Revolution in the depths of the soul

"Didn't the ancient kingdom of Bashu perish more than 2000 years ago?" Lin Jingfeng rang to indicate Zhan Xing.

Zhan Xing began to endorse like a robot: "The Bashu civilization is one of the most splendid mysterious ancient civilizations in the Sichuan and Chongqing areas of China. The origin of its formation is unreliable. According to the latest research report, it is speculated that it is the combination of aliens and earthlings..."

Lin Jingfeng: "It goes without saying that I guess."

Zhan Xing: "This civilization is represented by bronze wares and stone carvings. It was nearly 100 years ahead of the metallurgical technology at that time. It reached its peak in the Yin and Shang Dynasties. It stagnated for 800 years. During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, it began to communicate with other parts of the Central Plains, symbolizing totems. It's the chief's mask..."

Zhang Hui said: "Yes! You also know?"

Zhan Xing: "The sculptures unearthed from the ancient tomb of Sanxingdui have well reproduced the whole picture of the civilization at that time. From the late Spring and Autumn Period until the unification of the Qin Kingdom, Zhao, Qin and other countries used troops against Bashu at that time. Among them, there are two most famous ones, One time was Li Mu, and the other time was Wang Jian. In the end, Yingzheng unified the six countries, and made the world write and walk in the same way. In the 11th year of Qin Shihuang, Meng Tian led his troops to the Bashu area. This military action dealt a devastating blow to the ancient Bashu country. An ancient civilization with a history of nearly a thousand years ended."

Everyone listened quietly, Zhang Hui said: "And then?"

Zhan Xing: "Then? No more, it's not written in the book."

Zhang Hui said: "There are still others, but they are not recorded in your books."

"Bashu is a country without 'gods', and there are not even many totems." Zhang Hui said: "The whole clan is divided into patriarchs and priests, which are the two forces of 'kings' and 'witches'. Kings have always been women. Bomu', the position of a witch is a man, called a 'priest'."

Zhan Xingdao: "I know this, because the civilization that started from the Yin and Shang Dynasties has no habit of worshiping the gods of heaven and earth. Whether it is the Central Plains people or the Ba people, the ability to sacrifice and divination comes from the same place - ghosts. They don't worship heaven and earth. , but worship ancestors and the souls of the dead, and believe that ancestors will bless all people. Therefore, worshiping ghosts has become the main daily activity of witches and priests. , what is suitable for you today."

Zhang Hui nodded, and took a sip of his wine: "After the demise of Bashu, the tribesmen began to flee, some of them scattered into the Yunnan-Guizhou area and became outsiders, and the other part went deep into the Shiwanda Mountains. The old sacrificial methods were gradually assimilated by the ethnic minorities in the southwest. Start worshiping the natural totem. There is a descendant named 'Bo' (bo softly), have you heard of it?"

Lin Jingfeng immediately said: "I heard, Gong County, Sichuan."

Zhang Hui: "That's where they settled for the first time. The Bo people settled in southern Sichuan and western Sichuan, and developed again. Their abilities are very strong..."

Lin Jingfeng smiled and said, "How strong can it be?"

Zhang Hui said: "The method of raising and releasing Gu was brought by the Bo people, and then passed on to the 36 ethnic groups such as Miao, Yi, Dong, etc. Don't you know? The descendants of Hou Yi went to the salt water and met the salt girl. As a swarm of flying insects, let him settle by the salt water, build his own country, and promise to protect them for generations."

Zhan Xing took a breath: "It seems that there is such a legend."

Zhang Hui said: "She is the first generation of Gu God. At that time, Hou Yi's grandson Lin Jun became a priest, and Yan Nu became Bo's mother, guarding the entire ancient Bashu kingdom, and passed on the ability of witchcraft and summoning ghosts to the next generation.'Bo'' Didn’t you find out the origin of the word? Above the word ‘person’ are the pictographic symbols of two flying insects.”

Several people nodded, and Zhang Hui said again: "At the end of the Qin Dynasty, many people did not dare to call themselves Bashu survivors. They called themselves the Bo people, and they had a deep hatred with the Han people. After thousands of years, until the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di raised a big Large-scale extermination of the Bo people."

"At that time, all the Bo people retreated, retreated into the Yunnan-Guizhou area, merged with the 36 ethnic groups, and almost wiped out the entire ethnic group."

Lin Jingfeng said: "So?"

They all gradually guessed the central point of the problem. Zhang Hui must have an inseparable relationship with the Bo people.

Zhang Hui said: "The last thing that happened was more than 400 years ago, when the mother of that generation died, she didn't leave behind the divine light Gu."

