Ghost Blowing Lantern II - Chapter 12 Ghost Yamen

Next to the root of a tree knocked down by a man-bear, half of a stone statue was buried in the soil, resulting in a rare tiger-headed animal face, an animal-headed human body, a helmet on the head, and a stone ax decorated with human heads in both hands. It is extraordinary, but The faces were very ferocious. When Yanzi saw the stone statues with tiger heads and human bodies, he immediately thought of an ancient legend in the mountain. He did not bother to pack the bear skin and bear meat, and said to us in surprise: “Those seem to be stone statues of mountain ghosts. This forest is probably the ghost government office in the mountains, let’s run away.”

The legend of the “Ghost Yamen” has been circulating for many years in the dense forest at the western end of the Daxingan Mountains. It is said that it is a secret entrance to the Palace of Hell in the world of hell. Hunters who get lost in the mountains will unknowingly enter the “Ghost Yamen” once they stray into it. He walked into the netherworld and became a lonely ghost. He could never return to the world of the sun. However, in the past hundred years, few people have been able to see him again.

The biggest feature of the “Ghost Yamen” is that there is a mountain ghost with a tiger head and a body in front of the door. Of course, no one can verify the dynasty and generation from which the legend in the mountain began. Just enter the “Ghost Yamen” Listening to the ghost story of walking into the Yama Palace makes people feel scared from the bottom of their hearts. In addition, hunters have an innate awe of the mountains, so Yanzi panicked and just wanted to urge us to leave quickly.

Fatty and I have both heard of that legend, and I also know that it is not advisable to stay in the place where the trouble occurred, but I was not scared by a stone statue with the head of a tiger and the body of a human body. I comforted Yanzi casually, what is “Ghost Yamen”? They are all the legacy of feudal society. How can we be afraid of these? But at the same time, I was thinking that I must first clarify the situation at hand before making plans.

The bear cave was originally a semi-enclosed natural cave under a dead tree. When the bear was chasing people, it uprooted a red pine tree that was in the way. The red pine happened to be growing near the bear cave. The roots of the tree were The lifting belt collapsed the underground soil, revealing a stone beast that was half submerged in the soil. As for the nonsense about the ghost guard of Hutou Mountain guarding the “Ghost Yamen”, I don’t believe it. In my opinion, this tiger-headed warrior The stone figurines were most likely statues used in front of the ancient tombs to support the tombs. However, at that time, I was not familiar with the Five Elements of Feng Shui and the layout of tombs, so I did not dare to make a conclusion. I was just curious. Now that I have discovered these strange shapes, If you don’t take the opportunity to explore all the wonders of the stone men and beasts, what’s the point?

I advised Yanzi not to rush back to the forest farm, but to go over there and look for the “Ghost Yamen”. Look at the direction in which the tiger-headed stone figurines are placed. If there are temples, tombs and other buildings in the mountains, they should probably be in the “Huangpizi” Over there, the ancient porcelain bowls and golden beans unearthed by Huang Pizi may have been obtained from the so-called “Ghost Yamen”. If we can find those treasures, we will make a contribution to supporting the world revolution. enormous contributions.

Yanzi stamped his feet and said, “Stop being such a fool. I made a mistake by not guarding the forest farm and sneaking out with you to hunt bears in the mountains. I will inevitably be severely criticized by the old branch secretary when I go back. I will punish you again.” If something else comes up, how can I explain it to the old branch secretary?”

The fat man was thinking about the gold, and he also talked about Yanzi for me. The two of us said to Yanzi: “Sister Yanzi, can you not be so afraid of the old party secretary? No matter how big his position is, he only has the final say in the village. And we are not making any mistakes. We are now supporting the world revolution. Although guarding the forest farm is our job, don’t forget that the top directive is not to suppress revolution with production. In the face of the torrent of revolutionary struggle , the work has to be thrown aside, and the party secretary’s words are not effective. He does whatever he likes, so why are you hesitating? Don’t forget that this is the final struggle. You have to strike while the iron is hot to succeed. If it is too late, the red flag will be raised. It’s all over the world, and I don’t want to rush back to do anything else.”

We talked about it, but Yanzi was speechless. She was confused when she heard it, so she just thought, let’s do whatever we want, so we immediately took action and left the bearskin and bearmeat aside for the time being. , only wrapped in bear paws and bear bile with him, the fat man suddenly remembered, where was the wooden cage that contained “Huang Fairy”? Just now, the man-bear fell from the tree and broke a large section of red pine, which fell on the grass nest where we were staying. At that time, we were just dodging and escaping. In the confusion, we threw the wooden cage where it was. Now we really have no memory. . Although Huangpizi is small, he still has two ounces of meat, not to mention that “Huangxiangu” has smooth skin and smooth hair. It is said that it can be exchanged for ten pounds of fruit candies, so it is a bit reluctant to lose it easily.

