There was originally a precedent for Taoist priests to ask ghosts, but in the Western Jin Dynasty, Guanlong exiles Li Te, Li Xiong led the uprising of the exiles, and Fan Changsheng, the leader of the Heavenly Master Dao of Qingcheng Mountain, gave a lot of support, Li Teh unfortunately died in the war, and the casualties of the rebel army were extremely heavy. Li Te's son Li Xiong later occupied Yizhou, proclaimed himself the king of Chengdu, and wanted to welcome Fan Changsheng as the king, but Fan Changsheng refused to allow it and persuaded Li Xiong to become emperor. After Li Xiong was called the emperor, the country name Dacheng, passed the third to Li Shou, changed the country name to Han, and the history was called Cheng Han. After 74 years of the sixth dynasty, it was destroyed by Huan Wen in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

This was the first time in the history of Chinese Taoism that it participated in a political uprising, and when the divine power and the imperial power met, the feudal monarchy of imperial power knew how influential religion was in politics. That is, from that period on, Taoist priests were classified outside the political system, and some subsequent people such as Liu Bowen were only military advisors, giving advice, but Taoist priests were never allowed to exercise their own spells in politics to achieve a certain goal. Because the mystery of religion is easy for some people with bad intentions to take advantage of, and the emperors are well aware of the truth in this, so Taoist priests asking ghosts to understand past grievances are not accepted by mainstream society, and they will not be accepted as evidence in court, because it is one-way, cannot be corroborated, and is not convincing. And the Taoist priests are also well aware of this, even if they understand that the deceased is indeed wronged, they only keep it in their hearts, and they will not make it public, because this is undoubtedly equivalent to asking for trouble for themselves.

Turned around and entered the house, closed the door gently, there were a few charms pasted along the crack of the door, Cha Wenbin found a bench to sit in it, the smell was really uncomfortable. The room is pitch black, only the everlasting lamp under the coffin head is still flickering, otherwise, now should be the time to cover the coffin, before dawn Zhang Weidong will be carried into the loess by four biao-shaped men to finish this life.

Gently reciting a spell in his mouth, Cha Wenbin said: "Wrap the dragon around the waist and accept the order, Sanqing chases the evil spirit, I sincerely summon the souls of the dead, quickly appear in the true form, dare to violate the order, Feiwen plays the clearing, urgent as the law!" Holding a talisman in his hand, he gently wrapped it into the copper basin used to sacrifice and burn paper in front of the coffin, and a fire ignited with a "boom", and it was vaguely seen that there was a figure standing next to the coffin.

It was the man, dressed in a post office uniform and wearing a hat, with his face pressed very low, and water was constantly falling down from the brim of his hat, and his clothes, trousers, and shoes were full of water, as if he had just been fished out of the water. Cha Wenbin thought that his judgment might be correct, this person should have died from a scourge such as a water ghost, so he asked first: "Is it the letter you wrote to me?" ”

"It's me." Zhang Weidong did not deny it at all, his voice was extremely low, this is the way ghosts have always spoken, as if they were in an empty wilderness. "I want to ask Daoist Cha to help me, and I also asked Mr. Su if he has a good ability and is a warm-hearted person, so I dared to disturb Mrs. Ling, and I hope Mr. will forgive me."

I didn't expect this Zhang Weidong to speak but he had a bit of self-cultivation, Cha Wenbin was asked by a ghost for the first time, and others have always begged the Taoist priest to meet a ghost, but now the ghost wants him to help, it is really strange that there are many things every year, especially this year.

"Say, I will do my best to help if I can, if you have any grievances you want me to defend for you."

"The villain likes to read some Taoist classics to pass the time on weekdays, and he also knows some feng shui methods, but this time I was planted by a wild master who was born in the middle of the Tao."

Things have to start from a month ago, Zhang Weidong is a very eccentric person, and after that love failed, he devoted himself to religious beliefs. As a public official, he couldn't make it too obvious, so he rented a house in a small remote village ten miles away from his home, invited some gods to worship in it, and spent most of his spare time there. One day, when he was locking the door and preparing to go home, an old man dressed in tatters and dressed like a Taoist priest came, who looked very good in good spirits, and who held a broken bowl in his hand like a beggar.

Seeing that someone was begging, and he was dressed like this, Zhang Weidong kindly left him down, saying that it was so late or he would simply spend the night in this small room and go on his way tomorrow. The old beggar also agreed, and Zhang Weidong went out again to buy some cooked vegetables, wine and meat and came back to share with the beggar. Between the cups and the lamps, the old beggar introduced himself as a taxi under the Qingcheng Mountain, his ancestral home was Sichuan, and then he went out to live a certain way and never returned to his hometown.

