Chapter 30 Tombs in Tombs
The old nun smiled embarrassedly: "So that's it. I felt uncomfortable just now. Hehe, who are you?"
Qiu Wuhen said, "My name is Qiu Wuhen, I am a doctor. What is the name of Master Taifa?"
"Old Ni Yin Ling."
"Mr. Yinling Master?" Qiu Wuhen felt that the magic number was a little scared, "Does Master live in the tomb? I saw you come out of a tomb in front just now."
"Yes, do you want to go in and sit?"
"If possible, of course I want to go in and take a look."
"Come with me."
The old nun took Qiu Wuhen back to the previous cemetery, pushed open the tomb door, revealing a hole, and there was light inside.
Qiu Wuhen asked: "You took out someone's tomb and regarded it as your house?"
"Young Master misunderstood. There is no one in this tomb."
"What a joke, did you move someone's grave?"
"Young Master, please come in with me. If you have the courage, you will know that Pomni is right when you come in and take a look."
After saying that, he got into the hole behind the tomb again.
Qiu Wuhen glanced at Niu Shui Gang and said, "Don't come in when you stay outside."
Niu Shui Gang was eager to say this, so he nodded quickly and said carefully: "Master, you must pay attention. I think this old nun is quite weird and weird."
"Isn't it weird? If it's not strange, how could you live in the grave? It's not Xiaolongnu."
"Who is Xiaolongnu?"
Of course, Qiu Wuhen would not take time to explain to him, so he lowered his head and got in.
The tomb is indeed not big, and there are two people inside that can't move. Fortunately, the master is thin and sitting cross-legged on the cushion, so Qiu Wuhen has more space.
He also pulled a futon, sat down, and took a lot of tombs, looked at the other party and said, "Don't tell me this is your house, right?"
"Young Master is so smart. This is really my home. I have been practicing here for a year."
"Cultivation? Are you practicing in a tomb? Why aren't you in a nunnery?"
"I was practicing bitter Zen. I had to stay away from the world and in the yin place. What else was there colder than the grave? So I found a tomb in the chasm, dug up the grave and transferred the coffin inside to another place to rebuilt. It was the body of a homeless man who was frozen to death in the cold. I had no family members. I buried him again and erected a monument. The tomb was much better than this. Because I needed to borrow his tomb to practice Zen, only where the dead were buried was heavy, so I moved his coffin and transformed his tomb into a room. I bought some food and drink, and I took this head of the house to practice Zen. It has been a year since now."
"Did you go out just now for convenience?"
"Yes, sorry, young master, people have three urgent needs. Even people like us who practice Zen are the same. I can't dirty the place where I live. By the way, the young master's curiosity has been satisfied. Why did the young master come to this chasing treasury? Can you tell me?"
"It's nothing. I promised that I would stay in the cemetery for one night before leaving at dawn. So I came here, you can understand it as a bet."
"Young Master is really quick to speak. But it happened that my son had just finished meditation today. I needed to exercise, eat something, and then go to seclusion to me. So before dawn, you can talk, chat, and hide from the wind and snow. Do you want to eat something?"
As she said that, she took a cloth bag and took out a steamed bun. The steamed bun was still white, unlike the steamed buns with rice bran that Qiu Wuhen and his family ate before. They would be constipated for several days after eating.
Qiu Wuhen said, "You eat it, I'm not hungry, but I brought meat and pancakes. Do you want it?"
The master shook his head: "Mencius doesn't eat those, please give me your own care, but it's best not to eat them here."
"Of course not. This is the place where Master Taiqing practices, so I won't disturb you. It's better for me to leave."
The master did not try to keep him: "Young Master, go."
Qiu Wuhen turned around and was about to leave, but suddenly stopped again because he saw something floating in front of him, a ball of ghost fire.
There is an oil lamp in the tomb. The lights are dim, but you can see clearly that what is floating in front of you is definitely not snowflakes, but a ghost fire, or phosphorus fire, floating lightly in front of you.
Qiu Wuhen immediately turned around and looked at the master and said, "Just just now, you have moved the body and the coffin to another place. There are no coffins here, right?"
The master nodded: "That's right, why did the young master ask this?"
Qiu Wuhen pointed to the ghost fire floating in the air and said, "How to explain this?"
The master glanced at it and smiled and said, "Young Master, don't be afraid. This kind of ghost fire will not harm people. It can be seen everywhere in chasing cemeteries. I don't know why it appears here, but it often appears in my tomb. I'm no longer surprised it. Maybe it's the legendary ghost-killing lanterns?"
Qiu Wuhen shook his head and said, "The so-called ghost fire is not a ghost hitting a lantern, but a special substance produced by the bones of dead people. The flame is very low, so it actually has no heat."
"The young master is very knowledgeable and admirable."
"The reason I told Master this is to remind Master that since there are ghost fires here, it means that there are still corpses in this tomb and have not been moved away by Master. Does Master know about this?"
The teacher was so stunned that he stared at Qiu Wuhen and said, "You mean there is a body in the place where I live?"
"That's right."
"No wonder I often see ghost fires floating in the grave, and I thought it was the same as outside. If what the young master said was right, the so-called ghost fires are things produced by the bones of corpses, then there may be corpses in the grave, but where is the corpse?"
Qiu Wuhen said, "This is a scattered hill. Maybe someone had buried dead people in this area before, but later people didn't know, or they didn't dig deep enough, so they didn't find the corpse buried below, so they buried another corpse on it. You just moved the corpse above, but you didn't find another corpse below. But since you need to practice Zen in the dark, you shouldn't mind?"
Master Yin Ling said, "Of course I mind, old nie cannot practice on the dead! What's that? I need the most yin place, but I don't need to sit on the dead to practice. That will lead to being possessed. No wonder I always feel restless this year and it's difficult to practice in peace, but it turns out that's the reason. Thank you. - Can you help me find this corpse? I will thank you very much!"
"Okay, let me see if my guess is correct first, and find out if there are any tombs underground? If so, the underground should be empty and not far from the ground, because the phosphorus fire in the corpse must be close to the ground before it can emerge. If it is too deep, it will not come out."
The ground of the tomb was compacted, but it was simply flattened with wooden boards. Qiu Wuhen used a stone to hit the flat ground, and at the same time listened to the reaction below.
After knocking, there was an echo of dong dong immediately, as if it was empty. Even the teacher heard it. She had not tested the sound of the ground before, so although she had lived here for a year, she did not find that it was empty. Now when she heard Qiu Wuhen hitting it with a stone, she couldn't help but change her face. Could it be that she really lived in a coffin and practiced for a year?
Qiu Wuhen said, "Does the Master have a hoe or something?"
"Originally, I dug up the tomb and threw it away. The tomb is too small to put so many things."
Qiu Wuhen saw a dagger on the table at a glance and said, "Can you borrow this thing?"
"Okay, the young master has such a good eye. This dagger is called Chuxue. Although it cannot be considered as cutting iron like mud, it is also very sharp. As long as the young master can help me find and clean up the bones, this dagger will be given to the young master, which is also a fate."
Chapter completed!