Chapter 65 The Road of No Return (Next)
The old sheepskin overheard this secret, the original in ancient China, the Daxinganling area, a considerable part of the people, there is a kind of sneaky worship of yellow skin customs, that the yellow fairy can take charge of the souls of the dead, it is a soul hooking, hooking this is a kind of life-supporting ghosts and fairies commonly known as, specializing in transporting the souls of the deceased, all the hooked souls, were sent to the ghost Yamen, that is, the netherworld, the common people most of the time. Most of the people have heard of the legend of the Ghost Yamen, which is a place where you can’t come back if you go in, but it is only known that the Ghost Yamen is hidden in the mountains, and no one is sure of the exact location, because those who go in can’t possibly come out alive.
Not only is the dead, from time to time there are living people were hooked to a good end of the living, a sudden loss of heart become stupid and crazy, people think this is the netherworld to send the Yellow Pi to hook up, the Yellow Fairy hooked away from the soul of the people, even if the time did not die, but also will become living dead, although there are still signs of life, but the soul is not there, the rest of the shell, although the mouth still with a living gas, but also just a corpse waiting to die.
Since ancient times, due to China’s many ethnic minorities, a variety of customs blend with each other evolution, than stop to improve and change, and later no one has been able to find out to take the yellow skins as a hook for the custom, exactly from what time what region passed over.
It is possible that this custom, with some of the old yellow skins have the ability to pass through the hearts and minds of the people, so that the spirit of the law, some yellow skins are very special, for example, they have eaten a special black rat, the body’s secretions will change, and then put out the stench of farts if smoked to the living, that person will lose their minds, become lost, say cry, say laugh, as if in the devil, superstitious ignorance, even more difficult to understand! The reason for this, in the process of word of mouth, the more the rumor is more and more God.
These legends of the yellow skin and ghost Yamen, to the beginning of the Song Dynasty, it is gradually less, know less and less people, but in the folklore has retained a lot of relevant content, the legend of the yellow fairy has a copper box, which is loaded with the yellow skins seductive secrets, there are many yellow skins temple murals and clay sculptures, with this folklore with the mild, but the age of the long-distance, the yellow fairy’s copper box is down to where? There is no way to find out.
Until the Japanese army at the end of the Daxinganling veins, that is, between the grassland and the desert “hundred-eyed cave”, found the ancient Xianbei people of a hiding hole, which has countless dead, there are a lot of strange phenomena at that time can not be explained, hundred-eyed cave there are two passes in the middle of the hills in the Yinhe and the “ghost gate”. “Ghost Gate Pass”, all in line with that legend of the Ghost Yamen, which leads to the entrance to the underworld, is a secret buried by the ancients for thousands of years.
The front mountain pass is connected with the grassland, and occasionally there are terrible “burning winds” that devour people and animals, and the “burning winds” mentioned in the Buddhist scriptures are the winds of evil spirits blowing out of the Abyss; the back mountain pass leads to the Mongolian Desert, which is a place where it is difficult for people to reach, and the corpse hiding hole of the Hundred Eyes Cave is a place where the soil and rocks contain many special materials. The clay and rock contains many special substances that can keep the corpse from decaying for a long time, through the investigation of this cave, it is known that this is the original Da Xianbei witch’s grave, Hundred Eyes Cave is regarded as the home of the dead, and the legendary origin of the Xianbei people “Kaxian Cave”, and listed as the two sacred places, enjoying the year-round tributes and rituals, through the living burying jade, the dead burying stone way to offer sacrifices, and the dead burying stone way to offer sacrifices. The living buried jade, the dead buried stone way to sacrifice.
Later with the wear and tear of time, the legend and location of the hidden corpse cave, gradually lost, by the “ghost Yamen” a kind of wild rumors replaced, hidden corpse cave in a large number of stone carvings and murals, recorded that the witches mastered a can control the death of the spirits of the copper box, witches can use it from the netherworld to recapture the spirits of the dead, some witch divination activities, but what exactly is inside? But what kind of secrets, but did not find relevant records, and the most important body in the cave – Da Xianbei witch, but also not a real Xianbei people, her origin is a mystery.
The Japanese are very interested in this legend, that the “burning wind” and the bottom of the cave that leads to the netherworld has something to do with the entrance, is from the Yellow Springs of the death of the wind, and that the copper box is likely to be the key to mastering it, in order to carry out some kind of secret research on the box must be found, according to the clues in the freshman division after the demise of the soul box fell to the big After the demise of the Xianbei split, the spirit box fell into the mountains of Daxinganling, so the “mud will” buy Hu bandit leader, let them help in the folk to find the spirit box of Wong Tai Sin, Mr. Tong Calculation and sheep two eggs of the two traitors see the money eye open, began to start searching for, and gradually have a brow.
The old sheepskin learned of the bitter advice of the sheep two eggs, digging graves and tombs is just, and now listen to the words of the brats, want to go digging in the netherworld? That is not looking for death? Persuade to persuade, the two brothers finally turned against each other, sheep two eggs think the old sheepskin is always from the obstruction, keep him sooner or later is a disaster, then pretend to listen to the words of the elder brother, swore to wash his hands off, the old sheepskin tricked to a cliff, from the back of the old sheepskin kicked down.
The old sheepskin is also a person with a big life, fell off the cliff hanging in the pine tree actually did not die, several broken ribs, almost let the pine branches open the belly, thanks to the hunters were saved to retrieve a life, a full six months of injuries, only to be cured, he is still thinking of the sheep two eggs, not only do not hate him, but also complained about their own failure to persuade him to return to his senses, and once again go into the mountains to look for the sheep two eggs, and only then know that the “mud would be “finally dug out the soul box in a place called the yellow skin grave, which took several lives, even that Mr. Tong Calculation was also forced to hang himself by the Yellow Fairy, and the sheep two eggs luckily survived, even the box out, with a few underlings and contacted the Japanese businessman that they are, a group of people ran to the grasslands deep “hundred eyes cave “The old sheepskin trailed behind.
The old sheepskin trailed behind, want to sheep two eggs back, but has been followed to the front of the Hundred Eyes Cave, he was burned in the incinerator in the black smoke of the dead scared, coupled with the clouds at the time of the change in the atmosphere, he actually thought that it was the prairie herdsmen said that the demonic dragons haunt the set of things he believed in can not be believed, hesitation and wandering, and ultimately did not dare to approach the Hundred Eyes Cave, in fact, even if he followed the upper part of the most likely will also be the Japanese Kwantung Army to capture, not to be done! Live test, or be killed directly to silence, he turned around the hundred-eyed grottoes for ten days, did not see the inside and then half a living person out, he understood that this is something wrong, the hundred-eyed grottoes is what place? That is leading to the netherworld of the ghost Yamen ah, into that road of no return, never want to come back.
The old sheepskin natural cowardice, can not drum up the courage to go to the hundred-eyed grottoes to the sheep two eggs to collect the body, he did not dare to imagine the face of his own brother’s body will be what feeling, these years on the grasslands wandering, to the herdsmen to help the workers do odd jobs for a living, the liberation of the life of the poor, in the government’s help to do the herdsmen, all day long silent, a stomach of the past buried in the heart, only occasionally through the horse-head qin and Qinqiang venting of their hearts! He was silent all day long, burying his past in his heart, only occasionally venting his bitterness through the Ma Touqin and Qin opera.