This content is a fictional short story, aiming to spread positive energy, please watch it rationally, and do not sit in the opposite seat. If there is any similarity, it is purely coincidental.
The moon hid in the clouds, and the sky suddenly darkened, with only sparse stars and blinking feeble eyes. The white-bearded old man looked up at the sky, pinched his fingers again, nodded and whispered, "When the hour comes, dig." ”
With that, the white-bearded old man walked out of the house, and the three mermaids followed him to the backyard. The white-bearded old man lit a piece of paper, and the paper ash turned into a butterfly and landed on the ground on the west side of the backyard, the white-bearded old man nodded, and the three of them began to dig down from the butterfly's landing point.
The white-bearded old man whispered, "Remember, dig down to 99 inches and stop." Zong Chenghou whispered, "Got it." He took out the rope that had been prepared from his bosom, the size of the rope had already been marked, and they dug down an inch, and the rope dropped an inch.
When the rope was finished, indicating that it had been dug to nine feet and nine inches, the three of them climbed out of the pit, and the white-bearded old man jumped down. After a while, he walked up with a black box in his hand.
I saw him put the box on the ground, and with a gentle press of his hands on both sides of the box, the box opened, and the three people looked into the box in unison, and an incredible look suddenly appeared on their faces.
Zong Chenghou's original family background was average, with more than enough food and clothing, and insufficient wealth. About half a year ago, he went to the market, and halfway to the road, he was confronted by a startled horse, and a person was hanging upside down on the stirrup, dragging on the ground. He was strong, and his hand quickly grabbed the reins and pulled them into his arms, and then with his other hand he pressed the horse's head downward, and the horse came to a screeching halt.
He went and removed the foot from the stirrup, and lifted the man up, and saw that he was a boy of about twelve or thirteen years of age, with scars on his face, and he was unsteady on his feet. Zong Cheng asked Houhou, but the man couldn't answer.
At this moment, a few horses came running, and it turned out to be the servants of a large family. This big family's surname is Guo, and the young man is the little son of the Guo family, he came out to train and ride a horse, but he didn't expect a big buffalo to rush out of the oblique thorn and go straight to the little son's mount.
The horse was frightened and ran wildly, the little boy was caught off guard, fell off the horse, one foot was wrapped around the stirrup, and was dragged by the horse for several miles.
Several servants asked Zong Chenghou's name and address, and then helped the little boy to go home. A few days later, several servants came to invite Zong Chenghou to come over, and the old man of the Guo family served him with wine to thank him for his rescue. Before leaving, the old man of the Guo family gave him an honorarium of five hundred taels of silver.
Zong Chenghou originally saved a sum of money and planned to build a new house, but his son had already been married, and he needed to build a new house for marriage, but because the money was not enough, it has been delayed until now. Now that he had received an honorarium of five hundred taels of silver, and the money for building the house was enough, he chose the foundation, bought the materials, and began to hire a group of craftsmen to build the house.
The leader of the craftsmen is surnamed Ke, a thin old man in his fifties, and the rest are his disciples and grandchildren. He had the shrewdness and cunning of a small businessman, and when he learned that Zong Chenghou had obtained a windfall, he wanted to get a touch of it, and when the house was halfway built, he had to process the money.
Zong Chenghou is a man with five big and three thick, short-tempered, and there is no room for sand in his eyes. He wouldn't be used to the surname Ke, so he immediately refused, and scolded the surname Ke. The two broke up unhappily, but the second master of the village mediated, and the surnamed Ke took people to continue to build the house.
After the house was built, Zong Chenghou happily moved in. Three days later, in the middle of the night, Zong Chenghou suddenly saw a strange bird, like an owl, but it was bigger than an owl, flew over and landed on his chest, and kept pecking at his chest.
He tried to reach out to drive away, but found himself unable to move. He struggled with all his might, and he didn't know how long it took for him to finally be able to wave his hands, but he suddenly woke up and realized that he had just dreamed.
The next morning, Zong Chenghou felt flustered and sat at home to rest. At noon, there was a faint pain in his chest, because it was not bad, he endured it and passed, and he didn't take it seriously.
In the middle of the night, Zong Chenghou dreamed again that the owl pecked at his chest, he struggled hard, but he couldn't move, as if something was restraining him. When he struggled to get rid of the restraints, he woke up, and it was still a dream.
However, during the day, the pain in his chest intensified, as if something was pecking, and a sharp pain came from one after another. The family invited a doctor, and the doctor looked at it and asked about it, frowned and said: "Judging from the pulse, the patient's body is normal, this should not belong to the category of medicine, could it be that he has encountered something unclean?" ”
This reminding Zong Chenghou, could it be that the surname Ke hated him in his heart because the processing money was not realized, and he did something in his house? The more he thought about it, the more he felt like it, so he asked people to invite the surname Ke to his home and set up wine and entertainment. After three rounds of drinking, Zong Chenghou asked straight to the point, did he do it? If so, take it out quickly and not pursue it.
