Ghost Blowing Lantern II - Chapter 17 Cutting Grave Bricks (Part 1)

I told Fatty and Yanzi that only fire pits can hide things in this underground cellar. In addition, I seem to remember seeing similar records in “The Secret Technique of Yin and Yang Feng Shui”. The broken book mentioned “Yin and Yang”. According to the theory of “house”, the Yin house is a cemetery, prepared for the dead, while the Yang house is the residence of the living. The method of “accumulating spirits and resembling houses” in Feng Shui is also called the “Eight Houses Mirror” technique. The two sides are completely symmetrical. In the underground cellar, someone may have placed the Yin-Yang Mirror formation, which is similar to the “weariness of victory” technique used by carpenters in ancient times. There are spiritual people in the yellow skin, who can use the “weariness of victory” here. “It’s heart-wrenching, but I just flipped through the remaining volume and never read it carefully. I just felt that in this case, I should destroy the cellar to prevent anyone from taking advantage of it in the future. .

I don’t believe that Wong Tai Sin has any treasure chests, but I guess that because people seek good luck and avoid disaster and don’t dare to provoke Wong Tai Sin, someone used the name of immortality to hide some valuables in the underground vault of the temple. , this kind of thing is not surprising, and that box is probably related to the ancient golden vein of “Tuanshanzi”. If we can find this thing, then we will have made a great contribution and can join the army. maybe.

“A red star is worn on the head, and the revolutionary red flag is hung on both sides.” Putting on the military uniform is not only the biggest dream of Fatty and I, but also our generation. Thinking of this, I can’t help but get a little excited, and I want to tear down the fire bed immediately. When Fatty heard this There might be a mezzanine in the fire pit, so I suddenly felt energetic, pulled myself together, and took up my long-handled ax to smash the brick wall of the fire pit.

The earth partition wall under the underground cellar was built using the “dry fortress” method. The fire pits on both sides were connected to this wall. Although it was strong, it could not withstand the fat man’s heavy smashing. After a few blows of the ax, the earth wall was destroyed. It collapsed, and the fire pits on both sides, which were originally empty, collapsed to reveal a dark flue. A black smoke came out of it, mixed with a pungent stench and dust, which choked us so much that we had to step back a few steps. Wait until the dust has cleared before going over and moving the knocked-out bricks away together.

The fat man walked in front impatiently. He held up the oil lamp and leaned over to take a look: “Hey! There is really something in here.” Then he stretched out a hand and dug inside, pulling out a black pile of things. Wait and see. When I saw what he pulled out, I was so scared that the swallow screamed. Before I could see what was under the fire bed, I was startled by the swallow first. I looked through the dim light and saw that it was a headless male corpse. The fat man pulled it out from the flue under the fire pit. The headless corpse had long been in decay. Even the ancient silk robe it was wearing was rotten. It was originally built in the flue, but now half of it was pulled out by the fat man. The lower half of the body was still inside the fire kang.

When the fat man saw that what he pulled out was a headless mummy, he spat angrily and cursed at the bad luck, but he still didn’t give up. He used the ax as a hammer and struck and knocked again, and the fire bed on the left side of the cellar was It was completely smashed, and another headless mummy was buried under the fire bed. However, judging from the clothing, this mummy was female.

I was wondering how this fire bed became a coffin for the couple to be buried together. The fat man opened the bricks inside and showed me in a fuss what was placed on the cavity of the mummies. It was on the cavity of the headless mummies of man and woman. There are two well-preserved human heads, one male and one female, with disheveled hair, but they have been buried in the fire bed for who knows how many years. Although the skin of the human head has been embalmed, it has collapsed and shrunk, and its color is as gloomy as withered wax. .

I dared to look at the two human heads, and found that the insides of the heads had been hollowed out. There was no skull flesh and blood at all. They were just stretched and held up by copper wires. They were like human skin bags in a puppet show. The two empty heads. There was a dead yellow skin in each of the heads. The three of us were shocked and disgusted when we saw it. We heard that when the mountain worshiped Wong Tai Sin in the past, Wong Tai Sin could appear in the form of a human with immortal bones. Could it be that the human form Is it just a cover-up trick used by Huang Pizi to get into the dead man’s cavity?

Yan Zi said that this time he would be in big trouble, disturbing Wong Tai Sin’s bones, and he might lose his life. I comforted her and said, you must not believe this. This is all done by temple priests in the temple to defraud people out of money for incense. In the past, similar things happened in our hometown. There was a White Snake Temple in the mountains, and the temple was in charge of incense. It is claimed that the White Snake Empress showed up to administer medicine, but in fact it was just a snake charmer who used snake exorcism to defraud the people of their money. Another thing is that I heard that there was a Rat Immortal Temple in Yandang Mountain before liberation. Its origin is that there were mountain residents. I caught a big mouse. Because it was surprisingly big, I didn’t kill it at that time. Instead, I caught it for everyone to watch. However, some local magicians took the opportunity to make trouble with the big mouse, claiming that it was a rat fairy. He came to help the mountain people solve their problems, and then used it to defraud many faithful men and women out of their incense money. Later, the big rat offered by the deity died, and the deity said that the rat fairy had brought so many blessings to everyone, and he should give it to him before he left. It put on a human skin so that it could ascend to heaven more decently after death, so it found an ownerless corpse in a mass grave, peeled off the human skin and gave it to the rat fairy. The deeper the mountains and forests, the more uncivilized those people were The more weird and bizarre customs there are in places, it is estimated that the yellow leather in the dead heads is also the same. They are all props used by magicians to defraud money. We cannot worry about these four old people at all.

Yanzi was dubious about what I said. She was from the mountains. Although she was born after liberation, she didn’t believe deeply in these evil ways, but she still cared a little about it, and she was worried about the two hollowed-out pills. The head of Huangpizi’s dead body was extremely frightened and she couldn’t stay any longer. I had to let her wait outside the stone gate of Daxian Temple temporarily. Fatty and I dismantled the other half of the fire bed and immediately went up to join her.

After I sent her away, I told the fat man that there really was “Wong Tai Sin” buried under this “Huang Pizi Grave”, so the legend that Wong Tai Sin had a treasure chest was probably true. Finding it would be a way to support the world. revolution. So neither of us took a break and began to dismantle the other half of the fire bed.

But things did not go as smoothly as we imagined. When we dismantled the fire pit, we found that there were only some broken porcelain bowls inside. There were no boxes containing gold veins. There were only some rice-sized gold scattered on the ground. The fire pit was near the base of the wall. A big hole was also made, and the outside of the hole had collapsed and was tightly blocked.

When the fat man and I saw this, we immediately understood everything and sat down on the ground. It was over. Sure enough, the four men in black who were hanged had accomplices. They must have discovered that they had descended from the stone steps to the underground cellar. Everyone left and never came back. Knowing that there was a formation talisman underneath, they used the trick of “taking a back road” to dig a tunnel from the mountain into the underground cellar and dug out the mountain god’s box. The comrades’ work was in vain.