Just as Su Hao, Deng Zilong and others were preparing their troops, a group of special guests arrived from the Lanchu Gold Mine on Luzon Island, thousands of miles away. The leader was a middle-aged Taoist priest with an immortal spirit.
"Immeasurable Heavenly Lord, the wind is blowing here in Pindao Temple, but is there any evildoer causing trouble?" Old Taoist Chen Guanyu, holding a whisk in hand, stopped a ragged miner who was walking by and asked.
"&*^%$#$%&..." The other party muttered something to Chen Guanyu. Chen Guanyu was dumbfounded. He looked like a Chinese, but what he said was beyond his comprehension.
Can't even understand.
"Hey, is there anyone here who understands Daming dialect?" Chen Guanyu asked loudly, raising his voice.
"Taoist Master, are you from the Ming Dynasty?" Someone finally answered, with a strong Guangdong accent, but at least it was the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty.
"Infinite Heavenly Lord, Pindao is from the Ming Dynasty." Chen Guanyu hurriedly stepped forward and struck up a conversation with the man, "What is your name, this fellow Taoist, and where does he live?"
The person who answered said: "My name is Lu A Niu, and I am a native of Luzon. My grandfather's generation came from Fujian."
It turns out they are overseas Chinese, Chen Guanyu said secretly in his heart. Before coming to Luzon on Su Hao's order, he had done relevant homework. He knew that there were many overseas Chinese in Luzon, and a considerable number of overseas Chinese could speak Ming dialect, so he was very good at communication.
There won't be too many obstacles.
"It turns out to be fellow Daoist Lu." Chen Guanyu pretended to be affectionate, "We meet by chance, and meeting an old friend in a foreign land means we are destined to meet each other. Pindao's family name is Chen, how about you, fellow Taoist Lu, and Pindao become sworn brothers..."
"Well... don't be in a hurry." Lu Aniu quickly declined. Chen Guanyu's behavior really looked like a charlatan, and Lu Aniu didn't want to get into trouble.
"Hahaha, Pindao was joking with fellow Taoist Lu. We monks don't want to become brothers. If we meet each other by fate, it would be great if we can give him a good relationship." Chen Guanyu spoke boldly. He revealed what just happened in one sentence.
It's past.
The matter of sworn sworn oath was dismissed, but Chen Guanyu did not let Lu A Niu go. Lu A Niu walked out, and Chen Guanyu followed without hesitation, asking Lu A Niu questions as he walked. Lu A Niu picked some that he knew.
After answering the question, he finally asked: "Daozhang Chen, why did you come all the way across the ocean to Luzon?"
Chen Guanyu was waiting for Lu Aniu to ask. He pretended to look around and then lowered his voice and said, "This is a secret. However, fellow Taoist Guan Lu is also a destined person. There is no harm in talking to fellow Taoist Lu."
Lu A Niu was not a scheming person at first. In addition, people back then were somewhat in awe of monks and Taoists. He was immediately attracted by Chen Guanyu's words and said, "Taoist Chen, tell me, what kind of secret is this?"
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Chen Guanyu said: "Pindao was originally meditating in the Central Plains. One day and night, I was looking at the stars, and suddenly I saw a faint image of blood in the south. After counting with my fingers, I realized that something bad was going on. On a huge island in the south, there was someone who was not from China.
The people moved the earth and rocks without respecting the ghosts and gods, causing the evil spirits to run rampant, causing the anger of the gods and the resentment of the people. If we can't take measures to appease them in time, a huge tsunami will hit in seven or forty-nine days, and everyone on the island will die."
"Ah?" Lu A Niu was very surprised. He quickly asked, "Taoist Master, is this giant southern island you mentioned our Luzon?"
Chen Guanyu shook his head and said: "The road is far away, and the old Taoist couldn't see clearly for a while, so he had to break through the barrier and go to the south to inspect it in person. When I arrived at your place just now, I felt that the wind was blowing and the ghosts were crying faintly. Maybe this is the place."
"Why is this our place?" Lu A Niu asked again.
Chen Guanyu said: "Let me ask you, is your place a gold mine?"
"Yes." Lu Aniu replied. This gold mine is famous far and wide, and it is not surprising that Chen Guanyu knows this.
Chen Guanyu asked: "Before the mining started, was this a barren mountain?"
"yes?"
"So, is there an ownerless grave on the mountain?"
"Yes." Lu Aniu replied. It was normal for there to be some ownerless graves on the barren mountains. He didn't know what this matter had to do with the heavenly secret mentioned by Chen Guanyu.
