the last priest

West Tianmu Mountain is located at the junction of Zhejiang and Anhui provinces. Its depth of more than 30 kilometers is uninhabited by virgin forests. Its main peak, Dianjing Mountain, is a mysterious mountain that can be seen but cannot be touched. Thirty years ago, a five-member geological exploration team claimed to have discovered high-quality antimony ore on Dianjing Mountain, but lost contact half a month later.A large number of soldiers began to station in Dianjing Mountain and then evacuated in an emergency five days later, leaving only a secret that has been passed down among the villagers for decades and has not been solved.

Halfway up the mountain, I saw the abandoned camp. The collapsed tent had long lost its original military green color, and was covered with dead branches and leaves, leaving only a few small corners to be recognized.There are still some drilling equipment scattered around the camp, a diesel engine has rusted boards, and several oil drums with the number of a certain unit written on it were also overturned by scattered rolling stones.Unspeakable desolation, unspeakable silence.

Dianjing Mountain is pyramid-shaped, and the camp is located in a relatively flat place in the middle of the mountain.The shadow men carried the coffin and stayed near the camp for a while. After looking around, they continued to walk up the mountain, and it was here that I saw Cha Wenbin.

There is a grass nest under a pile of dead leaves, and Cha Wenbin is lying in that grass nest. I am sitting on the coffin, so my line of sight is also the highest.I saw a black head in the grass, with a lot of weeds and leaves on the top of the head, and a small black paper flag stood in front of the grass nest, and I later learned that the flag was "invisibility" symbol".The so-called invisibility is only for dirty things. This kind of paper made of black buffalo tail mane mixed with century-old willow bark can cover up the breath of living people.The dirty things were very vigilant, but after all, they failed to find Cha Wenbin who hid well.

Dianjing Mountain is nearly 1000 meters above sea level, steep and steep, with dense vegetation and no road at all.Looking at Dianjing Mountain from the foot of the mountain, the rain is the most violent in the entire Liangjiagou area, but it was only halfway up the mountain that I found that there was no rain here, and even the branches and leaves of the trees on the roadside did not get a little rain, which is really strange. very.

From then on, my consciousness began to gradually blur again, but I didn't know that the real me at that time was already lying in the hospital, and my grandmother had helped me take out the "wool Sha" in my body. The last picture of me was being carried by the group into the deeper and higher woods.

A day later, the salesman brother who had been sleeping in a coma suddenly woke up, and then called his wife loudly, saying that he was hungry.The family members were overjoyed that the man finally got better.The salesman walked around a bit after he got up, complaining about why it was raining so hard. That evening he asked for chicken by name, and if he wanted to eat rooster, it had to be stewed.

That night he ate three bowls of rice and drank some wine, but he only ate the head of the chicken that was specially killed for him.About an hour later, the salesman said he was sleepy and wanted to rest.His daughter-in-law thought it was a god who came down to earth to save his man, so she specially took incense paper and worshiped at the door. The incense wafted up to the height of a person and began to spread around. The smoke did not disperse upwards, but It is flat and loose.

When his daughter-in-law came in again, she saw a piece of paper falling on the ground. This was the "life talisman" drawn by Cha Wenbin that day. It turned out that this talisman was pasted on the door of the shopkeeper's room.His daughter-in-law thought it was blown off by the strong wind, and wanted to ask the shopkeeper to get up and paste it again, but unexpectedly, the shopkeeper never woke up after falling asleep.

The fragrance floats seven inches, and the soul enters seven feet!

After all, a piece of "life talisman" failed to survive three days. The salesman brother became a full-fledged ghost like this. From the time he started eating chicken heads, he was already a dead man.

The rain was too heavy, and the salesman couldn’t even send a funeral. His house was not low, but the road in front of the door was completely submerged by the flood. Only his wife and children were left guarding the gradually cooling corpse, crying loudly. The sound of the wind and rain gradually covered the sky over Liangjiagou.

It wasn't that other people were unwilling to help, but that there was no way to help at all. The water in the river was rising every minute. If a group of people from the low-lying areas hadn't been evacuated in time, Liangjiagou might be full of dead bodies.Because of the high terrain, our family helped more than a dozen people at once. They all said that the dam inside the reservoir could not be washed away. If it was broken, half of Liangjiagou would have to be removed.

