Chapter 52 Taboo Fire
Master Sun Jiu said with a nervous expression, “Fatty Wang you’re the one who’s tired of living, you can’t light candles in the Earth Immortal Village!”
I stopped Fatty and said to Master Sun Jiu, “Didn’t you let me light candles earlier? Why did you suddenly change your mind and blow out the lamp? Where do you want to go?” Sun Jiuji first shook his head, and immediately nodded his head, he said, “Lighting the candles is my idea, but my heart is too anxious today, like being lard blinded by the brain, and always ignored a very important thing, since the coffin mountain, I feel that there are some places around the wrong, is too abnormal, but I can not tell exactly what is not right, until just now to light the candles, and only suddenly thought of a very important thing. the candles, only then did I suddenly think of it.”
Shirley Yang asked, “Professor Sun, the anomaly you refer to is …… the lighted candles?” Sun Jiuzi nodded, “That’s right, it seems that Miss Yang you also noticed, the layout pattern of the Earth Immortal Village in the Coffin Mountain, everywhere is consistent with the Qingxi Ancient Town, every house mansion and the earth is no different, but there is still a very hidden difference, all the mansions here …… do not have candles and lamps or lampstands and lamp oil. Even there is no firewood in the kitchen stove.”
I did not immediately comprehend the meaning of Sun Jiuji’s words, and wondered, “The Earth Immortal Village has two layers of yin and yang, and there are no fire candles and lamps in the yang mansions, so what does this mean? It’s hard to believe that that group of Guanshan Taibao are all rats into the essence of people – the darker the ground to see more clearly?”
Sun Jiuji said, “Although there are no candles and lamps, but in the Hidden Bone Building and all the mansions, are equipped with a kind of yang marrow lamp tube, yang marrow is a kind of mineral that can be luminous, back then, people should be using the mineral light source to illuminate. Listening to the story passed down from our ancestors, there was never a custom of using yang marrow to get light in the ancient town of Qingxi, and it is likely that there is some kind of taboo in the Earth Immortal Village, where candles can’t be lighted in the Coffin Mountain.”
Shirley Yang said, “Among the several pictures left behind by Feng Shigu, there is one called ‘Walking at Night with Candles’, the situation depicted in the picture is that many people entered the ancient tomb with lights and candles, if there is some kind of forbidden fire and taboo on candles in the Coffin Mountain, why would those people light candles in the tomb?”
When I heard this, my heart sank, and I vaguely felt that the people who hid in the “Earth Immortal Village” in those years, the lamps and torches they lit were all “meditation candles”, which was an old custom for martyrs to hold candles and die, and they all went to the tomb to be martyred, and how did they die after entering the tomb?
Sun Jiuzi let us take out the “Candle in the Night”, he looked at it again, more convinced: “You see, the picture is very clear, into the tomb of these martyrs, all walk on the ground floor of the stone steps in the hands of the lighted candles and torches; and in the high place in front of the tomb door of the people, the lamps and candles are all extinguished.”
I asked Master Sun Jiu, “Even if it is true that there is a custom in Coffin Mountain not to move fire or candles, but I wonder what will happen if candles are lit? I don’t see any unusual signs in the neighborhood, so let’s not scare ourselves.”
Sun Jiuzi said: “I have a lifetime of dealings with antiquities and antiquities, strange and bizarre things have not seen a lot, to engage in the class struggle at the time has also been tested, on the boldness of the insights can be no worse than you, by no means bluffing themselves, we just lit the candle, I’m afraid that we are going to get into big trouble.”
Fatty and I do not think this, said to him: “What trouble is also you caused, and now facing the trouble is still small? Lice do not bite, more accounts do not worry, in addition to the death of no big deal, our group is specialized in the cause of the gold digging and fighting, what is the big deal to light a candle?”
Shirley Yang said, “Old Hu, don’t take it lightly, let Prof. Sun finish his sentence first, if we light the candle, what will happen in the coffin mountain?”
Prof. Sun Jiu said, “The pattern of the Earth Immortal Village is shaped like a fireless lampstand, I know a little bit about ancient feng shui, this should be a layout that avoids fire.”
I have learned all my life from the 16 words of Feng Shui, is a door to the ancient Feng Shui for the sinews, fusion of Jiangxi Situation Sect secret art for the flesh and blood of the “Qingwu Feng Shui”, and the mountain of the view of the mountain of the art, the roots are from the Coffin Gorge in the coffin of the bone armored, is a part of the ancient Feng Shui art, although with the Qingwu Feng Shui from the same lineage, but there is a lot of difference, so I do not know too much. The difference, so I do not really understand the “avoid fire”, just look at the “Coffin Mountain Xiangzhu” in the outline of the village of Dixian, is just like a fireless copper lamp.
