From Bai Wei's mouth, I heard the name of this copper drum for the first time - Zhen Wanxian.

She told me that when she came to Huang Er Xiangu to drink once, she drank too much, and while drinking, she talked about the history of Erxian Gu, a horse immortal, and talked about ancient shamanism.

At that time, Huang Er Xiangu told her that in ancient times, there were no less than 100 kinds of animal immortals worshiped by shamanism, among which 12 kinds of animals were the most immortal and easy to cultivate into positive fruits, respectively, 'Hu Huang, Bai Qing, Gray, Wu Long, Wolf Dog, Black and Chang Python', so it was honored as the Twelve Immortals, which separately set out the five major immortals of the fox and yellow, white and willow gray, not only shamanism, but also the common people in many places in the north burned incense and worshipped.

Erxian Gu said, in fact, 'out of the horse fairy' is the name given to them by outsiders, but they themselves do not call out the horse fairy, the shamanic disciples are called shamans, this religion started thousands of years ago, flourished in the Manchu people, and was even once regarded as the 'state religion' by the Qing Dynasty royal family.

After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, shamanism went into decline, the disciples scattered, after generations of inheritance, most of them also forgot a lot of ancient worship of the immortals and magic, among which there is an immortal family, which is related to the bronze drum 'Zhen Wan Xian', Bai Wei said, the forgotten immortal family is called 'stammering immortal'.

The so-called shamanic immortals have archetypes, and Hu Cuihua is Hu Xian, that is, a fox; Huang Jiuling is a yellow immortal, that is, a weasel; Chang Tianlong is a willow immortal, that is, a snake python and the like; The second master of the gray is the gray fairy, that is, the mouse; Qinghai Daxian is a green immortal, that is, a toad......

But what is this stammering fairy?

The second immortal aunt told Bai Wei that in the history of shamanism, there were different opinions, but no one knew what its prototype was, and the only thing that later generations heard was, 'This immortal family, with a human face and a sheep body, knows human nature and human language, lies underground to understand the various states of the world, and when it comes out, a hundred ghosts retreat and ten thousand immortals bow down', that is to say, all animal immortals in shamanism are ranked below it.

In order to worship it, the shamans in ancient times even specially created unique sacrificial vessels, and this bronze drum known as 'Zhen Wan Xian' is one of them.

Bai Wei told us briefly, and everyone was stunned, because we didn't understand these things at all.

Although we are in the countryside of the north, and we have caught up with the era of superstition, every family will believe something to some extent, but when my grandfather was alive, he never paid attention to this and did not let my grandmother provide anything at home.

But from Bai Wei's words, we can all hear that the thing that my grandfather came back from the grave back then is really amazing, and when I think of the various strange phenomena that happened in the family one after another after my grandfather picked up the copper drum, things became even more evil.

After a moment of silence in the room, my grandmother suddenly choked up without warning, and asked tremblingly, "Could it be that even the matter of my eldest girl was related to this broken thing?" ”

Thinking of the child who was killed by the rice bowl, the grandmother couldn't help but cry bitterly, and then said, "But such an evil thing, why does my old man have to stay at home?" It's hurt us! ”

"What does your old man do?"

Bai Wei suddenly asked, and for a while our whole family didn't know how to answer, and finally my dad scratched his head and said: "If you want to say what to do, even I, the son, don't know, in short, I go out every day, and I have a fight every other day, and I chase people with kitchen knives to cut them, and I can chase them out for several miles, but there is no old man in our village who is about the same age as him, and there is no ...... who has not been beaten by him before."

After my dad finished talking about Bai Weile, he seemed to be interested, so he asked again: "This old man is living a very energetic life!" But he is so prodigal every day, how can he feed your family? ”

"In terms of supporting the family, he didn't owe us ......" The grandmother wiped her tears and said: "He is a good hunter, and he often comes back with pheasants and hares, and sells some money to the family as a subsidy, or catches the dogs in the village and comes back to stew meat to eat, anyway, no one in the village dares to mess with him, whose dog let him eat only as if he deserved to be mourned, and then the dog skin is picked up and sold, and it can be exchanged for some money." Don't look at my old man, he loves to cause trouble, but the Gu family is indeed a good hand, which I am very pleased with, let alone catch a dog, he will send a mouse to the house when he catches a mouse outside......"

