Chapter 30: The Ghost (text)
I looked at the tombstone and read the words out there.
It is engraved with the tomb of Meng Weiye, the teacher of the ancient Kaoen, and after reading it, it is engraved with the inscription "Ye Jiafu".
"Master, I have the same surname as you."
"My grandfather's name is Meng Weiye." Meng Changqing said lightly.
"What? Is this your grandfather? "I screamed in fear.
Meng Changqing randomly gave me a brain meltdown, and reprimanded: "What are you talking about, it may just be the same name." ”
"Is your grandfather a Taoist priest?"
"Yes."
I sighed, thinking to myself where there is such a coincidence, judging from this tombstone, this Meng Weiye seems to be his grandfather's master, and his grandfather knows Taoism, so his master should also be a Taoist, and Meng Changqing's grandfather is also a Taoist. In my opinion, it is Meng Changqing's grandfather buried here. It's just that I don't understand, how did my grandfather get involved with Grandpa Meng Changqing, two people who are so far away?
Meng Changqing's face was extremely calm, as if he had not been affected at all, and then got up casually and went around the grave, and after turning around a few times, he bent down and picked it up on the ground, and after a while, a peach stake appeared from the soil.
Meng Changqing then bent down every nine steps around the tomb to pick up the soil, and each time he was able to pick up a set of wooden stakes, so that a total of eight were pulled out, and between this set of wooden stakes there were ropes one by one.
Meng Changqing stepped back and looked at these things in a daze.
I stepped forward to ask him what this was, and Meng Changqing said with a heavy face: "According to the feng shui of the tomb construction, the person who built the tomb wanted to make the corpse inside mutate, but this peach stake and the rope to tie the corpse are obviously to prevent the corpse of the person inside, what is your grandfather's intention?" It's puzzling. ”
The villagers didn't understand what Meng Changqing said, and only asked what they saw.
Meng Changqing smiled silently, and then asked someone to find three sticks of incense and light them and insert them around the tomb.
Half an hour later, all the three incense sticks were extinguished, Meng Changqing took the incense and looked at it, and all the three incense sticks were exactly the same length.
I asked him what kind of incense it was, and he said a word of peace incense, and then borrowed a hoe from the villagers to dig the grave.
I saw that he was going to dig a grave, and I learned from the tombstone that it was my grandfather's master, so I tried to stop him, so I said, "What if it's your grandfather?" ”
"It's my grandfather, I'm going to dig him out even more, I can't let him suffer inside."
When the villagers saw Meng Changqing digging the grave, they stopped it and said that it was just a clothed mound, and there was only an empty coffin inside, so what was it digging for.
Meng Changqing turned his head and said that there must be someone inside, and it was very likely to be his grandfather.
When the villagers heard this, they all felt that it was impossible, how far away Meng Changqing was, how could his grandfather be buried here.
Meng Changqing carried a hoe to the grave, and was about to dig down with a hoe, when a huge yellow shadow suddenly appeared from a big hole in the middle of the grave and pounced towards Meng Changqing.
The speed was extremely fast, although Meng Changqing tried his best to dodge, but jumping out at such a close distance, he couldn't avoid it.
At this moment, Li Yan suddenly appeared from the bracelet and blocked Meng Changqing's front, and then Li Yan leaned back, and the yellow shadow directly pierced Li Yan's chest and ran to the side.
When Meng Changqing saw it, he turned his head and recited the incantation violently, and the yellow shadow immediately stopped moving, and when we looked at it, the yellow shadow turned out to be a weasel.
On the other hand, Li Yan's big hole in her chest is slowly being filled, and the rest of her body is becoming lighter and lighter, which is a little illusory.
"Are you alright?" Meng Changqing stepped forward to support Li Yan and asked with concern, In addition to being so gentle to Xiaoxiao, it is the first time I have seen him care so much about people.
Li Yan frowned and shook her head and said that it was okay, and then looked at the frightened eyes of the villagers and dodged in a hurry.
Meng Changqing then said thank you to Li Yan, and at the same time recited a spell to let her enter the bracelet.
After Li Yan entered, Meng Changqing went to the side of the weasel to take a look, pulled out the money sword and slapped it violently, the weasel didn't even scream, and dissipated directly.
I was shocked, this weasel can also become a ghost?
After the weasel was photographed and dissipated, Meng Changqing turned his head to look at the villagers and explained: "This weasel should have lived in this tomb before, and died in it, because it was affected by this feng shui and became a ghost. ”
I was so frightened that even the weasel had become a ghost, let alone the people inside.
Meng Changqing said that, he walked to the grave with a hoe, and with a wave of the hoe and dug down gently, the middle of the grave immediately collapsed, revealing a large hole like a cellar.
At the mouth of the big hole was a huge iron rod, to which were tied two extremely thick iron cables, and on the iron ropes hung a black coffin.
Usually when a coffin is buried here, a pit is dug in the ground, and the coffin is put in and dirt is added, and it is over, I have never seen a coffin buried like this.
A large hole shaped like a cellar was dug under the tomb, and the coffin was hung in the middle of the cellar.
