Strange news from ancient times to the present: The Yin Man
Text: Yu Qi
1: Yin people
On July 14th, the gate of ghosts opens, hundreds of ghosts roam at night, and the sky is full of gloom. Children born on July 14th are commonly known as ghosts. In fact, children born on this day are no different from ordinary children, except that the date is a little different.
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But girls born at 7:07 pm on July 14th in the Year of the Snake are definitely different! Among the twelve zodiac animals, only the snake has the most yin nature. July is the yin month, and it is also the right time.
It is the time when the sun sets in the west, the gate of hell has just opened, the yang energy is declining, and the yin energy is suddenly strong. Girls are yin in nature, and they are born at the yin point of the yin year and the yin month. Children born at this time will be weak and weak.
, has an abnormally sensitive constitution and can detect things that ordinary people cannot detect. They are commonly known as psychic people, also known as Yin people.
Linlin is a shady person. She has been easily provoked by unclean things since she was a child. She has been frightened every now and then. Her parents work outside all the year round, so she had to leave Linlin to her grandma. Fortunately, Linlin's grandma is a goddess who can calm the fright.
He's pretty good at it, and he has almost no danger.
Grandpa passed away early, and grandma lived alone and was very lonely. Linlin's arrival made grandma overjoyed. The focus of life completely shifted to Linlin, and all kinds of care made Linlin feel warmer.
Due to physical reasons, Linlin only entered the first grade when she was seven years old. The school was only a few dozen steps away from her grandma's house, so she didn't need to be picked up or dropped off. Linlin had a sweet mouth and soon got to know some children. The sun was shining quickly.
appeared on the child's face.
One morning, Linlin went to school as usual carrying a small schoolbag. As soon as she turned the corner of the room, she saw Uncle Zhang picking up manure. Linlin, who always had a sweet mouth, shouted: "Good morning, Uncle Zhang!"
Uncle Zhang slowly raised his head and looked at Linlin with a pair of cloudy eyes. His face was pale and without a trace of blood. He suddenly shouted to Linlin: "Go back to your grandma quickly!"
Go around!"
Linlin was so frightened that she cried "Wow". While crying, she turned around and ran back home. She threw herself into her grandma's arms and recounted what had just happened while sobbing.
After listening to Linlin's words, grandma's face instantly became extremely ugly. In the world of a seven-year-old child, one still doesn't know what death is, but grandma clearly knows that Uncle Zhang died half a month ago.
already dead.
From this day on, Linlin's nightmare life officially began.
2: Secrets that cannot be told
From that day on, grandma repeatedly taught Linlin that if she saw something special, she must not tell her about it. She could only go home and tell grandma. Grandma has lived for decades and knows that if you tell some things, people will
Treating Linlin as a monster shows that human minds are narrow-minded and cannot accept aliens.
Linlin is very well-behaved and has always been a good and obedient child. From then on, she had many secrets that she could not tell others, and her grandma was her only audience.
The first secret happened half a month later. When Linlin was in class, she suddenly saw a very thin bald man following the teacher. When the teacher took a step, the bald man followed him like a float, always keeping close to her.
against the teacher's back.
When the teacher passed by Linlin, Linlin suddenly felt a chill pass by, and the pores all over her body opened unconsciously. The scattered hair on the back of her neck and on both sides of her temples flew up. Her body was so nervous that she could not move.
One small hand tightly grasped the corner of the clothes, and the other small hand almost broke the pencil in his hand.
Linlin wanted to scream, but she couldn't make a sound. She wanted to run away, but her body couldn't move at all. She could only open her eyes wide and watch the bald man follow the teacher, drifting, drifting...
The strange thing is that the rest of the students in the class acted as if they had not seen it, and continued to read the text along with the teacher in a cadence. Even the teacher did not seem to have the slightest feeling.
After finally getting to the end of get out of class, the teacher just walked out of the classroom. Linlin finally let out a scream, stood up "Hush", didn't even pack her schoolbag, screamed all the way out of the classroom, rushed out of the school, and ran back home. .
After listening to what Linlin said, grandma was silent for a long time, and then said something that Linlin couldn't understand: "The cycle of life and death cannot be stopped by human power." After saying this, grandma felt a lot more depressed, and her face looked a little sluggish.
It was full of helplessness.
Grandma asked for a week's leave for Linlin. Three days later, the teacher fainted in class and was sent to the hospital. She was diagnosed with gastric cancer and resigned from her job as a teacher. Linlin returned to school and never saw the teacher again.
I have never seen the bald man following the teacher.
