Chapter 8 Chapter 8: The Head on the Stairs

In the building at the intersection of Weijiafen, the last owner is the head of the temple fair. Let’s first talk about what the head of the temple fair does. There is a saying that "going to the market will do business", and going to the big market to go to the temple fair, everything Yes, yes, in the old society there were a large number of people who went to the rivers and lakes to make a living. Although these people did not fight anywhere, they each had their own livelihood, but in the society, it was self-contained, and those who could gather these people in one place would be First of all, the leader of the meeting must be able to enjoy both black and white dishes. When he sees an open space for a temple fair, he first takes out his wallet and asks people to tie up rows of mat sheds, and then puts those people who sell arts and set up stalls in the rivers and lakes. Come together, those who sell plasters, fortune-tellers, those who hold big heads, those who play bears, those who sell tricks, those who sell needles and brains, those who talk about storytelling, those who talk about cross talk, those who sing big drums, those who play foreign films, and those who practice acrobatics Yes, in short, these people who run around the rivers and lakes all go to the place booked by the leader to do business. After the business is completed, everyone has to give the leader some money, and the leader earns this money. Yes, the leader usually invites a stilt team and troupe. The leader who lives in this building also leads a stilt team himself. Those stilt outfits and other things are usually stored in his home.

Master Guo and the three of them looked at the furnishings in the house. They were nothing more than tables, chairs, mirrors, beds, and big dusters. They were no different from ordinary houses, except that everything was covered with dust, and there was still a lot of water in the house. The traces of the flood that year, no one can be seen, filled with an indescribable strange atmosphere. Li Daleng felt his scalp go numb, so he could only hum a few outrageous dramas in his mouth to strengthen himself: "The black-faced hero belongs to Li Kui, but there is a Mao Zhang Fei in the Three Kingdoms who carries a steel whip Hei Jingde , who did Bao Wenzheng sit in the palace for?" These two lines of libretto are all allusions of performing martial arts in the town house. According to folklore, singing martial arts in a haunted house can drive away evil spirits. Don't tell me, singing these two lines is really courageous, so Master Guo didn't stop him either, and he continued humming: "The white-faced hero belongs to Luo Cheng, Jingyanggang is Wu Song who fights the tiger, Nanhu reports to Gao Junbao, and Changban Po Xia Zhao Zilong. The red-faced hero belongs to Yunchang, who kills and sets fire It's Meng Liang, Wang Junke with a big sword in his hand, Zhao Kuangyin sent Jingniang thousands of miles away. The blue-faced hero is Zhu Wen, Cheng Yaojin sits in the palace in Shanxi, and Shan Xiongxin, the hegemony of Henan, holds a big sword and Gai Suwen..."

Stepping on the thick wooden stairs, the three brothers went up to the second floor. There were several large wooden boxes on this floor, and the walls were covered with gongs and drums on stilts. There are few props, and there is a bear head with black hair on the face, which is the black bear spirit in the stilt costume. Before they looked into the house through the broken window and saw that scary strange face, it might be this thing, brother The three children were nervous for a long time, and when they saw clearly that they were dressed on stilts, they each let out a sigh of relief. In the past, the stilts performed in temple fairs or fairs not only stood on two wooden stilts to walk, but also performed various movements while walking. It is not surprising that there are all kinds of gods and ghosts in folklore, and the first house of the temple fair of the stilt team. Li Daleng spat and cursed to smash those god-faced outfits: "Fuck him for eight generations!" Ancestor, this thing almost frightened the soul out, if it spreads out, it will really ruin the reputation of the three of us."

Master Guo said: "Brother, don't play tricks on the old lady. You may be misjudged when you can't keep it together." The people are clear, I can't even see a mouse, only some things that no one has stolen, and it seems that no one has lived in this building for two years, only the basement has not been seen. It’s just a few steps away. They discussed going down to have a look before talking. They lifted the cover under the stairs. There was a section of wooden steps. When they went down, they found that the inside was very deep, cold and creepy, and the walls were made of striped blue bricks. , the surface of these blue bricks is delicate and smooth, with the yin energy of the old tomb, at first glance they are tomb bricks in the ancient tomb, unexpectedly there is an old tomb underneath.

When the basement was dug out, an old grave was dug under the building. No one knew what was dug up, but the grave made of blue bricks was still there, and the grave bricks were very strong, so there was no major movement. Used as a basement for storage. From Li Shanren Park to the intersection of Weijia Wafang, in the eyes of people who know Fengshui, there is a situation called the golden tail centipede shape. The lotus pond in Li Shanren Park is the tail, and the intersection of Weijia Wafang is the head. It is not surprising that there are ancient tombs from the Ming and Qing dynasties or even older in this place, but now there is only a tomb hole left. Last year, it was flooded for more than half a month, and the white gray surface on the wall peeled off. , All the bricks on the four walls of the grave have been loosened.

Master Guo thought about this in his heart, picked out a brick, held it in front of his eyes and looked at it. Li Daleng asked: "Brother, what do you want to sing with a brick?" Master Guo said: "I think this is a gold brick. Haven't you heard that Liu Jinding was beaten by the Brick of the Trapped Soul Array?" Li Daleng said: "I really haven't heard of this one, do you have something to say?" Master Guo said: "Of course there is a saying. During the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a female general named Liu Jinding who was taught by a different person. With the knife in the crotch and the five elements, taking the head of a general from a million troops is like picking something out of a bag. There has never been any opponent in the front of the two armies, until the enemy camp invited an expert to set up a soul trap and beat Liu Jinding to death with three gold bricks. Anyone who practices black magic is afraid of being hit by a brick, even if it is not a gold brick, no one can stand the brick on anyone's head."

