Raising Ghosts Records

Chapter 41 The Death of the Ghost Raising Old Man
Each link of the iron chain was as big as a grown man's fist. One end was locked on a small stone pile along the well, and the other end hung down into the well. The ground on the side is bright red.

This well was originally under the root of the tree, but the well was able to see the light of day after the old pagoda tree fell.This old locust tree is estimated to be thousands of years old. It was the Northern Song Dynasty when it was a sapling, and the old locust tree grew on the well head, which shows that the well is older than the old locust tree.But what puzzles me is that this iron chain is also very old, why is it not rusted and broken?Or it is not an iron chain at all, but a copper chain or other metal.

Such a long-standing ancient well, what is hanging on that iron chain?It can't be a bucket.My uncle’s house also has a water well, and the ropes that tie the buckets to draw water, that is, two cattle ropes, are enough. Using iron chains is overkill.

The old man raising ghosts and the others also saw the well, and at this moment they all looked at each other, and the bearded butcher asked the old man raising ghosts if he wanted to go and have a look.The old man raising ghosts nodded, then took the flashlight handed over by the woman, carefully stepped over the burning charcoal all over the floor to the edge of the well, and then shone in with the flashlight.I only heard him exclaim, "It's such a deep ancient well, you can't even see the bottom!"

As soon as the old man raising ghosts finished speaking, the three bearded butchers immediately walked to the mouth of the well, several flashlights shone into the bottom of the well one after another, and one of them barked like a dog in the well, which made me laugh out loud sound.The bearded butcher found a fist-sized stone somewhere and threw it into the well. It took a long time to hear the sound of hitting the water. According to my estimation, the well is at least 250 to [-] meters deep. room, which is as high as fifty to sixty floors.

The old man raising ghosts discussed by the well, while my uncle sat next to me, gave me a wry smile, and then took out a cigarette from his pocket to smoke.

After some discussion, those people decided to pull up the iron chain. The woman said that what was locked under the iron chain might be a large box of treasures and antiques.Then I saw that they really started to pull the chain. Except for the old man raising ghosts who was shining a flashlight into the well, the three of them grabbed the chain and pulled it outside together, like a tug-of-war.

Seeing their bodies slanting and their backs almost touching the ground, it can be seen how heavy the chains are. After pulling for a long time, the chains on the ground were piled up so high that they could not reach the end.

My uncle and I were only more than 20 meters away from the mouth of the well. It would take at least a few minutes for my uncle to untie my rope. If I had a knife, it would be quick, but I didn’t have one, so I couldn’t escape.Those people were tired and rested and pulled again. After a total of more than ten minutes of pulling, they finally pulled out a square stone from the well, about one cubic meter in size.

The stone is square and square, and it is obviously a man-made product. It is surrounded by iron chains, but I can't see anything weird about the stone, maybe it's because it's a little far away from me and I can't see clearly.

But this stone must be hollow, otherwise let alone three people, ten people may not be able to pull it up, but what is inside the hollow stone?In addition, I am sure that it is not an iron chain at all, otherwise such a long iron chain would weigh six hundred catties, and it would be difficult for three people to pull it up. It is not a crane, it should be a relatively light metal.

This square stone was only a little smaller than the mouth of the well, and the four old ghost raisers couldn't pull the stone out of the entrance even after a lot of effort.When it got stuck, there was no other way. I wrapped the iron chain around the stone pile by the well a few times, and temporarily fixed the stone at the mouth of the well.They held a flashlight around the square stone and studied it for a long time, but found nothing. Finally, the woman suddenly wailed and howled, with words and words.

The old man raising ghosts asked where the words were, and saw the middle-aged woman took out a short knife, which was my bronze knife. She tilted a few times on the square stone, and a stone slab about the same thickness as a tile was removed from the square stone. It tilted up and fell to the ground, breaking into seven or eight pieces.

Sure enough, there were words, even I could vaguely see them. The middle-aged woman tilted down the stone slab, revealing the words carved on the stone. After reading the inscriptions with a flashlight, the old man raising ghosts yelled in extreme horror, "Hurry up!"quick!quick!Put it back quickly.

Before the three people could react, the old man raising ghosts let go of the iron chain around the stone pile, and the square stone immediately fell to the bottom of the well, and the sound of falling into the water was heard within half a second.

Almost at the same time, the old man raising ghosts yelled "Run!" But it was too late, and just as they turned around, the edge of the well around the well mouth suddenly collapsed.The suddenly collapsed hole was five meters wide and five meters long, and the old man raising ghosts and the others fell into the well together with the big charcoal.

All this happened so suddenly that I hardly realized what was going on, but at the same time I heard a strange sound.The sound was like a huge wave hitting the rocks on the coast. Could it be that a giant beast suddenly sprang out of the well?

