"Shopkeeper Mi, please tell the others to disperse. I'll let my friends talk to the old man alone."
Mi Libai understood deeply and knew what Tan Yanqiu wanted to ask. He signaled with his eyes to the family members and servants around him, and the second room of the main room gradually withdrew, leaving only Yue Guanchao and the others in the Rongshou Hall.
"Old man, have you ever heard that there are more and more albino animals in Shennongjia?"
Tan Yanqiu wanted to ask the old man's opinion again. After all, Mi Laoshuan had been dealing with Shennongjia for half his life and was very familiar with the area around Shennongjia.
Mi Laoshuan pondered these words, rubbed two walnuts back and forth in his hand, and said tremblingly: "These albino animals have always been there in Shennongjia, but they don't appear so frequently. Ever since those repairers went up to Shennong Peak, There are more and more albino animals.”
"Do you know what an albino animal is?"
Mr. Mi's cloudy eyes continued to become clearer, even showing the cunningness of an Orion.
Tan Yanqiu recalled what he said before, and said slowly: "I remember you said that these albino animals are the spirits of the mountain god, or the servants of the god of agriculture, and they cannot be offended easily."
Mr. Mi nodded: "Yes, that's what I said at the beginning. It was just to deceive outsiders. In fact, these albino animals have another secret. They have human souls in them."
One stone stirred up a thousand waves. When Yue Guanchao and the others heard the news, their fatigue for days was gone. They became energetic and looked at the old man. Tan Yanqiu also knew that the old man might know the origin of this albino animal, and immediately asked: "Hey, Then you have to tell us carefully why there are human souls in these albino animals."
Mr. Mi continued: "I have also heard from my elders that Shennongjia is the entrance to a certain underworld. There have been many records of the passage of the underworld here in ancient times..."
What are Yin soldiers?
The Yin soldiers mentioned by the ancients refer to dead soldiers.
Some soldiers died fighting while alive. After death, their souls will stay in place and refuse to leave. They will feel that they are not dead yet and are still marching and fighting in the same place. These are Yin soldiers.
When there are more and more Yin Soldiers, they will form a Yin Soldier Legion, just like a living legion, with the ability to march and fight in the underworld. If these Yin Soldiers sergeants and generals happen to be attracted by some mysterious force, they will be Use this mysterious power, or become the puppet of the caster.
These Yin soldiers are different from Yin soldiers. Yin soldiers are controlled by the underworld, while Yin soldiers are controlled by magicians. They are just like the regular warlords and bandit warlords during the Republic of China. The relationship between these bandit warlords and the political Yuan is both enemies and friends. It's easy to talk about anything when there is benefit. If there is no benefit, be the first to break up the gang.
Yin soldiers are equivalent to souls that are not controlled by the underworld. It all depends on how the controller uses them!
Such yin soldiers will not be seen under normal circumstances, but at certain times and places, or when people have yin and yang eyes, people will suddenly see many yin soldiers walking across the border.
Once you encounter Yin soldiers crossing the border, in addition to not following them to see, the most important thing is not to make any sound, and it is best to stop breathing.
In the experience of the older generation, whenever the Yin soldiers make a sound, they will most likely be captured by the Yin soldiers and taken to the underworld to become Yin soldiers.
The Yin world and the Yang world are two worlds. These Yin soldiers would not notice the living people in the Yang world. If the people in the Yang world make a sound, they will forcibly use their mental power to create a connection between the two worlds. These Yin soldiers will You can also notice living people, and even deliberately drag living people to go to the underworld to serve as underworld soldiers.
Yue Guanchao was fascinated by what he heard and said unconsciously: "Dare you dare to love, there are also those in the underworld who capture young men?"
Capturing young men is happening everywhere in today's Republic of China. In the borders of Henan Province, even a family has to produce a man as cannon fodder.
Uncle Mi nodded to everyone: "Shennongjia is not only the residence of the underworld, but also where the underworld soldiers can be seen passing through. When it was sparsely populated in the past, it was not considered a village where living people lived, but a village where the dead were buried."
"Burial Village? Is it Yizhuang?"
Everyone became curious and found out that there were indeed some abandoned villages among the people, which were used by nearby people as charity villages to park corpses for burial in the mountains.
Mr. Mi shook his head: "It's not Yizhuang. The corpses in Yizhuang still have to be buried in the ground. Yizhuang only serves the purpose of temporarily storing corpses. As long as the common people send the corpses to the burial village, they no longer intend to give the corpses to the village. He was buried, but dedicated to the mountain god, or to the agricultural god.”
The death burial village is actually a sacrifice village, but these people no longer sacrifice fruits and livestock, but human corpses.
The ancients were not unable to solve the "problem after death" and were always afraid of disappearing from this "world" forever after death. They created the gods and Buddhas in the sky and the underworld to explain the "return" of people after death. The world after death fills the fear of death.