Grandmother pointed to the copper drum in Bai Wei's hand, and then said, "This old and immoral cat, can't you pick up such a harmful thing?" ”

After hearing this, Bai Wei smiled and said: "This thing can't be picked up, this is a treasure, no matter how many horse immortals rush to buy it, they can't buy it, I see, your old man is not simple, he is not an ordinary person......"

Bai Wei stopped our family in one sentence, what do you mean by not being an ordinary person? Is it possible to play tricks and tricks? The problem is that my grandfather has never done anything serious in his life, and he is idle everywhere, he is not an ordinary person, what can he be?

Seeing that we couldn't ask anything at home, Bai Wei didn't bother to talk about this matter anymore, and after wrapping the copper drum in cloth again, she said while walking out: "Anyway, you put your heart in your stomach, even if it is for Sister Huang, I will investigate this matter to the end!" But where did this bronze drum come from, and what is it that harms your family so much, I'm afraid I can only ask Sister Huang herself, as far as she knows......"

"But she's gone?"

After listening to my question, Bai Wei looked back and smiled, "Don't worry, she will have to come back in a few days." ”

She didn't continue to explain, only left this sentence and went out, saying that she wanted to go to Lao Zhao's house first.

But it's already past noon, Bai Wei has been busy since last night for my family's affairs, except for eating three grilled chickens the night before, and the rice has not been eaten, according to the sincerity of my family, how embarrassed to let her run around hungry, so I quickly stopped her again, and I had to let her have a good meal at home and then go to work.

It was one o'clock in the afternoon, Bai Wei saw that it was still early before dark, and she was really hungry, so she didn't excuse herself, my grandmother hurriedly took my mother and two aunts to get busy, and after a while, I fried a few dishes and steamed a pot of steamed buns.

Bai Wei and I are about the same age, but in terms of the amount of alcohol, the four of me tied together are estimated to be unable to drink her, and after a while, I dried up the two bottles of liquor that my father brought, and ate four steamed buns and half a chicken, so I stopped the chopsticks, and saw that the time was already more than two o'clock, Bai Wei did not delay the time, and after comforting my family for a while, she took me straight to Lao Zhao's house.

We went to Zhao's house, it was very different from the previous time, when we came in the morning, the old Zhao's courtyard was cold, but now it can almost be said that it is overcrowded, not only the fifth master came back from the cemetery in advance with a few people, but many people in the village who heard about it also ran over to see the excitement, and talked all kinds of nonsense around the courtyard of the Zhao family.

The crying in the yard was even more up, Bai Wei and I squeezed in to see, it was Zhao Qian's father who had come back from the town, after hearing about the incident, he was sitting in the yard crying, and from time to time he slapped himself, scolding himself for being too bastard, talking too poisonously, and harming his daughter, and Zhao Qian's body was still wrapped in a quilt and placed on two tables side by side in the middle hall, accompanied by several important old people in the village and Zhao Qian's mother. Live like a door god.

Before entering the house, Bai Wei first called the fifth master to the courtyard and asked, "Fifth master, how is the situation in the cemetery?" ”

"It's good, the owners of the other two tombs have been contacted, and they are helping to dig the graves, I saw that there were a lot of people, so I brought a few people back to see ......"

After the fifth master finished speaking, Bai Wei nodded, and said: "You came back just in time, and I bothered you to go to the old Ma's house for a while, and asked for too much money with the old lady of the Ma family, first, the brothers who helped in the cemetery didn't eat, you can get some food and send it, and secondly, give more money to divide it into seven points, and divide it among the four big brothers who pulled the quilt and opened the coffin, and what they let them do today is harmful to the yang, I'm afraid they will have a serious illness when they go back......."

"I am a brother in life and death with the old man of the Ma family, such a little will not bother others, I will put this money back on it!" The fifth master patted his chest and asked again: "Little master, what should I do next?" ”

Bai Wei replied with a smile: "These three resentful ghosts will definitely come back the night after tomorrow, you help me prepare more firewood and gasoline, and I will solve this revenge tonight ......"