Looking at Hua Borong and the others who were still confused, Fang Ming smiled slightly and reminded: "Did you forget that I said before where evil spirits usually appear?"
"cemetery."
Hua Borong's eyes lit up, "Fang Ming, you mean to say that the person who created the evil spirit was to hide a certain cemetery."
"That's right, it's just to hide the cemetery."
Fang Ming also nodded and affirmed: "The purpose of making evil spirits like this is to hide a certain cemetery. After all, tomb robbing has been around since Lao Cao's time. Not only now, even the ancients are on guard against it."
"That's not right either."
Hua Borong shook his head, "Although the store has not received any stones to ward off evil spirits, it did receive a lot of jade warding off evil spirits, and those jade warding off evil spirits were all excavated from the cemetery. Since they are already in the cemetery,
Then there’s no need to make it like this.”
It is reasonable for Hua Borong to have such doubts. Just imagine, the evil spirits are already in the tomb, so the person who discovered the evil spirits has entered the tomb. Is there any need to hide it?
Isn't this unnecessary?
"What Boss Hua said makes sense. This is indeed unnecessary." Song Xiong on the side also nodded in agreement.
"That's because of the special nature of the owner of the cemetery, so the evil spirits had to be placed outside the cemetery." Fang Ming replied.
He could understand Hua Borong and Song Xiong's conjectures, because they were not insiders, so they didn't know much about some things.
"Evil warding is mainly used to control tombs, so what's so good about cemeteries? This involves two things, one is inside the town and the other is outside the town, but most of the evil spirits in cemeteries are for outside the town."
"To give you a simple example, a patient suffers from a temporary paralysis condition, which means that the patient's hands and feet are weak for a period of time, and at this time, the patient's parents are going to a very distant place. The most important thing is
The problem is that the patient now lives alone in a luxurious villa, but outside there are many homeless people who don’t even have housing, so will these homeless people come in to bully the patient or even simply occupy the patient’s villa?”
Fang Ming's rhetorical question made Dehua Borong and the others stunned for a moment, and then they nodded subconsciously and replied: "It's very possible."
A patient who has lost his power owns a luxurious villa. Not to mention the homeless people, even some neighbors may be interested in plotting against him.
"So, in order to prevent the villa from being robbed by others, the patient's parents kept several hunting dogs in the villa to protect the patient and the villa from being robbed by others."
Fang Ming's words made Hua Borong and Song Xiong show recognition on their faces. This situation is possible.
"But I don't understand." Hua Mingming suddenly interrupted at this time, "Can you give me this example? It's completely different. Some people are moved by a villa, but who can be moved by a tomb? Is it possible that there are still people?
Are you willing to rush to sleep in the cemetery?"
Fang Ming glanced at Hua Mingming and replied meaningfully, "Just because people are not interested, it doesn't mean that other beings are not interested either."
"Haha, Fang Ming, you really made me laugh to death. No one is interested in this cemetery anymore, so what else is there to be interested in?"
Hua Mingming laughed loudly, but after he finished laughing, he found that the expressions of his old man and Song Xiong became a little strange.
"What's wrong with you?"
"In addition to people, there are also ghosts." Fang Ming answered Hua Mingming's question.
"Ghost?" Hua Mingming rolled his eyes, "Don't be kidding me. How can there be any ghosts in this world? If there really are ghosts, why have I never seen one in my whole life?"
"Stop talking nonsense!"
Hua Borong immediately interrupted Hua Mingming's words, because only older people like them knew that some things should not be said carelessly.
"That's what it is."
Hua Mingming winced when his old man glared at him, but he was still a little unconvinced and muttered quietly to the side.
"Whether you believe there are ghosts in this world or not, at least the family of the owner of the cemetery believes it. And even if there are no ghosts in this world, many people abide by the rules that have been passed down for many years, so there is a way to put evil spirits in the cemetery to ward off evil spirits.
customs.”
Fang Ming did not discuss the question of "whether there are ghosts" with Hua Mingming, but continued the previous topic and said: "In the eyes of the ancients and many people, the purpose of placing evil spirits in the tomb is to control the tomb, and I also said before that to protect the tomb from evil spirits,
There are two types, one is inside the town and the other is outside the town."
"The so-called town is to prevent the occurrence of corpse transformation. This type of tomb generally has a characteristic, that is, the owner of the tomb did not die normally during his lifetime, which is what we call birth, old age, illness and death. It may be due to some accident or sudden death, or
Being harmed by others.”
