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After a few catchers went down, and after a meal, there was a series of noisy noises in the cave, and then a few catchers climbed up the hole with a child down the wooden ladder.

At this time, my great-grandfather took a closer look at the child, wasn't it Wang Xiaoliang, the son of his friend Wang Liang, and when he saw the child, my great-grandfather showed a happy face, and hurriedly took the child from a few catchers, nodded again and again, and thanked them.

At this time, Wang Xiaohao seemed to be asleep, and my great-grandfather tried it with his hand under his nose, and he was angry, shouted a few times, but there was no movement. The head catcher on the side said that Wang Xiaoliang may have been stunned by drugs such as incense, and he could wake up with a spray of cold water.

At this time, several catchers reported to the head catcher that the inside of the cave is not large, and it is divided into two layers, inside and outside, and the outer layer is arranged like a Taoist temple, with three clear statues, incense burners, futons and other items; On the inner floor, there is a triangular round copper tripod covered with a lid in the middle, and there is a wooden bed next to the copper tripod, Wang Xiaoliang was stripped naked and tied to the small bed before. Next to the cot there was an earthen platform on which several sharp knives of various sizes were placed. Looking at the meaning, it seems that the people here want to do something to Wang Xiaoliang, but they haven't had time to do it yet.

Except for Wang Xiaoliang, the kid in the cave, the catchers didn't find anyone else.

According to my estimates, it may be because of my great-grandfather, who was startled by the grass last night, and now all the people inside have run away, and they are in a hurry, and they haven't had time to pack up their things.

According to several catchers, the strangest thing in the cave is that there are more than a dozen small jars sealed with red cloth stacked outside, which look new and old, and I don't know what they are for.

After listening to a few catchers, he planned to go down to the cave to take a look. At this time, my great-grandfather hurriedly handed Wang Xiaoliang in his arms to a villager next to him, saying that he wanted to go down with the head catcher.

At the moment, it seems that this may have something to do with a certain Taoism, because there are Sanqing statues, futons and other items in it, plus the old man with the red ghost before is dressed as a Taoist priest, this is likely to be a secret stronghold of theirs, as for what this stronghold is used for, it is difficult to judge if you don't go down and take a look.

My great-grandfather said to the head catcher that he knew a little bit about Taoism, and he might be able to see something when he went down.

Hearing what my great-grandfather said, the catcher nodded in agreement, and then my great-grandfather took the lead, and the two of them each had a torch, and they went down the ladder to the cave one after the other.

Friends who live by the Yellow River may know best that the land on the side of the Yellow River is semi-sandy soil, very soft, and it is very difficult to make a hole in the ground.

On the one hand, the soil is soft and there is a high chance of landslide, and on the other hand, the groundwater level is high and the possibility of permeability is very high, so it is almost impossible to make a hole in this kind of soil.

However, the southeast corner of Sanwangzhuang this barren slope geology is relatively special, the soil desertification is not serious, the loess is the majority, and the soil is very clayey, and the terrain is higher than other places, even if you dig three or four meters down, the possibility of permeability is very small. This shows that the person who digs the hole here has a bit of a brain and may know a little bit about Feng Shui.

After going down to the bottom of the cave, my great-grandfather held a torch to take a picture of the hole, the situation in the hole is similar to a few catches, the space is not large, it is divided into two layers, the inner layer can not be seen for the time being, the outer layer, about half the size of a room, roughly like a round arch, very much like the earthen cave dug in Shaanxi in the past, the cave wall and the top of the cave are horizontally and vertically topped with a lot of wooden rafters, the purpose is mainly to prevent collapse.

On the earthen wall near the north, facing south and back to north, there are three half-person-high painted pottery statues embedded in the air, that is, the statues of Sanqing, from left to right: Taiqing Taishang Laojun, Yuqing Yuan Shi Tianzun, Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun.

In front of the statue of Sanqing is a small earthen platform, there is a pile of incense burner on the platform, there is a lot of residual ash in the incense burner, it seems that someone gives incense to these three gods every day. In front of the incense burner, my great-grandfather also found a letter with a proper arrangement.

The head catcher also found the letter at this time, walked over and took the letter in his hand, and without saying a word, opened it and read it.

My great-grandfather was standing by and looking at the head catcher at this time, and the more he looked at the headcatcher, the more ugly his face became, and my great-grandfather felt that what was written on it was not a good thing.

On both sides of the earthen platform, as those caught quickly, there are also a lot of small jars, the size of a teapot, the mouth of the jar is all sealed with red cloth, hemp rope tie, and a yellow charm is attached to the red cloth sealed.

While he was looking at the letter, my great-grandfather looked at the little jars, and without looking too much, he took a look. But at this moment, my great-grandfather's face changed suddenly, and cold sweat broke out from his forehead.