Li Da was stunned when he heard this, and he also took a grave brick from the wall and put it in his arms. If he saw someone in the building, he would greet him with this grave brick first without saying a word. Master Guo said this to embolden Li Daleng. He took off the ancient bricks on the wall, in fact, intending to see if they were bricks from the old tomb. If there is indeed an ancient tomb in Tianjin Wei, five or six A hundred years is not considered ancient, and there are also those that are even older. Don’t look at the Ming Dynasty when the city was built. In fact, it was a river transport hub during the Northern Song Dynasty. The place names include Ziyahe and Chentangzhuang, all of which came from King Wu’s defeat of Zhou. The allusions of the time can be traced back thousands of years. In addition, there are many old kilns under the Tianjin Acropolis, which are the places where bricks were fired to build the city in ancient times. A kiln with a brick kiln, in all such places, the terrain is generally relatively high, because the bottom is full of kiln bricks, and the unusable residual bricks that were burnt out at the beginning are piled up layer by layer, year after year, day after day, and as time goes by It gradually turned into the ground, which is a lot higher than other places, so every time there is a flood, these places cannot be submerged. It is said that Fengshui is good, because the bottom is full of kiln bricks, there are no tombs, and the living is clean. There are also several craftsmen who have fired kiln bricks for generations among the residents there. Master Guo knows a few such people and often hears them talk about bricks. The bricks fired in brick kilns are also different in different ages. Hearing and seeing a lot, it can be called a little bit of this way. The blue bricks in the basement are really grave bricks, and they are old bricks from ancient tombs, engraved with fish and dragon patterns, and they are by no means modern.

Due to the long history, the ground has changed a lot, the construction of roads, bridges and houses, and the diversion of the original river have changed the feng shui situation, so Zhang Banxian can't see the previous feng shui situation. He only knows that it is probably at the intersection. I found an old grave hundreds of years ago, and the bricks used in the tomb were also of different specifications. It must be a tomb occupying a certain situation. Therefore, it can be confirmed that the golden-headed centipede cave at the intersection of Weijiawafang most likely refers to this An old grave.

The air in the tomb is poor, making people breathless, the water moon lamp in his hand flickers on and off, it looks like the walls are empty, there is nothing, there is an empty tomb. Master Guo said in his heart: "There is no trace of Lian Huaqing in the tile-roofed house of the Wei family. It seems that the dream of the earth temple in Chentangzhuang is unbelievable. Say, it’s a waste of time, what is this called?” You said it was so small, the three of them had no results, just about to turn around and go out, suddenly heard a sound from above the grave hole, it was someone stepping on the floor and making a "creaking" sound, Master Guo's heart moved: "No one lives in the building all the time , the tomb is also empty, and it’s raining so much outside, who would come in?”

Just as he was amazed, he saw something rolling down from the steps. The light in the grave was too dim, and the thing rolled to his feet before he could see what it was. After half a step, it was a bloody head, with blood all over the head and face, with both eyes open, staring up at the three of them, the eyeballs moving around, grinning, not knowing whether it was trying to bite someone, or something. What do you want to say. The three brothers were taken aback, and bravely raised the lamp to shine forward, and saw clearly, a big fleshy head, just cut off from the cavity, rolled down the stairs into the grave, the head and face twisted twice, It didn't move in a blink of an eye.

They knew that someone must be committing murder in the building, so they immediately stretched out their hands and pulled out the sandalwood axe, jumped up the stairs, and reached the hall, they saw a headless corpse lying on the ground, and a person sitting beside him, his face was ashen ashes, Another woman, like a wisp of black smoke, flashed into a blind spot where the candles couldn't reach. Ding Mao had sharp eyes and quick hands, but there was nothing after her, as if she had seen a ghost. The three of them turned their heads and looked at the one sitting on the ground. It was none other than Yu Si'er, a water thief who fished out a dead child at the mouth of the Sancha River.Who is the man who lost his head? Master Guo said: "Yu Si'er, it's fine for you to go online, but you dared to commit murder today. This lawsuit is enough for you." Ding Mao said: "What a stinky thief who has been under the Internet. There are so many people drowning in the Haihe River every year. Why don't you be drowned? I'm waiting to catch you every day." Li Daleng also knew Yu Si'er, and scolded: "You have popsicle sticks on your grave, you wicked bastard, what did you steal here?" Yu Si'er