Fang Ming's expression suddenly became serious, "There are rumors among the people that people who die suddenly or are killed by others have grievances. If the grievances cannot be resolved, the ghosts of the deceased will come out to do evil."
"So, after such a person dies, in addition to finding someone to resolve his grievances, he also needs to place something in the cemetery that can suppress his grievances. To ward off evil spirits is one of the choices for most people."
Fang Ming spoke in a very serious tone, making Hua Borong and Song Xiong listen attentively. Hua Mingming on the side wanted to speak, but Hua Borong glared at him and had to shut his mouth angrily.
"This is the inside of the town, and there is also the outside of the town. The purpose of the outside of the town is very simple. Just like the example I gave earlier, it is to prevent other ghosts from occupying the magpie's nest and occupying this cemetery. This type of tomb has a
The characteristic is that the tomb owners are mostly children or people with congenital defects, such as fools, mutes, etc."
When Fang Ming said this, he paused and waited until Hua Borong and the others had almost digested what he said before continuing:
"About souls, I believe everyone has heard of this word: three souls and seven souls. According to a long-standing saying, everyone's soul is composed of three souls and seven souls. Once a person's three souls and seven souls dissipate, it means
This man is completely dead."
"That's why there is also a rumor among the people that people with congenital defects, such as fools, mutes, deaf people and other disabilities are caused by the damage to their three souls and seven souls at birth."
"Then the souls of this type of people are extremely fragile after death, so fragile that they will become targets of attacks by intact ghosts from the outside world. Therefore, in order to allow the souls of this type of people to rest in peace after death, there will be relatives outside the tomb.
This evil spirit is placed to suppress the ghosts outside from invading this cemetery and bullying the souls of the deceased."
Hearing what Fang Ming said, Hua Borong suddenly understood, slapped his thigh and said, "I understand, which means that the owner of the cemetery to which these evil spirits belong must have been defective during his lifetime."
"That's right, the owner of the cemetery is not only defective, but he should also have been born into a wealthy family. The wealthy family created such a special pair of evil spirits to prevent people from robbing the tomb."
Fang Ming's words made Hua Mingming unconvinced, because in Hua Mingming's eyes, he felt that Fang Ming was talking nonsense. Just looking at his old man's expression, if he directly accused Fang Ming of talking nonsense, the old man would probably kill him, so he thought for a while,
Hua Mingming rolled his eyes slightly and asked:
"How do you know that it belongs to a rich family? Can't it be from an ordinary family? After all, the cost of a pair of stones to ward off evil will not be too expensive."
Fang Ming just smiled and did not answer Hua Mingming's question, but Hua Borong on the side couldn't bear to see his son being so embarrassed, and explained with a look of hatred for iron and steel: "From the outside, at least Shi Bixie is from the early Republic of China.
As for the previous objects, in those days, the cost of getting such a stone to ward off evil spirits was not small."
"Yes, to put it bluntly, the stone lions in front of some families' mansions don't have this grandeur, and living people don't get this kind of treatment, let alone dead people." Song Xiong also agreed with emotion at this time.
Hua Mingming was silent. He had forgotten this incident. With the current technology, it is not difficult and does not require much cost to carve a pair of stones to ward off evil spirits. However, in the previous era, this would have required a lot of cost.
of.
In the early days of the Republic of China, it was an era of chaos among warlords. It was difficult for ordinary people to stay alive, let alone care about the dead.
And it would be easier to understand if this stone was used to ward off evil spirits before the Republic of China or even in feudal society. In feudal society, the people who could make stones to ward off evil spirits were either officials or local gentry and landlords, and no matter which category they were, they belonged to that time.
of wealthy people.
"Fang Ming, all your current explanations are based on the setting that there is a pair of stone ward off evil spirits at the door, but how can you prove that it is a stone ward off evil spirit and not a stone lion? After all, we can't just believe what you say.
."
Hua Mingming was still a little unwilling. Hua Borong on the side sighed inwardly. He knew that his son looked smiling on the surface, but deep down he was also arrogant. He showed it to Fang Ming, who was about the same age as him.
Too much trust caused him to feel jealous and unconvinced.
However, Hua Borong did not stop his son's questioning because he wanted his son to be convinced by Fang Ming, and the best way to be convinced was for Fang Ming to use his own skills to gain his son's approval.