In the Qing Dynasty, there was a town at the foot of Woniu Mountain, called Woniu Town. Wuniu Town is surrounded by mountains to the north, water to the east, and a thoroughfare to the south. Although it is not a prosperous market town, it is not a remote place.
There is a family living in the east end of Woniu Town. The head of the household is Hu Dabao. His mother is Yang, his daughter-in-law Liu Yuhuan and his seven-year-old son Puppy. The family has three earthen kiln houses and seven acres of thin farmland.
The four of us are living in harmony, and our lives are going well.
Unexpectedly, something unexpected happened. The five hundred-mile radius of Woniu Town was hit by a severe drought that had never happened in a century. The red sun was scorching hot, not a blade of grass grew, and there was no harvest in the autumn. Instead of providing relief, the government forced renters and arrested people. The whole town was close to
Half of the family fled away.
Seeing that there was not much food left in the family, Dabao discussed with his mother and daughter-in-law to serve in the army and eat military rations. This would not only reduce some exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, but also earn a few taels of money to send back to support the family. His mother and daughter-in-law Yuhuan saw that they were at their wits' end and had no other choice.
, and had no choice but to agree. Unexpectedly, there was no news about Dabao's departure.
In the spring of the next year, Yang's longing for her son, combined with hunger and cold, made her sick, and soon passed away. Yuhuan saw that her mother-in-law was dead, and her family had no money, no food, and no one, so she was unable to restrain herself.
I had no choice but to weep and seal up the doors and windows of the west kiln house where my mother-in-law lived with broken bricks and store her inside until her husband came back.
A few more months later, the hunger and cold became more and more severe. There was not a grain of rice in the house, and the grass roots and bark of the trees in the wild had long been dug up and stripped away. Yuhuan planned to take the puppy out to escape the famine and beg. At this time, unfortunately, the mother and her son
The two of them contracted the plague and followed each other's orders to go to hell within a few days. Several good-hearted people in the town sealed the doors and windows of Dongyao where Yuhuan's mother and son lived, and used rubble to cover the courtyard door of Hu's house.
It was blocked up and made into tombs for the Yang family's three ancestors and grandsons.
After more than a year, the drought eased, and people who fled from Woniu Town began to return home to rebuild their homes.
I don’t know which day started. Pigs, sheep, chickens and rabbits were often lost in people’s pens in the town. They searched everywhere and couldn’t find any trace. People thought they were eaten by wolves at night, so they organized a group of young and bold people.
The young men were secretly watching at night, waiting to catch wild wolves.
That night, several young men hiding in the dark discovered three people, young and old, walking from outside the town. When they got closer, they could see clearly through the moonlight that they were two disheveled women and a boy tearing apart a dead baby.
While walking and eating, I was so frightened that the souls of several young people flew away. Looking more carefully, I found that these three people were the long-dead ancestors and grandsons of the Yang family. After listening to the stories of the young people, the elderly in the town knew that they were the ancestors of the Yang family.
After Sun's death, the three of them committed "grave-living ghosts" and became "grave-living ghosts". Fortunately, they were discovered early. The ghosts' ways are not deep, so they can only go out to look for food at night and dare not come out in the daytime.
The door hurts people. If it takes a little longer, the ghost living in the grave will succeed in cultivating, and it will be too late to escape, so every household will help the old and the young to escape.
In just a few days, everyone in the surrounding villages for dozens of miles escaped.
Besides, the three living ghosts from the graves of Yang's ancestors and grandsons have been cultivating for a long time, and they dare to go out to look for food in broad daylight. Unfortunately, no one has escaped in the town, and they have to make a living by digging up dead bodies in the graves.
One day, the old ghost Yang made a calculation with his fingers, danced with joy, and shouted: "Great joy! Great joy! My son Dabao is coming back." He quickly asked his wife and grandson to take apart the doors, windows and courtyard doors of the kiln house, and then opened the doors and windows of the kiln.
The house and courtyard are kept clean, waiting for Dabao to return.
