Old dog tell weird stories

Dragon Eater

This story is also told by Fatty.

The story is that seven or eight years ago, when he went to collect antiques locally in Weinan, Shaanxi Province, he received a strange thing.

Although it is said that antique dealers receive things that are quite evil, what with the human bone magic artifacts, bronze ghosts and monsters, and the evil Buddhas of the South Seas, but this one together is really quite unusual.

Because, this time, he received dragon scales, as well as dragon bones.

It's true, once we drank together, drank too much, talking about the imperial tomb antiques in that place in Shaanxi, banditry, drought, Fatty did not say a word, just sneered.

The wine to the full, he packed a bunch of dishes, carrying two bottles of two pot head, and had to pull me to his store to watch things.

To the store, he even rare incense burning clean hands, but also pulled me together and kowtowed a few heads, which chattering from the safe out of a password box, the password box to prevent a sandalwood box, open the box, inside with red cloth wrapped in three layers of an object, layer by layer after uncovering, found inside an old leaf, a jagged white stone.

Little fat but incomparably solemnly told me that this is the dragon scales and a small piece of dragon bone.

Seeing that I do not believe, he gave me some experiments to verify the authenticity of this thing.

Dragon scales that thing is a bit like shrimp slices, usually look dirty, gray, but as long as the water, immediately become crystal clear, and regardless of the knife chopping fire, can not leave a trace on it.

As for the piece of dragon bone, is even more magical. The middle of the keel is empty, filled with water, Fatty continued to pour, just look at the water has exceeded the keel a large section, still did not cascade out, rather like the keel underneath to hold a pool of water, even around the water vapor is great, is magical.

Fatty satisfied with my amazed expression, greeted me on the bed, continue to eat and drink, drink to tell me the story of the dragon scales, dragon bones.

As the old saying goes, above-ground cultural relics look at Shanxi, underground cultural relics look at Shaanxi.

Shaanxi as the ancient capital of the thirteen dynasties, and next to the Qinling Dragon Vein, the ground layer on top of layer, all ancient tombs, plus tomb raiding here is the trend, many girls get married, the dowry should have a bottle or jar, so look at the gray face of the family, from under the stove scratch out a thing, get to Beijing can be worth a lot of money.

Therefore, many Panjiayuan store owners have to go to Shaanxi sweep, see if they can find some treasure.

Little fat then, of course, also rushed to Shaanxi, first in northern Shaanxi to earn a circle, nothing to pull, followed by the south of Shaanxi.

Northern Shaanxi, southern Shaanxi two worlds. The north of Shaanxi is the Qin accent, drums, Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, mutton bun; south of Shaanxi is under the Qinba Mountains, beautiful mountains, although the mili out of the mink cicada, but the women of southern Shaanxi are also very beautiful, like Shangluo's Shanyang, Hanzhong's Yang County, are from ancient times out of the beautiful places.

Fatty went to Ankang in southern Shaanxi, dressed as a collection of old goods, all day long Jieer walk the streets, knock knock knock, but also received a lot of good things.

Ankang is known as the ancient Qin head Chu tail, since ancient times believe in witchcraft, ghosts, so it is cheap to receive a lot of "road guide". "Road guide" is this side of southern Shaanxi Taoist practice, over the spirit of the dead with the "pass paperwork", by the local yin and yang in the pear wood or date wood carved on the dragon, the word Yang, fill in the name of the deceased, when doing the fast altar dojo, burn can be, meaning to the deceased to lead the way.

This thing in the local worthless, many people even when firewood, fatty get to Beijing, resold, each sold to thousands of dollars, so this trip a lot of oil, mood, so rented a courtyard to live, every day good wine and good food, please landlord drink.

About the dragon scales and keel, is so chatting out.

Fatty was drunk, a sea of chat, chatting to Shaanxi this place in ancient times is the ancient capital of the thirteen dynasties, a great reputation, in modern times can not, bandits, wolves, drought, rampant tomb raiding, so the formation of a unique style of folk, wave after wave over the looting, in addition to the rolling yellow smoke of the loess slopes, there is nothing left.

The old man laughed coldly and pointed out that Fatty was talking about northern Shaanxi, not their southern Shaanxi.

Fatty is happy, said the north and south of Shaanxi is still Shaanxi, what difference does it make?

The old man just coldly grunted, sullenly drinking, and did not explain.

Fatty idle is also idle, so he accompanied him a fierce drink, kept setting his words, and finally set out a surprising story.

The old man said that his ancestors were from northern Shaanxi, there is a loess slope, nine droughts a decade, so every year to seek rain to combat drought is the villagers' top priority. In other places, they would build the temple of the Dragon King, dig drains and put on social performances, but in northern Shaanxi, they felt that the long drought was caused by something, so they had to fight the drought demons, kill the drought ghosts and fight the Dragon King.

But that year, 1928, there was not a drop of rain since the beginning of spring, the summer crop was overwhelmed, the autumn crop could not be planted at all, the ground was sunburned like a stone, crushed all the powder, the villagers used all those good methods, fight the drought demon, kill the drought ghost, fight the Dragon King, but it was useless.

At this time, the village fortune teller blind man proposed an evil method.

The evil method is to find some black dogs, the dog should be covered in black, but the four ladders if the snow white, which is called black hooves on snow, said the black dog is psychic, four hooves on snow can come and go freely in the nether world, the Yang world, the most spiritual.