was frightened out of his wits, when he saw these three, he begged for mercy with a sad face: "Three masters, three masters, you are all my uncles, can't you? Look, I peed my pants..." Master Guo knew that Yu Si'er would never have the courage to kill anyone, so he asked him why he came to Wei's grave, who was the dead man who turned around, and who did it, Master Guo frightened Yu Si'er while asking. Son, if you don't tell the truth, let Ding Mao chop him with an axe. Yu Si'er didn't dare to hide it, so he confessed in full that he had caught a dead child under the old bridge and fished out a dead child, which frightened him so much that he didn't dare to go to the river again. The local ruffian nicknamed Big Chicken has made obeisance to his brothers. As the saying goes, "People are divided into three, six, and nine grades, and there are no rosewood and red sandalwood." Neither of these two is a good bird, and getting together is nothing more than scrambling to cut cakes and grab pies, and they can't do anything good. The old Tianjin Wei called eggs Jizier. It is conceivable that Big Jizier, a bastard with a bald head, is as bright as an egg. He is a poor man. He never pays for meals, and he will flirt with anyone who dares to ask him for money, but he only specializes in picking soft persimmons, and he can't afford to offend the really powerful masters. Two days ago, Da Jizi'er and Yu Si'er were wandering on the road, and saw a man selling sliced ​​cakes on a wheelbarrow from a distance. Yu Si'er Pidianpidian ran to the side of the street and squatted down pretending to be okay. Da Jizi'er touched his bald head, walked up to the cake seller, and stared at the cake without saying a word. The cake seller saw that this was not easy to mess with. He walked sideways, with a big bald head, two plasters on his head, crooked neck and squinting eyes, bulging temples, protruding cheeks, tattoos all over his body, he looked like a hooligan , Hastily asked with a smile on his face: "You, do you want to eat cakes?" The big dick is like gunpowder and dynamite, and the words are all sideways: "Your mother's talk, don't want to eat sliced ​​cakes, why don't you watch it here?" The seller of cut cakes didn't dare to offend him, so he hurriedly said, "Cheek cakes made fresh, glutinous rice bean paste, yellow rice and jujube, which one do you want to eat? How much?" Da Jizi didn't ask the price, but asked which kind of cake was sticky. I heard people say that glutinous rice is glutinous rice. No matter how honest a small business is, there is no one who does not steal their weight on the scale. Otherwise, they will not make money, but whoever steals their weight, they dare not steal this big bald head. Seeing that this person must be looking for a job, selling everything The cake owner greeted him carefully, and cut off a large piece of glutinous rice and bean filling to cut the cake. Just after steaming, the bean filling was still hot, and the weight was very high. Yes, and carefully handed it to Da Jizi'er. Dajizier took it, didn't pay, didn't plan to pay, held the cut cake with one hand, uncovered the lotus leaf with the other, frowned and said: "I said, there is no such thing, let you see for yourself, why only Jiangmi doesn't have it?" Bean paste? Are you too embarrassed to ask for money?" Selling Qiegao felt aggrieved, walked around from the other side of the car, and said, "Look after you, there is a lot of bean filling..." Before he finished speaking, the two catties of sticky and steaming cake with fillings in Da Jizi'er's hands were all slapped on the face of the selling cake, and he snatched the name of the selling cake in his hand. The cake seller can't bear it anymore, eat for nothing and beat people with belts for nothing, and the guy who even grabs food, how can he be such a bully, wipe the cake on his face, go up desperately, the big chicken has finished grabbing the scale He turned his head and ran away, followed closely by the seller of sliced ​​cakes. Yu Si'er at the side saw that the Cake Seller was chasing him far away, stepped forward to push the wheelbarrow, and trotted into the alley. The person who sold the cakes did not catch up, and when he came back, he saw that even the car with the cakes and the money box were gone. Yusi'er and Dajizi'er are bad guys, they usually use this bad trick to steal things, and they pushed the cart selling cakes away that day, and the two of them will divide the money they get back. This day was also prompted by ghosts. Yu Sier panicked and fled into a dead end pushing the wheelbarrow all the way. Yu Si'er was unwilling to give a few cents of change. He walked and saw that the alley was full of facade houses. The door of a house inside was locked, but the windows on the roof were not closed tightly. He is a habit of stealing. Take a look. I knew I could go in, and when no one was there, I went to the room and pried the window and slipped in. Before I could start, I heard the sound of the lock being unlocked outside the house. Some thieves are clever and understand that people will be stuck in the house and get beaten at least once, and they may have to go to jail. After thinking about it, they dodge and hide in the big wardrobe, peeking at