At first, I thought I was dazzled, but after looking at it a few times, I could see those faces every time.

Later, I tried to sense the Qi field on the paper, there was no yin qi, and there was no other evil qi, it seemed to be a dozen ordinary printing paper, but whenever I looked carefully at the paper, I could see the human face floating. Three years into the industry, I once again encountered something far beyond my common sense.

I couldn't figure out the doorway left and right, so I picked up the document given by Wu Lin and flipped through it page by page.

There is no face on these written documents, but the content on them is also very strange.

I feel that the content of this document is a bit fragmented, and there is no necessary connection between many of the contents, and there will be a sense of information disconnection from the beginning to the end.

The whole document says three things.

The first thing is that during the Ming Dynasty, a village called Yangjiagou in Henan suddenly disappeared - the people, livestock, and houses in the village all disappeared overnight, and the only thing that can prove the existence of this village is a few fields outside the village, and a boundary monument on the edge of the village.

Ming Chengzu Zhu Di heard about this and felt that it was not trivial, so he sent two jailers to check on the local area, and after the jailers arrived there, they found that there was a large black swamp in the place where the houses should have been lined up, as long as there was a living creature close to the swamp, the black water in the swamp would automatically ignite a flame, and the flame would automatically extinguish after the living creature went away.

The jailer told them what he had seen and heard, and Ming Chengzu asked them where the people, animals, and houses in the village had gone, and the jailer said that the swamp might have suddenly formed in the middle of the night, when the villagers and the animals were sleeping, and before they could escape, they sank into the swamp with the houses.

Ming Chengzu was furious when he heard this, and asked the eunuchs to hang the two jailers, and told the historians and close ministers not to write this matter into the "Living Records" (a dossier that records the emperor's daily life, which has been shared by successive emperors).

When it was the time of the fire in July, Zhu Di secretly ordered Yao Guangxiao to go to Henan to observe the people's situation.

I don't know how true or false the document is, because there are so many doubts.

Not to mention the swamp and disappearing village that appeared out of thin air, the most bizarre thing in the whole thing is Yao Guangxiao and Ming Chengzu Zhu Di.

People who don't know the history of the Ming Dynasty may not know much about Yao Guangxiao, this person is the most powerful rebel in the history of the Ming Dynasty, in the early years he was the first strategist around Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, instigated Zhu Di to usurp power and seize the throne, and helped Zhu Di usurp the throne successfully, it can be said that Zhu Di can become the emperor, Yao Guangxiao has made great contributions.

After Zhu Di sat on the throne, Yao Guangxiao served as the monk Silu Zuo Shanshi, and the young master of the crown prince, there was no prime minister in the Ming Dynasty, but Yao Guangxiao's status was comparable to the prime minister.

In addition, Yao Guangxiao is still a monk who does not do his duty, he escaped into Buddhism, but admired Taoist doctrine, and was proficient in the way of Confucian emperors.

So I suspect that when Zhu Di asked Yao Guangxiao to go to Henan, I am afraid it was not just as simple as observing the people's feelings.

Zhu Digui is the supreme of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, why did he send two jailers to investigate the matter of Yang Jiagou? Judging from the documents, it is very likely that Zhu Di personally entered the prison, found the two jailers, and gave them this errand.

It's not that the emperor can't instruct the jailers, but Zhu Di's approach is too weird, there are so many people around him available, why did he find these two jailers?

The document said that the two jailers were killed by the eunuchs around Zhu Di, why did they let the eunuchs do it, indicating that Zhu Di had no guards around him at that time, and he should have met the two jailers in a very private place. In other words, Zhu Di didn't want others to know about this matter, so he specially instructed the pen not to write about this matter in the "Living Record".

But how did the person who wrote this document know about it?

Two other things in the document are even more bizarre than the previous one.

The second thing is that during the Liang Dynasty, there was a painter with excellent skills, and he had a strange craft, called "painting people into ghosts", but he performed this skill once in his life, and after the art was completed, the painter disappeared and never appeared again.

When I saw the words "Liang Dynasty Painter", my first reaction was, this can't be Zhang Seng Xuan (yóu), right? But when I looked back, I found out that it wasn't, but the protagonist of the story does have a big relationship with Zhang Sengqiu, his name is Luo Chengji, and he is a disciple of Zhang Sengqiu.

Who is Sengqian Zhang? You may not have heard of this person, but you must have used the idiom "finishing touch". The finishing touch, it is Zhang Sengqiu's business.

