The person who died was surnamed Gao, Mingcheng, and I really knew this person, because his daughter was my elementary school classmate.

Gao Cheng was the same age as my father, and like other rural people, he went up and down the mountain, in the fields, and his family lived at the foot of the thatched bay mountain, and the gate was facing the road, so he inevitably greeted other people when he came and went, so he was very well-known in that area.

Gao Cheng ran into evil spirits two days ago, that is, Cha Wenbin and I were on the way back from Gansu. At that time, the countryside used rapeseed oil, and the rapeseed planted by themselves was harvested and sent to the oil mill to be pressed, which was really called a fragrant, and now the edible oil is simply garbage compared to it, and Gaocheng is the thing that happened on the way back from the oil.

The oil mill is in the town, and more than a dozen villages around it have to go there to squeeze oil, sell the rapeseed they received to the oil mill, and the owner of the oil mill will give you an oil ticket, one hundred catties of rapeseed is equivalent to forty catties of oil. Gao Cheng had to work in the fields during the day, and it was the season to prepare for spring ploughing, so the oil was put into the evening.

The roads in the countryside were still dirt roads at that time, there were no street lights, there were no farmers within two kilometers down the thatched bay, and there were chestnut trees the size of buckets on both sides of the road, and we used to pick chestnuts there when we were children.

Gao Cheng had dinner and left, at five o'clock in the evening, it was not yet dark, and it was twenty miles back and forth from his house to the oil mill, and it took an hour to ride a bicycle. When I left, I brought two plastic pots, one pot can make ten catties of oil, there is a fuel ticket in my pocket, and I carry a flashlight.

The owner of the oil mill said that he went back immediately after getting oil, and according to the time, he should have arrived near his home at about seven o'clock, but he actually returned home in the early morning of the next day.

What really happened during this time? The only clue is the dictation of a hunter.

The mountains behind Thatched Bay are high and densely forested, which was an ideal hunting place at that time, and wild boar muntjac was often infested. At that time, the hunter decided to go up the mountain when he heard the muntjac calling in the evening, and there is a saying in our country that the muntjac will die if the muntjac calls in the evening, which is a bit similar to the meaning of the old owl calling to report the funeral.

The hunter went up the mountain at eight o'clock, walked along a small ditch in the mountains, and saw movement in the grass at the position of a thatched wall on the mountainside.

These two people know each other, but they don't have much friendship, and when they meet in this place at night, it's just by chance, so naturally they will say hello, and the first to speak is the hunter.

"Why are you here? I almost beat you like a pig, it's so dangerous. ”

Gao Cheng didn't reply, and grinned at the hunter from three or four meters away, and he smiled very evilly.

"Just like the clown in the troupe laughing, his whole face is distorted." The hunter said to Cha Wenbin: "I was still startled at the time, thinking about how he looked a little infiltrating, and then I called him again. ”

"What are you doing? Climb up this big night, do you have any light? The hunter saw that Gao Cheng had two oil pots in his hands, and nothing else, neither to hunt nor to look like he had just finished his farm work, and none of them had been illuminated.

"I can see it." Gao Cheng's answer was thin and high-pitched.

"Now that I think about it, his voice is a little wrong, like a woman's house, and I blame that I didn't pay attention at the time." The hunter continued: "I wondered how this guy had touched it so dark, and I thought he was going down the mountain, but I didn't expect him to go on into the woods after taking a picture of me. ”

"You didn't follow?" I asked.

The hunter said, "No, there can't be many people to beat the muntjac, that thing is very frightened, he went that way, I had to change the direction, but the road he took was indeed the direction of the muntjac in the evening." ”

This is the only clue that night, and then in the early morning of the next day, Gao Cheng in the courtyard was covered with a red silk quilt, which was covered on the corpse when the person was buried after death, commonly known as: Red quilt!

Because his daughter and I were classmates, he promised Boss Liu to go and see, the people of the Gao family were crying to death, and Gao Cheng, who was lying on the door panel and had not yet entered the coffin to mourn, had already put on his longevity clothes and old shoes, and his face was covered with three layers of yellow table paper. The Gao family's steward is Gao Cheng's elder brother, and the pillars of the family are gone all of a sudden, and the rest of the mother and son have no claim at all, because Gao Cheng died in the yard, and the ** red quilt on his body is even more dazzling, and everyone says that he is evil.

And the biggest appearance of people who are scared to death is that their eyes are blank, their urine and urine are incontinent, their lips are trembling, they can't speak, and they are afraid of everything, all of which Gao Cheng had before he died. He was found by his family and carried into the house less than a quarter of an hour before he swallowed his breath, during which he could not say a word, and his upper and lower lips trembled into a sieve.