Do you know why the old ghost is so overjoyed at Dabao's return? This is not because of the deep love between mother and son, or because they miss their son so much, but because ghosts living in graveyards like to eat the flesh of their relatives.
Hu Dabao left home and joined the army.
It’s been ten years. Now that I have become a small officer, I take a leave of absence from my boss, ride on a jade horse, and go home to pick up my mother, wife and children to share the joy of family. It can also be regarded as a "return to hometown in splendor"
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Dabao spent the night on the road at dawn. After driving for half a month, he got closer and closer to Woniu Town. He saw a desolate and desolate road. When he entered Woniu Town, he didn't see a single person.
Dabao was so homesick that he didn't bother to think about it. He walked to the door of his house, got off his horse, and couldn't wait to call out "Mother". At this time, he saw his mother, wife and children running out of the door. He couldn't agree.
With a cry, he hugged Dabao and cried loudly. Dabao couldn't help but feel sad and cried together.
After crying for a while, Ms. Yang collected her tears and said, "Son, now that my whole family is reunited, we should be happy. We shouldn't cry anymore. Come into the house quickly."
Dabao put away his tears and pulled the horse into the courtyard. The strange thing was that the horse was kicking and screaming, and no matter how hard he pulled it, it could not be led into the courtyard. He had to tie the horse to the tree in front of the door and followed his mother, wife and children into the house.
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Dabao entered the house before taking a seat, so he asked his mother: "How did you come here all these years? Why is there not a soul in the town?"
Yang said: "Since you left, there have been no harvests in the fields early in the morning for several years, and everyone in the town has fled. My mother and son are afraid that we will not be able to get together when you come back. Besides, how can we walk together, old and young?"
A long journey? I had to make a living by digging grass roots and peeling bark from trees. I finally look forward to your return today." After that, he started crying again.
At this time, Dabao suddenly saw that what was flowing out of his mother's eyes was not tears, but bright red blood, so he was about to ask. He saw that blood was also flowing out of the eyes of his wife Yuhuan and his son's puppy. The big horse was kicking and biting more and more outside the courtyard gate.
He was so shocked that he couldn't help but feel suspicious, so he said: "I went to the saddle to feed the horse."
Unexpectedly, Mrs. Yang said, "You rest, I'll go."
Dabao thought to himself: This horse has been with me for many years and is very tame. Why is it so irritable today? My son and puppy were eight years old when I left home. They have not complained for more than ten years? Mother and wife
The boy moves quickly, how does he look like a person who has been in trouble for a long time? Why did everyone in the town escape, old and young, but only his mother, wife and children were able to survive? The more he thought about it, the more strange he felt, so he said: "This horse
He's fierce, kicking and biting, how can you get close? I'll come as soon as I go."
Mrs. Yang was just waiting for her son to be happy before she could start talking, and said, "Go and come back quickly."
Seeing this, Dabao hurriedly stepped out of the house, walked quickly to the tree and immediately untied the rope, turned over and jumped on the horse's back, clamped his legs hard, and the horse galloped away from the town.
The old ghost was not suspicious at first, but when he heard the sound of horse hooves and rushed out the door, only clouds of dust were left in front of him. Where was the shadow of Dabao? Why didn't he notice when he saw the fat on his mouth running away?
Anxious? He beat his thighs and howled.
After a while, they had eaten all the dead bodies in the surrounding graves, and the old ghost said to his wife: "Dabao will not come back. It is difficult for us to survive here, so it is better to look for food elsewhere." Yuhuan nodded repeatedly.
Call it yes.
On this day, three grave ghosts came to a prosperous village. Yang said: "We'll settle here." They went to the village patriarch and said: "My ancestors and grandson didn't meet each other, so I borrowed the treasure land to stay temporarily.
I am proficient in writing and writing, and can also teach school children. I wonder if I can be taken into custody?"
The patriarch said: "There is a shortage of teachers in the village, so this is a good idea." Then he settled the three of his grandparents, and the village raised funds to hire this old ghost to teach the children.
As time went by, people's pigs and sheep in the village often got lost at night.