"That's right." Chen Guanyu grabbed Lu Aniu, squatted on the ground, drew a formation diagram, and said, "There are eight or sixty-four tombs on this mountain, and their distribution is similar to the one I drew.
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"This..." Lu A Niu was a little confused. Who would go to the mountain to count the graves? Maybe sixty, maybe seventy, or maybe there are eight, eight, sixty-four. In short, this is Lu A Niu
One thing that Niu couldn't confirm. As for the distribution shape of the graves, it was even more unclear. The graves without owners were all one on the east and one on the west, mixed among the trees. No one could figure out the relationship between them. Chen Guanyu casually said
Painting, Lu A Niu received psychological hints, and vaguely felt that this was indeed the case.
"It seems... that's what it means." Lu Aniu said, his face already turning a little blue.
Chen Guanyu looked at Lu Aniu's expression and knew that his deception had worked. He stamped his feet and said: "This is the formation of the evil ghosts, the door between the underworld and the human world. Breaking ground here is equivalent to releasing the evil ghosts."
Now that we're out, can this be a big deal?"
"It's really like this! Daozhang Chen, what should we do?" Lu Aniu was completely trapped and quickly asked Chen Guanyu for advice.
Chen Guanyu made a slumped look and said, "It's too late. If before starting the construction, we can ask a magician to do the Dharma to move the door to the underworld, then we will be fine. But those foreign devils... have they done the Dharma?"
"No." Lu Aniu replied honestly, foreign devils don't know what kind of magic to do. Even if they want to do magic, they have to ask a priest to do it. How can they find a magician?
"That's right." Chen Guanyu said, "Just because there is no method and ghosts and spirits are scattered, people must have died every day since this mine was opened, right?"
This is another great nonsense. The mining technology at that time was backward, and the Spanish colonists did not care about the lives of local miners. Mine accidents and fatalities naturally happened frequently, so Lu Aniu continued to nod.
"What a sin. This is a message sent by the ghosts and gods, asking the world to remedy the situation as soon as possible. If it continues like this, the ghosts and gods will eventually become angry, which will not only endanger the entire island, but may even affect the Ming Dynasty." Chen Guanyu sighed loudly.
"Daozhang Chen, please save us all. How much does it cost? I'll go back to the clan leader and ask him to mobilize everyone to donate money." Lu Aniu said.
Chen Guanyu was furious: "How could you, a descendant, ruin the good reputation of my Taoist sect! I, an old Taoist, traveled across the ocean and narrowly escaped death to come here, for this yellow and white filthy thing? I can tell you clearly. I am an old Taoist.
We do this in Luzon and we don’t take any money from it. We even produce the talisman paper, incense and candles ourselves. If you don’t believe me, just show it to fellow Taoist Lu Daoist.”
Following Chen Guanyu were several soldiers from the survey camp in disguise. After hearing Chen Guanyu's words, soldier Liao Yiming came over with a baggage and opened it to Lu A Niu. It was indeed a pile of talisman paper, incense candles, etc.
The goods are all high-end goods brought from the Ming Dynasty. At first glance, they are worth a lot of money.
Lu A Niu finally believed it. He was so rich and had gone to Nanyang with so much effort. How could he come here to defraud him of such a small amount of money? If he wanted to deceive, he should deceive the rich as well.
In such a miner's family, all the property is not as valuable as the incense candles. Would they deceive themselves for such a small amount of property?
Since he is not a scammer, there is only one explanation, that is, the other party is indeed an enlightened person who has come to help him solve his troubles. If you are suspicious, you will be mistaking other people's good intentions for nothing.
After thinking about this, Lu Aniu became more respectful to Chen Guanyu and eagerly invited Chen Guanyu to his clan. Because of such a big matter, he, a small person, cannot make the decision. He can only invite Chen Guanyu.
It's up to the clan leader to make the decision.
In this way, Chen Guanyu and his party followed Lu Aniu to Lujia Village. According to Lu Aniu, this is a village that was moved from Fujian. Now the young people in this village are already the third generation of immigrants and can remember
Like the mother country, there are only some elders such as the clan leader.
The difficulty of deceiving the patriarch was naturally higher than that of Lu A Niu. However, Chen Guanyu was also a charlatan armed with high technology. He ordered Liao Yiming and others to set up a tripod and put a tripod on it.
The compass box was placed on a tripod, and a long tube was pulled out from the box, and then he said to the patriarch: "Patriarch, please look at my compass and you will know.
The clan leader looked at Chen Guanyu's advanced equipment and was a little intimidated at first. He cautiously put his eyes on the long tube and took a closer look. He couldn't help but widen his eyes, open his mouth, and his head was numb.
, fell into a shutdown state.