I’ve never thought about it before, but I’ve never thought about it before. I have never thought carefully about why Qingxi Town was made into a pattern of avoiding fire and extinguishing candles, or simply did not think of that layer, if you think about it in depth – it must have something to do with the Yongle period of the Guanshan Feng family designed to destroy the seal of Faqiu, touching the gold talisman.”
Legend has it that during the Later Han Dynasty, Cao Cao, in order to obtain military pay, had raised an army to steal the tomb of King Liang Xiaowang, at that time there was no invention of explosives, and the tomb of King Liang Xiaowang was hidden deep in the belly of the rocky mountain, with the instruments and means at that time, even with tens of thousands of troops and horses, it was difficult to easily excavate this giant mountain tomb, so Cao Cao deliberately netted a group of people from the private sector who were proficient in the secret art of fighting back and set up a “Gold Touched Lieutenant and Fachu Zhonglanggong” in his army. and Fachou Zhonglanggong”.
The titles of the ancient military establishment are similar to the modern ones, the modern army has the ranks of “general, school, lieutenant, sergeant”, each of which is divided into “junior, middle, upper, big”, such as “major general, lieutenant general, admiral “. In ancient times, “generals” belonged to high-ranking officers, while “lieutenants” belonged to middle-ranking officers. Cao Cao’s grave-robbing unit was headed by the Fachu Zhonglang General, also known as the “Heavenly Official”, and was underpinned by the “Golden Lieutenant”, with the “Gold Touching Lieutenant”. The gold-mining lieutenants, and with the seal as a token, so left the “Fachu seal, gold-mining Fu”, the end of the Han Dynasty after the end of the chaos, Fachu gold-mining generation into the folk, no longer do the official thief hook, dedicated to the fight to get money, in order to help the poor people in the world.
Chinese people from ancient times pay attention to the name, the so-called “Ming not correct, words”, so “Fachiu, touch gold” this set of official name used for thousands of years, that is engraved with the “Heavenly Officials give blessings, a hundred no taboo! “Eight words of the Fachiu seal, as well as through the mountains to touch the gold of the ancient runes, are handed down from generation to generation of credentials, a total of” nine runes and a seal “.
As the art of the gold detector is from “Yi”, “Yi” is the ancestor of the group of scriptures, and is good at recognizing the heavenly stars and earthly veins by the word “look”, it is the most traditional one in the line of the detector, so the folk traditionally has the saying that “seventy-two lines, the gold detector is the king”, and the head of the detector is “Faqiu Yin”, and the ancient talisman for penetrating the mountain to touch the gold. The head of the “hairy mound of heavenly officials”, but to the Ming dynasty Yongle years, the royal family in order to seek the stability of the mausoleum, by the Guanshan Taibao set up a trick, destroyed the hairy mound of seal and six gold talisman.
Perhaps the heavenly way has tolerance, should not touch the gold inverted bucket craft from then on severed, the last is still three touch the whereabouts of the gold talisman is unknown, there is a “one day longitudinal enemy, ten thousand worlds of the problem”, the Guanshan Feng family worried about this matter exposed out, sooner or later, there will be a touch the gold lieutenant come back to retaliate profusely, especially Feng’s ancestral graves are buried in the coffin gorges, so the thought of up, and when all are But in the end, this matter did not reveal the wind, and then gradually assured.
Mr. Sun said, now I think, “Guanshan Taibao” is always the most scrupulous is always the Golden School, “ground immortal village” building layout of the nine gates of the theory of the nine gates, and the outline of the “taboo fire” phenomenon, in Guanshan Feng Shui, the village is the most important part of the village. In the Feng Shui of Guanshan, the place where the fire is taboo can not be lit candles, lit candles, the door of life will be changed to the door of death, which is not exactly a special deal with the gold inspector?
I said to Mr. Sun Jiuzi: “I think you are a little over-sensitive grass, the gold school and the Guanshan Feng family in the past what grudges, it is early dust of history, there is no need to break up the old accounts, just between us and your account has been calculated, now we do not want to think of redundant, or the first idea of the immortal Feng Shigu from the coffins of the mountain dug out before the right thing. ”
Seeing that I don’t believe in it, Sun Jiuzi had to say, “I hope I’ve been overthinking it, you guys take a look at the map first to find out the course of action, and then I’ll flip through this book ‘Guanshan Digging and Collecting Records’, which contains a detailed account of the major events in the Earth Immortal’s village in a piece of the Coffin Mountain, so we might still be able to find something.”
I also wanted to do this, so I went on to look at the drawings left behind by Feng Shigu, buried deep underground coffin mountain is a “corpse vein”, this kind of vein only exists in the oldest feng shui legends, and Qingwu feng shui on the group of dragons without a head of the corpse vein is a “famous and no solution”, it is difficult to say that the Earth Immortal borrowed the body of a corpse to do something. It’s hard to say whether it’s true or not that the Immortals borrowed the corpses to “remove and refine their forms”, but Shirley Yang and I felt that Feng Shigu was far-sighted in his calculations, and that the things he did were unpredictable. For the words of the group of immortals out of the mountain, we are “rather believe it, not believe it”, must not let the tomb of the ancient corpses to see the light of day, or else it will certainly be a big mess.
