1372, Sword Dance
Outside Chang'an City. 【】
A narrow path connects to the broad official road and winds into the deep forest of wild trees.
The morning light was fading, and the city gate of Chang'an had just opened. Pedestrians were gradually coming and going on the official road, but no one was seen passing by this narrow path.
At this time, there was a middle-aged man in gray clothes, riding a horse crookedly, heading towards the city gate along the official road, and was passing by the narrow path.
The cold wind blew by, carrying the smell of alcohol on the man on the horse.
Pedestrians looked at the drunken man and avoided him, unwilling to get close to him.
"Uu——"
The fat horse carried the middle-aged man through the intersection leading to the narrow path, heading towards the towering city gate. At this time, the man tilted his head and looked at the narrow path, and then pulled the horse. The reins caused the horse to turn its head and step into the path with shallow grass and no horse hooves.
"Go and see what Hei San'er is doing at home?
Go to Hei San'er's house, go to Hei San'er's house..." The man on the horse muttered drunkenly. His mount seemed to be spiritual. It listened to his instructions and actually carried him along the path and across the road. At the end of the deep forest of wild trees, after passing several high hills and gentle slopes, we entered a small village with only twenty or thirty households.
Mist shrouded the village located in a depression.
There are occasional barking of dogs and crowing of chickens in the village.
The fat horse carried the drunken man to the gate of a large courtyard and stopped.
The door of the courtyard is open, but two pale lanterns are hung in front of the door, flickering in the blue-gray mist. The word "Dian" on the lanterns indicates that the owner of this courtyard has a new funeral in his family, and it is currently being held. A funeral.
There were bursts of wailing sounds from the masonry hall.
"W-Who passed away?"
The drunk man pushed away the white lantern above his head. After he saw the word "Dian" clearly on the white lantern, he finally realized something. He grabbed the saddle, turned over and slid off the horse, and rolled directly to the ground. Covered in dust and mud, he staggered up, not bothering to pat the dirt on his body. He led the horse through the low gatehouse, entered the door and shouted into the hall: "Hei San'er, Hei San'er!"
I'm here to see you!
Hei San'er!
Who has passed away in your family? Why don't you tell me? "
After the shouting, a big dark man walked straight out of the main room. When the big man saw the middle-aged man leading the fat horse swaying in the yard, his originally sad eyes suddenly turned to surprise, and he looked at the middle-aged man. The man shouted: "Wu Zongfeng!"
This black man is what middle-aged men call ‘Hei San’.
Hei San hurriedly approached the middle-aged man, supported him, and said with a touch of emotion and worry: "My wife died for some reason. We have no relatives and friends here. I thought no one would come to express condolences, but no one would come to express condolences." Thinking of you coming here, Wu Zongfeng, why do you smell like alcohol? "
"There are so many sad people in the world, Hei San'er... Pei Min, General Pei Min's mother passed away. He asked me to paint a painting for his mother in Tiangong Temple to comfort the deceased. I went over and watched a sword dance. The 'Eighty-seven Immortal Scrolls'..." The middle-aged man known as 'Wu Gongfeng' pulled Hei San's sleeves to support his body. His eyes were blurred and he said, "I still remember, Hei San Son, we were dancing with swords, painting and calligraphy on the mass graves. In the blink of an eye, two or three years have passed...
How could your wife, such a young and healthy woman, pass away? Hei San'er..."
This 'Wu Chongfeng' is now the famous 'Wu Daozi'. His painting skills are highly praised by the sages of the government and the public, and now the reputation of 'Painting Sage' has been spread among the people.
The 'Black Three' is just a country ranger.
When Wu Daozi's reputation was not yet apparent, he was especially worshiped in the ban, and his status was much higher than that of ordinary people. His acquaintance with a wanderer like Hei San was purely accidental.
Hei San listened to Wu Daozi's stuttering but still relatively fluent words, and finally figured out why Wu Daozi came suddenly. He was not upset because the other party only came to visit him after he was drunk and thought of his old friend. dissatisfied, but more moved.
It's just that there are still important matters in his family that need to be dealt with, but he can't have a long talk with Wu Daozi.
He turned his head and glanced at the door of the main room. At the door of the dark main room, two young children stuck their heads out and looked at Hei San with tears on their faces.
