Chapter 2: Honka and the Dragon
There is a village in our town called Taiping Village, and one of the most famous places in the village is called Songshupo. As the name suggests, the pine slope is named because www.biquge.info there is an ancient pine, the pine tree is lush, tall and straight, I used to go there to play when I was a child, this ancient pine should take five or six people to hold hands and enclose it.
No one knows how long this ancient pine has existed, but in 2003 it was skinned and died, and there are many incredible secrets about why it died. A well, a dragon, a tree, a crazy Taoist. The entanglement between them has become a most beautiful legend.
In ancient times, a strange thing happened in the village next to the pine slope.
In the countryside of Chongqing, it is popular to make bacon, which is to marinate the pork after killing the pig during the Chinese New Year, then smoke it with cypress leaves, and then hang it on the kitchen stove.
There was a time when the bacon that people had made disappeared, and everyone felt very strange, thinking that a thief had come to the village. Later, people have been paying attention to the fact that in the middle of the night, the moon hangs high, and the night wind continues, and it is about the night of May and June, when a villager hears movement in his kitchen, he lights up kerosene and goes to check.
The night was very quiet, the villagers cautiously came to their kitchen, by the faint light of the kerosene lamp, the villagers found a strange-looking little boy, the little boy only around a red belly pocket, the whole body skin is blue, the strangest thing is that the little boy has two small horns on his head.
This strange little boy was standing on his stove at this time, reaching for bacon.
The name of the village shouted to catch the thief, and when the strange child saw that he had been discovered, he dropped the piece of meat in his hand, jumped off the stove, and ran away from the villager.
The villager chased after him, and then shouted on the village road: "Catch the thief, catch the meat thief!" When the villagers heard the shouts of the villagers, they all rushed out of their houses with hoes, and the strange children ran faster when they saw this, and the villagers raised the hoes in their hands and chased after them.
The strange child actually ran to the ancient well in the village, only to hear a "plop" The strange child plunged into the ancient well.
People thought that the child was forced to commit suicide by jumping into the well, and everyone was very upset, so everyone went to the well to retrieve the child's body, but nothing was found. The people of the village did not dare to make a public announcement, they thought that they had killed a child, and even if they stole something, they would not force the little boy to die, and from then on they would not dare to eat the water from the well.
The villagers began to secretly inquire about the strange little boy, but after asking several villages next door, they found no missing child.
But within a few days of the strange little boy jumping in, strange things happened again, and the bacon in the village began to disappear again.
One dark and windy night, a family in the village found out again, the strange little boy, the whole village once again angrily chased out, but when everyone chased to the ancient well, the strange little boy jumped into the well again. The villagers were stunned by this, and they all agreed that it was the ghost of a strange boy, and after deliberation, the villagers decided to ask the witch to catch the ghost.
Witch Liu was a very powerful witch in the town at that time, and the people from Taiping Village came to Witch Liu's house with a generous gift and told Witch Liu about the strange little boy in the village who stole meat and jumped into a well.
After hearing this, Witch Liu didn't think about it, so she told the village name that this must be a ghost who drowned in an ancient well, and that in order to drive away this ghost, it was necessary to do a ritual to surpass it.
Under the heavy invitation of the Taiping villagers, Witch Liu brought some instruments to Taiping Village, the village of Songshupo.
It was a clear night with stars in the night sky, the moon was round and bright, and the occasional refreshing night breeze blew. Witch Liu came to the ancient well with her own instruments and set up an altar to prepare for the ceremony, but as soon as she came to the altar by the well and picked up the peach wood sword in her hand, the moon in the sky was suddenly covered by dark clouds, and the originally clear night sky immediately dimmed.
"Cluck, cluck!" Suddenly, from the ancient well, a child's strange laughter came out, and this strange laughter made people's scalps tingle when they heard it.
"Who dares to make trouble here, show up quickly, and be as urgent as a law!" Seeing this, Witch Liu immediately lit a yellow talisman and shouted loudly. The onlookers in the village stared at the wellhead in amazement, and everyone did not dare to make a breath of air, and they all watched all this quietly.
"Aung Aang!" A deafening sound of the dragon's groan broke the silence, after the sound of the dragon's groan, the ancient well erupted more than 5 meters high water column, the water column turned into a splash of water and fell around the ancient well, the village name next to the ancient well who watched Witch Liu's deeds immediately hugged his head and fled. Just when everyone was panicking, there was a scream from Witch Liu in the panic, followed by a "plop", when everyone came back to their senses, the villagers found that the front of the altar was empty, and the Witch Liu who did the business had long disappeared, and the villagers all ran back home and closed the door when they saw this situation.
Since then, the people in the village have been more sure that this is a ghost, and no one dares to provoke this ghost again, and everyone is no longer looking for someone to catch this ghost, and the village held a meeting and decided to send bacon to the well every day, and it is strange that the little ghost has not appeared since then, and the village has begun to live a peaceful life again, but there is still a pimple in the hearts of the people in the village.
This incident slowly began to be forgotten by the villagers, but one day a Taoist priest dressed in tatters came to the village, and people began to sound the evil ghost in the ancient well.
The Taoist priest was crazy, with words that people could not understand, dressed in a tattered and dirt-stained green Taoist robe, carrying a gourd for wine in his hand and a sword hanging from his waist.
This is the time of the wax moon, every household in the village is smoking bacon, the whole village is full of smoke, and the aroma of meat is overflowing. The Taoist priest walked madly on the village road, he grabbed a passing villager, and the Taoist priest said to the villager: "I am here to help you seal the evil dragon." When the villagers heard this, they thought it was inconceivable, and hurriedly ran away, thinking that this Taoist priest must be a madman.