I just heard that the teacher was so tortured by the disease that he was deformed. He was so thin that only skin and bones were left. His hair also fell out due to chemotherapy, and he became bald. Not long after, the teacher died.
But soon, Linlin had a second secret.
On Sunday, grandma went to the market. She was worried that Linlin would be alone at home, so she took her with her. As soon as she bought some groceries, she met an acquaintance who was also an old woman. She was probably a friend that grandma had known since she was young. The two chatted affectionately.
Started a regular meal.
But Linlin hid behind her grandma, clutching her clothes tightly, shivering, not daring to open her eyes. Grandma soon discovered something was wrong with Linlin, and found an excuse to separate from the old lady.
He took Linlin aside, touched Linlin's little face lovingly, and asked softly: "My child, what did you see again?"
Linlin's eyes were still full of fear, and she said tremblingly: "I saw a woman behind that ***, her face was covered with blood, her belly was broken, a section of her intestines was leaking out, and a leg
It seems to be broken too.”
After listening to Linlin's words, grandma looked at the direction the old lady was going for a long time, then stood up and said slowly: "Let's go! Go home."
The next day, I heard that there was a car accident at the market. An old lady fell off the tractor and was run over by the tractor. One of her legs was broken, her belly was broken, and her intestines came out.
He died on the spot. After my grandma learned the news, she secretly cried at home for half an hour.
Then comes the third secret, the fourth secret...
Linlin had more and more secrets, and she became more and more lonely. The smile gradually disappeared from her face. She didn't dare to play with the children, didn't dare to talk to others, and didn't even dare to look at others, just for fear of discovering someone inadvertently.
There is an extra person behind so and so.
Three: Family God
Ever since Linlin had many secrets, her grandmother's face became more and more helpless, and she worshiped the gods more and more times every day.
What grandma was worshiping was not an ordinary god, but a green-armored, green-robed statue with eighteen arms. It looked like a very fierce statue. Before Linlin could not see those things, she could often be seen worshiping her.
Since Linlin had a secret about the statue, her grandma had hidden the statue in the inner room and repeatedly told Linlin not to go into the inner room.
Linlin has always been obedient and has never been to the inner room. She has never even thought about going in to take a look. Until that day...
After school that day, as usual, Linlin carried a basket to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables. Her grandmother was a lonely old man and had no influence in the village. The vegetable garden was spread far away. Not far from the vegetable garden, there was a dilapidated place.
When I arrived at the vegetable garden and picked a few beans, I heard a thin voice shouting: "Linlin, come here, come here quickly. Linlin, come here, come here quickly..."
Linlin followed the sound and was immediately frightened to death. She saw a huge black snake coiled on the ruined temple. Its head was as big as a bucket, its waist was as thick as a bucket, and it had two yellow eyes.
Staring at himself, his eyes were full of greed.
After letting out a scream that she felt was so piercing, Linlin ran back home desperately. At this time, her grandma was usually worshiping, so Linlin didn't care about her grandma's instructions and pushed the door open in the back room.
Door.
As soon as the door was opened, grandma was kneeling in front of the sacred table, with her hands clasped together and her face extremely pious. There were several sticks of sandalwood inserted in the incense burner on the sacred table, and misty smoke was rising. Behind the incense burner was a tablet with gold on it.
The four words "Thousand-Hand Divine Lord" are written on the lacquer, and behind the tablet is the statue of the god.
On the statue, there is a large dark green centipede, as long as chopsticks, lying on the head of the statue, greedily sucking in the smoke.
"Centipede...snake...centipede...snake..." Linlin was stunned by the scene in front of her and became incoherent.
Grandma bowed three more times before standing up. She pointed at the statue and said to Linlin: "This is the family god, the god who protects us. Don't be afraid. Grandma has not allowed you to come in before because she was afraid that you would scare you. Now you
Once I see it, I won’t hide it from you anymore.”
After hearing what her grandma said, Linlin looked at the dark green centipede again, and saw that it was lying on the statue and sucking smoke. She didn't feel so scary anymore. Coupled with the faint scent of sandalwood in the room, she gradually calmed down.
But then she remembered the huge black snake, and Linlin suddenly became nervous again. She stammered and told what had just happened, and her grandma's face suddenly sank.
Grandma pondered for a long time, reached for three sticks of incense, lit it, knelt in front of the statue, and murmured: "Holy God, this monster has set his sights on my little granddaughter. I must fight it.
Please also ask the family gods to protect you."
After saying that, he put the incense in the incense burner. Who knew that as soon as he let go, the three incense sticks fell down. Grandma's expression changed, and he placed three more sticks in the incense burner, but they still fell down.