Later, Gao Cheng's brother invited Boss Liu to preside over the funeral, because the death was unknown, and he asked him to calculate. This Boss Liu is half a bucket of water, and he also knows a little bit of fur, even if this is a big evil, I am afraid that I can't handle it, and if I don't get it right, it will catch fire, so I brought Cha Wenbin to give it a try.

My classmate's name is Gao Caifeng, who is kowtowing to the guests at the door, and can still recognize it at a glance if she hasn't seen her for many years. said hello to each other, in fact, the people outside had been talking about it for a long time, and most of the people watched Boss Liu come to see the excitement.

In the countryside, the death of a person who is less than 60 years old, that is, less than a Jiazi, is regarded as unlucky and in vain.

Things were burning outside, all of them were the deceased's pre-mortem supplies, all the clothes and quilts were gone with the deceased, and a pair of liberation shoes stained with yellow mud at the door attracted Cha Wenbin's attention.

"What is this?"

His uncle said, "My brother's, he went out in these shoes." ”

Cha Wenbin picked up the shoes and took a look, the soles of the shoes were black with a layer of soil, and he came to his nose and smelled a fishy smell. The area around this thatched bay is mostly loess, where does the black soil come from? There was very little soil like this in the south, and it clearly stenked of corpses, so he deduced that Gao Cheng must have gone to the grave.

"Is there a grave in the back mountain?"

"Yes, a lot of graves." The people who came to the funeral began to gossip: "The graves in Thatched Bay are layered on top of each other, stones, mud, new and old, I don't know how many, the whole mountain, those chestnut forests have big graves with a small half acre of land, small soil bags are one after another, I can't count, I don't know which dynasty and which generation, I haven't seen anyone go to the grave." ”

Indeed, as they say, thatched bay is the same as the entire history of northwest Zhejiang, since the Qin Dynasty there are written records here, archaeology has also unearthed a large number of Warring States noble tombs, but the history here is as clean as the sky here. What is missing is the memory of the past, but what is left is layers of mystery.

Cha Wenbin and Boss Liu are two kinds of Taoist priests, the former must know why, and the latter is a formality. Cha Wenbin saw the strangeness of Gao Cheng's death, as a Taoist priest, he was afraid that there would be a second Gao Cheng and a third Gao Cheng.

"All things have spirituality, and so do ghosts, if you can avoid it, you won't encounter it, and if you can cross it, you won't accept it. But whoever brings evil to the lives of men, no matter how vicious, will surely be killed. "This is the rule left by the ancestor of Tianzheng Dao, and Cha Wenbin has always adhered to such a sect rule.

Before leaving, Cha Wenbin went to the palm tree to pick some palm leaves and put them on the face of the deceased Gao Cheng, it is said that this will allow him to not see the people around him, and the most fearful thing about the dead is that resentment will rush the living.

The weather was exceptionally fine that day, and going to this thatched bay felt like stepping out of the mountains without any pressure, so Cha Wenbin and I followed the hunter, and he took us to the place where we saw Gaocheng that day. It's a sunken valley with chestnut groves on both sides, and the direction of the high city should be on our right, and the hunter says that the hill also has a place name: Immortal Burial.

Why is it called an immortal burial? No one can tell, some people say that there is a god buried on the mountain over there, in short, the place names in the countryside generally have a provenance, and they will not be taken at will, so when he mentions Cha Wenbin, he feels that there is a drama in his heart.

Climbing up the valley really opened my eyes, what is an old grave? This is called the old grave of Zhenzong!

The feet you walk, the climbing stones you use with your strength, you look down, you look up, and there are graves everywhere. The broken bricks must be as wide as a chest, and the long stones that roll down are like building blocks for children to play with, blooming everywhere. In the layer of dead leaves left in previous years, stepping on it is a bag after bag, and there are countless half-exposed tombstones, which have long been tightly wrapped in moss and rattan, and the whole is a filming location for ghost films.

"The twenty-four mountains are divided into five elements, turning the world upside down and facing each other; Among them, the metaphysical gas transforms into shape, and the dragon vein goes to the palace hexagram. It is no wonder that so many people have chosen this land, and if you want me to say, this place is not inferior to the mountains, and it is indeed a treasure land. ”

"Really?" I know that almost all the people buried there were from the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties to the end of the Qing Dynasty, from the emperor to the general, and it was regarded as the first feng shui treasure in China.

"It's the same thing, except that it's a little smaller than the mountain, but it's still big enough to hold up. This Tianmu dragon vein still has dragon qi in it, this mountain is located at the neck of the entire southern dragon, the dragon looks back and sees that it is a reversal, which happens to respond to the principle of yin and yang protection, and it is not unreasonable to be so 'prosperous' here. ”