Qian Keng" prescribed by King Yama, but of course they couldn't find it.

These two little imps also have a lot of ideas, they don't go anywhere, they don't look for anyone, they go to the river every day to wash charcoal after eating.

Peng Zu likes to go outside to swim whenever he has free time, and when he came to the river one day, he saw two people washing charcoal, so he asked curiously: "What are you washing it for?" "I don't do anything, I just want to wash it white." I Qian Keng lived for eight hundred and eight, and I only saw that white cloth could be dyed black, but I never saw charcoal that could be washed white. ”

"It turns out that you are Qian Kengna, you made us look for it so hard!"

"I Qian Kengxing doesn't change my name, I don't change my surname, I call Peng Zu is old, I don't know what the two of you are looking for me." The two imps flashed the life-seeking card and said, "Don't gossip, come with us to the king of Yama!" Peng Zu was taken aback and asked, "How did King Yama find my name?" The two little ghosts smiled and said, "Well, you can ask your wife and the ghost spirit to find out." ”

"I see." Peng Zu followed the little ghost towards the underworld, and sighed helplessly:

Ghost elf, ghost elf,

In a word, it kills people,

In front of friends, there is no falsehood,

I can't tell the truth in front of my wife,

Peng Zu said the truth,

Eight hundred and eighty springs in vain.

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These legends have passed through the mouths of folk artists, and they have been made up vividly, but in fact, they are just made up by people who do not know why Peng Zu can live for 800 years. In addition to Peng Zu, all dynasties actually had people with extremely long lifespans.

For example, Zhang Sanfeng in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, who everyone is familiar with, and Chen Jun in the Tang Dynasty and Li Qingyuan in the Qing Dynasty, who are not familiar to most of them, all three lived hundreds of years old.

Captain Han and I listened to it fascinated, which simply subverted the three views of the two of us.

Captain Han took one bite and killed the last half of the second pot head, and asked Uncle Teacher with wide eyes: "Master Huang, are you saying that Cripple Zhou is also trying to live a few hundred years old through Gu magic?" ”

Old Uncle Huang nodded slightly: "Gu art is called witchcraft, naturally it has its terrifying features, don't you know that Fuxi and Pangu both have the upper body of a human and the lower body of a snake?" ”

We both nodded almost at the same time.

Captain Han asked again: "Is the fact that they can live so long because they have made themselves half-human and half-beast?" ”

Lao Huang ate a piece of meat, chewed it twice, and snorted coldly: "Yes! Because Gu magic can't do without one terrible thing. ”

"What?"

"Gu worm!"