Old dog tell weird stories

jade coffin

This story was told to me by a Taoist priest.

At that time I was wandering around Kaifeng and saw a decaying old Taoist temple, donated some incense, and also talked with the old Taoist priest, and found that he was particularly interested in the strange events of the Yellow River, and asked why, but it involved a secret incident that happened decades ago in the Yellow River.

That is the Yellow River bloodshed that happened in 1939, also known as the human-shaped jade coffin incident.

The story happened before the liberation, Henan old Yellow River in a small village.

That day, the Yellow River came to an old tin smith, with a child, in the Yellow River beach built a straw hut, do tin ware.

Along the river people love to use tin, tin soft, not easy to break, even if broken, can also be melted to recast a, old tin with sandpaper polished, white shiny, like new.

Old tinsmiths do work quickly, charge less, treat people with enthusiasm, some people come over on a sincere invitation, love to listen to everyone to tell the strange things in the Yellow River.

One day a man named Wang Daxue said to a certain river bank out of a pile of strange things, the river bank on the water birds died all over the place, but only the wild ducks are fine, still alive and kicking, he did not dare to stay more, and rushed to row away.

Everyone taunted him, saying that this Wang Daxue really live more and more back, even a bird are afraid!

The old tinsmith is quite interested, asked in detail about the location of the river bank, and asked the look of those wild ducks, to the next day so unnoticed and disappeared.

The old tinsmith is gone, did not cause much of a stir, the craftsman walking the streets, it is a casual encounter, with the craft to eat, in addition to a few tin ware still left in the old tinsmith there people scolded a few words, we will soon forget about this matter.

Let everyone imagine is that they will once again meet the old tinsmith, and is in that weird place.

That year, the Yellow River dry season, we all went to the Yellow River digging, who thought that the digging, it does not matter, a digging out of the weird.

It was the seventh day of digging the river, that day just digging to the place where a lot of dead water birds. Because Wang Da woo everywhere that this place is haunted, so that no one to dig this piece, so angry that the village chief will Wang Da woo scolded, let him finish digging this section to himself.

Wang Dawu waited for the village chief to go away, spit hard, reluctantly swung the pickaxe towards the ground and smashed down. This river bank is difficult to dig, the silt is wrapped in a lot of small sand and gravel, like burnt charcoal slag general, shovel can not dig, can only use the pickaxe to break open first, and then use the shovel to dig.

He swung the pickaxe down a smash, only to hear a clang, the mud in something to smash. The broken pickaxe is an old-fashioned tile jar, almost as big as a pickle jar, the tile jar is full of green rusted copper, copper "Yuan Bao", "Tong Bao" are.

Wang Dawu immediately stirred up, said digging to the treasure, let everyone come over to see.

He this yelling does not matter, we all throw the shovel pick, come over to see the fun.

The guys said that there must be something good under the river bank, maybe buried gold yuan treasure, the guys share it.

Everyone opened their arms to dig up. Digging for a short time, and dug out a pottery jar, but this pottery jar but no coins, let alone gold yuan treasure, only a jar of yellow stuff, like corn flour.

We can not understand, also put aside first, continue to dig down.

Then digging down, there was another person called up, the original person digging, the following appeared a large hole, he thought he had dug a treasure, double digging, digging to the head but found the innermost ambush a face-basin-sized toad.

This toad is very common, but the size of the face basin toad is rare, we also go around to see, the toad around the body red, even the eyes are red, see the people around it, but lying there motionless.

Some people say evil, this strange thing every year, this year in particular, you say this toad are not afraid of people!

Some people say that the toad is covered in red, people say that animals after a hundred years of training, the eyes will become red, I think this toad is not ordinary species, why not get the Yellow River to release it.

We will find a large basket, the toad will get to the basket. After the toad went, we found that the toad under the body of a pile of what animal eggs, the egg is round, there are almost two goose eggs size, white around, we counted, a total of nine.

Although we have fished on the Yellow River for many years, experienced more strange stories, but see such a huge egg, or the first time in his life, then also lost the idea, in the end no one dare to move those huge eggs, people will be a large hole with the earth to cover up, and continue to dig in another place.

Digging again, the clay became more and more sticky, a piece of mud, the color of the mud also gradually became darker, and finally became a strange dark red, looks like a solidified blood block. We think things are strange, continue to dig down, and dug out a small and a large two bodies, the body is no other than the missing old tinsmith and the little boy.

Everyone was astonished, the old tinsmith how would be buried on the Yellow River beach?

They continued to dig down, and finally dug out seven human-shaped jade coffins in the blood-like mud, coffins under the pressure of a gong.

The coffin body with the best jade to build, crystal clear, white and flawless, can be seen in the coffin lying a n***d woman, the coffin wall faint layer of blood, the most bizarre is that the coffin is a human coffin, arms and legs, head and ears, looks like a large jade made of clothes, firmly on the human body. This human-shaped coffin so strange, the villagers were afraid, suspecting that the seven jade coffins are not made by mortals, this will not be the Yellow River Queen's bier, so rashly rushed the Yellow River Queen, when the Yellow River King anger, to send a flood flooded the whole village.

These villagers also feel that this thing is getting weird, why not choose an auspicious day, ask a Taoist priest to come over to see the feng shui, point out before digging good. Everyone agreed, then the jar of coins divided, the pottery jar containing the stick noodles no one wanted, still thrown on the river bank.

As a result, in the evening, we heard the north wind outside a tightening, then came a coughing sound, and finally heard the sound as if a million horses rushing, as if thunder, rumbling.