Is talking, just listen to guard in front of the window of the youngest sister suddenly said: “The yard seems to have something in the move ……” At this time, the blood mist in mid-air diffuse, but the mountain is still dark and indistinguishable, what is the movement in the distance can only be heard by the sound of the ear to listen to, I went to the window loft son of the side of the ear to listen to, I walked to the window loft. Sure enough, there are some strange movements, the sound is dense and mixed, but not in the courtyard, but from the Immortal Village outside the coffin plate cliffs near, like a rolling tide, is to the side of the hidden bone building surging.
The rest of the few people also felt strange: “There are no half living people in the coffin mountain, how could this kind of movement suddenly appear? It sounds like the number is not small, and it is not the sound of copper etching writhing and rubbing like the Nine Deaths Surprise Tomb Armor, although the source is unknown, but it is definitely a bad comer, some very scary things are going to surge into the Earth Immortal Village.”
Sun Jiuzi heard clearly, like suddenly remembered something, hurriedly turned the scroll forward two pages, fiercely stood up from the ground, lost his voice and shouted, “We have to quickly find a place to hide, this sound …… is surely the coffin worms mentioned in the Guanshan Excavation Record! ”
This “Coffin Mountain” has got all the wonders of creation, this “Pangu Vein” in the mountain is shaped like a corpse, just like those hills that look like the “Reclining Buddha”, but there is no head lying flat in a coffin, no matter how you look at it, it’s a broken body. No matter how you look at it, it is a murderous place with a severed head, but in fact, it is a “strange vein” with good fortune hidden in the murder.
The strange thing is that there is a dark spring flowing in the soil layer here, and the spring water smells like corpse blood. In the “inverted bucket” business, the phenomenon of fresh water coming out of the coffin is called “Coffin Surge”, and the spring in the grave is a precious place to hide wind and gather water. “Coffin Mountain” is a strange place, it is exactly the same as a real coffin, since there is a “coffin chung” which is muddy like blood, it is also natural that there are “coffin worms” appearing between the walls of the coffins. Since there was a bloodstained “coffin surge”, it was only natural that “coffin worms” appeared between the walls of the coffin.
“Coffin worms”, also known as “antrepository worms”, are maggots growing between the walls of coffins and outer coffins to change, the color is like pine bark, with wings, seven pairs of teeth, specializing in gnawing on the rotten, the smallest such as grains of rice, but the largest, which can grow to the size of the palm of the child’s hand at the age of seven or eight years old, most people have seen this fights. Most people have seen this thing, but in those unusual tombs, even if a tomb of multiple corpses, the number of coffins is relatively limited, so even if there is a “coffin worm”, but never too much.
But in the record of “Guanshan excavation book”, the coffin mountain rock wall has a natural texture pattern, similar to the climbing dragon and phoenix of the ancient decorations, these gaps in the rock inside the hiding of many wooden coffins, full of pits full of valleys are “silk vines, mud and moss, decayed wood, corpses,” which parasitized many of the gnawing of the mud, moss and broken wood of the “coffin worms”. “Coffin worms”. As a result of the number of extremely large, when the “Guanshan Taibao” is difficult to eliminate all of them, but fortunately, they are not away from the mountain wall hanging coffins, and the “village of the ground fairy” tomb is not in the way.
But today is probably not the “auspicious day”, the coffin mountain appeared all sorts of abnormal phenomena, the surrounding “nine deaths of frightening mausoleum armor” to penetrate the rock layer straight thin coffin wall, will be hidden in the cracks of the “coffin worm” forced out as much as possible. “At this moment, the sound of “antedentary insects” crawling outside the building is known to be thousands of coffin worms, from all directions into the “Immortal Village” to come.
Sun Jiuzi said: “Coffin bugs are not like those corpse insects in the palace of the king of the sheep, they gnawed even the bones of the slag is not left, we have to find a place to hide, I know that you are bold and hard-hearted people do not put life and death in the eyes of the people, but the youngest sister of this girl is irrelevant, don’t even drag her to follow along with the death.”
The fat man snorted coldly and said, “Old Hu you listen to him this, said too touching, it seems that we previously all misunderstood, the original Sun Jiuji master he …… also has a red bright heart ah.”
At this time, although I know the state of affairs is urgent, by thousands of coffin insects blocked to the house is only one way to die, but “one step is not, step by step is difficult to,” the result of the risky action will only make the situation worse, so I said to the fat man on the mouth, “Based on the words of Sun Jiuji just now, I will also almost take him as the someone sent by Councillor Mao.” But in my heart, I was thinking, “All the premises in the Earth Immortal Village are just like ordinary homes, they are not iron walled, so where is there any place for people to hide and avoid trouble?”