"My wife passed away not because of illness, but because of something else...
In just a few words, I couldn't explain it clearly to Wu Chongfeng.
It's just that my home is not a good place at the moment, so Wu Zongfeng should not stay too long. I asked my neighbor to send Wu Zongfeng back to the capital. If there is a chance in the future, Hei San'er will definitely visit me and thank him for his worship! "Hei San turned back and explained a few words to the drunken Wu Daoxuan. Regardless of whether the drunken opponent could understand his words, Hei San directly hugged the opponent's waist and carried the opponent onto the fat horse.
He took the reins of the horse and hurried outside the courtyard to invite some neighbors to come over and send Wu Gongfeng back to Chang'an first.
However, the drunk man immediately refused to leave like this.
Wu Daoxuan shouted: "What happened? Can't you tell me?
Is the government killing people? Is your noble clan planning to seize the land? You say, as long as you say it - I will try my best to solve it for you. Now... I am no longer the painter who let others bully me. I have no problem speaking out for my friends!
Hei San'er, say it, say it! "
As he spoke, he rolled off the horse again - this time luckily Hei San caught him in time, otherwise if he had fallen off the horse this time, his neck would have landed exactly where his mount's big hooves fell. His mount could crush his neck with one hoof.
In this way, there will be no so-called painting sage, and there will be no "Hell Transformation Picture Scroll" in the future!
"Just say it, Hei San'er!
If you don't tell me, you don't want me to be your friend. I'll take note of it and won't come again! "Wu Daozi said.
He clutched Hei San's clothes tightly. Hei San had no choice but to sigh helplessly and shook his head: "It's not because of some government conspiracy or the noble clan's pressure. Wu Gongfeng...
My dear, there will be more after this chapter^.^,
It's true, it's true - my wife was killed by a trick!
It has not yet been determined whether that strange thing is still hidden in my home!
I have asked the bad guys to come over to help with the search and suppress the sneaky, Wu Zongfeng, you don’t have to worry about this, you should go home first, I will visit you in the future..."
"sly?"
Even if the morning sun is rising and the sky has already appeared, suddenly hearing the word "weird" can still make people feel chilly.
Even Wu Daozi, who was drunk, was stunned when he heard that the death of Hei San's wife was related to "Gui". He turned his head towards the main room and saw Hei San's children leaning against the door, looking concerned. Looking over towards him, the main room behind the two children was completely dark, with no light at all.
"There are people who are sneaky and harm people's lives..." Hei San lowered his voice. Seeing that Wu Gongfeng seemed to have listened to his words, he explained a few more words to him, "My wife died yesterday, and her body is already smelly today... …”
It is still early spring, and the weather in Chang'an is still a bit chilly.
In such weather, the body of a newly deceased person will never stink even if he remains inactive for seven days. The occurrence of this kind of situation in Heisan's home just shows that the death of his wife is unusual. The body was killed by the evil spirit and infected by the evil charm. Most of the corpses will show signs of decay in a short period of time and produce corpse odor.
Wu Daozi turned back and shook his head.
Hei San thought he was finally persuaded. Hearing that there was something sneaky and causing trouble in his home, he was frightened and wanted to retreat. He was secretly relieved. How could he have expected that after Wu Daozi shook his head, He immediately said:
"You - I'm not afraid either!"
"General Pei Min and the old man were dancing with swords and painting in the Tiangong Temple. The old man made the "Eighty-seven Immortals Scroll". Even the real person in the Tiangong Temple at that time said that there were real gods living in the painting, which could scare away evil spirits and capture sneaky things!
Hei San, I will draw a picture to help you catch the mystery at home! "
Wu Dao The body odor of a dead dog or cat is comparable.
If such a stench is smelled by living people, some weak-minded living people may even become seriously ill or even be unable to survive the illness!
Because such a stench makes people smell it, not only will they feel disgusted and have the desire to vomit, but they may also feel fear in their hearts, and then they will have random thoughts, which will lead to the invasion of external evils and the body will be infected with diseases.
The corpse odor loomed between Wu Daoxuan's nose. He unscrewed the small gourd at his waist, took a swig of wine, and used the aroma of the wine to suppress the corpse stench. He then took a step forward and was helped up the steps by Hei San. , walked into the main room that was still gloomy and gloomy even though it was lit by candles and incense.