In the cylinder, I saw that the distant hillside woods suddenly became very close. What was even more surprising was that there was a faint cyan shadow in front of the originally clean scenery. Carefully identify those
The shadows are clearly ghosts one by one, with teeth and claws, green faces and fangs, as if they want to eat people.
"Clan leader, turn around and take a look." Chen Guanyu reminded from the side.
As expected, the patriarch turned the angle and focused the camera on other scenery. He found that the ghosts had also changed. The original flying ghosts had turned into walking ghosts, and the male ghosts had turned into female ghosts. Change again, and there were new ones.
Almost endless. Of course he has seen shadow puppet shows, but it was a huge stage, and the shadow puppets were controlled by someone. But now there is only a small box in front of him. If it is a shadow puppet show, such a big ghost is
How to stuff it in?
"Chen Daozhang, what did the old man see from the pipe?" the patriarch asked Chen Guanyu timidly.
Chen Guanyu said: "If Pindao did not make any mistakes, the clan leader must have seen some unclean things, right? Pindao, this thing is the magic weapon of our Taoist sect, called the Demon Mirror. Ghosts, gods and evildoers are ordinary to the naked eye.
The fetus cannot be seen, but through this demon mirror, you can see some images. However, this is just a ghost shadow, not the ghost itself. This ghost shadow is quite different from the human shadow. The human shadow is born of light and cast on the ground;
Ghost shadows are born from the shadows and cast into the sky..."
A group of soldiers from the Kanyu camp stood beside them with their hands hanging down, biting their jaws desperately, fearing that they would laugh out loud if they let go. Isn't this some kind of foreign movie invented by General Su? In the Kanyu camp, this thing is
It was used to activate cultural life, but it fell into the hands of Daochang Chen and became a magic mirror. What kind of magic weapon is it? In the factory run by the second wife of our general soldier, this thing has been mass-produced, okay?
No matter what the soldiers thought, the clan leader was calmed down by Chen Guanyu. Other elders in the clan were also invited to come over and have a look, and then they were all scared to death. Then came the middle-aged people, young people, children...
To say that I like this thing the most is the group of children. After watching it one by one, they still wanted to watch it. As a result, they were slapped on the back of the head by the adults and were forced to go to Mazu Temple to worship a few times to ward off evil spirits.
"Daozhang Chen, now we all believe that there are indeed monsters running rampant in our place. Dare I ask, Mr. Chen, how to get rid of them and how much will it cost? I am quite a bit thin in the local area. Let's contact other villages.
, I believe everyone is willing to pool their money to ask the Taoist priest to do something to eliminate the demon." The clan leader said to Chen Guanyu politely.
In the past, if there was such an opportunity to extort money, Chen Guanyu would definitely go crazy. He would ask for a hundred handfuls and ten taels of silver, and then do tricks for others for a few days, and then escape. But what about Chen Guanyu today?
It can be bought with just a little money. Su Zongbing has promised him that if the march into Luzon is successful, he will pick a large gold mine and give him 20% of the shares. What Su Zongbing promised,
When did the chain drop? A 20% share is enough for Chen Guanyu to raise a concubine with seven or eight bedrooms, and then produce ten or eight Chen Guanyu shrimps, Chen Guan crabs, Chen Guan kelp and so on.
With such a big temptation, Chen Guanyu certainly would not act recklessly. He repeated the words he had given to Lu Aniu in the first place, and repeatedly stated that he was here to help people in distress and did not need the villagers to pay a penny.
"So, Taoist Chen, what can we do to eliminate the evildoers?" Patriarch Lu asked Chen Guanyu for advice.
Chen Guanyu said: "What we need now is to work together. Only by working together can we deter ghosts and gods. Chief Lu, please go and summon the chiefs of other villages. Wait for Pindao to tell them about this method of eliminating evil spirits."
Method."
"Master Chen, please rest in our village for a day. I will send someone to take messages to other villages." Chief Lu Zhang Luo said.
Chen Guanyu thanked the clan leader, and then shouted to the soldiers from the Kanyu camp who were pretending to be followers:
"Disciples, put down all the magical instruments and we will rest in the village for a day. We are all here to preach and build relationships, so we are not allowed to harass fellow Taoists. Although we are not taboos about chicken, duck, fish, etc.
But we can't let the Taoist friends spend money, right? Therefore, no one is allowed to ask the Taoist friends to kill chickens and geese. Of course, if the Taoist friends have already killed the chickens and geese, we can't waste it. You must know that the meal on the plate is
Every grain of grain is hard work..."
As a result, all the chickens, ducks and geese in the village were unlucky...