Zhan Xing: "What is Divine Light Gu?"

Zhang Hui said: "Shenguang Gu and Xingchen Gu are a kind of insects that select the next generation of priests and Bomu. After each generation of priests and Bomu die, a Gu King will fly out of their bodies. It falls on a certain person in the clan, which means that person is the new clan leader. Most of the time, they are the heirs of priests or Bomu. Only when there are no heirs, boys and girls under the age of ten will be selected. Complete the handover ceremony."

Lin Jingfeng only felt a chill down his back, and asked: "Being possessed by the Gu King, can he be a priest? Is it the Gu King or himself who manipulates that person?"

Zhang Hui asked in astonishment: "Of course it's him, Gu King is almost unconscious, don't you understand?"

Huo Hu interjected: "This is the same as the reincarnation of Tantric Buddhism. They seal up part of their consciousness and hand it over to the next generation. Living Buddhas also use a similar method for reincarnation, but they are reincarnated by the soul, and then drink it with a stick or 'infuse the heart of the sky' method to recall the incantations of our sect.”

Lin Jingfeng nodded, but did not comment.

Zhang Hui said: "It's hard to believe, isn't it? The legend is like this. The cause of the death of the last generation of Bomu is very complicated. At that time, the whole family migrated to this place. The location we are in is called Qianshan Forest."

Tang Youdao: "Are you one of their descendants?"

Lin Jingfeng signaled, "Listen to him."

Zhang Hui dipped his fingers in the wine, and drew a rough map on the table: "This is the extreme edge of the Shiwan Dashan, and it is also the dragon's head of the mountain. After the Bo people migrated and stayed, they found that they are not welcome here."

"300 years ago, in the village on the mountainside, people died every night in the middle of the night. Around the ancient towns on the mountainside, there were Jinping, Kaili, Leishan, Rongjiang, and Basha. Dozens of ethnic groups lived there. If you have your own village, no matter which clan you belong to, one person will die every night."

"This person's skull was lifted, and his brain was completely hollowed out. No one knows where the evil spirit is. It comes and goes without a trace..."

Huo Hu's face instantly turned livid, and he couldn't help shaking.

"You know?" Lin Jingfeng frowned and asked, "Brother Hu? Do you know what that is?"

It took Huo Hu a while to recover: "I'm just choking on food..."

Lin Jingfeng: "..."

Zhang Hui continued: "The high priest took the remaining less than [-] clansmen to ask for divination from the ancestor ghosts, and the answer he got was that there was a mountain evil at the head of the dragon of the Hundred Thousand Mountains, that is, ghosts lurking in the mountains. The situation at that time was inescapable, and there was no place to bury the corpses of the ancestors. There was no other place to go except to hide in the mountains. Finally, the ghosts of the ancestors told the high priest a way to suppress the evil spirits in the mountains. The formation of witchcraft can make the peoples with a radius of three thousand miles live and work in peace and contentment."

Lin Jingfeng said: "After the Bo people came, they can not only know witchcraft, but also release Gu, so they should be well accepted by the local people."

Zhang Hui said disapprovingly: "A little bit, besides being able to help them, more people are afraid. In fact, Gu Art was not harmful in the first place. After all, there are so many people who don't like it in the world. It is because of this Because of this, the emperors of the Han people became afraid of the Bo people."

Zhan Xing urged again: "What happened later?"

Zhang Hui: "Later, Bo's mother was willing to refine herself into Gu, and formed a coffin array with the corpses of her ancestors, and went into the mountains to suppress the evil spirits. Human Gu is the most harmful to the peace of heaven, and only by being bitten by thousands of insects from the outside to the inside can the body be in harmony with it." Gu He, Bo's mother suffered so much, with a dead body bead in her mouth, she struggled for seven or 49 days before she died, but after she died, the high priest discovered that her body did not release the divine light Gu, that is to say, Bo The role of a mother is over in her generation."

Zhan Xing remembered the corpse-fixing orb that Zhang Hui was unwilling to hand over anyway, and vaguely guessed something inside.

Zhang Hui was silent for a long time, and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't drink, let's eat first."

Lin Jingfeng probably guessed a little bit, he took the bowl and said, "Drink."

Zhang Hui nodded, several people touched the bowls, Zhan Xing was still thinking about the previous matter, wanted to ask several times, but couldn't open his mouth, Zhang Hui spread the dishes for everyone after a while, Fang put down his chopsticks, and continued: "300 years Before, the high priest Fu Ling walked into the deepest part of the mountain. Bo's mother's human body, plus 72 ancestral coffins, began to set up a coffin array to suppress the evil spirits. In the end, neither he nor the clansmen he brought in came out again. Xingchen Gu flew out of the valley to choose the next high priest heir."

