Chapter 06: Chopping Snake Monument, Lost
The existence of the Chopping Snake Monument is to suppress the village's acupoints, so that the Feng Shui Fuming is not sucked away by the Jufu Water Gourd, but also to suppress the water level of the Busan River, not as in sixty-three years of heavy flooding, the water flooded the embankment, flooding the village.
Hu Laoshi said, this Gufu water gourd, is six three years when the flood, the formation of the odd feng shui terrain, and the culprit of the flood, is the West Mountain Black Dragon Cave in the old jiao, the purpose, is in this special terrain, gather the most water aura for the old jiao to absorb. Moreover, the purpose of the old jiao to create this gathering blessing water gourd is not to absorb the blessing bud of our village, but only to gather more water spirit breath here ……
So back then, Hu Laoshi set up the Snake Chopping Monument to warn the old jiao in the Black Dragon Cave in the West Mountain not to jeopardize the villagers, and to suppress the wild and unruly watery nature of the Busan River with his might. Such doings did not make the old jiao of Montenegro have much dissatisfaction, after all, this is for the old jiao, there is no substantial benefit infringement.
However, the old jiao would never have thought that a wuzui that year, is dead on this dike in our village, and that wuzui, on the contrary, is the old jiao's child.
This is an afterthought, let's leave it aside for now.
Then again, the water is dampness, dampness, although containing aura, but it is also the breath of yin.
Whenever it is ten minutes past noon, the heaviest masculine qi in heaven and earth, and the damp qi is the weakest, the water gourd will close the gourd mouth, sealing off the damp qi and blocking the yang qi. That's why Old Hu wanted us to start digging the Snake Chopper Stele at twelve o'clock. If we dig up the Snake Chopper Monument at twelve o'clock at noon, the mouth of the cave in the south of the village will be wide open, and the mouth of the Gathering of Blessings Water Gourd will be closed, then the water qi of the Busan River will be flowed into the village along with the mouth of the cave, and the slight water qi will wash away some of the dirty evil qi in the village, and the village is not big enough, so the water qi will be filled with the water qi in the village very quickly. About an hour later, the water gourd opening, the village of dirty evil will be with the water aura is slowly sucked into the water gourd.
This is a good plan, Hu Laoshi.
Unfortunately, Chen Jin and I were delayed for a while because of the accident, and when we both rushed to the south river bank with our brothers, waving shovels and pickaxes to dig up and push the Snake Beheading Monument, we were just in time to catch the Gathering of Blessings Water Gourd opening its mouth. As a result, the water gourd has not yet begun to inhale it, this side of the snake monument fell, the cave door is wide open, just like the dike breaks, the water gourd side of the water itself is full of water, this side of the village is empty, the water can not be crazy influx of gas it?
So, the water like a flood along the gap in the direction of the village crazy influx, just in time for the north of the cold wind blowing, the village and the evil children filled, so it is in the south of the ground hit, the tornado rises steeply!
After the tornado generated, the huge attraction of all around the aura ah wind ah what to a piece of attraction, that is, the gathering of blessings inside the water gourd has been nearly full of water aura, but also with the huge attraction of the tornado, the crazy irrigation, pouring into the tornado.
The power of nature, is absolutely endless, since the formation of this kind of nature, then can not be resisted, that is, the West Mountain Black Dragon Cave old jiao felt the gathering blessed water gourd in the water spiritual qi big leakage, rushed to, but also too late, the tornado is already close to the end.
The helpless and angry old jiao soared into the sky, roared at the top of the tornado to vent some, was about to fly back to the West Mountain Black Dragon Cave helpless and frustrated, found the South River embankment of the snake monument fell, the village south of the cave opened, the old jiao immediately understood the cause of the tornado, angry under the flooding of Shuanghe Village, in order to vent their anger, just as the old age of the old man rushed to the South River embankment, will be persuaded to go back to the old jiao, said that the matter of the old age will naturally be given to the old man. The old woman will naturally give Lao Jiao an explanation.
The tornado caused by this mistake, the powerful force will be the village of the evil spirit to suck away more than half, so we can see that nature is the most powerful.