Several more children disappeared, but no one suspected these three foreigners.
One day, a Taoist priest with white beard and hair came to the village and said to the villagers: "The black air is rising in the sky here, and there must be ghosts and monsters causing trouble. If it is not eradicated, disaster will surely come." After hearing the report, the clan leader invited the Taoist priest into his home. After sitting down and serving tea, he recounted to the Taoist priest the strange things that had happened in the village recently.
The Taoist asked: "Have any outsiders come here recently?"
The clan leader then told the Taoist how the Yang family's ancestors and grandson passed by and settled here. The Taoist said: "The crimes committed are determined by these three. If they are not eliminated early, there will be endless troubles."
The patriarch asked the Taoist priest to help eliminate the evil, and the Taoist asked the patriarch to immediately build an altar to eliminate the evil at three o'clock at noon tomorrow, and selected a young man who was flexible and resourceful to attract ghosts.
As soon as noon arrived on the second day, a young man came to the door of the mattress room and shouted loudly: "Bold ghost, come out quickly and die!" The old ghost Yang was furious when he heard this. Knowing that he had been discovered, he led his daughter-in-law , the grandson chased him out.
I saw the young man running towards the altar like flying, followed closely by the three living ghosts of Yang's grave. When they got to the execution ground, they saw eighteen large vats lined up in a row under the altar. The young man turned one around each vat. Circle, the three tomb ghosts had to kneel down and kowtow three times. It turned out that the eighteen large vats were the eighteen Arhats in the eyes of the tomb ghosts, and they had to kneel down and kowtow before they dared to pass.
I saw the young man finishing circling the eighteen large vats and leaping up to the altar. Soon three living ghosts from the tomb were chasing him under the altar. If the ghost hadn't knelt down and kowtowed, which delayed the time, the young man would have been torn alive. .
The living ghost chased him to the altar, and saw a man with a sword in his hair, muttering a curse. The old ghost Yang was relying on his deep spiritual practice to jump up to the altar. The Taoist held the magic bell in his hand.
Throw it down. At this time, there is only a "dong" sound, and the three ghosts immediately fall to the ground. The Taoist jumps down from the altar and kills the ghosts one by one with his sword. From then on, peace has been restored in the Woniu Mountain area.
Here, the two dogs were kidnapped by a white figure, which frightened Suo Wang and him to the point of losing their nerves. Suo Wang roared, holding up a flashlight and rushed towards the place where the two dogs disappeared, but he saw layers upon layers of Behind the stone pillar, a ray of light suddenly broke into the field of vision, and I saw a white thing: it was covered with white short hairs, had a baby-like face, but was extremely powerful, and its limbs were like the arms of a human baby, all crawling As he moved forward, his soles looked like those of a jackal, tiger, and leopard walking in a mountain stream. His eyes glowed with blood-red light, and he was about to bite the unconscious Ergou on the neck. Suddenly King Suo chased after him, and the dazzling light hit his eyes. , the thing was so startled that it let out a loud "roar--", abandoned the two dogs, and came straight towards King Suo.
"call out--"
This gust of wind is extremely fast and violent. King Suo is already old and his legs and feet are weak. This thing is very agile. You can see this from the moment he just carried the two dogs and walked away. Now it rushes in suddenly, King Suo. Frightened, he fell to the ground. After reacting, he rolled and crawled away, but how could he make it in time?
"ah!!!"
A gust of fishy wind rushed over, and when he saw the thing opening its mouth, he was about to bite the back of his head and neck. Suddenly, a pair of Emei thorns flew from the air, slamming the thing into the edge and nailing it to the stone pillar. He was shocked. The thing made a "wow" sound, hit the throat, and the blood flowed non-stop. He died on the spot.
King Suo heard the noise and stood up, only to see King Duzi Tiewang, followed by Li Gengfa and supporting the big dog, limping towards him. King Duzi Tiewang stepped forward and took the thorn away.
He glanced at the expired thing and kicked it away in disgust. That thing could no longer be a threat.