Chapter 10 Ghost Yamen
By the roots of the tree that was knocked down by the human bears, there is a half stone statue buried in the soil, causing a rare tiger head and animal face, animal head and body, helmet on the head, both hands holding a stone axe decorated with a human head, with an extraordinary temperament, but the face is very hideous, Swallow saw those stone statues of tigers and bodies, and immediately associated it with an ancient legend inside the mountain, and did not care to pack the bearskin and bear meat, and said to us in surprise: “That seems to be the stone statue of the mountain ghost, this forest is afraid that the mountain ghost Yamen, let’s quickly escape.”
The legend of “Ghost Yamen” has been circulating for many years in the dense forests of the westernmost part of the Daxinganling Mountains, and it is said that it is a secret entrance to the Temple of Hades in the world of the living, and that a hunter who gets lost in the mountains and mistakenly enters the “Ghost Yamen” will unknowingly enter the underworld and become a lonely ghost who will never be able to return to his home again. Once a hunter who is lost in the mountains enters the “Ghost Yamen”, he will unknowingly enter the underworld and become a ghost, and will never return to the world of the living, but in the last hundred years or so, very few people have seen it again.
That “ghost Yamen” is the biggest feature of the door in front of the tiger head and body of the mountain ghost guardian, of course, this mountain legend from which dynasty which generation, no one can test out, just into the “ghost Yamen” walk Yanluodian ghosts, listening to people from the bottom of their hearts. Fear from the bottom of the heart, coupled with the hunters innately have a kind of fear of the mountains, so Yanzi panicked, just want to urge us to quickly leave.
Fatty and I have heard of the legend, and I also know that it is not appropriate to stay for a long time, but I’m not so scared by a stone statue of a tiger’s head, I casually consoled Yanzi a few words, what “ghost Yamen”? It’s just a remnant of feudal society, how can we be afraid of this? But I was thinking at the same time, we must first clear up the situation before making plans.
Bear cave is a half-closed natural cave under the dead tree, only because the bear just chased after pouncing on people, a plant in the way of the red pines uprooted, the red pines happen to be born in the side near the bear cave, the roots of the tree pulled down with the collapse of the underground soil, only to reveal a half of a stone beast into the soil, as for what the Tiger Mountain ghost guards to the “Ghost Yamen” nonsense! I don’t believe it, in my opinion, this tiger head and body warrior stone figurines, very likely to be used to suppress the tomb statue, but at that time I was on the five elements of feng shui, the tomb layout of the way involved is still shallow, and do not dare to assert, just curiosity, since the discovery of these peculiar shape of the stone people and stone beasts, if you do not take the opportunity to explore all of the strange, back to the interest of what?
I advised Swallow not to rush back to the forest, why not go there to find the “ghost Yamen” where, look at the direction of the tiger head stone figurines placed, if there are shrines, temples, graves and other buildings in the mountains, it should be roughly in the “Yellow Pi Grave” over there, Yellow Pi dumped out of the ancient magnetic bowls and golden The ancient magnetic bowls and gold beans that Yellow Pi dumped out may have been obtained from the so-called “ghost yamen”. If we can find those treasures, it will make a great contribution to supporting the world revolution.
Yan Zi stomped his feet and said: “You do not pull the calf, I do not guard the forest, stealing out with you into the mountains to hunt bears, has made a mistake, go back to inevitably have to let the old branch of the book of the harsh criticism, to then whole something else out, then I can how to explain to the old branch of the book ah?”
Fatty was thinking about the gold, and helped me to talk about Yanzi. We both said to Yanzi, “Yanzi, don’t be so afraid of the old branch secretary, okay? Although guarding the forest is our job, don’t forget that the highest instruction is not to use production to suppress the revolution, in front of the torrent of the revolutionary struggle, the work has to be thrown to the side, and the words of the branch book are no good, so he can do whatever he likes, what are you still hesitating for? Don’t forget that this is the final struggle, the iron must be struck while it is hot in order to succeed, late the red flag will be planted all over the world, and then the whole thing will not be in time.”
We said on the line, Yanzi speechless, she listened to the confusion, simply put the heart of a cross, then love it, so we immediately do it, threw down the bear skin and bear meat for the time being no longer care, only wrapped the bear paw and bear bile with the side of the fat man suddenly thought of, shut “yellow fairy godmother” of the wooden cage where to go? Just now the bear fell from the tree, also broke a large section of red pine, are smashed in our stay on the grass nest, we were only concerned about dodging to escape, the chaos will be thrown to the wooden cage where to go, and now really do not have the impression. Although the yellow skin is small, there are two meat, not to mention the “yellow fairy godmother” skin smooth hair can be exchanged for less than ten pounds of fruit candy it, easy to lose can be a little reluctant to give up.
