Chapter 3: The Seven Soul Coffins
I saw that the idler next to me was eager to try, so I asked him if he wanted to open this coffin? Zhang Wuren smiled bitterly and said, there is more than one coffin here!
We left the two idlers standing by the coffin, but took the rest of the people in the other direction. Zhang Wuren was still holding a square saucer to calculate the direction, and as a result, he dug out a second coffin by the well outside the village.
This coffin is slightly different from the previous one, and it is one size smaller. However, judging from the degree of decay and the inscriptions left on it, it should belong to the same era.
After the second coffin was dug up, Zhang Wuyan's face became even more ugly. I asked him in a whisper, is this coffin the ghost? Otherwise, we will burn it directly, and no demons and monsters will be able to withstand this fire.
Zhang Wuren said that the coffin was not a problem, but the problem was still with the big willow tree. Lao He, I'm afraid this trip is not easy.
I asked him again what was going on, but Zhang Wuren said that he couldn't be sure yet, and he would make a decision when he was sure.
The third coffin was dug up in the courtyard of a family. At the beginning, the family was reluctant to let us dig a pit in their yard, but they were slapped by Old Man Huo.
The head of the household was a man in his thirties who was born with a roe deer, and his daughter-in-law was a fat woman. It is said that these two people are one of the few lazy people in the village, who do not go to work or go to the fields, and know to wander around the village all day long.
Half an hour later, another coffin was dug up in his yard. This coffin is different from the previous one, the head of the coffin is pointed.
Three coffins were dug up in a row, and Zhang Wufor's face was already the same as the bottom of the black pot. He didn't stop, and found a few more places for people to dig, and as a result, seven coffins were dug up from the village in one go.
The seven coffins are of different shapes, some are round, some are square, and some of them look extremely strange, they are like the stars holding the moon, and the big willow tree is surrounded by a hundred meters away, as if they are worshipping.
Zhang Wuren took a deep breath, put away the package and said to Old Man Huo, Old man, we can't do this work. You'd better be smart! The coffin was put in as it was, and maybe it could be held for a while. If you really can't find someone tall, just let everyone move and get out of here!
Old Man Huo's face changed on the spot, and he hurriedly stopped him, little brother, what the hell is going on?
I was also stunned, I thought that seven coffins had been dug up, and everything should be in Zhang Wuren's control, but why did it suddenly become unsolvable? Or the whole village has to be relocated?
Zhang Wuyi lit a cigarette irritably, and said, This is the Seven Soul Coffin, the thing that suppressed the big willow tree. There is definitely something great hidden in that big willow tree, otherwise it would not be suppressed with the Seven Soul Coffin. Four hundred years ago! If the ghosts of 400 years ago rushed out, who would be able to stop them?
Old Man Huo was also a little panicked, and said Little brother, then there are still dead people in our village?
Zhang Wuren closed his eyes and said that he would definitely die. Unless you all leave the village tonight. Otherwise, someone would have died.
He suddenly stood up and said Lao He, let's go! I can't take this job.
It stands to reason that I should listen to Zhang Wuren and just leave. But I looked at Old Man Huo's eyes full of anticipation and anxiety, but I couldn't bear it. I said, Lao Zhang, you usually keep telling me to accumulate yin virtue or something, and run away when things come to an end, isn't that okay? Let's give it a try.
Zhang Wuren suddenly became anxious and said that you know a fart! It's a joke with our lives! Hurry up, get in the car and leave!
When he said this, it provoked my bullish temper. You must know that my temper is stubborn, and I don't go away, and I go backwards. Old man Huo worked hard to find us, and he couldn't say that he dug up a few coffins and left.
Zhang Wuyi saw that I refused to leave, and blew his beard angrily and glared. I said Lao Zhang, don't stare at it. You have to know that things in the world pay attention to cause and effect, you can't save yourself when you see death like this, you still have a yarn to use when you accumulate those bullshit yin virtues? Since we know more than the villagers, we have to give it a try.
Zhang Wuren was silent, he lit a cigarette, then let out a long breath, and said, Lao He, you are fucking forcing Lao Tzu to dance on the tip of the knife!
I saw that his tone was loose, and I hurriedly said with a hippie smile, how can you, you are so capable, right, let's try it first, if it doesn't work, then ask another master, you can't just leave without knowing it.
Zhang Wuren threw away the cigarette that he had only smoked, and said, Old Man Huo, Taoism has a particular one, called Dao Fifty, Tianyan Forty-nine, and one of them escapes. It probably means that the way of heaven is incomplete, and everything has its last ray of life. In other words, there is no solution to this matter, it depends on whether we can work together.
Old Man Huo has a low level of education and can't understand anything like Dao Fifty, but when he saw that Zhang Wuren was willing to stay and help, he nodded busily and said that everyone must work together.