There is a custom in the countryside that the dead must be grounded, otherwise they cannot go to hell and be reincarnated, and their souls will always be locked in a coffin and suffer, and they cannot leave.
No one wants their relatives to be locked in a coffin to suffer, so in our few villages, the most taboo thing for the dead is to hang in the air, and only on the days of the wake, the coffin will be placed on the bench without falling to the ground, the purpose is to let the relatives accompany the deceased for a while.
The onlookers were shocked when they saw the coffin by the moonlight outside, and they were about to say that my grandfather was not, but when they saw me here, they changed their words.
"Fortunately, this is just a clothed mound, if there are dead people buried inside, the three generations in the house will hate Ye Jiafu."
Meng Changqing looked at the coffin for a while, and then asked us all to go back, it was unfortunate to stay here, and the villagers also felt so, and heard Meng Changqing say that they each went home with hoes.
Xiaoxiao and I had been walking for a while, but halfway through, Xiaoxiao looked up and asked me, "Isn't my uncle afraid of being there alone?" ”
I wondered when he had crawled, but then I thought, what if it was really Meng Changqing's grandfather? After thinking about it, as his apprentice, he couldn't just leave, so he returned with Xiaoxiao.
Meng Changqing was still standing on the edge of the cellar and looking inside, when he heard our footsteps, he glanced back, and smiled when he saw that it was the two of us, and did not reprimand us, but just asked us to stay away from the cellar, and asked me to look at Xiaoxiao a little, so as not to let her fall.
I hummed and asked Meng Changqing what the coffin meant.
Meng Changqing listened and said: "The living are most afraid of not being down-to-earth, and the dead are the most afraid of not being grounded. Your grandfather doesn't know how much hatred he has with the people in this coffin, and he tried his best to make him mutate, and Xiangjiang tried to bind him here, if it wasn't for us to come, the people in this coffin don't know how long they would be locked up. ”
After listening to Meng Changqing's words, although I was speechless, I always felt that my grandfather had his own plans, after all, this was his master.
"But it's his master, he shouldn't have done it on purpose." I said.
"For so many years, I haven't plucked the grass once for his master, and I haven't put on incense once, and this is not intentional?" Meng Changqing looked a little angry, and his tone of voice was stiffer, and I could see that he was trying his best to restrain his anger.
I sighed, and now I'm just praying that the people in here really have nothing to do with Meng Changqing.
Meng Changqing looked at it for a while and asked me to pull Xiaoxiao back away, he said that the people in the coffin have been tortured in this way for so long, and the resentment must be unprecedented, and it will be dangerous for us to get too close.
When I saw that he seemed to be about to open the coffin, I said that it would be good to keep him in the coffin, why should I let him out.
He said that if we don't solve this matter, it will rain in the mountains for a few days, and the ropes that bind the corpses outside will be washed away, or the peach stakes will be loosened, or the tomb robbers will accidentally dig up the grave, and the things inside will come out, and there will be no one to solve it.
He was always right, and I was speechless, so I could only stand aside and watch him silently, and by the way, I told him to be careful.
He strengthened the mahogany stakes outside, and then took out some yellow flags and copper coins and set them up at the mouth of the large cellar.
At the same time, he said to me: "When I do things, you two must see clearly, I will not deliberately teach you anything, practice brings true knowledge, after reading it, you can practice it yourself, whether you can learn and achieve it depends on your ability." ”
I've been watching it since the night I saw him, and although he kept saying that he would teach me only when I meditated, I remembered a lot of things now, but I haven't practiced it much, and the last time Xiaoxiao sleepwalked in me, it was the first time I practiced, but I chose the wrong hand and spell.
After Meng Changqing finished speaking, he continued to swing at the mouth of the big cellar, and after a while, he clapped his hands, and then took out several yellow talismans from his pocket, lit them, and threw them in.
There was a lot of biogas in it, and as soon as Huang Fu threw it in, a fireball exploded at the mouth of the big cellar, and then slowly descended, Meng Changqing walked to the edge of the coffin and looked at it a few times before retreating to the side and reciting the incantation.
This time he recited the mantra very harshly, but this time he just recited it extremely gently, and his voice sounded comfortable.
After he recited it, I asked him what kind of mantra he was reciting, and he said that it was a bathing soul mantra, which was used to transcend the souls of the dead.
I sighed, in the past, he used to recite any resentful ghosts directly, such as soul arresting spells and immobilization spells, and rarely surpassed others.
Thinking that he had his reasons, I didn't care too much, but I was afraid that the things inside would come out and hurt him.
After he had read it a few times, the coffin in the cellar should have burned, and the cellar was blazing, and he opened his eyes to look at it, and then continued to read it without stopping.
When I read about the fifteenth minute, the fire in the cellar suddenly stopped, and when I saw it, I immediately called him, and he opened his eyes, then stood up, drew his money sword, and at the same time turned to us and said, "You go first." ”
As he was talking, a resentful ghost in a red robe came out of the cellar and was already standing behind Meng Changqing, I hurriedly reminded Meng Changqing, Meng Changqing immediately turned around and swung his sword.
I took a look, the face contour and charm of this powerful ghost were somewhat similar to Meng Changqing, and I immediately felt that this person should be Meng Changqing's grandfather.
