Chapter 99 Chapter 16: Divine Tree and Strange Tree

Everyone looked at each other, thinking it was a hallucination, but everyone heard it, and it was difficult to explain it with hallucinations. "Damn it. It's really evil." Hong Dagang scolded, "Everyone, don't be afraid, she is a female ghost, she is evil. She came to confuse everyone just now. Don't be afraid." Rubbing his hands together, he looked at Chuanxiang with fascinated eyes.Others are also eager to try. "Kill this female ghost!" a woman who came with her angrily shouted. Immediately, the frozen motion resumes.The scissors in Chuanxiang's hand were taken away, and Chuanxiang roared like a lioness.

"Stop!" The voice rang out again. Grandpa heard clearly this time, the voices came from all directions, outside the door, by the window, and from the roof. Everyone was shocked again, Chuanxiang took the opportunity to break free from the men's hands, knelt down and cried. Hong Dagang was still not afraid, and boldly shouted: "There are so many of us, what are we afraid of? Even if a ghost really comes, we can knock it down." After speaking, he went to Chuanxiang who was curled up in a ball. "Stop!" the voice shouted angrily. Hong Dagang stopped immediately, unable to move.He said in horror: "Oops. Why is my body not listening? Why can't I walk?"

Hong Chungeng laughed beside him and said, "You're not kidding us, are you? It tells you to stop, so just stop." "Shut up!" the voice shouted angrily. Hong Chungeng looked indifferent, opened his mouth and said something.But no one could hear what he said.Only then did Hong Chungeng become frightened, and patted his mouth with his hands, his eyes widened wider than the lanterns. "I am a monk from Xiangyan Temple, please don't hurt Chuanxiang. If you have any questions, come to Xiangyan Temple to find me tomorrow. Namo Amitabha." The voice softened.After speaking, Hong Dagang regained his ability to act, and Hong Chungeng was able to speak.Everyone looks at me, I look at you, at a loss.

At this time, Zhijun's mother's attitude changed 180 degrees.She wants to drive out other people in the house: "My daughter-in-law is not a ghost. Get out of here quickly, don't let the Bodhisattva get angry. Go away, even if she is really a ghost, it's not your turn to take care of her. Get out, get out !” She opened her arms and drove away the people in the house like chickens stealing her rice. Everyone was overwhelmed by what happened just now, they didn't dare to do it again, and hurriedly withdrew from the room. "Why does your old man say that his daughter-in-law is not a ghost?" Grandpa lowered his head and asked the hunchbacked old man.

"Get out, get out." Zhijun's mother didn't listen, she just tried hard to push people out. A few days later, I took advantage of the weekend to go to my grandfather's house and asked about the situation of Chuanxiang.Grandpa told me in detail what happened that night.I can't hear it. I asked: "Is Chuanxiang a ghost prostitute? Why do they say yes for a while, but no for a while? If she is not a ghost prostitute, why do the men around him die strangely? Hong Chungeng is still a witness, he is not Didn’t Zhijun’s mother admit that Chuanxiang is a female ghost who seduces men? What happened to the monk? If she was a ghost prostitute, why did the monk in Xiangyan Temple save her?”

Grandpa was stunned by a series of shell-like questions from me.Grandpa said: "You will know after listening to me. I can't answer you so many questions in one sentence." The next day, Grandpa and a few people went to Xiangyan Temple to find the monk who had promised to come.Hong Chungeng and Hong Dagang did not go.Grandpa thought that even if they were the most active, why didn't they come today?Grandpa's doubts flashed by, but he didn't linger in his heart much. Xiangyan Temple is located on Xiangyan Mountain, about ten miles away from Hongjia section.I don't know when and what month this temple was built. Grandpa said that my grandpa's grandpa had this temple at that time.

Speaking of this cigarette temple, there is another source that I have to say.It is not known when and what month this source began to spread.It is said that before the Xiangyan Temple was established, there was only one very thick and lush tree on the Xiangyan Mountain, but no grass could grow anywhere else on the mountain.Nearby farmers tried to cultivate the mountain, but the cotton planted withered and the potatoes dried up.Even if you water it countless times a day, it is still as fruitless as a year of drought.This would have been strange. What's even more strange is that the tree kept smoking all year round, as if it was on fire.But every leaf is emerald green, and there is no spark at all.

Therefore, the surrounding residents enshrined this strange tree as a sacred tree, and went up to the mountain to worship during the festivals.For a time, cigarettes continued to smoke on the mountain, hence the name. I don't know how many years have passed in this way, a beggar monk dressed in rags passed by here and saw this tree.He touched the tree and said to the people who worshiped it, this is a demon tree, so don't worship it. People don't believe it. The monk borrowed an ax and cut the bark.What the tree bleeds is not sap, but red blood.Not only did people not believe that it was a demon tree, but they thought it was a manifestation of gods and blamed them for hurting the tree.They tied the monk to a chair and locked him in a room with the door sealed.

They killed the pigs and cows in the corral, put the heads of pigs and cows on the table, and carried them to the sacred tree to worship, praying that the sacred tree would not blame them.Suddenly, a man dressed as a Taoist priest with a long beard and a yellow face holding a dust whisk flew out of the tree.He is suspended in mid-air. All the people under the tree knelt down and kowtowed, begging the gods for forgiveness. The man claimed to be a tree god and asked them to kill the monk.The tree god said that the monk was transformed by an evil spirit and deliberately came to destroy the sacred tree.

People immediately went down the mountain, opened the house where the monk was detained, and wanted to pull him out and execute him immediately.But there was no trace of the monk in the room, and the thing tied to the chair turned into a piece of wood.Everyone returned to the sacred tree, only to find that the monk was desperately chopping down the tree with an axe.Blood spattered all over the monk.The tree god in mid-air also disappeared. Everyone hurried forward to stop him, and the monk struggled desperately.The monk shouted, let me chop two more axes, and then I can witness my words. But everyone snatched his axe, and several people picked him up and forced him to leave.The monk couldn't help but jumped up and kicked towards the big tree.

The tree had been cut in half and was crumbling.The monk kicked over, and the tree creaked and fell down.Everyone was afraid of being crushed by the big tree, so they hurriedly let go of the monk and ran away in all directions. There was a loud "thump", and the leafy tree hit the ground, kicking up yellow dust several feet high.Everyone was choked by the dust and coughed, and their eyes could not see the things around them clearly. It took a while for the dust to subside.But three beautiful young women rolled out of the tree, dying and wearing thin clothes.