Grandma's face became even more ugly. She pondered for a moment, stamped her feet bitterly, turned to Linlin and said, "Good boy, stay here. Don't go out, let alone go to the ruined temple to find Grandma. Wait.
Grandma is back and calling you, please go out again." After saying that, he looked at her again, turned around and walked out of the door.
"Alas..." The moment her grandma stepped out of the door, Linlin clearly heard a sigh, and the source of the sound turned out to be the statue of the god.
Although Linlin was a little scared and wanted to follow her grandma, she still stayed in the room obediently, staring blankly at the incense burner, the shrine and the statue. The strange thing was that the dark green centipede on the statue didn't know when.
Gone.
I don’t know how long it took, but when Linlin was waiting impatiently, the incense burner on the divine table suddenly fell down, and the incense ashes were scattered on the floor. Before Linlin could react, the divine tablet cracked with a "snap".
It opened, and then with a "bang" sound, the statue fell apart and shattered into a pile of wood.
four, birthday
Linlin could no longer hold back the fear in her heart, screamed and ran out, no longer caring about her grandma's instructions, and rushed to the ruined temple. In her consciousness, she was safe only by her grandma's side.
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The door of the ruined temple had collapsed long ago. As soon as Linlin rushed into the temple, she saw her grandma lying there with her eyes wide open. The blood on the corners of her mouth had not dried up yet, and there was no trace of life on her face. Linlin suddenly felt like she was in heaven.
Everything collapsed, and when his vision went dark, he fainted.
In the coma, Linlin heard her grandma's voice: "Linlin, be good, Linlin be good, drink this bowl of medicine, and you'll be fine." Then she felt someone helping her sit up, and a bowl of medicine exuding an unpleasant smell
Bringing it to her mouth, Linlin drank it obediently.
The medicine was very hard to drink, but it was very effective. After a while, Linlin woke up. As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw her grandma's smiling face. Linlin threw herself into her grandma's arms and cried loudly, all fear
, grievances and sadness all flowed out with tears.
Grandma, however, had a smile on her face, patted Linlin's shoulder, and said softly: "It'll be fine when you wake up, it'll be fine when you wake up. My dear granddaughter, you are grandma's lifeblood. You must wait for another month.
It will be July in a month, and grandma would like to celebrate your birthday."
Linlin was just too frightened. Under her grandma's careful care, her health quickly recovered. What made her even more happy was that from that day on, she never saw anything strange again.
As Linlin got better, her grandma became happier and happier. She looked much younger. She asked someone to re-paint the god tablets and statues, but she didn't let Linlin see them again. When she came in, she used a thick
Covered with thick red cloth.
Time never stops, and a month passes quickly. In this month, Linlin has not seen anything strange once. This alone is enough to make Linlin very happy, not to mention that July 14th is Linlin’s birthday.
Lin's birthday.
This day finally arrived. Grandma specially bought Linlin new clothes, tied them with two small red flowers, and made a lot of delicious food. Linlin's happy smile lasted from morning to night.
Due to the special nature of this day, grandma closed the door at six o'clock. Grandma and grandson sat on the bed, talking and laughing. Grandma hugged Linlin, kissed and nibbled on her, and played for a while. Grandma suddenly became quiet.
She looked at Linlin and said: "Linlin, grandma's good granddaughter, let grandma braid your hair again! By the way, let me tell you a story."
Linlin liked to listen to her grandma telling stories the most. She immediately sat obediently in front of the mirror and let her grandma untie her braids and let her hair down.
While combing Linlin's hair with a wooden comb, her grandma said softly: "This story must start with the ruined temple behind the village..."
Five: Stories told by grandma
There is a Shenjun Temple in Zhangzhuang. I don’t know when it was built. It occupies a small area. There are only four rooms in the front and back. The two rooms in the back are temples. The front is the mountain gate. It is surrounded by a courtyard. It has blue bricks and green tiles, hanging corners and cornices. It is also exquisitely built.
I can’t tell what kind of statue it is in the temple. It has long hair, a black face and fangs, and orange eyes. It’s also wearing strange clothes. At first glance, it looks like armor, but if you look closely, it’s not. It’s more like
Scales the size of copper coins are all over the body, and the tablet reads "Heisha Shenjun". The legend is quite efficacious.
During the campaign to destroy the Four Old Ages, temples naturally became the focus of being beaten, smashed, looted and burned. A Little Red Guard named Zhang Hu shouted slogans and rushed to the temple gate first. Just as he was about to step into the temple gate, a cloud of green tiles fell down without warning.
