The torii?

At this moment, Lu Ming still doesn't know what this archway has to do with whether Nanlin Street is "evil". But he also has to admit that this old man Liu Baohua is really skilled in storytelling, and he can arouse people's curiosity.

Facing the eager eyes of a group of old friends, as well as the three Zhang Dingshan staring at him intently, Liu Baohua took a slow puff of cigarette: "At that time, there was no archway there.

After the girl's death, the body was thrown there, and the family did not dare to collect the body.

But there is a good saying, the cycle of heavenly principles, retribution is not happy. This week, the family has done a lot of evil, isn't retribution coming?

Since the death of that girl, the family has become more and more unhappy this week. First of all, the second son of the Zhou family, within a few days, had a big sore on his body, and he started to have a fever again, and everyone who burned was lost in the lake. I invited a famous doctor in the city to come and see, and I took a lot of medicine, but it was useless.

I heard that this kid was lying on the bed all day long, constantly screaming, screaming in pain, shouting something like 'I don't dare anymore', 'spare my life' and so on.

It seems that this is not a real disease, but a virtual disease. ”

Lu Ming knows that in the feudal superstition industry, the so-called real illness usually refers to a real illness, such as bacterial infection, back pain and leg pain. And the deficiency disease refers to the ghost on the body, colliding with things, suffering from fox fairies and the like.

"The Zhou family is rich, so I invited a Taoist priest from Nantai Mountain. The Taoist priest came to do the Fa, said that it was done, collected the money and left, but the result was still useless. The second son of the Zhou family still died of illness in the end. Tsk, this is called God to accept people, retribution.

It's strange to say, since the death of the second son of the Zhou family this week, this week's family is not as good as a day, and the year is not good.

Several of his family's Zhuangzi were looted by lake bandits and suffered heavy losses. The eldest son, who was an official outside, heard that he was also imprisoned for questioning because he offended Shangguan, and spent a lot of money to keep him safe. The youngest daughter of the family committed adultery with a subordinate and eloped, the angry old man lay down for several days, and the harvest in the field was not good.

Everyone in the town said that it was the old Zhou family who did a lot of evil and suffered from God's curse. ”

Whenever the wicked are punished, it is always a joy to hear about it. At least the old people here don't have the slightest sympathy for this Zhou family.

Old man Liu Baohua sighed.

"But it's a pity, this week's family still shouldn't die. Just when the Zhou family was tossed and went to half their lives, a traveling Taoist priest passed by, looked at the Zhou family's house, and found the door.

He said, the Zhou family has done a lot of evil, and the whole family should have died. It's just that the ancestors of the Zhou family, when there was a drought in a certain year, showed kindness, opened a porridge shed, saved hundreds of people, accumulated great virtue, and blessed this generation, so that the Zhou family still has a chance to change their lives against the sky.

How can this life be changed? The first is, of course, to accumulate virtue and do good, and to change the past, needless to say. Second, the Taoist priest said that the reason why the Zhou family suffered this misfortune was because there were too many people who died unjustly, especially the girl who was robbed by the second son before, who lost her life for no reason and became a ghost, and wanted to take revenge.

Now, then, it is necessary to appease the grievances of those who have died unjustly, especially this girl. How to calm down? It is to build a memorial arch in the place where the body of the Zhou family is thrown.

This archway, the Taoist priest said that there are two purposes. The first is repression. Suppress the resentment of those people. Second, it is to accept offerings. But this offering is not to burn incense and bow down, the archway, it is very high, and it is taken as 'God has eyes', that is, let the Zhou family do good deeds and accumulate virtue, this archway is in the eyes, so that those who are suppressed by it can see that the Zhou family has changed its past wrongs and atoned for their sins, so as to calm down their grievances.

In this way, one inside and one outside, the two-pronged approach can change the life of the Zhou family against the sky, and the family will not be ruined.

The Zhou family listened to the words of the Taoist priest, and built a memorial arch, and changed the past, and later, sure enough, the family was slowly fine. Although most of the tossing family some time ago was broken, it always ended up in a wealthy family. ”

The old man Liu Baohua stopped talking, picked up the cup and took a sip of water. An old man couldn't help but ask, "What about the back?" ”

"It's gone. That's it. ”

"You old Liu, grinding and chirping are not happy. What does this archway have to do with Nanlin Street? ”

"What do you mean? After Nanlin Street became a food street, didn't the government tear down the archway more than ten years ago in order to smooth traffic? ”

Well?

