There are countless versions about the mandrill ghost floating in my head, and each version says something so bad that people can't distinguish between truth and falsehood, and can't distinguish between good and evil!

But in Taoism, there is a different interpretation of mandrill ghosts!

Mandrill ghosts, hence the name, are haunted in the mountains, and legend has it that they have a fierce temperament, are good at change, and like to play tricks on people. If you are unfortunate enough to be bumped into by it, you will have bad luck and the infirm will be frightened to the point that your heart and heart will be broken, and your life will not be guaranteed.

When I was a child, I heard my grandfather say that there was a man in the next village who sold tofu, in his forties, who would carry a tofu burden to the former village every morning to sell, and then rush back in the afternoon, and he had never stopped for more than ten years. But one day he stumbled back shortly after leaving the village, his hair was scattered, his face was bloodless, and he died when he came home, and his wife said that he was frightened to death by the mandrill ghost.

It turns out that there is a shortcut in the village before going out from the village, you have to pass through a mountain col, the mountains on both sides are steep, the bushes are overgrown, there are unknown desolate graves in the woods, a path is interspersed in the meantime, it is about two miles or so, it is rare to see the sky even in broad daylight when walking inside, if there are few people, we dare not walk.

The tofu seller is very bold, and every day at dawn he walks through here to rush to the front village to do morning business. It was also here that day, and the sky was bright, and the col was even more gloomy due to the light rain in the evening. He was afraid that his feet would slip under his feet, so he stared at his feet and hurried forward.

Suddenly, he heard a giggling laugh in his ears, a crackling of pine trees on the side of the road, and he listened carefully, as if someone was cutting down a tree?

"Smack! Syllable! Syllable! Syllable! ”

The sound of cutting trees echoed in the valley in a particularly rhythmic manner, and the man who bought the tofu looked around, but there was no one, but the sound of the axe was obviously next to it, and after a while, the crackling stopped, and I heard a clatter, as if a tree had been cut down and slammed on the ground.

At this moment, a gust of wind blew, which made his back spine cold, and someone in the wind said: "Hungry, take a rest!"

Another shrill voice said, "Okay, okay, eat tofu when you're hungry, hehe." ”

When the man who bought the tofu heard this, his hair immediately stood on end, and he thought to himself: "Oh no, I must have met a ghost." ”

In a trance, he raised his head, and there were two more mountains in front of him, and then he looked closely, and it turned out to be the two long legs of the mandrill ghost straddling the road, standing in the col, his body was as high as the mountain, and he was grinning and grinning and squatting down, and immediately blocked the mountain road, stared at him with big eyes like a gong, and stretched out a paw like a dry pine tree in front of him, and the bloody mouth came out with a piercing voice: "Hee-hee, I want to eat tofu." ”

The man who bought the tofu was so frightened that he ran back, and he couldn't take care of the tofu when he spilled it. He didn't dare to turn back after running a few hundred meters in one breath, but no matter how far and fast he ran, the dry claw always followed behind him, as if he could crush him with a single stretch of his hand!

Finally, I don't know how long I ran, but the man who bought the tofu realized that he had gotten rid of that withered hand! At this moment, a figure walked in front of him, and he breathed a sigh of relief, and finally saw the living person.

After seeing the person in front of him, he hurriedly ran to the man and panted and said, "Brother is not good, there is a mandrill ghost behind him." ”

On the contrary, it was that person, wrapped in black, who lowered his head and didn't respond at all after listening to his words!

When the man who bought the tofu saw that this person was going to move forward, he quickly shouted out again: "There is a mandrill ghost behind, don't go."

After speaking, the man slowly raised his head and said, "Who are you talking about?" Like me? Hee-hee......"

When the man who bought tofu saw the face of the person in front of him, his legs immediately weakened with fright; It turned out that this person was a mandrill ghost, and he ran forward like crazy. In the afterglow, the mandrill ghost seemed to be running after him, only to hear the pine trees on the side of the road being knocked and swaying, he was so nervous that he couldn't breathe, and his underwear was soaked with cold sweat.

There was a hut at the pass, he knew, and the hut was sometimes inhabited by the orchard keepers, and he knew it, and he ran wildly, until at last there was no sound around him, and the mandrill ghosts stopped chasing him, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

After seeing the hut from a distance, there was still a faint light in the house, and it seemed that someone should be inside. The man who bought the tofu hurriedly ran over and smashed the door: "Open the door, help!" ”

He slammed the door and looked back nervously behind him, there were hazy and dark mountains in the distance, eerie cemeteries on both sides, and faint whining ghost cries, and the oppressive air around him made him breathless.

The door creaked open, and the room was gloomy and cold, and there was only one old man, who was boiling water with his back to him, and his thin body came into view! But it's a little strange that when he was boiling water, he saw the flickering fire but didn't see the flames!

The man who bought the tofu didn't have time to think about it, so he hurriedly shouted at the old man and said, "Uncle, there is a mandrill ghost, it's scared to death, save me." ”

The old man coughed a few times and didn't speak, stretched out his hand to point to the kettle, he was in a hurry, rushed over and grabbed the old man's hand tightly and cried, "Uncle help me." ”

The old man still didn't speak, but saw the kettle snap, and a toad sprang out of it, the old man grinned, and then put the toad in the kettle, raised his head and said to him, "Do you want me to save you?" Let's have breakfast first! ”

It's that hideous face again...... It was the shrill laughter again......

The man who bought the tofu looked at the hand he was holding tightly, it was dry, dry, stiff and hard, and it had long nails.

His heart suddenly beat and his face turned pale, and he ran away from the door with his hand, surrounded by the shadows of the black trees, and behind him was the oozing giggling......

When he finally ran home, he was already bloodless from heart failure!

Since then, no one has dared to walk that path. But I heard the old man say that there is a way to meet mandrill ghosts, mandrill ghosts are generally very tall, always looking at people from above, and when you are scared, they will change the law to scare people.

So first of all, you have to be calm and calm, don't let him see that you are afraid, and then slowly take off your outer pants and put them on your arms, then take off your shoes and put them on one by one, and then raise your hands and swing them back and forth, so that the mandrill ghost looks like a person walking upside down, he will feel that this person's mana is strong and he is not an opponent, and after observing for a while, he will quietly disappear, and the person will naturally get out of danger.

I wonder if this is possible. Or is it just a joke in your spare time? But I know that the reason why the mandrill ghost can be called a mandrill ghost is actually the most fundamental reason that it is an existence between a demon and a ghost; It can be said that it is a ghost, or it can be said that it is a demon, but in the final analysis, it belongs to the category that is opposed to us!

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