Chapter Twenty-Four: The Rib Difference

Grandma Lin's small inn is not very far from Sanqing Palace, on the Jiuliao Mountain in the south. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info here is lush with trees, covering the sky and the sun, it is very cool in summer, and the scenery is pleasant in autumn. There are no special scenic spots, usually come to stay, are literary and artistic youth, the picture is quiet, suitable for creation. At the beginning of this century, a Japanese writer came to live here and returned to China to write a travelogue. Since then, young Japanese tourists have come here every now and then to find inspiration. Until last month, an Osaka girl hit an evil here, jumped from the window on the second floor, broke one of her legs, and became crazy. Everyone came and went, and they all said that it was haunted, and no one dared to come to the hotel. Business here has declined.

Coast Guard member 7021, who couldn't bear his grandmother's sadness, found a few strong men from the same team, ran around the inn bare-bottomed, shouting and beating gongs and drums, and didn't see any ghosts being knocked out by yang qi to fight. It's really out of the question, and I have to ask the big meow heavenly master to come out.

Du Yuan followed Da Meow, had the heart to see the excitement, and came here together. Grandma Lin prepared rice noodle soup for guests, and the big meow suspected that there was minced garlic and meat in it, and they were all eaten by Du Yuan. Du Yuan thought to himself, you don't eat garlic, but drinking, which one is more meaty? The two of them inspected up and down the inn, and Da Meow had a plan, and used the method as an excuse to branch out Grandma and 7021, and waited in the courtyard. After closing the door, he said to Du Yuan, "Adu, what do you think?" Du Yuan pointed to the yellow paper talisman on the staircase pillar and said, "Your talisman is stuck here, and it won't be burned, can it be used well?" Tell the ghost that we've noticed you, so do what you want, go away and don't get into trouble again. This seemed like a joke, but Du Yuan couldn't laugh, he only felt a cool yin wind burrowing into his body, and he couldn't help but shiver. Seeing this scene, Da Meow didn't make fun of him for being timid, but just pressed his shoulder, "Where did the chill you just now, where did it start?" Du Yuan thought for a moment, and looked down at his feet, "It seems to ...... Drill out of the floor and through your heels to your whole body. ”

The Great Meow Heavenly Master immediately began to search the floor, and when he reached the kitchen, he found a partition that could be turned up, and a pull ring appeared. Da Meow said: "According to these observations, your body is far beyond ordinary people, and your six senses are extremely sharp, and you also have to trust your intuition." The two climbed down the ladder, found the switch on the wall, and turned on the light in the cellar. The inside was surprisingly spacious, and compared to the small wooden building above, it was all concrete below, with a standard circular shape and a diameter of fifteen or sixteen meters. Around the walls are lined with wooden shelves where some fruits and vegetables are stored, as well as some old miscellaneous items that are reluctant to throw away. Da Meow took out a small compass from his arms, fixed himself and looked at it for a while, Du Yuan was curious, and also leaned up to take a look, only to see that the compass was engraved with dense small characters and symbols around it, and a magnetic needle in the middle was facing one direction, shaking non-stop, as if there was something there that scared it. The two of them looked in the direction, and there was a bed board, covered in dust, leaning against the wall.

Du Yuan's hair stood up, "The bed?" "It's not a bed." Da Meow stepped forward to remove the bed board, revealing the wall behind it, this one is different from the side, not concrete, but full of red bricks, looking at the color at least out of the kiln for decades. The distribution area is about the size of a door. Apparently, this was once a door.

Du Yuan made a gesture of smashing open, but was stopped by Da Meow, who took out a small bell and hung it with red thread under the light line in the cellar. "We're not leaving tonight and staying here. You go up and tell Grandma to go back to the village and wait for me to inform you, it is estimated that there will be results early tomorrow morning. ”

This night coincided with the full moon.

The two of them were lying in the upstairs guest room, on a large bed, and they were lying in their clothes. No one made a sound, and each quietly thought about his thoughts. After seeing the fourth watch, suddenly Du Yuan's ears moved, "It's ringing, your bell!"

Da Meow quickly got up and went downstairs, Du Yuan followed behind, with a broom in his hand, and he didn't know if it was good or not, so he should be brave. The two stopped in the foyer and did not go down to the cellar. Da Meow raised his hand and bit his middle finger, and between his eyebrows, he drew a blood mark from top to bottom, and concocted it in the same way, and drew a mark for Du Yuan. Du Yuan only felt that the spirit platform boomed, everything around him lost its original color, and all objects became dark and transparent, as if they could not be touched, leaving only imaginary three-dimensional lines, which was a black, white and gray world. The most shocking thing was that at the table in front of me, there was a man who had never been seen before.

The Great Meow Heavenly Master didn't say a word, just stared at the man. Du Yuan didn't know what to do next, and he stood still, the broom in his hand kept trembling, and a lot of dust fell out. When the man saw the two of them, he looked surprised and spoke first. After speaking for a long time, Du Yuan didn't understand a word, like a Japanese sense. Big Meow listened and began to answer, very fluently, also in Japanese, and also spoke for a long time. Finally, as if he understood something, the man slowly stood up and bowed to the two. Got up, pointed in the direction of the kitchen cellar, and said a few more words. Turning to leave, this time, it was outward, all the way through the transparent, closed inn gate, out of the courtyard, and onto the path, until it disappeared into the depths of the dense forest.

