"Lard? Where? The second master, who was sitting on the side braiding the rope, suddenly jumped up, holding the gauze that had been kneaded into strips in his hand and staring at Yuanmei with a shocked look.

"I'm talking about a witchcraft from the Emperor's time. Yuanmei said angrily.

"This is the whole thing, I'm thinking about whether to put pork ribs or pork belly in the stew, you have a lard, I'm hungry, I said Commander Li, where are we going to eat next?" ”

Yuanmei pointed to the military map and said: "According to the human skin map, after this mountain goes out, there should be a drawbridge leading to the opposite bank, and when we get to the opposite side, there are probably less than two days to reach Longchang, but after we came out, we didn't find the drawbridge, I suspect it may be related to the cave we came out of." ”

"What's wrong?" The second master asked with some concern.

"Earthquake or landslide caused the zipline to break, right?" I asked.

"Well, so we need a detour next, but there is a problem at the moment, that is, if you take a detour, this place is the place to go, and the trouble is here. Yuan Mei pointed to a very small dot on the map, we took a closer look, it turned out to be a place called Qiucheng, this place lies on a north-south avenue, to the south is Longchang, both sides of the city are full of continuous mountains, generally in this geographical location of the city is not too big, after all, to the south is a dead city, which is equivalent to a broken road, and the whole town is only a road to the north to enter and exit, which seems very congested.

"It's just a broken city, let's just pass by, what's the trouble?" "The second master and I have the same thoughts, how many villages and counties have passed along the way, and even Zeng Weiguo has personally grabbed it like a tiger's mouth, but so what, isn't it all the way here, there is only this small town left, what is there to be afraid of.

"This is a must-pass place, and it is the last stop to reach Longchang, will the Japanese and Zeng Weiguo turn a blind eye? And that's on the premise of already knowing that we're a few days ahead of them. ”

Indeed, from the moment we handed over the box to the chaser on the gecko ditch, no matter whether anyone is willing to help or not, there will be rumors on the rivers and lakes, with the power of the military commander eagle dog all over the world, Zeng Weiguo and others must have received the news early in the morning, I don't need to look at me to think, the telegram of the military commander may have been filled with this place called Qiucheng, such a town suddenly received special care from the military commander, as early as a few days ago, it should have been crowded with people, the rumors were loud, and now the city is nine times out of ten soldiers and horses, ready for battle, Just wait for the three of us to fall into the net.

"What then?" Hit the past? After the second master finished speaking, he looked at the guy in front of him, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"It's definitely not right now, wait a little longer, our location is still three or four hours away from Autumn City, and then we will walk after noon, and it will be dark at the edge of the city, and then take advantage of the night to observe carefully, and according to the actual situation, it is not too late to make plans." ”

After listening to this, the second master swallowed the saliva that had already flowed out, sat back in a daze, threw down the gauze, took out a small piece of whetstone and began to polish the fish skin knife as black as charcoal.

Anyway, it would be a few hours before I could act, so I continued to ask, "What exactly are you talking about?" ”

"Zhu by the art originated in the emperor period, it is said to be created by the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, and set up Zhu by the official position, Zhu means mantra, by is the cause of the disease, that is to say, Zhu by is a method of using spells to cure diseases, but because the writing was extremely underdeveloped at that time, the inheritance of Zhu by art can only rely on word of mouth, and this way of teaching, the talent requirements of the inheritor are extremely high, after all, it is difficult for ordinary people to remember a sentence word for a few months, not to mention that thousands of mantras are not added to the memory of a lifetime, it is even more difficult, Therefore, the people at that time came up with a method that was not a way, that is, the Zhu You was divided, and some people were responsible for the mantra, this part was called Zhu Ke, and the other part was specifically responsible for remembering which mantra was needed to cure the disease and called Yu Ke, when it was necessary to cure the disease, two people came together, and the Department was responsible for finding the cause of the disease, and Zhu Ke was responsible for reciting the mantra, just like now in the pharmacy, one pulse and one grasping medicine.

But in the end, due to wars, natural disasters and other reasons, the two groups of people were forced to separate, although the person in charge of curing the disease did not have a spell, but he could use the herbs recorded in the "Shennong Baicao Jing", as well as the "Shangshu" in the later Warring States period. The theory of the five elements in "Hong Fan" has gradually become the prototype of today's traditional Chinese medicine, which can be described as a hanging pot to help the world and benefit the people.