After searching around the broken red pine, I found that the wooden cage had been smashed to pieces by pine branches, and the cage was empty. “Huang Fairy” had already escaped, and the fat man was so angry that he cursed.

I remember that the hind legs of “Huang Xiangu” were firmly tied with iron wires. Even if the cage was broken, it would not be able to break free from the shackles of the iron wires. At most, it could use its two front paws to crawl out and escape. Huangpizi ran away and jumped all over the place. Relying on the strength of its hind limbs, it could not escape too far. Thinking of this, I quickly raised my head and looked around. In addition to the messy footprints when we fought with the man-bear, there was indeed a rough mark on the snow, “Huang Xiangu” “I must have escaped along here. Following this trail, I saw a furry thing crawling desperately next to the tiger-headed stone figurine. That was the “Huang Fairy” who escaped from the squirrel cage. .

When we saw that it hadn’t fled far, we immediately became energetic and chased after it like a gust of wind. We saw “Huang Xiangu” using her two front paws to crawl towards Huangpizi’s grave. She sensed that someone was chasing her from behind. , then he ducked into a cave next to the stone figurines and disappeared.

We chased after it and took a look. It turned out that there was a tunnel under the feet of the Hutou Mountain Ghost figurine. Over time, the soil and water had changed, and it had been covered by soil and pine branches. When the ancient pine trees above fell, a small gap was exposed in the tunnel, and there was a black hole inside. I couldn’t see anything clearly. “Huang Xiangu” just escaped into this small gap.

The fat man angrily kicked the mud wall next to the cave with his feet. After a few kicks, the soil on the tunnel wall collapsed. A large hole was exposed in the pit left after the roots of the ancient tree were pulled out. A dark wind came out from inside, blowing on people’s faces with a cool sound. It seemed that the air was flowing smoothly, and there must be another outlet at the far end.

Even the fat man didn’t expect that the earth wall was so unbearable, so I quickly stopped him. It seemed that the deep hole at the entrance of the cave was not a tunnel, but just a working passage dug between the mud and rocks. It was not strong and could collapse at any time. What’s more, I didn’t know where it was leading to, so I quickly found some pine branches, lit a few torches for lighting, and went into the black hole behind the cave to explore.

The cave is very narrow, and we may need to crawl forward in order to move forward, but we are reluctant to wear our sleeves, so we can only stick the torch diagonally in front, then squat down and move forward little by little, shine it with the light of the fire, and discover the cave. There are still traces of digging with sharp tools on the inner four walls. I opened the way, the fat man followed closely behind with a long-handled mountain axe, and the swallow held up another torch and dragged the shotgun backwards.

None of us knew where this noisy and cold underground tunnel led to, and we were extremely confused. My grandfather was a Feng Shui master, because he knew the secret technique of finding dragons and was quite famous in the province and made many friends. There are many Yin and Yang Feng Shui magicians who are engaged in “fighting” to make a living. From him, I learned that the most powerful tomb robbers are “Mojin Xiaowei”, “Mojin Xiaowei” can look inside and outside the mountain shape. Observe the earth’s veins, divide the gold and fix the holes to go straight to Huanglong. The so-called “go straight to Huanglong” is simply to dig a secret and precise tunnel, bypassing the copper wall and iron coffin, and going straight from the gold well to the tomb chamber where the secret weapon is hidden. Maybe we can drill it now This underground cave is a treasure-stealing tunnel dug by tomb robbers.

However, I quickly rejected this possibility. The mud cave was narrow and short. It started from the foot of the tiger-headed stone figurine and went for more than ten meters to the end. It was not a tomb chamber containing ancient corpse treasures, but There is a rather ancient bluestone door buried in the soil. It seems to have cornices and brackets on it, but only part of the stone door was dug out in the hole, and it was not possible to distinguish it carefully for a while. The stone door is divided into two, half open and half closed, with a large gap left in the middle. There is a stone pillar facing each other on both sides. There are ancient dragon patterns and sun and moon symbols on it. It has been peeled away. This at least shows that The stone buildings in the cave once existed on the ground. They became what they are now after years of erosion by wind, rain, sun and other natural factors.

