On August 22, 2010, there was exactly one month left before the Mid-Autumn Festival appointment between the Xuanyuan Hui disciple with a northern Sichuan accent and Hu Zongren. According to the information we had previously learned, the other party’s intention seemed to be to let Hu Zongren
Zongren must pass all the tests on the Baji Seal before the Mid-Autumn Festival before he can meet him. Otherwise, Hu Zongren doesn’t even know if he can survive until that time. After I sent Hu Zongren home that day,
I also returned home. I knew that what we were going to encounter might be far beyond our expectations, so I packed some things that I didn't usually use in my daily life.
According to the habit of the past many years, whenever I go out to do errands, I always use to carry a waist bag or a small satchel, a compass, a red rope and a grave soil. These things are absolutely indispensable. As for the first thing my master taught me in the early years
I have a skill of using dice to ask for directions, which I have gradually stopped using with the accumulation of experience. But this time, I not only brought the ox bone dice passed to me by my master in the early years, but also brought with me the dice made by my master when I started my apprenticeship.
The token made of lightning-struck peach wood was given to me. I also installed a lot of other things, such as bells, Bagua mirror, and I even brought along the Ji Tong Cao Man, which I rarely use.
I’ll talk about these things slowly, so you’re prepared. Because there were too many things, the original bag couldn’t fit them in, so I packed all these messy things in a bag I bought with Sister Cai once when I was traveling.
in my shoulder bag. When I was ready, I swept a lot of incense ash in front of the statue of the ancestor enshrined in my home and put it in a small cloth bag. Although I didn't know if it would be used, there is no harm in preparing it anyway.
It doesn’t take up space. Before I left, I called Hu Zongren and told him that I wouldn’t pick him up and asked him to take a taxi. Then I called Master Tiesongzi and told him when we were leaving.
When I was changing my shoes and getting ready to go out, Sister Cai stood at the door with her hands folded. She looked at me for a long time and then said to me, remember to come back early.
I escaped her eyes and answered her easily, okay, I may not come back for dinner, I will bring you whatever midnight snack you want. Sister Cai told me, please remember to call me when you go back.
Generally speaking, Sister Cai will not call me when I am doing business, so I have never had the opportunity to experience the distress of other men who have been killed by their wives' serial phone calls. On the contrary, this is exactly what she is doing to deal with her.
My work is treated with the utmost respect.
When we arrived at Dongshuimen, it was almost noon. Tiesongzi was the closest, so he was the first one to arrive. Since it was said that he was dressed in Taoist robes for decades, I could see him clearly from a distance.
.I don’t come to Dongshuimen very often, but I visit the nearby Huguang Guild Hall every now and then. First, because many friends from other places come to Chongqing, and Huguang Guild Hall is generally a tourist spot that I think is worth mentioning.
, Secondly, there is a private Jianghu restaurant nearby opened by a friend of my friend, which is usually where we go to eat.
I walked to Master Tiesongzi. He was standing on the ladder below the door of Dongshui Gate. From a distance, I saw several long-legged girls wearing hot denim shorts walking out of the door. I guess they had just gone to the Huguang Guild Hall.
.When they saw Master Tiesongzi, they couldn’t help but look at it a few more times. Master Tiesongzi unexpectedly stretched out his orchid fingers and stroked his hanging temples. It looked so charming. I joked.
Master Tiesongzi said, "You have many hobbies. I thought girls like this were my type." Master Tiesongzi covered his mouth and laughed.
About ten minutes later, Hu Zongren and Fu Yunni also arrived. Hu Zongren looked very relaxed, wearing a shit-yellow T-shirt, but the whistle hanging around his neck looked a bit nondescript. He happily chatted with me and Tie
Master Songzi said hello, but Fu Yunni couldn't hide her worry. She held the prayer beads in her hand and stood beside us anxiously but with a smile.
Master Tiesongzi said, since everyone is here, let’s go up and have a look. So we started walking towards Dongshui Gate. Master Tiesongzi said that Mr. Situ had explained to him that since the Hongya Cave in front of us is special
Pointing to the real cave, then the gate of Dongshui Gate here should also refer to this gate. And Situ said that this Dongshui Gate was the south gate of the ancient city of Chongqing in ancient times. In other words, if you want to leave the city from the south,
If so, this gate was the only way to pass through at first. However, later the country was defeated, the city walls collapsed a lot, and people had many more choices when leaving the city, so the Dongshui Gate gradually became less necessary. Master Tiesongzi said, this gate is
Opening the door, the Baji seal on Hu Zongren's back. The so-called Baji actually corresponds to the eight heavenly gates. This has to be said to be one of the coincidences. Unlike other city gates, Dongshui Gate has a special terrain, with mountains and water.
If the enemy attacks the city, it will be easy to defend but difficult to attack. Moreover, the water to the south happens to be the Taotao Yangtze River. The river is very wide. If the enemy invades, they will probably be sunk by artillery fire before they reach half of the center of the river.
