Qingtang Village has no other special features, but this "Longevity Pavilion" is actually one of the most famous monuments in Qingtang Village. It is said that Peng Zu captured imps here, defeated the judge in a fight, and was more angry than the king of hell.
When Peng Zu was sixty-six years old, the judge sent two imps to arrest him. The imps arrived at Qingtang Village and rushed into Peng Zu's earthen house without seeing anyone. At this time, there was a sudden sound of boxing from behind the house, and only a shirtless boy was seen.
I am practicing a set of tiger boxing in the snow. The movements are strong and soft, and are extremely powerful.
The little ghost was trembling, so he stepped forward and saluted and asked: "Little sir, there is Peng Zu here, do you know?"
Unexpectedly, the young man answered fluently, "It's me!"
The kid asked: "Is it your grandpa?"
The young man quickly corrected him, "No, it's me."
The two brats couldn't help but take three steps back, beat the young man up and down, and said, "Did you know that you are already sixty-six years old?"
The young man said: "Sixty-six years old, it doesn't matter - I farm and work every day, cultivate my moral character, and stay young forever. Even the King of Hell can't do anything to me!"
The kid was sure that he was Peng Zu, so his face suddenly changed and he shouted loudly: "Peng Zu, we are here to arrest you on the orders of the King of Hell!"
After hearing this, Peng Zu laughed and said: "When I live to be sixty-six, King Yama will treat me to meat. But I was born to like vegetables, so I would like to trouble you two to report back to King Yama and say that I, Peng Zu, have been rude and will never go away."
After hearing this, the kid was so angry that he foamed at the mouth and shouted: "Stop talking nonsense, look at my iron rope!"
With a crisp sound, the kid tied up Peng Zu with the iron rope. Peng Zu remained motionless and said with a smile, "Do you want to tie up the Bodhisattva with a rotten straw rope?" After speaking, he mustered up enough energy and roared fiercely. All he heard was "Crack."
"With a sound, all the iron ropes broke and hit the little devils on their heads, causing their noses to be bruised and their eyes to be swollen, so they had to flee back to the underworld.
The two brats did not dare to report this matter to the King of the Pavilion. As a result, Peng Zu lived to be 250 years old.
This year, the King of Hell looked through the "Book of Life and Death" and found that Peng Zu had not been arrested in the underworld. He was furious and called the judge to inquire. Knowing that he had neglected his duty, the judge had to beg the King of Hell, "Stop your anger, I will arrest Peng Zu immediately."
Bring to justice!"
That night, the judge quietly sneaked to Qingtang Village and entered Peng Zu's bedroom with Niu Tou and Ma Mian. He raised the candle and saw that Peng Zu was still a young and strong young man with good facial features. The judge couldn't help being secretly surprised and hurriedly said to Niu Tou and Ma Mian:
"Peng Zu looks like a bow when he sleeps, a crouching tiger coils around a pine tree, and he is extremely powerful. The three of us are no match for him. Why don't we put a package of 'Guhun San' in his purple clay teapot and tell him to come to Yincao within three days?"
Bring to justice!"
After making the ox-headed horse noodles in the same way, he slipped away quietly. At dawn, Peng Zu got up, drank a few sips of tea, and went to dig bamboo shoots in the back mountain. After a while, he felt dizzy and hot all over. He knew medicine and knew that he had eaten
When the poison was found, I picked five detoxifying Senecio leaves and put them in my mouth to chew. After returning home, I took the antidote pill "Huisheng Dan" that I developed. After two days, my body temperature became normal. After three days, all the symptoms disappeared and my body
recover completely.
Peng Zu felt that the cause of his illness was strange. He speculated that it might be another conspiracy of the evil spirits from the underworld. In order to prevent the evil spirits from coming back to haunt him, on the evening of the third day, he took white rice tea leaves in his mouth and buried himself in the ground more than three feet deep.
He lay in the pit for three hours.
Sure enough, the old and cunning judge came quietly. He thought that Peng Zu had been poisoned and died after drinking tea, and he was admitted as a scholar with white rice tea leaves in his mouth. He laughed loudly, opened the "book of life and death", and waved a red pen under Peng Zu's column in Lin'an
, check off the name.
Time flies by, and another five hundred years have passed.
One day, the king of hell and the judge were playing chess in front of the Yama Hall. Suddenly a wanderer Yaksha came to him in a panic and reported: "Pengzu is still alive, and he is seven hundred and fifty years old. Moreover, he practices medicine everywhere and teaches how to maintain health.
, the life span of most local people has also been extended.”
When the King of Hell heard the report, he overturned the chessboard and cursed the judge for his incompetence.