, happened to hit the head, Zhang Hu fainted on the spot.
When the leader of the Red Guards at the back saw this, he became furious, ordered seven strong young men, and rushed in together. As soon as they reached the entrance of the temple, the seven young men fell to their knees on the ground, opened their hands to the left and right, and kept slapping themselves in the face.
After several slaps, everyone woke up with blood coming from their mouths and noses, but they still dared to come forward.
When the leader of the Red Guards saw that the situation was not right, he was about to call for people to leave. Suddenly his eyes went dark and his ears hurt like needles. He fell to the ground with his hands close to his hips. His body twisted involuntarily. In a moment,
, the whole person was twisted into an incredible "Z" shape, crawling on the ground, and saliva was flowing out of the corners of the mouth. The shape was very strange.
At this moment, Zhang Hu, who had been knocked unconscious by the tiles, suddenly stood up. Without opening his eyes, he took three steps and walked to the leader of the Red Guards. He said in a dark voice: "Even your grandpa's temple is here."
If you dare to move, fine, if you disrespect me, I will make you extinct." After saying that, he fell straight down.
At that time, the leader of the Red Guards was in the limelight, and there were many flatterers around him. A few brave men stepped forward, lifted the leader of the Red Guards up, and hurriedly retreated, sending the leader of the Red Guards back home.
After the leader of the Red Guards returned home, he did not get better. He still looked weird. His family members sought medical advice, but to no avail. They screamed day and night. After three consecutive days and nights, they still could not survive and died.
Since the leader was the only son in the family and was unmarried, his death really cut off his descendants.
But the horrific things didn't end there.
After the death of the Red Guard leader, because he was not married, according to rural rules, he died young and could not enter his ancestral grave. His family was reluctant to dig a hole and bury him. Cremation was not common at that time. So what happened to the body?
Dealing with it has become a difficult task.
But this problem was quickly solved, because the body of the Red Guard leader suddenly disappeared. The villagers searched all the nearby villages and towns, but found no trace of the body, so they had to leave it alone.
The next day, the seven young men who had slapped themselves in front of the temple suddenly screamed strangely together at the meeting to elect the new Red Guard leader, and fell to the ground together, with their hands tightly on their hips, and they all twisted into one
It formed a "Z" shape, twisting and crawling on the ground while screaming in agony.
These seven young people did not last three days. That night, seven lives were wiped out from the world. What is even more strange is that that night, seven corpses also disappeared without a trace.
The villagers started talking a lot, saying that the Red Guards wanted to demolish the temple, which made the Lord God angry and took their lives.
This frightened Zhang Hu. He was responsible for demolishing the temple. Although he was knocked unconscious by the tiles at the beginning, he was at the forefront after all. Now that the leader is dead, so are the seven young men.
Why, it was his turn. Zhang Hu had witnessed the miserable situation of those people with his own eyes, and his heart felt chilly just thinking about it.
Zhang Hu only knew that he could not escape the bad luck. He returned home in a daze and fell on the bed without eating or drinking. The tragic scenes of the dead people kept flashing in his mind. The more he thought about it, the more he was afraid. The more he was afraid, the more he thought about it.
In half a day, my whole body lost weight.
The sentence of seeking medical treatment in a hurry is true. When Zhang Hu became anxious, he thought of Wang Huzi of Wang Village. Wang Huzi turned out to be a magic stick. He had some skills in exorcising evil spirits and sending ghosts away. When he broke the four olds, he called for the defeat of all ghosts and monsters. Wang Huzhu
Naturally, Huzi was also criticized. Fortunately, the daughter-in-law of the leader of the Red Guards in Wangcun was Wang Huzi's niece. Thanks to this relationship, he did not suffer much.
But Wang Huzi’s character couldn’t be changed. At that time, family status was a very critical condition. His daughter, Wang Xiaohua, was already eighteen years old. Just because of her bad birth status, she couldn’t find a suitable husband’s family. Wang Huzi and his niece
As soon as I put it all together, I fell in love with Zhang Hu.
Zhang Hu is a good-looking young man, and is extremely hard-working. He has been a poor farmer for generations, and has a good family background. If Xiaohua marries Zhang Hu, it will be regarded as a good place. But how can Zhang Hu agree? At that time, the Red Guards were
The quarrel was in full swing. Although Xiao Hua was not ugly, her ingredients were not good. If she were to be investigated, even Zhang Hu's family might be implicated, so it didn't happen.
Zhang Hu was so anxious that he remembered this incident. He immediately turned over and climbed up. He didn't care about the ingredients or not. He rushed to Wangcun and found Wang Huzi's house. He opened the door and went in.