Zhang Wuren continued, we will only shoot once tonight, and I don't know if there will be deaths. But if it can't be done tonight, tomorrow at dawn, everyone in the village will have to move. If you agree, we'll try it tonight, and if you don't, you'll have to ask someone else.
Old Man Huo slapped his leg on the spot and said, "Done!" If this matter cannot be solved, no one will dare to live here again.
Zhang Wuren looked at his watch and said, it's still early. You ask people to go outside the town to find a carpenter, and carve seven wooden figures out of locust wood, not so delicate, just have a nose and eyes and look like people. But it had to be delivered before dark.
Seeing that Old Man Huo arranged for someone to do it, Zhang Wuren said again, don't move the position of the coffin dug up, arrange someone to stay there, and as soon as the sun goes down, open the coffin and take out the bones inside. In addition, prepare seven roosters, and find seven men, preferably dragons, roosters, and dogs.
The villagers were busy for a while before they finally got together the seven men that Zhang Wuren had said. It's just that the age gap between these seven people is quite large, some are in their twenties, and some are already sixty or seventy years old and gray-haired. However, the people in the mountains have good physique, don't look at their age, but they are not much worse than the boys.
While the villagers were preparing things in a mess, I asked Zhang Wuren, do you know something? Let's hear it.
Zhang Wuren glared at me and said, I can only say that it is a guess. Have you ever heard of Pomensha?
What brakes? I shook my head in confusion and honestly said, I don't know.
Zhang Wuren said that a long, long time ago, there was a catastrophe in the Ganges Valley in India. How to put it, it is that all of a sudden, countless people began to commit suicide inexplicably. And it's a smile on his face, jumping into the river from village to village.
At that time, people believed in Buddhism, and the world was ignorant, thinking that the people had to get rid of their stinky skin. But the Tianzhu monks at that time didn't think so, because suicide seemed to be a violation of the doctrine. Therefore, a Tianzhu monk came with his eighteen disciples to see what was going on.
That night, they moved into a village by the river. Of course, there was no one in the village by this time, because they all jumped into the Ganges with smiles on their faces.
It's just that this senior monk and his disciples only stayed for one night, and eight Buddhist disciples also jumped into the Ganges River inexplicably. And at this time, the monk finally knew what was going on.
This thing is called Po Men Sa, which translates to roughly mean: a demon that can devour souls. And the countless villagers on both sides of the Ganges, as well as the eight disciples of the high monks, were all controlled by the ghosts and manipulated to commit suicide.
In modern parlance, there is a brain wave that can control a person's mind, make people hallucinate, and then make people do things they don't want to do, such as suicide.
It is said that after the senior monk knew about this, he set up a formation with the remaining disciples on the spot, ready to pack up this thing. As a result, after a big battle, Pomensha was sealed in the Ganges, but the remaining monks did not survive.
Half of the remaining ten disciples were killed in the battle, leaving only five scarred monks and returning with the ashes of the senior monk and fellow disciples.
Zhang Wuren estimated that the thing suppressed under the big willow tree should be the mother-in-law. When this thing was a disaster four hundred years ago, it was suppressed by a master who didn't know where it came from with a Seven Soul Coffin. The seven coffins are actually the bones of seven Taoist priests.
I was dumbfounded, and I thought to myself, this thing is so big. Back then, the seven Taoist priests sacrificed themselves to suppress this thing, if this escaped, wouldn't Zhang Wuren and I become a dish in minutes? No wonder Zhang Wuren had a plan to turn around and leave just now.
I said, what are we going to do?
Zhang Wuren said that the mother-in-law brake is actually a powerful ghost, it stands to reason that there are seven soul coffins to suppress, even if it is the most yin and evil, you have to rest. Since this guy can seduce the villagers to hang himself, I think there is something wrong with the Seven Souls Coffin.
I said yes, Lao Zhang, can you fix this thing?
Zhang Wuren shook his head, saying that the Seven Souls Coffin is one of the most powerful methods in the Dao Sect, and I don't have that much ability. However, I was able to use the bones inside the Seven Souls Coffin to reconstruct a secondary coffin. Well, those wooden statues. It may be useful to use the rooster's blood as a guide and bury it next to the Seven Souls Coffin.
I saw Zhang Wuren use the word "maybe", and I knew that he was not completely sure. But we have limited capabilities, and it's good to be able to do this.
When it was just getting dark, seven statues were finally brought in from outside. Zhang Wuren instructed the villagers to place the statue next to the coffin, and then had the coffin opened. As he expected, inside the coffin was indeed the bones of a Taoist priest. There is also iron gossip accompanying the funeral, and it is rotten and only a handle is left to dust and the like.
The most important thing is that the corpses of the seven Taoist priests did not decompose, but became something like dried corpses, and if you look closely, their bodies are all densely packed with tiny runes.