"Why is such a wonderful beast buried underground?" Jianjian asked in confusion.
Wen Qingshan said: "Mostly for the purpose of guarding the house, but the Haechi is not a mythical beast for guarding the house. It is an auspicious animal specially placed in front of the Yamen. The Haechi is buried underground to guard the house. I have never heard of it.
In my opinion, there may be other reasons."
"Boss Nawen, what do you think the reason might be?" I asked quickly.
Wen Qingshan looked at the two of us and said, "Perhaps this stone beast caused something evil more than two hundred years ago, so people buried it underground."
After hearing what Wen Qingshan said, I couldn't help but be slightly startled. His words really made sense. It seemed that we had found the right person this time!
Wen Qingshan stood up, turned to the two of us and said, "Come back home with me and look up the history of Xiangsha City. Maybe you can find out whether there were any incidents in the Yamen in this area more than two hundred years ago.
What an evil thing."
We followed Wen Qingshan to his study room, which was like a small library. He took us to one of the bookshelves, pointed to the top shelf, and said: "About the official and unofficial history of Xiangsha City."
They are all here, from left to right, from far to recent, let’s start from the Qing Dynasty." After saying that, he took out three books from the bookshelf and handed one to me and Jianjian each. The three of us
Start reading.
The book I read is called "General History of the Qing Dynasty in Xiangsha". It was written during the Republic of China. It is all in traditional Chinese characters. Not only are the characters very small, but they are also the vertical text that I have the most trouble with because it has to be read from right to left, which is very confusing.
Not used to it.
I flipped through the book for almost an hour before I finally looked through the entire book, but I didn't see any record of anything evil happening in the yamen.
Wen Qingshan and Jianjian also found nothing like me, so Wen Qingshan took out three more books from the bookshelf and asked everyone to continue reading.
In this way, the three of us browsed in the study for three or four hours. My eyes were dazzled by the reading, but we still couldn't find any relevant records.
Just when I was hesitating to give up, Jianjian suddenly shouted: "I found it! This should be it!"
When Wen Qingshan heard this, he immediately took the book from Jianjian. I quickly asked Jianjian at the side: "What is recorded in the book?"
Jianjian told me very seriously.
During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, the White Lotus Sect, which originated from the Pure Land Sect of Buddhism, launched a large-scale peasant uprising, which deeply implicated Buddhism. One day, several patrol officers from Xiangsha Prefecture saw a man on the street.
Monk, this monk is thin and ragged,
Sitting cross-legged by the street, eyes closed, holding a string of Buddhist beads in his hand, he was reciting Buddhist scriptures loudly. Beside him, squatting was an ape with white hair, and the white ape seemed to be able to hear.
As if he understood the scriptures recited by the monks, he kept looking up at the monks, appearing to be attentive.
Because it was an emergency period, and this monk dared to recite Buddhist sutras in the street, several officials couldn't help but grab him with chains, while the white ape took advantage of the chaos to escape.
The monk was taken to the magistrate's office by an official. Shen Tingying, then the magistrate of Xiangsha, personally interrogated the monk and asked him to admit that he was a White Lotus believer. However, the monk refused to admit it anyway. He said that he was promoting Buddhism and was not guilty.
However, Shen Tingying became so angry that she ordered him to be punished with forty sticks, hoping to force him to confess with severe torture. Unexpectedly, it was not known whether it was because the monk's body was too weak or because some officials were too cruel, but the monk was killed alive.
The rod leads to death.
At that time, it was common for Buddhists to die due to being implicated by the White Lotus Sect. What's more, the person who was beaten to death was an ascetic of unknown origin. Shen Tingying did not take the monk's death seriously and ordered several officials to kill the monk. The body was bundled with a straw mat and taken to a mass grave on the outskirts of the city, where a hole was dug and hastily buried.
However, what no one could have expected was that on the third day after the incident, one early morning, before the Yamen opened the door, there was suddenly a burst of rapid drum beating outside the door.
The officer opened the door and saw no drummer, but there was a corpse on the floor in front of the door. The corpse was covered with a white cloth with a big word "injustice" written on it.
A more courageous official stepped forward and lifted up the white cloth. He was shocked to see that it was the monk who had been beaten to death by a rod! Even though he had been dead for three days, the body did not emit the slightest odor. On the contrary, it still emitted There was a peculiar fragrance, and the monk's face was rosy. Looking at him, he looked as if he had just fallen asleep.
Several officials were frightened. They had buried the monk's body with their own hands, but now it was placed here. Who dug up his body and brought it to the gate of the government office? And the monk When he died, his face was as pale as paper. Now three days have passed, and his body not only did not stink or deteriorate, but his face became rosy. This is really weird.
The officials were frightened, when suddenly a white ape jumped out from behind the drum stand. When the officials saw it, it was the white ape that was with the monk. They immediately understood what was going on, and the one who was playing the drum was I'm afraid it's this white ape!
