Chapter 107: Stone Town
Wu Lianhuan pointed to the location in the center of the pile of rubble, saying that it was a pile of rubble, which looked more like a boulder broken into dozens of pieces...... ybdu。 After years of wind and sun, the edges of these gravels have become smooth, but the lines of the whole stone can still be seen.
After Monk Xiao saw the pile of rocks, his eyes widened, and then he blurted out: "Shizhen-"
After saying these two words, Monk Xiao turned his head to look at Wu Lianhuan, and after a pause, he continued: "You didn't say it earlier when Shizhen was placed here?" I just said that after going up the mountain, the eye of the sky is not good, and I can't feel anything. I thought I was getting old, and God didn't want to spoil things, so he took back the eye of the sky. I was so scared that I didn't sleep well last night. "
As soon as he finished speaking, a trace of embarrassment appeared on the faces of Huang Ran, Meng Qiqi and Zhang Zhiyan. Looking at the expressions of these people, I secretly screamed ashamed in my heart, it turned out that the decline in eyesight and perception after going up the mountain was not my reason, and I dared to love that none of them had run away, but no one was embarrassed to say it.
Stone Town appeared at about the same time as the On-Yang Mound, and its appearance was to prevent some tomb robbers from the technological stream at that time. At that time, there were some laid-off Taoists who were expelled from the Taoist temple, and in addition to telling fortunes and reading faces on the street, there were almost no other skills that could eat. In the off-season, it is common for fortune tellers to have no food to eat, and to starve to death in the hexagram stall.
Over time, there were a few crooked talents among these laid-off Taoists. They used the five elements of yin and yang that they had learned in the Taoist temple, and added a series of props such as a compass to assist. It is common to find some ancient tombs of the first dynasties hidden in the deep mountains and old forests, and finally even in addition to the guarded ancestral tombs, the contemporary mausoleums have been excavated by the laid-off Taoists of these technical streams. It is to guard against these people that there is such an evil thing as Shizhen.
To put it bluntly, Shizhen is a big stone that has been broken, but there are some excessive requirements for the origin of this big stone, which had a special name at that time - sin baptism.
During the Eastern and Western Han dynasties, the beheading of criminals was already carried out in specific places. Except for special prisoners who are summarily executed, death row prisoners are generally escorted to the local county at a specific time, and the county guard will behead them. Because there were too many prisoners killed at one time at that time, the grievances of these prisoners after their death were tangled together, bringing unjustified disasters to the local people. Every time before killing a prisoner, a boulder that was done by a Taoist priest to absorb the prisoner's grievances after death was buried in the middle of the night when no one was around.
After the boulder is buried, a stake is placed directly above the boulder. The wooden stakes on the top are also elaborate, and seventeen to deep grooves are usually carved around the wooden stakes, so that the blood of the prisoners can flow down these seventeen blood grooves to the ground and seep into the surface of the boulders underground. From the moment it came into contact with the blood of the prisoner, the boulder had a new name - sin immersion, which means sin immersion.
After the execution of the prisoner, the sin baptism cannot be taken out immediately, and it must be buried in the ground for nine years, and the resentment will accumulate for another nine years. After nine years, when no one is in the middle of the night, the Taoist (or fellow disciple) who originally cast the spell will lead people to leach out the sin. The practice of the Taoist opening the altar on the spot is not to eliminate the grievances accumulated in the sin immersion, but to seal these grievances in the boulder and not to vent them lightly. After the practice is completed, the Taoist chooses the site and buries the sin in the deep mountains and old forests, or directly sinks into the rivers and seas.
There are also Taoists who have received the benefits of large families, and there are not a few who have sold their sins for money. After receiving sinful baptism, these large families would be transported to the vicinity of their ancestors' tombs, where they would be exposed to the sun for nine days, and at noon on the ninth day, they would break the sins with a hammer and continue to be exposed to the sun.
After being exposed to the sun, resentment cannot be dispersed upwards, but can only penetrate deep into the earth's surface and enter the leylines. Because of the sinful baptism, these grievances can only operate within a limited range of the leylines. But where the resentment goes, whether it's the eye of the sky, or something like a compass, will be blocked. Such a formation is called Stone Town. After the birth of Shizhen, there were many Taoists who had relied on the Tanyin Mansion to get treasures and had no way to live, most of them returned to the street to set up stalls to tell fortunes, and some people began to plan to take a more crooked road, one of these people was named Zhang Jiao......
Until the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was dragged down by the Zhangjiao Taiping Road Uprising. Some of the formation spells that were prevalent at that time were abolished by explicitly, and formations like Shizhen were regarded as the remnants of the Yellow Turban, and they died out naturally after a short time.