But the giant beast didn't come out, but the big black hole that collapsed from the mouth of the well suddenly overflowed with water.No wonder when the old ghost-raiser loosened the chain, the square stone fell into the water at once. It turned out that when they pulled up the stone, the water level began to rise. By the time they finished reading the text, the well water had almost reached the mouth of the well. The soil suddenly encountered a large amount of water erosion and began to collapse. This is really going to kill them!

After the water overflowed, it extinguished the charcoal fire on the ground next to it, and suddenly became invisible, and the sound of the huge wave became louder and louder.

My uncle picked up his own flashlight, and hurriedly untied the rope for me. The more anxious I was, the more I couldn't untie it. In less than a minute, the water had covered my heels.

It just occurred to me that I quickly asked my uncle where the Hunan couple who took my sister away were from. Untiing the rope, my uncle said that he didn't know where it was in Yongzhou, Hunan.I asked my sister's name. After all, I was only six years old at that time, so I only knew her name was my sister, but I didn't know her name. My uncle told me that my sister's name was Li Mushroom.

When he untied the rope on my feet, suddenly the whole valley shook like an earthquake, and then I heard a deafening sound like thunder.

When my uncle shone the flashlight, he saw a column of water rushing out of the huge collapsed hole. The column of water was as thick as a bus and as high as a three- or four-story building, like the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River.

The water column rushed into the air and the water fell again. The huge impact force of the water fell on the ground, and the uncle didn't know where to go. The flashlight fell into the water and went out within five seconds.

It was a tragedy for me. Although the rope on my feet was untied, my body was still tied to the tree, and my hands were tied behind my back. After the flood rushed past, the water level directly submerged from the heel to the chest.I struggled with almost all my breastfeeding strength, but it didn't work at all. I called my uncle anxiously and loudly, but no one responded.

Am I going to be drowned in the water too and become a water ghost?When I thought of the water ghost, I thought of Tongtong, and started calling Tongtong again.I don't know if Tongtong can come out after entering that bead?The beads have already fallen into the water with the ghost raising old man, if Tongtong can come out, now is her home field!I can only hope that Tongtong will come out and save me.

But what made me desperate was that Tongtong didn't show up, and my voice was hoarse. When the water covered my mouth and finally the top of my head, I couldn't cry anymore, and the water was gurgling in my mouth.In my last consciousness, I felt colder than ever and darker than ever, and finally knew nothing.

I don't know how long I lost consciousness. When I woke up, I found myself lying in the grass. I got up dizzy.There is a small lake less than ten meters below the grass, and the sun is very strong at this time, thinking about everything that happened last night is like a nightmare.

I didn't have anything around me, but I found a bead from my pocket, which made me jump up happily.Tongtong was still there, and it was Tongtong who rescued me in the end. The beads had fallen into the well with the old man raising ghosts, and it must be Tongtong who came back now.But I held the beads and called for a long time, but I didn't hear Tongtong's answer, so I couldn't help being disappointed again, but I still thought that Tongtong was inside, but she was injured by the gold powder sprinkled by the old ghost raiser and needed to sleep and rest.

I started to look for my uncle along the small lake, wondering if he was dead or alive after being washed away by the water last night.The small lake in front of it was formed by the accumulation of water ejected from the hole last night, submerging the entire mountain depression into a lake.

I walked along the lake for two laps and found no trace of my uncle. My bronze knife, phoenix bone needle, money, etc. were all gone, only this bead remained.

Hungry and tired, life and death!I decided to find something to eat and then come back to look for my uncle. I walked for a long time with my clothes still wet and walked back to my grandma's thatched hut. Grandma's body was still lying quietly on the bed.

I killed two chickens and cooked them. One was brought to Grandma's bed to worship, and the other was eaten by the stream and sat on a rock.After I was full, I went back to my grandma's bed and kowtowed three times to her, saying that the things that harmed her had been removed, and I hoped that she could rest in peace.

After I went out to the door and closed the door, I set the whole thatched hut on fire and burned it all together with the animal fur. Let the fire take everything away!

I went to the pool where my uncle dived again, and found that the pool had dried up, and the location of the whirlpool was the entrance of a hole the size of a television set.I jumped down from the dry pool and looked at the entrance of the cave. The black hole was unfathomably deep. It went straight to the bottom of the mountain as Tong Tong said. It was estimated to be thousands of meters deep, and there were many dead fish in the dry pool.

Maybe it was the water that suddenly gushed out of the ancient well in the depression last night, causing all the water in the surrounding area to be sucked there, so there was such a large water column rushing out.

I don't know what is written on that square stone, let alone what is inside, let alone what is in that well.But all of this was answered when I returned to the bottom of the well two years later when I had the conditions. I won’t talk about it here, but I will write about it later.

The news of Tong Tong's parents and the news of Goddess Zhang all disappeared with the fall of the ghost raising old man. I don't know if this is what people often say, this is fate.

(End of this chapter)