Chapter 80: Dragon Spirit
Time passed minute by minute, and Lao Pang and I didn't know how many books we had flipped. Just when I suspected that my eyes were about to become blind.
Suddenly, in an old yellowed life notebook, it seems that a few big characters on the Huanghuali bookshelf really appeared.
I immediately picked myself up and read this biography from beginning to end.
Finally, the real origin of this Huanghuali bookshelf was made clear to me.
I stretched out my hand to summon Pang Guang.
"Uncle Pang, look, this is the bookshelf we are looking for, this is the origin of the Huanghuali bookshelf!"
When Pang Guang heard this, it was as if he had picked up a life-saving straw. He rudely skimmed the book in his hand, and a fierce man stabbed at my side, snatched the life notes from my hand and began to read.
"Master Shihua, Emperor Tang Ming...... Damn! This Huanghuali bookshelf is at least 600 years away from now! ”
The life account we found is that during the reign of Emperor Tang and Ming, there was an abbot named Shihua, who wrote about his half-life experience.
In the middle and second paragraphs of this biography, there are indeed more than 1,000 words in length, which is to describe the Huanghuali bookshelf we are looking for.
According to the records in the books, the owner of this Huanghuali bookshelf is surnamed Zhu, and he is a scholar, with a large size Zhu Mengde.
Na Zhu Mengde likes to read sage books since he was a child, and he wants to gain fame wholeheartedly. He has been studying hard for decades, but for some reason, he will lose his level when he comes to the big exam. Zhu Mengde took the exam eight times before and after, and finally he felt sorry for himself, feeling that he was humiliated by his ancestors and ashamed of his ancestors, so he crashed to death on the bookshelf of Huanghuali.
It is said that after Zhu Mengde died, because he was killed on the bookshelf before his death, his soul lived in the bookshelf after his death, unable to get out, and was trapped all the time.
Zhu Mengde would cry late at night, crying about his tragic fate and half of his life. Zhu Mengde's family was also frightened when they heard that their bookshelves would make ghost crying and whimpering every night, and felt that the bookshelf was too heavy and unlucky, so they wanted to burn the bookshelf.
But unexpectedly, Zhu Mengde's soul was trapped in the bookshelf. If Zhu's family burned down the bookshelf, Zhu Mengde's soul would also disappear.
In this biography, the record is quite weird.
It is said that 600 years ago, the abbot of Fa'an Temple, Shihua, took a nap on the couch one day, and accidentally dreamed of a male ghost asking for help from him.
The male ghost is Zhu Mengde, Zhu Mengde explained his miserable life, and said that his family wanted to burn down the Huanghuali scholar, and he only hated that he had no ability when he was born, and he couldn't win the champion. Even after death, you have to end up with a scattered soul.
Abbot Shihua was kind-hearted, so he made up his mind to help Zhu Mengde. According to the address given to him by the male ghost in the dream, the abbot came to the small village at the foot of Jingliang Mountain and found Zhu's family. and also successfully discovered the Huanghuali bookshelf that holds Zhu Mengde's soul.
Abbot Shihua spent a lot of money to buy this bookshelf, and then enshrined it in the Buddha Hall of Fa'an Temple, so that Zhu Mengde's soul could be influenced by the scriptures day and night.
And this Huanghuali bookshelf, there are indeed many patterns on the bookshelf. The plant pattern is a map of the scenery of the four seasons, and the fierce beast that Pang Guang and I can't see clearly, which is the negative of the nine sons of the dragon.
It is said that the negative is the eighth son of the dragon king, and his body resembles a dragon, Yahao Sven, coiled on the top of the stone tablet. Like a dragon, the eighth in line, a good life, so, there are many dragon-shaped patterns on both sides of the stele is this negative stool.
And it is precisely because of his good writing in his life that it is also respected by many students, so on some bookshelves or tables, there are carved patterns, and negative graphics will also be carved.
But it was said that Zhu Mengde's soul was parasitic in the Huanghuali bookshelf, and he was nurtured by the scriptures every day, and with the help of Master Shihua, he finally got liberated and could be reincarnated.
Master Shihua personally overtook Zhu Mengde, hoping that he would be reincarnated in the future, so that he could complete his past life, read thousands of books in the future, and become famous in one fell swoop.
But what I never expected was that although Zhu Mengde had been reincarnated. But because his obsession was too heavy during his lifetime, a wisp of obsession turned into a breath of essence, and it was integrated with the negative pattern on the Huanghuali bookshelf. and became a spirit.
This kind of spirit formed by the fusion of people's obsession essence and the totem of the divine beast that everyone believes in, he does not belong to evil, and he does not belong to ghosts. But the body is full of strong greed, which feeds on greed and likes to devour souls.
The former master Shihua called the foreign object in the Huanghuali bookshelf - Dragon Spirit.
Pang Guang looked at the records in this life notebook in disbelief.
He scratched his few bald hairs with his hands, and the expression on his face was very tangled.
"Yuyang, it turns out that the black thing in the Huanghuali bookshelf is a mess of obsession!"
I shook my head.
"To be precise, it has long since transcended obsession. Man's obsession is no more than one breath, but that breath is integrated with the spirit in the totem. It not only has a real form, but also has a lifespan that coexists with heaven and earth.
The world is full of wonders. The stuff in this bookshelf is really indefinite. ”
"Then let's call him Dragon Spirit according to Master Shi Hua's name!
The point is, we now know what that thing is! But what are we going to do about it? You can't still leave it in the longevity shop, let him eat ours, drink ours, and steal our every day...... The main thing is that the dragon spirit likes to eat people's souls! ”
I said, "It seems that Wen Zhengru's soul was indeed eaten by this guy."
This dragon spirit is really cunning, negative and natural, and good at martial arts. That Zhu Mengde used to be a person who read the Book of the Dead. The combination of the two is not enough to inspire others to be buried in the depths of their hearts, inexhaustible and inexhaustible.
The dragon spirit used inspiration as bait to plague those literati, and when those literati reached a state of madness one by one, and their souls were the weakest, it ate them in one fell swoop. I'm afraid it's a scourge to keep this thing! ”
When Pang Guang heard me say this, he nodded very firmly.
"Since it's a scourge, let's kill it! Don't worry, I don't care what kind of dragon spirit and tiger spirit he is! When I went back, I took an axe and chopped the bookshelf for firewood, and as for the little gadgets inside, Lao Tzu grabbed it and put it in a clay pot to soak in wine and drink! ”
Pang Guang is a person, from saying to doing.
Now that the two of us have found the origin of the Huanghuali bookshelf, we bid farewell to Master Miaokong and hurried back to the Shoucai shop.
Pang Guang, this old boy, really made an axe. As soon as he entered the longevity shop, he plunged into the dark room.
I pushed the wheelchair, for fear that he would make some trouble, so I kept following Pang Guang closely, not daring to stay away even an inch.