Duan Gong drove away the corpse, and the barnyard official hooked the soul.This is a folk legend that circulates north of the Yangtze River.The duan gong and barnyard officer in this sentence are not some wicked people as everyone thinks, but an ancient profession.These two titles may be a little vague to everyone when they are understood literally, but if I put it another way, it may be easy for everyone to understand, that is, Jiangbei corpse chaser.These two kinds of people have only been active in the north of the Yangtze River since ancient times, and coexist with the corpse chasers in Xiangxi.Duan Gong and the barnyard officials were originally the same clan, but because most people were unwilling to rely on the imperial power to make a living, there was a disagreement, and the talents of the folk life took the title of Duan Gong from scratch, and since then they have been incompatible.I've heard a lot of legends about corpse chasers, but most of the legends are biased towards Duan Gong's use of Gu to control corpses, and since these rumors are relatively common, I'm not too interested in Duan Gong's business.As for the barnyard officials, there was a term for barnyard officials in ancient times, and the barnyard officials refer to the royal storytellers around the emperor, that is, they specially told stories to the emperor, and the most important thing is that it is said that their stories are heard from the mouths of ghosts.In addition, the legend says that some barnyard officials will also hook the soul to deceive people's hearts, otherwise they will not stay by the emperor's side for a long time, and more importantly, the barnyard officials' methods are different from Duan Gong, Duan Gong is aimed at the dead, while the barnyard officials are aimed at the living, so for a long time people are panicked, and Duan Gong has to enter the palace countless times to assassinate.The method of seducing the soul has always been the mystery of the legend, but from the clues I learned from my visits to the people, this method should be misunderstood by the world because of the underdevelopment of science and technology in ancient times, in fact, the real means of seducing the soul is very technical.However, due to the fact that there are too few records of barnyard officials in historical documents, and secondly, because of the decline of the barnyard officials due to the progress of the times, the real soul hooking technique is also in danger of being lost.My name is Hua Ming, and I am a contributing writer for a weird magazine, and I have recently accidentally come into contact with the above materials, so I suddenly wanted to write some related stories.Unfortunately, I visited the source of the strange story, but I didn't get much, and just when I was about to give up, I suddenly saw a bright willow, and I didn't expect that the real legend had always been by my side, but this legend came with some twists and turns.Early in the morning when I returned to Beijing from Hunan, I received a call from my father, who spoke in a very low voice, telling me that my grandfather was dying, and that he hoped that I could go back to see him for the last time.I grew up with my grandfather, and the relationship between my grandfather and grandson is naturally deep-rooted, and when I heard that my grandfather was critically ill, I naturally couldn't sleep and eat, so I drove back to my hometown that night.My hometown is located on the Loess Plateau, on the east bank of the middle reaches of the Yellow River, and has been one of the birthplaces of the Chinese nation since ancient times.However, at that time, I was worried about my critically ill grandfather, and I didn't have the leisure to sigh at the ancient historical legends, but drove at full speed and kept running towards the county seat.The house in the county town was bought with the first pot of gold I earned, in order to fulfill my filial piety, repay my parents' nurturing kindness, and more importantly, let my grandfather enjoy happiness.Because the conditions in the county are much better than in the countryside, and it is relatively convenient to seek medical treatment when I am sick, I specially asked my father to take my grandfather over.But the helpless thing is that my grandfather can't let go of those old friends in the countryside, and he is afraid that the old house of the Hua family will be unattended and abandoned, and the whole family persuaded him several times before he finally got through the ideological work, but after I got home, I heard my mother say that my grandfather had already returned to the countryside, and said that he had to die in the old house.As soon as I heard this, I was so anxious that I hurriedly asked my mother to get in the car, and then drove straight to Mingdu Village in the direction of my ancestral home.Along the way, I also asked my mother about my grandfather's illness, and my mother's statement was that birth, old age, sickness and death are common, and grandpa is already old, and he can't leave if he doesn't want to.After hearing these words, my heart also felt pantothenic acid, and my mind was full of the happy times I spent with my grandfather when I was a child, and the more I thought about it, the faster my car drove.Mingdu Village is about 40 kilometers away from the county seat, belongs to the edge of the municipal jurisdiction, the road condition is not very good, and the car is blocked by the big coal car before reaching the entrance of the village.Seeing that I couldn't enter the village for a while, I simply threw the car on the main road and walked into the village.There was no street light along the way, and I was in a hurry to move forward, at this time my mother advised me to slow down, and I was worried that my elderly mother would fall, so I helped her to move forward together.I am very familiar with the road into the village, which was the only way for my grandfather and I to run together when I was a child.I remember that at that time, I didn't like to exercise, so my grandfather made me a small red flag and asked me to run towards the sun with the red flag, saying that I could grow taller quickly, and I wouldn't have to run every day when I grew up.I still remember that I ran out dozens of miles away several times for this sentence, my face did not change and my heart did not beat, but my grandfather was so tired that he could no longer run.I couldn't help crying when I thought of these beautiful old days, and walked for more than 20 minutes without saying a word, if my mother hadn't said don't leave the old house, I'm afraid I would have been immersed in good memories and continued to walk.Today's old mansion of the Hua family has become a key cultural relics protection unit, not to mention the timely repair, but also gave a large amount of capital injection, so at this time the old mansion is brightly lit, and the whole picture of the ancient building can be seen from afar.I heard my grandfather say that the ancestral house of the Hua family is the mansion of the ancestor of the Huayuelou in the late Qing Dynasty, and the Mingdu Village is the fief of the Gaozu, and it is said that it is still rewarded by the Queen Mother of the West, and most of the stories are little known, and I only know that the Huajia Gaozu Huayuelou is the royal storyteller around the Queen Mother of the West.It is indeed incredible that a storyteller can worship the four products, and the most incredible thing is that when the Empress Dowager Xi fled the capital, she took him away with her, so it wasn't until I wanted to write the story of the barnyard official hooking the soul that I suddenly realized that this flower family ancestor Huayuelou is likely to be a barnyard official who can hook the soul.We walked quickly into the old house, straight to grandpa's bedroom, before pushing the door of the door suddenly opened, at this time the father and I looked at each other for a while, and couldn't help but sigh: "He said that you arrived and you really arrived, it seems that his old man has been waiting for you" I didn't care what my father said, I quickly walked to my grandfather's bed, reached out to hold his thin hand, and said with tears in his eyes: "Grandpa, I'm back, are you okay?"
