Chapter 24: Ancient Tales: The Sinner's Head (1)
I've heard the saying before that when a proper questioner is looking for an answer, the answer is looking for him.
I didn't understand anything before, but I understand it today, I added a QQ group a few days ago, this group is not simple, it is a group created by some explorers, and most of the people in the group are explorers and adventure enthusiasts. In the group conversation, I read a message that caught my attention.
A person who goes by the online name Doudou said that the last time he witnessed a tiger hurting a person was the case he reported.
As soon as this news came out, it immediately blew up, there were not many chat groups more than ten years ago, and there were not many people, only rich people played this. But at this moment, there seemed to be a lot of people in the group, and the noisy chat records drowned out the language just now, and everyone was asking him about the tiger hurting people, after all, this kind of thing really rarely happens, and it is definitely a new thing.
I added his friend, gave him news, and I wanted to meet him as a journalist. I didn't expect him to agree.
I made an appointment with him, and tomorrow morning, I will go to Villa No. 6 in the new district to find him, and I have prepared a note, of course, it is fake.
I gained his trust with this fake press card. When I entered the new Sun New District, there was only one small child waiting for me.
He is Doudou and his nickname.
When the fifteen-year-old child saw me, he was not afraid, but when he saw the testimony, he immediately ran over and said, "Uncle, let me tell you, I did see a tiger hurting people and biting them to death, and I called the police." But my dad told me that he saw it too, but he saw a man attacking someone else, and he invited a Taoist priest to say that it was his master. ”
I understood what this little brother meant, he wanted to correct his father's mistakes, so he agreed to my visit, wanted to expose the matter, make his father believe him completely, and at the same time let the nonsense of the fake Taoist priest have nowhere to hide.
I went upstairs with him, and I pretended to take pictures and had a notebook.
He knocked on the door, and it was opened by a middle-aged man with a short stubble.
He looked at his son, then at me behind him, and asked, "Who is this?" ”
"Dad, this is remembering, came to interview us."
"Oh?" The middle-aged man let out a cold sigh.
I hurriedly explained that I was a reporter from so-and-so and wanted to visit about tigers hurting people.
But his father refused, and I thought there was no hope, but another voice came from inside the house: "Wait, let him in." ”
I looked over and saw this white-haired old man, who looked very energetic.
The middle-aged man immediately said respectfully: "Master, this is the noble person you are talking about?" ”
"Well, let him in."
I entered, but the little brother who brought me up was blocked from the door. I looked at this white-haired old man carefully, he should be the fortune teller that the little brother said.
Without waiting for me to speak, the white-haired old man said first: "Young man, are you really a reporter??" ”
"I am."
I couldn't stand being asked by him like this, and I suddenly felt a sense of weakness.
"Young, you are very talented, and you have other opinions on this matter, and you dare not say it, right or wrong."
The white-haired old man talked eloquently, looking calm and calm, as if everything was expected by him.
For a while, I didn't know what to do, and I always felt a little guilty of deceiving others, and I was seen by others.
"I was originally a Taoist priest on Xiaomao Mountain, and I also know that you are different from mortals, so don't hide it anymore."
As soon as the white-haired Taoist priest said it, I also plucked up my courage: "I'm not a reporter, I'm just curious about the tiger wounding case." ”
When the old man saw that I was honest, he smiled and said, "I don't know what the little brother thinks?" ”
"I ......" I thought about it again and again, and felt that I believed the Taoist priest in front of me, so I confided in my heart: "This is not a tiger hurting people, but a demon is haunting." ”
Maybe it's what I said, the white-haired Taoist priest, stroked his beard, and smiled: "Yes, my apprentice has also discovered something strange." ”
The apprentice mentioned by the white-haired Taoist priest may be the middle-aged man next to him, and after the master opened his mouth to explain, he added: "I also conclude that this is not a tiger hurting people, but a sinister worker. ”
I bowed my hand and humbly said, "I don't have a master, I just like to study some strange things. ”
"Well, speaking of this case, it reminds me of an incident many years ago." The white-haired Taoist priest squinted, as if he sighed.
"Master, what's the matter?"
The old man sat upright and said, "40 years ago, I traveled to Qinghai with my family teacher, Master Qinghong, where I had a magical experience. ”
"Oh?" The middle-aged man seemed to be hearing his master talk about it for the first time.
"It was autumn, and the master found a ** in a depression, but this ** seemed to have been destroyed, and the master and I struggled to find the entrance. This crypt sits on the female horn two stars, is the tomb of the overlord, in this crypt, the coffin is empty, but the jewels inside are still there. The tutor did not understand the reason, and studied in the cave for a day and a night. Finally, shout, wonderful game. ”
"What do you mean?" The old man's apprentice was also confused.
But the old man looked at me and said, "Don't worry, listen to me, and you will understand." I didn't know why Master said this, so I asked him, and Master told me what he was thinking. It turned out that the owner of this crypt was a person surnamed Shen, who had been punished before his death, so he was unwilling. ”
"Why was he penalized?" I asked.
"This Shen surname, Shang Dynasty, that was the era of personal and holy cohabitation, but this Shen family wanted to live forever, deceived the clansmen, and contributed boys and girls, but the clansmen refused, so he said that he was just passing through the motions and would not hurt the children. And his conditions were very tempting, he promised to pray to the dragon king to bless the land of Qinghai with abundant rain, and in fact, he did. ”