He suppressed the bad premonition in his heart, walked a few steps, picked up one of the jars, turned it over and looked at the bottom of the altar, and saw that there was also a yellow charm pasted at the bottom of the altar.

At this moment, my great-grandfather's cold sweat slid down his forehead and cheeks, and his hands trembled, and he hurriedly put the jar back in its place.

At this moment, my great-grandfather's shoulder was slammed on the shoulder, my great-grandfather gasped, he hurriedly looked back, and saw the head catcher standing behind him, and breathed a sigh of relief, the one who patted my great-grandfather on the shoulder just now was undoubtedly this head catcher.

The head catcher looked very bad at this time, and handed the letter in his hand to my great-grandfather, who looked down and saw that the letter was not answered, and shook his head in horror and said, "I don't know how to read." ”

My great-grandfather actually knew a few words at this time, Wang Shoudao taught him some words after accepting him as an apprentice, and later my great-grandmother also taught him a lot of words, but with his current literacy ability, it is okay to recognize his name, if you read the letter and read, it will be a little worse, rather than take the letter to see a half-understanding, it is better not to read it.

When he heard that my great-grandfather couldn't read, he put the letter away, and then asked my great-grandfather, "Mr. Liu, when you were above, you said that you have an understanding of Taoism, so have you ever heard of 'Qingshui Sect'?" ”

"Qingshui Sect ......" my great-grandfather thought for a while and said, "I heard from my master, and my master said that this is a cult that specializes in cheating people out of money." ”

The head catcher heard a wry smile, "Mr. Liu only knows one, I don't know the other, as far as I know, the Qingshui Sect was founded in the early years of Kangxi, also called the Bagua Sect, the Five Meat Dao, most of the followers are some ruffians in the market, idle people, they first deceived the people with witchcraft, collected money, and then used witchcraft to trick the people into rebellion, and were suppressed by the imperial court many times, in the early years, I also participated in a suppression action. This time, the disappearance of children across the country is related to the Qingshui Sect. ”

"What the hell is going on, is it written on that letter?" My great-grandfather didn't expect that this head catcher knew more about these Taoist allusions than he did, and he thought that there must be some important information written in the letter.

Hearing my great-grandfather ask, Catcher sighed softly, and then said: "Yes, it's written on the letter, this letter says that a few months ago, the leader of the Qingshui Sect had a dream, dreaming that Taishang Laojun went down to earth, and in the dream he passed on a refining immortality pill, as long as the medicinal materials on the pill are found, you can refine the immortality pill......" Catcher said, and sighed again, "There are two flavors of medicinal materials on the pill, one is 'child's heart', and the other is 'virgin yin'......"

Speaking of which, no matter how stupid my great-grandfather is, he can figure out what is going on. The leader of the Qingshui Sect must have passed on the Danfang to his followers, who were all over the country and began to steal children in various ways almost at the same time, resulting in thousands of cases of missing children across the country.

Is there an immortal Fang in this world, my great-grandfather doesn't know, but he knows what kind of "childlike heart" and "virgin yin" alchemy is used, it's pure nonsense, how can the elixir be refined with human organs? Maybe this Qingshui Sect leader alchemy is fake, and it is true that he wants to disrupt the country.

However, whether he is in chaos or not has nothing to do with my great-grandfather and the grass people, whoever is the emperor is the same, and the common people should suffer a lot of crimes. But then again, these Qingshui Sect disciples came to Sanwangzhuang to harm the children, then it has something to do with my great-grandfather, if they have the ability, they will do it with the real swords and guns of the imperial court, what kind of ability is it to harm the common people? Besides, who can watch the children in the neighborhood dig out their hearts and livers? Anyway, my great-grandfather couldn't stand it, so he immediately gritted his teeth.

And at this time, in my great-grandfather's opinion, among the Qingshui Sect disciples who robbed children in their area, there were people who knew evil arts, and these sealed jars next to the earth platform were the best proof, because each of these jars was sealed with a powerful ghost.

My great-grandfather once heard his master Wang Shoudao say that in the Taoist Taoism, there is a kind of ...... There is a spell that may be called "Dementor Magic", and how this spell is made, my great-grandfather did not know, and I don't know. Wang Shoudao told him that the Taoist priests would put the captured ghosts into the altar, seal them with red cloth, tie them with hemp rope, and then paste a Taoist talisman on the top of the altar. Taoist priests generally only use jars to collect some powerful ghosts that cannot be sent away.

Those of us who catch ghosts know that catching ghosts in general is not actually "catching", but "sending", sending them to where they should go, you don't ask me where the "ghosts" are sent, I really don't know this, we just use the ancestral method to "send", regardless of where they are sent. According to my personal guess, it may have been sent to another space, maybe it was the underworld, maybe it was heaven, or maybe it was sent to a place where it can no longer harass the parties, don't be hypocritical with me, I really don't know