Ghost Blowing Lantern II

Lao Yangpi overheard this secret. It turned out that in ancient China, a considerable number of people in the Greater Khingan Mountains had the custom of secretly worshiping Huang Pizi. They believed that Huang Daxian could control the souls of the dead and was a soul seducer. It is a common name for a kind of life-seeking ghost fairy, which specializes in picking up and transporting the souls of the dead. All the souls that are taken away are sent to the Ghost Yamen, which is the underworld. Most people have heard of the legend of the Ghost Yamen. I have never been to this place, but I only know that the Guiyamen is hidden in the mountains. No one knows its exact location because no one who goes in can come out alive.

Not only dead people, but also living people are often seduced. A good living person suddenly loses his heart and becomes stupid and crazy. Everyone thinks that this is a yellow man sent by the underworld to seduce him, and his soul is seduced by Wong Tai Sin. Even if they are not dead at the time, they will become the living dead. Although there are still signs of life, their souls are gone. Although the remaining body is still alive, it is just a walking corpse waiting to die.

Since ancient times, due to the large number of ethnic minorities in China, various customs have merged and evolved with each other, and have been continuously improved and changed. No one has been able to find out when and where the custom of using yellow leather as a seductress came from. .

It is possible that this custom is related to the ability of some wise old Huangpizi to understand people's minds and use ecstasy. Some Huangpizi are very special. For example, after they eat a special kind of black rat, the secretions in their body will change. Changes occur, and if the stinky farts released touch a living person, that person will lose their mind and become confused. They will cry when they cry and laugh when they laugh, as if they are possessed by a demon. The superstitious and ignorant people will be even more difficult to understand. Understand the reason. In the process of word-of-mouth communication, the more it is spread, the more magical it becomes.

These legends about Huangpizi and ghost yamen have gradually become less common since the Song Dynasty, and fewer and fewer people know about them. However, a lot of related content is still retained in folklore. It is said that Wong Tai Sin has a copper box with a mouth inside. Containing the secret of Wong Pi Zi seducing souls, many murals and clay sculptures in Wong Pi Zi Temple are consistent with this folk legend. But over the years, where did Wong Tai Sin's copper box end up? No way to find out.

Until the Japanese army discovered a corpse cave of the ancient Xianbei people at the end of the Daxingan Mountains, that is, the "Hundred Eyes Cave" between the grassland and the desert. There were countless dead people in it, and there were many unexplainable things at the time. A strange phenomenon is that there are two mountain passes in Baiyan Cave, and in the middle there is the Yin River and the "Guimen Pass" in the hills. Everything is in line with the legend of Guiyamen. This entrance to the underworld is a secret that has been buried by the ancients for thousands of years.

The front mountain pass is connected to the grassland, and occasionally the terrible "Female Wind" appears to devour people and animals. The "Female Wind" mentioned in the Buddhist scriptures is the wind of evil spirits blowing out of the Abi Hell; the back mountain pass leads to the Mongolian desert. It is an inaccessible place. The corpse cave of Baiyan Cave contains many special substances in the soil and rocks, which can keep the body from decaying for a long time. After investigating the corpse cave, we found out that it was originally the tomb of the Great Xianbei shaman. Baiyan Cave is regarded as the home of the dead, and is listed as two major holy places together with the legendary "Gaxian Cave", the origin of the Xianbei people. It enjoys tribute and sacrifice all year round. The living bury jade and the dead bury stones to offer sacrifices. Of.

Later, as time passed, the legend and location of the corpse cave were gradually lost, and were replaced by wild rumors such as "Ghost Yamen". The large number of stone carvings and murals in the corpse cave recorded that the shaman had a mouth that could control This copper box of the dead can be used by witches to bring back the dead from the underworld and perform some witchcraft activities. However, no relevant records have been found about the secrets contained in it, and the most important body in the cave is The corpse—the Great Xianbei Witch is not a real Xianbei person. Her origin is a mystery.

The Japanese are very interested in this legend. They believe that the "Foehn Wind" is related to the entrance to the underworld at the bottom of the corpse cave. It is the wind of death coming from the underworld, and the copper box is probably the key to mastering it. To conduct some kind of secret research on it, we must find this box. According to clues, after the split and demise of Xianbei, the spirit summoning box wandered to the mountainous area of ​​​​Daxinganling, so we bribed the bandit leaders of the "Ni'erhui" and asked them to help Looking for Wong Tai Sin's soul summoning box among the people, the two traitors, Mr. Tongsuan and Yang Erdan, saw the money and started looking for it, and gradually gained insights.

After learning about it, Lao Yangpi tried to persuade Yang Erdan to just dig graves, but now he listens to the little devil and wants to dig up the underworld? Isn't that seeking death? After much persuasion, the two brothers finally turned against each other. Yang Erdan felt that Lao Yangpi was always getting in the way, and leaving him would be a disaster sooner or later, so he pretended to listen to his brother's words, vowed to quit, and deceived Lao Yangpi. On the cliff, he kicked Lao Yangpi down from behind.

Lao Yangpi was also a man of great fortune. He fell off a cliff and hung on a pine tree but survived. Several of his ribs were broken and he was almost disemboweled by a pine branch. Thanks to being rescued by a hunter, he recovered his life. It took him half a year to recover from his injuries. He had just recovered, but he was still thinking about Yang Erdan. Instead of hating him, he complained that he had not been able to persuade him to turn back. He went into the mountains again to look for Yang Erdan, only to find out that the "Ni'er Hui" had finally found someone named Yang Erdan. The spirit summoning box was dug out of Huang Pizi's grave, which cost several lives. Even Mr. Tongsuan was forced by Wong Tai Sin to hang himself. However, Yang Erdan was lucky enough to survive and actually got the box out. Taking a few subordinates and the Japanese businessman who contacted them, the group rushed to the "Hundred Eyes Cave" deep in the grassland.

Lao Yangpi followed him, trying to chase Yang Erdan back, but he followed until he reached Baiyan Cave. He was frightened by the black smoke of the dead people in the crematorium, and the changes in the clouds at that time, he actually thought it was He couldn't believe the demonic dragon that the grassland herders said was causing trouble. He hesitated and hesitated, and finally did not dare to approach Baiyan Cave again. In fact, even if he followed, he would probably be captured by the Japanese Kwantung Army. , were either subjected to live experiments, or were directly killed and silenced. He walked around the Baiyan Cave for more than ten days, but he didn't see any living people coming out of it. He knew in his heart that something was wrong, and the Baiyan Cave was Where? That is the ghost yamen leading to the underworld. If you walk on that road of no return, you will never come back.

Lao Yangpi was naturally cowardly and could not muster up the courage to go to Baiyan Cave to collect Yang Erdan's body. He also did not dare to imagine what it would be like to face the body of his own brother. For these years, he wandered on the grassland, doing odd jobs for the herdsmen. After liberation, due to poverty, he became a herdsman with the help of the government. He was silent all day long and buried all the past in his heart. He only occasionally vented his bitterness through the matouqin and Qin opera.

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