The surnamed Ke swears by heaven that he has absolutely not done anything. Seeing that he didn't admit it, Zong Chenghou immediately became angry, and immediately kicked him out, and then filed a complaint with the county government.
Coincidentally, when he was delivering the paper at the Yamen, he met the little son of the Guo family, and the little boy went to the Yamen to greet the officials in order to thank him for his rescue. The Guo family is a big family, and they have some friendship with the officials of the yamen, and after listening to the entrustment of the little son of the Guo family, they are naturally sincere to Zong.
As long as the officials in the yamen are biased, they basically lose their fairness, and they take it for granted that the surname Ke has done his tricks and feet, and the big torture waits, and the mortal body surnamed Ke, where can they eat and be disinfected? In the end, he was beaten into a trick and admitted that it was his hands and feet.
The officer told him to identify the place where he was doing his hands and feet and dig it up. He first said that it was on the roof beams, but when he lifted all the roof beams, he couldn't find anything. He said again that it was in the hearth, but when he turned the hearth upside down, he still couldn't find anything.
The servants thought that the man surnamed Ke was dishonest, so they beat him vigorously, and he said that he had done something on the gate. The officers smashed the two gates to pieces, but found nothing. In the end, the officials lost patience and put the surnamed Ke in prison, sentenced him to confiscate the army, and waited for the approval of his superiors to send him to the north.
Zong Chenghou's chest still hurts, and he still dreams of owls pecking at his chest in the middle of the night, he is very distressed, and secretly scolds the surname Ke for being really ruthless, and would rather be in the army than cancel his hands and feet, so that he will suffer.
On this day, the second uncle came to visit Zong Chenghou with gifts and chatted with him about family life. He thinks that although the surname Ke is not very authentic, it is impossible to harm people with his hands and feet, he and the surname Ke are good friends, with his understanding of the surname Ke for decades, the surname Ke will not be bad enough to harm others.
Before leaving, the second master said: "It is said that there is a master who lives in seclusion in the deep mountains and valleys, and he has great ability, you might as well invite him down the mountain to have a look." ”
This is exactly the person who woke up in the dream, Zong Chenghou preconceived that it was the hands and feet of the surname Ke, so he forgot to find someone else to take a look, and now he was reminded by the second uncle, that afternoon, he endured the pain, took the second sedan chair, and invited the master down the mountain and placed him in the guest room.
The master is a white-bearded old man, listening to him talk about the situation, first go to the front yard to check, and then go to the backyard to check, and then said mysteriously: "In the underground in the backyard, there is a thing buried, and you can see the real chapter by digging 99 inches in the ground." ”
So, Zong Chenghou called two relatives, and when the time came, he went to dig in the backyard, and dug out a small box, and after the master opened the small black box, the three people next to him were stunned, only to see an owl-like monster lying in the box, glowing with a dark light, which made people shudder.
Zong Chenghou suppressed the panic and asked what was this? The master couldn't help but smile, nodded and said, "This is something left over from my ancestor during the Han Gaozu period. ”
It turned out that the master belonged to the Mo family, and after the establishment of the Han Dynasty, the descendants of the Mo family lived in seclusion in the mountains and no longer cared about the world. The master's ancestor left a treasure from the master, which is this owl-shaped thing, which hides the Mo family's practice secrets. The master lives in seclusion here, and he is ordered to find the treasures of his own sect.
Unexpectedly, Zong Chenghou built a new house here, suppressed the treasure, and was counterattacked by the treasure, and there was an evil thing, which allowed the treasure to see the light of day.
The master was overjoyed and left with the treasure, and since then, Zong Chenghou has stopped having strange dreams, and the pain in his chest has disappeared. Only then did he know that he was wrong to blame the surnamed Ke, found the Guo family, asked them to intercede, and the government withdrew the case and acquitted the surnamed Ke. Zong Cheng felt guilty and took a large sum of money to appease the surnamed Ke, and finally got his understanding.
Sometimes, preconceived ideas can really kill people. Whenever you encounter something, you must think calmly, consider the problem from multiple angles, and don't speculate, which eventually leads to unnecessary misunderstandings and wrongs good people.
The absurd penmanship of this story is intended to use facts to illustrate and persuade the world, and has nothing to do with feudal superstition. The content is purely fictional, and any name, place name, or other aspects involved in the text are all needed for artistic processing, and have nothing to do with reality, please treat them rationally.