I don't know when it began, but the widow stopped crying, and there was silence in the castle courtyard, and even the wind disappeared.

At this time, Li Huaishan whispered in my ear again: "Are you okay?" ”

My spirit was still a little sluggish, but I still stood up on the ground, and first responded, "It's not a big problem." Then he had to remind Li Huaishan: "Don't keep talking." ”

The surrounding Qi field is quite normal, I don't let Li Huaishan speak, it's not that I'm afraid that he will be invaded by evil energy, but I'm afraid that he will be sloppy for a while, and he will talk loudly and be heard by the people on the other side of the East House.

Li Huaishan didn't talk nonsense anymore, just lit the flashlight and hit the beam on the north wall.

I had just paid all my attention to the Netherworld, but I didn't notice that the mud bricks used to seal the cracks in the wall were actually shaken off, and after the beam passed through the crack in the wall, I don't know what it landed on, and I stood outside the crack in the wall, and I could only see a string of swaying reflections.

The string of light looked unusually bright, like a pile of fish scales exposed to the sun.

Li Huaishan didn't seem to want to get close to the crack in the wall, so in desperation, I could only take the flashlight from his hand, lower the sound of footsteps, and slowly lean to the crack in the wall, and light it inside.

On the other side of the wall was a deep darkroom, and I tried to hit the beam directly opposite, and at a great distance on the opposite side, I could see a very faint yellow spot, if I dug a little deeper, the flashlight might not be able to reach the wall at the end of the room.

After that, I moved the lamphead again and hit the beam above the crack in the wall.

The reflection just now came from a row of meat hooks hanging on the roof, these hooks were obviously some years old, but I don't know what material they were made of, there was no rust at all, the surface was unusually smooth, and when the light hit it, the luster reflected by them was also a little dazzling.

Standing outside the crack in the wall, I obviously didn't feel the slightest bit of wind, but the meat hook hanging in the dark room kept swinging, as if it was stirred by the wind.

Slowly turn the lamp head, hit the beam on the ground, the ground is paved with broken soil, through the flashlight can see two scattered footprints, and in front of this series of footprints, there is a half-buried wood in the soil, this thing may be a beam, very long, the edge is cut at right angles, I vaguely see that there are narrow patterns on the surface of the wooden beam, but because of the distance, the light is dim, there is no way to see the content of these patterns.

At this time, Li Huaishan also came over, and he also looked into the crack in the wall a few times, according to his usual routine, he should have spoken at this time, but he still remembered what I had just said, but he turned sideways towards me and didn't speak.

I glanced around the darkroom a few more times, and felt that there was nothing too unusual, before I squeezed sideways into the crack in the wall.

There was indeed wind in the darkroom, and as soon as I stepped in, the cool breeze came in along my neckline and cuffs, making my clothes puff up, and Li Huaishan muttered in a low voice when he followed up: "Where is the wind?" ”

I picked up my flashlight and shone it on every wall and dark corner in the darkroom, and there were no vents in the room except for a crack in the wall behind me.

I'm pretty sure that the gust of wind didn't come in through the crack in the north wall, it seemed to be trapped in the darkroom in front of me all the time, unable to get out, only scurrying around.

Li Huaishan's clothes were too wide, and at this time, they were stirred by the wind, and the hula and hula kept ringing, so I had to remind him in a whisper: "Take off your shirt!" ”

Unexpectedly, Li Huaishan shook his head: "No, I'm cold." ”

I frowned, and hit the flashlight on Li Huaishan's face, and I saw that Li Huaishan's eyebrows and feet were frosted, and he was holding his arms tightly, and his lips were trembling.

I spread out my hands and tested the temperature around me, and I was very puzzled.

The temperature is obviously not low, why was Li Huaishan frozen like this? But looking at the frost on his eyebrows and feet, I also know that his current appearance is not pretended.

In desperation, I could only let Li Huaishan go out first and explore alone in the darkroom.

There was nothing else in the darkroom except the meat hooks on the top of my head and the wooden beams half-buried in the earth, and I looked closely at the meat hooks, and found that the tips of the hooks were broken, and it seemed that these hooks should have been used a hundred years ago, and they were used quite frequently.

After examining the meat hook closely, I turned my flashlight again and walked towards the wooden beam.

As soon as I took two steps, I felt the wind in the darkroom suddenly increase a lot, and when I first came in, it was still running around aimlessly, but now it was blowing straight at me, as if it were going to push me out.

I continued to walk, and the closer I got to the beams, the stronger the wind, and there seemed to be a strong repulsive force in this place that prevented outsiders from approaching the beams.