In the end, someone finally couldn't stand it anymore, and transported a big black coffin, and took advantage of the light rain to send the coffin to the shopkeeper's home as a boat messenger.A few older people simply changed his clothes and put him into the coffin. According to the rules and customs, his family will mourn for three days, and the grave should be built on the same day. The sooner the sun clears, the sooner the earth will be safe.

I can’t remember many of the remaining things. That memory was lost to me. Later, according to Hetu’s arrangement, I tried my best to restore all the shocking and weeping things.

On the day of the shopkeeper's death, something happened to the Cha family.Zhuo Xiong and Zha Brown were still recovering from their injuries, Cha Wenbin left the big seal of Shi Daobao's head at home to suppress the wild ghosts, He Tu was still immature and could only squat at the door hoping that the master would come back soon.

There is a special tomb on the mountain of the ancestral tomb of the Cha family. There is a small pavilion in front of the tomb, and a copper bell is hung in the pavilion.This copper bell can ring without wind, and it was taken by Dashan from the fake Taoist priest. It is said that a trace of Dashan's soul is hidden in this bell, so Dashan's body is not corrupted, and his breath is always there.Buried inside the grave was a tomb of clothes, and Cha Wenbin wanted to use this to tell the servants that this person was dead and not to pester him any more, in order to avoid catastrophe.

On that day, Wulipu, where Cha's family lived, was also covered with dark clouds, and there was only thunder but no rain.Someone came to Cha's house in a hurry to deliver a letter, saying that the ancestral tomb of his master's house was emitting thick smoke, and that lightning might have struck the chestnut forest on the mountain, igniting a wildfire.He Tuxin thought it would be okay if the master's ancestral grave was burned, so he planned to go up the mountain alone to see the situation.

When I reached the foot of the mountain, I saw the flames in the forest. The chestnut tree is a tree species with little sap, and it will burn at a little bit, and it will burn to the tomb above in a short time.Looking at the heavy rain not far away, and the wild fire on my side, and the strong wind blowing, the fire was very fierce.As soon as Hetu was in a hurry, he turned back to find someone to put out the fire. When the villagers were all ready to go up the mountain with their tools, the heavy rain that had been holding back for a long time poured down.

The rain didn't last long, it ended in half an hour, but it was enough to put out the mountain fire.After the rain stopped, Hetu planned to go up the mountain to check the situation, and wanted to have an explanation when the master came back, so he touched the mountain alone.

I also went to this chestnut forest when I was a child. The trees here are very old, so there are very few fruits.People in the village are not rare to get this kind of fruit, so it is basically children like us who pick up the chestnuts that have been beaten by frost and fall from the tree after autumn, and smash the thorns outside with stones. The meat inside is extremely sweet .

Chestnut trees are prone to deciduous leaves, and the leaves on the ground are so thick that I don’t know how many meters they are spread. This mountain fire burned all the trees and leaves, leaving only a piece of scorched earth mixed with rainwater, making it impossible for people to set foot on the ground.Hetu is a dutiful son, he has to go up the mountain to see if the grave of the ancestor master has been damaged, and he will not come down after going up the mountain.

Zhuo Xiong and Zha Brown waited at home for a long time, but there was no one in Hetu, so they went out to look for it. The ancestral tomb was not far from Cha's house, and Zhuo Xiong had gone there more than once or twice, and they knew each other very well.The two were afraid that the mountain road would be rainy and slippery, so they changed into long rubber shoes and went up the mountain to look for it. After searching everywhere, there was no sign of Hetu, but Zhuo Xiong saw a scene that he couldn't accept: the scene in front of the Dashan Grave. The pavilion has been shattered into pieces, it must have been struck by the lightning, but other places were not damaged.

Zha Bei also heard about the past of the people in this grave, and after reading a scripture, he planned to drag Zhuo Xiong down the mountain, because it was going to be dark soon, the area of ​​the mountain was small, and he could easily see whether the river map was on the mountain or not.

Zhuo Xiong rummaged through the ruins of the smashed pavilion for a while and said, "Something is wrong, there is something missing here."

"What's missing?"

Zhuo Xiong squatted on the ground, pinching a piece of broken tile on the pavilion, and said: "A bell!"