It is a coastal county under the jurisdiction of Jiangzhou Prefecture. It is not poor here. On the contrary, it is because of farming, studying, passing down families, merchants and Confucian scholars, prosperous commerce, and wealth among the people.
This also gave rise to many traders traveling at night.
"Brother, brother, you can't go any further! You are from out of town, right? You can't cross the bridge at night!"
On a winding mountain road, a carriage just passed the top of the mountain and was about to go down the mountain overnight. Several well-traveled merchants from the mountain temple kindly stopped the carriage.
Seeing that the carriage was stopped, several people got out of the carriage. They were Jin'an's group who had just entered the boundary of Yin County and had been traveling all the way.
After a brief self-introduction, Jin An and the others learned that the people who stopped the car were local traders in Yin County. They mainly sold goods in some mountain villages, bought some mountain animal skins, and engaged in the business of buying and selling. They were spending the night in a mountain temple.
, wait until dawn tomorrow to go to the next village to do business.
"Donors, what do you mean by saying you can't cross the bridge at night?" the old Taoist priest asked curiously.
"You are indeed from out of town. When I saw that you were going to cross the bridge overnight, we brothers had already noticed it." Several private businessmen said while nervously glancing in the direction of the bridge at the foot of the mountain, as if they were very worried.
There is something at the bottom of the mountain that is eavesdropping on what people are saying.
But in fact, it was pitch black at the bottom of the mountain. Not to mention the road or the bridge, you couldn't even see the river. The river was so dark that you couldn't see it at night, and the surrounding environment was completely swallowed up.
Those traveling merchants were hesitant and did not dare to speak outside. They were only willing to go into the mountain temple to speak.
The old Taoist priest lowered his head and glanced at the feet of several people. There was a figure under the light of the torch, and he was walking firmly with his heels on the ground. The old Taoist priest whispered to Jin An that it was a living person. Jin An calmly nodded slightly, and he became curious.
, enter the mountain temple with these local traders who are familiar with the local conditions.
This is a very ordinary mountain temple. According to the vendors, it was jointly built by several nearby villages with the money to pray for blessings and suppress some unclean things.
These traders are neither mountain ghosts nor bandits who rob homes. They are indeed ordinary people with good intentions to remind outsiders.
According to what they said, there is a fast-flowing river at the foot of the mountain. There is a wooden arch bridge called Dadun Bridge above the river. It was built by the villages that jointly funded the construction of the mountain temple in order to allow everyone to
Able to get out of the mountains.
Let me mention that here there is a bridge first and then a mountain temple.
The most eye-catching thing about this wooden arch bridge is that there is a thick pier beside the wooden arch bridge, which is deeply pierced into the river. There are also coiled pillars and dragons carved on the surface of the wooden pier. This is how the name Dadun Bridge comes from.
This big pier bridge used to be peaceful, but the strange thing started when the sky above us became abnormal and the days became shorter and the nights became longer. For several days in a row, people found the bodies of drowned people stranded in the shallows downstream of the river.
If someone drowns once or twice a year, everyone doesn't take it seriously, but people drown for several days in a row, and sometimes several people drown in a row. This incident gradually arouses everyone's vigilance.
Until one day, several local mountain people returned to the village from Yin County to buy daily necessities and were on their way at night to cross Dadun Bridge. Something strange happened. As soon as those people got on the bridge, a heavy fog suddenly appeared.
I don’t know the specific situation, but I can only hear the sound of falling into the water. People who get on the bridge keep falling into the river like dumplings.
Others who had not yet crossed the bridge shouted loudly, but those who crossed the bridge not only did not respond, but even those who went on the bridge behind to rescue others also jumped into the river.
That night, only one person came back alive, and he fell seriously ill and fell into a coma for several days. At this time, a group of city people happened to pass by the small mountain village. The group of city people were clean and decently dressed, with fine skin and tender flesh.
It looked like he was a big business boss. Among those people was a Mr. Liang. After looking at the unconscious villager, he fed him a bowl of talisman water and he woke up after half a day.
When they learned about the strange thing that happened on the bridge, everyone looked at each other in fear, and then begged the city people to save them. The group of city people discussed it, and Mr. Liang decided to go to Dadun Bridge first.
Condition.
Mr. Liang did indeed have some real skills. He walked back and forth on the bridge several times with a compass in his hand, and his expression changed drastically. He said that this was not suitable for building roads and bridges at all. This was a place where earth dragons were stranded. If roads and bridges were built here,
It is bound to collapse, and it stands to reason that it is impossible to build a bridge in such a place.
Mr. Liang noticed the dragon wooden pier driven into the river next to the wooden arch bridge. He wanted to go over and check it out, but he was stopped by the elderly from several nearby villages. They refused to let Mr. Liang get close to the wooden pier, saying that it was the ancestral teaching.
It will offend the ancestors.
Mr. Liang had rich experience in rivers and lakes. When he saw the abnormal behavior of these old people, he immediately guessed that there must be something wrong with the wooden piers. He asked the old people on the spot whether they had used living stakes to immobilize the earth dragons under the river when the bridge was built.
Then Mr. Liang cursed him for being stupid. Although driving a living stake could temporarily stabilize the bad water area and build a bridge safely, it would also create huge hidden dangers for future generations. Driving a living stake is to build a living person into a bridge or build a bridge safely.
Push it into the bridge to seal the exit and suffocate the person alive.
The more evil the person is when he dies, and the more resentful he is during his lifetime, the better the effect of driving a living stake will be, as it can suppress evil spirits. There is another name for driving a living stake in the second volume of "Book of Lu Ban".
It's called driving piles.
There is an evil saying among the disciples of Luban, wherever a bridge cannot be built, a temple or a loft cannot be built, the success will be achieved immediately by driving one living stake. If one fails, then ten or eight living stakes will surely succeed.
In normal times, these living piles are indeed peaceful and can bring peace to a party. But once they are damaged, the people who were sealed in the bridge as sacrifices will immediately seek revenge, and these living piles will die one by one.
It's tragic, you can imagine how much resentment will be once the confinement is broken.
Unexpectedly, he saw such cruel tactics in such a deep mountain. Mr. Liang was so angry that he wanted to throw away his hands and leave on the spot. But in the end, he couldn't do anything and left so many villagers alone, so he broke open the wooden pier.