Onmyoji's Secret

Chapter 27 The Legend of Dujiangyan

I saw the five ghosts leave one after another, and I was relieved. You must know that they are ghosts full of resentment after all. I was really afraid that I would be killed by them if I didn't pay attention. Thinking about their appearance, it's really scary.

The female ghost in white had a talisman on her forehead and sat paralyzed on the ground, unable to move.

"Master, what should we do with this female ghost?" Mu Yueting walked to the side of the master and asked, pointing at the female ghost on the ground.

The master frowned, and said to the female ghost in white on the ground: "You female ghost, instead of going to reincarnate, why did you come to harm my apprentice?"

The female ghost in white raised her head, looked at us with pitch-black eyes without a trace of white, and a strange smile appeared on her pale face: "Master Jiang Shen is about to come out, you will all die! You will all die! Hehehe!"

I was taken aback by her words, and with the evil smile on her face, I became timid again and hid behind Master.

"Master Jiang Shen?"

I saw that Master's face changed suddenly, and he exclaimed to the female ghost: "You mean Jiang Shen? How is this possible? Could it be that the legend circulating in Dujiangyan is true?"

"Hahaha! You're all going to die!" The female ghost in white didn't answer what Master said, but said with a big laugh.

I saw the master closed his eyes and murmured words, as if he was talking about something. I leaned forward and heard words like "Dujiangyan, Shiren, Erlang". looked at the master.

"Master." Mu Yueting called Master from the side, and I saw her face change a little bit. It seems that the word "Jiangshen" in the female ghost's mouth just now contains great magic power, which made both Master and her change face.

Master heaved a sigh of relief, opened his eyes and looked at the female ghost in white on the ground. He did not know when there was a dark yellow clay pot in his hand. He raised the clay pot to face the female ghost, and said two complicated words in his mouth. After that, the female ghost in white screamed and turned into a ray of white light and was put into the clay pot. Immediately afterwards, the pot shook violently, as if it was about to burst.

The master's face remained unchanged, he stretched out his left hand, and at some point there was a yellow paper talisman in his hand, and he stuck the talisman on the mouth of the pot, and the whole clay pot instantly became quiet and stopped shaking.

"Yueting, send this female ghost to the Hall of Sealing Spirits." The master said to Mu Yueting who was at the side. He seemed to be much older at this moment, and his spirit was not good.

Mu Yueting responded, and she glanced at the master with some concern, then took the clay pot with the yellow paper talisman on it and walked to a side hall in the Taoist temple.

The master sighed and sat on the steps beside him with a calm face, as if he was thinking about something.

"Master, what is that Jiangshen?" I also walked over to sit next to Master, grabbed one of Master's sleeves, and asked.

Master stretched out his hand and touched my head, and said slowly: "This Dujiangyan has been built more than 2000 years ago, and it has made the entire Chengdu plain fertile and fertile for thousands of miles, becoming a land of abundance. When it comes to the construction of Dujiangyan, I have to mention Master Li Bing and that Two ancient legends that have been passed down for thousands of years."

The first legend is very simple. It is said that after the Qin State captured Bashu 2000 years ago, King Zhaoxiang of Qin appointed Li Bing as the sheriff of Shu County.At that time, there was an elf in the middle of the river who called himself the god of the river. Every year, he asked the people around him to offer him two young and beautiful girls as his wives.That year, when Li Bing first came here to take power, the person who presided over the Jiangshen's wife ceremony said that everyone would pool money to marry a beautiful woman for Jiangshen.

Li Bing refused. He said: "I am the governor, how can I let the common people contribute. I have a daughter of my own."

Later, when it was time for the ceremony, Li Bing dressed up his two daughters and threw them into the river. The two girls struggled in the river, but soon disappeared.

Seeing the two girls disappear, Li Bing went straight to the altar to sacrifice to Jiangshen, held up a glass of wine and said to Jiangshen, "You got my daughter, then we should meet up and toast each other with a glass of water and wine."

After Li Bing finished speaking, he drank the wine in his hand in one gulp, but the wine dedicated to Jiangshen remained untouched.Li Bing said angrily: "God Jiang, are you belittling me?"

Then, Li Bing pulled out his sword, jumped into the river and disappeared.

After a while, everyone saw that the river was churning violently, and two big blue oxen rushed out of the water to fight on the bank of the water.

After an unknown period of time, the river calmed down. Li Bing returned to the river bank and said to his subordinates, "I transformed into a bull to fight that Jiangshen. Unexpectedly, Jiangshen also transformed into a blue bull to fight with me. We fought It's a tie, no winner. Wait a minute, I'll lure that Jiangshen out again, this time I'll tie a white silk ribbon around my body, you guys get ready to shoot at the green dragon without a white ribbon. Cattle."

After Li Bing gave his orders, he rushed into the river again, and soon two green oxen ran out of the river, just like just now, the two oxen fought and fought with great joy.Li Bing's subordinates had already prepared hundreds of soldiers with powerful crossbows, and shot at the green bull that Jiang Shen had transformed into.

Soon, the green bull transformed by Jiang Shen was pierced by thousands of arrows, and fell to the ground and died.

Later, Li Bing shaped three stone men to stand in the middle of the river, and made an agreement with the spirits in the river that when the river dries up, it should not be lower than the stone man's feet, and when the river swells, it should not exceed the stone man's shoulders.

At the same time, Li Bing specially carved five stone cows and put them into the river to suppress the spirits in the river.

