Chapter 15: The Immortal Ancestor
When comforting the deceased or keeping the spirit or paying tribute, the most taboo points are the following: white candles are extinguished, lanterns are spontaneously combusted, red paper is burned, there is no one in front of the spirit, the spirit card is crooked, and the spirit is dressed up to worship the spirit.
When Han Yushan died, I saw someone pierce a red paper figure and burn it for him, and I felt a "buzz" in my head at that time, knowing that this was to make Han Yushan a lonely ghost and difficult to reincarnate! and the human skin lantern, which makes people feel even more creepy. So far, I haven't found out who that person is, how much I hate Han Yushan.
The seventh master said that the white candle went out and then spontaneously combusted, which is really incredible.
"Hmm-" The Seventh Master pondered for a moment and continued, "I was stupid at the time, I have never encountered such a thing!" Blinked a few times and looked over, yes, not a dream! The candle flame of the white candle is shining, could it be that it was not extinguished at all just now?! You must know that that night, I was the only living person in the entire valley, even if I added the master in the coffin, there were only two people, one life and one death, this white candle was extinguished and rekindled, it was too weird! ”
"What about footsteps?" Pighead asked.
"My mind was all about the candle flame, and I still remember the sound of footsteps!" The seventh master smiled bitterly: "When I came back to my senses, I suddenly found that the footsteps had disappeared without knowing when." This made me even more nervous - any action or encounter with this kind of thing before, it was always by the Master's side, but now guarding the Master's coffin, but this kind of thing has happened, how can it make me feel a little incredible, even a little helpless. I took a deep breath and turned around, and looked out at the door of the tent, and it was dark, and there was nothing but the shadows of the trees. ”
"Did you really encounter a ghost?" I said softly.
"Huh! What the hell! The seventh master smacked me: "I turned around and saw nothing, my heart tightened, and I hurriedly turned around again to look at Master's coffin!" Sure enough, just as I thought, a black figure was standing in front of the Master's spirit card, motionless. Behind the master's spirit card, there are five spirit cards, which are the spirit positions of the previous five helmsmen, the black figure is facing away from me, from the figure, very thin, with long hair, a braid at the back of the head, but the dress is not clear. However, I was not so nervous when I saw this person, at least at the time, it seemed that it was a living person, not an evil thing. I immediately clenched my fists and said, I don't know who the predecessors are, who came to Nanpangu late at night, what is the so-called thing? At that time, I thought in my heart that this old friend, perhaps an old friend of the Master, or an old man from our Nanpan Sect, knew that the Master had passed away and came to pay tribute. ”
The second uncle filled the seventh master's teacup with some water, and the seventh master let out a sigh of relief, and then said: "The man ignored me, but took a few glances at those tablets, and then his body shook and disappeared in front of my eyes, leaving only an afterimage. This can make me shocked, you must know that from the tablet to the door of the spiritual shed where I am, there is a distance of about four or five meters, and in the blink of an eye, I only leave an afterimage, just this way, I have never heard of it! I instinctively turned back, and when I turned around, I saw a black face appear in front of me, only two or three inches away from me, and in the light of the white candles, this man's face looked almost forty years old, his face was as heavy as water, and his eyes were gray, not the eyes of a living man, but the eyes of a dead man! ”
Hiss-I suddenly gasped, the dead man's eye that the seventh master said, I had seen it in the living Han Yushan before, and now I think about it, what is the purpose of these two Han brothers?
"But in the blink of an eye, I came back to my senses!" The seventh master coughed dryly: "The appearance of this person is clearly the Gu Yusheng in the painting, that is, the ancestor of our Nanpan faction!" After I saw it clearly, I knelt on the ground directly, and completely believed the master's words in my heart - our ancestor Gu Yusheng did not die at all! ”
"And then?" The pig's head drank a cup of tea and asked as he refilled the water.
"Then, Gu Yusheng disappeared again." The Seventh Master let out a sigh of relief and finished telling this long story: "That was the only time I saw Ancestor Gu Yusheng, and I haven't seen him since. However, that side of the fate also made me believe in the fact that Gu Yusheng, the ancestor of the Nanpan faction, was definitely not dead! Speaking of which, let's go back to my master, when he told me about this, I asked him why Gu Yusheng was able to live for so many years? He said that this Gu Yusheng, who was originally a member of the Gupan tribe, lived for more than 5,000 years, and before the Pan tribe was annexed by the Chiyou Jiuli tribe, this Gu Yusheng was the last experimental object of their tribal leader. ”
"Experiment?" I was stunned for a moment with the pig's head: "The experimental object of the elixir of immortality? ”
"That's right." The seventh master nodded: "At that time, this medicine was really discovered by the tribal leader, but it was not suitable for everyone, and no one studied any prescriptions or anything like that at that time, they were all eaten indiscriminately, if you were lucky, you could live forever, and if you were unlucky, you would be able to live forever, and if you were unlucky, you would be dead." At that time, the Nanpan Shrine had just been built, and the tribal leaders of the Pan clan began to experiment with living slaves, except for the last Gu Yusheng, everyone else seemed to be dead. And after sleeping for thousands of years, this Gu Yusheng seems to have reached the maximum limit of survival and woke up. The man I saw in Master's tent that year, in retrospect, really didn't look like a modern person. ”
"Characteristic?" The second uncle, who had not spoken all this time, finally became interested, and seemed to believe the words of the seventh master.