"The clansman waited for three months, and when they went in to check again, they found that the witch coffin array had been set up, the body of the high priest had disappeared, and the body of Bomu's human gu was in the middle of a basin, and the high priest had probably fallen into the mountain stream. There are no bones left. So that place is listed as a forbidden area, and no one who is not a priest is allowed to enter at will."

Zhan Xing couldn't help but said, "Then... Boom is still alive? No, I mean, she still stays there in the form of a human guru you just mentioned?"

Zhang Hui nodded: "With the corpse-fixing beads in his mouth, the corpse will not rot."

Lin Jingfeng looked at Zhang Hui and remained silent.

Zhan Xing asked again: "Why is the corpse-fixing pearl gone?" He recalled what Zhang Hui said in Liuzhou, because he lost a very important thing in the sect, he had a quarrel with his brother.

Lin Jingfeng said: "If you don't explain this clearly, I really can't help you."

Zhang Hui put down his chopsticks, obviously determined, and said truthfully: "It doesn't matter if you explain clearly. My brother and I used to study in Guiyang. After graduation, I made a girlfriend and brought them home."

"There is nothing interesting in the mountains. At that time, I was still living with my brother. He was in the village over there. It took a day to walk across this mountain. Brother, I don't know how to please girls. I thought we People, looking for a daughter-in-law with an education... is she who likes us, right."

Zhang Hui got drunk, Lin Jingfeng said: "That's true, but you shouldn't get used to it." After touching bowls with Zhang Hui, Zhang Hui looked at Zhan Xing and Lin Jingfeng, feeling quite touched, After a long time, he said again: "I'm just too used to it. Whatever she wants to play, I follow her. I've lived in our house for a few months. I've played everything I can. She wants to go into the mountains... it's the ancestral coffin array." The place."

Tang You slapped the table and shouted: "Uncle Hong is right! Women are disasters!"

Zhan Xing patted Zhang Hui on the shoulder understandingly: "You can't say that, the key is that you haven't met the right one."

Zhang Hui nodded and said, "Thank you, Brother Zhan is a nice guy, do you have a girl? If you have any, please introduce them to me?"

Zhan Xing shuddered, thinking that if Lu Yao came to this mountain, not to mention the Bomu coffin array, even the evil spirits in the mountain would have to be caught out to play with them before he was satisfied, so he immediately waved his hands and said: "It's nothing, My sister...well, 'also' is not a good thing, so I won't harm you."

Zhang Hui's eyes were red from drinking, and he smiled self-deprecatingly: "At that time, I took her there, thinking that I would just look around and don't touch anything, so I entered the forbidden area."

Zhan Xing continued: "The result will be troublesome."

Zhang Hui: "Indeed, how do you know?"

Zhan Xing: "This is generally the case in TV dramas and novels."

Zhang Hui: "..."

Lin Jingfeng: "Don't gloat, I owe you a beating again."

Zhan Xing said: "I will definitely help Zhang Hui, as long as I can help."

Zhang Hui said: "When I was sending her away, my brother chased her out. He said that the corpse bead was lost, and the evil spirit ran out. I suspected that she had moved something in the cave. I wanted to protect her, but I couldn't. My brother So people searched her body, but there was no result. I had to let her go."

With Zhang Hui's understatement, Zhan Xing could vaguely feel the intense conflict at that time and the humiliation Zhang Hui's girlfriend suffered.

"What happened next?" Tang You asked.

Zhang Hui said: "Later, I couldn't find the bead, and my daughter-in-law also blew it up. I sent her to Kaili, and she left. After a year, she said she was going to Australia to go abroad, and she never contacted her again."

Lin Jingfeng was concerned about another matter: "Has the evil spirit come out?"

Zhang Hui said: "I don't know, but in the past few years, I have heard of many murder cases. I guess it has already come out. My brother left home and went to dig a grave outside, but he couldn't find any replacement beads. I stay here , the more I thought about it, the more boring I became. I haven’t talked to him since the time I quarreled with him more than two years ago, so I might as well go out and look for it. Fortunately, I found it now, and I’ll go up the mountain in a few days.”

Lin Jingfeng was silent, Zhan Xing said in amazement: "Then why do you want us to help? We have already found it, so just put it back?"

"Not necessarily." Lin Jingfeng interrupted: "Since the first bead has nothing to do with that woman, who will take it?"