.So there was no urn city in Dongshui Gate. The so-called urn city is a small city inside the city gate. It is usually used as a resting place for the garrison and generals on duty, and is also used to store weapons and explosives. Therefore, although Chongqing has repeatedly
Although it was attacked, this city gate was still very well preserved, because almost no enemy would be stupid enough to attack through this gate.
As we walked and talked, we soon reached the bottom of the gate. There was a stone tablet there, which was specially set up by the cultural relics management unit after the founding of the People's Republic of China to protect this one of the few ancient Chongqing gates. Master Tiesongzi told us that in
Before you come, I first took a closer look at the contents of this stone tablet. Because it is older, it should not be a valuable clue. At least when this stone tablet was set up, no one would have expected that a small thing in the world would
There was a friction between the Hu Zongren Society and the Xuanyuan Society. The content on this stone tablet basically introduced the history of this door. There is nothing surprising. I also checked the inside of the door. In the early days, it was built with big stones.
It is a type of city gate opening with a stone roll top. Later, probably due to reinforcement and repairs, the gaps were filled with cement, so even if people from the Xuanyuan Hui hid things, they would definitely not have the chance to stuff them into the gaps in the stone.
.I checked this door inside and out before you came, and there was nothing there.
As soon as Master Tiesongzi said these words, I started to feel a little frustrated. So I said to him, otherwise, I will try to search around here with a compass later to see if there is any supernatural reaction. If so,
If so, you should be able to find what they hid. Master Tiesongzi sneered and said, why are you so sure that the other party must have hidden something here?
I was a little confused. I said if we don’t hide anything, then what are we here for? Master Tiesongzi shook his head and said, this is the biggest headache for you, Mr. Situ. Logically speaking, this place has a very rich cultural heritage.
Usually, places like this have a large flow of people, but this area seems a bit deserted. For example, Tie Songzi said, below is the Yangtze River and Dongshuimen Wharf. Many porters and wholesalers gather in this area.
, looking out from this angle, it is the intersection of the Yangtze River and the Jialing River, but there are many people passing by here, but very few can pass through this gate. Up there, in the Huguang Guild Hall, there are not many people on weekdays, and even if it is
When people come, most of them choose the street above. After all, there are only a few people who climb up the hill from Dongshuimen to Huguang Guild Hall. The two streets are almost parallel, and both are quite popular. But only the one between these two is very popular.
Dongshuimen, which is among the most prosperous places, is very deserted.
Tiesongzi sighed and said, this shows that the guys from the Xuanyuan Club definitely did not choose this place on a whim. Because this place has a back slope, plus there are slopes and ridges, it seems to be incompatible with the surrounding environment.
There are faults, and such faults are precisely places where it is relatively easy for Yin Qi to gather. Master Tiesongzi went on to say, in the early years, I had heard about the phenomenon of ghosts gathering in the Huguang Guild Hall area, but it had been many years.
What happened before has been cleaned up long ago. This doorway is so big and the city wall is only so long. If you really want to hide something here, the doorway is really not a good choice.
Everyone was silent. After a while, Fu Yunni suddenly asked Master Tiesongzi if it had something to do with the incident at the Huguang Guild Hall? We were all stunned because I personally had never heard of it.
Hu Zongren, an outsider, was even less likely to know what troubles had occurred in this area. Sure enough, Tie Songzi asked Fu Yunni, did you know about that incident back then? Your father was still a little kid at that time. Fu Yunni
She said that Granny Huang told her these things.
Fu Yunni said that when Granny Huang was young, she was a participant in dealing with that big ghost incident. This is related to the historical origin of the Huguang Guild Hall itself. It means that in the early years, Zhang Xianzhong massacred Sichuan, killing only less than 100 people in Sichuan.
100,000 people, so during the Qing Dynasty, a large number of people from other provinces moved from Huguang Province and other places. These people had no roots in Sichuan. Hu Zongren interrupted and said, I also know this. Huguang fills Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, and Guangxi.
Well! I rolled my eyes at him and said, it seems there is no reason why you can't go to college. Huguang refers to the province of Huguang. At that time, there was no distinction between Hunan and Hubei. Hu Zongren scratched his head in embarrassment. Fu Yun
Ni went on to say that in the year of the accident, it happened to be the moon phase, which caused the yin energy in that year to be extremely heavy. The most severe one was the Ghost Moon in the middle of that year, so a large number of people who were born in other places were buried in Chongqing.
Because of this, people gathered together. Everyone has nostalgia. Death itself is a regret, not to mention dying in a foreign country. What's more, it happened to be a coincidence that year, when the ghost moon happened, it exploded.
Tie Songzi suddenly interrupted Fu Yunni, as if she had noticed something, and then she jumped up and down happily, looking like a little girl who won a colorful headband when buying a scratch card. We didn't know why this happened
Why did the thin Taoist priest suddenly become very high? He suddenly said, "Guiyue, ah, Guiyue."
Hu Zongren and I looked at each other and looked at the date. August 22nd, July 13th in the lunar calendar. Isn’t this the ghost month? And tomorrow is the end of the summer heat. Whenever the solar terms rotate, it is a time when yin and yang are confused, and from now on
Starting tomorrow for three consecutive days, it is the Hungry Ghost Festival, the day when the gates of hell are wide open!