Chapter 33: Crazy Old Man
"He said that the sacrificial tower was to let the dead person, that is, Brother Zhao, go to the tower spirit to protect the antique tower from other things, and he has placed the tower spirit in a small spirit tower laid out on the first floor.
The reason why the antique tower was successfully built later was all because of the effect of doing so. After the antique tower itself is built, it also has a complete suppression ability, and it is even more impossible for Ta Ling to be easily released to harm people, unless the things he placed are destroyed, so he has to go and see it in person to make a conclusion.
In this way, the foreman and my second uncle waited for news from the master, and my second uncle had already decided to take me back to my hometown to hide first.
But at this time, the body of the master was found on the side of the antique tower, which scared the foreman half to death, so he came to knock on our door at night.
The foreman thinks that if the master is so powerful that he has died, he must have been entangled in something that is not easy to mess with, and maybe everyone involved in that incident will be finished.
He had calculated before, after that night, it would take a whole year to build the ancient tower, even if three had died that year, and three more would die at the beginning of the new year, then he would definitely not be able to escape, and my second uncle was too, maybe even I would be counted.
My second uncle was already very scared by this time, but he had no way to solve it, and he only blamed it for harming people's lives for the sake of profit, and now there is retribution.
After the foreman left that night, the second uncle planned to buy train tickets the next day, and we left here quickly, but what he didn't expect was that he didn't know if it was providence or ghosts, and the train tickets through us were all sold out, and the foreman died at this time.
I don't know if the foreman is afraid of suicide, or if there is really a ghost who harms him, in short, the second uncle feels that he can't escape, so he told me all about it, because he was afraid that he would also have an accident, but I didn't know at all.
I was very flustered when I heard this, but I couldn't sit still. Before, when I followed the materials, I passed by your Xuanwu Temple, and I thought that this kind of evil matter could be solved by Taoist priests, so I brought my second uncle to our temple that afternoon.
But the people in the temple said that you are not there to solve this kind of thing, saying that you are going out to do errands, and we have to wait for two days, and we don't dare to go back to the residence over there, so we will make do with the small hotel near here for the time being.
But that night, my second uncle went out of the hotel barefoot in the middle of the night as if he were sleepwalking.
At first, I thought that the second uncle went to the toilet, but then I didn't sleep well and looked under the bed, and the second uncle's shoes were there, and I woke up as soon as I could.
It's impossible to go to the toilet without shoes, there's something wrong with that. I slipped around looking for my second uncle's shoes, but I didn't find them, so I looked for them again along the road, and my second uncle had walked for two miles.
His feet were all scratched, and his blood didn't hurt, and his mind was not very clear.
I finally grabbed him, but I couldn't shake him up, and finally I couldn't take his shoes and whip him, and my second uncle returned to normal.
When he saw that he was in the wilderness, he felt that his feet hurt again in the dark light, and when he looked down and saw that he didn't even have shoes on his feet, he was immediately frightened.
I put my socks on him, and he limped with his shoes on, and we both folded back again, not saying a word on the way.
When I got back to the hotel, I took care of the wound on his foot, and then my second uncle told me what was going on.
He said that he had a particularly vivid dream, saying that on the path of his hometown, his home was in front, and my second aunt stood at the gate of the courtyard and kept beckoning him to hurry up.
He tried to walk and walk, thinking about walking over, and he didn't feel tired, and he didn't think about how he couldn't reach the door after walking for so long.
Then as he walked, he felt a hot pain on his body, and he saw my second aunt turn red all of a sudden, and he was shocked, and he saw me with a flashlight.
He said it was too wicked, he had never sleepwalked in such a big way, and the red in his dream was the same as the one he had seen on his boss's back on the day he inspected the ancient tower, so he must have something to do with him.
My second uncle and I didn't dare to sleep that night, and decided to wait for you in the temple the next day. After dawn, we went to the temple again, and as soon as we entered, my second uncle suddenly squatted on the ground and couldn't get up, and he didn't say anything when he asked him, and his mind suddenly became less sober.
It's not until you come back that you don't pour him a bowl of runic water, and he spits out a bunch of stuff that it's normal again.
Chief Huidao, you have real skills, you have to help us. ”
"Rustle...... Rustling"
"Well, help must help, but there is one condition."
"Oh...... You can say that we can do what we can be satisfied. ”
"After this matter is dealt with, your second uncle has to go to the public security bureau to turn himself in and explain to the police the murder of your co-worker."
"This ......"
"Master Cao, there is a debtor, if your second uncle reported this to the public security at the beginning, then there will be no innocent people killed. And whether it is indirect or direct, the person who was killed not only lost his life, but also his family was ruined, and it was as simple as more than one life. If you think about it, can you really get by on your conscience?
Sooner or later, the sins of creation will need to be repaid, and although I promise to save you today, your lives will have to be atoned for in the future, otherwise the cycle of cause and effect will be rewarded sooner or later. ”
"I understand Daoist Hui, when this matter is over, I will definitely let the second uncle turn himself in, if he doesn't go, I will go."
"Good! Then you two stay here for the time being, and I'll have to investigate before I deal with it. ”
“…… Uh, Captain Hui, you have to be careful, uh......"
"You're afraid that I'm just like the 'master' who jumped off the building. You can rest assured of this, but this thing is really hard to deal with.
You are also a person who is destined to find me here. Okay, you guys wait in the temple. ”
The tape is blank here for a few seconds.
"15 September 1997
Now I'm going to go to Taohuadu to have a look.
