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Author: Humble Gong
Series: Qing Dynasty Zhiwei novel fun story series
During the Qing Dynasty (Tongzhi and Guangxu Second Emperor period, 1861-1908), there was a warrior in Shandong named Lu Kun (陸锟), the character Hu Chen. He studied martial arts at the Shaolin Temple in his childhood, practiced a good kung fu, and later became famous for his double fists.
Wang Baoqiang, who also studied martial arts at the Shaolin Temple as a teenager
He often wandered between Shandong and Hebei, and even if the suitcase was not locked, no thief dared to worry about it. Lu Kun claimed that he had never met an enemy in his life, but he only worked for the government and tried to get rid of the "three monsters" so far makes him think back to this day, he is still cold and sweaty, and his heart is still palpitating.
Let's take a look at which "three monsters" it is:
The story is a removal of the marmot
There is a Li Da in Jinan Province who runs the "flash delivery" business, who is particularly good at marathons, never takes a ride to the north, and walks purely on his legs. (I don't know if it is like the "Divine Action Method" like the Shenxing Taibao Daizong in "Water Margin"?) ）
Once he delivered documents for the government, because he wanted to deliver the next order as soon as possible (like the current courier brother, speed is money, charging according to the order, the more you send, the more you earn), so the station that should have stayed overnight did not stop, but continued to hurry. When the twilight was dark and the sun was setting in the west, he found himself alone in the sparsely populated countryside, and as a result, he was unable to find a place to live.
A takeaway guy who is unimpeded, windy, busy with his livelihood, and disregards his safety
Fortunately, he found a deserted ancient temple in the weeds, and he really had no choice, so he had to stay in it. But I saw that the doors and windows of this monastery were withered, the statues were peeling off, and there was no curtain in the shrine, and it was covered with spider webs. Looking around, a good faction is desolate!
Where can I sleep? Just when Li Da was hesitant, he looked up coldly, dwarf oil ~ there was actually a big drum hanging on this wall! The leather of the drum face is cracked, and the hollow drum body seems to be just right to cope with lying down.
Jiang Wen's film "Let the Bullets Fly" in the county court that can accommodate several people "sounded the drum of injustice"
Li Da rolled up his sleeves, threw off his arms and climbed up, climbing into the drum. He used the bag as a pillow, his jacket as a quilt, and curled up to sleep. Due to the exhaustion of running all the way, Li Da soon fell asleep to meet Zhou Gong.
When the stars were in the sky and everything was silent, the buddha hall suddenly had a noisy car and horse, the sound of people was boiling, and it was noisy. Disturbed by the good dreams, Li Da rubbed his sleepy eyes and peeked out half of his head from the broken drum.
I saw many people in black squatting in the courtyard where the moonlight was like autumn water, and through the bright moonlight, he could even see people's hair and beards clearly!
These men in black each had a pile of belongings in front of them. After a while, the big man sitting at the top spoke: "Let's give the brothers a fair share, right?" "Fair, fair." Everyone else nodded in agreement. "Well, next month today, we will gather here, and then go to the horsemen in the south of the city to do a big vote!" Those who do not reach the appointment will be severely punished! Okay, disband it in place. "The crowd answered the promise and scattered the birds and beasts.
At this moment, Li Da understood that --- it turned out to be the Jiangyang Bandit Criminal Gang who shared the booty in the middle of the night! He held his scalp hard until he was in a three-more state, planning to slip away. But there were two people lying on the steps. One of them snored like thunder, the other suddenly turned over and jumped, holding a horned knife in his hand and plunging it into the throat of the sleeping person, and then rolled up two bags of belongings and disappeared into the night...
Boy! Feelings This is "black eating black". Li Da did not want to stay in this place of right and wrong at the scene of the thief's den + murder for more than half a moment. Frightened, he was just about to climb out of the drum, when a demon wind blew up on the ground in the hall, and with the wind came a monster that jumped with a jumping belt and couldn't see what it looked like. This thing seems to be inhuman, with green hair all over, and two eyes flashing and reflecting the moonlight, like 24K titanium dog eyes.
24K titanium dog eyes that open at night
The monster found the dead body under the steps, clapped its hands and laughed, and the laughter was sharp and piercing like a whip (similar to an owl). It grabbed one of the corpse's legs with one hand, tore it in half from the middle, and then held the corpse and chewed it up, crunching when it reached the bone.
Where has Li Da seen such a battle! He was so frightened that his hair was erect, his liver and gallbladder were cracked, his legs were trembling, and he almost fell out of the drum. Fortunately, the monster had eaten and drunk enough to sneak into the temple and disappeared. Li Da climbed down and ran desperately under the moon against the cold wind and night dew, even if the sun rose in the east and the morning rooster broke dawn, he did not dare to stop his steps.
The words were divided into two ends, and a large family in the county was stolen at night and had already reported it to the officials. After the county court accepted the case, the police were quickly dispatched, and the patrolling messenger met Li Da, who was in a hurry and behaved strangely, and felt that he was suspected of committing a major crime, so he arrested him and twisted him back to the county court.
Zhixian smelled of catching the thief and immediately ascended to the church. The servants searched Li Da's whole body and found a copy of the government's documents. How did the courier brother who ran a "flash delivery" for the official government become a big thief in Jiangyang? When Li Da was interrogated in this way by Zhi County, he gave out what he had seen and heard at night like a bamboo tube pouring beans.
ZhiXian squinted his eyes and half-brushed his beard, counting his heart. He secretly ordered that this matter should not leak the news, and in the coming month he deployed good people and horses to lurk around the temple and wait for the rabbits. When the cockroach thieves gladly went to the meeting, they were caught in a net and more than a dozen people were captured. At first, they denied and refused to confess. ZhiXian summoned witness Li Da to identify the leading big brother, and the cockroach thieves were poor and dumb, and confessed to the crimes they had committed.