Around the broken red pine to find, only to find that the wooden cage has long been pine branches smashed scattered frame, and the cage is empty, “yellow fairy godmother” has long slipped away, fat man angry cursing.
I remember the “yellow fairy godmother” hind legs are firmly tied by wire, even if the cage is broken, it is impossible to break free from the shackles of the wire, at best, it is to use the two front paws to climb out to escape, yellow skins run away from all rely on the hind limbs to give strength, so it is not possible to escape too far, I thought of I hurriedly raised his head to see the surrounding area, in addition to the snow, we and the bear fighting messy footprints, but also the snow is not a good place for the bear, but it is a good place to escape. In addition to the messy footprints of our fight with the human bear, there is really a rough trace of the drag, “yellow fairy godmother” must be along here to escape, along this trail to find, I looked at a glance at the tiger’s head next to the stone figurine of a furry thing in the desperately crawling, that is, from the squirrel’s cage escaped from the “yellow fairy godmother “yellow”.
We see it did not escape, immediately came to the spirit of a gust of wind like chased up, only to see the “yellow fairy” is with two front paws, to the direction of the yellow skin graves crawling, it realized that some people from the back of the chase, will be drilled into the stone figurines next to a hole in the ground disappeared.
We chased over to see, the original tiger head of the mountain ghost of the figurines under the feet of a tunnel, the age of soil and water changes, has been covered by soil and pine branches, above the ancient pines fell, the tunnel reveals a small gap, inside the black goo what can not be seen clearly, “yellow fairy godmother” is to escape into this small gap.
Fatty furious with his feet kicked the mud wall on the side of the hole, did not kick a few times, the tunnel wall of the mud was kicked down, the ancient tree rhizome was pulled out of the pit left behind, it reveals a large hole to a ghastly wind from the inside out, blowing in the face of the cool whooshing, it seems that the air in which the smooth, at the far end of the exit must be something else.
Even the fat man did not expect this earth wall is so bad, I hurriedly stopped him, it seems that this hole in the mouth of the deep hole is not a tunnel, just digging between the mud and rocks of the operation access, and not solid, may collapse at any time, and more do not know what is leading to what place, and hurriedly look for some pine branches lit a few torches to illuminate, drilling into the hole after the black hole inside the exploration.
The hole is very narrow, may creep and crawl in order to move forward, but we can not afford to wear out the sleeves, only the torch will be diagonally in front of the probe, and then crouch a little bit of crouching forward to move, with the light of the fire, and found that the four walls of the hole is still residual traces of the excavation of the sharpshooter, I am currently open the way, the fat man holding a long-handled axe closely followed by the swallows held up the other torch backward trailing the shotgun after the cushion.
We do not know where this tide coaxing cold whooshing hole in the ground, the heart is extremely puzzled, my grandfather when the feng shui gentleman, because back then he knew the secret art of finding dragons, quite prestigious in the province, made friends with a lot of the same yin and yang feng shui practitioners, those who are engaged in the “bucket” camp grave robbers, from him I learned that the most powerful of the grave robbers is “touching the gold”, the most important thing is to “touch the gold”. From him, I learned that the most powerful among grave robbers was the “Gold Mapper”, who was able to look at the shape of the mountain and observe the veins of the earth, and determine the points by dividing the gold and attacking the Yellow Dragon, and that the so-called “attacking the Yellow Dragon” was to excavate a hidden and precise tunnel. Simple, bypassing the copper walls and iron coffins, by the golden well straight through the hidden secret weapon of the chamber, perhaps we are now drilling this hole in the ground, is a tomb robbers digging a treasure tunnel.
However, I soon denied the possibility of their own, the mud hole is narrow and short, starting from the feet of the tiger stone figurines, save line more than ten meters to the end, where there is not hidden in the ancient corpse secret treasure of the chamber, but a buried in the mud between the quite old green stone door, like there is a flying arch above, but the hole in the ground is only dug out of the stone door partially, and a moment can not be carefully identified. The stone door is divided into two, half-open half-closed, in the see left a large doorway, each side of a stone pillar facing each other, on the ancient dragon pattern and the sun and moon elephant, has been peeled and eaten, which at least shows that the cave this stone building is once existed on the ground, after years of wind, rain, sun and other natural factors erosion, only to become so now.