But the wind was limited, and although it slowed me down slightly, it still couldn't stop me from coming to the wooden beam.

When I stood through the crack in the wall and looked inside, I couldn't make out the shape of the wooden beam because of the distance, and it was not until I got closer that I realized that only the ends of the wooden beam were buried in the earth, and the middle part was raised high, forming a narrow arc above the ground.

In the past, when I was doing chores in the furniture store, Boss Lu usually liked to play some exquisite gadgets in addition to furniture, such as Boss Lu's house has more than a dozen finely made pipes, all of which he made himself, and the boat model in their living room, which is also from the handwriting of Lu's wife.

When Lu Lao's wife played the ship model, I watched the whole process, and the boat model was not carved out of the shape of the ship, but actually built a small boat, according to Boss Lu, he made the ship model, but read a large number of books, only to copy the most superb shipbuilding technology and the most scientific shipbuilding process in the Ming Dynasty.

It is precisely because I have witnessed the whole process of Boss Lu's shipbuilding model that I can basically determine at a glance that the wooden beam in the darkroom is not a beam, but a keel used in shipbuilding.

The classics of the old family say, "The ship bone, the backbone of the dragon, bears the yang and reaches the yin." ”。

In the gossip, the hexagram corresponding to the water is the outer yin and the inner yang, the boat walks in the water, and the person standing on the board of the boat sees that it is yin x water, which can be used to frame the keel of the boat, but it is the yang road.

It is precisely for this reason that the keels that have been in the water are often stained with yang energy, and some special keels can even be used to crush ghosts.

From the keel in front of me, I can't feel the yang energy anymore, but judging from the way it is put into the ground at both ends and the exposed soil in the middle, it should be used to suppress ghosts.

Pressing ghosts with keels has been around for a long time, and the ghosts that are pressed in this way, although they can keep the original gods immortal, but they will also completely lose their freedom, they are like being locked by invisible chains, and they can never leave the keel for half a step, unless a good Samaritan removes the keel, otherwise, the suppressed ghosts will not even have a chance to be reincarnated.

This method of suppressing ghosts is extremely damaging to yin morality, if it is not for the deep hatred with the deceased, no one will do such a thing, the ancient books of the old family also say that among all the people who set up the dragon bone to press the ghost array with their own hands, the luckiest one also died of a violent illness.

Therefore, in our industry, there has always been a saying that "the keel crushes the ghost, and the catastrophe will never be recovered".

I guess that the town thing Chen Laohan mentioned before should be the keel in front of him, according to Chen Laohan, before his grandfather used the ox body to level the ghost, there was more than one ghost thing pressed in the fort, and the person who put down this ghost suppression array may only have this one fate.

What kind of person could take such a dangerous step, and what prompted him to take this step?

With this question in mind, I squatted down and took a closer look at the pattern on the keel, which should be some kind of ancient rune, and every five or six lines can be put together to form a specific pattern, which looks a bit like the word "water" in the big seal.

Just as I was looking at the lines on the keel, the wind around me was a little stronger, I didn't squat down for a while, my body was crooked, and my left knee touched the ground.

After that, I steadied myself in time, turned and shot in the direction of the wind, where there was nothing but a solid wall.

The wind only strengthened for a moment, and now it was inexplicably weaker again, and I lifted my flashlight to shine on the hooks above my head, and saw that the hooks swung much less.

Click......

There was a slight cracking sound from under my feet, and it sounded like the skin of an egg being cracked little by little, and I looked down at my feet, and saw a small piece of soil trembling slightly, as if something was about to penetrate the soil and emerge from under the ground.

I felt that things were a little strange, so I spread the yang line and condensed a mental power in the dantian.

The soil at his feet shook for a while, and a round stone broke through the soil layer and emerged from the ground like a wildly growing bamboo shoot.

The karmic stone, the thing that comes out of the ground, turns out to be the karmic stone!

I picked up my flashlight and shone the light on the stone surface, and I saw that there were a lot of shadows on the surface of the stone, and a few shadows could be combined together to form a baby's face.

This karmic stone is exactly the same as the one I saw at the widow's house.

In this way, many of the doubts that were pressed in my heart before can be explained, no wonder Chen Laohan's cow has not died until now, no wonder there are so many karmic stones in Widow Wang's house, and no wonder Chen Laohan refuses to tell me about his relationship with Chen Dabang.

The keel in front of me is not just used to suppress ghosts, it is also an altar for blessings.

It's just that the object of blessing is not the gods, but the evil spirits.

(End of chapter)