A pair of wooden boards was erected on the open space directly opposite the main door.
A layer of coarse cloth covered the bed with four feet off the ground, and a human figure was faintly raised.
Hei San let go of Wu Daoxuan's arm. He did not try to persuade Wu Daoxuan at this time, but walked closer to the two young children.
Two young children were kneeling on the side of the bed, silently burning paper money.
They seemed to have been kneeling here, burning paper money, without moving.
Wu Daoxuan intuitively felt that something was wrong with the current situation, which was a bit strange, but what exactly was wrong was difficult to distinguish with his confused mind. He looked around the hall and saw a clay figure, a bundle of willow branches, a bowl of water, and a handful of charcoal ash placed in each corner of the hall.
“These are the five elements placed in the four corners of the house in the order of the ‘five elements reversed’.
Once upon a time, I invited a passing Zao team member to have dinner. The young man from that Zao team taught me this method, saying that this method could trap Li Gui and prevent him from harming anyone for a while. "Hei San looked at Wu Daoxuan. A smile suddenly appeared on his face, and his whole face became uncertain under the candlelight in the darkness. "I'll get you paper and pen. You look at the painting——
You never know when the bad guy will come. If you can use a painting to trap Li Wei or scare it away, that would be the best..."
As he spoke, Hei San walked away from the side of the bed and went to the opposite side room to get paper and pen.
The two young children kneeling beside their mother's body turned to look at Wu Daoxuan. The whites in their eyes seemed to be too much, so that the kernels were only the size of soybeans.
Wu Daoxuan looked at the 'Hei San' who was under the robe and didn't move his feet very much. He almost skipped the ground and went to the penthouse. Then he looked at the two people kneeling on the side of the bed with pale faces and almost stern eyes. Yu Wu's Tong'er was shocked in his heart. No matter how much wine he drank before, he was sober now!
But he didn't want to sober up——
It's better to just get drunk and die!
——Hei San and his two children, even if they are not ghosts now, they must have been possessed by ghosts——Wu Daoxuan is now regretting his actions. Why did he show off when Hei San, who was still normal at that time, advised him to leave?
This time, he might lose his life here!
Thinking of this, Wu Daoxuan clenched the wine gourd in his hand, thinking that it would be better to get drunk directly than to be killed by ghosts. It would be better to die when being killed by ghosts while drunk. It would not be so painful after all——He directly put the mouth of the wine gourd to his mouth and forced a full gourd of wine into his throat.
This wine is the best "Lihuachun", which is the famous wine given to Wu Daoxuan by General Pei Min.
He sent his servants to deliver ten jars to Wu Daoxuan's residence. Wu Daoxuan took this full gourd with him, half drank and half poured all the way, and there was still a lot left.
According to Wu Daoxuan's alcohol tolerance, this half gourd of wine would not make him drunk.
However, he was already drunk before, and now he drank half a gourd of "Lihuachun". The alcohol rushed up and directly washed away his consciousness that was gradually clearing up!
The world was spinning!
Wu Daoxuan was in this rotating world, swaying and unable to keep his body steady. He sat down on the ground and saw Pei Min holding a low table in front of him. The dark-skinned man, like an iron tower, suddenly turned into a thin and long-faced woman with a pale complexion and a red dress in front of Wu Daoxuan. The woman's eyes were green and she stared at him straight, without saying a word.
^.^,
He raised his head and looked at the woman. Waves of bone-chilling cold air drifted from the red-dressed woman. Wu Daoxuan immediately hugged his arms and shouted, "Cold! Cold! I'm freezing to death! Hei Saner! Hei Saner! General Pei Min! Dance with the sword, dance with the sword!" It was unknown whether it was his shouting that 'woke up' Hei Saner, or some other unknown circumstances, but Hei Saner, who had transformed into a thin-faced red-dressed woman, suddenly changed back. He looked at Wu Daoxuan who was sitting on the ground, and urged Wu Daoxuan fearfully: "Why are you still here?!
There is a ghost in my house, Wu Gongfeng!
Go away, go away!"
At the same time, he said to Wu Daoxuan with a smile: "Please draw a picture for us to help us suppress the ghost with your painting..."
"What's the difficulty?!"