Grandpa, who was almost dying, suddenly opened his eyes slowly, the corners of his mouth grinned, his lips moved a few times, and I quickly put my ears on them.I didn't hear a word of what he said, and when I saw him like this, I felt even more guilty, and I used two lines of tears to cover up the shamelessness of my inner world.My cry began to choke, and my hand tightened, but at this moment, I suddenly felt the force of my grandfather's hand, and the nail of my index finger pierced my palm.I screamed in pain, and I wanted to quickly withdraw my hand, but what I didn't expect was that my grandfather's hand was as strong as pliers at this time, and I couldn't get rid of it at all.It didn't take long for Grandpa's hands to start shaking violently, and this trend soon spread all over his body.His neck was straight, his mouth was wide open, and his breathing was rapid.Everyone thought that he was making a fuss, and generally at this time, if he couldn't get up in one breath, he would definitely not be able to do it, so the other people also surrounded him with a hula and helped his grandfather to smooth his breath.But what I didn't expect was that at this time, my grandfather suddenly stopped convulsing, and sat up slowly with his elbows on the bed, and I also took this opportunity to withdraw my hands, and I saw that my hands were full of blood, and in addition to the pain, I was slightly itchy.Because my grandfather's behavior was abnormal at this time, I didn't pay attention to my injury, wiped it with a tissue, and quickly stepped forward to support my grandfather's arm.At this time, my grandfather's mental state was obviously much better than when I first entered the door, and I also knew that this was the return to the light before death.At this time, Grandpa also took a few deep breaths surrounded by the whole family, and suddenly looked down at the wound on my hand, and then sighed and said, "Except for Xiao Ming, everyone else goes out, I want to say a few words to him alone." ”Parents and uncles looked at each other, and walked out one after another without saying anything.The moment the door was closed, my grandfather grabbed my injured hand again, and said in a slightly trembling voice: "There is a wooden box under the bed, you can help me take it out." ”Following my grandfather's instructions, I took out a very delicately made wooden box from under his bed, and when I opened it, I realized that there was only a tattered thread-bound book, and there were many black stains on the paper.At this time, Grandpa reached out and took the book, stared at it with a smile for a while, and then gently patted the back of my hand and said, "When I was a child, you didn't often ask me why the Empress Dowager Xi was so good to the Huajia Gaozu Huayue Building, and now I will tell you why." ”As soon as I heard this, I also leaned forward, and at this time, my grandfather suddenly said softly with a serious face: "Because Huayuelou is a barnyard official who can hook souls, he will do whatever he says the Queen Mother of the West, do you understand what I mean" Before I could digest this sentence, my grandfather handed over the thread-bound book to me and advised: "The Ten Methods of Hooking Souls are painstakingly collected by barnyard officials in the past dynasties, you have to be careful to put it away, take the time to keep it in mind, and master as much as you can, and the future of the barnyard official will be in your hands in the future."
You remember, this book is a disaster or not a blessing, and I burned it after reading it, and the reason why I gave this thing to you is because I know that you are the simplest and most vulnerable person in the Hua family. ”When I heard the word barnyard official, I suddenly chuckled in my heart, and then I realized that the clue that I hadn't found when I stepped on the iron shoes some time ago turned out to be not far from me, and at the same time I knew that all this seemed to be a certainty.I don't know why, I suddenly felt that everything in front of me appeared too suddenly and incredible, because I had never heard my grandfather mention the word barnyard official when I was so old, and even my father never talked about it, they deliberately hid it from me for what it was or said that all this had to wait until the right time to tell me to think, grandpa suddenly coughed a few times, and then grabbed my injured hand again, and put a very slippery bracelet on my wrist, at this time I also suddenly felt the tingling feeling in my palm disappeared instantly, At the same time, grandpa suddenly said with a serious expression at this time: "The bracelet must not be lost, otherwise you will definitely die in twelve days." ”Speaking of this, he suddenly began to laugh stupidly, as if he had completely changed a person, and after a long while, he muttered to himself: "In fact, even if you don't lose it, you can only live for half a year at most, I have been fighting with the corpse Gu Xuekui for half my life, but I didn't expect to hurt my most distressed good grandson when I was about to enter the coffin, what a retribution, what a sin" After saying this, he laughed madly again, and it didn't take long for him to fall straight down.Grandpa didn't close his eyes when he died, and I knew that he still had a wish to fulfill it, so he didn't blink an eye.I also had a nightmare that night, I dreamed that the grandfather who was lying on the corpse suddenly grabbed my hand, stared at me with a pair of eyes that only had white eyeballs left, and said with a crazy smile: "My good grandson, if you can't bear it, come down and accompany me" I suddenly woke up from the nightmare, and when I opened my eyes, I saw that the wound in my palm had been scarred and fell off, and I was surprised that the wound healed so quickly At the same time, I suddenly saw a black slender insect under the skin of my forearm crawling quickly to my shoulder, and it didn't take long for my whole body to be like a needle prick, rolling on the ground in pain.i0t1706231537: