I looked at the tombstone and read the words on it——
What is engraved on it is the tomb of Meng Weiye, the old teacher of Xiankao. After the reading, "Ye Jiafu" is engraved beside it.
"Master, I have the same last name as you."
"My grandfather's name is Meng Weiye." Meng Changqing said lightly.
"What? This is your grandfather?" I cried out in fright.
Meng Changqing randomly gave me a brainstorm, and reprimanded: "What are you talking about, maybe it's just the same name."
"Is your grandfather a Taoist priest?"
"yes."
I groaned, thinking how could there be such a coincidence, judging from the tombstone, this Meng Weiye seemed to be the master of his grandfather, and his grandfather knew Taoism, so his master should also be a Taoist priest, and Meng Changqing's grandfather was also a Taoist priest. According to my opinion, the one buried here is Meng Changqing's grandfather. It's just that I don't understand, how did my grandfather get involved with Grandpa Meng Changqing, two people who are so far away?
Meng Changqing looked extremely calm, as if he hadn't been affected at all, then he got up and walked around the tomb as if nothing had happened. After turning around a few times, he bent down and picked up on the ground. After a while, a peach wood stake appeared from the soil.
Afterwards, Meng Changqing walked around the grave every nine steps and bent down to pick up the soil. Every time he picked out a set of wooden stakes, he pulled out a total of eight stakes, and there were ropes between the set of wooden stakes.
Meng Changqing stepped back and stared at these things in a daze.
I went up to him and asked him what it was, and Meng Changqing said with a heavy face: "According to the feng shui of the tomb, the people who built the tomb wanted to change the corpses inside, but the peach wood stakes and the corpse ropes are obvious. It's to prevent the corpses inside from turning into corpses, what is your grandfather's intention? It's really puzzling."
The villagers didn't know anything about what Meng Changqing said, they just asked what they saw.
Meng Changqing smiled and said nothing, then asked someone to find three sticks of incense and lit them around the tomb.
Half an hour later, all three sticks of incense were extinguished. Meng Changqing took the incense and looked at it. All three sticks of incense were exactly the same length.
I asked him what kind of incense it was, and he said something about safe incense, and then he borrowed a hoe from the villagers to dig the grave.
I saw that he was going to dig a grave, and I learned from the tombstone that this was my grandfather's master, so I wanted to stop him, so I said, "What if it's your grandfather?"
"It's my grandfather, I want to dig him out, I can't let him suffer in it."
When the villagers saw Meng Changqing digging the grave, they all stopped and said that it was just a clothes tomb with only an empty coffin inside, so what was the purpose of digging it.
Meng Changqing turned his head and said that there must be someone inside, and it was most likely his grandfather.
After hearing this, the villagers thought it was impossible. Meng Changqing was so far away, how could his grandfather be buried here.
Meng Changqing went to the grave with a hoe, and when he was about to dig down with the hoe, a huge yellow shadow suddenly jumped out of a big hole in the middle of the tomb and rushed towards Meng Changqing.
The speed was extremely fast, although Meng Changqing tried his best to dodge, but he jumped out from such a short distance, it seemed impossible to avoid it.
At this moment, Li Yan suddenly appeared from the bracelet in front of Meng Changqing, and then Li Yan leaned back, and the yellow shadow pierced Li Yan's chest and ran to the side.
When Meng Changqing saw it, he turned his head and chanted a mantra suddenly. The yellow shadow stopped immediately. We took a closer look and found that the yellow shadow turned out to be a weasel.
On the other hand, Li Yan, the big hole in her chest is slowly filling up, and the rest of her body is getting weaker and weaker, a little illusory.
"Are you okay?" Meng Changqing stepped forward to support Li Yan and asked with concern. Apart from being so gentle to Xiaoxiao, this is the first time I've seen him care so much about others.
Li Yan frowned and shook her head, saying she was fine, then looked at the terrified eyes of the villagers and dodged hastily.
Meng Changqing then thanked Li Yan and chanted a spell to let her enter the bracelet.
After Li Yan entered, Meng Changqing went to the side of the weasel to have a look, pulled out the money sword and slapped it fiercely. The weasel disappeared without a scream.
I was shocked when I saw it, this weasel can also turn into a ghost?
After the weasel was photographed and dissipated, Meng Changqing turned his head to look at the villagers and explained: "This weasel should have lived in this tomb before, and he died there too. Because of the influence of this feng shui, he became a ghost."
I was terrified to hear that even the weasel had turned into a ghost, let alone the people inside.
After Meng Changqing finished speaking, he walked towards the grave with his hoe again, and dug down lightly with the hoe. The middle of the tomb immediately collapsed, revealing a large hole like a cellar.