the movement outside, and plan to sneak out when they see the opportunity. Unexpectedly, what he saw after dark almost frightened him to death on the spot. There is a young couple living in this house. They have been married for less than a year. The husband went out to do business and left the pregnant daughter-in-law alone at home. He was worried and hired a servant to take care of her. It was hot in summer and the windows on the roof were not closed. Yan, that day the little daughter-in-law took the servant out for a walk, and came back after shopping for vegetables. Who would have thought that someone would come into the house after such a short time. The maid hired to serve the young daughter-in-law is called Sister-in-law Wang, who fled from Shandong. She is responsible for her duties. She is asked to take care of the grocery shopping, cooking, washing and cleaning. The two returned home and cooked and ate. The youngest daughter-in-law was seven or eight months pregnant, her belly was upright, her body was heavy, and she couldn't sit for a long time. There was a basket on the table, and she was doing needlework while talking to amuse the little daughter-in-law. Yu Si'er thought that when Mrs. Wang and the young daughter-in-law both went to bed and slipped out quietly, no one would notice. How could they know that the two parents chatted until dark and stayed up, but he was so anxious that he stood Looking out from the closet, both legs are stiff, as uncomfortable as it is, don't mention the regret in my heart, regret should be evil, otherwise people won't be stuck in the room and unable to get out, the two women said He didn't care about others, he was afraid that he would make a big noise and alarm the neighbors, he hid in the closet and didn't dare to breathe out, he just hoped that the two girls would go to bed quickly, how could there be so many gossips to talk about? It was less than three o'clock on the second watch, and the little daughter-in-law was tired, so she lay down to sleep. Mrs. Wang stayed by the lamp, finished her needlework, and built a floor bunk at the door of the back room. She can get up at any time at night or if there is something to do, and she will lie down to sleep after making the bed. Yu Si'er knows that she can't go out at this time, because the two of them just lay down and haven't slept well. After a while, he heard Mrs. Wang and his daughter-in-law both fell asleep. He rubbed his numb knees and thighs. Just as he was about to open the closet and go out, he heard a "squeak" from the window of the outer room. The noise was very small. Yu Sier What was he doing? He went to other people's houses to steal chickens and dogs. When he heard the sound was wrong, it seemed that a thief was pushing the window tentatively outside. He was afraid of waking up the people sleeping in the house, so he didn't dare to use force, so he gently rubbed the window outside. Yu Si'er complained in his heart, secretly saying that it was unlucky, the fourth master caught up with him, who knows where the thief is? Mrs. Wang came home in the afternoon, and when she was cooking, she found that the window was not closed tightly. She was afraid of thieves coming in, so she quickly closed it tightly. Immediately went to the house to remove the roof tiles, his hands and feet were surprisingly light, Yu Si'er listened with his ears open, but the two sleeping in the house didn't notice it at all. After a while, a black shadow jumped down from the roof and landed on the ground, It was like falling a leaf, without a sound. Yu Si'er said heartily: "Qinggong is good enough for your mother. Since I shot a live civet cat, I never heard that there are such powerful snitches in Tianjin Wei. Who is this?" He held his breath, opened his eyes wide, and looked out of the closet, but the lights in the room were off, and he could only see a black silhouette, quite tall, with shoulders and head retracted, and two arms that were long, he couldn't see anything else Unclear, he tiptoed to the bed and stared at the sleeping daughter-in-law. Yu Si'er thought it was a flower picking thief, at this moment the moonlight came through the clouds and shone through the hole in the roof, he saw a person standing in the room, his body was tightly wrapped, his head was wrapped in a kerchief, and he turned around It turned out to be a thunder-like monkey face, with evil light in his eyes, which made Yu Si'er's face turn pale in horror, covered his mouth, and forcibly held back an exclamation, only to see this long-haired old horse monkey, Dressed like a woman, it behaved strangely. It sneaked into the house from the roof in the middle of the night, unbuttoned its trousers and pushed up its buttocks, releasing a puff of green smoke. Yu Si'er was covering his mouth and nose in the closet, still smelling He felt a foul stench, choking his eyes to blackness, and almost passed out. The two people sleeping in the room were choked unconscious, and they couldn't wake up even when there was thunder in their ears. The old horse monkey unhurriedly picked up his pants, sneaked up to the bed, stretched out his furry paws, and licked between the pregnant woman's legs. Yu Si'er couldn't believe his eyes, even if he was