Legend has it that Zhang Sengqian once painted four dragons on a high wall in Anle Temple, but each dragon only painted the whites of the eyes, but did not point out the pupils. Someone asked him why he didn't draw all the dragon's eyes, and Zhang Shengqian said that if he clicked on the pupils, the dragon would fly. Others thought he was talking about it, so they forced him to paint the dragon's eye. Zhang Seng had no choice, so he pointed out the pupils on the dragon eyes of the two dragons, and in an instant, the clouds surged, and a thunderbolt came into the air, splitting the wall, and the two dragons actually rose into the air and flew into the nine clouds, and the two dragons that did not point out the pupils remained on the wall.

Later, this incident was written by Zhang Yanyuan in the Tang Dynasty into the "Records of Famous Paintings of the Past Dynasties", and the Ming Dynasty engraving of this book can still be found today.

Compared with Zhang Sengqiu's finishing touch, Luo Chengji's painting of people and ghosts is not so miraculous, and his skills are more like an evil art.

Legend has it that Luo Chengji has a good face, plus born romantic, talented, in Liang Jing's land of wind and flowers is very good, at that time Liang Jing had a famous female branch named Liu Ruyan, Luo Chengji is very admiring, once the two of them met to Songcheng around the boat to play, Liu Ruyan temporarily got up, let Luo Chengji paint a portrait of her.

Zhang Seng Xiangcheng warned Luo Chengji that he could paint landscapes, grasses and insects in his life, and he could also paint tigers and horses, but he must not paint portraits of people.

On weekdays, Luo Chengji also knows how to be self-controlled, and he never paints portraits of others, but that day the beauty was on the side, and Luo Chengji drank some wine, and the wine was slightly drunk, it was the time when he was full of interest, how could he take care of so much, and immediately took out his pen and ink and painted a portrait of Liu Ruyan.

This Qingdan ink painting can be said to be the result of Luo Chengji's lifelong learning, and if it is left to future generations, it may become another treasure in the history of Chinese art.

But at the moment when this painting was completed, Liu Ruyan suddenly lost his breath, and the person on the painting came to life.

At first, Luo Chengji thought it was a drunken dream, but when he gradually woke up, he found that Liu Ruyan's body was already cold, and his face had long lost blood, but the portrait on the paper was dancing with long sleeves, but its posture and demeanor were not beautiful, and it looked like a ghost.

Some people say that Luo Chengji took Liu Ruyan's body to the outside of the plug, and some people say that he chiseled through the bottom of the boat in fright, and sank to the bottom of the water with the painting and Liu Ruyan's body.

Both theories have one thing in common, that is, since then, Luo Chengji has never appeared in Liangjing again, and even the pen and ink left by him in his early years have gradually disappeared due to some unknown reasons.

When people die, they live, this is the origin of "painting people into ghosts".

The third thing in the document records a strange thing that the people of Buzhou Mountain Gate experienced, at the end of 2004, several people of Buzhou Mountain Gate entered a place called "Immortal Cave" in order to find the secret of immortality.

The fairy cave is located in the depths of Dabie Mountain, where the feng shui is peculiar, and the Qi field is isolated from the outside world, forming an independent circulation system, which is a very rare secret place. The structure of the cave is very complicated, the big hole is covered with a small hole, and the small hole is connected to the abyss and the flying rock, and the magnetic field in the cave is very chaotic, and people will get lost soon after entering.

These people from Buzhou Mountain Gate wandered around the cave for several days, but failed to find the secret of immortality, but found a strange-looking beetle, this insect appearance and dung beetle (shi shell mantis, that word can't be typed) is very similar, the whole body is dark, the shell on the back is very smooth, after the light shines, the reflected light is very sharp, and the reflection of the mirror is almost the same.

A man saw that something seemed to be moving on the back of the worm, so he dared to go up and take a closer look, and found that a white human face appeared on the back of the worm, and when he stared at the face, the human face made an expression like a ghost.

Later, the insect swarm may have been frightened, so they launched an attack on these few people from the Buzhou Mountain Gate, but anyone who was stung by the insect would become delirious at that time, but it would not take long to recover, and after the insect stung them, their faces would appear on their backs.

The document doesn't say how these people came out of the immortal cave, but it just says that after they come out, they will be able to resonate with the imitation Netherworld Treasure and summon karmic wind or karmic fire from it.

Later, Buzhou Shan sent people to look for these insects, but they never found them.

At the end of the document, the names of the first batch of Buzhou Shanmen people were also listed, and Liu Shuwang and Zhu Kun were listed.

Both of these people have summoned karmic fire in front of me.

It took me more than two hours to finish reading the document, and I put it back in my bag, then I raised my hand and rubbed my swollen temples.

The three things mentioned in the document may not seem to be related, but if you think about it, you can find some problems. The sudden disappearance of Yangjiagou is located in Henan, and the Songcheng where Luo Chengji and Liu Ruyan are boating is actually the current Shangcheng County of Henan, and this county seat is located at the northern foot of Dabie Mountain.

However, this geographical connection does not seem to explain anything.

(End of chapter)