There is a huge iron rod across the entrance of this big hole. Two extremely thick iron cables are tied to the iron rod, and a dark coffin is hung on the iron cables.
Generally, when a coffin is buried here, a hole will be dug on the ground, and the coffin will be put in and then filled with soil. I have never seen a coffin buried like this.
A large hole in the shape of a cellar was dug under the tomb, and the coffin was hung in the midair of the cellar.
There is a custom in the countryside that the dead must be grounded, otherwise they will not be able to go to hell and reincarnate. The soul will always be locked in the coffin and suffer, and cannot leave.
No one wants their loved ones to suffer in a coffin, so in the townships around us, the most taboo thing for the dead is to hang in midair. , the purpose is to allow relatives to stay with the deceased for a while.
The surrounding villagers were shocked when they saw the coffin by the moonlight outside. They were going to say something wrong with my grandfather, but when they saw me here, they changed their words.
"Fortunately, this is just a tomb. If the dead are buried inside, the three generations in the house will hate Ye Jiafu."
Meng Changqing looked at the coffin for a while, and then told us all to go back. It was bad luck to stay here, and the villagers felt the same way. After hearing what Meng Changqing said, they all went home with their hoes.
Xiaoxiao and I walked for a while, but Xiaoxiao raised her head and asked me halfway, "Aren't you afraid that Uncle is alone there?"
I wondered when he crawled over it, but then I thought, what if it is really Meng Changqing's grandfather inside? After thinking about it, as his apprentice, he couldn't just leave like this, so he took Xiaoxiao back.
Meng Changqing was still standing by the side of the cellar and looking inside, when he heard my footsteps, he turned his head and looked back, saw it was the two of us and smiled, and didn't reprimand us, but just told us to stay away from the cellar, and let me see Be careful with Xiaoxiao, don't let her fall down.
After humming, I asked Meng Changqing what the meaning of the coffin was.
After hearing this, Meng Changqing said: "The living are most afraid of not being down-to-earth, and the dead are most afraid of not being down-to-earth. Your grandfather has a great hatred for the person in this coffin. He tried every means to make him change, and Xiangjiang tried to restrain him here. Inside, if we hadn't come, the people inside would have been locked up for an unknown period of time."
After listening to Meng Changqing's words, although I was speechless, I always felt that Grandpa had his own plans, after all, this was his master.
"But this is his master, he probably didn't do it on purpose." I said.
"For so many years, I haven't pulled grass or incense for his master once. Is this not intentional?" Meng Changqing looked a little angry, and his tone of voice was also stiff. I could see that he was trying his best to restrain his anger. .
I said oh, and now I just pray that the people here really have nothing to do with Meng Changqing.
After Meng Changqing looked at it for a while, he asked me to pull Xiaoxiao back a little bit. He said that the people in the coffin had been tortured in this way for so long, and the resentment must be unprecedented. It would be dangerous for us to get too close.
I saw that he seemed to be about to open the coffin, so I said that it would be fine to keep him in the coffin, why should I let him out.
Facts have proved that the master is the master, and he sees farther than us. He said that if we don't solve this problem, it will rain in the mountains for a few days, and the ropes binding the corpses outside will be washed away, or the peach wood stakes will be loose, or The tomb robber accidentally dug the grave, and there was no one to solve the problem.
What he said was always right, I was speechless, I could only stand aside and look at him silently, and told me to be careful by the way.
He strengthened the peach wood piles outside, and then took out some yellow flag copper coins and placed them at the mouth of the big cellar.
When I put it on, I said to me at the same time: "When I do things, you two have to see clearly. I will not deliberately teach you anything. Practice will give you true knowledge. After reading it, you can practice it yourself. Whether you can learn it or not depends on your knowledge." It's up to you."
I started watching it from the night I met him. Although he kept saying that he would teach me only after I meditate, but now I have already remembered a lot of things, but I haven't practiced it much. Last time Xiaoxiao It was the first time I practiced sleepwalking, but I chose the wrong moves and spells.
After Meng Changqing finished speaking, he continued to set it up at the mouth of the cellar, clapped his hands after a while, then took out several yellow talismans from his pocket, lit them and threw them in.
There is a lot of methane inside, and as soon as the yellow talisman was thrown into the mouth of the pit, a ball of fire exploded, and then slowly descended. Meng Changqing walked to the side of the coffin and looked at it for a few moments before stepping aside and reciting the curse .
This time the chanting was different from the past. In the past, he was extremely strict when chanting mantras, but this time he only chanted extremely gently, and his voice sounded very comfortable.
After he recited it once, I asked him what mantra he was chanting, and he said it was a bathing and soul-salvation mantra, which is used to transcend the souls of the dead.
I groaned. In the past, ghosts with grievances would directly recite soul arresting spells, immobilization spells, etc., and seldom save others.