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After listening to Hu Laoshi's account, I and Chen Jin two people jaw-dropping, how this winter's evil things, one crop after another, and once more than a powerful, once more than a mysterious …… We are not in the play children "Journey to the West" ah! This is the new socialist China! All the bull ghosts and snakes are going to be knocked down!
Earlier it was the snake spirit, then the yellow wolf, fox spirit, black dog spirit, the old man came out, then the fox spirit became a demon, and now simply, even the fucking dragons and such things have come out …… Our village is also too inviting to be seen, right?
"To say a word of sincerity ah!" Chen Jin shook his head with a bitter smile and said, "I really can't believe that your old man is telling the truth, this is a bit too much bullshit ……"
Hu Laoshi was stunned for a moment, sighed, and said, "Sometimes, I also find it hard to believe, because the old auger in the Black Dragon Cave in the Western Mountain, it, it's actually a demon."
"Have you seen it?" I trembled in my heart and hurriedly asked.
"No." Hu Laoshi shook his head, suddenly his eyes lit up and said, "I saw it today, in the clouds, that old jiao manifested itself."
When I thought about it, it was really true, that huge black dragon that appeared in the sky at that time, I felt that it was the old jiao. At that time, I thought it was a dark cloud tossed out by a tornado.
"You haven't seen it before?" Chen Jin asked.
Hu Laoshi said, "No, I've only heard that there is an old jiao in the Black Dragon Cave in the Western Mountain, and I never thought that this old jiao is actually a demon."
"What about your master?" I frowned and asked, in my heart I thought how to say this more and more wrong ah, you Hu Laoshi this kind of skill, even do not know that only a hundred miles away from us here, there is a demonic scaly dragon? Besides, even if you don't know, your master should know, right? According to the book on foreign lands, a demon is not young, and Hu's master can't be older than the old dragon, right? Then his master should definitely know, and the master, should always tell the disciple …… Hu Laoshi know, should always plan in advance, right?
Oh, emotionally erecting a snake cutting monument, even if it's perfunctory?
"What does this have to do with my master?" Hu Laoshi glanced at me in a depressed manner, and after a second thought, he understood what I meant and said, "As I said, the Jiao Long is rarely harmful to humans, so few people care about its existence."
Chen Jin and I glanced at each other, secretly thought in my heart, no wonder for thousands of years, the ancient Chinese tradition of using the dragon as a totem, a sacred symbol, it turns out that this kind of thing, the dragon, is really harmless to people ah, and the looks of the mighty and ferocious, overbearing, is really suitable for use as a super-idol level of worship …… only, seems to be stinking some temperament.
After being quiet for a while, I said, "The old woman …… and the old auger, can we talk about it?"
"Yeah yeah yeah, that old auger looks fierce and powerful." Chen Jin immediately interjected.
"Can it?" Hu Laoshi said.
"We are asking you ……," I said seriously.
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I think, probably because in that tornado created disaster, the dead is the old lady Xu's sake, so we a few young people did not feel very sad very guilty, on the contrary, in my heart and Chen Jin and I, there is a trace of joy and gloating.
Who let Old Madam Xu have been at odds with us? Moreover, her death this time, a heavy blow to the grandmother's temple in the XuanMu NiangNiang's faithful believers, although on the surface, no one in the village will say, but privately, secretly, or in the heart, will consider exploring this issue, how Xu old lady will hang up? She was a great disciple of Mother Xuan! Grandma temple that Xuanmu Maiden did what to go ……
Therefore, the Grandma Temple, which had just been renovated not long ago and had also invited the gods to enlighten it, was doomed to decline and depression from the moment the tornado disappeared.
On the night of the 28th day of the Lunar New Year, when I came out of Hu Laoshi's house and went home to pass by the Old Master's Temple at the entrance of our lane, I saw the incense burning in the Old Master's Temple, which had not yet been fully constructed, and there was an endless stream of worshippers coming and going, and the temple was bustling with activity for a while.
At that time, I wanted to go up and tell all the people, you don't waste your efforts here, in this temple, nothing lives, the gods will not come to protect you.
But I didn't do it, we don't want to find that uncomfortable, even the party and the country have said, freedom of belief, we don't care, and we don't want to suffer from the village villagers' contempt and shelling.