Wu Daoxuan glanced at the smiling Hei San, and immediately grabbed the big brush on the low table, dipped it in thick ink, and wrote with it, leaving large pools of ink on the paper!
The ink brush seemed to have turned into a sword in his hand.
He kept muttering: "I will kill you, this evil, this evil..."
The brush in his hand kept moving, sketching a burly red-robed man with a ferocious face. The man had a red face and flying beard, and he looked a bit like General Pei Min. At this time, the red-robed man put one hand together to form a sword finger, pointing to the void in front, and grabbed the sword with the other hand, raised it above his head, and stabbed it into the void in front!
The meaning of exorcising evil spirits, slaying demons and killing evil spirits rose from the painting!
At this moment, Wu Daoxuan's consciousness seemed to fly out of his body and merge with the gods in the painting-the sword dance picture came to life, and the gods in the painting flew a sword light, stabbing straight at the thin and long-faced red-clothed woman in front-
The red-clothed woman howled and turned into a ball of red blood to avoid far away!
However, the sword light of the gods was as agile as a dragon, and it was faster than the sneaky speed after all, and it pierced through it in an instant and nailed it directly to the wall!
Suddenly, the light of the sky shone into the hall.
The whole house was suddenly bright!
On the wall of the house, there was a picture of a "god dancing with a sword" posted there. In the picture, the god had a red face and flying beard, holding a sword above his head, and the tip of the sword was stained with blood!
The body covered by a piece of coarse cloth on the bed board turned into pus, and a vague human figure was soaked on the coarse cloth.
The strong stench of corpse filled the bright hall.
Hei San and his two children fell around the bed board, their chests heaving and breathing. Wu Daoxuan staggered to his feet, and just as he walked out of the hall, he suddenly vomited, and then fell down at the steps of the hall, and passed out drunk, unconscious.
At this time, several riders galloped over and dismounted in front of the Black Courtyard. They ran into the house and suddenly saw the unconscious Wu Daoxuan. They were all horrified: "Are we too late?!"
"Rush here as soon as you get the news - you guys go and see if the neighbors around are harmed by ghosts!"
"You guys follow me inside to investigate the situation!"
The seven or eight men who came in a hurry were the bad guys of the Tang Dynasty.
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Huashan, because its peaks are like lotuses, it is sometimes called "Huashan". Because the mountain is close to the Yellow River Basin, the root of China, it is also regarded as the embodiment of the root of China, so it is named "Huashan".
This mountain is steep and has a unique mountain scenery. Therefore, countless celebrities and scholars in all dynasties have competed to climb this mountain, leaving countless inscriptions and poems on the mountain.
There are many temples and palaces in the mountain. When Su Wu and his party climbed the mountain, they did not see any tourists coming and going. They only saw a few Taoists in green clothes going back and forth on the dangerous mountain road. Even a brave warrior would hesitate again and again when approaching such a mountain road, but those Taoists who looked old could walk briskly on it, and their steps were as agile as monkeys.
The bad man Zhang Fang stopped a Taoist who was going up the mountain. According to Su Wu's instructions, he asked the Taoist: "Master, it is rumored that there are evil spirits in Huashan, so the government blocked Huashan and forbade tourists to climb Huashan. I wonder if this is true or not?"
The Taoist looked at Zhang Fang, then cast his gaze at Su Wu who was surrounded by the crowd in the center, and said: "True or false, how can I tell with just one word?
There is indeed unrest in Huashan Mountain recently - the 'Mrs. Zhang' who jumped off the cliff and died a few days ago has been haunting Huashan Mountain at night recently, crying and asking for her unfaithful lover's life. There is also thunder in the 'Thunder God Cave' all day long, but when people approach the cave, the thunder is silent, and the cave is pitch black without lightning.
And the woodcutter who died of old age while watching chess in the mountain is now active in various places in the mountain, and has attracted more than ten tourists before, and disappeared.
Do you think these signs are like evil spirits at work?"
Zhang Fang scratched his head when he heard this. He was asking the old Taoist a question, but he didn't expect that the other party would ask him in return. How could he know if there was really an evil spirit in the mountain?
But since the bad commander came to Huashan, something must have happened in the mountain.
The strange things the old Taoist said seemed to be evidence of that kind of incident.