killed, he couldn't figure out what the old horse monkey wanted to do, what could be pulled out there, not even a bird? At this time, I saw Lao Mahou pulling a bloody fetus between the legs of his young daughter-in-law. Eight or nine months pregnant, the fetus has already formed, and the two calves are still moving when they are pulled out. The old horse monkey picked up the fetus, put it on his face and rubbed it against his face. Like a treasure, he liked it endlessly. After playing with it for a while, he opened his mouth and sucked it. After a while, the fetal skin was dry, and it didn't move at all. It stuffed the dead fetus into its arms again, put the roof tiles on the house, and went far away in the night. It seemed that nothing happened in the house. Mrs. Wang Since she fell into a coma, the little daughter-in-law had unknowingly become a dead body. Yu Si'er was terrified, if he hadn't been able to steal things, hid in the closet and couldn't get out, and saw it clearly under the moonlight, who would know how the little daughter-in-law died and where the old horse monkey was from? ?He wanted to report it to the officials, but no one would believe such an evil deed, besides, he entered someone's house to steal something, and this family killed someone, so the officials can't blame him?If you commit a life lawsuit, you will inevitably be escorted to Xiaoliuzhuang's execution ground to eat a black date and become a ghost of death. Yu Si'er didn't dare to stay in the house, so he slipped out quietly and fled home.After another day, I saw Dajizier, and the two split the money face to face.When Yu Si'er talked about what he saw late at night, he thought Da Jizi'er didn't believe it, but he didn't expect that he had also seen the old horse monkey.Da Jizi'er told Yu Si'er that he saw a juggler in the donkey market some time ago, and he was so skilled that he could perform the evil work of "turning thousands of people into ghosts" in broad daylight and in public. At the lower tip of the Jiuhe River is a water and land wharf, where merchants gather and gather from all directions. There are so many tricks in the river and lake. When the time changes, stand around watching the bustling crowds, jugglers are among them, and explain something first, such as: "I rely on my parents at home and rely on friends when I go out. When I first come to Guibao, I want to be ugly in front of everyone. Hold a money market, everyone who has no money, let me perform an ancestral trick", then lit a candle, and looked around, everyone's face turned green, and for a while, it was ghostly, making the viewers Everyone was shocked, this trick has a name, it is called "Ten Thousand People Turning into Ghosts". The tricks of old people, also called tricks of blindness, are all fake, but they can’t be seen as fake, or they will be ruined. The locals have seen too much of these things, and children know that this trick is famous for candles. , use special candles, light the will-o’-the-wisps, not to mention illuminating people’s faces, even bricks turn green when illuminated, but it is said that the trick of “turning thousands of people into ghosts” has been lost for hundreds of years. No one has seen the ancient method. Dajizier met a juggler in the donkey market. The donkey market is an open space farther than Nanwa. On the ninth day of every month, there is a local market for trading mules, horses and livestock. Last time he stole a donkey and brought it to the donkey market. After selling the donkeys, I got money. When I saw some jugglers, I went to watch the excitement, and picked a reason to knock some money. I didn't know that the juggler was so clever. I watched a group of people in broad daylight, and could see the shadows of the onlookers. No one has changed at all, and no one can see how he changed. Someone who understands said that this is the ancient art of "turning thousands of people into ghosts" that has been lost for many years. The jugglers perform a "thousands of people turn into ghosts", bowing in circles, begging for rewards with gongs, and going to the donkey market to sell livestock. Well, everyone let the juggler show off his tricks again. If it is good, he is really willing to give money. Jugglers are also greedy for money, so they use a more powerful trick called "picking peaches in a painting", the ancient method of "turning thousands of people into ghosts", at least some people have heard of it, but they have never heard of "picking peaches in a painting". Today's onlookers are eye-opening. I saw the juggler brought an old horse monkey, and took out an ancient painting, and opened it for people to see. In the painting, there was a peach tree bearing a plump and plump flat peach. The paper was old and yellow, waiting for people to understand , With a good move, the old horse monkey suddenly got up and walked towards the ancient painting. Everyone's eyes blurred, and there was no trace of the old horse monkey in the field. People wondered, why did the monkey disappear?Seeing that there is an old horse monkey in the ancient painting, the juggler shook the ancient painting, and the old horse monkey appeared on the spot again, holding a flat peach and chewing, the painting is still the same