Before going to bed, I vaguely feel the body uneasy, immediately swallowed a small piece of taiyao meat, and only then sleep peacefully.
In the dream world, I once again longed to be able to find the yellow wolf son of that abominable one spirit, I do not know why, I am very confident, as long as again let me encounter that one spirit in the dream world, I will certainly kill it.
As for the origin of the confidence, the first well, the white fox child essence died, according to the old age and Hu Lao Si said, that the spirit has not much power, and so cut off the follow-up supply; Second, I have a belt in my hand, this belt is even the white fox child essence are afraid of things, not to mention the small yellow wolf that the spirit ……
However, I never thought, in the near future, is this let me proud of the belt, will bring a huge disaster to the whole village, no exaggeration, for the whole village villagers, that disaster is undoubtedly the extinction of the disaster.
Oh, far from it, that's a story for later.
Let's continue from the front.
That said, the day of the waxing moon twenty-ninth, I got up early, cleaned the yard and the roof of the snow, and then help father to write the couplets, and went to the village around a round, in the affected households home by home to see, the purpose is to tell everyone, I came, there is a need to help, we will absolutely help.
This is a matter of face, of course, from the heart, absolutely not to do so for the sake of face, is sincere, who has not encountered a family of three disasters and two difficulties? We all need help at some point.
If you don't go and show it, how can you bear to do it? You will be despised by the whole village, both in terms of your conscience and face.
More than eleven o'clock, I and Chen Jin two people met, and then found Xue Zhigang, Guo Chao, Liu Bing three people, to Xue Zhigang's home to get the equipment, to the south of the land to go, this day can grasp the time, at twelve o'clock, the piece of snake monument to be erected, buried well.
A few of us passed by the door of Chang Yunliang, just Chang Yunliang stood in the door do not know what to do, see a few of us, hastily greeted: "Hey hey, brothers, wait a moment wait a moment ……" shouting words, Chang Yunliang ran over, from the pocket to touch out the cigarette, without saying a word, first to each of us, we will be able to get a good time, and then we will have a good time. Without saying a word, the first to each of us on a child's cigarette, and then pulled out a very rare thing in those days – lighter, to me and Chen Jin two people on, said with a smile: "Yesterday, yesterday is really sorry, are my bad, I was confused yesterday, not I'm sorry, it's all my fault, I got carried away yesterday, I'm not a good person, don't be so familiar with me! Turn around, turn around I set up a banquet to apologize to the two brothers ……"
"Screw you!" I punched Chang Yunliang on the shoulder, reached out and wrapped his bladder, said with a smile: "Don't be fucking crooked, it's so fleshy, got to be, out of the ordinary ah!"
"That's right, what kind of cultured person are you pretending to be?" Chen Jin also laughed and stepped forward, punched Chang Yunliang's chest, "It's not as bad as carrying a bottle of wine for me, I don't want to see this kind of talk!"
Chang Yunliang grinned awkwardly and said, "Cheng Cheng, surely there are brothers of wine, what are you doing to go?"
"Cut the crap, just follow along!" I greeted, turned my head along the east side of the canal to the south.
Brothers followed, Chang Yunliang said as he walked: "The other day did not say that the village's evil spirit will make people change their minds? I pondered all night last night, it is likely that our brothers have been poisoned by the evil qi, that's why they were so grumpy yesterday, alas, come to think of it, it's really our fault."
"Come on, don't make up excuses!" Chen Jin cursed with a big grin and said, "It's okay for us brothers not to be general with you! Haha."
Several other buddies laughed, Chang Yunliang smiled and nodded his head in response.
I heard Chang Yunliang words heart is tight, think he said these words, 80% is true! Think about it, the village one after another out of some messy quarrels and fights, are the evil to the ghost, then how our brothers will not be infringed upon it?
The current situation, only Chen Jin and I do not seem to have been poisoned by the evil, of course, this would have been expected, because from the first evil things happen, until now, Chen Jin and I belong to the two are alien, the least jealous of the evil things of the infringement.