The old men gasped.

"I've heard that Nanlin Street is evil, but I really don't know, it has only started to be evil since the archway was demolished?"

"Shhh...... Lao Liu, when you say that, it's true. Before the archway was demolished, I didn't remember what was said on Nanlin Street. It's really been slowly spread over the past ten years. ”

"It's been a hundred years, and this resentment hasn't been dissipated? What a grievance. ”

Lao Liu glanced at him: "Didn't you listen to the Taoist priest?" This torii is mainly suppressed. Now that there is no repression, the grievances, the grievances, the souls, are they all coming out? ”

"If you want me to say, the Taoist priest should have overtaken these unjust souls at that time."

"Excessive? That's a monk's job, a Taoist priest can't. ”

"Do you still need to say it? It's not too early to be overdosed, and it's a big grievance, and it can't be exceeded. ”

The old people were talking about it. Lu Ming had to interject: "Uncle, what's wrong with this Nanlin Street?" What does it have to do with the gossip mirror in every house? ”

"Well, that's for later."

The old man Liu Baohua coughed lightly: "More than ten years ago, the government demolished the archway, and I felt bad in my heart and had an accident." I also reported to the government, saying that this archway cannot be demolished, and I am very angry. Even if you want to dismantle it, at least do a transcendent ritual first, right?

But the government didn't listen, and said that I was a feudal superstition, and disciplined me. I'm wronged. What's going on behind you, what's wrong, right? ”

"I just heard about evil, but I don't know what's going on, what's going on, Lao Liu?"

"That kid from the Wu family, do you still remember?"

"Wu family? Where do you live in the back door building? ”

"That's right, that's that kid, angry with his parents, beating away his daughter-in-law, drinking and gambling money."

"That kid is a well-known second-rate kid. Wasn't he already dead? Suicide, right? ”

Suicide?

Lu Ming's eyes narrowed slightly.

"Yes, suicide. I went to see it at the time. I heard people at the time say that this kid owed gambling debts and couldn't afford to pay them off, and he was beaten that day, he was angry, he couldn't stand it, he drank some wine, and he heard that his daughter-in-law became with someone else, and the child also changed his surname, so he hanged himself. This kind of person, whether he is dead or not, what can he do while he is alive but to harm people? ”

Zhang Dingshan glanced at He Wei. He Wei understood, and immediately took out her mobile phone and began to contact Feng Guozhu to retrieve the relevant information.

The old man Liu Baohua scoffed at this statement: "What kind of suicide is clearly possessed by a ghost." ”

"What do you mean by this?"

"The place where I lived at that time was not far from the Wu family. At that time, the Wu family also had a dog and two geese. Before the Wu kid hanged himself, guess what? He went on a hunger strike and starved himself to death. ”

"Can dogs still go on a hunger strike? Sick, right? ”

"Impossible."

The old man Liu Baohua denied: "One day I passed by the Wu family and heard that the Wu family kid was beating the dog, that guy, grabbed the dog's head and slapped it hard." While beating it, he scolded why it didn't eat or something. Later, I also saw that the Wu family boy invited a veterinarian to come and see, and I came to the door to eavesdrop, and the veterinarian said clearly, not sick, not sick at all. He refused to eat, and then starved to death.

I saw the dog's corpse, and he was hungry and only skin and bones, and that was miserable.

And that's not all, the dog starved to death, and then the goose came next. The goose also went on a hunger strike, and starved to death. ”

This seems a bit bizarre.

People commit suicide by hunger strike, and animals like dogs and geese also commit suicide by hunger strike?

They have no intelligence, only animal instincts. And animal instinct does not seem to include the option of dying on a hunger strike.

"Lao Liu, are you talking nonsense, that second-rate son starved to death because he was too lazy to feed, right?"

The old man Liu Baohua snorted and said dissatisfiedly: "Everyone knew about this at the time, and I was not the only one who saw it. Lao Sun also knows, if you don't believe it, you ask him to go. Ah, forgot, Lao Sun just left last month, right? Then you go and ask Lao Zhao. Lao Zhao knew better. ”

Lu Ming secretly wrote down Lao Zhao's name.