Until the Cultural Revolution, this Taoist priest was caught by a group of Red Guards on the way to wander, a feudal superstitious stinky old nine hat was buckled on the head, during the day was tied up everywhere to confess his guilt, and at night he had to do some dirty work to atone for his sins, and was tossed not lightly, the last time he paraded on the street, the two groups of Red Guards clashed, and began to fight on the street, this Taoist priest is one of the reasons why the two groups of people were beaten, both sides need a weighty stinky old nine to increase their typical cases. The brawl can be described as tragic, and someone will have to pay for it, so people pointed the finger at him again, saying that it was because of this person that the internal contradictions of the people were aroused, so he was arrested and tried.

This sentence was an indefinite sentence, and the wandering Taoist priest became a prisoner again, and he stayed in that prison for the first five years. It was in that prison that the Taoist priest became acquainted with a man who was also sentenced for composition, who was he? Speaking of which, Cha Wenbin really knew that that person was Douzi's uncle, whose name was He Zhongliang.

What did He Zhongliang get arrested for? Digging the corner of the socialist wall, this person has a lot of brains and ideas, and likes to make some cheap money, so he set his sights on the reservoir in the lonely soul gangzi, after the reservoir was built, the brigade came forward to put a large number of fish fry, and then the power station was forced to close before it could generate electricity, and the reservoir became unmanaged. Coupled with the remoteness and sparse population of Lonely Soul Gangzi, He Zhongliang set his sights on the fish that had been raised for several years. In that era of material scarcity, it was rare to get a few catties of fish during the New Year, and according to his calculations, there must be at least 100,000 catties of fish to be caught in the reservoir behind the lonely soul gangzi, which is a lucrative business.

So He Zhongliang went with a few brothers, and there was no shadow of fish at all when he cast a few nets, which made him wonder, and when the last net was hit, he found that there were many human bones in it. It was at that time that their fishing boat began to spin as thrilling as Douzi described, and several people almost died in the water, relying on their water nature to be good, He Zhongliang escaped, and under the water he saw a huge smiling face in the distance towards him.

He Zhongliang, who was scared half to death, ran down the mountain to tell people what he had seen and heard, and this farmer who didn't know the depth didn't know that someone had just taken advantage of this incident to target him. The reservoir belongs to the state, and the fish in the reservoir are naturally also the state, and if you go to steal the country's fish, you are digging the corner of socialism, and this kind of crime can be big or small, so they will not listen to your defense and say that they haven't even caught a single fish scale, they will point to the floating feces in your manure tank and say that this is a fish, but it has been eaten by you.

He Zhongliang, who put himself in prison, met the Taoist priest who was the enemy of the people here, and the two happened to be assigned to the same prison, and they were next to each other on the shop, and the work assigned to them was also together. Life there was boring and boring, so He Zhongliang used his incident as a talking point and told the old Taoist priest. After listening to it, the old Taoist priest judged that there was an article in the reservoir, first of all, it was impossible for anything to swallow 100,000 catties of fish without leaving a trace, and secondly, the smiling face He Zhongliang saw He thought was a very critical existence.

Unfortunately, in a prison riot at the end of the Cultural Revolution, He Zhongliang broke his leg when he tried to escape from prison, and later heard that he was transferred to another prison, and never heard of it again. After the dissolution of the Gang of Four, some unjust, false and wrongful cases have been cleared one after another, but this old Taoist priest has been forgotten in the corner of the prison, and in that prison he has become accustomed to this kind of life, there is food and shelter, it is much better than wandering outside before, and there is a doctor to take care of when he is sick. Therefore, every time the prison asked them to provide materials to prove their innocence, this old Taoist priest was unwilling to cooperate, and everyone did not even know his name, only a corresponding number to prove that he had been sentenced to life imprisonment on the trial certificate. He had no documents to prove his identity, nor could he provide any means or addresses where his relatives could be contacted, and so it was not until the mid-eighties that the prison underwent a restructuring.

In this restructuring, half of the original prison buildings will be demolished, and it just so happens that the crackdown that began in 83 has already overcrowded the prisons. In order to make some space, some people who were sentenced too heavily during the Cultural Revolution but did not overturn the case began to get their sentences commuted, he was one of them, just like that, he came out again with the Taoist robe he wore when he went in, the outside world has already been turned upside down, and the old Taoist priest who has regained his freedom no longer dares to return to his old business, he is afraid that he will be caught in the street and sent into the cowshed, so he simply changed to begging for food for a living.

Zhang Weidong felt that this Taoist priest was a poor person, after the two talked, he knew that this Taoist priest did have some ability, and the Taoist manager who talked about him heard that he was the head of the Tao, and only felt that he had finally met a Taoist disciple of the true sect, so he simply settled down the Taoist priest, and brought wine and meat to eat and drink with him every night.