"That's right." The Seventh Master described: "This person has a very high hairline, a somewhat prominent jaw, sunken eyes, two obvious nasal bones, a thin and long body, and round cheeks, which are the characteristics of the human race thousands of years ago!" And those gray eyes are the eyes of a dead man! Although this Gu Yusheng Ancestor may not have died, but thousands of years have passed, he has still been drugged, and the more I think about it, the more I feel that the credibility of this matter is very high! ”
"According to your meaning...... the second uncle muttered: "This ancestor of the Nanpan faction, maybe after coming out of the Nanpan Divine Palace, he found that he wanted to return to the Nanpan Divine Palace, but he was stopped by something else, and he couldn't beat it, so he happily became the ancestor of the Nanpan faction, and took the group of gold-digging masters at that time to kill back to the Nanpan Divine Palace, but that thing was too powerful, and he went twice in a row, and he returned with a feather, and almost all the troops were wiped out!" ”
"That's the biggest possibility." The seventh master nodded: "However, the result may be slightly off, but I think that when Gu Yusheng returned to the Nanpan Divine Palace for the second time, he had already solved this trouble, although so many people died, he himself was seriously injured." After returning to the Nanpan Valley in Hengshan, he knew that he was seriously injured and needed to recuperate, or that there was something else to do, so he simply pretended to be dead and waited for an opportunity to escape. In this way, Gu Yusheng was completely dead, and he was buried in the Nanpan Valley of Hengshan. For the next hundred years, he may have lived in the Nanpan Shrine. ”
"Hmm...... It's an interesting conjecture. The second uncle smiled and said, "Now even I believe it." If that's the case, when are we going to find this Nanpan Shrine? ”
"It is difficult to determine the specific location of this Nanpan Shrine from the fragment in my hand, it can only be determined according to the characters on it, it should be in the Yuecheng Ridge." The Seventh Master analyzed: "And in this Nanpan Divine Palace, there may be dangers, and we must be fully prepared to go." I have already told Miss Liang Ruoyi before, and I will send her the image of the fragment and ask her to help analyze it using high-tech means, and maybe the results will be available soon. ”
Everyone nodded, and after being silent for a while, the seventh master smiled bitterly: "Actually, the toxicity in my body and the cloth bag master has been diverging faster and faster, I can't wait to find the medicine we need immediately." So, if you think it's feasible, we'll start preparing now, and we'll set off as soon as there's news from Miss Liang Ruoyi. ”
The second uncle responded: "Yes, it's just that I'm still worried about when something big will happen." I always feel that it is not normal for the rivers and lakes to be so calm now. It stands to reason that the Hanjia has been gathered, the Taiji halo has been discovered, and we are also looking for the ten secret realms, but why have those forces been secretly but have not come out to rob it? ”
"I'm waiting for a bigger prey...... Seventh Master smiled bitterly: "This may be one of them, and the other is that neither we, nor Xu Zeming, nor Liang Dong can afford to provoke ordinary people." However, aren't there already some people who have begun to appear, such as Taiwanese, such as Orientals, Chai Lao Wu, and they have followed us since the beginning of the Hanjia operation more than a year ago. ”
Everyone chatted for a while, and when it was time for dinner, the second uncle invited a dinner, and the seventh master said that he would take a pig's head to see the house, and strive to buy him a building recently to get married. I took Li Shuangyue and joked for a while, then sent away the pig's head and the seventh master, and returned to the antique shop.
"Second uncle, is the map in your hand accurate?" It was already more than nine o'clock in the evening when I returned to the antique shop, I closed the door of the shop, and immediately chased after the second uncle and asked.
The second uncle nodded slightly: "I didn't see the fragment in the hands of the seventh master, but I can guarantee that the picture in our hands is more complete than theirs, but...... The Yuecheng Ridge is in the Liangguang and Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau areas, and I am very unfamiliar with it, although the map is more detailed, but I can't find a specific location. Let's wait for Liang Ruoyi to have news from there, let's rest early, I feel a little tired, prepare well in the past two days. ”
After the second uncle finished speaking, he turned around and went upstairs, I cleaned up the front hall and counter, and returned to my room, washed up, and lay on the bed.
Speaking of the map, I suddenly remembered another thing - in the "U" shaped valley of the West Tianshan Mountains, the second uncle took the opportunity to avoid acid and birds and left alone, and entered the medicine garden first through the secret passage. However, he actually left me, my own nephew, behind!