The next day, the King of Hell took action in person and transformed into a wandering doctor with gray hair on his temples. He brought a kid who turned into a kid with stilts and swaggered into Peng Zu's house.
When Peng Zu saw the doctor arriving, he made tea to greet the guests. The king of hell looked at Peng Zu carefully while receiving the tea and couldn't help being surprised. He saw that Peng Zu's face was red, his chest was straight, his waist was straight, his steps were steady, and his teeth were perfect.
The King of Hell secretly thought that it would not be easy for him to die immediately! It would be better to make him angry to death for some reason. So, he pretended to be polite and asked: "Mr. Peng, I heard that you are proficient in medical skills and have great skills in rejuvenation. Now I have
This boy unfortunately broke his foot and I came here to ask for your diagnosis and treatment."
Peng Zu happily agreed: "Okay!"
After saying that, he stretched out his fingers and stroked the child's injured area. When the injured area became warm to the touch, he suddenly pulled and pushed the injured leg, and the leg bones were reattached. He also took out three "bone grafting pills" from the medicine bottle.
"Pan" and asked Tong'er to swallow it. After a while, Tong'er stood up.
Upon seeing this, the King of Hell gently blew a breath of air-conditioning at the child. The boy's legs went weak and he fell to the ground again. The King of Hell took the opportunity to curse, "Hey, your practice of medicine is fake, but your harm to people is real. I want to break it."
Your signature!" He said, swung his cane and smashed the tables, chairs, benches, rice bowls and medicine bottles in Peng Zu's house to pieces.
Peng Zu took a closer look and saw that the murderous old man in front of him had no human wisdom in his eyes. He expected that the King of Hell wanted to make him angry to death. He was calm and composed, did not mind, and smiled and told the old man about the death of King Yama in the underworld.
The story of a human flatterer who was so obedient that the King of Hell was so angry that his eyes nearly bled, and his hands suddenly felt cold and his feet were shaking.
The King of Hell thought, if I am not angry with him to death, he will be angry with me! If I am angry to death and escape back to the underworld, I will no longer be the King of Hell. It is more important to keep the throne. He quickly picked up the kid and hurried away.
Peng Zu later left home and traveled to various places, visiting famous mountains and rivers. In order to commemorate him, the local people built a pavilion called "Longevity Pavilion" where he lived. The ruins are still there today.
Qingtang Village is a small and small place in Yangzhou City. Before the Republic of China, it was densely populated with beautiful mountains and clear waters. However, it is said that during the three years of the Republic of China when there was not a drop of rain, the people here could walk or escape, and the rest
Those who didn't leave were almost dead, so the Qingtang Village used to be a village as its name suggests, but the current Qingtang Village is a fish pond that was cleared away, or a village as its name suggests.
The older generation said that the severe drought in those three years was due to the feng shui in the village, which led to the appearance of drought demons. However, this is just superstition after all and cannot be counted.
In the mid-spring month, rain begins, and peaches begin to bloom. When the peach blossoms are blooming, there is rain, the rivers and valleys are icy, the rivers are crowded, the waves are long, the grass is tender and the sand is short, and the ice is light and the rain is gone. The spring water is green,
The bottom is like a deep pool, like a hidden abyss, and the trees are planted far away, making the space look empty. When a distant light shines, the trees are as bright as persimmons, and the waves cast by the waves are dense.
The grass grows and orioles fly, the willows blow on the embankments, the spring smoke is intoxicating, the sky is green and misty, all the most beautiful scenes of spring gather here.
This year was a day when reform and opening up had made some achievements, but the village had not yet opened to the outside world, and all sources of information were very closed. What happened to the outside world three days ago may have been reported here several months later.
There had just been a series of deaths of many elderly people in the village. It was a beautiful spring day, but the village was covered with layers of gloomy clouds like the last nine days of winter.
"Er Gouzi, hurry up and clean up your mess and kowtow to your grandpa. Grandpa is about to go to the ground."
Ergouzi had just taken off his crotchless pants and was at the age when he was wiping his nose with his sleeves full. He didn't have a clear understanding of the concept of death or immortality.
Suddenly, I saw a huge coffin lying across the middle hall, with white silk hanging everywhere. My parents were so anxious that they had to kneel down and kowtow three times with "duang duang duang".
A group of suona players over there were waiting for the last few sounds. Finally, when they saw the little one finished kowtowing, they all began to sing out the funeral procession.
"Wow--"
"Dad——"
"father!!!!"
The suona sounded towards the sky, and paper money flew everywhere. The young man carrying the coffin had just lifted the frame and was about to take the body to the ground. Suddenly, the coffin lid flew away with a clang. The deceased who was originally wearing a shroud had a livid face and his eyes were filled with tears.