painting, the peach tree in the painting The flat peaches on the table were gone, and the eyes of the people who watched the excitement were all straightened. It took a long time to recover, and the cheers were like thunder, and they all paid for it. Big Jizier squeezed into the crowd to watch the fun, and he was so greedy. He never imagined that a juggler could make so much money. He earned several dollars in a short time. Who said how many dollars is too much?In the Republic of China, things were cheap, and one yuan could buy a bag of four to fifty catties of flour, enough to feed a whole family for a month. The big dick had a crooked idea, and if he wanted to grab the money for this trick, he had better force him to do tricks. After learning how to use him, he will not be popular in the future. After the market was over, he followed the juggler all the way to the ghost building at the intersection of Weijiafen, and the person who walked in front A monkey suddenly disappeared. Da Jizier used to live in this area. He knew that there were many dark rooms and tunnels in the haunted mansions of the Wei Family Tomb. The person who sold this haunted mansion for the first time back then was also because he secretly trafficked tobacco and soil. The secret passage is convenient for doing shady business. Later, a family of five died in the building for no reason. Since then, no one has dared to live in it, and it has been vacant. The juggler must have entered the building through the tunnel, and the juggler can make a lot of money. , why live in a haunted house? The big chicken was extra careful, and watched from the empty house across the road. At night, he saw the old horse monkey come out, dressed in human clothes, acting sneaky, and went to the city without knowing what to do. The first time I went out to earn money, I went to Nanwa and never went into the city. Unexpectedly, Yu Si'er ran into the old horse monkey by accident. The two said to each other that they felt that jugglers were not good birds, and the next day they each carried a kitchen knife. , raised a lantern, and wanted to catch the juggler in the building, knock a sum of money, and then force him to extract the peach-picker in the painting of ten thousand people turning into ghosts. The big chicken usually just plays with his arms, thinking that The juggler has a guilty conscience and dare not match up with the two brothers. No matter how powerful the old horse monkey is, he is just a beast.When they went out that day, it started to rain heavily in the middle of the walk, and the two braved the rain to enter the haunted building. As soon as they came in, they saw the old horse monkey squatting there, staring at the tomb with the cover uncovered. It saw an outsider, Immediately violently wounding people, Dajizier had not pulled out the kitchen knife, so the old horse monkey grabbed the head off. Yu Sier was frightened half to death, and sat on the ground, thinking that he was going to return to his place today, but he didn't expect the head to roll into it. In the graveyard, Master Guo and the three heard the noise and hurried up. The monkey monster saw that there were many people on the other side, turned and fled. After listening to Yu Si'er's words, Master Guo and the others were all shocked. Nine out of ten jugglers are Lian Huaqing. This person once worshiped monkey jugglers as his teacher, and he also took an old monkey by his side and hid in Wei's grave. I dare not go into the city, it is raining heavily outside, and the roads are flooded, this person and monkey must still be in the haunted building, so I immediately searched around. Li Daleng said: "Brother, did you hear what Yu Si'er said, that person can do evil things, how many of us can catch him?" Master Guo said that sorcery and tricks are no different, they are all blindfolds, also known as the method of nightmares. I heard from the elders that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a Sun Xiangu in Tianjin Wei, who could summon demons and invite gods. She lit a candle, and ghosts and gods At that time, she brought two young boys by her side, both of whom were strong and strong men. In the year of Gengzi, the Allied Forces of the Eight Nations came in. Sun Xiangu claimed that she would invite heavenly soldiers and generals to meet the enemy. She led two young boys in their thirties to the top of the tower with wooden swords. The heavenly soldiers and generals were not invited down, and the three of them let the foreigners' shells crash into the sky first. In fact, the candles that Sun Xiangu lit were called demon candles, but they were just illusions. "Ghosts moving corpses" and other sorcery from the Mogu Dao are nothing more than that. Ding Mao asked: "What kind of demon method is it that the five ghosts move the corpse?" Master Guo heard from Wu Laoxian that the formation of five ghosts moving corpses is a formation method used by the Mogu Road to open coffins and retrieve treasures. Those heretical formations have gradually disappeared since the end of the Qing Dynasty. How is it called "five ghosts move corpses"?Five ghosts refer to five dead people. According to legend, there used to be tomb robbers who dug up the grave during the day, but