Then, in the threshing floor to build a tall altar, the dog tied to the four hooves, basilisk tied to the altar, and the dog's head fixed, the eyelids cut open, so that its eyes do not blink and stare at the hot sun.

In this way, the black dog can only watch the sun blinded, sunburned, and finally the body into a pile of dried meat, a miserable death.

The dog was the sun alive, will be dying before it will be the most vicious curse to the sun, the sun by the curse, after a short time will be hidden into the clouds, the rain will fall.

As a result, the black dog died one after another, and finally the city to catch the dog, and finally after the full seventy-seven forty-nine, the day finally changed color, dark clouds, heavy rain, a lightning will be the altar to split down, followed by corn grains of rain came down hard.

The rain finally fell, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, all knocking on the basin in the heavy rain revelry.

At this time, everyone saw a blood-red sky, a thunder after a thunder, headless to hit the past, lightning there is a red fireball, wagging its head, struggling to get to the sky, but the thunder and lightning a race, finally was beaten down, fell on the slope of the hill.

Some bold people touched over to see, found that the thing was covered in blood red, like a large long worm, lying on the ground, not moving.

Blind man was helped over, listening to the description of everyone, said with emotion, golden wings and golden scales, snake body, horse head, antlers, eagle claws, red body, this is certainly a red dragon is not false!

He judged that we have a drought in Shaanxi this year, it must be this red dragon monster! Fortunately, the old Taoist I did the magic of the sky, sent forty-nine black dogs crying to the sky, the black dogs crying to the sky, grievances, the heavens are afraid, so the red dragon was thrown down to resist life!

Everyone heard that a dragon had fallen from the sky, so they were scared and bowed down, but the blind man said: "Do not be afraid! This is a hundred years of divine things!

Do you know that the "God of the Seal", Jiang Taishi Yu Xuan said: "under the dragon pile, digging the ground a few feet, there is a dragon meat filled with stuff, let people cut, but do not say the word 'dragon'. Or say 'this dragon meat also', then thunderbolt earthquake made, hit people and die." It is said that the divine minister Jiang Taigong ate the flesh of this thing, only to live a full 800 years!

Everyone heard him say so, one by one are excited, said since Jiang Taigong is eating dragon meat to live 800 years old, we also learn from his old man today, also follow a bite for the gods!

After saying that, the crowd swarmed towards the small dragon like a tidal wave, a voice yelling to eat dragon meat.

The blind man shouted at the side, let everyone eat, do not shout, to let the real dragon lurking in the sky heard, will certainly come down to disaster!

The crowd has long been red-eyed, where there is still willing to listen to him, to tear up the hard and incomparable dragon meat will be stuffed into the mouth, that can not squeeze in, but also wailing loudly up.

At this time, the nine heavens above the thunder came down, the rumbling thunder rolled with lightning one by one in the sky tumbling, just not a rain.

The blind man had shouted again and again, don't shout, don't shout! Seeing that no one listened to him, he cried on the ground, regretting that he should not let people eat the dragon meat, and now the heavens are about to punish him!

The sound of thunder more and more dense, that ate the dragon meat of the people on the body hot, one by one pulled off the clothes on their bodies, you can see their bodies are red, as if burning general, the internal organs are clearly visible. Several people n***d in the river running up, not much time, that the flesh of the body became transparent, the chest cavity of the internal organs are clearly visible, it seems to have a blazing fire inside.

The old man lamented that his grandfather was in front of him, although he also wanted to grab a piece of dragon meat to eat, but did not squeeze in, but the result was to pick up a life.

At that time he knelt on the ground, he saw those who ate the dragon meat screaming madly, tearing their hair, the hair fell down in clumps, then fell to the ground, the body twitching, the hair, ears are smoking out, and finally the body was enveloped in a fire, to burn to ash.

Finally, his grandfather picked up a few pieces of dragon scales and bones and fled to the provinces overnight in the heavy rain. Later, I heard that Shaanxi was hit by a three-year drought, with no harvest and a man-eating tragedy.

Although his great-grandfather later moved back to the south of Shaanxi, he also made a vow to his descendants that they must never go to northern Shaanxi again in their lifetime.

Speaking of excitement, he took Fatty to see the dragon scales and bones left by his grandfather, saying that this is a good thing, there are these things in their home, not to mention rats, even flies do not fly in one.

Fatty of course, look straight, at that time, they took out all the money on their bodies, after all the trouble, at least to buy back a piece of dragon scales, a dragon bone.

He gave me emotion: this thing ah, I put in my hand, I feel and my heart together! Before there is a foreigner, the price wanted to buy, I directly to the girl to get out! After all, we Chinese are the descendants of the dragon, can still sell the ancestors!

Little fat little face flushed, a proud face.

After returning, I looked up the information, 1928, Shaanxi occurred in a hundred years of drought, a full three years without rain, no harvest, "no residual wet, house fresh all hidden, thousands of miles of bare ground, ten thousand wells blocked no smoke,". Footsteps to, ten rooms nine empty, mourning everywhere, dying", and finally a shocking cannibalism case ......

I was thinking, that red dragon in the end is to do what?

Is it, it originally wanted to use their own flesh and blood to resolve the century-old catastrophe?

That three-year drought, and the development of cannibalism later, is it again its revenge on mankind?

The gods of the three feet of the head, can we not be careful in doing things?