Hong Guang actually sat up from the coffin.
"Ghost!!!"
"Scam, scam, scam, scam - scammer!!!"
"ah!!!!"
The zombie straightened its body and twisted its neck. For a moment, the whole place was running away, hiding, and was so frightened that it collapsed.
The most daring one had cinnabar in his mouth and a magic talisman in his hand. He wanted to make a corpse first and use the talisman paper to paste a mark on the forehead of the living corpse. However, the zombie was extremely powerful and showed no fear. He smashed the talisman with one hand.
He grabbed the paper and tore it into pieces. The man looked horrified. Before turning around and trying to escape, he spat out the cinnabar in his mouth. However, the living corpse only ducked to the left. No matter how ferocious the cinnabar was, it didn't get on it at all.
This time it really scared everyone so much that they wet their pants. Let alone defeating the enemy, it would be good if they could save their lives.
The bold middle-aged man just now was trembling while running away, "Go quickly and invite the young man hiding in the village hall, maybe there is a chance of survival!!!"
By the way, this young man is none other than Li Gengfa. In fact, he is in his twenties this year, but his face looks very young, as if he is eighteen or nineteen. Moreover, he is not from this village. He just came here a year ago.
He said he was looking for someone, but he went around the village looking for that person but couldn't find that person, so he was determined to stay here and refused to leave even if he couldn't find him.
Because he was fair-skinned and literate, he had no place to go for the time being, so he stayed at the village office to help the village chief organize documents and so on. He received free food and lodging. Although the salary was not high, everyone in the village knew that such a foreigner was here.
.
Why would everyone look for this foreigner at this critical moment?
Because a year ago, when Li Gaihua first arrived and went around the village looking for someone but couldn't find him, he once said to the villagers leading the way, "There's something wrong with the Feng Shui here."
The villager was unwilling to be asked to lead the way. He was very angry, and when he was fueled by this, he suddenly became unhappy and said, "You are such an unreasonable young man. The Feng Shui of our village can do nothing to you.
And it’s not impossible, it’s a big step. Didn’t you see the beautiful mountains and clear waters here? Our ancestors are buried all over the mountains and plains, and they will bless us to get promoted and make money. They are all good points. There have been so many Feng Shui masters in the past, and none of them can’t praise them.
You are a pretty boy, what can you tell?"
Li Gengfa smiled and was not angry, "It was indeed good in the past. If it is not what I expected, there should have been drought demons here a few decades ago."
As soon as an expert takes action, he will know whether it is there or not.
As soon as the word "Hanban" was uttered, the villager's face immediately changed. Why?
In the past, the saying "Drought Demon" was passed down by the elders in the village. Everyone only regarded it as a joke and no one took it seriously. But even if it was a joke, it was a joke in the village. How could this outsider know about it?
Seeing that the villager's face changed, Li Gengfa continued, "Although this drought demon is fierce, it was subdued by an expert later, and nothing major will happen for hundreds of years. The Feng Shui of Qingtang Village was originally very good, and the mountains were lush.
, towering and beautiful, full of power, not to be chased lightly. In addition to the heavy appearance and spirit, the water from the mountains is gushing, like rolling pearls and jade, and the energy is flowing. Then it is covered with green trees, and the branches and branches cover each other. It can be said to be a majestic and upright towering place.
It is an auspicious place, and those who are buried in the treasure cave here will be able to produce Wenqu stars in future generations."
After hearing this, the villager felt as if he were carrying fifteen buckets to fetch water - he was confused: How come what this guy said is the same as what the Feng Shui master who passed by a few years ago said?
Li Gengfa suddenly changed the subject, "But, if it is not as expected, there was a flash flood and landslide a few years ago, which caused the peaks of the originally plump and beautiful mountain to burst into flames. There was no help on the four sides, and the mountain was tilted.
It is said that the whole body is cracked internally and there is no flat surface, and the tail is tilted, the walls are cracked, the sand protection is disordered, the good and bad have changed drastically, and it is no longer what it used to be."
The villager scratched his head, feeling a little confused at the moment, "Then according to what you said, this is a dangerous place now, so why is nothing happening? I see that the scenery here is full of mountains and fields, and the scenery is no different from before.
——”
"It's difficult to paint the bones of a tiger. You know people but don't know their hearts. The same goes for good holes and bad holes. You can't tell anything about it just by looking at the surface. Let me ask you, has the number of animals on the mountain decreased significantly in recent years?
Already?"
The villager's eyes widened and he said, "It's true. Those who hunted wild game used to eat every day to make them fat and fat. Now they have gone to farm. They say they can't find anything on the mountain."
