Chapter 107: Angering the Earth Dragon
What one person saw may be fake, but he said that many people saw it, it is unlikely that everyone was wrong, it is very likely that there was really such a woman riding a white horse passing by, and the Zhao family believed it.
I am naturally more convinced, one of the three stone paintings under the Qinglong Weir is 'walking horses in the water', and when we asked others before, we also heard people say that someone once saw a woman riding a white horse in the Qinglong Weir.
The Zhao family had just escaped death, and I thought they would take the opportunity to repair the time, but Zhao Chengzu thought about it, nodded directly, looked at Zhao Jingshu and said, "You go with them to see what the reason is, if you can solve it, try to solve it, and don't be reckless if you can't solve it." ”
Zhao Jingshu nodded and said yes.
It's normal to think about it, the Zhao family and the Ma family have been competing for the resources of Enshi, among which the network resources are also resources, even if they encounter this kind of thing, even if they lose their heads, they have to drill into it, not counting on how much they can pay, just asking for a good reputation.
The person who came to ask for help should know the nature of the Zhao family, and knew that they would help, but he simply said that he was in trouble, and then took Zhao Jingshu out of the door, because it involved the stone paintings under the Qinglong Weir, I naturally couldn't sit still, and when Zhao Jingshu was about to leave, he said, "I'll go and have a look." ”
Zhao Jingshu glanced back at me and said embarrassedly, "You helped us so much today, why don't you rest first, I can handle this little thing." ”
Zhao Jingshu originally meant not to trouble me again, Zhao Chengzu also said next to me to let me rest, I just said that I was going to take a look, and followed the person who came to ask for help, Zhao Jingshu smiled, and no longer shirked, and the three of them went out together.
On the way, Zhao Jingshu asked the person who asked for help for specific details, and he told him eloquently.
His family does not live in Enshi City, but in the surrounding town, the name of the town is Yong'an Town, and the time of the accident was around eleven o'clock last night. People here are bored and like to rub mahjong and drink tea, his wife is the woman who rode a white horse on the way home after rubbing mahjong, there was nothing big at first, and he told him about it when he returned home, and he couldn't wake up after sleeping after talking, muttering about the white horse and white horse.
A total of seven or eight people in Yong'an Town saw the woman on a white horse, and they all happened after they rushed home and told about it.
Zhao Jingshu and I listened silently, and Huang Yunqiu in the Eight Treasure Gourd was naturally listening carefully, and did not express his opinion after listening, and only waited until his family saw me before he could speculate.
The family is surnamed Qian, lives in a one- or two-story brick house, and the door of the house is the avenue, and his wife is the woman riding a white horse that he saw on the avenue.
When I went into the house, I saw the woman who had an accident, when she went, the woman was lying on the bed, frowning and turning over and over on the bed, waving her hands from time to time and chanting a 'white horse', Zhao Jingshu and I were stunned when we looked at it, this demeanor and body movements, where it seemed to be unconscious, except that the eyes were not opened, it was no different from ordinary people.
"That's it, it looks like she's awake, but she can't open her eyes, and she can't hear us talking." The man said.
Zhao Jingshu looked at me after a few glances, in her eyes I am quite capable, naturally I want to ask my opinion first, I smiled awkwardly, and said, "You look first." ”
Zhao Jingshu said, "People have three souls and seven souls, of which the three souls are fetal light, cool spirit, and ghost spirit, the fetal light is life and death, the cool spirit is responsible for behavior, and the ghost essence is nature, she seems to be asleep but not asleep, seems to be awake but not awake, it should be that there is something wrong with Shuang Ling, it seems that she is frightened, simple soul loss." ”
When I was a child, I often heard this term, in our place soul loss syndrome is also called frightened, generally occurs in children who are not strong-willed, when they are disturbed by evil spirits, they will lose their 'cool spirit', and there will be symptoms of crying or sluggishness, because this kind of thing often happens, and the countryside also has a set of its own methods, that is, the relatives carry a pot of pig's head meat and insert incense to go out, shout the name of the child who lost the soul outside the door, and ask if he has come back. The people in the room tapped the edge of the bed and replied, 'I'm back,' and after a few repetitions, the frightened child recovered.