"What the hell is Jiang Shen? And isn't he dead in the legend?" After listening to Master's narration, I had a lot of doubts in my heart. The dead can't die again, so what is the river god mentioned by the female ghost in white just now?

The master smiled and said, "This is just a story, and it's hard to tell whether it's true or not, but if there is such a thing as Jiang Shen, you may have to find it in another legend."

Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a cowherd boy in this land. The cowherd boy would go to cut thatch every day. One day he saw a thatch growing very lush, so he cut it off. The next day he cut it off again. He found that the thatch that had been cut off grew back, and it was very good, so he cut it back home.For several days in a row, no matter how many times the cowherd boy mows, the thatch will grow again after one night.

The cowherd boy felt very strange, and reached out to pull up the thatch grass, and found a crystal clear bead under the grass.He took the beads home and put them in the rice cabinet. The next day, the rice overflowed the cabinet. He put the beads into the money jar. After one night, the extra copper coins filled the entire jar.

The cowherd boy's mother is a kind-hearted old woman, so she asks the cowherd boy to give the extra rice and money to the poor people around.Later, this matter was known to a local bully for some reason. The bully was greedy for this precious orb, so he brought a group of men to the cowherd’s house to snatch it, but how could the cowherd give this treasure to the bully? In desperation, he put the orb into his mouth, but the orb slipped down his throat and into the cowboy's stomach, and he couldn't get it out again.

In anger, the bully beat the cowherd boy half to death, and then went back angrily.In the middle of the night, the cowherd boy who was injured and lying on the bed suddenly yelled for water, and his wife scooped up all the water in the house for him to drink.

The cowherd boy was still screaming thirsty and said he was going to drink water from the river. His old mother was worried, so she followed the cowherd boy to the river.

The cowherd boy was lying on the bank of the river, gulping down the river water. Suddenly, the whole sky was struck by thunder and lightning, and lightning bolts continued to strike.

The old lady who herded the cowboy saw that her son who was drinking water by the river suddenly changed. Scales grew on his body, two dragon horns protruded from the top of his head, and a fist grew from his lower jaw. Dragon beard, in the blink of an eye, a well-behaved human boy turned into a giant dragon that overwhelmed the river.

The cowherd's mother saw her son turned into a giant dragon covered with scales, and looked at him swimming back and forth in the water, swimming farther and farther, she couldn't help shouting: "My son, when will you come back?" ?”

Hearing what his old mother said, the giant dragon turned around and roared: "Humans and dragons are separated, if you want me to go home, unless the stone blossoms and the horse grows horns!"

The cowherd boy's mother knew that her son would never come back, so she couldn't help feeling sad. She stood on a boulder and called out her son's name to the distant dragon. The dragon heard his mother's words in the water, He raised his head and looked back, and the place where it looked back became a beach. Later, his mother shouted 24 times, and the dragon turned back 24 times, and there were twenty four beaches in that place, which were called "four beaches" by the people. 24 Wangniang beach."

And that giant dragon ran into the Minjiang River and made waves, asking the surrounding people to send a pair of boys and girls as sacrifices to him every year, and became a notorious evil dragon.

Later, when Li Bing entered Shu, he heard about Nielong's notoriety, so he asked his son Li Erlang to subdue Nielong.Li Erlang possessed strange powers, and he and Nielong fought endlessly to the death.

Nielong couldn't beat Li Erlang, so he fled around and ran into Qingcheng Mountain.It met an old woman selling noodles at Wang Poyan in Mount Qingcheng today. After a long battle with the evil dragon, he was hungry, so he changed into a big man traveling in mountains and begged for food from the old woman.The old woman made a bowl of noodles for Nielong without saying a word.

But who knows, as soon as Nielong ate the noodles, the noodles that had just entered his stomach turned into iron chains with hooks. The iron chain hooked Nielong's heart, lungs, intestines and stomach. Out of the original shape, fell to the ground and rolled all over the floor.

And the old woman who made noodles for him also showed her real body. It was the queen mother from the sky who came down to earth to help Li Erlang subdue the dragon, so the place where the queen mother sold noodles was called Wang Poyan, and the evil dragon rolled on the ground and left behind. His imprint is called "Rolling Dragon Trough".

Li Erlang arrived quickly and grabbed the iron chain protruding from Nielong's mouth. He led Nielong to Fulongtan under Lidui in Dujiangyan, and locked it on an iron pillar for subduing dragon there. , Later, a temple was built above the suppression of the evil dragon, called Fulong Temple.

After the master told me these two legends about Dujiangyan, he sat on the steps and said in a low voice: "Old man Li said that strange things happened in Chengdu and Dujiangyan recently, such evil things as zombies, ghosts, and water monkeys. It's all related to Dujiangyan, I was still wondering what was under Dujiangyan, but I didn't expect the female ghost in white to say the word 'Jiangshen', so it might have something to do with the two legends of Dujiangyan."

"But that's just a legend after all! How could it be possible for people to turn into giant dragons, and even the queen mother in mythology? How is this possible? What is this thing under Dujiangyan? Could it really be..." Master's voice became more and more serious. Low, his face was blank.

And I sat on the side, quietly listening to the story told by the master, the first thing that came to my mind was the pair of eyes under the water, the scarlet eyes that I saw in that dream-like experience. Big eyes and the cloud of black air behind him.

But why, whenever I think of those eyes, there will be an indelible sadness in my heart?
(End of this chapter)