Where in the world is there a dragon, if you want to cheat money, make up a few people to believe, the villager thought to himself.
"The demonic aura here is strong, and the poor road can be expected to have a bright dragon here." The mad Taoist priest picked up the gourd on his waist, took a sip of wine, and shouted loudly on the village road.
When the people in the village heard the words of the mad Taoist, they all ran out of their homes, and everyone began to point their fingers and talk about it. This Taoist priest was good, and he actually sat on the steps of a villager's house, and the crazy Taoist priest took another sip of wine and said: "The dragon qi in your village is very heavy, but in my opinion, this dragon has not yet achieved the right result of cultivation, and this is the best time to seal it." "Haha, that's crazy." When the villagers heard the words of the mad priest, they all said nonsense.
"It doesn't matter if you believe it or not, I'm just here to do the right thing for heaven, everyone please come with me." The Taoist priest stood up drunkenly and walked backwards in the direction of the ancient well. Soon the mad priest came to the haunted ancient well, and he staggered to the well and said, "The dragon lives in this well." When the villagers heard the Taoist priest say this, some of them really believed it.
When the Taoist priest saw that everyone was following, he poured the wine from his gourd wine pot into the ancient well, and all the villagers watched the mad Taoist's movements intently, and when the mad Taoist priest put away his gourd, suddenly the wind was raging, and the sky was full of dark clouds, "Angang!" There was a dragon chant from the well.
The well water suddenly spewed out very high water, and the mad Taoist priest hurriedly retreated when he saw this, but he still splashed his water.
"Is there really a dragon in the well, isn't it a ghost?" The villagers began to believe the words of the Taoist priest, and began to talk nonsense: "It seems that this Taoist priest still has a little ability." Just when everyone was talking, the head of a monster suddenly appeared at the mouth of the well, and when they saw the head of this monster, the villagers began to scream, only to see that this head was huge, hideous and terrifying, the head was covered with cyan hair, the eyes were like light bulbs, the two whiskers at the corners of the mouth were dragged long, and the mouth was covered with sharp fangs, and it actually had two horns like a deer, this is not the legendary dragon.
"Is that a dragon? It's really a dragon, a legendary dragon. The villagers' eyes were dumbfounded, looking at the faucet at the wellhead, someone actually started to tremble.
"Hurry up and get a cauldron, you can't let it out." When the Taoist priest saw that the dragon was about to come out of the well, he quickly drew the long sword at his waist and played a sword trick to suppress the evil dragon from rushing out of the well. The Taoist priest recited some incantations in his mouth that he couldn't understand the name of the village, and slowly the dragon was suppressed back into the well.
At this time, a villager came over with a cauldron and handed it to the Taoist priest. The Taoist priest covered the mouth of the well with a cauldron and put a charm, then walked not far from the village and pulled out a small pine tree and planted it in one place.
After doing this, the Taoist priest said; "The evil dragon has been sealed by me, the pot covers the dragon's head, the pine tree entangles the dragon's tail, you must protect this pot, and you can't let the pine tree die, the pot is bad, the tree dies, and the dragon comes out." After the Taoist priest finished speaking, he turned into a flash of light and disappeared.
The people in the village have always remembered the advice of the Taoist priest, and I don't know how many years have passed. There has always been an ancient motto in the village to protect the pot and the tree. I've been to that ancient pine a few times, and I've seen the well covered with a pot.
In 2003, when I was in junior high school, the ancient pine died, and the village disappeared. The government has been hiding this matter, and only the locals know about it. Later, I heard from others that one day an old Chinese medicine doctor came to our town, and he released the news that the bark of pine trees that are more than 1,000 years old can cure cancer.
Because of this news, the ancient pine became a victim, and in less than a month, the ancient pine tree on the pine slope was stripped of its bark. Honka died without bark, and I remember my third aunt's family going to peel a basket of bark, but the bark was useless. After the pine tree died, it began to rain heavily, and the next day the village on the pine slope was in ruins.
There are two theories about why there is such an ending, the first is that the pine tree is about to become fine. In order to prevent the pine tree from becoming a spirit, an old fairy came down from the sky, turned into an old doctor, said that pine bark can cure cancer, let people peel pine bark and let the pine tree die. The dead Honka without skin is still there. I think it's a pity that humans are so ignorant that such a beautiful ancient pine has died like this, and if it were by now, it would definitely be a sight. In our mountain village, the people always feel that as long as it is a living thing, it will become a demon after a long time. Maybe it was the rendering of the TV that killed Honka.
There is also a theory that the dragon king killed the pine tree. Some people say that the little dragon that was sealed was the son of the dragon king, because once he came to the Yangtze River to play in that village, and was trapped by a formation, so he had to succumb to the well. Because the formation formed by the natural magnetic field trapped the little dragon, the dragon king never found his son. It may be that after thousands of years of geological movements, the magnetic field formation has gradually weakened.
The dragon king finally sensed the location of his son and turned into an old doctor to deceive the ignorant people that ancient pine bark could cure diseases. Kill Honka, break the seal, and free the little dragon to come out.
The Taoist priest used the tree to seal the dragon with a long-term plan, and the pot that sealed the dragon may loosen after a long time. And the longer that ancient pine grows, the stronger the sealing power becomes, causing the dragon king to be unable to unlock it. In the end, the only way to break the seal was to use people. Eventually, Honka died, and the dragon came out, causing the village that guarded the seal to be reduced to ruins. That ancient pine tree may also have used the little dragon's aura to slowly start cultivating. I find the second of these two arguments more convincing. There are too many strange things from ancient times to the presentγγγγγγγ I've told this story to many people, and many people don't believe that they have ever looked at the dead ancient pine and the ruined village. Everyone was stunned and sighed, nature is full of wonders. Many legends are not groundless.
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