Meng Changqing naturally noticed it, and after a little distraction, the ghost glanced at Meng Changqing, and for some reason, he turned around and jumped directly into the forest and disappeared, faster than all the ghosts we had seen before.
Seeing him run away, Meng Changqing didn't chase him, and only after he disappeared did he put away the money sword and said to me: "You have to find your grandfather, this powerful ghost will definitely seek revenge on your grandfather." ”
I had thought of this a long time ago, and I also saw that Meng Changqing deliberately let this resentful ghost go just now, and when I saw the faces of the two of them, I knew that this ghost was Meng Changqing's grandfather.
Meng Changqing didn't make a move on this ghost, and this ghost didn't make a move on Meng Changqing, presumably they were already like mirrors.
What I didn't expect was that Meng Changqing had always been an outsider, and now he was also involved, and I couldn't see more and more clearly what was going on.
Now it seems that grandpa is not the grandpa I knew before, nor is he the good person I used to be, as for the second grandmother, what is the reason why she left away and refused to come back? Is it because of grandpa?
In fact, I am still struggling with one thing, that is, if this is really Meng Changqing's master, and grandpa buried him like this, wouldn't Meng Changqing hold a grudge against grandpa?
When I was thinking here, the temperature under the cellar had dropped, and Meng Changqing didn't care what I thought, jumped into the cellar and lifted the lid of the coffin that had been burned black to take a look.
In addition to the bones of a weasel, there were only some clothes, and some Taoist belongings, Meng Changqing took out all these things and threw them up, and then he also climbed up along the iron cable where the coffin was hung.
Most of the clothes thrown out were Dharma robes and Taoist robes, and there were some copper coins and other things, and a photo was also found between these clothes, there were two people in the photo, one of them was about fifteen years old, and it could be seen at a glance that he was my grandfather, and behind my grandfather stood a man in his thirties, who looked like Meng Changqing. It should be the owner of this tomb, grandpa's master, and Meng Changqing's grandfather.
Meng Changqing frowned when he saw the photo, then put the photo in his pocket and burned all the things on the ground with a fire.
"I think he's really your grandfather." I saw that Meng Changqing didn't say anything for a long time, so I took the initiative to remind him.
He listened to it, and didn't seem to care much, but just speculated about his grandfather's intentions, and he couldn't figure out how much hatred his grandfather had with his master, so much so that he would torture him in this way when he died
After staying in this big cellar for a long time, Meng Changqing took us back to the village, borrowed some glutinous rice from the village, and then prepared some things and left.
He hadn't slept for a few days, and Murana was worried about his body and wanted to keep him, but he refused, saying that staying up late like this was nothing.
After saying goodbye to the villagers and leaving the village, Meng Changqing asked Meng Changqing where we were going on the way, Meng Changqing said that he was looking for the corpse, and the ghost was nowhere to be found, but he hoped that the corpse could find my grandfather first.
Yejiawan is already on the border of our county, and there are a few mountains in the past, and the villagers of Yejiawan told us about the situation there.
There are two counties adjacent to here, and the three counties intersect at a point, Yejiawan has a saying called 'one foot on three counties', which is the intersection of the three counties, there is a village, the village is divided into three pieces, each piece belongs to a county, stepping on the junction of these three pieces is equivalent to stepping on the land of these three counties at the same time.
This village is called Sanhe Village, and some people in Yejiawan have been there before and know some of the situation there.
The villagers of Yejiawan said that when Grandpa came back at the age of 22, he came back from there, and we can now ask about Grandpa while we go to chase the corpse.
This side was separated by two mountains, and it took four hours to walk to arrive, looking for traces of walking corpses along the way, and Meng Changqing saw that we had nothing to say on the way, so he took the initiative to find a topic.
He took out a large seal covered with patina from his arms, the big seal was engraved with a turtle, the front of the seal was engraved with runes, divided into three columns, on both sides I knew a day and a month, and the middle column was engraved with the words 'Shangqing Dadong Seal'.
Meng Changqing took it out and showed it to me for a while, then said: "This is what I found in the tomb just now, this is the Dharma seal of Maoshan, Maoshan is the Shangqing Authentic Sect, this big seal is called the Shangqing Dadong Dharma Seal, it is the treasure of Maoshan Mountain, and only the Maoshan Sect can have it." It's just that this one is a fake. ”
I looked at this big seal, and thought about it for a long time before I remembered, I also saw such a thing in the urn jar in my grandfather's house, once I broke the urn jar, and a lot of strange things fell out of it, one of the golden seals caught my attention, I specially took it out and looked at it, and the size and shape were the same as those in Meng Changqing's hand, but the color was different. That time, I didn't see it clearly, but my grandfather found out, and after being beaten, I didn't dare to touch that thing anymore, and I didn't dare to ask.
When I told Meng Changqing that my grandfather also had such a thing, Meng Changqing was taken aback and hurriedly asked about the details of his grandfather's big seal.
I described it according to my memory, Meng Changqing raised his head and sighed after hearing it, and got into big trouble, I asked what the trouble was, and he said that we got into trouble with the head of Maoshan.