The news spread like wildfire that a white ape was playing drums to plead grievances against his master. People in the city came to watch the excitement. The people talked a lot, saying that the white ape was a magical monkey and that the government had killed the monk in vain.
In response to the people's comments and accusations, the prefect Shen Tingying was very panicked. In order to quell the public complaints, he announced that the dead monk was a demon monk from the White Lotus Sect, and that the white ape was a demon monkey and would be executed together.
Just when several officials were preparing to capture the white ape, the white ape suddenly jumped off the drum stand and quickly rushed towards the stone beast at the entrance of the yamen. Before anyone could react, it had already bumped into the stone beast. , the gun exploded in an instant, killing him on the spot.
Everyone present was stunned, but no one thought that a white ape would commit suicide!
White Ape died, and he committed suicide. Although the people were sad, they could not blame the government, and they quickly dispersed.
Things seemed to have finally come to an end, but what people didn't expect was that from that day on, strange things happened one after another. First, after the third watch every night, the drum outside the Yamen would be beaten for no reason, and then, someone would sound near the Yamen again. I heard the sound of someone chanting Buddhist scriptures. At first, the government thought it was someone deliberately playing a prank, so they sent an official to investigate secretly, but found nothing. They did not find the person beating the drum, and they did not know who was chanting. The Buddha was reciting sutras, but at the same time, the strange things did not stop. At midnight every day, the sound of drumming and chanting of sutras still sounded as usual.
Just when the government was preparing to intensify the investigation, many officials in the yamen suddenly fell ill collectively. One of them was weak and in a daze.
For a time, the whole city of Xiangsha exploded, and all the people speculated that the ghost of the monk must be lingering and causing trouble in the dark. The prefect Shen Tingying realized that the situation was serious, so he hurriedly invited people from Yunlu Palace. Lushan Zhenren, Lushan Zhenren is an accomplished man who is proficient in the magic of subjugating demons. Although he is over seventy years old, he is still full of energy. He came to the prefect's Yamen to inspect it carefully, and finally paid attention to it. Focusing on the stone beast in front of the Yamen, everyone discovered that there was a line of blood characters on the bottom left side of the stone beast's body. The place where the blood characters appeared was where the white ape used its head. The place where you die on impact!
This line of blood characters was written crookedly, and most people didn't know what the characters were. After reading it, Master Lushan told everyone that this should be a very rare Yin spirit blood curse, which is extremely vicious. He didn't know how to break it, but One way is to bury the stone beast deep in the ground and set up Tai Chi Bagua seals on the ground. This may be able to avoid evil and turn it into good luck.
When the prefect Shen Tingying heard what Master Lushan said, he was so shocked that he did not dare to neglect and immediately sent someone to do what Master Lushan said.
So the Haechi mythical beast that was originally placed at the entrance of the government office was buried deep underground, and above it, Master Lushan personally designed an octagonal pavilion of heaven and earth to shake the blood curse of Yin spirits. This method of Master Lushan It really worked. Since then, the sick official has recovered and no evil has happened again.
After Jianjian finished talking about the records in the book, Wen Qingshan happened to finish reading it. I raised my head and asked Wen Qingshan: "Boss Wen, what is the Yin Ling Blood Curse?"
Wen Qingshan frowned and said: "I have heard something. It is said that this Yin spirit blood curse is not a curse cast by a living person."
When Jianjian heard this, she was shocked and said: "Boss Wen, what do you mean by this? Isn't it a curse cast by a living person, or a curse cast by a dead person?"
Wen Qingshan nodded: "Yes! It is said to be a curse cast by the ghost of the deceased. Therefore, this kind of curse is very sinister and there is almost no way to break it."
Biangui and I looked at each other. We really didn't expect that the store's first business would be so difficult. I had never even heard of the Yin Ling Blood Curse before.
Jianjian let out a long sigh and said, "Brother, I think we should reply to Boss Liu and ask him to hire someone else. We can't do this job!"
I shook my head: "No, it's not easy for a business to come to us. We have to give it a try no matter what! Otherwise, our Qibao Zhai may not have a foothold in the provincial capital in the future."
Wen Qingshan listened and nodded approvingly: "Shi Yu's idea is right! It is inevitable to encounter some difficult things when opening a Feng Shui shop. It is never a good idea to escape."
"Then what are you going to do?" Jianjian asked me.
I pondered for a while and said, "I haven't thought of a specific method yet. Maybe I can try using an exorcism charm."
As soon as I finished speaking, Wen Qingshan said at the side: "Although I am not very good at the way of yin and yang, I feel that it may not be so easy to break the yin spirit blood curse. In my opinion, if you really want to accept it, To place this order, it would be best to invite Master Huang here. After all, he is well-informed and may be able to do something about it."