And Zhu Ke, who is in charge of the spell, is not so lucky, because they don't know how to see a doctor, the spell they memorized has become a dragon slaying technique, useless, but by chance, they found that the spell can not only cure the disease, but also communicate yin and yang, exorcise ghosts and ward off evil spirits, that is, the source of early Taoist charms, of course, people are good and bad, some people exorcise ghosts, there are people who summon ghosts, and this part of the people who recruit ghosts are only greedy for vanity at the beginning, in order to cater to the royal nobles' desire for rebirth after death, they will apply what they have learned, However, if it is just to recite a few mantras to the rich family at the time of burial, it is not a big deal, the most terrible thing is that they found that there is a kind of resentment in people, although this resentment is not in the five emotions (joy, anger, thought, worry, fear), but it is higher than the five emotions, it is a collection of anger, sorrow, and fear, and these three emotions are all sadness, they found that the power of this collection of grief is very strong, if the resentment remains in the body of the dead, it can make the body not rot for thousands of years, if the resentment is withdrawn, put in a specific space, and then a little control or guidance, This resentment has become an invisible knife to kill people, such as the folk beating villains and tying puppets, which is a continuation of this technique. ”

"Are you talking about ghosts?" "No matter how I hear it, I can feel that this ethereal resentment is like a ghost, it comes and goes without a trace, and it can go to heaven and earth, taking people's lives, and thinking about it makes people's scalps tingle.

"Well, how do you say that? Some similar, but there is also an essential difference, the ghost is the soul of the earth and the soul of the human soul in the three souls and seven spirits, according to the Taoist three corpse insects, after the death of the person, the earth corpse insect located in the tail pass began to gather the earth soul and human soul of the deceased, and then returned to the appearance of the deceased before his death, so the ghosts we see are the appearance of the dead, and the resentment is formless, it is a breath, you can understand it as a mad dog in the human body, although the family knows the master, but there is no emotion, let it out to harm others, take it back to harm yourself. ”

"So how is it possible for this thing to be reborn after death?" And what does it have to do with the humanoid silver coffin and the white-robed female ghost in the cave? ”

"In fact, rebirth is just a scam, those princes and nobles think that as long as the body does not rot, there will be a time to see the light of day, so whether it is a coffin or a potion, and even some will string jade pieces into clothes with gold thread, and wear them on the body, in fact, it is a purpose, that is, embalming, the rich burial in the tomb, but also to get up again, still be able to eat and wear without worry, and enjoy wealth again, but even if it is the quadruple coffin of the Son of Heaven, it will be difficult to escape the end of turning into dry bones after a hundred years, and Zhu Ke can use the accumulation of huge grievances, Pour it into the corpse to keep it from decaying. ”

"Zombies? ”

"Yes, it's just that zombies are naturally formed by chance, and Zhu Ke's method will not make people get up and run around like zombies and harm people everywhere, after all, what the princes and nobles want is to be reborn like ordinary people, to be able to continue to enjoy the life of wine pond meat forest, singing and dancing, instead of drinking blood like beasts, running around without humanity, besides, zombies are afraid of the sun, even if they have become a lu after thousands of years of cultivation, they can only move after dark, which has too many limitations."

Zhu Ke's approach is to let people take the grievances to the extreme, and then save the grievances and instill them into the main body of the tomb, the existence of grievances can make all things retreat, and all insects will not invade, so that the corpse can be preserved, and the bigger the grievance, the more, the stronger the effect, and the longer the corpse can be preserved, according to the scene you described, I think those white-robed female corpses are the main source of grievances, and the metal box is estimated to be a special vessel used to absorb and store grievances, and the reason why it is placed in the stomach of the dead corpse, One is to prevent the female corpses from finding it, and the other is that the material of this box is very unique, and when it is full of resentment, it can be slowly released, of course, this release process must be extremely slow, otherwise it will not last for a thousand years. ”

"Then how can the female corpses be resentful? Wasn't burial very common in ancient times? Even if there were, it wouldn't be as good as you said, would it? "I think of the appearance of those female corpses, as well as the candles and braziers in their hands, which are obviously extremely low-status maids and the like, such people were buried in ancient times, all too common.

Yuanmei lowered her head and thought silently for a long time, then suddenly raised her head and said, "White robe and Nanhong."

I didn't understand what she meant, and waited for her to continue.

"Since resentment is a combination of anger, worry, and fear, as long as these emotions are mobilized to the highest, it is the time when resentment is at its greatest.

In ancient times, it was a symbol of status to be able to wear Nanhong, and the white robes worn by those female corpses and the silver ornaments worn on their heads were exactly the same, which in ancient times, there was only one possibility, that is, their clothes and headdresses were uniformly supplied by the state, that is to say, the original duty of those female corpses was not the maid holding the candlestick at all, but the wizard or the female official in the palace that I had conceived before.

