Therefore, as natives of Daoxian County, they have no doubts about such things as ghost soldiers passing through the corridors and ghost cubs seducing people.
After listening to people talking about it, I knew that this old hunchbacked woman on crutches was the Yamao that Xiao Tang told me about.
Ya Po is usually responsible for managing the Zai Zai Temple in the woods. I remember Xiao Tang said that if anyone had to go to Gui Zai Ridge for something, they would ask Ya Po for help first, and Ya Po would burn incense for the small temple before they dared to enter.
"Yunfeng," Xiaoxuan pulled me and asked in a low voice, "Is this person really scared to death? Do you believe it?"
I said I didn’t know, so why are we taking a look.
As the crowd watched, Yapo stood up shakily with a cane. She whispered a few words to a villager, who nodded and ran away.
After a while, the man who ran away brought a pair of red couplets and a handful of incense.
Yapo used her crutch to draw a circle at the entrance of Guizailing. She burned the red couplets in the circle, lit a large handful of incense, and inserted it into the burned ashes.
I looked up to the sky.
Wisps of green smoke slowly floated in the air, seemingly transforming into various human face patterns, shrouding Guiziling for a long time, adding a bit of eerieness to the place.
After burning the couplets, the hunchbacked Yapo walked slowly into Guizailing. The other villagers looked at each other, but no one dared to follow him in.
Twenty minutes passed.
Suddenly, a sharp-eyed villager shouted in a panic: "Old man is cold! Old man is cold!" (Maybe this is what the old lady meant.)
As soon as he finished speaking, many people saw the hunchbacked Yapo running out almost rolling and crawling without even using a crutch!
I also saw this old woman who couldn't even straighten her waist, just ran out!
This old tooth woman's face was originally pale, with age spots on her forehead wrinkles. Now her face was even paler, her lips were trembling and she shouted loudly: "Who did the dragging thing? (Who is not afraid of death?), the appearance is gone!"
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Uncle Xue whispered, "Damn it, she said some dead person stole the statue in the small temple."
"Idol?"
I immediately thought of the late Qing cinnabar statue I saw last night. Who stole it? No, it was obviously still there last night.
I turned to look at Dou Sprout Boy: "Isn't it your kid who stole it?"
"Damn it!" Dou Sprout explained anxiously: "It's none of my business! I didn't steal it!"
Anyway, this incident caused a big fuss, and many people from neighboring villages came to watch. With so many people, we didn’t dare to look for Yin Yang Cave in the afternoon.
The man who died by the pond was from Tianguang Village. His wife said that he went to the field to cut hay for the cattle in the morning and died unexpectedly. (People in the village said he was scared to death.)
Uncle Xue was not in the house in the afternoon. He would come in the evening and drank a large bowl of water as soon as he entered the house.
"Ahem! I'm so fucking choked. I've been asking someone for inquiries all afternoon, and I finally figured it out."
I said, Uncle Master, tell me quickly what’s going on with the Zai Zai Temple in the woods.
He told the news he had learned.
He said that the county cultural bureau has a Qing Dynasty county chronicle. In this county chronicle, a famous Qing Dynasty tribute student wrote about Gui Zailing. This is the only time that "Gui Zailing" is mentioned in ancient books. Going forward, regardless of official and unofficial history, Gui Zailing will be ignored.
There is no record at all.
This county annals is the original. The Qing Dynasty tribute student in the book said:
"In Tianguang Village, there are strange rocks emerging from the soil, all of which are human-like. They may be called Yin soldiers. They pass by the pond at night and hear the crowing of roosters, which turn into fossils. Some people see them, and their souls wander out of the body and become unconscious."
Uncle Xue said to me again: "According to the elderly people in the village, after this Gongsheng wrote the county annals, two more people died by the pond in the village. The villagers were afraid that it was an evil force, so at the end of Yi, the 21st year of Guangxu,
It was at the end of 1895 that the villagers invited a capable Taoist priest from other places."
Rumor has it that in the winter of 1895, the Taoist priest sat alone in Guizailing all night. In the morning, the Taoist priest said: "This place is dangerous. I remember your kindness and wish to guard this place for a hundred years. After my death, I will be cremated and my ashes can be made."
Make it into a clay statue and place it in a temple to worship, and you will be able to keep your village safe."
"The ghost stones (those stone sculptures) will not be torn down until they are finished, and the statues of gods will not leave the temple. Remember, remember..."
Maybe the rumors are exaggerated, but since the elderly people in the village say so, it is not groundless.
Therefore, the Taoist statue in Zaizai Temple has not moved a step since it was placed there in 1895.