Among the few of us, only Sun Fatzi's face was as usual, and he didn't seem to be affected by Shi Zhen's image. At first I wondered why this fat man among us hadn't been imaged. When I opened my mouth to ask him, Sun Fatzi's answer surprised me: "The eye of the sky is blocked? No, I didn't say it, there's nothing special here, how far you can see from the outside, you can still see as far from the inside of this mountain. Spicy, don't listen to Lao Xiao's nonsense, he is old and presbyopia, which has nothing to do with whether he is a heavenly eye or not. "
I pondered Sun Fatzi's words for a long time before I figured out the taste. Dare to love this fat man's heavenly eyes are so weak that unless there is a living ghost standing in front of him, otherwise, he can't see anything. Just look at the eyes, but it's a pity that his brain is ......
After understanding Shizhen, Monk Xiao frowned and said to Wu Lianhuan: "I said that the surname Diao can't even distinguish Yin and Yang Mounds. But here's Stone Town, why didn't you say it earlier? Is it just to watch us run around like blind people? Once there is any more life-threatening formation here, just watch us rush forward with our eyes closed? "
Wu Lianhuan said with a smiling face: "Isn't this still me?" It's not that I'm boasting, our Wu family doesn't have other skills, but when it comes to visiting the tomb, we have our own methods. If you don't do it like the other three, you can't play without the compass. "
While Wu Lianhuan was speaking, Huang Ran was squatting in front of Shi Zhen, squinting his eyes at the center of the big stone's crack. After Wu Lianhuan finished speaking, Huang Ran asked: "The central location of Shizhen is the entrance to the tomb, and this is the first time I have seen such a tomb layout. Mr. Wu, you are an expert in this, is there anything special about this layout? "
Wu Lianhuan turned around, pouted his teeth, and said, "So it's evil here, it seems that this bucket is not afraid of being knocked down at all." You come with me and see something with you. "
Saying that, Wu Lianhuan took us to a deep pit more than ten meters away from Shizhen, which was full of dead branches and leaves and snow. Just when I was wondering what Wu Lianhuan meant, I saw him break off a branch from the pine tree next to him. Swept aside the dead branches and snow in the pit, revealing more than a dozen dried corpses inside.
Suddenly, seeing this, those of us who followed up frowned, Sun Fatzi took a step back, rolled his eyes and said to Wu Lianhuan: "Old Wu, I can't see it." You can't hide it, you killed all these people? What do you mean by bringing us here, and you want to fill in the hole for a few of our brothers? "
"Director Sun, don't scare me, how dare I." Wu Lianhuan hurriedly waved his hand, and after a pause, he pointed to the dried corpse below and continued: "Take a closer look, these zongzi are also the earliest people in the Republic of China. That won't be ...... for me yet."
When Wu Lianhuan spoke, I could already see that there were already tattered pieces of cloth hanging on top of the top few dried corpses. Among them, there was a dried corpse with a rusty box cannon pinned to its waist, which looked like the style of the Republic of China era. Although the clothes on the exposed corpses below them have all rotted, these corpses have a long braid on the back of their heads, and at a glance they know that they are unlucky ghosts left here during the Qing Dynasty.
The dried corpses below have been frozen by the stagnant water in the deep pit, and you can vaguely see most of these dried corpses, and you can't tell what period of people they are.
When I was observing the dried corpses in the pit, I heard Wu Lianhuan say to Monk Xiao and Huang Ran: "When I came over, I saw that the entrance of the tomb was facing Shizhen, so I didn't dare to walk from there. I thought I had found another way, but I didn't expect that after entering, it was full of zongzi. Now it looks almost rotten, and in addition to being air-dried, the clothes on the body can be seen to be the style at that time. The innermost zongzi has a pigtail on the head, and the clothes on the body are all in the style of the Yuan Dynasty. This zongzi has a letterhead on it, and it is also written in the words of the Yuan period. Unfortunately, the letterhead has weathered and turned to dust when touched. "
Speaking of this, Wu Lianhuan's face changed. It seems to recall the scene in the 'back door' inside, and I shudder. After a pause, he continued: "There is a ** formation in there, and you can't get out if you go in." To put it mildly, this is me, I used the family heirloom method, and it was easy to escape from it......"
Before he finished his words, he was suddenly interrupted by Sun Fatzi: "Then you will find out with your conscience and go back to bring these buddies out." Posing here for the sun? Hehe, Lao Wu, what do you have to say at once. You are an expert, I will let you both tell nonsense. "
Wu Lianhuan nodded awkwardly, looked at Sun Fatzi and said, "Director Sun, I can't hide this from you." After the death of the zongzi inside, the souls gather there. You also know that in my family handicraft, there is a way not to leak yang energy. I just pretended to be a dead man, mingled with the souls of these rice dumplings, and found a way out. When I was inside, I swore a poisonous oath to the rice dumplings to bring their corpses out. "