Legends of snake demons, spider spirits and toad spirits

Baihuatang is on the outskirts of the city, a beautiful place - in today's serious environmental damage, it is not easy to find a place with beautiful natural scenery. Is our Lady of the Hundred Flowers of better character? No. It is because the Hundred Flowers Hall was once a famous "monster haunting" place, and ordinary people easily did not dare to approach it.

The strange legends here can be traced back to the early years of Daoguang - strange things happened shortly after they were built. It is said that the predecessor of the Hundred Flowers Hall was a courtyard built by a rich family for his concubines, and it is said that it was built even more luxuriously than his own courtyard. However, masamune was angry, so he put the poison in the pastry and asked someone to give it to the concubine, hoping to poison her. After eating the poisonous cake, the concubine was unconscious, and her body changed and turned into a big spider, which was the size of a human. The other people in the main room and in the courtyard were all frightened, and an old man who was holding a heavy hand was the first to come back and propose to find firewood to burn the big spider. However, before they could find the firewood, the big spider woke up, spat out the spider silk, and wrapped the main room and the others into the silk cocoon, dragging it to its mouth and eating it. Later, the master and his entourage returned and were also brutally killed. As a result, it became the famous "Spider's Nest City", which was white in the distance, and there were often young girls with heavy makeup wandering around the neighborhood - presumably the spider spirit and her descendants came out to confuse people. So it became a forbidden place, and no one dared to go near it for several miles.

However, according to the ancient Chinese saying, if a monster commits evil to a certain extent, it will be punished by heaven. It is said that during the Xianfeng period, a huge thunder suddenly fell from the sky, bombarded the mansion and caused a fire, the mansion was burned clean, and the monsters were rumored to have been destroyed.

Then it was the last years of the Qing Dynasty, because the trees were good here, and a foreigner invested in a timber factory here — how big the factory was at that time, about the size of the previous house. It didn't take long for the accident to happen. A few workers began to fall into a trance not long after they had just started working, and they were actually caught up in the machine while working- the end was naturally extremely tragic, and their bodies were all torn apart. Foreigners thought at first that they were Chinese unfamiliar with mechanized production, but at first they did not care. But the strange thing is that more and more workers have been involved in accidents, and many people in the vicinity have rumored that there is a demon here again. Foreigners believe in science, but they don't believe in ghosts either. What's more, in his eyes, China is a strange, mysterious, and even somewhat strange country. So he took the cross himself and conducted an investigation.

After several investigations, he found that every evening a woman dressed in black saffron, with a black saffron head and two large gold earrings, haunted the nearby woods—her gold earrings were very large, large enough to have a wine glass mouth, and sparkling in the evening sun, very shocking. The foreigner went to investigate her. Thanks to the habit of foreigners to keep a diary. Otherwise everyone wouldn't know how he died. He went missing after going to find the woman, and it took a few days for everyone to find his body in the puddle. His death was terrible, his nose seemed to have been poked by a sharp blade, and his brain marrow had been sucked out. His secretary found his diary, and when he saw the account of the mysterious woman, he was very alarmed and told everyone. As soon as everyone talked, they were surprised to find that when the workers had an accident, the strange woman seemed to have appeared too. At this time, everyone realized that the situation was serious, and the elderly people thought that it was a demon. Because foreigners were all grandfathers at that time, Fu Yin personally led people to search near the factory, and found a large snake sleeping in a nearby cave, several inches long, with a black body and red spots on it. And on the branches of the cave entrance hung a woman's skin, and a pair of gold earrings hung from the woman's ears—of course, the very large one recorded in the foreigner's notes.

Fu Yin was frightened and ordered everyone to beat the big snake to death. The snake carcass was burned together with the woman's skin, and there was nothing strange after that. So everyone speculated that this snake had become a sperm, and at night it came out in a woman's skin to suck people's sperm and blood--now that I think about it, the reason why those workers were in a trance when they were working must have been sucked out of the brain marrow by the snake spirit. And the foreigner must have discovered the strangeness of the snake spirit during the investigation, and as a result, it was extinguished and the brain marrow was hollowed out.

Then it was the early years of the Republic of China – and it really didn't stop here. One year there was a sudden drought, and all the wells dried up, and there was not a single drop of rain for several months. The people desperately dug a well to find water, and finally opened a well. The water in this well is very sweet, and no matter how dry it is, it will not dry up, and the people think that this is really a life-saving well, and people from all over the world come to fetch water to drink. However, the people did not come and rejoice for long, and then they encountered strange things again. First, the person who drank the water inexplicably appeared red spots on his body, then he was in a trance, and finally he disappeared. The villagers did not know what had happened and remained frightened and confused until a child named Zhang San'er disappeared.

Zhang San'er is a single biography of the Zhang family for three generations, and has been frail and sick since childhood. In order to make him live longer, his mother tattooed a spell on his shoulder - it was this tattoo that revealed the secret of the villagers' disappearance - after Zhang San'er disappeared, his family went to him for no life, only to find a small toad under the basket at home. This toad saw that she did not run, and looked very attached. Mom thought it was strange and took a closer look at the toad. It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, you will faint on the ground with a "mom" when you look at it.

There was a tattoo on the "shoulder" of the little toad, which was exactly the same as Zhang San'er's tattoo! This toad is Zhang San'er!? Is this the secret of the villagers' disappearance? Have they all turned into toads?

Zhang San'er's mother told the villagers about her findings. No one believed her, but they all kept a heart. On this day, Lu Tianming, a teacher in the village, felt uncomfortable after drinking water, and then red spots appeared on his body. The villagers remembered what Zhang San'er's mother said, so they gathered at Lu Tianming's house to see how his illness would be discovered.

Something terrible happened. Lu Tianming turned into a toad in front of the villagers. The villagers were frightened, and when they talked about it, they felt that there must be something wrong with the well, so they gathered people from ten miles and eight townships to dig the well.

The well was dug and almost scared the villagers down. It turned out that next to the water eye, there was a toad as big as a cow, with a black body and red spots on it. With his mouth wide open, the venom in his mouth was constantly diluting in the well water. The villagers had the audacity to smash the toad to death with stones and seal the well. After that, there was nothing weird about it.

This article is excerpted from "The Case of Mystery and Investigation", which is a backstory in the novel. The protagonists of the novel will go to the Hundred Flowers Hall to investigate the truth of the so-called fairy legend.

"The Mystery case and investigation record" has been published. Author: Chasing the Moon and Chasing Flowers. Publisher: Shanghai Culture Publishing House.

Introduction to the book: This is a story of a trap. It's a story that reveals the inside story of so-called "special functions" and "spells." It could be a criminal investigation genre story you've never seen before. The collision of science and "magic", the reasoning of stripping away cocoons. Will science never be able to crack "spells"? Or are "spells" and science actually cognate?