Fatty and I guess this is probably an ancient shrine, buried in the soil under the geological effect, even the pine trees above have grown so thick, I do not know what year and month, in any case, the years must not be less, to the door of the reason there is not to go in to see? After going in, what good things on the smooth out, if there is nothing on him to paint two slogans, when the four old to it broken.
Swallow said that this is designated as a “ghost yamen”, behind the door eighty percent is the underworld of Hades, we still play where to go back to where it does not matter what is inside do not go in. I said to Swallow: “This hole is so short, and there is no other exit, the Yellow Fairy Goddess must have drilled into the stone door, we go in to catch it and then come back, if we can’t catch it last night is not a waste of time, and also can’t change the fruit candy, don’t you want to eat candy?”
Swallow swallowed his saliva: “How can you not want to eat sugar, in fact, fruit sugar is not as good as the milk sugar brought by the youths from the city ……” The fat man is anxious to capture the “yellow fairy godmother”, do not wait for me to put the swallows I’m afraid that there are some unexpected dangers inside, worrying that the fat man is alone, so I greeted Swallow and hurriedly followed him in.
Torch light due to our rapid movement and become bright and dark, light and dark call together at the time, I have seen the door is not dirt, is a spacious stone hall, the hall has stone pillars and stone tables, two compartments of clay statues of gods fell down horizontally and vertically, the corner nooks and crannies are covered with thick cobwebs and collapsed ash, between the eyes of the everywhere is a full of wolves, a mess, and the light of the torch is very limited, and could not see for a time! Where did the “Yellow Fairy Goddess” hide.
Three people came in at the same time, the movement is not small, I do not know who rubbed down some collapsed ash, choking us could not stop coughing, easy to settle the dust, look at each other, each other are dusty face is extremely wretched.
Fatty just drilled through the section of several meters long tunnel, because the hole in the ground is low and narrow, squatting his legs and feet are numb, this time into the stone hall at least able to stretch the muscles and blood, busy stretching arms stirrups legs, and found himself on the dog skin hat fell a large piece of waste dust, it happens to have a stump with a stump like a wooden pier near the doorway, take off the hat in the pier dusted two times, and then sit down on the top of the buttocks, and said to me: “I’m with this blocking to a one-man pass, the amount of that small yellow skin can not grow wings to fly, old Hu you to search everywhere to see where it hides it, let it out to let me live peeled its skin, but I look at this big house seems to have a back door, it is going to go through the back door is also troublesome, swallow quickly go to the back door to guard … … …”
Since I entered the strange stone hall, all kinds of things inside are full of curiosity, early to catch the “yellow fairy godmother” thing thrown to the back of the mind, was reminded by the fat man to think of it, was about to go to look for it, but saw the swallow hurriedly pulled the fat man away from the stump, the swallow said to us: “told you guys! You still do not believe, this is the ghost Yamen, mountain people know, the forest stumps can not sit, because that is the tiger god master’s table, mortals sit is to attract disaster, how do you say sit on it?”
Fatty lifted his foot on the wooden pier laughed: “Now the satellite are whole in the sky, the atomic bomb also exploded, the poor have turned over to the liberation of the poor, regardless of what he is the god of the king’s table table, that is the old society’s calendars, and now we take it as a hard working people pad butt plate orange that is affordable, I want to get up and happy is not allowed to pee on the top of it.”
I pushed away the fat man, joked to him: “Don’t fucking bullshit, the toiling masses can’t urinate and defecate anywhere ah, besides you don’t take a look in the mirror, the toiling masses of the team when there has been your number of full of fat fat thieves, a look at your stomach you’re exposed, don’t have to ask, must be the bad elements into our toiling masses inside. ”
The most puzzling to me is this stone hall do not know what to do, especially why there is such a stump in the doorway, want to poor its secret, will have to look carefully, so I pushed the fat man in the way to one side, squatting down with a torch to light, a look, and found that this stump like a wooden stump really have a big hall, above the ancient lines, as well as many can not read the odd symbols, the most peculiar is the wooden stump is in the middle of the carving with a Dressed in ancient women’s human figure, that human figure but no one head, but born a weasel face, that yellow face a treacherous smile, very hateful, unspeakable disgust, that bizarre expression seems to have a kind of invisible force field gripping the human heart, so that people look at the whole body immediately felt sweat pores through the Sen Sen cool, I thought not good, this time I am afraid of entering the nest of the yellow skin.