I thought he had his reasons, so I didn't care too much, I was just afraid that something inside would come out and hurt him.
After he read it a few times, the coffin in the big cellar should be on fire, and the fire in the big cellar was blazing. He opened his eyes and looked at it, and then continued to read without stopping.
About fifteen minutes into the reading, the fire in the cellar suddenly stopped. I called him immediately when I saw him. He opened his eyes, then stood up, pulled out the money sword, and turned his head to us and said: : "You go first."
While talking, a resentful ghost wearing a red Taoist robe came out of the cellar and stood behind Meng Changqing. I hurriedly reminded Meng Changqing, and Meng Changqing immediately turned around and swung his sword.
I took a look and saw that the ghost's face shape and charm were somewhat similar to Meng Changqing's. Immediately, I thought this person should be Meng Changqing's grandfather.
Naturally, Meng Changqing also noticed it, and after a moment of fascination, the ghost took a look at Meng Changqing, and for some reason, turned around and jumped into the forest without a trace, faster than all the ghosts we have seen before.
Seeing him running away, Meng Changqing didn't chase after him. After he disappeared, he put away the money sword and said to me: "You must find your grandfather as soon as possible, this ghost will definitely seek revenge on your grandfather."
I had thought of this a long time ago, and I also saw that Meng Changqing had let the grieving ghost go on purpose just now. I knew it when I saw the faces of the two of them, and this ghost was Meng Changqing's grandfather.
Meng Changqing didn't take action against the grieving ghost, and the grieving ghost didn't attack Meng Changqing either, presumably they each had their hearts clear.
What I didn't expect was that Meng Changqing had always been an outsider, and now he was also involved. I couldn't see what was going on more and more clearly.
From all the evidence now, it seems that grandpa is not the grandpa I used to know, nor the good person before. As for the second grandma, what is the reason why she went away and refused to come back? Is it also because of grandpa?
In fact, I'm still struggling with one thing now, that is, if this is really Meng Changqing's master, wouldn't Meng Changqing hold grudges against him if his grandfather buried him like this?
When I was thinking here, the temperature below the big cellar had already dropped. Meng Changqing didn't care what I was thinking, jumped into the big cellar and lifted the blackened coffin lid to have a look.
Except for the skeleton of a weasel, there were only some clothes and some Taoist belongings. Meng Changqing took out all these things and threw them up. He then climbed up along the iron chain hanging the coffin.
Most of the clothes thrown out were cassocks and robes, as well as some copper coins and the like. A photo was found between these clothes. There were two people in the photo, one of whom was about fifteen years old, and he could be seen at a glance. It was my grandfather, and standing behind my grandfather was a man in his thirties who looked like Meng Changqing. It should be the owner of this tomb, grandfather's master, and Meng Changqing's grandfather.
Meng Changqing frowned when he saw the photo, then put the photo in his pocket, and burned all these things on the ground with a fire.
"I think he's really your grandfather." Seeing that Meng Changqing didn't say anything, I took the initiative to remind him.
After hearing this, he hummed, and didn't seem to care too much. He just speculated on Grandpa's intentions. He couldn't figure out how much hatred Grandpa and his master had, so much so that he would torture him in this way even after he died.
After staying at Dajiaokou for a long time, Meng Changqing took us back to the village, borrowed some glutinous rice from the village, prepared some things and left.
He didn't sleep for several days, and the village name was worried about his health, and wanted to keep him, but he refused, saying that staying up late like this was nothing.
After saying goodbye to the villagers, we left the village. On the way, we asked Meng Changqing where we were going. Meng Changqing said that we were looking for the walking corpse.
Yejiawan is already on the border of our county, and if you go there, there are a few big mountains. The villagers in Yejiawan told us about the situation there.
There are two counties adjacent to here, and the three counties meet at one point. There is a saying in Yejiawan called "three counties with one foot", which refers to the intersection of the three counties. There is a village there. It is divided into three pieces, each piece belongs to a county, and stepping on the junction of these three pieces is equivalent to stepping on the land of these three counties at the same time.
This village is called Sanhe Village. Someone from Yejiawan has been there before and knows something about the situation there.
The villagers in Yejiawan said that grandpa came back from there when he was 22 years old. Now we go to chase the corpses and at the same time we can inquire about some things about grandpa.
It used to be separated by two mountains, and we had to walk for four hours to arrive here. We were looking for traces of walking corpses along the way. On the way, Meng Changqing saw that we had nothing to say, so he took the initiative to find a topic.
He took out a large seal covered with copper and green from his arms. There was a black turtle engraved on the large seal. The front of the seal was engraved with runes, which were divided into three columns. On the two sides, I could only recognize a day character and a month character. , the middle row is engraved with 'Shangqing Dadongyin'