People usually bury themselves in the grave after death. If they are not buried completely when they die, it means they will be restless after death and may not be able to reunite with their dead ancestors in the underworld.
Under the influence of this view of life and death, which regards death as life, the princes, princes and ministers are of course more solemn. Not only must the body be buried intact, but they must also work hard on the tomb. They must be as comfortable as they were in life. The slaves, servants, gold, silver and jewelry they enjoyed during life must be preserved after death. The end must also be in place.
In terms of life and death, in the final analysis, I still don’t want to believe that there will be no more after death. After all, I miss it a little bit.
The legend of the underworld near Shennongjia has existed since ancient times. In order to prevent their deceased family members from suffering the suffering of reincarnation, the people nearby would send their bodies into the forest, hoping that the mountain god Yinjun in Shennongjia would be kind and send their family members to the underworld. His soul was taken away and became a Yin soldier.
In this way, you can avoid entering the underworld and suffering reincarnation.
Rumor has it that as soon as these corpses enter Shennongjia, an albino animal will appear near the corpse. After a few days, after the albino animal leaves, the corpse will quickly decompose and merge with the surrounding soil and vegetation.
In this way, it is equivalent to that the soul of this corpse has been accepted by the underworld and has become the shadow soldiers of the mountain god. From then on, these albino animals will live in Shennongjia as the shadow soldiers of the mountain god.
Speaking of which, these albino animals are likely to contain the souls of dead people. They appear in areas where villagers are active, probably because they remember their relatives when they were alive and want to come back to see them.
People of older generations know that when an albino animal appears in a house, it means that the family member has been selected by the mountain god to become a servant. They are free from reincarnation and do not have to suffer. Most of them are happy. As for harming these albino animals, that is basically impossible.
Killing these albino animals may be equivalent to killing someone's ancestors, and everyone will fight them to death. It can be said that albino animals are very important whether they are servants of mountain gods or the souls of their ancestors. They are respected by the people nearby and no one will kill them easily.
At first, these people sent the corpses into the wild mountains. Later, more and more albino animals appeared here, and some people sent the corpses to the Farm God Village so that the albino animals could accommodate their souls. After this practice became popular, the place was used by the people. A series of low tile-roofed houses were built.
From a distance, it looks like coffins with eaves are spread out and stacked in the village. All the bodies stored inside are corpses that have been taken away by the mountain gods.
From then on, the reputation of Burial Village came from this, and it has been continuously known by the people near Shennongjia!
At its peak, some villagers were moved to the Burial Village to wait for the call of the mountain god before they died. In fact, it was equivalent to sending living people to starve to death.
Starting a few decades ago, some hunters began to move here near Shennongjia because it was the closest place to Shennongjia. They lived together with most of the houses of the dead. However, as more and more hunters moved in, most of the houses of the dead would be filled in and cleared. , built courtyards where living people lived and lived together. From time to time, people would still bring corpses to the burial village to wait for the mountain gods to collect their souls.
Having said this, Mr. Mi paused and sighed: "It wasn't until the Republic of China that this custom of sending souls changed..."
After the Republic of China, the clamor for new culture and new life was so loud that even girls no longer dared to cry about foot binding. This kind of thing, which is obviously a feudal superstition, of course can no longer be practiced with great fanfare. Of course, burial villages are also It is not allowed to send corpses here anymore.
From the Republic of China until now, the Xingshan County Political Yuan has gone through nearly twenty years of governance, and finally put an end to the practice of burying dead people and collecting their souls. If people want to sacrifice their family members' bodies to the mountain gods again, they will most likely have to do so behind their backs. They secretly sent Shennongjia there, at least not in broad daylight.
Song Siyuan asked: "Well, since albino animals are messengers of the mountain god, they can indeed be regarded as auspicious, right?"
Mr. Mi nodded: "Well, it can be regarded as auspicious."
"Then, what if it is a person who appears albino? Are albino people also auspicious?"
Song Siyuan knew that no matter what the albino animal was, it was always a symbol of auspiciousness in the eyes of the villagers. In the same situation, the albino should also be auspicious. However, the people of Wushan always regarded the albino as ominous, but they didn't know what was in it. reason.
Mr. Mi shook his head unexpectedly and even frowned: "No, the one you are talking about is called an albino child. This is not auspicious. People regard such children as unlucky."
Song Siyuan asked: "Why? It's auspicious to look at animals, but it's really unlucky to look at people?"
Mr. Mi obviously has something to say about this: "Albino animals absorb human souls and are chosen by the mountain god to be messengers. On the other hand, if some of the mountain god's messengers make mistakes, they will be expelled by the mountain god. , reincarnated into a human body.”
"But since the soul itself is not reincarnated but directly possessed, it is actually equivalent to taking away the soul of the original baby. Strictly speaking, this baby died before it was born. Even if it is born, it still has its soul taken away. The ghost fetus no longer belongs to a living person. Such a person is equivalent to being reprimanded by the mountain god, and his soul has returned to a living person the moment he was born."