they couldn’t pry open the coffin with much effort. There are two ways, one is to set up an array of five ghosts to move corpses, and the other is to recite the curse of opening the coffin. Nowadays, no one would believe this kind of deceitful thing, but in those days, many people really believed it. Li Daleng felt relieved, he carried Yu Si'er like a little chicken, and followed behind Master Guo. Ding Mao closed the door of the building, and the four of them searched for secret passages everywhere, and found that there was a door in the fireplace, which was made like a brick wall. Similarly, if you don't know that there is a secret passage in the building in advance, no one will think of it, and when you open the secret door, it will be dark inside. When he was looking inside, the old horse monkey suddenly jumped out, stretched out its strange claws, and scratched Yu Si'er's face. Yu Si'er was frightened and couldn't dodge, let him grab half of his face, let out a scream and threw himself on the ground, kicked his legs a few times and stared, seeing that he was dead. Master Guo and the others were taken aback. They lost their lives in such a short while, so they hurriedly held the ax with a sandalwood handle in their hands, and chopped at the old horse monkey. The old horse monkey was extremely fast, dodging the axe, and suddenly pouted its buttocks. It was even faster, raised its legs and put one foot on the monkey's buttocks. . Li Da Leng took advantage of the situation and stepped forward, chopping the monkey's head with an axe, not allowing it to get up, followed by a few more blows, each ax as ruthless as an axe. Although the old horse monkey was cunning and psychic, he was still a flesh body. After a few blows with the axe, his flesh and blood were bloody, his brain burst, and he died on the spot. Ding Mao kicked the dead monkey and said, "Today is its retribution." Li Daleng shouted: "Don't leave Lian Huaqing, go ahead and get someone!" He thought that the old horse monkey was so powerful, but when he saw that he couldn't stand the axe, there was nothing to be afraid of, so he immediately took Shuiyue Deng, cursing and swearing, sister and sister Lianhualuo all greeted, and got into the dark passage of the ghost building amidst the yelling and scolding. Master Guo was afraid that he would make a mistake, so he didn't think about it, picked up Yu Sier's lantern, and took Ding Mao with him. They followed in, but they didn't know that waiting for them inside was a family of five who died in the haunted building. The three brothers went in and took a look. The secret passage in the building was connected up and down. The lower floor was flooded with water. The first floor and the second floor were corridors. The terrain was narrow. I can't tell, the only way to go in and out is through the secret passage, there is another secret door in the attic leading to the roof, the room is full of damp and decaying atmosphere, enter the attic, hold the water moon lamp and look around, only the walls are wiped The walls are covered with white ash, and the walls are almost moldy, and there are bedding and clothes, but there is no one in the house except the three of them. The three of them thought that Lian Huaqing was hiding in the house, but no one was there, so they searched everywhere, and there was no other secret way, probably Lian Huaqing had already escaped, what a cunning person this time, this time he was emptied, and looking for someone else I am afraid that the opportunity will not be easy, Li Daleng is even more anxious, the reward money he got is gone. Ding Mao said that the ghost building at the intersection of Weijiafen has changed owners several times, and no family has lived there for long. There are few people, it is definitely not clean, anyone passing by will go around, there is a secret passage in the building, even Huaqing is looking for a place to hide, there is no more suitable place than the ghost building of the Wei Family Tomb, even if people escape at this time, Maybe there will be some clues left. As they were talking, a chill suddenly came down their spines, and when they turned their heads, they were quite frightened. Strange to say, there were five black shadows on the wall, and it was unclear who they were. But there were indeed people standing in front of the lamp, reflected on the wall, but these five people were obviously not in the room. Ding Mao was bold enough to touch the wall with his hand. It was a cold brick wall with nothing on it, but the five black shadows became clearer and clearer. The three of them held a water moon lantern and faced the wall with their own shadows behind them. They didn't know where the five black shadows on the wall came from. Master Guo said, "It looks familiar, as if I've seen it somewhere..." Ding Mao said: "It's a painting of a family of five in the ghost building, and the five black shadows on the wall are the outlines of the people in the painting." Li Daleng: "Maybe the ghost who died in the haunted house has manifested his soul? Or for no reason, why did five ghosts appear on the wall?" Master Guo secretly felt that this was strange. He thought of Sun Xiangu's candle for attracting demons, and said: "The water