"Let me ask you again, are there more unprovoked diseases in the village?"
The villager hesitated for a while and stopped talking. He looked at Li Reform with a bit of surprise. He seemed to feel that it was always bad to talk too much about his village in front of a stranger. Finally he had to ask cautiously,
"A few years ago there was a flash flood. Look at this mountain. It's almost cut in half. You can see it. This can't be said to be a problem with Feng Shui here."
Invisibly, the villager's attitude towards Li Reform had turned 180 degrees. He was no longer the vicious look with raised eyebrows and raised eyes. He seemed to want to get to the bottom of it.
Li Gengfa glanced at the seemingly picturesque scenery of lakes and mountains, but in reality the life and spirit of the place had been sucked out by that thing. He just sighed, "Some big things will happen next. Just wait and see."
Already."
In fact, according to Li Reform's idea, the best thing at this time is of course to solve it from the root cause. But the biggest problem is that to solve the "thing" from the root cause, the amount of work is too large and he cannot handle it alone. He will definitely need the help of these villagers.
, and to these villagers, it was obvious that he was a foreigner. Not to mention whether they were happy to ask others to help him or not, he was worried that they might be digging up ancestral graves. On this point, Li Gaihua was even afraid of himself.
They couldn't even stay in the village office and were kicked out.
No one has found it yet, but a lot of problems have been discovered.
After that "thing" sucks the life and blood of the animals in the village, it will start to cause trouble. These lively villagers will definitely suffer disaster soon.
However, no one would believe what he said, so Li Gengfa chose to keep silent.
When problems arise one after another, they will naturally come looking for them.
When the villagers saw Li Gefa started talking, they left with a sigh without saying a word. Monk Zhanger was confused and returned to the village full of hesitations, and told the villagers everything about it.
He was an honest man, and as expected by Li Reform, no one in the village believed him.
One year passed quickly, and Li Gaihua stayed comfortably in the village hall, almost forgetting what happened a year ago. And something even more bizarre...
But it happened beyond his expectation.
According to his idea, the "thing" first sucked the life of the village, then the animals, and then the human lives. But for some reason, after the anger disappeared, it directly skipped the middle step and started
Directly claiming human life.
At first, those who died were all older people, so everyone thought it was time and didn't take it to heart. However, even among the older people, the number of deaths was too many.
First there was one every month, then one every week, and then one every two or three days.
It is no exaggeration to say that the person who played the suona at the funeral had just finished the banquet and the funeral at this place, without even touching the ground, so he could switch to another place.
The sellers of longevity materials in this village make so much money that they smile crookedly.
The village used to be quiet, but in the past few months there has been a lot of chaos, paper money is floating everywhere, and even the air is filled with the smell of candles.
On the brightly lit road in the daytime, yellow and white papers are flying everywhere, making it look like Huangquan Road. The black dogs guarding the gates of some houses have their tails between their legs. For some reason, they don’t dare to say "woof", even if they are asked again.
Everyone who is stupid knows that something is wrong in the village.
Today is the funeral of the old man of the Zhao family. The villagers got together and came up with an idea. They decided to wait until it was over and quickly invited a few Feng Shui masters to take a closer look at what was wrong with the village. It turned out that this is where it happened.
When the words came out.
On a sunny noon, Li Gengfa was boiling tea eggs in the village hall, holding a stove outside and fanning himself. The thick smoke stung his nose, and he coughed twice. In the smoke, a villager sweating profusely hurriedly
, rushing towards me rolling and crawling.
"No, no, no, no - it's not good!"
He hurriedly grabbed Li Gengfa's clothes and started to run away. Li Gengfa looked surprised and said, "Hey, aren't you that one -"
This was none other than the villager who showed him the way a year ago.
"Hey - stop talking, my old man's coffin has not even left the door, the lid of the coffin flew off and the body was lifted up!!"
Li Gengfa quickly said: "Do you still remember the old man's birthday?"
"Remember, I remember he was born at around twelve o'clock in the evening on April 28th of the lunar calendar."
"Well, today is April 29th, and yesterday... this is what happened! Okay, you go back first, I will prepare and will be there soon. However, when you go back, find twenty strong young men,
Each person holds a two-foot-long white wooden pole in his hand. If the living corpse runs out, use the pole to hold the living corpse down and not let him move. Remember! Don't let him move. If he catches anyone,
Or if his breath blows into someone's face, he or she will not live long... You should go back quickly!"
When the villagers heard this, how dare they not obey? They ran away like the wind.
After the villager left, Li Gengfa searched everywhere, bringing cinnabar, black donkey hooves and other evil things, and arrived at Zhao's house in a short time.