Du Yuan washed his face, and the world returned to its original color. Da Meow turned on all the electric lights upstairs and downstairs, and took Du Yuan to the cellar and put away the little bell. He made a gesture of please, signaling to smash open the brick wall. Du Yuan compared with his fist, he didn't know how thick this wall was, and he didn't have confidence, so he found a hammer, stepped forward, put his waist force into his arm, and then swung it out through the hammer - with a loud bang, all the red bricks collapsed inward in response, and they were piled up all over the ground. Du Yuan shook off the dust all over his body, and thought to himself, if Zhang Liao was here, he would not be so embarrassed if he used the big-eared thunder dao method to wave it from afar.

Big Meow took a flashlight from the shelf, shone it inside, and found that the space was not large, only four feet square. There was only one large oilcloth wrap inside, more than half a person tall. Wrapped around the rope, I don't know why, it feels a little loose. Big Meow stepped forward and grabbed the rope to lift the package, which was not very heavy. Without saying a word, he carried the package, climbed the ladder, took another bucket of five liters of kerosene in the kitchen, handed it to Du Yuan to carry, walked out of the front door of the inn, and walked up the mountain road. Du Yuan was not at ease, followed behind, and urged Brother Meow to open it first. All the way to the top of the mountain, there was no one around, and the moonlight sprinkled on a flat rock. Big Meow put the package down, slowly untied the rope, spun around to uncover the tarpaulin, and with a bang, a seated skeleton spread out and lay messily in the tarpaulin. Da Meow flicked it with his hand, took out an object from the chaotic bones, and handed it over, Du Yuan took it and looked at it carefully, it was more than half a meter long, dark and sheathed, but it was a samurai short knife. Pull out the blade, find that the sheath is filled with oil ointment, the blade is intact, there is no rust, under the reflection of the moonlight, you can see some tiny carbon particles, Du Yuan wiped it with a corner of the oilcloth, and suddenly, a flood of autumn water reflects the moon!

Da Meow took out his mobile phone and instructed the miscellaneous servants in the Sanqing Palace to send a white fox raised in Guanli to the old Liaoshan Inn. The skeleton was then re-wrapped, drenched in kerosene, and set on fire.

On the top of Liao Mountain on a moonlit night, the fire is blazing, and at this moment, people near and far are sleeping soundly, and no one notices this strange scene.

Da Meow Heavenly Master recited a short passage of transcendent scriptures, which probably means, let people go directly to the Qinghua Changle Realm, don't look back, go all the way or something. Then he sat down at the top of the hill and seemed a little tired. Looking at the dazed Du Yuandao: "The person you see is a general in the Japanese occupation era, the nephew of the seventeenth governor Kobayashi Jizo, called Kobayashi Hideki." In the 34th year of the Republic of China, that is, in 1945 AD, when the Japanese invaders ended their colonial rule and withdrew from the treasure island, they secretly ordered the troops of the old Liaoshan to requisition local conscription, excavate the mountain, and bury a large number of high-value strategic materials. Fantasizing about calling it back one day and using it again. The clash took place after the burial, and the military department, for the sake of secrecy, ordered the massacre of all the people. Kobayashi Hideki has been stationed in the local area for a long time and already has a deep relationship, so he fought fiercely, and was finally ordered to cut his own stomach, and the people did not keep it. This rib difference is what he used to cut his stomach back then. When Du Yuan heard this, he couldn't help but shake his hand, and the short knife stuck on the ground.

"Kobayashi Hideki's lieutenant, according to his last words, wrapped the body and sealed it under a dark castle in Liaoshan. This dark fort was later demolished, and on the original foundation, another small building was erected, which is now Grandma Lin's inn. Kobayashi's resentful soul lingers here, often running to the secret place where the husband is buried to pay his respects alone. Seventy years have passed, until last month, a Japanese woman from Osaka recited a haiku she wrote in her guest room late at night, which triggered Kobayashi's homesickness, so she came out to ask how Osaka was now. And it turned out, you know, that woman jumped out of the window and broke her leg. Grandma Lin found me. Big Meow bent down to pick up the short knife on the ground and re-sheathed it. "Hideki Kobayashi promised to leave this place and disperse the three souls and seven spirits on his own. Before leaving, please give this blade to my wife who is far away in Osaka...... I guess it's gone, so I'll send it to his descendants. ”

The day was bright, and the two returned to the inn, just as the handyman of the Sanqing Palace also came with a cage. In the cage is a white fox, charming and charming, with a fluffy tail almost as long as its body. The corners of the mouth and the four small claws are black, and they look indescribably weird. The Great Meow Heavenly Master took the cage and sent the miscellaneous servants back. said to Du Yuan, who didn't know why, "Our task is to help Grandma Lin resume her business, it's not just as simple as driving away evil spirits and catching ghosts." ”