The Tomb of the Yellow Skin Chapter 19 Soul Chicken (I)
This underground passage occupied by countless wild mice, connected to a cave like an underground hall, the ground of the hall is buried with many huge stones, and there are many passages with the same structure around, I never thought that on the stone wall of this cave, there is a statue of the "Yellow Fairy Gu" of the Huangpizi Temple.
The picture carved behind the stone wall was already noticed when we found this natural emerald stone screen like a stone wall, but these carvings are very old, and the stone wall is peeling off and blurry, and it is difficult to make out if you don't wipe off the floating dust with your sleeves.
At this time, I stood near the stone wall, and by the dim light, I noticed at a glance the strange and evil face of the weasel, and the portrait of the yellow-skinned woman's body. Due to the surprise, I almost dropped the paper cigarette in my hand on the ground, and quickly pinched the cigarette tail with my fingers, put it on my mouth and took a hard puff, so that my surprised mood calmed down a little.
The inferior tobacco was mixed with dead leaves, and the smoke that came out of the puff was like a smoking chimney when the stove was made, choking Ding Sitian next to me to cough, and she waved her hand to drive away the smoke: "Can't you smoke less?" If you develop an addiction to smoking at such a young age, it will be difficult to borrow it in the future. "I think Ding Sitian is full of advantages, the only small disadvantage is that she can't tolerate other people smoking, whenever she sees me and the fat man smoking, she always has to say about Comrade Lenin's quit smoking, Comrade Lenin lived in poverty when he was young, and he was also very addicted to smoking, once Lenin's mother said to him: "Dear Vlakir Miririch, can't you smoke less?" "It's a great woman's mother, but the words she says are different, she doesn't directly say can you stop smoking? Rather, can you smoke a little less? What a great philosophical saying, gentle and kind, self-respecting, worthy of a woman among women, after his mother said it so earnestly, Comrade Lenin never smoked again.
At this time, Ding Sitian mentioned this matter again, and persuaded me to take the great man as an example and let me quit smoking, but my mind was all on looking at the portrait of "Huang Xiangu", and I didn't care too much about her words, my eyes were fixed on the carvings on the stone wall, and I replied to Ding Sitian half-self-deprecating and half-coping: "Hmm...... Isn't it just quitting smoking, I don't think it's difficult to quit smoking at all, I've quit more than 100 times in the last six months......"
Ding Sitian saw that I answered absent-mindedly, but was engrossed in looking at the stone wall, so she followed my gaze, the carved patterns on the stone screen were extremely complex, and the demonic image of Huang Xiangu only occupied a corner of it, and when she saw the hateful weasel face, she was also taken aback, covered her mouth with her hand, and almost screamed.
The weasel-faced woman in the painting, with a very peculiar form and demeanor, as if she was chanting something in her mouth and doing some evil magic, put a large box with ancient patterns in front of her, the mouth of the box is half open and half hidden, and in the middle of the stone wall, there is a woman lying upright, the woman is wearing a mask and a gorgeous scale robe, and her lying posture is extremely stiff, as if she is a well-dressed corpse.
Below the female corpse and "Huang Xiangu", there is a long-feathered bird that looks like a chicken and a pheasant is not famous, is holding a vague human figure and flying upward, I cut the queue in the northeast mountainous area for half a year, although it is remote, but I have also seen a lot of mysterious folk customs that remain at the bottom of the folk, I look at this strange bird, and find that its form is very similar to the "soul-attracting chicken" in the folklore of the Great Xing'an Mountains.
Legend has it that after death, a person becomes a ghost, and the ghost returns to the heavens, the flesh to the earth, the blood to the water, the veins to the ze, the sound to the thunder, the movements to the wind, the eyes to the sun and the moon, the bones to the wood, the tendons to the mountains, the teeth to the stones, the ointment to the dew, the hair to the grass, and the breath to the spirits and to the netherworld.
People live all the battle with a breath of breath, once the breath stops dying, this breath of the yang people immediately fell into the vastness of the earth, in the customs of this concept, someone in the family passed away, to immediately slaughter a rooster, and smear the body with chicken blood, according to legend, the soul of the rooster can carry the soul of the deceased to rise, to avoid falling into the cycle of reincarnation and then suffer calamity, in my queue in the tunzi, there are dancing gods, that is, dancing shaman dances, and there are gods and goddesses who do "soul-attracting chickens" for the dead, these people are all tortured in the movement, It was only at the meeting that they confessed their crimes, and I was able to find out.
At this time, the fat man saw me and Ding Sitian watching endlessly, so he also came over to join in the fun, the three of us saw that the content on the natural emerald stone screen was bizarre and absurd, it was really difficult to get a glimpse of the mystery, just guessing by what I saw in my eyes, it seems that what was recorded on the natural emerald stone screen was the "Huang Xiangu" to perform evil magic, using a method similar to "soul-attracting chicken" or "paper bird", in some caves in the mountains, you will also see similar ancient bird totem, which is commonly known as the big feather to send the dead bird by the locals, which can only lead the sacred bird of the undead, rescued the masked female corpse from the netherworld, intending to resurrect it, and the inseparable box of "Huang Xiangu" is probably the source of its evil law.
This is completely different from my prior speculation, it seems that this "Hundred Eyes Cave", surrounded by countless bizarre legends, is by no means a place where tomb robbers and bandits "Mud Society" hide treasures, they took great pains to dig out the boxes under the grave of Huangpizi and transport them to the depths of the grassland, is it actually to summon the spirit of a dead ghost who has been dead for thousands of years?
I couldn't help but feel a sudden shock when I thought of this, and I became more and more curious, seeing that this natural emerald stone screen is very old, thinking that the female corpse wearing the mask must be an ancient, who is she? Where are you now? What happened to the bandits of the "Mu'er Society" after they came here? Is there anything to do with the legend about the disappearance of people and animals near the Hundred Eyes Cave? And also...... All kinds of thoughts come and go in my mind, but the more I think about it, the more clueless I become.
The fat man slapped his thigh coldly: "I said Lao Hu, I suddenly remembered something, what do you think these buried stones look like?" The more I looked, the more familiar it felt, had we seen each other before? ”
My attention was focused on the box of "Huang Xiangu", and I was guessing what rare things were contained in the box, but I was interrupted by the fat man's words halfway, and I took a few glances at the stones buried in the ground, and suddenly remembered that in many people's homes in the deep mountains of the Great Xing'an Mountains, all the old houses, there are round rocks in the corners of the house, some are buried half with soil, and some are simply placed directly in the houseLater, I got acquainted with the mountain people in the tunzi, and after many inquiries, I learned that these stones were left before liberation, and in the early years, people used this method to ward off evil spirits and exorcise ghosts, and it was mentioned in the ancient book: "Buried in the four corners of the stone, there are no ghosts in the home." "These stones are used to suppress ghosts, in the Northeast folk, zombies, hanged ghosts do a lot of harmful things, people living in the barren mountains, in order to keep safe, this custom has gradually formed, as for the specific beginning of what era, now there is no way to verify.