Well, at present, the villagers, including my brothers, by the evil is not too serious, often Yunliang can soberly realize their own mistakes, but also be able to pull down the face to apologize to us, that shows that reason is still very awake, just impulsive when some overreaction. There is also a possibility …… that yesterday's tornado sucked away half of the evil qi children, the village's evil qi children harm reduced by half, is not it, Chang Yunliang is much more sober?
Heart thinking about these, my mouth but did not say out, unfolding smile, and brothers together to the south river embankment to go.
Out of the village, walking in the field of the road, viewing the snow white field, feel the cold wind on the face, although the cold wind is still let a person's nose red, neck tightening, but the air is much more refreshing. Yes, that's it, the air in these fields for a few days, compared to the previous days, was indeed much better.
The sky was still overcast, the clouds were patchy, with wisps of irregular gaps flashing open in the center, revealing a fuzzy blue sky, and occasionally a few rays of sunlight came through one of the gaps.
A few of us joked and walked to the south embankment in front of the pump house, stood under the big willow tree, were stunned!
That piece of snake monument how to disappear?
So a big piece of ah! There are more than 300 pounds, right?
Yesterday planed the pit, which has been filled with more than a foot of snow, the pit around, planed out of the crushed soil rises a bag to be covered with snow, white, with a bit of silver.
Looking around, where is the trace of the Snake Chopper Monument? Even all over the silver white snow, also can not find any traces of moving over.
Still really strange, did …… disappear out of thin air, or fly away?
Chen Jin said anxiously, "I fuck, someone made the first move, this beheading snake monument is likely to be cultural relics ah, worth old some money!"
"Bullshit, hurry up and look for it, such a big stone, how come it's gone?" I hurriedly ran around, to the river bank below the pits ah behind the graves ah what to look for, brothers are also spread out to look for, the surrounding dozens of meters to look for all over, there is no ah!
What should we do? Brothers gathered in front of the big willow tree, staring at the pit, do not know what to do now.
Chen Jin said, "Yinle, it couldn't be that the old Taiyou discussed with Old Jiao for half a day and got rid of the Snake Chopper Tablet, right?"
"Huh? What did Old Jiao do with this stele?" I asked with a frown.
"Hey isn't it obvious?" Chen Jin looked like a matter of course, said: "This snake monument is placed here, it is obvious that it is not good with the old jiao, this time our village stained the old jiao's advantage, it must not be happy ah, we have to pay it back to the village before they will not give up, the debt is repaid, the natural thing, the old woman had no choice but to agree to it, the old jiao to get rid of the monument, the village south of the cave open, the gathering of blessing water gourd, is not it a good thing? This gathering blessing water gourd, can not suck away our village's blessing?"
"That makes sense!" I nodded, pondering the size of this possibility.
Chang Yunliang asked, "What is a cave mouth?"
Xue Zhigang said, "What the hell is an old jiao? What's the dip? What money is returned?"
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Chen Jin is not ambiguous, immediately put these things before and after the cause and effect relationship carefully told the brothers.
I pondered for half a day beside me, and felt that this is the case, otherwise, so big a monument, how did it disappear so strangely?
No, we must hurry to tell Hu Laoshi to go, in case something goes wrong, that would be bad.
Thinking of this, I immediately said: "Don't bullshit, walk and talk, hurry back to find Hu Laoshi to go, this thing has to hurry to tell him, in case of any more problems, then we can really is not enough to do things!" After saying that, I hurriedly walked down the riverbank, toward the village.
"Right right, hurry back …… hey hey Yinle, wait ah, don't be so anxious, not bad this minute and a half a second!" Chen Jin greeted while he and his brothers followed along the way.
Footsteps in a hurry, but does not delay Chen Jin to brothers quickly grinding mouth about the West Mountain Black Dragon Cave old auger thing, as well as the cause and effect of this tornado event ……
Seriously, we a few buddies have not really once so many people together into the Hu Lao Si home, so when we hooted and hollered into the Hu Lao Si home, just came out of the toilet Hu Lao Si startled, hastily asked: "Hey hey, this is what happened? What's wrong? What are you doing? A raid or a robbery?"
I walked towards the house while waving my hand and said, "Robbery of a hair, the monument let people robbed …… the snake monument lost! It's gone!"
"What?" Hu Laoshi was shocked and hurriedly followed a few of us into the house, "How could it be lost?"
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