Some people were alarmed by the sound of sleep, so they put on clothes and pushed out the door to see what happened, the results were stunned by the scene in front of them.

The original dried up on the ancient road of the Yellow River, I do not know when it was filled with water, the original night that the sound of thousands of horses rushing, but is the Yellow River rising water sound.

The man felt that the rolling Yellow River water is a bit odd, this time is not the rainy season, this Yellow River in how the water will suddenly rise?

Carefully feel over to take a peek. It was the late autumn season, the tip of the grass covered with a white layer of dew, the bright moon shining on the water, only to see that the moon a blinding scarlet, the Yellow River churning with dark red blood, he was so scared that he almost wet his pants.

The older generation said, said that when King Zhou was unethical, the sky is angry, and finally the morning dew with blood, the Yellow River bleeding, this is a great omen, the light drought, no harvest, the heavy Yellow River dike, flooding the village.

His legs are weak, just feel the buzzing in the head, walking can not walk. This time the sticky blood slowly drifted over a few white dots, he had the courage to look, the white dots and no other, is that they dug out yesterday in the Yellow River in the ancient path of seven white jade coffins, so scared that he then shouted, fainted.

There is no way, we just have to raise money to visit the high people everywhere, and then came a young Taoist.

The Taoist listened to everyone, they understood three points, the old tin smith is certainly the South hold treasure of the barbarians, disguised as craftsmen walking the streets, ostensibly to listen to people talk about strange things in the countryside, in fact, from the clues, want to find treasure in the people.

The face-basin-sized toad is very unusual, the Yellow River on the big toad has a special name, called "General Tiger Head", also extraordinary, the human-shaped jade coffin is unheard of.

He thought that although he grew up traveling in all directions, quite a reputation, life seen strange and bizarre things can be said, but this rare things on the Yellow River really have not heard of, this time if so let go, it would not be a pity, then they should be the crowd, proposed to go to the Yellow River ancient road to see.

But when he arrived at the Yellow River, or could not help but be surprised.

It is said that the Yellow River Yellow River, yellow and turbid, that the water wrapped in mud and sand as if mud general, in the Yellow River side of a handful of water, hands can leave half a handful of mud. But now the Yellow River is churning with scarlet water, as if the river is flowing in human blood in general, the water is floating with white dots, are floating in the water of dead fish and turtles, fishy and unpleasant. This is not the Yellow River, is clearly a river of blood!

The young Taoist priest touched the mud of the Yellow River, found that the mud also turned dark red, red purple, touching the delicate smooth, does not look like the Yellow River on the common black mud.

He looked for a while, asked the village chief who followed him, the Yellow River after the color change, can there be any abnormalities?

The village chief sighed: "from the day the water began to rise, the Yellow River turned over the pit, large fish and small fish are floating head, many large fish like crazy to the shore, the water also climbed out of the big snapper, eyes are red. At first there are crows, wild dogs in the river to eat dead fish, and then even wild dogs, crows died on the Yellow River, this is really made eight life sins ah!

The young Taoist priest looked around, a time can not see the way, let a small boat, to the Yellow River will drag the seven human-shaped jade coffins to shore.

But I saw seven coffins under each of an iron chain, iron chain is also wrapped in a layer of jade, has been jade into a jade chain. The seven jade chains finally tied firmly to a gong above.

The human-shaped jade coffin was originally white, crystal clear, but now the white jade has condensed a blood, as if the blood in the Yellow River seeped into the jade coffin, moist beautiful, looks very strange.

The village chief was a little scared, said: "Grandpa Daoist, I'm afraid these seven jade coffins are the Yellow River Queen! I think we should do a puja in front of the Yellow River King Temple, the Yellow River King's grievances, and then invite a trumpet class to blow and beat, the Yellow River Goddess will be invited back in style, the matter can be closed."

The Taoist priest looked at the human-shaped coffins and jade chains, the heart has been determined, then said: "You do not need to panic, the seven human-shaped jade coffins, although beautiful, but I'm afraid that does not fit the number of heaven, the soul of the deceased is confined in the jade coffin, a long time will change. The ancient saying "into the earth for peace", or the jade coffin will be broken, they will be buried in the Yellow River. The official obeyed the Taoist priest's words, and immediately asked people to break the seven jade coffins, the people in the jade will be buried well on the Yellow River.

Who did not expect, on that jade coffin broken, there was a strange thing happened.

And that everyone in accordance with the Taoist priest, the human-shaped jade coffin broken, found that the seven female corpses are still lifelike, but as if asleep in general.

The young Taoist priest was also secretly surprised, but there is no other way, so the female corpses buried on the Yellow River beach, the jade fragments burned.

But I think, this thing is certainly not ordinary, and did not end, the good thing is that the Yellow River blood also gradually receded with time, we also think it is his credit, a thousand thanks to invite him away.

Over the years, the young Taoist priest has been haunted by this matter, he searched all over the Yellow River to find the origin of this matter, but inadvertently found a lot of secrets in the Yellow River, the whole thing is getting bigger and bigger, completely beyond what he wanted to think.

Later, the young Taoist priest gradually became an old Taoist priest, leaving his last words at the end of his life, wanting his disciples to fulfill a long-cherished wish to uncover the mystery of the Yellow River chains, the secret can not be solved, the descendants of the Yellow River slave forever.

And the young Taoist who told me the story, is the old Taoist disciple passed down.

I could not help but ask him: "So many years, you found any clues?"

The young Taoist just smiled faintly and did not explain.

A few days later, when I passed by this Taoist temple, but found the door locked, I do not know whether the young Taoist found a clue, or simply returned to the secular to go home.