At this time, the sun has set, and the entire earth has been shrouded in a gray world.
The village was quiet, there was no sound at all.
There is a spiritual banner standing next to the door of the Zhao family's house. When the wind blows, it swings back and forth and makes a rattling sound. Under the cover of the night, it looks eerie and creepy. Standing in front of the door are the Zhao family and several elderly people.
Their waists were also tied with white cloth filial piety belts, fluttering in the spring breeze.
The old men and young men had just welcomed Li Gengfa into the courtyard. Before he could say a word, they heard a roar, and then more than a dozen young men rushed out from the middle of the courtyard, shouting as they ran, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no -
—Oh no, the living corpse pushed down the door!!!"
"Run as fast as you want!!!"
People were so frightened that their faces turned pale. They ran and hid for fear of being caught by the living corpses. They had long forgotten to use poles to suppress the living corpses.
Two young men hugged two poles and lay down under the courtyard wall, shivering into a ball. However, after the living corpse came out, they did not chase people away, but stood firmly on the door panel, looking at Li
Reform, sneer twice "Jie Jie——"
…………
His voice was high-pitched and thin, and carried far away. In this almost suffocating atmosphere, everyone felt their scalps numb and their hairs seemed to stand on end.
The villagers of the Zhao family who had previously asked Li Gengfa to slay demons quickly kowtowed, "In the past, I was too young to see Mount Tai. I hope you will forgive me. But now we are in this situation. What will happen if we don't surrender again?"
Is good?"
At this time, the living corpse spoke again, "You want to capture me, there's no way! If you want to survive, you'd better leave as soon as possible! Otherwise, Jie Jie - Jie Jie... it's hard to say!!" After that, another
A few screams.
At this time, Li Gengfa also felt that this was a living corpse that was difficult to deal with. He quickly took out two magic talismans. One was held in his mouth and the other was held in his hand. He also took out cinnabar and held it in his mouth. Then, he looked back.
When he looked around, he saw that the old men and about twenty young men were already cowering in fear, so he ignored them and walked straight towards the living corpse standing at the door.
This living corpse is about five feet tall, wearing a blue shroud, a robe, and blue shoes. There is no hat on its head, and its bald head looks even more gloomy and terrifying in the gray.
Just when Li Gengfa was a few steps away from the living corpse, the living corpse suddenly shouted and rushed towards Li Gengfa with an extremely fierce force. Li Gengfa had been prepared for it and quickly ducked to the side, dodging the two living corpses.
The rushing hand.
Seeing that the living corpse had not caught the opponent, it turned around sharply and wanted to pounce. However, just when the living corpse turned around, Li Gengfa had already turned behind him and raised his left hand talisman towards the living corpse's face.
When the talisman was about to come into contact with the face of the living corpse, the talisman was caught in the hands of the living corpse and turned into shreds of paper.
Li Gengfa was shocked when he saw Fu being grabbed and torn into pieces by the living corpse. A slight drop of sweat suddenly appeared on his forehead. At this moment of his daze, the living corpse reached out to his left side and hugged him.
At this moment, Li Gengfa suddenly realized what he was doing. He tilted his face to the left and sprayed a mouthful of cinnabar.
If this mouthful of cinnabar was sprayed on the face of the living corpse, the living corpse would be doomed. However, the living corpse seemed to know that he was going to spray cinnabar. He tilted his head back, and the cinnabar actually flew past the tip of his nose, and the stars were blown away.
Not stained at all.
Seeing that the living corpse had broken through twice, it became even more aggressive. It kept shouting: "I told you to die, die!..."
Following the cry, he used his arms to lift Li Gengfa high up, then threw him heavily to the ground. He lifted his feet and sat on Li Gengfa, who was lying on his back. He was about to come with both hands.
Grab his throat.
Li Gengfa quickly grabbed the wrist of the living corpse, but the strength of the living corpse seemed to have increased many times, making it impossible for him to hold the wrist of the living corpse with his hands, and the living corpse still choked his throat.
It’s over, it’s over now——
There was a "bang" in Li Gengfa's head, and a blank appeared. He seemed to have lost consciousness. Several old people and Zhao villagers standing not far away had recovered from their stupid state.
Li Gengfa was worried about whether he could subdue the living corpse. At the same time, when he saw the living corpse grabbing Li Gengfa's throat, they all shouted out in unison, "Young man, use it!! Harder!!!" But they didn't dare to step forward.
When Li Gengfa heard others calling him to work hard, his heart suddenly moved, why don't I use hand-written talismans to restrain him?
right!!!
Li Gefa had a flash of inspiration and just did what he said.