The burglary case was broken, but the local drought did not rain for a long time, the farmland was cracked, and the red land was thousands of miles, even if the mage was invited to open the altar to practice autumn rain, it had no effect. Zhixian was a well-read and well-informed Confucian, and he recalled what Li Da had seen that night, wondering if the so-called monster was the "marmot" recorded in ancient books!
Therefore, Zhixian issued a "recruitment order" to recruit brave braves to eliminate this monster. It just so happened that the protagonist of our story, Lu Kun, traveled here (and finally appeared), and because of his fame, everyone recommended him to apply.
Lu Kun was also unambiguous, gladly accepted the order and went to the monastery to investigate the scene. When he came to the temple, he found no trace of the monster, and thinking that Li Da had encountered this object in the drum, he hid in the drum and watched the changes.
But before it was even the middle of the night, a demon wind suddenly blew up on the flat ground, and Lu Kun wanted to get up to meet the battle, who knew that the monster had already run to its eyes, (how did it know that there were people in the drum?) Raised his hands and tore the broken drum. (That's a lot of energy!) ）
Lu Kun also fell to the ground, fortunately, his body was healthy and he had achieved light feats. He took advantage of the situation of a "lion rolling hydrangea ball" to drill into the crotch of the monster, drew a knife and stabbed hard, and used a move of "Millennium Kill".
Naruto in the Japanese anime Naruto performs a trick "Millennium Kill" against the tail beastly I love Ronald
As a result, the "bell" sounded crisply, like chopping iron and stone, and failed to hurt the strange half point. (Feelings This monster has also practiced "Golden Bell Cover" and "Iron Cloth Shirt"!) A knife did not succeed, Lu Kun raised his knife and stabbed again. Who knew that the strange sword body was slightly folded, and the steel knife was suddenly broken.
Lu Kun's weapon was scrapped, and for a while he was helpless, and the afterglow swept through the hall, and he couldn't find a second object that could be blocked, so in a hurry, he simply turned around and hid behind the Shrine. (The hero also has times when he is embarrassed to get off the stage, and he wants to seek the protection of the gods and Buddhas.) ）
Temple shrine
The strange man was ashamed and angry, and was trying to catch Lu Kun grinding his teeth and sucking blood. It was unceremonious, and with a slap of the hand, the Buddha statue in the shrine immediately fell apart and scattered into pieces. Who knew that the Buddha statue had a hollow belly and a giant snake with black scales inside. (I'm afraid it's not in Maitreya Buddha's belly, right?) ）
The great snake rose up in fright and wrapped itself around the monster for more than three times. Although the monster was locked and could not move, it still stretched out five fingers with the intention of scratching Lu Kun. When Lu Kun saw this opportunity to "take advantage of your illness and kill you", would he not allow him to miss it? He hurried back to the main hall to pick up the broken knife from the ground and stabbed it at the strange belly. But when he heard a "thud", the knife body was inserted into the strange belly with a handle for fifty centimeters! The monster fell to the ground in response, dying of exhaustion, and the big snake was suddenly gone.
Lu Kun looked closely, and it turned out that the strange body was as hard as iron, but the only three inches under the abdomen was its fatal weakness, and it was just inserted by Lu Kun's "blind cat touching the dead rat", which was removed from this scourge.
At dawn, everyone gathered in the temple, and when they saw the monster, they were all amazed, and they all praised Lu Kun's innate divine power and wisdom and courage, but they did not know that he actually relied on "divine help" to achieve this great achievement. (That big snake was sent by the gods?) ）
The men carried the monster away and threw it into the firewood heap and set it on fire. The stench emanating from the corpse was too high, and it could still be smelled a few miles away. (It's so sour.) ）
Just after the cremation of this monster, not long after a thunderbolt in the clear sky, and then a torrential downpour, pouring down, the fields and mountains were moist with water and became turquoise and verdant. ZhiXian was also promoted because of this political achievement, and went to his post happily.
Knowledge points
The marmot is said to be a monster in ancient myths and legends that can cause drought. In the pre-Qin to Han Dynasties, its image was based on
The goddess dressed in green clothes is the main one. From the late Han Dynasty to the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, its image gradually transitioned to a small ghost appearance. After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the image of the little ghost was evolving into a zombie image. In the Qing Dynasty, it even developed the theory of "dryads (myths and legends of the northern man-eating beast that resembles a dog)".
For example, yuan ming, a scholar of the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, mentioned in his famous Zhiwei novel "Xuzi No Words": "The corpse first becomes a dry ray, and then it becomes a calf." ”
The image of the marmot after the calf
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the concept of zombifying into a marmot and causing drought was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. As a result, the folk derived the custom of seeking rain such as "beating dry bone piles" and "burning dry fish--- if there is a drought season, people will dig up new burial tombs, if they are buried for 100 days but the body is not decayed, it is judged to be "zombie dry fish". The treatment method is to call the mutilated limbs "dry bone piles" and the incineration and cremation is called "burning the dry fish". It is believed that god will only rain if the marmot is burned, and this custom continued in some villages in Shandong until the 1960s.
Extend the extension
The story of "dryads" is not uncommon in Qing Dynasty Zhiwei novels. The later writers and bang er, who were yuan's contemporaries, also had a similar record in their work "The Record of the Night Tan".
It's just that the protagonist of his story against the marmot is not a brave warrior but a weak scholar. The magic weapon to subdue the marmot is not a steel knife and a big snake, but half of "Zhou Yi". But the story villain --- a long-haired marmot, and its final fate is also thrown into the fire and burned, and it also emits a pungent stench... (It's the same thing.) ）
The image comes from the Internet
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