"I'll talk about it later. You go on, but what about later? ”

"Everyone knows what happened in the back, the dog died, the goose died, yes, there is another thing, one day I passed by the Wu family, and I saw a mouse running out of his house, in broad daylight, just ran straight out of the Wu house, and did not avoid people, and rushed directly to the sewer across the street and drowned."

The old people looked at each other.

"All the rats killed themselves? This...... It's normal for rats to run down the sewer, you see? ”

"The cement cover of the sewer is broken, and the mouth is open. I saw it really, the rat just jumped into the water, struggled for a while and drowned. I was furious, so I hurried away. Later, everyone knew that the Wu family kid hanged himself and committed suicide. ”

The old man Liu Baohua sighed a few times: "You said that the boy of the Wu family committed suicide because he owed gambling debts, his daughter-in-law followed someone else, and the child changed his surname." Let me ask you, you think about it yourself, with the virtue of the Wu family boy, can he commit suicide? ”

The old men were thoughtful.

Lu Ming asked, "This kid from the Wu family...... Why couldn't he have killed himself? ”

Generally speaking, if you can't afford to pay off your gambling debts, your daughter-in-law runs away, and your child changes her surname, these three things together can be regarded as sufficient conditions for suicide.

Strong-willed people can withstand these pressures, but it's normal for them to commit suicide because of it.

"The neighbors all know that the Wu family kid is a bastard. You said that if you were a normal person, you could be angry with your parents and beat your daughter-in-law? That person is not normal, born bad.

Got a gambling debt? This is also a matter for the Wu family boy? The daughter-in-law ran away with someone, and the son changed his surname? With his character, it is normal to carry a knife to the door to explain the law, and commit suicide for this? ”

Lu Ming thought back to the marginalized people he had encountered in the past, and he had to admit that the more marginalized people he was, the stronger his psychological endurance.

The barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes, they are barefoot. Nothing can be lost later, but more open-minded. It is indeed unlikely that such a person will commit suicide.

Normally, when you encounter this kind of thing, if you don't care, you can just do it, if you care, it is normal to kill someone with a knife and then be caught and shot. As for suicide on its own?

If they can be so wronged by themselves, they will not become marginalized people in society.

"After the Wu family kid hanged himself, the neighbors slowly came back to their senses, and they felt that it was impossible for this kid to commit suicide. At this time, the things that no one paid attention to before were all turned out.

What kind of dog commits suicide, goose commits suicide, mouse dives to commit suicide, plus the Wu family kid hanged himself, tsk, the chicken and dog don't stay. How evil is this? If you change it, don't you feel hairy in your heart? ”

Lu Ming felt that if this kind of thing happened to his neighbor's house, it would be difficult for him not to think about it.

"Listen to what you mean, the boy of the Wu family has hit the evil spirit? Possessed? Well? Is it because of the torii? ”

The old man Liu Baohua slapped his thigh: "Why don't you say it." This torii is here, nothing at all. The torii is gone, you see, something happened, right? ”

The old men looked at each other.

"Then ...... thing?"

"I was scared too." The old man Liu Baohua said: "You said that the sins created by the Zhou family, those unjust souls, have been suppressed for so many years, how big is the resentment." Now that there is no archway suppression, there is no wind and waves?

On Nanlin Street, some people felt evil and moved away. Some people who can't move away for the time being, such as me, have scraped together some money, thinking about finding a master to come and see, the Wu family kid deserves to die, and we good people can't have any more accidents.

Later, I found a master. I also saw it at the time, that fairy wind bone, it was not ordinary at first glance. When the master arrived at Nanlin Street, he said that it was not good, and some ghost things had broken the seal and were about to come out to make trouble.

Later, he talked about the matter in detail, and the master also investigated everywhere, and then sighed, saying that if this ghost thing was still suppressed, he would be able to do something to overdo it. He said that the senior master who set up the seal at the beginning originally planned to let the next generation surpass these ghosts after a hundred years. It's a pity that no one knows about it after a hundred years, so it's not on the ground.

Now, the archway has been demolished, and the ghost thing has come out of trouble, I don't know where it is hidden, and he has no choice.

That ghost thing destroyed the entire Wu family, and it will definitely hurt people again in the future. Now there is no way to get rid of it, so we can only prevent it. How can you prevent this? It's simple, whether it's opening a store or living in someone, you have to put a gossip mirror, so that the ghost can't harm people and can keep the house safe.

Since then, here on Nanlin Street, every household has placed gossip mirrors, and after a long time, it has become a custom. ”