Chapter 04 Digging the ground three feet to hide the secluded courtyard
"Uncle, what exactly is the cause of Earth Demon?" Lin Jie couldn't help asking on the way.
Old man Huangya glanced at him and said impatiently: "What a great man, I sound like a swearing."
"The old man is called Su Daoquan, call me Dao Master."
"Uh... Master Dao, what's that thing?"
Su Daoquan smacked his lips, his face calmed down slightly, and he took out a cigarette from his mouth, snapped his fingers, and lit the cigarette.
Lin Jie looked at it and was stunned, but he was not surprised.
"It's been a long time since I've been creating a demon. Let me tell you a story."
Su Daoquan took a deep breath, spit out smoke rings from his mouth, and then his eyes became a little lonely.
"The past was not as good as before. At that time, there were wars everywhere, and corpses were everywhere. Every day, who could survive was not bent over and begging for life?"
Master Dao muttered, not as if he was telling a story, but as if he was telling it to himself.
"At that time, there was a village in western Sichuan. There was a baby in the village. When he was fifteen, his parents were bombed to death, and even his bones were not left. Later, he became a tenant of a local landlord's family. He worked so hard that he didn't have much left after the food he handed over."
"That bitter baby was exploited and lived a life of hardship, but at least he had his life in troubled times."
"However, one year, things turned around and his life suddenly became rich. Not only did he pay off all the food owed to the landlord's family, but he even had the fragrance of meat coming from his family every day."
"A man, once he gets better, he will be able to roll his eyes and stare at him red eyes. Soon, his affairs will reach the ears of the landlord."
"The landlord is a powerful character. He calmly sent someone to investigate secretly. Only then did he realize that the baby secretly reclaimed a piece of wasteland in the back mountain and planted a lot of crops."
"The strangest thing is that the crops planted there will be ripe in one day, and after harvesting every day, they will grow again the next day, and this will be repeated."
"The landlord felt incredible after hearing this. He believed that there were treasures in the land and took people there that night. Who knew that the doll had been there long ago. When the landlord arrived, he saw a big pit in the wasteland, with soil piled up next to it. The doll happened to crawl out of the pit and was holding a bead in his hand."
"Bead?" Lin Jie couldn't help but say when he heard this.
Su Daoquan was a little dissatisfied and said in a deep voice: "Yes, it's just a bead, the size of a palm."
"The bead is the treasure buried in the soil. Some say it is the night pearl, some say it is the longan. After the dragon hidden in the mountains dies, the eyeballs left behind. Some say it is the treasure of the land master, which leaked out of the mansion."
"Anyway, there are all kinds of things. The landlord would not give up when he saw this treasure, but the baby would rather die than follow him and escape into the mountains with his beads."
"The landlord had already become greedy and ignored it. He set fire to the mountain. The fire burned for a day and a night, and the whole mountain was gone, but the baby did not come out."
"He was burned to death?" Lin Jie asked.
Su Daoquan nodded: "It should be, but no body was found."
"In this way, after about half a year, strange things began to happen in the village. First, an ancient well in the village was dried up. The ancient well had been passed down for almost a hundred years and had raised several generations. It suddenly dried up. The old people in the village thought it was an ominous sign."
"Later, the village gave birth to dead babies one after another, and someone invited Feng Shui master, but the man never came out again after entering the mountains. At this time, the saying that the baby turned into a ghost after his death was spreading, and many villagers began to migrate. In less than a year, the village became deserted and became a dead village."
"After many years, a traveling monk passed by here. He recited scriptures at the foot of the deep mountain for seven days. He couldn't do it when he went back that night. He left his last words. After he died, he buried the Buddhist beads beside him in the dry well in the village. Three days later, he entered the deep mountain. If he saw a white dead tree, he would push it down and dig it open."
"After the monk died, a benevolent person did as he did, and he found the dead tree in the mountains, all white, like a dry bone."
"Everyone pushed the dead tree away and dug three feet into the ground. They found a skeleton. Scale had grown on half of their body, and the hand bones were still growing, which was extremely scary."
"Creating evil!?" Lin Jie's eyelids twitched and he said in a daze.
Su Daoquan nodded: "The baby has a terrifying evil spirit. Once it grows out, the consequences will be unimaginable. As a result, a fire is burned and the place is peaceful. Even so, the land in the village has not grown for ten years."
"So awesome?"
"Nonsense, do you know what the Earth Demon is?"
Lin Jie shook his head and said he didn't know it. He thought, "This question is not nonsense. If he knew, he would have to ask you?"
"As the saying goes, there are gods three feet above your head, but there is still half a sentence, you probably haven't heard it."
"What?"
"Dig a three-foot-foot-digging ground to hide the secluded courtyard."
"What does it mean?".
"Mountains, rivers, the veins of the earth, rivers, essences and blood of the earth, strange stones, roots and bones of the earth..."
"If the earth is regarded as a person, then there are many things you cannot see hidden under this 'skin', and we call it Youting."
"A old place can easily produce a quiet courtyard after a hundred years or even thousands of years of reproduction and development. No one knows what is hidden inside."
"Just like that bead?" Lin Jie asked subconsciously.
Su Daoquan nodded: "If a land has spirituality, there will be more talents born here. This is the so-called outstanding people and spirits. Over time, a quiet courtyard will form under the land."
"From ancient times, Youting has been regarded as a treasure land by those who practice Taoism. Even many mountain spirits and wild monsters will occupy Youting and use it as a mansion. In this way, the chance of achieving a positive result will be greatly increased." What Su Daoquan said completely beyond Lin Jie's understanding.
These things are so unavailable that you can't listen to them on weekdays.
In his opinion, it was like the bones of animals and plants buried deep underneath for ten thousand years, and after transformation, they would turn into coal, oil and other energy sources.
The same should be true for the You Mansion that Su Daoquan said, but their changes may be even more mysterious.
Lin Jie also heard similar legends after he was a child. There is a pagoda in his hometown. I heard that it was built by the city. It was used to suppress monsters. It has a history of hundreds of years and is considered a relatively famous cultural monument in the local area. However, the highest floor is never open to the public.
I heard that there was a relic hidden in the pagoda, which was dug out of the ground.
One year, during a major earthquake, the houses in the city were damaged to varying degrees, but the pagoda was not damaged, but the beams of the houses were cracked.
Later, the tower was sealed. Some people said that when I saw a big python that night, I saw an earthquake strangled the tower body. Maybe it was because of the stuff pressed by the pagoda that I ran out. After that, the pagoda never opened to the public again.
"A quiet courtyard is almost the crystallization of spirituality in this land for thousands of years, but once it is combined with the five qi of evil, evil, disaster, desire, and death, it will turn into an evil spirit."
After hearing this, Lin Jie finally knew what the so-called "destruction of Earthly Demons" was.
While talking, the two stopped. Lin Jie looked up and had arrived at Dongda University.
"Master Dao, this thing is so powerful, let's still come?" Lin Jie said guiltily.
Su Daoquan gave him a blank look: "You are all dead, afraid of a ghost? At most, you will be scattered."
Chapter completed!