moon lantern is something in the ghost building. Maybe someone has tampered with it. Maybe the wall is painted with squid ink, which is usually invisible. It will show traces under the light." Li Daleng said: "What am I supposed to be? Dare is a trick to scare a three-year-old child." Ding Mao said: "Second brother is right. Anyway, punch someone and prevent him from kicking. We are in the light, and even Huaqing is in the dark. Be careful in everything, but don't follow other people's ways." Master Guo asked Li Daleng to turn off the lamp, and only used the horse lantern Yu Si'er brought in from outside for illumination. Li Daleng extinguished the water moon lantern as he said, and the three elder brothers looked up at the wall with the help of the dim lantern, but the five black shadows were still there. Ding Mao didn't believe in the evil, so he swung the sandalwood-handled hatchet, and chopped the ax onto the wall, leaving an ax mark, but the shadow on the wall didn't move, and the more he looked, the more real it looked, as if there were five people standing in front of the lamp, As if alive. The three of them were terrified in their hearts, they held their breath, stood on the spot and stared directly at each other, not daring to move rashly for a moment. After waiting for a while, there was no difference, but the figures of the husband and wife, two daughters and one child on the wall were more real, and they were almost ready to be seen. Master Guo noticed that the dark shadow on the wall was different from what he had just seen. He asked Ding Mao and Li Daleng, but they didn't notice it. Master Guo thought he was wrong. Li Daleng felt apprehensive, and said: "The ghost building is not clean, I don't think it's possible, let's go back first, please bring the Taoist amulet, it won't be too late." After talking for a while, the eyes of the three people inadvertently moved away from the wall, and then saw that the ghost of a family of five disappeared on the wall. There was nothing, but when I looked sideways, it turned out that the ghost shadows had unknowingly circled behind them and pinched their shadows on the ground. When the lantern turned around, their shadows were held by the five ghosts.前不动。 三人无不大惊，惶急之际扔出斧子，哪里打得到地上的鬼影，只觉掐住脖子的手越来越紧，一口气也转不过来，眼看要死在魏家坟鬼楼。 郭师傅命在顷刻，意识到这马灯也不能点，不知屋中有什么东西，只要两眼能看见东西，便中了要命的邪法，他手一松，扔掉那盏马灯，眼前一黑，掐在三个人脖子上的手顿时松开了，他们惊魂难定，眼前漆黑一片，呼呼喘着粗气，亏得急中生智，捡回条命。 此刻郭师傅发觉面前还有个人，要说也怪，刚才点着灯看不见，等到屋里黑得伸手不见五指，那人趁黑凑到了近前，不知意欲何为，郭师傅感到此人来者不善，黑灯瞎火看不见东西，怎敢容对方近身，可是带来的斧子扔在地上，捏着双手没法应对，一摸摸到揣在怀中的那块坟砖，握在手中对着那人就拍了下去，一转拍在那人头上，打个正着，耳听对方闷哼了一声，摔倒在地。 丁卯听到响动，划了根火柴，三人眼前一亮，就见地上倒着个男子，手里握着柄匕首，身穿麻衣头戴小帽，套着件黑坎肩，脸颊上有膏药，看不出是谁，扯下膏药，见此人大约有二十来岁，面容英俊，两条眼眉连在一起，是个罕见的一字眉，不是连化青还能是谁。 原来连化青躲在鬼楼之中，发觉有人进了楼，他自持有幻人耳目的妖法邪术，其实类似外国的催眠术，老时年间被当成妖法，因此有人进来他也不怕，可也是多行不义，活该他一死，该死活不了，让郭师傅发现了不能在这屋里点灯，看得见东西就会见鬼，屋中本有的东西却看不见了，连化青一看情况不妙，打算趁黑过去一刀一个捅死这三个人，哪知让郭二爷一砖拍在头顶，哥儿仨把他从阁楼上拖到楼下，一摸气息全无，竟被一砖打死了。 按相面的说法，一眉横生加上目有双瞳，属于君臣不配，是短命小鬼的面相，但三人在古墓棺材中见到连化青的死尸，仍感到十分意外，丁卯和李大愣本以为抓住连化青，还要交给官府治罪，按此人犯下的案子，免不了吃一颗黑枣，民国时没有砍头，死刑只有枪决，押到西关外的刑场正法，挨枪子儿叫“吃黑枣”，然后哥儿仨邀功请赏，传出名去立下字号，可没想到连化青就这么死了，反正不过无论是死是活，也该将尸首带回去，才好有个交代，说话这时候雨势不减，大水已漫进楼中。 哥儿仨的心都提到了嗓子眼，眼看积水越来越深，坟窟窿和一层的死尸，都被大水淹没，不得不上到二层，往外头看了一眼，心里头又是一沉，只见大雨如注，对面的魏家坟和路口石碑，完全被雨雾所覆盖，隔着马路就看不清了，各处积水成渠，以往汛情最严重的时候，像这么大的雨下到半夜，还不至于发洪水，可魏家坟地势低洼，城里的积水全往这流，头一年说要拆除那些平房，这边的几栋楼也都没人住了，虽然没拆，水电可全停了，往日里的排水沟被堵死了，遇上大雨时别的地方没事，魏家坟也得让水淹了，此时积水漫过多半层楼，马路早已变成了汪洋泽国。 当年有几片居民区。号称三级跳坑，三级是三层的意思，由于住房破旧，且房屋不断沉降，路面不断加高，头一层是马路的地面比胡同的地面高，第二层是胡同的地面比院子的地面高，院子的地面比屋里的地面高，这是第三层，一层层下来，顶数屋里最低，雨下得稍微大一些，家家户户就得上演那出水漫金山，全家老少全拿脸盆往屋外舀水，两三岁小孩坐到木盆里头，在屋里能浮到水面上当船划，日子过的苦不堪言，住这地方的人们最怕雨季，由于房屋地势低洼，屋内潮湿，通风条件又差，特别是夏季，赶上天气闷热，常常憋得人透不过气来，阴雨天十有八九屋里要进水，随时准备好盆盆罐罐往外淘，许多家庭的家具因此泡得糟朽了，当年魏家坟没拆的时候，那一大片平房则是典型的四级跳坑，因为外围的地势比南洼还要高出一块，故此称为“四级跳坑”，民间俗称穷坑，形容住在魏家坟的全是穷苦百姓，能从穷坑里爬出去那就是发财了，后来整片房屋彻底拆除，填满了南洼，四级跳坑连同魏家坟的地名，永远成为了历史，城里其余一些有三级跳坑之称的居民区，直到八十年代后期还存在，经过几次大规模房屋改造，才陆续得到改善。 可想而知，当时郭师傅等人带着连化青的尸首，想走已经没法走了，马路上的积水齐腰深，水面几乎漫过路口驮碑的石兽，好在那水再大，不至于把楼淹了，等大雨稍停，积水会很快退下去，不过估摸着这场雨怎么也要下到半夜才停，三个人守着连化青的死尸发愁，白天是不在乎，可天黑掌灯之后怎么办，谁能保证不出意外？ 正犯愁的时候，看见远处有几艘小艇过来，原来魏家坟那片平房里，住着一些外地逃难和拾荒的人，人数不多，住得也分散，这些居民都是去年发大水之后住进去的，不知道这地方一下大雨就淹，等水漫上来，再想跑已经来不及了，只好躲到房顶上，城里有巡河队的水警，划着小艇到这边接人，将受了水灾的人们送往高地，魏家坟十字路口以北，没有那么大的水，他们三个人赶紧招呼，巡河队的水警认识这仨人，到近前接上，一看怎么还抬着个死人，也顾不上多说，借了一条空艇，把活人死人都接下来，掉头往石碑方向划去。 驮碑的石兽已让大水淹没，水面上的那座古碑，在漫天雨雾中看来，只是个很大的黑影，让人觉得十分不祥，如今城南洼地没有河流了，相传很多年前有条古河，没人清楚那是什么年头的事了，郭师傅祖上倒几代，全是土生土长的本地人，也没听说有条大河通到南洼，除了看风水的先生能瞧出这地方以前有条河，岁数再大的人也不知道此事，至于说驮着镇河碑的无头王八是赑屃，那也是人们一厢情愿的观点，龙生九子不成龙，分别是九中动物，当中有一种叫赑屃，力大无穷，寿命长，能负重，专门给帝王驮碑，其实也没准是某种镇妖辟邪的石兽，因为脑袋断掉了，无从追究它是什么动物。 古时候立碑的用意，大抵是为了让后人得知，此地曾经出过哪些大事，但这块石碑上的字迹饱受风吹日晒雨淋，加上岁月消磨，已经没人看得出石碑记载了什么内容，只听张半仙说，石碑至少是几百年前还有河水的时候所立，看形状像是官碑，因为压住了通往南洼的那条河流，挡住了不少阴气，整个魏家坟的风水全让它拿光了，所以这地方邪行，风水不好。 郭师傅等人上了小艇，他隔着雨雾，模模糊糊看见路口石碑，心里一走神，不免想起了这些事，寻思：“张半仙不过是个家传几代看阴阳宅混饭吃的，之前还说我们到魏家坟捉拿连化青，这一去是有死无生，最后不是也没出事吗？”他正跟心里琢磨，却听李大愣说：“今天把连化青的尸首带回去，什么三岔河口沉尸案、土地庙铁盒藏尸案、魏家坟古墓缩尸案，等于全让咱们给破了，郭二哥啊，往后这些事传扬出去那还了得，你不是河神谁是河神。”郭师傅听李大愣这句话心里一哆嗦：“坏了，千万别提河神，提了这称呼准倒霉。” 郭师傅有心告诉李大愣别说，可为时已晚，低头看了看连化青的尸首，只见那直挺挺硬邦邦的死尸，也在盯着他看，连化青生有妖异之相，一目双瞳，一个眼中有两个瞳仁，所以那对眼珠子跟俩黑窟窿似的十分可怕，郭师傅听说死人尸变是半夜三更才会发生的事，此刻天还没黑，可连化青那双眼不知什么时候睁开了，骇异之际，忽然感到身子猛地一晃，他们三个和那死尸一同翻落水中，马路上的积水只漫过普通平房的一半，河神郭得友是什么水性，到水中先定下神闭住气，满以为两脚一蹬地就站起来了，可就觉得这水流比他想得要深，而且冷得刺骨，骇异之余，来不及多想什么，他和丁卯俩人拖着不会水的李大愣，三人从水里出来挣扎爬上岸边，抬眼看看周围，雨雾蒙蒙，隐约看到不远处耸立着一块大石碑，连化青脸朝下趴在那石碑底下，魏家坟原本的马路和房子都不见了，石碑四周是大片的荒地。 咱这本书为什叫“河神——鬼水怪谈”，因为会说到通往南洼的那条河，没有这条河怎么能叫鬼水怪谈？