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Coincidentally, Wang Huzi happened to be at home. Zhang Hu ignored the politeness and told the whole story like he was pouring beans from a bamboo bucket. He added at the end: "If you can save my life, I will marry Xiaohua."
When Wang Huzi heard this, he suddenly smiled and said: "If it were anything else, I might not be able to do it. No one knows the cause and effect of this matter better than me."
"The Black Evil Lord enshrined in the temple was originally a big black snake. He devoted himself to cultivation and was worshiped by fireworks. However, he could not ascend to immortality for a long time, so he turned his thoughts to evil methods."
"Among the evil methods, there is a method that can make the big black snake ascend to immortality, which is to eat nine boys and then devour a yin person on his seventh birthday. Nine is the number of the gods, and nine boys are the supreme yang.
, a Yin person is extremely Yin on his seventh birthday. After eating nine men and one woman, the Yin and Yang will be harmonious, the secret door will be fully opened, the heavenly vision will be clear, and the artistic conception will be smooth, he will be able to ascend in the daytime and become an immortal physically. However, you cannot become a real immortal using this method.
It can only become an evil immortal or a loose immortal, so that’s why the big black snake has never adopted it.”
"It happened that the Red Guards wanted to demolish its temple, which aroused its ferocity and tortured those people to death. Those people were not married, and their vitality was still intact. Their bodies were like children, and the big black snake naturally
It will not be wasted. So far, the big black snake has eaten the bodies of eight boys, and you are the ninth!"
As soon as Zhang Hu heard this, he broke into a cold sweat. He knelt down with a thud, kowtowed like pounding garlic, and called for help repeatedly. Wang Huzhi stretched out his hand to help him up, found half a bottle of realgar wine from the cabinet, handed it to Zhang Hu, and said with a smile
: "It's simple. After drinking this wine, snakes will be afraid of realgar. They won't dare to trouble you until the alcohol is gone. If you marry Xiaohua today and lose your virginity, the big black snake will naturally not bother to eat you. In addition,
Looking for other boys."
Zhang Hu took it and without saying a word, he tilted his neck and drank half the bottle of realgar wine. Wang Huzi immediately called Xiao Hua and kept everything simple. They bowed to heaven and earth and entered the bridal chamber.
The next day, Zhang Hu was indeed safe, but a young man from the same village suddenly developed the same strange disease as those who died and died. Although Zhang Hu felt a little guilty, he survived after all, so he officially married Xiaohua.
We walked in and became husband and wife.
After marriage, the couple lived a plain and happy life. The next year, Xiao Hua gave birth, but the child refused to be born. Wang Huzi arrived in time, pulled Zhang Hu aside and whispered something. After listening to Zhang Hu, although he was frightened,
But for the sake of his wife and children, he ruthlessly took two bottles of bad wine, added realgar, sprinkled it all over the temple behind the village, and then lit a fire.
Although some villagers put out the fire, the temple was already in disrepair and was completely destroyed by the fire. Strangely, Xiaohua successfully gave birth to a daughter when the fire broke out.
Everyone thought that the matter would just go away, but who knew that the next day, Wang Huzi was found dead in his home, and Zhang Hu also died inexplicably in front of the ruined temple, and he kept kneeling before he died.
posture.
Xiaohua raised her daughter by herself, got married and started a family, but she never imagined that after ten months of pregnancy, her daughter would give birth to a girl at 7:07 pm on July 14th, the Year of the Snake.
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Six: split kiss
When grandma said this, Linlin already understood that Zhang Hu was her grandfather, and she was the girl born at 7:07 pm on July 14, the Year of the Snake. That big black snake should be the one she saw.
That one.
Linlin couldn't help but feel a sense of fear. The big black snake had already eaten nine boys. Would it let her go?
A gust of wind passed by, and the red cloth covering the newly commissioned statue by grandma slipped off, revealing its true face, with long hair shawl, black-faced fangs, and scales the size of copper coins all over the body. It was smiling ferociously. The tablet in front of the statue was on
, the four words "Heisha Shenjun" written in red lacquer are particularly dazzling.
Linlin suddenly understood why she could no longer see strange things after drinking the bowl of medicine. Just when she was about to scream, she suddenly saw in the mirror that her grandma's mouth gradually opened, revealing the top and bottom four
There are fangs like sharp knives and a long scarlet tongue, dripping with saliva, reaching towards his neck...
(over)
(The two short stories have revised the duplicated chapters originally published. The text is continued below. I really can’t delete it, so I had to make this decision. Don’t blame me.)