Zhang Hui nodded and said: "That's what I'm afraid of. If there are other details, it's hard to say. I still have to hire someone to help. I really don't want to quarrel with my brother. As for the salary... Brother, I don't have much money here. , only a little belongings..." Then he turned and went to rummage through the box.

"Hey." Zhan Xing hurriedly said: "Don't be like this, you invited us to play, how can you accept your reward?"

Lin Jingfeng said: "Answer me a question first, Zhang Hui, since it is a forbidden place, only priests are not allowed to enter, how did you get in?"

Zhang Hui found a box from under the bed and paused slightly.

"I am the priest." Zhang Hui said: "My brother is the high priest, and I am the young priest. The high priest is in charge of the life and death of the clan, and the young priest is in charge of praying for the ancestors."

Both Zhan Xing and Tang You were dumbfounded. Zhan Xing instantly felt that Zhang Hui's image was tall, elegant and precious. He had upgraded from a pair of tongs to a glittering royal diamond scepter, and from a Chinese pastoral dog to a famous German breed. The hound then said excitedly: "Young priest! We don't need any reward, let's shake hands! You are a prince! I have never shaken hands with someone above an earl in my life!"

Zhang Hui was extremely embarrassed, waved his hands and said, "What kind of prince, he's just a native of a dilapidated place."

Zhang Hui took out a knife, an ancient Shu mask, a large string of scattered pearls, and a few gold bars, and placed them on the table.

"Something my mother left me." Zhang Hui said: "If everyone is willing, it would be best if you can help me find out the matter. If not, let's go up the mountain, return the corpse-fixing beads to Bomu's body, and wait outside for ten days For half a month, if there is no abnormality after the monthly profit and loss round, this matter is over, and everyone said, it will not work."

"Brother, I don't have any more. Whatever you want, you can pick whatever you want from this box. Just take it. It's not worth a lot of money. It's just a little bit of my brother's kindness."

There were at least a million items in that box, and it was worth fighting Lin Jingfeng several times.

Tang You glanced at it casually, and said, "If you don't like it, don't, I'll just go, anyway, I've been a guest at your house for so long."

Although Zhan Xing liked antiques, he couldn't bear to want Zhang Hui's things, most of which were kept by his mother for his wedding, so he waved his hand to signal no.

Huo Hu took a pearl and tasted it, but he couldn't chew it, let alone wanted it.

Lin Jingfeng said: "No one wants it? Then give it to me."

Zhan Xing wanted to say something else, but Zhang Hui was very generous: "Okay, send someone along the way to see you off when you leave."

After a full meal, Zhang Hui got up and said: "After a long day's journey, everyone is also tired. Let's take a break early and rest in a few days before going to my brother's place. Since Brother Lin knows my brother, it's okay It’s much easier to say, and you don’t need to use force.”

Lin Jingfeng thought that the two brothers might be incompatible, otherwise Zhang Hui would not have moved so far, so he nodded and said, "Okay, I will take care of your brother."

Zhan Xing said: "Zhang Shuai is very nice, let me tell him about it."

Lin Jingfeng: "Don't be so naive, this is a family matter."

Zhang Hui sent everyone out, and each lived in a stilted building. Bedding and hot water had already been prepared. At night, the mountain breeze blew through the forest, and there was a brazier in the room to keep out the cold spring, which was very warm.

Tang You sat outside the room with his laptop on his lap. Next to him was a portable gasoline generator and a six-cylinder truck engine that Zhang Hui specially bought from the town. After Tang You improved it, it was more energy-saving and environmentally friendly. The first step is to burn gasoline to generate electricity and decompose well water to generate hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen is added, and after compression and combustion, the six-cylinder generator runs crazily, and the magnetic coil rotates rapidly, achieving the powerful effect of one machine supplying the whole village with electric lighting.

Tang You is charging the laptop.

Huo Hu lay sprawled on the roof basking in the starlight.

Zhang Hui stood in the open space in a daze.

In the quiet night, Zhan Xing and Lin Jingfeng had a fierce quarrel in the room, and several people were startled. Huo Hu jumped off the roof and wanted to go upstairs, but Zhang Hui stopped him and signaled him not to go.

Lin Jingfeng's suppressed voice vaguely said "you don't understand" and other words, Zhan Xing's voice gradually died down, and after a while, Lin Jingfeng went out, slammed the door behind him, and stood by the fence to smoke.Tang You and Huo Hu packed up their things and went back to their rooms.

Zhang Hui said: "Brother, this can't work, don't quarrel."

Lin Jingfeng waved his hand and sighed.