Locals in Daoxian County should all know about the Yin-Yang Cave. It is said that in the 1980s, when filming Journey to the West, we planned to shoot in the Yin-Yang Cave, but later I heard that the filming was not possible due to funding issues for the crew.
The next day we rested until about ten o'clock and got up. I went to Xiao Tang's house because Uncle Xue said that there was a Yin Yang Cave nearby, but we didn't know the specific location.
"Hello grandma, what are you going to eat?" I saw the old man frying some yellow noodles in a big pot.
The old woman had a kind face and said with a smile: "This is our Yaoshan oil tea. It is fragrant. Young people, please drink a bowl later."
"Okay, grandma, where is Xiao Tang? I have something to ask him about."
The old man pointed to the room and said he was doing homework.
The old house their family lived in was very dilapidated, and the peeling walls were covered with academic certificates. When I entered the house, I saw Xiao Tang holding a math book and reading it. When she saw me coming in, she asked what was wrong.
"It's okay. Xiao Tang, let me ask you something. Do you know how to get to the Yin Yang Cave?"
"I know, what are you doing there?"
I smiled and asked if I would like to travel. I wanted to take some photos as a souvenir.
Xiao Tang put down his math book, rubbed his eyes and said: "Yinyang Cave is in the north of Zaizailing. You can find it by walking along the river. There is Jerusalem artichoke in that cave. When I was a child, my classmates and I used to dig Jerusalem artichoke. But now we don't
Do you know if there are any more?"
I secretly wrote down the approximate location, remembered the small temple I saw last night, and asked: "Also, Xiao Tang, what kind of statues are you enshrining in Zaizai Temple?"
Hearing my question, a trace of panic clearly flashed across Xiao Tang's face.
She said: "Don't ask, I don't know. I have to do my homework."
Seeing that she refused to tell me, I was too embarrassed to press her, so I told her what I had learned after I got back.
After hearing this, Uncle Xue said: "Without further delay, after dinner, we will go and have a look in the afternoon."
At noon, Brother Yu cooked the meal over the fire. He used to make big pot rice in the kitchen of Shaolin Temple.
We were eating in the house when suddenly we heard the sound of gongs banging on the street outside, and someone seemed to be shouting.
"What's going on?" I opened the door with the bowl in hand and went out to take a look.
While beating gongs and drums, I saw an elderly man shouting at the villagers who were eating. The old man looked very panicked. I didn't know what happened.
"Uncle Master, please listen to what people are shouting."
Uncle Xue ran over and looked at it for a while, and his face suddenly became a little ugly.
He said: "Something happened. This man said that someone died by the pond in Zaizailing this morning. He asked people to go and have a look."
“Someone is dead??”
After hearing the news, the villagers who were having lunch put down their bowls and chopsticks one after another. The old man was beating the gong in front, and the other villagers trotted behind.
I put down my bowl and chopsticks and hurried back and said, "Look up! Something seems to have happened! Let's go and have a look!"
I followed the villagers as I trotted to the place, and saw a middle-aged man lying face down on the path beside the pond, motionless, with his pole and basket lying on the ground.
Immediately, a villager came forward and turned the man over. He saw that the man lying on his stomach had a dark red face, the color of a pig's liver, the whites of his eyes were turned up, and the size of his lower body was out of control, and he pulled his pants.
People are out of breath and dead...
There were children among the villagers who were watching. They were frightened and cried when they saw the dead person.
The faces of the adults all turned extremely pale, and a woman who looked like the wife of the deceased collapsed on the ground, crying so hard that the sky was dark.
At this time, the crowd of onlookers suddenly moved out of the way, and an old lady with a cane and a severe hunch came over.
The hunchbacked old lady looked at the purple-faced corpse and suddenly knelt down towards the entrance of Guizailing.
The old lady threw away her crutches, clasped her hands together, and kept bending down to kowtow. At the same time, she muttered something loudly in a dialect that I couldn't understand.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
Uncle Xue translated in a low voice: "The old woman said that she encountered the Yin soldiers in the aisle. Because she accidentally saw the ghost soldiers, her soul was taken away. She lost control of her bowels and bowels because she was frightened by what she saw. She was scared to death...
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The villagers were all frightened when they heard this. All the locals grew up listening to the legend of ghost cubs. Their parents and grandparents had personally told stories about ghost cubs seducing people, especially some elderly people.
, regardless of men or women, these are taboos.
Therefore, as natives of Daoxian County, they have no doubts about such things as ghost soldiers passing through the corridors and ghost boys 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 Sprouts: "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 spent the whole afternoon asking someone about it, and I finally figured it out a little bit."
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.