Fatty and I both guessed that this was probably an ancient temple, which was buried in the soil due to geological effects. Even the pine trees on it have grown so thick. We don’t know what year or month it was. In short, it must have been there for many years. Come to the door. Why not go in and take a look? After entering, if there are any good things, come out. If there is nothing, give him two slogans and treat it as if the four old things have been broken.

Yanzi said that this was designated as the “Ghost Yamen”, and that behind the door was probably the Hall of Hell in the underworld. Let’s just go back and forth wherever we went, regardless of what was inside, and don’t go in. I said to the swallow: “The cave is so short and there is no other exit. Huang Xiangu must have got into this stone door. Let’s go in and catch it and then come back. If we can’t catch it, wouldn’t it be in vain last night? And I can’t change it to fruit candy, don’t you want to eat candy?”

Yanzi swallowed: “Why don’t you want to eat sweets? In fact, fruit candies are not as delicious as the milk candies brought by the educated youth from the city…” The fat man was eager to capture “Huang Fairy” and did not wait for me to finish Yanzi’s ideological work. After I got through, I squeezed past us and entered the stone gate first. I was afraid of any unexpected dangers inside and worried that Fatty would be alone, so I called Yanzi to follow him in quickly.

The light from the torch flickered due to our rapid movement. When the light and darkness blended together, I could see clearly that there was no soil behind the door. It was a rather spacious stone hall with stone pillars, stone tables, and clay statues on both sides. They were lying all over the place, and the corners were covered with thick cobwebs and dust. Everywhere you looked was a mess, and the light from the torch was very limited. It was not clear where the “Huang Fairy” was hiding for a while. .

Three people came in at the same time, making a lot of noise. I don’t know who dropped some dust, which made us cough. Finally, the dust settled. When we looked at each other, we saw that the other party was very embarrassed.

When the fat man crawled through the several-meter-long tunnel just now, his legs and feet were sore from squatting because the tunnel was low and narrow. Now that he could at least relax his muscles and activate his blood after entering the stone hall, he quickly stretched his arms and kicked his legs, and found his dog-skin hat. A large piece of ashes fell on the ground, and there happened to be a round wooden pillar like a tree stump near the door. I took off my hat and dusted the wooden pillar twice, then sat down on it and said to me: “I’m going to be a one-man prisoner here. I think that little yellow skin can’t grow wings and fly. Old Hu, go search everywhere to see where it is hiding. Take it out and let me skin it alive.” Its skin, but I think this big house seems to have a back door. It would be troublesome if it wants to go through the back door. Swallow, hurry up and guard the back door…”

After I entered the strange stone palace, I was full of curiosity about all the things inside. I had forgotten about catching “Huang Fairy Girl” for a long time. I only remembered it when the fat man reminded me, and I was about to go find it. , but saw the swallow hurriedly pulling the fat man away from the tree stump. The swallow said to us: “You still don’t believe me after I told you, this is the ghost government. Everyone in the mountains knows that you can’t sit on tree pillars in the forest because they are tigers.” If a mortal sits at the god’s dining table, it will cause disaster, so how can you just sit down and sit down?”

The fat man put his foot on the wooden pillar and said with a smile: “Now the satellites are all in the sky, the atomic bomb has exploded, and the poor have stood up and been liberated. It doesn’t matter what the gods and princes have to offer on the dining table, it’s all the almanac of the old society. Now If we, the working people, use it as a butt pad, then we think highly of it. If I want to get happy, I won’t even urinate on it.”

I pushed the fat man away and joked to him: “Stop talking nonsense. The working people can’t urinate anywhere. Besides, you don’t look in the mirror. When has there ever been a fat person like you in the ranks of the working people?” The fat thief, one look at your belly will show you off, no need to ask, he must be a bad element who has infiltrated our working people.”

What puzzled me the most was that I didn’t know what this stone temple was for, especially why there was such a tree pillar at the door. If I wanted to find out the secret, I had to take a closer look, so I pushed the fat man aside and squatted down to use the torch. I went to take a photo, and at first glance, I found that this tree-stump-like wooden pillar was indeed very bright, with simple lines on it, and many strange symbols that I couldn’t understand. The most peculiar thing was that in the middle of the wooden pillar, there was a carved figure wearing an ancient costume. The human form in women’s clothing has no head, but has the face of a weasel. The yellow-skinned face has an evil smile, which is very hateful and indescribable. The strange expression seems to have an invisible meaning. The force field grabbed people’s hearts, making people feel a chill in the sweat pores all over their bodies. I felt bad, I was afraid that I might have fallen into Huang Pizi’s lair this time.