Zhao Jingshu said that it was soul loss, but the man shook his head, "We tried to shout souls, but it didn't work." ”
Zhao Jingshu smiled, "You are a folk method, it only works for children." As he spoke, he took out a piece of talisman paper and handed it to the man and said, "This is a soul talisman, you stick it on her body first, and I will recite the soul collection spell to her later, maybe she will be better." ”
The man took the talisman paper and thanked him repeatedly, because it was still early and there was nothing to do in the house, and I asked the man, "Did the woman they see pass by the road in front of your house?" ”
The man only regarded me as a relative of the Zhao family, and he was respectful to me, and replied, "Yes, just the road at the door, all the way east." ”
I asked, "Is there anyone living in the east?" ”
The man thought for a while, "You have to walk for hours before there is anyone, but there is a river over there, and after crossing the river, you will go to Enshi City, do you think that woman has entered the city?" ”
I now hear that things related to water and things related to Enshi City are very sensitive, if you can go around Enshi City, you can also go around Qinglongyan, I guess the woman is very likely to take a detour to Qinglongyan, left and right, so she said to Zhao Jingshu, "Let's walk along that road and see if we can find some clues." ”
Zhao Jingshu hesitated and nodded.
After discussing with this man, Zhao Jingshu and I left his house first, and walked along the road all the way east, and after a short time we walked out of the town and stepped on the familiar dirt path, which was full of weeds, and the environment was much more intimate than those asphalt roads.
Zhao Jingshu obviously didn't get used to this kind of road, I had to slow down to keep up, this way in the past, there is not no one in the east, because there are still some sparse farmland on the side of the road, and it seems that there are still a few people living in this vicinity.
After walking for a long time, I saw that there are two small rivers converging into a big river at the intersection of the three mountains in front of me, the water flow is turbulent, and there are many big holes that have been artificially dug out of the three surrounding mountains, I look a little strange, these three mountains are extremely steep, and it doesn't look like there is coal, how can someone dig holes here?
Zhao Jingshu said, "It's called the Sancha River, there were a lot of bandits living on this mountain during the Republic of China, and the holes in the mountain were dug out when they set up camp, but then those bandits all disappeared overnight, and no one lived in the village, and the wood fell into the Sancha River below and was washed away by the water." I have heard others say that it seems that the bandits received the letter in advance, and an army wanted to come to suppress the bandits, so they abandoned the village and fled, and now many of the people living in this vicinity are the descendants of the bandits. ”
I know about bandits here before, not with my own eyes, but grandpa They often use this to scare us, once they are disobedient, they will tell us to let the second stick take us away, and the second stick is the meaning of bandits.
I listened and nodded.
Zhao Jingshu said again, "But when I was a child, I heard my grandfather mention it, and what he said was different from what was rumored outside, saying that these bandits all disappeared overnight because they angered the earth dragon. ”
"What is an earth dragon?" I asked.
Zhao Jingshu shook her head, "I don't know, anyway, grandpa said that those bandits knew that there was an army coming to suppress the bandits, so they began to hoard food, and it was not safe to put the food elsewhere, so they kept digging along the mountain to dig inside, and as a result, they dug into the old nest of the earth dragon, and the earth dragon was angry and dragged all those bandits to the mountain overnight." ”
We said and went towards the Sancha River at the same time, and it didn't take long to get to the side of the Sancha River, but the river was turbulent, and there was no bridge to cross the river, Zhao Jingshu and I were standing on the edge of the Sancha River and were trying to find a way to cross the river, when an old farmer with pig manure passed by, I turned around and asked, "Uncle, is the Sancha River deep?" ”
The old farmer looked at me and Zhao Jingshu, put down his burden and said with a smile, "It's not deep, you wear a straw hat to go into the water, and the river can't even drown your straw hat." ”