Taboos in the Underworld: Starting from being paid a lot of money to beg for a child

"Why, Siqi?"

I asked doubtfully. Judging from Wang Siqi's expression, there seemed to be something scary in Xianglong Mountain.

Wang Siqi said while adding firewood to the stove:

"My mother-in-law told me that Xianglong Mountain is haunted and it makes it very restless at night. Although I have never seen it, my mother-in-law never let me go to Xianglong Mountain to play. Not only my mother-in-law, but also other grandparents in the village did not let their children Go up and play.”

"Oh, I heard that there is an expert who is very good at voodoo living on Xianglong Mountain. Does Siqi know about him?"

I continued to ask.

"Gu magic?" Wang Siqi asked doubtfully:

"The voodoo technique that big brother is talking about refers to the method of using those poisonous bugs as medicine to attract others to cure their illnesses?"

"Uh... Siqi, that's more or less the case. The voodoo you're talking about is not the same as the one I'm talking about. Yours is used to cure diseases, while what I'm talking about is harmful to people."

After I killed the chicken, I started preparing to scald and pluck the feathers.

"Then I don't know. Maybe my mother-in-law knows. She has lived here for seven or eighty years. When I was a child, she often told me ghost stories about Xianglong Mountain. Later, I became very afraid of Xianglong Mountain, so my mother-in-law would always tell me when I was crying. Just say that if you want me to be thrown to Xianglong Mountain, I will never dare to cry again."

Wang Siqi also stood up and began to come over to help me pluck my hair.

The senior sister smiled and said:

"Haha, what is the content of the ghost story on Xianglong Mountain that your mother-in-law told you?"

While plucking the chicken feathers, Wang Siqi told us a story that her mother-in-law told her.

More than 30 years ago, Xianglong Mountain was just an ordinary mountain.

There is nothing strange about this mountain. The current legend about ghosts on Xianglong Mountain is entirely due to an incident that happened more than 30 years ago.

There used to be an abandoned nunnery deep in Xianglong Mountain, where some monks and nuns who had escaped during the destruction of the Four Olds lived there.

There were about a dozen of them, and the Miao family were very enthusiastic. Although they had different beliefs, they were all human beings, so they accepted them.

Not only did they help them reclaim wasteland to grow food, but they also gave them pots, pans, bedding, pillowcases and other daily necessities when they came out to ask for alms.

These monks and nuns gradually settled down in the nunnery.

This nunnery is very old, it should be more than 100 years old.

After it was abandoned, no one took care of it. The local Mr. Yin Yang said that the place gathered yin to bring blessings and could benefit future generations, so many people would bury their deceased elders there just a few miles away.

When the monks and nuns moved in, the area around the nunnery had turned into a medium-sized cemetery.

These monks and nuns are all real monks and nuns. After they live in the nunnery, they start chanting sutras and worshiping Buddha.

Some souls who had died unjustly around them slowly lost their resentment under the chanting of Sanskrit scriptures and were even saved.

These people are Buddhists who devote themselves to practicing Buddhism and doing good deeds, so they are very loved by the local villagers.

But the good times didn't last long. Just over a year after they moved in, an extremely unbelievable thing happened.

It was a local hunter who discovered this.

Since the nunnery is located far away from the village, I usually don't go to the nunnery if I don't have anything to do.

This hunter went up to the mountains to hunt pheasants, and unknowingly he came to the nunnery.

But when we got there, we discovered that all the graves around the nunnery had been dug open.

The bones and corpses in the coffin were all taken out, and there was no movement in the nunnery.

He used to go hunting in the mountains and would rest on the mountains if it was late. He had never seen the nunnery so quiet before.

Orion is very courageous. When he saw that all the graves were dug up, he thought it was the monks and nuns in the nunnery who did it.

These graves are the ancestors of the surrounding villagers.

This disrespectful behavior made him very angry.

He angrily wanted to find an explanation from the monks and nuns.

But when he entered the nunnery, he found that the nunnery was full of corpses.

And these corpses are those of monks and nuns.

He was frightened to see so many people suddenly dead.

