Chapter 42: The Point of No Return (Part II)
The old sheepskin overheard this secret, it turned out that in ancient China, in the area of the Great Khing'an Mountains, a considerable number of people had the custom of secretly worshipping Huang Pizi, thinking that Huang Daxian could control the soul of the dead, and it was a soul seducer. Soul seduction is a common name for a life-seeking ghost fairy, which specializes in transporting the souls of the dead. All the souls that were hooked away were sent to the ghost yamen, that is, the underworld. Most of the common people have heard of the legend of the Ghost Yamen, which is a place where you can't come back if you go in, but they only know that the Ghost Yamen is hidden in the mountains, and no one knows the specific location, because it is impossible for anyone who enters to come out alive.
Not only the dead, but also the living are often hooked, a good living person, suddenly lost his heart and became stupid and crazy, everyone thought that this was the yellow skin sent by the underworld to hook. People who were hooked by Wong Tai Sin had their souls snatched away, even if they were not dead at the time, they would all become the living dead, although there were still signs of life, but the soul was gone, and the remaining body was just a walking corpse waiting to die, although it was still alive.
Since ancient times, there have been many ethnic minorities in China, and various customs have blended and evolved with each other, and no one has been able to find out when and where the custom of using yellow skin as a soul lure has been passed down.
It is possible that this custom is related to the fact that some old yellow skins who have the Tao can understand people's hearts and make the best law, and some yellow skins are very special. For example, after they have eaten a special kind of black rat, the secretions in their bodies will change, and if the stinky farts released by them smoke a living person, that person will lose his mind and become delirious. Superstitious fools have no clues, and it is even more difficult to understand the reason, and in the process of word of mouth, the more it spreads, the more it is divine.
The legends of these yellow skins and ghost yamen gradually decreased in the Song Dynasty, and fewer and fewer people knew about them, but there were still a lot of related contents in folklore. Legend Wong Tai Sin has a copper box, which contains the secret of the yellow skin to seduce the soul, there are many murals and clay sculptures of the Wong Tai Sin Temple, all of which are consistent with this folk legend, but the age is very long, where the copper box of Wong Tai Sin fell, there is no way to find out.
It wasn't until the Japanese army found a hidden corpse cave of the ancient Xianbei people at the end of the remaining veins of the Great Xing'an Mountains, that is, the Baiyan Cave between the grassland and the desert, which contained countless dead people and many strange phenomena that could not be explained at that time. There are two mountain passes in the Baiyan Cave, and in the middle of the hills there are the Yin River and the "Ghost Gate Pass", all of which are in line with the legend of the Ghost Yamen, and the population that leads to the underworld is a secret that has been buried by the ancients for thousands of years.
The former mountain pass is connected to the grassland, and occasionally there are terrible "foehn winds" that devour people and animals, and the "foehn winds" mentioned in the Buddhist scriptures are the evil ghost winds that blow out of the Abi Hell; The back mountain pass leads to the Mongolian desert, which is a hard-to-reach place. The corpse cave in the Hundred Eyes Cave contains many special substances in the soil and rocks, which can ensure that the corpse does not decay for a long time. The Hundred Eyes Cave is regarded as the destination of the dead, and the legendary Gaxian Cave, the origin of the Xianbei people, is listed as two holy places, and enjoys worship and sacrifice all year round.
Later, with the passage of time, the legend and location of the corpse cave were gradually lost, and were replaced by wild rumors such as "Ghost Yamen". A large number of stone carvings and murals in the cave record that the shaman holds a copper box that can control the spirits of the dead, and the shaman can use it to summon the dead from the underworld to carry out some witch activities, but what kind of secrets are in it, but there is no relevant record.
The Japanese were very interested in this legend, believing that the "Foehn Wind" had something to do with the entrance to the underworld at the bottom of the cave where the corpses were hidden, and that it was the Yin Wind of Death from the Yellow Spring, and that the copper box was probably the key to mastering it, and that it was necessary to find this box in order to study it secretly, so they bribed the bandit leaders of the Ni'er Society and asked them to help find Wong Tai Sin's soul box in the deep reaches of the Yun Min. When the two traitors, Mr. Tongsuan and Yang Erdan, saw that the money was open, they began to search, and gradually had eyebrows.
After the old sheepskin learned about it, he persuaded the sheep and the second egg, and it was just a matter of digging graves, and now he listened to the words of the little devil and wanted to dig the underworld, isn't that looking for death? After persuasion and persuasion, the two brothers finally turned against each other, and Yang Erdan felt that the old sheepskin was always a hindrance from it, and it would be a disaster to keep him sooner or later, so he pretended to listen to his brother's words, swore that he would not wash his hands and dry it, tricked the old sheepskin to a cliff, and kicked the old sheepskin down from behind.
The old sheepskin is also a fateful man, he fell off the cliff and hung on the pine tree and did not die, his ribs were broken several times, and the pine branch was almost disemboweled, thanks to the hunter who rescued a life, and it took half a year to heal the injury. He was still thinking about Yang Erdan, not only did he hate him, but also complained that he had failed to persuade him to get lost, and went into the mountains again to find Yang Erdan, only to know that the Ni'er Society had finally dug up the soul box in a place called Huang Pizi's Grave, and took several lives for this, and even Mr. Natong was forced to hang himself by Wong Tai Sin. And Yang Erdan was lucky not to die, so he actually got the box out, took a few of his subordinates and the Japanese merchant who contacted them, and the group rushed to the Hundred Eyes Cave in the depths of the grassland.
The old sheepskin followed, trying to chase the sheep and eggs back, but he followed him to the Hundred Eyes Cave, and was frightened by the black smoke of the burned people in the crematorium, and the clouds changed at that time, he actually thought that it was the demon dragon that the grassland herdsmen said. He couldn't believe this set of things anymore, hesitated and wandered, and finally didn't dare to approach the Hundred Eyes Cave again. In fact, even if he followed, most of them would be captured by the Japanese Kwantung Army, either doing a ** test, or being directly killed. He walked around the Hundred Eyes Cave for more than ten days, but he didn't see half a living person coming out of it, he knew in his heart that something was wrong, what is the place of the Hundred Eyes Cave? That's the ghost yamen that leads to the underworld, walk into that road of no return, and never think about coming back.
The old sheepskin was naturally cowardly, and he couldn't muster up the courage to go to the Hundred Eyes Cave to collect the corpse of the sheep and eggs, and he didn't dare to imagine what it would be like to face the corpse of his own brother. After liberation, due to poverty, he became a herdsman with the help of the government, and he was silent all day long, burying his past in his heart, and only occasionally venting the bitterness in his heart through guò matouqin and Qin dialect.