I remember reading in an ancient book, in ancient times, some ethnic minorities worshiped the worm, it is said that this worm can be driven by people after domestication, can enter the body, drive away the pain, can also be used to kill people, and even can be thousands of miles away to quietly take people's lives, this is somewhat similar to the Gu in you, in the final analysis, this worm is actually a kind of worm, but this kind of worm must be used as a chrysalis by the human body, feed on resentment, and this kind of worm is only for royal use, and ordinary people are rare to see.

The royal family has a special person responsible for raising and breeding the worm, but even so, a mature, obedient worm is also difficult to find for a hundred years, first of all, its reproduction is extremely cumbersome and cruel, since it is a human body as a chrysalis, then only prisoners of war or death row prisoners are suitable, the process is to tie prisoners of war or death row prisoners in the cave, starve them for a few days, the food and feces in the body are completely emptied, and then a special venom collected from the puffer fish is pierced into the body, the effect of this venom is to paralyze the whole body, but without losing the feeling, that is, although you can't move, But he still has all five senses.

They will tie the death row prisoner to a pillar and place a bronze mirror on the opposite side, the purpose is to let the death row prisoner see the process of his abuse and death, and then first pull out the nails of the death row prisoner's fingers and toes, then break them one by one, and then break the limbs, and finally disembowel the death row prisoner, dig out the internal organs, but the heart cannot be removed, in order to ensure that the death row prisoner is alive during the whole process, and can clearly feel every trace of pain, that is, to make him unable to survive, to continue to suffer from death, and finally, Put the female worm into the hollowed-out belly, sew it with needle and thread, and then use linen cloth to wrap the person tightly from head to toe, or hang, or put it into the coffin, and after a certain period of time, dismantle the cloth and catch the worm, but despite such a cruel technique, the worm that can really be produced in the end is less than one in a hundred, so the worm gradually disappeared.

I think the death of those white-robed female corpses is probably more cruel than this, first of all, status, secondly, women, and there will be more means of torture. ”

Speaking of this, Yuan Mei couldn't go on anymore, I listened to the numbness, thinking that those white-robed female corpses with beautiful faces were also tortured to death, and I had been in close contact with them, and I couldn't help but sweat layer by layer on my body.

"No wonder those emperors will fuck the country, they are more ruthless than the Japanese, if you want me to say, it's a little too late to die, and the mother should die sooner." "The second master didn't know when he came over, and at this time he was standing behind me and gritted his teeth and said viciously.

"In this way, those female corpses came to me to open the coffin and destroy the corpse in order to resolve their grievances, and even at the cost of destroying their bodies, how much torture did they suffer before they were willing to fight for a jade stone" I, like the second master, had some pity for those female corpses.

"What's even more cruel is that the spell scriptures on the quilt in the coffin should be used to exorcise ghosts and ward off evil spirits, in order to prevent the female corpses from opening the coffin without authorization, and those strange birds, strange fish, including poisonous geckos, are artificially set up in them, and in order to prevent the living from entering, the hanging coffins and white-robed female ghosts outside the door don't know what happened inside at all, and they are only used to guard the tomb door. If it weren't for us passing through this place, those female corpses don't know how long it would take to resolve this thousand-year-old grudge. Listening to the tone, Yuanmei also seemed to be a little sad.

"By the way, after talking about it for a long time, who is lying in that humanoid coffin?" ”

Yuanmei shook her head: "There are not many records about Yelang Kingdom, and Yelang is different from other kingdoms, their capital is not fixed, which is why no one has been able to find the specific location of this country so far, according to historical records, Yelang's last battle was during the Heping period of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty, Yelang fought with a small southern country, due to disobedience to the mediation of the imperial court, Chen Li, the newly appointed county guard of the Han Dynasty, went deep into the hinterland of Yelang and killed the last king of Yelang named Xing, and Yelang disappeared from then on.

I think there is a lot of article in this, first of all, Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty is the famous Shuangfeiyan Emperor Liu Biao, this person can be described as extremely absurd, greedy for beauty, does not ask about the world, is a well-known emperor of the nest, that is, because of him, there was a later Wang Mang usurped the throne, and Chen Li is just a county guard, can easily kill the Yelang King who had hundreds of thousands of troops back then, this is even more fantastical, if it is true, then there is only one explanation, before Xing, Yelang has no one, that is, The corpse in the silver coffin should be Xing's previous king or earlier, but who it is, there is no record in the history books, and I have nowhere to verify. ”

After saying this, Yuanmei put away the map, stood up and patted the soil and said, "Okay, see that the sky is almost dark, clean up and go." ”