Judging from Cao Shizhu's description, there is at least one fourth-level murderous soul with a red grudge level in this incident, and whether there is anything else needs to be judged after the investigation is completed.
I don't know its name, the body can't know the specific location, and the level of the murderous spirit is high, it is not a day, and it cannot be acted rashly. ”
The tape was silent here, and it didn't take long for the "pop" to come to an end.
Qin Ding put the third tape in.
"15 September 1997"
"I'm sorry to excuse me, I'm going to ask you something."
"Hey, I'm busy, I don't have time, you can go over there and ask."
"Huh... Boom ............" (the sound of walking without hurrying)
"Hello, do you know the former Changyuan Pavilion here? I'd like to know where it came from or what the story is. ”
"Rumors? Are you going to? However, the pavilion was torn down a year ago. ”
"I'm here to investigate folklore. It is precisely because this pavilion is gone, so I want to know its origin, and I think it is a pity that some things are buried. If you know, can you borrow a little time? ”
"Yo, why did you come earlier, the pavilion is gone, and I remembered the value. But it has nothing to do with you, do you want to write it in a book? Then you really found the right person, in a few years, once this side is demolished, you won't be able to inquire about these things anywhere.
There's a stool here for you to sit on, and I'll tell you about it when I have nothing to do. ”
"Okay, thank you!"
"Rustling ......"
"I used to hear the old man say that in the past, our area was not called Taohuadu, it was called Taipingqiao, and there were not so many peach trees and that Changyuan Pavilion at the beginning.
When we were children, adults didn't let us go near the inner pavilion, saying that there was a resentful spirit pressing down there. ”
"Resentful spirits? Whose wrath is it? ”
"It is said that during the Guangxu period, the young lady of the big family in the vicinity fell in love with the seller who passed by here every day, and the two were in love but had no choice but the identity was very different, and the door was not right, but the young lady and the seller really loved each other, so they planned to elope away from home together.
The place where they agreed to meet was set at the Changyuan Pavilion, and there was no such pavilion at that time.
But this matter was discovered by the master in advance, so the young lady was locked up, and then the master sent the family to the place they agreed, trying to drive away the merchant and make him die, but the family had a conflict with the merchant, beat the seller to death, and then buried the body on the spot.
The old man lied to his daughter, saying that the seller didn't really like her, and gave some benefits, so he promised not to entangle him anymore.
The young lady didn't believe it, so she couldn't afford to get sick, and it didn't take long for her to die. Before dying, the young lady told his father that the seller met him every night in a dream, and said that he was dead, and she asked if it was true, but the old man was weak and did not dare to admit it, so the young lady went like this.
As soon as the young lady went, the old man quickly found a Taoist priest, because he was afraid that the merchant would turn into a ghost and come back for revenge, so he asked the Taoist priest to suppress the merchant's soul and want him to never be reborn.
The Taoist priest told the master that all he needed to do was to plant a hundred peach trees in that area, and then build a pavilion where the bones of the merchant were buried and suppress them, and these effects could be used.
So the old man spent a lot of money to plant peach trees in this area and built a pavilion. In a few years, the peach trees became a landscape, and then it was renamed Peach Blossom Crossing. As for why the pavilion is called Changyuan Pavilion, I really don't know this.
Whether the story is true or not remains to be verified, but this pavilion is indeed a bit evil.
I remember clearly that when I was very young, there were more than a dozen people in the village who took shelter from the rain, and as a result, a lightning bolt split through the pavilion and killed all of them. If it weren't for the pavilion being pushed, I would have taken you to see it, there was such a big hole in the top of the pavilion, which was split by Lei back then. ”
"Are there any other rumors?"
"That's all I know, can I put it in a book?"
"Uh...... Thank you for providing us. But I would like to ask you, when you pushed the pavilion a year ago, you were not there? ”
"Yes, I'm a native here, and we all have to go and see what we want to build to develop tourism projects."
"Then do you remember that an old man came out and didn't let him push the pavilion."
"Huh~ You're talking about Lao Li Tou, he's a little mentally abnormal, and the Red Soldiers can make him miserable at what time. But it's also good and bad, and when you're sober, it's the same as a normal person.
That day, he stopped people from pushing the pavilion, so he probably made a mistake. ”
"Do you know where his family lives?"
"Right there, see? The one at the top. However, his son is not very good-tempered, and if you ask, don't be beaten. ”
"Huh! Good! Thank you! ”
"Boom ......,......" (slight sound of walking)
"Knock knock!"
"Let's ......"
"Who? …… Who are you looking for? ”
"Hello, I'm a Taoist priest of Xuanwu Temple, and I want to ask my father about something, but it's inconvenient to know the way?"
“…… Oh? What do you want to ask? My dad is not very convenient right now. ”
"You still need to ask your father about this."
"Ask my father if he can ask me, you say, what the hell is the matter?"
"It's related to the Changyuan Pavilion that was pushed down."
"Changyuan Pavilion? My house has nothing to do with the pavilion, you can ask someone else about this, I still have to cook, you let me go, I will close the door. ”
"Bang!"
"Dayong, Dayong? Who? You let him in, hurry, let him in. ”
"Squeak~"
"Whew......,...... My dad's mood is not too stable, you can ask leisurely. ”
"Okay."
"Huh... Swish... Who......"
"You are a Taoist priest of Xuanwu Temple? Ask about Changyuan Pavilion? ”
"Yes. I don't know if you know the origin of Changyuan Pavilion. I heard that you stopped pushing the pavilion last year, I wonder if there is any statement in this? ”