The sun had already set by that time, and it was almost dark.

He turned around and prepared to run out, but after running less than a few dozen meters, he was pulled by a force.

He turned around and saw that an evil ghost was holding him.

Without saying a word, he shot the shotgun towards the evil ghost with his backhand.

As soon as he shot out, the evil ghost immediately retreated.

He thought his gun could kill ghosts.

But in fact it is not.

Because when the evil ghost retreated, two people sprinted past him.

I heard that these two people, one wearing a Taoist robe and the other a cassock, looked like outsiders.

Seeing someone coming to the rescue, he ran towards the village.

It took him more than an hour to run home. His shoes were gone and his clothes were torn by the branches along the road. He was exhausted when he got home.

After arriving home, he was still in shock.

When he said that all the monks and nuns in the nunnery were dead, almost everyone in the village came over to ask what happened.

He said it again.

The next day, people from the village also organized people to go to the nunnery. After they went to the nunnery, they also found that the inside of the nunnery was indeed what the hunter said.

Everyone inside was dead.

The two men wearing Taoist robes and cassocks that Orion mentioned were missing.

Now that the grave had been dug, they did not proceed with the burial, following the calculations of the local Yin Yang master.

They put all the corpses or bones into coffins and carried them into the nunnery together.

Then a fire burned all the corpses and the nunnery.

Since then, everyone has known that there are evil spirits on Xianglong Mountain who not only dig graves but also kill many people.

"Is that hunter still there?" I asked doubtfully.

Wang Siqi shook her head and said:

"He was gone a long time ago. My mother-in-law said he had a high fever the day after he came back and died within a few days."

Wang Siqi told this story fluently, and she had obviously heard it countless times.

There are some parts that even she herself doesn't believe, from a certain point of view.

I don't believe it either, if it's really an evil ghost.

It would definitely not dig those graves. Doing so would mean nothing to an evil spirit.

"Do you know what that evil spirit looks like?"

I continued to ask. At this time, the chicken feathers had been plucked clean. Wang Siqi put the chicken on the chopping board and prepared to chop it.

"A black suit, green face, red boots..."

A hoarse voice came in.

I turned around and saw an old man with white hair standing at the door of the kitchen house. He looked at us with a smile and continued:

"Welcome guests from afar."

"Hello."

"Hello."

My senior sister and I greeted each other politely.

Wang Siqifang stopped what she was doing and shouted, then looked at us and said:

"Big brother, big sister, this is my grandpa, he lives right across the street, eh? Grandpa, can you also speak Mandarin?"

This old man looks to be between six and seventy years old. Since he is Wang Siqi's great-grandfather, he should also be named Wang.

He revealed the face of the evil spirit, obviously someone who had heard the original story.

His words made me somewhat believe in the authenticity of this story.

I say:

"Grandpa Wang, did any hunter personally tell you about the appearance of this evil ghost you mentioned?"

Grandpa Wang nodded and said:

"That's how the old man described it. It's been too long. He said a lot at that time, and I can't remember it clearly. But there's one thing Siqi didn't know. This is what we later discovered when we went to Shao'an Hall. Among the monks and nuns who passed away, one monk survived. When we burned down the nunnery, we came back and asked the old man. He said that among the two people who saved him, the one in cassocks really looked like a monk in the temple. . But the monk is missing now. Alas, it’s so tragic. We estimate that the monk went out and invited a Taoist priest to catch the evil ghost together. We didn’t see the bodies of the two of them later. We all thought that they You should kill that evil spirit and leave this sad place..."

"I hope so."

I said thoughtfully.

"Grandpa, since you're here, let's have dinner together. I'll kill a chicken to entertain my brothers and sisters."

Wang Siqi knew that Grandpa Wang could speak Mandarin, so she simply spoke in Mandarin.

Grandpa Wang laughed and said:

"I just came here because of the smell. Your chicken is the most delicious in every village in the world. By the way, Siqi, where is my aunt?"

"My mother-in-law is in the room. She said she would prepare a gift for the guests."

Wang Siqi said while chopping the chicken.